Anti-Japanese War: Starting from Yaobai

Chapter 568 Fighting at Baijia Town!

Just when the Dragon Boat Festival left Nanjing and rushed to Changzhou, the battle in Baijia Town had already started.

The two parties to the war were Li Guoqiang's Department of the 672 Regiment, the garrison of Baijia Town, and the First Infantry Battalion of the 23rd Regiment of the Japanese Army's [-]st Division.

The tactics of the little devils are always the same. With the help of superior firepower, they first gave the Chinese defenders a blow.

The east gate of Baiqi Town and the positions outside the city wall were bombed indiscriminately by the Japanese.

Some defenders panicked because of this, but since Li Guoqiang and the chief of the garrison battalion were there, no one dared to run into the city at this time.

In addition, after Li Guoqiang's arrival in the city defense of Baijia Town, the original trenches have been repaired.

The trenches were dug deep, and bullet shelters were dug, and some important facilities, including storage warehouses for weapons and ammunition, were reinforced.

But it took a lot of time, so a company of troops went to a temporary position five miles away from Baijia Town to stop the Japanese invaders.

It's just that although this garrison is very brave, its combat capability is average, and the commander did not fully follow Li Guoqiang's deployment.

They just dug temporary bunkers in order to withdraw into the city after blocking the enemy.

It's just that they underestimated the devils too much. Under the cover of the devil's artillery fire, their temporary fortifications were simply vulnerable.

Afterwards, they made the mistake of comparing marksmanship with the Japanese army before the devils entered their effective killing range.

This caused the entire company to suffer heavy casualties again.

After the little devil rushed to the position, he carried out a massacre, and all the officers and soldiers of the company died in battle.

But from the beginning to the end of the battle, the Japanese army only took an hour.

However, the little time gained allowed Li Guoqiang to reluctantly repair the fortifications of Baijia Town.

So the little devil's carpet bombing only played a deterrent effect, but the result was that it did little harm.

This also gave hope to those defensive troops.What they fear most is the fire from the little devils.The little devil's shells seemed to be endless.

But at this time the trenches were reinforced, dug deeper, and bomb shelters dug.As long as the kid's shells don't fall in the trenches, then they are safe.

So the trembling soldiers who were frightened at first summoned up their courage again, remembered Li Guoqiang's explanation, and brought the devil closer before fighting.

This is the best way to deal with devils with superb shooting skills.

Of course, if there was no Dragon Boat Festival, they would not have thought of this, and they must still be competing with the devils at a long distance.

So when the devils of the two infantry squads rushed up, they were all stupid. The Chinese army was not what they imagined, and most of them were killed.

Moreover, these Chinese soldiers were different from the past. Just when they thought that the people on the battlefield were either dead or had fled, the Chinese soldiers showed their heads one after another and shot wildly at the devils.

The bullets hit like raindrops, and the devils who were not protected by cover could only watch the bullets embedded in their bodies one by one.

The devil was stupefied all of a sudden, and thought: Are all the artillery shells from the Empire adulterated?Only fire doesn't hurt people?After a meal of cannon fire, the Chinese are more energetic than a chicken blood.

Could it be that the Chinese have developed antibodies under the bombardment of the Japanese Empire?

If the Chinese can resist shells, how can this battle be fought?
When the devils were forced, another group of devils were shot, and they went back to meet their Amaterasu god.

Fortunately, there is a bunker, and the devils in front are dead, and some of them are still screaming, so they are regarded as sandbags by their own people.

The devils lay on the ground and shot at the Chinese defenders in the fortifications. The fighting between the two sides was extremely fierce.

But there are few devils, and the defenders have a company, and the defenders on the city wall can effectively support the defenders on the ground.

The little devil's two squads soon collapsed and showed signs of retreating.

The commander of the first brigade of the 23rd Regiment of the Japanese Army, Major Gangmura, naturally couldn't watch his two squads be wiped out under the three-dimensional attack of the enemy.He ordered the artillery to continue firing, and the fierce artillery fire once again covered the defenders' positions.

But Li Guoqiang is not a vegetarian. When they were in the Jiangyin Fortress, they seized a large number of Japanese weapons, including the little devil's 70 mm caliber artillery, 80 mm caliber, and even 120 mm caliber.

Li Guoqiang brought out the mortar and confronted the little devils. The little devils who bombed were crying for their father and mother, and the corpses were scattered all over the field. They retreated 500 meters before stopping.

Old Guizigang Village is about to cry, grandma's Chinese artillery fire is too fierce, and one of his artillery squadrons is not enough for others to fight.

But how did he know that the devils who were wiped out in the Jiangyin Fortress had at least three regiments loaded with dozens of trucks of various weapons and ammunition.Including the 112th Division and 103rd Division, etc., the equipment has been replaced with Japanese-style equipment and there are still some leftovers.

Coupled with the importance of Baijia Town, Master Huo directly assigned twenty artillery pieces to the first battalion.

Under the cover of artillery fire, seven to eighty people were killed by the little devils, and seven or eight artillerymen were also killed.

Gangcun Shao Zuo had no choice but to order the troops to retreat temporarily, wait for reinforcements, and borrow more artillery fire to suppress the defenders in the city.

The third infantry brigade of the 23rd regiment of the Japanese army, one artillery brigade, and two machine gun squadrons, and the supply troops are all on their way to Baijia Town.

Previously, the Third Infantry Brigade, the First Artillery Brigade, and two machine gun squadrons were all entangled with the Chinese defenders in Womachuan, covering the first brigade, and the second brigade breaking through the blockade.

Although there were casualties during this period, the casualties of dozens of people were nothing to a company of Japanese troops.

At this time, Dabo's devils attacked Baijia Town, and I don't know if the Chinese defenders with less than 600 people can hold it.

Because at the same time, Zhou Weiguo, who rushed to help, was blocked by the Japanese army near Xiaoyangzhuang.

The devil didn't rush over as brazenly as Zhou Weiguo imagined, but saw the favorable location here when he passed Xiaoyangzhuang.

The little devil has a military map, and the devil officer has been trained by a formal military academy, so when he saw that there was an open field further ahead on the map, he ordered the troops to occupy Xiaoyangzhuang.

There are still villagers in Xiaoyangzhuang who don't know anything.Although they met the fleeing people in Baijia Town, they didn't take it seriously.After all, Baijia Town is more than ten miles away from them.And if the defenders of Baijia Town really couldn't hold it anymore, they would still have time to run.

But unexpectedly, the devil's second infantry brigade bypassed Baijia Town and directly attacked the village.

The devils in the Fifth Division are a group of inhuman beasts.

They killed everyone they saw and robbed everything they saw, and the whole village became a purgatory in just a moment.

Old people, children, and those who ran slowly, none of them escaped, and were either killed or captured by the little devils.Only a few young adults in the village ran out.

They saw the Chinese soldiers weeping uncontrollably, saying that the devils not only killed people everywhere, but also captured more than 100 girls in the village. If no one rescued them, the consequences could be imagined.
(End of this chapter)