Chapter 312: The End of the Itagaki Division (9)

Although his own wing commander constantly gave orders to organize the defense. However, half a minute passed, and only a small number of soldiers remained. With his own rifle and a few light machine guns, he organized a thin defensive position and fired intermittent fire. And most of the little devils chose to be silent, looking at the cavalry battalion that was getting closer and closer one by one, not knowing what to do. What's more, there was already a look of fear on his face, and he began to slowly retreat.

"Baga fast, fire da-bang" Seeing that only a hundred soldiers had gathered around him, he saw that the cavalry on the opposite side was only less than 800 meters away from him. The wing commander couldn't care about the soldiers who were in a daze behind him, and shouted orders to the more than a hundred soldiers gathered around him.

Immediately, the remaining dozen or so light machine guns of the entire wing began to spit out a dense tongue of fire. However, although the enemy's firepower was unusually dense, the sound of horses' hooves became louder and louder in the face of the increasingly strong shaking of the earth. These machine gunners, who had not experienced any major battles, had already begun to tremble in their hands, and the accuracy of the light machine guns in their hands had also been reduced a lot because of the trembling hands.

How could the soldiers of the cavalry battalion be afraid in the face of these bullets, which were almost inaccurate? As soon as they rushed within the range of the enemy's machine guns, the soldiers of the cavalry battalion led by the battalion commander began to lie on their horses one after another, reducing the exposed area of their bodies as much as possible. At the same time, the cavalry rifle in his hand was also held up steadily.

"Bang" Just when he was less than 300 meters away from the defensive position of the Japanese army, the battalion commander who rushed to the front did not hesitate, steadily aimed at a machine gunner who was firing, and gently pulled the trigger. The bullet from the rifle was fired, and the battalion commander immediately reloaded, and a new bullet was pushed into the chamber

The "bang, bang, bang" battalion commander's gun was an order to hear the gunshot, and the hundreds of cavalry behind him pulled the trigger on their target one after another. Hundreds of bullets rushed like a rain of bullets towards a line of defense that the captain of the baggage wing had just organized.

"Ah Baga" immediately the machine gun that was still spewing flames just now, with a burst of screams, stopped. A famous machine gunner slumped crookedly next to the machine gun. At the same time, more than a hundred soldiers in front of them, in the first round of shooting of the cavalry battalion of the Eighth Route Army, immediately fell more than thirty soldiers. A huge gap appeared in front of the cavalry battalion of the Eighth Route Army.

"Baga quick, plug the gap. Hurry, we must not let the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army rush in," the wing commander commanded loudly to the only remaining squad of soldiers beside him.

However, just as the soldiers of this squad had blocked the gap and were about to pick up the machine guns of the fallen machine gunners to shoot, the second round of bullets from the cavalry battalion had already hit. Since there was only 200 meters left from the army's position at this time, the soldiers' shooting accuracy was much improved. The little devils of a squad that had just been replenished to the defensive position, before they could fire a single bullet, more than half of the soldiers fell.

"Eight grid tooth road immediately shot. Ready to fight bayonets" Seeing that dozens of soldiers died under the guns of the cavalry battalion of the Eighth Route Army, the wing commander was furious, pulled out his command knife, and ordered loudly.

However, the cavalry battalion did not give him the opportunity to fight bayonets. The moment he drew his command knife, the last round of bullets from the cavalry battalion had already been fired out of the chamber. The two bullets accurately hit the captain in the chest and head respectively, and the captain of the baggage wing fell to the ground with a trace of unwillingness. At the same time, the little devils who were guarding the defensive positions were once again beaten to dozens of people.

"Kill" saw that the defense line of the Yue army had been shattered by his own three rounds of fire. Without any hesitation, the battalion commander immediately put away his rifle and drew his beloved saber from its scabbard. And the warriors behind him also did the same, and drew their sabers one after another.

Immediately, a flash of sword light, and a knife formation composed of sabers appeared in front of the little devil, and quickly rushed to the position of the army.

"Kill" A flash of knife flashed, and the little devil who was blocking in front of him was instantly divided by the saber in the hands of the battalion commander. And the little devil's eyes widened until the severed head fell to the ground, and he did not close it. At this moment, the head of the Yue Army, which was still rolling on the ground just now, was trampled into a pile of minced meat by the horse's hooves behind the battalion commander in an instant.

"Killing" As the battalion commander cut down the first little devil, the cavalry soldiers behind him were demoralized. Constantly driving his mounts, he rushed into the position of the army, and began to constantly wave the saber in his hand at the neck of the army. Immediately, the position of the Yue army flashed with a sword light, and the round heads were cut off by the soldiers.

With one cavalry battalion soldier after another, waving the saber in his hand, he rushed into the position of the army. Immediately, under the onslaught of the cavalry, the position of the Yue army instantly fell into chaos. The neighing of the war horses, the screams of the little devils, and the shouts of the soldiers immediately resounded.

Seeing the fierce and vicious cavalry battalion soldiers, the remaining hundreds of soldiers of the Baggage Wing of the Yue Army were collectively terrified almost at the same time. Especially when his own wing captain was killed by the other party, the last bit of resistance in almost everyone's hearts was also destroyed.

I saw the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army brandishing a saber that was low blood and slashing at his head, and looked at the comrades in front of him who had their heads cut off one by one. In these soldiers, they can no longer see the murderous aura of the past, but their faces are full of panic. The little devil who reacted quickly had already thrown down the weapon in his hand when the cavalry rushed over, and hid under the cart next to him. And those little devils who reacted slowly, without exception, were immediately cut in half by the fighters.

One by one, the galloping cavalry instantly confused the heavy troops of the Yue Army. Coupled with the increasingly fierce attack of a regiment, the engineer wing at the front of the unit also reached the time of life and death. And in the middle of the whole team, for the time being, it is still a very safe artillery wing. Face the enemy everywhere around, although there are countless artillery pieces in your hands. But there were not enough positions for them to build artillery positions, and more importantly, they simply did not know where to aim their artillery.

Just when they finally made up their minds to support the reinforced squadrons on both sides of the artillery wing. The roaring charge of the Eighth Route Army was already sounding around the two reinforced squadrons. Countless Eighth Route Army marched with rifles with bayonets in their hands, under the cover of light mortars. In less than two minutes, the Eighth Route Army's assault unit was mixed with its own soldiers. Let the cannon that had just been aimed at the target once again lose its effect.

And just as the artillery wing shifted its target again and aimed at a regiment around the engineering wing, the two reinforced squadrons on both sides of the artillery wing had been completely wiped out by the fighters in an instant. In the face of the field artillery wing, which no longer had any defensive strength, the fighters did not hesitate.

Under the command of their respective commanders, they did not bother to rest, and immediately organized one after another assault teams to rush towards the position of the field artillery wing of the army a few hundred meters away under the cover of a light machine gun.

"Comrades, rush! Destroy the devil's artillery" in bursts of roars. The fighters basically did not encounter much resistance, and one by one, under the command of their respective commanders, rushed into the enemy's artillery positions.

"Kill" faced a group of wolf-like soldiers of the Eighth Route Army. These artillery personnel of the Chinese army, who had not gone through white-knuckle battles and positional battles, showed frightened expressions one after another. There were even some little devils who were firing the cannon and threw down the shells in their hands and began to flee. Of the hundreds of artillery crews of the entire artillery wing, less than half of the soldiers did not panic. Under the command of the wing commander, an infantry phalanx was formed, and began to reload the rifles in their hands, preparing for a white-knuckle battle.

"Kill to give" under the threat of the respective commander's command knife. The phalanx of little devils roared, raised the rifles in their hands, and launched a counter-charge against the Eighth Route Army that was getting closer and closer.

"Bang bang bang" A messy rifle sound rang out, and the fighters fired the last bullet left in the rifle. Just when the little devils who rushed to the front fell down, the soldiers resolutely held their bayonets and rushed into the formation of the little devils.

"Killing" one by one, the assault teams finally rushed into the position of the army. The men and horses of the two sides, nearly 1,000 troops, began to engage in a brutal white-knuckle battle on the narrow artillery positions of the Japanese army. In less than a few minutes, a lot of corpses fell on the ground, both soldiers and little devils

However, here, the Eighth Route Army has an absolute superiority in strength. As the white-knuckle battle continued, the second regiment of another reinforced squadron was cleaned up. Under the leadership of the regiment commander, they also rushed into the artillery position of the Yue Army, which had fallen into a melee. With the addition of more than 1,000 Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army, which was evenly matched with the Yue Army, had an absolute advantage in terms of strength, and the balance of victory and defeat quickly tilted in the direction of the Eighth Route Army. In the face of several times the strength of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, a little devil needs to deal with at least two, or more than two well-trained Eighth Route Army.

Facing two or more Eighth Route Army. Maybe the real field units of the army are competent, but these artillerymen who do not have much combat experience. In the face of at least two or more enemies around him, he was stabbed to the ground by the fighters in less than two rounds. There was no suspense about the outcome of the whole white-knuckle battle. After the two regiments paid the price of more than 300 casualties, nearly 700 artillery soldiers were finally wiped out by the soldiers.

"Haha, the big one is great, the artillery wing of the Japanese army has been occupied by the Reading Force Regiment of the Second Regiment of our army, and all the artillery has been wiped out. Now on the entire battlefield, there are only more than 1,000 little devils left in the engineer wing and the baggage wing," the commander Gao Yuan, who looked at his every move on the battlefield. Seeing that the white-knuckle battle on the artillery position of the Yue Army ended quickly, he said with excitement on his face.

"Staff Officer Wang, immediately convey the order to the Second Regiment and the Reading Regiment. The 2nd Regiment was ordered to immediately reinforce the 1st Regiment and to completely annihilate the engineer wing of the Japanese Army in the shortest possible time. The Reading Regiment launched an attack on the enemy's baggage wing, cooperated with the divisional cavalry battalion, and completely annihilated the army's baggage wing in one fell swoop. Commander Gao Yuan ordered excitedly.

"Yes, Commander" "Comrades, the commander orders that the Reading Force Regiment will set off immediately, and make persistent efforts, together with the cavalry battalion, to eliminate the remaining hundreds of little devils in the army's baggage wing. Comrades, for the sake of victory, rush and kill the devils" received a telegram from the commander. The head of the Reading Regiment waved the telegram in his hand and shouted loudly at the remaining more than a thousand soldiers behind him.

"For the sake of victory, rush" Immediately, on the starting position of the Reading Regiment, an earth-shattering roar sounded, and the soldiers of each company were able to continue fighting. One after another under the command of their respective company commanders and instructors. Rushed to the enemy's baggage wing, which had been in chaos.

And the second regiment behind the reading group also did not lag behind. Receiving a telegram from the commander, he immediately concentrated all the firepower of the whole regiment. With all the firepower in his hands, he tore a hole in the defensive line that had just been laid out by the army engineer wing.

Immediately, an assault team of company size, armed with almost all the light machine guns of the entire regiment, appeared in front of the breakthrough. In the loud charge of the regimental headquarters, a light machine gun spewed out tongues of fire, and the assault team also rushed out of the starting position. From the breakthrough that had just been torn apart, it was directly interspersed with the depth of the army's defensive position. The remaining three battalions, under the personal leadership of the regimental commander and political commissar, followed closely behind the commandos. While charging, the breakthrough was expanded, and the army was separated and encircled.

In less than a few minutes, the commando team with strong firepower crossed the defensive positions of the engineering wing of the Japanese army. The three battalions that followed closely behind the assault team also split the remaining hundreds of sappers in two at the same time, losing contact with each other.

Interspersed, surrounded, interspersed, and then divided and encircled, this is the most effective tactic for the reader to destroy the army. And it was here that this tactic was brought into full play by the soldiers of the Second Regiment. Ten minutes later, the position of the army engineer wing had been divided into six large pieces by the commando team of the second regiment, and the little devils on each position had less than 100 troops. And at this time, there was no need for the fighters to continue to shed blood and sacrifice, one mortar after another, under the orders of the respective regiment commanders, was moved to the forefront and prepared for the final attack.

"Mortars, fire and boom" Immediately, the mortars that moved to the front-line positions opened fire one after another. Under the command of the artillery commanders one by one, one shell after another, as if they had eyes, accurately entered the fortifications of the army. In the sound of explosions, the positions of the Japanese army with a radius of less than 100 meters were instantly covered by dense artillery fire.

After the "rush" artillery fire, the fighters who surrounded the various positions of the engineer wing. Without any hesitation, he rushed out of the position and rushed towards the position of the Yue army, which had fallen into a sea of fire.

It can be said that the most tragic battle of the three battlefields took place in the engineer wing. In the face of the swarming Eighth Route Army, the only few hundred little devils left, after the fierce artillery fire just now, no longer have the immaturity that has just entered the battlefield. Under the command of the commander, they all showed fierce faces and quickly assembled into a stabbing formation. Even those seriously injured little devils are holding bayonets tightly or holding grenades. Prepare to die with the Eighth Route Army that rushed over.

In the face of such a murderous and lifeless little devil, the soldiers are also powerless, and can only rely on the method of fighting hard for one life to slowly eliminate the living force of the army. Fortunately, after the artillery attack just now, the army had less than 300 troops left.

More than 300 little devils, no matter how ferocious, can't fight the more than 2,000 soldiers of the two main regiments. Finally, half an hour later, the battlefield slowly fell silent. And at this time, the entire battlefield, except for the busy soldiers. Everywhere there were stumps and severed arms of soldiers killed in battle, one corpse after another. There are warriors, and there are little devils, layer upon layer. What's more, the land on the battlefield was basically stained red by the blood of the soldiers of the two armies.

As the gunfire on the positions of the engineer wing ceased, the positions of the baggage wings, which were at the end, were also in the finishing stages. After going through the slashing back and forth of the cavalry battalion. There were not many little devils standing in the whole position, and as for the hundreds of little devils who survived, they hid under the carts, hoping to avoid the sabers of the cavalry battalion.

Perhaps their luck was too good, and just as the cavalry battalion was preparing for the second round of slashing, the Reading Regiment, which had been ordered to attack, had slowly surrounded it. In order to avoid accidental injuries to the cavalry, the cavalry battalion wisely chose to retreat. And those little devils who hid under the baggage carts were very lucky to avoid the cavalry's sabers. However, once again, they burrowed into the encirclement of the Reading Force.

In the face of these baggage soldiers, who had basically lost their combat effectiveness, the soldiers were not polite. Regardless of whether the soldiers lying on the ground and under the car were alive or not, they were all fiercely patched up with bayonets, and for those little devils who still intended to resist stubbornly, the soldiers fought back with dense bullets.

It wasn't until an hour later that the huge position of the baggage wing was finally searched by the soldiers. After paying the losses of nearly 100 people, the soldiers easily solved the remaining defeat of the enemy in the baggage wing of the army. With the last little devil of the army's baggage wing, he was beaten into a honeycomb by the soldiers. The encirclement and annihilation battle of the entire army's baggage and logistics wing was unexpectedly and ended victoriously in less than two hours.

(To be continued)