Although the Japanese Major General Nakamura did not visit the front line in person, his attention was on the battlefield from beginning to end. Watching the Yamaguchi Regiment launch a new round of attack, the smoke-filled blocking position seemed to have been flattened by mountain artillery and mortars, and a confident smile immediately flashed on the serious face.
Direct order: "Get the main force ready to go."
"This attack on Yamaguchi-kun will definitely capture the Eighth Route Army's blocking position and completely wipe out the opponent."
"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, oooo, oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !
It was very ear-piercing, even louder than the volley of eight mountain cannons just now. More importantly, the explosion did not come from the Eighth Route Army's blocking position in front, but from the road less than 500 meters away from him.
With the fire blazing into the sky and thick smoke billowing, the soldiers gathered there were like toys in a paper lake, either being blown away or being blown over.
Just one round of artillery fire killed and injured nearly a hundred people.
"Baga, what happened to the sudden artillery attack just now?" Major General Nakamura looked heartbroken and asked anxiously as he stared at the battlefield.
"I don't know about my humble position..." the chief of staff replied with a confused look on his face.
"But the sudden artillery attack just now involved at least thirty field guns, which is no less than an artillery regiment. We must counterattack immediately, otherwise the infantry will suffer heavy casualties in the artillery fire." Major General Nakamura suddenly patted his head. , suddenly reacted: "I know..."
"The Eighth Route Army in Yi Zhong is indeed exactly the same as the analysis in the intelligence. It likes surprises..."
"But they are too arrogant. They actually want to use thousands of troops to annihilate us and spend more money on the Kwantung Army."
"I just don't know how I died."
"The mountain artillery that attacked us just now must be all the heavy weapons equipped by the Eighth Route Army in Yinzhong."
"We were targeted."
"Now that you're here, don't go back."
"Order: Field artillery brigade, heavy artillery brigade, counterattack immediately, kill the Eighth Route Army artillery unit for me, hurry up."
"Boom, boom, boom..." As soon as Major General Nakamura commanded, a series of denser explosions suddenly sounded behind him.
He trembled with fright, and quickly turned back to look in the direction where the gunfire came from. The battlefield that was still dark just now was completely illuminated by the fire from the shells.
Major General Nakamura clearly saw more than 20 field guns and heavy artillery parked on the road. The counterattack order hadn't been sent yet, and the gunners were gathering around their guns to make repairs.
As a result, more than a hundred mortar shells fell from the sky, raining down on them. Although the power is very small, it is difficult to directly blow up the artillery.
But this kind of shell is very lethal to the gunner. One cannonball formed twenty or thirty pieces of cannonball fragments, and more than a hundred cannonballs added up to two to three thousand fragments, flying everywhere around the artillery, ruthlessly harvesting the lives of the gunners.
As far as the eye can see, there are everywhere the corpses of gunners who have been blown over, wounded people screaming repeatedly, and gunners fleeing in panic.
"Boom, boom, boom..." The soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the first round of shelling were just about to move when the second round of shells had already followed, and the dense explosions sounded again... Major General Nakamura's face quickly turned pale and he cried out: " How come the Eighth Route Army has so many mortars..."
"How did they do that."
"Let the mortar squadrons under each brigade counterattack immediately to prevent them from continuing to shell the field artillery brigade and heavy artillery brigade."
"Otherwise, all the gunners in the two brigades will be blown up."
"We need to divide two mortar squadrons to counterattack the Eighth Route Army's mountain artillery units, disperse the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire, and reduce the pressure on the infantry's artillery defense." Before the chief of staff had time to answer, the artillery staff officer on the side reported impatiently: "General, we should concentrate All mortars counterattacked the Eighth Route Army mortar positions and rescued the field artillery brigade and the heavy artillery brigade."
"I just made a calculation. The Eighth Route Army's mountain field artillery positions are very far away from us. The mortars can't reach them. We can only use field artillery and heavy artillery to counterattack."
"Nani?" Major General Nakamura's face became increasingly ugly and he cried out.
"I see……"
"The Eighth Route Army in Yizhong is engaging in Tian Ji horse racing with us."
"Using mortars with the shortest range and the least power to deal with our field artillery and heavy artillery battalions may seem like a huge disadvantage, but it can hold them back from participating in other battles."
"Use more powerful and longer range mountain artillery to deal with our infantry and mortars."
“It seems like killing a chicken with a sledgehammer, but it’s because of the difference in range.”
"No matter how many mortars we equip, they cannot threaten the safety of their mountain artillery. We can only be passively bombed."
"The Eighth Route Army in Yi Zhong is indeed very difficult to deal with."
"Just give the order as the artillery staff just suggested."
"Gather all the mortars to counterattack the Eighth Route Army's mortar units and rescue the field artillery brigade and the heavy artillery brigade."
"Let them counterattack the Eighth Route Army's mountain artillery unit."
"This way we can turn defeat into victory and change the situation of the war."
"Rumble..." When several messengers went to give orders separately, the sound of roaring horse hooves suddenly sounded not far away.
Major General Nakamura hurriedly ordered: "Send flares in the direction of the sound, hurry up..."
"There are also Eighth Route Army cavalry lurking around us. The terrain here is flat, which is very suitable for cavalry assault. We must not let them get close to the road."
"Boom..." The flare quickly rose into the sky, instantly burned into a ball of white light at an altitude of one or two hundred meters, and slowly fell to the ground.
The dark battlefield was also illuminated into daylight at this moment. More than a hundred cavalrymen, wielding sabers, plunged straight into the road that had just been plowed by field artillery.
There were craters everywhere, and soldiers' corpses and wounded were scattered around. Hundreds of elite Kwantung Army soldiers were dead or injured, and less than 20% were still able to move.
They reacted very quickly. When they saw the cavalry, they immediately established a defense line along the road. The remaining four or five light and heavy machine guns were placed on the ground, firing bullets at the cavalry company as if they were free, hoping to block the cavalry offensive.
But the cavalry's assault speed was too fast, and their blocking firepower was too weak. No matter how hard they tried, it was in vain.
After losing nearly one-third of the cavalry, the remaining cavalry were like a group of ferocious tigers, slamming into the road. More than a hundred Japanese soldiers were instantly smashed to pieces and lost their combat effectiveness.
The cavalry company continued to charge forward without slowing down, completely cutting the Kwantung Army's several-kilometer-long team into two pieces.
Major General Nakamura was dumbfounded. Before they could react from the shock, a commando team of more than a thousand people came into view again.
"Eighth Route Army infantry..." a combat staff officer shouted at the same time.
"General, the Eighth Route Army is following the cavalry to attack the road..."
"They want to separate us into two parts." Major General Nakamura also realized this and quickly raised his telescope to look around, hoping to deploy troops to block the gap and block the Eighth Route Army commandos.
As a result, he saw a picture that made him even more desperate.
