Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Battle Begins
"Eighty-eight column again?" Ishikawa Ryuichi's eyes widened in surprise, in fact, he had already counted in his heart, except for the Eighth Eight Column, he didn't have so much courage in other troops!
Ishikawa Ryuichi answered the phone call of the division commander, "Your Excellency Lieutenant General, I heard that the 88th Column also blew up the oil depot at the railway station?" Hey, don't worry, I'm going to order the troops to attack immediately, and be sure to annihilate all of them! But general, do you want all the main forces of my brigade to participate in the crusade against the 88th Column? So, hey, Ishikawa understands! ”
After hanging up the phone respectfully, Ryu Ishikawa gritted his teeth in anger. Even after such a big incident as the bombing of the oil depot, the division commander still insisted that his brigade could not all be engaged in the crusade against Huanggang Temple. His Excellency the Lieutenant General only promised to let the Ishikawa Brigade send an additional brigade to form a temporary detachment to carry out a retaliatory crusade against the 88th Column!
It would be nice to have one more brigade. A fully organized brigade of 1,200 people, plus the original men and horses of the Xiaolin Wing, formed into a detachment of more than 4,000 people to deal with the Chinese army of more than 10,000 people at most in Huanggang Temple, should still be victorious! Full of confidence, after Ishikawa Ryuichi and Kobayashi Daizo saluted and said goodbye, the Kobayashi detachment, which had been expanded again, rushed to the Huanggang Temple in the southwest of Zhengzhou!
The devil is coming! After receiving the news, our army in Huanggang Temple immediately entered a state of imminent battle! After the devil tossed like this, Hu Fei had safely returned to the position of our army in Huanggang Temple. After the news that the devil was coming, Hu Fei just smiled lightly, "The soldiers will come to block the water and come to Tutun." What's there to be nervous about? It's not been a day or two since we fought with the devil, what kind of virtue the little devil is, Lao Tzu knows it very well! ”
The active fortress that had never really been on the battlefield was pushed out, and the five Chinese tiger chariots hid in a hidden place, waiting for the devils to come and charge into battle.
The scouts came to report the enemy's situation: the Japanese troops were still ten miles, eight miles, three miles, one mile, and three hundred meters away!
"Chinese Tiger, get ready to fight! Cavalry regiment, get ready to charge! Active fortress brigade, enter the position! All units immediately entered a state of imminent battle, and the commanders of each unit commanded the troops to start fighting according to the actual situation! After Hu Fei arranged everything, he just wanted to drill into the armored car, and when he turned his head, he saw Liu Dong looking at him with a smile. Well, let's honestly stay behind and watch the battle.
At the beginning of the smoke and dust, the Japanese army started with five tracked armored vehicles, followed by a murderous infantry phalanx, and the number of people was at least three or four thousand, maybe five thousand could not be defeated!
This ultralight chariot has a funny nickname called the Bean Chariot. At that time, the Makqin heavy machine guns equipped with our troops could often hit the Xiaodou chariot with scaly wounds all over the body, and it was full of bullet holes from head to tail, and if it was directly hit by mountain artillery or explosives packs, the most common fate of the Xiaodou chariot was to disintegrate on the spot.
Hu Fei began to fight the devil in 1931, and it has been ten years since 1941. In the past ten years, the little bean chariots he has come into contact with and fought are not one or two. Not to mention that now that the 88th Column has heavy artillery and Chinese Tiger Chariots, even when there were only rifles and grenades before, Hu Fei did not take this kind of Xiaodou Chariot with surprisingly poor defense in his eyes.
When he saw the devil chariot rushing to the front from the telescope, he smiled, "Hehe, it's the bean chariot again?" Little devils don't know what to do? Order Liu to crook his neck and knock out the devil's chariot for me! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Bang! "The cannon rang out. The first two shots missed, and the back was a shot, and in the blink of an eye, the devil's five bean chariots let them lie down, and the remaining two turned around and ran. One of them turned too quickly and even turned his own track himself. The two devils in the car hurriedly climbed out, picked up tools, and began to install the tracks.
"Squeak-boom!" There was a scream, a flash of firelight, and the little bean chariot that had run away from the tracks instantly turned into debris flying everywhere, and the two charioteers who had repaired the tracks could not even see their shadows. The last one ran away with the throttle on the accelerator. No matter how the devil calls it, it will not look back.
Get off the wrong foot! Kobayashi light sank like water on both sides. Of course, this level of faux pas is still within the range of what he can accept, isn't it just a few bean chariots? It's not a big deal! Kobayashi Osa ordered the troops to form battle formations, the artillery squadron was the first to start the shelling, and the infantry brigade launched a charge after the shelling was over!
The shelling of the devils began, and our soldiers hid in the bunkers that had been prepared for a long time to hide from the shells. Experienced warriors stuffed a piece of cotton into their ears to block out loud noises. It was quite unusual for the recruits to see the veterans stuffing cotton balls into their ears, and when the sound of the cannon shook their eardrums, they panicked to ask the hygienist to disinfect the cotton balls. The hygienist didn't have many other things, that is, the disinfectant cotton balls brought the most, there were two large bags, and each person was given two pieces and there was still a surplus.
The sound could be countered by stuffing cotton balls in their ears, but the violent vibrations made it impossible for the fighters to avoid it, and one by one they tossed and turned in the bunker like a leather ball. The endless shelling had plowed the positions all over again.
The shaking finally stopped, and the shelling of the devils ended. Our soldiers quickly rushed out of the bunker and entered the position, and looked ahead, well, the devil soldiers all over the mountains were like ants moving densely climbing all over the hillside.
"Call me!" Yang Jinsheng, commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 88th Column, who was guarding the forward position, first gave the battle order, and the gunfire on the forward position instantly rang out. The devil who was advancing immediately lay down and fought back on the spot. Gunfire rang out from the positions on the left and right flanks. The crossfire of our army's three positions pressed the attacking devils to the position, and they could not advance a single step.
The devil's support artillery fire came up, and amid the earth-shattering loud noise, gunpowder smoke rose one after another from the three main positions of our army. The gunfire stopped.
Kobayashi Koji raised his command knife triumphantly, "Kill the chicken!" The devil soldiers lying on the ground immediately jumped up, scattered into an attack formation, bowed and held their rifles, and began to rush forward.
In the smoke of gunpowder, our position was quiet, as if the artillery strike had completely destroyed the position, and it was not until the Japanese attacking troops rushed to a place less than 100 meters in front of the position that the gunfire rang out again. "Dada-da-da!" The gunshots, which were more dense than the New Year's firecrackers, rang out instantly, and the overwhelming rain of bullets splashed over the devil's head and face.
The devil soldiers fell like a wheat field blown down by a hurricane, piece by piece. After the initial panic, the well-trained Japanese soldiers quickly lay down, and the battlefield once again resumed the situation of the two armies firing at each other.