Chapter 53: The Raid (1)
"Wugang-kun, the radio station over there has been silent for two days, could it be that there was an accident on the Ding'an side?" Aoki, who had a calm face, turned his face and looked at the co-captain Takeoka Jiexiong who was riding a horse and walked beside him, in fact, Aoki wanted to say that the ghost ghost near village who rushed to Ding'an from Wuxiang was probably more auspicious, but when he thought that Takeoka Jiexiong and the ghost ghost near the village were fellow villagers, the words were all on his lips, and Aoki changed his tone.
Takeoka Jiexiong didn't know what Aoki originally wanted to say, and after listening to Aoki's words, he just laughed and said, "Aoki-kun, I think you are worrying about the sky, not only does the ghost ghost have a large group of imperial warriors in his hands, but also Wuxiang also has an integrated regiment of the Imperial Cooperative Army, these Imperial Cooperative troops are all drawn from the North China battlefield to Shanxi, and the regular troops of the Chinese people are not their opponents, how can there be an accident with more than 2,000 soldiers, maybe the ghost will have taken Ding'an City."
As for Takeoka Jiexiong's confidence, Aoki Ryuichi, as the deputy wing leader, was obviously skeptical, and since the ghost ghost went to Ding'an from Takego, he would contact the Takeoka United almost every day by radio. According to Aoki's understanding of the thunder, he judged that there must be something wrong with the troops of the Ghost Spirit, otherwise there would be no radio silence for two consecutive days, which was absolutely not allowed in the Japanese army's drills.
"Don't worry, this fellow of mine is a person with a lot of battlefield experience, he has defeated the troops of the Anti-United Nations many times when he was in Nanman, and it will not be a problem to deal with a small force of thunder" Before Takeoka's words fell, he heard a burst of gunfire suddenly from the front of the team, Takeoka Jiexiong and Aoki were protected by the guards and hid under the roadbed, and the machine gunners of the team were already setting up machine guns to guard the surroundings.
The gunshot, which was not too dense, only stopped after a short while, and after a short time, a second lieutenant officer ran from the front with a saber on his shoulder, and reported to Takeoka Jiexiong abruptly: "Your Excellency, the search spearhead sent out by the third squadron reported that they had discovered the whereabouts of the Shina Army and had been repulsed."
"Yo Xi, stupid Shina people, fortunately I was prepared, and ordered the top soldiers to expand the scope of the search, and the third squadron was on standby at any time, ready to reinforce, and we couldn't give the Shina people a chance to attack us" Hearing this, Takeoka Kai Yue nodded happily and smiled. Since the war with the national army in the second war zone, Takeoka Jiexiong has been very troubled by the combat attrition caused by the attack, and knowing the arrival of the deputy wing captain Aoki Ryuichi made him begin to pay attention to the use of spearheads, just like this time, if it wasn't for the search for the spearheads to discover the whereabouts of the Shina people in advance, his wing is afraid that it will be attacked by the Shina people again.
"Hay!" The second lieutenant immediately bowed his head suddenly, and then turned around and strode away with his saber on his shoulder. The danger has been lifted, the Wugang Wing continues to march towards Ding'an, according to the current speed, one day, the Wugang Wing will be able to rush to the periphery of Ding'an, if it were not for the heavy firepower such as 75 mountain guns carried by the team, the Wugang Wing might be able to speed up the march a little more. "Boom" had just gone a short distance when a loud explosion suddenly sounded in front of the team, and Takeoka saw the cloud of smoke rising in front of him from a distance.
"Report to Your Excellency Wing Commander, the people of China have laid mines on the road, we have three Imperial soldiers killed, six wounded, and the road has also been damaged by mines, if the troops want to continue to advance, they must first repair the kilometer, otherwise those heavy vehicles are afraid that they will not be able to pass" It was the second lieutenant officer who came to report the news, but after a few minutes, he reported two completely different news to the wing commander, and the second lieutenant who had been hanging his head was also nervous at this time, for fear that the wing commander would be angry with himself.
"Then hurry up and repair the road, and then send sappers to search the road ahead, and make sure that after we get on the road again, we will not encounter any more mine attacks from the Shina people" The young lieutenant's worries were unnecessary, and Takeoka only pondered for a while, then waved him to leave. The young ensign who escaped the catastrophe almost disappeared quickly with a run, and hurriedly assigned sappers to conduct a mine detection and investigation on the road ahead, looking at the face of the wing captain, if he encountered the mines of the people of China again, he was afraid that the second lieutenant would not be able to save it.
Searching the highway and repairing the highway tossed enough for the sappers of the Takeoka Wing, and when he was on the road again, Takeoka Jiexiong looked at his watch, and 20 minutes had passed, and he secretly cursed the killed Shina man angrily, unable to analyze the order to order the troops to continue to hurry, if he didn't hurry up, he might have to camp in the field again today. The panicked shouts of "artillery attack, artillery attack" did not stop, and a series of explosions came from the vanguard of the Takeoka Wing, and the iron-faced Takeoka Sutsuo and Aoki Ryuichi were once again protected by their own guards, this time encountering not mines, but mortars.
"Yaga, the timid Shina people will only sneak attack secretly" Without waiting for Takeoka Jiexiong to give an order, Ichiro Takeoka, the commander of the third squadron who had been bombed by mortar shells, had already commanded his Japanese soldiers to rush in the direction of the shelling. The commander of the third squadron, Ichiro Takeoka, is the nephew of the wing commander Takeoka Jiexiong, and it is precisely because of this relationship that Ichiro Takeoka, who is only a young son, will become the forward of the Takeoka United, because the forward troops and the Chinese army have a greater chance of encountering, and the opportunity to make combat achievements is also greater.
Relying on the fact that he is the nephew of the wing leader, Takeoka Ichiro, who is only 25 years old this year, is definitely the first among the more than a dozen young people in the Takeoka United, and he was attacked by the Shina people twice in a row, which hit Takeoka Ichiro's proud heart, so he didn't care about asking his superiors at all, so he took the soldiers of his squadron to chase in the direction of the mortar, and he wanted to cut off the heads of those attackers with his own hands in front of his uncle.
Just when Ichiro Takeoka was running with all his strength with his soldiers, a sharp and sharp whistling sound suddenly sounded from overhead, and Ichiro Takeoka's face changed greatly when he heard the sound, and he immediately ordered sharply: "Lie down, shelling is hidden!" Ichiro Takeoka had just fallen on his stomach, and before he could cover his ears with his hands, a mortar shell that fell from the sky whistled down, and happened to explode next to him, and several unresponsive Japanese soldiers were blown upside down by the shock wave after the explosion.
"Boom...... Boom...... The shelling continued, and everywhere there was the roar of shell explosions, shrapnel and fire....... From time to time, shells occasionally fell into the crowd, and some people were blown up to a blur of flesh and blood, and their stumps flew sideways. However, all this was blocked by the thick smoke and fire, and at the same time, Takeoka Sutsuo, who was protected by the Guards, was looking through his telescope at the ground that had been shrouded in smoke and fire.
After a while, Takeoka Jiexiong put down his binoculars and turned around suddenly, and ordered with an awe-inspiring expression: "Pass my order, the first squadron will gather immediately, attack immediately, and be sure to bring the third squadron back to me."
"Hay!" A Japanese staff officer next to him suddenly bowed his head, and immediately turned around and left with his saber on his shoulder. The 3rd Squadron, which had attacked without permission, was shelled, and Takeoka was very worried. Nephew Ichiro Takeoka is the hope of the Takeoka family, among the children of the third generation of the entire family, only this Ichiro is the most capable of the samurai spirit of the Takeoka family, if the nephew Ichiro has an accident on the battlefield of China, it will definitely be a heavy blow to the Takeoka family, and he will definitely not allow this kind of thing to happen.
While Takeoka was busy dispatching troops to rescue his nephew, Ichiro Takeoka, who was under fire, was not idle, and Shaosa, who often referred to himself as the most courageous man in the Takeoka Wing, was preparing to counterattack. Although the shelling was not over, the intensity had weakened a lot, and Ichiro Takeoka, who seized the opportunity, began to move to the flanks with some veterans of his squadron, in a vain attempt to move forward under the cover of the roadbed and the vegetation beside the road.
"Boom" "Boom" Takeoka Ichiro suddenly rose a few clouds of smoke a hundred meters in front of them, Takeoka Ichiro who was watching was greatly excited, and shouted in his mouth, "That's our artillery fire, it's the artillery support provided by the wing for us, rush up and catch those people, I'm going to cut off their heads, the warriors of the empire, rush" With artillery support, Takeoka Ichiro was even more confident, and he didn't listen to the persuasion of his subordinate Jun Cao at all, and rushed to the first one with his command knife, In his opinion, those people who dodge and dodge will only secretly play the black hand will not escape death this time.
Takeoka Ichiro in the "bang" charge fell to the ground one by one, and the command knife in his hand also flew out of the distance, followed by his two military caopers, standing motionless in place, his chest and face were covered with blood, Takeoka Ichiro, who was once the most invincible young man in the Takeoka United, was smashed by a bullet and his head was broken, and the brains like tofu brains were steaming in the mud in front of Takeoka Ichiro. "Shaozo is dead, Takeoka Ichiro is dead" The third squadron that lost Takeoka Ichiro couldn't care about pursuing the so-called attackers, and several veterans dragged Takeoka Ichiro's body back in embarrassment.
"Baga, you idiots, why don't you die?" Wing Commander Takeoka Jiexiong, who rushed over after hearing the news, slapped several officers of the Third Squadron, except for the soldiers who died in the shelling, among the more than 200 people in the entire Third Squadron, only Squadron Leader Takeoka Ichiro died by gunfire, which made Takeoka Jiexiong's heart extremely unbalanced. Annoyed, Takeoka did not think about the consequences at all, but ordered his troops to stand by and sent a large group of troops to conduct a careful search of the surroundings, and he wanted to cut off the heads of those people in front of his nephew's corpse to vent his anger.