The fighting in Anping City was in full swing. In just two hours, the Inukai Brigade could no longer hold on.
In the first round of artillery strikes, a "Wei Yixiao" artillery battery of the second pillar, 12 Wei Yixiao artillery, fired 8 rounds, 96 explosive packets, all of them were thrown onto the wall of the Japanese heavily defended city, and one of the Inuyang Brigade was hit. caught off guard;
Most of the Japs on the city wall suffered casualties, with more than 380 people killed and 75 injured. You must know that Inukai could not put the entire brigade on the city wall;
This casualty ratio has exceeded Inuyang's ability to bear. If it happens again, there will not be many people in Inuyang's brigade.
Inukai finally understood Chu Xiong's ferocity!
"Bagayalu, this bastard Nakata is so deceptive!"
While Inukai led his team to resist the attack of the defensive company, he cursed Nakata in his heart for this cheating teammate...
At the First Army Headquarters, Uogami's intelligence has been reported. The message requesting tactical guidance jointly signed by Nakata Kenyo and Inukai was placed on Xiao Zhuoyoshi's desk. Everything went as he expected. The script is such a good show;
"Miyamoto-kun, Chu Xiong indeed took advantage of the lack of troops in the imperial army to send troops to Anping City, with a main force of 5,000, what a big move!
According to insider reports, Chu Xiong personally took command of the siege of Anping City and threw most of his troops in the direction of Anping City. This was really the bait thrown by the imperial army! "
"Your Excellency, General, this time Chuxiong is serious about it. Just over two hours after the war started, Kenyo Nakata sent another call for help. Nearly half of the Inukai Brigade suffered casualties, and many parts of the city wall were blown down. Chuxiong used more than a dozen doors and they were It’s called Wei Yixiao’s heavy artillery.”
"Nani? More than a dozen Wei Yixiao heavy artillery pieces? Is this Chu Xiong's deception? The artillery used is the field artillery that captured the imperial army?"
Xiao Zhuoyinan still did not believe that the Eighth Route Army could build heavy artillery. He believed that this bastard Nakata Kenyo was justifying his failure.
"Your Excellency, Commander, the Chuxiong Ministry does have a kind of earthen cannon similar to a mortar more than 200 years ago. It was used many times in previous battles with the imperial army, causing a large number of casualties to the imperial army;
Not only is it used by the Chuxiong Department, but now the entire Eighth Route Army is using it. The production method is very simple. The barrel is an empty oil barrel, and the crude black powder explosive package is ejected;
The range is only between 150 and 200 meters. Since there is no rifling, where it hits after being thrown depends entirely on luck, but it is very lethal! "
Xiao Zhuoyi'nan understood immediately when he heard it. It was just a mortar more than 200 years ago. This kind of cannon had great limitations in use and had no accuracy. It was used like a treasure by the beggar-like Eighth Route Army. He continued to attack Gong. Ben said:
"Miyamoto-kun, in the future, we must strengthen the control of used air and oil barrels and classify them as combat readiness materials. Every used gasoline barrel must be recycled and cannot be used by the Eighth Route Army."
"Now a large number of Eighth Route Army's main troops and artillery are concentrated outside Anping City. Notify the flying wing at Taiyuan Airport to send out all bombers and fighter jets to attack Chuxiong's headquarters. Their artillery positions must be blown up!"
"Order the independent mixed fifth brigade to quickly dispatch troops to Anping City and surround the main force of Chu Xiong's troops outside Anping City;
Everything is going according to plan, the snake has come out of the hole, Chu Xiong must not be given another chance to return to Liu Town! "
Xiao Zhuoyinan officially launched the "Cobra" plan with the purpose of encircling and annihilating the main force of the independent regiment. He attempted to use Anping City as bait and the independent mixed fifth brigade as a fishing net, using the tactics of central bloom to annihilate Chu Xiong's troops in one fell swoop.
At noon, when the garrison company launched a feint attack on Anping City, dozens of planes rushed over from Taiyuan Airport in black crows...
"Captain, according to the news from the peripheral observation posts, the Japanese planes have indeed dispatched."
He Zhenhua, commander of the garrison battalion, reported to Chu Xiong.
"Command the Second Pillar to throw four Wei Yixiao cannons to bomb the Japanese, use fake artillery positions to consume the Japanese bombs and confuse the Japanese!"
"Except for the first platoon and second platoon of the garrison company, which continued to feint to attack the county town, all other troops were scattered and hidden."
Chu Xiong reacted quickly and gave the Japanese a half-truth and half-false artillery position. It was only 4 Wei Yixiao cannons, and Chu Xiong suffered a lot of losses.
Without spending a little money, the Japanese will not be fooled;
The attacking garrison company pretended to be repulsed by the Japanese. After the infantry charged, the artillery began to bombard!
The two-pillar fake artillery position is located in a small forest more than 400 meters away from Anping City. The area is not very large. There are a large number of "cannons" camouflaged with wooden buckets buried inside. The outside is covered with leaves to camouflage, and some are directly used. A wooden fake gun barrel more than one meter long pointed diagonally at the sky. Behind the gun barrel were artillerymen disguised as straw men, and they were also dressed in the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army;
At least it looked like there was an artillery regiment, with only 4 real Wei Yixiao cannons in the middle, scattered in the four corners of the grove.
"Target, west city wall, four volleys, fire!"
Erzhu issued the order for bombardment. After receiving the order for bombardment, each artillery fired at Anping City at the rate of one explosive pack every three minutes.
"Boom boom boom..."
Several explosive packets hit the tower hard, and the huge explosion sound could be heard far away.
At nine o'clock, a group of large black birds came straight towards the Anping battlefield. Naturally, the big movement in the artillery position could not escape the sight of the Japanese planes.
"Yo Xi, the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army!"
Captain Takashi Sakai of the Japanese Third Flying Regiment was the first to discover the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army. Although the gun barrels and barrels erected on the ground were camouflaged, the outline of the cannon could still be vaguely seen. At least one artillery regiment !
After Ryuichi Sakai shook his fuselage and sent out a bombing signal to other aircraft, he piloted a Nakajima heavy bomber and swooped excitedly towards the Eighth Route Army artillery position that was still firing, like an eagle seeing a group of chickens. Same!
When Erzhuzi saw the Japanese taking off their planes and rushing towards them, they decisively issued a retreat order. The eight main, auxiliary and gunners left behind from the four guns dropped their guns and ran out of the woods...
How can the Japanese planes care about a few fleeing skirmishers? It's important to blow up cannons!
Sakai Takashi gave the bombing order to the bombardier. A moment later, like an old mother laying eggs, he dropped a string of heavy bombs on the "artillery position" of the Eighth Route Army. Other aircraft followed suit, and a feast from the sky began...
"Boom boom boom..."
Each "cannon" was overturned to the ground, each artilleryman was blown down and set on fire. This was definitely a one-sided massacre!
"Boom boom boom..."
Hundreds of aerial bombs dropped by sixteen bombers turned the entire artillery position into a sea of fire, with a small amount of explosions of artillery shells in the middle. The sound of the explosion could be felt by Colonel Sakai in the air.
"Yoshi! This is massacre, not challenging at all!"
Under the repeated ravages of the Japanese bombers, the Eighth Route "artillery position" hidden in the grove was completely destroyed. The Eighth Route "artillery" also suffered heavy casualties. Except for the few who escaped in front, Sakai did not see any more in the air. The living escaped.
After the Japanese planes dropped all their bombs, they were still unsatisfied and continued to use machine guns to fire wildly at the Eighth Route Army position. Finally, even fighter jets joined in;
In the view of Old Japanese Sakai, if the Eighth Route Army had no artillery, they would have nothing to do with Anping City.
"Itaiya!"
"Italy..."
"Salute to the Air Warriors!"
The devils on the city wall cheered...
