Four infantry brigades, half a cavalry brigade, two mountain artillery brigades, one heavy artillery brigade, one chariot unit, two regiments of the Imperial Army, plus a certain number of engineers and baggage units, a total of more than 10,000 Japanese and puppet troops left Jinzhong County and headed straight for their next attack target to pacify.

As we all know, pacification was the first county town taken down by the National Salvation Army.

Because of the complex terrain, the arsenals and logistics bases established by the National Salvation Army were all in the pacification territory.

In Colonel Ishida's eyes, taking down the pacification, destroying the arsenal of the National Salvation Army, destroying their logistics base, and destroying their command system will definitely make the National Salvation Army worse and further damage them.

At this moment, he was hiding in an armored vehicle, looking at the increasingly blurred Jinzhong County town behind him, and looking at the vast army beside him, he was in a very good mood.

Major General Aso still remembers what he told him last night, and he believes it without doubt, and feels that the remnants of the National Salvation Army are indeed exactly the same as the brigade commander.

Their morale has become dismal, their morale is low and vulnerable.

As long as you don’t divide your troops and concentrate your forces to attack the National Saving Army Command.

With this idea in mind, Colonel Ishida was full of confidence in his next attack.

Less than an hour after setting off, I started lying in the co-pilot's eyes closed and resting. I was in a very good mood and did not regard the subsequent attack as a bloody battle. Just like traveling, I felt relieved to lie on the seat and sleep.

"Boom boom boom..."

Three faint explosions sounded at the front of the team. After a while, the team that stretched for several kilometers stopped.

Before Colonel Ishida's armored vehicle was stationed, a lieutenant appeared outside the window and looked at him nervously reporting: "Report to the throne, the vanguard troops encountered a landmine buried on the road by the National Rescue Army!"

Ishida's good mood disappeared instantly. In his eyes, landmines were a weapon that infantry was difficult to deal with.

It was buried underground, and other than professional engineers, it was difficult for ordinary soldiers to find and exclude him.

But sending engineers to clear landmines is too wasteful. If the minefield ahead is very large and the mine clearance speed of engineers, they might be delayed here today.

Thinking of this, Colonel Ishida immediately rejected the idea of ​​sending engineers to reinforce the vanguard troops, frowned and asked, "Can you find a way to bypass the minefield!"

The lieutenant shook his head and replied with a look of embarrassment: "I can't get around!"

"The terrain on both sides of the highway is too complicated, it is considered a bumpy mountain. If it is just infantry, you can give up the road to bypass the minefield. However, we have equipped a large number of heavy artillery and combat vehicles, and more than 100 large trucks filled with baggage and ammunition. Once you leave the road, you will be unable to move forward!"

"You can only ask the engineer troops to remove mines from the road before you can continue to move forward!"

Colonel Ishida's right hand was clenched into a fist at some point and smashed it hard on the iron gate of the armored vehicle, looking at the lieutenant with a look of unwillingness to order.

"The engineers immediately reinforce the vanguard troops and must clear the mines buried on the road of the national rescue army within half an hour!"

"But we cannot pin all our hopes on the engineers' troops. If the minefield is large, they may not be able to clear the mines on the road in one day."

"The First Battalion immediately dispatched two infantry squadrons to attack the village nearest to us, captured thirty ordinary people and asked them to help us detonate landmines in front of the team!"

Colonel Ishida is very smart, but his opponent Zhou Cheng is not a vegetarian either.

The attacking troops returned to the team half an hour later. The deputy captain of the team was frustrated. Looking at the corps captain's inquiring eyes, he lowered his head and replied embarrassedly: "Sir, the National Saving Army is too cunning. The village we raided is empty."

"The investigation found that the people in the village had been moved away yesterday. I guess the places we passed along the way were strengthened by the National Savior Army, and there was no Chinese person to be found!"

"Bageya Road!" Colonel Ishida couldn't help but punch the car door again, cursing angrily. It was not until this time that he realized that the National Salvation Army was not as easy to deal with as Major General Aso said.

But the confidence to eliminate the national rescue army was not affected.

Although landmines are a very difficult weapon to deal with, their role is very limited.

In addition to slowing down the marching speed of the troops, it is difficult to kill the troops in large numbers.

At worst, you can attack slowly and spend more time to calm down sooner or later, destroy the arsenal of the National Rescue Army.

After thinking about it, I had a new plan in my heart: "If I really can't catch the Chinese, let the Imperial Army join the army."

"They are also Chinese. Let them take the vanguard troops to explore the way in the front of the team, detonate all the mines buried on the road of the National Rescue Army, and open the way for the main force!"

"As long as the losses of the Imperial Army can be reduced and the decisive battle with the National Salvation Army can be successfully pacified, it doesn't matter if the Imperial Army that cooperates with our attack is blown up by landmines!"

"Just do it! Immediately draw a company of Imperial Army to reinforce the vanguard troops and let them go to the front of the team to open the way for us. If someone refuses to execute the order, he will directly engage in military law, and there is no need to report it to me!"

After the puppet army was sent to the front of the team to open the road, the Japanese army, which had been on hold for more than half an hour, finally started to move, and the marching speed returned to the state of half an hour ago.

"Boom...Boom..."

The sound of mine explosions kept ringing in front of the team, but the marching speed of the team was not affected.

Looking at the soldiers who were killed and injured by landmines in front of me, the alive puppet troops were frightened and dared not continue to move forward with guns.

But as soon as their signs of resistance appeared, they were suppressed by several gunshots.

The Japanese in charge of supervising the battle attacked them with a disagreement and killed a few soldiers who were shouting the most. The other puppet troops who wanted to resist were immediately frightened.

Following the Japanese's command, I continued to rush forward in front of the team. If I were lucky, I could avoid landmines. If I didn't avoid being bombed, I might be seriously injured and could save my life.

But if they don’t obey the Japanese’s command, they will be killed immediately by the Japanese and will not even have a chance to argue.

No one would think that they had a long life. They would definitely live one minute more in front of death. So the scared puppet troops all chose to compromise. Even though they knew that there were landmines ahead, they still walked forward with their eyes closed and opened the way for the Japanese.

Colonel Ishida was very satisfied with his decision just now.

Since the puppet troops came to the front to open the road, the speed of the troops' marching was not affected. Just when he was secretly proud of his wise decision, the moving team actually stopped, and there was no sound of mine explosions from the vanguard troops.

"Bageya Road, what happened ahead? Why did the team stop moving forward?" Colonel Ishida cursed at his subordinates outside the armored vehicle, and his mood became bad again.

After a while, I saw a cavalry correspondent rushing towards him on a horse. He jumped off his war horse when he was five or six meters away from the armored vehicle and ran towards Colonel Ishida quickly.

"Sir, the road ahead has been destroyed by the National Salvation Army. The infantry can advance normally. The artillery, chariot troops, and the baggage troops cannot advance. The road must be repaired before the normal march will be marched!"

"Nani?" Colonel Ishida had to get out of his chariot and rushed towards the vanguard troops with anger and reluctance.

When the squadron leader saw Colonel Ishida, he was afraid that he would get angry at him. So he took the initiative before he could speak and found him to report the situation: "Report to the chief, I just sent someone to investigate, and the road surface two kilometers ahead was destroyed, very thorough, and it must be repaired before we can continue to move forward."

"The terrain on both sides of this highway is very poor, and it is all unavailable to traffic, which directly prevents us from bypassing this highway. Therefore, Bei Zhi believes that this damaged highway is a long-planned action by the National Salvation Army, and wants to use this to stop us and slow down our attack speed!"

Colonel Ishida snorted coldly and cursed: "Just fighting for trapped beasts!"

"The morale and morale of the remnants of the National Salvation Army were very low, and they had no leader and had low combat power. No matter how hard they struggled, they could not get rid of the ending of being killed by us."

"Although destroying the highway can slow down our offensive speed, it cannot change their crisis."

"Send all the remaining Imperial Army to the front to build roads. Although we can kill the National Savior Army sooner or later, the most precious thing on the battlefield is time. Fighting opportunities are fleeting. We can kill them one second earlier if we delay the road less than one second!"

"Our troops hurry up and take a break!"

"Contact the aviation force and conduct air reconnaissance immediately on the ten kilometers of our surrounding area to ensure that there is no main force of the National Salvation Army around us."

"The First Battalion draws two infantry squadrons to guard the area. If they are attacked by a small group of troops of the National Salvation Army, they will be directly repelled with light and heavy machine guns and mortars. Without my orders, no one can take the initiative to attack!"

More than 10,000 Japanese and puppet troops entered the National Salvation Army Defense Zone, and a huge intelligence network wrapped them in it.

No matter what the Japanese did on the marching road, they could not escape the eyes of the scouts of the National Salvation Army.

First, they summed up several garrisons through the scouts, and then sent the relevant information to Zhou Cheng through the radio.

In the conference room of the Pingding Command, Chief of Staff Chen Zhengyu was looking at Zhou Cheng with a worried look on his face.

In the anti-sweeping operation plan of the National Salvation Army, after the regiment commander used Jinzhong County to severely damage the Japanese and puppet troops to storm the Japanese and puppet troops, the remaining Japanese and puppet troops would definitely lose the ability to attack the National Salvation Army defense zone.

If they were not afraid of death and insisted on attacking the defense zone, their small number of troops would definitely become the fat meat in the mouth of the National Salvation Army, and they would eat whatever they wanted.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese army drew another reinforcement battlefield from the occupied area.

With this new force, the Japanese army's losses in Jinzhong were almost supplemented, and the advantages of the National Salvation Army in the anti-sweeping plan also disappeared at this moment.

Faced with the fiercely aggressive more than 10,000 Japanese and puppet troops, Chief of Staff Chen Zhengyu became nervous and his heart was in his throat, feeling that the National Salvation Army would not gain any advantage in the subsequent anti-sweeping raid, and might even suffer a great loss at the hands of the Japanese and puppet troops.

After knowing the strength of the Japanese and puppet troops, Chen Zhengyu stayed in the conference room and never went out.

Faced with the Japanese and puppet troops with absolute advantages, he could not think of any way to break the situation, and could only pin his hope of winning the Japanese and puppet troops on the regiment commander who was good at making strange moves.

But an hour passed, and Zhou Cheng kept lying on the table to study the map, without any intention of opening his mouth.

Chen Zhengyu became more and more anxious as he waited. He thought Zhou Cheng hadn't thought of a way to break the situation. He couldn't help but express his concern: "Captain, if it really doesn't work, let's give up the two county towns."

"After the Japanese army took the county town from us, they will definitely divide their troops to defend, so their troops will naturally be reduced in attacking us. It will be much easier to find a way to counterattack, and the combat pressure of the troops will be much smaller."

Zhou Cheng shook his head: "Who told you that we have nothing to do!"

"I already have a way to defeat the Japanese and puppet troops, but I haven't selected a battlefield yet. I just looked for a battlefield suitable for us on the map, so I didn't speak!"

"Have you found the commander?" Chen Zhengyu asked in front of his eyes.

Zhou Cheng nodded: "I plan to fight another tough battle with the Japanese face to face!"

"The battlefield is chosen to be in Zhujiazhuang, which is five kilometers northwest of the northwest!"

"Put down the garrison and Shouyang garrison defend the front, the three main battalions serve as surprise soldiers, and the cavalry battalions are responsible for chasing the defeated Japanese and puppet troops and destroying the reconnaissance troops sent by the Japanese and puppet troops. The mobile battalions serve as our reserve team and the artillery battalions provide fire cover!"

Chen Zhengyu was shocked by Zhou Cheng's decision and opened his mouth for a long time before he could react.

In order to delay the Japanese and puppet troops' attack, neither the Xiyang garrison nor the Yangquan garrison could participate in the battle.

The only troops that the National Salvation Army can handle more than 10,000 Japanese and puppet troops are the Punishment Garage, the Xiyang Garage, the main force of the regiment, and the total force is only seven or eight thousand.

Therefore, in the subsequent anti-sweeping, the military strength and firepower advantages were both in the hands of the Japanese.

The strength is so great that it is difficult to defeat them with guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare that the National Salvation Army is good at, let alone fight the positional warfare that the Japanese army is better at.

He felt that if the National Saving Army really fought according to the regiment commander's idea, the National Saving Army would undoubtedly be defeated and had no chance of winning.

Just as he was hesitating whether to dispel the unrealistic idea of ​​the leader, Zhou Cheng looked at the map on the table again and pointed to the battlefield that had been selected to analyze.

"The Zhujiazhuang is surrounded by rolling hills, which is very suitable for big battles!"

"My idea is to arrange four defense lines here, with three hundred to five hundred meters between the defense lines, build a three-dimensional defensive position of more than two kilometers in depth, consume a large amount of Japanese and puppet troops through blocking wars, and then launch cavalry to raid the Japanese and puppet troops artillery positions, and attack our Japanese and puppet troops forward and backward."

"Of course, this is just my general idea!"

"The specific tactics and tactics can only be decided after being on the battlefield in person, but I am more than 60% sure to win this battle."

"Report to the regiment commander, Captain Dong of Xiyang Guard Team urgently sent a message!" Deng Jinghua, deputy platoon leader of the communications platoon, suddenly entered the conference room.

After seeing Zhou Cheng nodding, he reported with a happy expression: "With the cooperation of the mobile battalion, Xiyang garrison, completely annihilated the Japanese and puppet troops attacking Heshun. The battle has ended and the troops are cleaning the battlefield!"

"Okay!" Zhou Cheng jumped up from the ground with joy, and looked at Chen Zhengyu and shouted confidently: "Now I am at least 70% sure to defeat more than 10,000 Japanese and puppet troops killed in Jinzhong County!"
Chapter completed!