Less than an hour after the reinforcements left the city, a staff officer rushed to the brigade commander, Sakai, out of breath. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Sir, the reinforcements were ambushed by the enemy and surrounded in the hilly area six miles outside the city, suffering heavy losses, request reinforcements!"

As soon as the staff officer finished speaking, the chief of staff's face became solemn, and he exclaimed at Sakai: "Suffered, we have been fooled, the enemy must be besieging the city to help!" ”

Sakai nodded in affirmation, "These enemies are likely to be the Liaodong Army lurking in the surrounding dense forests. When they came out to attack us at this time, they must have wanted to shake the morale of the front-line combat troops, force them to divide their troops to help us, and ensure the safety of Fengcheng! “

The chief of staff was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted and replied: "Since this is the case, then we must not continue to send troops outside the city!" As for the troops outside the city, they can only be ordered to break through and return to the city immediately, and they can break through as many as they can! “

Sakai didn't answer, but said thoughtfully: "It seems that the chief of staff has been frightened by the Liaodong Army lurking in the woods outside the city. Only a few thousand Liaodong Army scared you like this, Chief of Staff, this is not the quality that a high-ranking officer of the Great Japanese Empire should have. ”

The chief of staff blushed and hurriedly explained: "It's not that I'm afraid of them, it's really that these Liaodong troops are too cunning, and one of our divisions and regiments has been defeated in their hands, not to mention that we have a brigade that is not satisfied with the formation?" “

"Nope! Even if one of our divisions was defeated, it cannot be said that our combat effectiveness was inferior to that of the Liaodong Army. “

"The reason why the cunning Liaodong Army was able to defeat one of our divisions was because they were good at using the terrain. We divided our troops into the woods to lead to the final defeat! “

"But now it's different, as long as we don't drill into the forest, don't chase the Liaodong Army to fight, and rely on the position to fight hard with the Liaodong Army, the Liaodong Army will never be our opponent! Therefore, we must save the reinforcements surrounded by the Liaodong Army outside the city, and we must also defeat those Liaodong Army! “

The chief of staff first nodded in agreement, and then reminded with a worried face: "However, as soon as this is opened, we will not have many troops defending the city!" ”

Sakai said with a confident face: "As long as the outpost position is safe, Fengcheng will be safe." ”

"If the outpost position is lost, the Liaodong Army can set up artillery outside the city, and a random cannonball can destroy all the supplies and ammunition that the commander-in-chief has hoarded in the city. When the time comes, no amount of garrison we have in the city will be effective. ”

There was still a trace of worry in the chief of staff's heart, and he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't think of it.

After hearing Sakai's very firm order, the chief of staff could only ask rhetorically with a frown.

"Then how many more troops will we send out of the city?"

"An infantry brigade plus a garrison brigade formed by the Koreans. Immediately go out of the city, reinforce the battlefield, defeat the Liaodong Army, and recapture the outpost position! Sakai ordered decisively.

Today's Wang Hong's total strength has expanded from more than 100 people to nearly 3,000 people. The bandits who were first recruited by Wang Hong, because of their combat experience and killing, have become squad and platoon leaders, and even more have become company commanders.

As for the rest of the ordinary soldiers, although they were all young and strong who were captured by the Japanese army. But after several months of training, coupled with the constant actual combat training during the training, basically every recruit has been on the battlefield.

What's more, nearly 3,000 soldiers were very well equipped.

Because of guarding the logistics supply lines of the Japanese army, a large number of weapons and equipment were snatched from the Japanese army. Plus the capture of the encirclement and suppression forces that defeated the Japanese army a few months ago. In addition to the light machine guns, which are very insufficient compared with the main force, the remaining heavy machine guns and rifles have completely reached the standard of the main force.

Therefore, Wang Hong directly organized his nearly 3,000 men into five combat battalions and one field artillery battalion in accordance with the standard of the main force. In addition, all hunters and sharpshooters from the whole army were transferred, and snipers from the special operations detachment were appointed as officers, and a sniper company with strong combat effectiveness was formed.

The first round of reinforcements from the Japanese army out of the city was less than a brigade, and with Wang Hong's current strength, the battle could be ended in half an hour at most.

But in order to let the Japanese outpost position catch more big fish for himself, Wang Hong decisively ordered the ambush troops to control the progress of the battle.

After ordering the two or three battalions to surround the Japanese army with less than 400 remnants, take advantage of the terrain, condescendingly, and destroy them little by little.

Wang Hong personally commanded the remaining two battalions, the remaining two companies of the field artillery battalion, and a sniper company, secretly withdrew from the battle, lurked in the woods less than two miles from the ambush battlefield, and waited for the Japanese outpost to catch another big fish for him.

In less than half an hour, he had a harvest.

After the Japanese entered the ambush circle, the sniper company was the first to shoot.

In the blink of an eye, the officers and light and heavy machine gunners in the middle of the Japanese army were shot in the head and fell on the official road one after another.

Before the remaining Japanese troops could react, the rifles, light machine guns, and heavy machine guns of the two infantry battalions opened fire one after another. The remaining two companies of field artillery in the field artillery battalion also joined the battle.

The powerful firepower, coupled with the fact that the Japanese army lost almost all its commanders at once, the Japanese troops in the ambush circle were directly stunned.

After losing three or four hundred men one after another, the remaining garrison composed of Japanese troops and Koreans reacted, and under the command of junior officers, they all lay on the ground to counterattack, some using the terrain and some using the corpses that had been killed around them.

Because there were always more than a hundred sharpshooters in the forest staring at them, especially the light and heavy machine guns they were equipped with, as long as the Japanese army wanted to get close to these light and heavy weapons, they would be shot in the head.

Therefore, although the Japanese army carried out a deadly counterattack with rifles, the counterattack effect was very poor.

However, the Liaodong Army was different, with a large number of light and heavy machine guns and a steady stream of ammunition support, allowing them to shoot at the Japanese army without any scruples.

In the ambush circle, as long as there is the slightest movement, a shuttle of light and heavy machine gun bullets can be held immediately.

Under the counterattack of the Japanese riflemen, two infantry battalions were constantly hit.

But with an advantage in firepower and terrain. Even if the Liaodong Army here is all new recruits, the intensive firepower is also pressing the Japanese army, constantly beating the Japanese army into corpses.

Half an hour later, there were not many Japanese troops left in the ambush circle.

In order to turn the troops into veterans as soon as possible, although the Liaodong Army did not advocate fighting bayonets with the Japanese army, Wang Hong still issued the order to rush to the peak.

Under the cover of a sniper company, the battlefield was less than two hundred enemies, which were quickly eliminated by two battalions with bayonets.

At the same time, the other two battlefields also sent good news to Wang Hong.

Under such circumstances, several squad leaders who were appointed as battalion commanders immediately proposed to Wang Hong that they take advantage of the heavy losses of the Japanese army in Fengcheng and directly kill outside Fengcheng City and launch a siege battle. (To be continued.) )