Chapter 68: Luring the Enemy

"Kill them" Several Japanese soldiers with explosive bags strapped to their bodies rushed up from the flanks with the help of stones and the cover of their companions, and Chekov, who had been hiding behind the tank and was busy commanding, spotted these Japanese soldiers and met them with a submachine gun. The armor of the Japanese tank armored car is not very thick, and it is safe enough for rifles and light machine guns, but when it comes to large-caliber heavy machine guns and explosive packs, these seemingly sturdy big guys are not good, so Zhao Zhi will mobilize riflemen to cooperate with the tank to fight, just to prevent the Japanese army from using human bombs to destroy the tank.

Hearing the order, Chekov turned to the flank with two riflemen, and the bullets fired by the submachine gun and Garand were able to block the path of the Japanese troops, and an armored vehicle on the flank also turned around to protect the flank. There was a "boom", a cloud of smoke rose up, and the two riflemen who followed Chekov to the flank fell to the ground screaming, it was the grenade grenade from the Japanese that took effect. "Boom" "Boom" two more grenades fell, the armored vehicle was surrounded by gunsmoke, and Chekov, who had always been brave, had to dodge behind a tank and dodge the shrapnel that flew after the grenade exploded with the help of the tank's cover.

In the eyes of the Japanese daredevils, the armored vehicles equipped with machine guns were far less lethal than the tanks, so the Japanese soldiers who broke through the defense line of the armored squad aimed at the tanks. Chekov ignored the danger, lay on the ground sideways, and fired at the Japanese soldiers with the submachine gun in his hand, and the whole magazine was instantly emptied, and the Japanese soldiers who were hit by the dense bullet rain had nowhere to hide and fell to the ground, followed by a "boom" explosion, a wave of heat rolled towards Chekov, and the bullet shot by Chekov exploded the explosive bag tied to the Japanese daredevils.

Chekov, who thought that these Japanese daredevils had died in the explosion, was busy checking the injuries of the two riflemen, but he didn't notice that a Japanese daredevils who were pushed away by Qi Lang were still alive, this Japanese daredevils were just stunned by the explosion of Qi Lang, but when the whole person fell to the ground, he woke up in pain, and kept lying on the ground just pretending to be dead and secretly observing the surrounding situation. The Japanese attack was so fierce that the riflemen who were guarding the tanks and armored vehicles had no time to pay attention to the dead bodies, and even the Japanese daredevils who were pretending to be dead did not pay attention to the quietly moving position.

The tanks and armored vehicles commanded by Chekov only suppressed the Japanese with firepower, and they were still more than 300 meters away from the Japanese formation, so the tanks and armored vehicles that had been firing did not move their positions, which just brought an opportunity for the Japanese daredevils who were playing dead. The daredevils, who were slowly moving close to the ground, carefully watched the movements around them, and finally took advantage of the fact that the Japanese army fired grenades to bombard the armored vehicles again, and climbed to a distance of only a few meters from the target tank.

A meter closer, the Japanese daredevils lying on the ground bowed their bodies, and now they were only 2 meters away from the two tanks, and he could touch the two tanks as long as one of them swooped down. The Japanese daredevils lying on the ground opened the fuse of the explosive package, shouted loudly and pounced on the tank 2 meters away, and a string of bullets shot by Chekov hit his body, but this crazy guy still pounced on the tank as he wished, but he only pounced on the tracks of the tank, and a fireball of "boom" rose, and the driver and gunner in the tank came out of it with a body of white smoke.

"Retreat, retreat to the city according to the plan" The number of Japanese troops was too much, even if the tank armored vehicles and riflemen commanded by Chekov cooperated well, but a tank was destroyed by the crazy Japanese human bombs, fortunately Chekov fired in time, the tank was only blown off the track and lost power, but the gunner and driver inside were not injured. Chekov's face was full of gloom when a tank was destroyed by the Japanese, but the Japanese swarmed like ants who didn't know whether to live or die, and the riflemen who fought with him were already a little unable to support him.

The tank armored vehicles, with black smoke in their tails, began to assemble in accordance with Chekov's command, and retreated to the city gate under the cover of alternating artillery fire and machine-gun fire. The city gate of Zhangwu County was big enough for tanks and armored vehicles to drive back to the city, but how could the Japanese troops who had already been mad just let Chekov and them leave intact, and under the leadership of the junior officers, more Japanese troops grabbed grenades and pounced on the retreating tanks.

"Oh my God, don't these people know that they will die?" Chekov in the armored car was shooting at the charging Japanese soldiers with machine guns, and he looked at the Japanese soldiers who were shot and died in amazement. Chekov expected that when he commanded the tank and armored vehicles to retreat, these Japanese troops would chase after them, so he divided the tank and armored vehicles into two parts to cover each other's retreat, and the tanks and armored vehicles were opened upside down, and the muzzles of the guns were always pointed at the Japanese troops, as long as they were not pasted up by the Japanese army, he was not afraid of more Japanese troops, anyway, the place at the gate of the city was big enough for the tanks and armored vehicles to open the battlefield.

In the eyes of the Japanese soldiers, this was a harbinger of the imminent exhaustion of fuel and ammunition for the tanks and armored vehicles of the Chi Na people, so the Japanese troops who were chasing them were even more energetic, and they hated to stop these retreating tanks and armored vehicles directly with their teeth. Chekov gradually felt the pressure, there were too many Japanese troops, the ammunition carried by tanks and armored vehicles was indeed not much, and the riflemen who were transferred to cooperate with the battle also suffered heavy casualties, if they could not withdraw into the city in time, his armored team was likely to be wiped out by the Japanese army outside the city.

"Da Da" The city wall that had been watching suddenly sounded gunshots, and the two Type 92 heavy machine guns that had not moved opened fire, and the Japanese troops who were chasing the tank into the range of heavy machine gun fire were temporarily suppressed, but more Japanese troops caught up, and the two heavy machine guns on the city wall also supported the department for a long time. "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" The mortar shells that suddenly hit from the city wall fell into the charging route of the Japanese army, blinding the crazy Japanese army, how many mortars did the people have?

In fact, the mortars on the city wall were still the artillery under Chekov, and after they failed to bombard the Japanese army on the flank hill, they had already followed Chekov's command and went around to the west side of the city wall, and drilled into the county town from the tunnel, and now it is they who are standing on the city wall to bombard the Japanese army. The sudden artillery fire disrupted the Japanese charging camp, and in order to avoid the artillery fire, the Japanese had to pull the skirmish line very wide, and these Japanese charging soldiers who were fighting separately happened to be the target of machine gun strikes, which provided convenience for the mercenaries and the machine gunners of the Eighth Route Army to practice point fire.

Amid the intense fire, the scarred armored squad finally retreated safely into the city, and as the gates were re-closed, only the soldiers of the 225th Wing and the corpses of the city were left outside the gates. "Go to the city wall, go to the city wall" sent an armored car to send the mercenaries back to the west of the city, Chekov took the remaining mercenaries to carry weapons and ammunition up the city wall, this is a plan arranged by Zhao Zhi, using the county town as a bait to attract the 225 Wing who lost heavy weapons to besiege the city, Zhao Zhi wants the Japanese army to see the dawn of victory, only in this way, the 225 Wing will be concentrated outside Zhangwu County, and Zhao Zhi will not disrupt his deployment because of the dispersion of Japanese troops.

After the ambush from Stone Beach, Zhao Zhi made a series of actions against the 225th Wing for one purpose -- to investigate the loss of heavy weapons of the 225th Wing, and only when it was determined whether the heavy weapons of the Japanese army were completely lost, Zhao Zhi's final plan could be implemented, and he could not let his mercenaries go to death in vain. So far, Zhao Zhi is quite satisfied with the battle situation, but except for Sun Jin's rashness, it has been proved that the 225th Wing has indeed lost heavy weapon support in the ambush at Stone Beach.

Yu Dazhi, who was secretly ordered to reconnoiter on Stone Beach, also sent back the same information, judging from the number of heavy weapons blown up on Stone Beach, the 225th Wing's current most powerful weapons are mortars and a few heavy machine guns. After Zhao Zhi destroyed the supply ammunition in the camp in the woods, Zhao Zhi didn't know how long the Japanese mortars and light and heavy machine guns could support, and after defeating the Sato brigade, he found that their machine guns were only a few light machine guns, and there were no mortars, and even the grenadiers were grenades, it seems that the current situation of the 225 Wing is not very good, Takeda Dingzo This is to save face, not to be inside, and to capture Zhangwu County.

"Send a report to Mr. that all the armored teams have safely withdrawn to the county seat, and the Japanese army has begun to regroup, asking about the next step?" Chekov, who was leaning against the city wall, was smoking a cigarette leisurely, and he did not have the nervous face of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who was about to fight the battle. Zhao Zhi's instruction to Chekov was that when he found signs of retreat of the Japanese army, he must retreat to the county seat, use the weakness of the armored squad to motivate the Japanese army to chase, kill the Japanese army as much as possible on the way to retreat, and stimulate the Japanese army to besiege the city.

With mortars and machine guns to rely on, and a supplementary company of the Eighth Route Army on the city walls, Chekov was confident that he would hold the county until the moment when Zhao Zhi's follow-up plan began to be implemented, but he was only a little unsure if Zhao Zhi had recalled the mercenary team and assembled it. So far, Zhao Zhi's biggest weakness is that there are too few soldiers under his command to command, if it weren't for this reason, Zhao Zhi's most elite scout team and sniper team would not have been split by him and lost their due combat effectiveness.