After the Japanese troops launched a surprise attack on the northern front, the Central China Dispatch Army remobilized its forces and actively advanced northward.
To be supplemented, the Japanese 13th Division, 10th Division, 9th Division, part of the 114th Division, etc.
However, although the Central China Expeditionary Force mobilized four divisions at once, the actual number of troops was not large.
Almost all of these divisions were beaten by the Dragon Boat Festival, and many divisions were even wiped out of their establishment. Matsui Iwane mobilized troops from all over the country, and even did not hesitate to fly in new troops from the mainland to supplement these divisions, and then they made a comeback.
However, its combat effectiveness was not as good as before, its attack was slow, and it did not meet Matsui Iwane's expectations.
But even this is enough to make Li Zhongren very anxious. Fighting on two fronts, one move can affect the whole body. What's more, the chairman asked him to pay close attention to the movements of the Dragon Boat Festival.
But although Li Zhongren kept sending telegrams to Duanwu asking for the latest battle situation, Duanwu never answered.
Because there is no way to answer, Dragon Boat Festival is getting rid of the Japanese pursuit. Moreover, the casualties of the blocking troops are gradually increasing.
This is due to the little devils constantly adjusting their tactics.
As mentioned before, the Kunisaki detachment has an iron triangle from the Japanese Army University. Although none of these three little devils can be considered outstanding individually, when the three of them come together, they are comparable to Zhuge Liang.
Every time the soldiers at the front encountered a setback, the three of them would quickly adjust their tactics. They even did not hesitate to move machine gunners from various units to the front line and shoot at the enemy whenever they saw it. If the enemy stops to block the attack, the little devil will immediately hide and wait for reinforcements from behind.
For this reason, Dragon Boat Festival also made adjustments, using the sharpshooters of the first and fourth battalions to snipe the Japanese machine gunners from a long distance. But then, the little devil moved the grenade to the forefront, and immediately launched an artillery bombardment after seeing the Chinese soldiers.
Therefore, the casualties of the 1st and 4th Battalions gradually increased. And especially the fourth battalion, there were not as many people as the first battalion before. After several battles, the number of people was seriously reduced, and the whole battalion had less than 600 people.
But before, this was a super full camp with more than a thousand people.
Of course, it was not only the fourth battalion that suffered serious attrition, but also the cavalry battalion. In the battle of Lizhuang, the cavalry battalion also lost more than half, and its current strength is only about one-third of what it was during the period of complete victory.
Although the first battalion has lost more than 500 men, its total strength is much larger than that of other battalions. At most, it even reached more than 1,400 people, making it the absolute main battalion.
But the battles were fought one after another, and the troops sacrificed a lot.
Duanwu received the report and ordered Zhu Shengzhong to also use grenade launchers to block the enemy and persist until they entered Feiyun Ridge.
As I said before, Feiyun Ridge is a very good ambush location. The mountains here are high and densely forested, making it very suitable for ambushes. It's just that the number of automatic weapons in Duanwu has decreased sharply. Otherwise, no matter how many people there are on the other side, he can collect them as long as they enter Feiyun Ridge.
But unfortunately, the ammunition of each battalion was consumed too quickly. When he entered the enemy's hinterland, he probably had more than 300,000 rounds of 9mm pistol ammunition. After attacking Dongping County, he bought another 50,000 rounds from Li Zhongren. pistol bullets.
But as a result, after hitting Pingyin, there were only more than 50,000 rounds of ammunition left. Although more than 10,000 rounds of pistol ammunition were later seized by the Japanese and puppet troops, they were all used up during the attack on Sakata's mixed brigade.
Therefore, Dragon Boat Festival's strategy was successful, but the brothers under his command were really capable. It took nearly 500,000 rounds of bullets to eliminate two infantry regiments and two mixed infantry brigades, with a total of no more than 16,000 people.
In other words, for every Japs killed, the soldiers of the Supervisory Corps used about twenty rounds of bullets, not counting machine gun bullets and rifle bullets. This is completely crushing the enemy with absolute firepower.
Of course, the results are also fruitful. The casualties of the Supervisory Corps were less than 3,000, but the Japanese and puppet troops were annihilated over 16,000. And this does not include the number of casualties in tonight's battle.
If the number of Japanese and puppet soldiers killed tonight is added, a rough estimate is that since the Dragon Boat Festival entered the enemy's hinterland, the total number of enemies annihilated can reach 17,000, or even 18,000.
But this is just the beginning.
Although there are not many automatic weapons in the Supervision Corps, the machine guns of the Supervision Corps can still crush the little devils.
Therefore, Dragon Boat Festival would not miss this ambush in Feiyunling. No matter how many people there were on the other side, he had to let the little devil know that the team he was supervising was not that easy to chase.
But the show still needs to be done in full. Duanwu deliberately asked Lao Abacus to leave behind an off-road vehicle, leaving traces of Duanwu's use on it. In addition to a high-end pen that fell under the back seat, there were also several insignificant messages.
After all this was done, the car was set on fire.
Of course, there is knowledge in arson. You can't do it too early. If it's too early, when the little devil chases you, everything in the car will be burned.
It can't be too late. If it's too late, it will be a bit false. Moreover, the little devil shoots at anyone he sees. If he sets the off-road vehicle on fire after the blocking force arrives, he will be in danger of being hit by a stray bullet.
Therefore, only Lao Abacus can do this kind of delicate work, and when the Japanese are chasing after him, he can find someone to shout with a loud voice: "Tuan Zuo, go away quickly."
Although the little devils may not understand it, what if there are so many little devils who understand Japanese?
After doing all this, Lao Abacus withdrew with the first battalion, and the team retreated into Cangyun Ridge in a panic.
"Come on, everyone, please?"
At the same time, a Japanese officer who knew a little bit of Chinese looked suspicious, and he also saw the burning off-road vehicle.
He quickly ordered his Japanese soldiers to rush forward despite a hail of bullets from a battalion, and used cotton-padded jackets and sand to put out the fire on the car.
"alert!"
The Japanese officer walked to the car where the fire was extinguished and ordered the Japanese soldiers to be alert, while he searched in the car with a flashlight.
This little Japanese officer is very experienced, because if the vehicle is broken down and left on the road, why take the risk of burning it?
This was against common sense, so the little Japanese officer guessed that there might be some secret in this car.
So he searched carefully and first found a high-end pen under the back seat, and then found several telegrams on both sides of the front seat, including several half-burned telegrams.
But this little Japanese officer doesn't know Chinese characters, or he can understand a few characters. After all, part of Little Devil's writing is in Chinese characters.
"Department, Tuan, Ang,"
In the end, the little Japanese officer still didn't understand. He shook his head helplessly. Then he handed these messages to the Japanese soldier on the side and said: "Send these messages to Mr. Kudo immediately. He is a China expert and should be able to understand these. Word."
"Hi!"
The Japanese soldiers took the order and immediately ran back with the message in hand.
Fifteen minutes later, the message was handed into the hands of Kudo Shinichi.
Kudo Shinichi was one of the Iron Triangle of the Kunisaki Detachment, and the other two people, Nikaidou Konan and Daigaido Minamikawa, were also in his car.
After reading the message, Kudo Shinichi said: "These messages are to supervise the various departments of the corps to report the war situation to Duanwu. So I infer from this that the car must be Duanwu's car.
Moreover, Miyujiro also heard someone shouting something like "danzuo", which was enough to show from the side that Danwu's car broke down and he had to escape on foot with his infantry. Brothers, what do you think? "
(End of chapter)
