The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 462
Zhangjiazhuang all the way.

Looking at the large number of Japanese and puppet troops retreating, Li Yunlong's eyes were shining brightly. In Lao Li's view, these guys were all pieces of fat that could run away.

On the side, Zhang Dabiao, whose hat had disappeared, had already put on his beloved Czech style, looking eager to try, "Commander, how shall we fight?"

Looking at the retreating Japanese and puppet troops, Li Yunlong immediately had a ghostly idea in his mind, saying: "The horizontal front in the direction where the devils and puppet troops are retreating is too long, and we are few in number, so we will definitely not be able to stop the devils from retreating. In this way, Da Biao , You immediately arrange a company team, equipped with more machine guns and grenades.

See that gentle slope down the mountain toward the center line?Build the machine gun fortifications for me, and directly block the retreat of the Japanese and puppet troops from the front.

The independent regiment in Zhangjiazhuang has also launched a counterattack. Now the devils and puppet troops are only concerned about retreating, and they will definitely not forcibly seize our gentle slope fortifications.

At that time, the devils and the puppet army can only break out of the siege to the left and right sides.

And the battle lines on the left and right sides are much narrower. Let's rely on the mountain environment on both sides to set up an ambush.

A sudden shot, designed to knock the devils and puppet soldiers into a daze.

Let's buy a certain amount of time here, Lao Kong's side will soon lead the team to pounce, and then we will attack back and forth, and slowly deal with this group of devils. "

"Yes!"

Zhang Dabiao replied in a deep voice, the command given by the head of the regiment is always so convincing.

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Time goes on.

The Japanese and puppet troops who received the retreat order gradually withdrew from Zhangjiazhuang and Xicun, and then moved in the direction of the ambush of the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment respectively.

Nishimura Temporary Headquarters.

Kong Jie gave the order to counterattack, and at the same time, he arranged for communication troops to notify the local troops and militia guerrillas around Niukou Village to prepare for an ambush in the mountains along the way where the Japanese army retreated.

In the words of Director Kong:
"The opportunity to beat the dog in the water has come. Those who want to eat meat, this is the last chance."

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Outer West Village.

A large number of Japanese troops still maintained an orderly battle formation during their retreat, with guards on both sides and guards at the rear.

Even on the way to retreat, the little devil can still launch a powerful counterattack.

The machine guns cover the infantry's retreat, the grenades cover the machine gunner's retreat, and the retreating infantry then fires to cover the artillery's retreat, alternately covering, cooperating in operations, and tacit cooperation.

On the side of the independent regiment, several battalion commanders were also a little helpless. It was even more difficult to chase the retreating devils than to stop the devils' attack.

After all, when the devils attacked, the soldiers waited for work with leisure, deployed their firepower in full battle, and waited for the devils to take the initiative to attack and die. That kind of battle was fought heartily.

But when the devil retreated, the situation changed completely.

The devils retreated quickly while moving, and the soldiers chased too closely, so they were easily hit by all kinds of firepower from the devils, causing unnecessary casualties.

In the case of long-range firepower strikes, if you can't hit a few shots, the Devil's troops will exceed the effective shooting range of the [-] small cannons.

During the pursuit all the way, the first battalion commander Wang Leihu rushed forward with the soldiers and cursed angrily: "Damn it, the escaped devils beat you so hard, they are as slippery as loaches."

The company leader said: "Battle Commander, we really can't stop the devil from escaping. Fortunately, our task now is to chase the little devil. Commander Ding should have led a new regiment to ambush on the way. .”

"Wait until the comrades of the new regiment entangle the little devil, we can bite him right away."

Only then did Wang Leihu laugh, and said: "Pass down the order, let comrades keep a distance from the devils, the little devils' marksmanship is not bad, and the gunners are even more accurate."

"Right now, the little devil is doomed. We don't need to add more casualties."

"After the distance from the devils is reduced to the range of the [-] small cannon, direct shelling will do. If it doesn't work, add two more propellant packs. If we want to hit the devils, the devils can't hit us."

"Yes!"

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"beat!"

The Japanese and puppet troops retreating from Xicun soon arrived at the ambush area of ​​the Xinyi regiment. The first battalion commander Sun Zhenguo gave an order, and the soldiers of a battalion arranged by Ding Wei on the right wing of the puppet army suddenly launched a fierce attack.

The firepower of the new regiment is also not weak. Among the regiment-level combat units of the Eighth Route Army in the entire Taihang base area, it is estimated to be second only to the independent regiment.

A grenadier, a modified [-] small gun, and a light and heavy machine gun suddenly launched a fire attack.

The dense firepower network poured towards the puppet army on the right.

In the process of retreating all the way, the chaotic puppet army, with only a loose formation, was directly defeated.

How could the puppet soldiers have expected the sudden attack of the new regiment, and they were directly stunned.

The puppet army was completely overwhelmed by the fire attack from the right wing.

The desire to survive broke out, and they had nowhere to hide and could not rush out. The puppet soldiers could only ask for help from the Japanese army on the left wing, and rushed towards the devil team in a panic.

As a dog leg, once threatened, it is natural to hide behind its master.

The little devil on the left is also a little confused now. As for the Eight Routes attacking on the right, because of the obstruction of the puppet army sandwiched in the middle, it is difficult for the devil to launch a firepower counterattack for a while.

And these puppet soldiers who were greedy for life and afraid of death rushed towards the Japanese defense forces on the right wing in a disorderly manner.

The devil officers roared angrily, telling the puppet soldiers to keep calm, hold their ground, and organize a counterattack.

The soldiers of the puppet army who are only focused on fleeing for their lives, how can they care about these?
"Baga, you bastards, keep calm!"

Several devil squadron leaders who were in charge of covering the right wing of the main force pulled out their command knives and roared angrily. They are not stupid. The chaotic attack of the puppet army is likely to shatter their defensive formation on the right wing.

If the Eight Routes took the opportunity to launch an attack, the situation would be very bad.

"Fire to prevent the Imperial Association Army from attacking the defensive formation!"

Seeing that the roaring dissuasion was ineffective, the grumpy devil squadron leader gave the order to fire, and the devil machine gunners who served as the right wing defense pulled the trigger, and the fire burst down, and the rows of puppet soldiers who rushed over fell down one after another. .

The puppet troops who had been fleeing for their lives were stunned, and their hearts were filled with anger mixed with sadness.

These poor brothers did not die at the hands of the enemy, but at the hands of their own people.

The devil's thunderous method stunned the chaotic puppet army for a while.

Facing the muzzles erected by the Japanese, the puppet soldiers hesitated, and some of them were forced to turn their muzzles and prepare to fight against the new right-wing regiment.

boom -

At this moment, more than a dozen shells exploded in the camp of the Japanese right-wing guards.

The devil squadron leader who ordered to fire at the puppet army earlier was even more unlucky, and was killed on the spot in the explosion.

A voice shouted in the fleeing puppet army: "Brothers, the Eighth Route Army is right behind us, but the devils won't let us survive! Now we are at the end of our rope, and if we want to survive, we must fight the little devils!"

"kill--"

boom--

I don't know who fired first. In short, someone in the puppet camp opened fire and killed the devil.

The flames of war are anxious, and no one cares about the puppet army who only cares about their lives and the devils who are worried.

There is only one fact:
Your imperial association army killed the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, this is about to rebel!
You little devil is the first to open fire and shoot and kill our Imperial Association Army. This is no way to survive at all!
The devils even suspected that the shells that exploded just now were done by the puppet army.

Of course, this is wronging these two devils. These shells were naturally fired by the soldiers under the command of the first battalion commander Sun Zhenguo with the [-] small artillery.

As for the voices in the puppet army camp before.

It may be that some traitors have awakened and are asking for credit from the Eight Routes in order to survive, or it may be some soldiers who were instigated in the puppet army camp.

In short, the Japanese army and the puppet army did not trust each other and were wary of each other. At the critical juncture of the war, a spark instantly ignited the flames of war between the two sides.

The puppet soldiers probably forgot that they were originally with the little devils.

There are still some people who have not forgotten, and always adhere to the basic principle of survival: rather mess with devils than mess with gangsters!

The firepower confrontation between the two sides escalated instantly.

Some of the officers among the devils turned their heads faster, and realized that it was the Eight Routes who were sowing discord, so they yelled at once, hoping that the puppet soldiers could calm down.

In the end, it didn't work yet, so Sun Zhenguo directly asked for a few loudspeakers, and yelled at the puppet army:
"The Chinese don't fight the Chinese. Brothers of the Imperial Association Army, take your guns and aim at the little devils. Kill all the devils. We are all at fault, and our Eighth Route Army will not hold them accountable!"

As soon as this remark came out, the puppet army team boiled instantly.

The faces of the Devil officers who could understand Chinese changed drastically.

"shooting--"

The little devil didn't expect to persuade the Imperial Association Army anymore, and decided to act first.

Seeing the devils open fire, the puppet soldiers could only be forced to turn their guns and fight the Japanese army regardless of whether they liked it or not.

The Japanese army's orderly evacuation formation soon began to become chaotic.

Ding Wei, who was ambushing in the forest on the left wing, saw that Sun Zhenguo had succeeded, and immediately gave the order to charge from the left wing.

A battalion of troops launched an attack directly under the loud charge.

All of a sudden, the eight roads shouted and killed, and the loud and clear charge horn resounded through the sky and the earth.

The puppet soldiers caught between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army, seeing the Eighth Route Army's arrogance permeated Changhong, expected that the little devil would be in danger.

The soldiers who originally attacked the puppet army from the right flank, under Sun Zhenguo's order and adjustment, avoided the puppet army, and even cooperated with the puppet army to attack the Japanese army from the right flank.

This time the devil was flanked by the left and right, and by both the Eighth Route Army and the Puppet Army.

The two sides fought for less than 5 minutes.

The [-]st Battalion and [-]th Battalion of the Independent Regiment that rushed out from Xicun also caught up and launched an attack on the Japanese army from the rear.

All the way in the West Village, the Japanese army's defeat is set.

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Zhangjiazhuang all the way.

As expected of him, Li Yunlong, the brave wins when we meet on a narrow road. A company of troops even dared to show their swords directly at the Japanese troops who had withdrawn from nearly three brigades!

Plus the firepower of additionally strengthened light and heavy machine guns and grenades.

The devils and puppet soldiers who had just retreated from Zhangjiazhuang were stunned by the sudden blocking fire from the direction of Gentle Slope.

At this time, if you look at it from the perspective of God, you can actually get a fairly simple conclusion:

Although the team Li Yunlong arranged to block the frontal attack on the slow slope is well-equipped and has strong firepower.

But the troops are really too small, there are only more than 100 soldiers, but they are facing the Japanese and puppet troops with thousands of troops.

Coupled with the open front outside the village.

The retreating Japanese and puppet troops only need to grit their teeth a little bit, and they can easily arrange Li Yunlong in the frontal blocking company, swallowing not even bones left.

This is common sense.

However, he, Li Yunlong, didn't play his cards according to the rules, so he put this mere company of troops swaggeringly in the direction of your Japanese and puppet troops' retreat, and blocked them.

The Japanese officers who retreated were probably because of the emergency situation and were worried that they would fall into the trick of Eight Roads, so they didn't go around the corner for a while, and the independent regiment troops behind them were chasing closely.

The Devils officers didn't think much about it. After being blocked from the front, they immediately divided into two groups and decided to detour from the left and right to bypass the company of the New Second Regiment that was blocking the frontal attack.

Then this scene was shocking. More than 100 soldiers of the New Second Regiment split more than 3000 Japanese and puppet troops from the middle into two.

This may be the power of meeting a narrow road and being brave to shine a sword!
Seeing this scene, Zhang Dabiao breathed a long sigh of relief, and then secretly glanced at his regiment leader, only to see Li Yunlong's body was calm and calm.

Da Biao had to secretly admire the stability of the leader's psychological quality.

After the Japanese and puppet troops were divided into two groups, they soon entered a relatively narrow front area and stepped into the ambush circle of the troops arranged by Li Yunlong near the two-wing mountain forest.

After the battle started, the little devil was dumbfounded.

Why are there ambushes on both sides?
The soldiers of the company that originally blocked the attack on the gentle slope of the center line were divided into two parts, occupying a higher terrain, supporting the ambush teams on both wings, and attacking the Japanese and puppet troops respectively.

It didn't take long for the two sides to fight.

Shen Quan and Du Aiguo led the soldiers of the Second Battalion and the Fifth Battalion to catch up from Zhangjiazhuang, and joined forces with Li Yunlong to attack the Japanese and puppet troops on three sides.

The news reached the temporary headquarters of Xicun, and the boulder hanging in Kong Jie's heart finally fell.

"Both ways are done, the next thing is to see how much meat can be eaten."

As for the reinforcement of the Japanese army this time, a total of nine Japanese brigades were assembled, plus the fourth mixed brigade of the Japanese army, in an attempt to destroy the independent regiment in one fell swoop, so far it has been completely reduced to naught.

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The Japanese and puppet troops in the directions of Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang all suffered heavy casualties.

In the end, reinforcements came from Taiyuan City, and the two brigades of the Japanese army stationed near Niukou Village came to support them in time.

Only then did the remaining main force of the Japanese and puppet troops who covered the two routes of Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang escaped all the way.

With the disastrous defeat of the Japanese army in the battle against Zhangjiazhuang in Xicun, the two Japanese brigades who came to support were also worried that the main force of the Eighth Route Army would take the opportunity to encircle them.

As a result, they were in a hurry while covering the retreat of the two Japanese and puppet troops in Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.

Many Japanese and puppet troops were divided and surrounded by soldiers from the Independent Regiment, the New First Regiment, and the New Second Regiment, and the devils were too late to rescue them.

There are also many wounded soldiers in the Wounded Soldiers Storage Center, the devils and puppet soldiers were too late to transfer during their evacuation.

Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei led the troops to enjoy it slowly.

A large number of puppet soldiers became captives. As for the little devils who were stubbornly resisting, the persuasion to surrender was ineffective, so naturally they would be shot to death.

Later, on the way back all the way, passing through the mountainous area, the Japanese and puppet troops were attacked by guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare, mobile warfare and other tactics of the local troops of the Eighth Route Army and guerrillas along the way, causing a lot of casualties one after another.

Until they fled all the way back to the rear county, after the ghosts and puppet soldiers were in shock, they were all depressed and full of humiliation.

A nightmare that lasted for nearly nine days was finally over.

At this point, the Japanese army launched a large-scale spring sweep on the [-]th.

In the end, the nine Japanese brigades, plus the Fourth Mixed Brigade in the area of ​​Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, were defeated by the Eighth Route Army in the Shanxi Northwest Iron Triangle, and the curtain came to an end.

The Japanese army was mopped up from all walks of life, and before the evening of the [-]th, they withdrew to various counties in the occupied area and temporarily entered the rest.

A violent storm subsided amidst the shock in all directions...

(End of this chapter)