Chapter 429: Crossing the River
The sun in the sky has disappeared, and the dark red afterglow slowly fades like a brocade, indicating that the night is coming.
The pursuing Japanese offensive was stronger than expected, because they knew that once the Eighth Route Army successfully crossed the Wei River, they would definitely enter the Weinan Plain overnight.
At that time, the Imperial Army could only pursue the pursuit, and the troops were insufficient, so it could no longer encircle and encircle!
The result will turn into another sweep!
The imperial soldiers had a bigger goal, not to clear out the security forces in the occupied areas.
The work of sweeping the raid itself should be done by the security forces.
In fact, the Imperial Army is about to sweep away?
Too many troops were drawn on the Pacific battlefield, and many troops on the plains were even reserves for domestic recruitment. Even the warriors who were disabled due to injuries on the battlefield joined the rule of the occupied areas. China is really too big!
Not long after the vanguard launched the attack, another team joined the battlefield. There was no need for stairs. The plains were full of Eighth Route Army, and you could attack by finding a place.
The Eighth Route Army team fought tenaciously, but what's the use of this in front of well-trained Imperial soldiers?
Another squadron arrived, and the Japanese infantry who had no time to rest were also preparing to enter the battlefield.
Each of them was exhausted, with dust on their faces under the steel helmets, sweaty and rushing through the marks, with red eyes, and dispatching tasks in line with officers.
After more than a month of preparation, I originally hoped to take advantage of the opportunity of the Eighth Route Army to destroy the transportation lines in Qi County to set up a trap and completely wipe out these Eighth Route Army on the southern Hebei Plain.
He even used the Zhongyi National Salvation Army who had surrendered secretly to deliberately seek help from the First War Zone, and led out the Eighth Route Army hidden in the rat cave!
Unexpectedly, the Eighth Route Army stopped attacking for a night, and ran away just spread his legs.
The weather is so hot that the Eighth Route Army can really run away and directly break out of the encirclement!
If nothing unexpected happens, the Eastern Cavalry Major will most likely be demoted, and may even have to apologize...
Fortunately, this stone bridge on the Wei River brought hope to pursuers who overcome the scorching sun and all kinds of difficulties and obstacles.
The last attack before dark caused the attacking Japanese to try their best, hoping to take down the land of Hexi in one fell swoop and then occupy the stone bridge. The Eighth Route Army wants to cross the river, so dream!
The Eighth Route Army fought against the enemy, but in the face of absolute strength, it was useless to fight against the enemy!
A Japanese master went to the front line to command the attack. As soon as he contacted the Eighth Route Army blocking troops, the battle became fierce.
The Eighth Route Army kept falling down, and then people kept adding to it.
The Japanese were still on the road, and the eighth Route Army's firepower was not even worse than the Japanese at this time, and the machine gun was sprayed with dense tongues of flames.
Neither side had time to establish a position, so they opened fire when they found a suitable location in the field.
The Eighth Route Army obviously fights to trap beasts. The pursuers use their good shooting skills to shoot from afar. Only the eight machine guns caused little casualties to the Japanese.
There was more than 200 Japanese squadrons, and the commander of the judiciary quickly turned north and tightly bit the Eighth Route Army in front that turned north and fled north.
The master had a premonition that the Eighth Route Army that fled north mostly wanted to bypass the stone bridge and search for the shallows to cross the river!
A company of the cavalry regiment went north quickly, finding a place that looked not wide and preparing to cross the river.
The faster the river flows, the less silt silt in the river!
The company commander immediately sent a squad of soldiers to take off their clothes and roll them into a group, slid down the river bank and into the river beach.
Running from the sand into the muddy ground with only hard surfaces, one step will make a footprint.
He walked around and pulled out his feet and continued to walk into the river. The mud became deeper and softer. Before he could touch the water, the mud almost reached his waist!
The straw sandals were gone, their bodies were covered with mud and sand, and the soldiers were carefully protecting their guns.
Carry the rifle horizontally on your shoulders, hold it with one hand, and pull out the mud and sand with the other hand, but it doesn't work at all.
Until later, more soldiers, under the command of the company command, kept shoveling the dry soil and pouring it into the mud, and more people joined the river crossing team, each thinking of their own solutions.
Two soldiers trapped in mud and sand were also pulled out by later soldiers.
Finally, a soft road slowly extended into the river.
Several soldiers jumped into the river and swam directly to the east bank.
Commander Zeng, who was following along the shore, was anxious and shouted loudly to the soldiers to shovel sand and fill the mud, and arranged for the soldiers who crossed the river to shovel soil to fill a road.
Gunshots suddenly rang out to the west, and then immediately became dense.
The battle began when the Eighth Route Army wanted to cross the river.
The Japanese hurriedly dug out shallow ditches and shot against each other through the open ground with the Eighth Route Army lying on the river beach.
Soon, the Japanese with ammunition was sufficiently pressing the Eighth Route Army on the river beach, and the crooked light machine gun poured out dense bullets and fired at the Eighth Route Army. Four grenade launchers were full of breath and bombarding the Eighth Route Army crossing the river.
The explosion burst into a rain of mud, and it fell into the river and exploded into the sky with columns of water, and then fell like rain.
The machine gun bullets drilled into the soil or flew across the river toward the east bank, hitting several soldiers who were pulling their legs in the mud, and their bodies tilted and directly sank into the mud.
Because of insufficient troops, the Japanese did not charge, and soldiers continued to die. More of them climbed to the other side, raised their guns to shoot at machine guns with flames in the distance?
In the eyes of many people, the county town is a symbol of the Japanese.
It is the enemy's base camp, and many comrades died in the county town. It is a place where the Eighth Route Army intelligence organizations compete with the enemy with wits and courage. You have to be careful every time and every second here.
Everyone in the armed work team thought so, and Captain Yu was no exception. However, he suddenly realized that the county town suddenly became strange. The Japanese went out of the city, the puppet army left, and the traitors left. There was only one guard at the police force at the door?
All this became more and more weird. He felt that even if there were only more than twenty people entering the city, it was easy to occupy the military police, the puppet army barracks, the reconnaissance team, and the police force.
A large number of security regiments gathered in the Xicheng Gate. Before dark, I found that the overall combat effectiveness of these security regiments was not strong!
From the intelligence officer, I learned that this group of security teams had just changed their defenses, saying they were the Zhangde Water Conservancy Defense Corps!
There is a soldier in the middle of the team that is definitely not simple, and he must be an elite veteran who has experienced a long battle formation!
The firefighting outside the city has been almost half an hour. Could it be that the troops attacking Hua County have begun to attack?
It was wrong to hear the sound. It was not a siege, but a fight against the river in the west of the city!
Outside the city, at the Eighth Route Crossing River, more than ten soldiers were lying in a ditch more than 300 meters away on the east bank of the river.
"Captain Four, something is wrong. Why are all the Japanese coming ashore?" asked a low voice.
"Look, let's talk about it!" Captain Four looked carefully at both sides who were exchanging fire.
"Why do they speak like us?" The team members heard the voices of people commanding from afar.
"The person who commanded the cavalry across the river opposite was a bit like the Captain Zeng of the Cavalry Regiment!" another team member muttered.
"Do you know him?" Captain 4 turned around and asked.
"I saw it when I was in a meeting before, but now the distance is too far and the sky is too dark? I can't see it clearly?"
"Can they behave like Japanese makeup?" the team member who spoke earlier analyzed.
"Why haven't the scout come back yet?" Captain 4 suddenly asked without answering his question.
"The Japanese suddenly blocked the stone bridge at the intersection, and he must find a place to cross the river!"
"I'm so anxious?"
"Captain, I think the person who is crossing the river must be his own people!"
"Why?"
"You think, if it's an enemy, isn't it better to walk directly from the bridge? Is it necessary to drill into the mud on the river beach? And there are still people attacking them..."
"What I said seems to make sense?"
"Or what if I go over and take a look?"
"Okay, be careful."
"Don't worry!"
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Another half an hour passed.
"The security team is gathering!" A puppet army ran from the suspension bridge to the Japanese military police position.
The military captain didn't care much. The security team was just a group of cynical virtues. Everyone knew it, so there was no need to give too high hopes.
Fortunately, the headquarters informed in advance that the Eighth Route Cavalry was wearing imperial military uniforms, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable?
The Eighth Route Army must have seen the explosive packs of the Imperial Army deployed to bomb the bridge. Even though most of the troops in his hands were mobs, he was still confident that he would stop this group of Eighth Route Army. Even if one Eighth Route Army could not pass the bridge!
Blasting the bridge is not good for the Imperial Army, and the traffic will be much more troublesome in the future. Therefore, the Eighth Route Army did not take the initiative to attack from the bridge deck, and he even let out a sigh of relief.
Therefore, he did not intend to take the initiative to attack the Eighth Route Army. Of course, he did not have the ability.
The only reliance is the pile of explosives under the bridge. I had already gotten from the phone that left the city and participated in the encirclement in the team chasing the west of the city. Therefore, as long as I persisted until the squadron leader came back, everything would be perfect.
As for the security team in the city, they are still procrastinating, which is in line with their usual style of conduct.
But is the order of the Imperial Army a joke? Even if you come out first, you can help dig two ditches, right?
Chapter completed!