On the right wing, the position of the 1st Battalion of the 881st Regiment. Due to the tunnels used as bunkers, the 1st Battalion suffered little losses in the previous shelling, with less than 50 casualties in total. The center and left wing were both hit, and the right wing position remained silent. quietly;
Chen Wu had to lament that the Japs on the right wing were calm, but he was even more calm. There was a battalion of the 882nd Regiment on the center wing to resist the Japs. Their casualties were not large, and their organization was almost complete. They blocked two people who had been captured. There was no problem with the crippled brigade. The reason why their full strength was not exposed must be that his old buddy Qi Hua was thinking about the Yin devils.
Since there is no problem with the center and left, there is no need for his right wing to be anxious and wait for the Japs to come over. He believes that under the old man's deliberate show of weakness, the Japs on the right wing will lose their composure and sneak attack on the right wing of the Lone Army Brigade. At that time, they can wait for work and teach the sneaky Japanese a lesson.
Sure enough, not long after, news came from the reconnaissance squad that a group of Japanese soldiers had quietly approached, less than 300 meters away from their defense line;
Chen Wu excitedly said to several company commanders:
"Brothers, this time we will also create an inverted triangle ambush formation for the Japanese. The first company and the second company will ambush on the left and right wings. Let them in when they come over. I will take the third company and the machine gun company to wait for them in the middle. Remember Stay, let’s give full play to the power of the knock-down firepower, time is running out, let’s get started.”
The three companies of the first battalion were originally deployed in three directions. They only needed the first and second companies on the left and right wings to quickly hide in the tunnel and let the Japanese army pass. This tactic had been practiced many times by the first battalion. , familiar with the lightness of the battle, this is a tactic commonly used by lone brigades in street fighting, and can be used at all levels of platoon, company, battalion and regiment.
Following Chen Wu's order, the 1st and 2nd companies quickly spread out to the two wings, and then got into the tunnel, leaving only a vanguard group to observe the Japanese movements;
The third company and the machine gun strode back nearly five hundred meters to re-establish a line of defense. Two of the four companies spread out, and two retreated, forming a huge inverted triangle array in the center. The third company and the machine gun company are the tips of the triangle. Their mission is to block the Japanese and create conditions for attacking the Japanese from the side and rear with two wings.
Not long after the first battalion was set up, more than 500 people from the Japanese Third Battalion, who wanted to detour from the right wing, formed several columns with the squadron as a unit, and rushed up quickly along both sides of a longitudinal street on the right wing. The Japanese released a small team of searchers on each side. The focus of the search was the tens of meters on the left and right wings of the street, because this distance is the most dangerous in urban street fighting;
Major Ishibashi was always cautious. Even if he judged that the main force of the defenders was attracted to the center and left wing, he would still defend where it was necessary. He was very cunning. Unfortunately, the opponents they encountered this time had different playing styles. In this era, both the Chinese and the Japanese had little contact with urban street fighting, let alone urban ambush formations combined with tunnel warfare.
The entrance to the tunnel is very hidden, and there are ruins everywhere. Let alone a search team, even a large team may not be able to find it without digging all over the ground.
The Shiqiao Brigade successfully passed the ambush positions of the 1st and 2nd Companies and then drove straight in, quickly reaching the bottom of the pocket;
The leading soldiers of the First and Second Companies who stayed outside to observe saw the Japanese brigade passing by on horseback, and notified the main force in the tunnel. The soldiers of the First and Second Companies sprang out from several hidden exits in a steady stream and quickly occupied the two wings. The position formed an angle of 60 degrees with the three companies at the bottom. From this angle, it was almost impossible to attack the middle, and the Japanese's retreat was cut off.
The always suspicious Major Ishibashi already smelled of danger. He always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't explain it. Everything was going so smoothly. It was impossible for the Chinese not to leave a force on the crucial right wing. Now they We are almost back in position, and we haven't found an enemy to block the attack yet. This only proves that there must be an ambush ahead!
Major Ishibashi quickly figured out the reason. The Chinese people's behavior was too abnormal. In military terms, abnormality is a monster. He immediately ordered the troops to stop;
Chen Wu originally wanted to bring the Japs closer, but when he saw the Japs suddenly stopped and quickly spread out to the two wings, he knew that the Japs were alert and had to admit that they had encountered a cunning opponent.
He was not discouraged and decisively gave the order to open fire. The remaining seven light and heavy machine guns and dozens of rifles from the third company fired wildly at the dispersing Japanese, knocking down dozens of Japanese in an instant, and other Japanese. They quickly hid in the ruins, relied on the ruins to start resisting, and fired dense bullets at the defenders. From time to time, some defenders were knocked down.
Seeing that the Japs were lying down, Chen Wu immediately ordered the two thunder cannons of the machine gun battery to fire and threw explosive packets into the Japs group;
Now it was the Japanese's turn to be miserable. Those ruins and craters could only block direct bullets, but they had little effect on the thunder cannons that relied on shock waves and explosive fragments to kill.
When an explosive pack hits, almost all the Japs within a radius of 20 to 30 meters from the center of the explosion will be shocked to death, and there is no use hiding in the ruins; and those hundreds of explosion fragments will diverge almost 360 degrees. If There are no bunkers and no blind spots, and whether you die or not depends entirely on luck.
Seeing that the Chinese had used mysterious artillery again, causing huge casualties to their warriors, Major Ishibashi immediately ordered the remaining three mortars to establish an artillery position three hundred meters away, preparing to blow up the Chinese artillery.
He also saw that although the Chinese artillery was powerful, its range was very short, with a visual estimate of up to 150 meters, and there was no accuracy at all. Wherever it was thrown, the error was at least a dozen meters, or even greater.
To deal with such an inherently defective artillery piece, you only need to use mortars to suppress it. The Japanese artillery quality is very high, and they can set up the artillery in a few minutes. Unfortunately, that kind of artillery only fired two rounds and then stopped. He estimated that The other party must be dismantling the artillery and sneered:
"If you want to run away, there's no way! Fire!"
Three shells accurately hit the position of the thunder cannon, and the ruins were destroyed. Major Ishibashi breathed a sigh of relief. The mysterious cannon did too much damage to them. Although only two rounds and four rounds were fired, he expected It is estimated that there were close to a hundred casualties.
You must know that they only have more than 500 people in total. They suffered dozens of casualties when they encountered the Chinese raid, and now there are dozens more. The total is close to a squadron, which is equivalent to one-third of their current strength. Although there were still many wounded who could continue to fight, the death toll was definitely over a hundred.
The Chinese have artillery, several machine guns and dozens of rifles, and relatively complete fortifications. This is a considerable force. After their roundabout plan was exposed, the roundabout plan was actually bankrupt. The Chinese were prepared on the right wing. In a short time, They were unable to break through the Chinese blockade, and he had the idea of retreating in his mind.
At this moment, intensive gunfire suddenly rang out from behind them. While they were entangled with the Third Company, the First Company and the Second Company, who were worried that the Third Company would suffer a loss, had quietly come up from behind them, forming a three-sided pincer attack. potential.
Now it was Major Ishibashi's turn to be dumbfounded. He had completely understood that he had fallen into the Chinese's trick. Now they were surrounded by the Chinese on three sides, especially the two troops surrounding them behind them, leaving them with little power to fight back. .
What the army fears most in a war is the firepower from the side and rear. This time it is not just one side, but both sides. There is a hail of bullets composed of several machine guns on each side, and grenades fall like raindrops, knocking down the Japanese in groups;
Surrounded on three sides, the Japanese casualties surged. They were completely in disarray. Deadly bullets were everywhere, and they didn't know which direction to fight back.
Shiqiao knew that they would not be able to escape this time, so he was heartbroken and issued the order to launch a long-lived charge to the front. Even if they were to die, they would die on the way to the charge...
Chen Wu and the brothers of the Third Company fulfilled their wishes and saw them off from hundreds of bullets. Major Shiqiao, who had been cautious all his life, rushed towards the Third Company's position with his command knife high and was hit by a beacon bullet. He was very unwilling to do so. My heart fell.
The frightened Captain Mizuno turned around and ran away with dozens of Japanese soldiers. As a result, he was hit by a hail of bullets from the 1st and 2nd companies. The firepower network composed of more than a dozen machine guns was beyond what they and dozens of Japanese soldiers could rush through. , in just a moment, they were all swept to the ground...
"Brothers, charge, kill all the Japanese, leave no one behind!"
The first company commander roared loudly, and the first and second companies began to give the Japanese a final blow from behind, knocking the last dozen Japanese to the ground. The two companies suffered almost no casualties, and the total did not exceed ten people.
In the city's inverted triangle formation carefully designed by Chen Wu, all the remaining 500 Japanese in the Shiqiao Brigade were eliminated. The 1st Battalion of the 881st Regiment used almost the same force, supported by advanced tactics, and used the familiar terrain to fight almost Incredible results, 500 enemies were wiped out, and no more than 80 casualties were killed. The Japanese on the right were eliminated in one fell swoop.
There were only three to four hundred Japs left in the 65th Regiment in the center and left wing. If they were not needed for fishing, the First Battalion of the 882nd Regiment would have destroyed them long ago.
"Kill the chicken and give it to me!"
Just when Major Miyamoto thought that the entire army was going to be annihilated, their reinforcements arrived. It was none other than Lieutenant Commander Kamei who came to pick peaches and a large group of fresh troops led by him. The two sides once again fell into a stalemate;
This result surprised Major General Yamada. In order to avoid becoming a fuel tactic, he once again sent a large group of Japanese soldiers into the city. Unknowingly, there was only one large group of Japanese soldiers left outside the city.
Outside the headquarters, Luo Ying finally showed a smile of victory when he saw that the Japs had sent another troop in. Now their biggest problem was to deal with the two large groups of Japs in the city, and they had to rely on firecrackers!
Before detonating the artillery barrage, he had to break away from the Japanese. He turned to Ma Biao and said:
"Concentrate all artillery fire on the Japs, cover the main force's retreat to the north of the city, leave a demolition team behind, and ask the Japs to take a ground plane!"
