Heyuan County Japanese Military Police
"Sir, this is a telegram from Captain Fujimura." A Japanese telecommunications officer handed the telegram he had just translated to Ichiro Hirata.
Hirata Ichiro quickly took the telegram and looked at it, his expression was happy: "Great, Fujimura Noichi has found the main force of Tubal Road."
"Sir, although Jiang Deshui's troops still have 2,000 men who can fight, I think this force is still a bit small. Should we send more..." The staff officer did not finish his words.
Hirata Ichiro waved his hand and interrupted: "There is no need for this. Haven't you seen that Tubal Road has no way to escape. Playing guerrilla warfare is their strength. We can play positional warfare. This is our strength. This is the shortcoming of Tubal Road. There is an old saying in China: use one's own strengths to attack its weaknesses. This is what we are doing now."
"Ha Yi, it seems I said too much." The staff officer nodded.
"Give Fujimura Noichi a call back, and I will hold a celebration banquet in advance and wait for his triumphant return." Hirata Ichiro said.
"Ha Yi." The staff officer left.
"Haha, Tubal Road, what can a group of farmers do? I thought they could hold on for a while, but I didn't expect that it would be over so soon." Ichiro Hirata smiled disdainfully.
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386 Brigade Headquarters
"Brigadier Commander, the New Regiment just called to report that Kong Jie's independent regiment has sent the second and third battalions to the New Regiment and is urgently cooperating with the New Regiment in setting up defenses." The staff reported to the brigade commander.
"How many of Jiang Deshui's troops are still available to fight?" the brigade commander asked.
"Including the lightly wounded, there are still two thousand people." the staff officer replied.
"Li Yunlong's new regiment and Kong Jie's two battalions combined have a total of more than 1,500 people. Relying on the geographical advantages and sufficient weapons and ammunition, there is still hope to defeat the opponent's more than 2,000 people, but... The brigade commander pondered for a moment and looked at the staff: "As soon as this battle begins, telephone communication cannot be guaranteed. We have to send people to keep an eye on the battlefield. I want to know the progress of the battlefield at any time."
Radio stations were a scarce resource for the Eighth Route Army, and only the divisions and brigades were equipped with them.
The combat groups below basically rely on telephone communication.
But telephone communication is also very unreliable. In the event of a war, the enemy will destroy the communication and the troops will lose contact with their superiors.
"Yes." The staff officer went.
"Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong, you kid, please don't break the truth to me." The brigade commander muttered. He was not worried that Li Yunlong wouldn't win. This kid had already learned the truth about positional warfare.
What the brigade commander was worried about was that once the communication between Li Yunlong's troops was lost, this guy would be a wild horse running wild. Who knows what he would do.
Although Kong Jie helped keep an eye on it, the brigade commander was still a little worried.
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The biggest feature of the defensive position chosen by Li Yunlong is that it can defend against artillery.
The artillery protection mentioned here does not mean that artillery shells cannot destroy the position.
But when the artillery shells are flying, the troops can quickly escape to the reverse slope.
After these days of hard work, the enemy's six cannons had very little ammunition left.
As this fight continues and ammunition is consumed, the threat posed by enemy artillery can be further weakened.
"fire!"
After Jiang Deshui's troops pulled over, he immediately ordered the artillery fire.
boom!
boom!
boom!
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The six cannons roared, and the positions of the New Regiment and the Independent Regiment were suddenly bombarded indiscriminately. The fortifications were destroyed, stones were blown into the sky, and gunpowder smoke filled the air.
"Damn, what a good thing. Once captured, it will all belong to me." Li Yunlong and Kong Jie's troops were already hiding on the reverse slope. He lay in a safe place and watched the position being bombarded indiscriminately. , was very greedy for this cannon, although he already had an Italian cannon.
"Hmph, whoever grabs it belongs to him!" Kong Jie hummed at the side.
Although Li Yunlong was worried about the six cannons owned by the Japanese traitors, he had no way to capture them.
The battlefield is changing rapidly. Once the Japanese and traitors are defeated, they will take away the cannon. If they cannot take it away, they will destroy it.
It is too difficult for the New Group and the Independent Group to stop them.
"You idiot Kong Er, give me a try, this is my cannon!" Li Yunlong glared at Kong Jie.
"Your cannon? Don't be kidding. If it's really your cannon, then why are they blasting you now?" Kong Jie retorted.
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"Attack!" Taking advantage of the artillery suppressing Tubal Road on the position, Jiang Deshui immediately ordered the troops to attack.
A battalion of puppet soldiers immediately charged.
boom!
boom!
boom!
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They rushed halfway and stepped on the mines laid by the new group.
Dozens of casualties were paid on the spot. The remaining puppet troops were afraid of stepping on thunder and did not dare to charge any more and retreated.
"Engineers, go clear mines." The puppet army commander ordered the engineers to clear mines.
The engineer took the tools and just arrived at the minefield. Before the mines were discharged, a cold gun came over.
There were not many engineers, half of them fell immediately, and the remaining half retreated in pee.
"Fire, fire!" the commander of the puppet army ordered the mortars to fire immediately at the place where the cold gun was fired.
boom!
boom!
boom!
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Mortar shells rained down on them, and the place where the cold shots were fired was blown into briquettes.
The puppet army commanders did not have time to confirm whether the Tubal Road there was bombed.
Because the terrain is too steep, there may be landmines on the way there.
There were no more cold guns, so the puppet army commanders asked the remaining half of the engineers to clear mines.
This left half of the engineers to clear mines, but they were quickly shot to death by cold guns.
This time the cold shots came from the same place as before. It seemed that the mortar bombing just now did not kill them.
Seeing that half of the remaining engineers were killed, the commander of the puppet army roared: "Adjust the artillery fire, change the angle of the artillery!"
Three of the six cannons immediately adjusted their angles and leveled the place.
"Sir, we don't have demining engineers anymore. Should we grab some more cattle and sheep from the rear to clear the mines?" A puppet army commander asked Jiang Deshui.
"We have already arrested a batch before. If we catch more, there probably won't be any more." Jiang Deshui scratched his head. During the war years, all the roots of the turf and trees were dug up. It was impossible to raise cattle and sheep on a large scale.
In addition, their puppet troops went to the countryside from time to time to rob, and the number of cattle and sheep was even smaller.
"Then, let the soldiers charge next?" The leader of the puppet army stuttered a bit. The thunderstorm just now was only on the edge.
If we continue to go deeper, there will be a lot of landmines planted on Tubal Road. In terms of people, we don't know how many people will die.
"At this point, is there any other choice?" Jiang Deshui was helpless.
Although he has more troops than the other side, the other side occupies a favorable location and has laid out minefields. This job is really difficult.
But there is no way, Tubal Road has been found, and Fujimura Noichi is already sharpening his sword.
He couldn't run over and tell Fujimura Noichi that the soldiers were afraid of landmines and didn't dare to charge.
When the time comes, Fujimurano will slap him a few times, but he will still do the same.
Seeing this, the puppet army commander had no choice but to reorganize his troops and continue the charge.
Of course, this so-called organized force is not a hardline person, who is easily beaten by the soldiers or mutiny, but a heavy reward.
As the saying goes, there must be a brave man under a heavy reward.
The puppet army commanders promised a lot of money, and hundreds of puppet soldiers stood up and acted as death squads.
