Chapter 1: The New Battle of Xifengkou (9)

The chief of staff of the Separate Brigade, Wallef, was from the German Army, just like Stern, and coincidentally, both of them belonged to the same division. Fortunately, in the pre-war rehearsal, Sakai's counterattack was in the rehearsal plan, and the staff officers of the Independent Brigade led by Wallaff came up with a total of two sets of plans, one of which was to directly chisel out the rehearsal regardless of it, which was a decent way of playing. There is another one that is a bit bold and risky, and even a little cruel and unkind for Sakai, that is, the joint third division and the teaching corps, after completely attracting the forces mixed into the first brigade, there will be a war of annihilation.

Wallaff looked at the soldiers in front of him who were already intertwined, and he asked Stern, "Sir?" Now what? ”

Stern's eyes widened, and he quickly made a decision, and said loudly: "Contact Tong Linge and General Li Ganjiang and ask them to come out to eat meat together!" ”

Wallaff's eyes lit up and he confirmed again: "Sure?" ”

"Hurry up and get in touch, the Japanese are menacing, and I will personally go and command the artillery."

"Yes!"

Stern took the guard company and drove all the way to the self-propelled artillery regiment. In the nearly twenty minutes of firing just now, the Japanese artillery fire was completely suppressed, and the self-propelled artillery regiment was at this time retracting its support legs, preparing to follow the movement of the large force. Having given the order to drive his car all the way to Hugh John, the commander of the self-propelled artillery regiment, Stern gave a loud order: "Stop and do what?" Give me the continued shelling, give me a passage to plow out the large Japanese army with shells. ”

Hugh John immediately understood what he meant, and under his command, five minutes later, all the self-propelled guns were again engaged in battle, and the rumbling of cannons rang out, and dozens of cannons began from the camp behind the Japanese army, all the way to the front line where the fighting was most fierce, and soon, a no-man's land was created with shells.

Prior to this, Stern made contact with the engineer battalion and the chariot regiment at the front through the intercom, asking them to hit the force and attack the enemy in the middle, and be sure to occupy the passage developed by the artillery before the Japanese could react, and then the chariot regiment moved to both sides, trying to widen the passage to ensure the safe passage of ground troops.

A quarter of an hour later, Wallaff brought letters from Li Ganjiang and Tong Linge. In this battle, according to the arrangement of the military headquarters, the task of the Third Division was only to accept and defend the positions laid down by the Independent Brigade, and to put pressure on the mixed First Brigade so that it did not dare to divide its troops to pursue the Independent Brigade. And Tong Linge's teaching corps has no combat mission for the time being. This is really a torment for Li and Tong, who have always been eager to fight head-on with the little devil and fight fiercely. After learning of Stern's request from Wallaff, the two generals were stunned at first, feeling that this foreign hairy man was too bold, and then thinking about it, this was not an opportunity to completely annihilate and become the first brigade. The current battlefield situation is such that the Japanese army has completely pressed out, and the independent brigade is wedged into the Japanese position like a wedge. In such a situation where there is an enemy in me and an enemy in us, the numerical superiority can be quickly manifested.

Li Ganjiang clapped on the phone on the spot: "It's done!" ”

Tong Linge thought quietly for a while, and then said: "If you don't seize this kind of opportunity to send it to the door, you will be too sorry for those deceased brothers who died along the Great Wall!" Chief of Staff Wallaff, tell you brigade commanders, kill devils, and teach the corps not to fall behind anyone. ”

When the artillery fire of the Independent Brigade was very purposeful and ploughed a passage in the middle of the position, Sakai was not aware of Stern's true intentions. He self-righteously believed that the Chinese army on the opposite side should pay such a big price, not only to force himself to retreat and buy time for defense, but also to return to the side of Xifengkou through the Iron Gate, and then harass the imperial army there.

When the chariot regiment of the Independent Brigade began to enter the passage and squeeze his troops on both sides, Sakai was even more convinced of this, so he decisively ordered the troops to gather on both sides, bite the Chinese troops that had been wedged into the positions on the other side, buy time for the orderly retreat of the wing led by Kuta Naokawa Shaoza, who was the farthest from the main battlefield, and then establish a new defensive position in Tieling, ten kilometers away from Tiemen Pass, to prepare for the complete blockade of the Independent Brigade.

After Stern came out of the artillery regiment, he went straight to the edge of the first trench of the Japanese battlefield, stood on the cab of the off-road vehicle, he used his binoculars to see all the movements of the Japanese army, and immediately saw through Sakai's intentions, and immediately made new adjustments. Let the chariot regiment give up the expansion of the passage and clear the enemy on both sides, and bite the enemy army that wants to withdraw from the battlefield; Then, the two new infantry regiments took over the work of the tank regiment, continuing to put pressure on the enemy on both sides and delaying their integration as much as possible; On the other hand, the artillery regiment carried out extended firing to cut off the retreat of the Japanese army.

The independent brigade adjusted and changed its formation quite quickly, as a platoon of Jews in camouflage uniforms jumped out of the truck, carrying the Wei Qing style to attack the Japanese troops on both sides, Sakai saw the white face, blue eyes, and golden hair under the steel helmet, his first reaction was to gasp. The existence of the Jewish Independent Brigade in the Cadet Army is not a secret, but the Japanese do not know exactly what this force is due to the lack of an intelligence system. The engineer battalion that had previously served as the striker, because most of the soldiers were Chinese, Sakai did not notice the special features of this unit. And the warriors in the chariot regiment were deeply hidden, so it was only at this time that he realized that his enemies were Jews.

The Jews themselves are not terrible, but because most of the Jews in Renqiu are from Germany, the troops composed of these Jews have a strong sense of oppression for the Japanese. The Japanese have always been a strange people, they like to go to extremes in everything, to be specific, they can look down on those who are weaker than themselves, and at the same time, they will be in awe of those who are stronger than themselves. The reason why the Japanese Army has always dared to boast of being the second in the world is that they clearly understand the gap between their own army and the German army. Well, this team, consisting of former German Army officers and soldiers, is not an exaggeration to describe it as a nightmare for the Japanese.

Sakai found the flag of the Jewish Independent Brigade in the ranks of the enemy, and found on it the Star David, which had a special meaning for the Jews, and he couldn't help but let out a groan in his heart, and his legs were weak and he almost fell, and from this time on, he had a very bad feeling about the fate of his army.