The political commissar held up his binoculars and kept staring at the first and second battalions who were charging forward. When he saw the two battalions approaching the city wall, he excitedly ordered, "The third battalion will attack immediately and rush in through the breach opened by the first and second battalions."
Move quickly."
Just as the third battalion rushed to the bottom of the city wall from a position nearly 300 meters away from the city wall, the two battalions were expanding to both sides of the city wall, annihilating the sporadic Japanese troops on the wall.
Since the third battalion started from the siege of the city, it had been staying in the rear as the reserve team of the whole regiment. Watching the two battalions of brothers go to the front to kill the enemy, he stayed in the rear. From the battalion commander to the soldiers, everyone in the third battalion was holding back a sigh of relief.
With great energy, now it was finally their turn to go to the battlefield. It seemed that everyone broke out, shouting loudly and rushing into the city.
At this time, the Japanese army in the city still had two squads of more than a hundred stragglers. Maybe they knew that they could not escape the hands of the Chinese today, so everyone worked hard. Although every soldier in the third battalion worked hard to move forward, they faced nowhere.
Without the sound of gunfire and bullets, the Third Battalion moved forward with great difficulty in the city. Almost every time a Japanese soldier was killed, at least one soldier was killed.
Soon, this situation was reflected in the hands of the political commissar. "Political commissar, we are running out of time. According to the telegram from the cavalry battalion, the Japanese reinforcements coming from Jiuguan are still three hours away. We must hurry up and prepare to retreat.
Otherwise, the Japanese will bite us." Sun Xingbang, who was standing next to him, reminded him immediately when he saw the frowning political commissar.
"Damn it, I can't even get the fat in my mouth... I'm really unwilling to give in. I ordered the third battalion to defend in place, and the first and second battalions immediately cleaned the battlefield in the occupied area. Remember what the brigade commander said, everything that can be taken away
Take them away, and destroy everything that cannot be taken away. We must not leave it to the devils to continue harming the Chinese people."
"Also, find the enemy's ammunition depot and logistics supplies immediately and take them all away. The soldiers from the supply camp will come over immediately to meet with us. Don't be afraid that too much supplies will affect the marching speed of the troops. Go and execute it immediately." The political commissar continued.
said.
Soon, only the political commissar and a few guards were left in the temporary headquarters. All the remaining cadres and soldiers ran into the city to look for ammunition and supplies...
An hour later, all the supplies that could be collected were basically collected, and they were all piled outside the temporary headquarters, like a hill. "Political Commissar, this is a list of supplies that was just calculated. Take a look!"
The political commissar took the list and didn't know it. He was shocked when he saw it: "325 rifles, 5 light machine guns, 10 grenade launchers, three 60-meter mortars, a total of more than 30,000 rounds of ammunition, 180 rounds of artillery shells, grenades
Since the enemy's logistics reserve totals more than 20,000 pieces, this is not the main thing. What makes the political commissar most happy is that the winter clothing of the troops has been found. In the enemy's temporary material warehouse, 10,000 sets of military uniforms that will be transported to the front line were found.
There are more than 1,000 bags of flour and more than 200 bags of grain."
"Okay, okay, this battle was worth it. I ordered the first battalion and the brigade security battalion to cooperate with the baggage battalion to escort the supplies. They must be quick and all these supplies must be transported within an hour." The political commissar said happily.
After hearing the words of the political commissar, the soldiers immediately took action. Even the soldiers of the third battalion and the mountain artillery company who were on guard temporarily lent their free mules and horses to the comrades in the supply camp.
"Political commissar, political commissar, good news, great news." Suddenly the instructor of the 3rd Battalion and 8th Company ran over and shouted excitedly.
"What good news? Tell me slowly." The political commissar looked at the out-of-breath instructor and asked quickly.
"War horse, war horse..." the instructor said hesitantly.
"What war horse? Speak slowly." Upon hearing the word war horse, the political commissar's eyes couldn't help but light up and he asked.
"We found the war horses of the Japanese cavalry, more than a hundred of them?" the instructor replied, looking at the eager political commissar.
"What, the devil's war horse, tell me what's going on," the political commissar once again said excitedly.
"Political Commissar, it's like this. When a soldier of our eighth company was chasing a Japanese skirmisher, he suddenly heard the sound of horses braying in a yard. He felt strange, so he opened the door and took a look.
In a flash, more than a hundred war horses were neatly tied up in the yard, and there was not even a Japanese guard..."
"Second Battalion Commander, take a company and bring me the horses quickly. The Japanese reinforcements are coming soon. Hurry up. The Eighth Company will also dispatch a platoon to help. We must be quick." The political commissar ordered impatiently.
"Yes," the two men replied at the same time, and ran towards the city happily.
Order the third battalion to take turns to cover after pulling out the horses, and slowly withdraw from the position. Don't forget the unique skill that the brigade commander gave everyone, and leave something for the Japanese (use grenades to set up booby traps to prevent the enemy from pursuing).
In this way, under the cover of the third battalion, the entire regiment slowly retreated out of the city with the last loot. Behind the third battalion, bursts of grenade explosions could be heard from time to time...
After the political commissar and his troops successfully evacuated from the mountains 20 miles away from the Walnut Orchard, a Japanese battalion of reinforcements finally arrived at the Walnut Orchard. However, what caught the eye of the leader was the broken city walls and imperial soldiers lying everywhere.
's remains.
After Major Nakamura learned that the reinforcements had arrived outside the city, he immediately ran to him, "Baga, where are the supplies for the imperial army? Bang bang..." Looking at the empty supply warehouse, the captain asked loudly. At the same time, Nakamura
Several red fingerprints appeared on his face...
That night, Major Nakamura of Walnut Garden Command finally couldn't bear the guilt of discarding supplies and horses, and committed suicide by disembowelment that night...
At the same time, at six o'clock in the afternoon, the political commissar led a regiment and two direct battalions and returned to the temporary camping site of the Independent Brigade with piles of seized supplies. Brigadier Liu Hua personally came to the mountain pass to greet the returning man in a low voice.
warriors...
"Report to the brigade commander that I have not completed the mission and Walnut Garden has not been captured." Seeing Liu Hua coming to greet him, the political commissar said with self-blame.
Liu Hua patted his old partner whose face was full of gunfire. "Political Commissar, stop talking. We all know the situation. We can't blame you. The Japanese resisted too hard. However, Political Commissar, we have achieved an unprecedented victory this time."
, let's go back to the headquarters to report the victory to the headquarters, central committee, and division headquarters." Liu Hua said happily.
Looking at the young brigade commander in front of him, the political commissar also smiled and followed Liu Hua towards the temporary headquarters.
"Political Commissar, this is the list of seizures from our total annihilation of enemy reinforcements. Take a look at it." Walking into the conference room, Liu Hua handed a list compiled by Liu Hua to the political commissar.
"Brigadier Commander, now we can consider re-equipment of the troops. We also seized a large amount of weapons and ammunition in Walnut Orchard. Now we can at least re-equip one battalion. After all, it is easier to replenish Japanese-style weapons and ammunition." Looking at the items on the list.
Numbers, the political commissar said happily.
"Well, I think so too. Another thing is that the troops in these two battles have suffered certain casualties. I want to put down the soldiers from the training team to serve as low-level cadres, and at the same time add some soldiers from the new corps."
“I agree that not only must we make up for the vacancies in the combat troops, but we must also do a good job in the aftermath of the fallen soldiers and the placement of the wounded...
In this way, the soldiers who had not yet repaired after the ambush battle began to get busy again, taking care of the wounded, replenishing soldiers, replenishing ammunition...
At the same time, the first regiment and the first battalion also came outside the headquarters to change equipment. At this time, the first battalion had a total of 600 people, all equipped with Japanese-style equipment. Each company was equipped with three crooked light machine guns and three grenade launchers.
The rest are all equipped with single-shot Type 38 rifles, and no one has 50 rounds of ammunition...
Looking at the neatly dressed battalion in front of them, the remaining two regiment leaders and political commissars looked at it with jealousy...
"Don't be jealous. As long as we seize certain weapons and ammunition in the future, we will change them. It won't take long."