On the artillery positions of the new regiment. Zhu

After receiving Zhang Dabiao's order, the artillerymen began to get busy in an orderly manner.

The fireworks of howitzers and mountain guns flickered continuously, and one shell after another shot into the sky, cutting arcs in the sky, and then galloping down on the Japanese positions.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Swarms of shells fell, and exploding fireballs and billowing smoke continued to rise.

Not only did they blow up the positions that had been plowed several times again, but they also blew up devils, mud, sand and gravel into the sky.

The devils ran to the top of the mountain in panic......

Zhang Dabiao once again ordered 8 tanks and 8 companies to start attacking, and as Zhang Dabiao expected, this time after attacking the enemy's position, the devils on the anticline counterattacked again. Zhu

However, the 8th Company, which had just captured the position, immediately withdrew from the position it had just occupied under the cover of tanks.

As soon as the devil emerged from the top of the mountain, he was subjected to intensive artillery fire.

But the devil was not a fool, seeing the infantry of the Eighth Route Army retreating, he immediately returned to the anticline of the hillside after being shelled, leaving only a small number of infantry on the positive incline.

Zhang Dabiao then reported the situation by telegram to the regimental headquarters of the new regiment.

At the same time, the 9th Company was ordered to launch a feint attack on the devil's position.

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At the headquarters of the new regiment, Li Yunlong couldn't help but squint his eyes after listening to the telegram read by Chief of Staff Wang Dehou. Zhu

The main attacking troops of the three directions sent telegrams almost at the same time, but they were stubbornly blocked by the devils, who had a large number of troops, and the main attacking troops suffered losses when they were caught off guard.

In particular, not a single person from the seventh company of the first battalion left the battle alive.

Although the position was recaptured by the devils, the Seventh Company replaced at least 400 devils with more than 160 casualties.

Of course, this battle loss is more than Li Yunlong's dissatisfaction, according to the previous battles, he can even do 1 soldier for 5 lives for a devil.

But this time the new regiment is the attacker, and the enemy is the devil of the 10th Division, even if it is not satisfied, it can only be accepted.

"When the battle is over, we must rebuild the Seventh Company!"

"In the future, our Seventh Company will be called the Seventh Company of Steel!" Zhu

Li Yunlong's expression was solemn, although he did not watch the battle from the front line, he could imagine how cruel the battle was.

The strength of an elite brigade of the devil is hidden in the anticline, counterattacking towards the fighters of a company, and the soldiers are condescending, and the soldiers of this company cannot block the attack of the devils.

Everyone didn't expect the devil to come this time, mainly because the battle in front of him went a little smooth.

However, this did not change much, the four main infantry battalions of the new regiment plus seven battalions of the division, a total of 110 infantry companies.

Zhao Gang nodded and said, "When this battle is over, let's promote the fighting spirit of the Seventh Company!" ”

While speaking, Zhao Gang looked at Li Yunlong, this guy Li Yunlong brought out an iron-clad heroic army, and he couldn't defeat the army that couldn't be dragged down.

Even in the face of an enemy several times their size, none of the soldiers of the Seventh Company flinched. Zhu

Even at the last moment, the commander of the seventh company called to the battalion headquarters with a walkie-talkie and fired at him, wanting to die with the devil.

"Hmm!" Li Yunlong nodded.

Two combat staff officers marked the location of the devil's concentrated forces to block the new regiment on the map.

Deputy Regiment Commander Xing looked at the map and said, "The devils of the 10th Division are putting on a posture of decisive battle?" ”

Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and others also came up and looked at the red and blue arrows marked on the map to indicate the enemy and friend tables.

"It should be." Zhao Gang nodded, "Relying on those thickened bunkers and turrets alone, the devils of the 10th Division can't stop our attack, and the two old devils of Tanabe Moritake and Ishikawa Jiro are ready to fight hard." ”

"Desperate, huh?" Li Yunlong snorted coldly, "I see that the two old devils, Tanabe Shengwu and Ishikawa Jiro, don't know how many eyes Ma Wang Ye has, pass on my order, and immediately order the fourth and fifth battalions of the division, reinforce the first and second battalions, and call me to Heyuan County, capture the thief and capture the king first, and kill Tanabe Shengwu and Ishikawa Jiro!" "Zhu

Attacking in the direction of Heyuan County were the most elite 1st and 2nd Battalions of the New 1st Regiment.

The 3rd and 4th Battalions attacked in the direction of Anhua County, and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Divisional Battalions attacked in the direction of Ping'an County.

And the devil's front-line headquarters, Boss Chen has already provided information, and Tanabe Moritake and Ishikawa Jiro are in Heyuan County at this time.

So.

Li Yunlong was ready to plan and send a reserve team to Heyuan County with the 1st and 2nd Battalions to take the Japanese army's front-line headquarters.

The 1st and 2nd Battalions suffered more than 1,000 casualties in the battle, but the 4th and 5th Divisional Battalions never participated in the battle, and their combat effectiveness was at its peak at this time, and the total number of the two battalions exceeded 4,000.

The total strength of the four battalions exceeded 7,000, and with the cooperation of tanks and artillery, it was not a problem to defeat the devils in the direction of Heyuan County. Zhu

Although the other two attacking forces are only feints, there are still artillery groups and tanks to cooperate with the attack, and the troops are not weak, and the pressure on the devils on these two roads will also be very great, and they will definitely not be able to draw troops to reinforce the direction of Heyuan County.

"Yes!" Wang Dehou turned around and immediately walked to the high-power walkie-talkie and gave orders to the fourth and fifth battalions of the division.

The troops of the fourth and fifth battalions are on standby outside Dagu Town at any time, and they can go to the battlefield at any time.

After Wang Dehou finished giving the order, Li Yunlong looked at the time, and said to Wang Dehou: "Immediately send a report to the new second regiment and the independent regiment, informing them to give up blocking the devils and immediately move closer to my new regiment." ”

"Yes!"

Wang Dehou began to draft the telegram, and then Li Yunlong signed his name and handed it to the decoder, who translated it and handed it to the telegraph soldier to immediately send the telegram.

Then, Li Yunlong asked Zhao Gang again: "Old Zhao, are the villagers ready to transfer?" "Zhu

"The people are ready!" Zhao Gang, who was in charge of organizing the transfer of ordinary people, nodded, "You can transfer at any time!" ”

This time, thanks to the mobilization of the militia and the local government.

The devils of the 10th Division failed to break into the base area of the new regiment, so that the autumn grain harvest was successful, and the common people in the base area had food to eat for the time being.

However, there is no way to take away all the grain at once, some of the grain has been dug and buried, and after the devil leaves, he will go back to the base area to dig out the grain.

In addition, all the weapons, ammunition, and food of the new regiment must be taken away, and those that cannot be taken away must be hidden in caves or buried in pits.

At present, all this work has been completed.

Li Yunlong nodded: "Let the villagers be ready to transfer at any time, and our regimental headquarters will be transferred to the front line immediately." "Zhu

After receiving the order, the 4th and 5th Battalions of the Division rushed to reinforce the 1st and 2nd Battalions.

Next, Chen Feng followed Li Yunlong and the others to the front line to watch the battle.

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Northwest of the base area of the new 1st regiment, the headquarters of the independent regiment.

"Third battalion commander, I order you to hold out for another two hours, and retreat immediately after two hours!"

The head of the group, Kong Jie, was on the phone, looked at the watch in his hand, and then said loudly into the microphone.

There were still two hours left before the scheduled retreat. Zhu

In the distance, the rumbling shells continued to sound like muffled thunder, and the mountain artillery wing of the devils was bombarding the positions of the third battalion of the independent regiment.

The artillery battalion of the independent regiment also returned fire without showing weakness, and an artillery battle ensued between the two sides.

The third airdrop arrived the day before yesterday, and the airdrop arranged by Boss Chen not only airdropped three bases of ammunition, but also canned fruits, medicines, and canned meat.

It was precisely because of the three airdrops, as well as the strategy and tactics and reinforced concrete provided by Boss Chen, that the independent regiment was able to hold out for half a month under the attack of 40,000 devils.

After hanging up the phone, Wang Yingcai, the political commissar on the side, said with emotion: "One of our regiments actually blocked the attack of two divisions and thousands of puppet troops for half a month, I have to say, it is a miracle." ”

"I'm talking about Wang." Kong Jie was staring at the map, looked up and smiled, "Why are you suddenly sentimental?" ”

There was a hint of exhaustion between Kong Jie's eyebrows, he hadn't slept and rested for three days. Zhu

Wang Yingcai said: "Before the battle started, I never thought that the combat effectiveness of our independent regiment would be so strong, but our regiment has already suffered more than half of the casualties. ”

Speaking of the last sentence, Political Commissar Wang couldn't help but sigh.

Before the start of the war, the independent regiment had a militia and a main force of about 10,000 people, but now only about 5,000 people remain.

Among them, the main force uses American-style equipment, and the militia uses Japanese-style equipment that has been eliminated from the original main force.

The common people in the defense area of the independent regiment went to the crossing of the Yellow River to take a boat to northern Shaanxi, and in the face of nearly 40,000 devils and puppet troops, the main force of the independent regiment was insufficient, so the militia also participated in the battle.

"Although we have more than half of the casualties." Kong Jie said, "But we killed more than 15,000 people from the devil and the puppet army, and this deal is not a loss." ”

At the end of the battle, even if the devil's puppet army rushed to the position, the devil's artillery would keep shelling the position of the independent regiment, the battle was extremely cruel, both sides were playing with their lives, and the casualties of the independent regiment were not small. Zhu

However, the advantages of anti-slope and tunnel tactics, dark bunker groups, and wartime and space supply and firepower made the casualty ratio of the independent regiment to the devil and the puppet army 1 to 3.

The puppet army has almost been used as cannon fodder, and now all the attacking people are devils.

"That's right!" Wang Yingcai said, "In this battle, our independent regiment is really enough!" ”

"Report!" At this moment, the telegraph soldier held the telegram in his hand, hurriedly walked in, and gave a military salute: "Regiment commander, political commissar, the new regiment commander Li urgently telegraphs!" ”

Kong Jie hurriedly took the telegram and read it, and immediately laughed: "Lao Li informed us that we can retreat." ”

Then he said loudly: "Pass my order, and the companies directly under each battalion will retreat according to the plan, and alternately cover the withdrawal of the position!" ”

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Ten minutes later, the positions of the three battalions of the independent regiment.

"Report to the battalion commander, what should I do if there are still a few boxes of big tumor grenades that I can't take away?"

A bombardier reported to Wang Huaibao.

Boss Chen's airdrop supplies, in addition to American-style grenades, also have some large tumor grenades, which can be used as cluster grenades.

"Silly?" Wang Huaibao said, "If you can't take away the grenade, bury it, pull the string, and cook dinner for the devil." ”

"Yes!"

The bombardier turned away and began to lay out the mines. Zhu

About twenty minutes later, a squadron of devils with a 38th rifle rushed to the position of the 3rd Battalion, only to find that the 8th Route Army had already withdrawn.

One of the devils slowly approached a bunker with a 38 rifle, and stepped on the arquebus carelessly.

A few seconds later, a series of explosions suddenly soared, and the devils immediately fell to the ground, and more than a dozen devils fell in a pool of blood.

At the same time, the New Second Regiment also received a telegram of retreat, and the regiment commander Ding Wei immediately ordered a retreat and moved closer to the New First Regiment.