Chapter 239 Embattled Section 2 There is no way forward
The battle of the 20th Regiment of Pandaogou was easier than the 17th and 8th regiments of Nandaozui, Liu Da Ass faced the enemy who relied on a strong position and strong firepower, and the devils were also determined to die to hold the position first, and then break through.
More than 3,000 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army attacked more than 600 devils, more than 1,700 people in the 17th Regiment, and after the war, even the lightly wounded who could still walk were counted, and there were more than 500 people, and more than 1,000 were sacrificed and seriously injured! And more than 1,000 people of the 18th Regiment, a group of troops after the war, the tears that Liu Da Ass held back when he counted the number of the 17th Regiment could no longer be stopped! All the people of the Eighteenth Regiment together had three hundred people, and there were three rows standing on the river beach, ragged and covered with blood!
The casualties among the cadres were even more staggering, the two regiments Liu Dabutt was the acting commander of the 17th Regiment and was wounded, the deputy regiment commander was seriously injured, the political commissar was slightly injured, the three battalion commanders lost two and one was seriously injured, and the company-platoon-level cadres were almost completely lost. The 18th Regiment was even more miserable, the regiment commander was seriously injured in the first half of the night when he blocked the devil's breakthrough, Deputy Regiment Commander Shi died, political commissar and deputy political commissar sacrificed, and the cadres below the regiment were still in the river beach assembly area, leaving only one company instructor and two original platoon commanders!
On average, four soldiers of the Eighth Route Army exchanged one life for a devil, and the soldiers who had not rested for a day and a night thought that they could withdraw to rest after the assembly, but Liu Da had red buttocks and swollen eyes and ordered to pull up the small regiment that was left as the general reserve, and dismantle it on the spot, and more than 1,000 people were divided into two halves and directly supplemented into the seventeen and eighteen regiments.
The cadres are directly appointed by Liu Dabutt, which can be regarded as an appointment in the line of fire, to complete the supplement of a company. Check the firearm, ammunition and ammunition immediately. Then assemble and set off to the northwest Matouguan! One company after another of the fighters ran westward. The corpse mountain and the sea of blood have not yet cleaned the stone dam and river valley of the battlefield, so it is left to the villagers in front of the branch to clean up.
The casualties of the 20th Regiment were not as serious as those of the 178th and 22th Regiments, but they also suffered more than 400 casualties in the two-day siege battle, and the pursuit battle of Pandaogou was relatively easy, but there were also more than 100 commanders and fighters who were killed and seriously injured, but the main force was still there, and Liang Tianzhu left two companies to lead the teaching team and other units to clean up the battlefield, and he led the main force to continue to chase westward.
The siege and annihilation battle of Nandaozui and the pursuit battle of Pandaogou. It all happened on the way to Matouguan led by the captain of the Qingshui Wing, when the remnants of the second brigade of Pandaogou were struggling in the sea of fire, Qingshui Dazuo had just walked out of the ravine and arrived at Liuzhuang, a small mountain village in the big valley, far away from the battlefield on the eastern front, and the young and middle-aged people in the village went to the front of the Hongshi Lengzi branch, leaving dozens of old and weak women and children.
Unexpectedly, the devils suddenly came out of the pandao ditch in the east, and there were many people who were hulala, and more than a dozen villagers with weak legs and feet were caught by the devils!
Shimizu asked in person. He wanted to ask about the situation in the north, but these people looked weak. I don't know if I ask three questions, no matter how pure Chinese he speaks, the old man in the mountains just shakes his head like a rattle, and he doesn't spit out a word.
In the end, Qing Shui judged by himself, there were no young adults in this small mountain village, they were all old people and aunts and children, and there were no traces of large troops stationed and passing by, so he thought that there was no large army of eight roads passing through here, and Matouguan, which was not far to the north, should be safe!
With a wave of his hand, more than a dozen devils rushed forward with rifles with bayonets on them, and the poor old Han aunts and children of Liu Zhuang fell under the butcher's knives of the devils. After killing people, Shimizu Daisa ordered the troops to end their rest and recuperate, and advance towards Matouguan at full speed!
That is, when the deputy head of the Nandaozui Shiba led the team to counterattack, and at the same time, when Liang Tianzhu of the 20th Regiment sent a company to chase the devil who drilled the ravine, Qing Shui, the devil who was at the end of the road, finally led more than 700 devil soldiers of the first brigade to the last hurdle of their escape from this nightmarish conquest.
A team sent by Shimizu Daisa was at the front of the entire brigade, about 300 meters away, searching and advancing, and when they reached the bottom of the pass, the team leader asked the standard-bearer to give the flag to the brigade about a mile behind, and asked whether to stop or continue to advance, the standard-bearer was afraid that he would not be able to see it from behind, so he climbed up the hillside for more than ten steps, and raised about seven or eight meters before he unfurled two plaster flags to play the flag.
The flag stretched out to both sides of the body, and then heard a "pop" gunshot, and the devil's flag bearer straightened up, and then softened, straight and straight down from the hillside, fell face down to the hillside, slipped down, and the flag in his hand was also gone.
The gunshots rang out, and the devil soldiers of the search team who were standing and resting with guns scattered like stepping on a spring to find concealment, and the devils of the brigade behind also heard the gunshots, and their footsteps came suddenly, and the ones at the end of the team couldn't restrain their feet, and they hit the people in front of them, and they staggered.
The search team crawled past a few people, pulled the flag bearer down, and it was strange, just a gunshot, there was no movement, no one could see where the gun was fired, a check, the flag bearer was shot in the back of the head, the bullet pierced out of the mouth, and the whole jaw was blurred, no wonder he died as soon as he was shot, and the bullet hit the head directly.
Shimizu Dazuo stopped on the spot and told the captain of the first brigade beside him to go to the front to command and see if it was a single sniper of the Eighth Road, or a small group of local armed forces of the Eighth Road? The captain had the group spread out in a flat valley, and he commanded a squadron along the rock wall to the west.
Shimizu Daisa asked the gunner to shoot two mortar shells at the pass, and there were not many shells, and the other artillery was not easy to carry, so he brought two 60 mortars, and even one base number of shells was not enough, so he had to save some use, and the two shells passed, and the rumbling explosions stirred and stirred between the rock walls, and the two black smoke drifted higher and higher, rising to the top of the mountain, and were quickly blown away by the mountain wind.
Seeing that there was still no movement, the captain urged the search team to attack the hillside! The whistle sounded, dozens of devils slowly bent out from their hiding places, machine guns were on the side, and the infantry moved slowly along the path on the hillside in two lines and three roads.
The slope between the two mountains was originally built up artificially many years ago, used to build the base of the village, the vertical altitude is not high, dozens of meters, the slope is relatively steep, because it is built of rammed earth, it is difficult for wild grasses and shrubs to survive, so the bare soil slope.
The devils covered each other with cats on their waists, and when the three roads were almost halfway through, the infantry stopped, and the machine guns moved forward from the river valley to the infantry team, and the group leader also commanded a squadron to go forward less than a hundred meters from the hillside, arranged in an arc, with heavy machine guns and grenadiers in the middle, and infantry on both sides, providing fire support for the search team.
The devil soldiers on the hillside got up again, this time much faster than just now, and the stragglers on the front line rushed to the top of the hillside, and just a few steps before the base of the big bluestone was reached, deafening gunshots suddenly broke out on the peaks on both sides! The bullet swept condescendingly towards the devils on the hillside like two big brooms, and the barrage instantly enveloped the dozen or so stragglers on the front line!
The devils reacted fast enough! When the machine guns in the middle of the hill were fired together, they began to suppress the mountain peak with long point fire on the spot, and the heavy machine guns and grenadiers in the open area under the hillside also opened fire one after another after a few seconds, and the rocks on the mountain peak fell and the branches broke off, and the devils who were suppressed by the fire on both sides of the hillside also immediately made an S-shaped maneuver and climbed to the top of the hillside.
However, these dead devils of the search team will never see the scenery on the other side of the pass, just after the side-firing fire on the mountain peak has just been suppressed and weakened, behind the big bluestone of the pass Zhaiji, more than 30 guns have stretched out of the shooting holes, rifles, submachine guns and machine guns are almost simultaneously fired, after a round of shooting, more than a dozen grenades flew down, and the arc-shaped slope dozens of meters wide was shrouded in gunsmoke in an instant!
And the most important one was the devil squad leader who stayed on the slope with the machine gunners, half-crouching and shouting to the soldiers to rush up, and a bullet shot from the crack in the stone halfway up the mountain hit him in the mouth! After the bullet shattered several of his teeth, it pierced the back of his head, and the squad leader fell down the hill with his mouth in his hands. (To be continued......)