Chapter 548: Complete annihilation of the Isoya Battalion of the 10th Division
The Kwantung Army departing from Licheng was organized into the Isogani Brigade of the 10th Regiment of the 33rd Infantry Regiment of the 10th Infantry Division stationed in Puppet Manchuria.
The Tenth Division is one of the 17 permanent divisions of the Japanese army. Rensuke Isotani and Yoshio Shinozuka successively served as division commanders. It is a powerful force in the Japanese army. It once defeated the Sichuan Army Wang Mingzhang's troops in Teng County with a brigade.
, but suffered a big setback in Taierzhuang.
Later, in the Battle of Xuzhou, the 63rd Regiment of the 33rd Brigade defeated 40,000 Yunnan troops at Yuwang Mountain, and then participated in the Battle of Wuhan.
The captain of the Isoya Brigade, Isoya Renji, is a younger brother of Isoya Rensuke. Before the battle started, Terauchi Isamu had conducted a special investigation on this basic information, and the Eighth Route Army also knew all about it.
After a wave of raids by the 279th Regiment, the Japanese army dispersed their fronts to counterattack, and the battlefield situation suddenly fell into a stalemate.
The Japanese commander Renji Isotani hid behind a rock and kept giving orders.
The position of Isotani Ren's second choice is extremely tricky. He is within the range of the heavy machine gun, but he cannot be hit. The power of the mortar is also weakened.
"Heavy machine gun fire suppression, the first squadron immediately launched a strong attack from the front, the second squadron outflanked from the right wing, and the third squadron counterattacked on the spot!"
At this time, Isotani Renji also realized that the Eighth Route Army in front of him was a bit difficult to deal with. Just now Isotani Renji saw several valley entrances on the north side of the road, and subconsciously sent a dozen soldiers to go in separately to investigate, but there was no one there.
return.
The mouths of several valleys in front of him looked like open mouths of blood, which made Isoya Renji feel a little uneasy, but he had the courage to do so and did not choose to retreat in the end.
Immediately, the flag-ordering soldiers stood up from behind the stone. Just as they were about to wave the flag, they were beaten into pieces by a heavy machine gun that had been aiming at the position.
Seeing this, Isotani Renji had no choice but to send a few soldiers to inform separately.
Compared to the fierce fighting on the front battlefield, looking at the hiding place of the 1st Battalion of the 22nd Regiment and its artillery battery on the south side, it seemed extremely peaceful.
The slope on the south side of the battlefield road goes down, and then there is a terrain of ravines and ravines, covered with bushes. This extends for four to five hundred meters to the cliff and high ground. Liu Tianming and his soldiers hid in it and were not searched by the Japanese army just now.
The team found out.
From Liu Tianming's position, he could not clearly see the situation of the Japanese troops on the road, but through the telescope, he could clearly see the scene where the firepower points of the 22nd Regiment were knocked out by Japanese grenades one after another on the Houqiuling position.
Liu Tianming suddenly felt anxious, but he did not order the soldiers to attack.
"Commander, should you let the artillery fire a few rounds on the road, so as to relieve some pressure on the comrades of the 279th Regiment!" The speaker was Gao Liangzhu, the first battalion commander of the 22nd Regiment.
"No, our side will be exposed as soon as the artillery fires. Whenever the Japanese army sets up a few firepower points on the side of the road, we will be a living target if we rush up!" Liu Tianming clenched his fists tightly and stared at the battlefield ahead.
Waiting for Ding Wei to give the signal to attack.
At this time, the string in Ding Wei's mind was also tense. In order to create an opportunity for the 22nd Regiment to attack the Japanese army's back, more Japanese troops must be sent deep into Houqiu Ridge and unable to escape from the battlefield. That was when the heat was reached.
Seeing that the fastest Japanese advance was already less than a hundred meters away from the position, Ding Wei breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered: "Immediately issue an attack signal to the 22nd Regiment!"
Immediately a signal flag was erected. Upon seeing this, Liu Tianming immediately ordered: "The first battalion, the guard company will follow me to attack, the mortar company and other assault troops rushed down the slope, and gave me a fierce attack on the attacking little Japs."
boom!"
Since part of the 22nd Regiment here is responsible for the assault mission, all the heavy machine guns have been strengthened and given to the 2nd Battalion, which is responsible for the blocking mission.
Liu Tianming gave the order, and more than 500 soldiers of the 22nd Regiment, who had been waiting for a long time, bent down one by one and quickly passed through the bushes.
The soldiers' clothes were covered with thorn balls and spikes, and many of them had their faces and wrists slashed, but all of them gritted their teeth and no one said a word.
The Japanese army's attention was completely attracted by the frontal battlefield, and they did not notice that an Eighth Route Army assault force was rapidly attacking from behind.
When the assault force arrived on the slope, the 22nd Artillery Company immediately began shelling, hitting the first squadron that was attacking the 279th Regiment's position.
At the same time, the four elite troops hidden at the entrance of the four valleys all rushed out. The third squadron that stayed in place to counterattack was suddenly caught in a double attack.
The soldiers at the front of each team held light machine guns, submachine guns or short rifles in their hands, unleashing firepower on the little Japs in front of them.
"Baga, how come so many Eighth Route Army troops suddenly appeared!" Isotani Renji was shocked when he saw the adjutant beside him was shot in the back and fell to the ground. He left the third squadron where he was to fight back in order to prevent the Eighth Route Army troops.
They made a surprise attack, but they didn't expect that there would be ambushes of the Eighth Route Army on both sides of the road.
Isoya Renji's position could block attacks from the front, but he could not block bullets from behind.
A machine gunner from the 22nd Regiment had just been sent up the slope when he saw Renji Isotani holding the stone with both hands, sticking his head out, and looking around with a sly look.
"Let you hide!" The machine gunner put the butt of his Czech light machine gun under his right rib, pulled the trigger with his finger, and bullets spurted out in the direction of Renji Isotani.
Isotani Renji looked back after hearing the sound, and saw a series of bullets hitting his abdomen. The impact pushed him against the stone, and then the blood stained the blue-black stone red.
At this time, the battlefield situation reversed. The Japanese third squadron and half of the machine gun squadron staying under Houqiu Ridge suffered heavy losses under the attack of more than 1,200 people from the Eighth Route Army.
When the handover came, the remaining thirty or so Japanese soldiers tried to fight to the end, but were killed one after another by soldiers with short rifles in the crowd.
On the Houqiuling position, while the 22nd Regiment Artillery Company launched an artillery bombardment, Ding Wei immediately ordered the soldiers of the 279th Regiment on the position to divide into two groups and launch a counterattack.
One group drove the attacking Japanese troops down the mountain from the front, while the other group of more than 400 soldiers rushed toward the second squadron on the right flank.
The Japanese troops on the right wing only numbered over a hundred, but they were extremely brave and brave. They did not care about the battlefield situation. The soldiers on this group originally wanted to drive the Japanese troops on the right wing to Dongyang Pass. Unexpectedly, they unexpectedly rushed towards the Eighth Route Army soldiers.
The soldiers of the 279th Regiment also undergo three-three tactical training. The high-level three-person team is equipped with a short gun, and the low-level equipment is equipped with a bayonet and a broadsword.
Before the two sides collided, more than forty short guns opened fire rapidly, and a large number of the Japanese soldiers who rushed forward fell immediately.
The remaining more than 60 Japanese soldiers showed no signs of flinching, and then the two sides fought together. The soldiers holding short guns became the primary target of the Japs' attacks.
At this moment, the Kwantung Army's bayonet skills were revealed. The soldiers of the 279th Regiment were no weaker than the Japs, but they faced the suicide attack launched by the Japs.
Even though he was hit by several bullets, he still screamed and caused casualties to the soldiers. The soldiers holding swords and bayonets could still block, but any lone soldier holding a short gun would definitely not be spared.
Fortunately, it was the soldiers of the 279th Regiment who took the upper hand with their numbers and the firepower of short rifles. The Japanese army was gradually divided and strangled. In the end, only six little Japanese were surrounded.
More than 300 soldiers who were still able to move tightly surrounded the little Japanese. People on both sides were breathing heavily and looking at each other with red eyes.
Immediately, the soldiers of the 279th Regiment in the innermost circle tightened their rifles, raised their bayonets slightly, and approached the little Japanese step by step.
At this moment, the soldiers were all red-eyed, and no one mentioned using short guns to kill the little devil in front of them.
"Kill!" With a cry of killing, all the little devils fell to the ground, and the most brutal battle on the entire battlefield came to an end.
The majestic wind blew past, and the disgusting smell of blood filled the battlefield.
Ding Wei was sitting alone on a rock, with the rifle in front of him stuck on the ground. The right hand holding the cigarette was shaking a little because of the excessive exertion.
"Old Ding!" Liu Tianming shouted.
Ding Wei looked up and saw that Liu Tianming's left shoulder blade was wet with blood: "What are you doing?"
"Hey, I didn't pay attention and let the little devil take it out. It's okay!"
"What are the troop casualties?" Ding Wei asked.
"The overall casualties are not large, but they are larger than expected!" Others may not understand Liu Tianming's ambiguous words, but Ding Wei understands it deeply.
"Damn it, our two regiments deployed nearly 3,000 people here. This group of Japanese soldiers will definitely not reach 1,000 people. They still used the surprise firepower to eat some of the little devils first, and then beat them like this. This group of little devils
He is really tough, he would rather fight to the death than retreat from Dongyang Pass!" Ding Wei said with a frown.