"Kanazawa-kun, just rest in peace!"
Endo wiped it with his hand, closed the eyes of Kanazawa Keiichi who was still staring at death, and then ordered the Japanese he could mobilize to fight back with all their strength.
Of course, he would not fight back. He would take advantage of the other devils' full counterattack to escape quickly.
Through observation, he has discovered that the number of enemies ambushing on the east side is extremely large, and it is too many for him to guess.
Therefore, it is simply impossible to take everyone away and break out. Someone must sacrifice here to buy him time to escape.
He took his guard of less than thirty men and hunched into the grass and fled southward along the road.
At the same time, behind the Japanese, three tanks including Qiu Ming's Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army and part of the 522nd Regiment appeared.
They attacked the Japanese from behind. The little Japanese were attacked from both sides and died one after another on the west side of the mountain road.
The little Japanese were all wiped out. Although it took a while, the entire 150th Regiment was almost wiped out.
At this moment, a section of the Northeastern Army discovered Endo and others who had escaped, and nearly half of the company wanted to pursue them.
Qiu Ming saw that Endo and others had fled far away, not to mention that Duanwu once told him that it was not cost-effective to pursue a small group of troops, so Qiu Ming rushed over to dissuade them.
But the officer didn't want to pay any attention to Qiu Ming. After all, Qiu Ming was wearing the clothes of the Eighth Route Army.
Qiu Ming had no choice but to watch the troops leave.
Of course, this battle is still not over. In addition to the Japs on the mountain road, the battles on Highland 3, Highland 4, and Highland 5 are not over yet. The resistance of the Japs is very tenacious, although they all know that they are Abandoned son.
But even so, who wants to die? They are frantically digging fortifications on the top of the mountain. When the trench was chipped away by artillery fire, they quickly dug another inch deeper, because everyone knew the importance of this inch on the battlefield.
Duanwu ordered the artillery to cease fire, because when the enemy's number was reduced to a certain number, sporadic artillery fire was of little effect, and he did not know how many artillery shells he had left. Blind artillery fire would only waste the artillery shells and damage the enemy. Enemy positions do no harm.
Just like this, the two sides will be deadlocked here.
Zhou Weiguo said: "If we don't annihilate the Japs on the highlands, we won't be able to get through here. There is only one road to Bengbu, and it must go through the mountain road between these three highlands."
Duanwu nodded, and then shouted: "Old Abacus!"
"The group is here!"
Old Abacus ran over quickly and took out his notepad. The cover of this notepad was all in Japanese, which was obviously copied from the little devil.
Duanwu asked at this time: "The situation of our weapons and ammunition."
The old abacus quickly flipped the notebook forward, searched for a while and quickly replied: "Regiment, we have thirty-eight trucks, six of which are loaded with the Japs' Type 38 rifles. Four are loaded with the Japs' Machine guns, machine gun bullets, rifle bullets.
In addition, we have one 150mm howitzer, two 120mm howitzers, one 105mm howitzer, and sixteen mountain guns ranging from 110mm to 75mm.
The shell consumption is huge, and there is no time to accumulate points, but the stock is definitely less than a base.
The mortars also have more shells, which are enough to carry out two base bombings on the forward positions.
The grenade ammunition is also very sufficient, and even if the shells are used up, the Japanese Type 91 grenades can still be used.
We have seized nearly a thousand Type 91 grenades before,..."
The old abacus reported endlessly, and Duanwu nodded, because although the howitzer shells were insufficient, there were still more mortar and grenade shells.
And especially the grenade, it is enough to carry out carpet bombing of the little Japanese's No. 5 position.
Thinking of this, Duanwu ordered: "Order the heavy machine gunners on Highland No. 6 and the heavy machine gunners on Highland No. 7 to suppress the Japs on Highland No. 5 with firepower and not allow the little Japs to show their faces.
Sun Shiyu was ordered to take all the artillery, under the cover of the First Battalion, and advance to a position 80 meters away from the top of Highland No. 5, so that I could carry out a carpet bombing of the Japanese's Highland No. 5. I requested that at least 500 shells be thrown into the Japanese position within five minutes. "
"yes!"
Lao Abacus took the order and ran to deliver the order. At this time, Zhou Weiguo on the side twitched the corners of his mouth. Because this is too wasteful. Even if there are cannonballs, this is not how they are used, right? It was visually estimated that there were less than a hundred Japs on Highland No. 5, but they had to use 500 shells to wash the ground during the Dragon Boat Festival. This was simply a waste of natural resources.
But little did he know that Dragon Boat Festival had a purpose in doing this. The Northeast Army was coming, and they might have to get along with each other for a long time. Because he didn't want to miss the Battle of Bengbu during the Dragon Boat Festival, the Japanese from the three divisions rushed at him fiercely, and there were also the 11th Division and the 13th Division, the executioners of the Nanjing tragedy, and he didn't want to let go of any of them.
Therefore, if he wants to gain the leadership of the army, Duan Wu must not at least let the other side look down on him. He wants the Northeastern Army to see how crazy his combat style is.
At the same time, Dragon Boat Festival's Independent Regiment, Zhou Weiguo's 522nd Regiment, including part of the Eighth Route Army, and Sun Shiyu's First Battalion moved at the same time.
On Highland No. 6 and Highland No. 7, soldiers used heavy machine guns and light machine guns to shoot at the enemies on Highland No. 5.
The little devil was still arrogantly provoking the Chinese just now, but in the next second he was beaten into a sieve.
Of course, the little devil is not crazy, and he still has the courage to provoke at this time. Because they had just received a message from the 39th Wing, they had already joined Endo and could arrive within half an hour.
In other words, in theory, they don't have to die, they just need to hold on to Highland No. 5 and wait for reinforcements.
But this was not good news for Dragon Boat Festival. Nearly a company of Northeastern troops chasing Endo suffered heavy casualties and only a small part escaped.
Qiu Mingdang immediately reported the incident to Duanwu via the radio.
Duanwu ordered Qiu Ming to find a brigade commander named Wang from the Northeast Army and ask him to set up defenses in the northeast direction of Highland No. 7 to block the Japanese reinforcements.
Although Duanwu didn't know how many reinforcements the Japs had, if an infantry brigade couldn't stop them, then there would be no need to defend Bengbu.
Of course, Duanwu did not believe that the Japs could have so many troops. After all, the Battle of Nanjing had just ended today. Even if the Japanese 11th and 13th Divisions were extremely fast, they would not be able to reach the Yandang Mountain area so quickly. .
But even so, Dragon Boat Festival must speed up, because on the battlefield, the unknown enemy is the most terrifying.
In other words, Dragon Boat Festival didn't know how many enemy reinforcements there would be, otherwise a mere Japanese 39th Regiment would probably be a piece of cake on his plate! ...
