Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 351 Bloody Battle at Xifengkou (Second Reunion)

"Ono-kun, hurry back and report that Xifengkou has been occupied by the Chinese! Tell the brigade commander that our plan to quickly capture Xifengkou can no longer be realized." In the crowd of Japanese soldiers at the foot of the mountain, a second lieutenant said to another second lieutenant .Then, he said to the subordinates who had gathered around him: "Warriors of His Majesty the Emperor, dismount, let us show the Chinese people what a real warrior is!"

"Hay!" All the devils responded loudly, dismounted calmly, and then formed a skirmish line, and even counterattacked towards the mountain on the left where they rushed the fastest.

Next to Yang Kanglu, correspondent Xie Changhe saw several devil soldiers turning their horses and running towards the way they came, and hurriedly reported to Yang Kanglu: "Battle Commander, there are devils who want to escape!"

Yang Kanglu knocked down a devil with one shot, turned his head to look, and shouted at the snipers behind him in a hurry: "Big Zhang, the devils who reported the letter will be handed over to your sniper squad, and no one will be let go! Grandma, you don’t want to be the monitor if you leave one!”

Zhang Dabazi was a tall and thick man, he groaned and became more stable when he heard this.His left eye suddenly narrowed, and a few seconds later, a puff of smoke came out from the muzzle of his blocking gun. Immediately afterwards, the devil's second lieutenant who was running at the front of the devil's escape queue trembled. The next moment, fell off the horse.

The horse didn't know that its owner was dead, so it ran wildly away, only dragging the second lieutenant on the mountain road with a long blood red "one".

With the squad leader as an example, the other soldiers in the sniper squad began to perform sniper kung fu. In the sound of gunfire one after another, none of the thirteen devils who rushed out could escape, and all were killed by one shot.

One of the purposes of He Zhengsheng's arrangement for this ambush is to wipe out these devils, and the other is to let the devil brigade not know the specific situation on the side of Xifengkou, and thus hope to delay a little time so that the people behind Tank and self-propelled artillery units followed.

The devils that the Japanese army attacked Xifengkou consisted of a brigade and a cavalry regiment, with a number of about 5000.However, He Zhengjiang's regiment had only about 200 people at full strength.With 200 people fighting against 5000 people, and it was the second strongest Japanese army in the world, Ouyang Yun was not so arrogant.All he was thinking about was hoping to delay for a while, so that when the situation in Peiping stabilized, a large number of troops could be transferred up.

However, if the He Zhengjiang regiment wants to achieve this strategic goal, it is impossible to do it without the support of artillery and tank troops. You must know that in the 33 years of the Great Wall War of Resistance, the national army had 35 soldiers, but the result was still defeated by the Japanese army. Thousands of people were defeated.

In the headquarters at Xifeng Pass, He Zhengjiang saw the battle at the bottom of the mountain through the binoculars, and sighed: "It's a pity that there is not enough time. Otherwise, some landmines would have been planted, and the battle would have been much easier."

The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was interested. Guo Changjiang, the chief of staff of the regiment next to him, listened and said: "With the powerful firepower of the 'Wei Qing style', it should not be a problem to eliminate this group of cavalry who are not good at gun battles. The big army of the little devils is still behind. , After cleaning the battlefield, we might as well plant more mines."

"Good idea!" Looking at the several peaks in front of Xifengkou, paying special attention to the mountain where the little devil once set up an artillery position, He Zhengjiang said: "We only have the strength of one regiment. It is not realistic to defend all sections. It seems that this 'booby trap' should be read carefully."

Influenced by the later film "Landmine Warfare", Ouyang Yun attached great importance to the development and application of landmines, and set up special courses in the military academy.However, perhaps because of different circumstances and different dominant ideas in combat, it did not attract the attention of the officers of the academy army, especially the officers at the bottom.Now, because of the shortage of troops, He Zhengjiang and Guo Changjiang accidentally thought of the role of landmines, and in the subsequent battles, they enlisted the powerful and strange power of landmines, so that most of the frontline officers began to pay attention to landmine warfare Speaking of which, for the Xuebing Army, this battle at Xifengkou was a windfall.

The power of the "Wei Qing style" assault rifle has been fully highlighted after the two Wen'an battles and the Tianjin victory.Now, not only the 59th Army and the Guangdong and Guangxi armies have begun to purchase and equip aggressively, such as Fu Zuoyi and Han Fuqu's Ministry, they are also beginning to want to buy this kind of gun that can shoot continuously.Of course, because their relationship with Ouyang Yun was not considered close, they could only wait patiently when Xue Bingjun hadn't completed all the costume changes.

The battle at the foot of the mountain lasted for about 10 minutes. In the end, even though the Xuebing army spared no bullets, none of the devil cavalry in a squadron could escape and were all killed.

Afterwards, after simply cleaning the battlefield, He Zhengjiang continued to send out reconnaissance troops to find out the marching speed of the devils, and at the same time mobilized the whole regiment to plant landmines on a large scale.Among them, on the mountains on both sides where the battle took place just now, many booby traps and serial mines that can be controlled by humans were planted.

After laying all the mines in his hands, He Zhengjiang's long-awaited tank unit and self-propelled artillery unit arrived.According to the order of the military department, these two units were also under the command of He Zhengjiang.After discussing with Hu Li, the battalion commander of the tank battalion, and Wang Dahai, the battalion commander of the self-propelled artillery battalion, he arranged all the tanks directly in the open space in front of Xifengkou, and then integrated the self-propelled artillery with the artillery battalion of the regiment. Arrange the self-propelled artillery in the front and place it at the forefront of the second position close to the first position.

After finishing the deployment of troops, another half an hour later, as the investigators who went to scout the movement of the large Japanese army returned to the team one after another, the battle was finally about to begin.

As for the Ninth Division of the Japanese Army, it was not Lieutenant General Yoshizuki Ryosuke, the commander of the division, who was in charge of the command, but Major General Ide Nobutoki of the 18th Brigade and the division chief of staff, Nakagawa Hiroso.Among them, the Ninth Cavalry Wing was personally commanded by Nakagawa Hiroshizuo.

When a cavalry squadron in charge of exploring the road did not return for a long time, Hiroshi Nakagawa felt something was wrong.In the combat plan formulated by the Kwantung Army Staff Headquarters, it was originally to take Xifengkou directly, then implement full control over it, and then use Xifengkou as a base to advance to Peiping.Now that Xifengkou has fallen into the hands of the national army, regardless of whether Yoshizuka and Hiroshi Nakagawa are willing or not, this direct attack can only become a strong attack.What's terrible is that because of the various methods adopted by the Xuebing Army after controlling Jicha, the spy system operated by the Japanese army Kenji Doihara was almost completely destroyed. Now the Japanese have become blind in the territory of Jicha.Therefore, although Hiroshi Nakagawa knew that Xifengkou must be occupied by the Chinese army, he didn't know who the real opponent was.

The cavalry unit commanded by Hiroshi Nakagawa was originally known for its speed, but because he didn't know what happened at Xifengkou, he didn't dare to rush up so recklessly.After all, cavalry is only suitable for pursuit and one-sided breakthroughs on the battlefield, but attacking fortifications is not its strong point.

Once Hiroshi Nakagawa became cautious, the speed advantage of the cavalry would be gone.In this way, it gave He Zhengjiang more time to prepare, and also enabled him to calmly complete the laying and formation of troops.

(End of this chapter)