Chapter 488: Tactics for Encircling Points and Sending Reinforcements
Yokokawa Shaosa, the second captain of the Japanese Kawasaki Wing Commander, who led troops to reinforce Xia Qiaoji, has been stationed in the city as a wing mobile unit since following the wing commander to the front line of Wukang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Because the troops of the Third Theater operating in Tianmu Mountain in the west were only hiding in the mountains, and the New Fourth Army in the north did not move south, they did not wait for the opportunity to fight for several months.
As for going to the countryside to collect grain from Latin, or to sweep up the small anti-Japanese forces active in the local area, naturally there is no need for him, the captain, to come forward, so he can only taste sake in the brigade headquarters of Wukang City and enjoy the kabuki performance of the condolence group from China.
This kind of life that is almost like a drunken dream makes him feel bored, and compared to the first and third captains, he is full of inexplicable envy in his heart.
The third brigade was stationed in Linchuan, and the captain Noda served as the commander of the Linchuan garrison, and he was unrestrained on the one hand, and his life was very comfortable, and the first brigade was dismantled and guarded in various important strongholds between Wukang and Linchuan, and the headquarters of the captain Yoshino was located in Pinghu Town, and he lived the days of the emperor of the soil.
Only his second brigade is a mobile unit, and the wing headquarters is stationed in Wukang, with a wing commander on it, which looks comfortable, because there are no more opportunities to go out to sweep, which makes him feel useless.
The defenders of Xia Qiaoji originally belonged to the sequence of the first brigade, I don't know what the wing commander thought, after the troops arrived in Wukang, he scattered the first brigade in various strongholds, and in addition to the nearest reinforcements, once something happened, the main reinforcement task was taken care of by the second brigade as a mobile force.
After leaving the city, Yokokawa ordered the troops to advance at full speed, as the Japanese army stationed in the northwest of Zhejiang, the equipment was still good. In addition to the ten vehicles, the three squadrons that went to reinforce this time also had cavalry squads in front of them that were on reconnaissance missions.
Look at the hill in front of you, and then go a short distance to Xiaqiaoji, Hengchuan glanced at the hill where the leaves began to turn green, or cautiously ordered the troops to stop advancing, the cavalry who was on the task of reconnaissance and search immediately ran forward, to the middle of the two mountains, the two cavalry picked up the crooked handle in their hands, and threw bullets towards the mountains and forests on both sides, and the crisp gunfire broke the tranquility of the mountains and forests, but unfortunately there was no movement except for startling a few birds.
The cavalry squad leader saw a few birds fluttering and flying from the forest, with a smile on his face, it seems that these New Fourth Army are also in vain, and they want to attack Xia Qiaoji, but they do not deploy troops here to block it.
Once the second brigade arrived, it would not be beaten by the imperial army.
Yokokawa saw the cavalry captain signal for safety, and then motioned for the cavalry squad to walk out of the valley along the road and go to the other side of the front to be on guard.
After a while, the cavalry squad sent a telegram from the other side of the valley saying that everything was going well, and Yokokawa finally relented and ordered his troops to advance at full speed, through this valley as fast as possible, to reach Natsuhashiji.
At this time, he could faintly hear the sound of gunfire in the direction of Xia Qiaoji.
Hao Mengxuan and Ou Biaofei couldn't help but be excited when they saw the devil's reinforcements really coming towards their encirclement.
Especially Hao Mengxuan, this was his first battle in the south of the Yangtze River, and he naturally hoped to play the prestige of the Shandong Eighth Route Army.
The reason why Yokokawa thought that there was no ambush of the New Fourth Army in the valley was that in addition to the fact that the fire reconnaissance of the cavalry squad did not find anything unusual, the few birds fluttering and flying out made him believe that there was no one in ambush in the mountains and forests.
Because if there were people in ambush in the mountains and forests, those sensitive birds would have run away a long time ago, and they would still be hiding in the forest.
It's just that he didn't know that these little birds were caught and prepared in advance by the 70th Regiment, and as soon as the devil's fire reconnaissance began, they released these birds and made them look like they were alarmed by the sound of gunfire.
Look at the ten cars of the devil into the ambush circle, Hao Mengxu shouted with pride, the mortar gunners arranged at both ends of the valley immediately aimed at the head and tail of the two cars and opened fire, with the explosion of the shells, the two cars were suddenly blown up on the road, and the devils in the car were bruised and swollen by the huge impact.
Yokokawa heard the sudden whistling of shells on the mountain, and his face couldn't help but change, and before he could understand, the terrifying sound of light and heavy machine guns sounded on the hills on both sides, and at the same time, countless shells flew towards the convoy on the road.
Hao Mengxuan and Ou Biaofei laid an ambush on both sides of the highway with the three battalions of the 70th Regiment in turn, and at this time, the three battalions opened fire at the same time, and the dense bullets and sideways shrednel squeezed out a group of devil soldiers on the road were knocked down one by one, and the screams of devils in pain resounded on the entire highway.
At this time, Yokokawa knew that he was ambushed by the New Fourth Army, so he hurriedly pushed the door of the car, jumped down with agility, and kept shouting in his mouth to let the soldiers in the car get out of the car quickly.
At the same time, the machine guns placed on the front of the car also began to shoot desperately at the hills on both sides, buying time for the soldiers on the car to jump out of the car.
Several leaders of the New Seventh Brigade were thugs in ambush warfare, and when the New Seventh Brigade was founded, with the support of the division headquarters, it began to train its own snipers. At this time, those soldiers with accurate marksmanship are going all out to deal with the machine gunners with the devils on the front of the car, and the other devils who are busy setting up grenadiers.
The reinforcements led by Yokokawa, after paying a heavy price, finally jumped out of the car and grabbed the side of the road to find cover, and then, under the command of the squadron leader and others, began to break through along the road to the south.
The New Fourth Army occupies the commanding heights on both sides, and it is already in a disadvantageous position, and if it does not break through again, I am afraid that it will be completely annihilated. At this time, Yokokawa no longer had the idea of reinforcing Xia Qiaoji and eliminating the New Fourth Army that dared to challenge the Japanese Imperial Army, all he thought about was how to successfully withdraw to Wukang.
The communications soldier who was following him naturally anxiously used the radio to ask the wing commander for reinforcements.
When Kawasaki learned that the reinforcements he sent were ambushed by the New Fourth Army on the road, four words immediately flashed in his mind, surround the point and send reinforcements.
It's a pity that his troops in Wukang City are not sufficient, after Yokogawa took away three squadrons, there are only three squadrons left in the city, where do you draw troops from?
You can't send all the troops out of the city, can you? But watching the New Fourth Army eat the Yokokawa Brigade made him unbearable?
In desperation, he had to report the situation to the division commander. When Saburo Isata, the commander of the 22nd Division of the Japanese Army, received Kawasaki's report, he couldn't help but curse a fool, and then ordered Kawasaki to send troops to respond, and at the same time asked the Air Force to send planes to help in the war.
Although it is likely that sending troops to meet will not help, as an imperial army, you can't die without help.
After receiving a scolding from the division commander, Kawasaki had to send a squadron and three hundred puppet troops to reinforce north along the road.
Yokokawa was relieved to learn that the wing commander had sent troops to respond, but he was very relieved when he saw the soldiers who kept falling around him, but he didn't see the New Fourth Army rushing down from the mountains and forests.
According to the experience of fighting with Chinese soldiers in the past, once the battle starts, the Chinese soldiers will rush out of the ambush with a shout in less than ten minutes, and then their warriors can inflict heavy losses on the Chinese soldiers with accurate marksmanship, and then rely on their skillful white-knuckle combat skills to fight their way out.
But now that the battle has been going on for ten minutes, the bullets from the New Fourth Army have not weakened, and even the New Fourth Army, which rushed down from both sides of the valley, is also approaching in battle formation, and there is no group charge as they imagined.
Just a few minutes ago, dozens of soldiers of the First Squadron, under the leadership of the squadron leader, forcibly broke through to the south, and before they could run 100 meters, they were knocked down in a pool of blood by the shells and machine guns of the New Fourth Army, and the blood that flowed out stained the road red.
Hao Mengxuan saw that the remaining 300 or so devils were pressed on both sides of the road and did not dare to move, so he immediately ordered the 70th Regiment to attack.
At the same time, the three battalions in the south had advanced north from the south side of the road, and the first battalion in the north had begun to squeeze along the road into the valley.
Hearing the gunfire approaching on both sides, and at the same time the constantly flashing figures of the New Fourth Army approaching the road from the hills on both sides, Yokokawa knew that time was running out for him.
The reinforcements sent by the wing commander will arrive here for at least an hour, even if the plane arrives, I am afraid that it will be half an hour later, and his men will continue to fall, and the New Fourth Army is constantly approaching, and if you want to hold out for an hour, I am afraid you can only dream.
The Japanese troops, who were pressed on both sides of the road and shot desperately, found that the New Fourth Army was approaching, and some leaned out regardless of the danger and shot desperately at the New Fourth Army, which was constantly leaping forward.
What made the Japanese army feel even more desperate was that the light machine guns and grenadiers of the New Fourth Army were also pressing, and the light machine guns kept screaming and suppressing these devils, and then the grenadiers kept firing at their hidden positions.
In the blink of an eye, the New Fourth Army was within fifty meters, so both sides began to throw grenades.
After countless grenades and grenades flew out, the second battalion of the New Seventh Brigade took advantage of the bombing on the highway and finally rushed to the highway to start the final decisive battle with the remnants of the devils.
At this time, most of the devils on the highway had already run out of bullets in their guns, and when they saw the New Fourth Army rushing towards them, it was too late to reload the bullets, so they immediately howled and rushed forward with their bayonet rifles.
Many of the rushing New Fourth Army were holding light machine guns, and when they saw the devil's eyes flushed, the light machine gun in their hands immediately rang out, knocking down the devil who was rushing in front, and at the same time, the soldiers who followed up had already loaded their guns with bullets and pushed forward while firing.
When the bullets ran out, they also rushed to the rest of the devils, so the two sides launched a bloody white-knives killing. (To be continued.) )