When Lao Xu heard this, he hurriedly said to Huang Shuisheng and them: "Didn't the brigade let you go back to the main road north of Hudong Town, cut off the northward retreat route of the Devil Brigade, and restrain them from attacking Lao Chen and them, but I didn't let you attack the Devil Brigade directly." ” Huang Shuisheng looked at the subordinates who came over and said to Lao Xu: "Deputy Brigade Commander, I know that the brigade seat wants us to cut off the retreat of the devil brigade in a roundabout way, but now only these brothers have been transported, it is not enough, just add fuel to it little by little, I estimate that not only will the little devils be intercepted, but also our special service group and the third regiment will also suffer." ” "I think we might as well discuss, concentrate troops in the landing area on the spot and immediately attack the devils in the front, the gunboats and Lao Zhang's artillery company provide artillery support, which should be able to cause damage to the devil brigade, if the encircled Lao Chen and his first brigade know that we are behind the reinforcements, maybe they can turn over and counterattack the devils successfully, so that they can break the siege of the devil brigade and force them to retreat to Huai'an City."
"Anyway, it is to achieve the goal of breaking the siege and retreating from the enemy, why do we have to go around to the back of the devil brigade to cut off the back road of the little devil, but it is not good, and when the devil dog jumps off the wall in a hurry, we will be even more difficult to fight."
Huang Shuisheng believes that in a situation where the enemy is outnumbered and outnumbered, the effect of completely blocking the enemy's retreat may be counterproductive, and that the lack of one of the three is not exactly the most basic encirclement tactic that the brigade has been repeatedly teaching us Lao Xu is also an expert in warfare, and when he heard Huang Shuisheng's statement, he felt that it was very reasonable.
"Xiao Zheng, Commander Huang Shuisheng is right, we should adjust the deployment according to the actual battle situation, you hear that the gunfire of our New Fourth Army over there is becoming more and more sparse, which shows that Lao Chen and they are about to be unable to support under the onslaught of a large number of well-equipped devils, and the most important thing now is the fighter plane and time."
"In case we go around to the back of the devil brigade and form an encirclement of the devils, and Lao Chen and they are almost wiped out by the devils, then what is the point of our independent brigade rushing here Once Lao Chen and their first brigade are all wiped out by the devils, then our independent brigade will almost be surrounded by devils, and the other teams of the division headquarters are still miles away, and when they arrive, the daylily will be cold."
Xiao Zheng has always respected old-timers like Lao Xu in the Independent Brigade, and when he heard Lao Xu say this, he nodded and said: "Deputy Brigade Commander, what you said is right, we don't need to ask for the brigade seat anymore, you have the biggest official here and the oldest qualifications, you can give orders, how to fight and where to fight our three regiments will listen to you." ” As soon as Lao Xu heard that Xiao Zheng of the third regiment was also attacking the devils on the spot, he gritted his teeth and ordered them: "Xiao Zheng, you will take the brothers who have arrived here at this time to assault, how many men and horses are used, and the brothers of the First Brigade who are fighting hard against the devils on the opposite side are looking forward to it, as long as the men and horses can rush in, no matter how much, it will definitely bring hope to their perseverance." ” "Huang Shuisheng, you are familiar with water battles and boats, so stay on the shore to direct the transportation of the team behind and closely monitor the movements of the devils on Hongze Lake, to ensure the safety of the backs of our three regiments and the brothers of the special service group when they attack, and the things on the water will be handed over to Shui Sheng, and Xiao Zheng and I will each lead a team to plug in and cut off the attack formation of the devils who are desperately attacking Lao Chen."
"It's me who guarantees the safety behind the team, and I'll leave the matter on Hongze Lake to me, and now that we also have gunboats, I'm not afraid of the little devils coming over on the water."
Huang Shuisheng saluted and assured Lao Xu that in fact, with the water combat power of those water ghost brothers under Huang Shuisheng, when they are afraid of the little devils on the lake, they will clean up as many as they come, and they are also unaware of the ghosts, and there are many tricks, so that the little devils can't guard against it, otherwise there are still a few big gunboats on the devil's side, why don't they dare to drive over again until now What the devils are afraid of is not Zhang Ercheng's two 75 mountain guns temporarily set up on the boat, there are more devils on the mountain artillery boats than Lao Zhang, what they are afraid of is the elusive "white strips in the waves" under Huang Shuisheng, who coldly run to the devil's boat, destroy your power, get rid of your soldiers, and suddenly come out of the water one by one, drag the devil soldiers on the boat into the water and slaughter them with a knife.
Miyamoto Okura, the commander of the Devil Brigade who stormed the First Brigade of the New Fourth Army on the battlefield of Hudong Town, was confident at this moment in the temporary command post and gave the order to a full-scale general attack in ten minutes for several devil wing commanders under him.
According to the battle situation reported by the devil scouts in front, the more than 3,000 people of the New Fourth Army who encountered the large forces of the imperial army brigade and regiment have been compressed by the brave warriors of the imperial army to a small place less than three miles on the shore of Hongze Lake, surrounded by dense reeds.
Originally, the commander of the Miyamoto Brigade considered attacking with fire, but he was afraid that he would use fire to attack the soldiers of the Imperial Army attacking the New Fourth Army in the southeast, and in addition, he had high confidence in the combat effectiveness of his subordinates, thinking that as long as it took another half an hour, he would be able to immediately wipe out the 3,000-strong New Fourth Army team.
Today's weather is not good, if it is sunny, there is the fire support of the imperial army's aviation in the sky, and it is estimated that the soldiers of the imperial army have completely annihilated the New Fourth Army and cleaned up the battlefield.
Miyamoto had a devil staff officer beside him remind him: "Brigade commander, although we have taken the initiative in the battle on the side of Hudong Town, the whole battlefield situation is not so favorable to us, you see, in the north, the New Fourth Army and the Chongqing Army have been dispatched, and our imperial army is being attacked by these people in several counties near the north of Huai'an, where there is a lack of troops, and it is estimated that it will not last long to fall." ” "The Imperial Army brigades to reinforce us in the east and south will not be able to arrive here for a while due to the long distance, and the task assigned to our brigade by the superior is to find the missing Sakiya Special Operations Detachment and the Yamaguchi Brigade of our brigade, and according to the intelligence of the previous reconnaissance, the Independent Brigade of the New Fourth Army is leading the team north to rush towards us, and several other teams of the New Fourth Army are also coming along the shore of Hongze Lake from the direction of Tianchang, according to the analysis of these intelligences, I think the two teams we are looking for may be broken, Otherwise, that Ma Xu will lead his army north to press on us, and he will not be afraid that the rugged valley and the mountain pass will drag him down."
Miyamoto is also a guy who doesn't like to listen to other people's opinions, and he thinks very highly of himself, so he listened to the reminder of this devil's staff officer, and asked him out of face: "Then what do you think, what should our brigade do now, do you give up the fat in front of you and turn south to Shuihong Village?"
Devil staff officer: "Brigade commander, I don't think you have to turn around and go south, you can leave a part of the troops to continue to attack the New Fourth Army, and the brigade and regiment will quickly go south to Shuihong Village to find the whereabouts of our two teams, once it is confirmed that they have all been broken, then immediately order all the troops to retreat, there is only one gendarmerie and a battalion of the Imperial Association Army in Huai'an City, the strength is quite empty, the New Fourth Army and the Chongqing Army will definitely take advantage of the weakness to attack Huai'an, it is unrealistic to expect Noda to be able to hold Huai'an City." ” Hearing that Huai'an City was in danger, Miyamoto's heart moved, but soon an idea popped up in his mind, thinking that the New Fourth Army team on the opposite side of this matter had been beaten by them and was powerless, and concentrating the brigade and regiment forces and attacking again would definitely be able to completely solve the New Fourth Army team in front of him.
In this way, even if they can't find Sakiya and Yamaguchi, they can go back to Nanjing to send troops to make a mission, although there is only a gendarmerie and a battalion of puppet troops in Noda who stay in Huai'an City, but the high and thick city walls of Huai'an City can not be quickly conquered by these soil buns New Fourth Army The commander of the Miyamoto Brigade was too optimistic, and he wanted to use all his strength to eliminate the besieged Lao Chen and them in half an hour, but in fact, as soon as Chen Guofu on the opposite side encountered these little devils, he felt that it was impossible to fight hard.
In order to preserve his strength and wait for rescue, he ordered his brothers to retreat while fighting, deliberately showing weakness and the devils attacking from the opposite side, slowly confronting the devils, and retreating to the shore of Hongze Lake.
The casualties of the first brigade were quite large at the beginning, but then they were much smaller, and the three thousand brothers who came out now still have more than 2,000 who can fight, Chen Guofu sent several companies to seize those highland swamps in Hudong Town, and continued to resist the devils with geographical advantages, in order to rescue.
Just when Chen Guofu and his team were compressed by Miyamoto's brigade to the sandy ground on the shore less than three or four miles from east to west, facing the vast Hongze Lake, Chen Guofu said to the battalion commanders of the regiments under him: "Comrades, now we have no way to retreat, the communists go up and hold the position, the division commander has ordered the independent brigade to rush north to this side, everyone can wait for reinforcements in an hour or two."
Suddenly, Chen Guofu heard the whistling sound of a cannonball on the surface of Hongze Lake, and he was instinctive, he immediately beckoned the other brothers around him to immediately fall to the ground to avoid the cannonball, but the cannonball flew over their heads with a roar, and just smashed firmly in the middle of those devils, and overturned more than a dozen little devils on the spot, and the remaining devils who were not dead quickly lay on the ground, rolling around with their heads in their hands, looking for cover.
Chen Guofu wondered: Where did this artillery come from, I remember that Zhou Wu's independent brigade only had a few small cannons, looking at the trajectory of this shell, it is definitely not the kind of curved shell of the mortar, could it be that the devil's gunboat came here Chen Guofu thought of this, his face was even more ugly, and he immediately pulled his throat and asked everyone to quickly dodge, at this moment, the shells on the side of Hongze Lake were "whooshing" and constantly hitting this side, and one by one fell among the devils lying on the ground, and the commander of the devil brigade, Miyamoto, shouted to the devil artillery behind him: "Hurry up and return fire on Hongze Lake, when will the New Fourth Army have large-caliber artillery, quickly find out the trajectory" Chen Guofu only put his mind at this time, the shells that came over must have hit those little devils on the opposite side, if the devil gunboat was injured by mistake, it is understandable that the first shot was wrong, but a large number of shells came from behind, and it was wrong to fall on the devil's side, but where were these shells Chen Guofu wanted to break his head and couldn't figure out who was supporting their first brigade with artillery fire on Hongze Lake to resist the little devils. t1706231537: