At five o'clock in the morning, it was almost dawn, but Huang Yu still had no intention of launching an attack.
Xiao Yuanchang became anxious again: "Commander Huang... we won't spend the entire night digging trenches! It's going to be daybreak, why don't you let me lead people to charge once, otherwise the little Japanese will think we are afraid of them! "
Huang Yu shook his head and said, "What's the rush?"
"The total number of Japanese and puppet troops on the blockade is 2,000. We only have more than 1,000 people when we attack them all. We are afraid that there will be no battle!"
"You were right just now, we really only dug trenches tonight!"
"Wait until daybreak before we fight the Japanese!"
Xiao Yuanchang was confused, and asked with a puzzled look on his face: "We are going to fight the Japanese at dawn... What should I do with the Japanese plane?"
"During the decisive battle with the Japanese mopping up troops in the middle, the Second Battalion suffered two aerial bombs!"
"Damn it, one bomb wiped out most of the second battalion's platoon..."
"From then on, I was scared when I saw little Japanese planes!"
"This time when we attack the blockade, the distinction between ourselves and the enemy is too clear. If the enemy planes are targeted, they will definitely stare at us and bomb them. The troops will definitely pay a huge price. Please carefully consider the decision to attack the enemy during the day!"
Huang Yu smiled and replied confidently: "You just said that the Japanese planes must find us first before they can bomb us... The participating troops can just avoid the Japanese planes!"
"This is impossible!" Xiao Yuanchang denied without hesitation.
"We have so many troops and there is not even a forest to hide in on the battlefield. How can we avoid the planes!"
"Commander Huang, please stop joking with me!"
The confident smile on Huang Yu's face did not change at all, and he continued: "I said that if you can avoid the reconnaissance of the Japanese plane, you can avoid it!"
"Now I'll give you a task: Immediately select ten soldiers with the best marksmanship and five machine gun teams with the highest shooting skills from the second battalion. A total of twenty soldiers, bring all equipment and ammunition, and meet me here in twenty minutes!"
"The third and fourth battalions also have this mission!"
"How many Japanese and puppet troops we can kill during the day depends entirely on the performance of these soldiers!"
Xiao Yuanchang's mind was full of confusion, but Huang Yu's order must be carried out, so he had no choice but to nod and accept the order.
The Japanese and puppet troops were in front of the enemy headquarters. The sky slowly became brighter, and the flares fired all night finally stopped.
Two trenches, thirty or forty meters apart, lay more than 300 meters in front of the formation. The trenches were connected by communication trenches, which could not only be used to hide troops, but also to transfer troops.
The Japanese captain frowned after taking one look, vaguely guessing the real purpose of the Eighth Route Army spending so much time digging trenches in front of the formation.
"BaGeYa Road, the independent regiment wants to dig out the offensive position right under our noses!" the captain guessed with a sullen face.
"Not only can we shorten the attack distance, but we can also put the flying thunder cannon right under our noses to attack and destroy the bunker at close range!"
"Sir, it seems that the Eighth Route Army in the trenches has withdrawn!" the adjutant suddenly reminded.
The captain had been thinking about the real purpose of the independent regiment digging trenches. He took a look at the direction and size of the trenches and did not take a closer look.
It was only after his deputy reminded him that he noticed the inside of the trench.
Last night, the trenches were full of Eighth Route Army figures, wielding shovels, widening and deepening consumption.
Looking over now, not even a single person can be found in the trench.
The adjutant interjected again: "Is it because the Eighth Route Army was afraid that we would send planes to bomb them, so they retreated before dawn?"
The speaker was unintentional, but it sounded intentional. The captain's eyes lit up and he said: "Whether the Eighth Route Army in the trenches has retreated or not, we must destroy those trenches during the day!"
"In this way, no matter what the purpose of digging trenches is for the independent regiment, their efforts last night will be in vain!"
The adjutant immediately accepted the order: "I will send someone to contact the aviation force now and ask them to bomb the trenches and destroy the fruits of the independent regiment's work last night!"
The captain decisively stopped the deputy and said angrily: "The trenches are so long, what use are the aviation bombs alone!"
"Besides, aerial bombs are so precious. Don't you think it's a waste to use them to blow up two trenches? If the military headquarters finds out, they will definitely punish us!"
The deputy captain immediately answered: "Then let the artillery come in..."
"We have plenty of artillery shells. If all the artillerymen fire together, hundreds of rounds will definitely destroy the trenches."
The captain almost wanted to curse after hearing this. He immediately showed a hateful expression and cursed: "Are you a pig with a brain?"
"Our equipment is basically mortars. Do you think ordinary mortar shells can destroy those trenches?"
"What should we do?" The adjutant asked anxiously after being scolded by the captain.
"First send people to the trenches to check the situation and make sure that the Eighth Route Army who dug the trenches last night really withdrew..." The captain expressed his thoughts without hesitation.
"Send more men into the trenches and destroy them with explosives!"
"Compared with aerial bombs and artillery shells, using explosives is much more cost-effective!"
"Let the Imperial Alliance Army arrange a squad of soldiers to find out the situation, and then gather the troops to destroy the trenches!"
"During the operation, all artillery and aviation forces will be on standby!"
"If the Eighth Route Army comes out of the woods to prevent us from destroying the trenches, destroy them directly!"
After hearing this, the adjutant's eyes were full of admiration.
Compared with his own proposal, the captain's proposal was not only more comprehensive, but also had the potential to kill two birds with one stone, forcing out the independent regiment hiding in the woods and taking the opportunity to kill some and weaken their strength.
After a while, a dozen puppet soldiers were forced out of the blockade by the Japanese. They formed a group of two, twenty or thirty meters apart from each other, holding guns and slowly moving towards the trench.
Two hundred meters apart, there was no movement in the trench...
When we were still a hundred meters away from the trench, there was still no movement from the trench...
The puppet army gradually became bolder, and the speed of the attack accelerated a lot...
The Japanese captain kept his eyes focused on them. Seeing that they successfully entered the trench without encountering any resistance, he immediately realized that his judgment was right.
He glanced at the adjutant next to him who was preparing to attack and began to issue an order: "Deploy a company of Imperial Army troops and a small group of Imperial Army troops to carry explosive packs to completely destroy the trenches dug by the independent regiment!"
"Let's see if they dig the trenches faster or we destroy the trenches faster..."
Twenty minutes later, more than a hundred Japanese and puppet troops broke out of the blockade, holding explosive packs in their arms and carrying explosive packs on their backs. A group of five or six Japanese and puppet troops went straight to the trenches.
At the beginning, these Japanese and puppet troops did not encounter any resistance!
In addition, the Imperial Alliance Army had determined that there was no Eighth Route Army in the trenches, and their vigilance was immediately reduced to the lowest level.
Seeing that the trench was fifty meters in front of them, the sound of gunfire "click, click, click..." suddenly broke the atmosphere of the battlefield and reached the ears of the Japanese and puppet troops...
"I Have a Picture Book of Ghosts and Gods"
The gunfire rang out fifty or sixty meters behind the trench. It was extremely scattered, but the shooting accuracy was very high.
Fifty or sixty Japanese and puppet troops were killed in just one fire raid.
The surviving Japanese and puppet troops quickly lay down on the ground and raised their guns to fight back.
The Japanese captain was also startled by the sudden fire attack, and quickly ordered the artillery and aviation to counterattack.
"Boom boom boom..."
Violent explosions soon sounded on the battlefield, and the thick smoke quickly spread to the surroundings, and soon the location where the gunfire had been fired was enveloped in it.
The two-person machine gun team were all covered in camouflage nets that Huang Yu had improvised.
It is covered with branches and thatch, and it looks like a thatch pile when lying on the ground, so it will not attract anyone's attention.
Huang Yu's order to them was to empty the magazine as quickly as possible and evacuate the hiding spot quickly.
When the Japanese fired artillery fire at their hiding spot, they had already moved dozens of meters away.
Some people say that the Japanese army is not blind.
With the help of telescopes, the machine gunners can lock on to them no matter how much they move, allowing the artillery to chase them and blast them.
actually not.
If these machine gunners did not have any disguise, they would not be able to hide from the eyes of the Japanese observers.
However, these machine gunners were all wearing camouflage nets and bending down to walk through the grass. From a distance, they looked like two moving piles of thatch. It was the first time that Japanese observers encountered such opponents. It was very difficult to successfully target them.
Some people will say that observers are not good, and the Japanese pilots in the sky can definitely target them.
The real situation is: it is much more difficult for them to lock on to the target than for ground observers.
The plane is so fast that it can roar over the battlefield in two or three seconds.
The pilot only has two or three seconds to observe, and he has to observe from an altitude of one to two hundred meters. The chance of locking the gunner is almost zero.
The Japanese captain did not know all this and thought that the machine gun team that had just opened fire had been killed by artillery fire, so he immediately ordered the troops to move forward...
"Bang bang bang bang bang..."
A series of messy rifle shots sounded again, and the troops who had just got up from the ground were shot and fell to the ground like living targets.
The brigade captain was furious. He didn't expect that destroying two trenches would cause such a big accident.
The whole person was like an angry lion, with an angry face and an order: "Find the riflemen who just attacked us immediately... The heavy machine gun squadron will join the battle immediately and kill them!"
The adjutant did not act immediately, but reminded with an embarrassed look: "Sir, calm down!"
"The Eighth Route Army's sneak attack on the demolition team was at least four hundred meters away from us. Although they were within the effective range of the heavy machine guns, their hit rate was extremely low..."
"Then blow it up with cannons..." the captain immediately ordered.
"Mortars mainly kill and injure the enemy's physical strength. Although they cannot blow up trenches, they can kill people!"
"Let the artillery fire immediately to kill the Eighth Route Army who are shooting at the demolition team. Go faster, otherwise the demolition team will be killed by the enemy!"
The Japanese gunner had just finished shooting the machine gun team, and had to rejoin the battle before he could take a breath.
Compared with machine gun teams, cold-shooting sharpshooters are more difficult to deal with.
They are also wearing camouflage, lying on the ground, blending in with the surrounding environment!
After one shot, immediately move to the next position and continue shooting.
No matter how experienced the Japanese observer is, he can only determine the approximate location of the sharpshooter through a gunshot, but cannot lock on the specific target.
In this way, the Japanese artillery counterattack seemed to be particularly powerful, but the actual combat effect was very poor...
The shelling continued, and it was more difficult for sharpshooters to expose their targets under the cover of gunfire.
Each and every one of them was as if they had been given blood. When they caught the Japanese and puppet soldiers participating in the explosion, they pulled the trigger, hoping to kill them as early as possible and hold the trenches...
The more the Japanese captain looked at him, the more solemn his expression became.
There are fewer and fewer soldiers in the demolition team still moving, which shows that the artillery fire coverage currently being carried out has not achieved the intended bombardment effect, but has become the best cover for the Eighth Route Army.
"BaGeYaLu, we have been fooled!" The captain finally came to his senses and shouted while staring at the battlefield!
"Have the demolition team withdraw immediately..."
"The Eighth Route Army deployed sharpshooters on the battlefield to attack our demolition team..."
"They are too scattered and camouflaged. It is difficult for our artillery coverage to hurt them!"
The adjutant also realized the danger and quickly issued a retreat order.
However, out of a demolition team of more than 150 people, only more than 30 people returned safely, while the others all fell in the open space between the blockade and the trenches.
In the woods not far from the battlefield, Xiao Yuanchang witnessed more than 150 Japanese and puppet troops break out of the blockade, and only about 30 people returned.
The more than fifty Japanese troops in the attacking force were almost completely wiped out, and only three or four of them withdrew to the blockade.
His eyes immediately widened, showing an expression of disbelief.
The New Second Regiment fought on the other side of the blockade for several days before killing four to five hundred Japanese puppet troops. This shows how difficult it is to defeat the Japanese and puppet troops hiding in the blockade.
If the Independent Regiment followed their own proposal and stormed the blockade, they would be able to kill hundreds of Japanese and puppet troops in one night. Thank God.
Independent regiments would also pay a heavy price in battle.
In contrast, Huang Yu's fighting style not only successfully killed more than 120 Japanese and puppet troops, but also caused very small casualties, almost negligible.
Seeing this, Xiao Yuanchang finally understood why Huang Yu could grow from an ordinary soldier to a battalion-level cadre in a short period of time. He was also entrusted with important tasks by the regiment commander and served as the commander of several main battalions.
Except for his junior qualifications, his commanding ability and overall outlook far surpassed his own.
Especially his ability to adapt to the battlefield, it would not be an exaggeration to describe him as being beyond his reach.
Looking at Huang Yu's shocked face, he sighed: "Consultant Huang..."
"The Japanese army's plot to blow up the trenches just now was shattered by us, and they lost more than 120 soldiers!"
"Do you think they will launch a second counterattack and continue to send troops to destroy our trenches?"
"If we can, we can kill hundreds of Japanese and puppet troops in one day!"
Huang Yu replied with a wry smile: "The blasting will definitely continue, but the Japanese and puppet troops will definitely think of some countermeasures to prevent our sharpshooters from continuing to attack the blasting team!"
"Leave half of the sharpshooters to continue lurking on the battlefield, while the other half of the sharpshooters and machine gunners are all withdrawn."
"Then set up all the sixteen mortars equipped by our four battalions, and arrange artillery positions separately in squad units. Each artillery position will have an observer at the surrounding commanding heights!"
"No matter how the Japanese and puppet troops blast the trenches next, as long as the observers find the Japanese and puppet blasters and are sure to kill them, they don't need to ask me for instructions and can just fire!"
"But be sure to be prepared for air defense!"
"Each artillery squad can fire up to three rounds of artillery shells from the same position before moving. They must not be targeted by Japanese artillery or aircraft in the sky!"
"Our family's financial resources are weak. Whether it is military strength or firepower, it is not as good as the Japanese and puppet troops on the blockade."
"If you want to seize the blockade, you can only use tricks, not fight head-on, let alone compete with the Japanese and puppet troops!"
Xiao Yuanchang was completely convinced by Huang Yu. This time he did not put forward any objections and gave orders after listening.
