Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 377 Winning the Xinzhuang Stronghold
The place where the 28th regiment fought with the vanguard of the Japanese army.

Compared with the tragic battle situation of the Xinyi Regiment, the situation facing the 28th Regiment at this time is slightly "peaceful".

When the Japanese army advanced, the 28th regiment retreated. Under the pull of both sides, the battlefield extended from Lucheng to Licheng.

Ding Wei was not in a hurry to use troops at this time, neither did the Japanese army break through the defense line of the 28th regiment, nor did it make the Japanese army feel that the Eighth Route soldiers on the opposite side were too powerful and invincible.

If we analyze carefully, the vanguard of the Japanese army originally had an infantry brigade and a mountain artillery brigade. At this time, except for the mountain artillery brigade, there were no casualties. , The subsequent 28 regiments fought and eliminated, losing at least one third.

The commander of the Japanese army was so ruthless that his teeth itch. He only felt that the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side was slippery, but he had no choice but to urge his soldiers to continue to come forward and invite battle.

28 Regiment Headquarters.

"Old Ding, the military headquarters has sent an urgent telegram!" The political commissar of the 287 regiment handed over a telegram to Ying.

Ding Wei glanced at it quickly, and then said: "The bait in Weizi Town has been bitten to death, and the fishing net is about to be laid down, just waiting for the order to counterattack!"

"This battle has been a bit frustrating for the past few days. Originally, with the joint efforts of our 28th Regiment and Xinyi Regiment, we could easily take down the current Japanese army, but it dragged on for several days!" Xiang Ying shook his head. Shake your head.

"Hey, you can't take care of your eyes when fighting. Zhou Weihan played a big game of chess. Since nearly 5000 little devils came out of Changzhi, he never planned to let the little devils go back!"

"According to the current situation, if the little devils fighting with the new group are held back, the next step is to eliminate them logically, and I always feel that Zhou Weihan will not give up so easily!" Ding Wei said in a godlike voice.

"Is there any other big move?" Xiang Ying asked.

"It's hard to say, forget it, let's do the things in front of us first. The first battalion probably has penetrated behind the Japanese army at this time, and ordered the third battalion to be ready to attack at any time!" Ding Wei ordered.

Micro town.

At this time, Luo Benzhong had already retreated with the guard company, and the second and third battalions deployed in the town successively abandoned the first position and concentrated their forces on the second and third positions.

"Damn it, Zhou Weihan's side is finally going to complete the encirclement. To be honest, I'm afraid that the soldiers will not be able to withstand the bombardment of the little devils in the sky and on the ground!" , Li Yunlong is not as big as before.

"Position defensive warfare is not much smaller than ambushes and guerrilla warfare after all. I would rather face the siege of little devils and fight a breakout battle than ambushes like a living target on the battlefield!"

The words are divided into two ends, Xinzhuang stronghold.

Near noon, the first battalion led by Wang Yigong had secretly assembled outside the Xinzhuang stronghold.

The three strongholds of the Wolf's Nest, Gujia Village, and Damiao that the First Battalion attacked were the farthest from the handover, in other words, the closest to the Xinzhuang stronghold.

Through the radio carried by the first battalion, Wang Yigong had already learned that Zhou Weihan had issued an order to attack the Xinzhuang stronghold as soon as possible.

"The Japanese and puppet troops in the Xinzhuang stronghold have obviously got the news, and they have begun to guard against death!" Ge Shifenghui, the instructor of the first battalion, reported.

Wang Yigong put out the cigarette butt in his hand, and then said: "I can't wait any longer. The Xinzhuang stronghold is so big. The troops have come, and the offensive formation can't be used. Now there are three artillery pieces. It is not a problem to take down the Xinzhuang stronghold. Order Troops attack immediately!"

As soon as the order was issued, more than [-] soldiers from the first battalion appeared in the southeast and northeast directions of the Xinzhuang stronghold. Wang Yigong deliberately arranged not to surround the stronghold, leaving a way for the defenders in the stronghold to escape.

Xinzhuang stronghold is guarded on the highway from Pingshun to Lucheng. It is a large stronghold with three cannon towers inside, surrounded by walls, several blockhouses built outside the walls, and surrounded by ditches and barbed wire.

Seeing the figure of the Eighth Route Army appearing outside the stronghold, the observation post on the top of the three-story gun tower immediately fired warning shots.

The offensive process is still the old routine. The two anti-war artillery and the two [-]-type infantry artillery are all concentrated in the southeast and northeast junctions.

"Adjust the elements!"

"Good shot!"

"Four cannons are good!"

"Tom tom tom tom!" The four shells were aimed at the two gun towers respectively. After many battles, the artillery of each regiment had grown tremendously.

The blockhouses on the periphery of the stronghold seemed to be living targets. One blockhouse was blown down, and most of the other blockhouse was blown up.

The Japanese and puppet troops in the gun tower now knew how powerful the Eighth Route Army was, so they simply slipped out of the gun tower one after another, and used the wall as a cover to fight back.

Wang Yigong was not surprised by the reaction of the Japanese puppet army in the stronghold, otherwise he would not have aimed the artillery at the gun tower at the first time, in order to surprise and wipe out part of the active force of the Japanese puppet army first.

Immediately, under the cover of artillery fire from mortars and Type [-] infantry artillery, all commanders and fighters of the first battalion charged.

There was no shelter outside the Xinzhuang stronghold, and when they charged to about [-] meters, the enemies inside the stronghold began to counterattack sporadically.

The heavy machine gun company fighting with the same battalion built machine gun positions from the southeast and northeast directions.

I saw stacks of sandbags filled with soil being piled up, and then the heavy machine gun was set up, and the muzzle of the gun went straight to the Japanese and puppet troops on the wall.

Nine heavy machine guns fired at the same time, and the firepower of the defenders in the stronghold was completely suppressed. At the same time, 50 mortar grenades continued to explode around the enemy.

Facing the fierce offensive of the Eighth Route Army, the puppet troops in the stronghold had the idea of ​​fleeing when they saw the artillery in the hands of the Fourth Regiment, but they dared not carry it out due to the deterrence of the little devils.

The situation now is different from before. The dozen or so little devils in the stronghold actively fought back, and immediately became the target of 50 mortars. After some firepower output, most of them were killed.

Several puppet soldiers around looked at each other in unison, and ran to the west, one with two, two with three, all of a sudden caused a chain reaction.

As soon as the soldiers of the first battalion rushed more than a hundred meters away from the wall, several openings appeared in the defense line of the Xinzhuang stronghold, which tended to expand.

"Come on, comrades, take down the Xinzhuang stronghold!" The one who took the lead in the charge was Ge Shifeng, the instructor of the first battalion.

It only took about half an hour for the first battalion to occupy the Xinzhuang stronghold, but most of the puppet troops in the stronghold escaped.

"Ge Shifeng!"

"To!"

"I will leave the third company to you. You must guard the Xinzhuang stronghold to meet the arrival of the second and third battalions! When the time comes, let the third battalion stay at the Xinzhuang stronghold, and the rest of the troops will rush to the opposite Hanchang Highway to meet up! "Wang Yigong shouted loudly.

"Yes!"

"The rest, follow me!"

Afterwards, Wang Yigong took two infantry companies and a heavy machine gun company and marched along the road, aiming at the Han-Chang Road in the west.

(End of this chapter)