Lieutenant Colonel Noda stared at the battlefield, his face flushed with anger. The hands holding the command knife were trembling slightly unconsciously, which showed how full the anger was in his heart.
As for the commander of the puppet army next to him, his face was also red.
Of course, this blush is not because of anger, but because of shame and anger.
His heart was full of panic, fearing that the Lieutenant Colonel Noda in front of him would get angry and vent all his anger on himself.
Just now, they witnessed with their own eyes two companies of the Imperial Association Army surrendering to the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield.
The regiment leader was sure that if it weren't for Noda's lack of artillery, Noda's character would have directly covered the two companies with a burst of artillery fire, killing all the Imperial Alliance troops who betrayed him on the battlefield!
What the regiment leader is most worried about is that Lieutenant Colonel Noda will put the responsibility of the two companies' defections on him. When the time comes, he will not be able to clean himself up even if he jumps into the Yellow River. If one of them fails, he may be chopped alive by Lieutenant Noda in front of him.
Just when he was panicking in his heart, Noda finally spoke.
"Baghaya Road, the entire Imperial Army will be punished with a one-month suspension of military pay. I don't want to see something like this happen again. You must control the troops for me, otherwise military law will be imposed!" Lieutenant Colonel Noda finally decided to minimize the big issue.
End this matter.
After all, the Imperial Army will be needed in the next battle. And if the Imperial Army wants to control the entire Linfen, and even the entire North China, it cannot do without these Imperial Army.
The regiment leader breathed a sigh of relief. Perhaps in order to repay Noda's kindness of not killing him, he raised his head that had been lowered for the first time. Then he stared at Noda and said, "Thank you for your trust, sir. For the next battle, I humbly request you, sir."
Let me lead my men in a frontal attack. The new regiment does not have many troops, and we can kill them even if we use our strength."
"Yoshi!" Noda was very satisfied with the answer from the commander of the Imperial Association.
He casually ordered: "Then attack, I will send grenade launchers and machine guns to provide you with fire cover, and consume as much strength as possible in the new regiment!"
The leader couldn't help but feel a burst of slander in his heart.
He could clearly see the battle just now. As soon as the attacking troops rushed 200 meters in front of the formation, the heavy machine gun in the hands of the new regiment opened fire. At this distance, the grenades equipped by the Japanese were just decorations. As for the light grenades,
Although the effective range of the machine gun is far more than two hundred meters, the accuracy of shooting at this distance is too poor. Moreover, as soon as a shot is fired, the heavy machine gun with more powerful firepower will be targeted, and there will be no room to fight back.
Therefore, Lieutenant Colonel Noda's final guarantee of fire support was purely to comfort himself.
However, he knew it in his heart, but he couldn't say it out loud. After all, his life and future were still in his hands.
Gritting his teeth and preparing for more than half of his troops to suffer casualties, the regiment leader personally led his troops towards the hilltop occupied by the new regiment!
Noda Nakasa waved his hand at the back, and dozens of Japanese soldiers carrying machine guns and grenade launchers, led by a second lieutenant, followed.
"Sir, why don't you wait until daybreak before attacking? If there are aircraft support to destroy the light and heavy machine guns captured by the new regiment, we will definitely destroy them easily!" the adjutant next to Noda asked with a puzzled look.
"It will be dark for more than two hours, and it will take at least four hours for the plane to arrive. Can you guarantee that the new regiment will occupy the high ground in front of them and not retreat in the next four hours!" Lieutenant Colonel Noda asked with a frown.
The adjutant reacted immediately: "I understand!"
"Sir, please ask the Imperial Army to hold back the new group trapped on the high ground and prevent them from escaping!"
As soon as he finished speaking, another question appeared in the adjutant's mind.
"Then why don't we divide our troops to surround the high ground occupied by the new regiment and trap them until dawn!"
The always arrogant Lieutenant Colonel Noda showed a helpless expression for the first time on his face: "Do you still remember the battle reported by the brigade headquarters a few days ago?"
"Two reinforced squadrons of imperial troops surrounded the remnants of the New Regiment in the town. Not only did they not trap them, but they themselves lost troops and generals, and finally let them escape!"
"Our situation now is even worse than it was then. We don't even have mortars or heavy machine guns. But the new regiment on the high ground does. As long as we divide our troops, we will give them a chance to defeat us!"
"So, we can't divide our troops. In order to hold them back, we can only stick to them through constant attacks. Because they have a fatal weakness, that is, insufficient troops!"
The adjutant finally showed a look of realization on his face: "Sir, you are wise and you have learned a lesson from your humble position!"
"Da da da..." At this time, the puppet army's attack began.
The regiment leader was very determined and planned to use the casualties of his subordinates to prove his loyalty to Noda.
But his soldiers don't seem to be trying to save face.
Although he brandished his pistol and shot several soldiers who disobeyed orders in succession. Others were still lying on the ground under the heavy machine gun fire, crawling forward bit by bit towards the high ground, which made the regiment leader anxious.
Lieutenant Colonel Noda seemed to have expected the scene in front of him. He shook his head helplessly and did not say a word.
Anyway, he didn't expect the puppet troops to actually attack the top of the mountain. As long as they were attacking, they could just hold off the new group.
"Woooooooo..." Suddenly, the scream of a string of artillery shells streaking across the sky reached their ears.
Noda's face, which had just calmed down, instantly turned pale, and then he shouted loudly: "Baga, it's a shelling, the shells are flying towards us, everyone, hurry up and take cover!"
After saying that, Noda Nakasa took advantage of the situation and threw himself towards the weeds beside the road.
The expressions of the guards around him also changed, and they fell next to Noda, intending to protect Lieutenant Commander Noda with their bodies.
"Boom, boom, boom..." As soon as they fell to the ground, a violent explosion sounded around them.
Many Japanese who didn't have time to lie down screamed and were blown away, then smashed to the ground and turned into corpses.
The explosion of the first round of artillery shells had not completely stopped, and the screams of the second round of artillery shells were heard immediately, round after round, as if the shells were free of charge, they were heading towards the road where three to four hundred Japs were gathered.
Smash it up.
Lieutenant Colonel Noda, who was protected by the guards and hid behind a big rock, saw the fireballs rising up on the road, and then saw the motionless corpses around the fireballs. He said, "It's over."
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Then, regardless of the surprised gazes of the guards around him, he loudly ordered: "Notify all the troops that can be contacted to disperse and retreat to the nearest stronghold, immediately!"
Under the cover of night, and the opponent was an elite Japanese army, the artillery bombardment of the new regiment was not very effective.
Except for the first round of artillery fire, which killed and injured dozens of Japs, each subsequent round of artillery fire only caused a few or a dozen casualties to the Japs.
Noda knew this very well, but he still decided to retreat.
Because he knew very well the source of the mortars in the hands of the new regiment, and he also knew very well how many artillery shells the new regiment had.
Even if two artillery shells kill an Imperial Army soldier, the artillery shells in the hands of the Shin-dan can destroy all of his troops. Without counter-weapons, Noda could not just watch his troops fight while being bombed.
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