Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 275 Crazy killing!

After the artillery fire, there were not many enemies left on the Japanese second line of defense.

Two infantry battalions plus more than a thousand soldiers from the first battalion of the new third regiment easily captured the second line of defense of the Japanese.

A battle flag of the Eighth Route Army of the Jinzhong base area, a symbol of honor, was planted on the top of the mountain.

"boom!"

A shell hit the soldier holding the battle flag, and both the soldier and the battle flag fell down.

But in a moment another soldier picked up the tattered battle flag.

The next second, countless Eighth Route Army soldiers appeared on the top of the mountain.

At this time, on the reverse slope of the mountain, under the steel helmets, the Japanese soldiers were holding bayonets and looking up at the Eighth Route Army on the top of the mountain.

The enemy and our soldiers stared at each other from three hundred meters away.

An extremely strange scene appeared on the battlefield.

Just then, some buzzing sounds were heard in the sky, and the Japanese planes arrived!

"Bugler, blow the charge!"

"Comrades, kill me!"

"Defend our country and kill all these Japanese devils!"

The battalion commanders all reacted very quickly and shouted almost at the same time.

beep beep-

When the high-pitched and inspiring trumpet sounded, something called blood instantly boiled in the soldiers' bodies!
The loud charge horn resounded through the sky, and the soldiers rushed down the mountain like wolves and tigers.

"Kill me..."

At the foot of the mountain, the captain of the 9th Infantry Battalion of the Japanese Army had a fierce look on his face. He suddenly pointed the major's command knife forward and a hysterical roar sounded.

"Kill me..."

"Onboard..."

"idiot……"

Not only were the Japanese soldiers fearless, but they also launched a counterattack with fierce and crazy murderous intent in their expressions.

A sharp and extremely ferocious aura emanated from the charging Japanese soldiers.

Although the 9th Squadron of the 11th Infantry Battalion had been completely destroyed.

However, Yamazaki Tatsuo organized the previously defeated soldiers into a temporary company and added it to the 9th Infantry Battalion.

In this way, the 9th Infantry Battalion is once again a fully staffed infantry battalion.

However, the fully staffed battalion under the independent mixed brigade generally has only 800 people, while the infantry battalion of the elite field regiment generally has more than 1100 people.

……

"idiot!"

"Yamada Sadaichi, you idiot!"

In the Japanese brigade headquarters, Yanagishita Shigeharu, who saw this scene, could no longer hold back and flew into a rage, throwing the telescope in his hand to the ground for the third time.

Why not smash the artillery mirror?

Because the artillery mirror is too expensive and I can't bear to break it, I have to let the telescope take the blame.

What made Yanagishita Shigeharu angry was.

When it was time to attack, you were there exchanging glances with the Eighth Route Army, thinking you could scare them off with just your eyes?

When the air force arrived to reinforce and shouldn't have attacked, you launched a counterattack against the Eighth Route Army.

If this isn't stupid, what is?
But Yamazaki Tatsuo knew that this was not the fault of the 9th Infantry Battalion Captain Yamada Sadaichi. His order was to recapture the second line of defense and attract the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery to open fire.

No order was received to retreat as soon as the air force arrived.

Yamazaki Tatsuo said, "Your Excellency, the Locust Army's hand-to-hand combat capabilities far exceed those of the Eighth Route Army. The 9th Infantry Battalion will definitely be able to recapture the second line of defense."

Yanagishita Shigeharu's expression relaxed slightly, and he thought that what Yamazaki Tatsuo said was true.

In hand-to-hand combat, it took four or five Eighth Route Army soldiers to deal with one Japanese soldier.

If the 9th Infantry Battalion can defeat the Eighth Route Army and recapture the second line of defense, then we will reluctantly forgive the idiot Yamada Sadaichi.

The Eighth Route Army in the front row charged and fired at the same time, and the Japanese fell down one after another.

The Japanese also set up light and heavy machine guns from a distance to launch a surprise attack, and many Eighth Route Army soldiers fell in a pool of blood.

Soon, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese army collided with each other like two colored tides, and fierce hand-to-hand combat broke out.

This was a head-on hand-to-hand combat. Both sides were blood-thirsty. The clanging of bayonets, the screams of the dying, and the roars of those excited by the killing all merged into one.

Eight Japanese fighter planes flew over at an extremely low altitude, and the Japanese pilots found that the road below, the hill and the reverse slope of the hill were densely packed with people, with gray and yellow mixed in.

The Japanese pilots released their hands from the aerial bomb release buttons and the planes flew past.

The eight Japanese planes left the area, joined the 8st Flying Group, and went to search for the Eighth Route Army's heavy mortar positions.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army's heavy mortars and artillery shells had all been hidden in the tunnels.

Even if the Japanese planes dropped heavy aerial bombs and poison gas bombs, it would be of no avail.

In the brigade headquarters.

Although veteran Japanese soldiers such as Yanagishita Shigeharu and Yamazaki Tatsuo had participated in many battles, the bloody scenes in their sight did not change their expressions at all.

However, this was his first time commanding such a level of head-on hand-to-hand combat, the brutality of which was no less than that of street fighting.

Although the Eighth Route Army seemed to have more troops, both Yanagishita Shigeharu and Yamazaki Tatsuo were very confident in their men's bayonet fighting skills.

In their opinion, although Japanese soldiers were generally shorter than Chinese soldiers, almost every Japanese soldier was strong and sturdy, with well-developed muscles in his arms and feet, and his face had a well-nourished, oily glow. Whether he was thrusting or blocking, his arms had well-trained explosive power.

The Eighth Route Army soldiers generally looked thinner, and many even had malnutrition on their faces, which was very common among the Eighth Route guerrillas that the two devils had seen. The disparity in economic and industrial strength between the two countries was also reflected in the quality of individual soldiers.

But those were only other Chinese troops that Yanagishita Shigeharu and Yamazaki Tatsuo had seen, and it was obvious that the troops from the Jinzhong base were not among them.

Although Jinzhong is now many times richer than before, the soldiers have never stopped their bayonet training.

Moreover, because of the sufficient food and oil, the soldiers had more energy to train, although their individual bayonet fighting skills were still not as good as those of the Japanese soldiers who had been trained for many years.

However, hand-to-hand combat is not just about bayonet techniques, it is also a combination of a soldier's will, courage and combat skills.

Yanagishita Shigeharu, Yamazaki Tatsuo and other devils saw through the telescope that although the Eighth Route Army soldiers' individual bayonet fighting skills were obviously not as good as those of the Japanese soldiers, the Eighth Route Army had a temperament that other Chinese armies did not have, that is, they were fierce and decisive in their attacks, and had the courage to trade their lives with the enemy. They killed the enemy as soon as they attacked, and rarely used blocking to protect themselves. Every move was meant to die together with the Japanese soldiers.

The two old devils also saw that during the fight, Eighth Route Army soldiers were constantly stabbed by the Japanese soldiers' bayonets. Some Eighth Route Army soldiers had their abdomens pierced by bayonets, with their purple intestines hanging outside their bodies, but they still stabbed the Japanese soldiers with their bayonets fiercely.

Some Eighth Route Army soldiers were lying on the ground covered in blood. Suddenly, they hugged a Japanese soldier who was caught off guard and detonated the grenade at their waist. The two soldiers were shattered into pieces in the explosion.

One of the Eighth Route Army soldiers was blinded in the bayonet fight and bleeding profusely, but he held on tightly to the Japanese soldier. The Japanese soldier kept stabbing the Eighth Route Army soldier's kidney with a bayonet, but the Eighth Route Army soldier managed to bite off the Japanese soldier's neck. After both of them died, the Eighth Route Army soldier still held the Japanese soldier's body tightly.

These bloody scenes made Yanagishita Shigeharu feel a chill down his spine. The fighting spirit of the Eighth Route Army was no less than that of the soldiers of the Japanese Type A Division.

The imagined one-sided situation of the Eighth Route Army did not occur. The Eighth Route Army's military will was beyond the Japanese army's imagination, and they blocked the 9th Infantry Battalion.

The radio brought news that the 6th Flying Squadron had not found the Eighth Route Army's heavy mortar position.

Yanagishita Shigeharu's face gradually turned as dark as the bottom of a pot.

After circling in the air for a while, the 14 planes flapped their wings dejectedly and flew towards Taiyuan.

Yamazaki Tatsuo asked in a deep voice with an unpleasant expression, "Commander, what should we do now?"

If this hand-to-hand combat continues, the 9th Infantry Battalion will be wiped out.

By then, the two infantry battalions would be completely destroyed, and more than half of the entire Independent Mixed Brigade 3 would suffer casualties.

"Order…"

Yanagishita Shigeharu's words were almost squeezed out from between his teeth:

"The 9th Infantry Battalion retreats. All Locust Army and Locust Affiliated Army units retreat immediately..."

He didn't expect that a wave of air support would be easily resolved by the Eighth Route Army's hand-to-hand combat.

If the Eighth Route Army did not come up and engage the Japanese in hand-to-hand combat, even if the air force did not find the Eighth Route Army's heavy mortar position.

A wave of aerial bombs dropped on the hills captured by the Eighth Route Army would inevitably cause heavy losses to the Eighth Route Army.

Yanagishita Shigeharu couldn't understand why the Eighth Route Army, with only a single infantry regiment, dared to go head-to-head with the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade.

How dare you!

"Hi!" Tatsuo Yamazaki was about to convey the order.

At this moment, the decoder handed a telegram to Yanagishita Shigeharu: "General, Lieutenant Colonel Amano, commander of the 6th Flight Squadron, just sent a secret message. The aviation squadron has not left and is still circling in the nearby airspace. Lieutenant Colonel Amano requests that our unit continue to launch an attack to attract the Eighth Route Army's heavy mortar positions to open fire..."

Yanagishita Shigeharu's expression became uncertain, and he was suddenly caught in an awkward dilemma.

If you want to continue the attack, you can only wait until this hand-to-hand combat is over.

But if we wait until this hand-to-hand combat is over, with the Eighth Route Army's desperate hand-to-hand combat style, it is estimated that there will be no one left in the 9th Infantry Battalion.

Of course, the Eighth Route Army certainly did not have an easy time either, suffering nearly a thousand casualties in this hand-to-hand combat.

But the problem now is that if the entire 9th Infantry Battalion is destroyed, he will not have many bargaining chips in his hand.

The entire 7th Infantry Battalion was destroyed, one-third of the 6th Infantry Battalion was killed or wounded, and the 8th Infantry Battalion was severely damaged by Xu Jin's barrage of bullets from the Eighth Route Army. Now he only has a fully staffed 10th Infantry Battalion left.

Of course, there are more than a thousand people including engineers, communications, logistics troops and field hospitals, but these are non-combatants.

If the 10th Infantry Battalion was also involved, he would have to sit at the children's table every time he went to the First Army Headquarters to eat.

Most importantly, Yanagishita Shigeharu had lost confidence in the air support provided by the aviation force he relied on.

You are a bunch of rubbish. You even bombed the Eighth Route Army's heavy mortar position by mistake. Why should I trust you?

Tatsuo Yamazaki and a group of Japanese staff officers looked at Shigeharu Yanagishita. His order would determine the fate of the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade.

"Order the 9th Infantry Battalion to retreat first!"

"The 10th Infantry Battalion, move forward to provide support!"

"Notify the aviation unit to come over. Once the 9th Infantry Battalion breaks contact with the Eighth Route Army, the aviation unit will immediately bomb the Eighth Route Army infantry!"

After this hand-to-hand combat, Yanagishita Shigeharu believed that the Eighth Route Army's infantry and their heavy mortar units posed a greater threat.

"Hi Yi!"

Tatsuo Yamazaki suddenly lowered his head.

After Yamazaki Tatsuo delivered the order and notified the aviation unit, Yanagishita Shigeharu said coldly, "Yamazaki-kun, immediately draft a telegram to the First Army Headquarters. Tell them that the Independent Mixed Brigade has suffered over half its combat troops in the five-day offensive, and the aviation unit is still unable to destroy the Eighth Route Army's heavy mortar positions. We have lost our offensive capability. Request that the headquarters allow the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade to move to Gang County for rest and recuperation."

If the headquarters issued the order to move back, it would not be considered that the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade was defeated.

Later, when he arrived at the First Army Headquarters, Yanagishita Shigeharu could still sit at the adults' table.

However, Yanagishita Shigeharu didn't know that he might not be able to return to Gang County, let alone go to Taiyuan.

"Hi Yi!"

Tatsuo Yamazaki lowered his head, quickly drafted a telegram and handed it to the telegraph soldier.

The sound of telegraphs ticking could be heard in the brigade headquarters.

……

at the same time.

Hand-to-hand battlefield.

Hand-to-hand combat was like a knockout round in sports. Within five minutes, half of both sides had fallen, and those who survived could be considered masters of bayonet fighting.

The 9th Infantry Battalion of the Japanese Army, which was fighting with the Eighth Route Army with bayonets, received an order to retreat.

"Retreat, retreat!"

The wounded and bloody Japanese captain, Major Yamada, waved his command sword and gave the order to retreat.

After giving the order, the Japanese captain waved his sword to force back the two Eighth Route Army soldiers, then turned and ran away.

Major Yamada has rich combat experience. Retreating in hand-to-hand combat also comes at a price. Retreating means exposing your back to the enemy.

Those who ran slowly would be mowed down by the Eighth Route Army's submachine guns and machine guns.

The other surviving Japanese bayonet masters did not understand, but had no choice but to obey orders.

Everyone is retreating, but you are not. Then you will be stabbed into a honeycomb by the bayonets of the Eighth Route Army.

The military order was like a mountain, and the Japanese soldiers gave up fighting with the Eighth Route Army soldiers and turned around and ran away with their rifles.

The Japanese soldiers' desperate spirit was lost and their morale was greatly reduced in an instant.

But on the Eighth Route Army side, the morale of the soldiers became increasingly strong when they saw their troops driving away the arrogant Japanese devils in hand-to-hand combat.

"The devil wants to escape, no way, I will chase him!"

"Kill!"

"Kill all the Japanese dogs!"

"..."

The soldiers chased wildly, firing their submachine guns, and the Japanese soldiers were shot in the back and fell in a pool of blood.

The Japanese mortars and infantry guns opened fire, trying to stop the Eighth Route Army from entangled and pursuing them, but it was of no use. The Eighth Route Army soldiers continued to fight, as if they were not afraid of death.

"idiot!"

At the brigade headquarters, Yanagishita Shigeharu, who had witnessed this, slammed his telescope to the ground for the fourth time, nearly jumping up and down in anger.

"Madmen! The Eighth Route Army soldiers are just like their commander, Li Yunlong. They are all crazy!"

The corner of Yamazaki Tatsuo's mouth twitched. The Eighth Route Army was killing like crazy...

Normally, after fighting hand-to-hand for so long, the Eighth Route Army soldiers would be very tired and should retreat, right?

However, instead of retreating, the Eighth Route Army soldiers chased the retreating 9th Infantry Battalion even more frantically.

"Commander, why don't you send the 10th Infantry Battalion to completely wipe out this group of Eighth Route Army soldiers?"

The combat staff on the side gave suggestions.

Yanagishita Shigeharu's expression changed. The 10th Infantry Battalion had not participated in the battle and was his reserve force, full of energy and high morale.

At this time, if the 10th Infantry Battalion was sent up, it would definitely be able to wipe out the pursuing Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

But at this moment, Yamazaki Tatsuo said in a deep voice: "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, look at the first line of defense!"

Yanagishita Shigeharu quickly picked up the telescope on the ground and looked towards the first line of defense.

Dense crowds of Eighth Route Army soldiers appeared on the roads and hilltops of the first line of defense.

There were at least a thousand Eighth Route Army soldiers in the field of view of the telescope alone, and even more Eighth Route Army soldiers were rushing over from the other side of the mountain, like a gray tide surging over with unstoppable force.

This group of Eighth Route Army soldiers, like the elite Japanese soldiers, possess a sharp and extremely fierce aura!

Yanagishita Shigeharu only took one look and knew that this was definitely the elite force of the Eighth Route Army.

The old devil's face changed, and he immediately realized that something was wrong: "Where did the Eighth Route Army get so many troops?"

At this moment, a buzzing sound came from the sky, and the Japanese air force arrived...

Because the Eighth Route Army in front was too close to the Japanese 9th Infantry Battalion, part of the Japanese aviation unit went to find the Eighth Route Army's heavy mortar position, and the other part dived towards the Eighth Route Army's first line of defense.

……

Go back two minutes.

Through the telescope, we saw the Eighth Route Army defeat a Japanese infantry battalion in hand-to-hand combat.

Li Yunlong and Ding Wei both looked excited.

Li Yunlong said, "Some of our fraternal units and friendly forces say that our Jinzhong Eighth Route Army relies on superior weapons and ammunition to fight. After this hand-to-hand combat, I wonder who dares to laugh at our Jinzhong Eighth Route Army for not having bayonet skills?"

The troops participating in the hand-to-hand combat included Li Yunlong's Second Battalion and Ding Wei's First and Second Battalions. Even though Ding Wei's First Battalion suffered more than half of its casualties, it continued to fight. The total strength of the three battalions was more than 800 people. In a hand-to-hand combat with a full-strength infantry battalion of more than Japanese soldiers, the Eighth Route Army had a slight advantage.

This was something that was unthinkable in the past. If the Chinese army engaged in a direct hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese, it would not be able to gain any advantage at all without an advantage of three to five times the Japanese strength.

Ding Wei's lips curled up slightly. After the Eighth Route Army defeated a Japanese infantry battalion in a direct hand-to-hand combat, the Jinzhong Eighth Route Army was no longer afraid of hand-to-hand combat with the devils. "Lao Li, Lao Kong has called back. He said that the independent regiment can't wait to entertain the guests."

Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes and said, "Then let him wait a little longer. Prepare the table and the main dishes. The guests will be arriving soon."

Ding Wei: “I understand!”

Just then, a buzzing sound was heard in the sky, and the two raised their telescopes to look.

Ding Wei's face immediately showed admiration: "Old Li, how did you know that the Japanese air force would launch a surprise attack?"

"As soon as the Japs raised their butts," Captain Li said with a slight curl of his lips, "I knew what they were going to do."

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(End of this chapter)