Chapter 478: The sneak attack was successful
After the radio arrived, Staff Officer Luo immediately went to the room on the side to contact the Guangde side, and after a while, he came over with a telegram. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Liu Tianshu took it and saw that it was a telegram from Division Commander Li expressing his gratitude, in which Division Commander Li gave a brief briefing on the current situation in Guangde City.
Seeing that Guangdecheng was still in the hands of the new 58th Division, Liu Tianshu breathed a sigh of relief, so he asked Staff Officer Luo to tell Division Commander Li that he had arrived at Qinggangpo, but the devil had sent troops to guard Qinggangpo, and he had to break through the Japanese army's blocking position if he wanted to rush to Guangdecheng, so he hoped that the new 58th Division would stick to and wait for reinforcements, and hoped that the two troops would strengthen their contact.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, a regiment and a battalion, under the command of Tong Guijie, prepared for an attack on the opposite side of Qinggangpo, and at the same time, the artillery regiment that cooperated with the operation also began to set up infantry guns.
At half past four, with Wu Zhongping's order, four infantry guns opened fire rapidly at Qinggangpo, and the shells flew straight to the position of the Japanese puppet army in Qinggangpo, immediately raising clouds of smoke, and the earth-shattering explosion sound was transmitted in the air.
The captain of the Japanese army guarding Qinggangpo saw the New Fourth Army firing artillery at the position, and immediately ordered the Japanese puppet army to prepare for battle.
Those Japanese troops had very rich combat experience, and as soon as they saw the shells of the New Fourth Army coming, they immediately lay down in the trenches, although the fortifications were destroyed a lot, but the losses were not large, and some of the puppet troops guarding the front ran on the positions because of panic, but dozens of them were killed in the shelling.
Wu Zhongping's artillery bombardment only lasted two minutes and then immediately stopped, not because Wu Zhongping was unwilling to open fire again, but because he was worried that the artillery of the devils on the opposite hill would lose more than he would gain if his artillery position was locked and was hit by the devils' retaliatory artillery fire, resulting in heavy losses.
Anyway, their attack on the Qinggang slope is just to put on a show.
I have to say that Wu Zhongping grasped the timing of the transfer of artillery fire well, as soon as his artillery transferred the infantry artillery, the devil's shells came over.
While the devil's shells were mainly hitting Wu Zhongping's artillery position, the commander of the first battalion, Long Zhishui, ordered a company to launch a tentative attack on the opposite hill.
However, even if it was a tentative attack, the first company was well fought, and the soldiers of a platoon rushed quickly to the forward position under the Qinggang slope in battle formation, while the grenadiers of the company and two heavy machine gun groups in the coordinated operation continued to carry out suppressive attacks to the front.
The puppet troops guarding the forward position saw the heavy machine guns of the New Fourth Army raining bullets, and many puppet troops who had not yet recovered from the shelling just now were pressed into the trenches and did not dare to show their heads at all.
The soldiers of the first platoon rushed to the position of the puppet army in a blink of an eye, and at this time, the Japanese heavy machine gun fire arranged in the back began to show its head, and the soldiers of the second platoon of the company who were attacking forward were firing wildly.
Hearing the dull sound of machine guns, the fighters running in front looked for cover at a fast speed, but three fighters were unfortunately hit by bullets and flew backwards.
At this time, in order to prevent the blow of the Japanese grenadiers on the hill in front, the heavy machine guns that provided fire suppression in the rear were rapidly shifting, and they could not be suppressed at all.
Fortunately, the two 60 mortars that followed the advance found the devil's heavy machine gun outcropping, and immediately aimed at the target and fired two shots in succession, blowing up one of the devil's heavy machine guns directly.
It's a pity that a mortar group was locked by the Japanese infantry guns on the hill before it could be transferred, and two shells came over, a battalion and a mortar group were blown away, and several fighters were all killed.
The soldiers who rushed to the front, taking advantage of the fact that the devil's heavy machine gun was knocked out, rushed to the devil's forward position in one go, and those puppet troops saw that the situation was not good, turned around and fled backwards.
Having occupied the forward position of the puppet army, a platoon of fighters immediately looked for favorable terrain and began to prevent the Japanese from sending troops to recapture the position, and the two sides fought inextricably over the position.
Matsushima received a report that the 7th Detachment of the New Fourth Army had sent troops to reinforce Guangde and had engaged in a fierce battle with his blocking troops at Qinggangpo, and his little eyes kept turning.
However, when he heard the Japanese army at Qinggangpo report that the attacking New Fourth Army had used infantry artillery to bombard, he immediately judged that Liu Tianshu's main force should have rushed over.
The heavy weapons infantry artillery of the seventh detachment were all captured by the imperial army, because they all relied on capture, and the New Fourth Army would not be put into use in ordinary battles, after all, compared to the imperial army, infantry artillery was more valuable to the New Fourth Army.
The cannonball was not as easy to obtain as the Imperial Army, and if it was not captured, once the cannonball in the hand was exhausted, the infantry cannon in the hands of the New Fourth Army would become an ornament.
Thinking of this, Matsushima ordered the troops of Qinggangpo to block the attack of the New Fourth Army, and at the same time, after contacting Akita, he increased the attack on Guangde Castle.
When the first regiment and one battalion launched an attack on Qinggangpo, the second battalion, the third battalion and other troops, under the command of Staff Officer Sun, quickly rushed in the direction of Yelu Town.
When it got dark, the troops quietly rushed to Yelu Town, the second battalion did not stop and quickly rushed to Qinglongguan, while the three battalions and two companies quickly surrounded Yelu Town.
At nine o'clock in the evening, Qinggangpo was quiet, and the Japanese army and the New Fourth Army, which had been fighting fiercely for an afternoon, entered a state of strict formation, and the Japanese army organized two counterattacks, but failed to drive the New Fourth Army that occupied the forward position out of its position, and at the same time the New Fourth Army was unable to move forward.
As for the artillery on both sides, it was even more stop-and-go.
It's just that the Japanese infantry artillery is not as flexible as Wu Zhongping, and when it was dark, the two infantry guns of the Japanese army were directly destroyed in a round of fierce artillery bombardment by the New Fourth Army.
Staff Officer Sun looked at the time, and when it was time for the scheduled action, he said action to Gui Xuebing, the commander of the second battalion guarding the side, and with a wave of Gui Xuebing's big hand, the second battalion immediately pounced on the mountains around Qinglongguan.
As for Zhou Aiguo's reconnaissance brigade, there was already a special task force of 30 people, disguised as Japanese soldiers, who infiltrated Qinglongguan, just waiting for the battle outside to start, and immediately controlled the Japanese troops guarding the base.
The attack of the second battalion has always been extremely fierce, and as the gunfire rang out, the earth-shattering shouts of killing sounded around Qinglongguan, and at the same time, shells and bullets rained down on the outer positions of the devils.
These Japanese troops guarding the position did not expect the New Fourth Army to suddenly come out, and they were taken by surprise, and soon the hills to the west were captured by the New Fourth Army.
The leader of the Japanese squadron responsible for guarding Qinglongguan was worried that the New Fourth Army would attack from the east, so he placed a small squad of Japanese guards in the east, and in the remaining three directions, only a few dozen Japanese soldiers were placed, and there were more than thirty of them, who were responsible for guarding the ammunition depot.
He never dreamed that the New Fourth Army would send a battalion of troops to launch an attack on Qinglongguan, and the Japanese troops guarding the three directions in the north and southwest were engulfed by the rushing New Fourth Army in a blink of an eye, and only the Japanese troops in the east still resisted desperately.
As soon as the Japanese squadron leader saw the situation, he knew that the Qinglongguan could no longer hold on, he walked out of the command room, and was just about to order the soldiers to install explosives to blow up the materials, when he saw a figure flash in the dark, and at the same time, he fell down softly with a pain in his ribs.
In the gradual loss of consciousness, the Japanese squadron leader saw countless figures in Imperial uniforms flash out of the darkness and pounce on the defenseless Imperial soldiers, a burst of gunfire rang out, and the soldiers guarding the main hall were all knocked to the ground.
After the people of the reconnaissance brigade took control of the Qinglong Temple by surprise, they immediately established a defensive position outside the view.
At this time, the second company attacking from the west had arrived smoothly, immediately opened the main hall, and began to transfer the ammunition and materials stored by the devils to the outside.
When Gui Xuebing learned that the reconnaissance brigade had succeeded, and that his second company had also attacked Qinglongguan, he immediately ordered his troops to destroy the enemy on the eastern hill as quickly as possible.
The commander of the first company who received the order immediately concentrated the grenadiers in his hand and made a saturation attack on the eastern hill, blowing up the hill all over the place, and then commanded the soldiers to bravely rush up the hill while the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dispersed.
After paying the price of more than half of the casualties, the first company finally wiped out all the Japanese troops guarding the eastern hills.
Sun Xuexuan saw that the enemy guarding Qinglongguan was eliminated, and immediately asked Gui Xuebing to send troops to the south to guard, and the rest of the troops quickly cleaned up the battlefield, and then quickly moved out the materials stored by the devils.
At this time, the third battalion commander Yan Qimu also successfully eliminated the enemy in Yelu Town and rushed over to rush over to transport supplies.
Fortunately, the devil actually stored six cars in Qinglongguan, and the soldiers quickly loaded the ammunition and supplies into the car, and the soldiers who would be driven by the reconnaissance team jumped into the car and drove the car full of supplies in the direction of Yelu Town.
There were six cars transporting the remaining supplies, and the soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the rest of the supplies were carried on their shoulders and carried them in the blink of an eye, and then disappeared into the night.
Matsushima received a report from the men guarding the Qinglongguan that the New Fourth Army had suddenly attacked the Qinglongguan, and he jumped up from the marching bed in shock, and he simply couldn't believe his eyes.
Most of the ammunition of his own wing was stored in Qinglongguan, and he thought that in such a secret place, others would not know, but he knew that the New Fourth Army had attacked there.
Thinking of this, he hurriedly ordered the First Brigade to draw out two squadrons and rush north for reinforcements.
Unfortunately, before the reinforced Japanese convoy reached the Jiming Bridge, a violent explosion was heard in front, and after a while, the soldiers who went to check on the situation reported that the Jiming Bridge was blown up.
All of a sudden, the Japanese troops who went to reinforce had to get out of the car and run towards Qinglongguan.
Liu Tianshu received a report from Staff Officer Sun and learned that the sneak attack on Qinglongguan was successful, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and he ordered Staff Officer Sun to quickly return to the east of Qinggangpo with his troops.
Matsushima's ammunition and supplies were snatched by himself, it's no wonder if he doesn't go crazy, it's dark now, the devil's plane can't help the war, and he doesn't seize the opportunity to pull these precious supplies back.
Two hours later, the reinforcements sent by Matsushima finally arrived at the Qinglong Temple, but what caught their eyes was the corpses of the soldiers of the Mandi Empire, and the empty Qinglong Temple.
When Matsushima learned that a squadron guarding Qinglongguan had all been killed and all the supplies had been carried by the New Fourth Army, he was so angry that he called the puppet commander who cooperated with the operation, and pointed his nose and scolded him.
The puppet army in Wild Deer Town is precisely this regiment commander's troops. (To be continued.) )