However, just when more than 4,000 Japs were resting on the spot due to the temporary loss of air support, the soldiers who stood at various blocking positions began to assemble quickly at the orders of commanders at all levels. Because
Without the reconnaissance and harassment of Japanese aircraft, the soldiers gathered very quickly. In less than half an hour, nearly 4,000 soldiers from the two main groups were already standing on their starting positions...
Then, nearly 4,000 soldiers from the two main regiments, led by their respective captains, quickly disappeared into the dense forest. With the help of the cover of the dense forest around them, the 4,000 soldiers quickly circled towards the two wings of the little devil.
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At this moment, after almost an hour of resolute blocking and attack by the regiment and the battalion, the Japanese army had directly lost more than 1,100 people. Except for a few commanders, the vanguard regiment was almost completely destroyed. Then, in
During the Second Battalion's clever blocking process, the Japanese army once again lost a reinforced squadron of nearly 300 people. Taken together, the Japanese army lost more than 1,400 people in less than an hour, which was four percent of its overall strength.
one.
More importantly, before approaching the guard brigade blocking position, the remaining few thousand soldiers of the 109th Division directly lost hundreds of soldiers to the mines along the way and the joint attacks of local guerrillas, local troops, and militia forces.
.Coupled with the more than 1,400 people who had just been lost, at this moment, with the division commander Lieutenant General Yamaoka Shigehou, there are only about 4,000 people left after all calculations. And these 4,000 troops do not have any heavy troops.
Weapons and ammunition were insufficient, and morale was extremely low.
The four thousand demoralized little Japs, after receiving the order to stay put, ignored the scolding of the commander around them and showed almost no discipline. A few of them gathered in a pile, sat on the ground, and started chatting. And more
The soldiers were waiting with their big eyes, looking motionlessly at the end of the road, wondering whether their troops could break through today, and whether they could return home smoothly and reunite with their families after the battle...
The four thousand troops, who had almost no vigilance or military discipline, only occupied a section of less than two kilometers on the road. More importantly, these little devils, in addition to arranging some machine gun positions sporadically around the troops, were used to carry out attacks.
Apart from the symbolic warning, no sentries or patrols were sent out.
The 4,000 soldiers of the two main regiments of the Guard Brigade took advantage of this favorable space to quickly shuttle through the dense forest on both sides of the little devil, rushing towards their final destination... Finally, in twenty minutes
Afterwards, the two main regiments, two and three, which were making detours on both wings of the Little Devil, finally converged together. Until this moment, the remaining four thousand Japanese troops were completely surrounded by the heavy guard brigade.
At the same time, after the two main regiments completed the encirclement of the Japs on the road, they saw the Japs a few hundred meters away with almost no vigilance. The two regiment leaders did not hesitate and immediately ordered the surrounding soldiers to
Narrow the encirclement, reduce the contact distance between the enemy and our troops, and try to catch the Japanese by surprise when the battle begins. Under the cover of the dense forest, almost every soldier quietly crawled to a distance of almost a hundred meters from the Japanese position.
Under the control of the soldiers, the black rifles and machine gun barrels aimed at all the machine gunners deployed by the Japanese army on the outermost perimeter through the dense weeds or leaves. They attacked one by one.
Under the control of the gunners, the cannon aimed its black muzzle at the place on the road where the Japs gathered the most.
In a word, at this moment, there are nearly 4,000 soldiers in the two main regiments of the Guard Brigade. They are all holding their breath, lying quietly opposite the little devil, looking at the little devil in front of them, waiting for the final shot.
Order.
However, at this moment, the little Japanese soldiers who were surrounded by heavy troops from the guard brigade did not notice anything. Especially the division commander, Lieutenant General Yamaoka Shigehou, who was sitting in the middle of the entire army, was being waited on by several orderlies.
Quietly waiting for the arrival of aircraft reinforcements, he never thought about his troops being surrounded by the Eighth Route Army.
Because he believed that the Eighth Route Army in front of him was most likely a small force of the Eighth Route Army. He wanted to block his troops here, and then cooperate with the main force of the Eighth Route Army dozens of kilometers away to annihilate him. However, according to the Air Force
He reported that the Eighth Route Army behind him would need at least *** hours to get here. And *** hours later, his 109th Division might have succeeded with the support of other Imperial Army units.
Breakout…
I looked at the sun that was almost reaching my head. Although the weather at this moment was not particularly hot, the division commander Lieutenant General Yamaoka Shigeho who was sitting on the ground couldn't help but frown because he probably didn't care.
Suddenly, an hour has almost passed since he ordered the troops to rest. Thinking of this, the division commander turned and looked at the division chief of staff, Colonel Kurashige, who was frowning and deep in thought at this moment...
"Kuramo-kun, why haven't our air support arrived yet? Send a telegram immediately to inquire about the specific situation. Is there something wrong..." The division commander interrupted the chief of staff who was deep in thought and ordered angrily.
Seeing the frowning division commander, the chief of staff quickly reacted: "Hi, Mr. Division Commander, I'll be there right away..." However, just when he stood up from the ground, there was a buzzing sound from the engine.
, from far to near, slowly reached his ears. Hearing the roar of the engine, the little devils sitting on the ground raised their heads and looked at the sky... In less than a few seconds
As time passed, several black spots slowly appeared in everyone's field of vision.
"Yo Xi, your Excellency the division commander, our air reinforcements have arrived, a total of nine aircraft..." Seeing the plane, the chief of staff quickly turned around and came to the division commander, and reported excitedly.
"Well? Kuramao-kun, it's time to make the Eighth Route Army pay the price. Chief of Staff, immediately ordered a bomber squad to carry out repeated bombings on the Eighth Route Army in front of them, destroying all surface positions on the position. At the same time, send a reinforced squadron of soldiers to
After the bombing is completed, immediately launch an attack and occupy the Eighth Route Army positions..." The division commander nodded happily, and then ordered...
"Buzz buzz...wuwuwu...boom boom..." In less than a few minutes, nine aircraft, except six aircraft, were circling back and forth over the battlefield to warn. Three light bombers began to attack the ground troops.
Under the guidance, bombings were carried out in turns against the empty second battalion blocking position...
As aerial bombs weighing dozens of kilograms continued to explode on the position. The position that was silent just now was immediately covered by the smoke and smoke generated by the bomb explosion. At the same time,
The whole earth began to tremble amidst the explosions...
During the bombing process, those little Japs who were sitting on the road standing by stood up from the ground, stretched their necks, and stared unblinkingly at the Eighth Route Army position a few hundred meters away, which was completely immersed in a sea of flames.
At this moment, except for the more than two hundred little Japs who were about to go to the battlefield and launch an attack, they had no time to appreciate the fireworks. The remaining Japs were completely attracted by this heroic bombing.
Just when the eyes of all the little devils were focused on the blocking position of the second battalion, an order to prepare for an attack was conveyed to the ears of every soldier on the battlefield. With the help of the cover of violent explosions hundreds of meters away,
, those soldiers who had already lurked almost a hundred meters away from the Japanese security position once again moved toward the little Japanese position, eighty meters, sixty meters, fifty meters...all the way into the grenade throwing range, the highway.
The little Japs on the ground still didn’t find the Eighth Route Army troops who were already close at hand...
Finally, when all the soldiers were lurking in place, the bombs brought by the three planes were all poured into the trench, which was only a few hundred meters wide. But at the last moment, the bombs just exploded, and the smoke on the position was
Before they were completely dispersed, a reinforced squadron of nearly 300 small Japanese soldiers, under the cover of more than a dozen heavy machine guns, began to launch a new round of charge.
"Bang, bang, bang..." Just when nearly three hundred little Japs had just walked out of a distance of less than fifty meters... three different gunshots easily penetrated the sound of heavy machine gun fire and reached the enemy and us on the battlefield.
In the ears of everyone on both sides, three flares were fired into the sky at the command of the security brigade commander Bruce Lee...
Seeing the three signal bombs exploding in the sky, the soldiers who had already concealed themselves until they were only thirty meters away from the Japanese machine gun positions immediately threw the grenades in their hands fiercely... Then,
A burst of dense explosions sounded around the little devil, and the only obstacle in the way of the soldiers' charge was solved...
The little Japanese in the encirclement circle stared blankly at the machine gun positions that were constantly exploding around them, and listened to the screams of their comrades before they died. When they were at a loss, a voice they were particularly familiar with came out in the huge battlefield.
"Tick-tock...tick-tock..." sounded on the street, and more than a dozen buglers blew the charge horns in their hands at the same time.
"Comrades, kill me..." Just when the charge horns began to reverberate on the battlefield, and the little devil still hadn't reacted to the explosions around him, there were bursts of huge shouts of killing.
It was heard from the surrounding woods. Through the smoke produced by the explosion of grenades around, I could vaguely see groups of Eighth Route Army soldiers, under the command of their respective commanders, quickly rushing towards their positions...
"Baga, the enemy is attacking, we are surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, Bagaya Road..." Seeing the wolf-like Eighth Route Army soldiers around them. These little devils who had already lost their spirit and had almost no fighting power immediately began to yell,
He was running back and forth on his own position to vent his fear and worry.
Of course, just when the little Japanese fell into temporary chaos under the fierce attack of the various units of the guard brigade, the division commander Lieutenant General Yamaoka Shigehou, who was located in the center of the entire army, also discovered this serious problem: "Baga, really
Unexpectedly, there are so many Eighth Route Army troops hiding around us. Bagya Road, Cang Maojun, now we are surrounded by heavy troops of the Eighth Route Army. It seems that our 109th Division will not be able to escape this time...
"
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, as long as you can safely break through, our 109th Division still has hope... Your Excellency, Division Commander, I request that our defense circle be tightened immediately, and we must not let the Eighth Route Army mix with us. As long as we and the Eighth Route Army maintain
With a certain distance, we can successfully break through with the reinforcement of the aircraft..." Faced with the increasingly serious situation around him, even the division commander lost his mind. Chief of Staff Colonel Kurashige calmed down and faced the division.
The group leader suggested sensibly.
"Yoshi, Kuramao-kun, I now give you an order to hand over the command of the troops to you, and you will command the remaining troops of my 109th Division. I hope that the Cangmu Army can bring me an unexpected result, Cangmu
Shigeru-kun, the future of our 109th Division is entrusted to you." Seeing that in the face of such a bad situation, Colonel Kurashige, as the chief of staff of the division, was still able to maintain his sanity, and now he looked at himself who had lost his sanity at this moment.
The division commander wisely ordered to the chief of staff in front of him.
"Hi, thank you for your trust, Division Commander. I will not be grateful to the Division Commander for your trust in your humble position to break out our 109th Division from the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army..." Chief of Staff Colonel Kurashige said without any expression.
replied loudly.
Now that he had the personal authorization from the division commander, Chief of Staff Kurashige no longer had any hesitation, and immediately began to issue combat orders according to his own thoughts: "Order all imperial troops on the periphery to resist on the spot, and no further attacks are allowed."
Withdraw...order the 119th Regiment in the center of the position and the remaining troops of the 69th Regiment to immediately build fortifications on the spot. If any imperial soldiers who dare to retreat are found, fire immediately..."
As a team of supervisors rushed to the battlefield with machine guns, the little Japs, who were in chaos just now, immediately stopped. Under the command of the surrounding commanders with higher military ranks than themselves, they began to build fortifications on the spot. At the same time, they began to build defenses on the spot.
, more than a thousand little Japanese on the periphery faced the wolf-like Eighth Route Army. At this moment, as if they had taken the wrong medicine, they who were in panic just now immediately raised their weapons and attacked the Eighth Route Army.
The troops launched a counterattack...
Under the counterattack of more than a thousand Japs, the soldiers' offensive was immediately blocked. Nearly four thousand soldiers began to fight fiercely with more than a thousand Japs on the outer positions... Although
The strength of the soldiers was more than twice that of the little devils. However, at this moment, although the little devils had lost all their energy, they entered the battle with the belief that they would die. Even before they died, they would
He detonated the grenades on his body and died together with the surrounding Eighth Route Army.
As a result, on the brutal battlefield of hand-to-hand combat, bursts of grenade explosions continued to sound. And every explosion of grenades would take away the lives of several soldiers... Of course, the scenes on the battlefield did not escape those first lines.
The commander's eyes saw the little Japanese who seemed to have gone crazy, and every commander began to issue new combat orders.
"The little Japs have gone crazy. Comrades, immediately distance yourself from the Japs. If you can use guns, try to kill them with guns. Don't fight with bayonets..." Orders were quickly conveyed on the battlefield. It was still a fierce hand-to-hand battle just now.
Immediately there were bursts of gunfire...
Commanders at all levels took their own guns and began to shuttle back and forth on the battlefield. When they saw the Japs who threatened the soldiers, they directly raised their shell guns without any hesitation... Finally, under the control of the two main forces,
Group, under the crazy attack of nearly a hundred shell guns, more than a thousand little Japanese who were very crazy just now, at this moment, there are only less than a few hundred people left, carrying out the final stubborn resistance...
However, at this moment, a bigger challenge is placed in front of the two main groups. In the fierce hand-to-hand battle just now, the soldiers not only paid a huge price in casualties, but more importantly, more than 3,000 soldiers
, was delayed for a full ten minutes by more than a thousand little devils.
And within these ten minutes, the more than two thousand Japanese troops remaining in the center of the battlefield had quickly gathered around the division commander under the orders of Chief of Staff Kurashige. Relying on light and heavy machine guns, they quickly formed
A circular fortification was built, blocking the soldiers a hundred meters away.
Just as the soldiers eliminated more than a thousand Japs on the periphery and prepared to continue the attack, a dense rain of bullets shot out from the Japs' position. Dozens of soldiers charging at the front fell to the ground without any surprise.
On the way to charge.
More importantly, just when the enemy and our armies were confronting each other, and the two main regiments on the periphery were preparing to deploy the mortars behind them to destroy all the heavy machine gun firepower that the Japanese army relied on, the six aircraft hovering in the sky were not at the right time.
joined the fight.
It turns out that all of this came from the hands of Colonel Kurashige, the chief of staff of the Little Japanese Division. As the temporary supreme commander of the division, his purpose of abandoning more than a thousand imperial soldiers on the periphery was very clear, and that was
Delay the pace of the Eighth Route Army's offensive, avoid a melee between the enemy and our own armies, and prevent aircraft in the sky from providing support.
At this moment, his goal has been achieved. The Eighth Route Army troops, several times his own, were blocked a hundred meters away by the temporary ring defenses he built. Looking at the densely packed Eighth Route Army troops on the outside, he saw that almost all of them were killed.
With more than a thousand Imperial Army soldiers, Chief of Staff Colonel Kurashige knew that the time had come for the planes to attack.