These retreating and evacuating devils really knew it, although they were retreating, but the devil infantry who stayed behind to break the cover were still attacking Zhou Wu and them, and the continuous impact under the cover of the devil's artillery made Zhou Wu once think that these devils still wanted to try to tear a gap here and go south to Shuihong Village, so Zhou Wu made a wrong judgment, that is, he ordered the Huang Shuisheng Special Service Regiment and Xiao Zheng and their three regiments besieging the north side of the devil to turn south to strengthen the offensive force in the south.
Miyamoto saw that most of Zhou Wu's independent brigade turned to the south, so he hurriedly ordered the devil's brigade to immediately retreat under alternate cover, and quickly retreated to Huai'an City in the north.
By the time Zhou Wu found out that the situation was wrong, most of the little devil brigade had already broken away from the actual contact with the New Fourth Army, and the devil left behind only a squadron of his brigade, and three or four hundred little devils were finally wiped out under the desperate siege of four or five thousand independent brigades and the first brigade of the New Fourth Army, and all the devil soldiers on the position were cleaned up by Zhou Wu and them, and there was no one left.
The ghost palace brigade hurriedly withdrew and retreated towards Huai'an City, more than 7,000 devils, after the battle of Hudong Town, and Zhou Wu's independent brigade and Chen Guofu's first brigade of the New Fourth Army fought a bloody battle for a morning, killing and wounding many devils, leaving more than 6,000 little devils to flee to Shuihong Village in embarrassment, if it weren't for the trick of Miyamoto in the end, the golden cicada shelled trick, this time the devil brigade had to kill and wound a lot of little devils, Miyamoto now actually knows very well in his heart: the rugged valley special operations detachment known as the elite unit of the East China Imperial Army may have no hope of survival, He understood this outcome from the opponent contest against the Zhou Wu Independent Brigade just now, if he wanted to escape from such an anti-Japanese team, the forty or so imperial warriors in Qigu would not escape this catastrophe even if everyone was King Kong, and the Yamaguchi brigade under his brigade was estimated to be more auspicious and fell into the tiger's mouth.
Zhang Ercheng, who was still directing the artillery to open an artillery battle against the devils on the surface of Hongze Lake, saw that the little devils were about to slip away, and he was in a hurry, and ordered his artillery to bombard the evacuated devil artillery with the maximum range, and the artillery brothers under Zhang Ercheng stretched out their thumbs to roughly measure the distance of the devils who were retreating, and shouted to Zhang Ercheng: "Company commander, the devils have already run out of four or five miles, and the range of our mountain artillery is out of reach."
"Ah, I can't reach it, then why can't I just watch these little devil artillery go away" Zhang Ercheng was still unwilling, suddenly he looked up at the big gunboat next to him, and immediately ordered the brothers to row the boat over, he was going to use the naval guns on the devil gunboat to bombard the evacuated little devil artillery today.
Zhang Ercheng climbed onto the big gunboat and said to Lao Xu, who was tinkering inside: "Deputy brigade commander, the devil is going to run, why don't you open fire to attack those national troops?"
Lao Xu raised his head and saw that it was the artillery expert of our independent brigade who came, and hurriedly took his hand and said to her: "Zhang Ercheng, you came just in time, we were just studying how to hit this shell farthest, there are all crooked Japanese characters here, we don't understand it." ” Zhang Ercheng stared at several of his artillery brothers fiercely with his eyes up, thinking that you have embarrassed my Zhang Ercheng artillery company, and you can't understand the extended shooting of the devil's naval artillery, and you have really been in the artillery company for so many days.
When Zhang Ercheng's subordinates saw the company commander looking at them with this kind of eyes, they also felt embarrassed, and they all lowered their heads and didn't dare to make a sound, Lao Xu looked at it, and hurriedly said to Zhang Ercheng: "Quick, Zhang Ercheng, you can see how to get the naval guns of the devil gunboat, so that you can get those devils who are running away and retreating."
Zhang Ercheng hurriedly walked to the side of the naval gun, and when he saw the Japanese characters in the gun mount, he was also stunned, he couldn't recognize a few Chinese characters, not to mention the Japanese characters here, he immediately scratched his head, and muttered in his mouth: "Oh, I can't understand these little Japanese words, if our chief of staff is here, it won't be a problem." ” Although Zhang Ercheng didn't understand those Japanese characters, he was an expert, he could use his brains, and he would take other paths, so he asked a few of the artillery brothers who had just shot, and he was a little sure in his heart, and he issued an order to shell and reload one by one, and his subordinates followed his instructions, quickly shaking the elevation angle of the naval guns, accompanied by Zhang Ercheng's high-pitched "release" sound, and a "boom" sounded, and at a moment the shells whistled out and rushed out, flying to the shore and smashing towards the devils who were evacuating in the direction of Huai'an, "boom" There was an explosion over there, and a brother who was watching from the top of the mast pointed to the smoke rising from the explosion and excitedly shouted to the brothers below: "Haha, it's hit, it's hit."
When Zhang Ercheng heard this, he came up with momentum, and ordered his brothers to step up their artillery according to this parameter: "Pay attention to each artillery, adjust the elevation angle by 1 degree, and fire eight rapid salvos, release" With Zhang Ercheng's command, the two front and rear main guns on the gunboat made a deafening bombardment sound, and one shell after another swept across the rolling waves of the vast Hongze Lake and flew quickly towards the retreating devils, and exploded among the artillery and infantry behind the devils, which made the commander of the Miyamoto Brigade angry, and he was so angry that he wanted to order the troops to stop and fight back, but was stopped by the devil staff officer next to him: "Your Excellency the brigade commander, the people of China robbed the gunboats of our imperial army and bombarded us with the guns on the gunboats, Don't go back to fight them because of this matter, Huai'an City is important, let's bear with it, don't you have a saying in Zhina, isn't it too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years When we return to Huai'an City, it's not too late to come to the independent brigade to settle accounts in the future. ” Miyamoto listened to the words of this devil staff officer, and thought about it, there is no way, it is still important to Huai'an City, his brigade is connected with this Huai'an City, and if he loses Huai'an City, he will have to go to the military court, not to mention that he will be removed from his post and investigated, but it is not easy to say whether he can save his life.
Miyamoto gritted his teeth and stamped his feet and ordered his little devils: "Hurry forward, run out of the range of the gunboat artillery, and rush back to Huai'an City as soon as possible."
In the sound of Zhang Ercheng's gunboat gun, the little devils quickly retreated towards Huai'an City, Zhou Wu looked at the scene of the little devil's embarrassed evacuation in the telescope, laughed, and ordered the independent brigade troops to stop the pursuit on the spot, clean up the battlefield, and quickly return to Shuihong Village before the weather cleared.
For the rest of his life, Chen Guofu, the commander of the First Brigade who escaped from the encirclement and annihilation of the devils, saw that Zhou Wu and them were coming, and hurriedly ran over, and greeted Zhou Wu from afar, holding Zhou Wu's hand and thanking him again and again, Zhou Wu smiled and said to him: "Lao Chen, you don't have to be polite, we are all brother troops, how can there be any thanks, I want to say thank you, our independent brigade has been helped and rescued by you many times in Gaoyou Lake before, the family does not say two words, our independent brigade should come to rescue you." ” Chen Guofu still held Zhou Wu's hand and thanked him, and the regimental commanders of the First Brigade also came over to salute Zhou Wu, Zhou Wu was embarrassed, and quickly pulled the political commissar Niu next to him and asked him to tell everyone, Lao Niu came up and said to the comrades of the First Brigade: "Comrades, we came here this time by order of the division commander, this is what our independent brigade should do, there is nothing to thank each other, the officers and soldiers in our Communist army are brothers of the family, It is the most common thing to help each other rescue, since the devil brigade has retreated in the direction of Huai'an, then our task is completed, everyone will clean up the battlefield and go back. ” Chen Guofu said to the political commissar of the cow: "Lao Niu, you used to be my partner, and now you are following Comrade Zhou Wu, but here I have to say two words to you, you are a good person, but this is not good, it is too impersonal, we can finally get together, before you say a word, you are going to drive us back, this time our first brigade is rushing to Shuihong Village to reinforce the independent brigade, I never thought that I encountered the little devil brigade on the way, the little devil brigade is still stubborn, almost to eat one of Lao Tzu's brigades, I'm ashamed to say that not only did we fail to reinforce your independent brigade, but we asked you to come to the rescue, which is really embarrassing. ” Lao Niu hurriedly pleaded: "Comrade Lao Chen, I don't mean that, although the devil brigade in Huai'an is now retreating, most of the devils around us have already been dispatched, in case we stay here for too long, it will still be bad for our team." ” Chen Guofu said with a smile: "The little devil leaders must have received the news of the defeat of the Huai'an Brigade now, and the news that the Devil Qigu Special Operations Detachment and the Devil Brigade were completely wiped out by the Independent Brigade is estimated to have been learned by the devils, since they have lost the target that needs to be rescued, they will naturally go back to their homes separately, so we can completely rest assured that we will wander around here, why rush back to the station in such a hurry" Chen Guofu is very confident, it seems that this time the Devil Brigade has been desperately besieged, and he has not been able to give him anything.
Chen Guofu brought out 3,000 men and horses this time, although on the way suddenly encountered more than twice the number of them in the devil field brigade, but because Chen Guofu judged correctly, he took the measure of retreating while fighting and avoiding the enemy's edge, and the losses suffered were not very large, after a battle, there were more than 2,000 people in the team of 3,000 people who could fight with guns, compared to the main force of the independent brigade, a group of fat people, it can be said that there is basically no big loss, the fat man is miserable at this time, when he was cleaning the battlefield just now, Zhou Wu asked him to count the casualties of a regiment, Startled him, a group of nearly 2,000 brothers, now there are only more than 400 who are completely uninjured, and most of the rest are injured, together with the casualties in Shuihong Village, the fat man's group can almost be said to be gone, looking at these shocking casualty figures, the fat man's heart is very painful, and he really wants to scold those little devils to vent his evil anger. t1706231537: