Chapter 160 Gambling
"Withdraw from the official road to the south!" Aokiyuan issued a desperate order.
After paying more than 400 casualties, the first team finally rushed out of the quagmire and returned to the starting point, east of the peak of the fetus.
The bulky boat bridges were all discarded in the quagmire on the official road. These steel boat bridges were either blown into twists or completely deformed in the collision.
The deformed boat bridge cannot be docked! This means that even if the boat bridge is dragged down, they can't play a role.
What's more tragic is that the Zhouqiao troops were killed and injured, and more than 200 engineers died under gunfire. Many engineers were killed on the boat bridge - they showed outstanding professional spirit and coexisted with the boat bridge!
Without professional engineers, it is impossible to build a boat bridge.
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Luo Mingfang, deputy division commander of Donglin Waterfall Headquarters, took a long breath.
After a day of patience, finally, his wild cannon can speak!
Around the peak of the fetus, Zhang Jun controls 21 highlands. A day of fighting, 12 highlands lost! Zhang Jun was killed by more than 800 people, of which the most tragic battle took place in Chiyan Cave, where more than 400 officers and soldiers were killed, accounting for half of the total.
However, the artillery team with five wild guns did not provide artillery support for any highland!
The reason is very simple, there are not enough shells! Luo Mingfang has no capital!
There are only 100 shells in total, with an average of only 20 shells per wild cannon! There are 21 highlands in the tire peak, and on average, each highland does not even have 5 shells! Such artillery support is equal to zero.
Limited shells must maximize their value!
Luo Mingfang will not only use these shells to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible, but more importantly, he will use these shells to achieve Zhou Charter's strategic intention - to delay the formation of a brigade! At least, we have to delay the main force of the mixed brigade!
If the mixed brigade hits the Qiaochuan River with all its strength and the two regiments stationed in the Qiaochuan River can't stop them at all! Those two regiments are extremely short of equipment, and they are by no means the opponents of the mixed brigade.
Once the bridge and river defense line collapses, Yizhou is in the pocket of the Japanese army! The North Korean regiment with only cold weapons can fight to the death, but even if the whole regiment dies, it will never be able to defend Yizhou.
For this strategic intention, Luo Mingfang gritted her teeth and endured for a whole day.
The tragedy of the Red Rock Cave and the loss of ten highlands did not shake him!
He even forced himself not to face the disguised mountain artillery position laid by the Japanese army at the foot of the mountain! There are 15 mountain guns on that artillery position, which are completely exposed to the range of wild guns, which is a huge**!
However, he knew that it was only a small part of the artillery of the mixed brigade.
Dying the 15 mountain cannons is not enough to destroy all the cannons of the mixed brigade! But he has to consume all his shells.
Until the large troops of the mixed brigade appeared on the official road in the southwest direction, Luo Mingfang saw Zhouqiao! He just recognized it. This is an opportunity! Maybe this is the only chance!
Steel boat bridge is a sharp weapon for the Japanese army to cross the river! That is a completely westernized boat bridge made by the Japanese, which marks that Japan's industrial production capacity has reached a new peak.
There is no boat bridge force in the Qing Dynasty, because the factory in the Qing Dynasty does not have the ability to produce such an iron boat that can float steadily on the river!
The troops carrying Zhouqiao must be the elite main force of the Japanese army, because Zhouqiao means attack!
The opportunity came, and God seemed to be helping. The roads were muddy, and thousands of Japanese troops and huge boat bridges crowded in the mud and moved forward slowly.
Luo Mingfang spit and issued a shelling command.
Brilliant results!
Fifty shells fell into the chaotic Japanese army, and Zhouqiao, which represented Japan's industrial level, became a pile of scrap metal. At least 300 Japanese soldiers died in the mud.
This means that the Japanese army can only cross the bridge and river to attack the river. The pressure of Qiaochuan River suddenly eased.
And the greater possibility is that the mixed brigade was angered by this sudden shelling, thus changing the combat deployment and turning the siege of the tire peak into the main attack!
That is to say, the third regiment will face a more crazy attack by the Japanese mixed brigade!
Luo Mingfang's judgment was completely correct. His opponent Aoki Yuan suddenly changed his plan out of anger and helplessness.
Originally, the first regiment carrying the bridge and river, the main force of the mixed brigade changed the direction and took on the task of attacking the peak of the tire.
As the second team of the partial division, it advanced to the Bridge River overnight. They quickly arrived at the riverside. Early the next morning, the second wing jumped into the cold river and launched a crossover attack on the north bank of the Qiaochuan River.
The task of the second Wing is not to break through the defense line of the Qiaochuan River, but to contain the enemy of the Qiaochuan River so that it cannot reinforce the tire peak.
Aokiyuan is determined to take the tire peak in one fell swoop, destroy Zhang Xun's third regiment, and avenge the Japanese officers and soldiers and Zhouqiao who died under gunfire!
The Japanese army's combat target has changed! This change determines the fate of the most elite mixed brigade of the Japanese army!
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At midnight, the long-lost moon finally appeared on the edge of the sky.
Under the cold moonlight, a big river glowed with cold silver light.
North Korea has many mountains, rivers, and even more rivers than mountains.
In the memory of Zhou Charter, it seems that every action after coming to North Korea is related to the river.
The Han River in the capital, the Datong River in Pyongyang, the Qiaochuan River in Yizhou, and the Linjin River in Yuanshan...
Now, there is another river beside him.
Thinking of Linjin River, Zhou Charter's chest tinged.
He remembered the small river outside the capital, the clear river, reflecting Shu'er's smiling face:
"Shua, it's time to mend my makeup."
"No, I don't want it!"
"Listen, who wants you to be so beautiful!"
"Is it wrong to be beautiful?"
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Shu'er became a vague shadow. Zhou Charter can't remember what Shu'er looked like at that time!
He regretted that he should not put a handful of mud on Shuer's face. That beautiful face should rise proudly and smile bravely at this war-torn world!
Shuer's smile can't calm the war, but it can calm the trauma caused by the war!
Because beauty is hope! Human beings can endure suffering, but there must be no hope!
Hope, it is the best gift from God to mankind!
However, in North Korea, God took back his gift!
There is no hope in front of Zhou Charter!
Zhou Charter stared at the quietly flowing river, reflecting Zhou Charter's sore figure on the calm water.
The river in late autumn is calm and cold, and even the reflected moonlight is full of bitter cold. Without Jin Shu around him, Zhou Charter couldn't help shivering.
A figure appeared in the reflection.
"Brother, this is the Daning River. After crossing the Daning River, it is the boundary of Anzhou. It is less than 15 kilometers away from Anzhou City." Feng Guozhang came behind Zhou Charter and whispered.
Zhou Charter turned around. Far behind him, all the officers and soldiers of the division's battalion stood in the rocks. The cold autumn wind carried the tide of the river and blew through their single clothes. Some people trembled in the cold wind, but no one relaxed the steel guns in their hands.
Behind the directly affiliated battalion, there is also a battalion of North Koreans, who are the subordinates of Park Yong-yeol of the Fourth Regiment. What they hold in their hands is a big knife and spear.
This army set out from Yizhou four days ago. There are two battalions, Feng Guozhang's division battalion and Han Lingjun's 401 battalion.
Camp 401 is full of Easternists. They have a double awe of Zhou Charter and a gnashing of hatred for the Japanese.
The departure time of the troops was late at night, half a day earlier than the departure time of Zhang's main force. The troops first went out of the north gate of Yizhou, all the way north, passing through Deyan and Ming Shangli, then turned east, out of Da'anli, and then went all the way south, passed through Fangyan and Qingtingli, and made a big circle to reach the Daning River.
This circle is 200 kilometers away from the official road from Uprising Prefecture to Anzhou.
Zhou Charter avoided the mixed brigade going north and interspersed behind the mixed brigade.
Until now, the Japanese army has been unaware of their actions.
In fact, not to mention the Japanese army, even Zhang Jun doesn't know where their division commander has gone.
The weekly charter is gambling!
He wants to gamble with friends in Shan County!
The Japanese regard Anzhou as a bridgehead to the north.
Zhou Charter is going to pull out this bridgehead!
Because, in Zhou Charter's eyes, Anzhou is the bridgehead south of Zhang Jun! Anzhou is 100 kilometers away from Pyongyang. For the southward troops, they can also attack, retreat and defend!
Change defense to attack! Zhou Charter wanted to capture Anzhou and form an attack on Pyongyang, forcing Shanxian Youpeng to abandon the Yalu River battle plan, so as to preserve not only Yizhou, but also the vast area north of Anzhou to the Yalu River.
In this way, Zhou Charter has a wide range of manoeuvre in North Korea. Even, if conditions permit, he can establish a country in North Korea!
He will become a third force between the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese!
This is a gamble! Zhou Charter bet that he should conquer Anzhou and gain a firm foothold, and his friends in Shan County did not have enough troops, or did not have enough courage to launch a counterattack on Anzhou!