"Withdraw!"

"Camp Commander Cheng, can you let me take another look?" Zhang Yingqi said with tears in his eyes. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Cheng Gang was silent, he was also a soldier, he could understand the soldier's feelings about weapons, and if someone wanted to snatch the weapon in his hand, he would fight with him.

There is no doubt about it!

None of the officers and men of the 17th Artillery Regiment reluctantly said goodbye to their beloved artillery.

This time, they never had the chance to fight side by side again.

"Commander Zhang, don't be sad, there is something to give, let's exchange these sixteen old guns for Japanese tanks and cars, it's already worth it."

"I know, but I'm such a loser!" Zhang Yingqi's eyes turned red, and he slapped himself fiercely, then turned his head and yelled at his subordinates, "Withdraw!" ”

As soon as the 17th Artillery Regiment withdrew, there was no need for the 1st Battalion of the 371st Regiment to stay and fight the Japanese army.

As soon as the front foot left, the artillery shells tested by the Japanese army on the back foot had already smashed down on the Xishuang Temple.

It is a Taisho 4-type 150 howitzer, which is an era more advanced than the Liao 14 type.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of shells smashed down, and after the violent explosion, the Xishuangmiao position instantly turned into a sea of fire, fortunately evacuated one step in advance, otherwise, I am afraid that there would be heavy casualties.

One thing made Zhang Yingqi feel fortunate that the Japanese army was stunned by their shells, and their reaction was slower than expected.

From the discovery of the artillery position in Xishuangmiao to the launch of a counterattack, there was a gap of nearly ten minutes, and ten minutes was enough for Zhang Yingqi's artillery regiment to knock out the thousand shells they carried!

Although this was the last time I fought with these old guys, this one was undoubtedly the most painful and smooth.

Hearing the explosion behind him, the old guys who had fought all the way were blown to pieces in the Japanese artillery fire, and many officers and soldiers of the 17th Artillery Regiment who were still running involuntarily stopped and looked in the direction of Xishuangmiao.

"Commander, is this the end of our artillery?"

"It's over, it's over, this little bit of family money that I have saved over the years is completely over......"

"Regiment leader, how do we explain to the young marshal and his old man?"

“……”

Hearing the sound of explosions coming from the direction of Dongkou, Leng Feng knew that Zhang Yingqi and their shelling had begun, and after the shelling lasted for more than ten minutes, the Japanese army began to counterattack.

It didn't last very long, and it gradually stopped.

The entire battle lasted less than half an hour.

"The 371st Regiment reported that the 17th Artillery Regiment had been safely evacuated, but the sixteen heavy guns could not be withdrawn, and all of them were blown up by the Japanese army."

"I know, as long as there are people, it is not difficult to rebuild a heavy artillery regiment, what I care about now is the effect of our destruction." Leng Feng asked.

Yes, sacrificing the only heavy artillery regiment in his hands now, if he can't deal a huge blow to the Japanese army, then this sacrifice is not worth it.

"This damage effect ......," the staff officers looked embarrassed.

"Hehe, you don't have to be embarrassed about this, look at the next move of the Japanese army, and you will know what effect our battle will achieve." Leng Feng knew that they were embarrassed by how to count the damage effect, after all, only they knew the losses of the Japanese army.

On the Japanese side, although the enemy's heavy artillery positions were discovered and destroyed in time, the losses caused by this shelling to the 14th Division were absolutely traumatic.

Even the commander of the division, Kenji Dohihara, was slightly injured in the shelling, and the head was opened, and the person was shocked, but fortunately, there were no other internal injuries.

However, when he woke up and listened to the adjutant report the loss figures, he almost fainted again.

The losses are too great, the loss of personnel is secondary, the key is the loss of equipment, especially cars and materials, what is a mechanized corps.

In addition to armament, it is important to have a variety of trucks carrying these weapons.

Ordinary mountain artillery can be loaded with pack horses, heavy guns weighing up to four or five tons must be towed by tractors with a large load capacity, and shells, forty or fifty kilograms each, must also be transported by trucks.

There are also gasoline, diesel and other supplies!

How much gasoline and diesel does a mechanized corps of 30,000 or 40,000 people and four or five hundred trucks need per day?

If it is only one-third of the vehicle, it is still acceptable, and the key is one-third of the materials loaded on the vehicle.

Originally, these materials were not loaded on the truck, but when crossing the river, in order to reduce the load, the ant moving method was adopted, and the ants were transported to the opposite bank first, and then loaded onto the truck!

As a result, these materials were temporarily stacked in the open air according to categories, and the ammunition and gasoline and diesel materials were flammable and explosive, which was the slightest bit of a Martian intrusion......

And so tragedy happened.

Kenji Dohihara is sad from the heart, and Takashi Sakai is a real tragedy, the armored squadron that Kenji Dohihara promised him is gone!

All of them were blown up, and even the men and tanks were burned to ashes.

Who knew that this Cheng Gang casually circled a target, which was actually the station of this armored squadron, and it was also responsible for guarding the Japanese army's improvised oil depot.

A shell hit the oil depot directly, more than a dozen tons of diesel oil leaked out, and the fire burned so much that it couldn't run, and it was all burned out.

Personnel losses, plus equipment and materials, Kenji Dohihara estimated that the combat effectiveness of the troops had dropped by at least 30%, and if there was no supplement, then the next battle might not be easy to fight.

Tu Feiyuan was red-eyed, he could bear the previous losses, this time, it was considered to make him hurt his muscles and bones, and he also had a lot of blood.

He should have thought of it a long time ago, this Leng Guoguang is best at being small and big, and he also has the courage of a strong man with a broken arm, daring to use such a risky tactic to directly sacrifice a heavy artillery regiment of himself in exchange for such a big loss.

His losses were nothing short of a dozen old guns.

He's too cunning and too good at taking advantage of loopholes.

"Organize troops immediately, attack, and destroy the Chinese in Jucheng!"

"Hay!"

"Hey, old commander, order the troops, immediately withdraw from the Juancheng position!" Leng Feng ordered someone to answer the phone call of Xie Chengrui's headquarters, not on a whim, but because he felt that holding Juancheng would not achieve the effect of holding back the Japanese army, but would give Juancheng to the Japanese army, which would become a burden for them.

"Now, Kunimitsu, I can at least support it for a while." Xie Chengrui didn't want to give up Juancheng now.

"No need, old commander, we just launched a sneak attack on the Japanese army, according to my estimate, their losses are not small, and they will definitely retaliate, so there is no need for us to fight the Japanese army at this time, let's withdraw quickly." Leng Feng explained.

"Alright, I'll give the order right away!" Xie Chengrui thought about it for a while, the 37th Brigade did suffer a lot of casualties, and no matter how hard it continued, it would not be able to eat well.

"Well, move fast and be hidden." After Leng Feng finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

The order to evacuate Juancheng was soon issued to the regiments, and the troops began to withdraw from their positions in an orderly manner, and about half an hour later, the Japanese began to bombard the Juancheng positions violently.

The county town, which had been bombed and riddled with holes, was ravaged by Japanese artillery fire. Once again, it turned into a sea of fire.

Then the Japanese charged.

When they rushed to the top of the city, they found that the entire county town of Juancheng was already empty, and it was just an empty ruin.

Takashi Sakai received a report from his subordinates, and spit out a mouthful of old blood angrily, he prepared a lot of plans, ready to teach these Chinese a fierce lesson, as a result, a punch went out, hit the marshmallow, gently, without any force, nothing to feel, this choke people to death.

Xie Chengrui's headquarters was the last group to withdraw, and it was only ten minutes before the Japanese artillery was prepared.

If it weren't for Leng Feng's phone call, I am afraid that I would have died in this small county this time.

"Deputy brigade seat, division headquarters telegram, let you go to Phoenix Town immediately." Communications Staff reported.

"Got it, I'll leave right away." Xie Chengrui nodded.

More than two hours later, Xie Chengrui led the command organ of the 37th Brigade to Fenghuang Town to meet with the division headquarters led by Leng Feng.

"Guoguang, how to fight next, you have to make an idea, we and the Japanese army not only have a huge disparity in strength now, but also a huge disparity in equipment, now that the Japanese army occupies Juancheng, the next step must be to go south." Xie Chengrui said worriedly.

"Well, old regiment commander, what do you think of the mechanized corps in Tufeiyuan when you directly faced the Japanese army in the past two days?"

"Fierce, this Tufeiyuan Division is not inferior to the 16th Division in Nanjing, moreover, their degree of mechanization is higher, and the speed of advance is faster, in the plain area, unless we have the same equipment, it is difficult to match." Xie Chengrui said objectively.

"Yes, we are indeed inferior to the Japanese army, this point is to be faced, however, we are not without advantages, the Japanese army also has weaknesses, first of all, arrogant and complacent, this has been the truth that the arrogant army will be defeated since ancient times, second, the mechanized corps relies on logistics very seriously, if it is not for the needs of Taierzhuang, the Japanese army must be retained, I really don't want to use the current tactics, there is also news to tell you, Chief Li has decided to launch a general attack on the Japanese Seya detachment and Sakamoto detachment at six o'clock tomorrow morning!"

"Great, this time you can eat such a large Japanese army, and the situation will be completely reversed." Xie Chengrui showed a look of surprise.

"The key to what Chief Li's side can do is whether our side can delay the time for the Tufeiyuan Division to go south." Leng Feng said solemnly.

"Of course, we are not fighting alone, there are other forces to help us." Leng Feng said. "I'm thinking of a plan, this plan is very risky, since the Japanese army wants to cut off our retreat, then why don't we copy his back road?"

"You mean, send a force into the Japanese theater of operations to cut off the Japanese army's food routes and supplies?"

"That's right, I just want to completely cut off the supply of the Tufeiyuan Division, the soldiers have no food, they have to go hungry, there is no ammunition, the guns have become burning sticks, the cars have no gasoline, that is a pile of scrap metal, and the same goes for tanks."

"But where can we draw out such an elite force now?" Xie Chengrui said, "Once we enter the Japanese war zone, we will lose the rear supplies, and once the fight starts, how can our two-legged ones outrun the wheels of the little devil's car?" ”

"Cavalry, I plan to gather all the cavalry of our division and form a cavalry detachment, disguised as the Japanese army, to attack the logistics storage base established by Tufeiyuan in Puyang!"

"Long-distance running, this method is good, but the danger is too great, we don't know much about the situation of the Japanese army in Puyang." Xie Chengrui nodded, now the only mobile troops that Leng Feng can withdraw in his hands are the cavalry regiment.

"This plan is not working yet, people and horses are not in place yet, now it is just an idea, what we have to do is to turn this idea into reality." Leng Feng's eyes flickered.

Once the logistics supply base of Puyang is lost, then Kenji Dohihara will inevitably look for another supply route, since it is impossible to determine Tufeiyuan's next move, it is better for him to push it.

(To be continued.) )