When Ding Ning and the others were still nesting in the reeds, waiting for the little devil to escort the Yankee convoy over, they hurriedly took the two or three hundred brothers and Lao Zhang's artillery to the fat man of Pingqiao, the only way from Huai'an to Yancheng, they were fighting with a devil brigade sent by Miyamoto who intended to confuse the Zhou Wu Independent Brigade, and the two sides fought back and forth in the Pingqiao area for several rounds, and they couldn't tell the winner.
This time, the fat man played a mixed guerrilla tactic with the devil brigade, sending a small group of brothers to contain the attacking devil brigade on the position, and he and Zhang Ercheng took most of the brothers to quickly detour the flank of the devil brigade, relying on Zhang Ercheng's light mortar fire to cover and hit the devil's flank, and when the devil captain understood and sent the devil team to meet the fat man, the fat man quickly led the brothers to retreat, circled around the flat bridge position and turned back to the other side of the devil, Then he continued to attack the flank of the devil brigade with superior forces, and did this three or four times, which made the devil brigade captain stunned, and simply ignored the fat man's rogue tactics of swimming around, and ordered most of the devils to ignore the situation on the flank, hit the firepower and troops to attack the blocking position on the opposite side, and then turn around and clean up those cunning New Fourth Army troops after capturing the position.
When he found that the devil brigade had no reaction to blocking and harassing the two wings, he ordered the brothers of the reinforced platoon who held the position to hold the position for more than half an hour, and he and Zhang Ercheng took a shortcut to the back of the devil brigade, and under the cover of Zhang Ercheng's dozen or so 60 mortars, they launched a fierce attack on the back of the devil brigade.
This devil brigade is a main brigade of the Sasaki Wing under the Miyamoto Brigade, with more than 500 devils in all members, strong combat power and excellent weapons, and its captain Kawashima is considered by Miyamoto to be the most promising candidate to take over the position of captain of the Sasaki Wing, good at positional warfare, and is also proficient in the Chinese military holy book Sun Tzu's Art of War, and he never leaves the book of war on weekdays, and he can be regarded as a Confucian general among the devil officers.
This Kawashima was a little confused, and for a while he was puzzled by the fat man's running around tactics: what was he going to do with this opponent of the New Fourth Army Kawashima quickly adjusted the deployment of the devil's troops, and ordered his three devil squadrons not to care about the harassment of the flanks, and concentrated their forces to storm the opposite Pingqiao position from three directions, and from the gunfire of the New Fourth Army's blocking troops, he heard that there were not many resistance troops on the position there, it was estimated that there were no more than twenty or thirty people, but why couldn't they be attacked For this reason, Kawashima gave a death order to the three squadron commanders under him: be sure to conquer the Hirahashi position in one hour, otherwise he would not have to come back, and he would commit suicide by disembowelment to thank the emperor" Kawashima's three devil squadron leaders had no choice, so they had to order their little devils to rush towards the Pingqiao position, and the three battalions and six companies under the fat man who stayed behind were the fat man's three battalions and six companies, a hard-headed team that repeatedly fought against the little devils on the battlefield in Shanghai and Nanjing, most of which were veteran brothers who followed the fat man and Zhou Wu all the way over, they had rich combat experience, skilled skills and tactics, and were very good at taking advantage of various favorable terrain on the position, fighting for a while to change places, although they repeatedly repelled the crazy attacks of the little devils on the position, But the casualties were not very many, the fat man left them enough ammunition, these veterans were of course not afraid of those devils to attack, and they all tacitly cooperated flexibly and flexibly on the position to repel the onslaught of the little devils, so that Captain Kawashima immediately lost his temper, stomped his feet in the back and scolded his squadron leaders for being useless At this time, the fat man who was ready to attack launched a general attack on the devils of the Kawashima brigade under the cover of Zhang Ercheng's artillery fire, and the artillery brothers in order to cover the impact of the fat man and their infantry, continuously poured shells into the devil's position, and the bombardment did not stop, until the cannon tube was red, and the violent explosions sounded one after another in the middle of the devil's formation, and the bombed devil soldiers immediately stopped the onslaught on the brothers on the Pingqiao position, and hurriedly lay on the ground to avoid Zhang Ercheng's fierce artillery fire.
The fat man took this opportunity to rush to Kawashima with his two hundred heroes roaring, Kawashima couldn't tell how many people and horses the fat man had in the smoke of gunpowder, just listening to the rushing formation, the number of the New Fourth Army should not be too small, think about his own brigade of more than 500 imperial warriors on the position for most of the day, but he couldn't attack the position of the New Fourth Army with only thirty or forty people, and there were so many desperate New Fourth Army troops rushing behind him, The task assigned to their brigade by the commander of the Miyamoto Brigade was to reconnoiter whether there was any armed New Fourth Army on the front line of Pingqiao, and now it seems that they had to retreat and report to His Excellency the Brigade Commander.
Kawashima hurriedly ordered his little devils to quickly retreat in the direction of Huai'an City, and when the fat man saw that the devil was about to run, he hurriedly ordered his brothers to hurry up and catch up, but was stopped by a battalion commander below: "Don't chase, the regiment commander, didn't the brigade tell us to stick to Pingqiao here, blocking the eastward advance of the Miyamoto brigade is our purpose of blocking the devils, catching up, and being killed by the little devils to return to the carbine, wouldn't it ruin the brigade's plan" The fat man immediately came to his senses after being reminded by his subordinates, patted his head and said: "Yes, I was so energetic just now that I almost forgot about this stubble, okay, order the brothers to clean up the battlefield immediately, enter the Pingqiao position to hold on, and strictly prevent the devils from advancing from Pingqiao East to reinforce Yancheng."
Saying that Zhou Wu quickly got the signal of the scout in front of him, he saw a green signal flare rising in the northeast of Huai'an City at this time, Zhou Wu looked at the green signal flare, and his heart was happy and worried, the joy was that the Miyamoto Brigade was finally dragged by himself to live in the south of Huai'an City, Ding Ning and their action team did not have to worry about being attacked by devils behind them, they were worried about their total strength of three or four thousand people first, and now they had to directly face the onslaught of more than six thousand devils in most of the Miyamoto Brigade, whether they could withstand these well-equipped, The well-trained devils attacked fiercely, Zhou Wu really didn't know the bottom in his heart, but since this is the case, he has to resist it if he can't resist it, Zhou Wu gritted his teeth and ordered his team: "A regiment faces east to block the incoming devils on the spot, and the special service group closely monitors the situation of the devils in the west, all of them are there, and they are ready for battle."
Soon, the large army of little devils in the east immediately appeared in Zhou Wu's telescope field of vision, he roughly estimated that there were more than 4,000 little devils coming here, and there were two armored vehicles in front of him, the armored car ran fast, and the back raised a cloud of mud and dust, which spread out, covering the little devil infantry who followed behind, Zhou Wu looked at Miyamoto's posture and knew that he was pouring out of the nest this time, just to find the field of the last battle in Hudong Town in the south of Huai'an City, and planned to annihilate Zhou Wu's independent brigade here.
Yibao had a draw with Zhou Wu last time, and many devil soldiers were killed and wounded, but they couldn't take advantage of it.
Political Commissar Niu, who came with Zhou Wu, saw that so many devils were coming, and hurriedly suggested: "Comrade Zhou Wu, there are too many Japanese devils, and we may not be able to bear it on our side, I think we should retreat towards Hudong Town, and fight a positional battle with the little devils with superior equipment and numbers in the south of Huai'an City, I don't think our independent brigade has a good chance of winning."
Commissar Niu looked over with a telescope, under the mud and dust raised on the opposite side, a large number of devil soldiers wearing net-like steel helmets poured over, armored vehicles opened the way, and the artillery followed closely behind, in the south of Huai'an City, this plain water network dense area with inferior equipment and inferior troops to fight against the Miyamoto Brigade is tantamount to suicide, so as soon as he saw the posture of the devils coming from the opposite side, he immediately persuaded Zhou Wu to retreat, avoid its edge, and eliminate the Miyamoto Brigade in the action war camera.
Zhou Wu listened to the words of the political commissar of Lao Niu, and thought for a long time, at present, he couldn't make up his mind, the biggest problem was the fat man on the side of Pingqiao, the traffic point in the east of Huai'an City, he was worried that if his side retreated, Miyamoto might stop the pursuit, and turn to the east to attack the fat man on the side of Pingqiao, and the fat man only had two or three hundred men and horses over there, even if he was killed and sacrificed, he couldn't last long, Ding Ning and their side still had no news, Zhou Wu really reached the point where it was difficult to make a decision at this time, and he was afraid that if he made an inconspicuous little mistake, it would immediately lead to unpredictable serious consequences.
The lives of more than 4,000 brothers of the Independent Brigade were pinched in the palm of his hand at this time, and the decision was correct, then he could contain the Miyamoto Brigade and ensure that Ding Ning and his action team successfully rescued the captured American officers, otherwise it would be a catastrophe for the Independent Brigade, and now the Independent Brigade is almost all the brothers who can go to the battlefield, and only the non-combatants of the health company and those brigade headquarters are left behind, and under the city of Huai'an, which is a hundred kilometers away from the base area, the Independent Brigade is actually a lone army. is in a very dangerous situation, and if you don't make a decisive decision, I'm afraid you will really have to be dumplings made by the Miyamoto brigade who rushed out of the city Zhou Wu nodded: "Yes, Lao Niu, you are right, we can't fight hard with the little devils, then we will suffer a big loss, the commander of the first battalion From now on, you temporarily act as the head of the first regiment, and order the independent brigade troops under Huai'an City to retreat quickly, in the face of a large number of devils coming, as the actual military commander of the independent brigade under Huai'an City, what should you do" Zhou Wu immediately appointed a battalion commander under the fat man to act as the commander of a regiment, commanding the troops to retreat, this battalion commander is also very good at fighting, Quite a fat man's style, but more calm than a fat man, Zhou Wu wanted to give him a chance to use actual combat to train him, so that he could grow rapidly, so he asked the battalion commander how to arrange the troops to retreat. t1706231537: