The Great War Begins (2)

"Eight Geya Road, the 166th Division is surrounded by the Zhina people, how did you fight!" Ichiro Sakanishi, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army fighting in Xiangxi, was furious. "It is reported that a division of the Chinese Army suddenly launched a counterattack, and the 166th Division was attacking with all its might, and it was exploited by the Chinese people!" A staff officer next to him said cautiously. "Yaga! When attacking, you have to pay attention to the surprise attack of the enemy on both flanks, doesn't Genshiro Hishida even have this bit of common sense? Ichiro Sakanishi grew angrier. But he was a commander after all, and after being angry for a while, he immediately regained his composure! "Order the 47th Division to attack the enemy, and the encirclement of the 166th Division must be lifted!" Ichiro Sakanishi said.

After receiving the order, the 47th Division of the Japanese army immediately launched an attack, but the 47th Division seemed to be unfavorable, and it was beaten by Han Xuan before it was assembled. Han Xuan, the commander of the 73rd Army, was not a simple character, in the face of the Japanese attack, he did not wait passively, but organized an assault team to go forward, and called for artillery support. Han Xuan's commando team unexpectedly appeared in the rear of the Japanese army! After receiving the attack report of the 47th Division of the Japanese Army, in Wang Yaowu's headquarters, Liu Hai accurately judged the area where the Japanese army would use it as an artillery position according to the location of the 73rd Army and the range of the Japanese artillery. Motoshiro Hishida was shocked to hear that his heavy artillery had been killed, especially since his own artillery had just entered the position and was assaulted, which was simply hell!

"Order the Twelfth Brigade to assault west!" Motoshiro Hishida ordered: "The frontal attack should be mainly defensive!" "Such an order makes the staff officers below a little puzzled, what is a defense-oriented attack?" It is to attack in the front, dig fortifications in the back, and beware of the enemy's counter-assault! Motoshiro Hishida explained the order! Motoshiro Hishida actually had his own ideas, he had already seen that the Chinese army's encirclement of the 166th Division was not tight, and if he sent a brigade to attack westward, he would be able to surprise the Chinese division that was now behind the 166th Division, thus removing the threat to the 166th Division! A brigade of the Japanese army attacked westward, and soon achieved its goal, the Chinese division did not expect that there would be a Japanese army sneaking up from behind him, and he couldn't react for a while, so he had to fight and retreat, and the Japanese 166th Division was surrounded by a dismissal! And after the 47th Division lost the strength of a brigade, Han Xuan on the front had already launched a counterattack! Although the Japanese army also dug fortifications, in the face of Han Xuan and Huang Kesheng's infantry artillery, they only lasted less than an hour and a half before being repulsed! Hearing that his forward defense had been broken through, Motoshiro Hishida immediately ordered a counterattack, and also mobilized his infantry artillery and mountain artillery to cover!

The so-called strong generals have no weak soldiers, and Han Xuan's subordinates are not fools, watching the Japanese army smash down their heads and faces, a multi-brigade in front of them pounced, turned around and retreated without hesitation, and gave up the empty position to the Japanese army, "The wounded Japanese soldiers captured just now all changed into our clothes, poured their mouths with sand, and then retreated!" The regimental commander who broke through the Japanese defense had a sense of humor, and the consequence of this was very simple, that is, the attacking Japanese army would treat their own wounded as "the wounded of China" and kill them all, but those poor wounded were speechless because of the sand in their throats, and watched as they were stabbed to death with bayonets by their own people! But later the Japanese still knew, because the underwear of the wounded was not replaced, and the impact of a shell tore the pants of a dead wounded man, so that the Japanese army could not regret it! "Hahaha!" After Wu Fatzi said this, he laughed happily, and wanted to bow to the head of the regiment! Han Xuan was also satisfied with his own leader!

"Battalion Commander Song, you take a company's communication force and go to Yangxi Bridge to strengthen Brigade Commander Liu Xiaoshan's communication force, there will be a fierce battle over there soon!" Bangs ordered. Wang Yaowu told Liu Hai that a brigade of the 47th Division of the Japanese Army was advancing there, and it seemed that it was going to attack Wuyang, and only half of the brigade was holding on to the front. The reason why we want to send people to strengthen the communication force over there is because the time is in a hurry, and the communication force of Liu Xiaoshan's brigade has not been expanded, so it must be strengthened! In order to ensure safety, Liu Hai arranged for a reconnaissance battalion directly under the regiment to go to protect. Song Ruyu was not ambiguous, and immediately took people to Yangxi Bridge, where Liu Xiaoshan was located, for reinforcements! However, when Song Ruyu rushed to Wugang County near Wuyang, another division of the Japanese army, the 34th Division, appeared near Wugang. The reason why the reconnaissance battalion is a reconnaissance battalion is because its combat power is strong, it can go out of the battle line, enter behind enemy lines, and the equipment of the reconnaissance battalion is also very complete.

"What?" Liu Hai was taken aback, he sent a communication force to be surrounded by the Japanese army, the most terrible thing is that Song Ruyu, a big man, is still inside, the reconnaissance battalion is all dead, and the communication is okay if it is even dead, if this eldest lady has a little mistake, I am afraid that I will not be able to be the company commander! "Order Liu Xiaoshan to lead his troops to rescue him immediately, there must be no mistake, if the communication link is gone, he doesn't have to come back!" Bangs said. The order soon arrived at Liu Xiaoshan, Liu Xiaoshan naturally understood the weight of Song Ruyu, and he didn't have time to mobilize the main force, so he directly set off to Wugang with his most elite guard battalion to rescue! In fact, at this time, the 34th Division of the Japanese army was also on fire, facing a battalion of the Chinese army, but it couldn't get in, but instead suffered hundreds of casualties, and the angry Japanese division commander sent a brigade to attack! The battalion commander of the reconnaissance battalion also knew that there was no way to be good today, and he also knew who the communications battalion commander beside him was, so he made up his mind to send her out. "Lei Binghuo, you take a company to escort the communication company to Wugang County, I will take the others to drag the Japanese here, it doesn't matter if you die, you must send the communication company to Wugang County!" "Don't worry, battalion commander, even if I die, I can send them to Wugang County!"

"Kill!" After the Japanese 166th Division broke the siege, it joined forces with a brigade of the 47th Division and continued to launch a strong attack on the front line of Furong Mountain, and the cannon of the ghost cannon rang out again, and the Japanese army of the Fourth Front Army and one and a half divisions launched a fierce offensive and defensive battle on the front of Furong Mountain for a hundred miles! The commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, Ichiro Sakanishi, saw that the time had come, and ordered the 34th Division to attack Wuyang, and the two divisions that continued to be invested began to attack from both flanks, and with the large-scale attack of the Japanese army began, the Chinese army also began to resolutely resist, in addition to the New Sixth Army and the 26th Group Army, which were reserves, the 18th Army, the 54th Group Army, the 27th Group Army, and about 200,000 troops of the 100th Army were all put into battle, and the Japanese army's four and a half divisions in this battle totaled hundreds of thousands of troops were also put into the attack, for a time, the entire battle of Xiangxi was completely launched!

However, at this time, Liu Hai, who was as anxious as Wang Yaowu, kept urging Liu Xiaoshan to reinforce, for fear that something would happen to the communication company. At this time, Song Ruyu of the communication company broke through in the direction of Wugang under the protection of a company. Fortunately, the enemy did not pay attention to the breakthrough of a small force, but concentrated his forces to attack the encircled Chinese army! The reconnaissance battalion commander watched Lei Binghuo rush out with Song Ruyu, and his heart was suddenly much more relaxed, and he ordered a half company around him to resist desperately, and after the bullets were finished, the reconnaissance battalion commander smashed all the mortars that had run out of shells, and took his only remaining 100 soldiers to launch a decisive charge, and started hand-to-hand combat with the attacking Japanese squadron, and finally all died heroically! After the Japanese army killed all this weak Chinese army, they found that the small Chinese army that had inflicted seven or eight hundred casualties on them turned out to be one and a half companies, and they were immediately extremely surprised, they did not expect that the combat effectiveness of this army was so strong! "Wave the army to the east, attack Wugang County, and then take Wuyang!" The commander of the 34th Regiment of the Japanese Army did not say why he wanted to take Wuyang, it was because Wuyang was the most lethal transportation line and retreat of the Japanese army in this campaign, so the 34th Division of the Japanese Army must conquer Wuyang, and only by capturing Wuyang can the logistics materials be sent up quickly and sufficiently, otherwise the Japanese transport team can only make a detour in the mountains, and it will be very difficult to replenish!

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" After Liu Xiaoshan rushed to the battlefield with his guard battalion, he found dead Chinese and Japanese soldiers all over the ground, and the communication company and the Japanese army were nowhere to be found! But when cleaning the battlefield, Song Ruyu's body was not found, and the number of people in the reconnaissance battalion was not enough! After a short analysis, Liu Xiaoshan believed that it must be part of the reconnaissance battalion to protect the communications company! Liu Xiaoshan looked at the map and found the nearest county town of Wugang, the only place to avoid the attack of the Japanese army, at least to hold on to and wait for reinforcements! Liu Xiaoshan immediately drove his troops to Wugang County! It can be happy that after Liu Xiaoshan rushed to Wugang through a rugged mountain road, the Japanese army had not yet arrived! But when Liu Xiaoshan entered the county seat and found Song Ruyu, the main force of the 34th Division of the Japanese army also followed and arrived in Wugang!