Anti-Japanese War: Starting from Yaobai

Chapter 565 The Japanese know a hammer!
The 23rd Regiment of the Japanese Army has three infantry brigades, four machine gun squadrons, a supply brigade, a communication squadron, an artillery brigade, and two guard squadrons, with a total of more than 200 people.

At this time, a brigade of the 23rd regiment had already conquered the outer defense line of Baijia Town, and the second brigade was ordered to bypass Baijia Town to surprise the Chinese reinforcements.The Third Infantry Battalion was still entangled with the defenders near Womachuan.

Under the cover of two machine gun squadrons and an artillery squadron, the third battalion of the 23rd Regiment of the Japanese Army covered the Japanese army's supply brigade, and the regiment headquarters quickly passed through the Womachuan defense line.

They have only one purpose, to quickly occupy Baijia Town, and use this as a basis to cut off the retreat of the Changzhou defenders.

And in this way, the Japanese army can at least consume the strength of two Chinese divisions.

Therefore, the 23rd Regiment of the Japanese Army attacked very fiercely. Although the defenders of Womachuan tried their best to block it, the Japanese army bypassed the mountain pass in the southeast and rushed towards Baijia Town.

The garrison of Womachuan hastily sent an electric signal to Changzhou to explain the situation, and requested reinforcements, because the garrison of Womachuan had only two regiments in strength, but they were suffering from two regiments in front of the Japanese army, including at least one The heavy attack of the Artillery Battalion.

But Master Huo didn't have so many reinforcements for them. The 112th Division suffered a lot of losses when they were in the Jiangyin Fortress. Nearly one-third of the soldiers died in the Jiangyin Fortress.At this time, the city, including the 103rd Division, was simply less than three regiments in strength.Coupled with the local troops, there are no four regiments at all.

Moreover, with less than four regiments of troops, they are also responsible for the defense of the four gates of Baijia Town and the evacuation of the people in the city.

But in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Master Huo had to send his guard company to the Womachuan position to support, and it could also play the role of supervising the battle.

Now that the battle has reached this level, there can no longer be any mistakes, otherwise, if the Womachuan position breaks down, it will directly affect the morale of the defenders in Changzhou City.

Of course, whether Changzhou can hold it depends on whether Baijia Town can hold it in the end.

The first battalion of the 23rd regiment of the Japanese army was approaching the city, and the second battalion was going around from the left wing of Baijia Town to stop Zhou Weiguo's troops.

The Chinese defenders on the city wall saw the Japanese troops not far away going around, so they reported this strange phenomenon to Li Guoqiang, the commander of the 112st Battalion of the 672nd Regiment of the [-]th Division.

Li Guoqiang's first reaction was that these Japanese troops were heading for reinforcements. If the enemy seized the favorable commanding heights, the consequences would be unimaginable.

But at this time, the little devil also made a fatal mistake. First, the little devil didn't pay attention to the Chinese soldiers. Second, the mission was issued too suddenly, and they marched so quickly that they couldn't take concealment into consideration.Because according to intelligence, the enemy's reinforcements are less than two hours away from Baijia Town.

As for the second brigade of the Japanese army, they had just arrived in the direction of Baijia Town.Therefore, these Japanese troops were also eager to march before they were observed by the Chinese defenders on the city wall.

So an ambush turned into an encounter.

Li Guoqiang sent a telegram to Zhou Weiguo, and Zhou Weiguo read the telegram and knew that the Japanese had deciphered the Chinese secret code.

Zhou Weiguo ordered the troops to stop, and then said to his guard Xu Hu: "Go to Changzhou immediately and tell Master Huo that our secret code has been deciphered by the devil."

Xu Hu was puzzled and said: "Tuan Zuo, how do you know?"

Zhou Weiguo smiled and said: "Isn't that obvious? Before we arrived at Baijia Town, the devils already knew we had arrived. Almost no one in our army knew that we were going to support Baijia Town, so there were only One possibility is that our secret code was deciphered by devils."

Xu Hu laughed and said: "Then I can send someone to go, there is no need for me to go in person, right?"

Zhou Weiguo took his glove and slapped Xu Hu on the neck, and cursed: "Go as soon as I let you go, how can there be so much nonsense? You bring a few more people, do you think this is still Nanjing? This is the line of fire, and there are enemies." It’s not surprising at all to infiltrate.”

"Oh, oh!"

Xu Hu responded, then grabbed two guards at random and drove away in a military jeep.

But at this time, Zhou Weiguo looked at the terrain in front of him and smiled. Grandma's flat terrain doesn't even have a commanding height.

But just a mile straight ahead, there was a ridge of soil, which seemed to be a trench left over from a long-ago battle.Zhou Weiguo thought he could take advantage of it.

He said to a guard: "Go and call Battalion Commander Sun of the Independence Regiment."

"Yes!"

The guards led the order, and at this time Zhou Weiguo also called the other two battalion commanders of his [-] regiment.

So Zhou Weiguo's loyalty was very effective, Master Wang increased him from one battalion to two battalions.But it is still a battalion.

Zhou Weiguo ordered the first battalion to immediately take weapons and equipment to occupy the front position, and wait there for the devils to come to the door by themselves.

The other battalion stayed in place to protect the armaments and supplies.

At this moment, Sun Shiyu, Zhu Shengzhong, and Lao snort also came.Zhou Weiguo and the three said: "You need to ambush the devils' flanks. When the first battalion attracts the devils' attention, you come out from his flanks, and we will attack and eat the devils twice."

Looking at the position set up by Zhou Weiguo in the distance, Old Sno asked, "Commander Zhou, there are open fields all around, how can we hide from the devils?"

Zhou Weiguo smiled: "Think about it yourself, don't you think you won't fight if you leave your group seat?"

"How do you speak?"

Zhu Shengzhong was a little angry when he was the first one.

Sun Shiyu quickly stopped him and said: "Pay attention to discipline, we are now under the command of Commander Zhou."

After stopping Zhu Shengzhong, Sun Shiyu said to Zhou Weiguo: "Commander Zhou, we will obey the order, but we need time to prepare."

Zhou Weiguo said: "Hurry up, I'll give you 15 minutes, because the devils may be here soon."

"Yes!"

Sun Shiyu responded, and then walked back with Zhu Shengzhong and Lao snoring, preparing to lead the team to ambush.

Zhu Shengzhong said unhappily: "What kind of battle is he fighting? Let us fight out from the flank, and the flank will be flat. Unless the devil is blind, how can we hide?"

The old snore also echoed: "Old Zhu is right, this Ma Pingchuan, where can we hide? And there is not even taller grass?"

At this time, Sun Shiyu smiled and said: "Don't worry, I just came up with a solution. First, we can ambush a little farther away. Second, although there are not many grasses in this place, when I came here, I saw There is a meadow about two miles behind us, let's go and pull out the grass there, and create an artificial grassland on the right flank of the position."

The old snorer said with a smile: "Can this work? The little devil can tell if he can't see it? Can the grass in the meadow be the same as the grass on the flat ground?"

Sun Shiyu said: "The little devil is from another place, he knows a hammer? Does he know where the grass grows?"

(End of this chapter)