Rise from the sword

Chapter 139 Detours and Detours

Dozens of cavalry marched quickly along the road, and with the sound of horseshoes, the figures gradually spread to the two wings.

On the hillsides on both sides of the road, in the mountains, in the woods, in the valleys, all places where troops can hide, all areas suitable for ambushes, the devils on the cavalry have been carefully scouted.

The detection range was extended to 800 meters away from the road.

The devils are arrogant and defiant, but they fought against the Eighth Route Army in the base area for more than three years, and tens of thousands of devils were killed and countless supplies were lost.

From the very beginning of the Pingxingguan Supplies Team to the previous Wild Wolf Valley Kwantung Army Squadron, the devils finally understood that this is not the racecourse of the Great Japanese Empire, but this is someone else’s territory, and this is someone else’s country, although it is on the surface It has been occupied, but resistance is still spread all over every piece of land, and there is still a huge distance from complete control.

Facing the Li Yunlong Independent Regiment, which had disgraced the Imperial North China Front Army, Ozawa Duoquan cautiously dispatched a reconnaissance force to conduct a close reconnaissance of the surrounding area.

After all, he didn't want to fight the Eighth Route Army in a disadvantageous terrain.

Not long after the cavalry confirmed that they were safe, Koizumi Tazawa marched in with a brigade of more than 500 devils.

The devil's reconnaissance team on dozens of motorcycles is in front, and the devil's machine gunner on the car body uses machine gun fire to investigate from time to time. More than a dozen trucks are in the middle of the team. Boots of devil soldiers.

On a truck, Daquan Ozawa looked solemnly.

Even though he thought he had pushed Li Yunlong's independent group to a desperate situation, Ozawa Duoquan did not have much ease.

Victory is imminent, and there is no suspense, but he still needs to consider one thing, that is, the issue of casualties. If this so-called independent regiment is wiped out at a huge price, his military career will also be reversed.

Up to now, the garrison in Shou County has lost more than [-] people, and the reduction is close to a quarter. If there are heavy casualties again in this battle, even if he finally wiped out the so-called Li Yunlong independent regiment, there will be no good results. .

The Imperial Army has always looked down on the Eighth Route Army, thinking that it is just a beggar army with little combat power, and it can easily win a battle with it. Although this Li Yunlong has made amazing moves many times, it is still impossible to change this point of view. The Army believes that this is just an elite unit of the Eighth Route Army.

And he is commanding an elite full-staffed imperial army brigade to fight, and the material aspect has also been strengthened.

In the eyes of high-level officials, this battle is easy to capture.

He thought so too.

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Looking at the hillsides on both sides of the road in the distance, Koizumi Tazawa looked worried, not because he was worried about this battle, but because he was worried about his future.

The horror of Li Yunlong's independent regiment is beyond his imagination, especially the morale of the soldiers, which is completely different from all the troops of the Republic of China he faced before. The soldiers of this army are not afraid of death, and they are not inferior to the samurai armed by the Imperial Bushido , The military quality is also quite good, and the light weapons are also very good, and the machine guns are equipped to the squad.

Even if most of the power was consumed before, it is absolutely difficult to deal with it in the last desperate fight.

Hope, this time the casualties will be less...

Ozawa Takumi prayed in his heart.

Not too many, not more than two hundred, at most 250...
Otherwise, let alone get rid of the deputy and become the official team leader when I go back, I am afraid that the team leader will be removed, and even the deputy will not be able to do it.

In order to reduce casualties, Ozawa Duoquan even mobilized a lot of troops from other nearby artillery towers, and finally formed a brigade of 500 people to support the artillery towers of Shuangma Village.

"Report to Your Excellency, the Eighth Route Army blocking troops ahead."

The cavalry correspondent reported the situation ahead.

"The blocking force?"

Koizumi Tazawa immediately lifted his spirits.

This was one of the situations he was looking forward to the most. The Eighth Route Army launched a blockade to buy time for the occupation of the Shuangma Village gunhouse.

Instead of feint attacking the Shuangma village gun tower, the main purpose was to ambush his reinforcements.

The gun towers in Shuangma Village have been strengthened by garrison troops, and the ammunition supply is sufficient. It is absolutely impossible to capture in a short time, and it will continue to consume the strength of the Eighth Route Army.With the advantage of artillery fire, he also has a great advantage in the face of the blocking of the Eighth Route Army.

"Order the mountain artillery squadron to launch shelling on the enemy's position, and the second squadron to start attacking." Ozawa Takumi quickly ordered.

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boom boom boom

Explosions continued to rise on the second battalion's position, and the civil bunkers that had not been built for a long time were blown to pieces. Fortunately, the troops were dispersed enough, and the casualties caused by these artillery fires were not large.

"The little devil is still in a hurry."

Seeing a squadron of devils rushing up behind the artillery fire, Shen Quan smiled slightly.

Devils are not stupid.

Li Yunlong had long predicted that the devils would send out reconnaissance troops to spread the investigation around.

Fighting against the Eighth Route Army for so long and suffering so many losses, it is inevitable that they will not be defenseless against ambushes as they were at the beginning, and it is impossible to get into a pocket of narrow terrain and let the troops surround them, so this time the independent regiment did not have any stupid actions Instead of setting up an ambush position, a campaign of annihilation was chosen.

Now the independent regiment is not weak against the devils, whether it is firepower or military strength, and even has this great advantage.

There are only more than 500 devils, and it is absolutely impossible for the more than 300 devils left in Shouxian County to be mobilized, otherwise he would dare to cooperate with outsiders and take the opportunity to take over Shouxian County.

Even if the independent regiment removes the first battalion, there are more than 400 people participating in the battle.

Therefore, in this battle, the ratio of the independent regiment and the devils was close to three to one.

Although the quality of soldiers is slightly insufficient, sufficient firepower, especially the powerful firepower of the artillery company, and sufficient shells can fully make up for this.

However, if you want to wipe out this group of devils, you must first attract the attention of this group of devils and let the troops complete the movement and encirclement. The two companies of the Shenquan Second Battalion are responsible for attracting the devils here.

"Fire."

Subsequently, Shen Quan ordered to open fire.

Immediately, the two companies of the second battalion launched an attack against the devil soldiers who rushed up.

From the very beginning, Shen Quan took out all his troops, two companies.

Da da da···

A dense rain of bullets, plus the greeting of grenades after approaching, the devils' first wave of attack was easily repelled. As soon as the devils retreated, artillery fire began to sweep across the second battalion's position and destroy the second battalion's bunker.

In the distance of the road, on the Japanese army position.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant Commander, the enemy has established a solid defensive position with strong firepower. The defensive force is about 300 people."

The Japanese troops on the front line reported what they had observed in the probing attack just now.

"More than 300 people?"

Ozawa Taizumi immediately smiled.

According to the information provided by the First Army, there were about 700 people in the Independent Regiment at the beginning, which was comparable to the strength of the Imperial Army.

After a month of confrontation and strangulation, the ratio of casualties to the imperial army was about [-] to [-], and it may even be more than that. After all, in the later stage, the opponent sent a large number of recruits. Central Africa did not have any results, and suffered heavy casualties under the attack of the elite imperial army.

In other words, the independent regiment has lost about 600 people.

Even if the opponent's strength replenishment ability is very strong, even if there are only more people, weapons will limit the upper limit of its strength, and its strength will definitely be lower than the original number. It is estimated that it should be about 500 people.

Shuangma Village has an attacking team of 1000 people, and there is a blocking team of 300 people here. At most, the opponent has a reserve team of 200 people, and most of them are inexperienced recruits.

"The artillery fire destroyed the enemy's position, and the [-]st Squadron continued to attack."

Koizumi Tazawa ordered Yuya Youzai.

He only dispatched one squadron of attacking troops at a time. After all, only to give the Eighth Route Army hope and let them see that the blocking troops had blocked the imperial support troops, they would continue to smash their heads against the gun towers of Shuangma Village.

What is an old saying in the Republic of China called?

Don't hit the south wall and don't look back.

"The rest of the squadron is stationed on the spot."

He didn't even conduct a spread scout on the wings.

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At the gun tower of Shuangma Village.

The time was still in the afternoon, but at this time it had been more than four hours since the first battalion began to attack the gun tower.

On the top of the gun tower, the devil captain who was in charge of guarding the gun tower held up his binoculars and watched the Eighth Route Army camping leisurely in the distance, with an anxious expression on his face.

At the beginning, the opponent launched three waves of group charges, which made him think that the opponent was desperately trying to consume his ammunition with the lives of soldiers. He even ordered to save bullets. However, after the telephone line was cut off, the opponent never launched an attack , has been building bunkers out of range, and even completely surrounded the gun tower.

For more than three hours, the Eighth Route Army did not launch an attack at all, but stationed and blocked it with leisure.

This made him realize that the purpose of the Eighth Route Army is probably not the gun towers, but the reinforcements around the points, and the goal is to support the troops...
However, although he guessed the tactics of the independent regiment, there was nothing he could do. The blockade of the entire battalion and the wide field of vision around the area made it impossible for the devils to send out any news.

However, the Eighth Route Army wants to ambush a brigade of support troops in the empire, isn't it a bit too overreaching?

The leader of the devil squad didn't panic, but asked his subordinates to keep vigilant.

However, in the distance, the sound of intensive shelling made the leader of the Devil squad frowned a little.

The sound of the cannon sounds a little bad.

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On the highway, on the blocking position of the Second Battalion, Koizumi Dorze looked at the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army in the distance with a binoculars, and his brows began to frown.

After an hour of leisure, he decided not to play, and he ordered the troops to launch a full-scale attack. The two squadrons charged against the Eighth Route Army's defensive positions that had been bombarded by the artillery squadron for more than an hour.

The expected easy rush down to the position destroyed by the artillery fire did not happen. Even when the troops were about to break through to deal with that position, suddenly, a large amount of artillery fire appeared behind the opponent. It was the opponent's mortar firepower, both 82 and 62 Both calibers, nearly [-] shells made the attack of the two squadrons ineffective, and there were even a lot of casualties.

Moreover, the enemy has obviously used the reserve team at this time, and the defensive force on the position is about 400 people, which is the size of three enemy companies.

This made him realize that this Li Yunlong independent regiment might have hidden a lot of power, and it was even possible that the current situation of the Shuangma Village blockhouse that had lost contact might not be good, so Koizumi Taze began to use all his strength.

"First Squadron continues to attack."

"Second and third squadrons attack in a roundabout way, and the artillery squadron suppresses the opponent's artillery firepower."

Artillery suppression, frontal assault cover, roundabout flank attack, this time Koizumi Tazawa demonstrated the command ability of a lieutenant in the Japanese Imperial Army.

Although the Japanese were complained that they would only charge infantry after artillery, and infantry after artillery, it is absolutely impossible for the devils to sweep across Southeast Asia. In fact, the Japanese army is best at light infantry. At the beginning, Fengwen Yamashita relied on this trick to fight the Southeast Asian British and French crying for their fathers and mothers.

boom boom boom

The artillery squadron at the rear continued to fire, and the explosion smoke exploded on the second battalion's position, destroying the few remaining defensive bunkers of the second battalion.

The artillery fire just stopped, and then a squadron of devils launched an attack on the dilapidated position.

At the same time, under the cover of artillery fire, the two devil squadrons also began to penetrate to the two wings, trying to attack the flanks of the second battalion's defensive position.

However, this roundabout, the devils encountered a completely unexpected situation.

Before leaving the main position, the devils of the two squadrons encountered the remaining troops of the third battalion and the second battalion of the independent regiment who were also making a detour.

At this time, the second battalion and the third battalion, with a total of 800 troops, had established temporary positions on the two wings and arranged firepower points.

Originally, Captain Li's plan was to let the blocking position consume the devil's strength. When the devil was exhausted and the shells were exhausted, he would take the opportunity to launch an attack with all his troops and wipe out the devil in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect the devil to suddenly cross his wings.

Facing the devil squadron rushing up, the troops on both wings opened fire without hesitation.

Caught off guard, in the face of the sudden intensive firepower, the troops on both wings of the devil were almost defeated, and retreated hastily, trying to find a position to start defense.

"Fire..."

Seeing this situation, Li Yunlong made a decisive decision and launched an attack.

With a signal flare into the air.

On the defensive position of the second battalion, the guarding soldiers launched a charge, and the artillery company also tore off the camouflage. All the 82 mortars of the whole company fired at full speed. The density is falling in the devil's position, and dense explosions rise in the devil's position.

Suddenly, the devils were in a panic.

After the first wave of strikes was over, Captain Li made a decisive decision and launched a charge.

"Go ahead"

"Come on..."

In the loud charge, more than 1000 people rushed to the devil's position mightily.

"Baga, how is it possible..."

"How could the Eighth Route Army still have shells? How could there be so many people?"

Seeing the soldiers of the Independence Regiment all over the mountains and plains, and the two wings that had been smashed through, Koizumi Taze widened his eyes: "Aren't they besieging the gun towers of Shuangma Village?"

However, he had no chance to figure out the situation.

(End of this chapter)