Chapter 179: Recovering Teng County

On a mountain path leading to Teng County, Qiao Youhua was marching with more than 600 dragon tooth officers and soldiers who had survived the bloody battle.

In the first battle of Taierzhuang, they killed and wounded no less than 3,000 Japanese soldiers, but they also paid the price of more than 100 casualties, of which 80% were killed.

Although they have already achieved a very brilliant victory in terms of ordinary exchange to huàn comparison, for Qiao Youhua, these more than 100 veterans are all elites who crawled out of the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses, and have been tempered by countless lives and deaths, blood and fire.

The loss of one is enough to make Qiao Youhua feel distressed, let alone nearly a hundred.

However, Qiao Youhua also knows very well that now is not the time to be sad, Taierzhuang won a complete victory in the first battle, and the fighters of the encirclement and annihilation of the Segu detachment have emerged, whether they can recover Tengxian County and cut off the northern escape route of the Segu detachment will be the key to the success of the next encirclement and annihilation battle.

Therefore, after sending the telegram to the Fifth War Zone Governor's Department, Qiao Youhua immediately took the remaining dragon tooth soldiers through the mountains north of Taierzhuang, bypassing Zaozhuang and other places, and directly penetrating Teng County.

With the passage of time, this was originally just a small town with a population of less than 10,000 people, and now it has developed into a large county with a population of no less than 100,000.

Because it is located along the Jinpu Railway, it is a strategic transportation place.

However, less than half a month ago, the Japanese Segu detachment took two days to capture this important town along the railway, and more than 6,000 officers and soldiers of the 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army stationed here were all killed and martyred, staging a tragic scene.

With the passage of time, it has become a stronghold on the Japanese army's logistical supply line, and the Seko detachment left more than 200 devils to garrison.

The devastated bullet-riddled walls still show that there was once heavy fighting.

At the east gate of the city, a Japanese sun flag was fluttering high in the wind, and under it, several Japanese riflemen stood like benchmarks.

In addition, there are patrol teams composed of groups of devils, constantly patrolling back and forth along the city.

The railway station is located in the southwest of the city, and the railway line raises an arc circle in the southwest of Tengxian County, passing around the city and going straight to Zaozhuang.

The railway station was the focus of the Japanese army's defense, and there were probably no less than two squads stationed.

The defense looks tighter than the four city walls, not only are there devils patrolling around the station 24 hours a day, but the devils have also built ring fortifications at several important entrances and exits of the station.

Nishigo is a 22-year-old Japanese army commander who has been in the army for two years, and he and his five companions are on patrol duty in the east of the city today.

Patrolling back and forth in the city was a very boring thing, and after walking back and forth for about ten laps, Xixiangye took advantage of the absence of a superior commander to patrol, so he stopped, asked a senior soldier for a cigarette, and said, "I'll rest, you five continue to patrol!" ”

Within the Japanese army, the hierarchy was very strict, which was also a fundamental reason why the Japanese army was able to maintain a strong combat effectiveness.

Including the devil soldier who brought cigarettes to the West Country, they all bowed their heads in unison: "Hai! ”

Afterwards, he continued to patrol along the city walls with guns on his back.

Nishimura squatted down, leaned against the battlement wall and smoked quietly.

Xi Xiangye and his subordinate comrades-in-arms should not have thought that it was this inconsequential lazy move that allowed Xi Xiangye to avoid a section.

To the east of the city is a mountain, with dense forests stretching less than 500 meters from the city gate, and it has not been reclaimed as farmland because the terrain is not very good.

Outside the small road that leads diagonally to the south and north of the city, near the city gate, and farther away, it is overgrown with wild grass.

Qiao Youhua led the officers and soldiers of the Dragon Tooth Task Force to the woods, and then Qin Zi led a hundred elite soldiers to quietly approach the bushes a hundred meters outside the city gate.

Squatting in the bushes more than one meter high, Qiao Youhua held the telescope around his neck, and after observing for a while, he took a light machine gun from a soldier next to him, turned on the safe, and began to aim at the two devil soldiers standing guard on the city gate building.

"Dada...... Da ...... "Two rapid short shots, six hot machine gun bullets hit two devil sentries respectively, and the two were shot in the chest and fell straight down.

At this time, the five members of the patrol team in the West Countryside had just walked near the city gate building, and the sound of gunfire was an order, and the light and heavy weapons in the hands of the other hundred dragon tooth officers and soldiers opened fire one after another.

Before the five devil soldiers came to their senses, a dense rain of metal bullets overwhelmed them all!

The five devils were shot one after another and fell, and the dense bullets hit the city wall, splashing earth and rocks, and dust and smoke everywhere.

Xi Xiangye, who had just smoked half of his cigarette, was frightened by the sudden sound of gunshots, and in his arms, a rifle tied to a small sun flag fell directly to the ground.

He hurriedly picked it up, and just as he wanted to stand up, several bullets flew past his scalp, and immediately frightened him to the ground.

Outside the city, all kinds of gunfire came and went, one after another, and the dense bullets hit the city wall and thumped, and the western countryside moved to the edge of the outer battlement wall, just as he was about to risk death to look up at the situation outside the city.

Rumble! A violent explosion was about to get up again, but he shook his feet and fell down again.

The next moment, the deafening shouts of countless Chinese soldiers sounded outside the city.

"Rush! Kill! "Hundreds of Dragon's Tooth officers and soldiers swarmed towards the gates that had been blasted open by the Demomen.

Xixiangye's face was like ashes, and he muttered: "It's late, it's late, the people of China have come in, and Teng County is going to be lost!" ”

The sad West Countryside suddenly shouted like crazy, stood up suddenly, and wanted to shoot outside the city, even if he could shoot a soldier before he died.

However, no sooner had he emerged than a hot bullet whistled and entered his skull.

"Poof!" Xi Xiangye's body was stunned, the steel helmet on his head had a thumb-sized hole, and red blood began to flow down the bridge of his forehead and nose.

He only felt that in his consciousness, the sky was spinning, and an endless darkness was gradually coming, knowing that it would completely drown him.

At the same time that the devil captain fell, hundreds of dragon tooth officers and soldiers had already swarmed into the city, fighting fiercely with dozens of devil reinforcements who rushed to hear the news.

There was no suspense in the result, and this elite of a hundred battles, which had an absolute superiority in troops, easily wiped out dozens of devils, and the troops advanced towards the central area of Teng County in two ways.

It wasn't until Qiao Youhua led more than 300 subordinates to attack the devil's command post and a quartermaster warehouse in the city that the other three devils in the direction of the city gate and the railway station rushed into the city in a panic, wanting to recapture the lost area and annihilate the officers and soldiers of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force who broke into the city.

However, the Japanese army, which was far from each other in strength and combat effectiveness, soon found that their plan had become a luxury, and in turn fell into the layers of encirclement of this group of Chinese troops with strong combat effectiveness and extremely good at street fighting.

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