"Reporting to your Excellency, we have successfully blocked the Dragon Boat Festival Special Forces. However, due to the very tenacious combat capabilities of the Special Forces, the results we achieved were very small, and they fled in the direction of Tiger Leaping Cliff.
Your Excellency, I request you to send a force to Hutiao Cliff to intercept. "
After Jun Takeshita's special forces broke out of the encirclement during the Dragon Boat Festival, he quickly sent a message to the commander of Ban Heng Division.
Old Japanese Ban Heng nodded when he saw Takeshita Jun's report. Because being able to repel that Chinese madman already shows that Takeshita Jun is very capable, not to mention that he has achieved results. This was a word that had never been heard in previous encounters. All he heard were battle losses.
Of course, this time the ambush and interception still caused a lot of casualties to the Japanese.
The number of Japanese dead reached fifty and more than thirty were injured.
However, for this, the special forces also paid the price of fifteen casualties.
Dozens of people died and five were injured.
The injured temporarily used tourniquets to stop the bleeding, and then even if the wounds were painful, they could only run quickly with the team.
Duanwu said that we must pass Tiger Leaping Cliff before four o'clock tomorrow morning. They bypassed Hutiao Cliff and headed for Danyang. This was their only way to survive, otherwise they would have to stay in the devil's belly.
Of course, that would make them more dangerous. Because the Japanese have listed Dragon Boat Festival as the most dangerous target, they will not give up without seeing his body.
So they could only quickly cross Tiger Leaping Cliff, which was their only way to survive.
It's just that Dragon Boat Festival didn't expect that the Japanese Banheng and the commander of the dispatched army Matsui Iwane would hate him so much. When he received the news that Dragon Boat Festival's special forces were detouring to Tiger Leaping Cliff, Matsui Iwane directly ordered the troops on the Yangtze River line. The naval special forces on the cruiser Qingye immediately went to Tiger Leaping Cliff to intercept the Dragon Boat Festival special forces.
But originally, this group of Japanese soldiers continued to go north, preparing to open up the Yangtze River waterway and go around behind Nanjing to block the Yangtze River.
Once the Yangtze River is blocked by the Japanese, Nanjing will become an isolated city, and all Nanjing defenders will be besieged on the Nanjing front line.
But at this time, in order to kill the Chinese madman, Matsui Iwane didn't care so much. He directly ordered the Qingye to stop near Tiger Leaping Cliff and sent Japanese soldiers to quickly blockade Tiger Leaping Cliff.
Two squadrons of Japanese soldiers landed at about one o'clock in the morning and rushed to Tiger Leaping Cliff.
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At the same time, the great retreat from Changzhou had begun. The Japanese who had been fighting for a day were actually very tired. I originally planned to have a good night's rest, at least a few hours. But I didn't want the order to be issued so suddenly. They surrounded Changzhou City and prevented the remaining troops of the 112th Division and the 103rd Division from leaving.
But at this moment, Zhou Weiguo and his men came out from behind the Ximen Japs, directly disrupting the Japs' deployment. The 112th Division and the 103rd Division in Changzhou City took the opportunity to leave the city and quickly divided into three combat brigades.
The first brigade, led by Commander Huo, engaged Zhou Weiguo to attack the Japanese troops blocking the west gate. He Zhizhong, the commander of the 103rd Division, led nearly a regiment of troops to block the Japanese reinforcements from the south gate and the north gate respectively.
It was a free-for-all, thousands of people. Both sides of the war invested a large number of troops in a short period of time.
At this time, human lives are no longer human lives. They are being harvested like grass. Someone will die every minute or even every second, and it is not one person or a few people, but dozens or even hundreds of people.
Under the night, the roar of artillery fire, machine guns, and rifles were like roasting beans.
Amidst the sound of artillery fire and explosions, the entire city of Changzhou was as bright as day.
In the blink of an eye, there were angry soldiers. They kept pulling the triggers and shooting at each other.
The bullet penetrated the body, and screams of pain followed.
One fell, and the other filled the gap. In this seemingly endless shooting, both sides continued to fill the black holes with people.
At this time, no one knew how many people had died. They just knew that when one soldier fell, another soldier would fill the gap.
The enemy and we are the same, shooting at each other under the uncovered city, and even setting up temporary artillery positions to bombard each other.
This time, the 103rd Division and the 112th Division also used all their heavy firepower.
The shells are fired rapidly, regardless of cost.
Although the Japs had already prepared, it seemed that the 112th Division and the 103rd Division were more prepared. What's more, the artillery of both divisions is here.
The Japs were suppressed by the brief artillery fire, but the number of Japs was extremely large. The two sides fought evenly in a very short period of time, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.
The battle was extremely cruel. The battle lasted for less than ten minutes and nearly a thousand people were killed or injured.
The dead were left at the foot of Changzhou City, while the living had to move on and continue their retreat towards Nanjing under the cover of the Independent Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the 522nd Regiment.
The Japanese army's encirclement and annihilation plan failed. Although the Chinese army was severely damaged, nearly two thousand people fled towards Nanjing.
The Japanese pursued for ten miles and stopped pursuing. Because further ahead is the Jintan and Danyang defense lines. Moreover, the battle line was stretched too long, and the little devils were defeated in pursuit.
The Aoki Japs and the Botian Japs discussed it, stopped their pursuit, and rested on the spot.
But at this moment, an order came from the commander of the Fifth Division Ban Heng, ordering Aoki to dispatch at least two squadrons to a position thirty miles west of Tiger Leaping Cliff to stand by.
Although Aoki didn't know the intention of the commander of the Ban Heng division, since it was an order, he had to absolutely execute it. He mobilized two squadrons of troops from the Japanese 42nd Regiment, heading towards the direction of Tiger Leaping Cliff, and assigned the few trucks of the 21st Brigade to the Japs of these two squadrons.
Because Ban Heng's order was to arrive at the scheduled location before three o'clock in the morning.
This is the backhand left by the old devil Ban Heng. Two squadrons of the Marine Special Forces went to defend Tiger Leaping Cliff, but he was still worried, fearing that Dragon Boat Festival would break through the defense line and continue to escape westward. So they mobilized two squadrons of troops and were on standby thirty miles west of Tiger Leaping Cliff.
This location is very good and can be used to control a large area, making it difficult to escape during the Dragon Boat Festival.
And Duanwu naturally knew that Tiger Leaping Cliff might have been targeted by the Japanese. But if you don't go to Tiger Leaping Cliff, you can only dig into the belly of the Japanese, which will be even more dangerous.
Once the Japanese discover that he did not go to Tiger Leaping Cliff, they will turn around and mobilize a large number of troops from the rear to encircle and suppress them.
So if you go to Tiger Leaping Cliff, you still have a chance of survival. If you don't go to Tiger Leaping Cliff, you won't even have a chance of survival. So Duan Wu clearly knows that Tiger Leaping Cliff is most likely a trap for the Japanese army, but he can only dig in at this time! ...
ps: Thanks to brother 'Fearless because of ignorance' for the tip, thank you!
