Artillery fire can indeed prevent the Eighth Route Army from releasing smoke. After all, the Japanese army has infantry guns and grenade launchers. They only need to fire a few rounds at the source of the smoke, and the pile of sorghum stalks will be blown up everywhere.

But Kazuo Takeda soon discovered that this was not a good idea.

The reason is that sorghum stalks are almost endless, but the Japanese artillery shells are very limited.

The piles of sorghum stalks were blown up on one side and piled on the other. The Japanese bombed one pile and piled two piles on the other side. As a result, the smoke did not decrease at all and became thicker and thicker.

Speaking of the Japanese Type 92 infantry gun, the gun itself weighs only 0.2 tons, but its shells are not light at all, each shell weighs 3.8 kilograms.

Takeda Kazuo only brought a hundred rounds of artillery shells with him this time... This is because the Takeda brigade is fighting for penetration this time, and needs to penetrate into place as quickly as possible. This determines that cars or even three-wheeled maneuvers cannot be used. Their

The sound of the motor will alert the people on the roadside and make the Eighth Route Army prepare in advance.

Therefore, Takeda Kazuo can only use mules and horses to transport ammunition, which makes the amount of artillery shells very limited... Compared with artillery shells, Takeda Kazuo believes that bullets are more important because he believes that the enemy will not have many enemies that require him to bombard with artillery fire.

target, and if the same weight is converted into bullets, it can destroy many enemies.

So more than a dozen artillery shells passed by. Seeing that the smoke quickly rekindled, Takeda ordered the artillerymen not to waste their efforts.

"Let the enemies in the west come in!" Takeda Kazuo helplessly ordered to his staff: "Use the fortifications to fight them in the streets, and leave the artillery shells to the east!"

"Yes!" the staff officer responded and passed on the order.

Takeda Kazuo's order makes sense.

The so-called "enemy to the west" he refers to is the Independent Regiment, which used smoke cover to make it difficult for Japanese artillery fire and even rifles to function, while the "enemy to the east" is the 91st Regiment.

As mentioned before, the 91st Regiment is the main regiment. They are equipped with mountain artillery and mortars. When the smoke blows to the east, it is much smaller, so it is obviously more useful to deploy artillery fire to the east.

On the Eighth Route Army side, the telephone line between the Independence Regiment and the 91st Regiment had just been connected. Li Changfu, the leader of the 91st Regiment, picked up the phone and said impatiently:

"How is the situation over there? Are there many casualties?"

"What? You have already rushed into the village? Only more than a hundred casualties?"

"Well...well done! Keep attacking!"

"No problem, just fight like this!"

When he put down the phone, Li Changfu felt a little unhappy. He couldn't figure out that the fighting terrain on the two sides was similar. Li Yunlong's independent regiment only had more than a thousand people, and a large part of them were newly recruited soldiers, and they had no artillery.

How come they were short of bullets and entered the village before the 91st Regiment?

And the price paid was less than half of that of the 91st Regiment!

If this spreads out, where will the 91st regiment lose its reputation? This is the main regiment!

Thinking about this, Li Changfu ordered his staff: "Speed ​​up the attack pace and strive to reach the village and fight the enemy in the streets! The independent regiments have already invaded, we can't fall behind!"

"yes!"

On the other side, Li Yunlong, whose face was covered with a wet towel, was hiding in a temporarily dug trench and proudly said to Zhao Gang next to him:

"Old Zhao, you said that Li Changfu must feel aggrieved by our stimulation!"

"His main force group is not as good as our independent group. Why does it have so much equipment? It would be great to give it to our independent group!"

"I, Li Yunlong, promise that if the independent regiment also has so much equipment, hey... don't brag, I will take care of Xue Ququan Village with just one regiment!"

Zhao Gang was holding a telescope and sticking his head out to check the enemy's situation, but there was smoke everywhere and he could not see anything. He only saw the Eighth Route Army rushing into the village one after another.

Seeing that Li Yunlong was boasting again, Zhao Gang frowned and said, "Don't get too proud first, the situation doesn't seem to be good! The Japs have a lot of troops in the village, it's not easy to take them down!"

Li Yunlong nodded, and his expression turned cautious: "The enemy has a group of more than a thousand people, and we only have more than a thousand people. The 91st Regiment is suppressed by Japanese firepower and cannot enter the village... It will not be easy to defeat us!

It would be nice to be in a different place with the 91st Regiment. Its more than 2,000 troops are all veterans. It will definitely be unbearable for the Japanese to rush in!"

"What's the use of saying this?" Zhao Gang said: "The 91st Regiment is downwind, and they have no smoke there, unless the wind blows backwards!"

Li Yunlong thought for a while and shouted to the guard: "Monk, f**king call me Xiao Dongbei! This guy came up with the method of releasing smoke, he must be responsible to the end!"

When Wang Xuexin was called to the regiment headquarters, he was confused when he heard this statement. He thought of a way to release smoke, but it was wrong? He still has to be responsible to the end? I am afraid only someone like Li Yunlong can say this!

But who makes someone the leader?

I didn’t even say anything when I wanted to comment!

And Li Yunlong was still shamelessly scolding Wang Xuexin: "I tell you, Xiao Dongbei! Without your smoke, our people wouldn't be able to rush in. If we couldn't rush in, we wouldn't be able to do this. So why don't you do this today?"

The problem has been solved, I, Li Yunlong, am not done with you anymore!"

"Do you talk like that?" Zhao Gang couldn't stand it. He interrupted Li Yunlong and said to Wang Xuexin: "Don't listen to your regiment commander. The problem now is that the Japanese are using fortifications to fight in the streets with our army. They have grenades in their hands."

Barrel, accurate marksmanship, excellent stabbing skills, and good coordination with each other, our people suffered heavy casualties in the village, what do you think?"

Wang Xuexin knew this. He knew these Japanese tactics when he met the Japanese spy team in Lujiagou.

The Japs stationed in Xue Ququan Village may not be as good as the Japs special forces, but they must have been specially trained for street fighting. At the same time, street fighting also tests the quality of the soldiers, so this fight is not simply a question of how many troops there are.

Wang Xuexin thought for a while and replied: "Regiment leader, political commissar, you really can't blame me for this. It was my idea to set off the smoke, but I never said I would rush into the village and fight with the Japanese in the streets!"

What Wang Xuexin said is really not a joke. The quality gap is there and the troops are not superior. How can the independent regiment defeat the Japanese!

"Then what do you mean?" Li Yunlong stared and said, "Are we going to let the troops hide outside in the smoke and hide and seek with the Japanese?"

"I didn't say it was outside!" Wang Xuexin replied.

Li Yunlong was a little impatient: "If you have something to say, say it quickly, and if you have something to say, stop talking like this!"

Wang Xuexin came closer and said: "Captain, don't we have bullets and mines in our hands? Why don't we go into the village and lay mines?"

"How to lay it?" Li Yunlong asked back: "Why do you think this bullet mine can recognize people? If it is covered with cloth, won't you get bombed?"

Wang Xuexin replied: "We can make an appointment, right? For example, leave a path in front of the window, at the door, in the corner, or around the corner... We know where there is thunder but the Japanese don't, so go ahead and don't worry about anything."

Isn’t it enough to just lay a minefield?”
Chapter completed!