Chapter 208: The Guard Regiment Against Encirclement and Suppression Leads the Enemy
When Liu Hua rushed to the mountain on the right side of Zhouzhuang with the main force at night, the first battalion of the guard regiment had already set up an attack posture.
In order to achieve the purpose of attracting the army, Bruce Lee specially borrowed two thunderbolts from the artillery regiment. At this time, the two thunderbolts had been quietly placed less than 200 meters away from the military camp under the cover of night. The 12 mortars of the regiment's mortar company were neatly placed on a hill less than 500 meters away from the army, and the only four heavy machine guns were also placed by Bruce Lee in four different positions, which played the role of disrupting the army's field of vision.
In order to make the firepower of one battalion reach one regiment, or even larger, Bruce Lee can be said to have exhausted his brains and mobilized almost everyone to think about this problem. In the end, everyone reached a common opinion with firecrackers. Everyone collected a large number of firecrackers, put them in the iron pass, and set them off after the start of the fight, attracting the attention of the army.
Liu Hua held the binoculars and turned to the military camp of the Yue army a kilometer away, at this time, the strength of nearly 10,000 people of the Yue army blocked the water of the entire Zhouzhuang Wai, dozens of cars loaded with various materials and ammunition were parked in the village, and dozens of various mountain artillery pieces were neatly carried behind the cars...
In the barracks, tents were laid out one after another on the threshing mill in the village. Since it was close to evening at this time, the village was already angry with the smoke of the cooking of the army.
"Boom... Boom..."Two huge roars reached his ears, Liu Hua followed the direction from which the sound came, only to say that the northeast corner of the military camp was lit with billowing smoke, and two huge deep pits appeared in Liu Hua's telescope. It turned out that the attack of the guard regiment began.
With the explosion of thunder, the 12 mortars of the artillery company also fired, and the mortar shells of 12 rounds were tilted towards the devil's barracks at their fastest firing speed. At the same time, four heavy machine guns arranged in four positions also opened fire, and the sound of dense heavy machine gun fire reached his ears. The sound of heavy machine guns and firecrackers were intertwined, and even Liu Hua himself couldn't hear what was what. Anyway, in general, it feels like there is at least one regiment of fire under the mountain, and in terms of heavy firepower in it, at least the size of a brigade.
As the mortar shells continued to fall, the heavy machine guns fired fatally, and the northeast corner of the military camp immediately became a pot of porridge. The army, which had not yet recovered from the two loud roars just now, immediately fell into the fire again.
"Baga, don't run around, resist immediately, quickly, shoot back on the spot, build a defense, machine gun...."The leader of the devil squadron stationed in the northeast corner of the barracks lay in a corner and shouted loudly to the soldiers who were scurrying around here. Finally, the heavy machine guns in the squadron began to shoot, the light machine guns fired, and the soldiers slowly stabilized their positions, lying on the ground and firing at the heavy machine guns of the squadron.
Of course, it is impossible that such a huge explosion did not alarm the main military camp of the devils. When the first two explosions were remembered, the various barracks of the army immediately entered a state of combat readiness. However, the security forces of more than 4,000 people were not so good, and when they heard the sound of artillery, they were so frightened that they fell to the ground, and some even dropped their rifles and knelt on the ground and raised their hands......However, in the end, under the suppression of commanders at all levels, they finally sorted out their troops...... "Report to Your Excellency Brigade Commander, the situation has been clarified." The northeast corner of our barracks was attacked by the squadron [***]. The Mitsui squadron, stationed in the northeast corner, suffered heavy losses, but now it has stabilized its position and is waiting for reinforcements from the main forces. In one fell swoop, destroy the [***] team that rushed to attack. The chief of staff hurried to the brigade headquarters and reported to the anxious brigade commander what he had just learned.
"Yo Xi, the Shanjing squadron is good, order, the first brigade, the second brigade, the soldiers are divided into two roads, and the two flanks are outflanked, and these squadrons that dare to attack the imperial army must be eliminated..."The brigade commander ordered.
"Hi...."
Since the army had already prepared for battle, after receiving the order, the two main brigades left the barracks in less than a few minutes and outflanked the two flanks of the first battalion. Of course, all this fell into the eyes of Bruce Lee, who had been observing the military camp.
"Order, the first battalion retreats immediately, don't let the army make dumplings. Also, tell the retreating battalion commander that when retreating, leave some gifts for the Yue army, preferably a gift that they will remember for a lifetime, and annoy the devils..."
Soon, the battalion, which received the order, dropped countless flaming firecrackers in the iron barrels. Under the cover of firecrackers, the positions were safely withdrawn. And according to the request of his regiment commander, in the place where he once stayed, several thunder shells were buried.
"Regiment Commander, we are back, only five people were hit by the devil's bullets, but it does not affect the combat effectiveness..."The battalion commander ran to the front of Bruce Lee, the commander of the guard regiment, with a smile and said.
"Well, yes, Battalion Commander, what gift did you leave for the devil...?" Bruce Lee asked curiously.
The commander of the first battalion pointed to the two thunderbolts not far away and smiled. Bruce Lee immediately understood. "Battalion commander, I'll give you another task, and I'll rub a handful of salt on the devil's wound. After the shells below explode, you are coming to the two troops outflanked by the devils, how about it, do you have confidence? Bruce Lee asked with a smile.
"Regiment commander, don't worry, guerrilla warfare is what I'm best at, just wait to see a good show...."As he spoke, he took three companies and touched the devil again.
"Baga...", the captain of the army scolded loudly at an iron bucket that was sounding firecrackers, and suddenly drew his command knife and slashed at the iron tong in front of him. The reason why the captain was so angry was because his two brigades had worked hard to outflank him, but as a result, he found nothing except a few iron barrels burning with firecrackers. How could this make the captain of the army, who had always been arrogant, stand it, so he started a fire.
"Captain, be careful..."As Tietong landed, a guard's shout suddenly came from behind the captain. Before he could react, the captain heard a loud roar reach his ears, and then he lost consciousness, and could only feel the earth trembling, and he flew into the sky...
Immediately after, two loud explosions sounded, and two explosive packets buried in the ground were detonated again by the running devil soldiers. Just as the soldiers were stupidly looking at the three huge craters in front of them, enjoying the stumps and broken arms that kept falling from the sky, a dense burst of gunfire suddenly rang out at the junction of the two brigades.
The dense bullets hit the army at once, and they were shot and fell to the ground. "Yaga. Squadron [***], hurry, prepare to counterattack..."The captain of the second brigade heard the gunshots, and the first to react. scolded at the Yue Jun beside him. When the army had finished organizing its forces and was preparing to counterattack, the first battalion that had come to attack had quietly retreated with the wounded, leaving only a few dozen corpses of its own on the position.
"Baga..."The captain finally couldn't help it anymore and scolded loudly. "Quick, report this situation to the brigade commander immediately, I want to pursue this group of Eighth Route Army, avenge the captain of the first brigade of Yu Sha, and avenge the imperial troops who fell under the guns of the middle [***] team..."
"Nani, the captain of the 1st Brigade was ambushed by the [***] team and has been killed..."The brigade commander looked at the battle report in front of him in disbelief.
"Yes, Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, when the First Brigade and the Second Brigade outflanked the past, the middle [***] team had already retreated. However, they planted a large amount of gunpowder on the original position, and the captain of the 1st Brigade was unfortunately hit by the gunpowder, and the jade for His Majesty the Emperor was shattered... Not only that, but when the captain of the squadron was killed, the squadron attacked the junction of the two brigades, which resulted in the death of at least half of the squadron. The chief of staff replied.
"Baga, Chief of Staff, tell me quickly, how many of our Imperial Army have been killed in this [***] team...", the brigade commander interrupted the Chief of Staff and asked.
"Hey, brigade commander, our army has lost almost a squadron of excellent imperial soldiers in total..."
"Baga..."The brigade commander slapped the table in front of him sharply, "Order, the captain of the second brigade, immediately lead the forces of the two brigades to pursue this [***] team, I must destroy them." Tell the captain of the second brigade that if he can't eliminate this [***] team, he will directly want His Majesty the Emperor to apologize, and there are no such cowards in the army of this empire. The brigade commander, Major General Sakai, coldly ordered.
"Hey, I'm going to convey the order of His Excellency the Major General...."The Chief of Staff breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and walked out of the headquarters.
The captain, who was anxiously waiting, soon waited for the order he wanted to send troops. When he heard that the brigade commander must let himself eliminate the opposite squadron, the captain didn't think about it and nodded in agreement.
"Please rest assured, Your Excellency the Chief of Staff, I will definitely destroy this Eighth Route Army in the shortest possible time, please tell Your Excellency the Brigade Commander, I will definitely not disgrace the excellent Imperial Army of the Great Imperial Army."
In this way, the captain quickly sorted out the formation, and took over the command of the first brigade, and took two brigades of 2,000 troops, according to the little traces deliberately left by the guard regiment, into the deep mountains, and began his difficult journey. However, under the leadership of its own battalion commander, the 1st Battalion of the Guard Regiment used guerrilla warfare and sparrow warfare to lead the nose of the Yue Army, constantly consuming their vital strength, and completely supporting the new force of this Yue Army in the stretching mountains.
"Report to the commander, the first battalion of the guard regiment has successfully completed its mission, and the troops of the two brigades of the army have been dragged into the mountains by them, and I don't think they will be able to get out of it without a week." Bruce Lee, the commander of the guard regiment, smiled and came to the general headquarters with the only remaining mortar company to report.
"Well, Xiaolong, I've seen it all, and it's done well...."Liu Hua praised, but he was still very anxious, because there were still four main forces in front of him.
Facing the strength of the four brigades of the Yue Army, what should Liu Hua do next?
(To be continued)