Chapter 393: The Unlucky Saburo Okada (1)
Liu Tianshu stood on a hill on the north side of the Black Eagle Valley, holding the telescope in his hand all the time. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Ever since Saburo Okada commanded the troops to enter the Boar Ridge, the soldiers of the reconnaissance company had been constantly sending the enemy's situation over, and he couldn't help frowning when he heard that the enemy who was preparing to pounce on Sangu Dam through the Black Eagle Valley this time not only had a Japanese brigade, but also more than 600 imperial troops.
It seems that the name of Matsushita Nobuyuki's caution is really not false. You see that he has a three-way army, and there is a brigade of devils on each road, and then he uses six or seven hundred emperors to cooperate with the action.
In this way, the number of his army on each road has reached one thousand six or seven, and Liu Tianshu may not be able to eat his army even if he concentrates all the horses.
When Okada Saburo's troops were about to reach the Black Eagle Valley, Liu Tianshu ordered Zhou Aiguo to reconnoiter a platoon and immediately made a blocking appearance at the eastern end of the Black Eagle Valley. At the same time, the seventh, eighth, and ninth three companies were ordered to be ready for battle.
Half an hour later, at the mouth of the valley east of the Black Eagle Valley, fierce gunfire rang out, and the fighters of the reconnaissance company exchanged fire with the enemy.
However, a platoon of the reconnaissance company took advantage of the favorable terrain and fought with the Imperial Allied army rushing in front for about ten minutes, and immediately pretended to be invincible and retreated to the east.
The battalion commander of the Imperial Association Army, who was opening the road in front, couldn't help but be happy when he saw the New Fourth Army that blocked him turn around and fled, and while sending someone to report the good news to Okada Taijun who was following behind, he commanded the troops to chase after him closely.
Okada Saburo learned that the Imperial Allied Army in front was blocked by the New Fourth Army and lost more than 20 people, but the New Fourth Army in front seemed to be only a small force, and under the fierce attack of the Imperial Allied Army, it had retreated.
Seeing that his troops had reached the most dangerous place in the Black Eagle Valley, but there was still no movement on the hills on both sides, Saburo Okada couldn't help but smile proudly.
It seems that Liu Tianshu of the New Fourth Army is nothing more than this, and in such a dangerous place, he does not deploy troops to block it, but sends a small force to block it in front. Could it be that with only a few dozen or hundreds of men, he could stop his heroic and invincible Imperial Japanese Army.
"Order the troops, quickly pass through the Black Hawk Valley, and fight to reach Sangu Dam for dinner." Okada laughed loudly, clamped the war horse under his crotch hard, and surrounded by more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, successfully crossed the most dangerous valley pass, and walked forward quickly.
In front of him, there were already two battalions of Japanese troops passing through the Black Hawk Valley, behind them there was only one battalion and baggage troops, and finally a battalion of the Imperial Allied Army.
Liu Tianshu had come to the cliff at the most dangerous point in the Black Eagle Valley at this time, and when he saw Okada Saburo's four infantry squadrons, they were all about to pass below, and the artillery squad and machine gun squadron were also to the east.
Liu Tianshu's eyes looked at the commander of the ninth company, and suddenly made a hands-on movement.
The commander of the ninth company and his soldiers had been waiting for Liu Tianshu's signal for a long time, and when they saw the signal to move, they immediately ignited the explosives buried in the middle of the cliff, and with the snorting of the fuse, the smell of sulfur wafted out of the air, and then they heard a landslide explosion, and countless boulders rolled down from the cliff.
At this time, walking in the most dangerous place was the third squad of the third squadron of the Okada Brigade Infantry, these soldiers were struggling to move forward, when they suddenly heard a loud noise overhead, and looked up in shock, only to see countless boulders falling straight from the sky, rapidly dilating in their pupils.
These devil soldiers suddenly felt that their minds were blank, and they even forgot all about dodging, and in the blink of an eye, they were directly submerged by the stones falling from the sky.
Thick dust and smoke immediately rose from the most dangerous point of the Black Eagle Valley, quickly submerging the entire valley.
Okada heard a loud explosion in the valley behind him, and couldn't help but stop, and when he looked back, he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time.
Behind him, the sky was obscured by rising dust and smoke, but the falling boulders stopped after a few minutes.
What appeared in Saburo Okada's eyes was a large pile of chaotic stones, completely blocking the valley behind him. The stones that rolled over also wounded a dozen soldiers of the second squad of the 3rd Infantry Squadron.
The stones flew and smashed on the head of the third squadron of the third squadron, and he didn't have to think about it to know that the third squad of the third squadron had been buried under the rubble that weighed an unknown number of pounds.
The devil beside him was panicked by this sudden change, and looked at him with panicked eyes.
"Eight grids, quick, Oda-kun, gather your troops, and quickly go to rescue the baggage troops behind." At this time, Okada had already thought that he had fallen into Liu Tianshu's plot, and Liu Tianshu's target must be the baggage troops and the Imperial Association Army walking behind.
Now that the road in the valley has been blocked, it is necessary to climb over the hills on both sides to rescue the troops behind.
Of course, you can also turn over directly from those rocks, but who knows if Liu Tianshu will have a back hand there.
Just as Oda was busy directing the assembly of the Second Infantry Squadron, a rain of bullets suddenly shot on both sides of the valley where the dust had cleared, and at the same time, grenades fired by the New Fourth Army grenadiers also began to fly towards the location of Okada's brigade.
The Ninth Company was originally ambushed on the hill east of the Black Eagle Valley, and at this time, the devil was in chaos again, and was suddenly attacked by the Ninth Company, and more than 20 people fell in a blink of an eye.
The rest of the devils scrambled to find cover, while the machine gunners began to set up crane guns, and the artillery squad began to look for suitable terrain to mount guns.
It's a pity that Okada's brigade is now all on the avenue in the valley, and even if the infantry artillery is erected, if it wants to hit the target above, its effect is not ideal.
The Ninth Company occupied a favorable terrain, and all the light machine guns opened fire on the devils who were desperately rushing upward, knocking them down one by one.
While the 9th Company was fighting fiercely with the main force of the Okada Brigade, the 7th and 8th Companies, with the cooperation of the machine gun company, had begun to attack the Devil's transport squadron and the Imperial Concord military camp.
The Imperial Cooperative Army, who was walking behind, saw the cliffs on both sides of the valley in front of them suddenly collapse, and immediately knew that the situation was not good, and when they saw the Taijun who was walking to the bottom of the cliff being smashed into pulp by the falling stones in the blink of an eye, they couldn't help but secretly call it a fluke in their hearts.
Fortunately, at this time, I didn't go there by myself, otherwise even if I had great ability, I am afraid it would be useless.
Seeing those imposing princes in the past, in the face of the power of nature, like young children without strength, these imperial armies naturally began to stagnate.
After the shells of the machine gun company flew towards them and blew up several soldiers of the Imperial Allied Army, the rest of the Imperial Allied Army began to retreat continuously at the signal of their commander, and distanced themselves from the Devil's baggage troops.
At this time, even if you think with your toes, you know that the main target of the New Fourth Army is the baggage troops of the devils.
Otherwise, the stone should have fallen towards the head of the group leader Saburo Okada or the machine gun squadron.
Seeing that the Imperial Allied Army began to retreat, the Seventh Company immediately took advantage of the situation under the order of Ou Biaofei to chase up, and the Imperial Allied Army saw countless New Fourth Army chasing after them from the mountains on both sides, and the battalion commander of the Imperial Allied Army immediately made a decision and ordered the troops to retreat quickly.
In the end, the battalion commander of the Imperial Association Army led the troops to run west for ten miles in one breath under the pursuit of the Seventh Company, until there was no shadow of the New Fourth Army behind him, and then he gasped and stopped.
Seeing that he had only lost about forty brothers, the battalion commander of the Imperial Association Army breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
After driving the Imperial Allied Army away, the 8th Company immediately launched a fierce attack on the Japanese transport squadron.
The fire support of the organic artillery company, coupled with Zheng Guangdong's unhurried killing of the squadron leader, squad leader and other officers of the devil transport squadron, as for the devil machine gunner and the like, has become the focus of attention.
Without the effective command of the commander and without decent fire support, under the fierce blows of the Eighth Company, in less than half an hour, Okada's baggage squadron was completely annihilated.
When Liu Tianshu heard that the devil's baggage troops in the Black Eagle Valley had been wiped out, he immediately ordered to quickly speed up the battlefield and quickly retreat from the hill with the spoils of war.
At this time, because Okada ordered the troops to attack backwards at all costs, the pressure on the Ninth Company was extremely great, and the casualties of the troops had already reached one-third.
After receiving the order to retreat, Sun Wangfeng, the commander of the Ninth Company, wiped his face full of gunsmoke, shouted to withdraw tragically, and quickly withdrew to the north with his troops.
When Okada learned that the New Fourth Army, which had been blocking him north of the Black Eagle Valley, had finally retreated, he immediately understood that his transport squadron was finished, but he still did not give up, and led his troops over the rocky valley and rushed to the Black Eagle Valley, where the corpses of Imperial soldiers lying messily on both sides of the valley avenue appeared in front of him.
His transport squadron was completely wiped out, all the officers and men were shattered, and the baggage and materials for which the transport squadron was responsible were, of course, all lost.
Seeing this scene, Okada was almost so angry that he vomited blood.
With a large brigade of his own, plus more than 600 imperial troops, who knew that in this narrow valley, his superiority in strength could not be developed.
What's even more hateful is that the damned Liu Tianshu actually planted explosives on the cliff in advance, and used the blown stones to directly bury his team.
In less than an hour, he lost almost two hundred of his subordinates in the Black Eagle Valley, and with the losses of the Imperial Alliance Army, the entire team lost nearly three hundred people.
The loss of this person is nothing, what is even more hateful is that the baggage of the brigade has been lost, and now the entire brigade only has ammunition and dry rations carried by the soldiers. This supply can last up to a week of fighting.
This is still a situation where the fighting is not very frequent and intense, and if it is a medium-sized battle, the remaining supplies of his troops cannot be maintained at all.
Seeing the Imperial Allied Army coming from the west, Saburo Okada suddenly didn't even have the idea of scolding, but just glared fiercely at the Imperial Allied Army, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, and ordered the signal corps to immediately report the attack to the wing commander. (To be continued.) )