Chapter Twenty-Four: The Battle Begins

Hu Fei killed the devil commander with one shot, and the Japanese troops on the battlefield immediately became confused. The ambush troops in the ravine took advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack and beat back the attacking devils in one fell swoop.

Although the devils have bushido as their spiritual pillar, they are also human beings after all, and they are also Orientals like us. When the twin disasters of frustration in battle and the death of the commander befall at the same time, the devil will also panic. The devils, who had lost their unified command, finally couldn't resist under the all-out onslaught of the ambush troops, and began to retreat.

Retreat and rout are just one step away. The ambush force in the ravine was obviously not satisfied with the orderly retreat of the devils, and they threw all their strength into the attack, hoping to defeat the devils from retreat to a state of rout.

Hu Fei and his generals condescendingly admired the battlefield on the hillside. Aside from the accurate shot just now, Hu Fei did not let his troops participate in the battle below in any form. Hu Fei had already seen it, if nothing else, the ambush force in the ravine must be someone from the Eighth Route Army!

Don't look at Hu Fei, he has already met with the cadres of the Eighth Route Army, even high-level cadres, but he has never fought any battle side by side with the Eighth Route Army so far. Hu Fei didn't know the fighting ability of the Eighth Route Army, let alone the fighting style of the Eighth Route Army, he was afraid that his kindness would help him!

In case someone wants to destroy this group of enemies alone, and he sticks a stick in it. In the end, if you spend all your energy in vain, not to mention that you still have a friendly army to complain, wouldn't that be asking for your own hardship? Therefore, Hu Fei called a group of militants such as Ji Jinbiao and Yuan Fang to his side, and he asked these people to watch the live broadcast with him. In Hu Fei's words, this is called learning from the advanced combat experience of friendly forces on the spot.

Not to mention, although the scale of this battle is not large, it is enough to be called a classic of ambush warfare. Seeing that the battle was coming to an end, the generals who watched the battle commented on the merits of the ambush troops under the mountain. Hu Fei listened beside him, interjecting or explaining or adding from time to time.

They are discussing it here, and the battle situation at the bottom of the mountain has changed again, and the devil has come to reinforce the troops! A cannonball blew the mountain to pieces, and several pieces of stones and bones the size of a grinding plate fell on the mountain, and dozens or hundreds of pieces of watermelons and fists rolled down. Hu Fei was shocked, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to pay attention to the movement, and if they saw that the situation was not good, they should quickly avoid it!

In the end, the rolling stones on the mountain caused a disaster, and Hu Fei saw with his own eyes that the soldiers of the ambush force were hit by the rolling stones and died because they could not dodge. The shelling soon stopped, heavy gunfire rang out from the bottom of the hill, and the two armies began to engage in regular fire.

The gunfire on the devil's side was obviously much more intense, and the troops of the Eighth Route Army who were ambushed at the foot of the mountain were once again beaten back. Listen to the voice, the devil has at least another squadron!

Hu Fei misjudged, the devil came not from a squadron, but from a brigade! Six or seven hundred devils came down the hill with cannons. Although the troops of the Eighth Route Army who participated in the ambush battle were tenacious, they were obviously inferior to the Japanese army in terms of weapons and equipment and combat quality, and the sudden effect of the ambush had been lost, and now even the number of people is less than that of the devils, where can they still be the opponents of these devils?

The ambush forces of the Eighth Route Army were still holding out, but they obviously couldn't hold out for long. If the devils are allowed to eliminate or defeat the ambush force below, then these hundreds of devils are likely to reinforce the group of devils who are surrounded by Pingxingguan! In that case, the ambush designed by the tens of thousands of troops of the Jin Sui Army and the Eighth Route Army is very likely to fail!

Hu Fei looked around him, and the generals were also looking at him.

"Blind man, you take two hundred cavalry as a flanking detachment on the left flank, and attack the Japanese flank from the left flank from the bottom of the mountain! Leopard, you take two hundred people as a detachment on the right flank and detour to the rear of the Japanese flank from the right flank down the mountain! Jin Sheng, you led 500 troops, formed a sniper position on this hill, and shot at the Japanese army from a high place. Chief of Staff, you and Li San took 300 people to protect the baggage, medical team and other logistics troops. ”

"Yes!" The generals who were named should be in unison.

"Others as reserves, ready for battle!" With the increase in battles and the increase in the number of troops, Hu Fei's battlefield command ability is also improving rapidly, and he now even knows that he wants to keep reserves.

"Let's fight!" Hu Fei gave an order, and Xiong Wei and Ji Jinbiao set off with their troops first. The two of them were tasked with a roundabout flank attack on the left and right flanks, and they had to go around the boss from the bottom of the mountain to get behind the devil. No one knew what they would encounter along the way, so their two cavalry were also the most uncertain.

Seeing that the ambush troops of our army under the mountain suffered heavy casualties under the superior fire of the Japanese army, Yang Jinsheng on the hill immediately led the troops to open fire! Grenadiers, light and heavy machine guns, and hundreds of rifles fired together, and the grenades rained down the hill!

Under the sudden firepower of our army, the devils who were on the rise suffered heavy losses in an instant! A few devil machine gunners guarded a heavy machine gun and hit it fiercely, and a grenade from a grenade fell next to the heavy machine gun, and as soon as the "boom" sounded, the devil machine gun shooter, the deputy shooter, the ammunition man, and five or six devils with their machine guns were killed on the spot.

When a devil officer and a small group of devil soldiers were charging in a battle formation with rifles, he suddenly heard a movement overhead, and the leader of the devil squad with extremely rich combat experience fell on his side. When I looked up again, the ghost soldiers of the team were being shot and falling. In the blink of an eye, the Japanese squad, which was still strong just now, had already suffered most of the casualties!

Hu Fei's current marksmanship is comparable to that of an ordinary sniper. He found a bunker on the top of the hill with a medium rifle, and squatted there to kill the devil officer. As long as he sees someone holding an Oriental sword to direct the devil to charge, it will be a shot in his eyes!

Hu Fei checked and counted, he had already killed three devil officers in this moment's effort! Hu Fei has good eyes, although he doesn't have a scope, he can still hit with one shot at a distance of two or three hundred meters! After knocking down the four devil officers with one shot, Hu Fei didn't care to see if this guy was alive or dead, and went directly to the next target.

There were a few devils hiding behind a big rock at the bottom of the mountain, and a few times Hu Fei saw a devil officer showing his head, and he just wanted to shoot, but the devil shrank back again. Looks like we'll have to let these guys go first, and it's not too late to clean up when they come out.

Yamashita Shaoza and his staff officers and adjutant of the brigade headquarters hid behind a huge rock, which had now become his temporary command post. Yamashita Shaozo is in a bad mood right now!

Originally, he led his troops to search on both sides of Pingxingguan, where his vanguard squadron was ambushed by the Chinese army and suffered heavy losses. His Excellency Shao Zuo brought the whole team to find a field, but he didn't expect to encounter a fierce battle today!