"It's over..." The captain's face was full of despair, and he almost fell to the ground.
Several artillery battalion captains showed expressions of despair.
They all heard what the commander just said.
The attack in front of us is the only chance for everyone to fight out of Yinmagou. Now the attacking troops are suppressed by the Eighth Route Army in front of the blocking position and cannot advance or retreat. This means that the attack in front of us failed just after it started.
If the attack fails, everyone will not be able to break out of Yinmagou.
When the pursuers of the Eighth Route Army break through the temporary blocking position established by the rear troops, the only path waiting for everyone is destruction.
It is also said that when people are unlucky, their teeth will get clogged even if they drink water.
This sentence is perfect to describe the leader of the Japs team at this moment.
Before everyone could recover from their despair, there was another burst of firefighting from behind the team, which was very violent and mixed with a lot of explosions and the roar of tanks.
As time passed by, the sound of firefight seemed to be getting closer to them.
A lieutenant officer rushed over in a panic: "Sir..."
"The eight-way pursuer is coming..."
"The chariot took the lead and attacked us directly..."
"We are no match at all. We can reach here in ten minutes at most. You must move immediately..."
"Transfer?" The co-captain's despairing face immediately removed a self-deprecating look, and he answered helplessly.
"There is a blockade in front, and there are pursuers behind. There are tidal flats on one side of the road and mountains on the other. Where can we move to?"
"Then you can't just wait here to die?" an artillery brigade captain asked with a look of reluctance.
In previous battles, half of the artillery units were located at the rear of the battlefield. Even if the frontline infantry was no match for the enemy and had to retreat, the artillery would take the first step. There has never been a situation where the artillery directly faced the Eighth Route Army.
Faced with the approaching Eighth Route Army, not only the ordinary gunners panicked, but also the several captains who gathered around the regiment leader.
The wing chief of staff suddenly said: "No..."
"Sir, we still have a chance..."
"The mountains around us can't carry heavy artillery and self-respecting ministers, but we can walk..."
The commander of the regiment immediately understood the hidden meaning of the chief of staff's words, and waited for a pair of big eyes to ask back: "You mean to give up all the baggage ammunition and heavy weapons, and the troops will break out lightly on the mountain road, and every one who can be killed will be killed..."
In order to survive, the chief of staff also risked his life.
He answered bravely: "Sir, you are wise..."
"With the equipment, baggage and ammunition gone, the front army headquarters can still apply to the country. With the military production capacity of the Empire of Japan, these heavy weapons can be produced in a few days."
"But if the soldiers are gone, they are gone."
"If you want to train a new soldier to become a veteran, especially in technical arms such as artillery, it may not be possible to do it in a year."
"As long as these soldiers can be saved, I believe that the Commander will understand your decision."
This analysis gave the captain an enlightenment, and he immediately showed an expression of enlightenment: "You are right..."
"Compared with the equipment and ammunition in our hands, the more than two thousand imperial troops are definitely more important."
"If we do nothing, not only will we lose all our equipment and ammunition, but more than two thousand imperial troops, including you and me, will die here."
"But if we give up the equipment and ammunition and the troops break through lightly, many soldiers can reach the 108th Regiment's station."
"As long as one soldier can be rushed out, this decision is right."
After saying that, he turned his attention to the several artillery battalion captains and ordered with an anxious look on his face: "Did you hear what I just said?"
"If the equipment is gone, we can apply to the front army headquarters and the country, but if the soldiers are gone, it is gone."
"Notify your subordinates to immediately abandon their equipment and ammunition, use squadrons and squads as units to move to the mountains on the left side of the road to break out of the encirclement, and immediately move closer to the 108th Regiment's station after breaking out of the encirclement."
"But I must remind everyone that the equipment and ammunition that we cannot obtain cannot be obtained by the Eighth Route Army."
"Before retreating, all heavy equipment and ammunition must be destroyed, so that the Eighth Route Army can seize a pile of scrap metal."
"Before retreating, the 1st and 2nd artillery brigades fired five rounds of volleys at the Eighth Route Army's blocking positions ahead to give the Eighth Route Army that blocked us a last gift, and then bombed the artillery to retreat..."
"Execute immediately..."
The commander's decision cannot be taken lightly, but it can reduce the losses of the mopping up troops as much as possible.
But unfortunately, his opponent Kong Jie had long been on guard against this move.
On the battlefield, I encountered more than once a kid destroying heavy equipment before dying.
The little devils in front of him were not equipped with ordinary weapons. They had more than thirty field cannons and more than ten large-caliber heavy cannons. Losing one of them would make him heartbroken for a long time.
In order to avoid such an accident, after breaking through the Japanese rear troops, in addition to letting the armored battalion cover a main battalion to launch an attack on the Japanese army along the road, two battalions were also sent as a company to walk through the mountains to completely outflank the Japanese army and launch an attack at the same time.
Turn Yinmagou into a battlefield to disrupt the little devils and not give them a chance to destroy their equipment.
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As soon as the regimental commander's order to bombardment spread among the troops, the sound of machine gun fire rang out beside the highway.
More than a hundred Eighth Route Army troops rushed out of the darkness, armed with machine guns, charging and firing.
The dozens of gunners closest to them were instantly beaten into pieces.
Although the gunners further away were not shot immediately, they were all suppressed on the road and could not explode the cannons as freely as before.
There is such a group of little devils right in front of the Eighth Company of the Second Regiment of the Solitary Brigade.
The squadron leader was ordered to destroy the four large-caliber mountain cannons in his hands, but he was caught off guard by the Eighth Route Army's firepower surprise before any of them exploded.
Then the remaining fifty or sixty gunners of the artillery squadron were suppressed on the beach next to the highway, unable to even raise their heads.
Seeing that the Eighth Route Army was about to rush onto the road to seize four heavy artillery pieces, the squadron leader was sweating profusely and immediately ordered the team leader on the side: "The others will provide fire cover. You take the first team and go over immediately to explode the artillery."
"Hurry up, we must not let the four heavy artillery fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, otherwise we will be the sinners of the empire."
The squad leader was very reluctant, but military orders could not be violated, so he had no choice but to give the order.
"You guys, bring some grenades and charge with me... kill me..."
The squad leader was the first to rush onto the road holding a self-defense pistol. As soon as his upper body was exposed, a string of bullets flew towards him.
Two of the bullets hit the squad leader's chest, passing through his chest and shooting out two bloody flowers.
Without even uttering a scream, he fell straight to the ground.
"Da da da……"
Six light machine guns fired at them at the same time. Less than twenty Japanese gunners only rushed out three or four meters before they were all killed.
This scene scared the other little devils so much that they turned pale.
At this moment, even if the squadron put a pistol to their head, no one would dare to continue to explode the cannon.
