"Division Commander, I just had a phone call with Lieutenant General Aoki. Lieutenant General Aoki said that those who fired at the 56th Division were most likely the rocket launcher unit of the New Regiment of the Eighth Route Army!"
After a while, after giving the order, Seio Nishihara reported to Takamori Takaui with a solemn expression.
"Nani?" Takamori Takashi said in shock, "The rocket launcher unit of the Eighth Route New Regiment?"
Takashi Takamori had heard of the Eighth Route Army's rocket launcher unit, but didn't know much about it.
However, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, who has led the 11th Army to Shanxi for more than half a year, needs to know more about this weapon of the Eighth Route Army.
"Hi!"
Seio Nishihara replied in a hurried tone, "The first time the Eighth Route Army used this weapon was when they attacked Datong where the 1st Division was stationed. The first time it was used, almost all of an elite brigade of the Locust Army was shattered!"
"The commander of the Locust Army Garrison in Mongolia, Lieutenant General Amakasu Shigetaro, and the commander of the 3rd Tank Division, Lieutenant General Nishihara Issaku, were killed by this weapon!"
"Judging from the explosion just now, the Eighth Route Army's rocket launcher unit has obviously strengthened again!"
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the enemy's rocket launcher unit must be coming towards our headquarters!"
"We must move in immediately!"
When Seio Nishihara said this, Lieutenant General Takashi Takamori immediately remembered it.
The headquarters of the Army Garrison in Mongolia and the headquarters of the 3rd Tank Division were killed by the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army.
Think again of the Shimen City Locust Army headquarters being covered by artillery fire...
"Bagaya Road, turn to Baoding immediately!" Without enough time to think too much, Takamori Takashi tightened his grip, took the lieutenant general's sword on the table and walked out quickly.
Several fast horses arranged by Seihara Seihara were waiting outside, and Takamori Takashi got on the horse.
More than a hundred elite guards emerged from various hiding places and followed closely behind.
"Turn in now!"
After giving the order, Masio Nishihara quickly walked out of the headquarters, got on his horse and chased after Takamori Takashi.
At the same time, the Japanese headquarters of the 40th Division also immediately retreated.
The Japanese who were fighting the Eighth Route Army left some of them behind and retreated one after another.
Takamori Takashi and Seihara Nishihara had just withdrawn from that area with their headquarters.
After a while.
A large hail of rockets struck, completely covering the headquarters location where Takamori Takashi and Seio Nishihara were previously in a sea of smoke and fire.
Although the Katyusha rocket launcher has powerful firepower.
However, the reloading time is long and it takes 10 minutes to reload and launch.
The second wave of rockets, guided by Duan Peng, shelled the 11th Division headquarters.
Of course, Duan Peng didn't know the specific location of the 11th Division, he only knew that there must be Japs in that area.
But it wasn't a big problem. More than 1,000 rockets directly covered that area with artillery fire.
"Bagaya road!"
Seeing that the previous headquarters was covered by artillery fire, Takashi Takamori cursed angrily.
The entire plan to attack and destroy the Eighth Route Army in Central Hebei was disrupted by the sudden heavy artillery fire.
Facing the heavy artillery fire in front of him, Takamori Takashi couldn't help but feel a hint of fear in his pupils.
How to fight this battle?
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, fortunately we moved in quickly, otherwise we would have been blown to pieces by now."
The face of the Chief of Staff, Colonel Masio Nishihara, was full of fear.
Faced with this kind of all-round artillery fire coverage, even Amaterasu would have to kneel down if he came.
"Nishihara-kun, have you arranged your transfer?"
Takamori asked in a deep voice.
"Reporting to the division commander, everything has been arranged!" Nishihara Seio replied.
Being able to become the Chief of Staff of the 11th Division, Seio Nishihara is naturally no longer a loser.
Although Seiyo Nishihara's military rank is only Colonel, his military ability is stronger than that of the average Japanese major general.
Hearing this, Takashi Takamori breathed a sigh of relief. It's good that the troops have withdrawn. Now all he needs to do is withdraw the large troops and then transfer to Baoding.
The Eighth Route Army in Central Hebei would never dare to pursue it.
After a pause, Nishihara Seifu said again:
"However, the 56th Division Headquarters is still unable to be contacted. I have asked the division headquarters' communications team to bypass the 56th Division and issue transfer orders to each regiment and group of the 56th Division!"
Seeing that Seio Nishihara had made arrangements, Takashi Takamori nodded, and then asked with a gloomy expression: "Where did this Eighth Route Army Rocket Force unit come from?"
At this moment, the communications staff officer of the 11th Division walked over quickly and bowed his head to Takamori Takashi to report: "Report to the division commander!"
"Just now Lieutenant Colonel Nagasaki Yoshio, commander of the 56th Infantry Regiment, reported that the enemy's artillery unit is due east, only a few kilometers away from the Infantry Regiment!"
Due to the tight fighting situation, the 11th Infantry Regiment and the 40th Infantry Regiment were both sent to the battlefield to attack the Jizhong Eighth Route Army positions.
The 56th Regiment of Heavy Troops was also sent to a large group on the battlefield.
Only two brigades of the 56th Baggage Troop Regiment were left guarding the forest. Therefore, when the members of the Sharp Sword Squadron were conducting reconnaissance, there were clearly cars and mules and horses from three baggage regiments, but only a thousand
The remaining people.
All the devils in the woods could clearly see the dense trajectory of rockets streaking through the air.
The communications staff officer continued: "Lieutenant Colonel Nagasaki Yoshio requested to lead troops to attack the enemy's artillery positions!"
Since the 56th Division headquarters was destroyed, Nagasaki Yoshio could not contact the 56th Division headquarters, so he directly contacted the 11th Division headquarters.
"Immediately order Lieutenant Colonel Nagasaki Yoshio to lead the troops to attack!"
"Destroy the enemy's artillery positions!"
After hearing this, Takamori issued the order without hesitation.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the baggage of the 11th Division, 40th Division and 56th Division are all in the woods. Once they are lost..."
Nishihara Seiyo advised with a worried tone.
"It doesn't matter if the baggage is lost!" Takamori Takashi said, "In Baoding and Peiping, there are plenty of supplies, but as long as we can destroy the Eighth Route Army's rocket launchers, or even capture the enemy's rocket launchers, it will be a great achievement."
Now that Takamori Takashi said so, Seio Nishihara stopped trying to persuade him. He had already done what a chief of staff should do.
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The communications staff member suddenly lowered his head, turned around and walked quickly towards the radio station.
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In the woods 3 kilometers away from the Jinju battlefield.
After receiving the order from Takamori Takashi, Lieutenant Colonel Nagasaki Yoshio suddenly looked fanatical.
The strength of the baggage regiments of the 40th Division and the 56th Division was approximately 3,000 men, while the strength of the baggage regiments of the 11th Division reached 5,000 men.
Nagasaki Yoshio also envied the captains of the 40th Baggage Regiment and the 11th Baggage Regiment for being able to lead their troops to fight on the battlefield.
He also wants to make contributions to the empire and His Majesty Tian Locust.
And now.
A perfect opportunity is right in front of you.
Eighth Route Artillery Position.
Right under your nose.
And it's a heavy artillery position.
As long as he leads his troops to attack, Potian's military exploits will be at his fingertips!
The three baggage regiments were well hidden in the woods and were never discovered by the Eighth Route Army's reconnaissance planes.
Otherwise, they would have been killed by Eighth Route Army planes.
Or perhaps the heavy artillery firepower from the Eighth Route Army just now came directly towards them.
Various circumstances indicate that Balu did not know.
An elite Locust Army unit was hiding not far from the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery position.
Although the Japanese army's baggage troops are logistics troops, they are mainly responsible for transporting materials, supplies, repairing and maintaining transportation, personnel transfer and rescue tasks.
The equipment of the baggage troops is inferior to that of the infantry regiments.
But whether it is tactical training or shooting training, the Japanese army's heavy equipment is the same as the Japanese army's infantry.
In the Battle of Pingxingguan that year, the 115th Eighth Route Army used its entire division to ambush the Japanese 5th Division's baggage regiment with regular field troops. In the end, it was a tragic victory.
The combat effectiveness of the Japanese army's baggage troops cannot be underestimated.
At present, Nagasaki Yoshio still has two baggage brigades with a total strength of about 1,700 people, more than 500 cars, and more than 3,000 mules and horses.
"Call me the order, the 2nd Squadron of the 3rd Baggage Brigade will stay behind to protect the baggage!"
"The 2nd Baggage Brigade, the 1st and 3rd Squadrons of the 3rd Brigade, follow me to attack the enemy's heavy artillery position!"
Lieutenant Colonel Nagasaki Yoshio issued the combat order with murderous intent.
Following his orders.
In the woods, empty Type 94 trucks were driven out of their hiding places.
On the 1994 truck, the Japanese even used some tree branches to spread on the truck to hide themselves.
"Haaaagu!"
"Haaaagu!"
"..."
Under the orders of the Japanese squadron leaders and squad leaders.
The Japanese armed with 38 rifles and crooked light machine guns and with grass rings on their heads boarded the vehicle one after another.
The movements are skillful and orderly, and the fighting spirit is full of enthusiasm.
For those who didn’t know, they thought they were the main elite of the Japs.
However, the Japs moved very quickly.
In just two minutes, 1,500 Japanese soldiers were assembled and all boarded the train.
Nagasaki Yoshio also boarded a truck near the front, whipped out his command saber, and ordered with murderous intent: "Open the way!"
The motors of the 1994 trucks rang out, and there were more than 60 trucks loaded with Japanese troops.
They filed out of the woods and pounced along the road towards a new group of Katyusha rocket launchers.
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"Captain, look, the Japanese transport troops are coming out!"
Special operations team member Wang Yousheng exclaimed and immediately reported to Duan Peng and Wang Xikui.
Duan Peng and Wang Xikui heard this and quickly raised their telescopes to take a look.
Sure enough, at the entrance road to the woods, we saw Japanese 94 trucks driving out. The trucks were loaded with Japanese troops carrying live ammunition, and two crooked machine guns were mounted on the roof of the driving shed of the first truck.
"The Japanese want to take away our Katyusha artillery position!"
As soon as Wang Xikui saw the direction in which the Japanese convoy was heading, he immediately understood the Japanese's intention.
"Now there's something good to watch!"
"This bunch of devils are here to show off their military exploits."
A smile suddenly appeared on Wang Gensheng, the captain of the 1st Squadron:
"Our new regiment's heavy tank battalion and more than 200 heavy tanks from each heavy-armed combined battalion are coming from the Katyusha rocket launcher position."
"Dozens of Japanese trucks are coming right up to meet us."
"Tsk tsk...the next scene is so beautiful."
Duan Peng also smiled slightly: "However, this saves us from using our main force. There is at most one squadron of Japs left in the woods."
He was just discussing with Wang Xikui how to seize the Japanese war supplies.
Calling in air support to bomb and direct Katyusha rocket bombing will definitely not work.
One round of aerial bombs and one round of rockets washed the ground, and the combat supplies were directly destroyed.
Although this batch of combat supplies is useless to the New Regiment.
But the combat supplies of the three divisions are not a small amount.
Even if the new regiment cannot use it, it can be used by other Eighth Route Army brother units.
For example, the brothers of the Jizhong Eighth Route Army had just fought a fierce battle with the Japanese.
If we can get supplies of this batch of combat materials.
Combat effectiveness can be improved quickly.
"Let's not watch the show either."
"Give me the order."
"Ready to fight!"
Duan Peng looked solemn and gave the order.
At this time, the tank troops were about to arrive, and there was no need to guide the Katyusha rocket troops to fire.
After the Japanese army left the woods, Duan Peng prepared to lead a squadron of sharp swords to kill the remaining Japanese soldiers.
"yes!"
Wang Xikui turned around and went to deliver the order.
"Chengfeng, immediately call Sun Desheng, commander of the heavy tank battalion, and inform him that a group of Japanese soldiers is heading towards them!"
"There are about 60 Japanese cars!"
Immediately, Duan Peng issued another order to Ma Chengfeng, the correspondent of the Sharp Sword Brigade.
"Yes, Captain!"
Ma Chengfeng immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and called Sun Desheng.
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"go ahead!"
On the Japanese military convoy, on the Type 94 truck, Lieutenant Colonel Nagasaki Yoshio waved the command sword in his hand and roared loudly.
He looked proud.
It seemed as if what was under my feet was not a Type 94 truck, but a Type 97 medium tank.
Nagasaki Yoshio and Yamazaki Yehei look a bit similar, especially their body shapes are quite different.
Both of them are short, bow-legged, and stocky, with necks as thick as their heads. At first glance, they look like a large shotgun bullet.
certainly.
Nagasaki Yoshio is the same as Yamazaki Yehei, they are both samurai who are ready to sacrifice themselves for His Majesty the Locust.
By this time, the entire convoy had already left the woods.
Every two trucks drove side by side along the road toward the Eighth Route Army's Katyusha rocket launcher position.
Nagasaki Yoshio turned around and looked at the majestic motorcade behind him.
The expression on his face swayed slightly when he thought that Po Tian's military exploits would belong to him.
Looking back, Lieutenant Colonel Nagasaki raised his telescope and looked forward.
Lieutenant Colonel Nagasaki's expression suddenly changed.
I saw a dozen tanks appearing in the field of view of the ∞ telescope, driving side by side in the direction of his convoy.
"Nani?"
Lieutenant Colonel Nagasaki exclaimed in disbelief.
He thought he had seen it wrong, so he raised the telescope again and looked forward, only to see more tanks appearing in the field of view of the telescope.
It was so densely packed that there were hundreds of them!
Behind the tanks were soldiers of the Eighth Route Army covering the mountains and plains.
The main force of the Eighth Route Army has arrived!
"Baga is the enemy!"
"retreat!"
"Retreat immediately!"
Lieutenant Commander Nagasaki's pupils shrank suddenly, and at that moment his scalp felt numb, and he was so frightened that he lost his mind.
After all, what is underfoot is not a Type 97 tank, but a Type 94 truck.
Even the Type 97 tank is no match for the Eighth Route Army tank unit.
Because of fear, Nagasaki Yoshio's entire face was twisted together.
But it's too late.
On the turret of the Eighth Route Army tank opposite, a long barrel mouth protruded, and bursts of fireworks were already blooming.
Accompanied by a muffled sound of tom tom.
A series of tank shells flashed orange-red trajectories in the air, hitting the two oncoming Japanese trucks!
Boom boom!
The first two Japanese vehicles were instantly hit by tank shells. Amidst the loud noises and rising fire and smoke, car fragments and broken Japanese limbs fell from the sky.
The two Japanese trucks at the front were hit, and the Japanese convoy was instantly thrown into chaos.
In order to achieve the effect of launching a surprise attack on the Eighth Route Army infantry, Nagasaki Yoshio ordered the Japanese convoy to drive two vehicles abreast.
The Japanese convoy was suddenly attacked. The Japanese truck was on the road and could not make a U-turn in a short time.
"Boom boom…"
The tanks of the new group moved forward, and the tank guns continued to fire.
With a loud explosion, one after another Japanese trucks were named and shot up.
The speed of the Japanese truck is higher than the speed of the tank.
However, compared to trucks, tanks have stronger passability.
Even on plain terrain, trucks still need to rely on roads for mobility.
Tanks can maneuver along roads and can go to many places during wartime.
After receiving the news from the Sharp Sword Squadron, Sun Desheng immediately issued an order to send the Xiafei tank to the front of the team to prepare for an encounter with the Japanese convoy.
As soon as the battle began, the Japanese were at an absolute disadvantage.
To put it more accurately, the Japanese had no power to fight back.
"Baga, abandon the car!"
Seeing that it was impossible for the convoy to turn around, Lieutenant Colonel Nagasaki Yoshio howled miserably and gave the order.
In fact, without Nagasaki Yoshio's orders, the Japanese had already jumped out of the truck, turned around and ran away.
Dozens of Joffre tanks approached quickly and continued to fire.
Every time a tank shell exploded, the Japanese fell to the ground amidst screams.
"Da da da…"
The sound of intensive M2 heavy machine gunfire rang out, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and the Japanese fell down as if they had been cut grass.
The Japanese who had just jumped out of the car ran wildly in the direction they were passing in, forming a very dense formation.
Under the double fire of tank guns and vehicle-mounted machine guns from dozens of Xiafei tanks, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties and wailed.
"help me……"
"Mother……"
A Japanese soldier whose legs were injured and fell to the ground looked at the Japanese soldiers escaping in the distance and kept wailing, hoping that some Japanese soldiers would come back to save him.
However, the Japs who could still move were all running away, and no Japs even looked back at this Japs.
A tank driver from the New Regiment saw the Japanese soldier who was still alive and drove over in a Joffre tank without hesitation.
In a burst of sharp and piercing howls.
The tank's right track ran over the Japanese's body from feet to head.
As the tank tracks rolled over, the Japanese soldiers had turned into a long puddle of flesh.
"idiot!"
While running, Nagasaki Yoshio turned around and saw this scene, his eyes were splitting, and he cursed angrily:
"Didn't you say that the main force of the Eighth Route Army is still in Shimen City and Zhengding?"
"What exactly is going on?"
After Sun Liangcheng sent a telecom scam to the 11th Division Regiment Headquarters, Nishihara Seifu informed all regiments and brigades that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was still attacking Shimen City and Zhengding.
Where did these hundreds of Eighth Route Army tanks come from?
"Report the situation here to Lieutenant General Takamori immediately!"
Nagasaki Yoshio said in a panic to the telegraph soldier who was running away not far away carrying the radio on his back.
Is the main force of the Eighth Route Army still attacking Shimen City and Zhengding?
The main force of the Eighth Route Army is 50 kilometers away from here?
All directions are under your nose!
"Hi."
The telegraph soldier turned on the radio, took the receiver and microphone while running, and called to the 11th Division Regiment Headquarters.
This chapter has been completed!