in2ebook Chapter 262
Chapter 262
Thinking of this, Junji Midorikawa did not dare to delay and the most urgent thing was to evacuate immediately.
After getting off the car, Junji Midorikawa observed the situation on the battlefield and immediately organized his troops to evacuate towards the 717th Regiment.
As the remaining troops of the 3rd Battalion began to evacuate towards the 717th Regiment under the organization of Junji Midorikawa, Commander Xiao at the front-line command center immediately ordered the 6th and 7th Regiments to press forward after seeing this scene. At the same time, the artillery battalion began to extend its firepower.
Soon, Junji Midorikawa led the Third Battalion to the ambush area of the 717th Regiment. As the Third Battalion entered the ambush area of the 717th Regiment, Commander Liu of the 717th Regiment immediately ordered the troops to open fire, firmly blocking the retreat of the Third Battalion.
Soon, the 3rd Battalion engaged in fierce firefight with the 717th Regiment.
Within half an hour, the 717th Regiment repelled three attacks organized by the 3rd Battalion in succession. Seeing that the front-line attack had failed, Junji Midorikawa began to organize his troops to launch a fierce attack from the flank. Seeing that there was a loophole in the 717th Regiment's flank defense, the 20th Regiment immediately ordered its troops to join the battle.
An hour later, as the 6th and 7th Regiments began to press forward from the rear, Junji Midorikawa began to become anxious.
The war had reached this point, and it was clear to Junji Midorikawa.
The siege of Laiyuan County was just a cover for the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Eighth Route Army. The real target of the Eighth Route Army was their own battalion.
Just now he listened carefully to the sound of artillery on the battlefield and found that there were quite a few artillery pieces of the Eighth Route Army ambushing him.
There were about a dozen of them, including what the Eighth Route Army called "heavy artillery."
Add to that the siege artillery of the Eighth Route Army that attacked Laiyuan County, damn, an entire artillery regiment’s worth of artillery.
This is already equivalent to the artillery of his own brigade.
Wasn’t it said a few days ago that the Eighth Route Army’s artillery was destroyed when the troops of the First Division of the Eighth Route Army of Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei were encircled? How come the Eighth Route Army still has so many artillery pieces?
I had heard before that the Eighth Route Army in southeastern Shanxi seized a large amount of equipment from the Locust Army, but I had never heard that the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei also seized so many artillery pieces.
Junji Midorikawa didn't have time to think about it. He knew that if he didn't find a way to break out, his brigade would soon be wiped out by the Eighth Route Army.
Currently, he has less than 600 soldiers who can still fight.
After observing the entire surrounding terrain, Junji Midorikawa noticed the northern hillside.
At present, only the northern hillside has not found any Eighth Route Army troops. Since it is night, Junji Midorikawa can only rely on his intuition to feel that there must be some conspiracy since there are no Eighth Route Army troops stationed on the northern hillside.
But I can't care about so many things at the moment. If I can't find defensive terrain, then the only thing waiting for my team is annihilation.
Therefore, Junji Midorikawa began to order his troops to move towards the northern hillside, attempting to hold on to the northern hillside until dawn and wait for support from the brigade's main force.
At the same time as the Japanese army was advancing, Commander Xiao, who was observing at the forward command post, also noticed the unusual movements of the Japanese army.
When Commander Xiao discovered that the Japanese army began to evacuate towards the northern hillside, he immediately showed an incredible look.
According to the previous battle plan, the northern hillside was bare due to the arrival of autumn.
Therefore, he did not arrange his troops to ambush on the northern hillside.
After all, with such terrain, once the troops are discovered, light and heavy machine guns can directly fire at the hillside. There is no cover at all, and they are completely sitting ducks.
At that time, Commander Xiao and several of his regimental commanders had not thought that the Japanese army would move to the northern hillside. After all, once they moved to the northern hillside, there would be no need to fight an ambush. They could just set up light and heavy machine guns and fire directly at the northern hillside.