Chapter 121: The Battle of Yizheng

Due to the urgency of time, Qiao Youhua had to lead the team to march towards Yizheng County, and at the same time conduct pre-war mobilization of the officers and soldiers of the two newly joined regiments, and talk to him, the regiment commander, for the first time.

"I remember that there was a person who said that if the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was not won for a day, the Sichuan army would not return to Sichuan, and that was what your Sichuan Provincial Chairman General Liu Xiang and Liu said when the Sichuan Army swore to go out of Sichuan to resist Japan.

As long as the Sichuan Yankees don't die, China won't die! Such bold words are like thunder! In the first battle of Songhu, countless Sichuan athletes fought desperately, with inferior equipment, with full of blood and armed to the teeth of the elite Japanese army, although they were defeated, they were still glorious! ”

Qiao Youhua walked on the edge of the team, and continued to shout at the top of his voice: "Today, I, Qiao Youhua, will take you to fight a big victory, a big victory that will be a shame for hundreds of thousands of Sichuan army soldiers!"

Sue me, do you want a great victory to prove to the world that your Sichuan Legion is unique and the most elite anti-Japanese army! ”

"Yes! Think! Think! Thousands of Sichuan officers and soldiers responded loudly as they ran.

Qiao Youhua pointed his hand forward and shouted loudly: "Very good, then give me all your strength, target Yizheng County, and rush to Yizheng in front of the heavy vine detachment raised by his son of a bitch at any cost!" ”

"Brothers, don't let the new regiment commander look down on our Sichuan army, give me the strength to feed on my mother-in-law's kang and !!move forward at full speed." A Haragawa corps commander, who had been automatically demoted to battalion commander, raised his arms and shouted.

More than 2,000 officers and soldiers of Sichuan immediately spread their feet and ran wildly like chicken blood.

In Yizheng County, there are less than 500 defenders in the county at this moment, some of them are the original security team, and some of them are the routed soldiers who retreated from Yangzhou.

After a fierce battle, the Shigeto detachment finally captured Yangzhou, an important town in Jiangbei where the headquarters of the Third Theater Command was located, and the detachment leader, Major General Shigeto Chiaki, planned to rest in Yangzhou for a day or two before continuing to trace the river.

However, two hours earlier, he had received a telegram from the Central China Front Headquarters, and he had to abandon his intention to rest and recuperate, and ordered his troops to set off immediately and attack in the direction of Yizheng.

It turned out that the Japanese high-level who was put on a position by Qiao Youhua in Suzhou and delayed the best fighter was annoyed and angry, and under the pressure of the domestic base camp, they began to concentrate a force to storm Nanjing again.

In the telegram to the Shigetsu detachment, the Japanese army headquarters also mentioned that several units such as the Yamada Brigade of the 13th Division had been transferred to form the Yamada Detachment, and then rushed to strengthen the strength of the Japanese army in Jiangbei, and at the same time fill the gap left by the attack and advance of the Shigeto detachment, so as to prevent Yangzhou from being lost and regained.

After all, Gu Zhutong still had a considerable number of troops in the 3rd Theater of Operations in Jiangbei, and he could launch a counteroffensive in the direction of Yangzhou at any time, of course, this had to be agreed by Chairman Jiang, and Gu Zhutong dared to do so.

Knowing that the Yamada detachment had come to respond, Shigedo Chiaki, an old devil, left a small force to stay in Yangzhou, and personally led the main force of thousands of people to rush towards Yizheng County.

When Qiao Youhua arrived at Yizheng with the newly expanded Dragon Tooth Task Force, a forward brigade of the Shigeto detachment had also arrived at the east gate of Yizheng and immediately launched an attack.

The real combat effectiveness in the city was the more than 200 defeated troops of the Third War Zone who had withdrawn from Yangzhou, but they alone could not stop the well-equipped and powerful Shigedo detachment.

Not long after the two sides exchanged fire, the city gate was blown open by Japanese demomen, and hundreds of Japanese troops swarmed into the city like locusts, and the defeated soldiers, who had suffered heavy casualties, completely collapsed and fled towards the city.

At this time, Qiao Youhua led the team to the western suburbs of Yizheng, and when he heard the dense gunfire coming from the front, Qiao Youhua ordered to stop the advance, and the officers and soldiers who had been marching all the way were finally able to take a breath and rest for a while.

The reconnaissance company that had been walking at the front of the team came back, Liu Jianhua ran to Qiao Youhua in a hurry, and said without saluting: "Tuanzao, the devils have broken through the east gate, and there are hundreds of devils at the south gate who are detouring towards this side, and I have already asked the reconnaissance company to launch a blockade on the spot!" ”

"Damn, this shit's Shigedo detachment is coming pretty fast!" Qiao Youhua changed color when he heard this, and immediately made a deployment.

"Haidong, you take a battalion to support the reconnaissance company, and send the devil's roundabout troops back to me, Ma Biao, you take a battalion to make a detour from the north of the city, and if you find the devil's roundabout troops, defeat them on the spot! The others will follow me into the city, and they will drive the little devil out of the city at any cost! ”

"Yes!" A group of officers stood up and saluted, and quickly moved into action.

Qiao Youhua took a light machine gun from a machine gunner and said in a loud voice, "Rush into the city for me and kill any enemy you see!" Come on! ”

Wu Ming, Liu Yidao, Ma Yunlong and others led their subordinates to follow Qiao Youhua into the city from the west gate, and Jiang Haidong and Ma Biao also led a battalion of troops each, rushing towards the south and north of the city respectively.

When Qiao Youhua rushed into the city with the main force, hundreds of devil soldiers had almost controlled most of the county, and the more than 100 defeated soldiers in the third war zone and more than 100 local security teams were driven away like lost dogs by the devil soldiers who were not much more powerful than them, and they were about to be driven out of the city.

On the street, Qiao Youhua was the first to fire, and the light machine gun in his hand suddenly fired a dense rain of hot bullets, and the soldiers behind him also opened fire.

Dense bullets slashed at dozens of devil pursuers, giving them a head-on blow.

About seven or eight devil soldiers failed to dodge and fell to the ground after being shot, while the rest of the devil soldiers quickly dispersed to both sides of the street, relying on various shops and buildings to hide.

And the Chinese routs who were pursued by them reacted.

"I am Qiao Youhua, the commander of the Dragon Tooth Task Force, and I was ordered by the Nanjing Garrison Commander's Department to take over the defense of the Yizheng City, from now on, you are all under my command, immediately pull aside and retreat, and leave it to us here." Qiao Youhua didn't expect these defeated soldiers who had lost their armor to turn defeat into victory immediately, and forcibly pressed them to counterattack, at this time, it would only lead them to die innocently.

Therefore, Qiao Youhua decided to keep them, as long as the current crisis passed, give them some time, and they could recuperate and become usable combat power.

Only then did the hundred defeated soldiers react, and they retreated to both sides, retreating along the alley to the rear of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force.

"Heavy, sharpshooter keep the fire suppressed, and the grenadier bombarded me with his son of a bitch!" Qiao Youhua commanded while holding the machine gun and constantly strafing, suppressing the ghost soldiers hiding in the buildings on both sides.

The machine gunners opened fire with all their might, and the marksmen relied on some obstacles to carry out accurate point fire, and the dozens of devils on the opposite side of the suppression did not even dare to risk their heads.

At this time, four grenadiers hurriedly stepped forward with grenadiers in their hands and quickly opened fire.

"Boom, boom, boom......" After a burst of shelling, a series of explosions broke out from the place where the devils were hiding, and the devil soldiers hiding in the building were killed and injured by the raging shrapnel.

At the same time, Liu Yidao and the monkey took a group of dragon tooth veterans over the wall and crossed the courtyard, or they had already detoured towards the group of devils along the alley.

Wu Ming even took the main force of a battalion and began to launch a counterattack from another side street.