"Sir, the firepower at the entrance of the village has not been strengthened. The offensive troops are rushing up. There must be not many troops in the independent battalion!" The adjutant became more and more excited as he watched, with a smile on his face as he spoke, as if victory had already come to him again.
Just like waving to yourself.
Lieutenant Colonel Watanabe didn't find any clues at the entrance of the village. He sighed and said to himself.
"Maybe I worry too much!"
"In continuous fighting, the independent battalion will definitely suffer heavy casualties. Moreover, they have to divide their forces to surround our artillery and heavy equipment. They will definitely not be able to allocate too many troops to stop us!"
The adjutant then added: "It must be so!"
"Sir, as long as we successfully retake the entrance to the village, we can rescue the artillery and baggage trains, and maybe we can launch a counterattack with the independent battalion!"
"This independent battalion is so crazy. With this small force, they want to swallow up two of our artillery squadrons and a baggage team. They are not afraid of being choked to death!"
"Da da da……"
Just when the adjutant was about to continue speaking, there was a duller sound of heavy machine gun fire.
There was only one platoon at the entrance to the village, and eight tongues of flames suddenly appeared. The attacking troops who had rushed fifty meters to the entrance of the village were swept away like ripe wheat in an instant.
"How is that possible!" The adjutant swallowed back the words he had spoken and stared at the entrance of the village, his eyes round and his face dumbfounded.
Lieutenant Commander Watanabe reacted faster.
Forced himself to calm down and shouted: "Bagh Ya Road, I knew the entrance to the village was not that simple. The independent battalion is too cunning and never fights uncertain battles. Since they decided to intercept our artillery and baggage troops, they must have arranged enough troops
Stop our reinforcements!"
"Order the attacking troops to withdraw immediately. The independent battalion has deployed eight heavy machine guns at the entrance of the village. We have no cannons. If we charge hard, we will definitely not be our opponent. Moreover, there will be heavy casualties, and the warriors will die here in vain!"
At the independent battalion headquarters, Li Hao was very satisfied with the performance of the independent company and firepower company at the entrance of the village and couldn't help but praise them.
"Zhao Wen and Chen Bing cooperated well. They knew how to show weakness to the enemy and put the Japanese in before fighting!"
"With such fierce counterattack firepower and such a short shooting distance, even if the enemy's attack formation is spread out, eight heavy machine guns firing together can severely damage them!"
"The Fire Company and the Independent Company put on such a great show, and we can't miss it."
"Order the artillery battery to fire immediately and stop firing until the Japanese withdraw from the shelling area!"
Third company commander Huang Sheng had an excited smile on his face.
Seeing the Japanese who attacked the village being killed one by one, it was as if he had directed the entire battle, and he kept cheering.
But the good times did not last long. Within half a minute of heavy machine gun fire, the Japanese attacking troops began to retreat.
The smile on Huang Sheng's face disappeared, and he shouted with a look of reluctance.
"Battal Commander, the Japanese are trying to escape!"
"They reacted too quickly, and we just killed and injured an infantry team!"
"Don't worry, they can't escape!" Li Hao replied confidently.
"Woooooooo..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the screeching sound of artillery shells streaking across the sky was heard, which was very harsh.
"Boom boom boom..."
The nine artillery shells were split into two and hit respectively between the Japanese army assembly area and the attacking troops!
In particular, the shells of the three mountain cannons hit the only way to retreat with the Japanese.
The shell exploded, and five or six Japanese soldiers were knocked over and scattered around the crater.
If the Japanese attacking troops want to withdraw from the battlefield, they must first break through the fire interception of three mountain cannons.
Huang Sheng reacted suddenly and shouted with a look of realization: "I understand!"
"Battal Commander, you have thought of this scene a long time ago, and specially ordered the mountain artillery to bombard the area 100 meters from the entrance of the village to intercept the retreating troops of the little Japanese!"
"There are heavy machine guns chasing them from behind and shells hitting their heads. Even if the little Japanese attacking troops don't die, they will still shed a layer of their skin!"
At the gathering place of Japanese troops, Lieutenant Commander Watanabe was stunned and his face turned pale again.
Although I had expected this to be a conspiracy, I didn't expect that the independent camp's appetite was greater than I imagined.
"In addition to intercepting our two artillery squadrons and baggage trains, we will also severely damage our two infantry squadrons.
Seeing that the casualties of the attacking troops were increasing, only a handful of soldiers could break through the three mountain cannons to intercept them. Even the assembly area under their feet was bombarded, and soldiers kept screaming and being killed.
Lieutenant Colonel Watanabe knew that he had lost again.
Although he was unwilling to do so, he still ordered with a painful look on his face: "Retreat, all troops retreat, disperse and exit the artillery range of the independent battalion, we go directly back to the county seat!"
The adjutant was stunned for a moment, then asked with a look of disbelief on his face: "Sir, think twice... we are leaving, what will happen to the artillery and baggage teams blocked by the independent battalion in the village?"
"Let them find a way to break out on their own!" Lieutenant Colonel Watanabe replied without thinking, with a helpless expression on his face.
Seeing that the adjutant was still stunned on the spot and did not move, Lieutenant Commander Watanabe became anxious.
"Immediately execute the order. Didn't you see that the Eighth Route Army has heavy machine guns and artillery? And what about us? It doesn't matter what we want. If we continue to stay here, maybe everyone will be killed by them!"
"If we retreat now, we can at least save two infantry squadrons and go back!"
"If you continue to stay here, maybe the entire army will be destroyed."
"For the sake of the overall situation, I can only choose to retreat, abandon the artillery and baggage troops, try to save as many soldiers as possible, and kill them back later for revenge!"
"Also, contact the brigade headquarters immediately and ask them to quickly send planes to bomb Dongtian Village. The equipment and ammunition carried by the artillery and baggage teams must not fall into the hands of the independent battalion. I will let them die together with the attacking Eighth Route Army!"
The Japanese troops withdrew, and they retreated very quickly, escorted by six mortars.
In the end, only one squadron of a squadron's offensive force successfully withdrew from the battlefield, and all the others were killed. Eighteen shells fired by the Guangshan artillery platoon killed more than thirty people, and all the others were wiped out by the firepower company and the independent company.
At the independent battalion headquarters, watching the Japanese troops retreat in a hurry, Li Hao didn't have much smile on his face.
He had a feeling that Commander Watanabe was becoming more and more difficult to fight compared to before.
To assess the situation and decisively abandon the artillery and baggage trains, this decision would never be made by an ordinary kid, but Lieutenant Colonel Watanabe did it.
It is conceivable that Lieutenant Colonel Watanabe ran away today and took hundreds of Japanese with him. When he comes back with his troops again, he will definitely become a strong enemy of the independent battalion!
Shaking his head and putting these questions behind him, Li Hao focused his attention on the battlefield again.
The fighting outside the village is over, but not inside the village.
Li Hao thought for a while and then made a decision: "Firepower company, independent company, immediately reinforce the guard company and the second company, and attack the artillery and baggage troops blocked by us in the village!"
"Tell everyone, we must give full play to our firepower advantage, don't be afraid of wasting bullets, and end the battle quickly?"
"The Japanese baggage train carries a lot of ammunition. As long as we kill them, I will replenish them with as much ammunition as the troops shoot out!"
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