Bright Sword: Develop alone, bring back an artillery regiment

Chapter 289 The remnant of the 4th Brigade was besieged and its destruction was imminent

"These are not the artillery of the little devil, nor are they the trophies we seized, but all of them are the artillery of the independent battalion, right, old Ding."

Li Yunlong didn't expect Cheng Xiazi to take a share of the spoils in his hand. Of course, Cheng Xiazi was not what he was afraid of.

What Li Yunlong was afraid of was that if Cheng Xiazi couldn't get it himself, he would bring this matter to the brigade commander, and the brigade commander would say "Li Yunlong, I congratulate you on getting rich".

That would be a bad thing.

Ding Wei and Li Yunlong's friendship has not lasted for a day or two, and he knows Li Yunlong very well, almost as long as the other party sticks his ass, he knows what shit the other party is going to shit.

Immediately he understood: "Yes, these artillery are indeed from the Independent Battalion. If the Independent Battalion had not had such a strong artillery force this time, they might not have been able to defeat the Devil's 4th Brigade."

"Old Cheng, Lao Xu, you came at the right time, let's go, let's go to the front together, and try to capture another devil major general this time!"

"Yeah, we can't let Masao Nishiyama, the old devil, run away."

Kong Jie also followed suit.

Cheng Xiazi looked at Wang Chengzhu suspiciously: "Brother Zhuzi, are these artillery really from your independent battalion?"

Wang Chengzhu nodded: "Chief Cheng, that's right. I captured these artillery pieces in the previous battle. I originally wanted to hide it from our regiment leader and not let him know, but if I don't take out these treasures at the bottom of the box today , I’m afraid we won’t even be able to keep our base.”

Cheng Xiazi really knew what kind of person Li Yunlong was. If he knew that the Independence Battalion had so many artillery pieces, he would surely come to rob him.

The artillery firepower of the Independent Battalion was very strong before, and it was completely reasonable that Wang Chengzhu seized the weapons and equipment of the Little Devil's [-]st Army at the Wanjia Town Railway Station. There were several field artillery in it.

Therefore, Cheng Xiazi believed in Wang Chengzhu's words.

Then he smiled and said, "There are four 75mm caliber field guns alone. Brother Zhuzi is really rich."

Wang Chengzhu smiled: "This is all thanks to Captain Cheng and everyone."

"By the way, Commander Ding is right, but you can't let Masao Nishiyama, an old devil, run away. This time, my independent battalion suffered thousands of casualties. This blood debt must be repaid by Masao Nishiyama with your dog's life! "

"Okay, this time we came here to reinforce your independent battalion. Since Brother Zhuzi said so, let's go to the front line to see it!"

The battle of Huluxia gave Cheng Xiazi a lot of sweetness, and it also made him understand a truth, that is, to hang out with Wang Chengzhu, there is meat to eat.

Therefore, although Cheng Xiazi did not dump Li Yunlong, he must give Wang Chengzhu face.

Xu Shengji is a kind person, so naturally he will not have any opinions.

Immediately, a group of people went straight to the direction where the Devil's 4th Brigade broke through and pursued them.

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10 kilometers north of Wangjia Village.

The Allied Forces of the Eighth Route Army pursued and fought all the way, while the Devil's 4th Brigade fled all the way.

There were firefights everywhere along the way, and devil soldiers were shot, wounded, or fell to death in order to cover the retreat of the main force.

Masao Nishiyama led the remnants and ran out for another two or three kilometers. He was about to escape, but unexpectedly, a militiaman in plain clothes suddenly appeared from the oblique side in front of him.

These militias are none other than those developed by the Independence Battalion.

When Nishiyama Masao led the remnants to break through, they also participated in the pursuit.

Then, under the leadership of Zhao Hong, the supplementary company commander of the independent battalion, they outflanked the small road, and finally rushed to the front of the devils before the remnants of the devil's 4th brigade escaped, just blocking their retreat.

In normal times, Masao Nishiyama would not have taken the poorly equipped and poorly trained Eighth Route Army militia in his eyes, even if there were thousands of people on the other side.

But today is different.

Behind them, there are tens of thousands of main forces of the Eighth Route Army chasing after them, and these militiamen became the last straw that crushed them.

Because they only need to block it a little bit, and delay until the main force of the Eighth Route Army catches up, then Masao Nishiyama will die.

Therefore, when Nishiyama Masao saw a mass of Eighth Route Army militiamen suddenly bursting out in front of him, accompanied by shocking shouts of killing.

He was suddenly struck by lightning, and he didn't even have the thought of continuing to break through.

The chief of staff Tada Ichiro next to him seemed to see Masao Nishiyama's thoughts, and immediately reminded: "Your Excellency, brigade commander, as long as you hold on for a while, when our reinforcements arrive, we will be able to break through the encirclement smoothly."

"Reinforcements? Will we have reinforcements there?"

Hearing this, Nishiyama Masao's expression became even uglier.

This time he dispatched troops to Wangjiacun, he acted without authorization, others didn't know about it, and even if they knew about it, there would be too little time.

Ichiro Tada: "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, when I transferred in, I had the communications corps send electricity to the headquarters, reported the situation here to Commander Shinozuka, and asked him to send the air force to provide us with tactical guidance. Help us break through and turn in.

Commander Shinozuka agreed at that time. "

"Calculating the time, the Royal Air Force should arrive here in a short time."

Hearing this, Nishiyama Masao's expression changed immediately, and he scolded: "Baga! Why didn't you report such an important matter to me in advance?"

Report to you in advance, can you agree?

Although he thought so in his heart, Tada Ichiro did not dare to say so, but explained: "Your Excellency, Commander of the Brigade, at that time you were directing the troops to break through the encirclement with all your heart, I dare not distract you, and reported to Commander Shinozuka on my own initiative, I also want to share your worries. I also ask your brigade commander to forgive me!"

Nishiyama Masao could see Tada Ichiro's inner thoughts at a glance. Indeed, if Tada Ichiro had reported him to him at that time, he would never have agreed to ask the headquarters for help.

Because he acted without authorization, even a small independent battalion of the Eighth Route Army could not be wiped out, and caused heavy casualties to the 4th Brigade, which was already a great shame for him.

Even if the higher-ups didn't punish him, he couldn't pass the test in his heart, so he wouldn't have the face to ask for help.

However, the matter has come to this point, Masao Nishiyama did not mean to blame Ichiro Tada.

First, he didn't want to die, and second, he didn't want the entire 4th Brigade to be wiped out here.

If this is the case, the 4th Brigade will become the first Japanese brigade-level combat unit to be wiped out by the Chinese army.

And the 4th Brigade, as well as his brigade leader, will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

Now it seems that it is undoubtedly a very wise decision for Tada Ichiro to ask for help from the headquarters on his own initiative...

(End of this chapter)