Ge Sanmin and his brothers who rushed over immediately collided with these Sato little devils who were forced to turn around, and the two sides began a brutal hand-to-hand combat, Ge Sanmin used up the 20-shot box cannon bullets in his hand, threw away the pistol, pulled out the big knife he was carrying behind his back, and directly greeted the devil who stabbed at him with a 38 big cover on the opposite side, and the knife fell, and the unlucky little devil was killed by Ge Sanmin's knife, "poof" He fell to the ground with a thud and writhed a few times, and then went to see his Emperor Majesty in Toei.
Just when Ge Sanmin and Sato's feint little devil started a fierce and bloody hand-to-hand fight, the pioneer battalion on the other side of the river had already destroyed all the pontoon bridges built by those devils on the river with firepower, and the little devil Yamada saw the northern section of the retreat, the pontoon bridge was destroyed, and then Ge Sanmin and they bit it to death, so anxious that they hurriedly asked the staff next to him to find a map of this place, and took a closer look, and found that the east and west sides of this place are swamps that are difficult to walk, and if you want to retreat back to Nanjing, you can only force the river to cross, Otherwise, even if they were not surrounded and annihilated here by these New Fourth Army, they would have to be trapped alive and starved to death in the swamps on the left and right.
Yamada's little devil was anxious, in order to be able to break out of the encirclement and cross the river, he ordered a wing of devils under his command to block the counterattack of Ge Sanmin and them after breaking off with Sato on the river bank, and the rest of the devils all went into the water to cross the river, and there was no pontoon bridge to hold the broken planks to cross the river, and at the same time ordered the devil artillery to shoot up all the stored shells to provide fierce cover for the troops crossing the river.
The strength of a wing of the devil joined Sato's team, Ge Sanmin and his three or four hundred brothers suddenly faced the desperate attack of three or four thousand little devils, and the pressure increased greatly, Ge Sanmin saw that the situation was not right, and he said that one enemy and ten were in the book to boost morale, and it was not so easy to fight, in order to preserve the strength of his brothers, Ge Sanmin felt that the brothers temporarily retreated, retreated to the original defensive position, and continued to resist the onslaught of the devil with the fortifications, Create conditions and time for Lao Xu, who came from the opposite bank to reinforce them, to cross the river and attack.
Sato saw that Ge Sanmin and they were retreating towards the defensive position, thinking that Ge Sanmin and they couldn't resist it, so he didn't even ask Yamada for instructions, and said to the captain of the devil co-captain on his own initiative: "Your Excellency the co-captain, the people of China have retreated, let's quickly turn around and retreat across the river, otherwise when we cross the river, there will not even be a plank, and the river is so deep, how to cross the river without branches and planks."
The captain of the devil wing also thought about crossing the river in his heart, and when he heard Sato's meaning, he immediately hit it off, nodded and said: "Sato-kun, you are right, since the people who attacked the country have been evacuated, then even if the task after our feint is broken, it is in line with the order of the brigade commander to turn around and cross the river now, so be it, immediately turn around, force the river to cross, and retreat in the direction of Nanjing."
The little devil co-captain's order, those little devils immediately quickly turned around, and ran towards the river bank, at this moment the little devil Yamada had already found two small boats to board the boat to cross the river under the arrangement of the devils around him, of course, he didn't know that Sato They had turned back at the moment, so Sato They ran to the bank of the river, and found that all the tools for crossing the river could not be found, not to mention a wooden plank, that is, they didn't even see a wooden stick, looking at the three or four thousand devils behind him who were anxious to squeeze down the river bank, Looking at the dense devil soldiers crossing the river in front, Sato scolded: "Brigade commander, you are too unkind, patronizing yourself to escape, completely ignoring the life and death of our broken team, now we can't even find a wooden stick, how can we cross the river, is it possible to be drowned alive in the past like this" When the captain of the devil wing saw this situation, he was also a little panicked in his heart, without the tools to cross the river, he couldn't cross such a deep river at all, unless you wanted to commit suicide, now that the large army has all crossed the river, scolding and scolding on the river bank can't solve the problem, the devil wing captain thought of a way, and ordered the devils of his squadron to search the surrounding area, find out if there are any woods or the like around, once you find it, it's easy to do, Cut down the trees in the woods and tie them into rafts to cross the river.
The luck of these little devils was still quite good, and soon they found a small bamboo forest on the edge of the swamp, although it was only some small bamboos, but it was better than nothing, and the captain of the devil wing was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered all his devils to rush over to cut down the bamboo, tie up the bamboo rafts, put them into the water, and prepare to cross the river by force.
Just when the little devils of the Yamada Brigade were scrambling to cross the river, the large army led by Lao Xu finally rushed to the bank of the river in time, and the commander of the pioneer battalion who was desperately blocking those who crossed the river on the bank of the river saw that Lao Xu had arrived, and happily reported to Lao Xu: "Report to the deputy brigade commander, those devils of the Yamada Brigade have been blocked by our pioneer battalion on the other side of the river, and these little devils who crossed the river will be beaten by us, you see, how lively the river is."
Of course, Lao Xu saw the devils who crossed the river on the river, and they were being pressed by the brothers of the pioneer battalion in the middle of the river with firepower, but the Yamada devils still did not give up, and ordered the devil artillery to bombard the pioneer battalion on the opposite bank position to block the advance of their team, and for a while the shells rained down around the position, blowing up thick smoke and fire, and a few shells fell on Lao Xu and exploded not far from them, and the commander of the pioneer battalion hurriedly asked the guards around him to drag Lao Xu down:" Quickly send the deputy brigade commander to a safe place in the back, it's too close to the front line, it's too dangerous" Lao Xu was unhappy, and said to the commander of the pioneer battalion: "What is too dangerous here, if you don't carefully observe the situation in front, can we win the battle, you hurry up to the front to command, and give me these little devils who cross the river by the river, there are still many troops in the Yamada Brigade on the opposite side of the river, and we still can't do anything to them for a while, we are now on the bank of the river to block the devils from crossing the river, and when the brigade arrives here with the large forces of the New Fourth Army in Jiangbei, it is not too late for us to launch a general attack."
Lao Xu's purpose is to let the Yamada brigade see that his formation is weak in the middle, let Yamada storm the central position, and he will confront Yamada when Zhou Wu has not fully arrived here, once Zhou Wu's large army reaches Ge Sanmin's position on the other side of the river, it can form a comprehensive encirclement of the entire Yamada brigade, and at that time, Even if the Yamada brigade has the fire support of the air force planes of the devils in the sky, it will not be able to escape, all around it is surrounded by the Jiangbei New Fourth Army, the number of troops is seven or eight times more than Yamada, and the left and right sides of the river are inaccessible swamps, Yamada except to commit suicide towards the swamp, there are only two ways to go, one is to fight to the end, with Zhou Wu and the Jiangbei New Fourth Army troops who came up to fight to the death, and the other is to disarm and surrender, in view of the fact that the Japanese devils have invaded China, There has never been such a large collective surrender incident, so in this way, there is only one fate waiting for Yamada's little devils, that is, all of them will be annihilated in the area south of Lijiawan, repeating the mistake of the total annihilation of the Miyamoto Brigade, if Hata Shunroku in the Nanjing Headquarters learns that the Yamada Brigade has no way out at this moment, he is afraid that he will be so angry that he will vomit blood on the spot, he can see farther than Yamada, see accurately, and know that this time the Jiangbei New Fourth Army is going to make a big move, so there were several telegrams urging Yamada to withdraw south immediately, To prevent falling into the ambush circle set up by Zhou Wu, Yamada, who was stunned, did not listen, and had to storm Ge Sanmin's blocking and defensive positions, thinking that after breaking through Ge Sanmin's position, their Yamada brigade could form a comprehensive encirclement of Zhou Wu's independent brigade, but as everyone knows, the puppet army division led by Liu Haozi turned back halfway and defected to Zhou Wu's New Fourth Army, and suddenly the battlefield situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and it was impossible for Yamada to go back.
Unless the Kuomintang recalcitrant troops in the area north of Lijiawan once again attacked Zhou Wu's Jiangbei New Fourth Army troops, there was absolutely no possibility of breaking through.
The Kuomintang recalcitrant troops in the area north of Lijiawan have been ordered to withdraw in the direction of Suxian at this moment, while the old commander's 79th Army has all controlled this area, and the old army commander also sent two divisions to cooperate with Zhou Wu's New Fourth Army to participate in the encirclement and annihilation of the Yamada Brigade.
Devil commander Shunroku Hata was anxious, in a short period of time, he lost two imperial brigades in the Jiangbei area at once, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the imperial army died on the battlefield of the New Fourth Army in the north, he couldn't afford this duty, even if he had a backer in the military department, someone could help him say good things about Shunroku Hatata, but it was inevitable to be removed from his post and investigated, maybe he would have to be taken to a military court to be tried and imprisoned, thinking of this, Shunroku Hata racked his brains and wanted to fish out this Yamada brigade, and then Shunroku Hata thought of a trick, Ordered a devil division regiment stationed in Nanjing to transfer all the middle and lower-level officers, and use the transport plane of the army aviation to airlift these devil officers to the vicinity of Lijiawan, instead of those devil officers under Yamada to command the devils to break through, Hata Shunroku believes that all these middle and lower-level officers of the A division in his hands are veterans who participated in the Shanghai Campaign, and under their leadership, the Yamada brigade should be able to break out of the encirclement and return to Nanjing, at this moment he just needs the Yamada brigade not to be completely annihilated by Zhou Wu's Jiangbei New Fourth Army, He didn't care how much the other officers had lost t1706231537: