The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 274 Ants gnaw on bones

Han Ferry ferry.

The Kono Battalion of the 69th Engineering Regiment of the Japanese Army, which had been confronting the 114th Division of the National Army on the opposite bank, was rushing to repair fortifications on the river bank while coping with the attacks of Ning Wen and Han Zhihao, ready to counterattack the National Army's crossing of the river at any time. force.

What they really didn't expect was that they were here to block the enemy's reinforcements, but the main force failed to take down the 187th Division of the National Army and began to turn in so soon.

They received an order from Major Katsunosuke Noguchi, the captain of the regiment, to turn east along the Daqing River and join the main force in Xincheng County.

Along the way, the Japanese soldiers were very depressed. Although the captain of the regiment did not explain the reason for the transfer, they all knew that the main force must have encountered a major setback, so they were forced to transfer.

Mao Yuanju, who was on the other side of the river, had been waiting for Gao Jiu to give him instructions since sending Zhao Jie across the river.However, he saw that the 69th Division of the National Army left only a few people to monitor the Japanese army on the other side, and the main force withdrew overnight.Knowing that he could not wait for Gao Jiu's instructions, he simply swam across the river by himself.

After Ning Wen and Han Zhihao attacked the Japanese army in the middle of the night, seeing that the Japanese army did not send troops to chase them again, they didn't bother to evacuate, so they stayed on the top of the mountain.

In the middle of the night, the excitement of Ning Wen, Han Zhihao and others annihilating half of the Japanese army's squad had not subsided, and they were about to attack the Japanese army again, only to find that the Japanese army began to withdraw.

Ning Wen commanded this small army and exercised his commanding ability. At this time, his mind became more flexible.He said: "Commander Han, the devils withdrew suddenly. It is certain that they suffered from Master Jiu and went to reinforce their other troops. We can't just watch them withdraw like this. We have to worry about it." Live them, relieve the pressure for Master Jiu and the others, and buy time."

Han Zhihao also felt that what he said was reasonable. He said: "I think so too. The ferry is so important to them. The devils will not give up unless it is absolutely necessary. They must mobilize this army. Go to reinforce the troops of other devils.

If they are going to help, we will hold them back. "

Although the two of them didn't expect that the devil would evacuate completely, their idea of ​​actively entangled the devil was correct.They unified their opinions and led the brothers from the guard company to chase after the devil.In this way, Ning Wen and Han Zhihao gave full play to their subjective initiative and launched positive actions without receiving any news or clear instructions.

After the Japanese army withdrew from the ferry, they advanced quickly along the banks of the Daqing River. After walking for about an hour, Ning Wen, Han Zhihao and others caught up and fought against the devil's marching army.

Since entering the ferry, the Kono Brigade has been attacked by Ning Wenwen and Han Zhihao many times, and they are unbearably disturbed. They are determined to destroy these attackers, so they gather a squadron of troops to counterattack.

The Japanese engineering troops were also very powerful. They were angered by Ning Wen, Han Zhihao and others these two days. They rushed over like crazy. Ning Wen, Han Zhihao and others couldn't resist, so they fought and retreated.The devils chased after him, two soldiers of the guard company were shot and fell to the ground, and even Han Zhihao was shot in the buttocks.Ning Wen couldn't bear to give up on them, and ordered to organize a counterattack on the spot.

The Japanese army was in the middle of their arms. While attacking from the front, they organized troops to outflank.

The number of establishments of the Japanese engineering corps was relatively small, with a squadron of 130 people, no mortars, but a crooked machine gun and two grenade launchers.

Although Ning Wen and the others were small in number, they captured the weapons of Nakajima's support team, including two crooked machine guns. The terrain on the river bank was complicated, and there were many rocks that could be used as natural shelters. The two sides became deadlocked for a while. .

After all, there were a lot of devils, and the captain of a devil led dozens of devils to surround them from behind, and they were about to surround Ning Wen and the others.

It was only then that Ning Wen realized that he still lacked command experience. When chasing the enemy, if he was leading the special forces from Taohuashan, there would be nothing wrong with adopting such a chasing tactic, but the officers and soldiers of the guard company did not have such strong combat effectiveness. After being surrounded by devils, I'm afraid there will be more bad luck than good luck.

At this time, he had no choice but to separate some people to prepare to block the enemy's attack from behind.

At this moment, a bullet flew from nowhere, killing the leader of the Devil's team who was in charge of the outflanking, and the Devil's machine gunner also fell down.The assailants kept shooting, and the devils kept falling down, and those who were alive lay on the ground, fighting back at the assailants.

Ning Wen realized that the assailant was using a sniper rifle of the same model as his own, and he shouted excitedly: "Brothers, Master Jiu has sent someone to reinforce us."

Ning Wen had a bottom line in his mind, and asked the officers and soldiers of the guard company to find their own bunkers. He calmed down and began to snipe and kill the devils.

In the Taohuashan special team, Gao Jiu ranked first in marksmanship, followed by Tian Chuan and Li Xiaoshan, and Ning Wen ranked fourth.Taking advantage of the excitement of the fight between the two sides, he aimed at the flashing fire of the enemy's guns, and kept killing the Japanese soldiers one by one.

The assailants outside were also skilled in marksmanship, sending the devils back to their hometown one by one.

The devils and the soldiers of the national army hid behind their bunkers. The two sides fought very lively, but in fact the casualties were not large.Ning Wen and the attackers outside caused great damage to the Japanese army.The battle lasted less than 20 minutes, and the casualties of the Japanese army had exceeded 50. They couldn't bear it anymore and gave up confronting the national army. They retreated while fighting and chased their large troops.

Ning Wen shouted loudly: "Which one is the brother outside?" He had already heard that there was only one sharpshooter outside.

"Is it Captain Ning? I'm Mao Yuanju." A strong Hunan accent came through the night.

Ning Wen was the deputy captain of the sniper team, so Mao Yuanju called him that.

After a while, Mao Yuanju ran over, and after a brief exchange of opinions between the two, Ning Wen said to Han Zhihao and the others: "Counselor Han, brothers, you have many wounded, so you should not participate in the next battle." , first find a place to hide and treat the wounded. Let us do the chasing of the devils."

Han Zhihao and the others knew that their own people had dragged them down. Although they felt unbalanced, the fact was the way it was, so they had no choice but to agree with Ning Wen's opinion.

Ning Wen felt very relieved that he no longer had to be responsible to these national army officers and soldiers, and he and Mao Yuanju chased after the devils.

Along the way, Ning Wen and Mao Yuanju cooperated with each other, like two mosquitoes, constantly biting blood from the Japanese soldiers.

After Zhang Quan led the No. [-] Special Warfare Squadron to catch up with the Japanese army, he divided the troops into several combat groups and continued to harass the Japanese army, making the Japanese miserable.

The Japanese army knew that the main force of the 187th Division was chasing after them. They were eager to escape and did not want to fight. They left a lot of corpses along the way. In the end, they simply left the wounded behind.

Many of the devil's wounded stayed voluntarily. They didn't want to drag down the actions of the large troops and volunteered to take up the blocking task.

The special operators didn't get entangled with these sporadic enemies, they just killed them when they encountered them, and they still tracked the large army of devils to harass them.

The main force of the 187th Division chased forward in a mighty manner, quickly annihilating the sporadic Japanese troops encountered on the road.

The officers of the Ninth Theater Observation Group walked all the way and counted the corpses left by the Japanese army on the road. At dawn, they found that there were more than 20 corpses left by the Japanese army on the road of more than 300 miles.

Only then did they understand why the mighty Japanese 128th Brigade lost thousands of soldiers and was forced to flee in a panic.

At 200 o'clock in the morning, the officers of the Ninth War Zone Observation Regiment saw the traces of a battlefield, less than one kilometer away, where the bodies of more than [-] Japanese soldiers were dead, as well as some carriages and killed horses. The two wrecked cars were ablaze with flames.

Wang Zhankui's cavalry battalion launched an attack on the Japanese army here. After withdrawing from the battle, it has gone to the front to find a new ambush site, preparing to attack the Japanese army again.

The colonel of the Ninth War Zone is Li Fengming, the deputy director of the Operation Department of the Ninth War Zone. He said with emotion: "Gao Jiu and the others are too powerful in combat. I am afraid that what kind of troops encounter their tactics. It's unbearable."

The lieutenant colonel said excitedly: "Virgin, Gao Jiu's style of play is like ants gnawing on the bones, consuming the enemy bit by bit. If this continues, the 128th Brigade of the Japanese Army may really be in danger. It's over, we are really likely to win the victory of annihilating a complete infantry brigade of the Japanese army."

The officers and soldiers of the national army saw the tragic situation of the Japanese army, their morale was even higher, and they consciously accelerated their marching speed.

At noon, the Japanese army arrived at Xincheng County.

Lieutenant General Shigesho Yamamoto, Acting Brigade Commander of the Japanese Army, Noboru Otsuka, Commander of the 120th Field Artillery Regiment, Major Katsunosuke Noguchi, Commander of the 114th Engineer Regiment Regiment, Major Hideji Nakajima, Captain of the 114th Regiment of the Logistics Corps, and others At the gate of Xincheng County, a meeting was held.

At this time, the officers had two different opinions.

Noboru Otsuka, the commander of the 120th Regiment of the Field Artillery, said: "Yamamoto-kun, this is not the way to go. Our losses along the way are too great. I suggest that we occupy this county, stand by and wait for help, and ask for tactical guidance from the division. .”

Major Noguchi Katsunosuke, captain of the 114th Corps of Engineering Corps, and Major Hideji Nakajima, captain of the 114th Corps of Logistics Corps, both supported his opinion.

Artillery, engineers, and supply soldiers all have a lot of equipment and move slowly. They really suffered from the attackers.

Major Katsunosuke Noguchi, the commander of the 114th Engineering Regiment, said: "Yamamoto-kun, Otsuka-kun is right. Our loss is too great. We might as well rely on the castle and ask for tactical guidance from the division."

Shigesho Yamamoto is now the supreme commander of this force, and along the way he is constantly thinking about how to get out of the predicament in front of him.He said: "What you said is very reasonable, but there is no solid position here, only the 187th Division has a large number of artillery, and the city wall alone cannot stop the enemy's artillery fire. The most important thing is that we lack ammunition , can't last long at all.

As for your request for guidance from the division, now the division is far away from Jinan and cannot support us in a short period of time. Even if your Excellency the division commander wants to support us, he only has the strength of one regiment in his hand. What kind of effect can it play in such a battle situation? "

He was right. Although the 114th Division of the Japanese Army had a large force, it was stationed in various regions, and it was impossible to mobilize many reinforcements for a while.There are more than 2000 Japanese Yamamoto garrison troops in Tai'an, and such local troops cannot be counted on at all.

Everyone fell silent for a while.

Katsunosuke Noguchi said, "Yamamoto-kun, what do you say?"

Shigesho Yamamoto said: "The brigade has already suffered heavy losses. For now, the only way to do it is to cut off the wrists of the strong and quickly break away from contact with the enemy. Now the organizational system of each army is still there. As long as we can enter the safe zone and supplement the troops, The 128th Brigade can still regain its former combat effectiveness."

The captains of each alliance felt that Shigesho Yamamoto's words made sense and agreed with him.

Shigesho Yamamoto said: "In addition to the supplies carried by individuals, abandon all other baggage, and the whole army will advance lightly and quickly get away from the enemy."

Everyone had no opinion and expressed their obedience to his command.

Shigesho Yamamoto frowned, fell silent for a moment, and said with difficulty: "In order to protect the entire brigade, except for His Excellency the brigade commander, all the wounded, including the slightly wounded, will be left behind.

Noguchi-kun, your Kono Battalion of the Engineering Corps has not arrived here so far, please send someone to inform them, and let the entire brigade come back. "

Katsunosuke Noguchi knew that this was the Kono Battalion who had abandoned him, his eyes were red, and he glared at Shigesho Yamamoto like a hungry wolf, as if he wanted to swallow him up.However, he also knew that this was a helpless move, so he finally held back and said nothing.

Shigesho Yamamoto said: "Since you have no doubts, let's execute it."

"Hayi." Everyone said viciously.

The brigade of the Japanese army did not enter Xincheng County, and continued to advance around the county.After arriving at a gentle slope, all the materials that could not be taken away were blown up, leaving more than 300 wounded, and a wounded squadron leader was appointed to take charge of the blocking task.The remaining 2200 Japanese troops fled desperately.

(End of this chapter)