Bright Sword: Develop alone, bring back an artillery regiment

Chapter 236 Ambush the 22nd Regiment of the Japanese Army at Jiangjunling, the Captain of the Arrogant Devil Regiment

Kasahara Koizumi, the commander of the 22nd Japanese Infantry Regiment, rode on a tall brown horse. Along the way, he kept urging the troops to speed up.

When approaching Jiangjunling, a ghost second lieutenant officer suddenly ran over from the front and reported to Kasahara Koizumi: "Report to the captain, a large number of corpses of imperial soldiers were found in front, roughly estimated, at least There are hundreds of them.

Through their soldier certificates, it was discovered that they were all imperial troops from the 9th Brigade. "

Kasahara Koizumi frowned and asked, "Is there anyone alive?"

Second Lieutenant Guizi shook his head: "No!"

A combat staff officer next to him asked: "Commander, what's going on? Could it be that something happened to the 9th Brigade of the Imperial Army?"

Kasahara Koizumi raised his head and looked at the terrain in front of him, and said: "Jiangjunling has a difficult terrain and is very suitable for blocking. It must be that the 9th Brigade was blocked by the Eighth Route Army of China here.

As for the 9th Brigade, although hundreds of people were lost here, it was not an accident.

It must be that General Watanabe was furious and couldn't wait to catch up with those Chinese Eighth Route Army, so he didn't deal with the corpses of those Jade Broken Imperial Army. "

Kasahara Koizumi is worthy of being a battle-tested commander, he analyzed the general situation with just one glance.

After a pause, Kasahara Koizumi summoned the communications soldiers again and asked, "How is it? Have you been in touch with the 9th Brigade?"

"Not yet. I've been trying to contact the 9th Brigade, but I haven't been able to." A devil communicator with a radio on his back came to Kasahara Koizumi and saluted him.

"Damn it! How did this happen?" Along the way, Liyuan Koizumi only saw traces of fighting everywhere and the corpses of Japanese soldiers on the ground, but he never saw the shadow of the 9th Brigade. This made him restless and faint. Joyo had an ominous premonition.

Withdrawing his thoughts, Kasahara Koizumi asked again: "Where is Mr. Yamamoto? Where are they?"

Devil Signal Corps: "Report to the regiment leader, Yamamoto just called to say that they are on their way at full speed, and they will arrive at Jiangjunling in 10 minutes."

"Yo Xi!"

Kasahara Koizumi's gloomy face finally eased a little, and then he gave another order: "Pass my order, the troops will continue to advance, and must catch up with the 9th Brigade of the Imperial Army in the shortest possible time!"

Hearing this, the combat staff officer next to him said with some concern: "Colonel Captain, the terrain ahead is so dangerous, should we send some scouts to scout out there, otherwise, if the Eighth Route Army lays an ambush ahead, we will be in danger." gone."

Kasahara Koizumi said indifferently: "Mori-kun, your worries are completely superfluous, the Eighth Route Army of China was pursued all the way by the 9th Brigade, and their self-protection became a problem, how could there be any troops to set up an ambush here?
If there is, it must have been wiped out by the 9th Brigade long ago!
No need to waste time! "

"Hi Yi!"

The combat staff officer thought about it, so he stopped talking.

It has to be said that everything was in Kasahara Koizumi's calculations. The only thing he miscalculated was that he did not expect that after the 9th Brigade besieged in Hulu Gorge, the Independent Battalion would split up and return.

As a result, Kasahara Koizumi's 22nd Infantry Regiment was unprepared and plunged into the ambush circle set up by Wang Chengzhu and the others.

"Hit! Hit me hard!"

After Tian Shuisheng and Chen Xi saw that the 22nd Regiment of the Japanese Army had entered the ambush circle they had set up, they decisively gave the order to fire and were the first to pull the trigger.

"Crack, snap!"

The gunshot rang out, and the two devil soldiers walking in front of them immediately fell to the ground.

The sound of gunfire was an order, and the 1000 soldiers lurking on both sides of the road also pulled the trigger immediately.

All kinds of light and heavy weapons were fully fired, and a large dense rain of bullets poured out in an instant.

"Puff puff puff puff puff puff puff!—"

"Uh, uh, uh..."

Caught off guard, before the devils who were advancing at full speed could react, they screamed and fell down a large area like a knife cutting wheat.

At the same time, Wang Chengzhu and Liu Qiang also led the soldiers of the artillery company to fire.

Wang Chengzhu had already spotted the devil commander riding a tall brown horse through the binoculars, so his first shot was to go directly to Kasahara Koizumi.

After many actual battles, Wang Chengzhu can be said to be handy and proficient in the use of small-caliber artillery such as the Type [-] light mortar.

Just one shot hit the target.

Kasahara Koizumi, who was leading the team on horseback at that time, didn't even have a chance to dodge. He was hit by a shell that fell from the sky.

The corpse of a war horse weighing hundreds of catties crashed to the ground, and at the same time crushed a bannerman next to him.

Although he didn't kill him directly, he pinned the devil's flag soldier's legs, making him unable to move. While struggling, he threw the military flag out of his hand.

As soon as the military flag fell, the other devils were all in chaos.

Regrettably, Kasahara Koizumi, who was riding on horseback, was not killed by the bomb, but had a broken leg and was thrown away by the blast wave.

At this time, he was holding his injured calf and howling continuously.

"Co-captain, co-captain!"

Several devil officers next to him immediately surrounded him and called the medical soldiers to bandage his wound.

The offensive of the Independent Battalion did not stop because of Kasahara Koizumi's injury, but intensified a bit.

The soldiers of the Independent Battalion lurking in the wild grass and woods on both sides of the road kept firing and pouring bullets at the 22nd Japanese Infantry Regiment.

The artillerymen of the artillery company manipulated the grenades and mortars, fired with all their strength, and fired hot shells onto the road down the mountain.

Originally, the 22nd Regiment of the Japanese Infantry was marching forward in a neat and dense formation, so the first round of offensive by the Independent Battalion cost them hundreds of people.

Dead bodies were lying all over the place.

However, the remaining devil soldiers, under the command of some grassroots officers, immediately used the nearby bunker as a position to organize an effective counterattack.

"Tu Tu Tu!"

"Da da da!"

"Crack, clap clap clap!—"

Gunshots sounded, and dense bullets shuttled back and forth between the enemy and us, causing smoke and dust to rise from the surrounding ground, and breaking vegetation.

From time to time, a grenade fell down, causing clusters of scarlet and dazzling flames to rise on the ground.

The enemy and the enemy came and went, all concentrated their firepower to attack each other. However, because the independent battalion occupied the favorable terrain in advance, although some soldiers were hit by stray bullets from time to time, they were killed or injured.

Of course, the casualties of the 22nd Japanese Infantry Regiment were much greater.Not long after, hundreds of bloody corpses appeared near the highway below.

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(End of this chapter)