However, Okada Saburo still had about 800 Japanese troops and more than 300 Imperial Allied troops in his hands, and although he was very tired, it was impossible to eat them all with the little strength in his hands. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After a night of raiding, Liu Tianshu only rested for less than two hours, when he saw that the soldiers of the reconnaissance company and the grenadiers and mortarists of the machine gun company were very tired, so he had to let them seize the time to rest.

Liu Tianshu said to Zhou Aiguo, and asked him to quickly rush to the east with the soldiers an hour later, and he took Lei Yong to the location where Ou Biaofei was.

The 789th Company of the 3rd Battalion is now all in place, and the 7th Company has concentrated the light machine guns of the whole battalion plus the machine guns of the machine gun company, and has set up a position in a valley east of Mahuangpo, all the machine guns are strictly camouflaged, and the machine gunners are ambushed in the bunkers dug overnight last night, and the soldiers of the 7th Company are all vigilantly guarding there by their side.

They were all covered with leaves and dead grass, and they couldn't see until they came close.

In the valley, the road leading to the Sangu Dam headed straight to the east.

The soldiers of the Eighth Company were on the hill to the west of the valley, ready for everything. Of course, after a night of hard work, the warriors lay on their stomachs in heavily camouflaged fortifications, waiting for the enemy to enter the valley and then cut off the connection.

The 9th Company was deployed to the west of the 8th Company, responsible for launching a surprise attack on the enemy behind and buying time for the 7th Company, which was ambushed in front, to destroy the enemy.

At the same time, the 4th Company, which had been resting and recuperating, also moved to the southwest of the 8th Company, and then cooperated with the 9th Company to attack the enemy in the west.

According to the requirements of the regiment commander, after the battle began, the 89th and 4th companies immediately withdrew from the battle after 20 minutes of fierce fighting with the enemy.

Ou Biaofei saw Liu Tianshu coming over, and found that he looked very tired, knowing that the head of the regiment did not rest last night, he couldn't help but choke up and shouted the head of the regiment.

"Third battalion commander, are the troops ready?"

"Commander, don't worry, everything is ready according to your requirements, just waiting for the devil to come." Ou Biaofei looked at Liu Tianshu and said.

"That's good, tell the commander of the seventh company, the key to this battle depends on whether they fight well or not, this valley can only accommodate two hundred enemies at most, whether it is the Imperial Association Army or the devil, it must be wiped out cleanly and thoroughly, you tell Staff Officer Qin, let him be careful of the spearhead soldiers sent by the enemy, don't be discovered by the devil spearhead." Liu Tianshu nodded and said.

If the devils were in front, according to the regulations of the Japanese army, they would definitely send a dozen devils full of sharp soldiers, and these devils would be very vigilant to search the surrounding situation.

Of course, if the devil takes the lead, in order to force the devil to speed up, Liu Tianshu will let the troops in the west attack in advance, so that they cannot conduct a detailed search of the valley.

"Okay, I'll send somebody." Ou Biaofei nodded, immediately called a soldier, and ran to the west to convey instructions to Staff Officer Qin.

Half an hour later, Zhou Aiguo commanded the combat squad that had rested for an hour, and launched an attack on the devils and the Imperial Association army who were still eating breakfast.

The rest of the devils were so frightened that they put down their bowls and lay on the ground with their guns in their hands.

It's a pity that no more shells flew out, which only made these originally nervous devils even more nervous.

However, no shells flew out here, and a gunshot suddenly rang out from the other direction, and a ghost soldier fell in response, but it was Zheng Guangdong, lying in the mountains and forests, and began to shoot from a distance unhurriedly.

Saburo Okada heard the gunshots and explosions going out again, sighed, put down the can in his hand, picked up the command knife, and ordered the troops to set off.

In order to prevent the surrounding New Fourth Army from following, Saburo Okada decided to let all the Imperial Allied Army go behind, and his first squadron acted as the pioneer and walked east along the avenue.

The 1st Squadron had basically no losses in yesterday's battle, while the 3rd Squadron lost more than half, the 2nd Squadron also lost a third, and the 4th Squadron lost almost a squadron.

Fortunately, the machine gun squadron and the artillery squad were in the middle of the line and did not lose anything.

Toshio Yamamoto, the commander of the 1st Squadron, received an order to immediately assemble all the officers and men of the 1st Squadron, and then took the lead along the road to the east.

In order to ensure the safety of the main force of the squadron, he sent a squad of spearheads to walk in front.

In the morning, he suggested to Saburo Okada that he send a guard force to a range of 200 meters on both sides of the avenue, so that although the speed would be slower, the safety factor of the troops would be much higher, but unfortunately the captain rejected his proposal.

It turned out that the wing commander had sent a telegram asking Okada's brigade to quickly get out of Wild Boar Ridge and join the first brigade that was rushing to the mountain pass east of Wild Boar Ridge.

As soon as Toshio Yamamoto commanded his troops left Pingba and walked less than two miles to the east, he heard the sound of fierce gunfire behind him.

Those damned Chinese have come up with it.

Toshio Yamamoto cursed in his heart, and at this moment, the messenger of the brigade sent the captain's order to speed up.

Toshio Yamamoto looked up at the undulating mountains and forests on both sides, sighed, and had to order his troops to speed up.

As soon as his troops walked along the avenue to a small mountain pass in front, they heard the sound of gunfire from behind them more intensely, and also heard the sound of mortar shells exploding, and it seemed that the New Fourth Army had pounced again.

However, he found that the second squadron was already following him, so he gave up the idea of seizing the hills on both sides and taking over the main force behind.

Yamamoto had just walked through the mountain pass with his troops, and the troops in front had not yet stepped out of the mountain pass to the east, when suddenly fierce gunfire rang out from the mountains on both sides behind, and bullets rained down on the heads of the second squadron following him, and at the same time, countless grenadiers shot shells from the mountains and forests on both sides, falling in the already chaotic ranks of the second squadron.

It's a pity that Yamamoto only heard a series of explosions from the back of the mountain, and the gunshots were as dense as beans, but he couldn't see it.

Finding that he and the 2nd Squadron had been cut off, Yamamoto suddenly had a bad idea, and just as he wanted to order the troops to stop advancing, he saw that the barren grass on both sides of the valley was suddenly lifted one after another, and then he saw a row of black muzzles on both sides of the avenue.

The machine guns arranged on both sides suddenly began to spit out flaming tongues under Yamamoto's terrified gaze, and the bullets swept densely towards the avenue from both sides, and the soldiers walking in the middle of the avenue were like fallen leaves in the autumn wind, knocked down one by one by the fierce bullets, and the whole valley resounded with the miserable cries of the imperial soldiers, the groans of pain, and the heart-rending cries for help.

Unfortunately, there were no dead ends in the whole valley, and Yamamoto Toshio was desperate to find that his soldiers had become lambs to be slaughtered, and he could only watch as the soldiers were beaten into blood and fell to the ground.

However, as the soldiers around him continued to fall, he soon felt as if his body had been hit hard, and then a ball of red spat out of his mouth, and he fell to the ground with a bang.

Staff Officer Qin saw twenty-four light machine guns and two heavy machine guns happily spitting out tongues of fire, directly tearing apart the devil soldiers who wanted to resist one by one, and he couldn't help but feel a tremor in his heart, he didn't expect that the machine gun position arranged by the regiment commander would have such great power, and the devils of a squadron, in less than ten minutes, there were only two or three left, and they were still standing on the road in horror.

However, these devils only lived a few more seconds, and in the blink of an eye, they fell to the ground weakly under the strafing of a crooked handle.

Seeing that there was no longer a single devil standing on the avenue, Staff Officer Qin breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered the Seventh Company to strafe the battlefield, while at the same time letting the machine gunners quickly transfer.

After the Seventh Company fired, the Eighth Company, the Ninth Company, and the Fourth Company attacked the devils fiercely for twenty minutes, and then immediately withdrew to both sides.

Saburo Okada's artillery squad was ready for artillery bombardment at this time, and as soon as they fired two shots, they found that the besieging New Fourth Army had suddenly retreated.

In the blink of an eye, calm returned to the mountains and forests, and many devils had not yet recovered from the fierce attack of the New Fourth Army just now, and then they found that the opponent had suddenly been eliminated, and they couldn't believe their eyes for a while.

Saburo Okada learned his lesson this time and sent troops to chase 200 meters on both sides of the avenue to control the commanding heights on both sides.

After confirming that the New Fourth Army had left, Saburo Okada remembered the 1st and 2nd squadrons.

Under the protection of a group of Japanese soldiers, he rushed to the second squadron, and saw that the second squadron was full of screams of wounded soldiers, and his face was gloomy and dripping with blood.

Seeing the second squadron leader coming over with gunpowder smoke on his face, he asked weakly, "Ono-kun, how are the casualties of the troops?" ”

"Report to the captain, my second squadron lost another squad in the battle just now, alas, these New Fourth Army are too cunning." Thinking of the ferocious firepower that the New Fourth Army suddenly rushed out just now, Ono still has palpitations in his heart.

At this time, there was no sound in the valley in front of him, and Saburo Okada glanced over there with some confusion, "Ono-kun, what about Yamamoto-kun's first squadron, let's go over and have a look." ”

At this time, the first squadron had not yet sent someone back to report, and Saburo Okada suddenly had an ominous feeling in his heart.

Ono sent troops to occupy the commanding heights of the mountain pass in front, and before he and Saburo Okada could reach the mountain pass, they heard frightened cries among the soldiers.

When Saburo Okada heard this, he hurried over with Ono.

The two walked to the mountain pass and couldn't help but be stunned.

There was a straight road leading through a valley that was not deep, and there were no tall trees on the slopes on either side, only some yellow weeds.

However, at this time, among the weeds, there were traces of excavation everywhere.

Looking at the avenue again, I saw that the entire avenue was full of the corpses of imperial soldiers, and along the road it stretched from this side of the mountain pass to the opposite mountain pass.

Looking at the dense corpses of imperial soldiers, Saburo Okada couldn't help but feel dizzy.

His first squadron was finished.

He never dreamed that in less than twenty minutes at most, his first squadron, one hundred and eighty people, would all be shattered. (To be continued.) )