Chapter five hundred and fifty-six people are the knife, I am the fish
Chapter 556: You are a knife-sitter, I am a fish-meat
"Hurry up, the troops will retreat immediately and retreat into the county town"... "Baga, throw down those heavy weapons on your horses. There are plenty of weapons in the county town, retreat immediately..." Looking at the Eighth Route Army getting closer and closer, I felt
Bullets were flying around them. Officers at all levels on the Japanese artillery and heavy machine gun positions no longer cared about the heavy weapons on the ground. They gave orders to the soldiers around them to give up their weapons. They took their subordinates and joined the retreat.
Among the ranks…
"Okay, the little devil doesn't even need the basic heavy machine gun. Now, let me see what weapons he plans to use to block our attack. Guards, immediately give the discovery number to the two squadrons in the city. After the Japanese army enters the city,
Launch an attack immediately. We will attack from inside and outside, and compress all the remaining Japs against the city wall..." Seeing the Japs fleeing one after another in the dense rain of bullets, Wang Hong, who followed the troops to charge, was excited at the same time.
He ordered loudly...
"Bang bang" two different gunshots sounded on the battlefield. The correspondent who was following Wang Hong immediately pulled the trigger of the signal gun in his hand. Suddenly, under everyone's gaze, an explosion of light exploded in the sky.
Two dazzling white lights...
"The First Squadron is responsible for clearing out the Japs entering the city. The Second Squadron immediately launched a counterattack, resolutely blocking the Japs' passage into the city, and forcing them all onto the city wall. Let's take action now..." Seeing two white lights in the sky,
The two squadron commanders, who had been hiding in the county town for a long time and were itching to hold back their hands, immediately issued the latest combat orders to their respective squadrons...
"Bang bang bang... da da da..." Immediately, a Japanese squadron in the county town that had just entered the county town and started searching was met with a resolute counterattack by more than two hundred special forces members of the first squadron... under the gunfire like exploding beans.
In the midst of the sound, before he had time to react, a little Japanese fell to the muzzle of the special operations elites with a look of astonishment in his eyes...
Under the attack of more than 200 street fighting elites from the 1st Squadron, more than 180 little Japs were all wiped out in less than ten minutes... The 2nd Squadron followed immediately.
Relying on the original fortifications in the county, we blocked all the passages from the city gate to the city, waiting for the arrival of the main force of the Japs...
"Quickly, enter the city immediately, occupy the county seat, and hold on to the spot..." Captain Matsuda, the commander of the company, under the protection of the guard troops, finally rushed into the city gate out of breath, dodging the bullets flying around him. Look.
The Eighth Route Army, which was getting closer and closer to the troops behind them, had no time to take any rest, so they roared anxiously at the soldiers at the city gate...
Looking at the soldiers outside the city, they quickly rushed into the city gate, and the huge city gate was slowly closed. As for the Eighth Route Army troops that followed, they also stopped under the machine gun fire of the city wall defenders.
Pursuit. Colonel Matsumoto's tense face finally relaxed slowly. With the help of the guards, he sat limply in the city gate...
However, God seemed to be teasing him at this moment. Just when a smile appeared on his face and he was about to issue a new order to the troops, a burst of chaotic gunshots suddenly appeared from the empty sky.
It was heard in the city... For a moment, Colonel Matsuda frowned again, and looked at the chief of staff next to him who was also panting with a puzzled look...
Seeing the questioning expression on the commander's face, the chief of staff, who was breathing heavily, also frowned and said with a helpless expression: "Captain, I'm a low-ranking official and don't know what happened in the city. I'm like this
I sent people over to conduct reconnaissance and asked the commander of the regiment to immediately rely on the city wall to deploy fortifications to prevent the Eighth Route Army from attacking me from both inside and outside..."
While speaking, several soldiers formed a battle formation in response to the orders of the chief of staff, and quickly rushed towards the direction where the gunshots came from... While Colonel Matsuda was waiting anxiously, it quickly took ten minutes.
It passed. At the same time, the sporadic gunshots in the city slowly stopped. Just when Colonel Matsuda couldn't hold back the calmness in his heart and began to pace back and forth at the gate of the city, the voice of the chief of staff,
It rang in the ears of Colonel Matsuda...
"Captain, commander, the reconnaissance team is back..."
"Report to the captain and chief of staff, the situation has been clearly investigated. Ten minutes ago, a large number of Chinese armed forces suddenly appeared in the county, and they launched a counterattack against a search squadron of our army from all directions. This Chinese armed force was equipped with a large number of shell guns.
, the combat effectiveness is very strong. After only ten minutes of street fighting, the entire search squadron of more than a hundred imperial soldiers was wiped out. At present, these Chinese people are rushing towards the city gate, please make a decision early...
"The sergeant replied breathlessly...
"Bage Ya Road, the cunning Chinese people, we were fooled, we were ambushed by the Chinese people... Chief of Staff, now we are attacked from both sides, what should we do next? Should we just stand at the gate of the city, waiting?
Will the cunning Chinese people annihilate us all?" After a brief shock, Colonel Matsuda, who really had no choice but to focus on the chief of staff, asked eagerly.
"City Wall, Captain. Now our army has more than a thousand combat troops left, and weapons and ammunition are also very sufficient. With the strong city wall, we can hold on until the arrival of the main force of the division... Captain, I humbly think that we
We should immediately climb the city wall, rely on the city wall, and wait for reinforcements..." Facing the captain's question, he suddenly saw the ten-meter-high masonry wall beside him. The chief of staff's eyes lit up and he quickly replied...
"Yoshi, order the troops to immediately climb the city wall and arrange defensive positions. In a word, the troops must hold on until the main force of the division arrives...Chief of Staff, you immediately arrange the troops to prepare for defense..." Colonel Matsuda immediately ordered...
Suddenly, more than a thousand Japanese soldiers gathered at the corner of the city wall, under the command of the chief of staff, swarmed towards the city wall. They began to work in small groups and used everything they saw to build specific defenses...
A few minutes later, when the two units of the advance detachment rushed to the corner of the city wall, the last remaining 1,500 people of the Japanese Matsuda Regiment had been compressed to only a few meters wide. More importantly, they were bare and bare.
, on the city wall without any cover...
"Report to the captain, all the Japs have been compressed on the city wall. Look, let's start firing and use the Japs' shells to destroy the Japs..." Looking at the more than a thousand Japs who have been completely surrounded.
Looking under the corner of the city wall, the Japs retreated in a hurry, taking away dozens of mortars and heavy machine guns. Wang Hong asked with a smile on his face...
"Now you are the commander here, and it is your business how to fight. However, I want to remind you, don't forget the commander's order, and take it easy when fighting. We must keep the water flowing, and don't kill the little devil in one go.
Annihilate them all and scare away their main force..." Liu Xiaogang nodded and ordered...
"Captain, don't worry...Comrades, please take it easy. Each cannon fires three rounds continuously. The target is the little Japs on the city wall. Fire now. Say hello to the little Japs on the city wall first.
They..." Facing the dozens of mortar operators behind him, Wang Hong said with a smile on his face...
Immediately, a dull sound of artillery being ejected began to sound from the artillery position behind them. Dozens of artillery shells, with a sharp whistling sound, accurately flew towards the city head, making explosions one after another...
"Ah, Baga, how come the Eighth Route Army has mortars...artillery, where are our artillery, counterattack immediately, destroy the enemy's artillery fire..." Colonel Matsuda, who escaped the first round of artillery fire under the protection of the guard, looked at the city wall.
After the explosion of more than a dozen artillery shells, it was a bloody mess, with soldiers’ limbs and arms broken and the lightly and seriously wounded everywhere. I suppressed the desire to vomit in my heart and roared loudly to the chief of staff beside me.
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"Report...report to the commander...our mortars were all...all left outside the city during the retreat..." Faced with the question from the commander, the chief of staff replied in a low voice...
"Nani, everything is still outside the city. Bagya Road, you mean to say that the Eighth Route Army outside the city is using the mortars abandoned by our army..." Colonel Matsuda stared at him in disbelief.
Asked rhetorically…
"Hai, captain of the regiment. Because the troops retreated too hastily, and the Eighth Route Army's pursuit outside the city was too fast. The artillery troops, and the heavy machine gun troops had no time to dismantle these heavy equipment in order to successfully retreat into the county. In the end,
, and took the initiative to give up all heavy weapons outside the city." The chief of staff said...
"Assholes, you don't even need weapons, why are they coming back? This is simply a shame for the Imperial Japanese people. They should all have a caesarean section to apologize to His Majesty the Emperor. Bagya Road... Chief of Staff, now I am Matsuda Regiment, there is no more weight
How many weapons are left, machine guns and mortars? How long can the troops hold on on the city wall?" After a brief moment of anger, Colonel Matsuda quickly asked the thing he wanted to know most...
"Captain, all the heavy weapons our army currently possesses only have a small number of grenade launchers... However, I guarantee that we rely on the strong fortifications of the city walls and our army's sufficient ammunition. As long as the enemy does not have heavy siege
Artillery, we can persist for two days without any problems..." The chief of staff thought for a moment and said with certainty...
And at this moment, everyone can feel: Captain Matsuda in front of them, after hearing the answer that the troops can hold on for two days, was obviously relieved. His face also changed from the worried look just now to instantly becoming resolute.
…
"Yo Xi, two days is enough. Tell all the soldiers that as long as we can hold on here for two days, the main force led by the division commander will surround the entire county. By then, both inside and outside our army
A pincer attack will definitely annihilate the surrounding Eighth Route Army... Chief of Staff, now I appoint you as the supreme commander of the army, responsible for directing all matters of the army's subsequent operations..." Colonel Matsuda ordered with a firm look on his face, with a rare trace of anger on his face.
smile…
"Hey, captain, please rest assured. I will definitely complete my mission and hold the city wall until reinforcements arrive..." the chief of staff said with a wry smile. After all, the two days just mentioned are obviously exaggerated. However, seeing the coalition
The captain looked trustingly, but without any hesitation, he assured loudly...
Seeing the captain nodding with satisfaction, the chief of staff immediately began to exercise his authority as commander in chief... Amidst the rain of shells and flying fragments, he began to disperse his troops to avoid the fierce artillery fire around him... Finally, under the influence of countless Japanese troops,
With prayers, three rounds of bombardment symbolizing greetings finally came to an end.
"The troops will enter the position immediately and prepare for battle. Hurry up. No matter what, we must block the Eighth Route Army's attack and wait for the arrival of reinforcements. Otherwise, they will all die..." As the shelling ended, the chief of staff also considered
Unable to clean up the bloody city wall with soldiers' limbs and broken arms everywhere, he loudly issued an order to the troops behind him to enter the position...
However, when hundreds of Japanese soldiers suppressed the fear and vomiting in their hearts and lay on the city wall, waiting for the Eighth Route Army to attack inside and outside the city wall, there was no movement in the open space inside and outside the city wall, not even the shadow of the enemy's attack.
Didn’t even see it…
Looking around, a few hundred meters away, just outside the range of the machine guns on the city wall, nearly a thousand Eighth Route Army soldiers were sitting next to piles of bonfires, chatting and laughing, eating a sumptuous lunch, without any intention of attacking...
"Baga, the Eighth Route Army is so cunning, I will kill you all... Wuwuwu..." Looking at the scene outside the city and seeing the miserable scene of the imperial soldiers on the city wall, the chief of staff couldn't help but curse.
However, just as he finished speaking, a whistling sound of artillery shells reached his ears... Looking around, the artillery position one kilometer away was completely shrouded in the white smoke generated by the shelling...
"Asshole, why is it another shelling... Hurry, the troops will be dispersed immediately. Hurry, the troops will be dispersed and prepare for shelling... Boom boom boom..." Before he could finish the sentence, a burst of dense explosions came.
His ears rang at the same time as the explosion, and what reached his ears were the screams of a large number of soldiers...
In this way, for a whole day, the first brigade inside and outside the city wall did not launch any infantry attack. However, the intensive shelling went through more than ten rounds...
As the sky slowly darkened, the little devil who had been suffering for a full day on the bloody city wall finally breathed a sigh of relief. Under the command of the chief of staff, he began to tiringly clean up the stumps on the city wall.
Broken arms, as well as various minor and serious injuries... An hour later, while the soldiers were replenishing dry food, the chief of staff, who had received the unit casualty report, came to Captain Matsuda with a frustrated look on his face...
"Chief of Staff, has something happened? You look so depressed. Although we lost hundreds of elite imperial soldiers in today's battle, we held our position. At this rate of loss, as long as we
If we can persist for a day and a night, we can successfully complete the mission..." Seeing the expression of the chief of staff, Colonel Matsuda asked in confusion...
"Captain, at this moment, the situation we are facing reminds me of an ancient Chinese allusion, that is, 'I am a knife, I am a fish.' And now we, we use the invincible weapon
The Imperial Japanese Army has turned out to be a piece of fat on the chopping board of the Eighth Route Army. They can eat it however they want. It is really unimaginable..." After a brief silence, the chief of staff continued.
"Captain, during today's battle, the Eighth Route Army did not launch any substantive attack. It only caused hundreds of casualties to our army through shelling. But we did not have any chance to fight back. Now, for me,
I am very worried about the battle that our army will face tomorrow. Please send a letter to the division commander, your Excellency, the commander of the regiment, urging the main force of the division to speed up the march. I am worried that as long as the Eighth Route Army outside the city launches a real attack, we will not be able to hold on at all.
Such a long time..." Compared with Colonel Matsuda's confidence, the chief of staff, who has a better understanding of the current war situation, said with a frustrated face...
"What, how could this happen...Okay, Chief of Staff, don't worry, I will send a telegram to the division commander immediately, requesting the main force of the division to speed up the march. But, Chief of Staff, I hope you can lead the remaining troops and hold on until
At the last minute, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements..." After hearing the chief of staff's answer, Matsuda's face no longer showed the confidence he had just shown, and he said quickly...
Compared with the desolation of the Japanese army, the Eighth Route Army positions inside and outside the city wall are extremely relaxed. Because today's battle can be said to be the easiest day for these special forces... because everyone only needs to stand in front of the enemy.
, play with the mortar for a while, and the rest is rest...
In the temporary command post outside the city, deputy captain Wang Hong also had a smile on his face: "Captain, I just took a look and the cannonballs left by the little devil for us are very sufficient. If we fight for another day, there will be absolutely no problem... I believe
, if the fight continues like this, when the time comes, we won’t need to charge, and all the little devils on the city wall will be lost..."
"This is your business. However, we must resolve the battle before tomorrow night. According to the intelligence just sent by the commander, the little devil is less than fifty kilometers away from us. If nothing happens, tomorrow
In the evening, the Japanese army will complete the encirclement of us. So, tomorrow night, we will find a way to break out..." Regarding the results of the day, Liu Xiaogang nodded with satisfaction and said...
"Captain, don't worry, I promise to complete the mission tomorrow. Tomorrow, I will let the little devils have a taste of the secret weapon I have carefully prepared for them..." Wang Hong said confidently, with a trace of a sinister smile on his face...