"Reporting to your Excellency, an enemy ambush was discovered at small height 305."
Colonel Sakata, who was on the march, received a report from the communications troops. They discovered the enemy's ambush on small highland 305.
Sakata said casually: "How many people are there on the other side?"
The communications soldier replied: "The specific number is unknown, but there should not be many people. Our scouts believe that the enemy will not exceed the strength of one battalion at most."
"Hmph!"
Sakata sneered because he believed that this was just a blocking force of the Supervisory Corps, because the main force of the Supervisory Corps was still at the ferry. And he also tried to attack the warships on the river, which was simply tickling the empire's warships.
In other words, the Dragon Boat Festival left one battalion at the ferry to feint attack, which was indeed a clever move.
Although one battalion was missing and the number of combatants in Dragon Boat Festival was greatly reduced, the first battalion not only held back the Japanese at the ferry and five Japanese warships, but also deceived all the Japanese and puppet troops who came to besiege him.
In addition to Sakata on the eastern front, the Japanese on the western front also fell into the trap.
The vanguard of the Japs on the Western Front did not have many troops, consisting of two squadrons of Japs and two regiments of puppet troops. They came from near Liaocheng. And their real commander, Momotaro, is still behind.
And Momotaro is a little confused now, because the 129th Division is poking him in the butt at this time. He had already sent two squadrons of Japs, including a regiment of puppet troops, to consolidate HD's city defense, but even so, urgent messages were still being sent to him.
Momotaro believed that he should defeat the 129th Division first, but the division commander of the 110th Division, Kuangmu Takaaki, ordered him to go to the east bank of the Yellow River to complete the encirclement of the supervision corps.
Momotaro had no choice but to act according to his plan. Of course, he also received the news that the supervision team had arrived at the downstream ferry.
However, after analyzing the news coming back from the ferry, Momotaro felt that this was not the main force of the Supervisory Corps, at least the other party had no intention of crossing the river.
Because if the other party really wanted to cross the river, they would never fight like this.
But for a while, he couldn't figure out what the purpose of the Dragon Boat Festival was.
He sent a telegram to the Western Front troops in front. The troops said that everything was normal and they were marching towards the ferry.
Momotaro asked the communications corps to contact the Sakata Regiment on the Eastern Front.
The main force of the Sakata Regiment was now less than one kilometer away from Highland 305. The leading troops of the Bantian Regiment had already arrived at small highland No. 305 and had a fierce exchange of fire with the Special 1st Battalion.
The Japs' artillery fire was fierce. When they arrived at the position, the artillery aimed at small highland No. 305 and bombarded them indiscriminately.
And if the trenches dug by the Special Battalion were not deep enough, I am afraid that this wave of artillery attacks would have caused heavy losses to the Special Battalion.
Then the little Japanese began to charge towards the small highland, and Zhou Tianyi ordered the troops to fully block it.
The charging troops of the Little Jaap were instantly repulsed, but the Little Jaap set up a machine gun at the foot of the highland.
Zhou Tianyi also ignored that location. There was a huge rock at the foot of the mountain. A dozen Japanese soldiers were hiding behind it, and the machine guns of the Special 1st Battalion were unable to do anything to them.
As a result, the two sides engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the help of machine guns, mortars, and grenade launchers at a distance of up to 100 meters.
At this time, Sakata received a telegram from Momotaro, saying that he guessed that the supervision team that attacked the ferry might not be its main force.
Old Japs Sakata sneered and threw the message out the window.
"You are still young, do you still want to order me? The main force of the Dragon Boat Festival is not at the ferry. Could it be on Highland 305? What a joke? This is obviously a small blocking force. They are preventing us from going to the ferry. Give me the order Beiye, quickly We have to rush to the ferry to eliminate the other side, and we will eliminate the entire supervisory team!"
"Hi!"
Sakata ordered the Japanese communications troops to leave, while Sakata's troops continued to advance toward Highland 305.
But at this time, his troops had been stretched very far.
The Sakata Regiment is a mechanized corps, and almost all soldiers come by car. But on the contrary, those Japanese soldiers from the first division of the puppet army came running on foot.
After two days of long-distance attacks, they were already exhausted, so the entire army was stretched to more than five kilometers.
But this is exactly what the Dragon Boat Festival needs. The puppet army and the Japanese are separated. It will be much easier to annihilate the puppet army with all their strength first, and then deal with the Bantian unit.
The Dragon Boat Festival sent a telegram to all the ministries to slowly approach until they were less than a hundred meters away from the puppet troops on the mountain road. All the ministries were in position. Dragon Boat Festival pulled out the signal gun and fired a shot into the sky.
A red signal flare rose slowly and exploded in mid-air, followed by roars and bullets like a storm all over the mountains and plains.
The puppet troops of the First Division of the puppet army were actually not weak. When they were ambushed by the Special First Battalion before, they repelled the Special First Battalion.
This is enough to prove that the first division of the puppet army is not in vain. Because the Special First Battalion is the elite of the 56th Army, and the troops that can repel it will naturally not be weak.
But it is a pity that the little devil did not take this army seriously, but kept overdrawing its physical strength.
Because you can just imagine, if the old Japs Sakata is willing to use his mechanized infantry vehicles to carry the Japs and puppet troops in turns, then the puppet troops will not consume so much physical strength, and the team will not be stretched so long. To take advantage of the opportunity.
But at this time, it was too late to say anything. More than 3,000 puppet troops were fired upon by more than 4,000 people armed with submachine guns and machine guns. They fell in pieces without even a chance to resist.
Although some puppet troops tried to rally to resist, it was in vain. It can be said that they experienced a modern war in advance eighty years ago.
After the emergence of submachine guns, soldiers' lives became very fragile. What's more, these soldiers don't even have the most basic protection.
An officer of the puppet army was shouting loudly to shoot one second, but in the next second his body was penetrated by three or four machine gun bullets.
Despair, every puppet soldier was extremely desperate at this time. Because they have no chance to make a comeback. There are enemies everywhere and enemy bullets everywhere.
And their destination is death!
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At the same time, Old Devil Sakata naturally heard the gunfire. He jumped out of the car and looked behind him.
An extremely terrifying scene came into his eyes at this moment. The puppet troops he brought were being shot and killed crazily by the enemy.
The majestic First Division of the Imperial Association Army was actually powerless to resist, not even able to resist at all under the opponent's gun.
Captain Sakata gave a loud order: "Deploy where you are!"
The roar spread throughout the entire infantry regiment, but in the next second, more than a hundred mortar grenades of various types hit the Sakata regiment like hailstones.
now! When Old Japanese Sakata saw the shells falling all over the sky, his eyes were full of despair just like those of the puppet soldiers! .
(End of chapter)
