Traveling through 1937, starting from the Battle of Songhu

Chapter 283 The Decision of the Japanese Division Commander

"Commander Gu, Division Commander Yang sent a telegram saying that their headquarters is asking if we need support."

"Commander Yang also said that the Japanese troops supporting Shijiazhuang are already on their way, and the Japanese troops from Baoding have also dispatched a brigade."

After listening to the signalman's report, Gu Changfeng was amused and said directly: "Tell Commander Yang to let the Eighth Route Army here contact us."

He had received news of the Japanese support a long time ago, but he overlooked the fact that the Eighth Route Army was involved.

The main reason is that I am not familiar with it and subconsciously forgot about it. Otherwise, I could have discussed it in advance.

After the signalman left, Wu Mazi said with a smile, "It seems the war is about to begin early."

At this time, the two battalions of Japanese soldiers and the puppet army were almost wiped out, and the remaining ones were blocked by the river, practicing shooting skills with snipers from each battalion.

The Japanese regiment commander Masao Kobayashi did use artillery fire, but after only a short while, he was directly wiped out by the artillery battalion.

Helpless Kobayashi Masao could only pray for Aunt Amaterasu's blessing.

The encirclement has been formed, and it is useless for the devils to jump into the river.

It has been winter for a long time now, and the possibility of death if jumping down is very high, so Kobayashi Masao does not have the courage, let alone those ordinary Japanese devils.

"Okay, let's wipe them out quickly. The Japanese reinforcements should be arriving soon." Gu Changfeng gave the order directly.

He was right. The Japanese support had indeed arrived, but the advance team was only the Japanese cavalry regiment.

Gu Changfeng has several thousand troops here, and the Japanese cavalry regiment has more than a thousand people.

Knowing the seriousness of the situation, the Japanese regiment commander did not dare to take action directly and could only wait for Major General Kurokawa to arrive ten kilometers away.

As time went by, Kobayashi Masao shot himself after sending his farewell telegram.

Zhou Jiyue, the pseudo-corps commander, still wanted to lead his troops to surrender, but the battalions had already been angry and started firing directly, which contributed a lot of points to Gu Changfeng.

For Gu Changfeng now, he would rather look for the prisoners in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp than accept these surrendered puppet soldiers.

After all, the system judges the points just like the heads of the devils, and these are all weapons.

Besides, they are not rebelling on the battlefield, they are just afraid of death.

After the battle, more than 1800 devils from two battalions were wiped out, plus more than 2400 puppet troops. His points now directly increased to many,

Facing the upcoming battle, Gu Changfeng felt more confident.

"Reporting to Commander Gu, the special forces have sent a message saying they have eliminated the Japanese on the river and are asking what to do with the supplies on the ship."

The special forces acted very quickly. They first evacuated the battlefield and then took a detour to intercept the Japanese on the river.

With twenty-two rifles, a squadron of Japanese soldiers on the river was a target.

The Japanese squadron leader had received the evacuation order, but was stopped as soon as he reached Cihe River.

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, the captain of the Japanese team could only try to destroy the supplies on the ship.

When the people on the boat saw this, they jumped into the river and disappeared without a trace, so the Japanese had no choice.

Even with all their efforts, only forty or fifty ships were destroyed, and then they were killed by snipers.

After the special forces boarded the ship and took control of the situation, Zhao Ziqing immediately sent a telegram to inquire.

Gu Changfeng didn't think much about it and directly asked the special forces to come and meet up.

As the evening approached, Major General Kurokawa finally led his troops to the cavalry regiment.

The cavalry regiment commander, Nanshan Jiu, hesitated for a moment and said, "General, the two battalions led by Commander Kobayashi were destroyed, and over 2000 Imperial Army soldiers were also killed."

"When we arrived, the Kobayashi Regiment had lost nearly half its troops, so we had no support."

Major General Kurokawa sighed inwardly and instructed the staff officer next to him to ask the division commander for the next action plan.

It's more than 50 kilometers and it takes two hours to get there. They were already running very fast, but they still didn't make it in time.

Until now he didn't know whether to continue fighting or not.

The Laiyuan battle was still imminent, and now there was a situation of insufficient support, which made Major General Kurokawa feel very complicated.

He also knew that the Laiyuan Independent Regiment had long-range heavy machine guns, and it was right for the regiment's cavalry not to attack.

If we really attack, it will only result in more corpses being left on both sides of the Zhulong River, which will be of no use.

Sangmu Chongming naturally knew that the two battalions had been destroyed. After all, he had sent a farewell telegram first. At this time, he was also waiting for news from the 6th Division.

If the 6th Division arrived, it would have two battalions, a cavalry regiment, and half an artillery regiment under its command.

With the addition of a brigade from the 6th Division, perhaps they could capture the Laiyuan Independent Regiment. Even if they couldn't capture it, they could at least cripple it.

He was unwilling to let this batch of supplies fall into the hands of the enemy, so he had to wait.

Shiro Inaba had the same idea. The destruction of the previous two battalions was fine, but it was for the subsequent major battle.

But now the Laiyuan Independent Regiment actually attacked again, and attacked his supplies. He could not accept this result and had to fight, even if it meant starting a war in advance.

Therefore, he did not let the dispatched brigade return to Baoding, but directly ordered it to continue the mission.

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On Gu Changfeng's side, as the special forces arrived, each battalion began to move supplies ashore.

There were a lot of canned food, dry food, long and short guns and ammunition.

The Japanese did go to great lengths for this Jin-Cha-Ji mop-up operation, but the supplies they had spent so much effort to obtain were all taken away by Gu Changfeng.

I don’t know if the Japanese commander would be furious if he knew this news.

"Has the Eighth Route Army arrived yet? We still need their help with these supplies."

Gu Changfeng contacted the Eighth Route Army here half an hour ago and is now waiting for their arrival.

As for the Japs ten miles away, they had been discovered by the scouts who had just been sent out, but they just didn't have time to deal with them now.

Seeing Gu Changfeng urging, the signalman began to contact the Eighth Route Army in Shijiazhuang, and then received a reply.

"Reporting to Commander Gu, the nearest regiment of the Eighth Route Army will arrive in half an hour."

Gu Changfeng nodded and said, "Tell them to hurry up and get there before the Japanese, otherwise we'll be in trouble."

The Japanese troops from Shijiazhuang arrived, but a brigade from Baoding was still on the way.

If the supplies were not moved out by then and were bombarded by the Japanese, his attack would basically be in vain.

"Captain Gu, the Japs appear so blatantly, why don't we go and fight them first?" Wu Mazi suggested.

"Let the special forces team go too. It's a good opportunity to practice with the Japanese cavalry regiment." Zhao Ziqing said.

The two men had the same opinion: they were going to fight anyway, so they might as well start early.

"Don't go, Special Forces. Go and cause trouble for the Japanese in Baoding and slow them down. Remember to be careful of sneak attacks from the Japanese cavalry regiment. Old Wu only needs to take the Sixth Battalion."

The battle will have to be fought sooner or later, so Gu Changfeng doesn't mind taking action in advance. Now that the fifth and sixth battalions are coming, there is no need to worry about supplies.