Chapter 499: Preparing for an Ambush

The Japanese army, who was about to turn back to block the hole torn by the 64th Regiment, was entangled by the 3rd Battalion of the 65th Regiment in the blink of an eye, and had to stop on the spot to start a battle with the 3rd Battalion. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

But as soon as Sheng Ming came up, the whole battalion pounced together, the Japanese army only had one squadron, and it also left the position, without the advantage of geographical advantages, and was defeated and retreated by the three battalions.

Jiechuan learned that the New Fourth Army pounced from the east and bit the reserve squadron that was originally going to plug the gap, and immediately climbed a black line on his forehead.

The gap in the defense line of the Horse Pass kept extending to the east, and the New Fourth Army rushed from the gap like a sharp sword, rushing straight to his command post, and at the same time, the position divided by the New Fourth Army was also fiercely attacked by the New Fourth Army.

At this time, the two sides were already mixed together, and the infantry cannon in his hand was no longer needed, and he saw the cannonballs from the grenadiers flying in the sky, and the whole riding col was full of shouts of killing.

As the fire rose from time to time, the subordinates guarding the front called Jiechuan to complain, it turned out that those fortifications that were thought to be very strong were attacked by the Molotov cocktails of the New Fourth Army, and in a blink of an eye, they were turned into a fireball, and the defenders inside could no longer hold on, and were either burned alive in the dark fort, or retreated back in embarrassment.

After forty minutes of fierce fighting, the 3rd Battalion of the 65th Regiment eliminated Jiechuan's reserve squadron and flanked the 64th Regiment attacking from east to west, successfully splitting the Japanese cavalry position in half.

Nozu Ichiro received a telegram from Sukegawa and knew that the Japanese troops on the horse pass had reached the last moment, and he couldn't help but shed two lines of tears.

The Japanese army on the horse pass was attacked by the New Fourth Army, and he was still mentally prepared for this, but he did not expect that the New Fourth Army would send so many troops in order to eliminate the Jiechuan brigade, not only attacking Huzhou, but also surrounding the horse pass.

It's a pity that it's dark now, and I can't send reinforcements at all, and the planes can't go to help in the war.

Could it be that God is really going to destroy the Jiechuan brigade?

After Jiechuan sent a farewell message to the wing commander, he picked up his command knife with a cold face, sorted out his military uniform, and then walked out proudly.

His own troops had been squeezed around the command post, and there were less than a hundred troops left who were still fighting, as an imperial soldier, he knew that tonight was his last time in this world, and it was impossible to break through, and the only thought was to serve His Majesty the Emperor like a real samurai.

When the Japanese soldiers at the command post saw the captain walking out with the command knife in his hand, their hearts immediately became hot, and they also walked out of the command post with their weapons.

The smell of gunpowder smoke wafted everywhere in the night wind, and the shouts of the New Fourth Army kept approaching, and the sound of explosions also moved to this direction. 、

Jiechuan glanced at the surrounding situation, ordered all the soldiers to gather, and then, under his command, turned around and rushed to the east.

After Sheng Ming commanded the troops to join the 64th Regiment, he took the 3rd Battalion to attack the position of the Jiechuan command post.

As soon as he commanded the troops to capture a small hill, he saw the whistling sound of cannonballs from grenadiers in the sky, and when he heard the sound was extremely dense, his heart moved, and he shouted that the devil wants to break through the siege, comrades, hold the position.

When the soldiers of the third battalion heard the battalion commander's order, they immediately stopped the attack and quickly prepared to block the attack on the hill.

Sure enough, as soon as the soldiers found the terrain and lay down, countless black shadows emerged from the opposite side, and two flares rose into the sky, and what appeared in front of them were more than 100 devils with bayonets on their bayonets, one of whom was wielding a command knife and was hurrying towards the mountain.

"Hit!" Sheng Ming shouted violently, and the shell gun in his hand was aimed at a devil in front of him and directly held the fire, and the devil's body was crooked, and he fell to the ground.

The soldiers of the third battalion guarding the hill immediately opened fire on the rushing devils, and the light and heavy firepower arranged on the hill fired desperately, and the gunfire suddenly sounded like firecrackers.

Jiechuan saw the New Fourth Army blocking in front of him, and in a hurry, he shouted to kill Gege, and at the same time rushed forward desperately.

It's a pity that the steel bullets are what flesh and blood can fight, and before he can run forward thirty meters, he was hit by a string of machine gun bullets that swept over, and several bloody holes appeared in his chest, and his strength disappeared, and then he fell to the ground softly.

Seeing that the attacking devils were knocked down in pieces, and at this time, behind this group of devils, the gunfire of the New Fourth Army sounded again, Sheng Ming perked up, shouted Comrades, rush, and rushed out with the troops.

The soldiers of the 64th Regiment, who were chasing behind, also shouted and rushed up when they saw the New Fourth Army in front of them.

There were New Fourth Army in front and behind, so it was naturally inconvenient to shoot, and soon, the New Fourth Army on both sides rushed to the devil and launched a bloody white-bladed killing.

In order to kill the enemy with the warriors, the warriors in the distance shoot flares into the sky.

Fifteen minutes later, there was no longer a devil standing on the battlefield, Sheng Ming glanced at the battlefield full of corpses, and ordered the soldiers to quickly clean up the battlefield with tears in his eyes.

Tong Guijie was relieved to learn that the devil in the horse pass had been eliminated, and ordered the troops to clean up the battlefield overnight, and at the same time asked the 65th Regiment to stop attacking the enemy in Huzhou.

When Nozu Ichiro heard that the New Fourth Army outside the city was no longer attacking, his heart darkened, and he knew that his Jiechuan brigade was finished. After reluctantly reporting the situation to the division commander, he had to order the troops to defend Huzhou City.

Liu Tianshu received a report from Tong Guijie that the devils in the riding col had been eliminated, and praised the 21st Brigade on the phone, but the Japanese troops in Yixing and Xia Yucun did not take advantage of the 21st Brigade to attack the riding col to go south, which made Liu Tianshu a little disappointed.

It seems that the devil has suffered enough of the night's losses and will not send troops to reinforce at night.

If the devils in the north do not go south, the plan of the 22nd Brigade to ambush will naturally come to naught.

However, the devil who rode the horse was eliminated, and Huzhou City was exposed in front of him, and according to intelligence, the enemy in Huzhou now only has two brigades, and Nozu Ichiro, who wants to come to Huzhou, is afraid that he can't sleep at night.

At dawn, the 64th Regiment of the 21st Brigade stayed behind to guard the Horse Pass, the 65th Regiment was still eyeing the west of Huzhou City, and its 66th Regiment was attacking the stronghold between Huzhou and Wukang along the west side of Huzhou.

Didn't the devil move? Then you can move, Liu Tianshu didn't believe that the 142nd Division of the Japanese Army, which had rushed to Wukang, would go north to Si'an regardless of the safety of Huzhou.

The two main regiments of the new Seventh Brigade are on standby in the north of Wukang, the 142nd Division is only a triad division, if the devil is a division and a regiment, of course he can't afford to provoke, but he can't afford to hide, the territory of western Zhejiang is so big, if the devil doesn't divide the troops, he can't seize the main force of the independent division at all, but if the devil divides the troops, hey, maybe the independent division will find an opportunity.

When Duo Ze learned that the main force of the New Fourth Army suddenly moved eastward and approached the city of Huzhou, his brows couldn't help frowning.

He didn't expect the Japanese army in Huzhou to be so incompetent, a reinforced brigade, and a well-built field fortification, but it was eaten clean by Liu Tianshu overnight, and now Liu Tianshu put the big knife on the neck of the Huzhou defenders.

Do you want the 142nd Division to rush to Huzhou?

Duoze hesitated for a long time, and it was not until the next morning, after the air force planes arrived in the skies over Huzhou to carefully reconnoitre, that Duoze decided to let the 142nd Division send a wing of troops to reinforce Huzhou.

Tong Guijie used the strength of the whole brigade to besiege the horse pass, although he eliminated a reinforced brigade of the Japanese army, but his own casualties were close to 1,000, and because of the fierce battle, there were not many trophies captured.

However, the 21st Brigade had just won the battle, and the morale of the troops was high.

When Liu Tianshu learned that the 142nd Division of the Japanese Army, which had rushed to Wukang, had sent the Matsumoto Wing to reinforce Huzhou, he immediately sent a telegram to Hao Mengxuan, asking him to wait for an opportunity to attack the rear guard of the Matsumoto Wing, and at the same time telegraphed Tong Guijie to shrink the troops if necessary and defend in the area of the Horse Pass.

After receiving the order, the Matsumoto Wing immediately set out from Wukang and rushed towards Huzhou. Matsumoto was originally an officer in the Kwantung Army, but he was later transferred back to China, and when the 142nd Division was formed, he was appointed as a wing commander, and this was his first mission to the Chinese battlefield again, so he was naturally very excited.

As a member of the Kwantung Army, Matsumoto despised the Chinese army in his bones, believing that the New Fourth Army and other Chinese armies were simply vulnerable, and he couldn't even understand how an imperial army with a reinforced brigade could be easily annihilated by the New Fourth Army.

Thinking that Huzhou City would have to rely on himself to reinforce and rescue, he was high-spirited and led his troops out of Wukang, and his three brigades were divided into three armies and advanced to Huzhou.

Of course, Matsumoto, as a veteran soldier, although he is a little arrogant, but he is still a little cautious when it comes to real action, and his three brigades are only five miles apart, and once they are attacked all the way, they can be quickly reinforced.

Hao Mengxuan received a report from the scouts and couldn't help but smile when he learned that Matsumoto had divided the three brigades into three directions to the northeast.

After studying the map for a while, he ordered the 71st Regiment to immediately insert into Xiaoyuling after the Matsumoto Wing crossed the Yutian River, and cut off the connection between the Matsumoto Wing and Wukang, and the 72nd Regiment rushed to the Akita Dam to ambush the baggage troops behind Matsumoto, and the brigade special service battalion attacked the brigade on the left side of the Matsumoto Wing to contain the main force of the Matsumoto Wing to return for reinforcements.

After the order was issued, the 71st and 72nd Regiments, as well as the brigade headquarters special service battalion, quickly moved into action.

At noon, the 72nd Regiment rushed to the Akita Dam and hid in the mountains and forests to the west, watching as the 1st Brigade on the left side of the Matsumoto Wing crossed the Akita Dam and headed northeast.

When the devils were together, the 72nd Regiment quickly rushed to the southeast and rushed to the mountains and forests on both sides of the Akita Dam.

According to the information obtained from the reconnaissance, the baggage unit of the Matsumoto Wing was about two hours behind the main force that was walking in front.

Of course, even Matsumoto's baggage force was protected by two squadrons of infantry.

Besides, it was daytime again, and Matsumoto didn't expect the New Fourth Army to attack his baggage troops.

Gao Weiheng, the commander of the 72nd Regiment, set up his headquarters on a small hill on the west side of the Akita Dam, and the baggage troops of the devils plus the infantry responsible for defending them numbered about 700 people and a total of more than 10 vehicles.

In order to ensure a quick end to the fighting, Gao Weiheng had the 1st and 2nd Battalions ambushed on both sides of the road, and the 3rd Battalion remained prepared. (To be continued.) )