Volume 1 Chapter 96 Blockage
Wei Dayong ran back to the village in one breath and hurried into the regiment headquarters.
"Political Commissar, the Japanese's Iron Turtles have all been dispatched. The regiment commander said you should quickly organize the villagers to hide in the mountains!"
After hearing Wei Dayong's report on the Japanese army's actions, Zhao Gang realized the seriousness of the matter.
The Japanese don't have much oil resources, and most of them are imported from the United States.
Starting from July of this year, the United States imposed a material blockade on the Japanese army.
In particular, the export of oil was restricted, which was a major blow to Japan, an oil-poor country.
Now most of the oil reserves are allocated to the navy, and the Japanese army can only get a small amount of oil resources.
The tank will not move easily.
The deployment of tanks this time showed that the Japs were determined to wipe out the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.
Zhao Gang shouted urgently. "Immediately send a messenger to notify the brigade and the headquarters to move as soon as possible! Let the villagers go into the mountains quickly!"
"yes!"
As Zhao Gang issued one order after another, the staff of the independent regiment headquarters were busy running around the regiment, and the signalmen rode their horses to rush to inform the brigade headquarters.
Most of the people rushed to urge the villagers to evacuate, while the rest quickly packed up the confidential documents and destroyed those that could not be taken away.
Thinking of Chu Yunfei's reminder, Zhao Gang ordered, "Prepare the incendiary bombs!"
The Eighth Route Army was so poor that they didn't even have many artillery pieces, let alone anti-tank guns.
The most likely thing is a grenade that might break in two when it explodes.
Without anti-tank guns, I heard Chu Yunfei say that incendiary bombs could be used to deal with Japanese tanks.
The independent regiment took great pains to collect gasoline and prepare glass bottles.
Everything was quickly gathered. The empty Fenjiu bottle that Li Yunlong had drunk was filled with gasoline, and then some other supplies were added and stuffed tightly with rags.
To be on the safe side, in addition to Fenjiu bottles, old-fashioned wine jugs were also used.
It can hold 9 bottles of wine.
Once everything was ready, Zhao Gang shouted, "Let's go to the front line!"
Hearing that the political commissar was going to the front line, Wei Dayong shouted, "Political commissar, you stay here to organize the people to evacuate, we will go!"
"Don't waste time, hurry up!"
A mountain road meanders . The road is very narrow, only six or seven meters wide.
Although the hills on both sides are not high, they are easy to set up positions. If reinforced with sandbags, they will form a good line of defense.
The Third Battalion dug a circular position at the intersection of the mountain road, which was connected to the defense line of the hill and covered an area of several miles.
Li Yunlong led the first battalion back to the newly built defense line and called over the commander of the third battalion, Wang Huaibao.
" The Japanese are about to attack us, send people to plant mines on the mountain road!"
"I'll get someone to do it right away!"
The Third Battalion quickly placed hundreds of mines in front of the defense line, and then placed dozens on the side of the mountainside.
Not long after the mines were laid, Liu Zhengping returned with a group of survivors.
Only 9 people out of a platoon of more than 30 returned.
Liu Zhengping saluted Li Yunlong and shouted, "Captain, the first platoon reports to you!"
Li Yunlong saw a row of surviving soldiers holding their comrades' guns and ammunition tightly in their hands.
He looked back at Liu Zhengping's bleeding arm and shouted, "Well done, squad leader. You didn't bring shame to our independent regiment. You can go and rest now. Squad leader Liu, go find a medic!"
Liu Zhengping said nonchalantly, "It was just a bite from the Type 38, it's no big deal. Commander, I can still continue to fight, I definitely won't hold you back!"
"This battle will last a long time. Are you still worried that there will be no battle? Go quickly!"
When Liu Zhengping was about to ask for more, Li Yunlong shouted, "Stop talking nonsense and go!"
Liu Zhengping immediately shouted: "Yes, Captain!"
Not long after Liu Zhengping left, Zhang Dabiao shouted.
"Captain, the enemy is coming!"
Li Yunlong picked up the telescope and looked over quickly.
More than 5,000 puppet soldiers were rushing in with guns.
These 5,000 puppet troops were just for show, and Li Yunlong was not afraid of them at all. However, he was very wary of the Japanese behind the puppet troops.
The commander of the 4th Mixed Brigade, Wang Yaohui, was very angry.
I just want to fight more cautiously to avoid falling into the trap of the Eighth Route Army and being surrounded.
How the hell did I know that the Eighth Route Army was so cunning that they dared to leave only one platoon to delay us.
By the time you find out, it's too late.
Apart from leaving behind dozens of corpses, nothing was captured and the main force of the Eighth Route Army escaped.
Damn it!
Working for the Japanese is unfortunate for me.
My face!
Touching his swollen face which still had marks from the slap, Wang Yaohui saw his subordinates hesitating and not daring to move forward, so he immediately fired two shots and cursed.
"The lady is watching us from behind. If anyone dares to step forward, I will shoot him first! Come on, don't be afraid. The Imperial Army's artillery fire will suppress the Eighth Route Army so much that they can't even raise their heads. Go! Come on! A reward of 5 dollars for each prisoner captured, and 3 dollars for each killed. Anyone who dares to retreat will be shot immediately!"
Seeing that the regiment commander Zhang Shun was slow, Wang Yaohui immediately jumped over. "You take the lead and occupy the enemy's position!"
Zhang Shun saw Wang Yaohui, who was so righteous, so he didn't dare to refuse. "I will go right away!"
5,000 men from the 4th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Army launched an attack on the position of the Independent Regiment.
The mountain road was too narrow to accommodate so many people. Apart from the 1st regiment of the 6th Mixed Brigade of the Imperial Army, which was the main force attacking here, the others could only attack along the mountain road towards the hill occupied by the Independent Regiment.
The 5,000 puppet soldiers seemed a little thin after being dispersed.
However, the Japanese mortars supporting them were not compromised at all. After a test firing of a shell, six mortars fired continuously.
A series of explosions suddenly sounded in front of the independent regiment's position, especially in front of the mountain road.
New soldiers are afraid of cannons, and old soldiers are afraid of machine guns.
The soldiers of the independent regiment, especially those of the first battalion, are basically veterans.
They could roughly judge where the artillery would land by listening to the sound of the artillery, and the soldiers would either jump into foxholes or lie down in trenches to avoid the impact.
The soldiers hid in trenches or foxholes in groups of three or four, and the elongated circular positions greatly reduced the lethal power of the artillery fire.
Although each round of bombardment took away several heroic souls, the casualties were still within an acceptable range.
After three rounds of shelling, the Japanese stopped shelling.
The Japanese invaders had already reached within five or six hundred meters of our position.
Given the Imperial Army's tactical skills, they would not dare to use artillery coordination like the Japanese did.
That's not bombing the independent regiment, it's bombing yourself.
As soon as the shelling ended, Li Yunlong shook his head to shake off the dust on his head.
He stuck his head out slightly, and with a telescope observed the puppet soldiers who were running towards him with their backs bent not far away, and immediately cursed.
"A traitor who is just taking advantage of the power of others. Humph. Those guns will be mine sooner or later!"
A traitor stepped on a landmine, causing an explosion.
Li Yunlong shouted loudly: "Hit him! Hit him hard!"
The independent regiment was short of artillery, but after several attacks on puppet troops and devils over the past year, they were not short of guns, not to mention that Chu Yunfei had provided a batch of bullets.
The Independent Regiment has never been so generous!
Li Yunlong raised Type 99 light machine gun, 18 light machine guns, 2 Type 92 heavy machine guns, and hundreds of rifles and opened fire at the same time, launching a storm-like attack on the puppet army.
As soon as they finished firing a magazine, the soldiers grabbed the grenades in front of them and threw them over.
On the narrow mountain road, the independent regiment's hail of gunfire caused heavy casualties to the puppet army.
Like wheat being cut, the Japanese soldiers fell down in rows. Only some of the quick-reacting Japanese soldiers lay down in time and avoided the scythe of death.
The Japanese soldiers who were standing a little further away turned around and ran away.
Seeing that the puppet army was defeated again, this time Kasahara Koizumi was too lazy to scold Wang Yaohui.
Anyway, he never expected the Imperial Army to be able to take the position. Since almost all the mines in front of the Eighth Route Army had been detonated by the Imperial Army, it would be easy!
Kasahara Koizumi waved his hand and shouted, "Let the tank team go out and make sure to capture the position!"
"Yes, sir!"
The messenger immediately went to convey the order.
I heard that we can finally go out.
Lieutenant Colonel Hiroshi Ageo, the leader of the tank squad, shouted excitedly, "It's finally our turn. Warriors, let's show the enemy how powerful our Imperial Japanese Army tanks are! Let's go!"
