Chapter 528: The Eguchi United took a blow to the head

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Hearing this, Liu Tianshu turned his eyes to the north of Jinyuling, and then looked at Sun Xuexuan: "To the north of the Zhongchuan Wing, which Japanese army is the closest to it?" ”

"The Japanese army in Jingyang County, according to the situation, the Japanese army in Jingyang began to shrink its forces as early as three days ago." Sun Xuexuan, the deputy chief of staff in charge of intelligence, is naturally familiar with the changes in the surrounding enemy situation.

When they heard Liu Tianshu's question, their expressions suddenly became solemn. At the same time, a cold sweat broke out on his back.

Unexpectedly, Sakai Yasu actually set up a trap for the independent division in this position. On the surface, the Sichuan Wing is a lone army going deep through the south of the Goldfish Mountains, and the terrain of the Goldfish Ridge is dangerous and complicated, so it is a good place to fight an ambush.

But here's the problem, the total strength of a wing of the Japanese army is almost 4,000 people, and if you want to eat it in one bite, you have to concentrate at least three main regiments, and you can't end the battle in a short time.

As long as the Nakagawa Wing dragged the Independent Division at Jinyuling, Sakai Yasu could command the Jiangkou Wing and the troops advancing eastward from Xuanzhou, quickly block the passage for the independent division to retreat south, and encircle the independent division at Jinyuling.

At the same time, the Japanese army in Jingyang could quickly move south to reinforce and block the independent division from breaking through to the north, and as long as the battle was stalemate for twelve hours, the surrounding Japanese troops would swarm up.

Even the Japanese army in Suzhou, using steamboats and automobiles, could be put into battle in fifteen hours at most.

"It's so dangerous, this old devil Sakai Yasushi is really insidious and cunning." Xiang Luo Quan couldn't help but shout.

"Hehe, the 17th Division has just returned from participating in the Changsha venue, in Sakai Kang's eyes, we are just a Hanako army with a lack of guns and ammunition, and he can put on such a big formation, he can already afford us. However, since the devil has already made a move, we have to deal with it. Sun Xuexuan, sent a telegram to Zhou Aiguo, asking him to take all possible tactics to attack the Zhongchuan United in Jinyuling, and he must not let the Zhongchuan United team comfortably cross Jinyuling. He ordered Xie Pingcai to go north in concealment along the east side of Jinyu Ridge tonight, rush to Suzhuang and Jiajiasi on the north side of Jinyu Ridge and wait for concealment and standby, and immediately attack the Japanese army and its logistics troops in Jingyang as soon as the Zhongchuan Wing crosses Jinyu Ridge. Tong Guijie was ordered to let the 64th Regiment rush to the Xiaoning River, block the Jiangkou Wing, and delay its southward movement. The 65th and 66th regiments retreated to the area of Heizhuling, east of Changxing County, and set up an ambush, waiting for an opportunity to eat the enemy in Huzhou once they advanced westward. Ordered the county brigade to disguise itself as the main force and move towards the line of Goldfish Ridge. Liu Tianshu gave a series of orders in one breath.

Since Sakai Kang wants to set up a set for himself in Goldfish Ridge, of course he has to support it.

Let the local troops pretend to be the main force, put on a posture of advancing towards Jinyuling, and lure the enemy in Huzhou to advance westward.

At the same time, let the 64th Regiment make the appearance of dragging down the Eguchi Wing, so that Sakai Yasu mistakenly thought that he was fighting his Nakagawa Wing's idea.

As soon as the order was issued, the units of the 21st Brigade and the 22nd Brigade, as well as the local troops, immediately moved overnight.

Because the troops were transferred at night, the 21st Brigade abandoned the position in Zhujiaxiang and concealed itself in the area of Heizhuling, and the two regiments of the 22nd Brigade quietly went north along the east side of Jinyuling under the leadership of Xie Pingcai, all of which were hidden from the eyes and ears of the devils.

By dawn, the Japanese troops in Huzhou suddenly appeared on the opposite side of the New Fourth Army and disappeared, and in addition, the New Fourth Army, which had a large number of planes, was moving towards the Jinyuling line, and these New Fourth Armies immediately hid in the woods as soon as they saw the Empire coming, but they were still spotted by the sharp-eyed air force pilots.

Sakai Yasu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he learned that the New Fourth Army had indeed shown signs of moving towards Jinyuling, and immediately afterwards he received a report from the Jiangkou Wing that there was a trace of the New Fourth Army south of the Xiaoning River, and that its vanguard had a brief encounter with the New Fourth Army.

After studying the map, Sakai immediately ordered the Nakagawa Wing to immediately advance towards Jinyuling, and at the same time ordered the troops of Huzhou to carefully advance towards Changxing.

Although there was only one wing in Huzhou, as long as there was a fight, the troops in Suzhou could arrive in six hours at most.

With the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Japanese Army, the ** squadron wants to eat the imperial ** team of a wing in one bite, but it is not just a matter of a while.

The most troublesome thing about sweeping the base areas of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army is that it cannot grasp the main force of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, after a small squadron of its vanguard unit was repulsed, the Eguchi Wing immediately launched a squadron-sized attack on the position held by the 64th Regiment in front.

Although the New Fourth Army appeared in front, it was not clear which force it was, and the exact number was not clear, so Eguchi decided to send troops to attack on the scale of a squadron first, and at the same time let the First Brigade send troops to make a detour to both sides.

This is because according to their practice of fighting the New Fourth Army, although the units of the New Fourth Army are very tenacious, they are at most battalion-level formations.

The 1st Squadron of the 1st Brigade, under the command of the squadron leader, immediately charged towards the position held by the New Fourth Army on the opposite side after some artillery preparations.

Unexpectedly, when they rushed to less than 100 meters from the opposite hill, they were again hit by the light and heavy machine guns of the New Fourth Army, leaving behind more than 50 corpses and having to retreat.

At the same time, the troops that were detouring from both sides were also blocked by the squadron, and judging from their positions, at least one battalion of the New Fourth Army was in the way.

However, through a tentative offensive, Eguchi determined that the New Fourth Army on the opposite side had only a small number of mortars and grenadiers, and he was now reassured.

When Sakai Yasu learned that the Jiangkou Wing was being blocked on the front line of the Xiaoning River, his eyes lit up, and he ordered the Jiangkou Wing to break through the New Fourth Army's resistance with a thunderous momentum, and at the same time ordered the troops from Xuanzhou to speed up and rush in the direction of Guangde.

Long Zhishui, commander of the 64th Regiment, saw that the devil had gathered about a large group of troops this time, and put on a posture of preparing to break through his position in one fell swoop, and immediately ordered all the soldiers guarding the position to retreat, and at the same time ordered the mortars in the regiment and the two infantry guns supported by the brigade to prepare for bombardment in the rear.

The scope of these artillery fires is the position held by the troops just now.

Of course, all of this artillery fire was camouflaged so as not to be seen by the devil planes.

This time, Eguchi was going to let the 1st Brigade attack the front, and the 2nd Brigade would be responsible for flanking and pinning.

After the troops were ready to attack, the planes arrived as scheduled and carried out wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the positions held by the New Fourth Army for 15 minutes.

After the bombing by the devil's planes, the artillery fire of the Jiangkou Wing once again covered the positions of the 64th Regiment, while the 1st Brigade slowly moved forward with the shelling.

After ten minutes of artillery bombardment of the positions of the New Fourth Army, the Japanese shells began to extend back, and their 1st Brigade rushed like a tidal wave towards the positions abandoned by the 64th Regiment.

In the blink of an eye, the devil rushed to the position, and saw that the entire position was bombed everywhere, but there was no shadow of the New Fourth Army at all, and the second squadron leader who took the lead in rushing to the position was ecstatic in his heart: "The Chinese have fled, chase quickly." ”

Wielding his command knife, he led his troops to chase southward, and behind him, countless devil soldiers rushed forward in panic.

The devil squadron leader had just run fifty meters when suddenly a bullet flew and hit him in the forehead, and his body was stunned, and then he slowly fell.

Just as his sanity began to fade, he faintly heard the sound of cannonballs whistling in the sky.

Long Zhishui saw through the telescope that the position he had just abandoned was crowded with devils, a sneer appeared on his face, and he shouted to open fire, and the artillery of the 64th Regiment and the artillery supported by the brigade headquarters immediately carried out a fierce artillery bombardment on the position that had just been abandoned in accordance with the area divided in advance.

All of a sudden, the sky was filled with the sound of cannonballs whistling, and countless cannonballs flew into the group of devils in a blink of an eye. ”

These devils immediately walked around the position like ants that had been fried, and some even fell to the ground all at once.

As the shells fired by the 64th Regiment landed, an earth-shattering explosion sounded on the position crowded with devils, and countless smoke rose rapidly, covering the entire sky in the blink of an eye.

Before Jiang Kou saw that his first brigade had captured the position of the New Fourth Army, he saw that columns of smoke suddenly rose from that position, covering the entire position in a blink of an eye, and he couldn't help but exclaim no.

Unfortunately, everything was not transferred by his will, and the shelling of the 64th Regiment lasted for ten minutes before slowly disappearing. At the same time, around the Japanese troops in charge of the right flank containment at Eguchi, countless New Fourth Corps suddenly appeared, attacking a squadron on the right flank, and in the blink of an eye, they fell into the fierce attack of the New Fourth Army.

The smoke finally cleared, and what appeared in the eyes of the estuary was a sparse figure, and at the same time, the troops attacking the right flank left behind more than eighty corpses and retreated in disarray.

After Long Zhishui's 2nd Battalion repelled the 3rd Squadron of the 2nd Brigade of the Jiangkou Wing, it did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but quickly cleaned up the battlefield and retreated sharply.

Eguchi did not come back to his senses until the gunfire around him stopped, but when he heard the report of his subordinates, his first brigade suffered as many as 600 casualties in the round of artillery shelling of the New Fourth Army just now, and in addition to the casualties of the previous attack, the first brigade was directly disabled, and its eyes turned black and almost fell to the ground.

He did not expect that in the first battle with the New Fourth Army, his first brigade would lose its combat capability, and his second squadron would also lose more than half of its second squadron.

Although his subordinates reported that the New Fourth Army might retreat, at this time, he could no longer afford to pursue the victory, he sat in the command post, and after a long time, after finally sobering up, he dejectedly reported to the commander of the Sakai Yasushi that his troops had been attacked. (To be continued.) )