Since they had not thought about entering the Japanese flank positions, Tang Cheng and the others hurriedly retreated after taking advantage of them. Tang Cheng tried to attract a small group of Japanese troops to pursue them again.
Troops. Both Tang Cheng and the Japanese army had a good plan, but it was a pity that Tang Cheng and the others took the initiative to retreat, but the soldiers in the Japanese flank positions thought they were too desperate to pursue them. The Japanese army was not fooled, which also made Tang Cheng a little disappointed.
They simply took the dice and circled in another direction, trying to sneak attack the Japanese army from another direction.
The successive failures in attacking the mountain made the Japanese army dispirited. Under the persuasion of his officers, Okazaki, who led the team, finally came to his senses. After learning that his defense line was attacked by a small group of Chinese troops again, he was already in a state of despair.
Okazaki finally ordered the troops to assemble, and after losing all the mortars and part of the machine firepower, he led the remaining soldiers to retreat in the direction of Xinpingyang.
At this point in the battle, the battle was no longer about the firepower of both sides, but the determination and will of the soldiers and officers. After learning that his back line of defense was almost swept away by the cunning China commandos, Okazaki was actually in chaos.
Once the situation was secured, there was no need for Tang Cheng and others to launch a sneak attack, and the Japanese army would no longer be able to control the development of the war situation.
Tangcheng and the others, who had successively succeeded, didn't know this. They just took advantage of the high morale to look for opportunities to fight the Japanese army again. The Japanese army, which had already assembled its troops like hedgehogs and was preparing to retreat to New Pacific, would give Tangcheng such an opportunity.
, at the cost of three people being killed and Tang Cheng himself being injured by a stray bullet, Tang Cheng and the others could only intercept about 20 Japanese soldiers, but they watched helplessly as the large group of Japanese soldiers roared away from the battlefield.
The sound of gunfire didn't stop all night. After being carried up the mountain by Dice and others, Mike forced Tangcheng to lie down naked in a damp earth cave with his clothes on. But until dawn, Hou San and the others who went down the mountain to pursue the Japanese army did not come back. It's not that they didn't come back,
Instead, they could not come back at all. The direct company stood on Tushan and withstood the fierce Japanese offensives again and again. Although they killed a lot of Japanese troops, their own casualties were not small. The Tushan position was held.
However, after a bloody night of fighting and seeing too many Paoze killed, when it came time to beat up the drowned dog, how could Hou San and the others let go of such an opportunity without killing enough of them.
The clouds in the sky still looked thick, but they were no longer as low as the previous few days. The allied aircraft fleet flying in from a distance was vast. Actually, counting carefully, there were only a dozen or so aircraft in the sky.
It looked like Mike, who was staying behind at Tushan, was happily greeting a few soldiers to light the pyre. Although it was daytime, Mike, who had no signal beacon, could only use fireworks to guide the aircraft in the sky.
Fighter planes were constantly circling over the earth mountain. Tang Cheng, who had emerged from the earth hole with sleepy eyes, was squatting on the ground, lazily and listlessly looking up at the fighter planes in the sky. Although no one told him what was going on, Tang Cheng knew about these planes.
It has something to do with Mike. Judging from the posture of these planes, they must be airdropping supplies to the direct company. The transport plane hovering in the sky finally opened the door and dropped them from the wide belly like a hen laying eggs.
A series of umbrella flowers appeared, and the soldiers on the ground began to laugh and chase the umbrella flowers dropped by the plane.
Tang Cheng, who was squatting, squinted his eyes and looked at the planes hovering in the sky. Tang Cheng began to imagine himself as a plane, but the plane he imagined was not dropping supplies, but was flying from high altitude.
Looking down at the Tushan Mountain after a night of fierce fighting. The earthen troughs used to temporarily park corpses on the Tushan Mountain were almost full. When Tang Cheng was carried up the mountain, he had already glanced at it. Last night, at least 40 people died in the battle while holding on to the Tushan Mountain.
, there may be more injuries.
Tang Cheng didn't know if the current direct company was in the worst situation, but he knew that his direct company must have less than 200 people now, and that only included those who were injured but not dead. Seeing that Tang Cheng had already come out
After walking out of the cave, Mike walked towards Tangcheng, waving to the departing planes, and said some things that Tangcheng was not interested in. Although he didn't want to hear it, Tangcheng didn't show it. In this case,
, there is no point in arguing, and Tang Cheng doesn’t want to conflict with Mike now.
Mike kept telling Tangcheng what was in this batch of airdropped supplies, including bread, butter, coffee, cigarettes and bacon, as well as ammunition supplies for the direct company. The smile on Mike's face
Tang Cheng was embarrassed to get angry with him. He knew that without Mike's efforts, the headquarters might have replenished the airdrop materials of the direct company. Maybe the situation of the direct company was not as bad as he just thought. Tang Cheng secretly comforted this person in his heart.
himself, but when he heard Mike saying that the headquarters was going to restart the attack on New Pingyang, Tang Cheng's mood was finally confused.
After just leading the Japanese troops in Xinpingyang and running in the woods for a few days, more than half of the direct company's troops had been killed or injured. If they followed the command's orders to go to Xinpingyang to contain the Japanese troops, Tangcheng really didn't know that there were already less than 200 direct subordinates.
There were only a few people left alive at the end. Tang Cheng could still laugh when he saw the boxes with umbrella flowers piled up by soldiers in the distance, but now he can no longer laugh. He dropped them from the air
The more supplies there are, the more people directly under his command will die. The big bosses in the headquarters will not do business at a loss.
Seeing that Tang Cheng remained silent, Mike thought that Tang Cheng was injured or had not rested all night. Mike then asked a few questions, but Tang Cheng just shook his head without explaining the reason. The reason was actually very simple, as long as Mike thought about it carefully.
After thinking about it, it is not difficult to understand why Tangcheng is like this, but Mike did not realize this at this moment. The sun was rising, and Hou Sancai, who was also exhausted, returned with the soldiers who had achieved great success. According to Liu Shitou, they
We chased the retreating Japanese soldiers for almost 10 miles. If it weren't for the fact that everyone couldn't catch up, I would have chased those Japanese soldiers to death.
After learning that the headquarters had airdropped supplies from planes, the soldiers who had just won the battle laughed again. The impatient guys had already rummaged through the boxes that were said to be filled with bacon, preparing to have a good meal in advance. Tangcheng did not
Participating in the looting of the soldiers, Tang Cheng, wrapped in a military blanket, was taking a nap with his eyes closed against a big stone, while Mike was squatting in a place where Tang Cheng did not want to make coffee. Mike believed that the coffee he brewed would be able to
Help Tangcheng regain his energy very well.
I don’t know if Tang Cheng’s prayer was really heard by God. Tang Cheng ordered the direct company to rest here for a few days in Tushan. Mike did not express any objection, but it was only after lunch that Mike received Huang Hanju’s message from the radio station.
New information sent by Lieduo. Stilwell has returned to Ramgarh from Chongqing and claims to have the support of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek. The New Pacific Operation, which was previously not favored by Chinese generals, is about to be restarted.
Tangcheng is naturally not happy about this, but in Stilwell's new plan, the troops of the 38th Division of the New First Army on the Nanrong River line will be the first to engage in firefights with the Japanese army. Tangcheng no longer cares about the 38th Division on the Nanrong River line.
Whether the division troops can move south smoothly, as long as the troops of the 38th Division can maintain exchanges of fire with the Japanese army on the Nanrong River line, I believe that the Japanese army here in Xinpingyang cannot sit idly by. As long as the Japanese army's attention continues to be attracted to the Nanrong River line, the direct company
A sneak attack on Xinpingyang is not necessarily impossible. As long as you have the determination to make a desperate move, it is very possible to capture Xinpingyang.
Contrary to Tang Cheng's expectation, when Hou San and the other guys learned that the command headquarters had decided to go to Xinpingyang to attract Japanese troops, it turned out to be very normal. "We were originally a group of rough people who only served as soldiers for food."
, what did the higher-ups say, then what can we do? Is it possible that we can continue to go up there? It’s all a war, no matter who we fight, maybe if we conquer New Pingyang, the men at the headquarters can too
Give us a promotion." Dice's laughter and indifference were directly ignored by Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng could only find Hou San and Tan Fei to handle such a matter.
"Then the headquarters has spoken, we can't disobey orders, right?" Hou San didn't finish his words, but the subtext in his words was similar to what Hou San said. Although the direct company suffered a lot of casualties, there were still a lot of casualties.
Not just any Japanese army could figure it out, but Hou San was still sure of this.
"That's what I mean, but when it comes to fighting, it's up to us how we fight. Anyway, the foreign emperor will be affected by his fate. Those people in the headquarters can only look at the map. They don't know what the actual situation is.
, then it’s not just what we say, the guys above will listen to whatever they say." Tan Fei is much more cunning. According to him, fighting the Japanese army around the periphery of New Pingyang is a tactic, and directly knocking on the door to extract wages from the bottom of the cauldron is also a tactic.
A tactic, as to which tactic is used, it all depends on how Mike reports it.
Tangcheng was very helpless and gave a look. It would be great if it was really so easy to solve. Those people in the headquarters are all veterans of manipulating people. Even though they have never really been on the frontline battlefield, if they can find out from
When the loopholes in the direct company were discovered, even Mike would be implicated. Hou San and Tan Fei failed to discuss the outcome, so Tang Cheng had no choice but to go find Mike, which surprised Tang Cheng again.
Yes, there is an amazing coincidence between Mike's meaning and Tan Fei's suggestion.
"You don't need to pay too much attention to what the headquarters means. The Dalong River will rise every year in the rainy season, and the same goes for the Nanrong River. If the 38th Division wants to go south in time, it may not be able to go south smoothly to Xinping in the first two weeks of October.
On the outskirts of the Yangtze River, there is no force from the 38th Division to help attack Xinpingyang. It’s just that we can’t take Xinpingyang at all. Since we can’t take Xinpingyang, we shouldn’t easily provoke the Japanese troops in Xinpingyang. The most we can do is harass them. I’m afraid