Chapter 219: Anti-Encirclement and Suppression: Havoc in the Heavenly Palace (4)
Chapter 219: Counter-encirclement and Suppression: Havoc in Heaven (4)
Hearing the reminder from the team leader next to him, and looking at the approaching Chinese army, the squadron leader nodded helplessly. So, under the protection of the last remaining team on the city wall, the squadron leader retreated while blocking, slowly
Slowly retreat towards the headquarters.
At this time, the second and third companies, personally commanded by the third battalion commander, had already successfully broken through the gap and entered the county town. Due to the fierce fighting on the city wall, the Japanese squadron leader had mobilized almost all the defenders in the county town. And in this way,
The empty county seat made it easier for the two companies to enter the city.
Under the leadership of the third battalion commander, the two companies made great progress and eliminated several sporadic Japanese troops. In less than a few minutes, they attacked next to the Japanese headquarters. Facing the fierce offensive of the two companies, the headquarters
The few civilian staff officers left behind were quickly wiped out. As a result, the two companies successfully occupied the Japanese headquarters in Taigu County.
"Battal Commander, the Japanese have retreated from the city wall and are coming here. There are still about a small group of troops." A soldier who went out to conduct reconnaissance quickly ran to the battalion commander and said.
"Okay, we came at the right time. It seems that the great success of the attack on the county town will fall on our third battalion. Order, two platoons of the second company, one and two, stick to the Japanese headquarters, three platoons, three companies and one platoon
Ambush on the left wing of the headquarters, and two platoons of the third company and three platoons on the right wing. When the Japanese attack is thwarted, launch an attack immediately. Be sure to eliminate them outside the headquarters and don't let anyone go." the battalion commander said.
The cadres and soldiers in front of them ordered loudly.
"Quick, retreat immediately, return to the headquarters..." The Japanese squadron leader kept shouting to the dozens of soldiers behind him, dreaming of returning to the headquarters and relying on the headquarters' defenses to hold on until dawn...
Just when the headquarters appeared in everyone's sight, an accident happened. The two searchlights at the entrance of the headquarters suddenly turned on, and the bright lights shone on the Japanese squadron leader. In an instant, the entire Japanese team clearly appeared in front of the soldiers.
within the field of vision.
"Baga... The squadron leader is back, hurry up..." the squad leader next to the squadron leader cursed loudly. However, before the squad leader finished speaking, a burst of violent machine gunfire interrupted his words. Under the searchlight
Under the irradiation, the bullets of the soldiers seemed to have eyes, constantly harvesting the Japanese who didn't know why in front of them.
"Baga, the headquarters has been occupied by the Eighth Route Army. Heroic imperial warriors, the time has come to show loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor. Charge with me and take back the headquarters..." The squadron leader suddenly threw away the guards protecting him and stood up.
, pulled out his command sword and shouted to the soldier lying on the ground behind him.
The reason why the squadron leader did this was because he knew that if he wanted to win the battle, he had to recapture the headquarters. Otherwise, he would die sooner or later at the hands of the Eighth Route Army. It was better to fight once and not have any chance of survival.
"Come on, give me a beard..." Seeing that the squadron leader was actually leading the team in person, the Japanese soldiers who were lying on the ground to avoid bullets showed their ferocious nature. They quickly stood up, followed behind the squadron leader, bent down, and started to launch attacks.
The final charge.
Seeing the constantly changing charge formations of the Japanese army, the light machine gunners who controlled the two light machine guns of the Japanese army headquarters immediately came under pressure. Because their bullets obviously followed the footsteps of the Japanese army, but they were still beaten by their well-trained tactical movements.
Escaped the barrage of bullets.
Gradually, more than half of the remaining Japanese troops approached the headquarters with rifles in hand. Two platoons in the headquarters were at a critical moment of life and death.
"Tick-tock-tock..." Finally, at this moment, the loud charge bugle sounded. The 2nd and 3rd companies, together with the pursuing 1st company, launched a charge towards the remaining dozens of Japanese troops, with the sound of machine guns, rifles and the explosion of grenades.
With a loud sound, dozens of Japanese soldiers were immediately drowned in the sea of soldiers.
"Reporting to the head of the regiment, the political commissar, and the third battalion successfully captured Taikoo County. A squadron of the county defenders has been completely wiped out..." The commander of the third battalion, with the joy of victory, hurriedly ran to the regiment leader and the political commissar and said
.
"Okay, very good, order the soldiers to clean the battlefield immediately. There are less than two hours before dawn. We must seize the time to pick up important things and take them away, and destroy all unimportant things..." The regiment leader Shen Qinghua was also happy
commanded.
Because my attack on the county seat only took two hours from start to finish. In two hours, a county seat was captured by my own group. Can I be unhappy?
The First Regiment's attack on Taigu County ended successfully in less than two hours, but the Third Regiment's Shouyang County was not so easy.
Just when the first regiment started the bombardment, the third regiment also started the bombardment, and 12 shells accurately landed in the Japanese material warehouse. Then the second round of artillery shells, the third round of artillery shells...all the way to the Japanese army's material warehouse
Everyone was on fire, and the artillery battalion showed no intention of stopping.
"Baga, the Chinese army is coming from there, order the artillery squadron to fight back immediately, hurry up, fight back immediately, destroy the Chinese army's artillery position..." Watching the artillery shells falling into his material warehouse, the captain of the Japanese garrison was eager
commanded.
"Report to the captain, the artillery squadron leader has just called back. The Chinese army uses field artillery, and our mountain artillery can't hit them at all..." the chief of staff replied with the same fear.
"Baga, how could this happen? Quickly, order the soldiers to organize the Chinese to enter the warehouse to put out the fire immediately and move the materials out of the warehouse..." The captain was sweating profusely as he looked at the increasingly burning material warehouse.
I know that the supplies in the warehouse are the continued supplies of the Central China Front Army. If the loss is in my own hands, I will only have one choice in the future, and that is to apologize...
"Your Excellency, Captain, the soldiers have tried just now, but the Chinese army's artillery fire was too fierce and the soldiers couldn't get in at all. It is impossible for us to enter the warehouse without destroying the Chinese artillery outside," the chief of staff replied.
"Baga, are these supplies really going to be destroyed in my hands? No, absolutely not. Even if I apologize to His Majesty the Emperor, I must seize these Chinese army artillery. Order, No. 1, No. 2 Squadron
Leave the city immediately and destroy the artillery units outside the city at all costs." The captain gritted his teeth and ordered.
"Hi..." the chief of staff replied with a sigh of relief.
At this time, it had been half an hour since the artillery battalion started shelling, and the artillery battalion had already consumed half of the artillery shells it brought. However, there was still no movement from the Japanese troops in the county. Wang Benqing held a telescope and kept staring at the city gate, anxiously
's waiting.
"Here they come, the Japanese are coming out..." Suddenly, a shout reached Wang Benqing's ears.
Wang Benqing quickly looked at the city gate. Sure enough, a gap opened in the closed city gate at some point, and a Japanese man stuck his head out and looked around."
"Damn, little devil, you are finally here. I can't wait any longer. I ordered the first battalion, second battalion, and artillery company to prepare for battle. The devils are dispatched." Wang Benqing ordered decisively.
Sure enough, at the moment Wang Benqing spoke, the city gate had been opened wide, and a group of Japanese soldiers carrying various weapons drove out of the county town and headed straight for the artillery position.
"Commander, the Japanese have dispatched two squadrons of troops. Do you think we should send out the third battalion as well? I'm afraid that the two battalions will not be able to resolve the battle quickly," the political commissar next to him reminded.
"No, the Japanese still have reserve troops. We must also keep one hand alive and tell the artillery company not to save shells for a while, but to fight me to the death. There is also a heavy machine gun company, please do not save bullets for me. This is a plain.
Machine guns and mortars can exert their maximum power." The regiment leader immediately rejected the political commissar's opinion.
At this time, the Japs leaving the city were less than 500 meters away from the ambush circle of the troops. Everyone stopped talking and looked at their leader quietly. Finally, the Japs' leading troops entered the ambush circle, and then the main force
, finally, all entered the ambush circle...
"Start..." Wang Benqing ordered to the chief of staff behind him.
"Bang bang bang..." Three signal bombs were launched into the air. Immediately afterwards, there was a violent explosion less than one kilometer away from Wang Benqing, followed by the sound of intensive heavy machine gun fire...
Twelve mortars continuously fired shells at the Japanese in the ambush circle. Twelve heavy machine guns surrounded the Japanese, spitting out tongues of fire.
"Baga, we have been ambushed by the Chinese army. Quick, get down..." The chief of staff who led the team looked at the countless light and heavy machine guns spraying flames around him and immediately issued an order. However, this order harmed many people.
Japs. Because just when they lay down, swarms of mortar shells fell again.
The dense artillery shells tore apart the Japanese lying on the ground one by one... In order to achieve a higher firepower density, after the discussion of the two battalion commanders, the 12 grenade launchers attached to the two battalions also joined the attack. 24 at a time
The shells were fired, and they fell like raindrops into the dense crowd of Japanese soldiers, causing a shower of blood...
"Baga, despicable Chinese, this is simply a massacre, a massacre... Warriors of the empire, rush out, rush through this encirclement, and you will be fine. Give me a beard..." The Japanese chief of staff pulled out his command knife and pointed at a place
shouted from the weakest point of fire.
In fact, how come this place has weak firepower? This is the result of the discussion between the two battalion commanders before the war. In order to be more energetic and eliminate the Japanese troops in the encirclement, they deliberately gave the Japanese troops a trap for them to escape. In fact, behind the weak firepower
, several heavy machine guns were hidden, waiting for the Japanese army to take the bait.
"Give me the beard..." Each Japanese soldier could no longer bear the feeling of lying on the ground waiting to die. He jumped up, holding a rifle with a bayonet, and under the cover of the weak firepower of his squadron, he fired at the battalions and companies.
The position rushed over.
"Batalion Commander, fire!" The first company commander, who personally controlled a heavy machine gun, said excitedly to the battalion commander beside him as he looked at the Japanese who were getting closer and closer.
"Don't worry, wait a minute, wait until they reach 30 meters before shooting..." the battalion commander said with a smile.
"Fire..." Finally, the Japanese army rushed to a distance of thirty meters. Just when they were happy that they were about to escape the encirclement of the Chinese army, a sudden burst of gunfire completely shattered their dreams.
Four heavy machine guns formed a dense fire net in front of the position, killing the Japanese soldiers who dared to approach the position one after another. "Give me a beard..." Perhaps the Japanese chief of staff was also shocked by the massacre in front of him and lost his mind.
Looking at the falling soldiers in front, he still kept urging the soldiers to die. Finally, it was not until the last Japanese fell under the soldiers' machine guns that the battlefield slowly calmed down.
The soldiers walked on the battlefield that was stained red with blood, carefully cleaning the battlefield and counting their casualties. No one was excited about the victory just now, because this was really too cruel. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers were killed.
Such a living creature fell under the muzzle of his own gun with almost no resistance...
Of course, none of this escaped the eyes of the Japanese captain. When he saw that his troops were besieged by the Chinese army, the captain decided to mobilize another squadron from the county to rescue the trapped troops. However, there was no
Thinking that the stupid chief of staff actually ordered the soldiers to launch a counterattack against the Eighth Route Army, which had powerful automatic firepower, this was not a suicide attempt. The captain did not know how many times he cursed the chief of staff in his heart.
However, his curses and prayers did not have any effect. His two squadrons were still ruined in the hands of the Chinese army, no, they were ruined in the hands of the chief of staff. It was his stupid command that made them miserable.
The entire army was wiped out, and he lost the capital to fight against the Chinese army.
"Baga, you stupid chief of staff, ordered the troops to stand firm and wait for reinforcements. No matter how challenged the Chinese army was, they were not allowed to open the city gate to fight." Faced with the sparse troops in his hands at this time, the captain had no choice but to issue the order to stand firm and wait for reinforcements.
.Because he knew that as soon as it dawned, the Imperial Air Force would come to support him. At that time, no matter how powerful the Chinese artillery was, they would die in the hands of the Imperial Air Force.
"Reporting to the leader and political commissar, the battlefield has been cleaned and preliminary statistics have been carried out. We have eliminated about 420 Japs in total and seized a batch of weapons and ammunition. 78 soldiers were killed, 21 were seriously injured, and 180 were slightly injured. A large number of them
The casualties were all caused during the Japanese suicide charge. But..."
"Nothing..." After hearing the loss report from the chief of staff, the regiment leader and political commissar breathed a sigh of relief.
"However, the soldiers' ammunition consumption is very huge. The artillery company's ammunition has been consumed at least 80%. Now each mortar has less than 5 shells on average. The heavy machine gun ammunition has been consumed at least 70%, but fortunately, the ammunition has just been captured
A batch of heavy machine gun bullets can support a battle for the time being."
"Captain, it seems that we should fight less wars of attrition in the future. Although the casualties of the soldiers are not large, we cannot afford the ammunition. Just one battle has consumed almost all the ammunition of our heavy weapons."
The political commissar listened to what the chief of staff said and reminded him.
"Well, that's what I mean too..." Wang Benqing nodded in agreement.