Chapter 256: Reinforcement of Rongshan (5)
Since he commanded a large group of Japanese troops and a regiment of the Imperial Allied Army, the troops were divided into two routes to sweep the Rongshan base area of the Eighth Route Army, and fought two fierce battles with the Rongshan Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army outside the base area, and finally repelled the Rongshan Independent Regiment, and then the two armies rushed into Rongshan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It is a pity that this Rongshan is hundreds of miles in radius, full of large and small peaks and ravines, after the Eighth Route Army and the common people withdrew into the mountains, his two armies, except for the exchange of fire with small units of the Eighth Route Army from time to time, but they have never been able to catch the main force of the Eighth Route Army.
Fortunately, Mi Toma adopted steady tactics, and the two armies advanced steadily, and after four days of arduous and fierce fighting, they finally advanced to Darong Village, the center of the Rongshan base area of the Eighth Route Army.
He was very angry when he saw that Daei Village was empty, so he ordered the troops to stop where they were and wait for another brigade led by Deputy Captain Yamazaki to come and rendezvous.
Although in the past few days, he has not been able to catch the main force of the Eighth Route Army, but he has also eliminated several small units of the Eighth Route Army that have left behind to block the attack, and as for the empty villages along the way, most of them were burned by fire under his murderous order.
It is this Daiei Village, and Mi Toma also plans to wait for the rendezvous with Yamazaki to destroy this village if he can no longer find the main force of the Eighth Route Army.
He wants to let these Chinese who dare to resist the imperial army have a long memory, and let them live an extremely cold winter.
As a field unit for sweeping, the camp at night is still strictly carried out in accordance with the drill code. A battalion of Imperial Allied troops was placed on the hills around Daiei Village, and at the same time, on the commanding heights on the edge of Daiei Village, all warriors of the Great Japanese Empire were arranged.
According to intelligence, the Rongshan Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army had about eight or nine hundred people, and in the fierce fighting in the past four days, the Mi Toma Brigade had lost at least half of the strength of the Independent Regiment, and the rest of the Eighth Route Army did not dare to take the lead at all.
It's a pity that the troops he sent to search in the mountains couldn't find these ordinary people and Tubalu who were hiding in the mountains.
In the evening, Mi Toma Shaozo was drinking sake alone in a room in a compound in the village, when he suddenly received a telegram from the wing commander, saying that Jinyang County was attacked by the main force of the Eighth Route Army, and then it was reported that the Shichanggou stronghold was captured by the Eighth Route Army, and all the imperial troops and the imperial army guarding the Shichanggou stronghold were killed.
Seeing these two telegrams, Mi Toma didn't take it to heart, Jinyang County was not the defense area of their wing, Shichanggou was also the territory of friendly forces, and the Mi Toma Brigade was responsible for Rongdong County, east of Jinyang County.
But in the early hours of the morning, Mi Toma suddenly received a telegram from the defenders of Baima Town, saying that Baima Town was attacked by the main force of the Eighth Route Army, judging from the fierceness of its artillery fire, at least the scale of the regiment or above, and according to the speculation of the defenders of Baima Town, the main target of the Eighth Route Army was his supply depot east of Baima Town.
When Mi Toma saw this telegram, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and immediately asked the radio station to contact the supply station, but there was no reply.
contacted the defenders of the stronghold in White Horse Town, but said that the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army had not stopped, and they could not reinforce the supply depot at all.
"Where did so many Eighth Route Army come from?" Mi Toma was shocked, and felt very puzzled.
You must know that in Jinyang County, the Eighth Route Army has only a few small guerrilla units, and in the Rongshan base area, the Eighth Route Army only has some combat effectiveness of independent regiments, but its strength is less than 1,000 people.
In addition, only one hundred and fifty kilometers away from here, Fuya Mountain, there is a unit of the Eighth Route Army that is said to have strong combat effectiveness.
Could it be that the Eighth Route Army of Fuya Mountain ran over?
Mi Toma's heart moved, and he immediately sent a telegram to ask the team.
But after the United contacted Sasaki United, Fuyang County called back and said that it did not find anything unusual about the independent regiment.
The attack on the county seat of Fuyang by a small force of troops of the Eighth Route Army, except for the twelve imperial soldiers who were unfortunately loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, only brought a certain degree of panic to the imperial army and the imperial army stationed in Fuyang County.
Sasaki asked the intelligence department to investigate whether the independent regiment had moved, and after some reconnaissance, the intelligence officers found that the Eighth Route Army stationed in Pingyuan Town and the Eighth Route Army in Songkan Town were still in place.
Mi Toma didn't expect that the intelligence department couldn't confirm where these Eighth Route Army came from, and he saw that it was early in the morning, so he had to press the idea of leading his troops back to White Horse Town, and ordered the troops to strengthen their vigilance.
In the middle of the night in Daei Village, a sense of foreboding rose in Mito's heart.
Liu Tianshu commanded Hao Mengxuan's second battalion, and at dawn, finally transported all the supplies to Causeway Bay.
However, although it was a happy thing that the 2nd Battalion had captured so much supplies, it also affected the maneuver of the 2nd Battalion.
After all, these supplies were the things that the independent regiment needed most, and he didn't want to make any mistakes, so after the troops withdrew to Causeway Bay, Liu Tianshu immediately asked the two companies of the Second Battalion to be on guard on the hills around Causeway Bay.
At the same time, the reconnaissance brigade covered up the traces of the retreat of the troops as much as possible.
The devils in White Horse Town, when it was dawn, found that the Eighth Route Army, which had been tossed all night last night, had suddenly disappeared.
The frightened devil squadron leader began to count the losses, and this count, suddenly a feeling of wanting to cry came to his heart.
Yesterday evening, the Eighth Route Army first used artillery fire to carry out a surprise attack on his troops around the town, and then suddenly inserted itself between the town of White Horse and the supply depot, and very quickly cut off the connection between the two.
After that, he organized troops to reinforce the supply depot twice, but he was beaten back by the powerful fire of the Eighth Route Army, and then his troops were constantly attacked by the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, so that his troops could only shrink into the fortifications.
But that's it, he has a full squadron, and now only half of it is left, and those imperial allies, by the morning, there are only one-third left.
The rest of the Imperial Allied Army either fled in the dark or were blown up by artillery fire.
Although he only had such a small number of troops in his hand, thinking of the importance of the supply station in the east to the Mi Toma Brigade, the leader of the devil squadron still squeezed out more than 30 devils and more than 50 imperial allies, and under the command of a small team leader, he carefully walked towards the supply station.
Unexpectedly, there was no more attack on this road, and the Japanese squad leader judged that the Eighth Route Army should have withdrawn, so he boldly commanded the troops to rush to the supply station.
The fortifications in front of the gate of the supply depot were blown to pieces, and the fallen Imperial soldiers lay on the ground, recounting the horror of last night's battle. As for the commanding heights around the supply station, they were all blown to pieces, and many soldiers guarding the hill were blown into stumps, some had no heads, some only had half of their bodies, and some **** had a big hole, and the dried blood stains had turned black.
The leader of the devil squad had the courage to lead people to search the supply station thoroughly, and asked the Imperial Association Army to carry all the fallen imperial soldiers to the open space in front of the supply station.
In the end, after statistics, the captain of the devil squad found one hundred and twenty-one corpses, but the rest were never found again.
As for the squadron leader who was in charge of guarding the supply depot, he was found, but he was already too dead to die.
After confirming that there was not a single soldier alive in the entire supply depot and no supplies, the Devil Squad Leader had to report to the squadron leader in frustration.
After receiving a report from White Horse Town that all the Imperial soldiers at the supply depot in White Horse Town had been broken and all the supplies had been removed, he was so angry that his eyes were red, and after scolding all the eight squares, he gasped and reported the situation to the Wing Captain.
Captain Nagata was shocked when he learned that the logistics support base of the Mi Toma Brigade had been destroyed by the Eighth Road, and immediately asked the plane to immediately search for the traces of the Eighth Road, and at the same time ordered the Mi Toma Brigade to prepare to withdraw from Yeongsan.
Just when Mi Toma received an order from the wing commander to prepare the troops of Daiei Village to retreat, and as soon as the troops led by Yamazaki arrived, they immediately withdrew from Daiei Village, after a long night of travel, the advance force composed of a small squadron of the reconnaissance brigade of the Independent Regiment and six companies of the second battalion had rushed to a valley west of Daiei Village.
Seeing that the soldiers were very tired, the company commander Xu Zhongnan ordered the troops to rest in place, and together with Yan Chengan, the leader of the reconnaissance brigade, he quietly touched the hill near Darong Village.
Taking advantage of the morning light in the mountains, Xu Zhongnan and Yan Chengan found that there was a figure of the Imperial Association Army on the mountain in front of them, and the two looked at it for a while, estimating that there was a platoon.
Because this platoon of the Imperial Association Army was blocking the hill in front, the two of them could not see the enemy's situation in Darong Village at all.
Yan Chengan stared at it for a while, and then said to Xu Zhongnan: "Company Commander Xu, in this way, you take the troops to prepare for battle, and I will take a few people to the front to take a look." ”
"Okay, I'll go back and discuss with a few platoon commanders, and when you find out the situation, we'll do it immediately."
According to Commander Liu's request, this battle must be fought before winning or losing. In other words, it is necessary to take into account all aspects that may happen next, and if the battle starts, the extent to which it will have to be withdrawn, and the direction from which this retreat should be withdrawn, must be determined in advance.
After all, now is not the time to fight with the devil.
After Xu Zhongnan went back to make a plan, Yan Chengan took four soldiers and quietly moved forward. In less than twenty minutes, the five people touched the front of the position of the Imperial Association Army opposite, and saw two soldiers of the Imperial Association Army walking around in front of the position with guns, while the rest of the Imperial Association Army was guarding the fortifications and did not look outside at all.
The four soldiers saw that the squad leader was ready to fire at any time, and immediately quietly climbed to the feet of the Imperial Cooperative Army, and when the two Imperial Cooperative Army came over, the four suddenly jumped out and pressed the two Imperial Cooperative Army down, and the snowy dagger was pressed against the neck of the two Imperial Cooperative Army who were constantly trembling, how dare the two Imperial Cooperative Army speak, and then the two of them gagged their mouths with towels, and then tied their hands and feet, and carried them backwards.
Yan Chengan saw that the four soldiers had captured the Imperial Allied Army, and immediately aimed their guns at the position of the Imperial Allied Army, but unfortunately the vigilance of the rest of the Imperial Allied Army was really not high, and they did not find that any brothers had been kidnapped at all. (To be continued.) )