"Rumble..."
Just after dawn, the explosion of the Japanese army destroying the tunnel rang out in Pingyang Town.
Eight demolition teams entered the town again.
Compared with yesterday, each demolition team has an additional infantry squad and a heavy machine gun squad.
Dig the tunnel entrance, set up the heavy machine gun first, and then send people into the hole to lay out explosives.
Major General Fujita believed that he could decide the outcome with the Junpei garrison today.
There are fewer and fewer usable tunnels in the town.
At the latest in the afternoon, the Junpei garrison will break out of the tunnel due to lack of space for movement.
Heavy machine guns were stationed at the entrance of the tunnel. No matter how many Eighth Route Army soldiers came out, they would not be afraid.
"The tunnel entrance has been dug..." a puppet soldier shouted,
After saying that, he prepared to retreat and give up the tunnel entrance to the little devil behind him.
Yesterday afternoon, attacking the tunnels and covering the engineers to deploy explosives were all the work of the Japanese, and today is certainly no exception.
As a result, as soon as he turned around, a row of little devils pointed their rifles at him.
A Japanese leader named Cao ordered them at the same time: "Baga..."
"Your battlefield is on the underground ground. Are you a deserter?"
"Take weapons and enter the tunnel, cover the engineers to deploy explosives, hurry up."
The puppet soldier's face turned pale instantly and he looked at his squad leader.
Yesterday's battle scenes are still vivid in my mind. Even the little devils who enter the tunnel are no match for the Eighth Route Army, let alone the Imperial Alliance Army.
With a look of panic on their faces, they hoped that the squad leader could take them out of here and not go into the tunnel and die.
It turned out that the squad leader was more timid than them.
Seeing the Japanese with a bayonet pointed at his chest, he gave in. He picked up his rifle and rushed towards the tunnel entrance.
"What are you still doing? Taijun's order must be carried out."
"Take your weapons and enter the tunnel, and move faster. I want to look good on whoever goes in."
The squad leaders all chose to bow to the Japanese, and the ordinary soldiers did not have the capital to challenge the Japanese, so they could only walk towards the tunnel entrance with despair.
"Boom boom boom..."
Explosions and screams soon sounded in the tunnel, and smoke poured out from the tunnel entrance. No one knew what happened inside.
The Japanese team leader was lying next to the tunnel, feeling very nervous.
Although the people who entered the ground were puppet troops, he didn't care about the life or death of the puppet troops.
But there are only so many puppet troops in hand. If all the puppet troops are dead, in the end, it will be up to the subordinates to cover the engineers and deploy explosives.
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I especially hope that the puppet troops can complete the cover mission.
The result was the opposite.
A series of "da da da..." machine gun fire suddenly sounded in the tunnel.
It was over as quickly as it came, lasting only five seconds.
The tunnel immediately fell into silence, and even the initial screams disappeared.
"You guys go in and take a look, quickly..."
The anxious Japanese squad leader immediately turned his attention to the other puppet soldiers.
The orders of the Japanese must be carried out,
A few puppet soldiers had no choice but to rush in no matter how afraid of death they were.
As a result, no shots were fired this time, and there was no movement after a few puppet soldiers entered the tunnel.
The Japanese squad leader was made anxious and panicked.
I thought the Eighth Route Army had prepared some new gadget in the tunnel, which could take away the lives of those puppet soldiers in an instant.
Little did they know that most of the puppet troops who had just entered the tunnel had become prisoners of the Eighth Route Army.
This was the masterpiece of the Junpei garrison last night.
In one night, not only a large number of secret rooms and secret passages were built in the tunnel, but also many secret passages and secret passages were connected together, so that the troops could reach behind the enemy through the secret passages at any time and attack them from the front and rear.
After the puppet troops entered the tunnel, in addition to their feet, there was a secret passage beside them.
Several soldiers surrounded them through a secret passage, and a soldier in front used a machine gun to block the way.
The puppet troops were either beaten into sieves by bullets or captured by the Eighth Route Army.
Most of the puppet soldiers are just making a living and are not really working for the Japanese.
Faced with the two choices of dying in battle or living, no one hesitated and all chose to be prisoners.
The Japanese team leader didn't know about this.
Faced with the disappearance of several puppet soldiers again, he panicked and decided to send a few Japanese into the tunnel to take a look.
"Bagya Road..."
"The Imperial Alliance Army is too unreliable, we still have to rely on our own people."
Pointing to a commander beside him, he ordered: "Take your men into the tunnel."
"Cover the engineers to deploy explosives."
Five Japanese soldiers bent down and walked into the tunnel, equipped with three rifles and a light machine gun.
As soon as they entered the tunnel, three grenades were thrown in by the rifleman.
Amidst the violent explosions, a large amount of dust and smoke rushed towards us.
"Da da da……"
The Japanese machine gunners fired at the same time, moving forward while holding fire.
The riflemen followed close behind.
Before the bullets in the machine gun magazine were exhausted, three grenades rolled past them deeper into the tunnel.
This is a temporary assault strategy summed up by the Japanese army.
Machine guns and grenades worked together to suppress the Eighth Route Army in the tunnel, without giving them a chance to breathe or fight back.
This style of play is very useful if there is a normal tunnel under their feet that was blasted yesterday.
However, this tunnel was specially designed for fighting.
The soldiers hid in dark rooms and behind shooting holes. No matter how powerful the Japanese grenades exploded or how hard the machine guns hit them, they could not be harmed at all.
Soon the Japanese came to the corpses of several puppet soldiers, preparing to bypass the corpses and continue to attack forward.
It was too late, but soon, a machine gun team suddenly appeared behind them through the secret passage.
"Da da da……"
As soon as the gunfire rang out, dense bullets struck behind the Japanese.
The three riflemen walked behind the machine gunner in a perfect formation, like three living targets, and the bullets instantly raked their backs into sieves.
The machine gunners hiding in the darkroom in front started to rob at the same time.
The bullets flew towards the Japanese machine gunner head-on. The two men did not even scream, and their chests were also beaten into sieves.
The Japanese team leader lay outside and was worried, but there was nothing he could do.
The sound of the exchange of fire just now proved that there were many Eighth Route Army troops hiding in the tunnels, and they were also equipped with machine guns.
Continuing to send people in is just like the tactic of adding fuel, and as many people enter as many people die.
The demolition team had lost enough troops here, and he didn't want to sacrifice more soldiers' lives in vain.
In less than ten seconds, the sound of firefighting in the cave stopped.
If the attack team wins, they will definitely send someone out to call the engineers.
But except for the smoke that was blowing out from the tunnel entrance, there was no sign of a soldier.
The team leader was very unwilling, but had to admit the fact that the commando encountered an accident.
Then he had to retreat and give the second order: "It is too difficult to blow up more than ten meters at a time. We will only blow up five meters."
"The commandos stopped five meters into the tunnel and covered the engineers to deploy explosives..."
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The encounter between the Japanese's left and right mopping up troops was completely opposite to that of the middle mopping up troops.
They arrived at Pingyang Town in the middle of the night last night.
Immediately afterwards, they deployed around Pingyang Town, waiting for the Eighth Route Army in the wings to hit the muzzle of their guns.
The Eighth Route Army never abandons neighboring troops when marching and fighting.
Pingyang Town was surrounded by Major General Fujita, and the Junpei garrison's retreat was blocked, and it was possible to be massed and annihilated at any time.
The other Eighth Route Army troops in the wing will definitely not let it go.
As long as they dare to come, the first two rounds of mopping up the troops will cause them to have a bloody head-on collision in Pingyang Town.
Regrettably: the reinforcement troops did not find a single Eighth Route Army soldier from midnight until noon today.
It was like seeing a ghost.
They watched the middle route mopping up troops drinking and eating meat in Pingyang Town, but they could only stay in their position and stay there, not even able to drink a sip of soup.
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In a valley three kilometers east of Baoding City, Li Yunlong squinted and lay among the corn stalks, closing his eyes and meditating.
Ahead was Baoding City, and he had to be mentally prepared to prepare for tonight's decisive battle.
"Deputy commander, we have obtained the Baoding city defense map..." Deng Jingyexing hurried to Li Yunlong to report.
His closed eyes suddenly opened, he took the city defense map and looked at it carefully, and soon his eyes were fixed on the Japanese brigade headquarters in the center of the city.
"Right here..."
"Is there anyone familiar with the situation here? The more details the better."
The intelligence officer who sent the city defense map followed Deng Jingye and immediately stood up and reported: "Chief, I know the situation in the city."
"You are referring to the Japanese brigade headquarters."
"At the beginning, the Baoding garrison only had one reinforcement brigade, which occupied a courtyard as the garrison headquarters."
"The garrison was increased from a reinforced group to a brigade."
"The headquarters is getting bigger and bigger."
"They occupied three or four surrounding courtyards, and even the security forces occupied one courtyard."
"We also demolished the courtyard around the headquarters to prevent people from climbing over the wall and sneaking into the headquarters."
"In the large area you are referring to, apart from the Japs headquarters and the garrison, there are no ordinary people."
Li Yunlong immediately turned his attention to the artillery company commander.
"The field artillery is too heavy to carry."
"We only brought mountain artillery and infantry artillery."
"Old Zhang, you are an old artilleryman."
"Let you unified command all the infantry artillery and mountain artillery in the regiment, and place them wherever you can to blow up the Japanese brigade headquarters."
The artillery company commander thought for half a minute against the city defense map and then replied: "The range of the infantry artillery is too close."
"Only by mounting it to the top of the city can the artillery shells be fired into the Japanese brigade headquarters."
"Mountain artillery mounted within five hundred meters outside the city can fire shells into the headquarters, but the accuracy is very poor."
Li Yunlong said with a nonchalant expression: "It doesn't matter if it's almost accurate."
"That old devil Okamura Neji is the commander of the Japanese North China Front."
"There are a lot of guards around me. I'm not so arrogant as to kill him with a burst of artillery fire."
"As long as I can scare him, the mission is accomplished."
"If I can really kill Neji Okamura with one shot, I will definitely be luckier than stepping on shit."
"After dark, I will find a way to send all the mountain artillery brought by the two regiments within 500 meters of the city."
"You take the time to rest and recuperate your energy."
"Take aim and hit me after the operation begins."
"Whether the counter-mopping up in the base area can be won, and whether Deputy Chief of Staff Huang can turn the situation around, depends on you."
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At the former enemy headquarters in Pingyang Town, Major General Fujita's patience was about to be worn out.
I thought I would be able to force the Junpei garrison out of the tunnel in the afternoon, have a decisive battle, and capture Pingyang.
As a result, it was almost dark before the troops blew up half of the tunnels in Pingyang Town. The other half was still in the hands of the Eighth Route Army.
What annoyed him most were the casualties among the demolition team.
The puppet army suffered more than 70% casualties, the engineers suffered more than 50% casualties, and even the supplementary troops cooperating with the operation suffered nearly 400 casualties.
This is still the result of using a large number of puppet troops as cannon fodder.
If there were no puppet troops blocking bullets in front, infantry casualties would have doubled.
