Ryuichi Okamoto was sitting in the car at the head of the team. Although he was anxious, his face was still calm. He held the Zuogan sword in his hand and held it with his whole body. The five three-wheelers in front of him were pulling away for several hundred meters. .
More than 10 cars from Pingcheng all drove out. Two squadrons of the military police brigade, an artillery squad and a machine gun squad formed by collecting prodigies and machine gunners came out. There were almost 500 people. The artillery squad and the machine gun squad enjoyed the ride in the car. Welfare, towing two Type 92 infantry guns and carrying 4 Type 92 heavy machine guns, as well as 4 Type 94 90mm mortars and a base ammunition went first;
Next behind the military police brigade was a reinforced battalion of the Royal Association Army, including the regiment's machine gun company and mortar company, with nearly 700 people. The regiment leader Feng Qingshi personally led the team and followed Okamoto Ryuichi's team.
Finally, there was a baggage team composed of carts and mules and horses. Under the escort of a small team of little devils, nearly 300 strong men were captured from Pingcheng to transport ammunition supplies.
A massive 1,500 people came, and the queue stretched out for nearly one kilometer. It looked quite intimidating.
As soon as the Japanese made a move, spies from all sides began to frantically inquire and pass on information.
Because no one knows why the little devils suddenly came out in full force.
Almost at the same time, the little Japanese from Lincheng and Mianshan Fortress also set out at the same time.
In the direction of Mianshan Fortress, the 1st and 2nd Squadrons of the 38th Infantry Brigade, as well as 2 machine gun squads and 1 artillery squadron of the brigade's machine gun squadron, marched towards Wanjia Town in five vehicles loaded with heavy weapons. Before setting off, Captain Jiro Harada, the leader of the 1st Squadron of the Little Devils, arrogantly assured the captain, Saburo Aoba, in the left, that the Mianshan Task Force's combat goal is to annihilate all the 8th Route Army that invaded Wanjia Town!
In Lincheng, Captain Horuchi Katsuki of the 40th Brigade, center left, pieced together more than 50 vehicles from Lincheng, and personally led the Lincheng task force to achieve a fully mechanized march!
The entire task force not only dispatched two infantry squadrons, Horuchi Katsuki also persuaded the brigade commander to allow him to bring two mountain cannons from the Lincheng Artillery Squadron and two 92 infantry cannons from the brigade! With the addition of two machine gun squads, the combat effectiveness of the Lincheng task force is almost as good as that of a large group.
Horuchi Katsuki is different from a stupid young man like Harada Jiro. Before going to the battle, he had already considered that the worst case scenario would be to encounter the main force of the 8th Route brigade in Wanjia Town!
After all, ordinary people on the Tu8 Road would not dare to think about robbing military columns, and they had no intelligence to intercept them.
As for those who accidentally encountered the Tu 8th Road, even a regiment would be hard-pressed to defeat a military column guarded by nearly a squadron and an armored vehicle in a short period of time. However, Wanjia Town reported that the enemy had dispatched the 92nd Infantry Artillery. This basically eliminates the possibility of accidental interception on Tu8 Road.
The main force appears on Route 8!
Next, no news came out of Wanjia Town and no military reports were reported. Various signs showed that the worst-case scenario of the entire army being annihilated had already occurred there.
It was precisely because of the speculation that the 8th main force appeared in Wanjia Town that Major General Mitsuo Kawada mobilized a large force close to 2 brigades to encircle and suppress them.
Nearly 500 people were dispatched from Mianshan Fortress and nearly 700 people were dispatched from Lincheng. Together with the attached artillery and heavy machine guns, this was already more than the strength of a brigade.
The lion fights the rabbit with all his strength. With such fighting power, Horiuchi wins the battle in the middle and left, feeling confident that he can win this battle.
Moreover, in order to shorten the reinforcement time and reduce the time disparity, Horuchi Katsuki has done his best to shorten the time for the Lincheng team to rush to Wanjia Town to less than 3 hours.
In this way, the distance between his troops and the troops departing from the Mianshan Fortress was just over an hour. Horuchi Katsuki did not inform the troops of the Mianshan Task Force to wait for the Lincheng Task Force to converge.
With the combat effectiveness of the Mianshan Task Force, Horuchi Katsuki did not believe that he would not be able to sustain it for an hour.
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Now, all the situations are beyond the expectations of both parties.
In this battle with extremely asymmetric information, the senior leaders of both sides were blind and relied entirely on their own understanding to operate blindly.
As for the Little Devils, they have already made arrangements as if they were an 8th-route brigade. On the Dagushan side, Gao Jianwu designed the campaign according to the rhythm of three waves of reinforcements, and believed that the first wave of Eastern Front reinforcements was the weakest. A link.
Now, Gao Jianwu crossed the eastern front blocking position and appeared in the mountain forest beside the road about 2 miles east of the position. He hid in the mountain forest with the help of camouflage clothes and slowly ate dry food to regain his strength.
The commando team jogged for about 5 miles, which is about a dozen miles. It was much easier than the 15-kilometer cross-country run in daily training. However, considering that they had been fighting for two consecutive games, the team members were still physically exhausted.
Song Tiecheng finished chewing a piece of dry food and took a gulp of water, feeling somewhat satisfied. Pull out the machine gun magazine, check it, and then fill it up.
"Captain, will the kid really come out?" Song Tiecheng couldn't help but ask after staring at the road ahead for a while but seeing no movement.
"They will definitely come. No, they are already on their way!" In Gao Jianwu's mind, the intelligence system has been updated at this moment, and the Japs in Pingcheng, Lincheng and Mianshan Fortress have all been dispatched.
It's just that this low system only prompts here, and it doesn't even bother to update the dispatch scale.
"Then labor and management are going to have a big fight today." Song Tiecheng became excited.
"When you are busy today," Gao Jianwu shook his head, "Maybe you will have to play three games in a row! You will pee blood from exhaustion!"
? ? ? Song Tiecheng was filled with question marks.
Gao Jianwu stopped talking, stared in the direction of Pingcheng, and fell into brief contemplation.
Song Tiecheng didn't nag anymore. He still had a good eye and knew when to ask and when to shut up.
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West Line.
Shen Quan led his team to the sniper position and briefly observed the environment. Shen Quan couldn't help but admire Gao Jianwu again and fell to the ground.
He didn't know when Gao Jianwu became so familiar with the terrain in this area and found such a good sniper position: there were roads sandwiched between hills on both sides.
Placing the main force on the top of the hill and condescendingly, the Japs couldn't launch an attack formation on the road. If the Japs didn't have artillery to bombard the hills, Shen Quan even thought that he could snipe the Japs' attack with a single detachment.
"Xiao Zhou, hurry up and blow up that rock to block the road. The rest will build fortifications on both sides of the mountain immediately!" Shen Quan put away his emotion and directed the two detachments to start taking action immediately.
"Gather the mortars. Xilai, you will command the mortar platoon." Shen Quan looked around, pointed at a hilltop and said to Wang Xilai, the deputy captain of the unit.
"You go to build a mortar position on this hilltop. Your mission is to kill the enemy's artillery at all costs! If the kid doesn't send out the artillery, you just sit back and don't worry about the sniper position."
"The key to this battle is to lock down the Japs first. As long as the Japs artillery is destroyed, they will not be able to get through no matter how many people they have!"
"Understood! Instructor, our task is to keep an eye on the Japanese artillery." Wang Xilai, as the deputy captain of the unit who is chasing ducks, has been forced to grow up a lot, and his face shows a perseverance that is not suitable for his age.
"The mortar team resolutely completed the mission!"
Although there are no rhetoric, Shen Quan knows that this is the foundation of the 8-way old foundation, the foundation that is worthy of handing over his back.
Shen Quan didn't say anything more, walked forward and patted Wang Xilai hard on the shoulder, saying nothing.
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