As soon as the commander of the first battalion heard about this enemy situation, he hurriedly said to his brothers: "Let's rush towards the devil side first, kill those machine gun fire points around the barracks, and the brothers with good marksmanship will form a blocking group to specifically block and kill the devil officers who rushed out of the barracks, and the brothers of the bombing group will throw grenades to cover the charge of our sharp knife company, listen to my gunfire orders, everyone will make a little preparation, and immediately launch an attack in five minutes."
The brothers of the Sharp Knife Company immediately divided into a blocking group composed of more than 20 brothers with good marksmanship, and their task was to specifically block the devil officers who rushed out of the barracks when the battle started, as well as those devil fire points that threatened the brothers to charge at any time, and the 20 or so brothers with good strength formed a bomb throwing group, which was responsible for throwing grenades at the devil barracks in front and using the smoke generated by the grenade explosion to cover the advance of the brothers of the Sharp Knife Company.
Five minutes later, the commander of the first battalion fired a shot at the devil barracks in front of him with a 20-round box gun in his hand, and the crisp sound of the gun was like a sudden firecracker in a calm morning, which immediately woke up the devils in the barracks, and the devil squadron leader immediately got up and shouted to his subordinates in Japanese: "If there is a situation, hurry up and attack to meet the battle" Almost at the same time as the first shot fired by the commander of the first battalion, the brothers of the blocking group began to shoot accurately, basically one shot at a time, and all the machine gun fire points distributed around the devil's barracks were solved.
At this moment, the brothers of the bomb throwing team threw the first batch of grenades into the barracks from the outside, and the twenty or so grenades like suddenly startled crows crossed a beautiful arc of different postures in the bright and gloomy sky, and landed outside the devil's barracks one after another.
They were scattered on the still wet muddy ground like the rain just now, and more than a dozen of the little devils who had just rushed out of the barracks were killed by the first grenades thrown by the bombing team, and the devil soldiers who were not killed immediately fell to the ground, and used the 38 big covers in their hands and the crooked machine guns to frantically counterattack the brothers of the bombing group.
These devils seem to be from the devil's field brigade, and their marksmanship is quite accurate, and the brothers of the bomb throwing group who rushed to the front and had no time to find cover to dodge were immediately shot and fell to the ground, and the grenades that had pulled off the strings immediately exploded in the hands of these fallen brothers, blowing these brothers who had sacrificed themselves to pieces, and the stumps were scattered all over the ground, which was unbearable to see.
The commander of the first battalion was anxious, and hurriedly ordered the two mortars he brought: "Quickly shoot at those devils, machine gun fire cover suppresses the fire of the little devils, and the rest of the brothers rush forward with me" The mortar gunner immediately adjusted the muzzle of the gun, stuffed the shell and smashed it towards the devil, accompanied by a rumbling explosion, seven or eight little devils with guns were blown out by the explosion of the air wave, and they were also torn apart by the shells, and the stumps and broken bones were scattered all over the ground, and blood was splashed all over the barracks.
The sharpshooters of the blocking team kept looking for the little devils hiding behind the wall, and when they saw one, they hurriedly pulled the trigger, the guns were fatal, and some were directly shot in the head, the white brains mixed with the red blood flowed all over the ground, and the corpses of the devils were more and more, and the squadron leader who commanded the devils to fight with the sharp knife company saw that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly howled and ordered the little devils to shrink their positions, retreat to the barracks and fight with the soldiers of the New Fourth Army.
At this time, Zhou Wu in the back rushed towards the barracks with thousands of brothers of the independent brigade, and the puppet troops on the right saw that the New Fourth Army was rushing over in such a large formation, and they were already frightened and trembling, and quickly raised the weapons in their hands to surrender to the brothers of the independent brigade, Zhou Wu and they just collected all the weapons and ammunition of the puppet army, leaving a platoon of brothers to take care of these puppet army prisoners, and the rest of the brothers continued to attack the front barracks.
The captain of the devil squadron saw that the New Fourth Army on the opposite side was rushing over so much at once, and the light and heavy machine guns and small steel cannons around his barracks were killed one by one by the sharpshooters of the New Fourth Army's blocking group.
In the face of the thousands of independent brigade brothers who rushed over, the devil squadron leader couldn't support it, and issued an order to his subordinates to retreat, after the little devil soldiers received the order of the boss to retreat, they immediately turned around and ran to the back, Zhou Wu saw that the devil had begun to retreat, and shouted to his brothers at the top of his throat: "Brothers, the little devil has escaped, let's catch up and kill them without leaving a piece of armor" The leader of the devil squadron originally wanted to use the radio to inform Miyamoto, the boss of Huai'an City, but Zhou Wu's independent brigade attacked too fiercely, so that he didn't have time to send a telegram to Miyamoto, and the radio was also captured intact by Zhou Wu's subordinates, but those code books were destroyed by the little devils, otherwise with these passwords, the Zhou Wu Independent Brigade could decipher the secret messages of the devils.
The devil squadron leader took the remaining little devils and ran all the way in the direction of Huai'an City, Zhou Wu and their thousands of men and horses just bit the devil squadron and chased desperately behind, running for a distance, the devil squadron leader saw that he still did not get rid of the pursuers behind, and suddenly thought in his heart: "I ran to Huai'an City like this, didn't I just bring these New Fourth Army to Huai'an City, where was it in Hudong Town, it was already miserable enough to be defeated by the New Fourth Army, if the New Fourth Army was led to Huai'an City, the brigade commander knew about it, Then I'll still be alive The leader of the devil squadron had an idea, and hurriedly ordered his little devils to turn quickly and run towards the flat bridge in the northeast direction, which was surrounded by the defense area of the imperial army and the imperial alliance army, as long as he ran out of ten miles of land, he could be safe, the devil squadron leader thought he was proud, thinking that this time he suddenly turned to the northeast direction, which was definitely something that the new Fourth Army who chased after him could not think of, and he should be able to turn the danger into a disaster and escape this catastrophe.
Zhou Wu got a report from the brothers in front, saying that the devil squadron in front had suddenly turned around and ran in the northeast direction, and asked Zhou Wu what direction the troops were pursuing Zhou Wu as soon as he heard that the devil ran towards the Pingqiao in the northeast direction, he immediately sneered and ordered the troops: "Keep the existing direction of travel unchanged, speed up the pursuit, and strive to rush to Huai'an City at nine o'clock."
The leader of the devil squadron who thought he was proud thought that Zhou Wu would catch up, but he didn't expect the devil soldiers who were broken off behind him to come back and report, saying that thousands of the New Fourth Army had been heading in the direction of Huai'an City, and he had no intention of catching up at all.
As soon as the devil squadron leader heard this, he thought about it for a while, and immediately realized that something was wrong, and shouted to his subordinates: "It's bad, we have fallen for the cunning New Fourth Army's plan, it turns out that their target has always been Huai'an City, quickly turn around, catch up with those New Fourth Army, and come hard behind their backs."
Zhou Wu had already ordered the sharp knife of the first battalion commander to lie in ambush on the high ground on the side of a not wide river on the way the devil turned back, and for this reason, Zhou Wu also specially told the battalion commander not to shoot rashly to alarm the little devils, and to wait until they all crossed the river before they suddenly attacked, so as to kill more devils.
In order to allow the brothers of the Sharp Knife Company to kill and injure a large number of devils, Zhou Wuyi gritted his teeth and assigned all of Zhang Ercheng's artillery companies to the Sharp Knife Company, and the first battalion commander had full authority to command these artillery, telling the first battalion commander that this devil squadron must be blocked in the area east of the river, and these little devils must not be allowed to cross the river and threaten the flank and back of the large army.
The commander of the first battalion had doubts about whether his sharp knife company, which had lost a lot of brothers, could withstand the onslaught of more than 300 elite field brigade devils, but now when he saw that Zhou Wu had assigned all the artillery companies of Zhang Ercheng to his command, he immediately had confidence and promised Zhou Wu that he patted his chest: "Brigade seat, don't worry, we promise to block the little devils over there, and we will never let them cross that river."
"Okay, then it depends on the ability of your battalion commander, there are more than 300 little devils on the opposite side, and there are only less than 300 people in your artillery company plus Lao Zhang, to resist these desperate little devils, your difficulties are not small" Zhou Wu said to the first battalion commander, he was worried that if the first battalion commander could not resist the attack of the devils, then his flanks and backs would be completely exposed in front of the devil squadron, and the Miyamoto brigade suddenly came out of Huai'an City, and Zhou Wu's troops were about to be attacked by the little devils, in an extremely disadvantageous situation.
"No problem, our number is about the same as that of the little devils, plus there is the support of Lao Zhang's artillery, and we have the confidence to block those devils."
The commander of the first battalion said.
When the leader of the devil's squadron decided to turn around and come back, the first battalion commander and Zhang Ercheng rushed to the river with the team, and preemptively occupied the small high ground by the river, just hidden ambush, before Zhang Ercheng and them set up mortars, the brothers in front reported: "Battalion commander, the devil is going to cross the river" The commander of the first battalion hurriedly picked up the binoculars and looked over there, and sure enough, more than 300 little devils divided into two roads and began to cross the river intensively, the river is not wide, about 100 meters, according to this speed of crossing the river, the little devils can cross it all within five minutes, and the situation is quite urgent. t1706231537: