After learning that the Qufeng stronghold had fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and that the Japanese army and the Imperial Allied Army stationed at the Qufeng stronghold had been completely annihilated, Yokota had no choice but to report the situation to the higher authorities and order Sato to retreat to the county seat. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Being able to encircle Yongle Town at the same time, ambush the reinforcements in front of the Qufeng stronghold, and at the same time take the Qufeng stronghold, what does this mean, it shows that the Eighth Route Army has at least the ability to deal with more than three squadrons of the imperial army at the same time. In other words, the history of three or four hundred Japanese troops and two or three hundred imperial allies daring to walk around the base areas of the Eighth Route Army will never exist.

You must know that the Sakai Brigade has thousands of people, and before they entered the center of the Fuya Mountain Eighth Road, they were terminated from the rear supply base, and the Eighth Road suddenly jumped out in other places, making the originally calm place undulating, and there was a feeling of pressing the gourd to float the scoop, and finally had to retreat to ensure the safety of important towns.

Yokota Nofu only had two brigades in his hands, one of which was scattered to garrison strongholds throughout the county, and the other brigade was responsible for the security of the county seat and railway lines.

Even if the Air Force is willing to come out to help, without the cooperation of the ground forces, it will be impossible to drive out these hateful Eight Routes.

In the end, Yokota had no choice but to swallow the bitter fruit of the capture of the Qufeng stronghold by the Eighth Road, and as for the problem of Yongle Town, he could only order Matsui to hold on and wait for reinforcements in a telegram.

Unless a large army is mobilized from above, otherwise, it is impossible for him to send troops to relieve the siege of Yongle Town.

When Matsui received Commander Yokota's order, he couldn't help but secretly complain. Judging from the situation of the Eighth Route attacking outside the town, he should be surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, and the troops that came out of Qufeng's stronghold to reinforce were ambushed and all the troops were annihilated, which meant that in a short period of time, it was impossible for him to get reinforcements.

But if you want him to evacuate Yongle Town, it is even more impossible, there are still strong fortifications to resist in Yongle Town, if he leads the troops to leave Yongle Town and go to the wild, he will definitely be gnawed by Liu Tianshu, a vicious wolf, and there is no bone left.

I have to say that Matsui Gen is quite wise.

The attack of the first battalion in the south, at dawn, when the trenches were dug two hundred meters from the south gate, were intensively bombarded by Japanese grenadiers, and many trenches were directly bombarded. The commander of the first battalion saw that many soldiers of the company were injured, so he had to order the company to stop the excavation, and constantly strengthen the fortifications outside the range of the devil's grenadiers.

Of course, the wheat field, which used to grow green, has long been destroyed by the war.

Liu Tianshu saw that the problem in the direction of Qufeng was temporarily solved, as long as he closely monitored the devils in Jiping County, he explained to Tian Yulong, and left one squadron of the reconnaissance brigade to be responsible for reconnaissance and surveillance, and then returned to Yongle Town with the other two squadrons of the reconnaissance brigade, two companies of the third battalion of the second regiment and the machine gun battalion.

After solving the problem of reinforcements in Yongle Town, all that remains is to cut off Yongle Town, a cancer that grows on the edge of the base area.

Seeing Liu Tianshu coming back, the commander of the first battalion greeted him with gunpowder smoke on his face.

"Battalion commander, how's the situation?" After shaking hands with the first battalion commander, looking at the cigarette ash on the face of the first battalion commander, Liu Tianshu said with a smile.

"Regiment commander, after the devils learned that we were going to attack from the south gate, they strengthened the defense of the south gate, and the company that was digging and advancing was suppressed by the devils' intensive artillery fire and had to stop." The commander of the first battalion pointed to the wide wheat field in front of the south gate and said.

"What about the north and the east?" In these two directions, according to Liu Tianshu's meaning, the commander of the first battalion put a platoon for surveillance, anyway, the devils built dark forts in these two directions, and also laid mines.

In particular, those mines, although they prevented the Eighth Route Army from attacking the mountain, also affected the devils guarding the mountain to counterattack.

In other words, it is not easy for these devils to come out from these two directions and attack the eight directions. 、

"The devils in these two directions are not moving."

"Okay, in this way, battalion commander, you draw out a company, cooperate with the mortar company, and launch a feint attack on the Dongshan devil's position at 10 o'clock tonight, and carry out artillery bombardment on the devil's Dongshan position. Battalion Commander Pang, transfer four heavy machine guns to cooperate with them, and make sure to make the momentum bigger. At the same time, the commander of the first battalion, the south gate also has to make a strong attack. Liu Tianshu thought for a while and said.

Hearing Liu Tianshu say that these two directions should be attacked, it was obvious that these two directions were not the main attack direction, thinking of this, his eyes lit up and he couldn't help asking: "Battalion Commander Liu, are you going to attack Ximen?" ”

"Hehe, the commander of the first battalion guessed well, we attacked Yongle Town twice, either in the east or in the south, the terrain in the north is complicated, not suitable for the deployment of troops, and the west is not very strict because of the deep pool, the general situation is not close, and the devil's defense is not very strict. We're just going to take the devil by surprise. Liu Tianshu nodded appreciatively.

"But the deep pool at the West Gate is so wide and deep that you can't get close to it." The commander of the first battalion said worriedly.

"It's okay, I have my own way to do this." Liu Tianshu said with a smile.

In the evening, after a day's rest, the eight roads launched a fierce attack on Yongle Town again, countless eight roads by the cover of the trenches, rushed to the place of two hundred meters away from the south gate, light and heavy machine guns fired fiercely at the south gate city wall, mortar grenadiers also bombarded the south gate, two of the shells happened to fall under the south gate, with two loud bangs, the thick south gate of the town, was directly blown up, and the four imperial troops hiding behind the gate were squeezed into meat pies.

After receiving the report, Matsui Root hurried to the south gate and commanded the Japanese army and the Imperial Allied Army to fire desperately outside the town to prevent the Eighth Route from approaching the south gate.

All of a sudden, the two sides were fighting near the south gate.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side of the East Mountain suddenly launched an artillery bombardment on the devil's fortifications on the East Mountain, and the shells began to fall on the position of the devils, constantly raising clouds of smoke.

Seeing this, the devils guarding the dark fort on the hill immediately fired desperately outside, fortunately, there were mines blocking it, and the eight roads rushed to 300 meters away from the dark fort, and they were suppressed by the dense fire from the dark fort, and they could only lie on the ground and shoot at the devils guarding the east mountain and the imperial army.

When Matsui learned that Higashiyama had been attacked, he had to send a reserve in his hand to Higashiyama to strengthen Higashiyama's strength.

When the explosion sounded in the Dongshan position, Liu Tianshu said to Su Xiaopeng, the leader of the second squadron of the reconnaissance brigade who had prepared early: "Su Xiaopeng, it's up to you below, remember, when you get to the west city wall, immediately eliminate the devils on the city wall, control the west gate, and take the troops into the town." ”

Normally, the villagers in the west of Yongle Town want to enter the town, they all take a boat to the west gate by the deep water pool, there are two wooden boats that can hold more than ten people in the deep water pool, this boat does not have oars, there is no oars and other things to row boats, only two thick ropes connect the west gate and the simple dock opposite the deep water pool.

The boatman holding the boat grabs the rope with his hand and pulls it hard to drive the boat forward. Of course, in order to prevent the ship from deviating, there were also two thick iron cylinders tied to wooden posts, and ropes passed through the middle.

It's just that now these two wooden boats for ferrying are controlled by devils outside the West Gate.

Although it was early spring, the river was still very cold, and the soldiers of the Second Squadron of the Reconnaissance Brigade, carrying a makeshift bamboo raft, made preparations in the upper reaches of the deep water pool, and saw that the devil's searchlight had just been removed, and immediately put the bamboo raft into the water, and more than 30 soldiers quickly jumped on the bamboo raft and drifted down the river towards the west gate.

The interval between the searchlights of the devil and the back and forth is about two minutes, and in two minutes, the bamboo raft can float to a distance of 30 meters from the west gate.

When Shi Hu saw the bamboo raft going into the water, he immediately raised the sniper rifle in his hand, stared at the devil's searchlight, saw it slowly move over, just swept it to him, and immediately pulled the trigger, and the devil's searchlight went out in response.

Because Shi Hu made a sniper rifle with a muffler, the devil saw the searchlight suddenly go out, although he heard the sound of glass breaking, but he didn't hear the gunshot, and he didn't suspect him for a while.

Immediately, another searchlight moved in this direction, but before it could reach the improvised pier opposite, the searchlight went out again.

The devil immediately became alarmed, and one of the devils hurriedly loaded a flare into the gun, and then fired a shot into the air.

Suddenly, the entire West Gate area was like daylight, and the devil took advantage of this sudden bright light to find that the two bamboo rafts had reached the deep water pool outside the West Gate, less than four meters from the shore.

"There are eight roads, and eight roads are coming." Suddenly, the shouts of devils sounded on the wall of the West Gate.

Su Xiaopeng saw that the devil had found out, and immediately ordered the soldiers to fly and jump ashore, while the soldiers behind quickly docked the bamboo raft, and then rushed towards the west gate.

At this time, the heavy machine guns and mortars arranged opposite the deep water pool began to fire fiercely at the devils on the west gate, especially the two heavy machine guns. The bullets kept shooting towards the city wall, and several devils and the Imperial Alliance Army who couldn't dodge were directly knocked over.

Subsequently, two shells fell on the city wall, directly blowing out a small gap in the city wall, and the two devils who were lying in that position and shooting outward were directly blown into the sky.

Seeing that the enemy on the city wall was suppressed, Su Xiaopeng hurriedly commanded the soldiers to rush forward, and in a blink of an eye, he rushed to the dock outside the west gate, and then continued to jump towards the city wall.

When the devil saw the Eighth Route attacking Ximen, he suddenly felt anxious and shot desperately.

It's a pity that Su Xiaopeng also brought two grenadiers, and when he saw that the devil's firepower point on the wall was exposed, he immediately fired at the wall, because the distance was too close, and in the blink of an eye, one of the devil's machine gun firepower points was directly blown away.

The devil's suppressive firepower weakened slightly, and a small battle resistance quickly rushed to the west gate, and stuffed a package of explosives under the door. Su Xiaopeng immediately commanded the soldiers to quickly rush into the west gate. (To be continued.) )