Chapter 242: Eastward

(...You can know the combat effectiveness by looking at the equipment of a unit. Of course, the ones equipped with formal or Soviet weapons in the entire army are elite, but the ones that can fight the most are all Japanese equipment, and they are all troops fed with Japanese flesh and blood... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

The smoke of gunpowder has covered the entire battlefield, and Chuxian once again was covered in thick smoke and war after three months.

In the dark smoke, a group of Japanese soldiers ran to the south quickly under the leadership of a Japanese master, with dense gunfire behind them.

"Hurry, come here!" A Japanese waved to the team, and at the same time, the Japanese's crooked handles began to shoot violently on several roofs, blocking the pursuers.

The group of Japanese who escaped to the safe area ran out of breath, bent over and even covered their stomachs and breathed heavily. The Japanese who took clear water to greet them were comforting each other, but suddenly saw them taking out smoke-filled grenades from their bent waists!

This is a group of fake Japanese. The troops led by Xing Long disguised themselves as Japanese soldiers and fled to the Japanese defense line while the chaos was in trouble. Grenades flew to the unprepared Japanese machine gun fire point near. With deafening explosions, the fire point was lifted off. The Japanese who had originally gained a foothold in this area began to flee wildly again. Xing Long and the others tried their best to fight against the physical imbalance caused by tinnitus, and stubbornly chased after them. Behind them was the commando that burst out from the ruins...

He was gasping heavily. This time, even Xing Long, who was as fierce as an iron, was exhausted. He had almost never closed his eyes for two consecutive days and had been fighting. He suddenly felt dizzy and almost fell down - there was no injury, just too tired!

Sitting down at the foot of the street, Xing Long began to look at the city that had been fighting for two days. The streets of Chu County were covered with incomplete blackened corpses, just like Nanjing after the baptism of war. Xing Long looked helplessly at the stubborn positions of the Japanese in the distance, and was angry: Why didn’t you seize a cannon with a caliber of 105mm after fighting for so long? These solid fortifications cannot be taken down.

The adventure I just took was a stroke of great success, and suddenly occupied a solid building complex, but he was the only one who could dress up as a Japanese in the army. Such a victory was difficult to replicate.

Two days ago, Li Tianhao personally led a commando team. When Mo Shucai's troops launched the general attack, they had already begun to fight into Chu County. The sudden gunfire behind them made the Japanese soldiers who had been beaten by Mo Shucai and Xing Long completely lose their fighting spirit. Just like the *** who fled to Nanjing on the Songhu battlefield, they would only scatter to escape to a place without gunfire!

The Japanese in Chu County are mainly composed of supplementary troops, baggage troops and engineers. The combat level of these troops, especially the fighting spirit and regular combat troops, is quite different. They are as proud when facing the troops with a weak style, but when they face such an iron-blooded killing division that everyone is like an evil ghost coming out of hell, they are soon disrupted in the duel. When Mo Shucai and Xing Long's troops chased Chu County, Li Tianhao's troops had already opened up the situation and occupied many favorable sections of intersections and stalemates with the Japanese.

Everyone knows how to attack. Even if they can't be occupied this time, they have to use offensives to scare the Japanese. When the large army arrived, the offensive was even more difficult to resist. Faced with the continuous concentration of firepower and suppression, the human bombs opened the way, the Japanese retreated again and again, and soon half of Chuxian was in the hands of ***.

Because the purpose of this battle was to intersperse into northern Jiangsu, not to annihilate or defeat the opponent, Li Tianhao's troops did not intend to sacrifice more experienced and self-defeating suicide squads in the strong attack. However, after a day of fighting, they found that these Japanese soldiers were too handsome: although they generally had good shooting skills and were very good at tactics, but once they met on a narrow road, everyone stared at each other and held the explosives bag to hedge against each other, so Li Tianhao increased the offensive force and bluffed his voice to take over Chu County. Unexpectedly, they basically occupied Chu County at noon the next day!

The Japanese occupied only a few buildings that were strong enough to be destroyed with a large amount of explosives or heavy artillery. The battle between the two sides had already ended with victory. After more than one year of training, the Japanese replenishment troops, whose general quality was far higher than that of the Japanese, were silly bombed by the human bombs. Now they could only huddle in the solid buildings and wait for the retreat or the arrival of reinforcements that they could not do because of the lack of heavy weapons. They really didn't have the courage to rush outside and fight with the Japanese.

"Report! Captain Li's urgent telegram..." The report from the staff officer came from his ears. Li Tianhao continued to mark the map without looking back, and gently replied with the word "安".

"Our army has never been able to fully capture the positions in Zhangbashan area. The Japanese troops from the Huaihe River have arrived at the battlefield. It is expected that our army will support it until tomorrow morning at most, and they are really unable to fight again..." The consultant was thinking about the telegram and his voice was a little trembling, but Li Tianhao's expression remained unchanged as usual: "I understand..."

"It's hard for Li Bin. He fought for two days... I guess he will be the commander of the bare feet again after this trip!" Li Tianhao raised his head slightly and smiled at Mo Shucai: "It's your turn to retreat later, I'll cut off the rear... By the way, remember the key points of withdrawal, set up blocking positions every section..."

Mo Shucai stood at attention and saluted and turned around to arrange the troops. He neither fought with Li Tianhao nor was he worried that Li Tianhao would have any accidents. After fighting side by side for a period of time, he had already regarded this younger brother, who was younger than him as a military god. There was no general in this world who could fight than Li Tianhao!

Li Tianhao made a mark on the map, nodded and walked out of the temporary command post with satisfaction, and his mind was filled with a summary of various battle situations: Zhang Jingyue had led the interlude troops to pass through Chu County according to the scheduled plan and arrived at the first rest and reclamation blocking area. Although Li Bin in the north could no longer hold on tonight, he would evacuate from the Zhangbashan area at most tomorrow morning, his troops could evacuate from the battle group and escape until midnight tonight!

Li Tianhao is now strong. Although the wars ahead have suffered a lot, they are all within the plan. During Quanjiao, Li Zongren has continuously sent small groups of troops to infiltrate Quanjiao from small paths to reinforce, so that his troops have not reduced their troops. These newly added troops are all his fellow Guangxi fellows, and those Bagui children who fight to the death. This is of course the premeditation of Li Bai and his two men: after the war, Li Tianhao's troops will definitely get a number of at least the A-type division. This army, of course, will turn it into the Gui army...

In addition to the continuous replenishment soldiers being sent to Quanjiao in batches, the local people who had been tempered in the war for several months had long been able to use guns, and most of them had accumulated certain positional warfare experience. Once these personnel were reorganized into troops in northern Jiangsu, they were much stronger than those replenishment soldiers who had just been recruited. Before marching to the northeast this time, Quanjiao's people knew that they would break through, and they were not panicked at all when they were waiting in an orderly manner. Because they were used to war and had a lot of trust in Li Tianhao - this Chief Li still defended Quanjiao when he was so difficult, how could he abandon them when the situation was good?

No one knew that they were actually not breaking west but launching a counterattack against the Japanese, but the people who were picked out to prepare to replenish the troops in the future followed the troops without hesitation. Chief Li went west and Chief Li went east and east, and everyone would definitely follow!

Army, para-army... The troops passing by Chu County did not flock to the northeast, but walked very orderly when there were no Japanese planes. During their stay, they had already turned all the sections of Jinpu Railway passing through Chu County into deep ditches and drained water. After they left, this large section of railway was enough to make the Japanese feel headache.

"Report, the troops on the southern front have joined forces..." The messenger brought the latest battle report to Li Tianhao.

On the southern line of Chuxian County, Hong Liang and other troops that had been feinting attacks had merged into a detachment, and they had been acting to make the Japanese in Chuxian feel surrounded. Now these troops also came over while the Japanese could not hide. Like other units, they had very rich seizures. In Li Tianhao's mental arising, although his troops still lack heavy weapons, including those people who were preparing to recruit the troops, they had already shot one shot. Now, the troops in Li Tianhao's hands were almost Japanese-style equipment, and except for a batch of Type 24 heavy machine guns, they almost all shot into Japanese-style troops!

Behind the north wall of many streets, there were troops ready to set off. These troops, including the porters, were all wearing military uniforms. Many people were bundles of rifles, both good and needing repairs. The people who were ready to set off were very calm, although the north they faced was still as dark as the sky gradually became darker and the war was still visible.

Mo Shucai saw that there were still Japanese planes reconnaissance occasionally in the sky, so he had to wait for darkness before setting off. This time, the capture of Chu County was another great harvest. Because transportation was repeatedly blocked, the Japanese were piled up in Chu County with a lot of various supplies. Although most of them were set on fire when the Japanese withdrew, the remaining things were simply on the side of the poor man, just like they were going to the treasure mountain, which made everyone laugh so hard that they could not see their eyes!

Under the disguise, there were cars loaded with clothes, guns, maintenance equipment and gasoline and other debris. Although the convoy of *** chariots was not much left in the battle in the western suburbs of Chu County, the capture in Chu County made the captives who had tasted the sweetness of "local tanks". They seized more than 150 cars!

Now half of these vehicles have been transformed into "earth tanks" again using the rails and sleepers removed from the Jinpu Railway. If the Japanese dare to send light troops to catch up with them along the road, it will be another massacre!

After three months of fierce battle, the troops that had emerged from Quanjiao were finally transformed into an iron army!
Chapter completed!