"There should be no hope of attacking the Japanese heavy artillery position!" Huang Yu said with a long sigh.
Although Sato's division is a three-three division, it also has nine fully-equipped infantry brigades...
Although most of them are gathered on the front line battlefield, and a small number are in the rear, this small number also has an infantry regiment.
Minus the one that protects the heavy artillery position and adds the brigade...the remaining two infantry brigades are stationed between the heavy artillery position and the front line, playing a connecting role.
There are more than a dozen tanks and armored vehicles assisting the Japanese heavy artillery position. The assault battalion does not carry direct-fire artillery, so it is difficult to break through the interception and enter the heavy artillery position in a short time...
Once a raid turns into a scorching battle, the raid battalion will be attacked from both sides and trapped in itself.
"Captain, how about we change the target?" Duan Peng reminded hesitantly.
"There is a regiment of puppet troops that stands out a little bit... Although there is a large group of little Japs nearby, they have to supervise four regiments of puppet troops at the same time, which is equivalent to us only having to deal with one infantry squadron in a short period of time!"
"The puppet troops of this regiment are responsible for transporting and protecting 300 large vehicles... I came to inspect it closely and found that the vehicles were all filled with food and ammunition supplies..."
"If we take them down and capture or destroy the supplies they transport, the Sato Division will lose at least 25% of its ammunition supplies."
"The base area has already carried out a very thorough clearing of the walls and wilderness to ensure that the little devils will not be able to supply a grain of food."
"Sato's division has suddenly lost so much ammunition supply. It will definitely speed up the attack and reduce the previous one-month action plan to more than 20 days."
"The faster and fiercer their attack is, the more flaws will be revealed, and we will have more chances to defeat them!"
Huang Yu shook his head and objected: "You missed one thing!"
"On the battlefield of Duanjiabao, Sato's division will lose a large number of troops every time it attacks..."
"It's very possible that the little ammunition supply we destroyed happened to be saved by the battle-damaged troops of Sato's division!"
"After all, the remaining troops of Sato's division are not affected and can still hold on for a month!"
"We ourselves wasted an excellent opportunity for a surprise attack!"
"In the next battle, the Sato Division will definitely deploy heavy troops to protect the supply troops and heavy artillery positions, and not give us the chance to raid them again!"
When his opinion was rejected, Duan Peng suddenly became anxious!
He had just heard about the horrors on the front lines.
As a member of the Independent Regiment, I must have felt particularly unwilling to watch my comrades fight bloody battles at the blocking position while I hid aside and cowered.
Staring at Huang Yu, he asked: "Battalion Commander... we won't fight here, and we won't fight that... Do we just watch the main force of the regiment fighting bloody battles on the front line and remain indifferent!"
"Keep waiting!" Huang Yu replied seriously!
"When the losses of the Sato division reach a certain proportion, the reserve team hiding behind will definitely go to reinforce the front line. It will not be too late to act!"
"We must remember, we only have one chance to attack!"
"If you don't take action, that's it. If you take action, you must severely damage Sato's division and provide maximum support to the main force of the regiment!"
"Continue to keep a close eye on the Japanese heavy artillery positions, baggage troops, cavalry brigade, chariot brigade... report any situation immediately!"
At the Duanjiabao position, the 1st and 7th Battalions that had completed their mission finally withdrew from the battle.
Kong Jie personally guarded the second line of defense to greet them. As far as he could see, not a single soldier was intact. Even the battalion commander Shen Quan was dragging an injured arm.
"Captain, I have let you down!" Shen Quan stood in front of Kong Jie with his head lowered, feeling heartbroken and regretful.
"The first and seventh battalions were full of 1,594 people... Only 498 people survived, and everyone was injured. One-third of them were seriously injured, and they were almost disabled..."
Kong Jie didn't think so, patted Shen Quan on the shoulder and said, "It's not your fault..."
"We all faced incendiary bombs for the first time. The 1st and 7th Battalions defended their positions without any preparation, buying enough time for the follow-up troops to restructure their positions. From this analysis, you did not lose!"
"I asked the chief of staff to make a brief count. Sato's division launched a total of four large-scale attacks on you. Each attack resulted in more than 300 losses, and the total casualties exceeded 1,500!"
"This is equivalent to your casualty ratio of three to two under the incendiary bomb attack!"
"After all, not only did you not win this battle, but you actually made a great contribution. Every soldier who died on the battlefield is a hero..."
"Rumble..."
When Kong Jie was about to say a few more words of comfort, the familiar sound of gunfire reached his ears again...
After a while, the second line of defense behind Duanjiabao Village was covered by artillery fire.
Lieutenant General Sato seemed to have tasted the benefits of incendiary bombs. This time the artillery fire coverage directly asked the aviation force for nine aircraft, all mounted with incendiary bombs, in an attempt to burn the entire second line of defense, severely damaging the independent regiment's defense forces, and taking the first attack in one attack. Second line of defense...
But the war situation did not develop in the direction he imagined.
Half an hour later, the raging fire on the second line of defense was finally extinguished. Dozens of mortars immediately joined the battle, covering the attacking troops and trying their best to reach the defense line...
"Dong dong dong..."
The heavy machine gun fire that the Japanese feared most sounded again, mixed with the sound of a large number of rifle machine gun fire...
After throwing incendiary bombs, the nine planes saw that they had nothing to do on the battlefield and were running out of fuel, so they decisively decided to return...
In just two minutes, nine planes disappeared over the battlefield.
At the position of the heavy artillery battalion of the Independent Regiment, Chen Daliang held up his telescope and stared at the battlefield as always.
The deputy battalion commander and instructors all stared at their pocket watches, calculating the time when the Japanese plane would leave!
"Battal Commander...the Japanese plane has left for four minutes...the time is almost up..."
"Connect all artillery battery calls immediately!" Chen Daliang's hands holding up the binoculars still didn't move, and he opened his mouth to order...
"The time is up..." the instructor suddenly reminded!
Chen Daliang immediately ordered: "All artillery companies fire rapidly for five minutes, and then move after the firing...cannot fire for more than one minute...fire artillery..."
The order was quickly passed to the artillery positions by telephone...
In just twenty seconds, the sound of "rumbling..." artillery fire sounded near the headquarters.
"Woooooooo..."
The scream of cannonballs streaking across the sky reached Chen Daliang's ears at the same time.
Dozens of artillery shells flew into the sky from different locations and then flew to different targets.
Lieutenant General Sato also heard the sudden scream above his head, his expression suddenly changed, and he shouted anxiously: "The heavy artillery battalion of the Independent Regiment has taken action!"
"After waiting for so long, we finally got them out...the heavy artillery brigade, the mountain artillery brigade...attack immediately..."
"Contact the aviation unit...let the planes that have just returned immediately replenish fuel and ammunition, return to the battlefield as quickly as possible, and assist the artillery in killing the heavy artillery battalion of the independent regiment!"
“Without the heavy artillery, the independent regiment will become a tiger without fangs, its combat effectiveness will be sharply reduced, and the threat it poses to us will also be sharply reduced!
