After the Japanese troops launched a surprise attack on the northern front, the Central China Expeditionary Force remobilized its forces and actively advanced northward.
To be supplemented, the Japanese 13th Division, 10th Division, 9th Division, part of the 114th Division, etc.
However, although the Central China Expeditionary Force mobilized four divisions at once, the actual number of troops was not large.
Almost all of these divisions were defeated by the Dragon Boat Festival, and many divisions were even wiped out of their establishment. Matsui Iwane mobilized troops from all over the country, even at the expense of airlifting new recruits from the mainland to supplement these divisions, and only then did they make a comeback.
However, its combat effectiveness was not as good as before, its attack was slow, and it did not meet Matsui Iwane's expectations.
But even this is enough to make Li Zhongren very anxious. Fighting on two fronts can affect his whole body. What's more, the chairman of the committee asked him to pay close attention to the movements of the Dragon Boat Festival.
But although Li Zhongren kept sending telegrams to Duanwu asking for the latest battle situation, Duanwu never answered.
Because there was no way to answer, Dragon Boat Festival was getting rid of the Japanese pursuit. And the casualties of the blocking troops were gradually increasing.
This is due to the little devils constantly adjusting their tactics.
As mentioned before, the Kunisaki detachment has an iron triangle from the Japanese Army University. Although none of these three little devils can be considered outstanding individually, when the three of them come together, they are comparable to Zhuge Liang.
Every time the soldiers at the front encountered a setback, the three of them would quickly adjust their tactics. They would even move the machine gunners from each unit to the front line and shoot at the enemy when they saw it. If the enemy stopped to block the attack, the Japs would immediately hide.
, waiting for reinforcements from behind.
For this reason, Dragon Boat Festival also made adjustments, using the sharpshooters of the 1st and 4th battalions to snipe the Japs' machine gunners from a long distance. But then, the Japs moved the grenades to the forefront, and immediately launched an artillery attack upon seeing the Chinese soldiers.
Therefore, the casualties of the 1st and 4th Battalions gradually increased. And the 4th Battalion in particular did not have as many people as the 1st Battalion before. After several battles, the number of personnel was seriously reduced, and the whole battalion had less than 600 people.
But before, this was a super full camp with more than a thousand people.
Of course, it was not only the fourth battalion that suffered serious attrition, but also the cavalry battalion. In the battle of Lizhuang, the cavalry battalion also lost more than half, and its current strength is only about one-third of what it was during the period of complete victory.
Although the first battalion lost more than 500 men, its total strength was much larger than that of other battalions. At its peak, it even reached more than 1,400 people, making it the absolute main battalion.
But the battles were fought one after another, and the troops sacrificed a lot.
Duanwu received the report and ordered Zhu Shengzhong to also use grenade launchers to block the enemy until they entered Feiyun Ridge.
As mentioned before, Feiyun Ridge is a very good ambush location. The mountains here are high and the forests are dense, which is very suitable for an ambush. However, the number of automatic weapons in Duanwu has been drastically reduced. Otherwise, no matter how many people the opponent has, as long as he enters Feiyun Ridge, he can kill them.
It's collected.
But unfortunately, the ammunition of each battalion was consumed too quickly. When he entered the enemy's hinterland, he probably had more than 300,000 rounds of 9mm pistol ammunition. After attacking Dongping County, he bought another 50,000 rounds from Li Zhongren.
Pistol bullets.
But in the end, after the Pingyin attack, there were only more than 50,000 rounds of ammunition left. Although more than 10,000 rounds of pistol ammunition were seized from the Japanese and puppet troops, they were all used up during the attack on the Sakata mixed brigade.
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Therefore, Dragon Boat Festival's strategy was successful, but the brothers under his command were really capable. It took nearly 500,000 rounds of bullets to eliminate two infantry regiments and two mixed infantry brigades, with a total of no more than 16,000 people.
In other words, every time a Japanese was killed, the soldiers of the Supervisory Corps used about twenty rounds of bullets, not counting machine gun bullets and rifle bullets. This was completely crushing the enemy with absolute firepower.
Of course, the results were fruitful. The supervision team suffered less than 3,000 casualties, but the Japanese and puppet troops were annihilated more than 16,000 people. And this does not include the casualties in tonight's battle.
If the number of Japanese and puppet soldiers killed tonight is added, a rough estimate is that since the Dragon Boat Festival entered the enemy's hinterland, the total number of enemies annihilated could reach 17,000, or even 18,000.
But this is just the beginning.
Although there are not many automatic weapons in the Supervision Corps, the machine guns of the Supervision Corps can still crush the little devils.
Therefore, Dragon Boat Festival will not miss this ambush in Feiyunling. No matter how many people there are on the other side, he must let the little devil know that the team he supervises is not that easy to chase.
But the whole show still needs to be done. Duanwu deliberately asked Lao Abacus to leave behind an off-road vehicle, leaving traces of Duanwu's use on it. In addition to a high-end pen that fell under the back seat, there were also some unrelated items.
Several important messages.
After all this was done, the car was set on fire.
Of course, there is knowledge in setting fire. It cannot be too early. If it is too early, when the little devil chases after him, everything in the car will be burned.
It can't be too late. If it's too late, it will be a bit false. Moreover, the little devils shoot at people when they see them. If you try to set the off-road vehicle on fire after the blocking force arrives, you will be in danger of being hit by stray bullets.
Therefore, only Lao Abacus can do this kind of delicate work, and when the Japanese are chasing after him, he can find someone to shout with a loud voice: "Come on, everyone, hurry up."
Although the little devils may not understand it, what if there are so many little devils who understand Japanese?
After doing all this, Lao Abacus withdrew with the first battalion, and the team retreated into Cangyun Ridge in a panic.
"Let's go quickly, everyone?"
At the same time, a Japanese officer who knew a little bit of Chinese looked suspicious, and he also saw the burning off-road vehicle.
He quickly ordered his Japanese soldiers to rush forward despite a battalion of bullets and used cotton-padded jackets and sand to put out the fire on the car.
"alert!"
The Japanese officer walked to the car where the fire was put out and ordered the Japanese soldiers to be alert, while he took a flashlight and searched in the car.
This little Japanese officer is very experienced, because if the vehicle is broken down and left on the road, why take the risk of burning it?
This was against common sense, so the little Japanese officer guessed that there might be some secret in this car.
So he searched carefully and first found a high-end pen under the back seat, and then found several telegrams on both sides of the front seat, including several half-burned telegrams.
But this little Japanese officer doesn't know Chinese characters, or he can understand a few characters. After all, part of the little Japanese's writing is also Chinese characters.
"Department, Tuan, Ang,"
In the end, the little Japanese officer still didn't understand. He shook his head helplessly. Then he handed these messages to the Japanese soldier on the side and said: "Send these messages to Mr. Kudo immediately. He is a China expert and should be able to understand these.
Word."
"Hi!"
The Japanese soldiers took the order and immediately ran back with the message in hand.
Fifteen minutes later, the message was handed into the hands of Kudo Shinichi.
Kudo Shinichi was one of the Iron Triangle of the Kunisaki Detachment, and the other two, Nikaidou Konan and Daigodo Minamikawa, were also in his car.
Kudo Shinichi read the telegram and said: "These telegrams are to supervise the various departments of the corps to report the war situation to Duanwu. So I infer from this that the car must be Duanwu's car.
And Miyujiro also heard someone shouting something like "danzuo", which is enough to explain from the side that the Dragon Boat Festival's car broke down, and he had to escape on foot with his infantry. Two brothers, what do you think?"