Chapter 417 Tempting the Army (22)

The sudden heavy rain continued until around 6 pm and gradually stopped.

The heavy rain relieved the scorching heat of the high temperature, bringing a burst of coolness to the sultry Shentou Village and the nearby areas, making the officers and soldiers on both sides who were suffering from the high temperature very comfortable.

However, completely opposite to the morning, after the afternoon battle, the positions of the Chinese and Indian troops were silent, while the positions of the Japanese troops were heard.

Hearing the cheers of the Japanese army, the heads of the guards Huang Congli, Lu Liwei and others looked ugly and looked unwilling.

Lu Liwei was very dissatisfied with the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division who had crossed the mountains to reinforce Ningyuan Village. He scolded Zhu Yixuan, the commander of the 1st Division who had just returned to the Guard Command, and reported: "What's wrong with Xiao Cao? At such a close distance, his troops even climbed, and even climbed."

Zhu Yixuan lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "Deputy Commander, the heavy rain destroyed the mountain roads to Ningyuan Village. The officers and soldiers of the 2nd Battalion tried their best and injured more than a dozen people during the process of climbing the mountain. It was still impossible to catch up."

Lu Liwei said angrily: "If you fall and die, you must rush to reinforce in time. The 1st Brigade of the Sino-Indian Reorganized Division, the Indonesian melee battalion and other troops are in Shentou Village. This time they are laughing at it."

Huang Congli shook his head and advised: "Liwei, the mountain road to Ningyuan Village is already very steep and difficult to walk. When it rains heavily, even if it loses life, a battalion troops cannot get through. Fortunately, if the Japanese army wants to go around the mountain road to rescue the 19th Regiment, it will take more than 3 days, and we still have a chance to remedy it."

"Captain, deputy commander, division commander Zhu, principal wants you to hold an emergency military meeting." A staff officer walked in quickly and reported.

"Okay, go right away."

As he said that, Huang Congli, Lu Liwei and others stood up and rushed to the headquarters behind Shentou Village.

At this time, some cheers from Japanese officers and soldiers were faintly heard where the Japanese army was stationed.

Lu Liwei "snorted" at the Japanese army's stationed place and cursed to himself: "Little Japan, don't be happy for too long. Humph, God helped you this time, next time, I won't have such good luck."

When Huang Congli, Lu Liwei and others arrived at the command center behind Shentou Village, Chen Hao, Zheng Tiehao and Xia Xingshuo and others had been waiting in the command center for a long time.

As soon as he entered the command center, Huang Congli saluted and said first: "Principal, the guards have failed to defend well today and have lost their positions. Please punish the principal."

"Principal, as soon as tomorrow dawn, the students will personally lead the troops to take back the position," Zhu Yixuan, commander of the 1st Division, continued.

"I already know what happened." Chen Hao said in a deep voice without expression: "The battle that took place in Ningyuan Village this afternoon was the most fierce battle we fought with the Japanese army since the war started with the Japanese army. It is really regrettable that the reinforcements were unable to arrive in time due to heavy rain."

"Yes," as soon as Chen Hao finished speaking, Lu Liwei continued angrily: "Principal, the Japanese committed suicide. Seeing that there were not many defense personnel in our army, he launched a suicide attack. Grandma, in just one afternoon, they paid the price of more than 3,000 casualties in the small village of Ningyuan Village. His life is not considered life at all."

"Don't talk nonsense." Chen Hao said unhappily: "I said earlier that Japan will do anything to achieve its combat goals."

After a pause, Chen Hao continued: "In this fierce battle, the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division killed and injured several times their enemy troops, and were still honored even if they were defeated.

We also saw from this battle that the People's Liberation Army units equipped with m1903 rifles, grenades and Maxim heavy machine guns are not something that the Japanese devils can fight against. In the future, as long as they are commanded properly, it is entirely possible to wipe out the Japanese Borneo Expeditionary Force...... "

After talking about the big story with emotion, Chen Hao turned to the point and said to Huang Congli: "After Ningyuan Village and another small village were occupied by the Japanese army, the small villages on the right side of Shentouling were completely isolated. After returning, you will give the defenders in the small villages, let them all retreat into the mountains, and try your best to harass the Japanese army in the mountains and obstruct the Japanese army's advance."

"Yes," Huang Congli agreed, and then said carefully: "Principal, should you send troops outside the road out of the mountain to build a position to block the Japanese army?"

"The terrain is open, no need." Chen Hao said: "I have sent a large brigade of more than 200 special forces to enter the mountains to harass and attack the Japanese army. I believe that with their harassment, it will take at least 5 days before the Japanese army can get out of the mountains."

"That's great," Lu Liwei finally showed a smile and said, "When they arrived, the 19th Regiment, which was short of food, would have been wiped out by us."

"In addition, the destruction of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division in Ningyuan Village this time gave me a new and important decision." Chen Hao said solemnly.

After hearing Chen Hao's important decision, Zheng Tiehao and others couldn't help but prick up their ears.

Chen Hao said very seriously: "In the future, our army will defend and fight on positions, except for particularly critical areas, under normal circumstances, if the ammunition of the defensive troops is about to be exhausted, and the reinforcements still have not arrived, and it is not recommended to fight to the end.

After the defensive forces reach the time limit to block the enemy, they should take the wounded out of the battle as much as possible to preserve their vitality."

...

When Chen Hao and others were holding military meetings, in the Japanese command center, the commander of the 17th Division, Katsuka Tsukamoto, the commander of the 9th Division, and senior Japanese commanders such as Watanabe, who had just arrived in the afternoon, were also holding military meetings.

At this time, Saburo Sakada, the Chief of Staff of the 9th Division, introduced the fierce battle today and was making a final summary.

"Although our army paid the price of more than 3,000 people to take down Ningyuan Village, our army also obtained a large amount of valuable information. This intelligence will play an important guiding role in our army's future battles.

First, after capturing Ningyuan Village, we saw that almost all the Chinese people were holding guns, and those Indonesian monkeys were just holding big swords and spears. From this, we completely confirmed that the so-called Indonesian xenophobic army was actually mainly cunning Chinese people.

Secondly, the Chinese army currently facing our army is extremely powerful. All the rifles they equipped are Type 903 rifles, which shows that there are also Americans behind the Indonesian xenophobic army.

In addition, the enemy also had Maxim heavy machine guns and extremely advanced grenades. They fought tenaciously and bravely. If it weren't for the heavy rain, the enemy's ammunition was consumed by our decisive impact, and even if our army paid the price of tens of thousands of people, it would be difficult for us to capture Ningyuan Village."

Speaking of this, Saburo Sakada raised his voice and said loudly: "The enemy in front of him is very powerful and is the absolute main force of the enemy. I can say with certainty that as long as we eliminate them, we will have the entire South Borneo."
Chapter completed!