Just when Zhou Tianyi launched his operation and started shooting at the Japanese and puppet troops who were halfway up the mountain, the supervision team also began a comprehensive encirclement and suppression of the vanguard of the Japanese and puppet troops on the western front.
The battalions were like wolves and tigers, with machine guns and rifles firing non-stop.
Their shooting movements have become mechanized, and they have never considered saving bullets.
As long as there are still bullets in the machine gun, then aim at the Japanese and puppet troops.
The little Japanese and the second Japanese suffered heavy losses, and the Japanese officers were shouting for orders.
But it was useless. Under the overwhelming firepower of the Supervisory Corps, the encirclement became smaller and smaller. In the end, the Japs and the four puppet soldiers had no choice but to retreat to a very small low-lying area on the south side of the road and fight stubbornly.
Seeing this, Duanwu directly ordered Sun Shiyu to fire, destroying the entire Japanese position.
Subsequently, the other troops also annihilated the Japanese and puppet troops near the two-kilometer mountain road.
Dragon Boat Festival looked at the corpses of puppet troops and Japanese soldiers all over the mountains and plains, and ordered the soldiers to quickly clean up the battlefield.
All the weapons and equipment that could not be taken away were blown up, and the ones that could be used were replenished to each battalion. Some of them were left for the first battalion.
The 1st Battalion had arrived at this time and had caught up with the finishing work. Zhu Shengzhong and his men rushed forward, and the last thirty Japanese and puppet troops on the west side who were stubbornly resisting also received their lunch boxes.
The battle was all over, and then the supply camp arrived. Duanwu ordered the supply camp to load the captured weapons and ammunition into the trucks, and then took a short rest for half an hour to allow time for the loading of supplies and the re-equipment of the first battalion.
March quickly south along the highway.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, we will go south to Dongping County to join the 55th Army and the 56th Army.
This was all a trap dug by Li Zhongren. The 55th Army and the 56th Army had to forcefully break through the Japanese front lines to Dongping Town to take the Dragon Boat Festival back.
The Fifty-fifth Army and the Fifty-sixth Army were already stretched thin in resisting the offensive of the Japs. Now they were about to launch a counterattack against the Japanese and puppet troops. The casualties could be imagined.
But if the reason for breaking through the Japanese defense line was for other things, perhaps the 56th and 55th armies would still give a discount, but it was to cope with the Dragon Boat Festival.
The Dragon Boat Festival was very fond of the 56th Army and the 55th Army. Moreover, both Liao Guangyi and Cao Fulin admired this unassuming special commissioner.
So this time, the 56th Army and the 55th Army also mobilized almost all their elites to create a hole in the Japanese defense line and sent out two regiments of troops.
A regiment of the 56th Army and a regiment of the 55th Army fought to Dongping County and occupied it.
At this time, Dongping County was devastated. During the previous Dragon Boat Festival attack on Dongping County, many buildings in Dongping County were damaged. But after another war, at least half of the houses in Dongping County were destroyed.
The people in the city can only flee their homes again, and if they flee this time, no one will come back.
Because there is no telling how long this battle will last, the officers and soldiers of the two regiments of the 55th Army and the 56th Army are already prepared to die on the battlefield.
Wang Gang, the commander of the 56th Army, and Shen Mogan, the commander of the 55th Army, stood on the north wall, smoking cigarettes and looking to the north.
Wang Gang is a short but very capable Shandong man. While smoking, he said to Shen Mo: "I don't know where the Dragon Boat Festival commissioner is now."
Shen Mogan thought for a while and said: "There was news from the military headquarters that the Dragon Boat Festival commissioners are still on the front line in Pingyin. So we have to stay in Dongping County for at least two days."
"Haha, in two days, we have less than two regiments of troops, and we don't have any heavy weapons. How can we defend it?"
Wang Gang smiled bitterly, because it was obvious that they were here to die.
Dongping County is an isolated city, and they are deep into the enemy's hinterland. Once surrounded by the Japanese, they may not even have a chance to escape.
However, they were already very satisfied, because at least they were still alive at this time. But the brothers of the 55th Army and the 56th Army who sent them out to occupy Dongping County had already fallen on the road of charge.
After this battle, I'm afraid there won't be many people left in the 55th Army and the 56th Army.
Although they didn't say it on the surface, in fact, these grassroots officers had calculated in private that if half of the people in the 55th Army and the 56th Army could survive this battle, it would be an eye-opener for God.
"Report, Japs found outside the city."
At this moment, some scouts came to report. They discovered the Japanese reconnaissance team on the east side of Dongping Town.
In other words, if the Little Devil's reconnaissance team appears, then the Little Devil's large force will soon arrive.
"Find a way immediately to block the broken city gate."
Wang Gang gave the order, and then he said to Shen Mo: "Brother Shen, let's divide the work. You will guard the east gate and the north gate, and I will guard the west gate and the south gate. In this way, no matter whether the little devil attacks from the east, or We can all share the attack on the south side equally, do you think this is good?"
Shen Mogan said: "That's all we can do. I hope we can hold on for two days and wait for the arrival of the special commissioner."
"Brother Shen, take care!"
"Brother Wang, take care!"
After that, the two men separated and went to direct the various ministries to deploy defenses.
The first thing they had to do was to block the city gate.
During the previous Dragon Boat Festival attack on Dongping Town, the city gate was already damaged. Afterwards, it was attacked by Wang Gang's and Shen Mo's cadres, so the city gate was completely damaged.
In other words, when Wang Gang and Shen Mogan led their men to Dongping County, there were people in the city.
But the number of Japanese and puppet soldiers is not large. They are forcing the people to build houses for them. They are supposed to be used to store weapons and equipment.
As mentioned before, the little devil wanted to build a transfer station for military supplies in Dongping County. As a result, the Dragon Boat Festival was handed over to him.
However, at that time, there was not much in this transfer station for military supplies, far less than the amount of Japanese supplies in Feicheng.
But the little devil's plan has not changed. In order to go south to fight the decisive battle with the Chinese army, they still have to build this transfer station for military supplies.
But what the little devil never expected was that the Chinese launched a massive counterattack like crazy, and as a result, Dongping County, which they had just recovered, was occupied by the enemy again.
Ban Hengzhengshiro was very angry. But at this time, he could no longer care about Dongping County.
He was ordered to lead his main force to move westward first, and then win step by step, moving towards Feicheng and Pingyin. The lost Dongping County will have to be recaptured by the Chaoxian Division that has just been transferred from the eastern front.
, and cooperated with the front-line Japanese troops to continue to launch attacks on the 55th Army and the 56th Army.
In other words, the soldiers the scouts saw just now were not Japanese, but scouts from the Chaoxian Division, purebred Chaoxian people!