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Kong Jie's deployment order was quickly conveyed to each unit through the detachment headquarters.
A team's outer guerrilla area.
As far as the eye can see, at the foot of the vast mountains, a Japanese and puppet army team is walking in neat steps, approaching the front farmland area of a team's guerrilla area.
This team is the eighth brigade of the Japanese Kamechi Brigade and the Imperial Association Army, led by Yan Sanfu.
Just half an hour ago, Kameda received an order from the general headquarters to launch a general attack on the farmland area of a team of the Eighth Route Army.
At the same time, during the advance, we tried to find ways to contain the main force of the Eighth Route Army that was blocking the attack, and waited for the main mopping force from the rear to completely encircle the Eighth Route Army.
After receiving the order, the Japanese captain Gui Chi immediately ordered the entire army to set off.
At this time, the role of the puppet troops operating in coordination as cannon fodder became apparent in the eyes of the Japanese army.
"Sanfu-kun, the time has come to test your loyalty to the Japanese Empire. You lead your team to advance forward. I will lead the main force of the brigade to support your Imperial Alliance Army in combat at any time!"
Seeing the hesitation on Yan Sanfu's face, Gui Chi finished his kind words and then threatened him. His face darkened and he asked in a thicker voice:
"What, Sanfu-kun, are you going to disobey the orders of the Japanese Imperial Army?"
"Your Excellency Zhongzuo is joking. The order received by our Eighth Mixed Brigade this time is to assist Your Excellency Zhongzuo in advancing the operation. Naturally, Your Excellency Zhongzuo will follow your lead!"
Yan Sanfu replied quickly, but secretly complained in his heart, and cursed these little sons of bitches for being unkind and using him as cannon fodder.
The helpless Yan Sanfu could only lead his Imperial Army troops to the front line of the Guichi Brigade.
The distance between the two teams was nearly 500 meters.
Coupled with the undulating terrain of the mountainous area and the mountains and forests covering the fields, the distance of 500 meters was enough to prevent the two armies from seeing each other.
Guichi, an old Japanese soldier who thought his treacherous plan had succeeded, sent a communications unit to take the lead in following the troops of the Eighth Mixed Brigade of the puppet army.
Through the communication corps, communicate with the rear group headquarters at any time.
..."Prince, these bastards are using us as cannon fodder again!"
After separating from the Japanese army, they were far away. Wang Dacong, Yan Sanfu's adjutant, leaned next to Yan Sanfu and cursed.
Yan Sanfu, who was full of bitterness, said helplessly: "The little devil has always been this pissy, what can we do?"
"You're so smart. I'm just worried now. I've just entered the base of a unit of the Eighth Route Army. We know who Kong Shatou is better than anyone else."
"Remember that battle a year ago?
It all comes down to your kid's bad idea to let us take advantage of the battle between the Japanese army and the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army to take a small road and sneak attack on the flank of the Independent Regiment. "
"As a result, Kong Jie was angered. In his anger, Kong Shatou actually pulled out more than a dozen artillery pieces. Under the firepower, we almost wiped out the entire Eighth Hybrid Brigade..."
As he said this, Yan Sanfu couldn't help but shudder.
Every time he thought about being bombarded by Kong Jie, he felt guilty.
Adjutant Wang Dacong was a little embarrassed.
"Hey, this is all in the past, Traveler, why do you bring it up again?"
"But as soon as I mentioned that matter, I became so angry... Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Can you quickly give me some ideas on how to deal with the current situation?"
The wise man rolled his eyes, and after thinking for a moment, he came up with a plan.
He replied: "Traveler, if you want to overcome the current difficulties, the way is very simple, one word - drag!"
"drag?"
Wang Dacong nodded decisively:
"Yes, just delay! This time our Imperial Army and the Japanese army came to target the autumn harvest grain of a detachment of the Eighth Route Army, and they attacked in multiple directions.
But how easy is Kong Jie to deal with?
I don’t believe that a detachment of the Eighth Route Army would be unprepared for this Japanese raid on the autumn harvest.
But none of us know exactly what means the Eighth Route Army has prepared to harm the little devils.
At this time, isn't that just shooting the first bird?
Whichever advancing force is the fastest and falls into the trap of the Eighth Route Army first will have no choice but to consider itself unlucky.
So we have to slow down deliberately. We can't be the first to fall into the Eighth Route Army's trap, right?
When the news of the previous battle comes over, we will at least understand what the Eighth Route Army is hiding. "
"It has to be you, my great cleverness!"
Yan Sanfu, who suddenly came to his senses, nodded, and he was very approving of adjutant Wang Dacong's proposal.
Just like that, the 8th mixed brigade of the puppet army started a delaying trick and deliberately slowed down the pace of advancement.
Guichi, the old Japanese who followed behind, naturally noticed the problem quickly.
He couldn't help but curse: "Asshole, what on earth is this Yan Sanfu doing? Why is he walking so slowly?
Signal Corps, go and urge Yan Sanfu to speed up his march!
Then the message was delivered:
"Your Excellency, Zuo, according to the report, according to the news from the Imperial Army, they were worried that they would be ambushed by the Eighth Route Army along the way, so they deliberately slowed down their pace and sent out reconnaissance troops in advance to conduct investigations along the way. This delayed the speed."
But how could Turtle Chi believe these lies?
Having dealt with puppet troops a lot, he naturally understands the urinary nature of these guys.
He has always been the best at grinding foreign workers, often working hard but failing to make any effort.
Everyone is greedy for life, afraid of death, afraid of hardship and hardship.
I really hope they will deal with the Eighth Route Army, unless even sows can climb trees.
If it weren't for the thought of maintaining the morale of the surrendered Imperial Army, Gui Chi would have wanted to kill Yan Sanfu in one fell swoop.
But now that it was time to hire people, Turtle Chi had no choice but to suppress his anger for the time being, and repeatedly sent people to urge the Imperial Alliance Army to speed up their march.
After Yan Sanfu received the news, he pretended to speed up the team.
Just wait until the Japanese messengers leave, then turn around and ask the team to slow down.
In this way, the Japanese and puppet troops in Kameda were the slowest among the Japanese and puppet troops advancing in multiple directions.
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A team headquarters.
News from the front also came quickly.
"Lao Kong, there are already nearly three Japanese brigades, plus several puppet legions, approaching our front agricultural area.
In accordance with the orders of the headquarters, the local army and militia comrades retreated while fighting, gradually luring the little Japs in. "
Kong Jie nodded, and after thinking for a while, he ordered:
"Proceed according to the original plan and sing this great drama!
When the main force of the Japs enters the farmland area and even seizes the farmland, they immediately launch an attack.
At the same time, the news was passed to the main force of the 1, 2, and 3 regiments, and they were asked to start the operation of harvesting crops in the rear of the Japanese army together. "
"Okay!" Xu Guoan responded.
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"Asshole, this damn Yan Sanfu, when this raid is over, I will kill him with my own hands!"
In the middle line area of the advancing agricultural area in front of the first team, in the direction of the Turtlechi brigade's advance, there was an obvious vacancy due to the slow speed of the advance.
Turtle Chi, who noticed that Yan Sanfu was deliberately slowing down, cursed angrily.
News has come from the brigade headquarters in other directions that people are about to enter the farmland of the Eighth Route Army.
Turtle Chi couldn't bear it any longer. In a rage, he led his guards all the way to the front of the Royal Association Army. He then took out his gun, put it directly on Yan Sanfu's head, and yelled:
"Yan Sanfu, you bastard, are you just being a coward here?
If you don't move forward at full speed, I'll shoot you right now! "
Yan Sanfu, who always knew how to figure out the Japanese army's thoughts, estimated that Guichi's patience had basically been exhausted.
He quickly smiled apologetically and pushed away the gun that Turtle Chi put on his forehead, and said:
"Don't worry, squadron leader, I'm going to give the order to accelerate the advance, no, advance at full speed! Let me all trot towards the farmland area of the Eighth Route!"
"Taijun, I was worried that the Eighth Route Army would ambush me in the middle, so I searched more carefully, which delayed me a little bit. Please forgive me, Taijun!"
Immediately afterwards, Yan Sanfu really issued a clear order to march at full speed.
Only then did the old Japanese turtle endure his anger and gave up.
The originally delayed Japanese and puppet troops moved faster in vain.
After more than ten minutes of this...
A few kilometers away, in what seemed to be the farmland area in front of the Eighth Route Army, the sound of fighting suddenly broke out, mixed with the sound of gunfire, and the exchange of fire between the two sides was extremely intense.
"Taijun, this is the farmland area in front of the Eighth Route Army!"
Yan Sanfu's face changed slightly and he spoke.
The battle a few kilometers away was extremely fierce, but the two sides were too far away to clear the specific situation ahead.
"idiot!"
Guichi cursed loudly, and he didn't know whether he was scolding Yan Sanfu for deliberately delaying the march, or whether he was scolding the Eighth Route Army troops who had ambushed the Japanese army ahead.
"Advance quickly!"
Kamechi gave the order. He sensed the urgency of the battle ahead and did not dare to delay any longer. He even directly ordered the elite Japanese troops to serve as the vanguard, leading the follow-up Imperial Association Army to quickly advance towards the front farmland area.
It took more than 20 minutes.
The Japs from the Turtle Lake Brigade and the puppet troops from the 8th Mixed Brigade finally arrived at the edge of the front farmland area.
At this time, the terrain surrounding the farmland is higher.
Old Japanese Gui Chi and Yan Sanfu can already use telescopes to see clearly the situation in the fighting area:
As far as the eye can see, there is a large area of golden farmland, with a large number of corn stalks swaying gently in the wind.
In the edge areas of these farmlands, Yan Sanfu also saw through the telescope bags of plump corn lumps growing on wheat straw.
He couldn't help but swallow as he thought of the smell of cooked corn in his mouth.
Just as the field of vision spreads
This has all changed...
The smoke from the artillery fire was rather smoky and shrouded a large area of farmland.
The originally neat straw had already appeared in a large number of burned areas under the impact of artillery fire and bullets.
Destroyed by the shock wave of the shell explosion, straw was scattered everywhere.
The vast tracts of cornfields were like the remains of bread riddled with holes after being indiscriminately eaten by countless rats.
What shocked the Japanese captains Gui Chi and Yan Sanfu even more.
In addition to the large amounts of burned straw, there were also the corpses of Japanese soldiers lying on the ground in a mess, like scattered sand, entangled with straw in the cornfield.
Boom——
Several more shells were fired suddenly from an area several hundred meters away from the cornfield, and then exploded in the cornfield.
Following the faint wailing, two or three Japs were instantly torn apart like foam by the fierce explosion.
The horrifying scene instantly brought Turtle Chi and Yan Sanfu into reality.
Only then did the two realize that the fighting in the farmland area was still going on.
The old Japanese turtle, Turtle Chi, raised the angle of the telescope, and then saw a scene that he would never forget from the perspective of the telescope:
The previous artillery shells were fired from the rear of the farmland, and the power of the shells that hit them was even more powerful than the Type 92 infantry cannon.
Those seemed to be cannonballs fired by mechanical vehicles. Looking closely, they seemed to be some armored vehicles and tanks produced by the Japanese Empire, and even a few commonly used trucks for pulling goods.
Turtle Chi was very familiar with those vehicles.
The first time I was confused, how could these vehicles fire such powerful shells?
Then there was a series of explosions, breaking Turtle Chi's hesitation.
One step ahead of the Kamechi Brigade and the 8th Mixed Brigade of the Puppet Army, the three Japanese brigades that entered the cornfield area, as well as the two regiments of the Imperial Alliance Army, were currently engaged in a bitter battle.
A shocking number of corpses of Japanese and puppet soldiers can be seen scattered everywhere in the cornfield.
It is enough to prove that in this fierce confrontation, the three Japanese army brigades and two puppet army groups that rushed into the cornfield suffered heavy blows.
With the crisp autumn wind blowing, the gunpowder smoke shrouding the cornfields dissipated slightly, and the field of vision became wider.
Gui Chi and Yan Sanfu then saw... more horrifying corpses.
And without exception, they were all corpses of Japanese soldiers or puppet soldiers.
The large number of bomb craters in the cornfield proved that during the previous fierce confrontation, the Japanese and puppet troops who entered the cornfield area were violently bombarded by the Eighth Route Army troops.
The only remaining Japanese and puppet troops on the battlefield are fighting fiercely with the Eighth Route Army troops.
In Yan Sanfu's view, it was more like a trapped beast fighting!
I'm afraid it's only a matter of time before these Japanese and puppet troops are completely wiped out!
After the investigation, Yan Sanfu had an approximate figure in his mind:
There are less than 2,000 troops left!
Yan Sanfu, who instantly realized what this meant, couldn't help but take a breath, and a chill came from the bottom of his heart.
From the sudden outbreak of the previous battle and the fierce sound of gunfire, Yan Sanfu and his party arrived quickly.
It only took more than 20 minutes.
The three Japanese army brigades that originally entered the cornfield area, plus two Imperial Army Corps, amounted to more than 5,000 Japanese and puppet troops.
In just over 20 minutes, more than 3,000 people evaporated.
What the hell is this speed of killing enemies? ? ?
This made Yan Sanfu instantly think of the scene when his Eighth Mixed Brigade was covered in artillery fire because he angered Kong Shatou, and was almost annihilated.
"It must be Kong Shao's method!
! "
In panic, Yan Sanfu, as the commander of the eighth mixed brigade of the puppet army, with thousands of puppet troops under his command, was actually fighting between two groups at this moment. If the old Japanese Guichi hadn't been standing beside him, he would have wanted to run away. .
A vast, flat area of cornfields.
The artillery fire was raging.
The attacking Eighth Route Army troops became more and more aggressive.
Dozens of artillery, including Type 92 infantry cannon, Jin-made 75mm mountain cannon, American-made 75mm mountain cannon, American M2-type 60 mortar...
They continued to bombard the Japanese and puppet troops who were completely defeated by artillery fire and fled in all directions.
In the cool autumn wind, there was a vague sound of howitzers shouting excitedly, "One hundred more quick shots!"
Corresponding to this was the voice of Wang Chengzhu, commander of the First Artillery Battalion: "Increase the elevation angle of the infantry artillery by three, fire fifty rounds quickly, and cut off the Japanese's retreat!"
This is the first elite artillery combat company of the two artillery battalions of a unit of the Eighth Route Army, competing to open fire.
In addition to these immovable artillery, there are also more than a dozen artillery groups using smaller caliber artillery to supplement the firepower of the artillery squad's rapid advance.
Eliminate the Japanese and puppet troops in the cornfield in more detail.
Two cavalry tanks, plus four armored vehicles and three military vehicles, equipped with additional 75mm howitzers, fired at full speed from the edge of the cornfield, detouring on both sides.
Accompanied by constant bombardment from 75mm howitzers.
The Japanese and puppet soldiers who bombed the cornfield were crying like ghosts and howling like wolves.
The follow-up support artillery with high-speed maneuverability fully demonstrates its power on the battlefield at this moment.
According to Yan Sanfu's rough estimate, the casualties of the Japanese and puppet troops, which were already less than 2,000, continued to spread rapidly.
And the nine mobile vehicles equipped with 75mm howitzers are impacting in the direction of the Turtle Chi Brigade and the Eighth Mixed Brigade of the puppet army who are rushing to follow...
