Chapter 1059: Weixian Siege Five

"Tank regiment rear cover! The rest of the people, immediately retreat, quick! The battalion commander who led the team ordered his subordinates to retreat quickly, and at the same time urged the tank regiment to block the Japanese army.

However, under the continuous blows of the Japanese air raid firepower, the tank regiment had lost several tank fighting vehicles one after another, which made all the officers and men of the tank regiment feel distressed, and the angry officers and men aimed their machine gun fire at the Japanese fighters in the air, and had no time to take care of the Japanese puppet army that took the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive.

Occasionally, individual tank guns fired, although they caused damage to the Japanese army, but it was not enough to stop the Japanese puppet army's counter-charge all over the mountains.

When the situation was precarious, a battalion of the air defense regiment promptly dragged the antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns forward and opened heavy fire into the air.

The timely artillery fire caused great casualties to the Japanese puppet army crowd in the counter-charge, and the momentum of the counteroffensive was setback.

The 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment and the other two infantry battalions of the 8th Route Regular Army were able to take advantage of the opportunity to get out of the battle, and the tank regiment was also ordered to take the opportunity to fight and retreat.

At the same time, Sun Mingzhuang, the commander of the tank regiment, finally recovered his composure from the initial panic, and ordered all tanks to immediately aim at the front and fire at the crowd of Japanese puppet troops who were charging at them.

With the strong firepower coverage of the tank artillery group and the artillery regiment, the counterattack momentum of the Japanese puppet army was completely contained, and in the raging firelight, the devils and the puppet army fell in a pool of blood in rows, and naturally they could not effectively pursue the dragon tooth infantry in a timely and effective manner.

In the fierce battle just now, the more than 10 Japanese planes that had attacked the artillery regiment of the Third Division separately were shot down and destroyed by the dense anti-aircraft fire of the air defense regiment one after another, and the remaining Japanese pilots were so frightened that they took the initiative to break away from the air raid and flee into the distance without receiving the order to retreat.

With the addition of all the air defense forces of the artillery regiment, more than a dozen Japanese fighters were immediately threatened by tight anti-aircraft fire.

After a fighter plane was killed in the volley, and learned that another wave of his own aircraft group was the first to flee the battlefield, the devil flight commander had no choice but to order all fighters to retreat immediately and leave the battle.

It's not that the Japanese don't want to continue the air raids, inflict greater losses on the Dragon's Tooth Column on the ground, and cooperate with their ground forces to expand the results of the battle, but that the heavy bombs carried by their bombers have been exhausted, so if they continue to consume them, the results will not be large, and their own losses may be greater.

So, the commander of the devil flight decisively ordered to return home.

As soon as the devil plane fled, the attack troops such as the tank regiment and the third regiment suddenly lost a lot of pressure and successfully retreated, while the Japanese side, although they suffered a lot of losses from the final combined artillery attack of the tank regiment and the artillery regiment, they finally took the opportunity to recapture the two lines of defense that they had already lost.

The war in Weixian returned to its previous situation.

The commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment and the commanders of the other two battalions came to the headquarters of the 3rd Division with a disgraced face, saluted Wu Ming, Li Wen, Zhao Youde and others and bowed their heads and said: "Division commander, political commissar, we didn't fight this battle, please punish us!" ”

Li Wen and Zhao Youde did not speak, but set their eyes on Wu Ming, although it is said that this attack was a failure, the loss was not small, and there was a factor of the sudden appearance of the Japanese sea-based air force, but the war is like this, victory is victory, defeat is defeat.

If you win a battle, you should be rewarded, and if you lose a battle, you will naturally be punished, so the rewards and punishments are clear.

Therefore, Wu Ming pondered for a while, raised his head and said in a deep voice: "The commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment is the former enemy commander of this attack, so he is mainly responsible for the failure of this attack. ”

"Yes! Resolutely obey the orders of the chief! Willing to be punished! The lieutenant colonel battalion commander saluted with his chest held high.

"You go back first, the main thing is to appease the morale of the troops, a defeat is nothing, you have to tell the soldiers not to be discouraged, to cheer up again, to make persistent efforts, to win this battle! As the saying goes, shame comes courage! I'm looking forward to seeing what you do next. Wu Ming waved to the three battalion commanders.

"Yes!" The three of them answered at the same time and turned away one after another.

After seeing the commanders of the three infantry battalions leave, Wu Ming said meaningfully to Li Wen and Zhao Youde: "It seems that the Japanese army has received powerful reinforcements, otherwise why would so many fighters come to support!" ”

Zhao Youde nodded approvingly: "Yes, there are at least twenty or thirty fighters dispatched by the little devil this time, which is not ordinary, after all, we are only a part of the entire battlefield, and it is impossible for the devil to put all the fighters on our side, from which it can be inferred that the total number of fighters of the Japanese army is by no means a few, I think it should be no less than a hundred!" ”

Li Wen said suspiciously: "But, wasn't almost all of the air force of the Japanese army in North China destroyed by us before?" Now the Japanese army on the battlefield in Shandong still has hundreds of fighters? Is this possible? ”

Wu Ming thought for a while and said: "Relying on its land-based aviation force alone, it is naturally impossible to gather so many fighters in a short period of time, but let's not forget that the little devils are not only land-based aviation, they also have more powerful and more sea-based aviation." ”

"Commander, you mean that the devil is supported by his navy?" Zhao Youde said.

"Well, I suspect that the Japanese army in Shandong must have received strong support from its naval combined fleet, otherwise the devils would not have behaved so tough here in Weixian!" Wu Ming vaguely guessed something, and immediately said to Li Wen: "Political commissar, you immediately contact our underground party comrades in Qingdao and other places, ask them for help, and help us find out whether the Japanese army has increased its troops."

I will also personally send a telegram to the commander, asking him to instruct Long Yingwei to pay close attention to the movements of the Japanese army on the Jiaodong Peninsula. If the Japanese army really has strong support from the navy, then it may be difficult for us to recover the Jiaodong Peninsula in the future. ”

"Okay." Li Wen nodded and agreed: "I'll do it right away." ”