The retreat of the Yamada Brigade was blocked by more than 10,000 people brought by Lao Xu, and after a short rest, Ge Sanmin behind them launched an attack on the devil position of the Yamada Brigade again.
Although he repelled one of Ge Sanmin's attacks, there were a lot of dead and wounded little devils on the position, Sato probably counted it, and lost about forty percent of the devil's troops, he felt hopeless to hold on, so he ordered his subordinates to cut off the ears of the dead devils and bring them back, and the rest of the devil corpses scattered on the position dug a big pit, threw them all in, and burned them with a fire.
The battle on both sides of the river was in a white-hot state, and the little devils in Yamada couldn't rush out, but Lao Xu and Ge Sanmin because of their insufficient troops, they could only temporarily suppress the Yamada brigade on the other side of the river for a while, especially Ge Sanmin, there were only three or four hundred brothers, and after several battles, there were less than two hundred troops left, and the cunning Yamada seemed to have discovered the weakness of the troops on Ge Sanmin's side, and hurriedly dispatched a devil brigade to quickly reinforce the broken Sato, and ordered Sato to take full command of this brigade, Breaking through the blocking position held by Ge Sanmin and opening up the passage to break through from the north, Yamada saw on the military map that there was a fork in the road three or four miles behind Ge Sanmin's position in the north, which could be turned to the southeast, as long as it ran to this fork in the road, the Yamada brigade could break out of the encirclement that had not yet been formed by Zhou Wu and run back to Nanjing.
Sato got reinforcements from a devil brigade, and the number of troops at hand reached more than 1,500, and Sato, who was originally a squadron leader, suddenly became awesome and swore to Yamada: "Your Excellency the brigade commander, please rest assured, we will definitely conquer that position and open the passage behind the position."
At the moment when Sato gathered his forces and prepared to launch another onslaught on Ge Sanmin's position, Zhang Ercheng of the artillery battalion of the Independent Brigade quietly crossed the river with two companies of artillery brothers carrying light 60 mortars, detoured to the northwest, and was touching the artillery position of the Yamada Brigade.
The garrison is deep and tight, and it is difficult to start.
After receiving the report of the scout brothers, Zhang Ercheng, who led the team, frowned, there are guards in front of the devil's artillery position, this situation Zhang Ercheng had expected it before he touched here, he never thought that the little devil would defend so deeply, and dispatched a devil squadron of more than 200 people to guard the artillery position, and he only took less than a hundred brothers to deal with a squadron of devils, I'm afraid it was a little difficult, and there were many devil artillery on the opposite artillery position, so wouldn't he be more passive Zhang Ercheng hurriedly took out a cigarette from his coat pocket, smoked it vigorously, thought for a while, and instructed a few scout brothers to go to the devil artillery position over there to have a look, it is best to find the location where the devil artillery stores shells, so that Zhang Ercheng is more sure that he will knock out the artillery position of this little devil, as for the devil artillery position in the other position, Zhang Ercheng considered waiting to capture this nearby artillery position.
Soon, the scout brothers who went to reconnoiter came back and said to Zhang Ercheng: "The devil's shells are all placed on the side of the artillery position, we searched around, and we didn't find a place where the devil stored the shells. ” As soon as Zhang Ercheng heard this, he immediately slapped his thigh: "Okay, too, the little devils have been fighting with our team here for several days, I don't believe where they got so many shells, it turns out that they are also running out of ammunition, brothers, let's quickly touch it, ignore the devil infantry guarding outside, get rid of the sentry and touch in, try not to shoot, pause in front of the minefield for a while, think of a way to go in again, after entering, first control the devil's cannon, so that the outside will take the initiative, It's good to deal with those devil infantry.
"Zhang Ercheng means to sneak attack the past first, get rid of those devil artillery, and wait for those mountain artillery and mortars to be snatched, and then deal with the devil infantry outside Zhang Ercheng's subordinates were divided into three teams, touched the outermost sentry set up by the devils, and quickly touched the devil's artillery position not far in front, the artillery bombardment on the position "rumbled" around, there was a layer of barbed wire outside, it seemed that the little devil sappers were temporarily erected, it was not very high, Zhang Ercheng was not so worried about this barbed wire, he was worried about the minefield outside the barbed wire, after marching to a distance of 500 meters from the position, he ordered his brothers to suspend their advance, Discussed with a few brothers under him: "It is estimated that the front is a minefield, I don't know how many mines the devils have planted here, think of a way outside, how to clear these mines, and open a way for the brothers to pass." ” Zhang Ercheng's subordinates were talking nonsense, of course, the volume was very small, otherwise it would be heard by the devil squadron who served as a guard next to them, it would be terrible, in fact, Zhang Ercheng was also unnecessary, the earth-shaking shelling sound on the position completely covered up Zhang Ercheng's voice, at this time, as long as it was properly concealed, Zhang Ercheng and they were shouting loudly at the top of their throats, I am afraid that those devil soldiers would not be able to hear it.
The brothers discussed for a while and came up with a plan, that is, to bombard the minefield with a few mortars they brought, and the shells fell in a straight line as much as possible to detonate the mines in those minefields, and at the same time, the brothers stepped on the shells and quickly rushed to the barbed wire, and blew up the barbed wire with grenades and explosives bags.
Zhang Ercheng thought about it, the artillery's idea is only to use shells to open the way, it's not that he doesn't want to take this method, it's really too expensive now, hit one less one, there is at least a distance of 500 meters from here to the barbed wire, with each shell in the range of five meters, then it takes 100 shells to blow up this way to solve the problem, Zhang Ercheng calculated this, hurriedly shook his head, and said to his brothers: "This is too wasteful, we are not the Kuomintang army, how can there be so many shells for us to bombard, It takes a hundred shells to open that passage, do you know how many little devils can be killed by these 100 shells in the formation of devils, this is not good, we can't afford to spend it. ” Zhang Ercheng shook his head while saying, indeed, in the current situation of the shortage of shells, it is indeed reluctant to shoot out a hundred shells at once, Zhang Ercheng does not agree with this method of using shells to clear the minefield, he asked everyone to use their brains, there is no other good way.
As soon as he heard Zhang Ercheng shake his head, a young artillery brother said to Zhang Ercheng: "Battalion commander, apart from this method, I don't think we have any other good way, we can only risk rushing in from which vigilant devil squadron, there are more than 200 devils, and we can rush in with more than 100 brothers."
Zhang Ercheng fell into hard thinking, for a long time, several brothers suddenly stood up and ran towards the minefield, Zhang Ercheng saw it, it was terrible, those brothers were going to use their own flesh and blood to go to the mine, and hurriedly shouted to them: "Come back to me and don't rush over" But apparently the four brothers had already made up their minds, and they ran to the minefield, only to hear a "boom" explosion, and a brother who ran in front was lifted high by the exploding mine, and his body turned around a few times in mid-air, and fell out a few meters, and when he fell, he happened to press the mine placed next to him by the devil, and the body of this good brother was immediately blown up by the mine, and his body was shattered.
The explosion of the mine did not startle the three brothers in the back.
I only heard them shouting at Zhang Ercheng: "Battalion commander, hurry up with your brothers, we will go on the road for you."
After speaking, the three brothers who regarded death as if they were at home immediately fell to the ground, and their bodies suddenly rolled towards the minefield in front, and bursts of violent explosions sounded one after another, Zhang Ercheng's tearful eyes saw that in the smoke of gunpowder, the three bodies that were rolling forward, although they were blown to a blur of flesh and blood, they were still stubbornly rolling forward.
Zhang Ercheng roared: "Chong, brothers avenge the dead brothers."
Zhang Ercheng's artillery brothers immediately shouted the slogan of killing the enemy, and rushed towards the devil's barbed wire in the place where the explosion had occurred, the explosion alarmed the devil squadron next to the guard, the sharp whistle resounded throughout the artillery position, a large group of devil infantry rushed towards Zhang Ercheng and them with 38 big covers, and those light and heavy machine guns on the artillery position also shot desperately towards this side, the bullets hit the ground, making a "chirping" sound, several brothers were hit by machine gun bullets, and fell to the ground and couldn't get up, The brothers around them didn't care about the bullets fired like a storm in front of them, and they rushed towards the barbed wire with shouts, and at a distance of 500 meters, the brothers rushed to the point in a few minutes, and several brothers with explosives quickly buried the explosives under the barbed wire, pulled out the fuse, and the fuse suddenly "snorted" and burned quickly with white smoke, and after a while, only a loud sound of "boom" was heard, and the barbed wire fence erected by the devil outside the artillery position was blown up in the air by the explosive bag.
The passage was finally opened, and Zhang Ercheng hurriedly ordered his brothers: "Hurry in, deal with those devil artillery first, and turn around to deal with those devil infantry who rushed over."
A group of artillery brothers immediately rushed towards those devil artillery, and those devil artillerymen who could hear the explosion saw that many soldiers of the New Fourth Army suddenly rushed in, and immediately rushed to the weapon rack behind the gun emplacement, wanting to take up arms against these soldiers of the New Fourth Army who broke in. t1706231537: