The purpose of Zhou Wu's battle was to use Gao Xiangfa's 2,000 troops to drag most of the attacking devils with the advantage of trench fortifications.
With more than 2,000 troops of Ge Sanmin and the security regiment, he quickly took the back of the devil troops in the attack, and suddenly launched a general attack from the back of the devil.
With the brothers of the spy battalion Zhai Daping and the Jiangyin Fort as the flanks, it is really not possible to annihilate or defeat the devils by attacking them from three sides, and they can take advantage of the favorable conditions that the devils cannot get the support of the planes in the sky at night to carry out sneak attacks and harassment tactics with the devils.
During the day, he hid in the fortifications to avoid the bombing of the devil planes, and preserved his combat strength, and so on, until the large force of the 79th Army reached Shitang Town.
Then in this way, the pressure on the fat man and Gao Xiangfa, who are in charge of the task of luring the enemy head-on, will be quite great, and they will have to use 3,000 men and horses to deal with the crazy attack of three or four thousand devils with tanks and armored vehicles.
On this sunny afternoon, whether or not they could withstand the desperate attack of these devils under the indiscriminate bombardment of devil planes became the key to the success or failure of this operation.
Zhou Wu and Ding Ning discussed it, and decided to hand over Zhang Ercheng's howitzer battalion and all the large and small artillery of the independent brigade to the command of the fat man.
Zhang Ercheng's beloved howitzers are out of shells, and now they can only be used as decorations there.
Zhou Wu thought of the spy battalion Zhai Daping, who was still halfway through at this time, and thought that it would be great if they could rush to Shitang Town as soon as possible, which could not only increase the possibility of attacking devils from three sides.
It can also increase artillery fire support, although only a few anti-aircraft guns are brought, but with this kind of artillery, at least it can make the devil planes dare not get too close, and at the same time, it can also boost the combat morale of the brothers of the national army who are defending their positions.
Zhou Wu immediately asked Zhai Daping, who was walking halfway, and asked him if he could speed up the march a little faster, and strive to reach Shitang Town in an hour.
Zhai Daping said that he should be able to rush to Shitang Town in an hour with most of the special service battalion lightly, but the artillery brothers who withdrew from the Jiangyin Fort may not be able to keep up.
Zhou Wu told Zhai Daping that he would leave more than 100 brothers to march with the artillery brothers who had withdrawn from the Jiangyin Battery, and the rest of the brothers from the special service battalion would all rush to Shitang Town at the speed of a forced march, the sooner the better.
Don't care about any weapons and equipment, as long as you rush to Shitang Town in time and block the attack of this devil, it will be easy to say anything, on the contrary, our Independent Brigade and even the entire 79th Army will face a catastrophe.
Zhai Daping heard Zhou Wu say so urgently, and hurriedly promised to do so immediately, he put down the radio station, and loudly ordered the special battalion except for one company to stay behind to escort the artillery brothers, the rest of the brothers were all lightly armed, leave their things to the brothers behind to take care of, and hurriedly march to Shitang Town as quickly as possible.
As soon as the order was given, the brothers of the special battalion all moved, and they left all the guys on their bodies except for the necessary things of guns and ammunition on the ground, and the brothers in the back went to clean up, and they desperately spread their legs and rushed towards Shitang Town.
There was such a lively scene on the road, and seven or eight hundred brothers of the national army threw away unnecessary things on their bodies and rushed to Shitang Town with weapons.
Zhai Daping ran at the head of the team, constantly urging the brothers who were running slowly behind, everyone was already tired enough to march, and they were urged by Zhai Daping to become more and more tired, but the military order was like a mountain, and it was still a death order issued by the brigade seat himself.
The devil is getting closer and closer, and if you can't walk slowly, you can meet the little devil halfway, and if you really get to that time, it won't be easy.
The brothers of the special service battalion used their strength to rush forward desperately, and just when everyone was panting and complaining in their hearts about why they hadn't arrived at Shitang Town, there was a sudden sound of intensive shelling ahead.
Zhai Daping trembled in his heart, and urgently ordered his subordinates to stop advancing immediately, and wait for him to understand the situation in front of him.
Zhai Daping estimated in his heart that it might be the little devil who launched an attack on the periphery of Shitang Town, and listening to the artillery bombardment, the devil seemed to want to destroy the whole of Shitang Town.
The cannon roared endlessly, and the sound shook in all directions, and even Zhai Daping, who was five or six miles away from Shitang Town, felt that the earth was trembling and the river was swaying at this time.
It seems that this time the little devil gritted his teeth and was iron-hearted, and he was going to capture this Shitang Town.
Sure enough, Zhai Daping contacted Zhou Wu by radio, and Zhou Wu informed Zhai Daping on the radio: "The devil's attack has begun, not only a large number of people, but also a lot of tanks and armored vehicles, the fat man with a group of 1,000 men and horses has already exchanged fire with the devils, and the devils' planes have also flown to the sky above the position of Shitang Town and start bombing, it is best that you can arrive as soon as possible." ” As soon as Zhai Daping heard that the front was really going on, he put down the radio, opened his throat and shouted to his subordinates: "Brothers, they have already done it with the little devils, and we are still grinding along the way, I feel embarrassed if I am so embarrassed."
Let's do our best, let's run."
After Zhai Daping shouted, the brothers gritted their teeth and ran forward, at this time, a few brothers with a slightly weaker physique really couldn't support it, and wanted to sit down and take a breath, rest for a while before leaving.
Zhai Daping was shocked when he saw it, and hurriedly beckoned a few brothers to quickly pick up the brothers who had already sat down, and dragged them to the front, this person could not sit down and rest immediately in such a high-intensity and violent action, otherwise he might never be able to get up once he sat down.
In this way, after running and rushing desperately for half an hour, Zhai Daping and the others finally arrived at the periphery of Shitang Town, which is now lively.
Zhai Daping first ordered his subordinates to find a place to hide and take a breath.
He took three scouts out to the devils who were frantically attacking the national army.
Zhai Daping took his three brothers and trotted all the way to the bottom of a mound, which was less than five hundred meters away from the place where the devil had charged.
The guns are rumbling, the bullets are flying, the smoke is billowing, and the garrison of the devil and the fat man is fighting each other.
Zhai Daping picked up the binoculars and looked at the devil, his eyes almost fell out, only to see a group of ghost soldiers wearing yellow uniforms and combat steel helmets hiding behind seven or eight tanks and more than a dozen armored vehicles desperately attacking the fat man's fortifications.
There are a lot of devils, Zhai Daping roughly estimates that there are about 2,000 people, and those tanks and armored vehicles Zhai Daping has never seen them, which is much larger than the devil tanks in the Luodian battlefield in Shanghai.
And the speed of its running is also much faster, especially the armored car, which seems to have pressed a lot of wheels underneath, and it can run and fly, and after a while, it rushed to the side of the fat man's position, and used the machine gun on its top to keep strafing the national soldiers who held their positions.
The fat men and the brothers who were guarding the trenches were all overwhelmed by the fire of this armored vehicle, and the barrels of the tanks seemed to be a lot thicker and much more powerful.
In addition, the non-stop dive bombing of the devil bombers in the sky blew up a mess in front of the national army's position, and the smoke billowed out, making the fat man anxious and jumping to his feet and scolding the little devil.
Zhai Daping saw that the situation was serious, this time the devils were more well equipped, and the shells seemed to be inexhaustible, and they bombarded the positions of the national army one by one, and they even bombarded the houses in Shitang Town behind the positions, blowing up clouds of smoke, and the ensuing fire caused the people in those houses to cry out and grab the ground, wailing all over the ground.
Zhai Daping thought to himself that the devil's offensive like this, the fat man's thousand-numbered men and horses would be wiped out in the trench by the devil's artillery fire in less than half an hour, and he couldn't fight like this anymore, so he had to change the battle plan and take the initiative to attack as soon as possible. t1706231537: