Huang Yu was noncommittal, staring at the completely disrupted battlefield in front of him and confidently ordered: "Inform each regiment to eliminate the Kwantung Army in the pocket formation within twenty minutes and capture the commander of the Little Japanese Division."
"After the battle, each regiment immediately gathers its troops and counts the battle losses. The more detailed the better, and the results are sent to the headquarters within thirty minutes."
"Notify all the mountain artillery and heavy artillery batteries participating in the battle to prepare for transfer immediately and be sure to leave after receiving orders from the headquarters.
"What Neji Okamura sent was a light infantry regiment, not equipped with heavy artillery."
"Our mountain artillery and heavy artillery can overwhelm them in battle."
"Encircling and annihilating the Japs' middle-road mopping up troops will definitely capture a lot of artillery shells. If all of them fall on this light infantry regiment, more than 3,000 Japs will be able to kill half a dozen of them without infantry attack."
"If we go fast enough, maybe we can fight again."
"Give Okamura Neji a three-fight, three-win victory."
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"Comrades, kill me..."
Directly south of the battlefield, the remaining two battalions of the 26th Regiment followed Li Zhi and charged forward, finally breaking into the Japanese second line of defense.
"Da da da……"
The crooked handler he was holding in his arms suddenly opened fire, sifting through the three Kwantung Army soldiers who were trying to fight him with bayonets in front of him.
"Use bullets if you can, and try not to fight with the little Japs on bayonets..." Li Zhi ordered while using a machine gun to kill the Kwantung Army he saw.
"kill……"
Not far away, several riflemen and three Japanese soldiers suddenly strangled together.
The Kwantung Army fought very hard with bayonets, standing back to back.
The two soldiers raised their rifles with bayonets and stabbed the Japs in the chest from left to right. A Japs next to them suddenly turned around and used the butts of their rifles to swing away the bayonets with the Japs under attack.
The soldier was stabbed across the body.
This scene frightened the other soldiers, who gathered around the three Japanese soldiers and did not dare to take action rashly.
"Get out of the way..." Li Zhi shouted an order.
When several soldiers saw the group leader, they quickly made way as if they were seeing a savior.
The three Japanese soldiers looked at Li Zhi's small pistol hanging on his waist and laughed.
Ordinary cadres of the Eighth Route Army are equipped with box guns and Mauser pistols, while only cadres above the regiment level are equipped with small pistols.
Looking at Li Zhi rushing over, it was like seeing prey. Jili Guala didn't know what he said, and they all rushed towards Li Zhi, wanting to kill him before they died.
"A bunch of fools... I have a machine gun, why should I fight with you on the bayonet... Ta-ta-ta-ta..." Li Zhi stared at the three Japs as if they were laughing. Before he finished speaking, the familiar sound of machine gun fire started.
Ringed.
Seven or eight bullets flew out of the barrel and drilled several holes in the Japanese's chest in an instant. Only then did they react from their shock.
He wanted to say "despicable", but his rapidly disappearing physical strength was no longer enough for him to say these two words.
His eyes quickly widened, showing a dead-eyed expression, and finally he fell heavily to the ground.
After killing these three Japs, the bullets in the crooked bullet magazine were empty.
Li Zhi decisively dropped the trap, took out his pistol, and scanned his surroundings to order: "What are you still doing here? Have the Japanese finished killing them..."
"The Kwantung Army is much better with bayonets than the North China Front Army."
"If you can kill the enemy with bullets, you will never fight with bayonets."
"Continue to kill me..."
"Kill... da da da..."
At this moment, a burst of machine gun fire suddenly sounded from the side and front.
A reinforced squad of Japanese troops, headed by five light machine guns, suddenly entered the battlefield.
More than a dozen soldiers were shot to death with machine guns before they had time to react.
At first glance, Li Zhi thought they were Japanese reinforcements and wanted to drive them out of the blocking position.
As a result, they did not divide their forces after entering the battlefield, but huddled together and followed the machine gunners to quickly attack forward, as if they were penetrating the battlefield.
He patted his head and suddenly realized: "No, these little devils want to take advantage of the chaos to break out."
"Hurry and stop them..."
"The fat meat delivered to our mouths must not be allowed to escape."
Seeing what the dozens of Japs were protecting intentionally or unintentionally, Li Zhi continued to order: "There are big fish in the Japs' breakout troops..."
"We must stop them and catch the big fish."
"The reconnaissance company, engineer platoon, baggage company, and cooking squad all participated in the battle and stopped them at all costs."
The main force of the regiment was entangled by other Japanese soldiers and could not intercept the Japanese breakout troops. They could only press the logistics troops from the rear who were not involved in the battle. Every minute they could stop them was a minute.
Once the main force has destroyed the current enemy, it can divide its forces to encircle the Japanese breakout force.
Li Zhi led a security squad and headed straight for the Japanese breakout troops.
He vaguely felt that he had hit a big fish and if he let it go, he would regret it for the rest of his life.
"Pa bang bang..."
Fire three shots in a row to kill the two little Japs blocking the road ahead.
Fearing that something might happen to the leader, the guard squad opened fire with their crooked handles, 38-inch caps, Mauser pistols, and box cannons, and soon followed Li Zhi to carve a bloody path on the battlefield.
At this moment, a crooked light machine gun that had been thrown by a kid on the ground appeared in front of him.
Li Zhi quickly inserted the pistol into the holster, lifted the crooked handle and hung it on his chest, loaded the bullet, and opened fire on the machine gunner in the middle of the Japanese breakout force.
He fired all the bullets in the magazine in one breath before stopping.
Several Japanese machine gunners charged forward desperately, ignoring attacks from the flank.
Faced with the hail of bullets fired by Li Zhi and the security squad, he was caught off guard and more than ten people fell on the spot.
Three machine guns fell into a pool of blood along with the machine gunner, and only two crooked guns continued to fire.
Li Zhi conveniently dropped the crooked handle that had emptied the magazine, picked up a 38 cap, squatted on the ground, held the flat end in his hand, loaded the bullet, aimed at the fourth Japanese machine gunner and pulled the trigger again.
The machine gunner fell to the ground, but Li Zhi was also exposed to the Japanese army.
The remaining machine gunner turned around and fired a hail of bullets at him.
Fortunately, the bullets in the machine gun magazine were almost empty, and only five bullets were left flying towards the guard squad in a fan shape.
When Li Zhi saw the Japanese machine gunner, he turned around and threw himself on the ground, avoiding the fatal blow. He pulled the bolt again and fired, killing the last machine gunner in the breakout force.
The two soldiers in the guard squad were not as lucky as him. They lay down a little slower, and the bullets passed through his chest on the spot, taking his life.
The guard squadron leader who was running next to Sakuragi also saw this scene. Although he was very sad for the machine gunners who were killed, when he thought that they led the breakout troops to successfully kill half of the battlefield, the heartache on his face was immediately replaced by excitement.
Staring at a second lieutenant looking forward to the order: "Lead two detachments and continue to attack forward..."
"We will be able to penetrate the battlefield and break out of the encirclement immediately. Quick... we must not give the Eighth Route Army a chance to encircle us again..."
