Zhai Daping hurriedly retreated back, he reported the battle situation on the front to Zhou Wu by radio, and suggested that he immediately take the initiative to attack in three ways, and be entangled with the devils, as long as the devils are driven back, there is no need to consider the question of how many enemies are destroyed, and it is a good time for our national army to sneak attack and harass at night.
After Zhou Wu listened to Zhai Daping's report and suggestions on the frontline battle situation, he was silent for a while, and he couldn't make up his mind for a while.
Although the pressure on the fat man at this time was quite great, which was also what he had considered before, what he was worried about was not that he would take the initiative to attack now and that the national army would be inferior in numbers, but that he would be sure to defeat such a well-equipped and powerful devil army.
If the independent brigade and the security regiment can't defeat or repel these devils, then the trouble will be big, and if the independent brigade is not guaranteed, this Shitang town will be completely finished.
As soon as Shitang Town misses, the 79th Army behind it and even the more than 200,000 National Army troops retreating in the Jiangyin area towards Nanjing will face a catastrophe, and this decision is not easy to make.
Seeing the gloom on Zhou Wu's face, Ding Ning analyzed: "Brigade seat, now our independent brigade has fallen into a dilemma, if you don't take the initiative to attack and mess with the devil now, after half an hour or an hour, the position that the fat man holds will definitely not be guaranteed, and the position will not be guaranteed, and there will be Gao Xiangfa and Ge Sanmin's position, but a regiment of more than 1,000 soldiers will all be reimbursed."
"That's a veteran who came out of the flesh mill in Luodian, Shanghai, needless to say, the combat effectiveness is strong, just these brothers have the best experience to be military instructors, we can't just watch them fall under the fire of devils."
Zhou Wu also pointed out in his heart, as soon as he heard Ding Ning's analysis, he came up angrily and shouted at Ding Ning: "Then what do you say to do?"
Ding Ning didn't care so much about the changes in Zhou Wu's mood, and continued to talk about his analysis: "Brigade seat, I think Zhai Daping's suggestion is reasonable, anyway, hiding in the trenches and being bombed is a death, it's better to give it a go, maybe there is a chance to survive, if you hide in the trenches and are blown up by the devil's plane and artillery, it's not the same that you can't hold this Shitang Town."
Zhou Wu was already a little moved at this time, but he was still fantasizing in his heart that the fat man would be able to resist the devil for a while, because according to the original plan, the security regiment had already set off to take the path and go around the back of the devil, if he launched a counterattack now, then the only troops available to him were the remaining men and horses of his own independent brigade of less than 5,000.
Using these horses to deal with more than 3,000 little devils equipped with tanks, armored vehicles, and air and aircraft support, Zhou Wu really didn't have this bottom in his heart.
Just when Zhou Wu hesitated to discuss with Ding Ning, the fat man called from the forward position, he obviously suffered a lot of battle damage, and his words were full of gunpowder.
"Brigade seat, this battle can't be fought, the devil just bombarded our position with artillery and planes, but he refused to show his head, all of them were fucking hiding behind tanks and armored vehicles, Lao Tzu didn't have a cannon at hand, and the machine gun bullets couldn't penetrate those iron bumps, and now many brothers on our position have been killed and injured by the devil's artillery fire."
"If it goes on like this, our group will be finished, brigade, let's attack quickly, and leave some seeds for our group."
The fat man called out on the phone, and Zhou Wu's thinking suddenly pulled to the road of taking the initiative, he thought to himself that anyway, now hiding in the trenches and being bombarded indiscriminately by the devil's aircraft and artillery, it is better to take the risk and attack desperately for a while, maybe he can defeat the devil and take a breath for a while.
Zhou Wu was about to give the order to attack on all fronts, when suddenly a cannonball from the devil whistled, and a staff officer beside Zhou Wu hurriedly shouted: "Lie down" As soon as the words fell, Zhou Wu felt that he was being pushed by a person, and his body suddenly lost its center of gravity, staggered, and fell to the ground involuntarily.
At the same time, the devil's cannonball just exploded near Zhou Wu and them, blowing up a large cloud of smoke and flying dirt, and the strong qi wave lifted Zhou Wu and Ding Ning several times, and the billowing gunpowder smoke made Zhou Wu and Ding Ning's faces black and mushy.
After Zhou Wu got up, he touched his head, fortunately, nothing happened, but the skin on his arm was broken a little when he turned his head just now, and he immediately looked back at Ding Ning, Ding Ning was nothing serious, he was getting up and looking for his gold-rimmed glasses on the ground.
Not far from where Ding Ning got up, a brigade headquarters staff officer fell to the ground covered in blood, and his back was densely covered with holes blown out by shrapnel from artillery shells, and blood flowed out vigorously, Zhou Wu immediately shouted: "Hygienist, immediately rescue the wounded" Everyone turned the staff officer over, and the hygienist who ran quickly probed his snort with his hand, shook his head, and looked at Zhou Wu helplessly, meaning that this staff officer had been killed, and there was no point in rescuing.
Zhou Wu didn't have time to be sad and emotional at this time, the battle situation on the fat man's side was extremely urgent, and if something was slightly wrong, it might trigger the rout of the independent brigade on the whole line in Shitang Town, so he asked the people of the health company to immediately carry the dead staff officer down, and he immediately called the fat man: "Fat man, prepare for a counterattack, listen to my orders, and the counterattack on the whole front will start in ten minutes."
The fat man agreed, and immediately ran out of cover to prepare for a counterattack.
Zhou Wu sent all the orders for the counterattack on the whole line ten minutes later to all the departments of the Independent Brigade, only the security regiment that went to the back of the devil to carry out the interspersed task could not be notified, Zhou Wu ordered Zhai Daping, the spy battalion who was on standby behind the devil, to ask him to pay close attention to the movements of this security regiment during the battle, and report to him as soon as there is news, and it is best to contact him before launching a charge.
After Zhai Daping received the order that Zhou Wu was about to attack on all fronts, he hurriedly sent a battalion commander and asked him to take a squad of brothers to the path where the security regiment came to find the security regiment, and told the security regiment that once it joined the special battalion, it would immediately join the counterattack against the devils.
The commander of the first battalion immediately called the three brothers to go to the way of the security regiment, and Zhai Daping immediately ordered the other two brothers who were running fast to hurry up to find the brothers who had not yet caught up with the special service battalion, and especially explained to them, so that the brothers behind them would speed up the march and not have to worry about anything, throw those bulky guys on the road first, and then go back to get them when the battle is over.
After Zhai Daping arranged these tasks, he looked at the time, and there were still two minutes before the time for the counterattack, he immediately ordered his seven or eight hundred brothers to hide behind the devil's offensive position, and then rush out together after Zhou Wu sent the attack signal to surprise the little devil.
Ten minutes is coming, Zhou Wu looked at his watch, and immediately issued an order to counterattack below, the fat man was at the forefront of the position, as soon as he received the order to counterattack, he immediately commanded the seven or eight hundred brothers in the trench to rush towards the little devils hiding behind the tank.
At this time, the actual distance between the fat man's position and the little devil was still one or two hundred meters, and the devil saw that the national army had rushed out of the trench, and immediately stopped the charge, and the tanks and armored vehicles quickly formed a fire barrier, surrounding an insurmountable steel wall, and all kinds of artillery and light and heavy machine guns fired at the fat man who rushed over.
Many brothers of the national army fell under the fire of the devils, and the fat man saw that he could not rush hard like this, so he hurriedly ordered his brothers to disperse the formation, find cover on the spot and hide, and crawl forward.
Just when the fat man was crawling forward in front of the fire of the devil's tank armored vehicle and slowly crawling forward, Zhai Daping and the seven or eight hundred brothers of the special service battalion were quietly touching the back of the devil's buttocks.
In order to achieve the purpose of raiding from behind the devil, Zhai Daping ordered all the brothers to throw away all the things that could make a noise on their bodies, except for weapons and ammunition, and all of them traveled lightly.
Some brothers simply took off the big scalp shoes they wore on the soles of their feet, only wore a pair of socks on a cold day, and joked that it was quiet and brisk to run like this. t1706231537: