mtl008 Chapter 262 Li Yunlong: What? We were counterattacked by the Japanese?
Chapter 262 Li Yunlong: What? We were counterattacked by the Japanese?
After hanging up the phone, Kenkichi Hirata knew that he had to win today's battle no matter what the cost.
If, despite such careful planning and the use of a squadron of locust soldiers as bait, the Independent Regiment still managed to turn the tables, he would not be able to explain to the Empire.
Then, the only path waiting for me is suicide.
In this case, as General Yoshio Shinozuka just said, we don't need the number of casualties, but only the body of Li Yunlong of the Independent Regiment.
Kenkichi Hirata looked at the battle map hanging on the wall. At the moment, his side had almost all the advantages. He really couldn't understand how the independent regiment could have any chance of turning the tables.
He shook his head and drove this crazy idea out of his mind. What he should consider now is how to prevent any fish from slipping through the net, rather than considering how to prevent the independent group from making a comeback.
After all, the advantage is mine!
In the last round of artillery battle, the independent regiment's artillery company took the risk of being bombed from other directions and completed a concentrated fire in the nick of time, completely destroying the Japanese's heavy firepower positions in the northwest direction.
Finally, the independent regiment won time to counterattack.
Nearly thirty elite soldiers, almost all of whom were squad leaders or deputy squad leaders at the grassroots level or elite veterans, all holding Type 56 submachine guns and carrying four or five magazines on their backs, formed the most powerful assault team.
This sharpest knife cut towards the gap between the positions of different Japanese squadrons in the northwest direction. In just ten minutes, the entire commando team had advanced four to five hundred meters.
During the advance, the Japanese, whose standard weapon was a bolt-action rifle, could not withstand the continuous firepower of automatic weapons.
It can be said that although there were only twenty or thirty people in the team, the intensity of the firepower they unleashed exceeded the firepower density of three to five hundred Japanese devils.
This assault force truly demonstrated what it means to cut flesh with a quick knife. It was as smooth as flowing water without any hindrance at all.
It is as powerful as broken bamboo.
Moreover, this commando team is not just a team of 20 to 30 people. There is also a second attack team of more than 100 people following behind them to provide backup.
Once a commando is shot, someone else will immediately pick up his Type 56 assault rifle and take his place.
There will be no pause in the entire firepower rhythm.
Moreover, this second echelon was also responsible for clearing fire targets such as machine gun positions and grenade launchers for the commandos.
Once the attack of a machine gun position was not smooth, the second echelon would immediately fire a 40mm round. In just ten minutes, three machine gun positions had been silenced.
There are also four soldiers carrying the only four remaining individual fuel-air explosive bombs following behind. Once the density of Japanese troops is too high, the individual fuel-air explosive bombs in the hands of these four soldiers will hit the Japanese troops on the head without any hesitation at the first moment.
The Japanese 225th Regiment was responsible for the defense of the northwest section of the Bizigou Copper Mine. According to pre-war estimates, the independent regiment was most likely to break out from this direction, so out of the total encirclement team of more than people, most of the regiment, nearly people, were arranged in this direction.
According to the estimation of the commander of the 225th Regiment, this was originally a foolproof plan. It was a free military acquisition and enormous wealth.
However, in just a dozen or twenty minutes, the situation on the battlefield has changed dramatically.
According to the current progress of the independent regiment, I am afraid that in another thirty minutes, my line of defense will be pierced by this sharp knife, and the independent regiment may even escape from the strongest section of the encirclement.
The commander of the 225th Regiment must not have paid attention to Li Yunlong's previous battles. In the Battle of Cangyunling, Li Yunlong broke through from the front, defeated the Sakata Regiment, and killed the commander of the Sakata Regiment.
What bullshit elite troops? Li Yunlong was fighting against the elite troops!
If the captain of the 225th Regiment knew all this, he would not be as relaxed as before.
This matter was of great importance, so he quickly reported to Hirata Kenkichi: "Report to the division commander, the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment, with a small group of elite troops as the vanguard, has now completely broken through our frontier positions and defeated our organized defense.
At their current speed, they will break through our encirclement in half an hour, and they will escape within an hour."
When Division Commander Hirata heard the latest situation reported by his subordinate regiment commander, his face turned pale instantly. He had never expected that under such circumstances, the independent regiment could achieve such a result.
If no action is taken, the Independence Group might actually turn the tables.
"Pass on my order. The independent regiment must be wiped out here today. Now everyone, charge forward. Even if it costs lives, we must pile them up here and kill them."
A hint of ferocity flashed across Kenkichi Hirata's face, and he decisively issued this extremely cruel order.
The Japanese voluntarily abandoned their positions and launched an attack on the independent regiment's assault team, and launched a charge.
This is simply using flesh and blood to resist the attack of the independent regiment.
This is truly a waste of the lives of the devils.
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The independent regiment had already gained the advantage in momentum at this time, and unexpectedly had completely suppressed the Japanese's arrogance.
"Captain, you should have given the order decisively, otherwise we would still be surrounded now."
Wang Huaibao stood beside Li Yunlong, his face full of surprise.
In the past, when more than a thousand people were surrounded by more than 8,000 Japanese soldiers, they could only kill two more Japanese soldiers to break even, but they did not expect that they could break down the Japanese defense so easily in a local area.
"That's right. Back then, during the battle of Cangyun Ridge, when we only had big blades in our hands, we fought the Sakata regiment head-on and beat them into submission, didn't we?"
Seeing that the battle situation was going very well at this time, Li Yunlong couldn't suppress the joy on his face.
Suddenly, the Japanese soldiers all over the mountains and plains, as if stimulated by something, all roared and shouted slogans in Japanese such as "Long live the locusts" and "Long live!"
As these slogans rang out, the entire combat status of the Japanese army changed.
All the Japs howled and charged towards the independent regiment.
In the morning light that had just come up, Wang Huaibao looked at the scene in surprise: "Captain, am I seeing this correctly? The Japs were surrounding us, so why are they launching a counterattack against us now?"
Li Yunlong's brows also frowned instantly, he saw the madness of the Japanese army.
How could anyone charge forward knowing that there was extremely dense firepower from the Type 56 assault rifles ahead? This was simply exchanging one's life for bullets.
The Japanese are determined to kill the independent regiment here at all costs, even if it means piling them up alive!
"Damn it!"
Li Yunlong couldn't hold it in any longer and started cursing.