Chapter 235: The Fish Dies, the Net Breaks, Section 3, The multiples are divided
More than 300 devils and more than 600 Eighth Route Army were on the slope on the west side of the mountain beam, and they were mixed together in the blink of an eye! The devil had just protruded from the river valley, and the first battalion ran at the speed of a 100-meter sprint, and when he turned around from the side of the ravine, he saw the devil on the mountain beam, and he didn't have time to start the formation at all!
The commander of the 18th Regiment was surnamed Zhao, not an old man from the 6th Division, who was transferred from Jizhong in 42 years, when the Military Region reorganized some of the troops withdrawn from Jizhong, and still used cadres from Jizhong as the main leaders at the regimental level.
The troops in Jizhong suffered considerable losses in the sweep, and they also lost a lot of weapons and equipment, but the tenacious style of the troops was not lost, and the Sixth Division had been holding back their anger these days, and wanted to fight back to Jizhong as soon as possible.
The 18th Regiment has some opinions on Yang Bangzi treating them as reserves, the 20th Regiment is the old foundation of the 11th Division, and there is no opinion on the front side alone, and the 17th Regiment is the old unit of the 6th Division, and it is quite visible in the battle south of the Zoumayi, this time it is said that it is the turn of the 18th Regiment to fight the main position in the south, but it is still on standby in Xiaoxigou.
Sent a second battalion to Longmen Village to help clean up the devil's rear guard, and the other two battalions were still used as reserves, this time I heard that Commander Yang took a few guards to block the devils in the mountain beam, and it didn't take two minutes for Commander Zhao to gather a battalion! The fighters will not leave their guns for the battle orders that may come at any time, whether it is eating, sleeping, going to the toilet, or leaving their guns! As soon as you hear the collection number, you can gather it together!
This time I saw the devil, I was happier than I saw anything! One by one, it's like a tiger out of a cage. Live prey is visible! Screaming and rushing up! A multi-squadron of the 3rd Brigade of the Devil Shimizu Wing, which has not yet gained a foothold. The side came back to the eighth. also knows that if you don't fight back against this guy in eight ways, no one will want to run out of the encirclement! With a bayonet, he also came over!
They're all veterans! No one is soft when they get started, even picking and stabbing with thorns, stepping and stabbing, turning over and stabbing, inverting the muzzle to make the butt, turning around and stumbling under the feet, both sides are beckoning to kill hands. It's all in the triangle of the chest and abdomen!
From the top of the mountain beam to the slope of the mountain, on the slope more than 100 meters wide, nearly 1,000 people were in the dark night under the light of the explosion of shells not far away.
The soldiers of the 18th Regiment were all killed in the sea of corpses and blood, and any of the outstanding troops during the May Day Sweep did not go through such a brutal battle, not once or twice, but seven or eight times in a day!
Taking advantage of the efforts of the 3rd Brigade to block the 8th Road in the southwest, Shimizu Daisa, who had already gone up to the river bank, immediately transferred the 1st Brigade from the river valley and let the 3rd Brigade defend on the spot on the mountain beam. Blocking the eight roads in the north and the ravines in the south, leaving such a breakthrough hundreds of meters wide in the middle. He himself fled from the other side of the hillside where the battle was still raging, to the northwest!
Yang Bangzi vaguely saw the devil rolling up the river bank like a tide through the smoke of gunpowder, and he was so anxious that he no longer ignored Xiao Liangzi's pull, and commanded the reconnaissance company to use the cover of the mountain and rocks to quickly approach the mountain beam, trying to block this opening!
But the devil's artillery fire has been bombarding this side, and the reconnaissance company has suffered dozens of casualties and has not been able to block the devils who have fled, but fortunately, Liu Da Ass also found out that the devil's breakthrough attempt, and finally made a more sensible decision, and ordered the 17th Regiment to leave two companies at the mouth of the Longmen Mountain River Valley to block the devil's rearguard troops fleeing north from Longmen Village, and the rest of the troops attacked the valley from the east and south!
The 20th Regiment quickly moved south from north to south along the river and the west bank of the river, blocking the breakthrough of the devils on the west bank of the river! After two hours of hard fighting, the 20th Regiment finally blocked the opening on the west bank of the river! The 1st Battalion of the 18th Regiment basically wiped out the 300 Japanese troops on the hillside at a heavy cost of nearly 400 casualties, and blocked the opening together with the troops of the 20th Regiment attacking south!
The 2nd Brigade and the Artillery Brigade of the Qingshui Wing were blocked in the encirclement and did not protrude, and the 1st Brigade and the 3rd Brigade still managed to break through from this tone and fled in a northwest direction along the valley on the west side of the Gyro Peak.
Liu's big ass is estimated to protrude more than 1,000 devils, and there are more than 1,000 in the encirclement, and what makes him most anxious is that Yang Stick can't find it! It is said that at the position where Yang Bangzi was just now, the troops of the 20th Regiment had already arrived, but it was reported that except for a dozen or so wounded soldiers behind the rocks, Commander Yang was not here!
After a thorough investigation, I found out that Yang Bangzi saw that the devil was protruding just now, and it was too late to go back to the peak to mobilize the troops, so he took his guard squad and reconnaissance company to chase the devil! This is terrible! The devils were divided into three groups at once, the battle in Longmen Village in the south was not over, there were still many devils in the river valley, and some of them had escaped, how could Commander Yang fight if he was not in this battle!
There's no time for you to study and discuss it slowly, the battle is not over yet! The blocked devils are still desperately firing artillery, and the infantry are still desperately attacking the side of the mountain beam!
Liu Da Ass is also a veteran of the battle formation, in this case, he also immediately made adjustments, the 17th Regiment immediately took over the position of the original 20th Regiment, and attacked the devils in the river valley from the north and east sides, and the two battalions of the 18th Regiment and the troops directly under the regiment were all transferred up to take over the positions of the original 17th Regiment in Longmen Mountain and Xishanliang, and the 20th Regiment pursued along the direction of the escape of the devils who broke out, and at the same time looked for the whereabouts of Commander Yang!
This is also exactly the answer to the sentence of multiplication, the devil's breakthrough was cut off and forced to divide the troops again, and the part of the devils who fled also discarded all the artillery and baggage, and the devil's strength in the valley was greatly weakened, because the morale of the devil did not break out, it was bound to be greatly affected, and the situation was actually stronger than the whole encirclement and battle.
The 20th Regiment had no time to assemble, and Liang Tianzhu, the battalion commander of the former 2nd Battalion, the acting commander of the regiment, asked the messenger to inform the 1st Battalion and the 3rd Battalion to march in a rapid northwest direction on the spot to reach the Pandaogou convergence!
Liang Tianzhu was a cadre promoted from the original Linglai guerrilla brigade, and the locals were familiar with the terrain, and he knew how to go northwest from Nandaozui. They must cross the ditch. So he ordered the divisions to go there as fast as they could. Strive to block the way of the devils who fled north!
The 17th Regiment and the 18th Regiment, under the command of Liu Daass, also compressed the devil's defensive circle relatively smoothly and blocked the momentum of the devil's breakthrough, and now the defense area of the devils in the river valley has been compressed to more than one kilometer from north to south, and less than one kilometer from east to west.
But the devil's defensive circle was narrowed, but the resistance became more and more fierce, and the seventeenth and eighteenth regiments organized several attacks to break through the devil's position and insert it to disrupt the devil's defense system. None of them succeeded, the devil's artillery shells have not yet run out, and this artillery fire alone has made the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army attacking on the river beach suffer too much!
When it was almost dawn, the battle on this side of the river valley fell into a stalemate, the devils were surrounded to death, all on the river beach in the river valley, and the battle in Longmen Village in the south had ended not long ago.
In the dark night, the 300 devils led by the adjutant chief of the devils were intercepted on the river beach on the south side of Longmen Mountain, and then they were immediately dispersed by the 2nd Battalion of the 18th Regiment and the Teaching Brigade that caught up. Occupy the small earthen beams on the bank of the river and resist desperately.
The rest of the East and West fought for themselves. There are dozens of people, dozens of less, the ammunition distributed by the Japanese army when they break through, and everything else is brought, and they are all with the mentality of fighting to the death, so they are very stubborn!
After fighting in such a mess for a while, the commander of the second battalion felt that something was wrong, and he couldn't fight like this, and if he continued like this, he wouldn't be able to eat this devil until dawn, and if the devil came at dawn and the plane bombed, the devil who was surrounded would have to run away.
He asked the first and fourth companies to besiege the small high ground on the riverbank, only to surround but not fight, and the devils would block back if they wanted to come down, and he concentrated five companies as fists on his side, and began to clean up the small clusters of the devils one by one.
After another hour or so, grenades and bayonets were used to basically take down the temporary defensive positions of a few people and a dozen devils, leaving only three places where there were more devils who had not yet been captured.
The small mound with the largest number of people in the northernmost part was kept first, and the second battalion commander replaced the second company with a large number of casualties with three companies, and decided to take down the devils in the middle of the soil slope that was leaning on the bank of the river, and then go to clean up the group of devils who were guarding the houses in Longmen Village.
The bombardier organized by the second company was knocked down by this devil machine gun just now, and the second battalion commander did not let the bombardier be sent again, and commanded the two machine guns to suppress the devil's machine gun first, and asked the militia to find a few stretchers, and by the way, to carry a mule and horse corpse from the river beach.
This river beach is full of round pebbles, and the corpse of the mule on the four stretchers is enough for a few people, and the cobblestones are equivalent to the roller under the stretcher, and it doesn't take much effort to push the stretcher to slide on the stones.
The corpse of the mule was more than a meter high, just enough to block the bullets fired by the machine guns and rifles of the devils, and the machine gunners and bombardiers who were crawling behind were able to get up to the bank of the river where the devils were hiding, so they threw grenades, and the machine gunners also took advantage of the situation to shoot closely, and at the same time, the soldiers who were hiding behind jumped up and rushed over!
The battle was resolved in a few minutes, and the twenty or so devils were all finished in the improvised dirt holes dug on the bank of the river!
The battle in Longmen Village in the south was simple, and it didn't take the third company led by the second battalion commander, and the weeds and firewood brought by thousands of villagers were piled up on the periphery of the houses guarded by the three devils.
After a while of choking on smoke and flames, the devils couldn't stay still, because the back of the fire was still throwing firewood and grass in front, and if you wanted to hit it with guns, there were eight guns all around, and there were more than a dozen guns to greet you as soon as you appeared! There is no way, the devils in the three courtyards that have been opened up gathered in one place, and want to run from the north of the hill to Longmen Mountain, only to jump out of the fire in disgrace, and after running a few steps, there are dozens of grenades head-on, and they are on fire, and none of the twenty or so devils are all blown up!
As soon as the devils in these two places are eliminated, there are still devils left on the battlefield of the river beach south of Longmen Mountain, and there are still devils in the small mounds on the bank of the East River, and the second battalion commander is also very ghostly, so that all the guerrillas and militia and the villagers in front of the branch will light torches! What a spectacular good fellow! More than 2,000 torches lit up, illuminating the mountains and fields brightly!
There are so many torches, how many eight-way do you have to go! The devil adjutant can't sit still now! There are only 100 people around me, and the eight roads of people are up, and it won't take long to spell you out! And the adjutant chief was terrified, in the distance in the river, a long dragon of torches appeared that could not be seen at a glance! It looks like there are thousands of people again!
No, you can't defend it, the adjutant general gathered the people and gave the order, let's break through into the river valley! If you can go one by one, instead of being trapped here and waiting for death, it is better to fight! (To be continued......)