Chapter 413: Attacking the Baisha Stronghold (3)
Kameda led the Japanese troops who had withdrawn from outside the stronghold and the squad guarding the command post, about 150 people, from the west through the defense area of the Imperial Allied Army, and rushed out in six vehicles. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Anyway, the materials in the stronghold have been almost destroyed, besides, the wing commander ordered him to retreat to the Yangzhuang stronghold, and he will not leave at this time, and wait until the New Fourth Army that occupies the Beishan position attacks the stronghold, plus the New Fourth Army in the other two directions, I am afraid that he will not be able to leave if he wants to.
In order to ensure that the surviving troops could withdraw from their positions, he had to leave blocking troops in the east and south, and as for the Imperial Army, they were strictly ordered to hold their positions.
However, when the cannonballs from the Imperial Allied Army on the hill fell on their positions, they were already panicked, and at this time, they saw Kameda Taijun rushing out of the West Gate with the devil in a hurry, and they didn't know that Kameda Taijun wanted to let himself drag the New Fourth Army here.
The squadron leader of the Imperial Association Army couldn't help but spit out when he saw the devil's car walking away, and then looked at his terrified subordinates and shouted: "Brothers, the little devil left us and ran away by himself, and wanted to leave me alive." ”
As he spoke, he commanded the remaining more than sixty Imperial Cooperative Army, and withdrew from the position in a panic with a gun, and ran towards the dark night in the west.
At this time, Xie Pingcai had already ordered the troops to press towards the town with all their might, striving to destroy the enemy as quickly as possible, and then pursue the devil.
Of course, in his heart, he still hopes that the devil will not be completely destroyed because of his panic.
The national platoon commander saw that the devil quickly rushed out of his artillery range, so he had to let the soldiers dismantle the cannon and carry it down the hill quickly.
Kameda's convoy left the Baisha stronghold and walked a mile west along the highway before colliding with the blocking position that the machine-gun company had set up there in advance.
The car at the beginning, led by two three-wheeled motorcycles, pierced the night with bright lights, and was about to reach the small hill in front of it.
Crossing this hillside, it is a fork in the road, going west directly to Qingyang Bridge, and north to Yangzhuang stronghold.
The Qingyang Bridge was already a lot of bad luck, and Kameda's idea at this time was to retreat to the Yangzhuang stronghold as soon as possible along the road.
Who would have thought that when the car at the head was less than two hundred meters away from the hillside, a dense burst of gunfire suddenly rang out on the hillside, and countless bullets came over, along with shells from mortar cannons.
The two tricycles running in front were overturned in a blink of an eye, and after rushing along the side of the road for a while, one was planted in the ground on the side of the road, and an unlucky soldier threw out because of inertia, and coincidentally hit a sharp stone, and suddenly his brain splattered, but he couldn't live.
At the same time as the three-wheeled motorcycle was sent flying, the car in front of it was fired wildly by the machine gun company, the bullet swept from the front of the car, and the three devils in the cab, including the driver, were suddenly hit several times, and their bodies shook a few times, and they were crooked in the car and no longer moved, and the machine gunner on the front of the car was also directly knocked away by the sudden blow.
After the car shook on the road like a drunken dog, it finally stopped, and the soldiers in the carriage who were shaken to a certain amount hurriedly jumped out of the car at the officer's order, and quickly organized a formation to attack forward.
Seeing that the New Fourth Army was blocking the attack in front, several cars in the back immediately stopped and assembled.
Ximen was not attacked, but he didn't expect the New Fourth Army to be waiting for him here, Kameda's heart sank, and he urgently ordered a squad that had completed the preparation to attack forward, trying to open a road for the troops, and at the same time the rest of the devils were also ready.
Who knew that the attack of this squad was not at all possible under the strafing of the large number of machine guns of the machine gun company.
At this time, the New Fourth Army guarding the front fired flares from time to time to illuminate the situation of the devils' attack, these devils attacked forward in the bright wilderness, and the opponent had a large number of machine guns, which was no different from sending them to death.
Five minutes later, Kameda saw that his squad was almost lying on the road of the charge, and behind him, the shouts of the New Fourth Army were faintly heard.
He looked around, and finally had to give up the car and retreat north on foot.
In order to prevent the New Fourth Army from discovering its attempt, he gritted his teeth, drew out two more stolls of Japanese troops, and together with the Japanese troops who had retreated from the attack, once again launched a suicidal charge against the machine-gun blocking position of the New Fourth Army.
After the machine gun company guarding the hillside knocked down these charging devils with cheerful machine guns, it was only then that the remaining devils had taken advantage of the fact that they were entangled by these devils and ran directly to the north.
Xie Ping learned that Kameda fled on foot with the remnants of the devils, so he regretfully ordered the pursuit to be stopped, except for the reconnaissance platoon sent a squad to follow and monitor, the rest of the troops stepped up to clean up the battlefield.
Because the regiment commander had sent an urgent telegram, asking him to end the battle immediately, clean up the battlefield and quickly return to Wild Boar Ridge.
By the time Xie Pingcai returned to Boar Ridge with his troops carrying the booty, Kameda had already joined up with the main force of the 3rd Brigade that had rushed to the Yangzhuang stronghold.
However, after hearing Kameda's report that the Japanese troops guarding the Baisha stronghold were all killed except for more than 70 people who had fled to the Yangzhuang stronghold, and all the soldiers of the two companies of the Imperial Allied Army Squadron that cooperated with the operation were lost, and all the materials stored in the Baisha stronghold were destroyed, the muscles on Matsushita's face twitched twice.
That's nearly 300 imperial soldiers, and after such a night's effort, all of them have returned to their hometowns, and he can't help but shed a few old tears.
Fortunately, even the division commander knew about the difficulty of Liu Tianshu's department, which made Matsushita Nobuyuki feel a little more settled, besides, this time the brigade commander personally commanded the troops to attack the 16th Regiment, almost tens of thousands of people, not counting a brigade in Linshan County to cooperate with the operation.
It has never been the case for so many troops to suddenly encircle and suppress a small New Fourth Army base area.
If Liu Tianshu still has a chance to turn over under such a heavy blow, then it can only be said that Amaterasu has forgotten to bless his people.
The big battle was approaching, and Matsushita Nobuyuki only reprimanded Kameda twice, and then hurriedly sent the remaining two squadrons of the 1st Brigade to the Yangzhuang stronghold.
At the same time, in order to increase the strength of the 1st Brigade, Nobuyuki Matsushita also drew a squadron from the security forces and strengthened it to the 1st Brigade, so that Kameda's 1st Brigade had a strength of three and a half squadrons.
After Xie Pingcai withdrew his troops into the Wild Boar Ridge, the results of the attack on the Baisha stronghold came out, and tonight a fierce battle wiped out nearly 300 Japanese troops in Kameda, and at the same time eliminated the Imperial Association Army Company stationed at Qingyang Bridge, and captured more than 50 Imperial Alliance troops.
As for the Imperial Allied Army guarding the west side of the Baisha stronghold, except for more than 40 people who were killed and wounded by artillery fire, the rest of them actually ran away in the dark under the leadership of the squadron leader.
The capture of this battle, although not very ideal, but still good, just the 92 infantry artillery captured two, as well as four 60 mortars, and the shells also have four bases, and in the Baisha stronghold, because the devil's action to destroy materials was too hasty, the second battalion actually found some cloth and food, that is, bullets and grenades, and also captured some, but not much.
However, those cars, because the devils were in a hurry, were not destroyed, and Xie Pingcai's people drove directly back to Wild Boar Ridge, just in time to transport supplies on the way.
Liu Tianshu was relieved when he received a telegram from Xie Pingcai and knew that his second battalion had safely withdrawn to Wild Boar Ridge.
However, Xie Pingcai's second battalion suffered more than 70 casualties in the battle against the Baisha stronghold, which made him feel a little heartache. You must know that the devil has concentrated heavy troops and came with a murderous spirit holding a butcher's knife, he only has such a small number of troops in his hands, and any loss will make him heartache for a long time.
"Political commissar, the second battalion fought well and deserves praise." Liu Tianshu handed the telegram to Guo Sizhong, who was frowning on the side.
"Being able to successfully defeat the devil's stronghold in Baisha and eliminate hundreds of enemies, the second battalion is indeed worthy of praise." After reading the battle report sent by the second battalion, Guo Sizhong's face showed a hint of joy, but he was soon entangled in worry.
The underground party in the direction of Hefei has sent intelligence confirming that the 130 Brigade of the Japanese Army is going to attack the base area of the 16 th Regiment, and at the same time, a telegram has also been sent from the direction of the detachment, asking Liu Tianshu and Guo Sizhong to be cautious and careful, and if the enemy is too strong, the main force can jump out to carry out the outside line operation.
The two of them discussed this matter for a long time just now.
At present, the main force should be the most sensible countermeasure to carry out operations on the outside line, but in this case, the pressure on the troops remaining in the base area will be too great.
The Japanese army had tens of thousands of troops.
It's just that, judging by the current situation, the enemy in the east does not seem to be amassing heavy forces.
"In this way, political commissar, you have to worry more about the second battalion's commendation." Liu Tianshu thought about it and decided to hand over the matter of commending the second battalion and the mobilization of the troops to the political commissar.
He himself stayed in the command room, constantly studying the enemy situation report sent back by the reconnaissance company, and at the same time, combined with the intelligence from the underground party and the instructions of the detachment, he nervously thought about how to deal with the next severe test.
It was indeed easy for the 16th Regiment to leave the base area, but the independent battalion had only been formed recently, and half of it was the Imperial Allied Army anyway, and its combat effectiveness and fighting will were not enough to undertake the task of defending the base area.
Besides, if he leads the main force to leave and allows the devils to run rampant in the base area and harm the villagers, then how can he be worthy of these villagers who support and support the New Fourth Army.
Liu Tianshu repeatedly measured the mountains and rivers of the base area on the map, constantly thinking about the various roads in the base area, and deducing what kind of way the devils would take once the heavy troops attacked.
In the middle of the night, Staff Officer Liu Tianshusun called the political commissar and Deputy Regiment Commander Liu.
"Lao Guo, Lao Liu, I thought about it carefully, we can't give up the base area that we have created with great difficulty, if we leave the base area and cross the railway, then I am sorry for the villagers who support us wholeheartedly. I have thought about it repeatedly, our base area has now been expanded to the Zhangbaling area, and it can be said that there is already a lot of room for maneuver, and although the devils are menacing this time, it is impossible for them to always huddle together, nor can they surround our base area with water, and the greatest possibility is that I think the devils want to drive us out of the base area. Come, I have an idea, let's discuss ......" Liu Tianshu pointed to the map and said in a calm tone. (To be continued.) )