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Chapter 331 Battle of Songshan (2)

Fortunately, before leaving, Dong Limao arranged tasks for each platoon in advance.

The bridge bombing was led by Gou Hao's main attack platoon, and the other three platoons were ambushed on both sides of the highway to prevent the Japanese and puppet troops from coming.

After the spy company arrived at the Jinji River, according to Dong Limao's deployment, each platoon performed its own duties and dispersed. In this way, it separated from the Japanese and puppet troops who rushed to Songshan.

But it also attracted the attention of the Japanese army. One of the commanders shouted loudly about why the spy company did not continue to move forward.

Zeng Zifan immediately replied: "Our mission is to guard the highway and bridge."

The Japanese commander came forward half-believingly, grabbed Zeng Zifan and asked, "You pigs! You guys don't want to use the excuse of being a bridge to escape, right?"

When the Japanese commander walked towards Zeng Zifan, Dong Limao had already pulled out the dagger. When the Japanese commander grabbed Zeng Zifan's collar and questioned, Dong Limao covered the Japanese commander's mouth with his left hand from behind, and the dagger with his right hand inserted into his right rib. This position was the liver. After the dagger was inserted into the Japanese commander, Dong Limao raised it up and cut off the Japanese commander's right rib and ribs with a few cracks. Apart from the sound of the ribs breaking, the Japanese commander died without making any shouts.

Zeng Zifan, who was frightened, stood there blankly, not knowing what to do for a moment.

Just when Dong Limao assassinated the Japanese commander with a dagger, he was seen by the commander's orderly soldier and shouted: "Baga..." He took down the gun on his back, pulled the bolt on his gun, and prepared to shoot at Dong Limao.

The Japanese commander's orderly shouting and pulling the gun bolt woke Zeng Zifan from his shock. He was worried that Dong Limao would suffer a loss, so he quickly took out his pistol, raised his hand and killed the Japanese orderly who was about to shoot at Dong Limao.

This gunshot broke the silence of the night.

The Japanese and puppet troops rushing to help Songshan were originally frightened birds. After hearing the gunshots, they immediately dispersed and ran towards the woods on both sides of the highway.

Dong Limao's spy company heard the shouts running towards the roadside in Japanese, and realized that the troops that followed them for a while were not the national army, but the Japanese army. So, before Dong Limao and the platoon leader ordered, they opened fire immediately.

Dong Limao grabbed Zeng Zifan, leaped and threw himself into the grass on the side of the road, avoided the bullets shot by the Japanese army at them, took off the submachine guns on their bodies, and fired at the Japanese and puppet troops who rushed towards them, and said to Zeng Zifan: "Doctor Zeng, throw the grenade..."

Zeng Zifan then took out the grenade from his body. He could calmly and brave the conventional weapons equipped by various spy companies. He threw two grenades out in succession and exploded several Japanese troops.

Gunshots and grenade explosions sounded at both ends of the Golden River Bridge.

Dong Limao complained in his heart. It was dark night for such short-soldiers to fight, and it was hard to distinguish between the enemy and us. Moreover, the number of Japanese and puppet troops far exceeded that of the spy companies. If this continues, more than one hundred spy companies will be done from now on.

The Japanese and puppet troops were not sure about the strength of the national army. Zhang Dali's machine gun platoon, fierce firepower, and other platoons were equipped with American submachine guns, which made the Japanese commander think that he had encountered the interception of the national army and estimated the strength of at least one regiment of the opponent.

Just when Dong Limao was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, he found that the Japanese army was retreating in an orderly manner.

Dong Limao was overjoyed and understood that the Japanese and puppet troops were afraid of the powerful firepower of the spy company, so they bluffed and shouted: "Brothers of the group! Beat me hard! Don't let the Japanese cross the bridge..." He shouted repeatedly, and even asked Zeng Zifan to shout.

Wang Jiagui and Gou Hao vaguely heard the roars of Dong Limao and Zeng Zifan. They couldn't understand why the company commander shouted like this. Liu Yudong reacted quickly and immediately understood the meaning of Dong Limao's shouting like this. So he said to the soldiers around him: "Call with the company commander and throw grenades into the Japanese people!"

As a result, the shouts of killing gradually became high, scaring the Japanese and puppet troops to the point of being more convinced that they had encountered the national army's aid troops, and they began to retreat to both sides of the mountains and forests. The spy company took the opportunity to chase and shoot at the back.

Seeing that the Japanese and puppet troops were scared away, Dong Limao quickly ordered: "Fight as planned! Don't chase after..."

The main attack platoon led by Gou Hao immediately went to the Taojin River Bridge. The river water surged during the rainy season and could not place explosives under the bridge pier in the middle of the river. He could only dig out the silt and sand under the bridge pier on the shore near Longling, and put the explosives inside. Fortunately, he brought enough explosives. Hundreds of kilograms of explosives were buried in the sand and silt of the piers on the bridge shore. He pressed them with a few large stones on it, connected the leads, and pulled them to the kilometers. Gou Hao shouted loudly: "Prepare to detonate! Evade the bridge..." After three consecutive sounds, he pressed the detonator.

With a loud bang, the only highway bridge leading to Songshan was blown down.

During this bridge bombing mission, more than 30 spies were killed or injured, but in exchange for the Japanese garrison in Songshan became an isolated army. Until the end of the Battle of Songshan, no Japanese and puppet troops crossed the Jin River Bridge to reinforce.

But the misfortune of the spy company was just the beginning. On June 8, Dong Limao was sent by Zheng Chengkui to Menglingpo, the suburb of Longling City, to participate in the attacks launched by the 87th and 88th divisions of the 71st Army on Menglingpo.

This was the most critical battle in the battle outside Longling City. The battle was very fierce. The attack started from dawn in the morning. It was not until five o'clock in the afternoon that the sun was about to set. Menglingpo had not yet taken down Menglingpo. The Kuomintang army suffered casualties. After several charges failed, Hu Jiaji, the major general of the 88th Division, who attacked the front of Menglingpo, thought of the spy company of the Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Column, and asked someone to find Dong Limao to the command center.

"You are the famous Dong Jiacheng?" Hu Jiaji looked up and down at the unshaven and worn-out captain officer in front of him.

On the way here, Dong Limao knew that there would be no good things. He picked up a teapot on the tabletop of the green velvet cloth, drank a few large sips of tea, wiped his mouth and said, "Tell me, what's the matter with me?"

Hu Jiaji and several other senior officers were very upset that Dong Limao could not see such arrogant attitude, but no one lost his temper. They all knew that the fighting hero of the expeditionary army in front of them was going to take his brothers to die. Who would be skeptical about someone who was about to die?

"Company Commander Dong, please sit down." Hu Jiaji said with a smile: "You led the spy company to blow up the Jinjin River Bridge, blocked the Japanese army's support to Songshan, and made the first contribution. Of course, I have also heard that your spy company lost dozens of brothers in that bridge bombing mission. I want to add troops to you, and you can choose the officers and soldiers below the 88th Division level and school level."

Dong Limao glanced at the person present, scaring the school-level officers so much that they hung their heads, for fear that Dong Limao would order his name in front of the division commander.

"Teacher Hu keeps his word?" Dong Limao asked coldly.

Hu Jiaji laughed and said, "Absolutely count!"

Dong Limao looked at several school-level officers and snorted coldly, "Look at you school-level officers, you are so bloated that you may not be able to drive the machine guns. How can you be qualified to be my spy company?" This sentence seemed to give some senior officers present a reassurance. No one was upset about Dong Limao, but instead felt at ease and laughed happily on his face.

"Then what Company Commander Dong means..." Hu Jiaji frowned and asked.

"I want two platoons. As long as I kill the Japanese devils, I will do it no matter how long he has been in the army." Dong Limao thought about it. If Hu Jiaji ordered his spy company to attack Menglingpo, he would take the two platoons given by the 88th Division to attack.

"Haha... OK! It's worthy of being Dong Jiacheng, please feel free!" Hu Jiaji smiled cheerfully: "Adminton!"

"Come!" an adjutant agreed.

"According to the company commander Dong's request, you can find enough people for me personally. After half an hour, you will gather in the division headquarters and stand by!" Hu Jiaji ordered.

"Wait a minute!" Dong Limao stood up.

"What else do Company Commander Dong have?" Hu Jiaji asked.

"The two platoons are all equipped with American equipment, plus three bazooka and two flamethrowers," said Dong Limao.

"No problem." Hu Jiaji replied, then waved his hand to ask the adjutant to prepare immediately.

After the adjutant left, Dong Limao sneered and asked, "Teacher Hu, you are so generous and have much courage than Commander Zheng. Tell me, what do you want me to do?"

"Come here." Hu Jiaji walked to the map, pointed to Menglingpo and said, "Here, I want you to take it down before it gets dark."

"Menglingpo..." Dong Limao stared at a red dot on the map and said: "This is a very strong stronghold of the Japanese army stationed in Longling. Taking down Menglingpo is equivalent to taking the initiative in the battle situation, and the periphery of Longling City is no problem."

"That's right, now we have attacked seven or eight times, and I have lost nearly a regiment of troops, but Menglingpo is still in the hands of the Japanese army." Hu Jiaji said: "It seems that you, the magical spy company commander, must take action, so-called raising troops..."

"Teacher Hu, needless to say, I accept this task not for you, but for those brothers who died in the battle against Menglingpo, and to stop letting more brothers of the national army die." Dong Limao interrupted Hu Jiaji: "I ask that when I lead people upwards, the artillery battalion of the division headquarters can suppress artillery fire for ten minutes."

"No problem! I will personally order the artillery battalion to open the way for your spy company." Hu Jiaji agreed and then asked: "Do I know how Company Commander Dong wants to attack?"

Dong Limao thought for a while and said, "It is definitely not possible to attack head-on. You can only take a detour and approach quietly. It is not advisable to have too many people. Twenty minutes after we set off, the artillery battalion will open fire again."

"Which side are you going to go up from?" Hu Jiaji had thought about this question, but he never found a suitable attack point.

Dong Limao pointed to the back mountain of Menglingpo and said, "Here."

It was a cliff, and it was difficult to climb up to the sky.
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