Chapter 6: Fighting (34)

With two pairs of binoculars, the observation work was easier, and the Japanese troops did not turn in at the T-junction, but ran straight over. "One, two, three, four...... There were two hundred and seventy-four in all. "The first observer reported.

"The devil carries a long weapon, longer than a shotgun, I don't know what a secret weapon is, there are many, there are seventy or eighty of them." Another observer shouted.

The attention of Shi Zhong and Pangao Zhongliang and others was immediately attracted, new weapons? What is that?

"Don't make a fuss, what a long weapon, that's a rolled-up stretcher." The first observer explained that he was holding a Taisho-13 telescope, which was much better than the one using the 93-type telescope. Shi Zhong and the others all breathed a sigh of relief, and several platoon commanders had smiles on their faces. The second observer was a little embarrassed, blushing, and saw the stretcher as a new weapon, and the joke had to be told.

After about an hour, the Japanese soldiers carrying the stretchers returned to the T-junction, this time more clearly, carrying more than 80 stretchers, and more than 300 people walking.

"They carry people slowly, we go to the front and ambush again, it will definitely have an effect." Pan Gao was ready to make a move, and proposed.

"This is here to carry the dead, it is better for them to carry them back, and stay here to make a plague." Shi Zhong shook his head, and after a while, he said his true words: "Our * is all used up, and we don't have enough manpower to fight guns alone, and we will suffer." ”

Zhong Liang smiled, the company commander of his own family is not a discovery of conscience, but a limitation of conditions, if there are still hundreds of Min 24 style*, even if it is a few hundred Japanese hair pressure type small*, I am afraid that this group of Japanese will have to carry some more.

"Retreat!" Shi Chong estimates that he can't take advantage of anything today, it is serious to return to the camp to replenish the ammunition, although there is no loss in terms of personnel in this ambush, but there is a great loss in ammunition, and the most important thing is that there is no replenishment, so he can only go back to eat the old book, thinking of this, Shi Chong said to the three platoon commanders around him with an unnatural face: "It has not been captured, and I will be laughed at by Luo Wei again." Pan Gao smiled and said: "I don't know if the thirty crossbows in the woods are still there, if they are destroyed by the Japanese, I will not be worth it." Zhong Liang said with a smile: "The two seniors don't be too modest, let the family get more than 80 stretchers to carry, whether they live or die, the effect is good, be content." ”

Twenty pieces of Guangyang really can't buy anything, the village laughed at the twenty pieces of Guangyang, and gave Shi Zhong and others three hundred catties of grain, a dozen ducks and a dozen chickens, and the middle-aged man said with some embarrassment on his face: "That's all I can do!" ”

"That's a lot!" Shi Zhong said: "Now the war is in chaos, and food is more expensive than gold!" ”

Tell the villagers that if someone asks them who is fighting today, it is best to ask them not to know. The middle-aged man nodded and said that he knew, a big battle in Hefei was just around the corner, this time it was different from half a month ago, that time it was the Japanese attack, the national army defended, this time it was the national army that attacked the Japanese and defended, what the result was, who doesn't know. If it weren't for the imminent winter wheat harvest, the farmers would have taken the grain in the fields very seriously, and many of them would have wanted to leave.

At the last ambush point, Zhong Liang and others picked up the Japanese weapons and ammunition that were thrown in the wheat field before, which was the only trophy of this operation. In the woods, Pan Gao retrieved the crossbows that were fixed in various places, except for two that were broken by the Japanese because they were too conspicuous, and everything else was intact. Pan Gao breathed a sigh of relief, crossbow arrows are easy to do, crossbows are difficult to do. Put away the smashed crossbow and take it back to repair. The leader of the third platoon, Farmer Le, walked at the front with the men and horses, hoping to find something at the bend of the river. When I arrived at the location, the Japanese cleaned the battlefield more thoroughly, except for a pool of blood, not even a single rag was left. Angry that the peasants were scolded, the soldiers of the third platoon smiled and said to their platoon commander: "It's best if you don't capture it, you don't have to carry things." ”

As soon as Yokoyama Jiro returned to Hefei, the news that the Japanese army had suffered a great loss in the east of the Banqiao River immediately spread throughout the city, and the Hefei Nightingale followed the rescued Japanese soldiers to the side of the Huangshui Wharf and hid until the rescued Japanese troops returned. Although they are all stretchers, it is very easy to distinguish between dead and alive, the dead are covered with their heads, and the living are exposed, although some Japanese soldiers who are not injured in their legs and feet are not sitting on stretchers, they can be distinguished at a glance by hanging their hands around their heads. According to statistics, seventy-six were killed, eleven were seriously injured, and thirty-three were lightly injured. The Hefei nightingale mistakenly thought that this was also the credit of the loyal and righteous national salvation army in eastern Anhui, and expanded the results of the battle a little and reported it to the military command headquarters, so the results of the battle from the military command to the general staff and then to the 526 brigade became the following figures: 143 Japanese soldiers were killed, 22 were seriously wounded, and 33 were lightly wounded, a total of 198 people, and a downsized squadron became a reorganized squadron. To say that a spy is a spy, I also made the name of the unit of this squadron clear, it is the second squadron of the third brigade of the Sakai detachment, and only one person in the entire squadron is still complete, that is, the squadron leader, Captain Jiro Yokoyama.

This result, so that Shi Chong, who crossed the Banqiao River and returned to the camp, also sighed, which unit did a great achievement! When Huang Tianhua said that it was their reconnaissance company, Shi Zhong scolded: "I am only one hundred and ten people together, if the other party has one hundred and ninety-nine people, which is so much more than us, I don't dare to provoke them if I am killed." ”

Mo Di very much agreed with Shi Chong's forbearance of the Japanese reinforcements, and it was very rare not to act rashly and not be carried away by victory, whether it was one hundred and twenty killed or wounded, or one hundred and ninety-eight, it was the greatest victory if he was not injured. If there is a conflict with the reinforced Japanese army, even if the Japanese army is all down, they will have a lot of damage, this is the most stupid thing, the days are long, the coming day is long, today is tired of playing, tomorrow will play again, if there is a life, you are not afraid to play.

Luo Wei stopped doing it on the side, and said that Shi Chong played so well this time, and it was their turn to play tomorrow.

Gong Qingyuan immediately denied Luo Wei's request and proposed that Liu Qinglong's assault brigade and the commander of the assault company of the 526 Brigade Guard Battalion go together tomorrow, so that the loyal and righteous national salvation army in eastern Anhui would have some credit, and it would be worthy of the military command spies in Hefei.

Chen Zhengxin said with a smile: "Gong Chu is a good idea, since it is a joint operation, unified command is very important, I personally think that the most suitable candidate for this unified command is General Xu Ping, Liu Qinglong and Thin Monkey are his subordinates." However, as the leader of the National Salvation Army, it is impossible to go to the line of fire, so I believe that I should be in charge of the coordination of this joint force. ”

Hehehehe, everyone laughed, this guy has been talking for a long time, the purpose is as simple as that!

Mo Di smiled and said: "There is a little truth, you go with your chief of staff Jin Tongxuan, listen to Tong Xuan's opinion, you are a gangster, and Tong Xuan is the real Confucian general." ”

Huang Tianhua heard Mo Di say the word Confucian general, and nodded involuntarily, talking about soldiers on paper is the basis of all strategies and tactics, and those who don't talk about soldiers on paper are brutal. Shi Chong is a typical way of fighting beasts this time, I don't know what kind of movement Chen Zhengxin and Liu Qinglong will make tomorrow with Liu Qinglong's thin monkey.

The movement in Hefei is not small, and there is no movement in some places where there should be movement. To everyone's surprise, at a regular press conference held in Nanjing later that afternoon, the Japanese Central China Front did not show any attitude towards the probability of Hefei being attacked three times in a row, as if these things had nothing to do with them. Some international reporters inquired about this matter with Major General Muto Akira, deputy director of the General Staff of the spokesman of the Central China Front in Nanjing, and they were unexpectedly informed that the Imperial Army had not sent troops into Hefei, and that only some people whose families had been traumatized during the war had spontaneously formed an armed force to carry out activities in the Hefei area, and that the Army Front did not bear any responsibility for the actions of these people. When the reporter asked again, even if these armed forces did something anti-human similar to the Nanjing Massacre, would the Central China Front let it go? Akira Muto nodded and said that this is the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, not the Ministry of War. The reporter asked: It is said that the armed forces in Hefei are called the Sakai detachment, and the person in charge is Tokutaro Sakai. Muto Akira pondered for a while and replied solemnly that Tokutaro Sakai had been demoted because of some inappropriate command when he entered Nanjing, and he had indeed ceased to be the commander of the 11th Brigade of the Sixth Division, and was currently serving as the commander of the Sixth Division's supplementary detachment, and was still in Wuhu. The Sakai detachment in Hefei has nothing to do with Major General Tokutaro Sakai.

When the news reached the northern suburbs of Hefei, Mo Di laughed and said to his subordinates, we will work hard to kill all the Japanese, send the body of Tokutaro Sakai to Nanjing, and see if Muto Akira admits the account.

Gong Qingyuan was very calm, and said: "In this case, this group of Japanese soldiers belongs to the standard outcasts, we just have to bully them, these three battles, we only sacrificed thirteen soldiers, but the dead and wounded in our hands are close to three hundred, get him a few more times, let this detachment of more than 2,000 people have half or one-third left, and then fight with them." It's just time, we have it! ”

Grinding, continue to grind, the invincible policy has been very clear, as long as time passes, this Sakai detachment, which does not know whether it is genuine or fake, will definitely be eaten, and the battle situation is very optimistic.

However, the battle situation on the Longhai Line in the north was not so optimistic, and the news from Tang Ruru that the Japanese 14th Division had rushed to Lanfeng alone, and had committed a taboo in soldiers. The Wuhan Command Department decided that Xue Yue, commander-in-chief of the 19th Group Army of the First Theater, would command Yu Jishi's 74th Army, Li Hanxun's 64th Army, Song Xilian's 71st Army, and Gui Yongqing's 27th Army from east to west. At the same time, Hu Zongnan, the commander of the 17th Army Corps, was asked to surround the Japanese 14th Division in the areas of Lanfeng, Luowangzhai, Sanyiji, and Quxingji from west to east. The contest between hundreds of thousands of troops and less than 20,000 Japanese troops began.

Yesterday afternoon, that is, at 6:30 p.m. on 25 May, the whole line was launched in a general attack, with a very clear purpose, to annihilate the enemy in the Lanfeng, Sanyizhai, Lanfengkou, Chenliukou, Quxingji, and Luowangzhai areas before dawn today. Lao Jiang has the following sentence in the order: "If there is any person who cowers and fails to attack, he will be severely punished according to the law; If the most meritorious deeds are built in the battle or the most captured by the enemy, a special award shall be given. I hope that the department will obey and not disobey. ”

Now the time is already in the afternoon and evening, and Mo Di asked Gong Qingyuan to inquire about the battle situation in Lanfeng from the old relationship before, and the other party replied with four words: The battle is in full swing. Mo Di sighed, I'm afraid of trouble! Gong Qingyuan asked, what's the trouble? Mo Di told him that if five or six corps could not take a division within the scheduled time, they would never be able to take it anymore because they did not have enough time. Now the Japanese army entangled in the Longhai Line is only the 14th Division of the First Army of the North China Front Xiangyue Qingsi, and soon the 5th, 10th, and 16th Divisions of the Second Army of the North China Front Nishio Shouzo will move, and once the 3rd, 9th, and 13th Divisions of the Central China Front Army are relieved, and there will be another Xuzhou-style encirclement in Lanfeng, I am afraid that these descendants of the central army will be in a catastrophe.

Sure enough, when night fell, Tang Ruru came with the news that the 16th Division of the Japanese Second Army in North China had taken Yucheng in the direction of Germany, and the 10th Division of the Japanese Army had taken Bozhou in the direction of Zhoukou.