At 11 o'clock in the morning, the soldiers of the New Regiment, the Independent Regiment, and the 772 Regiment who were ambushing both sides of Shentou Ridge entered their hiding positions one after another.
There were two grenades or hand grenades hanging on his body, and the large knife originally carried on his back was pressed against his chest.
The three group leaders, with a small number of manpower, checked one by one, lifted up the downed weeds, wiped away the obvious footprints, and tried to restore the hillsides on both sides to their original state.
At this time, the brigade headquarters, artillery battalion and other brigades were directly deployed in the woods under the large slope on the west side. The New Regiment was on the right side of the road, the Independent Regiment was on the left side of the road, and the 772nd Regiment followed the mountain ridge from the southwest to
It was arranged diagonally in the northeast and was responsible for intercepting Japanese troops.
"Captain, the special agent company has been dispatched!" Zhang Dabiao reported.
"Yes!" Li Yunlong nodded, then looked along the ridge towards the Independent Regiment and the 772nd Regiment's layout. Then he said: "Dabiao, hurry up and take cover!"
The new special agent company was specially sent to burn down the wooden bridge near Luhe Village. The reason why Li Yunlong asked the special agent company to set off late was mainly because he was afraid of disturbing the situation.
This requires the special agent company to burn the wooden bridge after the battle, but also before the Japanese army arrives.
Li Yunlong inspected it personally and led the guards to the artillery battery position on the west side.
"Pillar, how are you? It's no problem. I just measured it with my feet. The straight line distance is 326 steps, and the diagonal distance is 600 steps!"
"Captain, don't worry, I promise to kill the little Japs in the van as soon as possible!" Wang Chengzhu promised, patting his chest.
"Well done, the three regiments took the cannonball as an order and launched an attack as soon as the explosion sounded!"
At 1:00 noon, the Japanese vanguard Uehara Squadron arrived belatedly.
Yosuke Uehara rode a military horse and walked in the center of the team. He looked at the mountains in front of him and said to the adjutant beside him: "Where are the mountains ahead?"
The adjutant hurriedly took out the map from the backpack on his back, searched carefully along the Handan-Changchun Highway, and then said: "Sir, ahead is Shentou Ridge marked on the map, and there is a Shenda Village on the west side!"
"Yusi, tell the soldiers to go to Kanda Village to rest temporarily!" Uehara Yosuke said.
"Sir, there was a big battle ahead. The Eighth Route Army ambushed both sides of the mountain ridge and annihilated more than 400 imperial troops!" the adjutant reminded hurriedly.
In the Japanese army, the adjutant, or executive officer, is a special position that exists dependent on the chief military officer. It is equivalent to a smaller chief of staff and is responsible for a variety of chores besides military command. At the same time, he also has to read battle reports and respond when necessary.
The military chief made recommendations.
"Baga, do you think I am a three-year-old child? There are bare mountain ridges with slopes on both sides. How can the Eighth Route Army lay an ambush?" Uehara Yosuke laughed and scolded.
"On the contrary, the hilltop ahead, close to the road, is a good place for an ambush!" Yosuke Uehara pointed at Shenjia Mountain in the northwest.
"Sir, it's absolutely true. I found out from past battle reports!"
Being interrupted by the adjutant, Uehara Yosuke had no interest in continuing to rest. He waved his hand and said: "Keep moving forward. If the Eighth Route Army really has ambushes here, they will deal with Nara Masahiko behind them and will not attack us in advance!"
Yosuke Uehara always hated Nara Masahiko, and he would always make fun of Nara Masahiko in his jokes.
A squadron of Japanese soldiers was slowly sent up the ridge. Halfway through, two Japanese soldiers broke away from the team and walked to the roadside. They were...
"No problem, it's such a big slope. If someone rolls down, there's probably no chance of survival!" said a Japanese soldier.
"It's really hard to imagine how the Eighth Route Army carried out an ambush in such an environment!" The Japanese soldier said, pulling up his trousers and holding a rifle, as if he wanted to come down to check.
As soon as he took two steps down, he heard the call of his companion and turned around quickly.
Not far from the feet of the Japanese army, a soldier of the Independent Regiment breathed a long sigh of relief. Just when the Japanese soldier just stepped on the soil on the slope, the soldier could clearly feel the gravel and clods of soil moving on the soil.
The sound was so loud that he could even step on himself if he took two more steps down.
The ambushing soldier slowly loosened his clenched fists, and unknowingly saw a layer of sticky sweat on his hands.
The Uehara Squadron passed smoothly, and the main force of the Nara Wing also drove in in a mighty manner. The first one was a Type 94 military truck with a crooked machine gun mounted on the truck.
Since most trucks were used to transport the wounded, most of the Japanese army's marching columns used horse-drawn carriages to transport supplies, and packhorses to transport artillery and heavy machine guns.
Half past noon.
The Japanese rearguard has completely entered the ambush circle, and the vanguard has moved to the ambush area of the 772nd Regiment.
Li Yunlong gave an order: "Zhuzhu, knock out the Japanese truck for me!"
Wang Chengzhu kept his eyes fixed on the Japanese platoon truck. After hearing Li Yunlong's order, he personally controlled a Type 97 Type 90 mortar and slightly adjusted the muzzle.
"Tong Tong Tong!" Several mortars on the position made a dull sound.
Fortunately, Wang Chengzhu had made calculations before this, and a shell accurately hit the truck, and the truck at the front of the Japanese army instantly turned into a big fireball.
Several artillery shells exploded near the truck, and a large gap suddenly opened in the Japanese marching column.
"What a great pillar!" Li Yunlong praised him when he saw that his goal was achieved.
Wang Chengzhu was also in a cold sweat. Originally, he used artillery to attack targets, either from a high position or from low to high, and his field of vision was always wide. Now the position is set up on flat ground, the road is narrow, the muzzle is slightly biased, and the shells
You may end up next to your own comrades.
The calmness of Shentou Ridge was broken by the explosion. As soon as the explosion sounded, the three main regiments of the 386th Brigade immediately launched attacks from three sides. The ambushed soldiers jumped out of the trenches and foxholes.
The nearest soldier on the roadside was less than ten meters away, and the farthest one was sixty or seventy meters away.
Regardless of brushing off the soil and weeds on their bodies, the soldiers took out hand grenades one after another, and those who were further away rushed forward a few steps.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The first wave of more than 4,000 grenades came overwhelmingly, exploding like raindrops in the Japanese marching column.
The scattered shrapnel, the shining flames, together with the diffuse smoke and loess, formed an angry fire dragon, which engulfed the Japanese army in one fell swoop.
Faced with this sudden blow, the Japanese army couldn't figure out where so many Eighth Route Army troops came from.
The Japanese troops who responded to the explosion fled in all directions, but because the mountain ridge was too narrow, the Japanese soldiers were crowded together and there was no way to form a formation.
Just when the Japanese army was panicking, the second wave of grenades fell from the sky. The densely packed grenades left the Japanese army with nowhere to hide. Many Japanese soldiers stared blankly at the sky.
The scene was like thunder coming from the sky, which completely frightened the invaders, who were inferior to pigs and dogs. They wished they could grow a pair of wings to escape from this bloody battlefield.
"Amaterasu, please help me return to my hometown!" Many Japanese soldiers who survived the first wave of grenade explosions were now lying on the ground.
In order to ensure that the grenades caused damage to the Japanese army, most of the grenades used by Li Yunlong and other three regiments were Japanese grenades captured in recent battles. The puppet army's grenades were much more powerful than those made in the border areas of the Eighth Route Army.
For a time, most of the Japanese army suffered casualties, and the wounded soldiers lay on the ground wailing helplessly. The soldiers could not find the generals, and the generals could not find the soldiers.
Due to the narrow road and the close distance between the two sides, the Japanese army's heavy machine guns and artillery were all used as decorations. Even the Type 89 grenade, which had always been a headache for the Eighth Route Army, could not exert its power at this time.
After two rounds of grenades, the 772 regiment attacked from the north. The new regiment and the independent regiment attacked from the east and west sides. Soldiers holding light machine guns and submachine guns rushed to the front. Soldiers holding machetes and rifles followed behind. The Japanese army marched long.
The team was stopped at the head, tail and waist, and the Japanese army was immediately cut into several sections.
Both sides were fighting with the Japanese army in an instant.
Masahiko Nara's regiment was walking in the middle of the march with Ohara's brigade. Masahiko Nara, who was sitting in the truck, was forcibly dragged off by the adjutant.
Several grenades exploded nearby, the truck stopped on the road burst into flames, and the blast of air blew Masahiko Nara and his adjutant away.
"Ozuo, we were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties!" Ohara Junichiro was eager to protect his master. He hurriedly gathered several soldiers, found Masahiko Nara who was lying on the ground, and hurriedly pulled him to a car.
Next to the carriage.
"Where did so many Eighth Route Army troops come from!" Masahiko Nara hammered the ground angrily.
"This is Shentou Ridge, this is Shentou Ridge!" The adjutant seemed to remember something.
"Baga, what is Shentou Ridge?"
"The Eighth Route Army ambushed the 108th Division and the 16th Division here the year before last!" the adjutant said in horror.
Masahiko Nara seemed to remember that he had seen the battle report of the Battle of Shentou Ridge when he was serving at the General Staff Headquarters, and couldn't help but regret that he was stupid enough to be attacked again by the Eighth Route Army at the same place.
"Baga, is it possible that Yosuke Uehara is a loser? He killed the warriors of the empire!"
"Captain, what we need to do now is to break out of the encirclement quickly. I have observed that the Eighth Route Army has fewer troops on the east side of the highway. There is an abandoned village on the opposite side. As long as the village is occupied, the soldiers can build a position and there is still a way to survive!" Ohara!
Junichiro pointed to the Kamito Village on the east side and said.
"Yusi, break out immediately!" Nara Masahiko said approvingly.
At this time, there were only about fifty Japanese troops guarding the regiment leader Nara Masahiko, and the rest of the Japanese troops were fighting with the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.
More than 50 Japanese troops quickly left the battlefield and headed east. Along the way, the flag soldiers waved their flags and sent out signals. The accompanying Japanese troops also shouted: "The commander of the regiment ordered everyone to break out to the east!"
The Japanese troops of the Ohara brigade who were fighting continued to have people break away from the battle and converge in the direction of Masahiko Nara. In a short period of time, more than 200 people gathered.
Although the Japanese troops in the Ishikawa Brigade and the Kotani Brigade on both sides of the marching column could not hear the shouts, they could see the converging teams, and there were many scattered Japanese troops gathering eastward.
At this point, the Japanese troops breaking out to the east were divided into three groups. The group in the middle led by Masahiko Nara was about less than 300 people, and the people on the north and south sides were scattered and withdrawn from the battle, with less than 100 people on each side.
At the same time, when the battle started, Li Yunlong ordered Wang Chengzhu's artillery battery to withdraw to Shentou Village.
Li Yunlong continued to squat with the guard company, just to see how many Japanese troops broke out.
"Captain, the little Japs have broken out to the east!" said the commander of the guard company on the side.
Li Yunlong rubbed his left and right hands together, pulled out the big knife on his back, and said loudly: "Okay, I just have itchy hands! Guard, follow me!"
Under the leadership of Li Yunlong, more than 180 soldiers from the guard company rushed toward the more than 70 Japanese troops marching eastward on the north side.
The Eighth Route Army soldiers who suddenly emerged from the grass frightened the Japanese soldiers who fled in a hurry and stopped in their tracks.
The one with the highest rank in the team was a Japanese captain. The Japanese captain drew his command sword and said: "Warriors, serve the emperor!"
The Japanese captain rushed over first, followed closely by a dozen Japanese soldiers from his headquarters, and then about thirty more Japanese soldiers mustered up the courage to follow. The remaining two dozen Japanese soldiers stopped in place, holding a
All rifles are no longer as arrogant and domineering as they used to be.
In the blink of an eye, more than fifty Japanese soldiers were overwhelmed by the crowd of guard companies.
Soldiers from the guard company formed groups of three or two, fighting back to back against the Japanese troops in front of them.
Li Yunlong held the knife in both hands and faced the Japanese captain immediately.
"Baga!" the Japanese captain, holding a saber and looking ferocious, roared angrily.
"Hey, little devil, what's the name of the devil? When it comes to playing with knives, I'm your ancestor!"
After Li Yunlong finished speaking, he raised his broadsword without any tricks and struck the Japanese captain with the force of Huashan Mountain.
The Japanese captain hurriedly put his sword across his chest and blocked Li Yunlong's three slashes in succession. His face turned red for a moment, obviously it was quite difficult to deal with it.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Then he was kicked away by Li Yunlong. After falling to the ground, he felt a flash of white light and a sharp pain in his abdomen.
"Damn it, what did I think it was? It turns out to be a parallel importer!" Li Yunlong said disdainfully, holding a big knife.
"Captain, the kid is running away!" Guard Huzi pointed at the twenty-odd Japanese soldiers who had stopped in place and were now running towards the north.
"Don't worry about it, catch the big one and leave the little ones!"
After a wave of bayonet attacks, the guard company still suffered more than 30 casualties despite its numerical superiority.
Li Yunlong did not stay too long, leaving a few soldiers to take care of the wounded, while the rest continued to rush towards the mountain ridge.
On the mountain ridge, Cheng Shifa's 772 regiment was fighting with the Japanese troops of the Ishikawa Battalion.
The regiment leader Cheng Shifa was in danger at this time. Because his sword was too powerful, he killed four Japanese soldiers one after another. The surrounding Japanese soldiers surrounded him under the command of a commander Cao.
I saw several soldiers around me sacrificed one after another, and the remaining soldiers nearby were entangled by the Japanese army and could not take action.
When Cheng Shifa saw the bright bayonet approaching, he couldn't help but regret in his heart: Cheng Shifa, Cheng Shifa, you must have done this today.
"Damn it, little devil, I'll fight you!"
When Cheng Shifa was in despair, he saw magic soldiers descending from the sky, and a group of Eighth Route Army soldiers were cut down by Japanese soldiers.
"Haha, blind man Cheng, I saved your life again today!" Li Yunlong laughed.
"Old Li!" Cheng Shifa punched Li Yunlong so hard that tears of excitement were about to fall out.
at the same time.
The Japanese troops that broke out from the center and the Japanese troops that broke out from the south have merged, and their number has reached more than 300 people.
Seeing that he was less than 200 meters away from Shentou Village, Masahiko Nara excitedly pulled out his command sword and shouted: "Give me some!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Nara Masahiko seemed to see a figure moving around the lake in Shentou Village.
Then came the sound of heavy machine gun fire.
The garrison of Shentou Village deployed more than fifty heavy machine guns on the position, most of which were Type 92.
Although the firepower was not sustainable, it was enough to eliminate the Japanese troops in front of them.
After a wave of firepower, more than 300 Japanese troops who rushed towards Shentou Village were brutally harvested by the dense firepower net.
During the raid, Japanese troops fell to the ground in droves.
In the blink of an eye, the Type 92 heavy machine gun's thirty rounds were all fired up, and there were still a few Maxims left that were still harvesting the remaining Japanese troops.
The commander of the first battalion of the garrison gave up his job and shouted: "First battalion, chop these idiots into pieces for me!"
As the first battalion launched, the other two battalions were not far behind, crushing the Japanese troops in front of them and rushing towards Shentou Ridge.
Only a large number of machine gunners, a guard company, and Li Dafeng were left on the position, which was dizzying in the wind.
The guard company commander on the side said lively: "Sure, are we guards going to be connected or not? Please tell me!"