Chapter 382: Defeat the Yamada detachment

After hearing the battalion commander named Wang Dong report the results of the battle, the defenders of the fortress troops sizzled in unison and gasped.

"Is there a mistake? Kill 1,000 enemies and have zero casualties, is this still a human record? When did the Japanese soldiers be so easy to exterminate?

If it weren't for the crazy and short battle halfway up the mountain, if someone else had said this to them, they would have laughed at each other for talking about fantastical things.

But in the same way, if they tell others about this incredible battle, they will not believe it. How good is that? ”

Commander Liu Aiguo didn't have time to care about the thoughts of the fortress troops who were struggling, he patted Wang Dong on the shoulder and praised Wang Dong greatly.

Then the order was to immediately prepare the unconscionable artillery, and the Japanese troops below the hill would soon have a retaliatory shelling, and they would just end the Japanese artillery positions.

And the Yamada detachment commander of the Yamada detachment did not expect Liu Aiguo, not long after Wang Dong's battalion withdrew and returned to the Wulongshan Battery, he began to assemble the artillery of the whole detachment and shelled the halfway up the mountain.

And just after the Yamada detachment commander at the foot of the mountain had just completed nearly half an hour of carpet bombardment, he had not yet given the order to attack again.

Suddenly, there were more than a dozen muffled sounds from the mountain, and then the leader of the Yamada detachment saw more than a dozen huge explosive bags with white smoke flying down from Oolong Mountain.

The dozen or so huge explosive packets were clearly aimed at his makeshift artillery position. There were more than a dozen loud bangs, and the entire artillery position was blown into powder by these dozen explosive packets.

Not only were hundreds of artillery and grenadier veterans killed on the spot, but even the more than 100 mortars and grenadiers of their entire detachment were destroyed.

Just when Captain Yamada was still feeling sorry for his artillerymen, he saw more than a dozen huge explosive bags dropped from Wulong Mountain, flying in the direction of his headquarters from afar.

Captain Yamada hurriedly ordered to retreat, but it was too late, and some of the more than a dozen explosive bags fell on Captain Yamada's side, and some exploded in the air.

A dozen huge explosions rang out, and the head of the Yamada detachment was sent to see Amaterasu along with hundreds of soldiers around the headquarters.

And at this time, the only largest officer alive in the entire detachment was Captain Murata of the Logistics Department, who had just arrived on the battlefield.

This Captain Murata immediately took over the command of the Yamada detachment, although their detachment was heavily damaged and all the senior generals were killed, but if he could turn the tide, this battle of Oolong Mountain would not be an opportunity for him as a captain.

Carried away by fame and fortune, Captain Murata immediately ordered all his soldiers to retreat one kilometer back, and when he went to Oolong Mountain, he found that there was a large depression that was suitable as a place for rearmament.

As a result, the remnants of the Yamada detachment were engaged in a relatively hidden depression under Oolong Mountain for a rearmament battle.

When Captain Murata finally gathered the team of more than 3,000 people together, before he could give the order to counterattack, he saw that among the surrounding trees and grass, among the loose soil around him, hundreds of Chinese soldiers with machine guns in their hands and wearing broken nets suddenly came out.

As soon as these soldiers got into shape, they raised their guns and fired without saying a word, but fortunately, Captain Murata reacted quickly, and he was the first to roll to the side.

Then, listening to the constant sound of machine guns around him, he ran down the hill with a loud shout to retreat. However, it is not easy for the newly assembled team to escape on the spot.

Many Japanese soldiers had just unloaded their equipment, and before they could pick up their guns again, they were knocked down one by one by a dense stream of bullets fired from all directions.

Countless melon grenades were thrown from all directions at the Japanese soldiers who were assembling in the hollow, and at this time these Japanese soldiers discovered that this hollow could be a good shelter from the artillery fire on the mountain.

But in this place where there are ambushes on all sides, this is also the best place to bury bones. Many of the soldiers couldn't see where anyone was firing around them, and they fled to the clearing below the hill, returning fire aimlessly.

Not to mention, because the soldiers of the Yamada detachment were already frightened birds in the battle halfway up the mountainside, when the guns of the ambush in the mountain recess rang out, they did not wait for the order of Captain Murata, and these soldiers had already scattered spontaneously.

In this way, their 3,000 men and horses quickly rushed down the hill under a burst of machine gun fire from the enemy, and after evading the enemy's pursuit for several hundred meters, they retreated a full five kilometers back again before they stopped fleeing.

Captain Murata halted the rout five kilometers away and began to gather the remnants again, and when he finished gathering his troops this time, he almost stopped crying.

A full 5,000 men and horses, before they could fight for an hour, they were killed by unknown troops more than 3,000 people, and these remnants of the army in front of them were defeated, and they were more than 1,000 people when they were full.

Just when Captain Murata was at a loss, he found that a soldier with a radio on his back had escaped safely, and the captain was very relieved to see that the radio soldier had run such a long distance without throwing the radio away.

He immediately used this radio to report to the Nanjing headquarters.

Their Yamada detachment was attacking the defenders of the Wulongshan Fort this morning, and they encountered an ambush by the Chinese defenders ten times our size, and they desperately broke through the siege.

The Yamada detachment finally escaped under his leadership, after sacrificing 3,000 excellent Imperial soldiers and losing all its heavy weapons.

Now they have a team of less than 2,000 people, and the entire detachment is not only the leader of the Yamada detachment, but even all the captains have also fallen, and he is now the current highest commander of the Yamada detachment, and he has to ask for tactical guidance from the Central China Front.

Captain Murata finally reported the battle situation, and when he saw that the radio soldier in front of him was looking at him with a surprised face and lying about the military situation, he immediately said:

"The enemy fires such large-caliber shells from the mountains, I want to say that they have no heavy troops, will the headquarters believe it?

Besides, if we had 5,000 men and horses in the Imperial Japanese Army, and had been wiped out by more than 3,000 without even seeing the shadow of the enemy, if this had been spread, what would be the face of our Imperial Japanese Army?

And we were ambushed by the Chinese army, they were hiding in the woods and grass halfway up the mountainside, and from only a few hundred of their machine guns can be deduced that they have tens of thousands, am I wrong? ”

Seeing that the radio soldiers were being taught a lesson by themselves, and at the same time nodding their heads to agree with his statement, Captain Murata was very happy and boasted that the radio soldiers in front of him were very promising, and the road to promotion in the future was great.

At the same time, given that this radio communication soldier was the only soldier who ran back with a radio on his back, the most commendable thing was that he was still a new recruit.

In order to boost morale, Captain Murata directly promoted this signal soldier to the squad leader of the radio communication squad of the Yamada detachment.

Seeing that the communications soldier who had been promoted by himself was happily dancing with the radio station on his back, Captain Murata also persuaded him with concern that now that he was safe and could take off his radio backpack, he was always carrying it like this.

Who knew that the Japanese recruit in front of him, who had just been promoted to squad leader, said helplessly, because he ran in a hurry on the battlefield for the first time, he inadvertently tied his backpack into a dead knot, and he wanted to throw it away when he was running away halfway up the mountain just now, but unfortunately he didn't throw it down. This time, he was finally able to get someone to help him unload the backpack.

After speaking, the leader of the communication squad also turned around, bowed down and asked Captain Murata to help him untie his backpack.

Seeing the radio soldier waiting for him to help him unload the radio, Captain Murata only felt a flock of crows flying over his head, and he wanted to kick the radio soldier's ass in front of him at once.

Outside Nanjing, after hearing the news that the Yamada detachment attacking the Wulongshan Fort had been surrounded and annihilated, General Matsui Ishine immediately came to the battle map to check the location of the Wulongshan Fort.

Originally, the Wulong Mountain Fort was defended by nearly a brigade of troops. He thought that sending the Yamada detachment to attack would be enough to take down the low-equipped Chinese defenders, but they were ambushed.

Judging from the information fed back by the Japanese intelligence department, the two divisions of Xu Yuanquan's division, the former defenders of Wulong Mountain, disappeared last night, and it seems that they must have gone to the Wulong Mountain Fort overnight to set up an ambush.

But how did they know that the Yamada detachment would attack the Oolong Mountain Fort this morning? And even if they were two divisions plus the defenders of Wulong Mountain, their total strength would not exceed 20,000 people.

How did the 20,000 people with only this backward equipment take out the well-equipped Yamada detachment in such a short period of time? Could it be that the current withdrawal of troops in various parts of Nanjing City is an illusion made by Tang Shengzhi? They actually have all kinds of ulterior ambush circles waiting for the Imperial Japanese Army to jump? ”

Captain Murata, who had already exaggerated the number of Chinese defenders tenfold, seriously misled Matsui Ishone's judgment. Without figuring out what tricks the Chinese defenders were playing.

Matsui Ishine decided to postpone the attack on the city of Nanjing, and instead attacked the tens of thousands of Chinese defenders of the Wulongshan Fort with all his might. Matsui Ishine believed that as long as he could effectively kill the defenders of Nanjing City, the city of Nanjing, which had no soldiers to defend, would naturally fall into his pocket.

Matsui Ishine immediately transferred the 38th Wing and the 9th Wing of the 16th Division, which were attacking Bauhinia Mountain, and asked them to immediately reinforce the Japanese troops at Wulong Mountain.

At the same time, he ordered four destroyers, eight gunboats, and two large warships of the Third Fleet, which were cruising on the Yangtze River, to immediately go to Wulong Mountain and shell Wulong Mountain.

At the same time, he again transferred fifty planes from the rear to prepare for a carpet bombing of the defenders of Oolong Mountain. Strive to kill and wound a large number of defenders of Oolong Mountain.

After giving all the orders, Matsui Ishine stared at the enemy situation map in front of him with a pair of eagle eyes, and said with a cold smile: "Dare to put tens of thousands of people in the Wulong Mountain Fort in the land of projectiles? This time, I will dispatch by land, sea and air together, and we must wipe out the defenders of Oolong Mountain. ”