I am God of War in Snow Leopard

Chapter 238 Xuyi Defensive Battle ([-])

Lin Baoguo was immediately overjoyed when he heard this. He couldn't help but laugh loudly and shouted to his subordinates around him: "Brothers, the regiment has sent troops to meet us. Reinforcements will be here soon.

Everyone, hold on, hold on! "

As he said that, he immediately stopped shooting, and began to shout repeatedly along the trench with his waist down.

Encouraged by his encouragement and the imminent arrival of reinforcements, the officers and soldiers of the fifth infantry battalion, the reconnaissance company and some cavalry companies in the temporary fortification all boosted their morale.

As morale increases, so does combat effectiveness.

After a bloody battle, he finally succeeded in repelling the advance of the Yamada detachment.

On the opposite side of the Japanese army's temporary offensive position, the detachment leader Yamada Hirobumi, who had joined forces with his younger brother Yamada Boten, was furious when he saw his own troops' attack and was repelled again.

"idiot!"

Cursing angrily, he immediately turned to Yamada Boten behind him and asked, "Can't we still contact the Guards Cavalry Brigade?"

"Yes, detachment leader." Yamada Botten quickly replied with his head bowed respectfully.

Yamada Hirobumi became even more angry after hearing this. When he led the main force of the detachment to join the mechanized forward troops led by his younger brother, he found that more than 700 mechanized troops were blocked by the Chinese army and could not advance even an inch.

In anger, Yamada Hirobumi immediately commanded the main force of the detachment to go into battle, and indeed easily repelled the resistance forces of the Tiger Regiment on the opposite side.

However, these repelled Chinese troops did not just collapse and fled away.

Instead, they chose to fight and retreat, and continued to send small groups of cavalry to harass their rear.

This almost rogue style of play made Yamada Hirobumi and his troops uncomfortable.

Because they didn't know the reality of the Huben regiment, and they didn't dare to divide their troops rashly.

And the mechanized troops left the road, and they couldn't even move the wheels of the car.

Under such circumstances, Yamada Hirobumi is looking forward to the cavalry advance team led by Konoe Fujiyama.

The more than 300 cavalry is also the only cavalry unit in the entire Yamada detachment.

However, seeing that the troops were blocked again not far from the south of Xuyi City.

The Konoe Fujiyama Division, which was supposed to have been stationed in Xuyi County and controlled the surrendering garrison, could not be contacted.

This made Yamada Hirobumi both angry and anxious. Anxiously, he turned to one of his accompanying staff officers and asked: "Do you think something will happen to the Guards Cavalry Brigade?"

"General, this should be unlikely."

The devil's staff officer said: "Because the guard cavalry brigade has succeeded, it entered Xuyi County ahead of the Chinese army, and controlled the entire Xuyi city defense and more than 2000 defenders in the city.

According to the battlefield situation reported by the Yingsen Detachment of the neighboring army, more than half of the troops of the Huben Regiment should be restrained by them in the area of ​​​​Tianma Lake and Tianquan River.

Coupled with the Chinese troops that were restrained by us in the front, the Huben Regiment will not have many troops to attack Xuyi.

In this case, the Guards Cavalry Brigade will definitely not have any accidents! "

Yamada Hirobumi nodded slightly: "But, why can't the guard brigade and the super high school radio station in the city be unable to get in touch?"

The devil's staff thought for a while and said, "Maybe the radio station is out of order?"

"From the current point of view, it is best to do this, otherwise our plan to annihilate the Tiger and Ben regiments under Xuyi City will probably come to nothing."

After Yamada Hirobumi finished speaking, he turned his head immediately, and ordered in a stern voice: "Pass my order, the 3rd Brigade, combined with the Artillery Wing, and the Chariot Brigade, attack again.

Don't give the Chinese troops above any chance to breathe! "

"Hay!" Yamada Boteng and other devil officers present bowed their heads and accepted the order.

……

On Lin Baoguo's side, the Japs had just been repulsed, and he hurriedly directed the surviving officers and soldiers to urgently repair the damaged fortifications and rescue injured comrades.

At this moment, another second lieutenant and platoon leader of the [-]st Battalion ran into Lin Baoguo's defensive position from the rear, braving gunpowder smoke.

With the help of the soldiers, they found Lin Baoguo. Without paying attention to saluting, he said out of breath, "Deputy Chief of Staff Lin, I am Wu Zhizhong, commander of the [-]st Battalion, [-]th Company and [-]rd Platoon. I am ordered by the Battalion Commander to lead your troops back immediately!"

"Retreat immediately?" Lin Baoguo and Wang Changgui, who was beside him, were all taken aback and asked, "Where is your battalion commander now?"

Wu Zhizhong said: "Our battalion commander has commanded the troops and launched an ambush five kilometers behind you. You may retreat, and our battalion will stop the devils chasing troops."

Lin Baoguo was overjoyed to hear that, and said to Wang Changgui, "Company Commander Wang, shall we withdraw?"

Wang Changgui, who had been fighting continuously and was somewhat exhausted due to the heavy casualties suffered by his troops, nodded quickly and said: "Quickly retreat, if we continue to fight, all my reconnaissance company will be wiped out here."

Lin Baoguo nodded and said: "Thanks to your reconnaissance company and cavalry company this time, otherwise with the level of weapons and equipment of my 5th Battalion, I am afraid it would be difficult to hold off the Japanese for so long."

After saying that, he immediately turned around and ordered: "Order each company and platoon to quickly take turns to cover and retreat, but remember one thing: all injured brothers must be taken away.

Who dares to abandon his comrades, I will kill him! "

"Yes!" Several key veterans and grassroots officers present all looked up and took orders in unison.

Lin Baoguo and Wang Changgui had just led their troops to withdraw from the temporary position, when a new round of Japanese artillery fire roared in as promised.
Cannonballs dropped from the sky with piercing howling sounds, and bombarded the position fiercely, setting off clusters of red light and billowing smoke.

Before the bombardment was over, nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers with bayonets in hand, and under the cover of several tanks and armored vehicles, launched a roaring charge towards the abandoned position of the fifth battalion.

This time, the devil's attack was very smooth, and he captured the position where the bloody battle had just been fought without any effort.

But apart from some broken limbs and damaged weapon parts, there was no sign of any officers and soldiers of the Tiger Regiment on the position.

The Japanese captain who was responsible for leading the attack quickly sent people back to the detachment leader Yamada Hirobumi who was still supervising the battle in the rear and waiting for news.

"General, the Chinese army in front has escaped!"

Yamada Hirobumi was angry and anxious after hearing this, and immediately ordered: "Order the 3rd Battalion and the tank troops to pursue immediately, and other troops also quickly broke out of camp and moved forward to follow!

This time, we must not let them escape again! "

……

While the Yamada Detachment was busy chasing Lin Baoguo, Wang Changgui and other troops, they were on the battlefield on the Western Front.

The main force of the Yingsen Detachment, which is attacking the blocking forces of the third and fourth battalions, and the main force of the 18th mixed brigade are making rapid progress.

Relying on their absolute superiority in strength, these two troops broke through multiple temporary defense lines of the third battalion and the fourth battalion of the Huben Regiment.

Fang Shengli and Lei Xiong were forced to unite their troops together to stop them.

Therefore, at this time, the third and fourth battalions of the Huben Regiment were actually surrounded by the main force of the Yingsen Detachment and the 18th Mixed Brigade at the junction of Tianma Lake and Tianquan River.

Here is also guarded, a dirt road from Lai'an to Xuyi, which is a must for both sides.

Fang Shengli and Lei Xiong had a relatively strategic vision. After joining forces, they quickly seized several small highlands on both sides of the dirt road.

Although these highlands are not very steep, they are just enough to block the highway.

Moreover, the high ground was backed by the waters of Tianma Lake and Tianquan River, and the devils had no way to attack from the waterway without the cooperation of the navy and the fact that they did not care about carrying ships.

The only way to besiege the third and fourth battalions is from the road.

Even so, the Japanese had the strength of two entire brigades after all, and the overall strength of the Yingsen detachment was equivalent to a strengthened mixed brigade.

Whether it is military strength or heavy firepower, it has an absolute advantage.

Relying on artillery suppression and taking turns to charge and attack at any cost, the devils gradually suppressed the blocking firepower given by the third and fourth battalions.

As for the Third and Fourth Battalions, first of all, the Third Battalion was attacked by Japanese planes during the initial retreat and transfer, and suffered considerable losses.

After successive bloody battles, in addition to the loss of troops, the consumption of weapons and ammunition was also huge.

After all, the devils had a large number of troops and frequent attacks. In order to stop them, the officers and soldiers of the third and fourth battalions of the Huben regiment had no choice but to fire with all their strength regardless of the cost.

Therefore, with the continuous high-intensity fighting until now, the third and fourth battalions are almost running out of ammunition and food.

If they can no longer get support, they will have no choice but to fight with the Japanese with bayonets.

At this critical moment, Zhou Weiguo and Xu Hu arrived at the battlefield in time with nine Sherman tanks from the tank battalion.

Under the command of Zhou Weiguo and Xu Hu, the nine Sherman tanks, like a group of tigers descending from the mountain, rushed towards the attacking devils with full firepower.

Nine 75mm caliber tank main guns, plus 12.7 vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns, and nine [-]mm caliber Browning anti-aircraft machine guns, all opened fire.

A dense and powerful firepower was formed and poured towards the Japanese soldiers. The Japanese soldiers who were attacking and charging were either blown to the ground by the shells or hit by the dense rain of bullets and fell down one after another.

Especially the anti-aircraft machine guns and tank guns were so powerful that every shell fired at them would kill and injure at least a large number of Japanese soldiers.

Not to mention the anti-aircraft machine guns, where the bullets rained, the Japanese soldiers who were charging intensively, like wheat hit by hail, broke and fell down one after another.

However, the blows suffered by the Japanese were even more bloody and brutal.

Because under the strong kinetic energy of anti-aircraft machine gun bullets, any devil will be blown up as long as he gets close.

Even if it just hits the arms and legs, it will break instantly, and there is no possibility of survival.

Seeing this situation, Fang Shengli, Lei Xiong and others on the high ground on both sides of the road were very excited, and ordered to the subordinates around them: "Brothers, the tank battalion is here to meet us! Take up weapons with me and charge Go out and kill Little Japan!"

"Come on!"

"Kill!" Hundreds of officers and soldiers from the two battalions roared loudly, and swarmed out of the position with bayonets in hand.

Attacked across the board and launched a counterattack against the Japanese army.

The devils attacked the troops, and they were caught off guard by the powerful firepower of the tank battalion, causing heavy casualties.

Facing the joint attack of the tank battalion and the third battalion and the fourth battalion, they were no longer able to resist, and they were all defeated without even being able to support for a moment.

Zhou Weiguo and Xu Hu commanded the tank battalions to pursue the situation. The officers and soldiers of the third and fourth battalions, led by Fang Shengli, Lei Hu and others, followed the tanks and coordinated to pursue the Japanese across the board.

In this way, the devils, who clearly possessed an absolute superiority in military strength, were instead defeated by the Huben regiment's infantry and tank coordination forces with less than a thousand people, and they were defeated.

In the end, Zhou Weiguo found out that the officers and soldiers of the third and fourth battalions were short of ammunition. During the pursuit, some people even needed to pick up the weapons and equipment left by the devils to continue fighting.

Only then did he give the order to stop the pursuit in time: "Stop the pursuit! Each company of the third and fourth battalions listened to my order and retreated quickly. I led the tank battalion to cover behind!"

"Yes!" The order quickly passed to the third battalion commander Fang Shengli and the fourth battalion commander Lei Xiong, and they immediately ordered to their respective troops: "Retreat! Retreat! Quickly retreat!"

On the Japs side, the Japs generals including Takamori Ling and the head of the 18th mixed brigade were all frightened by the sudden changes on the battlefield.

Ying Senling was even ready to retreat and escape without him, because he didn't have anti-tank weapons that could resist the Huben Regiment's tank battalion.

After suffering the losses of the Tiger Regiment's tank battalion, he could be said to be frightened of this unit.

Fortunately, the counterattack and pursuit of the Huben regiment did not last forever.

When watching one's own infantry fled back to the attacking position in defeat, and the tanks of the Huben regiment stopped a long way away, but they continued to pour shells at their own position with tank guns.

Reassured a little, Ying Senling was angry and annoyed, and immediately ordered the adjutants and staff officers beside him: "Bagayalu, this group of hateful Chinese tank troops are simply deceiving people too much, order the artillery troops to open fire immediately!
Be sure to destroy it! "

"Hay!" A devil's staff adjutant who was in charge of conveying orders suddenly nodded, and hurriedly ran towards the artillery group.

However, he waited until he conveyed the order to the artillery unit, and then waited until the Japanese artillery unit locked the location of the Tiger Regiment's tank battalion and was about to shell.

Zhou Weiguo had already ordered the tanks of the tank battalion to retreat northward, and they were still fighting and retreating.

During the retreat, artillery shells continued to be poured into the Japanese positions.

"Bagaya Road!" Yingsen Ling saw this and jumped three feet high in anger, but there was nothing he could do.

However, at this moment, a group of Japanese fighter planes suddenly flew into the sky.

Seeing this, Ling Yingsen suddenly became excited. He immediately pointed at the fighter planes roaring through the sky and roared an order to his subordinates: "Contact the aviation units immediately and ask them to catch up with the China Army's tank units and kill them." Get rid of it! Quickly!"

"Hay!"

In fact, without the order of the Takamori Order, several Japanese fighter jets who heard the news had already spotted the Huben Regiment tank battalion that was slowly retreating along the road.

They swooped straight towards the Tiger Battalion's tank battalion and pursued them.

"Captain, the Devil's plane is catching up!" Xu Hu was anxious when he saw the Devil's plane!
(End of this chapter)