Watanabe shouted an order to his subordinates to stop retreating immediately, and reorganize the team to block Ding Ning and them who were catching up, Ding Ning felt strange when he saw that the little devil who had escaped and evacuated in front suddenly stopped, and hurriedly ordered the brothers of the action team to suspend the pursuit and rest for a while before fighting At this time, the American officers who had just been fished up from the dock by Huang Shuisheng and them seemed to be fighting and were about to interject, Robles ran over to Ding Ning and Huang Shuisheng and said, "You can't do this, you can't stop and rest, you must rush over immediately and run to a safe place to finish." ” Huang Shuisheng was confused when he listened to Robles's English, Ding Ning could understand what this foreign devil was saying, he told Robles to Huang Shuisheng and said, Huang Shuisheng stared at him when he heard it, and opened his mouth to scold: "You Yankees really don't know what to do, you will point fingers when we rescue you, when will it be your turn to speak?"
"Shuisheng, I really listened to these Yankees this time, what they said makes sense, there are little devils' territory all around, as soon as something happens here, the devil troops around Yancheng will immediately rush over, we can't continue to stay here, we must immediately evacuate to a safe place and meet the brigade."
Ding Ning said to Huang Shuisheng.
"Yes, the chief of staff is right, there are a lot of devils in this area, they will come immediately when they get the news, we have few people, and we are on the territory of the devils, so we must immediately evacuate to the contact point of our military command outside Yancheng City, find out those few big trucks hidden there, and quickly evacuate to Pingqiao to join the large forces of the independent brigade."
The military commander brother Lao Chang also agreed with Ding Ning's evacuation opinion, and he was still feeling sad for Liu Sanying, a second lieutenant of the military commander comrade who had just died in battle, after all, he was his own student, and he was still so young, so he died on the battlefield of resisting Japan and killing devils.
It is deplorable and embarrassing.
Liu Sanying's body was carried on a simple stretcher by the brothers of the action team along with other brothers who died here, and Ding Ning ordered the brothers of the action team: No matter what, we must bring back these comrades who died in the rescue process, and we would rather leave those Americans behind, but also ensure that we take the sacrificed comrades home Just when Ding Ning and Huang Shuisheng were considering retreating to the secret contact point of the military command in the direction of Yancheng, on the blocking position outside Huai'an City, the brothers of the second battalion of the independent brigade who had stayed behind were fighting to the death with the devils of the Miyamoto Brigade who swooped over in the trenches, and more than 200 brothers were fearless in the face of the thousands of little devils who rushed over, and under the calm and calm reasonable arrangement and command of the second battalion commander, they finally repelled the first wave of attacks of the devils.
The little devil didn't take advantage of anything except leaving dozens of corpses around the position and the wreckage of two bombed armored vehicles, and retreated back in a gloomy manner, so angry that the commander of the Miyamoto Brigade stomped his feet and scolded several of his wing commanders, asking them to rest for a while, rearrange the attack, and wait for all the people to go out and take the blocking position in one fell swoop to complete the division and encirclement of the Zhouwu Independent Brigade At this time, the Nanjing Devil Dispatch Army Headquarters sent an urgent telegram to Miyamoto, saying that Yancheng had discovered an unknown anti-Japanese team in Haidong Port to rescue those captured American officers, and that Yancheng was not strong enough to deal with it, and asked Miyamoto to immediately send troops east to Yancheng to support.
Miyamoto looked at the urgent telegram sent by the Nanjing Command, and asked the chief of staff of the devil under him: "The headquarters sent an urgent telegram, asking our brigade to quickly reinforce the direction of Yancheng, now the Zhou Wu Independent Brigade on the opposite side is about to be divided and surrounded by our brigade, what do you think I don't want to give up this great opportunity to annihilate the Zhou Wu Independent Brigade, it doesn't matter if those captured Yankees were snatched away by the Zhina, how will the above know how much of a threat this Zhou Wu's independent brigade is to the imperial army on our Jiangbei side, with their independent brigade, My Miyamoto is having trouble sleeping. ” The chief of staff of the devil looked at the content of the urgent telegram sent by the Nanjing Headquarters, and said to Miyamoto: "Your Excellency the Brigade Commander, since it is the command from above, we can't go to reinforcements, Yamamoto's brigade failed miserably in attacking Pingqiao, and has turned back and withdrawn, according to our reconnaissance, it is only a small detachment of the independent brigade guarding Pingqiao, and Yamamoto's brigade can't conquer there, so he should take the blame and resign, it's too embarrassing for our imperial army, I think it's better to immediately let the brigade and regiment turn around and advance eastward, and besiege Pingqiao with superior forces, Intercepting the anti-Japanese armed forces that robbed and rescued the US military officers' field investigation group from behind, there is no need to analyze it, that armed force must have been sent by Zhou Wu and his independent brigade, except for them who have the ability to actually rescue them, there is no other anti-Japanese armed force capable of coming.
It seems that the purpose of their siege of Huai'an City this time is to drag our brigade here and prevent them from advancing eastward for reinforcements. ” Miyamoto listened to the words of the chief of staff of the devil and felt reasonable, but he still didn't want to let go of such a great opportunity to completely annihilate and surround the Zhou Wu Independent Brigade, and he also knew that if Zhou Wu and them escaped this time, the possibility of encountering this kind of opportunity again in the future would be very small, the situation in the Pacific War is getting worse and worse, and the US military has begun to provide large-scale assistance to the armed Chinese army, and even the communist army's anti-Japanese armed Lao Mei, who has never been welcome, intends to give assistance.
Isn't the field investigation group formed by those US military officers here just for the sake of assistance, if the New Fourth Army is provided with advanced equipment from the Americans, then our Imperial Japanese Army's life in East China will be even more difficult, so let's withdraw the strength of the attacking independent brigade and leave a wing to strictly prevent the Zhouwu Independent Brigade from attacking Huai'an City, and the rest of the brigade will all turn around and attack Pingqiao, reinforce Yancheng to the east, and stop those who are trying to rescue the US military field investigation team After the blocking position was broken, the commander of the second battalion hurriedly counted the number of brothers when the devils suspended the attack, and the two hundred or so lively brothers died in this battle alone, and fifty or sixty were wounded, and there were only more than 50 people left to resist the little devil with a gun, and the second battalion commander himself was also hit by a bullet in the arm and slightly injured, he knew that the next attack of the little devil would be devastating, and he still had more than 50 brothers who could fight with weapons, and it seemed that they were all going to die in this blocking position and die with the little devil.
Just when the second battalion commander was getting ready, and was going to fight with the Miyamoto Brigade who was going to attack, he suddenly found that the small devils on the opposite side were retreating to the back, and he couldn't understand what these little devils were going to do for a while, so he had to order his brothers to continue to prepare to prevent the little devils from cheating, and it would be miserable to suddenly kill the horse pistol.
This strange phenomenon also appeared on Zhou Wu's side, when Zhou Wu heard the report of the scouts in front, saying that the devils who had attacked from the west had retreated towards Huai'an City, Zhou Wu heard that Miyamoto's kid was going to retreat, and it was estimated that the battle on Ding Ning's side had started, which alarmed the devil headquarters in Nanjing, and asked him Miyamoto to quickly reinforce the devils in Yancheng to the east to prevent the New Fourth Army from robbing the captured American officers.
Zhou Wu is not worried about the second battalion commander of Miyamoto under Huai'an City, Miyamoto's large army is reinforcing to the east, and the pressure on the position after blocking the broken position can be immediately reduced, and the fat man and Zhang Ercheng who are sticking to the direction of Pingqiao will have to bear the pressure of thousands of people and horses attacking in turn by the large army of the devil brigade, what to do Zhou Wu thinks quickly in his mind, and now he must make a choice, once the direction of Pingqiao is broken by the Miyamoto brigade, then Ding Ning and their action team can almost be said to be surrounded by devils, And the US officers who have spent so much energy to rescue will once again fall into the hands of the devils, and the coordinated operations of their own independent brigade and the brothers of the brigades of the division headquarters will also fail.
Zhou Wu asked the staff officer of the brigade headquarters who followed him to bring the map and asked the staff officer: "Where are we now?"
"We are now ten kilometers south of Huai'an City, and ten kilometers away from Hudong Town."
The brigade staff officer replied.
"That Ge Sanmin, have their second regiment arrived in Taizhou and Yangzhou now?"
Zhou Wu asked.
"According to Regiment Commander Ge, they just called to report, they have exchanged fire under Taizhou City with a devil wing who went out of the city to reinforce Yancheng, and now they are fighting inseparably, and the Nanjing Devil East China Dispatch Army Headquarters has sent a lot of Wang puppet army teams to the direction of Yancheng, and Commander Ge is not strong enough, so he has to block the Japanese devils with strong combat effectiveness, and there is no way to block and intercept the puppet army that rushed to Yancheng next to him."
The city gate of the brigade headquarters reported the latest enemy situation, it seems that the pressure on Ge Sanmin's side is also quite large, Zhou Wu originally wanted to draw out a part of Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng's three regiments to rush to Pingqiao to support the fat man and them to block the Miyamoto brigade, but now it seems impossible, with Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng's little strength, it is already good to resist the crazy attack of the devil wing and the continuous harassment of the puppet army under Taizhou City, but the troops on his side are quite abundant, Chen Guofu's first brigade is about to rush to Hudong Town, The Second Brigade and the other teams of the New Fourth Army have all been dispatched to contain the devils and puppet troops around Huai'an City, and the local troops of our army in the direction of Yangzhou in Taizhou have also been dispatched to destroy the enemy's transportation lines and attack the relatively isolated devil strongholds, which greatly restrained the devils over there, which made Ge Sanmin and Xiao Zheng rush to Taizhou City with only more than 3,000 horses and horses, and encountered a wing of the little devils, and fought a draw there.
Zhou Wu immediately asked his subordinate communication soldiers to contact Chen Guofu of the First Brigade, and told him about the situation of the Miyamoto Brigade going east to reinforce Yancheng, Chen Guofu saw that Miyamoto was still going east to reinforce Yancheng, and hurriedly informed Zhou Wu on the radio: "Old Zhou, hurry up and take your independent brigade to Pingqiao, this place under Huai'an City will be handed over to our First Brigade, the devil's army will go out of the city to rescue Yancheng and attack Pingqiao, it is estimated that there are not many little devils in Huai'an City, this time I Chen Guofu will attack Huai'an City and take revenge, Let that Miyamoto see what it's like to have his lair captured by the New Fourth Army." t1706231537: