"Including the wounded, no more than 3,000 people?"

After hearing this data, Nishiyama Masao's old face turned the color of pig's liver, which is as ugly as possible.

There is no other way. The 4th Brigade has two infantry regiments under its jurisdiction, plus the troops directly under the brigade, a tank squadron, and an artillery battalion, the total strength exceeds 8,000 people.

After dispatching so many troops, he was unable to eliminate even a severely damaged independent battalion of the Eighth Route Army, and more than 5,000 people were killed. For him, this was tantamount to a huge failure and a great shame.

He has even seen his end, and it will definitely not be any better than Kazuo Watanabe, the commander of the 9th Brigade.

Although more than half of the 5,000 people killed in battle had nothing to do with him (Kasahara Koizumi lost more than 1,500 people in the first battle, and the vanguard Sanada Battalion lost nearly a thousand people).

Strictly speaking, only the subsequent deaths of more than 2,500 people were under his personal command.

But the top doesn't care about that much.

The commander-in-chief of this battle is Nishiyama Masao, so he must bear all the blame for the defeat!

"Hiyi!"

The Japanese Major paused heavily, lowered his head, and evaded his gaze, not daring to look directly into the brigade commander Masao Nishiyama's almost cannibalistic eyes.

Chief of Staff Tada Ichiro asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, Brigade Commander, what should we do now?"

Nishiyama Masao said with a gloomy face: "Attack! Launch a countercharge!"

Ichiro Tada was stunned: "Your Majesty, Brigade Commander, do you mean to launch a breakout from the front of the main force of the China Army?"

Masao Nishiyama: "I'm talking about offense!"

Ichiro Tada: "But right now, the main force of the China Eighth Route Army is attacking."

Masao Nishiyama: "Of course I know it is the main force of the Eighth Route Army attacking, but this is exactly what I want!

The Independent Battalion of the Eighth Route Army has been hiding in a tortoise shell. We can't do anything with it for the time being, so we can just collect some interest from this main force of the Eighth Route Army.

Maybe we can use this to force the Independence Battalion out of its shell!"

"Besides, with a mere brigade of troops, what's there to fear?"

"Hey! Your Excellency, the brigade commander, is wise!"

Ichiro Tada knew that Nishiyama Masao was in trouble, and he also knew that the other party's temper would kill someone if they disagreed, so at this time he did not dare to get into trouble with the other party, so he could only give his head a heavy pause and agreed to his plan of action.

So, in addition to leaving about one reinforced squadron of the Japanese 4th Brigade to prevent the independent battalion from launching a surprise attack from the rear, the rest of the infantry, under the cover of artillery, launched a countercharge against the oncoming main force of the Eighth Route Army.

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The other side.

What suddenly came out from behind the Japanese 4th Brigade were, of course, the new regiment led by Li Yunlong and the independent regiment led by Ding Wei.

One brigade of the Eighth Route Army has two regiments under it, so there is no problem at all when the Japanese Major reports that the Eighth Route Army has at least one brigade of troops.

What's more, the New Regiment and the Independent Regiment are both reinforced regiments, with more than 2,500 troops, and they also have many mortars.

When they arrived at the border of Wangjiacun, although the Japanese security force discovered the Xinyi Regiment and the Independent Regiment that were rushing to kill them, the total strength of the two regiments exceeded 5,000 people, and the Japanese security force was only one squadron.

, Moreover, there are no heavy firepower weapons, so they are no match for Li Yunlong and Ding Wei.

With just one confrontation, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei defeated the Japanese guards and continued to kill towards the Japanese attack position.

Then, it was time to launch an attack on the Japanese attack positions.

Needless to say, although Li Yunlong and Ding Wei killed the 4th Brigade by surprise, the 4th Brigade quickly reacted, organized their forces, and launched a defense.

Although the 4th Brigade suffered heavy casualties when attacking the Independent Battalion, it was still very difficult for Li Yunlong and Ding Wei to directly defeat the 4th Brigade in one go.

As a result, the two sides fell into a stalemate.

The biggest threat to the New Regiment and the Independent Regiment is the artillery of the Japs.

Although the New Regiment and the Independent Regiment have acquired a lot of artillery in recent times, there is still a big gap between them in terms of quality and quantity compared to the Japanese 4th Brigade.

Moreover, the quality of the artillery is far inferior to that of the Japanese.

After suffering a certain amount of casualties, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei had no choice but to give up the attack temporarily, and then discussed together how to defeat the enemy.

Ding Wei: "Old Li, the enemy's artillery poses a great threat to us, especially their artillery, which can hit wherever they want.

Our machine gun firepower can hardly last for half a minute before we are bound to call in Japanese artillery fire."

Li Yunlong frowned: "The Japanese artillery is indeed our biggest threat. We have to find a way to defeat this threat. We can't wait until Cheng Xiazi and the others arrive, otherwise half of the loot will be divided between the two of them.

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Kong Jie: "What Lao Li said makes sense, but we can't risk human lives just to get more spoils, right?"

After hearing this, both Li Yunlong and Ding Wei fell into silence.

Indeed, a large part of the reason why the Eighth Route Army was unable to defeat the Japs was that it could not deal with the Japs' artillery.

For example, if you want to defeat the Japanese 4th Brigade now, you must first deal with their artillery, and if you want to deal with the Japanese artillery, you must get close to the Japanese artillery position.

But along the way, you will definitely encounter a fierce attack from the Japanese.

If you use machine guns to cover, you will be hit by Japanese artillery, which becomes an endless cycle.

Therefore, whether it was a positional battle, a defensive battle, or an offensive battle, when the Eighth Route Army faced off against the Japs, they almost always had to take a beating.

This is still based on the fact that the Japanese have no active aviation and armored forces.

Therefore, when facing the powerful Japanese aggressors, the Eighth Route Army could only be broken into pieces and fight guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare, or night fighting or ambush warfare.

Because of these battles, the threat from Japanese artillery can be minimized.

Just when Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and others fell into silence, thinking about how to deal with the Japanese artillery, a more intense sound of gunfire suddenly came from the front.

Then, Zhang Dabiao, the first battalion commander of the new regiment, hurried over and reported to Li Yunlong: "Captain, the Japanese have launched an attack!"

After hearing this, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Kong Jie and others all had several big question marks on their heads.

"What kind of Japanese attack? Aren't we attacking?"

Zhang Dabiao: “We were indeed the ones attacking before, but now it’s the little devils who are taking the initiative!”

Li Yunlong was even more confused: "Isn't this Nishiyama Masao's brain flooded? How dare he initiate an attack?"

Ding Wei thought for a while and said: "Old Li, I don't think that Nishiyama Masao is out of his mind. On the contrary, I think this just proves that this old devil is an extremely difficult opponent!"

Li Yunlong: "Oh? How do you say it?"
Chapter completed!