Li Jiapo, the camp site finally selected by the Japanese artillery captain.

More than a thousand gunners, baggage soldiers, and puppet troops gathered around the captain. Some people pushed large trucks full of supplies amid the chief's yelling and scolding, some dragged heavy mountain cannons, and some people dug trenches and piled up bunkers around the position... It looked messy.

The captain frowned and looked around, feeling very bad.

Although the troops attacking the village successfully evacuated the battlefield, their casualties far exceeded the brigade's estimate.

The Imperial Army, which cooperated with the attack, almost lost all the more than 300 Imperial Army that entered the village, only about one hundred people retreated. The mountain artillery squadron withdrew a mountain artillery, and the chariot squadron was slightly better, but only one tank and an armored vehicle were withdrawn. Even the squadron leader was blown to death.

The troops with more than 2,000 people were instantly reduced to 1,500, and their troops were lost at least 30%.

What worries him the most is the combat effectiveness of the remaining troops.

The hundreds of people who were lost to attack the village almost included all the combat troops behind the palace.

The remaining 1,500 people looked like a lot, and they were all imperial troops, but they were almost all artillery and baggage soldiers, among which the artillery took up a large part!

If they go to the battlefield to shoot cannons, they are definitely a good gunner.

But if they were asked to go to the battlefield to fight with the National Savior Army head-on and fight with a pneumatic gun, all three gunners could not match a rifleman.

This led to the overall combat effectiveness of the troops being weakened by at least 40% than before attacking the village.

They have to hold on here for at least six hours. If the national-savior troops around them attack with all their might, no one knows whether they can survive.

"Distribute all the weapons in the shoelaces of the baggage troops immediately, first satisfy the baggage troops, and then equip artillery. The gunner without weapons is equipped with five grenades!" Looking at the ring position gradually forming around, the artillery captain's frown was relieved a lot, and he looked at the several squadron leaders who rushed over with serious orders on their faces.

"The baggage troops cooperated with the remaining guards to defend the front line. All the remaining artillery of the artillery brigade was on standby, and the observer widened my eyes."

"From now on, if you find a suspicious target, the artillery will fire immediately as long as it is within the range of the artillery, and there is no need to save shells."

"If we are completely wiped out by the National Salvation Army, these shells will either be blown up or seized by the National Salvation Army. It would be better to take advantage of the opportunity to shoot them all out."

"There are two remaining tanks in the tank squadron used as mobile firepower points. After the position is attacked, reinforce wherever there is a defense gap."

"There are very few infantry on the position. We must not let the National Savior Army rush into the position to fight us in close contact, otherwise the remaining artillery of the artillery brigade will become a decoration and cannot be used!"

The artillery captain made a very comprehensive arrangement for the subsequent defensive battle. As soon as several squadron captains took the order and left, a scream rang in his ears.

Not far away, a second lieutenant ran towards him in a panic and began to report: "Sir, there are national salvation troops in the east of the position, and they are coming!"

"The troops are ready for combat immediately!" The captain immediately ordered, raised his telescope and looked east of the position.

The battlefield covered by night was covered with darkness, and the captain glanced over and saw nothing.

In a deep voice, "Start the flares immediately, the artillery will be on standby. When you see the National Salvation Army, you will fire your artillery. You will definitely not give them a chance to get close to our position!"

"Woooooooooooooooooooo...boom..."

The rising flares soon burned a dazzling white light in the sky, and the captain also saw the figure of the National Savior Army hiding under the night.

At least two companies of the National Salvation Army lined up with scattered soldiers to approach the position, including machine gunners carrying light and heavy machine guns!

"The artillery fired immediately and blew them up. As long as they were not allowed to gather together, they could not attack us... Fire up..."

"Boom..."

Four field cannons not far away roared instantly, and four shells slammed into the middle of the National Savior Army with a scream.

The fire splashed, and several soldiers of the National Savior Army were blown away under the gaze of the captain. But the remaining troops were not in chaos and quickly dispersed to reduce the casualties caused by the shells to them, and continued to rush towards Lijiapo...

The captain who saw this scene was anxious.

He is now determined to block the national rescue army and prevent them from getting close to the position. He has no time or energy to consider other issues, so he immediately ordered it.

"The artillery continued to fire and must force them to retreat. Even if they could not force them to retreat, they would have to blow them up to heavy casualties. If they had no strength to continue attacking us!"

"Boom...Boom..." Amid the continuous sound of cannons, at least one platoon of the National Salvation Army was tragically injured.

The captain felt much better.

The National Rescue Army has several hundred meters away from the position. Keep the speed in front of you and continue to blow up. Even if the field artillery squadron does not force the National Rescue Army to blow up more than half of them.

Although the combat effectiveness of the baggage unit is not as good as that of the infantry, it is still no problem to not deal with a company of the National Salvation Army.

"Boom boom boom boom..." The violent cannon sound reached the captain's ear again, and the bounce point was very close. Even the captain himself felt the hot air waves caused by the explosion of the shells.

Turning his head, he saw six orange-red fireballs rising from the field cannon positions not far away.

The six mortar shells seemed to have eyes, all hitting the field gun positions.

Although the shells are very powerful and cannot directly destroy the artillery, they have very high lethality.

Countless artillery pieces were flying everywhere, like a steel storm, harvesting life on the position.

Dozens of gunners were blown up before they could even lie down...

"Bageya Road, I know why the National Salvation Army attacked forward under artillery fire!" The captain shouted in despair with shock.

"In addition to shortening the attack distance and preventing our mountain artillery from harming them, we also want to buy time for their own artillery to lock our artillery positions!"

"What a cunning national rescue army, I inform the field artillery squadron to transfer immediately... Don't bother with the artillery first, and withdraw the gunners before talking about it..."

"We have fewer troops. If we can lose one, we will die less!"

"Boom..." The explosion of the shell did not stop because of the order of the Japanese captain, but instead exploded more and more.

The shells hit the field cannon positions like it rained.

Many gunners just got up from the ground and were about to move, and a shell hit her side...

Under the gaze of the captain: Although the four field guns of the field artillery squadron remained unmoved in the artillery fire, they were not injured. The seventy or eighty gunners who served these artillery suffered heavy losses, and only less than ten people escaped...

A field artillery squadron was killed by six mortars, and there was no chance to fight back.

Without the threat of artillery fire, the National Salvation Army approaching the position was like a divine helper, and its assault speed became faster and faster. It soon rushed to a position two hundred meters in front of the formation and stopped.

At the same time, a large number of national rescue troops appeared in the other three directions of the position...
Chapter completed!