The squadron leader led by the Japs knew very well what his advantages were. In order to reduce casualties and reduce losses, he did not hesitate to issue a retreat order.
Colonel Miyamoto, who was watching the battle from behind, had the same idea, but his retreat order was a little slower than that of the squadron leader.
But at the same time, he gave the artillery an order to bombard the positions of the first company.
The artillery bombarded the Tuyi Company position twice, but they were still able to rush out with more than a hundred people to launch a counterattack against the attacking troops, indicating that the losses suffered by the defenders in the previous shelling were very small.
Based on past experience, they probably built anti-gun holes on their positions.
Before the bombardment begins, hide in the bombhole and let the artillery blast them.
After the bombardment, they drilled out of the shell-proof hole and entered the position to fight.
After finally encountering the Eighth Route Army's exposed position on the surface, Colonel Miyamoto could not let go of this good opportunity to kill them in large numbers no matter what.
"Rumble..."
The explosion soon sounded in the Tuyi company position. A dozen soldiers who had not had time to retreat into the anti-gun holes were hit, like kites with broken strings, and were blown away with splashing fire...
"Yoshi... After fighting for so long, I finally saw the scene of the Eighth Route Army being blown away by artillery fire!" Colonel Miyamoto was particularly satisfied with the effect of the artillery fire in front of him, and he had a smile on his lips when he spoke.
"Sir... After this round of shelling, the Eighth Route Army on the position must have suffered heavy losses... If you believe me, I am willing to personally command two squadrons to launch an attack and capture the Tutu Temple!" The captain stood up and asked for a fight.
Colonel Miyamoto was also confident in the next attack.
More than a hundred Eighth Route Army troops rushed out of their positions to fight with the attacking troops with bayonets. Only about a hundred of them returned to their positions alive. As a result, they were subjected to several rounds of shelling before they could get into the artillery holes...
After a series of losses, at most two platoons of the Eighth Route Army were left in the blocking position.
The attacking troops can kill all the Eighth Route Army soldiers with just one smear.
He agreed without hesitation: "I will give you two more companies of the Imperial Alliance Army, and gather 500 people to launch an attack..."
"At the end of the shelling, we rushed forward, without giving the Eighth Route Army any chance to breathe, and ended the battle quickly..."
At the enemy headquarters in front of Tutu Temple, Huang Yu also saw the scene where Tuyi Company was bombed during its retreat.
This is an inevitable tragedy.
Tu Yilian wanted to block the attack of the Japanese and puppet troops without any advantage, so they could only choose melee combat to weaken the Japanese's artillery advantage, and use their own melee firepower advantage to kill them in large numbers.
As a result, the attacking troops will inevitably be exposed to enemy artillery fire and be hit by enemy artillery fire...
Although the scene in front of me was tragic, it was not the worst.
If the little Japs are ruthless enough and decide to die together, and wait for the enemy to fire while we are fighting hand-to-hand, it is very likely that no one from Tuyi Company will be able to withdraw.
Feeling heartbroken, he decisively ordered: "Detach another platoon from the recruit company and send it to Wei Dayong!"
"Remind Wei Dayong that the hand-to-hand combat method only needs to be used once. The Japanese and puppet troops will definitely be prepared for the next attack... Let him prepare four machine gun bunkers for the battle!"
"We must put the Japs in before firing, kill a few more Japanese and puppet troops, and maximize the role of the machine gun bunker, so as not to waste our previous hard work in building the bunker!"
Outside Ping'an City, under the deliberate release of water by the Japanese, the New Second Regiment's offensive position advanced very quickly.
Just after half the time, the east gate offensive position was dug to a position 200 meters outside the city.
Li Yunlong could figure out the enemy's thoughts just by looking at it, and said happily: "Zhang Dabiao, that bitch Yamamoto seems to regard the New Second Regiment as a piece of fat. He is afraid that we will give up the attack on Ping'an County and retreat under their noses.
Let the reinforcements come to Ping'an County and defeat them all!"
Zhang Dabiao just ran back from the front line and said with deep understanding: "I also feel that the little devils on the top of the city are letting loose!"
"The casualties of the feint attack troops are obviously much lower than before!"
"When the troops dug trenches, the frequency of Japanese shelling was also much smaller..."
"The soldiers are advancing faster and faster... If we continue digging at this rate, we will be able to dig the offensive position 150 meters away in nine hours at most!"
"During the general attack, the commando team only needs ten or twenty seconds to send the explosive package into the city gate hole, blow down the city gate, and open the passage into the city!"
Li Yunlong immediately ordered: "Since the little Japanese are afraid of our retreat and are deliberately waterproofing, let's act more realistically and ask the Japanese to put more water on us. We will take the opportunity to dig closer to the offensive position!"
"The shooting accuracy of the thunder cannon is very poor...the closer the shooting distance, the higher the accuracy!"
"If the offensive position is dug at the foot of the city wall and the thunder cannon is mounted at the foot of the city wall to fire, we will definitely save a lot of thunder cannon shells!"
At the Japanese garrison headquarters in Ping'an County, Colonel Yamamoto was standing in front of the sand table to observe the battle situation.
The small sand table was filled with flags of both the enemy and ourselves.
Looking at the overall situation, the nine flags representing the reinforcements are like a huge encirclement, enclosing the New Second Regiment attacking Ping'an County and the other Eighth Route Army blocking the reinforcements!
As long as the encirclement is narrowed and the reinforcements are contacted, the New Second Regiment and the Eighth Route Army reinforcements will be attacked from both sides and trapped around Ping'an.
"Sir, Miyamoto Osaka sent an urgent message to them. They were blocked by an Eighth Route Army at the Tu Tu Temple... The opponent's combat power is very strong. They would rather die than retreat. It will take some time for Miyamoto to take over the Tu Tu Temple and continue to reinforce Ping'an County!" Communications Staff Officer
I took the message I just received and ran to Yamamoto to report it.
Yamamoto didn't even raise his head. He stared at the sand table and began to give orders: "Let them go faster!"
"The New Second Regiment besieging Ping'an County may retreat at any time, and there are already signs of retreat!"
"If they don't reach Ping'an County quickly and the New Second Regiment escapes, our encirclement and suppression plan will fall short!"
After saying that, he stared at the garrison captain and asked: "What is the situation of the new second regiment outside the city!"
"Why do I feel that the sound of firefights is getting weaker and weaker!"
"The outer encirclement has not been formed yet, and there are a lot of defensive loopholes between the reinforcements. If the New Second Regiment retreats now, it will be easy to break out of the encirclement!"
"I have issued a military order at the military headquarters to destroy the New Second Regiment outside Ping'an City!"
"So they must not evacuate Ping An in advance!"
The guard captain was very frustrated.
The Eighth Route Army has long legs. If they really decide to give up the attack on Ping'an County and withdraw from the battlefield, no matter how powerful I am, I will not be able to stop them.
But he didn't dare to say what was in his heart.
Yamamoto has staked his military career on this decisive battle and will certainly not allow any accidents to occur in this decisive battle.
If you stand up and pour cold water on me now, aren't you asking for trouble?
He quickly answered: "Sir, please rest assured. I have ordered the city defense troops to further weaken the blocking firepower, and let the New Second Regiment continue to dig trenches towards the city wall, so that they can see the opportunity to break through Ping'an County!"
"The frequency of our artillery counterattacks has also dropped a lot compared to before!"
"Ten minutes ago, the Eighth Route Army only dared to launch feint attacks at the platoon level, but now it dares to launch feint attacks with two platoons and two platoons!"
"Their offensive positions are advancing much faster... They have now advanced to a position two hundred meters outside the city!"
"Yo Xi..." The worry on Yamamoto's face suddenly eased, and he said with satisfaction.
"Just do it..."
"As long as the Eighth Route Army is not allowed to get close to the city wall, even if they push their offensive position a hundred meters outside the city, I will be sure to hold Ping'an County until reinforcements surround them!"
After finishing speaking, he turned his attention to the sand table again, and while looking at it, he asked: "How are the reinforcements that passed through the New Regiment and Independent Regiment defense areas?"
"The Eighth Route Army is not like other Chinese armies we have encountered before!"
"Once a unit is attacked, other Eighth Route Army troops nearby will definitely try their best to reinforce it!"
The guard captain said with deep understanding: "This is indeed what the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment did!"
"The two regiments have mobilized their main forces!"
"They are blocking attacks, destroying roads, and using guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare to slow down the march of reinforcements and consume their strength!"
"Judging from the current situation, there is a lot of pressure for these reinforcements to reach Ping'an County on time, but safety is definitely no problem!"
"That's good!" Yamamoto breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm most afraid that the New Regiment and the Independent Regiment will take the opportunity to ambush the Imperial Army who are reinforcing us!"
"The New Second Regiment can assemble five to six thousand main troops and local troops to besiege Ping'an County. The strength of these two regiments is definitely not much smaller!"
"As long as they want to, they are fully capable of ambushing those large-scale reinforcements!"
The guard captain immediately comforted him: "Sir, please rest assured about this!"
"The New Regiment and the Independent Regiment are indeed very strong, but they need to block several reinforcements. After dividing the troops, there will be at most a thousand blocking troops along the way. No matter how strong the combat effectiveness is, they cannot ambush those two or three thousand troops.
Human reinforcements!”
At the enemy headquarters of the Independent Regiment, Kong Jie came back from inspecting the position. Before his butt was hot, he saw Chief of Staff Li Wensheng running towards him in a hurry!
"Captain...good news..."
"The guard battalion joined forces with the fourth battalion to annihilate more than 200 Japanese and puppet troops behind the Japs in just 20 minutes. They also wiped out more than 100 Japanese and puppet troops in the battle to block the return troops. The overall results are certain.
Over four hundred people!”
Kong Jie's face was already filled with joy, and he immediately pulled out another battle report: "This is the battle report that Guan Dashan sent back when I was inspecting the position!"
"They killed and wounded puppet troops for nearly 600 days at Jinniuling, and suffered less than 100 casualties themselves!"
"The Japanese army lost nearly a thousand people in these two battles alone!"
"If we add up the Japanese and puppet troops killed by local troops through guerrilla warfare and mine warfare, there will be at most more than 1,300 Japanese and puppet troops left on the right!"
"The third battalion is heading here via a small road. As long as the guard battalion and the fourth battalion arrive on time, we can gather more than twice the strength to ambush them here!"
At this moment, Zhang Xuelin suddenly put down his earphones, picked up the message he had just translated and ran towards Kong Jie: "Captain... Battalion Commander Shen and the others won..."
"1,135 Japanese and puppet troops were wiped out, 218 puppet troops were captured, and a large amount of weapons, equipment and ammunition were seized. The troops suffered direct losses of 476 people, of whom 398 were killed and others were seriously injured..."
"Battle Commander Shen still has 1,200 men in his hands who can continue fighting. He decided to bring the captured heavy weapons to immediately reinforce the Second Battalion!"
