kingnovel Chapter 395: The First Wave of Ghosts
Chapter 395: The First Wave of Ghosts
In Gaojia Town, the battle remained deadlocked until the afternoon. With the support of the Japanese 145th and Changshi Regiments, a part of the Japanese troops withdrew from the battlefield to rest.
The casualties on both sides in the morning were not very heavy. The Japanese suffered more than 300 casualties, while the independent regiment suffered 50 to 60 casualties.
Judging from the score, the Japanese were definitely the losing side, but this loss was really nothing to the 106th Division, not even as big as yesterday's.
Matsuura didn't care about the hundreds of casualties. His focus at this time was instead on other places, such as the cavalry regiment and the Chida regiment that was sweeping the countryside.
It was afternoon and Gu Changfeng was ready to make his move.
He had originally planned to fight for three days, but in order to prevent any accidents, he decided to end the battle early.
"Prepare for action. Clear an area for the artillerymen from each battalion to establish positions."
Gu Changfeng began to give orders.
We have to leave anyway. Let the Japanese attack us with a big one. Gaojia Town has been almost bombed. It doesn’t matter if they come with another wave. We can just rebuild it when the time comes.
As soon as Gu Changfeng made a move, the old devil Song Pu received the signal and thought for a moment.
Matsuura laughed and said, "Yoshi, these Chinese have finally given up and are ready to fight the Royal Family directly. Then this General will fight to the end!"
"Xiyuan Jun, tell the warriors who have retreated to rest to prepare. This time, we must drive the Independent Regiment out of Gaojia Town!"
Colonel Nishizono hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Excellency, if we send more people out, we won't have many people around us."
"Xiyuan Jun, it's okay. The independent regiment's forces are all tied up by us, and their heavy artillery is not here, so they can't cause any harm to us!"
Matsuura's purpose was very clear. He took the main force and the independent regiment to play in Gaojia Town, while the cavalry regiment and the Chida regiment ran to the rear to turn things upside down.
At present, two regiments have been dispatched from Gaojia Town, and the support from the Changshi regiment is just replacement personnel. The actual military strength of Gaojia Town is just over 6500 devils.
To be honest, if it weren't for the several expansions and the fact that the independent regiment almost hollowed out Gaojia Town, there would be no way a town could accommodate so many people.
Up to now, the entire town, including the three battalions of the independent regiment and the militia company, has a total of more than 10,000 people. If the Japanese add another regiment, the entire town can be said to be full of people.
As the independent regiment cleared out the Japanese in an area in the north, Gu Changfeng's artillery bombardment had not yet begun, but the Japanese artillery bombardment came first.
Fortunately, Huang Zhengkui was well prepared. The soldiers either hid in the tunnels, or the rest who did not have time to evacuate used the ruins as fortifications. They barely avoided this wave of attacks by the Japanese, and the casualties were not heavy.
"Hurry up, brothers! Once all the shells are cleared, evacuate immediately!"
Huang Zhengkui's urgent urging sounded everywhere. As ten minutes passed, more than fifty mortars and infantry guns of the three battalions entered the adjustment phase one after another.
Matsuura was not aware that Gu Changfeng was preparing to use a big move against his subordinates. He still confidently believed that the independent regiment could no longer stay underground and was ready to have a fair fight with him.
Boom boom boom!
Boom boom boom!
Forty-two 70 and 81mm mortars, plus fifteen Type infantry guns, were incredibly powerful. Large swaths of shells pounded the Japs gathered in the town. Now it was the Japs' turn to cry.
The clustered artillery shells were simply killing the Japanese. They hit a large area at a time. There was no point in hiding because there would always be a shell that could take care of them...
"Bakayalu, where did the artillery come from?"
The old Japanese soldier Matsuura was really stunned. This was not an ordinary force. Just from the noise, it would be no problem to say that the heavy artillery battalion of the independent regiment had come out.
But doesn’t the intelligence say that the independent regiment’s heavy artillery battalion is stationed at Xianyaling?
"Your Excellency, the division commander, it's north of the town. We heard no less than fifty mortars firing. The brave warriors in the town were covered by the independent regiment's artillery fire, and they suffered heavy losses!"
This happened suddenly without any warning, and Colonel Nishizono was a little confused at this time.
"Bagayalu, quickly notify the troops to evacuate! Notify the mountain artillery regiment, quickly destroy the Chinese artillery positions!"
Matsuura's order was still too late. There was no need for his order at this time. The Japanese soldiers who were still alive fled desperately out of the town, only regretting that they had bad Japanese genes and their legs were too short.
Fortunately, Gu Changfeng didn't know that Songpu would continue to deploy a regiment, and fortunately, the Japanese in this regiment had not yet entered Gaojia Town.
Otherwise, the 106th Division would be finished with this wave, and it would also have a huge impact on their subsequent encirclement and suppression.
Boom boom boom!
The fierce bombardment continued, with artillery shells being sent into the muzzles of the guns by the artillerymen of each battalion and then fired from the barrels...
In Gaojia Town, Gu Changfeng had stockpiled more than a thousand rounds of three types of artillery shells, which was enough to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese this time.
The main reason was that except for the time when the Yixiantian was blocking the enemy, the Second Battalion used artillery attacks a few times, but never used it at other times. So Matsuura subconsciously thought that as long as the heavy artillery battalion of the Independent Regiment was not there, it would not cause much damage to his side.
The result was obvious. Matsuura was still careless and his vision was misplaced. Naturally, he would end up losing this battle!
"Charge! Brothers from each battalion's artillery company, retreat first. Everyone else, follow me and charge!"
After five minutes of shelling, Huang Zhengkui began to order the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese in the town.
Matsuura was careless, but Gu Changfeng was not. There were Japanese mountain and field artillery outside, and he didn't want his artillery to be destroyed.
Boom boom boom!
As the last shelling ended, the charge horns sounded one after another in various parts of the town, as if they had agreed on it.
The Japanese soldiers who stayed in the town thought that the battle was finally over, but when they heard the charge, the surviving Japanese teams began to panic...
Boom boom boom!
After receiving the order, Colonel Kuniga, after some preparation by the Japanese artillery, finally began their performance, bombarding the artillery positions of the independent regiment.
Unfortunately, when the Japanese bombarded, the last gun of the independent regiment had been pushed away by the soldiers, and the lighter mortars were directly moved underground for dismantling. They evacuated after the Japanese bombardment ended.
The Japanese's mountain and field artillery attack was almost useless. It didn't even hit a hair of the independent regiment's artillery. It was not as effective as the Japanese artillery bombardment to the north that had previously entered Gaojia Town!
Da da da!
Bang bang bang!
boom!
The battles broke out in various places in Gaojia Town. The soldiers of the independent regiment were holding Type 99 rifles and Type 38 rifles, and the occasional grenades exploded, making it even more difficult for the already panicked Japanese soldiers to resist.
The battle lasted for half an hour, and Gu Changfeng ordered everyone to cover the evacuation. There was a whole division of the Japanese here, and they were not made of clay. It would be impolite to continue fighting.
"Baka! These Chinese are all dead!"
"Kill the chicken and give it to me!"
Colonel Kijima was furious and waved his sword to order the Japanese soldiers who had retreated from Gaojia Town to pursue them.
However, at this point in the battle, the Japanese soldiers who remained in Gaojia Town were in chaos, and those outside the town were also panicked, making it extremely difficult to organize themselves immediately.
In the end, Mu Dao and his two thousand Japanese soldiers did not leave the independent regiment behind, and successfully allowed Gu Changfeng to lead a large force to evacuate the Gaojia Town area.