Chapter 83: The Battle of Anqing V

After the flares were raised, numerous mortar* shells exploded in the ranks of the Japanese troops, and the formation of Takahashi's troops was quickly dispersed.

"Evacuate, dislodge, calm, compose, keep composure...", a Japanese squadron leader shouted hoarsely, trying to gather his troops, and a bullet came in, and the shouting stopped.

Wing Commander Ryo Takahashi tried his best to command the troops, hoping that the Japanese could occupy the surrounding terrain, build machine gun cover positions, and form a temporary defensive front, but when they were attacked on a rainy night, even if any elite unit could not have a unified command. Some Japanese soldiers lay on the ground, dodging bullets, some Japanese soldiers panicked in a circle, not knowing what to do, a force of more than 20 people, led by a bold squad leader, launched a counterattack in the direction of mortars, and met the charging squadron ** in a narrow way.

Countless Chinese soldiers rushed out of the grass and mountains, and hand* grenades like raindrops flew in the air and fell into the Japanese army, bringing up patches of blood mist. All the light and heavy machine guns fired fiercely, and under the cover of machine guns and grenades, the squadron that approached the Japanese launched an impassioned shouting of killing.

The Japanese army was quickly cut into a dozen pieces, some small pieces were quickly killed, and some large pieces were turned into several small pieces, and then the small pieces were converted into zero.

Seeing that the situation was irreparable, Takahashi ordered all troops, facing the dense squadron, to carry out a counterattack and break through. But his orders could no longer be carried out, and Takahashi himself drew his command knife and engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with one of the Chinese soldiers who rushed over.

Takahashi blocked his opponent's straight stab and was about to slash back, when suddenly there was a pain in his back, and then the tip of a bayonet came out of his chest, and then there was another sharp pain in his chest, and the bayonet of the Chinese soldier in front of him stabbed again, and the tip of the knife was immediately exposed in the back.

Takahashi twitched, and before he died, he looked at his troops, which were on the verge of destruction. Some soldiers, surrounded by more than 10 Chinese soldiers, were stabbed into blood; Some of the soldiers, still shouting and fighting, then a shot rang out, staggered, and finally fell to the ground in anger; A soldier struggled desperately, and a group of Chinese soldiers next to him, some hugging his waist and some pulling his legs, captured him alive.

In his last consciousness, there were countless footsteps, ringing in his ears, and then, the footsteps disappeared forever.

The sky was full of wind and rain, bullets were flying, and countless Chinese soldiers gathered into a stream of steel, completely covering the Japanese army, and all the Chinese soldiers standing on the ground were already Chinese.

Xu Ming watched all this happily, and in less than an hour, he had achieved the result of total annihilation, which was another textbook ambush.

Cheng Ziyuan was convinced, "Master, you are really accurate!" ”

Xu Ming stood on the top of the mountain, wiped the rain from his face, and said reservedly, "As a commander, you must make a clear judgment on the opponent's actions, the detour and encirclement of the Japanese army is no longer a tactical way, but a kind of thinking, just like breathing and air, whether they are on the front or not, they often send a team to intersperse." ”

"Report, it was the captain of the Japanese infantry wing, Takahashi Daisa, who killed one of the Japanese soldiers!" A herald ran over and handed Xu Ming a saber with both hands.

"Oh," Xu Ming was a little surprised, the annihilated Japanese army was only more than 500 people, only half of the strength of a brigade, and there was actually a wing commander, which was really an unexpected gain.

"Take me to see it."

"Division, the battlefield has not been completely cleaned, and there is still danger." The staff next to him discouraged.

"Is it more dangerous than the charging brothers, lead the way!" Xu Ming didn't care, and walked quickly to the battlefield.

Looking at Takahashi's eyes that were not blinding, Xu Ming proudly shook the corpse of this Dazuo with his command knife.

"Take a good picture of him, and then send 2 people to bring the body back to Anqing for exhibition."

"Yes."

"Spare my life, I am wronged, I am Chinese......" A tragic cry came from not far away.

Xu Ming turned his head and saw that a guy with a sharp beak and monkey cheeks, wearing a yellow military uniform of the Japanese army, was tied like a dumpling.

"Who is this guy? Wearing a devil's military uniform, why do you speak Chinese so smoothly" Xu Ming asked suspiciously.

"Shizao, this is a traitor, he is leading the way for devils," a soldier next to him glanced at the guy and said contemptuously.

Niu Zhengyi saw that it was a chief, and snot and tears rushed out again, "Sir, I am wronged, I am not a traitor, I was forced, the devil caught my 80-year-old mother..."

Xu Ming laughed when he heard this, pulled out Takahashi's saber, and walked to Niu Zhengyi's side.

The soldier next to him knew that his division commander hated traitors the most, and if the Japanese army was captured, he would still have a chance to die, but the traitors were absolutely impossible.

A soldier kicked over and kicked Niu Zhengyi into a Z-shape, and a soldier pulled his hair with his hand, leaving Xu Ming with a comfortable slashing posture.

Niu Zhengyi was really scared to pee, and a stream of secretions flowed out of his lower body, but traitors are often smart-minded, Niu Zhengyi quickly changed his shouting, "Sir, I want to make meritorious service for my crimes!" I'm going to make meritorious deeds! I know all about the devil's situation, I know it all! Give me a chance to make meritorious deeds..."

The shouting is crisp and bright.

"Oh, you little traitor knows the inside story of the devil?" Xu Ming put down the command knife.

"Yes, sir, I know everything, the leader of the devils, Hatada-kun, oh no, the old guy Hatada believes in me very much, I know all about the devil's situation, I know everything."

"How many troops did the devil put into the 641st regiment, well, that direction?" Xu Ming pointed to the direction of Zhao Ren and Qin Lieping's troops, and asked majestically.

"Sir, there are more than 2 brigades, about 2,000 people."

"How do you know?"

"Sir, what I have paid attention to is that I am in the Japanese camp and my heart is in Han, so I am waiting to find an opportunity to serve the motherland!"

"Don't talk nonsense," Xu Ming glared.

"Yes, yes, the devil's troops are about 1,000 people every hour, and there is a landing ground in the east, so the speed of people should be less than this, because there are fewer boats..."

Of course, Niu Zhengyi didn't know the battle plan of the Japanese army, but this traitor was really smart, and he had seen the situation of the Japanese army, and Hakuda Shigeichi never dreamed that Takahashi's troops would be ambushed and Niu Zhengyi would be captured, which had never appeared in his combat career, and at this moment, all the situations of the Japanese army had been completely naked in front of the squadron.

After listening to this, Xu Ming understood the original mistake of the "Fish Banquet Operation", and in his original estimate, Xu Ming underestimated the combat strength of the Japanese army, but overestimated the landing speed of the Japanese army. He believed that the Japanese ships were sufficient, and tens of thousands of horses would land in 3-4 hours, but judging from Niu Zhengyi's confession, the Japanese landing was too affected by the wind and rain, and there were only more than 1,000 people in an hour.

Synthesizing the situation from the 641st Regiment, Xu Ming was determined to defeat the Japanese vanguard first, he ordered 1 battalion to cut off the rear of the Japanese army, and led the main force of the division to outflank the Nagai Brigade and the Wuman Brigade behind him.

At the same time that Xu Ming surrounded and annihilated the Gaoqiao troops, the mountain artillery battalion and the engineer battalion were also engaged in the battle in front of Yaojialing, and the arrival of the artillery greatly changed the situation of the battle.

Wu Manfuzhi's arm was hanging on his chest, and just now a cannonball hit, and he won the "big lottery".

"Nagai-kun, turn in the direction of the main force of the brigade," Takeman said anxiously to Nagai Shizu.

Nagai Shizu nodded gloomily and agreed, the appearance of artillery has already shown that the opponent has been prepared for a long time, and the main force of the squadron should have arrived.

But now that he couldn't escape, a herald ran quickly, "Report, a large number of Zhina troops have been found behind the flank!" ”

"What!" Both Nagai and Takeman were shocked, they were under tremendous pressure head-on, and then they were outflanked and encircled on the side, which was the prelude to annihilation! The enemy was probably prepared not in advance, but in early preparation, and even accurately predicted his own actions.

After the two hastily discussed, Nagai Shizu led a squadron to fight and retreat, and after the break, Takeman personally led the troops to carry out a surprise attack, hoping to open a bloody road. But it's too late, and the squadron has fully completed the encirclement.

The sky was bright, the rain seemed to be lighter, but still gray, and the wind had stopped, showing the stillness of dawn.

To the east of Anqing, from Yaojialing to Broken Mountain, countless Chinese soldiers in gray uniforms charged the remaining Japanese troops.

Zhao Ren personally led the special platoon and a company of soldiers to organize the attack, and the rest of the troops also held on to the Japanese army's broken rear troops.

"Hand * grenade cover", a corps commander issued an order,

A ** soldier, unscrewed the back cover of the M24 hand * grenade, bit the drawstring, paused for two seconds, and threw it forward with all his might, followed by the veteran of the commander of the army, relying on cover, rushed to the Japanese position, and the two soldiers behind him also rushed up the hill from the other direction, without doing any tactical evasion action.

After occupying the position, the group did not stop or clear the flanks, but continued to take advantage of the gap and rush into depth.

At the same time as the 631st Regiment launched a frontal assault, the main force of Xu Ming's division also launched a full-scale attack behind the flank of the Japanese army, not only completely preventing the Japanese army's breakthrough, but also carrying out assaults from all directions. At 7 o'clock in the morning, a company on the left side of the 641st Regiment and the right flank of the 643rd Regiment converged, and the encirclement of the squadron was all closed.

The first to be destroyed was the Nagai brigade, his troops from 2 o'clock in the morning with the squadron ** battle, suffered a lot of casualties, 4 infantry squadrons, each infantry squadron can fight less than 20 soldiers, machine gun squadron is also completely wiped out, he will the remaining soldiers into a squadron, but in the face of thousands of Chinese soldiers, this squadron is like cherry blossoms in the wind and rain, one by one fell in the rain.

Nagai Shitsu looked around, there were less than 10 soldiers, all of them were wounded, and some of the soldiers were covered in blood, and the rain kept washing away the blood, and the blood kept flowing out.

"Onboard" Nagai personally led the few remaining Japanese troops in a desperate charge.

The machine guns rang out, the soldiers fell one after another, and Nagai Shizu was broken in two by the machine guns of the squadron.

The Wuman brigade was surrounded on three sides, and the only side without a squadron was a lake, and some soldiers tried to escape by swimming, throwing their guns down and jumping into the icy water.

A soldier covered in blood saw a bayonet standing on the ground, crawled and pounced, and the tip of the bayonet gradually appeared behind him.

Wu Man Fuzhi looked at the miserable side in front of him, there were enemy shouts and killings in all directions, his troops were getting smaller and smaller the more they fought, they had been cut into countless small pieces, and some soldiers were like headless flies, running in all directions, and then suddenly falling.

Facing the east, he knelt down, unbuttoned his shirt, and then took the saber behind his back in both hands and committed suicide by breaking his abdomen.

Nagai's death and Takemitsu's suicide showed the total annihilation of the Japanese vanguard, and Xu Ming did not stop doing anything, divided the troops into three parts, and threw themselves at the Japanese landing field.