Chapter 699: The Decisive Battle of Jing Cheng (1)
The phone ringing in the little devil command kept urging like a rush, and it wasn't until a soldier picked up the phone that the little devil commander's tense nerves gradually relaxed. But the news from the soldiers made the little devil commander's slightly relaxed heart immediately hang.
"Your Excellency Commander, the commander of the Matsui Brigade has ordered the troops to press up, and the other troops are also preparing to pursue the retreating Chinese army!"
"If the enemy situation is unknown, they dare to pursue rashly, are they all stupid? Let them retreat, and they shall not pursue without my orders!" "The commander of the little devil was furious, and the enemy did not know the situation and rashly pursued him, which was probably a trap deliberately set by the Chinese army.
Although the Japanese commander had given the order as quickly as possible, the Matsui brigade had not received an order to stop the pursuit, and their troops had all caught up, followed by a detachment of more than 3,000 Japanese troops. The orders of the Japanese commanders were simply not communicated to their troops in time.
The rest of the Japanese troops stopped moving, resulting in the two flanks of the Matsui brigade without any troop cover, and they took the initiative to pursue, the Japanese of course with their fastest speed advantage, just as they attacked the first line of defense and the second line of defense arranged by Ma Wanzhong, after the first line of defense was breached, they occupied the second line of defense while the Chinese army was not firmly established and did not arrange a defense on the second line of defense.
Ma Wanzhong just took advantage of the little devil's fast heart, because the little devil took too much advantage in their first and second lines of defense, and the little devil would definitely continue to take advantage.
Sure enough, on the third line of defense, the little devil has been fighting for so many days, and there is no progress at all, he will definitely want to make a breakthrough, and after holding it for so long, he finally saw that the Chinese army was about to retreat, of course, he refused to let go of such a good opportunity, and it was a great achievement to defeat the Chinese army.
The Matsui Brigade desperately pursued the Chinese army...... Everything is developing as Ma Wanzhong expected......
"The regiment commander, the regiment commander, the miners in the mining area reported that there was still a group of Japanese prisoners of war in the mining area who did not retreat!"
When the retreat passed through the Jingcheng mining area, a soldier hurriedly reported to Commander Liu that most of the personnel in the mining area had retreated, and only a few dozen mining personnel and 500 Japanese prisoners of war remained!
"The others retreat according to the plan, and the guard company comes with me!"
There wasn't much time left for them to waste, the little devil was already chasing after them, and Captain Liu could only take his guard regiment to check the specific situation.
"Why haven't you withdrawn?" Head Liu met a person in charge inside the mine and asked loudly, the little devils are coming soon, and they still want to die.
"Captain Liu, they ...... They...... These prisoners of war don't want to go! ”
Following the direction of the person in charge's finger, Commander Liu saw that those Japanese prisoners of war were all half* sitting on the ground watching them, and there were some staff members on the side who were driving them away with guns, but these little devils obviously knew something, and even in the face of the muzzle of the black hole, they remained motionless.
"Withdraw! Prisoners of war hand it over to us! Xiao Zhang took them to chase the big army, and then sent them across the river to a safe place! ”
After waiting for the staff to leave, Commander Liu said to his guards: "Everyone is loaded, and the light machine guns are mounted on both sides!" ”
The soldiers of the guard company quickly surrounded the 500 Japanese prisoners of war, and as long as Commander Liu nodded, none of these prisoners of war would have left alive.
"I'll just ask again, it's still too late to leave!"
The little devil prisoners of war seemed to be sure that the Chinese army would not slaughter prisoners of war, and they were mining here day and night, except for physical fatigue, which really damaged the dignity of their Great Japanese Imperial Army, and the little devils remained motionless as if they had not heard the words of Commander Liu.
"Bang"
Commander Liu directly pulled out his gun and shot at the head of a little devil in front of him, and all the little devils were shocked and stood up in a panic, but they didn't expect that this Chinese really dared to shoot prisoners of war.
However, everything was over, and the order that the soldiers with loaded guns on the side were waiting for was the sound of this gunshot.
"Da Da Da"
The soldiers fired, the machine guns spewed out merciless flames, and the little devils fell in batches wherever they passed, and some of the little devils tried to escape, but they all became the live targets of the soldiers of the guard company, and they were not given the slightest chance to live.
All the soldiers present showed no mercy, because they knew that once these little devils returned to the Japanese army, these people would take up arms and slaughter their soldiers, although they knew in their hearts that slaughtering prisoners of war was not a good act, but they had to do so much for the sake of more Chinese people and their soldiers.
In just a few minutes, more than 500 Japanese prisoners of war fell, and Commander Liu did not let people check whether they had survived by chance, because the Japanese did not leave them enough time at this time, and they had to be transferred immediately.
The pursuit of the Japanese army can be said to be invincible, without the slightest obstruction, there seems to be no gunfire on the battlefield, only the sound of hurried footsteps and the neighing of war horses, and the rumble of armored vehicles and tanks not far behind the Japanese army.
In the eyes of the little devils, they are only one step away from victory, and as long as they pursue the Chinese army that is ahead, they will become warriors of the empire, and they will receive the Medal of Warrior awarded to them by the emperor.
Just when the Japanese army was eager for victory, their speed was getting faster and faster, and they had unconsciously opened a long distance from the troops in the rear. This Japanese army has gone deep alone.
"Your Excellency Brigade Commander, telegram from the command!"
Just as the Japanese army pursued to the outskirts of the Jingcheng mining area, the Japanese army signal corps took a telegram to the brigade commander of the Japanese army.
The brigade commander of the little devil took the telegram, looked at the contents of the telegram, and began to hesitate in his heart, because the command gave an order for him to retreat, and if he did not retreat, he would be punished for disobeying the order.
Such a good opportunity for meritorious service was placed in front of him, could he just let it go, which made the commander of the Japanese brigade very unwilling.
"Report to Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, we have found some anomalies ahead!" Reporting to the commander of the Japanese brigade was the squadron leader of the Japanese vanguard, who had entered the interior of the Jingcheng mine.
"What's the matter?" The brigade commander asked.
"The corpses of our fighters have been found!"
"Take me there!"
Under the protection of the little devils, the commander of the Japanese brigade entered the Jingcheng mining area, and there were many corpses lying in a depression inside the mining area, and they could be identified from the clothes they were wearing as Japanese military uniforms, obviously they were all Japanese soldiers.
"Are there any alive?" The commander of the Japanese brigade asked.
"Bring them up!"
Because Commander Liu and his troops arrived in a hurry, the killing of prisoners of war was of course carried out in a hurry, and the captured Japanese soldiers and more than 30 wounded were all rescued after being discovered by the vanguard of the Japanese army.
Although more than a dozen Japanese soldiers could not cover their bodies with their clothes, they still stood neatly in front of the commander of the Japanese brigade, obviously they did not forget their identity as the Imperial Japanese Army, although they were captured once!
"I want to know what happened!"
A Japanese soldier briefly told the commander of the Japanese brigade about their capture and then went to work as laborers in the Jingcheng mining area, and finally told him about the direction of the Chinese army's escape.
"Damn the Shina people! If you dare to slaughter the warriors of our Great Japanese Empire, I must make them double their return, give them weapons, and let them join our ranks temporarily! ”
Hatred filled the brains of the commander of the Little Devil Brigade, and he must catch up with the Chinese troops in front of him and slaughter them with even more brutal means, or their Great Japanese Imperial Army would have no shame to face their emperor.
"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, but the command command is ......," a staff officer reminded.
"Orders? Don't you see the tragedy of the warriors of our empire? If we go back like this, the hateful Shina people will inevitably be even more arrogant, because our Imperial Japanese Army is afraid of them, and tell Your Excellency the Commander that I have led my troops in pursuit, and there is no way to retreat, and I hope that they will move closer to us as quickly as possible! ”
Of course, Regiment Commander Liu didn't expect that his helpless move would stimulate the brigade commander of the little devil and let the little devil continue to go deep alone.
After receiving Matsui's telegram, the Japanese command of course accused him of disobedience, but they could not watch their troops be wiped out by the Chinese, and of course the Japanese commander immediately ordered all troops to move forward.
Ma Wanzhong, who was in Jingcheng, was already well aware of every move of the Japanese army, and when the little devil's troops arrived at the Jingcheng mining area, he had already ordered all the troops to start moving and launched an attack on the Japanese army that was lone in the depths.
"Boom Boom"
The Japanese artillery roared, and the commander of the little devil found that the gap that had appeared in the original defense line of the Chinese army had been blocked, and no matter how they attacked, the position of the Chinese army was as solid as a rock, and they could not take a step forward at all.
As soon as the commander of the Japanese brigade and his troops passed through the Jingcheng mining area, they were met with fierce resistance from the Chinese army. At first, the commander of the Japanese brigade did not notice anything unusual, and he was a little excited, thinking that they had caught up with the Chinese army, and then it was time for him to make a contribution.
However, more than half an hour passed, and the commander of the Japanese brigade began to gradually become uneasy, because the scouts they had sent out returned to tell him that they had spotted Chinese troops on their flanks.
The commander of the Japanese brigade finally understood that they had been fooled and that the Chinese army was surrounding them. However, the commander of the Japanese brigade did not mess up, but calmly analyzed the current situation, he had 10,000 elites of the Japanese Imperial Army around him, and behind them there was their large army support, and the Chinese army surrounded them was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, which was a completely stupid act of sending them to death.
"Telegram to Your Excellency Commander, we have pursued the Chinese army, and ask him to quickly send troops to support us!"