Chapter 244: Hua Mulan's First Appearance
Sakata led the team to pursue them again, and Xiangyue Squadron could only follow. Others had no say. After all, Sakata was the commander designated by the commander.
Anyone who disobeys the order must bear all the responsibilities. If you win, it's fine. If you lose, the first one will take the blame.
No one wants to be the scapegoat!
The company led the exhausted Japs towards the preset ambush position of the garrison company. More than 500 officers and soldiers of the garrison company led by Gao Wancheng had already set up pocket formations and were waiting for the Japs to come.
In order to increase the impact of the first round of firepower, Gao Wancheng did not hesitate to bring over the heartless artillery platoon.
Six heartless cannons have been buried on the ridge 300 meters away, and the shooting angles have been adjusted, striving to hit the first shot.
Since coming to the Independence Camp and partnering with Chu Xiong, he has also learned a lot and lost a lot of money, and he no longer worries about ammunition when fighting an ambush.
In the words of Chu Xiong:
I want saturation bombing!
Those who can be dealt with with cannons will never use guns, and those who can be dealt with with guns will never fight with the Japanese with bayonets, so as to minimize the casualties of soldiers.
Sakata was completely blinded by anger, and he chased without hesitation, heading straight for the pocket formation set up by Gao Wancheng.
"Instructor, the Japanese are here, hundreds of them!"
"Platoon Commander Ma, please keep your sights on me. This explosive pack is not cheap!"
"Instructor, don't worry, I promise to invite them to fly on a clay plane!"
Ma Dabao patted his chest and assured Gao Wancheng that he had this confidence and had calculated the distance and angle of the bombardment in advance. If the bombardment still failed to hit, he, the artillery platoon leader, could go to the cooking squad to carry the iron pot.
First, they passed through the pocket formation in a row, and then relied on the ground formation to switch to defense on the spot, blocking the Japanese's frontal breakthrough path.
Ten minutes later, Sakata's squadron entered the pocket formation, and Gao Wan's formation signaled to let them go.
Then Xiangyue Squadron and Brigade Headquarters and other Japanese troops also entered the pocket formation, and Gao Wancheng promptly issued the order for bombardment.
Ma Dabao personally operated an unscrupulous cannon and lit the fuse. With a "boom" sound, a tightly bundled 5-kilogram explosive package was thrown out and headed straight for the Japanese...
Xiangyue old devil heard the sound of heavy objects breaking through the air, looked up, and his face turned pale with fright——
"Enemy attack!"
As soon as he finished speaking, an explosive pack landed ten meters behind him.
"boom!"
The explosive package exploded in the air more than two meters above the ground, throwing out a large amount of debris and shooting at the group of Japanese soldiers in a 360-degree direction.
Xiangyue had more than a dozen fragments in his body, and he saw Amaterasu without even feeling any pain.
After the explosive pack exploded, there was not a single Japs standing within a radius of fifty meters. Many of them were bleeding from their orifices and were shocked to death. A whole squad was wiped out in one shot.
Ma Dabao breathed a sigh of relief. Almost all the six explosive packets fell into the crowd of Japanese soldiers. He no longer had to worry about carrying the iron pot.
Ma Dabao felt relieved, but the Japanese were in bad luck. Large areas were blown down in large areas. After the first round of explosions, Xiangyue's squadron was almost empty.
Sakata's squadron was not much better. They were fired upon by more than a dozen machine guns, and more than half of them were killed or injured in an instant.
Sakata's life was quite long. He escaped the first round of blows, but he was also stunned——
"There's really an ambush on Bagaya Road!"
The surviving Japanese soldiers were running around like headless flies. There were ambushes in every direction they went, and deadly bullets and grenades were everywhere.
Seeing that there were not many Japanese left, Gao Wancheng promptly issued the order to charge. The garrison company and the first company, with more than 700 vigorous soldiers, surrounded them from all directions and quickly cleared out the remaining enemies.
This was an ambush battle without any suspense. More than 400 remaining Japs from the 1st Battalion of the 35th Regiment were wiped out without a single one slipping through the net.
At this point, the First Battalion has completely withdrawn from the battle order of the 35th Regiment!
An arm of the 35th Regiment was broken, but the other brigades suffered no losses.
More than 10 light and heavy machine guns, 2 81mm mortars, more than 30 artillery shells, and 8 grenade launchers were seized;
Seized were 262 Type 38 rifles, more than 30 Southern pistols, more than 20,000 rounds of various types of ammunition, more than 1,000 grenades, and more than 400 sets of other individual equipment.
"Old Li, you give priority to replenishing ammunition and supplies. Come here to catch more Japs!"
Gao Wancheng, who was in a good mood, started joking as soon as he saw Li Qing. He was using Li Qing's company as bait.
"Instructor, you don't bring this kind of thing, you are just Jiang Taigong fishing, using me as bait!"
"Old Li, how about we switch, you stay in the old camp, and I go and evade the Japanese?"
Li Qing saw that the instructor had itchy hands and was trying to steal business from him. That was no good. He hadn't had enough fun with the Japanese yet.
"Instructor, I won't bother you with this. We all perform our duties!"
After Li Qing finished speaking, as if he was afraid that the instructor would steal his business, he turned around and shouted at the officers and soldiers of the company:
"Company, hurry up and replenish ammunition. We have to rush back to Liu Town overnight. Let's catch big fish for the instructor!"
When Gao Wancheng heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. It seemed that it would be difficult for him to lead troops to fight in the future.
After Battalion Commander Gao became Instructor Gao, he had fewer and fewer opportunities to fight. Watching others fight against Japanese soldiers really made his hands itch.
Liuzhen, temporary base of the 35th Regiment
After winning the battle, Miyazaki was not in a very good mood. His original desire to have a carnival at Yanagi Town at night became a joke made by Amaterasu.
There is still no news from the troops sent out to clean up. These bastards became wild horses as soon as they were released, and they did not take the initiative to report the situation.
It will be dark soon, and none of the three main brigades are around. What if the independent battalion attacks Liu Town at night...
Miyazaki did not dare to think about it any further and directly called the communications staff officer:
"Is there any news about the two bastards Kawamura and Sakata?"
"Commander Commander, Your Excellency, not yet! The Kawamura side has been unable to get through, and Sakata's First Battalion has not returned yet."
"Yoshi, keep calling Kawamura-kun!"
Sakata didn't even bring a radio with him, so he had to wait for him to return by himself. This bastard Kawamura was too much. He must have been unable to move among the pretty girls.
"Bagaya road!"
Miyazaki couldn't help but greet Kawamura Nakasa's female relatives again.
"Bagayalu, these bastards!"
Lieutenant Commander Kawamura was also greeting the female relatives of his subordinates. After he sent out several squadrons, there was no news from them.
There was only one squadron left by his side, but he still couldn't find a single civilian. It was as if the entire Liu Town had become a ghost town, and people were panicking.
The commander of the regiment sent several telegrams, but he pretended not to have received them.
He had no choice. All the troops had been dispatched, and each squadron had no radio station, so he could only wait until the agreed time to assemble.
Chapter completed!