Lieutenant General Sakuragi didn't know this, and now he just wanted to eat the two battalions of the Eighth Route Army that got into his stomach.
Only in this way can he concentrate his forces to deal with the surrounding Eighth Route Army attacking troops without worrying about his own back.
"Boom boom boom..."
A series of explosions suddenly sounded not far away, immediately attracting the attention of all the devils.
Lieutenant General Sakuragi looked over Xun Sheng, his face instantly darkened, and he cried out.
"Is that a field artillery position for our army?"
"Ha Yi..." the artillery staff nodded and replied: "A field artillery brigade has established a position there and has just received an order to counterattack the Eighth Route Army's mountain field artillery unit."
"The ones who counterattacked them were also mountain field artillery. There were at least sixteen of them, far more than our army's field artillery brigade."
Lieutenant General Sakuragi analyzed with a stern face: "The Eighth Route Army in Yizhong indeed has a large number of artillery units hidden around Chenjiazhuang."
"I wanted to strike later and wipe out all the artillery units of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop."
"In the end, they still took the lead and ate a field artillery brigade of our army first."
"Contact other artillery units to counterattack immediately. We must destroy all the exposed artillery units of the Eighth Route Army."
"Only in this way can we hope to hold on until three in the morning."
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The Japanese army had just broken through the second line of defense. Wang Lin was commanding the troops to replenish equipment and ammunition on the spot.
Opening the bullet box hanging on the Jaap machine gunner's waist, he quickly pressed the bullets into the magazine, and smoothly applied gun oil to the bullets to lubricate them to prevent the machine gun from jamming when shooting.
After filling up the crooked pistol magazine, Wang Lin took off an armed belt full of bullet boxes from the deputy shooter and tied it to himself. At the same time, he hung the 38 cap of the deputy shooter's equipment on his shoulder, and then stood up from the ground. Get up and look around.
The breach in the defense line was blocked again by the Japanese with artillery fire. No one knew when the follow-up troops would reach the battlefield.
In a short period of time, the two reinforced battalions had to face the encirclement and killing of one or two thousand little devils alone.
If you want to eliminate more Japanese soldiers and stay in the Japanese army's belly longer, you must have sufficient equipment and ammunition.
Otherwise, I wouldn't even have a chance to fight the Japanese.
"Chief of Staff..." As soon as he had packed up his equipment and ammunition, he saw a squad leader from the reconnaissance platoon running towards him in a hurry.
"There are a large number of little devils approaching us, with at least one brigade of troops and more than a dozen tanks and armored vehicles. They will start fighting with us in five minutes."
The Chief of Staff of the 26th Regiment on the side immediately suggested: "The Japanese are attacking with heavy troops. They obviously want to pull out the tiger's teeth and eat us."
"I recommend that the troops defend where they are."
"We have two battalions, and we can also call for artillery support. We will definitely be able to defend for half an hour."
"Other troops are fully attacking the Japanese first line of defense, and there will definitely be a breakthrough within half an hour."
Wang Lin didn't think so, and shook his head in opposition: "We have artillery, and so do the Japanese. Moreover, they also have a very lethal heavy artillery brigade that has not participated in the war."
"If they fire heavy artillery shells at our entrenched positions, they can blow us all up without the Japanese infantry attacking."
"The armored vehicles and tanks brought by the Japanese are not vegetarian either."
"We are not equipped with anti-tank artillery, not even mine cannons. We can only organize death squads to launch counterattacks and destroy them with cluster grenades."
"The price is too high."
"The strength of the army is limited, and every soldier sacrificed means one less soldier. It would be a great loss if entire platoons were sacrificed in order to destroy tanks and armored vehicles."
"Let's continue to advance forward and attack wherever the Japs are, disrupting the Japs' defense lines and making it impossible for the Kwantung Army's artillery to pinpoint our specific position."
"Let the more than a thousand Japanese soldiers and a dozen tanks and armored vehicles surrounding us eat dust behind us and not give them a chance to surround us."
"Perhaps during the fight, some troops will break through the Japanese army's outer defense line and rush into the Japanese army's belly to join us."
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At the Japanese military headquarters, Lieutenant General Sakuragi was very angry and was patting the ammunition box and cursing people.
"A bunch of stupid pigs..."
"There are so many troops on the second line of defense, but they were broken through by a lone force of the Eighth Route Army. This is simply a shame for the Kwantung Army. The Sakuragi Division has lost all face."
The chief of staff knew best what was happening on the front line and quickly comforted him: "Division commander..."
"The main reason is that the Eighth Route Army's offensive firepower is too strong."
"More than a dozen mountain field artillery fired at the position. The defensive position had not been repaired. After the mountain field artillery bombardment, the defense troops did not even have a hiding place and could only lie on the ground and be bombed."
"The two battalions of the Eighth Route Army have not yet launched an attack, but the two infantry squadrons in front of them have already suffered more than half of their casualties in the artillery fire."
"Those Eighth Route Army troops were ruthless enough to risk their own injuries by reaching a position fifty meters in front of the formation."
"Launch the assault as soon as the bombardment is over."
"Thirty or forty light machine guns are held in front of the chest and used as submachine guns, and they fire while charging forward."
"There are only over a hundred people left in our army, equipped with five or six light machine guns. As soon as we took action, we were suppressed by the opponent's firepower on the battlefield, unable to raise our heads..."
"As a result, the Eighth Route Army rushed into position with one assault..."
"Because the Eighth Route Army attacked too quickly, the encirclement troops broke through our army's second line of defense before they were in place, causing our plan to encircle and annihilate them to go bankrupt before it even started."
"In order to eliminate them as soon as possible, the encirclement and annihilation troops are marching to catch up with them. Good news should come back soon."
"Division commander..." A messenger rushed into the headquarters in a panic. It was obvious that something big had happened somewhere, and it was also bad.
"Did something happen again?" Lieutenant General Sakuragi said with an irritated face.
"The Eighth Route Army attacking us from the east has broken through the first line of defense..." The messenger knew that the division commander was angry and reported carefully.
"The breach is five hundred meters wide. A regiment of the Eighth Route Army has already crossed the defense line and entered our position."
Lieutenant General Sakuragi glared at the Chief of Staff and said, "Is this the good news you said?"
"The Eighth Route Army that got into our belly before has not been eliminated, and now another regiment has got in."
"The encirclement and annihilation force only has one reinforced brigade, is it still capable of eating them?"
The chief of staff was very reluctant, but he did not dare to lie in front of the facts. He could only shake his head solemnly: "It's difficult..."
"As long as the two Eighth Route armies meet in our position, the encirclement and suppression troops will definitely be no match for them."
"We should immediately send troops to block the Eighth Route Army that has just crossed the defense line. We should first concentrate our forces to eliminate the two battalions of the Eighth Route Army, and then eliminate the new regiment and defeat them one by one."
"All the remaining troops on the peripheral defense line will retreat to the second line of defense. They must be fast. Don't be dragged on the battlefield by the Eighth Route Army."
Lieutenant General Sakuragi also knew that this was the only way to break the situation, and stared at the chief of staff seriously.
"You personally command the encirclement and annihilation troops, and the battle must be ended within half an hour."
"I am responsible for holding back the Eighth Route Army who have just crossed the blockade and keeping them firmly outside the second line of defense."
"If we don't eliminate the Eighth Route Army that got into our belly within half an hour and hold the second line of defense, the troops will definitely not last until three in the morning."
