Sasaki received a telegram and handed it over, saying: "The heavy artillery regiment was attacked by Tubal Road and was completely wiped out. We have no support or supplies.
The most important thing now is to leave this ghost place immediately! "
In fact, it was not that there was no support. Tsuka Yoshio ordered Lu Yuan’s military police headquarters to go out of the city to pursue them. However, Lu Yuan only had one Japanese squadron and one battalion of puppet troops.
The commander of the military police thought that Tubal Road Company and the heavy artillery regiment could be wiped out. He was looking for death if he went out, so he lingered for a long time without leaving the city.
After reading the telegram, everyone at the Third Brigade Headquarters panicked. Even if the most important support did not come, it actually fell into the hands of Tubal Road.
They are now surrounded by Tubal Road on this hilltop. If Tubal Road on the opposite side can use these guns, they will suffer heavy casualties with just one salvo.
Breakout, must break out immediately!
However, what they didn't know was that the troops of the New Second Regiment had already blocked their retreat.
The Wen Gu brothers and sisters had already rushed over with heavy artillery.
The three besieging regiments all received telegrams from the temporary headquarters, which meant that the Japanese were likely to break through and asked them to pay more attention.
We must not let the Japanese escape. The Eighth Route Army invested tens of thousands of people in four regiments and fought for almost 20 days before finally letting the Japanese escape. It would have become a big joke.
The Wen Gu brothers and sisters took all the artillery to a small forest 5 kilometers away from the Japanese. This place was actually not suitable as an artillery position.
Because there is a hillside blocking the view in front, and the ground is uneven and needs constant repairs.
But it's relatively safe here. Japanese planes may appear at any time and have to be guarded against.
After arriving at the place, Wen Gu took out the captured map and said to Wen Xin,
"Little sister, I will go to the front to observe the location of the Japanese camp, and then send it to you via radio. After you mark it on the map,
Then calculate the specific coordinates. Whether you can calculate it accurately depends on whether your calculation is correct! "
Wen Xin took the map and looked at it. It was a military map brought by the Japanese. All the places in the southeastern Shanxi region were clearly marked on it.
She raised her head and said seriously, "Don't worry, I will make it clear to you!"
Wen Gu nodded and left, thinking as he walked, why did the younger sister's words sound so awkward?
The range of the 150mm howitzer is close to 9 kilometers. The Japs use observers in front to mark the position on the map and then transmit it back to the artillery position.
This requires the artilleryman to have map recognition, terrain surveying and ranging capabilities, etc. Therefore, the artillerymen of the Japanese Heavy Artillery Regiment have at least been to elementary school.
However, the Eighth Route Army in Yanhuang has very few professional talents. These 24 guns were given to the Eighth Route Army and will not be used for a while. Professionals must be transferred from Yanzhou to use them.
Not to mention the Eighth Route Army, even the Kuomintang Army did not have many professional artillery units, so Wen Gu could only go there in person.
After the Japanese from the third brigade prepared to break out, they concentrated all their weapons and ran towards Lu Yuan, because during this period of the siege, only this direction was the weakest.
The New Second Regiment has not participated in the attack and is waiting halfway back to Luyuan!
When Wen Gu came over, he found that the Japanese had already begun to break through. The Eighth Route Army blocked the attack while letting go of the intersection, allowing the Japanese to enter the ambush circle set up by the New Second Regiment.
Wen Gu directly drew the marker at the ambush location of the New Second Regiment, because it took time to establish the artillery position.
Under the cover of the guards, Sasaki Toichi followed the retreating Japanese toward Luyuan.
At this time, the Japanese retreated not in a panic, but in a very orderly manner. They retreated in an orderly manner during alternating cover. The Eighth Route Army did not find much advantage.
Just as the Japanese soldiers who were opening the way broke through the encirclement and ran toward the source of the road, thousands of people from the two battalions of the New Second Regiment who had been waiting here suddenly opened fire. The unsuspecting Japanese soldiers were knocked to the ground.
When the Japanese heard gunshots in front of them, they knew that this road was not easy to walk. There was a blockade in front of them and soldiers chasing behind them. At this time, the Japanese felt panicked for the first time.
When Sasaki heard the gunshots from the front, he asked the communications soldier with a gloomy face,
"The news of our breakout has been spread. Is there anything Yangqu can say?"
"Your Excellency Lieutenant General, the plane from Yangqu Airport has already departed. Your Excellency Commander Yuzuka told us to persist. As long as the plane comes, we will have a chance!"
"Yo Xi, order the troops to strengthen the attack, and mark the points where the planes will bomb. Just wait for our planes to arrive and bomb them immediately.
I'm going to cut these bastards into pieces! "
When Sasaki thought about the humiliation he had suffered in the past few days, he felt bursts of anger in his heart!
The commanders of several regiments of the Eighth Route Army were reminded by the temporary headquarters that they must guard against bombing by Japanese planes and pay attention to Japanese markers.
They didn't know yet that Japanese planes were now conducting high-altitude bombings, and ground markers were very important, but Wen Gu had already sent a telegram to remind them.
The Japs were suppressed by the New Second Regiment on a section of mountain road, almost 500 meters in front and back. After the Eighth Route Army came up from behind, they kept compressing the Japs' space from both sides.
Just when the Japs were fully expecting the plane to arrive, Wenxin had already calculated the parameters through the map and adjusted them on the heavy artillery.
Because the battalion of the New Second Regiment is all infantry and does not know how to use cannons at all, Wenxin can only adjust each cannon, then let the infantry load the ammunition, adjust the parameters and then fire!
After the infantry loaded the artillery shells, Wen Wen asked everyone to stay away. None of the soldiers had seen such artillery before, so they all ran far away, staring at Wen Wen with curious eyes.
Wen Wen confirmed that there was no problem with the parameters, reached out and fired the cannonball.
"Boom." With the sound of a cannon, a cannonball weighing several hundred kilograms flew out from the muzzle at high speed, and a large tail flame appeared at the muzzle.
The soldiers covered their ears and opened their mouths wide at the sound of the huge cannon.
Wenxin immediately adjusted the second cannon and said, "You've seen it all, loading and firing, it's that simple!"
The soldiers in the distance ran over and started loading their ammunition excitedly. They didn't know where the shots were going, but they knew that as long as they shot out, they would be successful.
Sasaki listened to the sound of the shells streaking across the sky with confusion. He suddenly thought of something and shouted loudly:
"Avoid the cannon!"
After yelling, he lay down on the ground.
The other Japs were familiar with this sound, but they had never been blown up by their own cannons, so their reaction was slower, and then,
"boom."
The shell exploded in the crowd of Japs, and the Japs within 10 meters of the impact point were instantly torn apart. The Japs further away had their hands and feet cut off by the flying fragments, and fell to the ground screaming.
Then the shock wave arrived, and all the Japanese within 50 meters were blown away by the shock wave. At the same time, their internal organs were damaged, and they would die soon.
