Chapter 1091: Turning the Tide

As mentioned before, the reason why the 1st and 2nd regiments of the 1st Division were defeated and retreated by the night attack troops of the devils was mainly because the enemy appeared too suddenly, and the regimental command hub failed and there was no unified command, not because the combat effectiveness of these two regiments was inferior to the elite of the attacking Japanese army.

In fact, today's Dragon's Tooth Corps, except for a very small number of newly formed troops, most of the troops have stronger combat effectiveness than the Japanese army with the same strength, no matter how much the Japanese army is called elite, because the difference in weapons equipped by the two sides is too large.

If the devil's night attack troops were not so greedy, they just concentrated all their efforts on storming the Second Regiment, which was already on the verge of collapse, and then took advantage of the chaos to raid the camps of several combat units directly under the division headquarters, such as the tank regiment, the air defense regiment, the baggage regiment, and the artillery regiment, they might be able to achieve even more brilliant results.

However, the commander of the Japanese night attack unit, after discovering that his own troops had launched a fierce attack from the front, immediately divided a quarter of his forces to attack the rear of the position of the third regiment, in an attempt to flank the front and rear of the frontal attacking troops and seize the position of the first division along the Yalu River.

If Li Mingshan, the commander of the third regiment, is also not there, this opportunity of the devil is very likely to succeed, 500 elite soldiers from behind, coupled with the onslaught of the Japanese army in the front, the third regiment is likely to follow in the footsteps of the first and second regiments, defeated and fled, and lost its position.

But fortunately, Li Mingshan did not go to the scar-faced banquet, and the three regiments had the backbone and a complete command system, which fully brought into full play their original combat effectiveness.

In such a situation, Mo said that there were more than 500 devil elite soldiers, even if more than 3,000 devil night attack troops all attacked, it was not necessarily the opponent of the three regiments' counterattack troops.

The two sides engaged in a fierce exchange of fire less than 500 meters away from the headquarters of the Third Regiment, and the devils, who did not have an advantage in strength and firepower, were hit by the counterattack troops of the Third Regiment with heavy firepower, suffering heavy casualties.

Thundered! The shells fired by the mortars and grenadiers of the Second Regiment fell on the Japanese army crowd and began to explode continuously, and the scarlet explosion flames and dense bullet rain formed in the dark night were like meteor-like tongues of fire, which were particularly eye-catching and dazzling.

With every explosion, almost some devil screams and is blown away.

In the flash of fire, more Japanese soldiers were hit by the whizzing of bullets and fell in rows.

In less than ten minutes, this army of more than 500 devil elite soldiers was defeated by the counteroffensive of the main force of the three regiments.

Li Mingshan immediately ordered the counteroffensive troops to take advantage of the situation to continue the attack, so as to save the battlefield decline and save the entire First Division.

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At the headquarters of the first column, Liu Yidao, the deputy commander who was already asleep, was woken up by his own guard battalion commander Zhou Weiguo, "Deputy commander, it's not good, just now Zhou Wen's communications battalion received an urgent telegram from the third regiment of the first division on the front line, and the first division was attacked by the Japanese army at large-scale at night, and the main force of the first regiment and the second regiment have been defeated by the enemy's roundabout troops.

The headquarters of the 1st Division was also occupied by the enemy! ”

Liu Yidao opened his eyes suddenly: "What? What did you say? What does Scarface do with this kid for food? ”

Zhou Weiguo lowered his head, not daring to look directly at Liu Yidao's eyes full of anger, and said: "It is said that the head of Scarface and the commanders of the first and second regiments, as well as several operational staff officers of the division headquarters, are all drunk, and now the division headquarters has been captured by the Japanese army, and their life and death are unknown." Only the 3rd Regiment was still struggling to resist the Japanese at the front. ”

"Damn, Liu Yishou is a bastard, Lao Tzu has told him many times, don't be greedy for cups, don't be greedy for cups, it's good now, even the division headquarters has been lost, it doesn't matter if his kid is dead, not to mention tens of thousands of soldiers in my first division, it has also affected the invincible honor of the entire first column! It's really not enough to shoot him ten times. Liu Yidao was furious and shouted out the real name of Scarface, which he hadn't called for many years.

He immediately got up and got out of bed, simply put on a coat, and didn't even care about putting on shoes, so he took the lead out of the bedroom and came to the communication room, where he was urgently contacting various departments, and Zhou Wen, the commander of the communications battalion who summarized the situation, hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Deputy commander." ”

"What is the situation of the other divisions of the 1st Division now?" Liu Yidao asked.

Zhou Wen hurriedly stepped forward to answer, and reported the timely deployment of Li Mingshan, the head of the third regiment, to Liu Yidao, and after Liu Yidao listened, he couldn't help but nod and praise: "This Li Mingshan is a talent, not afraid of danger, good." ”

After being a little relieved, Liu Yidao pondered for a moment and said: "Immediately send a telegram to the regiments directly under the First Division, order them to act according to Li Mingshan's suggestion, and at the same time order Li Mingshan to temporarily take over the command of the various units of the First Division, resolutely resist the Japanese attack, and hold the position along the river for me at all costs."

In addition, he immediately gave an order to Cheng Cai, ordering Chief of Staff Cheng to fire the Third Division and rush to the aid of the First Division to fight, so as to encircle and annihilate all the Japanese troops who had sneaked over this time on the position of the First Division, so that no one could escape back. ”

"Yes!" Zhou Wen received the order, and Liu Yidao turned around and returned to the war room of the headquarters.

Thanks to Liu Yidao's timely deployment and Li Mingshan's fearlessness in the face of danger, the situation on the battlefield gradually developed in favor of the Dragon's Tooth Corps.

The main force of the Japanese roundabout troops, which was storming the 2nd Regiment and the divisional guard units, was taken by surprise, and after this fierce battle, the 3,000 Japanese roundabout troops had already lost one-third, and only about 2,000 people remained.

It no longer has any advantage in terms of troops, and the 2nd Regiment and the divisional guard troops, which were about to collapse, have greatly reduced their pressure due to the arrival of the 3rd Regiment's counteroffensive troops, and they have slowly stabilized again.

The soldiers, led by several battalion commanders, regained their composure and turned to launch a counter-charge against the Japanese army.

Thanks to Qiao Youhua's establishment of the Dragon's Tooth Military Academy, today, many middle-level and grass-roots officers in the Dragon's Tooth Corps are from military academies, even if they are not intellectual youths, most of them have entered the crash course of the Dragon's Tooth Military Academy for further study.

After systematically learning the command of the battlefield and improvisation, and without the unified command of the commander, after the initial panic, they gradually calmed down, took over the command of the officers and men of their own department, and commanded them to start a fierce battle with the Japanese invaders.

As a result, the superiority in strength and firepower of the Dragon's Tooth Corps slowly began to appear, and the larger the number of Japanese troops, the smaller the disadvantage.

After about half an hour of fierce fighting between the two sides, all the regiments directly under the 1st Division withdrew to a safe area, and a main infantry regiment of the 3rd Division had been ordered to arrive.