"The Eighth Route Army shot down three Japs fighter jets?" Chu Yunfei and Fang Ligong couldn't help but look shocked when they saw the latest battle report! His eyes almost popped out of his head.
"Team leader, I'm afraid our Jinsui Army will no longer have a foothold in Jinyang." After a while, Fang Ligong sighed.
The Eighth Route Army was so powerful that Fang Ligong, who originally had a wishful thinking of taking over the Eighth Route Army and taking over Jinyang, now completely gave up on this idea.
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Now as long as the Eighth Route Army refuses to give way, it will be useless even if the old officer has eight mouths. Now whoever has the strength has the right to speak!
"Yangcheng, the Eighth Route Army is now at your fingertips! The Eighth Route Army in the Western Suburbs has broken through all the positions of the 4th Brigade. I thought Li Yunlong already had strong troops here, but I didn't expect that their main force is not here at all. The Western Suburbs is their main force. Where!”
Chu Yunfei joined the battle. Under Gao Jianwu's deliberate guidance, the strength of the artillery groups behind the third attack group and the fourth attack group were also informed to Chu Yunfei through Li Yunlong one by one, so that his 358th regiment did not need to fight hard and took their time to have fun. , when the fighting in the western suburbs ends, the powerful artillery group of the Ping An Cluster will come to attack the 14th Brigade from both sides!
Chu Yunfei was dumbfounded at that time!
When he heard the sound of artillery, he felt a little emotional in his heart. Now through Li Yunlong's words, he learned that their artillery was more powerful than he imagined, even several times stronger than the Little Japanese Ace Division A!
With such strength, it's no wonder that the Eighth Route Army didn't even inform him about this attack on Yangcheng.
Because there is no need at all!
In a big battle between three brigades, his 358th regiment company no longer has the qualifications to compete in the eyes of the opponent. This change in strength has happened in the past month or so. How did the Eighth Route Army develop so fast? !
Chu Yunfei was really confused.
However, he was secretly glad that he finally came at the right time and caught up with the best time to get a piece of the pie.
"Brother Ligong, although the Jinsui Army has no foothold, our 358th Regiment has finally caught up. We should have no problem in Jin. I just don't know how the other side will arrange my 358th Regiment after the war. I hope there will be a I am satisfied with the county land." Chu Yunfei retracted his free thoughts, turned to the other party and said meritorious service.
"Since they have defeated them all, we don't have to compromise our own strength. We can order the frontline infantry to stand still and use mortars to carry out long-range attacks. There is no need to save artillery shells for me. If we turn around and fire out the artillery shells, we will ask Li Yunlong to reimburse him!"
Chu Yunfei gave such orders, and in Fang Ligong's eyes, Tuan Zuo seemed to have changed into a completely different person, more similar to a rough and arrogant man like Li Yunlong.
Fang Ligong was secretly wary, but he couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness deep in his heart.
Now that the general trend is on the side of the Eighth Route Army, their 358th Regiment must either integrate actively or passively, or get out of their way! There is no third way in the middle.
Just like when the Eighth Route Army first arrived in Jin Dynasty, with a single word from Chief Yan, the prosperous Eighth Route Army was marginalized almost instantly.
It seemed that Commander Yan had the upper hand and advantage, but in fact, looking back now, Fang Ligong realized that it was the only opportunity he had missed. If half of the Jinsui Army had deeply integrated with the Eighth Route Army, the Japs would not have taken advantage of him so easily. Most of the rich lands in Jin!
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Seeing that the Xijiao position collapsed after holding on for less than 2 hours, Nishio Shoucheng was completely mentally shattered!
"Order, the entire Lianjie Special Detachment must assemble and prepare for a tactical shift to the east!"
"Order, the Eighth and Ninth Brigades of the Imperial Association Army immediately leave the city and take over the defense of the 14th Brigade!"
"Order, the 14th Brigade retreats one by one, and prepare to join the Lianjie Special Detachment and move in together!"
"Order, the gendarmerie brigade immediately destroys valuable information and assembles the team to prepare to leave the city!"
Without any intention of asking for instructions from above, Nishio Tosunari was ready to leave.
The Eighth and Ninth Brigades of the Imperial Association Army, under the coercion of more than 20 little devil advisers and battalion commanders at all levels, led their troops out of the city in a hurry, and shot more than a dozen cowardly soldiers and squad platoon leaders in succession. Force the team into position.
"Captain, there seems to be some chaos behind the Japs' position, a bit like a substitution." Zhang Dabiao has been watching the dynamics on the other side. Although they say they are launching an attack, it is actually a sheep attack. Their main task is to block the attack. Stay on the Japs' route to escape south.
Li Yunlong used offense instead of defense, and it has been very successful so far. At least after Shoucheng Xiwei made a judgment, he gave up his intention to advance southward and chose the relatively quiet east side instead.
Although Xing Zhiguo showed off his troops, he didn't show any muscles. There were obviously hungry wolves in the west, which he couldn't afford to offend. The enemy in the south also showed off a large number of artillery pieces, but there was only silence in the east. Hisashi Nishio thought he was easy to bully.
As for the north, Nishio Shoucheng didn't think about it at all. There were high mountains and ridges, and Nishio Shoucheng didn't expect to escape smoothly. On the east, there were two divisions that could respond, so Nishio Shoucheng had nothing to consider.
"Inform Gao Jianwu and Chu Yunfei that the enemy in the south is retreating, and the new replacement troops are puppet troops!" After observing for a while, Li Yunlong immediately understood what the little devil was thinking. Although he had no idea about modern warfare, , but in terms of discerning changes in the battlefield, Lao Li can be said to be a self-taught geek!
He quickly connected the changes in the entire battle situation and noticed the real changes in the enemy!
Not only him, Chu Yunfei also quickly noticed the changes on the battlefield, and Li Yunlong naturally confirmed it as soon as he was informed.
"Dongyao, Dongyao, leave two battalions and Captain Chu to surround the puppet troops without moving.
The rest of the troops immediately dispatched to pursue the escaping Japs. If nothing else happens, they would break out toward the east! You encircle from the southeast, we encircle from the northwest, and resolutely eliminate the main force of the Japs near Yangcheng! "
In this battle, Li Yunlong was nominally the supreme commander, but in fact Gao Jianwu was commanding the entire army.
Lao Li also has some confidence. He is still somewhat confident about a single military unit. In a large-scale battle like this where artillery is the main force, Lao Li feels that he can still learn and master it before it is too late.
"Dong Yao understands." Li Yunlong responded.
He has seven main infantry battalions, one artillery battalion and one supply company. If the two puppet army brigades in Yangcheng kill more than 10,000 people, leaving two main battalions and the 358th regiment surrounded and immobile, then this Ten thousand cannon fodder and puppet troops really can't move, and they will die if they move!
Obviously Gao Jianwu wanted to collect these puppet troops after finishing dealing with the little devils.
Now the source of his troops, except for the rescued prisoners of war, are mostly transformed from the puppet army. Now these 10,000 puppet troops are also Gao Jianwu's new target.
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Lian Jie Dazuo fully agreed with Xiwei Shoucheng's order to break out of the encirclement, and even felt that the order came too late. When they reinforced Jinyang and heard about the fall of Jinyang in the Yangqu area, the 14th Brigade agreed with him and quickly moved to Yangqu. City, proved to be extremely wise.
Now the 4th Brigade was destroyed in a short period of time, and the 14th Brigade also suffered a lot of casualties under the bombardment of two artillery battalions on the 8th Route (including the 358th Regiment), and its strength was almost reduced by half!
But it was still too late. While Lian Jie was gathering his troops, he began to order the artillery brigade's mountain artillery to bombard Xing Zhiguo's position to clear the way!
Among the four brigades under his command, the First Brigade took the lead in attacking and charged towards Xing Zhiguo's defense line.
Xing Zhiguo set up blocking positions on two small hills to the east. The main force was placed on the hills and behind them, blocking the eastward highway. He deployed his heavy machine gun firepower on the two hills to lock the small hills tightly. The route the Japanese took eastward.
One guard regiment was placed on the mountains far away from the left and right wings of the position to prevent the Japs from outflanking them, while the other guard regiment was placed as a reserve force for the follow-up.
On the highway, sandbags were used to form three lines of defense, and three machine gun squads defended behind the sandbags.
It's just that now all these machine gun firepower points are hidden and not exposed to the little Japanese outpost reconnaissance.
Behind the hill, there are two 90mm mortar company positions. They have pre-calculated the artillery parameter table in the artillery range from 500 meters to 2500 meters in front of the position. The remaining hundreds of mortars are distributed in different blocking areas. point, forming a firepower point all over the position.
As the defensive side, this distribution is also planned. According to the instructions of Gao Jianwu's soldiers, scattered mortar artillery positions are formed at single points, and a virtual artillery battery is formed with 6 guns for unified command. Although the locations are not consistent, they are divided After the coordinates of the battlefield location, these 6 mortars can be unified to command concentrated artillery fire through parameter correction!
In this way, you still have powerful group combat capabilities! But it avoids the risk of being taken over by the little devil.
Gao Jianwu has innovated many practical tactics in the application of artillery.
For Xing Zhiguo, who lacks long-range fire counterattack capabilities, this method can maximize the artillery coverage within 3,000 meters in front of the position. Even if the little devil has mountain cannons, it is useless. The scattered points will not allow mountain cannons with a slower rate of fire to have any effect. What a victory.
The mountain artillery brigade of the Lianjie detachment bombarded Xing Zhiguo's hill position from a distance. It seemed fierce, but with Xing Zhiguo's troops desperately digging trenches, the lethality was not very strong.
Even if there is only a small pit with a depth of forty or fifty centimeters, if you hide in it, as long as you are not directly hit nearby, this kind of trench can perfectly avoid the damage of shrapnel.
When Lian Jie Dazuo came to two kilometers in front of Xing Zhiguo's position, he stopped to observe the opponent. He used a telescope to observe carefully, but could not see any movement. If the scouts had not confirmed that there were a large number of Eighth Route Army ambushes on those two hills, Lian Jie Dazuo would have stopped. Zuo didn't believe there was anyone up there.
"Order the First Battalion to attack!" Lian Jie Dazuo no longer hesitated. Nishio Hisari asked him to be the pioneer, and he also wanted to open a way out as soon as possible.
"Hey!" Captain Shi Sanlang Shaozuo of the first brigade was an ugly man with a fat face. He pulled out his command knife, left Lian Jie Dazuo with great momentum, and commanded his brigade to start attacking Xing Zhiguo's defense line. , a fierce battle officially kicked off!
