"Boom" A violent explosion sounded, Lao Chen's mortar shells exploded in the middle of these Miyamoto brigade teams who were busy retreating, and the flying shrapnel fragments hit the bodies of those unsuspecting ghost soldiers, tearing them into pieces of flesh and blood, and the powerful explosion shock wave blew up several ghost soldiers in the center of the explosion on the spot, and Miyamoto, who was suddenly shelled, hurriedly shouted at his subordinate ghost soldiers: "Quickly retreat backwards" It's too late, and then, all the weapons on Lao Chen's position opened fire, what Maxine heavy machine gun, Czech light machine gun, medium formal rifle, 38 big cover, old sleeve, etc., at this moment, as long as the weapons that can be fired have shot bullets, the dense tongue of fire flew out of the dense reeds, with the roar of death and smashed viciously at those devil soldiers, those devil soldiers who were shot and fell to the ground fell to death like harvested crops in a rice field.
The devil soldiers who did not die were shouted by the devil army Cao and those veterans, lying on the ground on the spot, with the grenadiers and mortars in their hands and those 38 big covers desperately fired back at Lao Chen in the reeds, and soon, the devil's Type 95 heavy machine gun and crooked handle also began to spray the blazing tongue of fire, and the tongue of fire shot into the reeds, and the reeds that were growing lush and green were interrupted by bullets, Lao Chen saw the situation in front of him, and hurriedly shouted to the brothers who were waiting behind: "Brothers rush" Countless brothers of the First Brigade of the New Fourth Army in Jiangbei wearing earth-gray tattered military uniforms rushed out of the reeds one after another, and the loud military trumpets sounded one after another in the reeds, and at this moment the surrounding ponds, swamps, and grass piles seemed to emerge many New Fourth Army soldiers at once, and immediately there were three or four thousand New Fourth Army soldiers shouting battle slogans from three directions rushing towards the Miyamoto Brigade, Lao Chen took the lead, holding a big knife and rushing into the head of the team, his purpose was to use all the strength of the First Brigade, Cut off the back road of the Miyamoto brigade, take advantage of the situation to encircle and annihilate some of its devils, deliberately leave a gap in the west, and rush Miyamoto's large army towards the hinterland of the Lijiawan position in the west Miyamoto saw that the soldiers of the New Fourth Army around him rushed towards his side, but there was no movement in the direction of the west, and the road to retreat to the east had already been cut off by the New Fourth Army team, and a devil squadron of more than 400 people over there had already fought with more than 1,000 New Fourth Army soldiers who rushed over, and the back road was cut off, Miyamoto wanted to try to lead the team to concentrate on the south, but before he could start charging, he saw a team of people wearing various weapons and holding a variety of weapons in their hands.
These are the local armed forces of the New Fourth Army in the Jiangbei base area, and they have also been sent here by Zhou Wu at this moment, ready to respond to Lao Chen's flank, and cooperate with Lao Chen's First Brigade of the New Fourth Army to drive the Miyamoto Brigade to the hinterland of Lijiawan.
On three sides were rushing over and shouting to kill the devil's team, Miyamoto's head was stunned all of a sudden, he didn't know what to do now, the devil's chief of staff next to him was still quite clear, and persuaded Miyamoto: "Brigade commander, we have been tricked, run quickly, you can run in any direction, but we must not run to the west, the officer on the opposite side knows the art of war very well, and the siege is missing one, this west is waiting for us to get in, if we can disperse and break through at this moment, we may be able to run out of the encirclement of the army, Make up your mind, it's too late."
Miyamoto finally listened to the advice of the chief of staff of the devil this time, and immediately ordered his officers to break out to the north with the devil team, he thought that the north was the territory of the sixth war zone of the Kuomintang, as long as he rushed through the encirclement of the New Fourth Army, he could immediately enter the area controlled by the Kuomintang army, so that with the agreement they had reached with the Kuomintang army before, they should be able to smoothly break out of the encirclement and return to the old nest of Huai'an City.
Miyamoto's abacus was quite good, the north direction was indeed the territory of the Kuomintang's Sixth War Zone, but he forgot that it was the old army commander and their 79th Army stationed there, and at the moment when Miyamoto and his subordinates turned to the north to flee, the old army commander who received the news immediately instructed the two divisions of the 79th Army stationed here to attack and drive the Miyamoto Brigade towards the hinterland of Lijiawan in the west.
Miyamoto ran to the north of Lijiawan with the devil soldiers panting, and before he was glad that he was able to break out of the encirclement of Lao Chen of the New Fourth Army, he heard a whistling sound of artillery shells from the north, and rows of large-caliber shells whistled in, blowing up the devil soldiers who ran over and crying, and ran to the west, Miyamoto was stunned, this is impossible, the Kuomintang troops on the opposite side are shelling, this is impossible, the Kuomintang Sixth War Zone dared to go back on its word, fall into the ground, and fire at our Imperial Japanese Army Miyamoto was so angry that he grabbed the wireless telephone on the back of the devil's communication soldier, and directly shouted to the devil commander in Nanjing, Hata Shunroku: "Your Excellency Commander, we have been calculated by the New Fourth Army and the Kuomintang army, and have fallen into their encirclement, this is Lijiawan, in the Kuomintang defense zone, please negotiate with the Kuomintang Sixth War Zone, severely punish those who do not abide by the agreement, severely punish the perpetrators, and ask them to immediately cease fire and open the passage."
Shunliu Hatatake was furious: "Miyamoto-kun, don't panic, be sure to hold on to Lijiawan, and negotiate immediately with the East China Army" As soon as Miyamoto put down the radio and ordered his ghost soldiers to hold on to the spot, several other devil communication soldiers hurriedly ran over and reported to Miyamoto: "Your Excellency, the brigade commander, the Noda army left behind in Huai'an wants to talk to you."
Miyamoto was in a hurry at the moment, and as soon as he heard Noda who was guarding his nest Huai'an City calling him, he grabbed the microphone angrily and shouted: "Noda, are you too bored, don't keep talking to me if you have nothing to do, we are having a lively fight here, I don't have time to take care of you."
I didn't think about it, the noda on the other side panted and reported to Miyamoto: "Huai'an City has been attacked by a division of the Kuomintang army, and the number of troops defending the city is not enough, I have sent the police plainclothes team to the city tower to resist, the brigade commander is coming back soon, the Kuomintang army besieging the city is outnumbered and well-armed, I don't think we can last a few hours here."
It was really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, when Miyamoto set out with a large brigade to pursue Zhou Wu's New Fourth Army, considering that Huai'an City was far away from the Jiangbei anti-Japanese base area, and there were those straw bale Kuomintang troops around, leaving a squadron of imperial troops, plus Noda's gendarmerie, and a division of Wang puppet army should be more than enough, I never thought that now it was actually attacked by the Kuomintang army, the palace itself shook violently, and his head was dizzy, and he was about to fall to the ground, and several devil officers next to him hurriedly grabbed Miyamoto, said to him: "Your Excellency Brigade Commander, make a decision quickly, disperse and break through, otherwise our brigade will all be shattered here."
Before Miyamoto woke up slowly, a large number of Kuomintang troops rushed over to the north of the devil's position, and these rushing teams were the two divisions of the 79th Army under the old army commander, they were ordered to wait for Miyamoto here for several days, and at this moment they got the old army commander's immediate attack order, and all of them went out, pressing towards the Miyamoto brigade step by step, only to see these soldiers of the 79th Army, wearing new steel helmets, holding formal rifles, under the cover of artillery fire and light and heavy machine gun fire, Slowly but surely rushed towards the devil's position in a skirmish attack formation The chief of staff of the devils, who found that the 79th Army was rushing towards the position on a large scale, saw that the situation was not right, and if he didn't run, he would be surrounded by the New Fourth Army and the Kuomintang army who had rushed over, and hurriedly shouted at his subordinate devil officers: "Your Excellency the brigade commander is in a coma and cannot exercise command, from now on I will take the command, I order, each wing and brigade will disperse and break through, except for the western direction, each department will choose the direction of the breakthrough, and Huai'an City will not be protected.
After we broke out, we rendezvoused on the north bank of Hongze Lake to recapture Huai'an City from the Kuomintang army."
Before these devil officers organized a scattered breakout, there was a thunderous shout of killing in the west at this time, a large number of soldiers of the New Fourth Army besieged the Miyamoto Brigade under the cover of artillery fire and machine gun fire, Zhou Wu received the news that Lao Chen and the 79th Army had attacked on all fronts, and decided to attack immediately, and wiped out the Miyamoto Brigade in front of him, which had all fallen into the encirclement, on the east side of Lijiawan, so more than 30,000 people rushed out of the ambush over there, and the earth really shook the mountains, and the shouts shook the sky.
Coupled with the artillery fire and bullets on the battlefield, whizzing and flying, these little devils of the Miyamoto Brigade who were already panicked were completely desperate at this time, and they all screamed and hugged their heads, and the Miyamoto Brigade, which accounted for the majority of recruits, suffered a major rout in history, many ghost recruits collided everywhere without purpose, but most of them died under the dense rain of bullets flying around, only those devil officers and veterans with rich combat experience hugged each other tightly, guarding the Miyamoto Brigade Commander who had slowly woken up and turned around, and retreated to the north while fighting, At this moment, in the minds of these devils, they still feel that the 79th Army in the north is easier to deal with than the New Fourth Army that has caught up, and they think that as long as they concentrate their forces on storming the encirclement of the Kuomintang Army of the 79th Army in the north, they will be able to tear through the encirclement and break out of the encirclement.
Recapture the city of Huai'an, the old nest.
The recruits and devils of the Miyamoto Brigade were quickly wiped out by the brothers of the New Fourth Army and the Seventy-ninth Army who surrounded them, but the resistance team composed of the devil officers and veterans, Zhou Wu and Lao Chen, they attacked several times in a row, and lost a lot of brothers, but they still couldn't capture the position of the devils, and the devils had begun to storm the positions of the 79th Army in the north.
Fortunately, the old army commander saw that the situation was wrong, and ordered the 29th Division and Xiao Wu's guard company to all join the battle, which barely blocked the gap in the defensive position torn by the devils and stabilized the position in the north. t1706231537: