I am God of War in Snow Leopard

Chapter 193 Divide and Annihilate
The Huben regiment does have a lot of recruits, and lacks sufficient training for hand-to-hand combat.

But Zhou Weiguo, Fang Shengli, Lei Xiong and other veterans were also there. The third battalion, the fourth battalion and the reconnaissance company combined had hundreds of veterans alone.

These hundreds of people are all veterans who survived the bloody battles in the Nanjing Defense War, and some of them are even absolute elites who broke out from the Songhu Battle.

These people are no weaker than the Japanese army in terms of shooting or hand-to-hand combat.

In order to prevent the new recruits from suffering a disadvantage in the upcoming hand-to-hand combat.

Zhou Weiguo, Fang Shengli, Lei Xiong and others each led thirty or forty such cadres of veterans and rushed to the front.

With them at the front, the remaining recruits only need to follow up and support from the side, so the danger is much less.

On the Japanese position, there were more than 400 Japanese troops in the rear, but at this time there were only less than a hundred people left.

The number of veterans in the third battalion, fourth battalion and reconnaissance company alone can rival that.

Not to mention, the Huben Regiment also has Zhou Weiguo, a master of swordsmanship, and an absolute superior force of thousands of people.

Therefore, as soon as the hand-to-hand combat began, the Japanese were at a disadvantage.

And the most terrible thing is that the 1st Infantry Battalion led by Sun Kui also outflanked the Japanese from behind.

They immediately joined the battle, and the Japs, who numbered less than a hundred people, were immediately surrounded by the Tiger and Ben regiments.

After a short meeting, they were completely suppressed by troops led by Zhou Weiguo, Sun Kui, Fang Shengli, etc. It was only a matter of time before they were completely wiped out.

On the hillside at the commanding heights not far behind, Xu Qingfeng saw that the overall situation on Zhou Weiguo's side had been decided.

Immediately put down the binoculars, turned to the guard company commander Chen Qifeng who was standing behind him and ordered: "Send someone to notify the artillery battalion immediately, turn the muzzle to bombard the other Japanese rear troops, and support the second battalion and the Hefei defenders to wipe out the enemy!"

"Yes!" Chen Qifeng responded, and immediately sent a subordinate to the artillery battalion's position to deliver the order.

After receiving the order, the artillery battalion quickly adjusted its muzzle and launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the [-] Japanese rear rear troop positions that had been surrounded by the Second Battalion of the Huben Regiment, Lin Baoguo's headquarters, and the main force of the Hefei defenders.

With the support of artillery fire, the machine gun positions that the devils depended on were destroyed one after another, and the soldiers were also killed and injured by the bombing.

After the artillery fire stopped, Zhang Zhijian, Lin Baoguo's troops, and the main force of the Hefei defenders launched a full-scale attack at the same time.

Almost at the same time as Zhou Weiguo and others, they eliminated the remaining enemies.

At this point, more than 700 Japanese rear troops were divided, surrounded and annihilated by the Huben regiment and the Hefei defenders in the southwest area of ​​the city.

As soon as the battle here ended, Xu Qingfeng didn't care to meet the commander of the Hefei garrison, and immediately ordered the fifth battalion and the supply battalion, which were understrength, to come forward to clean up the battlefield.

The [-]st, [-]nd, [-]rd, [-]th battalions, reconnaissance companies, and artillery battalions all shifted eastward to support the cavalry companies that were still harassing the main Japanese army.

At this time, due to the constant harassment by the cavalry company, the main force of the Japanese army led by Akira Sakamoto had just moved and retreated to the mound 1000 meters away, and had not had time to build fortifications.

As soon as Akira Sakamoto retreated behind a big tree on the mound, an accompanying adjutant ran over panting to report: "General, it's not good, the entire army in the rear was wiped out."

"Nani?" Sakamoto Akira was shocked when he heard this. He quickly stood up and looked at the battlefield southwest of Hefei City with his binoculars.

Sure enough, I found that the gunfire and explosions over there had stopped.

As he shifted the viewing angle of the binoculars, he saw groups of national army soldiers with guns and live ammunition running towards them separately.

"General, the enemy's main force is coming. I'm afraid we won't have time to rush to repair the defensive positions." The adjutant, who was also observing the battle situation, said with fear.

Akira Sakamoto rolled his eyes and immediately ordered: "Order the 2nd Brigade to put all the vehicles together and rely on them to build a simple defense line to block the China Army's attack.

Other troops quickly dug trenches and built fortifications.

Also, has the request for assistance telegram to the headquarters been sent out? "

"I sent it out half an hour ago, but I haven't received a call back yet," the adjutant replied with a panicked look on his face.

"Baga!" Sakamoto Akira was furious and immediately ordered: "If we do it again, tell the headquarters that we have been heavily surrounded by Chinese reinforcements in Hefei and request emergency reinforcements!"

Before the adjutant had time to take the order to leave, a Japanese communications lieutenant hurried over.

Salute to Akira Sakamoto and report: "General, there is an urgent call from the Central China Headquarters. The aviation force has taken off, and the reinforcements of the two field wings have also set off separately.

Your Majesty the Commander ordered us to stand firm and wait for reinforcements. "

Sakamoto Akira felt relieved and ordered the communications lieutenant: "Call back to the headquarters immediately and inform us of our current situation.

Please ask the commander to urge reinforcements, saying that we have a large number of Chinese reinforcements outside.

The Sakamoto detachment will hold on with all its strength to attract and contain the main force of the China Army.

I hope that the reinforcements will come as soon as possible, and we will cooperate with us inside and outside, and attack from inside and outside, trying to wipe out all the main forces of the Chinese army in the Hefei area, so as to open up an offensive channel that goes northward in a detour. "

"Hai!" The communications lieutenant bowed his head suddenly and hurriedly took the order.

Under the leadership of Xu Qingfeng, Zhou Weiguo, Liang Shan and others, the main forces of the Huben Regiment quickly surrounded them.

Thousands of Hefei main forces including Lin Baoguo's troops rushed over together.

Together, the total strength of several troops has exceeded tens of thousands, and it has a five-fold strength advantage over the Japanese troops in the encirclement.

And just wiped out two Japanese rear troops, at this moment the morale of all the Hefei defenders is in a state of high.

In this case, Xu Qingfeng had not yet given the order to attack.

More than 3000 defenders who surrounded Hefei's east gate, under the command of two regiment commanders, took the lead in launching an attack from the northeast and due east of the Tuqiu Highlands without authorization.

However, the Sakamoto detachment was still struggling. Relying on military trucks, motorcycles and other heavy vehicles, as well as natural bunkers such as woods around the mounds, it broke out a combat effectiveness that far exceeded usual.

More than 3000 people stormed for more than an hour, but failed to break through the temporary defense line of the Japanese army, and instead paid a lot of casualties.

In order to cope with the attack of more than 3000 detour troops, thousands of other national troops also successively launched attacks from the northwest and due west.

But the result was the same as that of the national army on the opposite side. Due to the lack of heavy weapons for attacking fortresses and the lack of unified command and dispatch, the coordination between the various units was very poor.

All attacks failed without exception, resulting in considerable casualties.

Only the Huben Regiment, under Xu Qingfeng's order during their attack, was busy digging blockade ditches and building blockade positions around the mounds where the Japanese retreated.

"Tuan Zuo, the Hefei defenders have all failed in their attacks. Shouldn't it be time for us to join the Huben regiment?"

Next to a military truck that was abandoned by the Japanese army because it was destroyed, Chief of Staff Liang Shan walked quickly and reported to Xu Qingfeng who was observing the battle with a telescope.

He didn't understand why Xu Qingfeng didn't put the Huben regiment into battle at the same time as other national troops launched their attack.

In his opinion, as long as the well-equipped Tiger and Ben regiments go into battle, they will be able to cooperate with other national army troops to break through the Japanese army's temporary defense line and completely annihilate the more than 2000 Japanese in the south of Hefei City.

But Xu Qingfeng did not do this, but chose to let the battalions of the Huben regiment stay, dig trenches around the various ministries of the national army, and build defensive blockade positions.

Facing Liangshan's request, Xu Qingfeng slowly put down his telescope, turned around and said, "No, all battalions of the Huben Regiment are not allowed to attack without permission. Continue to dig fortifications and complete the blockade position as soon as possible."

After saying that, he said to Zhou Weiguo: "Weiguo, on my behalf, go to the friendly forces headquarters and meet General Xu Yuanquan.

Tell him and ask him to order the battalions and companies outside the city not to attack rashly again.

Together with our Huben Regiment, rush to repair the defensive blockade positions, and first completely surround the devils. "

Zhou Weiguo had already guessed Xu Qingfeng's intentions, so he didn't say much, but nodded and led Xu Hu and a squad of guards across the smoky battlefield to the city.

After Zhou Weiguo and Xu Hu left, Liang Shan still couldn't hold back the confusion in his heart and asked Xu Qingfeng: "Regiment leader, I don't understand, why do you not let the attacker go and instead turn to the defensive?"

Xu Qingfeng glanced at him and said, "Chief of Staff, have you forgotten our previous plan?"

Liang Shan said: "The group is talking about encircling the point to call for reinforcements?"

"That's right." Xu Qingfeng nodded.

"However, now we have wiped out hundreds of these devils, their vitality has been severely injured, and they have been besieged by us on this nameless mound.

If our Huben regiment had also participated in the battle just now and attacked together with the friendly forces, we might have had a chance to annihilate this Japanese army. "

Liangshan Road.

Xu Qingfeng pointed to the temporary defense line built by the Japs with baggage vehicles under the mound, and said: "You see, although the Japs retreated here in defeat, they retreated without chaos and still retain their strength.

More than 2000 Japanese troops are stubbornly resisting. If we attack forcefully, even if we can annihilate them all, we will inevitably pay a huge price.

This is not a good choice for the Huben group we have just expanded. "

Xu Qingfeng paused and continued: "Our recruits need to be tempered in actual combat, but this kind of large-scale offensive and hand-to-hand combat is the most difficult way to fight and causes the greatest casualties.

I will never do it unless absolutely necessary.

Secondly, although the [-] friendly troops in Hefei City have a lot of troops, most of them are miscellaneous and lack the ability to attack fortifications.

Once a general offensive is launched, it will be our Tiger Regiment that will take the lead. Even if we can annihilate [-] Japanese troops by then.

We have [-] new recruits in the Huben Regiment, how many are left?
Therefore, the most suitable training method for our Tiger and Ben regiment at the moment is to encircle the point and call for reinforcements. "

Liang Shan nodded slightly, and said again: "But..."

Before he could finish his words, Xu Qingfeng raised his hand to interrupt and continued: "The above are tactical considerations, let's put this aside.

Let's look at the strategic level. Even if we and the friendly forces defending the city of Hefei try our best and eat the main force of more than 2000 Japanese troops, we will be severely damaged and unable to fight anymore.

And once the Japanese army sent troops to attack again, Hefei would definitely fall, and the national army's Jianghuai defense line on the southern battlefield of Xuzhou would also be broken by the Japanese army.

Overall, it is not beneficial to the overall war situation.

And if we can surround these more than 2000 Japanese troops, we can force the Japanese army to send reinforcements.

When there are fewer of them, we will gather around them to support them and eat them up.

When there were too many people coming, we changed the reinforcements to blocking them, and then concentrated our forces to eat up the Japanese troops.

During this period, we can first besiege and consume the Japanese army for a few days, and wait for them to run out of ammunition and food, especially water and food. Once they are cut off, the fighting power of the devils will be greatly reduced.

At that time, it will be much easier to annihilate them if we launch a general offensive.

The more reinforcements the Japanese army dispatches to Hefei, the less pressure the Chinese army will have on the frontal battlefield on the Huaihe River defense line.

It will also be more conducive to the long-term defense of the Jianghuai defense line, and it can directly and effectively support the battle of the 5th theater north of Xuzhou. "

Hearing this, Liang Shan completely understood Xu Qingfeng's intentions.

He nodded in admiration and said: "The group has far-sightedness and foresight, and I admire the humble position."

Xu Qingfeng nodded and accepted Liang Shan's compliment.

At this moment, the first battalion commander Sun Kui suddenly ran over happily with a bloody national army officer.

When they came to Xu Qingfeng and Liang Shan, they ignored the salute and shouted excitedly: "Tuanxiang, Tuanxiang, look at who is coming!"

Xu Qingfeng turned around when he heard this. He was surprised at first, but then realized that the person coming was none other than the ninth company commander, his old superior Lin Baoguo.

"Company commander?" Xu Qingfeng was overjoyed and ran over.

"Old Xu, it's really you!" Lin Baoguo looked Xu Qingfeng up and down, feeling extremely excited.

"It's me, you're not dead, great!" Xu Qingfeng hugged Lin Baoguo happily.

Lin Baoguo was also very excited and said: "I didn't expect that you didn't die, everyone is still alive."

After Xu Qingfeng put him down, the two happily hugged again.

Lin Baoguo's eyes filled with tears, and he said with excitement: "After the fall of Nanjing, I thought you all had died for your country. Unexpectedly, you and your brothers all broke out."

Xu Qingfeng said with a smile: "Not only did Lao Sun and I break out, but our old regiment leader Zhou Weiguo also broke out."

"Great, now we brothers can fight side by side again and join forces to kill the enemy!" Lin Baoguo said excitedly, wiping his tears.

"That's right." Sun Kui smiled and nodded in agreement.

Only then did Xu Qingfeng bother to introduce Liang Shan: "Chief of Staff, this is the old company commander of the Ninth Company, my old superior Lin Baoguo."

As he spoke, he patted Lin Baoguo's shoulder patch and said, "Now he is also a lieutenant colonel and battalion commander."

An accompanying soldier following Lin Baoguo couldn't help but interrupt: "Our commander is now the deputy commander of the lieutenant colonel."

"Oh?" Xu Qingfeng was quite surprised when he heard this, and said with a smile: "Not bad, not bad."

Liang Shan stepped forward and took the initiative to salute: "I have seen the old officer, old man!"

Xu Qingfeng introduced Lin Baoguo: "This is Liang Shan, the current chief of staff of our Tiger Regiment. He also has the rank of lieutenant colonel and is on the same level as you."

Lin Baoguo was flattered and quickly returned the favor, shook hands with Liang Shan warmly and said, "Chief of Staff Liang, you're welcome."

(End of this chapter)