Sakata United is no longer as fierce as before. More than one-third of the original three infantry brigades were destroyed alive.
Currently, his Sakata Regiment has less than two infantry brigades.
The reason is that Bantian still left some defensive forces in Ningyang County, and his artillery brigade had previously lost a squadron in an ambush by the supervision team.
He also has a tank squadron under his banner, and he also lost five tanks when he reinforced Dongping County. So at this time, his tank squadron only had eight tanks of various types left.
However, there were many puppet troops. There were nearly 4,000 puppet troops in the two regiments of the first division. Although they were ambushed by the Special 1st Battalion in Feiyun Ridge and lost some people, their total strength was still more than 3,600.
And coupled with the Japs from Sakata's regiment, the total strength of Sakata's mixed brigade can reach more than 6,000 people.
So this time, Dragon Boat Festival can be regarded as a snake swallowing an elephant. After all, his main battle battalion still stayed on the edge of the Yellow River to attract the attention of the Japanese!
After deducting the supply battalions that cannot participate in the war, the number of troops currently available for Dragon Boat Festival is less than 5,000. Moreover, each battalion has been supplemented by a lot of new soldiers, and the combat effectiveness is greatly reduced.
But even so, Danwu still wants to get rid of Sakata United.
Of course, you can never eat one bite, and you must eat it one bite at a time during the Dragon Boat Festival.
But at this time, the old devil Sakata had no idea that Duanwu had killed a carbine and was heading towards him. He was still waiting at the ferry for the Dragon Boat Festival to eat cannon fodder.
He ordered the troops to move forward quickly, trying to surround the Dragon Boat Festival at the ferry with the Japanese troops on the western front.
So, the opportunity for the Dragon Boat Festival came.
The scouts sent before the Dragon Boat Festival reported to the Dragon Boat Festival that the Japanese and puppet troops moved very fast and did not send scouts along the way. They were in a hurry to march, and the troops were stretched very long.
When Duanwu heard the news, he became excited instantly. The little devil marched in a hurry and was very tired. He was simply here to kill someone.
"map!"
Dragon Boat Festival called out the map, and Lao Abacus quickly took out the map and spread it on the ground.
Yu Mang saw the old abacus in the corner of Dragon Boat Festival and said in surprise: "When did you come back?"
The old abacus smiled and said: "I just came back not long ago, and I stopped by to learn about the ammunition consumption of each department."
Duanwu asked: "If the opponent has nearly 6,000 people, will the bullets of our submachine guns be enough?"
The old abacus thought for a moment, then shook his head and said: "Commander, according to the combat style of the corps I supervise, it is absolutely not enough to eliminate 6,000 enemies without 60,000 rounds of ammunition. And not all of these 6,000 people were killed by submachine guns. Yes. Hehe!"
Duanwu smiled bitterly and said: "There is nothing we can do about this. Who can care so much about the fight? After this battle, you will be busy. The submachine gun can no longer be used, so you have to re-install the Jaap machine gun." Distributed. Our firepower cannot be reduced. Once it is reduced, the combat effectiveness of our supervision team will not be much different from that of ordinary troops."
"It's a group seat, I'll think about it now!"
Lao Abacus responded, but had no intention of leaving. Instead, he sat next to Duanwu. Dragon Boat Festival ordered the communications troops to call Sun Shiyu, Zhao Weidong and others.
Shangguan Zhibiao, Sun Shiyu and others were not there because they were waiting for orders from the Dragon Boat Festival about two kilometers away on the other side of the mountain road.
Therefore, Dragon Boat Festival only called a few officers from the team.
Duanwu pointed at the map and said: "The little devils are coming towards us. They are marching very fast and they did not send out scouts. This means that the old Japs Sakata must think that we are still at the ferry. So he Then he hurried over with his people.
This is an opportunity for us. If the little devils cooperate, it is not impossible for us to defeat the many with less and wipe out Sakata's mixed brigade. "
"Tuanzu, just tell me what to do! Brothers are waiting!"
Sun Shiyu was the first to ask angrily.
Duanwu said: "Look, this is the 305 small highland where the Special 1st Battalion is deployed. And the road extending from here to Pingyin County is our position to kill the enemy.
In other words, the five kilometers of mountain road extending northeast from Highland No. 305 is our battlefield. Gather all the people at a distance of two to five kilometers from small highland No. 305. We will attack the troops behind them first. After quickly killing nearly half of Sakata's brigade, we quickly encircle the small highland No. 305. Together with the Special First Battalion, we worked together to annihilate this Sakata mixed brigade. "
"Tuanzu, that's great. If your plan succeeds, none of the little devils will be able to escape."
Zhao Weidong said excitedly at this time. But Dragon Boat Festival was not as optimistic as Zhao Weidong, because this was a mixed brigade of Japanese troops with more than 4,000 people going to kill at least 6,000 people, and there were also Japanese tank squadrons among them.
Therefore, the task of destroying this tank squadron was placed in the hands of Sun Shiyu. Moreover, Sun Shiyu's artillery battalion not only had to blow up the Japs' tanks, but also cooperated with the main force to complete a rapid strangulation operation.
Strangulation operations are different from ordinary ambushes. Strangulation uses superior firepower to strangle the enemy in a short time.
For example, the enemy has a regiment of troops hurriedly walking on an unobstructed mountain road. At this moment, you ambush a force equal to the opponent's in the dark. In a short period of time, with the help of machine guns, heavy machine guns, and submachine guns, you will The opponent shot him on the spot.
The emphasis here is on a short period of time, because if the enemy is given time to counterattack, it can only be regarded as an ordinary ambush.
In other words, in order to shorten the battle time in strangulation operations, the ambush troops will come out of the bunker, hold superior firepower, and completely suppress the enemy, even at the cost of confronting the enemy.
Therefore, this tactic would not be used easily even during the Dragon Boat Festival. Because of strangulation operations, casualties will be much higher than ordinary ambush operations.
But at this time, Dragon Boat Festival had to do this.
Because once the enemy is not defeated in a short period of time, the Japanese troops in front will quickly react. It is very likely that some of them will pin down the Special 1st Battalion, and the remaining Japanese and puppet troops will counterattack against the ambush troops.
Once the two sides form a confrontation, the supervision team will be in an extremely unfavorable situation.
In other words, they will be dragged by the Japs near the 305 small highland, and then the Japs' reinforcements will surround the Dragon Boat Festival here layer by layer, and finally be annihilated in the 305 small highland.
So in this battle, the word 'quick' is the key.
As long as the supervision team is fast enough, they will have a chance to annihilate Sakata's mixed brigade. And if the speed is not fast enough, then the supervision team will be in a huge crisis! .
(End of chapter)
