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Chapter 585 Retreat!

On the artillery position of the new regiment.

After receiving Zhang Dabiao's order, the artillerymen began to get busy in an orderly manner.

The fireworks from the muzzles of howitzers and mountain cannons flickered continuously, shells soared into the sky, arced across the sky, and then landed on the Japanese positions.

Boom boom boom...

Crowds of shells fell, and the explosive fireballs and billowing gunpowder smoke joined together and continued to rise.

Not only did they blow up the positions that had already been plowed several times to pieces, but they also blasted devils, dirt and sand into the sky.

The devils ran to the top of the mountain in panic...

Zhang Dabiao ordered 8 tanks and the 8th company to attack again. As Zhang Dabiao expected, after attacking the enemy's position this time, the devils on the reverse slope counterattacked again.

However, the 8th company that had just attacked the position immediately withdrew from the newly occupied position under the cover of tanks.

As soon as the devil emerged from the top of the mountain, he was attacked by intensive artillery fire.

But the devil is not a fool. Seeing the infantry of the Eighth Route Army retreating, he immediately returned to the reverse slope of the hillside after being shelled, leaving only a small number of infantry on the front slope.

Zhang Dabiao reported this situation to the Xinyi Regiment Headquarters by telegram.

At the same time, the 9th company was ordered to launch a feint attack on the devil's position.

……

At the Xinyi Regiment Headquarters, Li Yunlong couldn't help squinting his eyes after listening to Chief of Staff Wang Dehou read the telegram.

The three main attacking troops sent telegrams almost at the same time, but were stubbornly blocked by the devils. The devils had a large number of troops, and all the main attacking troops suffered losses when they were caught off guard.

Especially the Seventh Company of the First Battalion, no one left the battle alive.

Although the position was taken back by the devils, the Seventh Company replaced at least 160 devils with more than 400 casualties.

Of course, Li Yunlong is dissatisfied with this battle loss ratio. According to the previous battles, it is even possible to exchange 1 soldier for 5 devils.

But this time the new regiment is the attacker, and the enemy is the devils of the 10th Division, so even if they are not satisfied, they can only accept it.

"When the battle is over, we must rebuild the Seventh Company!"

"From now on, our Seventh Company will be called Steel Seventh Company!"

Li Yunlong looked solemn. Although he was not watching the battle from the front line, he could imagine how cruel the battle was.

An elite brigade of devils hid on the reverse slope and counterattacked at a company of soldiers.

No one expected that the devil would come here, mainly because the previous battle went a little smoothly.

But this can't change anything. The new regiment has four main infantry battalions plus seven divisional battalions, making a total of 110 infantry companies.

Zhao Gang nodded and said: "After this battle is over, we must publicize the fighting spirit of the Seventh Company!"

While speaking, Zhao Gang looked at Li Yunlong. Li Yunlong brought out an army of heroes who could not be defeated or dragged down.

Even in the face of an enemy several times their own, none of the soldiers of the Seventh Company flinched.

Even the commander of the seventh company used a walkie-talkie to call the battalion headquarters at the last moment, and fired at him, intending to die with the devils.

"Yeah!" Li Yunlong nodded.

The two combat staff officers marked the location where the devils concentrated their forces to block the Xinyi regiment on the map.

Deputy Head Xing looked at the map and said, "The devils of the 10th Division are in a decisive battle posture?"

Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and others also gathered together, and looked at the red and blue arrows marked on the map to indicate the table of the enemy and us.

"It should be." Zhao Gang nodded, "The devils from the 10th Division can't stop our attack just by relying on those thickened blockhouses and gun towers, and the two old devils, Moritake Tanabe and Jiro Ishikawa, are ready to fight desperately. "

"Desperate, right?" Li Yunlong snorted coldly, "I don't think the two old devils, Mori Tanabe and Erlang Ishikawa, know how many eyes Lord Ma has. Pass my order and immediately order the fourth and fifth battalions of the sub-divisions to provide reinforcements." Battalion and Second Battalion, send me to Heyuan County, capture the king first, and kill Tanabe Shengwu and Ishikawa Erlang!"

Attacking in the direction of Heyuan County was the most elite [-]st and [-]nd Battalions of the New First Regiment.

The third and fourth battalions attacked in the direction of Anhua County, and the first, second and third battalions of the division attacked in the direction of Ping'an County.

As for the devil's frontline headquarters, Boss Chen had already provided information that Tanabe Moritake and Ishikawa Erlang were in Heyuan County at this time.

and so.

Li Yunlong was ready to use his strategy and sent a reserve team to fight with the first and second battalions to Heyuan County, directly taking the frontline headquarters of the Japanese army.

The first and second battalions suffered more than a thousand casualties in the battle, but the fourth and fifth battalions of the division had not participated in the battle. At this time, the combat effectiveness was at its peak, and the combined number of the two battalions exceeded 4.

The total number of troops in the four battalions exceeds 7, and with the cooperation of tanks and artillery, it is no problem to defeat the devils in the direction of Heyuan County.

Although the other two attacking troops were just feint attacks, they still had artillery groups and tanks to cooperate with the attack, and their strength was not weak. The devils on these two routes would be under great pressure, and they would definitely not be able to spare troops to reinforce Heyuan County.

"Yes!" Wang Dehou turned around and immediately went to the high-power walkie-talkie, giving orders to the fourth and fifth battalions of the division.

The troops of the Fourth Battalion and the Fifth Battalion are on standby outside Dagu Town, ready to go to the battlefield at any time.

After Wang Dehou gave the order, Li Yunlong looked at the time, and said to Wang Dehou: "Immediately send a report to the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment, telling them to give up blocking the devils, and immediately approach my New First Regiment."

"Yes!"

Wang Dehou began to draft a telegram, and then Li Yunlong signed his name and handed it to the decoder. After the decoder translated, he handed it over to the telegraph soldier and sent the telegram immediately.

Then, Li Yunlong asked Zhao Gang again: "Old Zhao, are the folks ready to move?"

"The common people are ready!" Zhao Gang, who was in charge of organizing the transfer of the common people, nodded, "We can transfer at any time!"

This transfer was thanks to the mobilization of the militia and the local government.

The devils of the 10th Division failed to break into the base area of ​​Xinyi Regiment, which made the harvest of autumn grain successful, and the people in the base area had food to eat for the time being.

But with so much food, there is no way to take all of it away at once. Some of the food has already been dug and buried. After the devils leave, they will go back to the base to dig out the food.

In addition, all the weapons, ammunition, and food of the new regiment should be taken away, and those that cannot be taken away should be hidden in caves or buried in pits.

At present, these works have been completed.

Li Yunlong nodded: "Let the villagers prepare for the transfer at any time, and our regiment headquarters will immediately transfer to the front line."

After receiving the order, the fourth and fifth battalions of the division rushed to reinforce the first and second battalions.

Next, Chen Feng followed Li Yunlong and the others to the front line to watch the battle.

……

To the northwest of the Xinyi regiment's base, the headquarters of the independent regiment.

"Third Battalion Commander, I order you to hold on for another two hours, and retreat immediately after two hours!"

The head of the group, Kong Jie, was on the phone, looked at the watch on his hand, and then spoke loudly into the microphone.

It was two hours short of the scheduled retreat time.

The rumbling shells in the distance continued to ring like thunder, and the devil's mountain artillery unit was bombarding the position of the third battalion of the independent regiment.

The artillery battalion of the independent regiment also fought back without showing any weakness, and the two sides launched an artillery battle.

The third airdrop arrived the day before yesterday. The airdrop arranged by Boss Chen not only dropped three base ammunition, but also included canned fruit, medicine and canned meat.

It was precisely because of the three airdrops, as well as the strategies and tactics provided by Boss Chen and the reinforced concrete, that the independent regiment was able to persist for half a month under the attack of 4 devils.

After hanging up the phone, Wang Yingcai, the political commissar at the side, said with emotion: "It is a miracle that our regiment actually blocked the attack of two divisions of the Devils and thousands of puppet troops for half a month."

"I said Old Wang." Kong Jie was staring at the map, raised his head and smiled, "Why are you suddenly sentimental?"

There was a trace of fatigue on Kong Jie's brows. He hadn't slept for three days.

Wang Yingcai said: "Before the battle started, I never thought that our independent regiment would be so powerful. However, our regiment has already suffered more than half of the casualties."

Speaking of the last sentence, Political Commissar Wang couldn't help but sigh.

Before the war, the independent regiment had a total of about 1 militiamen and main forces, but now there are only more than 5000 people left.

Among them, the main force uses American-style equipment, and the militiamen use mainly Japanese-style equipment eliminated by the original main force.

The common people in the defense area of ​​the Independent Regiment went to the Yellow River Ferry to take a boat to northern Shaanxi. However, facing nearly 4 devils and puppet troops, the main force of the Independent Regiment was insufficient, so the militiamen also participated in the battle.

"Although we suffered more than half of the casualties," Kong Jie said, "but we killed more than 5000 people from the devils and the puppet army. This is a good deal."

At the end of the battle, even if the devils and puppet troops rushed to the position, the artillery of the devils would keep shelling the independent regiment's position. The battle was extremely cruel, both sides were fighting for their lives, and the independent regiment suffered a lot of casualties.

However, the advantages of anti-slope and tunnel tactics, bunker groups, and air-dropped supplies and firepower during wartime made the casualty ratio of the independent regiment to the devils and puppet troops 1:3.

The puppet army was almost wiped out as cannon fodder, and now all the attackers are devils.

"That's true!" Wang Yingcai said, "In this battle, our independent regiment is really worth it!"

"Report!" At this moment, the telegraph soldier hurried in with the telegram in his hand, and gave a military salute: "Regimental Commander, Political Commissar, Commander Li of the new regiment urgently telegraphs!"

Kong Jie quickly took the telegram and read it, and immediately laughed: "Lao Li informed us that we can retreat."

Then he said loudly: "Pass my order, the companies directly under the battalions will retreat according to the plan, and withdraw from the positions alternately under cover!"

……

Ten minutes later, the third battalion of the Independent Regiment took up position.

"Report to the battalion commander, what should I do if there are still a few boxes of big tumor grenades that I can't take away?"

A bomber reported to Wang Huaibaohui.

Boss Chen's airdrop supplies, in addition to American grenades, also have some large tumor grenades, which can be used as cluster grenades.

"Stupid?" Wang Huaibao said, "If you can't take away the grenade, just bury it, wind it up, and make dinner for the devil."

"Yes!"

The bombardier turned away and began laying booby traps.

About 10 minutes later, a squadron of devils rushed to the position of the third battalion with a [-] rifle, only to find that the Eighth Route Army had already withdrawn.

One of the devils slowly approached a bunker with a [-] rifle, and accidentally stepped on the fire rope.

A few seconds later, a series of explosions suddenly rose up, and the devils immediately lay down on the ground, and more than a dozen devils fell in a pool of blood.

At the same time, the new second regiment also received a telegram to retreat, and the head of the regiment, Ding Wei, immediately ordered a retreat and approached the new first regiment.

(End of this chapter)