Chapter 183: The Turtle in the Urn
The ruined village was in flames and thick smoke, the dark night was illuminated, the gunfire was thinned, Yang Ling recruited a few company commanders to discuss the strategy of attacking the hospital, and the devil soldiers seized the time to consolidate the defense line and lick their wounds. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The landlord's compound occupied by the devil is located in the center of the village, the brick structure is solid and thick, and the courtyard wall has also built a lookout hole, which has become a shooting hole for the devil at this moment, and the light and heavy machine guns stretch out along the lookout hole, becoming the king of Hades, but Yang Ling They are helpless.
Shaozo Higashi Shotaro personally participated in the battle, the earthy yellow military uniform was so dirty that he couldn't distinguish the original color, and his face was also cut by explosive films, making him look even more hideous, and under the dim light, the bloodshot eyes made people shudder.
Dongzhuang Taro has never fought such a battle, they used to chase the Chinese army, but now the offensive and defensive situation is transposed, they were blocked by Yang Ling and they were blocked in this small courtyard, and they became the turtle in the urn, how aggrieved they are.
It's a shame for the arrogant Higashijo Taro! He wants a hundredfold return!
Although the boat capsized in the gutter and fell into the heavy encirclement of the Chinese army, and the whole army could be wiped out at any time, he did not panic and still maintained the calm that a commander should have.
"Has the telegram been sent?" Higashijotaro asked, looking up.
"Sir, it's sent out, the squadrons are returning for reinforcements, and they can arrive here before dawn."
He continued to ask, "Has the village chief replied?"
"Chief of the village, he agrees with your plan to surround on all sides and blossom in the center, and he has sent a cavalry squadron to reinforce it."
Shotaro Higashi waved his hand and let the second lieutenant officer go down.
In the face of the dilemma, Shaozo Higashi Shotaro not only did not panic and lead people to break through, but also made a plan for counterattack in a short time, that is, to encircle on all sides and blossom in the center.
He used himself as bait to hold on to the compound and drag Yang Ling and them, and then let the reinforcements carry out a counter-encirclement, completely eating Yang Ling and their more than 1,000 defeated soldiers.
This plan was very risky, because he was the bait, and the slightest mistake would destroy it, but in order to eliminate the more than 1,000 Chinese routs, he decided to take a risk.
"Everybody put their weapons on the wall! Only by holding out until dawn will we be victorious! Higashijotaro ordered in a deep voice.
With his order, except for those wounded soldiers who were seriously injured and could not move, they remained in the house, and everyone in the brigade headquarters took their guns and went to the courtyard wall, ready to defend to the death.
The devil soldiers were busy consolidating the defense line in the courtyard, constantly carrying ammunition and loading sandbags to block the gate, while outside the courtyard, Yang Ling also got together with several company commanders to discuss how to attack.
Company commander Li Tiezhu was killed, and several other company commanders were wounded because they took the lead in the attack, and they gathered around Yang Ling at this moment, deeply depressed.
More than 800 of them raided the unsuspecting devils, and they also fought this rotten battle, not only suffered heavy losses, but also made the devils unable to attack, and they all felt that their faces were dull, too wretched, and too aggrieved.
Yang Ling looked at the frustrated company commanders, and naturally knew what they were thinking, but the battle was caused by many factors.
Except that he, the commander, was too anxious, the attack was disjointed, there was a lack of coordination, the firepower was not concentrated, and the devil reacted quickly...... The battle has exposed many problems in the troops, and it is necessary to sum up lessons and lessons after the war, because no unit is born to win battles, and it is necessary to sum up experience in these lessons and constantly temper and grow in order to temper themselves into an iron-blooded army and a victorious army, and now they still have a long way to go.
The experience is summarized after the war, not during the war, so Yang Ling doesn't want to discuss why the offensive failed at the moment, he just wants to discuss the current problem.
Yang Ling didn't have time to beat around the bush, and asked directly: "How to attack the courtyard, tell me what you think."
Company Commander Qin Shou saw that no one spoke for a long time, coughed and took the lead to speak: "I said battalion commander, we are just rushing to break through, the devils in the village are almost dead, not as bad as the few in the yard, and now they can't stop us from breaking through, why should we fight them to the death."
Yang Ling turned his gaze to the other company commanders: "What do you mean to withdraw?" Don't fight? ”
Liu Yidao replied angrily: "The body of Brother Li Tiezhu is still in that courtyard, we have died so many brothers, and if we don't destroy the little devils in the courtyard, Lao Tzu can't swallow this breath!"
"Old Wu, what about you?"
"You can try to attack a few more times, if it really doesn't work, there is no need to put all the brothers in it, the devil's reinforcements must be coming soon."
Yang Dashu said to himself: "The brothers of our machine gun platoon are dead, and we have to let the little devil pay for the blood debt."
"Okay, then attack a few more times." Seeing that most people were unwilling to withdraw so gloomily, Yang Ling took a deep breath and set the tone.
Although it was decided to attack, but at this moment the devil occupies the landlord's compound and has turned it into a fortress, and if you want to gnaw this hard bone, it will definitely not work to rush hard, the loss is too great.
"Or I'll take the demolition team to blow up the wall." Liu Yidao proposed.
Yang Ling shook his head: "I'm afraid that before I get close to the wall, I will be beaten into a sieve by a heavy machine gun, and we don't know how thick the wall is, this rash going up will only increase casualties."
"How can you fight ......?"
Just when everyone was worried, Liu Yidao suddenly slapped his thigh and stood up: "I remember that there is a cannon in the yard over there, let's bombard the damn with the cannon!"
"Where's the cannon?" Yang Ling was puzzled, because from the beginning of the battle to the present, he had not seen any artillery from the devil there.
"It's in the yard over there, there are two of them, and there are several boxes of shells, I cleaned up the remnants of the devils in the yard and saw them."
Yang Ling was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly asked Liu Yidao to lead the way, and soon they arrived at the camp yard of the devil artillery team, and the two Type 92 infantry guns were still covered with rain cloths and placed in the yard.
Their assault was so fast at first that the devil's artillery squad was wiped out by grenades before it could be launched.
Yang Ling stroked the cold metal cannon barrel, raised his eyebrows, and beckoned: "Get out, let's use the cannonball!"
The devil soldiers were guarding the courtyard wall at the moment, and when they saw Yang Ling and their movements approaching, grenadiers and machine guns beckoned over, bullets flew wildly, and grenades collapsed two nearby houses.
Yang Ling looked at the arrogant devil soldiers, sneered, and commanded the soldiers to fix the hoes, adjust the angle of fire, and load the bullets.
Boom - the ground shook the mountains, the 70-millimeter high-explosive bombs roared past the collapsed houses, and landed in the landlord's compound, the flames soared into the sky, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and several wounded devils lying in the courtyard were immediately torn apart, and a rain of blood fell in the courtyard.
"Good! Hit! Seeing the shells fall into the landlord's compound, there were screams from inside, Liu Yidao applauded loudly, and Shaozuo Dong Shotaro in the courtyard was so shocked that he couldn't speak, how could there be a cannon in the army?
"Reload!" After the test firing, Yang Ling adjusted the angle of fire, re-ordered, and another high-explosive shell was loaded into the breech.