Chapter 126: Intercept That Cannon!

The location where the enemy engineer team of the second battalion of the Eighth Route Army lurked belonged to the open area outside the south gate of Fengdian, and there was no other shelter on the wasteland except for the sparsely distributed withered yellow grass. Fortunately, the dead grass was almost half a person tall, and it was not a problem to hide ten or eight people behind each bush.

Li Tianlin had already pulled up the main force that had been waiting far behind just now, and the team of two hundred people was crowded and crouched behind dozens of grasses, if the defenders at the head of Fengdian City scanned this place with binoculars at this time, I am afraid they would still find their flaws. But now the head of the city is not guarded by Japanese troops but by national troops, and they are busy firing at the powerful Japanese troops under the city, and they have no time to care about what ambush is behind the Japanese army.

Wu Zijian briefly made a division of labor.

First of all, the artillery squad in Zhao Yejiao opened fire, and the only five shells were to be blasted out within a minute - Wu Zijian observed through the telescope just now, and had already found that there were no less than ten people in the Japanese army in front of him operating around the mortar (author's note: it was actually a detachment of an artillery squad), and more than half of them were carrying and transporting shells, and the ammunition boxes stacked behind the mortars were fully stacked into two rows! - The Japanese artillery is obviously very abundant, so you don't have to worry about the consumption of shells. However, he sent someone to tell Zhao Yejiao, who was setting up artillery in the back, to be careful not to hit the Japanese artillery position.

Then, Li Tianlin will lead three platoons to launch the first wave of charges, and Wu Zijian will lead two platoons to launch a second wave of charges, striving to crush this Japanese force after two waves of charges, and at the same time capture their mortars, heavy machine guns, and ammunition as soon as possible.

After the battle, the team went up, and the deputy battalion commander and the commander of the 5th company temporarily had a disagreement, and Li Tianlin advocated that the goal of capturing heavy weapons and ammunition should be accomplished; Wu Zijian, on the other hand, considered whether to stay for a while in order to get in touch with the friendly forces that had invaded the city.

In the end, the two decided to fight first, and the rest would be decided after the battle was over, depending on the situation on the battlefield.

The first shell of the artillery squad in the suburbs of Zhao Yejiao accurately smashed into the ranks of the Japanese squadron, and the Japanese army was almost in a line of skirmishers at this moment, so the artillery squad leader formulated a plan to aim and fire from the right, and then move the muzzle to the left and fire rapidly.

As a result, in less than a minute, the Type 20 mortar of the Jinling Arsenal blew up the Japanese army lined up in front of it like a sequence of names, and accurately evaded its artillery position.

Almost at the moment when the second shell exploded and the third shell was discharged, Li Tianlin jumped up with three platoons of soldiers and rushed towards the Japanese army less than two miles ahead. The individual armament of the three platoons was all 38 large covers, and there were two Czech light machine guns. They ran desperately to get into the best range of their weapons as quickly as possible.

The Japanese squadron that focused all their attention on the direction of Fengdian Castle was first stunned by the shells falling from the sky, and when someone realized that the shells falling from the sky were actually coming from behind them, the Japanese soldiers who turned around were even more horrified to find that a large group of people in gray military uniforms had pounced less than a mile away from them, and the rain of flat shots suddenly came head-on, which was the bullets of the Meiji Type 38 rifle that they were very familiar with, of course, There was also the roar of the Czech light machine gun that they became familiar with after coming to the battlefield in China.

The Japanese soldiers, who had been blown down by the shells, were again attacked by the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Eighth Route Army's Forest Division, and dozens of people were knocked down by rows of bullets. The Japanese squadron, which had lost more than half of them in an instant, began to hastily organize a counterattack, and they tried to turn a few light machine guns to the rear, but the Chinese soldiers who were charging suddenly separated to the left and right sides, and attacked in columns from both flanks; Just as the Japanese were surprised and hurriedly adjusted the direction of their return fire, a new storm formation emerged in the center.

It was the second wave of charges that Wu Zijian personally led the two platoons to start.

Seeing that more and more Chinese troops were rushing up, the captain of the Japanese squadron, who had no danger to defend, was afraid that the Chinese army at the head of Fengdian City would go out of the city to attack again, and then he would die and have no place to be buried—the brigade headquarters of Wencheng had clearly instructed him that during the temporary transfer from Fengdian to the Little Elm Mountain Pass, the squadron must first ensure the safety of the mountain pass's defenses—so the Japanese lieutenant shouted angrily:

"Withdraw, retreat towards the mountain pass!"

While Wu Zijian was charging, he did not forget to repeatedly put the telescope on the eye socket to observe, he was concerned about the mortars and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army at the moment, and the telescope vision clearly showed that there were no soldiers around the Japanese army's Type 92 heavy machine gun - they should have been killed and wounded under the attack of Zhao Yejiao's shells - but a few Japanese soldiers seemed to be busy disassembling the mortar, and they were about to withdraw!

Wu Zijian was suddenly in a hurry, he jumped to a small mound a few steps away, and stood to watch. Sure enough, the Japanese gunners tried to disassemble the mortar and take it away, but seeing the Chinese troops getting closer and closer, they did not even disassemble it in a hurry, but carried it away. Wu Zijian flew down the small mound with a brisk step, and shouted desperately at the soldiers who were charging ahead:

"Take that cannon! Shoot those shit boys! ”

Li Tianlin, who rushed before Wu Zijian's second wave, of course, saw more clearly the Japanese army's attempt to slip away with the cannon, his shell gun was requisitioned by the enemy engineering team, but before the charge, he had exchanged the pony gun assigned to him with a machine gunner, and now he was holding a Czech one, and he had already shot one*. While changing *, he stared at the Japanese soldiers who fled with mortars:

"Stop that cannon! Fast! ”

The order of the commander of the 5th company was exactly the same as that of the deputy battalion commander, and immediately, the soldiers of a squad rushed towards the Japanese artillery and the Japanese artillery at a rapid pace, and when they were about twenty or thirty zhang away from the other side, their bullets chased up and knocked down the two artillerymen, and the remaining Japanese soldier was unable to lift the heavy mortar, and the man with the cannon fell to the ground.

It was a heart-wrenching charge. In less than ten minutes, a squadron of Japanese troops that had been attacked from behind collapsed, leaving dozens of corpses on the wasteland in the southern suburbs of Fengdian, and rushed back to the pass of Little Elm Mountain.

At the head of Fengdian South City, the people of the second battalion of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army began to jump and cheer: they didn't know what the name of this friendly army that suddenly covered up was there, but it was undoubtedly the Chinese army. The chief of staff of the regiment gradually saw through the telescope the armband of the tiger and wolf division under the city.

Eight ways!

After opening the gate of the East City, Qin Zhongxiao ordered the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion to draw out a platoon and the platoon of the 4th Company from the southern city wall to jointly garrison the East City. He himself immediately rushed to the county government with the main forces of the 1st Company of the 1st Battalion and the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion.

Judging from the echoing gunfire, the place where the fighting is most intense at present should be near the southern part of Chengzhong Street, and there seems to be no movement in the direction of the county government. Sure enough, Zhao Mutou and his entourage greeted the group at the gate of the county government compound where the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated, and he reported that the Japanese army headquarters had fled towards Beicheng, and searched the county government, but did not find any items of military value. But—

"My subordinates found two women from the two rooms," Zhao Mutou leaned into Qin Zhongxiao's ear and whispered, "It is a pair of sisters who live in the county town, and they were tied up here by Japanese soldiers and ruined." ”

Qin Zhongxiao gritted his teeth and scolded.

But the colonel of the Central Army was obviously not worried about saving his female compatriots at the moment, he ordered the 1st Company to strengthen the special service company, and immediately outflank the place where the gunfire was most intense along the north and south streets in the city: the 2nd Company, which was supposed to attack inward from the south gate, was blocked by the Japanese troops in the city. At the same time, he sent a platoon of the 5th Company to search and advance towards Beicheng, find out the details of the current Japanese army in Beicheng, and then report back.

Zhao Mutou gritted his teeth in his heart at the moment, and he was not inferior to his own regiment leader. From the moment he found the naked sisters in the house of the county government, the mind of the spy company commander was stirring up the tragedy of the Japanese army massacring the city told by his favorite Sun Nier, and the tearful accusation of the old butcher shopkeeper in Xiguan; Enraged, he took Bergman* in his hand and led a group of men with the same automatic weapons to rush to the longest and widest street in the county seat.

The Japanese army led by the captain Fukudaoka, who was nearly two small squads, and part of the cavalry of the Mongolian army, were forced into a long street battle.

Fukuda Shaoza initially thought that the attack on the south gate might be similar to the previous attack at the north gate, but it was just a small group of Chinese troops harassing, but when he was facing the swarming enemy troops on this street, the Japanese captain realized that something was wrong - the south gate had been lost, and the Chinese army had poured into the city! Before he could think about it, the enemy troops on the opposite side had already begun to disperse into the alleys on both sides of the street, quickly outflanking his troops.

This tactical move that was familiar with the terrain, as well as the military uniforms of the soldiers of the Shina Army that he vaguely saw, made Fukudaoka suddenly wake up: the other party was the Shina Army that had been defeated by the Otsuka United and fled into the mountains to the east! It's really a narrow road! Fukudaoka roared, and while commanding his subordinates to shoot at the Shina Army on the other side of the street, he urgently ordered a squadron leader and a squad leader to lead people to separate up to intercept the enemy who was flooding the streets and alleys on both sides. Due to the proximity of the two sides in numbers, it was difficult to solve for a while.

It wasn't until the telecommunications soldiers around Fukudaoka received an urgent order from the deputy wing commander on the walkie-talkie: the three city gates had been lost, and the county government headquarters was about to give up, and all of them were withdrawn to the north city gate.

The captain of the Japanese army was dumbfounded - it was obviously a large group of men and horses who came to attack the Chinese army, and it seemed that the county town was about to be lost. He hurriedly gathered his nearby forces and gave the order to retreat. But at this moment, a soldier came from behind to report: Another army is attacking from the direction of the county government, and our rear road has been cut off!

In the blink of an eye, some soldiers hurriedly shot in the direction of the county government and stumbled towards themselves, while Fukudaoka's line of sight soon saw a large group of soldiers with unique barrels*, firing fiercely and moving forward.

The Japanese army knew that*, which was made by the German allies of the Great Japanese Empire. Unfortunately, the headquarters and the military headquarters have always hated equipping such bullet-consuming individual automatic weapons, so neither the Imperial Army nor the Navy have equipped them. But at this moment, he finally appreciated the power of this automatic weapon, the muzzle of the gun more than ten feet away, spewing out demonic flames, the flames could even be seen with the naked eye, accompanied by pieces of Imperial soldiers who fell in pieces.

Fukudaoka's remaining subordinates on the street kicked open the doors and windows of the houses on the left and right in horror, trying to get in to avoid the demonic gunfire, Fukudaoka also waved the command knife in his hand, smashed the glass on the door of a tea house next to him, and then reached out to pull the bolt that had been plugged in from the inside. Suddenly, a young woman screaming and rushing to the door, tore the arm of the Japanese soldier Shaozo to prevent him from opening the door. Fukudaoka, who was furious, pushed the woman away, pulled the deadbolt open and broke in, and almost at the same time, several of his subordinates, including the telegraph soldiers, who were immediately behind him, were knocked down by the torrent of bullets.

Fukudaoka subconsciously grabbed the woman in the tea house - she was supposed to be the clerk here - and turned to look at the street outside, he was desperate to see the group of * men chasing and killing, and some people were even about to fire at the Japanese soldier Shao Zuo who had fled into the tea house.

Seeing that he was about to become the target of *, Fukutaoka hurriedly pulled the woman over and blocked him in front of him.

Zhao Mutou just found the command knife in Fukudaoka's hand from afar, and his subordinates with walkie-talkies on his side, the special agent company commander judged that this guy was an officer, so he ran towards him while strafing, but at this moment, he saw that this Japanese officer grabbed a female compatriot of his own as a shield, and he hurriedly ordered his subordinates around him not to fire.

"Get out!"

Zhao Mutou snorted, and he stood on the street outside the gate of the tea house with seven or eight soldiers of the special service company, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed at the Japanese officer - it was a young man!

At this moment, due to the arrival of the special service company of the new force and the 1st company of the 1st battalion, this local street battle has come to an end, and the sound of gunfire and explosions is only occasional.

Of course, Fukudaoka also judged the direction of the battle from the fading firefighting outside the room - the general trend has gone. The woman in front of him was crying and trembling in his arms, and Shao Zuo couldn't help but look at the woman's face from behind the side: not Peugeot, but very young, very pink, if in normal times, you can consider enjoying her body. But right now—

Fukudaoka laughed, and the captain of the Japanese army, who was holding the heart of death, hugged the woman in front of him, and walked out of the tea house step by step!