Tsuneoka Kanji shouted to the communications soldier in the command car, "Immediately order the 217th Regiment to cooperate with our army to open the passage. If you can't do it, kill the whole family! Also, ask Yang Jian to guard the Juma River for me.
We must not lose our way out."
By the Juma River, the puppet battalion commander Yang Jian looked nervously to the north. He could clearly hear the sound of artillery fire and explosions from dozens of miles away.
"Batalion Commander, are the imperial troops suppressing bandits or are they?" a company commander asked with some confusion.
"Battal Commander, this is an urgent telegram from Taijun Tsuneoka Kanji." As he said that, the communications soldier handed the telegram to Yang Jian with a look of fear on his face.
Yang Jian quickly took it, looked at it, and shouted in fright, "Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army is besieging the Imperial Army, hurry up, get ready to fight, no, get ready to retreat."
The signal soldier said hesitantly, "Battal Commander, the imperial army's telegram said that we should defend the Juma River. It also said that if we retreat, our whole family will be killed."
After listening to the communications soldier's words, everyone else stopped packing and looked at Yang Jian.
Yang Jian glared at the signal soldier and said helplessly, "I mean hold on! Hold on! Get ready for battle and hold on to the Juma River. The imperial army will come out soon. Don't be afraid."
"Huh!" A whistling sound came, and then twenty or thirty mortar shells flew over from nowhere and plunged directly into Yang Jian's camp.
"Comrades, there is only one battalion of puppet troops below. We have a regiment. The battle must be over within half an hour and then reinforce the main battlefield. Do you have confidence?" Ding Jie pointed at the bombed sea not far away like a sea of fire.
The same Jumahe position said.
"Yes!!" The loud shouts frightened the telegram in Yang Jian's hand. He lay down in the trench, looked around and said, "Hold it, you must hold it!!"
"Click, click, click." A string of bullets hit the high-erected puppet army flag. Seeing the flag slowly falling, Yang Jian's heart sank to the bottom.
——Beiping
King Higashikata Minuhiko looked at the map nervously, knocked on the table and said, "Aren't our aviation forces ready yet?"
Yamashita Fengwen said helplessly, "Commander, it has only been less than twenty minutes, and you have already asked me six times."
King Higashikata Minuhiko pointed at the map and said angrily and anxiously, "I have repeatedly warned them to be steady, to be steady, and that all units must support each other. How come they were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army?"
Yamashita Fengwen said with admiration, "The Eighth Route Army is indeed bold. It is said that the fire reconnaissance of the Nagaoka Kanji Brigade has reached the level of firing three mortar shells at the surrounding hills every few hundred meters, but the Eighth Route Army made no movement at all.
No, and the troops of Chang Gang Kanji's brigade were in pursuit at the time. There were more than 20,000 people and the area was more than ten miles long. But now it was divided into five sections. The battalion at Juma River had been annihilated and the retreat was cut off.
Your Excellency, Commander, I have just studied it carefully. I think the only way now is to occupy the open area between the Juma River and Yugu Cave and concentrate our aviation forces to cover their evacuation."
King Higashikata Minuhiko nodded and said, "That's why I'm so urgent. Where is the closest mopping up force to them?"
Yamashita Fengwen pointed to Xiaowutai Mountain and said, "This is the Tanaka Regiment here. This is a reorganized regiment, plus two regiments of the Imperial Army. It has now swept into Hedong Town, which is about two days away from Jiulong Town. In addition,
One way is the Mukai brigade, which has more troops, 10,000 Imperial Army and 15,000 Imperial Alliance Army. They are sweeping up near Zijing Pass. If we want to rescue them, it will probably take three days."
King Higashikata Minuhiko squinted his eyes, shook his head and said, "In two or three days, according to the speed of the Eighth Route Army, Tsuneoka Kanji's brigade will either be completely wiped out or withdraw. There is no need. In this way, the order
The Tianzhong Regiment defended Hedong Town and slowly moved closer to Jiulong Town, telling them not to rush and be careful about ambushes. He was just a stopper. Then let the Mukai Brigade move closer to Sanpo Town. Since the main force of the Eighth Route Army has been exposed this time, we will
We must take advantage of this opportunity to completely annihilate the Chen Geng Department of the Eighth Route Army!"
When Yamashita Fengwen heard this, he couldn't help but salute and said, "Your Excellency, Commander, this is a great idea. I believe that the Tsuneoka Kanji Brigade will be willing to cling to Chen Geng for revenge."
Prince Tojiure Gong Minyan said fiercely, "Chen Geng! Liu Bocheng! You want to swallow a whole brigade of me? I will spit out as much as I want you to eat!!"
——Yugu Cave
Tsuneoka Kanji looked at the telegram from King Higashikaru Palace Minuhiko, and his heart suddenly dropped to the bottom. He swallowed his saliva. He hid in a cave at this time and looked at the battlefield with gunfire outside. He carefully put the telegram
He folded it and put it in his pocket and said, "Order all the ministries to gather towards Caojiagang. If you can't get closer, defend on the spot. You must hold on for two days. Reinforcements will naturally arrive in two days."
"Two days? This, this is not enough time." The staff officer hammered on the cave wall and said, "Commander, don't you know how urgent we are? Two days is enough for us all to die here."
Tsuneoka Kanji pulled out his katana and said sternly, "This is the commander's order. It is the duty of soldiers to obey orders. If we cannot defend for two days, what qualifications do we have to be called the strongest imperial army? Obey."
Order!!"
Chen Geng watched the Japanese army continuously charging towards Caojiagang and said worriedly, "Which troop is guarding Caojiagang? The Japanese army seems to have set the main attack direction in the direction of Caojiagang."
"It's a regiment of the 61st Army, and there is another regiment at Dabaogang behind." A staff officer immediately replied.
"Order them to stop me. If the Japanese army occupies any place, it will take us some time to deal with them." Chen Geng said anxiously.
——Cao Jiagang
"Grenade! Come on, get some more grenades!" A company commander shouted loudly, holding a grenade in one hand, pulling the match rope and throwing it down the mountain. As soon as his body leaned down, a few bullets hit his fortifications.
On the sandbag.
"Damn it, is this kid crazy?" The company commander said helplessly as he looked at the Japanese troops like locusts at the foot of the mountain.
Several grenade rounds hit the firing point of a machine gun, and suddenly the entire trench was under fire.
"Special bombs!" a Japanese soldier shouted, and more than a dozen gas bombs were fired into the trench. The company commander hurriedly took out his gas mask, put it on, and muttered, "They still treat us as paupers."
, now I have a gas mask for everyone."
"Company commander, the Japanese are coming." A soldier shouted.
The company commander looked over, and sure enough, a group of Japanese soldiers rushed up with bayonets pointed out, and several crooked sticks continued to cover the Japanese soldiers.
"Damn it, hurry up, let the regiment commander provide fire support, we can't support it anymore." The company commander threw his helmet and took out the engineer shovel and shouted, "Brothers, charge me!"
"Pfft" "Kill!" "Dang" "Fuck you"
The whole camp was filled with shouts of killing, and there were figures fighting each other everywhere.
"These are the Japanese soldiers? What's going on?" The company commander looked strangely at the puppet soldiers who were also speaking Chinese but wearing Japanese military uniforms.
"Shoot!" a Japanese officer said ruthlessly, pointing to the position in the melee.
"Click, click, click!" More than a dozen machine guns fired together, and the fire whips were like the scythes of death, harvesting the souls of the 61st Army and the puppet troops in the melee.
"Yo Xi, very good, continue the attack!" the Japanese officer nodded and continued to wave.
At this time, more than a dozen Japanese planes flew onto the battlefield. A few of them first pinned down the Eighth Route Army's air force, and then rushed towards Caojiagang to cover the attacking Japanese army.
——Yugu Cave
"Report, Caojiagang has been lost!" the signal soldier stood up and said.
"What? What happened? Why did it fall so quickly?" Chen Geng turned around and asked anxiously.
"The Japanese army let the puppet troops rush up to fight hand to hand, and then used machine guns and grenade launchers to attack the enemy indiscriminately. Our people were lured out of the fortifications. After several trips like this, plus the Japanese planes, Caojiagang couldn't stand it anymore."
The signal soldier replied.
"Damn, these cunning devils...are they trying to capture Caojiagang regardless of casualties because they want to defend Caojiagang?" Chen Geng said as he watched his planes in the sky continuously shoot down Japanese planes.
Tong Linge pointed to the map and said, "Brigadier Chen, if the Japanese army gathers in the Caojiagang area, how long do you think it will take us to take it down?"
Chen Geng took a look and said, "The area around this place is relatively flat, but our army's artillery advantage is still there, but it is more difficult to completely eliminate them. I think this battle will last a day or two."
Tong Linge nodded and said, "If you were a Japanese commander and encountered such a situation, what would you do?"
Chen Geng pointed at the Juma River and said, "If I were the Japanese commander, I would desperately open a channel to the Juma River, and then occupy the Juma River and evacuate."
Tong Linge nodded and said, "This is also the most normal reaction. Now the Japanese army is preparing to defend to the death. If anything goes abnormal, there will be monsters."
Chen Geng touched his chin and said, "Could it be that the Japanese want to delay their death, but this is just a delay in death."
With that said, Chen Geng turned to the communications corps and said, "Immediately report to the division headquarters whether there are any movements of the Japanese troops near us."
half an hour later
Chen Geng looked at the telegram and said, "Sure enough, the Japanese troops in Xiaowutai Mountain and Zijingguan have already begun to take action. The Japanese are preparing to eat our troops."
Tong Linge said in surprise, "What can we do? Will we be in danger?"
Chen Geng gritted his teeth and said, "It will take at least two days for the Japs to get here. Including the time to clean the battlefield and retreat, we only have 30 hours at most to fight. Order the troops to attack with all their strength, and we must break and devour the Japs' bones.
Power generation division headquarters, we need to increase air force support, and it is best to equip some incendiary bombs to burn the Japanese troops in Caojiagang."
——Wooden Buddha Stand
Liu Bocheng looked at the map and said, "This move of the Japanese army is really cruel. This means they have basically given up on Kanji Tsuneoka's brigade, which numbered 20,000 people."
Deng Xianxian nodded and said, "Chen Geng is under great pressure. Our troops do not have an absolute numerical advantage. If we want to completely wipe out the enemy in such a short period of time, we will definitely pay a lot of casualties."
Liu Bocheng said to the secretary next to him, "Send a report to the headquarters immediately and ask for more air force support."
——Cao Jiagang
Chen Geng looked at Cao Jiagang and asked, "How is the fighting in various places now?"
Li Jukui said, "Except for Caojiagang and Dayugang, there are about five or six brigades and one regiment of puppet troops, the rest of the enemy troops are surrounded by us in several small places. The troops are attacking desperately, but the enemy's defense force is also weak."
It is very strong. Our attack is very difficult and the casualties of our troops are not small."
Tong Linge said, "Commander Chen, let my cavalry come up. My cavalry has a strong impact. With them here, the attack may be easier."
Chen Geng shook his head and said, "It is recognized that the Japanese troops have a stronger defensive force than their offensive force. Your cavalry has already contributed in the attack just now. The Japanese troops who attack and defend now are just going to die. Let the 771st, 772nd and independent regiments
One regiment, three regiments are here. Concentrate your artillery and knock out Caojiagang first."
Wang Jinshan looked at the urgently built Japanese military fortifications on the post and couldn't help but extend his thumb and said, "The Japanese are really excellent at these basic skills. I have to admire them."
Li Long pointed at the Japanese position with a big knife and said, "No matter what kind of enemy they are, just smash them all. One hundred Japanese are worth one hundred knives, and ten thousand are worth 10,000 knives. It's just a little more tiring."
Wang Jinshan smiled and said, "How are you doing over there? One of the pseudo-legions here was completely eaten by me."
Li Long even patted his chest and said, "There is nothing wrong with the soldiers I trained. The combat effectiveness of the puppet army is not as good as that of Chiang Kai-shek. The Japanese are also ruthless. Apart from the ones we destroyed, the remaining puppet troops are...
They treat it like a meat pad."
"The regiment commander, the brigade commander ordered us to wait for the air force to attack and start the attack immediately. He said that the attack must be resolute and there should be no hesitation." A communications soldier ran over and said.
Wang Jinshan nodded, and then he saw thirty or forty Japanese planes flying in the dark. Seven or eight Eighth Route Army fighter planes hovering in the sky rushed to greet them. The whole sky was like a swarm of flies above a garbage dump, with planes flying here and there.
, fighting each other. Although the Eighth Route Army's fighter planes were powerful, they were outnumbered and had to use their speed and ceiling to fight.
"Damn it, our place is too close to the Japanese airport. Our plane is very slow to arrive and has no time to stay in the air. We are at a disadvantage." Chen Geng looked at the sky and said helplessly.
"That's right. I have been a soldier for so many years, and this is the first time I have seen an air force with troops fighting like this with the Japanese air force." Tong Linge couldn't help but said sourly.
"Here it comes, our plane is coming." Amidst the deafening shouts, Tong Linge's eyes almost fell off. He only saw nearly a hundred fighter planes flying over from the west in formation. He looked at the planes.
With the blue sky and white sun flag under his wings, Tong Linge burst into tears. He murmured, "Finally, one day, finally there is such a day."
"Brigadier Commander, Air Force telegraph, there are enough 82 fighter planes to support us. Commander Liu ordered us to capture Caojiagang in one go and not let the Japanese army succeed!" the communications soldier shouted happily, his tone full of pride and pride.
