Chapter 217: Anti-Encirclement and Suppression: Havoc in the Heavenly Palace (2)
Chapter 217: Counter-Encirclement and Suppression: Havoc in Heaven (2)
"Report to the head of the regiment, political commissar, what's going on...?" the reconnaissance platoon leader ran over and said, sweating profusely.
"To be specific, what is the situation?" the political commissar asked.
"A Japanese convoy is coming here. There are six cars loaded with various supplies and ammunition. At the head are two three-wheeled motorcycles. There are about a small team of soldiers serving as escorts. They will arrive in ten minutes.
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"Well, with six vehicles and a small team of troops, one battalion can quickly resolve the battle. One battalion commander, this task will be handed over to your battalion. Do you have the confidence to resolve the battle within ten minutes?"
Chang Luo Zhihui looked at the battalion commander next to him and asked.
"Report to the regimental commander and political commissar, the first battalion promises to complete the mission..." the first battalion commander replied confidently.
"Okay, go ahead and make arrangements! The regiment's mortar company will cooperate with you to wipe out the enemy." Luo Zhihui ordered.
"Yes." After saying that, he turned around and walked towards the battlefield.
Sure enough, the situation was exactly as the reconnaissance platoon leader said. Less than a few minutes after the first battalion commander left, a burst of machine gun fire reached everyone's ears. The regiment leader Luo Zhihui picked up the telescope and saw the Japanese army in the head.
The two motorcycles were equipped with a light machine gun with a crooked handle. The machine gunner was sitting in the seat and strafing the ridges on both sides of the road. He used the most old-fashioned firepower reconnaissance to test whether the ridges on both sides of the road were on the ground.
There is hostility.
Seeing that there was no movement on the mountain ridges on both sides of the road, the Japs seemed relieved. They drove their cars and entered the valley with great swagger...
When the first Japanese tricycle was about to exit the ravine, Luo Zhihui, who was wondering why the battalion commander had not launched an attack, suddenly heard bursts of roaring. At this moment, the mouth of the ravine turned into a sea of fire, and the Japanese's first
There was no doubt that a three-wheeled motorcycle was directly torn to pieces by the intensive gunfire. Then the second three-wheeled motorcycle and the first car were not able to escape this fate.
Under the impact of the strong inertia of the car, even though they knew that there was a sea of fire in front of them, the Japanese cars and motorcycles still rushed forward in a hurry. The reason why it happened like this was because it all happened too suddenly, and the Japanese soldiers were not allowed to drive.
The driver didn't have any reaction time at all.
Seeing that the entrance of the valley had been completely blocked by artillery fire, the regimental commander breathed a sigh of relief. Of course, the first battalion was not polite in blocking the entrance of the valley. All light and heavy machine guns, rifles, and grenades were immediately aimed at the last five cars in the convoy.
Facing the flying bullets and countless grenades, the five cars behind them were not much better than the car in front. Those Japanese who were attacked and were just about to jump out of the car to fight back, just stretched out a leg
, he was hit by flying bullets and hung limply upside down on the car.
However, there were still a dozen old Japs with rich combat experience who escaped the first round of shooting. They quickly jumped out of the car and hid under the car, and started shooting with the First Battalion. Faced with the Japs' precise marksmanship, they had bunkers to cover them.
The soldiers still suffered casualties very quickly. The first battalion commander looked anxiously at everything in front of him. Although he was anxious, there was no way. Because the Japanese were hiding under the car, it was impossible for the light and heavy machine guns in the hands of the soldiers to penetrate.
Thick car bottom.
"Battal Commander, we must quickly deal with the remaining dozen veterans. Now the soldiers have suffered casualties for almost a squad. If we don't deal with them, the casualties will be even greater. The Japs' marksmanship is so accurate and they are so well hidden..."
The battalion instructor ran to the battalion commander's side and said eagerly.
"I know, grenade, grenade..." the battalion commander shouted loudly behind him.
In order to make up for the shortcomings of the heavy firepower of the rapid reaction brigade and battalion, Liu Hua equipped each infantry battalion with a grenade squad with a total of 6 grenade launchers. You know, in many cases, these six grenade launchers are
Played a very important role.
"Battal Commander, instructor, do you have any mission? Please give me an order!" Soon, the squad leader of the grenade squad led a dozen soldiers behind him to the front of the position carrying grenades and ammunition, and asked excitedly
road.
"Well, I'll give you half a minute. Give it to me. The enemy's ammunition truck was blown up. Damn it, little devil. I'll let you die without knowing how." The battalion commander ordered loudly.
"Yes, battalion commander, I promise to complete the mission." After saying that, he took the soldiers of his squad to the spot and began to take aim.
"Bang bang bang..." A few slight sounds reached the battalion commander's ears. In a blink of an eye, he remembered several violent explosions on the road under the mountain ridge, in which two Japanese ammunition trucks were directly hit.
The explosive ammunition tore the entire car into pieces in one fell swoop. As for the Japs hiding at the bottom of the car, they had no idea where they were blown.
"Wait a minute, don't fire yet..." The battalion commander suddenly stopped the grenade squad who wanted to continue firing. Because he saw that the ammunition truck that was hit was all loaded with artillery shells. Those who did not
The detonated artillery shells were flying everywhere driven by powerful air waves. Sure enough, within a few seconds of the battalion commander stopping the grenade squad from firing, a box of ammunition that was thrown high fell next to it.
An ammunition truck in China once again caused a burst of explosions...
Perhaps it was because the Japs under the first two cars were blown to pieces, which severely damaged the fighting spirit and morale of the remaining Japs. Faced with cars that could tear their bodies apart at any time, the remaining Japs in less than one class got in one after another.
They got out of the car that protected them, armed with rifles with bayonets in hand, and launched a final suicidal charge towards the Eighth Route Army on the mountain ridge.
"Da da da..." With the sound of the last burst of heavy machine gunfire, the dozen or so Japanese soldiers left on the position all fell on the charging road... There was no longer a living Japanese soldier on the position, and the battalion commander finally
He breathed a sigh of relief. After the ammunition being exploded below stopped, the battalion commander ordered the soldiers to rush out and clean the battlefield.
"Reporting to the leader, political commissar, and Japanese convoy that we have completely wiped out, and none of the Japanese soldiers who served as escorts survived. Our army has killed 12 soldiers, seriously injured 2 people, and lightly injured 20 people, but...it is only the Japanese soldiers' six ammunition
There are only two cars left now, and the rest were all blown up by bombs..." At the end of the sentence, the first battalion commander almost lowered his head.
"Haha, it's okay. Isn't it just ammunition for a few cars? There will be fewer Japanese ammunition trucks passing by here in the past few days. We are still afraid that they have not been captured. We ordered the soldiers to withdraw from their positions, and we eliminated one of his soldiers here.
"Convoy, there will definitely be Japanese planes coming to assist in the battle later. We won't raise any eyebrows. We will come back after the Japanese planes leave." The regiment leader was not unhappy at all because of the small capture, and said with a smile.
"Yes, commander, I will give the order right away..." After hearing the commander's words, the first battalion commander breathed a sigh of relief.
"Captain, you just said that we have to come back here to fight the Japanese ambush. Did I hear you right? You know, this is a taboo in the art of war!" The political commissar next to him saw that the first battalion commander had left and quickly reminded him.
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"Haha, political commissar, you are thinking too much. You can think about it from another angle. Even you think it is a taboo in military art for me to ambush the Japanese convoy several times in the same place. What do you think the Japanese will think? Now tell me.
, The terrain here is so good, let’s not use it in vain..." Luo Zhihui answered easily without any nervousness.
"Yeah, why didn't I think of that? Haha, Captain, it seems I really overthought it... I will immediately order the troops to retreat into the mountains behind me." With that, he left with the guards.
Since one of the two seized cars contained bullets and the other contained cans, it was very convenient for the soldiers to carry them. In less than a few minutes, the two cars were carried away. The soldiers carried the captured trophies.
, quickly disappeared on the battlefield.
Sure enough, the situation on the battlefield was exactly as Commander Luo Zhihui expected. Less than ten minutes after the soldiers left, bursts of aircraft roared over the battlefield, and two planes appeared on the battlefield.
Above. Seeing the deserted battlefield, the two pilots did not give up. Instead, they swept the mountain ridges on both sides of the road, dropped all the bombs they carried, and then flew back in confusion.
Of course, all this did not escape the eyes of the reconnaissance platoon, who saw that the planes had left after dropping bombs. After lunch and replenishing their strength, the soldiers quickly returned to the battlefield to repair the trenches and bunkers that had been damaged by Japanese planes.
Since there had already been an ambush and the battlefield had been bombarded by Japanese aircraft, the soldiers did not take any care this time and started a large number of reconstruction works...
In this way, in the next two days, the Second Regiment, under the command of Luo Zhihui, relied on the favorable terrain to eliminate a convoy of 12 taels of cars and a convoy of 6 cars. In addition, a total of more than 1,000 Japanese troops were eliminated.
A squadron successfully completed the task assigned to them by Commander Liu Hua. Not a single bullet or grain was delivered to the Sakai Brigade in Zhouzhuang.
At this time, the Sakai brigade was really at a point of no return. The original two days of military rations had been compressed into three days of food. However, after three days, they still had not received the supplies they should have. The soldiers were all at this time.
Hungry, in order to preserve the physical strength of the soldiers, except for the necessary sentries, the entire brigade huddled in the barracks to conserve physical strength.
Faced with this situation, although Major General Sakai repeatedly made requests to General Juichi Terauchi of the North China Headquarters to withdraw troops, they were all rejected unconditionally. Although he received some airdrops from the North China Headquarters, those scarce grains were faced with several
Compared to the main brigade of a thousand people, it can be said to be negligible.
Although the Sakai Brigade at this time had completely become the fat on Liu Hua's lips. However, Liu Hua was not in a hurry to bite it. Because a starved camel was bigger than a horse, Liu Hua waited until he became even weaker.
At this moment, Shen Qinghua from the first regiment and Wang Benqing from the third regiment had led their troops to the designated positions respectively, waiting for the time to attack.