Chapter Thirty-Seven: Gao Quan Arrives on the Battlefield
After experiencing the bombing by the planes, Huang Sanpao and Jin Feilong's troops all suffered a lot of casualties. Outsiders looked at the wilderness full of the corpses of devils, as if the troops of these two regiments had killed many enemies, how brilliant the victory they had achieved, and how much advantage they had occupied. Only these two leaders know in their hearts that they really don't have many cards in their hands now!
The reason why they can still stand up to the position now and not be defeated is really thanks to the two tough battles that allowed the two of them to block the Noda Brigade and the Kimura Brigade outside Mangzhang Village. The fighters who went through that battle have now become the absolute backbone of these two regiments. Having had the experience of fighting bloody battles to the death in the face of a strong enemy, only then could these two regiments have the confidence to hold out to the end. This is also the main reason why Gao Quan put the 500 Brigade in Wusheng Pass to block the devils from Xinyang.
A wing of the Japanese army, and a brigade are not the same concept at all. At the beginning, the 500 Brigade was able to completely annihilate the Noda Brigade and repel the Kimura Brigade, but now it is facing the Ito United, but it only has the ability to parry, and there is no power to fight back. Fortunately, the 500 Brigade had a lot of stamina, and although it was beaten badly, it persevered. Especially Jin Feilong, due to the heavy loss of soldiers in the various positions on his side, after the bombing of the devil plane, he had already taken the initiative to abandon some marginal positions and concentrated his team on the main positions in the middle.
The arrival of the 201 Brigade not only increased the strength of our army by half, but the most important thing was that the 201 Brigade brought hope and hope of victory to the 500 Brigade that had lost too much blood. The artillery battalion directly under the division headquarters, Wang Dazhu also brought over two companies, with the addition of these heavy artillery, combat effectiveness is secondary, and the improvement of morale can be described as immediate.
The blocking position posed by Qian Sixi was a barrel formation, and Huang Sanpao and Jin Feilong each occupied one side of the road. Qian Sixi himself took the brigade headquarters and the rest of the brigade directly under the front of the road, using the mine traps he had laid to stop the devils. After the mines sounded, when the devils were trapped in the traps, he led the people to carry out the work of falling into the well. However, the two main regiments occupying geographical advantages on both sides could not withstand the onslaught of the devils, and his direct companies, which were not even as good as the main forces, of course, could not block the attacks of the devils.
Under the harassment of Qian Sixi, the devils tenaciously repaired the holes on the road, and seeing that the progress of the project was getting faster and faster, the devils seemed to have a tendency to repair the road and reopen it at any time. When Qian Sixi was helpless, Wang Dazhu came up. Brigade Commander Qian was naturally overjoyed, and after meeting with his old buddy, the two of them didn't have time to be polite, rescued the soldiers and started to attack the devil.
Of course, Ito Osa was not willing to let his plan for the liberation of Yamashiro come to naught, and while organizing the troops to resist stubbornly, he once again called his air force to try to use air strikes to break the will to fight of the squadron.
It's just that Nobuyoshi Ito still mistook the situation. In the final analysis, it was because the scouts detected the enemy situation wrongly, which made Ito Daisa think that all the men and horses of the 500 Division were in front of him. The two main brigades add up to nearly 10,000 people, and if the ratio is one to three, in fact, it can't be said that Ito Osa is arrogant, and there is still a basis for people to maintain their fighting spirit.
The combat effectiveness of the Ito Wing was really strong, and after being forced out by the two brigades of Wang Dazhu and Qian Sixi, the 18th Wing, which had exerted all its strength, and with the support of the aircraft, it was able to fight with the two brigades of the 500 Division.
Wang Dazhu and the two wanted to beat Ito Nobuyoshi down, but they couldn't do it, and Ito Dazuo wanted to liberate Yingshan City, which was even more wishful thinking. The pits that were filled up on the highway were restored to potholes under the action of the howitzers brought by Wang Dazhu, and if the devils wanted to go down from the road, they had to discard the heavy weapons that were difficult to move such as heavy artillery vehicles.
When Gao Quan rushed to the battlefield with people, he saw such a scene. In fact, what he saw was quite good, the devil plane had just flown away. Under the cover of the air force, Ito Osa still led his troops to fight a few beautiful counterattacks and successfully obtained two small mountain bags. It's just that after the plane withdrew, these small mountain bags were immediately surrounded by the Chinese, and it was only a matter of time before the Japanese troops withdrew. This kind of offensive and defensive battle, after Wang Dazhu came up, has actually been carried out several times.
Gao Quan carefully observed the situation on the battlefield, since the two teams have now fallen into a stalemate, it is better to let them stalemate. Anyway, even if he joins the battlefield with these battalions under his command now, he won't be able to defeat this wing-level devil for a while. Gao Quan is waiting, he has to wait until Zhang Erxiao and his independent brigade come up. When the 500 divisions are ready, you can try it and see if you can completely annihilate the devil's wing!
That's right, Gao Quan's idea is to prepare to completely annihilate a wing of devils, as the first victory after the establishment of the 500th Division! Now it seems that the timing is good, it depends on whether the devil cooperates with him.
Waiting, it's definitely not Gao Quan's habit. It is absolutely necessary to use a large force to encircle and annihilate a wing of devils, and it is absolutely necessary to prevent the enemy from jumping over the wall in a hurry, in case the bullet is too strong and he is injured again, it will not be cost-effective.
Go to the back of the Devil Wing! The Devil's Eighteenth Wing, now it can be said that it is surrounded by our army on three sides, and only the retreat behind it remains. It's ridiculous that the devil hasn't even withdrawn from the army, it's come to such a time, and he still has illusions! Since the arrogant devil himself does not cherish the opportunity, Gao Quan will certainly not let go of the opportunity to attack the devil this time.
When the engineer battalion came over from Gaoquan, it had already been rebuilt at the division headquarters. Anyway, both sides of the highway are their own territory, and they are not afraid of encountering enemies. Gao Quan took all his battalion-level direct teams and made a big circle, turning behind Jin Feilong's position and behind the devil.
What is the concept of a wing devil? Scouts, the search team is fully departmental, and it is already a powerful independent combat unit of the devils. A devil unit, generally speaking, as long as it faces the middle ** and below the army, it rarely has a defeat, especially in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War.
The squadron ** opposite the 18th Wing is the 500 division of the squadron, and it is not a famous divisional force, if it is the first division, Ito Daisa will certainly pay enough attention to it, if the opponent is the first division, maybe His Excellency Dazuo has withdrawn.
In the face of the 500 divisions, if Ito Osa withdraws his troops, he may be ridiculed by his colleagues. Although he now knows that this unit has more people than he knows, and his combat effectiveness is not weak, Ito Osa is still ready to fight.
Gao Quan led his people through a road that was not too flat, and arrived on the road behind the devil.
"Cao Bao, start digging a pit right here!" Gao Quan pointed to the road under his feet and gave an order that would make Ito Nobuyoshi's soul fly.
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