Chapter Ninety-Seven: A Great Victory

The political commissar held a telescope and kept staring at the first and second battalions that were charging ahead, and when he saw the two battalions approaching the city wall, he excitedly ordered, "The third battalion will attack immediately and break through the breakthrough opened by the first, second and second battalions." Be fast. ”

Just as the three battalions rushed to the city wall from their positions nearly 300 meters away from the city wall, the two battalions were expanding to both sides of the city wall, annihilating the scattered troops on the city wall.

Since the three battalions began to besiege the city, they have been staying in the rear as the reserve of the whole regiment, watching the two battalions of the brothers go to the front to kill the enemy, but they stay in the rear, the three battalions from the battalion commander to the soldiers, everyone is holding back their strength, and now it is finally their turn to go to the battlefield, it seems that everyone has erupted, shouting loudly and rushing into the city.

At this time, there were two squads of more than 100 stragglers in the city, perhaps they knew that they could not escape the hands of the Chinese today, everyone was desperate, although each soldier of the three battalions tried to move forward, but in the face of the ubiquitous gunfire and bullets, the three battalions advanced very difficult in the city, almost every time they killed a Yue army, they had to kill at least one soldier.

Soon, this situation was reflected in the hands of the commissar. "Political commissar, there is almost no time, according to the telegram from the cavalry battalion, the reinforcements from Jiuguan are still three hours away, we must hurry up and prepare to retreat, otherwise the devils will bite us." Sun Xingbang, who was next to him, immediately reminded when he saw the political commissar who was frowning.

"Damn, you can't be really unwilling to get fat to your mouth. The third battalion was ordered to defend in situ, and the first and second battalions immediately cleaned up the battlefield in the occupied area, remembering what the brigade commander had said, take away everything that could be taken away, and destroy everything that could not be taken away, and absolutely not leave it to the devils to continue to plague the Chinese people. “

"Also, immediately find the enemy's ammunition depot and logistics materials, take them all away, and the soldiers of the baggage battalion will immediately rush over and make peace with us, don't be afraid that the more supplies will affect the marching speed of the troops, and go to execute it immediately." The commissar continued.

Soon, only the commissar and a few guards were left in the temporary headquarters, and the remaining cadres and fighters all ran to the city to look for ammunition and supplies

An hour passed, and the supplies that could be collected were basically collected, and all of them were piled up outside the temporary headquarters, like a small mountain. "Commissar, this is a list of supplies just counted, take a look"

The political commissar took the list, and he didn't know if he didn't look at it, but he was shocked when he saw it: "325 rifles, 5 light machine guns, 10 grenadiers, 30 60 mortars, more than 30,000 rounds of ammunition, 180 shells, and more than 20,000 grenades due to the enemy's logistical reserves, this is not the main thing, what makes the political commissar most happy is that now the winter equipment of the troops has been found, and 10,000 sets of military uniforms that will be transported to the front line have been found in the enemy's temporary material warehouse, as well as more than 1,000 bags of flour and more than 200 bags of grain,"

"Okay, good, this battle is worth it, order the first battalion, the brigade headquarters guard battalion to cooperate with the baggage battalion to escort the supplies, to be fast, we must transport all these materials within an hour." The commissar said happily.

After listening to the words of the political commissar, the soldiers immediately took action, and even the soldiers of the third battalion and the mountain artillery company who served as guards temporarily lent the vacated mules and horses to the comrades of the baggage battalion.

"Commissar, commissar, good news, great news." Suddenly, the instructor of the third battalion and the eighth company ran over and shouted excitedly.

"What's the good news, speak slowly." The political commissar looked at the instructor who was out of breath and quickly asked.

"War horse, war horse," the instructor said in a slurred voice.

"What a war horse. You speak slowly. Hearing the word war horse, the political commissar's eyes couldn't help but light up and asked.

"We found the war horses of the devil cavalry, more than a hundred?" The instructor looked at the eager commissar and replied.

"What, devil's war horse, tell me what the hell is going on," the commissar said excitedly again.

"Political commissar, it's like this, when a soldier of our eighth company was chasing a straggler, he suddenly heard the sound of horses barking in a courtyard, and felt strange, so he pushed the door and looked, and jumped down when he saw it, more than a hundred war horses were neatly tied to the yard, and there was not even a single guard devil."

"Second battalion commander, take a company to quickly bring the war horse out to me, the devil's reinforcements are about to arrive, hurry up, the eighth company will also send a platoon to help, you must hurry." The commissar ordered impatiently.

"Yes," both men replied at the same time, running towards the city beaming.

Order the three battalions to take cover alternately and slowly withdraw from the position after pulling out the war horses, not forgetting the unique skill given to everyone by the original brigade commander, and leaving something for the devil (use grenades to set up mines. Prevent enemy pursuit)

In this way, under the cover of the third battalion, the entire regiment slowly retreated outside the city with the last trophies, and bursts of grenade explosions sounded from time to time behind the third battalion

When the political commissar and his troops triumphantly withdrew from the mountain 20 miles away from the walnut orchard, a large group of reinforcements from the devil finally arrived at the walnut orchard, but what caught the eyes of the captain of the team was the ruined city wall and the remains of the imperial soldiers lying everywhere

After Nakamura Shaosa learned that the reinforcements had rushed outside the city, he immediately ran to Nakasa, "Yaga, where are the supplies of the imperial army?" Looking at the empty material warehouse, the captain asked loudly, and at the same time, several red handprints appeared on Nakamura's face

That night, Nakamura Shaoza of the Walnut Garden Command finally couldn't bear the guilt of discarding the materials and war horses, and committed suicide by breaking his stomach that night

At the same time, at six o'clock in the afternoon, the political commissar returned to the temporary camp of the Reading Brigade with a regiment and two directly subordinate battalions, with piles of captured supplies, and the brigade commander Liu Hua personally came to the mountain pass to greet the soldiers who returned in a low voice

"Report to the brigade commander, I didn't complete the task, and the walnut orchard still hasn't been captured." Seeing Liu Hua who came to greet him, the political commissar said reproachfully.

Liu Hua patted his old partner in front of him, "Political commissar, don't say it, we all know the situation, we can't blame you, the devil's resistance is too tough." However, political commissar, this time we have achieved an unprecedented victory, let's go back to the headquarters to report the victory to the headquarters, the central committee, and the division headquarters. Liu Hua said happily.

Looking at the young brigade commander in front of him, the political commissar also smiled and followed Liu Hua towards the temporary headquarters.

"Commissar, this is a list of our captures for the total annihilation of the enemy's reinforcements, you can take a look." Walking into the conference room, Liu Huaba sorted out a list and handed it to the political commissar.

"Brigade commander, now we can consider the replacement of troops, we have also captured a large number of weapons and ammunition in Walnut Garden, and now we can at least replace a battalion, after all, the ammunition of the weapons is better to replenish." Looking at the numbers on the list, the commissar said happily.

"Well, I think so too, and one more thing is that there have been certain casualties in these two battles, and I want to put the soldiers of the teaching team down and serve as low-level cadres, and at the same time supplement some soldiers of the new regiment."

"I agree that it is necessary not only to fill the shortage of combat troops, but also to do a good job in the aftermath of the fallen soldiers and the resettlement of the wounded

In this way, the fighters, who had not yet been repaired after the ambush battle, began to get busy again, taking care of the wounded, replenishing the soldiers, replenishing ammunition

At the same time, a regiment and a battalion also came to the outside of the headquarters to change their equipment, at this time the battalion had a total of 600 people, all of them were equipped with the same type of equipment, each company was equipped with three crooked light machine guns, three grenadiers, and the rest were all equipped with single-shot 38-type rifles, and no one was equipped with 50 rounds of ammunition

Looking at the neatly dressed battalion in front of him, the remaining two regiment commanders and political commissars looked at them with red eyes

"Don't be blushing, as long as a certain amount of weapons and ammunition are seized in the future, we will reload, and it won't take long." (Liu Hua was right, sure enough, a few months later, the entire three regiments of the Reading Brigade were all replaced with Japanese-style equipment.) That's all for later)

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