Chapter 222 Small Fights Section 3 Two Birds with One Stone
Shimizu Daisa immediately thought that the sneak attack had revealed his whereabouts, and he should withdraw the people immediately, but it was too late, and the Nakasa who led the team, when he saw that the lights were not yet lit on the platform, immediately ordered to change the sneak attack into a strong attack, and used the fastest speed to cross the open field and go straight to the village!
Wading through the river in winter is a chore, and when I run, my legs, which are numb from the cold, tingle little by little, and soon the bodies of these devil soldiers are really warm.
Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to the bottom of the hillside, countless torches suddenly lit up on the hillside, and several lines of fire were even burning from the hillside to the flat ground, and in a few seconds, the line of fire suddenly lit up a few piles of firewood at the foot of the mountain that could not be seen clearly in the night!
As soon as I saw the black smoke of the firewood crackling and burning, I knew that it was a dry firewood poured with oil, and it burned violently when it met an open flame, and several large fires illuminated the entire open field in an instant.
Almost all the devil soldiers stopped abruptly when the fire appeared, and the captain of the Nakazuo team who led the team also realized that his whereabouts were exposed, and this sudden fire was clearly a trap set by the Eighth Route Army on the platform, which illuminated the entire open field at once, and these unobstructed soldiers rushed up again, isn't it a live target!
Withdraw! At the sound of an order, the devil soldiers who had just run violently wiped their heads and ran back! There were no guns on the terrace, and those who beat gongs and drums also shouted, these devil soldiers were all trained in the language and could understand Chinese.
Shimizu Daisa, who was on the other side, saw that the sneak attack that had been planned for two days had barely started, and he was killed by a group of wild dogs, and he was angry!
Seeing that the soldiers were about to run back to the shore and prepare to cross the river to come back, Qing Shui Dazuo's heart was quite peaceful, but this heart that had not been completely put into his stomach was shattered!
The disorganized river-crossing troops crowded on the riverbank, ready to go into the water. The wild dogs are still barking, even more fierce than what they just barked, and the eight roads on the terrace don't beat gongs and drums, but. There was a faint sizzling sound in the air!
The response is fast enough! After all, they are all veterans, and the sound of this mortar shell in the air is as intimate as knowing your own body! It doesn't matter if it's muddy, or rocky, or standing in the river, it's all as fast as a flea and falling down like lightning!
More than a dozen mortar shells flew from the terrace on the other side of the temple ditch, and in the blink of an eye, they blew up the mud and splashed the river beach where the devils were going to cross the river! Even if the devils all lay down, they were killed and injured a lot by the falling shells!
Qing Shui saw that the eight-way artillery blocked the river beach, and anxiously asked the herald to let the artillery fire back! Good cover for the troops on the other side to withdraw!
The devil's artillery hadn't opened fire in the dark, and there seemed to be a lot of people coming down from the mesa in the shadows, and the machine guns rang out! Shells continued to fall on the banks and banks. Some of the devil soldiers have already ignored the falling shells, and rushed into the river without dodging!
Soon, all kinds of artillery on the devil's gun emplacements on the north bank of the river also fired, and there were still more devil's artillery, from 75 caliber to 37 caliber. Soon, the mortars of the Eighth Route were suppressed, and the Eighth Route that wanted to outflank them in a roundabout way on the platform was also gone.
Taking advantage of the suppression of the artillery fire of the Eighth Road, the devils on the river beach fled back to the opposite bank in embarrassment, and Shimizu Dazuo was also a little annoyed, not knowing why he had a very tough combat style, which brought a wing, but became cautious. Whether it's an offensive battle or a defensive battle, I always feel that I am afraid, so it is better to take a hundred and ten people to kill in the base area of the Eighth Road.
This is normal, just like Yang Bangzi, with a hundred or ten or dozens of people who dare to kill a few people between Baoding and the mountains, after becoming the commander. There are thousands of people under his command, and when they have to manage the food and drink of tens of thousands of people, their courage will become smaller, and their positions will go up, and there will be more pots and jars. There are too many worries, and there are too many constraints to do that fateful thing!
For example, this night attack on Miaogou Village, if it is changed to two years ago, when Qing Shui and Yang Bangzi were with a hundred and ten people, even if they were discovered by wild dogs and barked wildly and leaked secrets, Qing Shui would order to rush to the platform desperately, and Yang Bangzi would definitely do his best to order a counterattack, if he found that the devil had retreated, he would order to rush up, and he would never let a devil escape back to the other side!
But look at the present, the offensive is not determined, the defense is not ruthless, the eight roads on the platform have not fired a single shot, just light a few fires, this devil ran back, the devil has been suppressed by artillery fire on the river beach, it should be flanked by both wings, at least kill and wound more than half of his troops when the devil is halfway crossing.
As a result, a night offensive and defensive battle that should have been able to be fought was tacitly turned into a farce started by wild dogs under the tacit mindfulness of the supreme commanders of both sides, but the devils still suffered a loss, dozens of dead and wounded, and three dead and more than a dozen wounded on the Eighth Road, and the infantry on both sides did not take a look, and it was all the work of artillery.
Is Qing Shui, a die-hard devil, cowardly? Is it Yang Bangzi, a hot-tempered guy, who has become a mother-in-law? Neither!
This Qing Shui Dazuo originally had the mentality of coming to fight to the death with the remnants of Yang Bangzi's main force, and after receiving the order to garrison him to the horse post until next spring, he didn't want to fight with the Eighth Road, he also understood that if you fight to the death with the Eighth Road, you will also have to be greatly injured, and in other people's territory, any division around the 11th Division will send two regiments over, and I am afraid that the whole army will be wiped out!
So Shimizu Dazuo wanted to make a small fight, he wanted to wait for the Eighth Route to lose his breath and come to besiege him, so that he could stay in the fortifications and rely on artillery fire and aircraft support to kill and injure a large number of the main forces of the Eighth Route that could not be captured in the field, so that killing two birds with one stone could not only fulfill his wish, but also complete the task assigned by the front headquarters.
As for Yang Bangzi, he thinks that it is not yet time for a complete showdown with the devils, his main regiment has not yet recovered, and today he transferred more than 100 cadets from the teaching brigade to Yinfang Town to receive the new recruits for training, this part of the veterans has been trained by the teaching brigade, and has withstood the test of war these days, whether it is military or political, they are absolutely excellent, and they can bring the troops up in a short time.
In addition, although the battle with the Kuroda Wing seized a lot of materials, but the most needed ammunition was not much, and the Kuroda Wing was also trapped and fighting, and it was basically fought until the ammunition was exhausted, and finally broke through and left, and the Eighth Route Army did not capture many bullets when it cleaned up the battlefield.
Zhou Donggua of the military camp town was ordered by the military region to fully support Yang Bangzi's eastern front operations, and even the ammunition in stock to be allocated to other divisions was transferred to the 11th Division, and now he can't squeeze out much of the share to replenish Yang Bangzi's troops.
To have a decisive battle with these more than 3,000 devils to squeeze them out of the base area, without a large amount of ammunition and food reserves, this battle cannot be fought, so Yang Bangzi also decided to use small fights to contain the devils, and did not want them to expand their territory to the surrounding areas, he had to wait until the ammunition reserves were enough and the personnel were replenished before he had to fight to the death with the devils.
Therefore, no one from the devil nor the Eight Roads revealed their true intentions, and the small battle of one hundred and ten people was fought twice a day, and they were all masters with thousands of people in their hands, and they didn't scatter all the people!
And Yang Bangzi also thought that the devil would not go, or take the highway on the northern route to replenish supplies, or rely on the airdrop of the plane, he looked at the dry stare in the sky, and he couldn't stab it down with a bamboo pole with a spell, so he simply reported it to the military region and asked Commander Nie to find a way.
He contacted Commander Yang of the first division and handed over the defense in the direction of Mancheng to the Third Regiment, so that he could gather the guerrillas in several districts and use them in the direction of Baishi Mountain and Shuibao to block Lingqiu and the devils who might go south to support.