Captain Ping Gang is the highest commander of the Japanese army in the Zhuma Village stronghold. He can say that he lives a more comfortable life than the Tu emperor.
After the additional members of the Yamamoto Special Forces arrived, Captain Hiraoka's good days came to an end.
Although the opponent only has about forty members, Ichiro Koizumi, who leads the team, is a major, with a military rank higher than him.
In the highly hierarchical Japanese army, the higher the rank, the higher the power and status.
No matter what decision he makes these days, Captain Hiraoka always asks Major Koizumi for instructions, causing others to think that Ichiro Koizumi is the supreme commander of the Zhuma Village stronghold!
Of course, the arrival of Major Koizumi is not without any benefits.
The special forces have high hopes from the front army headquarters, and all kinds of treatment are always the best in the army.
Their arrival not only brought a large amount of ammunition to the stronghold, but also various supplies.
Ordinary soldiers only get one can of beef every four or five days, but the special forces have an unlimited supply, so they can eat as much as they want...
Thanks to them, the food at the stronghold garrison has at least doubled in the past few days.
It also solved the problem of the shortage of troops in the stronghold, which gave him a rare relief from his tense nerves.
Before they arrived, including the Imperial Alliance Army, the strength of the stronghold was only over 300.
Not only did they have to protect the security of the stronghold, set up checkpoints on the nearby roads, and check the passing people, they also had to guard the more than 200 prisoners of war in the stronghold, so the number of troops was very insufficient.
Captain Hiraoka was nervous every day, fearing that there would be holes in the defense of the stronghold, which would give the enemy an opportunity, or that prisoners would escape from him.
After Ichiro Koizumi arrived, the captives suddenly became the training targets of the special agent team. They no longer needed to be guarded by the stronghold, and the pressure on Captain Hiraoka's shoulders was suddenly relieved.
At nine o'clock in the evening, Captain Hiraoka and Major Koizumi just finished drinking sake and returned to the room to rest slightly drunk.
There are eight two-story small gun towers scattered on the wall of the stronghold. Each small gun tower is stationed with five Japanese soldiers and a squad of puppet troops.
The night was getting deeper and deeper, and the temperature was getting lower and lower. Except for the two puppet soldiers who were yawning in the corner of the roof, the other Japanese and puppet soldiers were huddled on the first and second floors and fast asleep.
The four-story central turret stands in the center of the stronghold, where Captain Hiraoka and more than 20 of his men live.
The special agents brought by Ichiro Koizumi and more than a hundred puppet troops lived in two rows of bungalows behind the gun tower. In this world with almost no entertainment, they had already fallen asleep.
Outside the stronghold, more than 600 soldiers from the First Battalion of the Independent Regiment and the Artillery Company all said nothing and slowly moved forward under the leadership of their respective company platoon leaders!
"Da da da……"
A string of machine gun fire broke the tranquility of the night and suddenly rang out from the northeast corner of the turret. Under the darkness, Kong Jie could even see the flames spraying from the muzzle of the machine gun clearly.
"We are exposed. The troops are rushing forward quickly. There is no need to hide anymore. Set up an offensive position two hundred meters away from the gun tower!" Kong Jie put down his telescope and ordered with confidence!
"The artillery battery follows up and establishes an artillery position behind the infantry!"
"Pull over the carts we prepared in advance. Only by forcing all the Japanese in the stronghold into the gun tower can our artillery cause maximum damage to them!"
"Da da da……"
The sound of gunfire along the outer wall of the stronghold became increasingly dense, with at least four light machine guns and seventy or eighty rifles firing.
However, the independent regiment was too far away from the stronghold, the night was too dark, and the intensive gunfire only achieved sporadic results. Most of the soldiers successfully advanced to a position two hundred meters outside the stronghold.
Those who piled sandbags, those who dug trenches dug trenches, and some soldiers filled ammunition boxes with soil and piled them in front of themselves to block bullets...
Inside the stronghold, the Japanese and puppet troops had turned into a mess.
Captain Hiraoka climbed to the top of the turret as soon as he was awakened by the sound of gunfire.
After only observing for a few seconds, Koizumi Ichiro climbed up: "Hiraoka-kun, is the stronghold under attack by the enemy?"
"Ha Yi..." Captain Pinggang pointed to the Eighth Route Army outside and replied: "There are Eighth Route Army troops in four directions!"
"The total strength exceeds 600 people. I don't know if there are follow-up troops. The offensive firepower is temporarily unknown. An offensive position is being established two hundred meters away!"
"Our opponents are very cunning: two hundred meters is just beyond the effective range of the special submachine gun, and the shooting accuracy of the rifle machine gun is also very poor. We can only use grenades and mortars to attack them!" Ichiro Koizumi instantly saw what Kong Jie was doing. The real purpose was to start giving orders as soon as his face fell, without any regard for the identity of Captain Hiraoka's stronghold commander.
"Immediately arrange for the grenadiers to counterattack and prevent the Eighth Route Army from establishing offensive positions outside the stronghold."
"All other troops enter the position. When the enemy attacks, shoot and kill all the Eighth Route Army who want to attack the stronghold."
Captain Hiraoka felt very uncomfortable. He was the supreme commander of the stronghold, and now he was reduced to taking orders from others on his own territory.
But the first level of official rank is overwhelming. Who should let Ichiro Koizumi have a higher military rank than him?
No matter how uncomfortable you feel, you have to hold it in and nod your head to take orders!
Before leaving, he asked: "Should we report the attack on the stronghold to the brigade headquarters and ask the surrounding strongholds to send troops to reinforce us?"
Koizumi Ichiro refused without hesitation: "That's not necessary!"
"The forty or so members of the special agent team can easily fight against a main battalion of the Eighth Route Army. There are also garrison teams and the Imperial Army to assist in the defense. We can completely defend the stronghold and repel the Eighth Route Army's attack on our own..."
"I just want to let the replacement team members have a good look at the blood!"
"Boom boom boom..."
Six grenades quickly hit the outside of the stronghold, killing nearly ten soldiers in an instant.
A flash of heartache quickly flashed across Kong Jie's face, but he soon regained his composure. While observing the battle, he ordered: "A battalion of grenade squads will counterattack immediately. Knock out as many of the opponent's grenade launchers as you can!"
"If you can't knock them down, you still have to knock down the arrogance of the Japanese grenadier soldiers, disperse their firepower, and reduce the anti-artillery pressure on the infantry."
In previous battles, even if the Eighth Route Army was equipped with grenade launchers, the scarce ammunition made it impossible for them to counterattack the Japanese grenade launchers, and they could only be passively bombed.
The dozen grenadier soldiers in the stronghold entered the battle with this mentality, completely unaware that danger was approaching them.
After firing three grenades outside in succession, a dozen grenadier soldiers still had no intention of changing their positions.
The fourth grenade was stuffed into the barrel, and just as they were about to launch, the same number of grenades came right over their heads, falling from the sky and hitting them...
Two grenadiers and six grenadier soldiers were instantly overwhelmed by the explosion and fire...
"Baga, the Eighth Route Army also has grenades, move immediately!" A Japanese soldier held the grenade and moved to the side. His reaction speed was faster than that of a rabbit and he ran very fast...
When the second round of grenades fell, there was no living person on the ground except a few corpses of dead Japanese.
In the central turret, Ichiro Koizumi was also startled by the sudden grenade attack, and quickly added an order: "The grenadier soldiers changed the attack target, and first kill the grenade equipped by the Eighth Route Army!"
"Otherwise our firepower will be destroyed by the Eighth Route Army as soon as our firepower points are exposed..."
Without the grenade threat, the bullets fired by the rifle machine guns were blocked by the bunkers. The infantry's anti-gun pressure was suddenly gone, and the construction of offensive positions was significantly accelerated!
