As soon as the commander of the first battalion heard that Zhou Wu asked him to temporarily act as the commander of the first regiment and let him command the first regiment and the special service regiment under Huai'an City, he felt a little uncomfortable, and the political commissar Niu hurriedly nodded at him, and encouraged him and said: "First battalion commander, Comrade Zhou Wu and I have seen your combat command ability, no problem, boldly pick up the burden, with Comrade Zhou Wu as your backing, what else can you worry about?"
The encouragement of the political commissar Niu mobilized the blood and courage of the battalion commander, and he immediately said to Zhou Wu: "This time we are going to retreat from Huai'an City, I think the only way to send a reinforced company to break off and then block the attack of the devils coming from the east, a group of brothers and the brothers of the special service group alternately cover each other, alternately retreat, and fight with the little devils who come over for a while and retreat for a while, otherwise such a hasty retreat will cause chaos." ” Zhou Wu nodded with satisfaction, and said to the first battalion commander: "Okay, just do what you do, you immediately deploy troops to block the Miyamoto Brigade coming from the east, and the rest of the brothers will retreat in an orderly manner, until Hudong Town, twenty kilometers to the south, dig trenches and fortifications on the spot, and wait for reinforcements."
"Hold on and wait for reinforcements, do we still have reinforcements nearby?"
the commander of the first battalion expressed his incomprehension, in his opinion, near here, there was almost nothing to reinforce the New Fourth Army in time.
"Haha, the first brigade of the Jiangbei Command of our friendly New Fourth Army has rushed towards Huai'an City at full speed, and it is estimated that it will be rushed to Huai'an City now, originally I wanted to join forces with Chen Guofu under Huai'an City to teach this Miyamoto a good lesson, but considering that Huai'an City is too close to this place, it is not good to surround the Miyamoto Brigade, so I think I still deliberately show weakness and lure the arrogant Miyamoto to pursue me south, and then encircle the Miyamoto Brigade with them in Hudong Town."
Zhou Wu said.
Seeing that Zhou Wu was so confident, the commander of the first battalion immediately turned around and hurriedly deployed his troops, leaving a reinforced company composed of two or three hundred brothers to block the Miyamoto Brigade in the east, and the rest of the regiment and the brothers of the special service regiment slowly alternated in turn to cover the retreat, the commander of the first battalion was really good, commanding and mobilizing the troops in an orderly manner, like a decent appearance, Zhou Wu saw it in his eyes and was happy in his heart: it was long overdue to do this, for these young cadres to let them go to exercise, only through actual combat can they grow up quickly.
Miyamoto led the two wings of the brigade to the independent brigade with great momentum, thinking that Zhou Wu would have a desperate fight with him under the city of Huai'an, Miyamoto was very fine, with his own absolute superiority in the number of troops and equipment, even if the weather was bad today, the imperial army aviation could not be dispatched for air support, with the imperial army of his brigade, it was still no big problem to surround and completely annihilate the independent brigade of Zhou Wu three or four thousand people.
Therefore, when he came to a place two thousand meters in front of the position of the independent brigade, he ordered the Sasaki Wing to storm the position of the Independent Brigade of the New Fourth Army from the left, quickly attack it, go around to the back of the position, and cooperate with the Okamoto wing on the right flank to attack the position of the New Fourth Army that resisted on the front and rear positions, and he himself took a devil brigade as a reserve, specially waiting for the defensive loopholes on the front position, once he found that there was a defensive hole on the opposite position, he would use this reserve to press on it and attack on three sides, In one fell swoop, he conquered the blocking position of the New Fourth Army, inserted himself into the middle of the formation of the Zhouwu Independent Brigade, and divided and surrounded them Thousands of little devils of the Sasaki Wing and the Okamoto Wing, under the lead of two armored vehicles, and under the fierce fire of a dozen or so 75-mm mountain guns of the Devil Artillery Brigade behind them, began to launch a tidal attack on the position of the reinforced company composed of a regiment and the brothers of the special service regiment.
The devil's crazy artillery bombardment, the explosion of the position of the earth and rocks, craters abound, but because the brothers actually hid in the dug anti-artillery hole, except for a few brothers who were directly hit by the shells died and died, most of the brothers did not suffer much damage except for a little bit of bad ears, after the shelling stopped, the front "Kerala" drove over two devils' armored vehicles, the two heavy machine guns on the car kept strafing the edge of the position, bullets flew, hit the mud on the position, chirping, The commander of the second battalion of the special service regiment in charge of the broken rear saw two groups of about 1,000 little devils pressing towards the position from the left and right directions, and ordered the two or three hundred brothers on the position to prepare for battle, block the attacking devils, and buy the necessary time for the brigade to retreat from their large force.
The devils began to charge a thousand meters before the position, they were in a straggler formation, alternately covering each other, their tactical movements are skillful, and the tacit understanding of cooperation can be seen that this devil army is not ordinary, the second battalion commander saw it in his eyes, worried, whether the two or three hundred brothers who stayed behind him could block the attack of this group of little devils Later, Zhou Wu and their large army just began to retreat, the second battalion commander knew that the burden on his shoulders was very heavy, with Zhou Wu and their current retreat speed, their broken brothers can only be regarded as completing the blocking task by resisting three or four fierce attacks from the opposite side, and now once the devil breaks through the position, then Zhou Wu and their independent brigade are about to face the tragic fate of being divided and surrounded by the little devils who rushed over, surrounded and annihilated.
The commander of the second battalion kept running around the position, encouraging the brothers who were guarding the position and cheering them on: "Comrades, behind us is the large army of our independent brigade, whether we can hold this position or not is related to the life and death of our independent brigade, we have encountered so many little devils today, what should we do?"
"Fight until there is only one person left on our position," the answer of the brothers in the troops after the break was majestic and sonorous.
"Okay, everyone immediately enter the formation and prepare for battle," the second battalion commander yelled to his brothers.
The armored car of the little devil stopped three or four hundred meters away from the front of the position, but the heavy machine guns on the car still did not stop firing, and they were still desperately shooting frantically at the position, so that the brothers who were broken off the position could not raise their heads, at this time, those little devils who followed behind the armored car were waved by a devil officer's Oriental sword, and their mouths let out a howl, and they rushed towards the position in unison The second battalion commander saw that the little devil had launched the final sprint, and hurriedly pulled out twenty box guns and fired a shot at the devil, and then all the weapons that could be fired on the position let out a roar together, the low and fierce shooting sound of the Maxine heavy machine gun and the cheerful and crisp sound of the Czech light machine gun were intertwined, forming a wonderful battlefield song on the battlefield, and the sound of various other 38 big covers and medium formal rifles merged into these sounds, and the bullets flew to the little devils who rushed over opposite with the strong hatred of the brothers after the break, At that time, there was a row of devil soldiers who rushed to the front and fell to the ground, or immediately fell and could not afford to fall, or were hit and fell to the ground and howled and struggled in pain, and the remaining ghost soldiers who were not hit by the bullets immediately lay on the ground, desperately using the weapons in their hands to shoot at the brothers on the position, for a time the bullets on the position flew sideways, grenades were thrown around, explosions came and went, and the two devil armored vehicles on the opposite side suddenly started to rush over, and there was a great sense of rushing over and crushing the brothers who were desperately resisting on the position.
As soon as the second battalion commander saw this formation, he hurriedly ordered the brothers in the demolition group who had already prepared cluster grenades and explosives packs in the back: "Brothers in the demolition group, give me and blow up that devil's armored car."
As soon as the second battalion commander's words fell, five or six brothers with explosives bags and grenades rushed out of the position, under the cover of light and heavy machine gun fire, towards the two devils' armored vehicles, and the devil's armored vehicles and the little devil infantry behind them also immediately discovered these New Fourth Army brothers, and hurriedly shot those brothers with crooked machine guns and 38 big covers.
The two wounded brothers immediately stubbornly got up again, and crawled towards the armored car inch by inch on the ground, the red blood flowed out of the wound and flowed all over the ground, and on the way to crawl towards the devil's armored car, a few more bullets hit their bodies, and the second battalion commander saw it clearly, and hurriedly beckoned his brothers to hurry forward and snatch back the wounded brothers.
At this time, the two devils' armored vehicles suddenly roared and drove towards the two wounded brothers at full speed, and they were about to press their bodies, only to see the two brothers who were about to crawl suddenly jumped up, pulled the fuse of the explosive pack, and rushed towards the devil's armored car with explosives bags, and two earth-shattering explosions sounded, and the two brothers and the devil's armored car died together, turning into a raging flame.
Several other brothers of the demolition team witnessed the feat of these two brothers, shouting their names with tears in their eyes, and the little devil next to him seemed to be stunned by this scene, and even stopped shooting frantically, and the battlefield was silent all of a sudden, and the other brothers of the demolition team tore off the fuse on the explosive bag, gritted their teeth and threw it at the stunned little devil formation behind, the rumbling explosion continued to sound, and the little devil was blown up by the brothers' explosives bag and grenades.
The rest of the devils who were not dead hurriedly shot back, and the flying bullets hit several brothers of the demolition team, who struggled the ground for a while and died.
The dozen or so devil soldiers who rushed to the front were about to rush to the edge of the position, the second battalion commander shouted hoarsely, the brothers could no longer hear the order to fight for the little devils who attacked together, and the more than ten devil soldiers who rushed over in the first place had already jumped into the trenches, and the brothers of the broken troops of the two hundred independent brigades and the little devils who poured in started a bloody and tragic white-knuckle battle in the trenches. t1706231537: