Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Shangganling

Chapter 171 Just leave
After nightfall, Chen Chengxing, with Xu Wu's somewhat resentful look, led the infantry companies of the second and third battalions to bypass the Tujialing position.

As for Xu Wu's look, Chen Chengxing ignored it. He just wanted to launch a night attack.

However, the First Battalion had fought the Japanese for the longest time and had also been bombed by air forces, so they had to take a break.

When Zheng Hua and Sun Xun passed by Xu Wu, they patted him on the shoulder and said that the Second and Third Battalions would work together with the First Battalion.

The expressions on these two people's faces made Xu Wu so angry that he almost started a fight.

But when Chen Chengxing led the second and third battalions back to Tanzhuang, he found that Tanzhuang was pitch black.

Chen Chengxing realized that something was wrong.

"Ma Zhiyuan, take a few people in to see what's going on. Be careful of ambushes!" Chen Chengxing ordered.

"Yes!"

Ma Zhiyuan waved his hand and led the three reconnaissance platoons around him into a combat formation and moved towards Tanzhuang.

A few minutes later, Ma Zhiyuan hurried back and reported: "Captain, the village is empty, there is not a single devil!"

"TND, the Japs are so cautious. They just ran away when they saw the situation was not good!" Zheng Hua felt sorry for the situation. All the heavy firepower of the 103rd Regiment was here.

"Ma Zhiyuan, immediately lead the reconnaissance platoon to scout in the direction of Xiaoliu Village to see if the Japanese are waiting for reinforcements in Xiaoliu Village!"

If the Japanese retreated back to Xiaoliu Village, the New Second Regiment would still have a chance.

Although the terrain of Xiaoliu Village is easier to defend than Tanzhuang, it is now night, and the New Second Regiment still has a chance to launch a successful surprise attack. The Japanese artillery cannot exert much power at night.

While the reconnaissance platoon was going forward to conduct reconnaissance, the second and third battalions were also not idle. They began searching in the dark around Tanzhuang to prevent the Japanese from leaving any tricks here.

Half an hour later, Ma Zhiyuan came back with a few soldiers.

"Captain, there is no trace of the Japanese in Xiaoliu Village. I have already sent out the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon to track the Japanese along the way."

Now that the Japs have suddenly disappeared, we can’t just let it go. We must find them.

After Chen Chengxing led the team back to Tujialing, Xu Wu and others were anxious all night.

As a result, in the early morning, the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon later reported: "Commander, we found the Japanese. They retreated to Zhengfeng Town, and they retreated overnight."

"There are still hundreds of Japanese soldiers at the mountain gate. They don't want to rescue them?!" Xu Wu said in surprise.

According to the normal thinking of the Japanese, they should fight to the death and not retreat until the surrounded Japanese are completely wiped out or break through. Why are they running away now?

"What a pity." Chen Chengxing sighed.

The Japanese reinforcements had a very keen sense of smell. If they had delayed for another night, the New Second Regiment would have been able to get a piece of fat meat. Now they could only nibble on the Japanese infantry trapped in the horse ditch and at the gate of the mountain.

"Xu Wu, you lead the first battalion to continue guarding Tujialing, and the second and third battalions follow me."

Chen Chengxing deduced that the besieged Japanese soldiers would definitely break out, and Yoshio Shinozuka would definitely send planes to support them.

Moreover, the direction in which the Japanese troops will break out is most likely to be the high ground on the east side of the mountain gate, because as long as they break through here, the Japanese troops can rush into the base and then use the changeable mountainous area to escape.

If they broke through along the main road to the west, the Japanese would have to break through several checkpoints before they could leave Dayun Mountain, which was unrealistic.

Chen Chengxing's judgment was correct. Just as he led the second and third battalions to join the encirclement of the Japanese, the roar of aircraft engines was heard in the air.

At the same time, Kosuke Mizuhara in Shanmenkou Village also heard the roar of the plane.

"Ozawa-kun, order the third and fifth squadrons to attack immediately! All heavy machine guns are deployed into battle!"

"The first, second, and fourth squadrons will use the terrain to defend against the Eighth Route Army on all sides, and the sixth squadron will serve as the reserve."

As early as the evening, Kosuke Mizuhara received a telegram, informing him that the reinforcements had already withdrawn to Zhengfeng Town with the heavy weapons unit of the 103rd Regiment.

Now the only support the 103rd Wing can get is the four aircraft dispatched by the headquarters.

Mizuhara Kousuke knew that this morning was the last chance for the 103rd Regiment. The 103rd Regiment had no more supplies, and the troops had not eaten this morning. Everyone just drank some water, but a belly full of water was only enough to pee.

Kiyohiro Ozawa was also well aware of the urgency of the matter. Even though they still had 800 troops under their command, they were already in imminent danger.

Therefore, Kiyohiro Ozawa went directly to the front line, ready to participate in the battle.

"Gentlemen! I will lead you in the final charge! Let us move forward over the corpses of our comrades!"

"Gentlemen! Meet at the Yasukuni Shrine Toilet!"

"It's getting dark, get on board!!"

Seeing the chief of staff with a white cloth tied on his head, the other soldiers also began to get excited.

"It's dark and the card is on board!"

"Onboard!".
Seeing that everyone's morale had been boosted, Kiyohiro Ozawa drew his command knife and shouted, "Kill the chicken!"

"Da da da" "Da da da".
“Taoci, come on!!” Kiyohiro Ozawa took the lead and rushed out.

"ah!".
The other Japanese soldiers followed closely behind, but as they were on top of the assault ingot, they had forgotten all tactical actions and directly launched the "famous" long live charge.

Looking at the Japanese soldiers charging forward, Chen Chengxing did not disappoint them: "Mortars cover the fire! Heavy machine guns sweep!"

If only the guerrillas were blocking the front, they might not be able to stop the desperate Japanese.

But now the second and third battalions have already arrived, and the drug-addicted Japanese prefer heavy machine guns and mortars, which are area-killing weapons.

Once the Japanese took drugs, although they showed "crazy combat effectiveness" in the short term and might be more ferocious in hand-to-hand combat due to their dull sense of pain, their shooting accuracy was seriously reduced, and there was a serious lack of tactical coordination.

"Da da da" "Da da da".
"Boom!" "Boom!".
The Japanese soldiers who were charging frantically showed no fear of the bullets and shrapnel flying everywhere, and continued to charge regardless of casualties.

At this time, the planes hovering in the air also began to drop bombs.

“Boom!!” “Boom!!”.
The shock wave swept across the entire position, and even some of the Japanese soldiers who rushed up were hit by shrapnel from the explosion, but no one cared at this time.

After being bombed, several heavy machine guns on the front line of the Second Battalion suddenly fell silent.

Seeing the Second Battalion being bombed, Chen Chengxing immediately ordered, "Blow the charge! Kill these devils!"

There are still many soldiers alive in the Second Battalion, but they must have been stunned by the explosion. Their reactions are slow at this moment, and they are not at an advantage in hand-to-hand combat against the Japanese who have little sense of pain.

But the third and fourth battalions and two guerrilla teams at the back were not affected. As long as they were fast enough, they could catch the charging Japanese.

"Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick" the sound of the charge horn sounded.

"Comrades, follow me and kill!" Sun Xun shouted, holding up a pistol.

"kill!".
At the same time, when the soldiers of the Second Battalion heard the charge, before their brains could react, they subconsciously put on their bayonets and rushed towards the Japanese.

"kill!".
The drugged Japanese were indeed good at hand-to-hand combat, but they were still unable to make any waves against the New Second Regiment, which had an absolute numerical advantage.

Although the Japanese planes also dived to participate in the strafing, the reconnaissance planes themselves did not have much ammunition, and the soldiers of the machine gun company also set up heavy machine guns to strafed the Japanese planes.

Although the accuracy was not high because it was not an anti-aircraft machine gun mount, the Japanese planes did not dare to take it lightly.

After all, air defense itself does not require any accuracy, and who knows which bullet will hit the target.

After all the drug-addicted Japanese were wiped out, the Japanese planes symbolically strafed a few more times at high altitude, and then chose to return to Taiyuan to replenish ammunition and prepare for another battle.

However, after losing two infantry squadrons, Mizuhara Kosuke completely lost the ability to launch an offensive initiative.

After all, his opponents are not only the second and third battalions to the east of the mountain gate, but also the four or five thousand guerrillas around them. If they dare to deploy all their forces to the front, the guerrillas will be able to rush in and fight them in hand-to-hand combat, and they will die faster then.

Now Mizuhara Kosuke's only hope is that the Taiyuan Command can send him other reinforcements.

(End of this chapter)