Bright Sword: I am an undercover agent in the puppet army

The commander of the 226th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army, Hiroshi Takeshita, rode on a tall, pure white horse and kept urging his subordinates to speed up along the way.

Although the previous person who said that the center should be attacked and cooperate with the main force to encircle the enemy from all sides outside had died in Lijiaopo.

However, the Eighth Route Army attacked for several hours before successfully annihilating the Yamazaki Battalion, and they were only an hour away from Zhoujiapo.

It was absolutely impossible for anything to happen to the Umekawa Battalion in just one hour, so Takeshita Hiroshi was not worried about the safety of the Umekawa Battalion. What he was really worried about was that the Eighth Route Army would not choose to fight to the death with the Umekawa Battalion, but would escape. In that case, his plan to surround and annihilate it from all sides would fail.

Suddenly, there were faint sounds of gunfire coming from the front, accompanied by sporadic explosions from time to time.

Hearing this, Takeshita Hiroshi immediately asked the chief of staff next to him: "Mr. Inoue, where did we go first?"

Inoue Shuichi quickly reported: "Captain, we have arrived at Huangtu'ao, about three kilometers away from Zhoujiapo."

The corner of Takeshita Hiroshi's mouth curved up: "Yoshi! We can hear the noise over there from three kilometers away. It seems that the damn Eighth Route Army is attacking the Meichuan Battalion. Speed ​​up the march immediately."

"Hey!" Inoue Hideichi nodded and said, "Captain, it is impossible that the Chinese Eighth Route Army did not send scouts to warn us. In this case, they must have discovered us, but they did not stop the attack, but increased the intensity of the attack.

Could this be an attempt to lure us to rescue the Meichuan Battalion so that they can ambush and attack us along the way?
Look, there is a suitable ambush site ahead."

Takeshita Hiroshi: "Perhaps it is precisely because the Eighth Route Army discovered us that they are eager to devour the Umekawa Battalion.

As for what you said about the Eighth Route Army using the Meichuan Battalion as bait to lure our main force over and annihilate them, this is completely nonsense.

The Eighth Route Army only has one regiment of troops. They can't even defeat the Meichuan Battalion, so how could they have extra troops to ambush us?"

Inoue Shuichi: "Umekawa-kun reported that the Eighth Route Army only had one regiment of troops, but that was just what he saw. What if there are more that he hasn't seen?
Otherwise, how could a mere regiment of Eighth Route Army dare to continue to attack the Meichuan Battalion after discovering our reinforcements? "

Takeshita Kuan: "Since the Eighth Route Army knows the locust army's sweeping plan, it is absolutely impossible for them to gather together. The best way out is to divide the troops and break through.

In that case, even if one or several of their troops were discovered and annihilated by the locust army, at least they could preserve some manpower.

On the contrary, if they all gathered together, even if they ate up the Meichuan Battalion, or even our entire 226th Infantry Regiment, they would definitely not be able to escape.

Because with the strength of our regiment, it is impossible for us to be wiped out by the Tubalu in a short period of time, and we can hold on until the reinforcements arrive."

"Another question, didn't Meichuan Jun say in the telegram that he showed the enemy weakness, and the Eighth Route Army didn't know their true strength, so they dared to think of annihilating them."

After a pause, Takeshita Hiroshi looked at the earthen slope ahead and said, "As for the earthen slope ahead, I just used a telescope to observe it carefully, and there is no sign of fortifications at all.

Moreover, even if the Eighth Route Army set up an ambush here, the most they could do is temporarily stop us and buy a little time, but they would definitely not be able to stop us, let alone destroy us. "

"Pass on my order, speed up the march, and try to reach Zhoujiapo in the shortest time possible to wipe out this regiment of Eighth Route Army soldiers!"

"Hi Yi!"

Inoue Shuichi could only bow his head and agree.

Soon, the troops sped up again and soon entered the ambush circle deployed by the independent regiment.

This place is not suitable for an ambush because Takeshita Hiroshi does not know the firepower of the independent regiment. He still has the same idea as when he fought against the Eighth Route Army two years ago, and he thought that all the Eighth Route Army had were millet and rifles, and there were not many light machine guns, let alone heavy machine guns.

Sufficiently powerful firepower can completely make up for the shortcomings of the terrain.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Li Yunlong pulled the trigger.

There was a loud bang and a Japanese soldier fell to the ground.

Then he opened fire again and gave the order to fire: "Brothers, fight for me, fight hard for me, and kill these damned Japanese devils!"

The sound of gunfire was an order. The soldiers on the slopes and in the woods outside the road opened fire at full force. More than 3000 soldiers opened fire at the same time.

There are more than 3000 people, and the slowest-firing weapons are the M1 semi-automatic rifles. In addition, there are hundreds of light machine guns of various types and dozens of heavy machine guns.

Dense bullets covered the sky and earth like a barrage of bullets.

Almost in the blink of an eye, a large number of Japanese soldiers on the road fell down.

At the same time, the soldiers of the artillery battalion also opened fire, firing shells at the Japanese crowd without mercy.

Li Sanpao discovered Takeshita Hiroshi riding on a tall, pure white horse through the telescope, so the first thing he ran towards was the colonel Takeshita Hiroshi.

After many actual combats, Li Sanpao has become proficient in the use of artillery and has mastered it to perfection.

Just one shot, and it hit the target accurately.

"Boom!"

At that time, Takeshita Hiroshi, who was leading the team on horseback, did not even have a chance to dodge, and was blown away along with his horse by the raging shock wave of the explosion.

The corpse of the warhorse weighing hundreds of pounds fell to the ground with a loud bang, and it crushed a flag soldier next to it. Although it did not kill him directly, it pinned down the legs of the Japanese flag soldier, making him unable to move, and he also threw the military flag in his hand away.

As soon as the military flag fell, the morale of the other Japanese soldiers was immediately thrown into chaos, and the soldiers of the independent regiment who were ambushed on the slope and in the surrounding areas continued to fire at them.

The dense rain of bullets seemed to be free.

In addition, there were shells whistling down from the sky and crackling down.

The Japanese had never seen such a scene before. This was simply not the firepower that the Eighth Route Army could possess, because even their own Japanese Locust Army did not have such firepower.

The huge psychological gap scared the Japanese devils out of their wits.

Even if these Japanese soldiers wanted to resist, they seemed to be unable to find a target and lacked the courage.

The Japanese soldiers who had lost their commander suffered heavy casualties, and soon the road was littered with their bodies.

Although there were many grassroots Japanese officers who desperately commanded their troops to counterattack and tried to save the situation.

However, few of the frightened Japanese soldiers listened to them.

Only some of the Japanese soldiers' scattered counterattacks were not enough to pose any threat to the independent regiment.

This is the gap between a special division and a regular Type A division. If a regular Type A division is ambushed, even if there are heavy casualties, the morale of the army will never collapse in an instant.

As the war continued, in the later period of the War of Resistance, the Japanese also threw in some reservists who had no actual combat experience, and the soldiers' military literacy dropped significantly.

……

"Tu Tu Tu!"

"Da da da!"

"Boom, boom, boom, boom!—"

“Pah, pah, pah, pah!——”

The independent regiment's attack continued without any weakening. The dense rain of bullets made the Japanese soldiers cry for their parents and suffered heavy casualties.

Under the intensive crossfire of the independent regiment, the 226rd Battalion of the 60th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army lost more than % of its troops in less than three minutes. The soldiers of the independent regiment, because they had the upper hand in the battle, could open fire as much as they wanted and practice their gun skills with the Japanese.

Not only were there not many casualties, the soldiers were also becoming more and more excited. Even those new recruits who had just joined the team and were fighting on the battlefield for the first time were greatly encouraged and seemed to have forgotten their nervousness and fear.

Led by the veterans around them, they excitedly greeted the Japanese ancestors with traditional Chinese culture while continuously pulling the trigger and shooting at the Japanese crowd.

On the road, the Japanese soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit began to flee in all directions like headless flies.

Some of them jumped off the dirt road, but there were also soldiers from the independent regiment ambushing outside the road.

There were also some Japanese soldiers running behind who turned around and ran in the direction they came from, but they didn't know that their retreat route had already been cut off by the 1st Battalion of the Independent Regiment which had made a detour.

Before they ran far, a large rain of bullets poured down on them. The Japanese soldiers who were rushing in front of them were immediately shot into a hornet's nest and fell down in groups.

The independent regiment has suffered from poverty for too many days, and other brother units have not yet achieved ammunition freedom. Although the independent regiment is not short of ammunition at the moment, Li Yunlong will not waste it excessively.

Seeing that the time was almost right, he immediately stood up with his saber in hand and shouted, "Stop shooting, blow the charge, attack, kill!"

Upon receiving the order, several buglers immediately jumped out of the bunker, puffed up their cheeks and blew the loud charge horn.

“Beep, beep, beep, beep!—”

The loud sound of the charge horn suddenly resounded through the heavens and the earth, inspiring the hearts of the soldiers of the independent regiment and motivating more than 3000 soldiers of the independent regiment to jump up from behind their bunkers, holding rifles with bayonets, and rushing towards the Japanese in the encirclement.

Although at this time, the bayonet fighting level of the independent regiment soldiers was still somewhat behind that of the Japanese, but with the improvement of living standards and continuous training, this gap has been narrowed a lot.

Maybe they still couldn't defeat the Japanese in a one-on-one fight, but in a two-on-one fight they could completely crush them. There would never again be a situation like before where three or five Eighth Route Army soldiers couldn't defeat one Japanese.

With a troop strength ratio of over 10 to 1, and the existence of Zhang Dabiao's broadsword team whose individual combat power was even higher than that of the Japanese soldiers, this war was no longer a suspense.

It should be said that the outcome of this battle was actually determined from the very beginning.

……

At this moment.

Zhang Dabiao came over with a tattered flag and said to Li Yunlong excitedly, "Captain, what do you think this is?"

Li Yunlong didn't take it seriously at first, but after seeing it clearly, he immediately narrowed his eyes and asked, "What is this?"

Zhang Dabiao was about to speak, but Monk Wei said with a look of disdain, "Hey! It's just a broken flag that will leak even if you use it to wipe your butt. Are you so surprised, Captain?"

Li Yunlong slapped Wei Dayong on the bald head: "I told you to read more books, but you wanted to feed pigs. This is the Japanese regiment flag, do you know?"

Monk Wei: "Even if it's the Japanese regiment commander, you don't have to do this, right? We have killed more than one or two Japanese regiment commanders."

Li Yunlong: "The significance of the regiment flag is far greater than that of the Japanese regiment commander... You are such a rough fellow, forget it, you won't understand even if I tell you."

Monk Wei looked at Zhang Dabiao again, and heard Zhang Dabiao explain: "This regiment flag was personally awarded by Guizi Tianhuang, and each one is unique.

As long as the wing flag is there, the unit is still there. If the wing flag is gone, the unit is gone too. "

Monk Wei touched his head and said, "Can't we just make a new one?"

Zhang Dabiao said seriously: "No! This unit will be cancelled from the root. In simple terms, the unit's number will be revoked, and it will be revoked forever and will never be restored!
Therefore, the significance of this flag is far greater than that of the Japanese regiment commander.

Because if the Japanese regiment leader dies, he can be replaced by another one, and even if the unit is completely wiped out, he can replenish the troops and form a new one. "

"So, the Japanese usually have a flag guard to protect the flag. Once they find something wrong, they will immediately hold a burning ceremony, that is, burn the flag."

Monk Wei: "If it's burned, isn't it also destroyed?"

Zhang Dabiao: "It's different. Burning is equivalent to dying in battle, and you can make a new one. But being captured is equivalent to being captured, which is unforgivable and unpardonable."

"Look at this regimental flag, it's tattered, but it actually represents that this flag has a long history and has made great achievements in battle. The Japanese are not ashamed of it, but proud of it.

Only when the regiment flag is so tattered that it cannot be seen, the Japanese will make a new one to replace it. "

"In the previous battle of Cangyun Ridge, if we had captured the flag of the Sakata Regiment, perhaps our commander would not have been dismissed from his position as the commander of the New 1st Regiment and would have gone to work as the director of the clothing factory.

Unfortunately, it is not known whether the Japanese flag guard team ran away with the regiment flag or burned it.

As far as I know, this flag is the first one captured by our Chinese army!"

Monk Wei suddenly realized: "So that's how it is. I never thought that the regiment flag is so important. Our independent regiment has made history again!"

Li Yunlong asked curiously, "Zhang Dabiao, how did you find this regiment flag?"

Zhang Dabiao: "I originally wanted to find the Japanese captain, but I found a wooden box next to his body.

I opened it out of curiosity and took a look, but I didn't expect that there was this thing inside.

The body of the Japanese regiment commander was rotten into several pieces. He must have been killed by the artillery shells. I guess the Japanese soldiers of the flag guard were also killed in the explosion, so they were not burned. "

Li Yunlong: "We've made a fortune, we've made a fortune! Report this good news to the brigade commander immediately! Leave two companies to clean up the battlefield, and the others will follow me to Zhoujiapo.

Oh, by the way, let me ask Captain Ding about the situation of their New 1st Regiment."

……

386 Brigade Headquarters.

The brigade commander took out his pocket watch and looked at it, then said, "According to the time, the 226th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army should have entered the ambush circle of the Independent Regiment. I don't know what the situation is now."

The Chief of Staff said, "How about sending a telegram to ask?"

Brigade Commander: "That's good. Otherwise, Li Yunlong won't take the initiative to report until the battle is over."

The chief of staff was about to give the order when the communications chief came in from outside with an excited look on his face: "Commander, good news, good news!"

Brigade Commander: "What good news? Look how excited you are. Could it be that the Independent Regiment and the New 226st Regiment have already annihilated the th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army?"

Chief of Communications: "That's not the case, but it's better than destroying it. To be precise, it can be said that it has been destroyed, and it has been destroyed from the root."

The brigade commander frowned slightly. "Why am I getting more confused the more I listen? What do you mean by not annihilating them? How can it be considered annihilated? And what's more, it's better news than annihilating them?"

The head of the communications department took a deep breath and said, "The independent regiment surrounded the 226st Battalion of the th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army in Zhoujiapo and completely wiped out the rd Battalion that came to reinforce.

In addition, the headquarters of the 226th Infantry Regiment was also with this rd Battalion.

While annihilating them, the independent regiment also seized the flag of the 226th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army! "

"What? What did you say?"

The brigade commander was afraid that he had heard it wrong, and asked loudly with an unbelievable look on his face... (End of this chapter)