I am God of War in Snow Leopard

Chapter 192
Liang Shan was startled when he heard the words, and immediately said to Xu Qingfeng: "Tuan Zuo, the devil is trying to escape."

Zhou Weiguo nodded approvingly and said in agreement: "That's right, the devil must have sensed the danger, and wanted to escape before we could encircle him. I have to say, he is alert enough."

Facing everyone's expectant eyes, Xu Qingfeng immediately ordered: "Send me the order, the reconnaissance company, and the cavalry company immediately harass the delayed Japanese army's breakout operation with all their strength.

The first infantry battalion was the left wing, and the second battalion was the right wing, outflanking the Japanese breakout troops.

The third and fourth battalions are responsible for supporting the reconnaissance company and the cavalry company.

The artillery battalion moved all the artillery forward, ready to support the above-mentioned troops to intercept the Japanese army at any time.

The guard company and the fifth infantry battalion served as the reserve team and were responsible for protecting the artillery battalion and the regiment headquarters. The supply battalion and the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd health teams were responsible for fully supporting the whole regiment in combat and rescuing the wounded. "

After speaking, Xu Qingfeng specifically said to Zhou Weiguo: "Weiguo, you are responsible for commanding the actions of the third and fourth battalions, and I will command the first and second battalions."

"Yes!" Everyone present responded in unison. After standing at attention and saluting Xu Qingfeng, they left two after another.

Xu Qingfeng then instructed Liu Bohui, the director of the communications department: "Send General Xu Yuanquan a power call immediately to inform him that the Japanese army is about to break out and escape. Please send troops to cooperate with us to intercept the Japanese invaders!"

"Yes!" Liu Bohui also accepted the order gladly, and immediately began directing people to send telegrams to Xu Yuanquan.

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On the Japanese side, Akira Sakamoto really decided to escape.

After our own reconnaissance scouts learned that in addition to the Chinese cavalry that attacked our artillery positions from the southwest, there were also a large number of Chinese infantry arriving in a steady stream.

Akira Sakamoto was keenly aware of the danger, and immediately and decisively gave up the attack on Hefei, ordering all troops to quickly break out to the southeast.

Of course, the devils don't call this a breakout retreat, but a turn in.

In Sakamoto's view, the defenders in Hefei City were already frightened by him and would never dare to leave the city to pursue them at this time.

As long as you lead your troops to break out in time and replenish your troops and equipment, you will be able to regroup and make a comeback.

At that time, the defenders of Hefei and the Chinese army that came with reinforcements can be wiped out in one go.

Sakamoto Akira's wishful thinking was very good. If it were not for the reinforcements from the Tiger Regiment, it would be replaced by other general reinforcements from the national army.

With only 4000 people, it is indeed impossible to intercept them.

In that case, most of the Hefei defenders led by Xu Yuanquan would not dare to leave the city easily.

At this time, there were still more than [-] troops left in Akira Sakamoto's hands.

Just in case, Akira Sakamoto left 700 people in the rear, 300 of whom were responsible for guarding the direction of Dashu Mountain and Hefei City, and the other 400 were responsible for monitoring the Huben regiment.

He himself led the remaining [-] people and quickly fled southeast of Hefei.

After receiving Xu Qingfeng's order, Wang Changgui immediately led the cavalry company and reconnaissance company to attack at the same time.

More than 300 tiger and ben regiment cavalry infantry, just rushed out not far, when they were stopped by the more than 400 devils in the rear, and a fierce exchange of fire broke out between the two sides immediately.

"Company commander, the devil's main force is about to run away."

During the fierce battle, a sharp-eyed reconnaissance platoon leader spotted the main force of the devils retreating rapidly in the distance, and immediately reported to Wang Changgui who was directing the battle.

Hearing this, Wang Changgui hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked towards the southeast. Sure enough, he saw a large number of devils' main force and supply troops, quickly withdrawing from the battlefield.

So, he immediately ordered: "The reconnaissance company continues to maintain a frontal attack, and the cavalry company quickly leaves the battle. Follow me around the battlefield, chase the main force of the Japanese army, and contain the devils, and we must not let them escape."

Under his order and command, nearly two hundred officers and soldiers of the cavalry company quickly broke away from the battle, followed him around the battlefield, and pursued the main force of the Japanese army.

Because of the lack of troops and incomplete organizational system, Sakamoto Akira's Department was not equipped with organized cavalry. At best, there were only some officers and necessary signal soldiers and scouts on horseback.

Most of it is on foot, with a few cars and motorbikes.

In this case, their escape speed is naturally far inferior to that of the tiger and ben regiment cavalry who are all riding horses.

In less than 5 minutes, Wang Changgui's cavalry company caught up with them, but did not directly charge the more than 2000 Japanese troops.

Instead, they mounted their horses behind and on the flanks of the Japanese, galloping back and forth and shooting with guns, constantly harassing them and slowing down their retreat.

Akira Sakamoto was furious when he saw this, but he didn't dare to divide his troops to stop it, because now he was in the open field, without strong fortifications, and with fewer troops, it was not enough to resist the cavalry of the Huben regiment.

On the contrary, it may be crushed by the cavalry, which will lead to the defeat of the whole army.

However, they were unable to move forward in the face of constant harassment and firing from the Huben regiment's cavalry.

In desperation, he had no choice but to order all the cars, motorcycles and carts in the army to stop.

Let the infantry under him, relying on these vehicles and supplies as a cover, to fire back at the Huben regiment cavalry.

An adjutant ran over and suggested to him: "General, it seems that the Chinese army has seen through our intentions. This is not the way to go."

"Do you have any suggestions?" Akira Sakamoto hid behind a military truck and asked while holding up a telescope to observe the battle.

"Since it is impossible to continue to advance, I suggest that you immediately turn to defense, build fortifications on the spot, and wait for reinforcements."

Akira Sakamoto frowned when he heard this, looked around, and said, "Then you can't build fortifications here. The terrain here is too flat, which is not conducive to defense. You must find a commanding height."

As he spoke, he held up the binoculars and looked around.

Soon, he saw a small mound about a thousand meters away behind him.

Unable to move in his heart, he pointed to the mound and ordered: "Order the squadrons to alternately cover and retreat to that side, occupy that high ground, and dig trenches for emergency repairs.

Then order the rear troops to continue to block the pursuit of other Chinese troops, and no retreat is allowed without orders! "

"Hai!" The adjutant and several entourage following him responded in unison and quickly conveyed the order.

More than 2000 Japanese troops, relying on military trucks, motorcycles and other heavy vehicles, retreated towards the mound while fighting.

Seeing this, Wang Changgui quickly commanded the cavalry to launch a pursuit, but because the Japanese army retreated without chaos, they still could not take much advantage.

Thinking of the task Xu Qingfeng entrusted to him, it was to hold back the Japanese army, as long as the devils did not escape.

Nor would he rush up to the main force of the hard steel devils with precious cavalry.

They just wanted to harass and contain the Japanese as much as possible, and not give them a chance to calmly move to the mound.

At the same time, in Hefei City, various garrison units had received news of the Tiger Regiment.

Under the orders of Xu Yuanquan and others, they rushed out from the south and east of the city respectively, and began to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army outside the city.

Among them, the south gate was the main counterattack direction, but the troops at the south gate were blocked and intercepted by the more than 300 devils not long after they left the city.

Many soldiers of the national army who charged forward were unfortunately shot and fell into a pool of blood one after another.

Lin Baoguo and others on the Dashu Mountain also received the order to take the initiative to attack, and almost at the same time led the more than 300 remnants on the position, shouting in unison and rushing down.

On the Huben Regiment's side, the infantry third battalion and similar battalion led by Zhou Weiguo, Fang Shengli and Lei Xiong had already rushed to the front and successfully joined the reconnaissance company.

The reconnaissance company, which was originally at a disadvantage in terms of strength, quickly turned from inferior to superior after receiving reinforcements from the thousand main forces.

Zhou Weiguo took over the command of the troops without hesitation and said to Lei Xiong: "Old Lei, you lead the fourth battalion to coordinate the reconnaissance company for a frontal attack. The three battalions of Shengli and I will outflank the Japanese invaders. Let's work together to eat the enemy in front. Devil rear troops!"

Lei Xiong nodded happily: "Yes!"

The few people didn't talk nonsense, and quickly split up and started their actions.

Lei Xiong commanded the Fourth Battalion and the Reconnaissance Company to attack and contain more than 400 devils in the rear.

Zhou Weiguo and Fang Shengli each led half the troops of the third battalion, and the troops were divided into two groups to outflank the devils.

If it were another commander of the national army, it would be difficult to make such a decisive deployment of dividing troops to outflank the attack in such a short period of time.

However, Zhou Weiguo was born in Huangpu and studied at the Berlin Military Academy for three years. He went through the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, and fought numerous bloody battles along the way.

Not only is he rich in combat experience, but he has also learned Xu Qingfeng's military command style from a first-hand perspective. He is better than other junior officers in the national army at the same time, who is better at dividing his troops and attacking, and is also better at seizing fighter opportunities.

The troops of more than 400 devils in front of the rear were commanded by a Japanese army major.

He couldn't help but be shocked when he saw that the Huben regiment began to divide its troops to outflank him.

We had to quickly divide our forces to resist in order to protect the flanks of our blocking position.

Zhou Weiguo and Fang Shengli commanded the troops to attack fiercely, and launched a fierce exchange of fire with the Japanese invaders, causing many casualties on both sides.

Especially on the Huben Regiment, many of them are recruits who have just joined the army for less than two months, although there are veterans with them.

However, after all, the battlefield experience is insufficient.

Therefore, even if the troops were half as strong as the Japanese, they were unable to make breakthrough progress in their eagerness, and the battle between the two sides fell into a stalemate.

After Xu Qingfeng led the first and second battalions of the main force to bypass the battlefield here, they found that the main force of the Japanese had been harassed and restrained by their own cavalry troops and stopped. After they did not continue to escape, they no longer rushed to attack the main force of the Japanese.

Instead, he boarded a commanding height and observed the entire battlefield with a telescope.

Soon, he discovered that the devil had two rear troops, which were actually entangled by the Huben regiment and the Hefei defenders respectively, unable to escape.

Based on the principle of eliminating as many effective forces of the Japanese army as possible and weakening the strength of this Japanese army.

Xu Qingfeng immediately ordered: "Order the first battalion and the second battalion of the infantry to stop moving southeast.

Then he turned around and headed southwest outside Hefei City, where he was surrounded by two groups of Japanese troops at the foot of Dashu Mountain.

Cooperate with our third battalion, fourth battalion, reconnaissance company, and the Dashushan and Hefei defenders to encircle and completely annihilate the two Japanese rear troops.

The artillery battalion opened fire immediately, bombarding the Japanese blocking positions to support the operations of the battalions and companies. "

Several messengers who followed him rushed away quickly, conveying the order to Sun Kui, the commander of the first battalion, and Zhang Zhijian, the commander of the second battalion.

After the two received the order, they did not hesitate at all.

Resolutely stopped advancing towards the cavalry company, turned around and moved quickly towards the junction of the two rear troops of the devil.

In order to better coordinate and command the overall situation, and to prevent accidents, Xu Qingfeng did not charge with the team this time, but stayed on the commanding heights under his feet, holding up his binoculars to observe the changes in the entire battlefield.

After Lin Baoguo led more than 300 remnant soldiers from the Dashu Mountain position, the first thing he saw was the counterattack troops in the city blocked by the Japanese army and the reinforcement troops of the Huben Regiment.

At this moment, he didn't know that this reinforcement force was the old force developed from his ninth company.

Moreover, when they saw the Huben regiment, they had already begun to divide their troops to outflank the Japanese flank.

He judged that the devils here, the Huben group can handle it by themselves.

Then he led his men to attack the flanks of the other [-] Japanese troops at the rear, hoping to coordinate the defenders in Hefei City.

It's just that just halfway through the rush, they encountered the second battalion of the Huben regiment led by Zhang Zhijian.

"Brother, which part is yours?" Lin Baoguo looked at the reinforcements and asked in a very friendly voice.

"We belong to the Huben Regiment!" Someone from the Second Battalion replied casually, and Lin Baoguo felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

Although he left the Ninth Company after being injured on the front line of Liu Gongmiao.

But I have always heard about Huben Tuan and Xu Qingfeng, as well as their subsequent deeds.

Naturally, we know that the Huben Regiment is the original Ninth Company.

He always thought that the Huben Regiment followed Xu Qingfeng and died in Nanjing.

Didn't expect to meet the Huben Group here?

So he was stunned for a long time, only to be brought back to reality by the screams of the subordinates around him.

Just as I was about to ask again, the platoon leader of the Huben Regiment who had just answered his question had disappeared, disappearing into the crowd that was charging forward.

Without asking further questions, Lin Baoguo had no choice but to lead the more than 300 remnants under his command to join the roundabout attack on the [-] devils blocking troops.

On Zhou Weiguo's side, just when he was a little upset because of the setback in his attack, the whistling sound of artillery shells suddenly came.

Shells suddenly fell from the sky one after another, and ruthlessly bombarded the heads of the blocking troops behind the Japanese army in front.

With the fire support of the Artillery Battalion, the officers and soldiers of the Third Battalion, Fourth Battalion, and the reconnaissance company, who were blocked by the devil's firepower, all ushered in a precious respite. ,

They quickly adjusted their fighting positions, changed magazines, and replenished ammunition.

After the artillery battalion's artillery fire ended, they immediately took the opportunity to launch a new round of fierce attacks on the Japanese army at the same time.

More than 400 devils, under the siege of the third and fourth battalions and the reconnaissance company of the Huben regiment, suffered a lot of losses.

He was suddenly bombarded by more than a dozen artillery pieces from the Artillery Battalion of the Huben Regiment, causing heavy casualties and morale plummeted.

Before the smoke from the explosion dissipated, an overwhelming number of officers and soldiers from the Huben Regiment could be heard shouting for kill.

Before the remaining Japs could react, the officers and soldiers of Huben's Third Battalion, Fourth Battalion, and Reconnaissance Company rushed into their positions like a tide.

First there was a volley of fire, killing and wounding a large number of Japanese soldiers.

A group of backbone veterans, led by Zhou Weiguo, Fang Shengli, Lei Xiong and others, quickly broke into the depths of the Japanese army's position and fought fiercely with the remaining hundreds of devils.

　I'm not in a good state today, I couldn't write [-], and I owe [-], I will make it up as soon as possible in the next few days, sorry.

　　
　
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