"Tunnels...there are tunnels on the battlefield..." This was the first sentence the offensive force squadron leader said after retreating in front of Lieutenant General Sakuragi.
"Baga, let's be clear... How is it appropriate to panic..." The brigade leader was particularly dissatisfied with the panic response of his subordinates and reprimanded loudly.
"Ha Yi..." The squadron leader was instantly woken up by the scolding, and then he remembered that he was standing in front of the division commander. Take a deep breath, try to stay calm, and then speak again.
"Reporting to the head of the division..."
"The Eighth Route Army dug a large number of tunnels on the battlefield, and there were camouflaged tunnel entrances and exits everywhere on the battlefield."
"Even the forward positions we just captured are there."
"After the troops attacked, they returned to the forward position through the tunnel and attacked from behind the attacking troops."
"There are also tunnel entrances and exits where the Eighth Route Army lurks on the battlefield. When the attacking troops approach, they attack the tanks with Molotov cocktails and use machine guns to surprise the attacking troops."
"By the time we concentrated our troops and firepower to kill them, they had already moved from the tunnel to underground."
"Many soldiers followed the Eighth Route Army into the tunnels, trying to follow the clues and catch them all."
"But the tunnel is like a bottomless pit, and as many troops as they enter will be wiped out."
"The two squadrons that participated in the battle only returned less than one squadron, and all the other soldiers died in the battle."
"The tank force lost three tanks."
"Please, division commander, please avenge us and eliminate those Eighth Route Army troops hiding in the tunnels." Lieutenant General Sakuragi, the division commander, did not speak. He waved his hand to signal the squadron leader to leave before opening his mouth.
"I heard that artillery attacks can destroy tunnel entrances and exits."
"Order the First Battalion of the Artillery Regiment, each brigade is directly under the infantry artillery squad, and the regiment is directly under the mountain artillery squadron, to immediately set up artillery positions. I will use artillery shells to bury all the enemies underground."
"Since they want to move underground, don't come out and just cover them to death." The brigade leader suddenly said that this was the method written in the tunnel warfare manual.
There are several other methods, some are simple, some are complicated, and some are to completely destroy the tunnel and wipe out all the Eighth Route Army in the wing... The brigade commander's favorite method is to wipe out all the Eighth Route Army in the tunnel. This is enough.
He immediately suggested: "Division commander, why don't you send engineers to dig trenches around the village and find one or two tunnel entrances and exits?"
"Blast a little more, follow the clues, destroy all the tunnels in front of us, and kill all the Eighth Route Army inside." Lieutenant General Sakuragi shook his head: "It's too slow..." Although we are not short of time, we are blocked for a small Zhangjiachong. If you spend a day or two here, no matter how much time you have, it won't be enough. "
"The bombardment is more direct and faster."
"Blow up all the entrances and exits of the tunnels and suffocate the enemies to death on the ground of the tunnels. The troops will naturally capture Zhangjiachong."
"Excuting an order."
"In five minutes we will start covering the entire battlefield with artillery fire."
"Twenty minutes of artillery preparation, the infantry and tank troops finally launched the attack. When they found the target, they first blew it up with grenades, then used machine guns to sweep it, and finally the infantry assault."
"Be sure to capture Zhangjiachong at the minimum cost."......
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Huang Yu and Li Zhi were hiding in the village, looking at the blocking position where artillery fire was raging in front of them, and they were in a very good mood.
Those who had just defended the position were soldiers from the 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the 26th Regiment. The results of the battle have been reported to them. They wiped out more than 200 Japs, destroyed three tanks, and suffered less than two squads of casualties.
Faced with the huge disparity in casualty ratio, Li Zhi didn't believe it at first. He asked a battalion commander to confirm it repeatedly before he approved the battle report, and then he became yearning for tunnel warfare.
Rubbing my hands together, I really want to try it myself. But when he thought of the planned battle plan, he hesitated and stared at Huang Yu for a while to consider before he decided to propose.
"Captain Huang..."
"Since tunnel warfare is so useful, why don't we withdraw for the time being?"
"While the soldiers have just won a battle and their morale is high, fight another battle and then retreat?"
"This time I will personally go to the battlefield and make sure that I beat the Japanese attacking troops until they pee and won't hold them back." Huang Yu shook his head: "It's not that I don't want you to fight, it's just that we can't fight anymore."
"Our tunnels are indeed powerful, but the Japanese artillery fire is not a vegetarian."
"The artillery attacking us has at least twelve field guns, eight mountain guns, and more than ten infantry guns."
"It only takes ten minutes to level our surface positions and destroy most of the tunnel entrances and exits."
"Instead of using the few remaining tunnel entrances and exits to fight the Japanese, it is better to abandon the position and let the Japanese mistakenly think that this is the end of our tunnel warfare."
"The tunnels here are too close to enemy-occupied areas and can easily leak secrets. They are not well repaired."
"When we get to the next tunnel and defend the two-layered tunnel network, we can take advantage of the Japanese bombardment and mistakenly think that everything has been destroyed. We can give them a hard blow and try to kill one of their infantry brigade in one counterattack. "
"That's a pleasure." Huang Yu understands tunnel combat better than himself and his opponents. Li Zhi couldn't find a reason to refute.
Then he asked Zhan: "I will listen to you..."
"But let's talk it over first..."
"In the next tunnel battle, I must go to the battlefield in person and experience first-hand how powerful tunnel battles are. Otherwise, Yi Zhong's trip will be in vain." Huang Yu did not refuse: "As long as you don't leave the tunnel, you can fight however you want. how to spell."…………
"Boom..." The Japanese bombardment continued. Seeing that the sandbags and logs on the blocking position were blown away, Lieutenant General Sakuragi's face returned to calm.
In his military career, he had never seen any troops able to withstand such heavy artillery fire. Although the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong had tunnels to hide in, as long as the shells hit the tunnel entrances and exits, they would still not be able to survive.
The shells plowed the blocking position back and forth like rain before stopping. With so many artillery shells hitting them, even if a blind cat hits a mouse, it can also destroy all the tunnel entrances and exits on the position.
That's what Lieutenant General Sakuragi thought. As soon as the artillery fire stopped and the smoke had not cleared, the attacking troops followed the tanks and rushed straight into the blocking position.
"The offensive troops were not attacked, everything went well..." the observation post introduced while watching.
"The attacking force is only fifty meters away from the village entrance...no enemies have appeared on the battlefield yet..." the observation post reported again.
"Division commander, the offensive troops have taken the blocking position at the entrance of the village..." The observation post shouted the last words with a smile, feeling very excited.
Not to be outdone, the brigade commander said: "Shelling is useful..."
"The Eighth Route Army hiding in the tunnel must have been buried, otherwise the attacking troops would not be able to touch a single enemy."
"Division Commander, your method works."
"Next, when we encounter the Eighth Route Army tunnels, we will use artillery fire. We will definitely annihilate the Eighth Route Army."
