Captain Zhang has been paying attention to the Fourth Battalion since he sent them out to take over the defense line on the right. If the Fourth Battalion performs well, everything will be fine, but if the Fourth Battalion performs poorly, he will have a headache.
Just now, he went to visit a battalion that had just withdrawn from the position, and found that there were less than 200 people left in the battalion that originally had more than 600 people.
On average, there are only a few dozen people left in each company, and it is unknown how long it will take to recover.
If the Liantai Militia Battalion had suffered too many casualties as soon as it went up and asked for reinforcements, he would really have no choice but to take the remaining dozens of people from the guard company and go into battle in person.
Just when Zhang Qianxun was feeling uneasy, a staff officer hurried over, with an expression on his face that seemed to be a mixture of excitement, suspicion, surprise and other emotions.
Seeing this staff officer running over, Captain Zhang said displeasedly: "Why are you so panicked? What happened?"
"Captain... something big happened." The staff officer said hurriedly: "Less than ten minutes after the battalion of the Liantai Militia took over the position with our first battalion, the Japanese Army's Eighty-sixth Regiment sent a brigade to attack them.
After more than ten minutes of shelling, they launched a fierce attack on them!"
"What... shelling? And fierce attack?"
Commander Zhang's heart skipped a beat. He knew that the Japanese artillery had always been famous for its precision and fierceness. Once it was bombarded by the Japanese, casualties were absolutely unavoidable. The only difference was how much.
"What are the casualties of the Fourth Battalion? Can they hold on?"
"It's not a question of whether you can hold it or not."
The staff officer paused for a moment and seemed to be trying to organize his words. This appearance made Captain Zhang anxious and he cursed, "What's wrong with you kid? You can't even speak anymore."
"No... Captain, I don't know what to say."
"You can't speak anymore?" Captain Zhang couldn't help but raised his foot and kicked him on the butt.
"Hey! Captain, please stop kicking me!"
After being kicked, the staff officer quickly said: "It's not that I didn't say it, it's that I can't believe it."
"you……"
Seeing the regiment leader raising his feet again, the staff officer who was afraid of being kicked again hurriedly said: "Just now, the fourth battalion of the Liantai Militia reported that they had repelled a brigade-level attack launched by the Japanese army, killing and wounding more than 300 Japanese soldiers.
Now the agricultural battalion commander is leading the troops to fight back!"
"What?" Captain Zhang was shocked and lost his voice: "Are they launching a counterattack?"
"Yes!" the staff officer swallowed, "I specifically asked twice, and that's what the other party said."
"Confused!"
Captain Zhang stood up suddenly, grabbed the hat on the table and shouted: "Guard!"
"arrive!"
"Order the entire guard company to assemble and rush to the right position immediately!"
"Ah..." the staff officer asked in confusion: "Is it that serious?"
"Ten times more serious than this!"
Commander Zhang's face changed with anxiety, "Have you not seen the combat effectiveness of the Eighty-sixth Brigade in the past few days?
The first battalion only defended for two days and suffered two-thirds of its casualties. Commander Nong and the others dared to take risks as soon as they took up the position. If they were attacked by Japanese counterattacks and suffered heavy casualties and lost the position, our defense line would be in danger of collapse.
,do you understand?"
"this……"
After his regiment leader said this, the staff also realized the seriousness of the matter and asked in desperation: "Captain, do you want to report to the brigade headquarters and request the brigade headquarters to send reinforcements?"
"no!"
Captain Zhang rejected this suggestion without even thinking about it.
"Don't even think about it. The brigade headquarters just sent us a battalion of reinforcements, and less than two hours later they asked for reinforcements again. What do you want the people of the Liantai Militia and the brigade commander to think of us?"
There are some things that Captain Zhang did not say. When they attacked Ping'an County a few days ago, they were reprimanded by Brigadier Wang because they failed to attack the Sixth Division and suffered heavy casualties. If they make trouble again now
With such a place, I am afraid that the 770th Regiment will really fall out of the position of the main force from now on.
Just as Captain Zhang led the guard company to the right-wing position, Nong Tiancai also led two companies of soldiers to rush out of the position and launched a counterattack against the 1st Battalion of the 86th Regiment.
In the previous battle, the Japanese 2nd and 3rd squadrons not only failed to charge into the 4th Battalion’s position, but suffered heavy casualties in the face of the 4th Battalion’s abnormally powerful firepower. Half an hour later, when the gunfire from the right-wing position fell into
During the silence, most of the two attacking squadrons fell in a pool of blood, leaving only a few dozen Japanese soldiers running towards the back.
Looking at the fleeing Japanese troops, Nong Tiancai naturally would not miss this opportunity and shouted, "Come at me two or three times in a row...kill the little Japs!"
Accompanied by the sharp swan whistle, one soldier after another, either holding a submachine gun or a rifle with a bayonet, rushed out of the position and chased the Japanese army in the direction of retreat.
A Japanese soldier who fled in a hurry stumbled and fell to the ground. Before he could get up, a soldier from the Liantai Militia at the forefront had already rushed to him.
"kill……"
The soldier burst out with a loud shout and stabbed the rifle in his hand at the Japanese soldier who was struggling to get up.
"ah……"
The stabbed Japanese soldier struggled to get up, but the soldiers behind him stepped on his back.
The strong Japanese soldier did not die immediately, but the severe pain also caused him to scream in agony, and at the same time he shook his body desperately, trying to break away from the cold bayonet piercing his back.
A sergeant who was passing by couldn't see it clearly, so he stopped and took out the M1911 pistol from his waist and shot the Japanese soldier to death with two bangs.
After everything happened last night, he glared at the soldier and cursed: "Boy, do you know you are wasting your time? On another occasion, you would have been beaten to death several times by this Japanese comrade.
What are the bullets in your gun used for? Why didn't you shoot him and choose the bayonet instead? Are you showing off your assassination skills?"
The superior soldier who was scolded did not dare to speak. After drawing out his bayonet, he quickly followed his companions and ran forward.
When the soldiers of the fourth battalion chased for four to five hundred meters, they finally encountered organized resistance from the Japanese army. The leader was none other than the captain of the first battalion, Akino Murakami. At this time, he looked at the soldiers who were being retreated like ducks.
The ten soldiers had ferocious looks in their eyes, and then they drew out their command swords and swung them forward heavily.
"Da da da……"
As the command knife fell, the two Type 92 heavy machine guns behind him began to pour out heated tongues of flame, and soon knocked down the retreating Japanese soldiers to the ground.
"All weapons open... open fire... must not let the Chinese rush in!"