Chapter 316: Battle in the Northwest of Jin 16
As soon as Division Commander He's words fell, a communications soldier quickly came to Division Commander He.
"Division commander, call back from the head of the first regiment." The communications corps reported.
"Read." Division Commander He looked at the communications soldier and said that he wanted to know what kind of reply Sun Weiguo would send.
"The first regiment will coexist with Lou Lan County, with my Sun Weiguo, there will be Lou Fu and Lan County, even if the whole regiment is heroic, it will ensure the completion of the task."
The communications soldier immediately read out the message, and after Division Commander He heard the content of the message, he nodded with satisfaction.
"Tell Brigade Commander Chen of the 359th Brigade that the first regiment of the reserve will block the Japanese reinforcements to the death, so that he can attack the Japanese troops in Lan County with peace of mind." Division Commander He immediately gave the order.
The troops of the 359th Brigade began to attack the Japanese troops in Lan County, and fierce battles broke out in Lan County.
At the same time, here in Loufan County, the commander of the 119th Wing of the Japanese Army, Ishida Kinzo, put the 3rd Brigade, which had been serving as a reserve, into the battle north of the city.
Dozens of tanks and armored vehicles were assigned to the 3rd Brigade, and at the same time, the anti-tank artillery squadron directly under the Japanese wing headquarters also began to intensify operations to the north of the city.
The Japanese army has assembled heavy troops here at the North City Gate, and their main attack is still here.
At the same time, in order to prevent another attack, the 3rd Brigade Headquarters acted with the troops, and the 3rd Brigade Headquarters had a certain number of reserves in its hands.
After 8 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese air force began to carpet bomb Loufan County, which lasted more than half an hour before the Japanese planes slowly left.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the Japanese troops began to launch a fierce attack, and the attack on the east of the city was still the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Army, which was an old rival with the 1st Battalion.
The two sides fought evenly in the east of the city, while in the north of the city, the troops of the second battalion were obviously struggling.
The Japanese concentrated armored vehicles and light and heavy machine guns to fiercely suppress the fire of the second battalion, and eight tanks led hundreds of Japanese troops to attack.
The machine gun squadron set up positions in the front, and twelve Type 92 heavy machine guns violently suppressed the gap.
The troops of the 5th Company, which was stationed in the gap, had no room to fight back, and the officers and men were only able to hide behind cover.
The tank stopped two hundred meters from the gap, and the tank began to stop advancing, while hundreds of devil soldiers began to storm towards the gap.
THE FOUR 37MM ANTI-TANK GUNS WERE CARRIED BY THE ARTILLERYMEN AND FOLLOWED BEHIND THE INFANTRY, AND AFTER A HUNDRED METERS FROM THE GAP, THE FOUR ANTI-TANK GUNS QUICKLY LOOKED FOR COVER, AND THE MUZZLES OF THE BLACK HOLE BEGAN TO AIM AT THE GAP.
Dozens of devil soldiers quickly surged towards the gap, and the Japanese concentrated all their weapons for cover.
When the Devil Soldiers came to the gap, a light machine gun shooter from the 2nd Battalion quickly set up the light machine gun, and he began to aim at the Devil Soldiers.
"Bang bang." The light machine gun fired rapidly, and three bullets hit one of the ghost soldiers, who fell to the ground on the spot.
The rest of the Devil soldiers quickly hidden, but the light machine gun shooter fired quickly.
One of the ghost soldiers still didn't dodge in time, and he was also shot dead by the light machine gun shooter.
"Quickly transfer, quickly transfer the light machine gun." The experienced squad leader began to shout loudly.
The light machine gun shooter quickly moved with the light machine gun, but at this time, a Japanese anti-tank gun had already begun to fire shells.
A shell hit the LMG shooter accurately, and the LMG shooter fell in a pool of blood.
The shooter's body was blown up in a blur of flesh and blood, but he pressed the light machine gun under him, and this precious light machine gun was retained.
Fierce fighting between China and Japan continued in Loufan County, with more than 2,000 Japanese troops attacking under the cover of heavy weapons such as tanks, armored vehicles, light and heavy machine guns, and infantry artillery.
Sun Weiguo's troops, who were operating on the periphery, had been looking for an opportunity to attack, but they had never found any opportunity.
The Japanese army was obviously on guard, and as long as Sun Weiguo's troops appeared, the Japanese troops would respond quickly.
"The special combat team is free to fight, assisting the troops in the city, and the reconnaissance company and guard company are scattered to find a small group of individual Japanese troops to encircle and annihilate it."
When the five combat teams of the special combat team immediately began to act, Sun Weiguo quickly gave orders to Ge Haifeng and Liu Jingnuan.
The reconnaissance company and the guard company also began to disperse, but they left the guard unit by Sun Weiguo's side.
The battle lasted for an hour, and there was already gunsmoke here in Loufan County, and there were many corpses of soldiers from both sides of the 1st Regiment and the 119th Wing on the ground.
The second battalion responsible for the garrison of Beicheng District had less than 300 combat-capable combat personnel, the battalion commander Fu Tao was wounded, and Huang Gang and other company commanders also suffered different injuries.
"Hurry up, what are you doing here, hurry up for me, what are you doing hiding here."
In a house in the north of the city, a squad leader saw two recruits hiding in the room, and he said with anger on his face.
"Squad leader...... Let's retreat, we can't hold here, if we don't retreat, we'll all die here, I don't want to die, I want to go home. ”
The body of the recruit holding the Type 38 rifle trembled, and he looked at his squad leader and said with a fearful face.
The other recruit had a sweaty face on his face, and although he didn't speak, it was clear that he wanted to get out of here.
"Where else do you want to evacuate, tell me, is it safe to go home?" The squad leader said bitterly.
As soon as he finished speaking, a bullet fired from a Japanese rifle hit him in the skull, killing the squad leader instantly.
Blood began to flow down the wound, and the squad leader's eyes widened as he looked at the two recruits.
When the two recruits saw the tragic death of their squad leader, they screamed in fright, and two of them quickly ran back towards the county center with rifles.
In one morning, the Japanese launched eight attacks in a row, and the second battalion began to show signs of new recruits fleeing.
The casualties of the 1st and 2nd Battalions were not small, but even though they encountered many situations, the position was in the hands of the 1st Regiment of troops.
The Japanese offensive was temporarily stopped, and the Japanese troops began to return to their offensive positions one after another, and they began to prepare for lunch.
The officers and men of the 1st Reserve Regiment quickly rescued the wounded and consolidated their positions, and the officers of the unit came to the regimental headquarters to attend the meeting.
"Political commissar, chief of staff, only more than 70 people in our fifth company can continue to fight, and if we fight, our fifth company will be wiped out."
Wang Kunyao, the deputy commander of the second battalion and the commander of the fifth company, looked at Shen Wei and Zhao Lerong, and said with a solemn face.
There were also two or three company commanders who softly seconded the proposal, saying that they supported what Wang Kunyao said, and that the evacuation of the county seat was their heart's desire.
"Yin Jin, Fu Tao, what do you mean?" Shen Wei looked at Yin Jin, the commander of the first battalion, and Fu Tao, the commander of the second battalion, and asked in a solemn tone.
"Commissar, what do you mean by the regimental commander?" Yin Jin and Fu Tao glanced at each other, and they said softly.