Chapter 115: Bringing the King into the Urn

"Quick, speed up" The guns and shouts in front of him became one, and the soldiers of the 56th Division who came after were under the pressure of the officers, and let go of their speed and ran for their lives. "Boom", "Boom", "Boom" The mountain artillery of the 56th Division began to exert its might, and more than a dozen sweepers who were entangled by the Japanese army during the retreat were drowned in smoke.

"Don't stop, don't stop, if you enter the forest, the Japanese artillery will not work" Yan Jiuzhang led a few snipers from the cleaning team to stop and wanted to pick up Yanlong and the others who were left behind, but waited for a burst of scolding from Yanlong. The mountain artillery of the 56th Division has begun to extend its artillery fire, and it is not only the people of the sweeping team who are drowned in the artillery fire in China, but also their own soldiers of the 56th Division, damn that the 56th Division is already crazy, as long as they can kill the sweeping team, they don't care about catching a few Japanese soldiers at all.

The rock dragon was like a duck, and they slipped into the forest with Yan Jiuzhang, the area of this mountain forest is not large, but it is enough for the rock dragon to use to avoid the shelling of the 56th Division. "Division commander, the enemy has already gone into the forest, the trees are too dense, our artillery bombardment does not work" Yanlong They got into the forest so that the shelling of the 56th Division had to stop, with the cover of the canopy, most of the shells from the Japanese army exploded on the canopy before they landed, but it did not have much damage to the enemy troops hiding in the forest.

"Da Da" A few gunshots suddenly flashed in the forest, putting the soldiers of the Yanagawa Wing who were in hot pursuit into a large area, and the enemy's counterattack was a bit unexpected by Yanagawa Takeshi. In his opinion, the object of the entire division should find a way to flee quickly, and there should not be such a situation of fighting to the death, and "surrounding" Yanagawa Takeshi did not pay attention to the troops following the 22nd Division, but only ordered his own wing to surround this forest first.

Wave after wave of Japanese troops scattered to build up the small forest, and the troops of the 22nd Division tried to set off on the forest several times, but they were all pushed back by the enemy troops in the forest. "Division commander, I watched the enemy flee into this forest with my own eyes" Watanabe Masao came, regardless of his sweat and dust, Yanagawa Takeshi reported the situation as soon as possible, his wing suffered heavy casualties, and could only undertake the task of encircling the woodland, and only the division commander Watanabe Masao had the power to assign attack troops.

"Well done" Watanabe Masao's face was a little loose, although the 56th Division suffered more than 1,000 casualties, but it finally bit this group of attackers, as long as the attackers were still in this forest, his 56th Division could completely annihilate the attackers, and only the 56th Division was a well-deserved king of the jungle. "Order the 148th Wing to enter and suppress the enemy troops in the forest, I will only give you 4 hours" Masao Watanabe sent out the ace wing of the 6th Division, and looked at his watch quite postureously, setting a time limit for the 148th Wing.

Most of the soldiers of the 148th Wing of the 56th Division came from the Kurume area, so the people of the 56th Division like to call the 148th Wing Kurume Wing, and their wing commander Aihara Dauntless Suke, the 148th Wing is a group of people born for war, and they don't want to die at all when they start a war, otherwise they wouldn't have become the ace wing in the hands of Masao Watanabe. "Understood" gave a military salute to Masao Watanabe, and Ainohara Dreadnought held his command knife and began to gather his officers to formulate an attack plan.

Dreadnought Aihara is not a reckless man who can only rush and fight, on the contrary, Dreadnought Aihara likes to make a plan before the attack starts, and then go to the front line after the attack starts, and adjust the attack steps at any time according to the development of the situation on the battlefield, this person is somewhat similar to Zhao Zhi in some ways, and he likes to control the situation in his hands. With the shouts of the junior officers, the soldiers of the 148th Wing began to assemble, and some anxious guys had even tied their belts to their heads.

"Let's start" Looking at the bravery of his soldiers, Aihara Dreadnought didn't say much, just waved his hand to signal the attack to begin. Three Shao Zuo holding command knives first strode towards the woodland, with the front finger of the command knife, the three full squadrons began to charge against the woodland, and the soldiers of the 22nd Division were different from the soldiers of the 148th Wing when they charged, so the danger of charging was much greater, but the speed of their charge was also much faster.

The machine guns of the 148th Wing were all transferred to the front line to provide fire cover for the charging troops, the commander of the machine gun position waved the command knife in his hand heavily, and the machine gunner, who was already ready to shoot, looked at the commander's signal and pulled the trigger. The machine gun position of the 148th Wing of the "Da Da" emitted a dense gunfire, and the whistling bullet rain crackled the grass and trees on the outer edge of the woodland, and even some shrubs were directly cut off by the bullets.

The commander of the "board" leading the team slashed hard, and the Japanese army, who had already raised the fighting spirit to the highest point, shouted, and instantly opened the straggler formation and poured into the forest. "The second echelon attack begins" Ainohara Dreadnought gave the order to launch the second wave of attack troops with a calm face, and three more full squadrons entered the forest in the same way, and the third wave of attack troops had not yet received the order to launch, so they had to wait at the outer edge of the forest first, once the order of the wing commander was given, these three more squadrons would pour into the forest.

The two groups of attack troops totaled more than 1,200 people in six full squadrons, and the division commander Masao Watanabe only gave the 148th Wing four hours of combat time, and Ainohara Dreadnought had to devote six squadrons to participate in the attack at one time. In fact, in the heart of Aihara Dreadnought, he was not willing to put so many troops into the forest, jungle warfare is different from plain position warfare, jungle warfare is about experience and cooperation, sometimes it will cause congestion because of their own manpower is too manpower, so that the target is exposed, leaving an opportunity for the opponent to take advantage of.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom" The second wave of attack troops from the 148th Company had just touched the woods, and the people outside the forest heard a series of explosions, but unfortunately the canopy was too thick, and they only heard the explosions but could not see the smoke rising after the explosion. "Boom", "boom", "boom" and several explosions sounded in the forest, and now Aihara Dreadnought was a little unable to sit still, and the attacking troops had been in for more than 10 minutes, and the people outside only heard the explosions but heard the gunfire exchanged between the two sides, which showed that the two successive explosions just now were probably the soldiers of the 148th Wing stepping on the mines set by the other side.

Before the situation was clear, Aihara Dreadnought was really not sure that he would continue to send troops into the forest to participate in the attack, and under the repeated insistence of Yanagawa Takeshi, Ainohara Dreadnought had to agree that Yanagawa Wing would send a search team of 50 people to investigate the situation. "Pap" "Pap" "Pap" The crisp shooting sound of the Japanese-style 38 rifle finally came out of the forest, and the Japanese army and the enemy who touched into the forest encountered and exchanged fire, but this belated gunfire made Aihara Dreadnought Nosuke and others who were waiting outside breathe a sigh of relief. The 56th Division is the best at jungle warfare, and the 148th Wing is the trump card of the 56th Division, as long as the enemy's traces can be found in the woods, the 148th Wing can be invincible.

The gunfire of the 38 rifle gradually rang out, and there was a growing momentum, Aihara Dreadnought's brows began to tangle together, the situation reported by the Yanagawa Wing was that the number of enemy troops was about 1,000 people, but the number of the two groups of attack troops in front and back of his wing had reached 1200 people, since the number was about the same, then this gunfire should not be so dense, right? Before Aihara Dreadnought ordered the attack troops of the third echelon to enter the forest, the sound of the 38 rifle in the forest was completely suppressed by a burst of dense machine gun fire.

The gunfire rang out one after another from far to near, and neither Ainohara nor his officers could calculate the number of machine guns the enemy had based on the sound of gunfire, and it could only be said that the enemy had far more machine guns than a Japanese brigade was equipped with. The sudden outbreak of the machine gun made the Japanese army's 38 rifle firing sound inaudible, "No, it's not a machine gun, it's the sound of an American-style Thomson submachine gun" The gunfire was closer, and an officer of the 148th Wing suddenly shouted, yes, the non-stop gunfire was in tune with the submachine guns used by the American troops on the Philippine battlefield.

The third echelon waiting on the outer edge of the woodland finally waited for the order to start the attack, and the officer who led the command drew the command knife at his waist and hissed and stepped forward, 9 squadrons were close to 1,900 people, which was already two-thirds of the strength of the 148th Wing. Aihara Dreadnought is well aware of the trouble caused by the American submachine gun in jungle melee combat, regardless of the weight, volume and rate of fire of the submachine gun, the Japanese-style 38 rifle is not advantageous in jungle warfare, Aihara Dreadnought can only win by the number of defeats now, hoping that under the suppression of superior forces, the enemy troops in the woodland can be squeezed to a point.

The attack force of the third echelon of the 148th Wing entered the woodland, and the dense gunfire of the opponent began to disperse immediately, and it seems that the advantage brought by the large investment of troops can not only be reflected in the plain positional warfare, but also in the jungle warfare. "Boom" "Boom" The mood of Aihara Dreadnought and the others had just calmed down a little, and suddenly there was a series of explosions in the forest, "not mortars and grenadiers" The officers commanding the artillery of the 148th Wing could only hear that the explosions had nothing to do with mortars and grenadiers. As for what caused the explosion, he didn't have a clue, but he was sure that if it was a cannon, the caliber would not be small.

The battle situation was not as easy as Aihara Dreadnought and his officers imagined, time passed minute by minute, a full two hours passed, three waves of a total of 9 squadrons of soldiers entered the woodland and none of them came back to deliver the news, and the gunfire in the forest did not stop, and from time to time there were two explosions, and the whole battle exuded a strange atmosphere, which made Ainohara Dreadnought irritable.