Chapter 570: The overall situation becomes passive
Soon after the main force of the 117th Wing of the Japanese Army entered Xiyang County, the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Brigade of the Mixed Combat had entered the area of Laomiao Mountain in Xiyang County, and they were about to enter the territory of Heshun County.
After the two people, Captain Zeng of the Yongxing Detachment and Captain Wang of the Wang Naigui Detachment, each dispatched a brigade to Laomiao Mountain.
Two brigades of more than 1,000 troops quickly moved to the area of Laomiao Mountain, and these two brigades wanted to contain the Japanese troops with mobile warfare.
However, Hideaki Okamoto's third brigade stopped advancing, and they set up an ambush at Laomiao Mountain, and more than 1,500 people from the two brigades under unknown circumstances encountered an ambush by two Japanese artillery squadrons, a machine gun squadron, and five infantry squadrons, and more than 1,500 people from the Yongxing detachment and Wang Naigui's detachment quickly withdrew from the battlefield after paying more than 200 casualties.
At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the troops of the 1st Regiment of the New 2nd Brigade, with the support of artillery units, went to Laomiao Mountain to block the Japanese troops.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, the reconnaissance company of the first regiment encountered the Japanese cavalry, and the two sides launched a small-scale battle, and at half past one, the main force of the first regiment encountered the fourth brigade of the first brigade of the Japanese melee in Zhaoqingong Village, and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle, and the Japanese armored detachment and artillery detachment were immediately put into operation, and the troops of the first regiment gradually fell into a passive situation.
After Kunomura Momoyo learned that the troops of the First Regiment had encountered the main force of his brigade, he made up his mind to completely annihilate the troops of the First Regiment of the Advance Regiment.
At this time, the first battalion of the first regiment was completely annihilated, the second battalion was missing a seventh company, the combat unit of the whole regiment was only five companies, two machine gun companies, counting the artillery unit led by artillery commander Zheng Jingjing, the combat strength of the whole regiment was only more than 1,000 people, while the Japanese army had five infantry squadrons, two machine gun squadrons, as well as two infantry guns, four 75MM field guns, four 105MM field guns, and they also had five tanks and three armored vehicles into operation.
"Kill, give!" The Japanese officers knew that they were fighting with the first regiment of troops, and they were excited.
Nanjiro Araki, who served as the commander of the 4th Brigade after the combination, held the saber in both hands, and he personally led the troops to the charge.
"Little devil, come to Lao Tzu." Huang Gang, the commander of the second battalion, was holding a light machine gun, and he shouted loudly.
The 1st Regiment and the 1st Brigade of the Mixed Combat encountered each other, and the two sides fought inextricably, and in a short period of 10 minutes, the casualties on both sides had already exceeded double digits, and the casualty figure was still rising at a rocket-like rate.
After Shen Wei and Zhao Lerong received Fu Tao's report, they immediately organized brigade personnel to reinforce the past, and at the same time they immediately sent a telegram to the independent detachment and the guerrilla detachment, asking them to send reinforcements.
The independent detachment and the guerrilla detachment began to rapidly advance towards Zhao Qingong Village at two o'clock in the afternoon, but the two detachments were intercepted by the 117th Wing of the 25th Brigade of the Japanese Army, and the two sides fell into a bitter battle.
WITH FOUR 105MM CANNONS AND THIRTY-SIX HEAVY MACHINE GUNS, THE 117TH WING WAS OUTNUMBERED, BUT THEIR POSITION WAS AS STRONG AS AN IRON PLATE.
The 3rd Brigade of the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Mixed Combat Regiment in the south also began to receive orders from Kunomura Momoyo, and the 3rd Brigade immediately turned around and went to Zhao Qingong Village under the leadership of Captain Hideaki Okamoto.
By 4 p.m. on 8 April, the troops of the 1st Advance Regiment were besieged in Zhao Qingong Village, the independent detachment and the guerrilla detachment were blocked by the 117th Wing in Kongzhuang Village, three kilometers east of Dazhai Town, and the Yongxing detachment and Wang Naigui detachment began to assemble the scattered troops, and they were preparing to storm Xiyang County and adopt the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao.
The Chinese troops obviously fell into a passive situation, and the political commissars Shen Wei and Zhao Lerong were worried that the Japanese troops would participate in the southeast operation of Jindong through Heshun County, and they would put the first regiment into the operation, but how did they know that the Japanese army's first brigade in the melee Nagano Village Momoyo had been calculating the new second brigade troops.
"Listen to the other party's troops, I am Captain Koga Notoshi of the First Squadron of the Fourth Brigade of the First Brigade directly under the North China Front of the Imperial Japanese Imperial Army, and I deeply admire the courage of your army in fighting bravely, but your army has fallen into the encirclement of our imperial army, and I also ask the commander of your army to consider the lives of innocent people and innocent soldiers in the village, as long as your army lays down its arms and surrenders, I will guarantee with my personality, and my department will guarantee that the lives of your army will not be threatened in any way."
At a quarter past four, the fierce battle stopped, and on the southern position of Zhao Qingong Village, the Japanese captain Koga Nochi was holding an iron horn, and he spoke fluent Chinese.
The Japanese suffered heavy casualties, and after the merger, Koga Nochi's infantry squadron was fully formed, but after some fighting, they were only able to continue fighting with two infantry squads.
Koga Notomo chose psychological warfare, he planned to persuade the Chinese troops to surrender, and even if he could not persuade the Chinese troops to surrender, Koga Notomo believed that it would also hit the morale of the Chinese troops.
"Little devil, when the army was still a district squad, we had to fight to the death with big knives and spears, and now we have guns and cannons, you want us to surrender, don't dream, the new second brigade only has soldiers who died in battle, and soldiers who did not surrender, if you have the ability, come and attack."
Wang Yucun, commander of the 10th Company of the 3rd Battalion, shouted loudly, at this time, the 10th Company had less than 100 personnel in the whole company.
Koga Nochi heard Wang Yucun's words, a cold smile appeared on his face, he waved his hand, and the troops attacked again.
Two shells were fired, and two infantry squads, under the cover of shells, began to rush towards the Chinese troops.
Gunfire rang out again, the battle continued on both sides, and the Japanese troops, with the advantage of firepower, quickly approached the position.
The troops of the advance regiment in continuous combat not only suffered some heavy losses, but also consumed even more weapons.
"Put the little devil close and fight, light machine guns are not allowed to shoot continuously, heavy machine guns don't shoot, they are shooting at a critical time." Wang Yucun sorted out the grenade, and he said calmly.
The Japanese troops were getting closer and closer to their positions, and the devil soldiers had excited expressions on their faces, and they felt that this attack would definitely capture the positions.
Two hundred meters, one hundred meters, sixty meters, forty meters, the devil soldiers can even see the shaking figures in the trenches.
Just when the devil soldiers were forty meters away from the position, Wang Yucun began to give the order to shoot.
Two Czech light machine guns began to fire at the Japanese soldiers, and one by one the bullets came at the Japanese soldiers, and the devil soldiers fell to the ground one by one.
Wang Yucun took the shell gun to shoot point, and all the devil soldiers who were targeted by Wang Yucun would be directly killed nine times out of ten.
The Japanese troops continued to advance, and the devil soldiers kept falling, but they did not retreat, light machine guns and grenadiers covered behind, and the devil soldiers quickly marched to the front.