Li Ziwen had been observing the battle ahead. When he saw two Type 92 infantry cannons being blown up by the Japanese army, he immediately realized that the Japs were about to run away.
"Captain, the little devil is trying to run away!"
After Jing Dagang heard this, he sneered: "Run, where are you going?"
At present, except for the artillery battery, all the troops of the regiment were pressed forward. At this time, Jing Dagang no longer had any extra troops to go around the front to intercept the Japanese troops trying to escape.
But this does not mean that Jing Dagang has nothing to do with the Japs. At this time, the two of them were standing behind the artillery company position.
"Deng Chengwu, don't save the artillery shells, the artillery battery will use the artillery shells to intercept the little Japs for me!" Jing Dagang said to the artillery company commander Deng Chengwu.
"yes!"
The six 82 mortars of the artillery company continued to bombard the assembled Japanese troops, while the four Type 92 infantry guns extended their artillery fire and continued to bombard the direction of the Japanese troops' advance.
The Japanese commander Shao Zuo who was commanding the battle was indeed very quick in his reaction when the battle just started. He realized that there were many Eighth Route Army soldiers surrounding them and that they would be in a hard fight due to the entanglement. In addition, the location of the battlefield was far away from the main force of the imperial army, so he immediately decided to conserve his strength.
, break out first.
But he never expected that the Eighth Route Army he was fighting against was not an ordinary Eighth Route Army unit, and its reaction speed was equally quick.
"Boom!" an explosion sounded nearby, and several Japanese soldiers nearby were hit by shrapnel. The accompanying medical soldiers hurriedly moved the wounded soldiers to a safe place for bandaging.
"Sir, the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army is too fierce. The shells are intercepted in the direction of the troops' advance, and the soldiers cannot rush out!" said the adjutant on the side.
"Baga, how come this group of Eighth Route Army has so many artillery shells? This is unreasonable. The damn First Brigade actually concealed the true strength of the Eighth Route Army!" Japanese Shao Zuo looked at the shells falling one after another and cursed loudly.
At this time, the situation on the battlefield was in chaos. More than thirty Japanese troops were still fighting fiercely with the Sixth Company on the hill as the rear troops. The pressure on the Sixth Company was greatly reduced for a while, and they only had to deal with attacks from the front and flanks.
A small Japanese army unit.
The guard company advancing in the middle was firmly holding on to the Japanese rear troops.
It only took three to five minutes from the time the Japanese troops retreated and began to gather until they were intercepted by artillery fire. But it was these three to five minutes that allowed the troops on the left and right flanks to seize the opportunity and attack them.
"Quick, don't let the little devil get away!" Although the second battalion commander Geng Erdong only had one infantry company in hand, he did not give in and led his soldiers to the front.
Braving the hail of bullets, the soldiers who charged on both sides were constantly shot and fell.
Although the outflanking troops on both wings had strengthened a heavy machine gun company, it was of no use at this critical moment. It was all about the bravery of the soldiers who stepped forward to bite the little Japanese.
In an instant, soldiers from both sides exchanged blows and fought in a melee.
At this time, the Japanese army was under constant shelling and the personnel were divided into two groups. There were less than 300 Japanese troops on the main battlefield.
On the other hand, although the surrounding group of soldiers suffered some losses during the charge, there were still four infantry companies and a guard company, totaling more than 700 people.
As Jing Dagang said in his previous reply to Zhou Weihan, the combat effectiveness of a regiment needs to be tested on the battlefield.
Although the soldiers from both sides were fighting together, the soldiers in the group were quite organized. There were few lone soldiers. Two or three soldiers formed a group to strangle the lone little devils around them.
The fighting power of the regiment also surprised the Japanese Shaozuo. Seeing that there was no hope of breaking through, the Japanese Shaozuo simply ordered a hand-to-hand combat to defeat the encircling Eighth Route Army.
Unexpectedly, wherever he looked, the battlefield was filled with the tragic sight of wounded Japanese soldiers wailing.
Seeing this scene actually made the Japanese soldier Zuo Zuo feel numb. The origins of the group of more than 400 Japanese soldiers he led were not simple.
This group of Japanese troops is a rapid reaction force specially formed by the 35th Division, and its members are all battle-hardened veterans selected within the 35th Division.
This time, he was specially seconded by Suzuki Teiji to carry out raids into the Eighth Route Army base area.
Who would have thought that this group of little devils had a bad start, or that Zhou Weihan's side was favored by the national destiny, so that the little devils bumped into a group that also detoured around the Zhanghe River.
"Baga, give me this!" Seeing the Eighth Route Army approaching, and looking around at the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese soldier Shao Zuo drew his Zuoguan sword and rushed towards a group of soldiers.
"careful!"
Cai Dali, a soldier of the Ninth Company, was trained in martial arts. When he first joined the army, he used to use a big gun. However, the army emphasized team fighting, so he abandoned the gun and used a bayonet instead.
Cai Dali saw a Japanese officer rushing forward. With a sweep of his bayonet, he knocked away the command knife of the Japanese army commander Shao Zuo.
The force was so great that the Japanese soldier forced him to take two steps back before he could regain his footing.
"Baga!" The Japanese commander clenched his command knife tightly, feeling a little soreness in the tiger's mouth.
Before he could react, a soldier in Cai Dali's group with a sword in his right hand raised his left hand and fired.
As the gunfire rang out, the Japanese soldier Shao Zuo slowly knelt on the ground unwillingly.
Cai Dali stepped forward and took a look: "You are still a young leftist. Shi Yuansheng, you are getting a big advantage!"
The words are divided into two parts.
On Beigaodi's side, Dong Jiang also led the soldiers to open boxes of weapons and equipment brought by the Japs and check them carefully.
Zhou Weihan on the mountain had already received a bunch of telegrams.
"I didn't expect that the little devils are so extraordinary. They almost reached our base area silently. If these little devils were to arrive, it would be difficult for the political commissar to deal with it!" Zhou Weihan said with concern.
"Yeah, luckily we were met by accident. Otherwise, we would have been in trouble. The little devils are really making a lot of noise this time. Just watch. Although we haven't found any movement from the Japanese troops in Anyang yet, we are sure
It’s not far from us!”
"Once Fushimi Palace is in the hands of the Japs, the large forces behind them will approach!" Li Yunlong said at the side.
Zhou Weihan also had a headache about this. Fighting was not just a battle on the frontal battlefield, but intelligence warfare in the dark was also an indispensable part.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, no effective information has been received from the enemy engineering department. On the other hand, the Japanese army can approach the base area quietly, which also shows that the Eighth Route Army is in the Japanese-occupied areas and guerrilla zones.
The weak foundation prevented the news from being informed in advance.
This feeling of lameness is uncomfortable.
Just before Zhou Weihan received the telegram from the First Regiment, the Third Regiment and the Fourth Regiment sent telegrams one after another. The telegrams stated that large groups of Japanese troops were present at their locations.
Liangpu area.
The third regiment moved south from Nanle, originally to keep an eye on the 76th Independent Infantry Brigade of the Japanese First Independent Mixed Brigade with Puyang as the core.
The main force of the Japanese army is in Puyang, with Japanese troops under its command stationed in Pu County to the east, Qingfeng to the north, and Dongming to the south.
After leaving the base area, the Third Regiment quickly arrived near the highway connecting Qingfeng and Puyang.
According to Zhou Weihan's prediction, once the battle begins, the Japanese troops in Puyang will definitely move north along the highway to attack the base area, and one of the tasks of the third regiment is to block this group of Japanese troops.
At this time, along the highway from Puyang to Qingfeng in the north.
There was continuous gunfire, and the three regiments, under the command of Wu Qin, were divided into three groups and were carrying out a tenacious blockade along the highway.
The battle with the first battalion at the front was the most brutal. Due to the sudden and tight movement of the Japanese army to the north, the first battalion fought against the Japanese army before they could even set up a position.
The headquarters of the Third Regiment is located on a high ground four or five miles away from the east side of the highway line.
"Commander, the second battalion has completed the construction of the position!" The correspondent from the regiment headquarters hurried back to report.
"Okay, you've been working hard, go to the first battalion commander immediately, and the first battalion will immediately withdraw behind the third battalion!" Wu Qin said in a deep voice.
"yes!"
After the correspondent left, Wang Lin, the political commissar of the third regiment, put down his telescope and frowned: "Commander, there is something wrong with these little devils. According to previous intelligence, the 76th Independent Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army is stationed in the Liangpu area.
At best, there are just over a thousand people!”
"If you look at it now, the Japanese army alone has a large group and a half, accompanied by at least four mountain cannons, and the puppet army has at least more than 3,000 people. Even if the little devils gathered all the troops in the Liangpu area here, it would not be so...
There are so many people!”
"Huh, what's so strange about this? They must be the Japanese troops coming from Kaifeng. This is the only explanation!" Wu Qin snorted coldly: "But don't be afraid. Even though our Third Regiment can't bear these Japanese and puppet troops, we can't eat them."
He wants to pass under our noses!"
On the other side, the situation faced by the Fourth Regiment was even worse.
More than 700 Japanese troops who set out from Xinxiang, plus a tank squadron, gathered the Japanese troops in Junxian and Huaxian counties, and then a total of more than 1,000 Japanese troops marched across the endless plains toward Neihuang.
After the scouts sent by the Fourth Regiment learned of this situation, they immediately rushed back to report.
At that time, Wang Yigong was leading his men to select a suitable position, but there was really no suitable place to block the attack in the surrounding terrain. If it was summer, there would be a green gauze tent that could be used as a cover.
Let alone whether it is suitable for fighting, once the Japanese army is not interested in fighting, they can immediately change direction and take a detour.
When Wang Yigong received the news reported by the scouts, his face suddenly darkened.
Then Wang Yigong ordered the fourth regiment and one battalion to stay here to fight against the Japanese army. The main force of the fourth regiment retreated more than thirty miles, waiting for opportunities to find favorable terrain to block the attack.
Looking at the entire Hebei, Shandong and Henan region, except for Neihuang, where the Eighth Route Army was conducting transactions with the Japanese army, there was no fighting, but there were fighting in other places.
In Guancheng, the nearest city to the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region in northwestern Shandong, more than 500 Japanese and puppet troops went deep into the base area alone. Tan Lin led an independent regiment to deal with them.
The Japanese troops in Fan County and Chaocheng were tightly entangled by troops sent from the Luxi Military Region and were unable to move.
The main force of the Luxi Military Region is deployed on the east side, always on guard against the Japanese troops in Tai'an and Yanzhou along the Jinpu Railway.
In addition, the supplementary regiment of the 94th Division of the Tainan Military Region on the west side of Anyang and the Yang Han 280th Regiment were dispatched again to carry out a flank attack on the western area of Anyang in accordance with the previously implemented plan.
The series of battles that occurred due to the transaction of Fushimi Miya Mingyi became more and more intense, but on the contrary, Beigaodi, where Zhou Weihan was located, was peaceful.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army headquarters as far away as Taibei also learned of the battles taking place in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan areas.
Eighth Route Army Headquarters.
After the boss listened to the report from the intelligence department, the muscles on his face twitched visibly.
"If you look at it now, the Japanese army alone has a large group and a half, accompanied by at least four mountain cannons, and the puppet army has at least more than 3,000 people. Even if the little devils gathered all the troops in the Liangpu area here, it would not be so...
There are so many people!”
"Huh, what's so strange about this? They must be the Japanese troops coming from Kaifeng. This is the only explanation!" Wu Qin snorted coldly: "But don't be afraid. Even though our Third Regiment can't bear these Japanese and puppet troops, we can't eat them."
He wants to pass under our noses!"
On the other side, the situation faced by the Fourth Regiment was even worse.
More than 700 Japanese troops who set out from Xinxiang, plus a tank squadron, gathered the Japanese troops in Junxian and Huaxian counties, and then a total of more than 1,000 Japanese troops marched across the endless plains toward Neihuang.
After the scouts sent by the Fourth Regiment learned of this situation, they immediately rushed back to report.
At that time, Wang Yigong was leading his men to select a suitable position, but there was really no suitable place to block the attack in the surrounding terrain. If it was summer, there would be a green gauze tent that could be used as a cover.
Let alone whether it is suitable for fighting, once the Japanese army is not interested in fighting, they can immediately change direction and take a detour.
When Wang Yigong received the news reported by the scouts, his face suddenly darkened.
Then Wang Yigong ordered the fourth regiment and one battalion to stay here to fight against the Japanese army. The main force of the fourth regiment retreated more than thirty miles, waiting for opportunities to find favorable terrain to block the attack.
Looking at the entire Hebei, Shandong and Henan region, except for Neihuang, where the Eighth Route Army was conducting transactions with the Japanese army, there was no fighting, but there were fighting in other places.
In Guancheng, the nearest city to the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region in northwestern Shandong, more than 500 Japanese and puppet troops went deep into the base area alone. Tan Lin led an independent regiment to deal with them.
The Japanese troops in Fan County and Chaocheng were tightly entangled by troops sent from the Luxi Military Region and were unable to move.
The main force of the Luxi Military Region is deployed on the east side, always on guard against the Japanese troops in Tai'an and Yanzhou along the Jinpu Railway.
In addition, the supplementary regiment of the 94th Division of the Tainan Military Region on the west side of Anyang and the Yang Han 280th Regiment were dispatched again to carry out a flank attack on the western area of Anyang in accordance with the previously implemented plan.
The series of battles that occurred due to the transaction of Fushimi Miya Mingyi became more and more intense, but on the contrary, Beigaodi, where Zhou Weihan was located, was peaceful.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army headquarters as far away as Taibei also learned of the battles taking place in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan areas.
Eighth Route Army Headquarters.
After the boss listened to the report from the intelligence department, the muscles on his face twitched visibly.
At this time, the Eighth Route Army headquarters as far away as Taibei also learned of the battles taking place in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan areas.
Eighth Route Army Headquarters.
After the boss listened to the report from the Intelligence Department, the muscles on his face twitched visibly. At this time, the Eighth Route Army headquarters in Taibei also learned about the battles that took place in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan areas.
Eighth Route Army Headquarters.
After the boss listened to the report from the intelligence department, the muscles on his face twitched visibly.