Anti-Japanese Jagged General

Chapter 394 Is This Still the Tuba Road? (First update!)

It's too late to regret anything now, it's impossible to come back to life after death.

Looking at the bloody casualties sent by his subordinates, the only thing Shao Zuo Harada could do was to urge his subordinates to continue to persevere, and then sent telegrams to Yangquan, asking for reinforcements.

And it was precisely because of his telegrams asking for help one after another that Major General Tsuda, the head of the Fourth Mixed Brigade, finally made up his mind to send troops to reinforce Pingding County.

In a large hilly area less than two kilometers away from Pingding County, the detachment leader Chen Zhengxiang has been standing on a hill for almost an hour.He kept holding the binoculars, staring at the end of the road in the direction of Yangquan.

Hearing the sound of guns coming from Pingding County, the longer the detachment leader waited here, the more anxious he became, fearing that the devils in Yangquan City would not be fooled, and all his hard work would be in vain!
Fortunately, just when I was about to give up in my heart, a fire suddenly appeared at the end of the road.

"The little devil of Gou Ri finally appeared!" The detachment leader was surprised, Changsong said with a sigh of relief.

Then the reconnaissance company commander rushed over out of breath: "Detachment Captain, the devil's reinforcements have opened. There are nearly 500 people, and they also brought four mountain cannons, twelve heavy machine guns, 12 mortars, and another small team." The cavalry. For the infantry, the ghosts and the puppet troops will be divided into half, and the march is very anxious, and it can be pocketed in 10 minutes at most!"

"The little devil is cautious enough. There are so many people, obviously they are guarding against being ambushed by us!" The detachment leader immediately reacted.

Then a mocking smile appeared on his face: "However, he didn't expect that the Eighth Route Army ambushing them is the main force nearly a hundred miles away. No matter how many troops come, I can eat it in one bite!"

"Staff Wang, inform the troops to prepare for battle."

"The devil brought mortars, so he must have brought shells. Tell the commanders of the three mortar companies that after the battle starts, you can fight hard. Fire at places where there are many devils. I will give him as many shells as he shoots." How much to add?"

"The whole detachment fired according to my signal flares, and tried to use bullets, shells, and grenades to kill the devils and reduce casualties!"

"The reconnaissance company, the devil's cavalry squad is handed over to you. Remember to bring back the horses. I have always wanted to form a cavalry company, but I don't have horses and equipment. The little devil is obviously sending equipment to me, Old Chen."

The independent brigade is the best equipped among all the brigade units in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and Chen Zhengxiang's detachment is the best-equipped detachment other than the independent brigade.

Each rifleman has a [-]-piece cover, each platoon has a light machine gun, and each regiment has a heavy machine gun company and a mortar company. On average, the company can reach one heavy machine gun and one mortar company.

The whole detachment adds up to 27 mortars, 27 heavy machine guns, and then four times the number of light machine guns, and more than 4000 rifles.

At this time, no matter whether it is the muzzle or the muzzle, all are aimed at the road, ready to shoot at any time.

"The devil is coming up!" The staff officer standing next to the detachment leader reminded in a low voice.

On the pitch-black road, the Japanese and puppet soldiers held torches, and they were all live targets, panting and rushing to Pingding County.

The commander-in-chief of the reinforcements, Lieutenant Matsushita, did not walk with his subordinates, but sat in the passenger seat of a car dragging four mountain cannons in the middle of the team.Hearing the sound of gunfire coming from the direction of Pingding County, he obviously breathed a sigh of relief.

Even though the troops were exhausted, Matsushita still shouted with a murderous look on his face: "Keep speeding up, Pingding County will be here!"

"The cavalry team first went to Pingding County to investigate the enemy's situation. As soon as the troops arrived, I would launch an attack on the Tuba Road that attacked the city. Therefore, I must know the deployment of Tuba Road's troops outside Pingding, so that I can choose the attack target!"

"Hi!" The cavalry signal soldier standing by at any time didn't say a word of nonsense, and urged the horse to charge forward with the order.

At this time, the adjutant who was also walking beside him on a war horse couldn't help reminding: "Sir, please be careful. The terrain here is too complicated, and I'm worried that there will be dirt roads ambush us!"

Lieutenant Assistant Matsushita immediately frowned into a big Sichuan character.

The reason why Major General Tsuda was reluctant to send troops to rescue Pingding County was because he was afraid that Tuba Road would besiege the city and fight for aid. The real goal was to reinforce the troops.

In the end, although he decided to send troops, he confessed many times before he set off that he should be careful and not get into the pocket array prepared for him by Tuba Road.

I did the same thing along the way, but now it was night, and it was almost impossible to maintain my marching speed and be vigilant along the way to prevent myself from being ambushed.

So, Lieutenant Matsushita thought of fire reconnaissance.

Along the way, the fire reconnaissance of the cavalry squad has not stopped since they left the city.

Rifles, machine guns, even grenade grenades.As long as there are suspicious places beside the road, they will conduct fire reconnaissance.

Fortunately, along the way, he did not encounter the so-called ambush troops of the Eighth Route Army.

Now it is less than three kilometers away from Pingding County, and it can be reached in more than 20 minutes by a quick march.From a military point of view, even if the Eighth Route Army really wanted to besiege the city and fight for aid, it would not choose an ambush battlefield so close to Pingding County.

Because, after the reinforcements were attacked, the defenders of Pingding County could completely abandon the county seat, and then fight out, attack inside and outside together with the reinforcements, and make a gap in the Eighth Route Army's ambush circle.If you are lucky, it is possible to turn defeat into victory!
After some analysis, Lieutenant Matsushita decided decisively: "No, since this place is so close to Pingding County, there will definitely be no problems."

Less than 5 minutes after the words were finished, the three flares rose to the dragon.

After a moment of stupefaction, the three signal flares had burst into three clusters of white light in the air, which was extremely dazzling.

Panasonic is no longer a rookie on the battlefield. He knows better than anyone what the signal flare means on the battlefield.

His complexion changed, and he shouted loudly: "Baga, we've been tricked!"

"Woooooo... da da da..." Before he finished speaking, the scream of shells across the sky and the sound of machine gun fire rang out on the battlefield.

Then I heard all kinds of screams ringing in my ears.

"Counterattack, counterattack immediately!" Matsushita shouted.

"Captain, the car is dangerous, quickly cover the captain to leave the car! Boom boom boom..." The adjutant next to him ordered very anxiously, and then he heard the sound of shell explosions on the road.

Lieutenant Matsushita was dragged by several of his subordinates, and just as he was less than 20 meters away from the car, there was a violent explosion behind him.

The car he was sitting in just now was blown up into a ball of fire in an instant.

"Baga, where's our artillery? Counterattack immediately! The troops immediately gather at me and defend on the spot first!" Lieutenant Matsushita ordered with a lingering fear on his face.

The reaction speed of the Japanese and puppet troops was very fast, but the firepower of the first detachment was too strong, far exceeding the expectations of the devils.

In addition, in the first round of firepower strikes, the soldiers basically shot at the marching devils.

In just a few seconds, the Japanese army suffered more than 500 casualties.

After finally gathering the scattered troops into piles, Matsushita found tragically that more than half of his reinforced brigade had been lost.

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