The commander of the first battalion immediately ordered Zhang Ercheng of the artillery company: "Quickly fire at the devils who are crossing the river and shoot at his little devils."
Zhang Ercheng had already started preparations for the shelling, the order of the first battalion commander had just been exported, Zhang Ercheng's artillery brothers had already fired the first shell at the little devils who were desperately crossing the river, and the whistling shells fell in the middle of the devils crossing the river, and the air waves of the explosion lifted the water column and the body of the devil all up, flipped a few heels in mid-air, and then fell back into the water, at this time the river water has been stained red by the little devil's dirty blood, and the broken limbs and flesh and blood fragments floated in the middle of the water, flowing downstream.
Suddenly, Zhang Ercheng and their shelling of the little devil formation appeared a little panicked, many little devils panicked backwards, the devil squadron leader shot a few backward devil soldiers, only barely held the retreat of the little devil team, the devils reorganized the formation in the river, and launched an attack on the high ground of the first battalion commander and their sharp knife company Zhang Ercheng commanded his artillery to constantly bombard the little devils in the water, and the shells exploded in the middle of the devils around the devils, blowing up the little devils' flesh and blood, but they still couldn't stop these little devils from desperately crossing the river, a battalion commander saw that the situation was urgent, and hurriedly took out twenty box cannons and fired a shot at the devils, so the position could fire together with the weapons of the little devils, and all kinds of bullets flew locust-like to the devil soldiers who had successfully crossed the river and were rushing to the shore.
A large group of little devils who had just come ashore were knocked to the ground by bullets fired from the high ground, and some of them were directly bounced back into the river by the powerful thrust of machine gun bullets, and the bloody corpses swayed and floated in the blood-red water, rushing down the panting river towards the southeast.
The leader of the devil's squadron howled, holding his Oriental command knife to drive his little devils to rush towards the high ground, and those little devils who went ashore were like chicken blood, and rushed towards the high ground without their lives, 38 big covers, crooked machine guns, 95 heavy machine guns have begun to shoot frantically, and small cannons such as devil's small steel cannons and mortar grenadiers also began to ping pong towards Lao Zhang's side, and the shells rumbled and exploded around the high ground, and the brothers in front of several sharp knife companies were directly lifted high by the air wave of the shell explosion, By the time they fell to the ground, the brothers had already died in battle.
In the face of the little devils rushing over like a crazy tide, the first battalion commander ordered Zhang Ercheng and them: "Hurry, block the attack of the little devils as quickly as possible, all the brothers on the high ground are ready for hand-to-hand combat, and the bombing team is ready to drop bombs."
Zhang Ercheng's side can no longer care about the battalion commander's artillery order, due to the counterattack of the devil's artillery, Zhang Ercheng's artillery has also lost a lot of brothers who are desperately firing the artillery, and even his own left thigh is about to be bitten by the devil's shell skin, fortunately he was not hit by the femoral artery, but the severe heart-piercing pain almost made Zhang Ercheng faint.
A brother next to him hurriedly brought a first-aid kit to bandage Zhang Ercheng's wounds, and before he was halfway dressed, he heard a whistling sound from the other side, Zhang Ercheng was pushed to the ground by the brother who bandaged him, and a large lump of mud and rocks mixed with shrapnel roared and smashed towards them.
The brother was stabbed into a hedgehog by shrapnel in the back, and suddenly fell to the ground and sacrificed, when the sacrifice was dead, his posture was still only covering Zhang Ercheng with his body, and his hands were still firmly grasping the first aid kit.
As soon as Zhang Ercheng saw that the brothers who rescued him were killed by the devil's shell in front of his eyes, he immediately hurriedly bandaged the wound on his thigh, gently pushed away the body of the comrade-in-arms who had been sacrificed, and pounced on a mortar that had disappeared from the gunner.
Listening only to the sound of "poof", the shells rushed out from the barrel of the mortar, and exploded in the middle of the devils two or three hundred meters ahead, and more than a dozen little devils who were running desperately were immediately blown up by the shock wave of the explosion, and the rising smoke and shrapnel mud blocks tore apart those devils who were thrown high in an instant under the action of the powerful shock wave, and pieces of devils' flesh and blood fell down in twos and threes, scattered on the large open ground in front of the position.
The devils who charged in front had already rushed to a place only a few dozen meters away from the position of the Sharp Knife Company, and the commander of the first battalion shouted: "Throw grenades" A batch of grenades in the hula were like crows suddenly flying in the sky, smashing into the devil formation only twenty or thirty meters away from the position, and the billowing smoke from the explosion actually blocked the vision of the brothers of the New Fourth Army who were fighting bloodily on the position, through the diffuse smoke that gradually dissipated, the battalion commander still saw the little devils who were not killed by bullets rushing towards the position, and the devil shouted slogans he didn't understand frantically, rushing towards the position like a monster who wanted to eat people, Seeing that he was about to rush into the position.
Zhang Ercheng and his artillery had stopped shelling at this time, and the devil was about to rush to him, the distance was too close to hit the mortar, and the artillery brothers also picked up their weapons one by one, ready to have a bloody hand-to-hand combat with bayonets with the little devils rushing on the opposite side The commander of the first battalion was already loudly ordering the remaining hundred or so brothers under his command: "All bayonets and ready for hand-to-hand combat" At this moment, a New Fourth Army team suddenly came over on both sides behind the devil, and the formation of the devils in the charge was beaten to a sparse scene on the spot, and the battalion commander hurriedly looked at the front position: "Haha, brothers are our Regiment Commander Liu, they are here, everyone rush forward with me, kill all these little devils."
This team that killed from behind the devil is the fat man who led the two hundred fat men who came to seize the Pingqiao in the northeast of Huai'an, when a battalion commander here started the battle, the fat man just arrived here with his brothers, and the direction of their march towards Pingqiao was almost parallel to the direction of the little devil's squadron retreat and escape, the two sides were separated by less than a mile, naturally a battalion commander sounded the sound of gunfire on the side of the blocking position, how could the fat man's sensitive ears not hear that he had caught up with the little devil here, The fat man hurriedly sent people here to reconnoitre, and found that his battalion was fighting with the little devil squadron, and the fat man immediately decided to change the route of the march, first kill from behind the devil formation, and destroy these little devils together with the sharp knife company of the first battalion The devil squadron leader finally couldn't bear the fat man's front and back attacks on both sides, more than 200 little devils fell into a chaos, and some devils ignored the danger of being shot by the devil squadron leader, and immediately turned around and ran back wildly, many little devils wanted to retreat and flee together, the devil squadron that was originally in full swing collapsed all of a sudden, and the little devils were all holding their heads and running away, and they couldn't stop it, and even the devil squadron leader personally shot a few devil soldiers who took the lead in escaping.
In the face of the soldiers of the New Fourth Army who rushed over with slogans shouting slogans from the front and back, the commander of the devil squadron was desperate, leaned over and sat cross-legged facing the position of Japan in the east, said something in his mouth, took out a small dagger on his waist, and slashed it into his stomach, and a devil officer with his Oriental knife next to him cut off his head, and the devil officer immediately killed himself with a shot from Wang Babox.
As soon as the devil squadron leader was finished, the rest of the little devils ran more happily, and the fat man wanted to continue to chase over, intending to destroy all these escaped little devils, and the battalion commander ran over to remind Liu Fatzi: "Regiment commander, the brigade seat has repeatedly told us that we should rush to Pingqiao east of Huai'an City as soon as possible, where we will block the Miyamoto Brigade of Huai'an City to the east to reinforce Yancheng, and these escaped devils will be handed over to us, the task of our sharp knife company is to resist these little devils, you better rush to Pingqiao first." ” The fat man listened to the words of the battalion commander, and felt a little unhappy in his heart, why didn't he let himself clean up the battlefield and get some benefits, thinking about Zhou Wu's instructions to him before leaving, the fat man really didn't dare to disobey Zhou Wu's order, so he had to promise to continue to march in the direction of Northeast Pingqiao.
Zhang Ercheng came up and said to the fat man: "Fat man, after the brigade has asked our artillery company to finish the work here, we will go with you to Pingqiao to block the Miyamoto brigade." ” As soon as the fat man heard that Zhang Ercheng's artillery company was now under his own command, his face turned cloudy at that time, and he hurriedly nodded and said: "That's good, I'm hoping that your artillery company will come over, if there is really a Miyamoto brigade of eastern aid on the side of Pingqiao, to be honest, I really don't have a bottom in my heart just by relying on these 200 brothers under my command, and now that your artillery company has joined, my confidence is a lot stronger." ” So, the commander of the first battalion with the brothers of the sharp knife company chased after the devils who fled to Huai'an City, Zhang Ercheng hurriedly beckoned the brothers of the artillery company to stop cleaning the battlefield, and quickly took the guys to follow the fat man and they rushed to the direction of Pingqiao in the east of Huai'an City, the time was already eight or nine o'clock in the morning, and it was estimated that Zhou Wu and their side might have to rush to Huai'an City, if the attack of Huai'an City began, then Miyamoto would definitely react immediately, the fat man was very anxious, so he had to desperately urge his brothers to speed up the march, Rush to the point of the blockade as soon as possible.
Zhou Wu ran all the way with a regiment and the brothers of the spy group, and the fortified puppet army along the way couldn't stop Zhou Wu who rushed over, and they fled in the direction of Huai'an City, Zhou Wu didn't care about the puppet army that fled in a hurry, but kept ordering his brothers to rush forward desperately and rush to Huai'an City.
Soon, Zhou Wu and the others arrived at Huai'an City half an hour earlier than expected, looking at the high city walls of Huai'an City, Zhou Wu exhaled a long breath, and ordered his brothers to immediately prepare to start an attack on Huai'an City, of course, it was not a real onslaught, the purpose was to lure the attention of the Miyamoto inside, lure him out, and deceive him to the south, so as not to let Miyamoto send his troops to the direction of Yancheng in the east, and reduce the rescue pressure of Ding Ning and Huang Shuisheng. t1706231537: