mtl008 Chapter 233: 3 Fights in Tokyo Town (8)
Chapter 233: 3 Fights in Tokyo Town (8)
The continuous explosions lasted for about 20 minutes before they stopped!
Looking at the artillery positions with flames rising to the sky,
At this moment, a large group of Japanese soldiers came to rescue the wounded and the artillery.
It’s a pity that there are too few people, only about a hundred people!
Yin Xinjun did not continue!
He rushed towards Guanyingou!
Looking for the main force of the Japanese army!
This time, he was walking through the woods on the south side of the road. After less than half an hour, he was suddenly attracted by a conversation!
"General, the situation is not good! The artillery position must have been attacked, not an accident!"
"Nani? Are you sure?"
"One wounded soldier said with certainty that a shell had come flying and hit the ammunition box directly!"
There was a moment of silence, and then a somewhat weak voice said,
"Don't worry, maybe it's just a small group of enemies who happened to hit the ammunition box!"
Yin Xinjun heard this, locked the location, hurriedly took out the mortar, and fired five rapid rounds towards the location of the sound!
Then he pricked up his ears again!
"General, General! Something bad has happened, medic!"
Yin Xinjun fired ten more shells to cover the area once again!
There was no sound, not even the sound of breathing!
Done it all!
Yin Xinjun searched along the road again. At the bottom of Guanyingou, near the road,
He finally overheard the movements of a large Japanese army.
There are about two thousand people.
Yin Xinjun retreated almost 500 meters!
He found a safe place on a hillside!
It took Yin Xinjun three minutes to set up the Type 41 mountain cannon.
Then, he began to bombard the Japanese troops at the bottom of the ditch fiercely!
While firing shells, he also used a telescope to observe the effects of the bombardment!
After bombarding for 20 minutes, he put away the mountain artillery and began to retreat.
Along the way, he heard the Japanese troops on the road retreating in a chaotic manner towards Ning'an!
Major General Kei Kumagai has two regiments under his command.
The 61st and 70th Regiments!
At the bottom of Guanyingou was the headquarters of the 61st Regiment and two battalions of troops.
When the regiment commander, Colonel Naonobu Ono, received the news that the brigade headquarters had been attacked and Kei Kumagai had been killed, he felt something was wrong and immediately asked for instructions from the division commander, Matsui!
Matsui sent a telegram to let him act as brigade commander and organize a retreat immediately!
The troops had just begun to assemble when they encountered a fierce artillery bombardment, resulting in more than 600 casualties!
Ono Naonobu ordered to send telegrams directly to each infantry battalion, asking them to retreat to Ning'an County along the highway as soon as possible!
Yin Xinjun immediately set up the Type 92 infantry gun and launched an interception fire attack on the Japanese troops on the road!
Shells fell into the crowd of Japanese troops one after another, making the chaotic scene even more out of control!
At this time, the Japanese army had experienced a whole day of fighting. With few vehicles, most of the Japanese soldiers could only walk and were already exhausted.
After he fired about 100 shells,
Then he chased in the direction of Ning'an!
On the way, as long as there were more than 20 Japanese soldiers on the road, Yin Xinjun would take out the mortar or grenade launcher and fire three rapid-fire rounds!
He even stopped to send a telegram to Ding Shan and Kang Huaifu, informing them that the Japanese army had retreated and asking them to chase them from the rear and clean up the battlefield!
After sending the telegram, Yin Xinjun rushed to the Japanese howitzer position.
There was smoke everywhere.
On the ground, there were broken limbs everywhere.
It's like hell on earth.
Yin Xinjun quickly put the six damaged howitzers and 19 trucks into the space!
We fought like this until 12 o'clock in the middle of the night!
And Yin Xinjun’s ammunition was replenished again!
Afterwards, Yin Xinjun continued to chase and kill the fleeing Japanese soldiers along the road!
He hid in Zhigou, more than 300 meters away from the road!
If we run further, we will be not far from Ning'an County!
At this time, groups of Japanese troops would run over on the road from time to time!
Yin Xinjun deployed all the mortars, grenade launchers, and heavy machine guns.
Use them alternately and continuously launch fierce attacks on the retreating Japanese troops on the road!
Sporadic, small-scale fighting continued until dawn. On the Zhigou Highway, the bodies of the Japanese and puppet soldiers were stacked almost two layers high, with at least 1500 bodies!
But Kang Huaifu, Ding Shan and the others haven’t caught up yet!
Helplessly, Yin Xinjun had to go there himself and collect all kinds of equipment into the space!
He ran all the way towards Tokyo town, and only when he reached Guanyingou did he hear the voices of his own people!
That voice sounded familiar; it was Ma Shun, a general under Kang Huaifu!
"Fuck it, they didn't even take a single prisoner. This is outrageous!"
"Captain, this is the powerful Fourth Division, a field unit, which is different from the garrison!"
Yin Xinjun immediately took out three newly repaired howitzers and six trucks from the space!
Each truck was loaded with shells and canned beef!
He walked forward holding a Type 96 light machine gun, which he had just captured while cleaning up the battlefield.
It is very similar to the Czech model, and uses a 30-round top magazine! It is much better than the Type rifle!
This type of machine gun has just started to be equipped on a large scale this year, and the entire 4th Division has been equipped with it!
At this moment, the sounds of gunfire and explosions could be heard from the nearby forests. Ding Shan and Kang Huaifu had been fighting with scattered Japanese troops in the forests near Guanyingou in the second half of the night.
There were about ten people on Ma Shun's side. When he saw the King of Hell, he ran over with great joy!
"Ma Shun, I have seized six vehicles and three cannons over there. You guys go over there and look after them and deliver the vehicles to the base safely!"
"Yes, King of Hell!" Ma Shun saluted and led the team forward!
In Kang Huaifu's team, like Yin Xinjun's, many people learned to drive after being equipped with trucks!
Yin Xinjun also went into the woods with a machine gun and began searching for the remaining Japanese troops!
The battle lasted until noon before it was all over!
Afterwards, Yin Xinjun sent another telegram, asking the Fourth and Fifth Armies to go to Heixiazigou to rest!
He brought Ding Shan and Kang Huaifu to Tokyo Town!
There are only seven intact houses left in this town!
In one of the houses,
Yin Xinjun cooked a pot of beef ribs in a big pot!
He also took out a bottle of wine!
After a while,
Ding Shan and Kang Huaifu went into the house together.
Both of them were smiling happily!
Dingshan reported:
"Master, according to the summary of the battlefield cleanup by various troops, we found 2779 Japanese soldiers' bodies and 1102 puppet soldiers' bodies. Adding the number of enemies killed in Tokyo, we killed more than 5000 enemies this time!"
Kang Huaifu then added,
"Unfortunately, we didn't capture a single Japanese prisoner! We did capture more than 400 puppet army prisoners of war!"
"How was the plunder?"
"There are too many light weapons to mention them all. There are 57 trucks and more than 40 artillery pieces of various types! Including 105 3mm howitzers, 75 12mm field guns, 75 16mm mountain guns, and 70 12mm infantry guns! There are also a large number of communication equipment such as radios and telephones!"
"Pull the cannon and communication equipment to my yard. I'll repair them first!"
"Yes!"
Yin Xinjun thought of something else.
"Have you found any Japanese major-general's sword? Or any bodies?"
They both shook their heads.
"No, there are a lot of deputy officer swords among the seized items!"
At this time, outside, Sun Wei suddenly walked in with a saber.
"Boss, this knife is a little different. I remember you once said that!"
Sun Wei handed over a saber, the inside of the scabbard was golden, and the handle was made of ivory. And there were also delicate patterns on the golden layer!
Yin Xinjun took the saber and looked at it carefully. There were words engraved on the handle!
"In the twelfth year of the Showa era, Kumagai Kei!"
He couldn't help laughing up to the sky.
The style of this knife is exactly the same as the knife of Major General Shigenori Kuroda seized in Mudanjiang last time!
It is a general's sword bestowed by the Japanese Emperor!
Yin Xinjun stroked his saber and fantasized about whether he would have to hold an exhibition after 1949!