Chapter 292: The Cunning Sakai
Shi Hu and the two fighters' precise sniping on the side made the support firepower behind the devil not work at all, and the devil in front did not have the fire support behind him, so he could only attack fiercely with the courage not to be afraid of death. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's a pity that although the reconnaissance brigade guarding the position does not have heavy machine guns, there are a lot of crooked machine guns, these machine guns continue to shoot bullets, knocking down the charging devils one by one, and the shooting level of the rest of the fighters is comparable to that of the little devils, Fujinohana's second squadron fought fiercely in front of the reconnaissance brigade's position for ten minutes, but still could not break through the position of the eighth road.
At this moment, Guo Donglai rushed to the position from behind with a battalion and a company, and when he saw that the reconnaissance brigade was fighting fiercely with the devils, he immediately shouted that his comrades were rushing, and he actually led a company to cross the blocking position of the reconnaissance brigade, and rushed towards the devils who were fighting hard while firing.
When he went to the position from behind, Guo Donglai asked the soldiers to put on their bayonets, and at this time, more than 100 bayonets with a cold light rushed towards the devils from the ridge like a tide.
The devil, who was struggling to shoot at the Eighth Route Army, suddenly found that countless figures appeared on the position of the Eighth Route Army, and knew that the main force of the Eighth Route had arrived, and he was already shocked in his heart.
Unexpectedly, these eight-way rushed to the position, and they rushed towards themselves without stopping for a moment, and raised their guns to shoot in horror at the moment.
It's a pity that the two sides are less than 100 meters apart, and in the blink of an eye, these devils have already exhausted the bullets in their guns, and it is too late to reload, so they have to be forced to meet them with bayonets.
It's just that the second squadron of the Japanese army, under a hard battle with the reconnaissance brigade, the loss has been more than half, and the first company has only gone to the position, it is the time when the spirit is flourishing, the two armies immediately collided together, the Japanese army immediately found itself outnumbered, many soldiers were surrounded by two or three eight roads in a blink of an eye, these eight roads cooperated very tacitly, the distant guns, the close guns, the devils in front were stabbed to death thirty or forty people in a blink of an eye, and the rest could not help retreating.
When Shi Hu saw that a series of people had arrived, his heart was immediately shocked, and after quickly loading the gun with bullets, he began to reap the lives of devils again.
After the deputy squadron leader of the devils was killed, the remaining thirty or so devils lost their fighting spirit and turned around and ran back.
However, how can people run past bullets, Guo Donglai's pursuit of troops, there are still a few light machine gunners, these light machine gunners in the white-knuckle battle between the two sides, have reloaded the bullets, seeing the devil and the eighth road distance, three machine guns spit tongues of fire, these devils immediately screamed and fell down one after another.
Guo Donglai saw that the attacking devils had been eliminated, and he did not order the troops to return, but set up a blocking position on the spot.
Fujino Hana watched her two squadrons being wiped out by the Eighth Route in front of Niutouling, and fear began to rise in her heart.
He didn't expect Liu Tianshu's troops to have such strong combat effectiveness, and the elite imperial soldiers led by him were not opponents, and they were eaten cleanly in a blink of an eye by the other party.
Although he still had two squadrons in his hands, he really didn't have the courage to let the remaining soldiers into battle after he had been eaten by two squadrons of infantry.
Because in his opinion, even if his brigade is all gone, he may not be able to capture the opponent's position.
Of course, not being able to capture the position did not mean that he was willing to lose, and he ordered the artillery to bombard the opposite position again. At the same time, let the remaining two infantry squadrons establish a blocking position under the ridge to prevent the Eighth Route from taking advantage of the victory to launch a counterattack against his brigade.
As soon as Guo Donglai commanded the first company to disperse under the mountain, the devil's artillery fire came, but because the company had already found cover and spread out under the mountain, the artillery shells from the devils did not bring many casualties.
At this time, Shu Zhi quietly arrived on the ridge with four 92 infantry guns, and saw that the devils were concentrating artillery fire to bombard the positions of the first company, so he immediately ordered the artillery to set up artillery on the ridge, aimed at the artillery positions of the devils who were roaring, and then opened fire fiercely.
Fuji Nohana's artillery was fighting happily, when suddenly smoke rose from the opposite hill, and then he heard the sound of cannonballs whistling in the sky, and in his astonishment, he saw countless cannonballs flying towards his position, and these artillerymen were suddenly frightened, and they dropped the cannons in their hands and turned to run.
It's a pity that at this time, how can people outrun cannonballs?
As soon as he ran a few steps, the shell fired by Shu Zhi fell on the devil's artillery position, and in the blink of an eye, the devil's artillery position was blown into a sea of fire.
Fujino Hana saw that his artillery position was blown up and filled with gunsmoke, and knew that his artillery was finished, at this time, he remembered that in the battle report forwarded by the brigade commander, it was mentioned many times that the artillery fire of the Eighth Route was no worse than that of the Imperial Army, but just now there were at most mortar shells flying out, and he ignored the fact that the Eighth Road had a lot of infantry guns produced by the Empire.
Coming to his senses, he closed his eyes in agony, and then tearfully ordered his troops to retreat.
The artillery of the Eighth Road knocked out their artillery positions, and the next thing should be to launch a retaliatory bombardment of their remaining two squadrons, if they don't retreat, I'm afraid these two squadrons will also have to be here.
I have to say that Fuji Wilda's ambition to break the wrist is a wise choice.
After Shu Zhi saw that the devil's artillery position was blown into a sea of fire, he was just about to command the artillery to attack the devil's defensive position, but found that the devil had retreated.
Of course, the artillery had to be ordered to stop shelling.
Guo Donglai saw the devil retreating, naturally he would not let go of the opportunity to beat the water dog, and rushed to the devil's artillery position with a company, and picked up the shells that were lucky not to explode and the guns that could be used.
Jin Zhenbiao saw that the devil had left after the blow of the artillery company, and his second and third companies did not enter the battle, but arranged the second company on the ridge and the third company behind the ridge.
As for the reconnaissance brigade, having received an order from the regiment commander, it tearfully withdrew from its positions. and he was the first to set out to the west.
When Liu Tianshu and Liao Zhifeng learned that the reconnaissance brigade had sacrificed 28 people and 14 others were wounded in the blocking battle at Niutouling, they couldn't help but shed tears of sadness.
Especially Liu Tianshu, the reconnaissance brigade is the elite trained by his own hands, but he didn't expect to lose one-third of a battle in a blocking battle, plus the losses in a series of battles after the attack on the military column, the reconnaissance brigade has been reduced by more than half.
It seems that in the future, the reconnaissance brigade will still be used as little as possible in regular offensive and defensive battles.
Liu Tianshu saw that the devil had withdrawn far away, and the first battalion had been able to secure Niutouling, so he immediately commanded the second and third battalions, and the first battalion and the second battalion of the three regiments that came later, and rushed westward.
Major General Sakai received a report that the Fujinohana Brigade had failed in its attack on Niutouling, and that the First Brigade had lost almost half of its losses, and his face was clouded.
As a general with rich combat experience, Sakai realized that it was no longer realistic to block the Eighth Route at Niutouling, so he had to order the two brigades to the east to withdraw to the railway, and on the other hand, he ordered Saburo Ono and Hana Fujino to immediately withdraw from Niutouling with their troops and approach the railway.
Since the Eighth Road cannot be blocked at Niutouling, there is only another place to block.
Sakai chose the location of the next decisive battle with the Eighth Road in the Eiyama base area.
Because he received the information forwarded by the headquarters, he learned that the third regiment of the Eighth Route Army stationed in the Rongshan base area was very likely to have left the base area with Liu Tianshu's second regiment.
Now that the Eighth Route Army in the Rongshan base area is empty, it is better to wait for the time to attack the Rongshan base area at this time.
Anyway, this group of eight roads will eventually withdraw to Rongshan, so wait for them in the Rongshan base area.
As for the remains of those Imperial soldiers who died in Niutouling, Sakai asked Fujino Hana to send a small team, with the cooperation of a company's puppet army, to carefully guard there, waiting for Yachi to leave, and then go to collect the bodies of those Imperial soldiers who died in battle.
Liu Tianshu and Han Fangping withdrew to Mujiazhai with their troops, and found that the devil seemed to have given up the pursuit, which couldn't help but be very strange.
Just as he and Han Fangping were drinking and talking with Mu Xuping, the head of the Mu family, a staff officer came over in a hurry with a telegram.
Liu Tianshu hurriedly confessed to Lord Mu Zhai, and then walked out.
After reading the message, his face changed drastically, and he turned around and called Han Fangping out.
"Fang Ping, it's not good, the devils suddenly attacked the Rongshan base area, the Rongshan County Brigade is desperately trying to block the enemy, but there are many devils, Rongshan is in danger."
Handing the message to Han Fangping, Liu Tianshu said anxiously.
At this time, he finally understood why the devil gave up chasing and intercepting, and dared to make this vicious move.
"Damn little devil, Captain Liu, we have to rush back immediately to relieve the siege." Han Fangping said anxiously.
"Let's go, let's go and say to Mu Zhaizi." After the two of them ran to talk to the Lord of Mu Zhai, they immediately ordered the troops to gather, and then ran quickly towards the Rongshan base area.
Hong Feihu couldn't help frowning when he learned that the devil suddenly launched an attack on the Rongshan base area.
He did not expect that an attack on the military column would cause such a big reaction from the Japanese army, and the encirclement and interception of the second and third regiments failed, and they turned to the Rongshan base, which was empty of troops.
This is also the fact that the devil has rail transportation to rely on.
After the Sakai brigade withdrew to the railway, it quickly boarded the train and rushed into the direction of Yeongsan, which was a day faster than the 2nd and 3rd regiments, which were all on a pair of feet.
Thinking that even if the 2nd and 3rd regiments forcibly marched day and night, they would not be able to rush back to Rongshan until tomorrow, Hong Feihu had no choice but to instruct the Rongshan base area to do a good job of clearing the fortified walls, and the county brigade that remained in the base area tried to delay the attack of the devils as much as possible to gain time for the villagers to transfer.
As for drawing troops from the Fuya Mountain base area to reinforce Rongshan, he didn't think about it, because it would take about a day to get from Fuya Mountain to Rongshan, and if a group of Fuya Mountain base areas were used, maybe the devils in Fuchang County would take the opportunity to make trouble again.
The only hope now is that the second and third regiments can rush back.
However, even if these two regiments rush back, I am afraid that they will not be the opponents of the Sakai brigade.
According to the intelligence, the Sakai Brigade was an entire brigade that launched an attack on the Yeongsan base area.
For a moment, Hong Feihu felt a lot of pressure. (To be continued.) )