Chapter 998 Okamura Neji: Why don’t you send troops and wait to die?
The picture that Lieutenant Colonel Hirmoto imagined did not appear.
Seeing that the ambush soldiers were about to fight with the Eighth Route Army's attacking troops, they seemed to have hit an indestructible copper wall. No matter how hard the soldiers charged forward, they could never fight against the Eighth Route Army's attacking troops.
The soldiers at the front of the team seemed to have been hit by something, and they were swept to the ground in pieces.
"Sir, we've been fooled..." The adjutant was the first to notice something was wrong, and shouted anxiously as he stared at the battlefield.
"The Eighth Route Army hid a large number of light machine guns among the attacking troops..."
"There are at least thirty of them. As soon as our ambush appears, these machine guns will set up a defensive line on the spot, using machine gun fire to prevent the ambush from launching a counterattack against them, and not giving us a chance to fight with bayonets."
After being reminded by his deputy, Lieutenant Colonel Hirmoto saw the machine gun fire that suddenly appeared from the Eighth Route Army's attacking troops.
They lined up in a row and fired desperately at the counterattack troops.
His face suddenly turned pale, and he shouted out loud: "Bagh Ya Road..."
"They had already calculated that we had set up an ambush at the station..."
"Deliberately playing the trick, hiding the machine gun in the middle of the attacking troops, waiting for our ambush troops to come out before firing, and taking the opportunity to eliminate our ambush troops..."
"What a cunning opponent..."
"Immediately give the ambush troops a retreat order."
"The Eighth Route Army was prepared in advance. If we continue to counterattack, we will hit their guns and die in vain..."
"We must break away from the Eighth Route Army as soon as possible and let them withdraw quickly..."
"What about the station?" the adjutant asked immediately.
"No more..." Lieutenant Colonel Hirmoto ordered with a look of helplessness.
"Abandon the station, retreat the entire army to the blockade wall, and rely on the favorable terrain to wait for reinforcements."
"Report the situation here to the headquarters and ask the superiors to immediately mobilize troops from surrounding garrisons to support us, otherwise the third blockade will definitely break through from us..."
"Go now, any more delay will put us in more danger."
"Boom boom boom..."
Just as the adjutant was about to lift his legs and leave, the violent sound of shell explosions reached everyone's ears again.
Lieutenant Colonel Hirmoto subconsciously raised his telescope and looked towards the location where the explosion sounded.
His eyes suddenly widened, showing an expression of stunned despair.
Yes, it is despair.
The ambush soldiers who were counterattacking against the Eighth Route Army's offensive troops should have fought with the Eighth Route Army to fight with their bayonets.
Because the Eighth Route Army had a large number of machine gunners lurking in the attacking troops, the imagined bayonet battle did not take place.
Since the two armies did not fight together, the Eighth Route Army, which had absolute artillery superiority, would definitely not let go of this murderous weapon.
More than twenty mortars fired together, and the shells rained down on the Japanese ambush.
Fire splashed and countless soldiers were knocked over and blown away in the explosion.
"Sir..." While Lieutenant Colonel Hirmoto's attention was still on the ambush covered by artillery fire, the adjutant's reminder came to his ears again.
"It seems that our troops defending the garrison cannot be withdrawn..."
"The Eighth Route Army that attacked us had at least one regiment, not a reinforced battalion like we just saw."
"Nani?" Lieutenant Colonel Hirmoto quickly looked in the direction of the adjutant's finger.
Hundreds of Eighth Route Army troops appeared out of nowhere and quickly surrounded the ambush.
Even if the troops defending the garrison start to retreat now, they will not be able to escape, not to mention that the retreat order has not yet been sent to the battlefield.
When the order to retreat actually reached the ears of the troops, the day lilies were already cold.
Lieutenant Colonel Hirmoto's despairing face turned pale and he lost all fighting spirit. He said with reluctance in anger: "This attack was a conspiracy from the beginning. We were fooled..."
"The Eighth Route Army had guessed that we had set up an ambush at the station, so they used a battalion of troops as bait to attract our ambush troops, and then the entire army attacked to annihilate the ambush troops at the station..."
"we lose……"
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Japanese Army Baoding Garrison Headquarters.
Okamura Neiji was standing next to the sand table, dreaming of the latent troops severely inflicting heavy losses on the Eighth Route Army's breakout troops.
In his plan, the Eighth Route Army's breakout troops wanted to make a breakthrough outside the blockade and join forces with the remaining troops in the base area to smash their own iron wall encirclement. There was no other way but to continue attacking the third blockade.
Now I have prepared a dragnet somewhere, waiting for the Eighth Route Army to attack.
Although there has been no movement on the front lines for the past two days.
But Okamura Neiji knew: the apparent tranquility was often an illusion, and perhaps the Eighth Route Army breakout troops were already planning a larger-scale military operation.
"Your Excellency, Commander..." The deputy chief of staff suddenly trotted towards Okamura Neji with a look on his face, holding a message he had just received in his hand. His expression was serious and nervous. You could tell at a glance that what he had brought was not good.
information.
"The Eighth Route Army's breakout troops moved..."
"Send out the entire army and storm the third blockade..."
"But our arrangements on the third blockade have not been effective..."
"This is an urgent message just sent from the front line."
"The Eighth Route Army seemed to have guessed that we had arranged an ambush on the third line of defense, and directly launched an attack on the blockade in regiment units."
"Our ambush troops and the garrison's garrison add up to only one brigade."
"One regiment of the Eighth Route Army has more than 2,000 people and is also equipped with a large number of artillery..."
"The combat capabilities of both sides are not at the same level at all."
"There are already some garrison positions that have been lost..."
"Because the troops at the blockade had suffered losses when the Eighth Route Army encircled the points for reinforcements, and faced with the telegrams from the attacked garrison asking for reinforcements, the surrounding garrison troops did not dare to send troops for reinforcements rashly, so they sent a telegram to the headquarters to ask for instructions whether they should send troops to reinforce the battlefield."
Okamura Neiji instantly turned into an angry lion and shouted loudly: "Bagaya Road, isn't this nonsense?"
"If we don't send reinforcements, how can we wait for the Eighth Route Army to take the initiative to attack and defeat them one by one?"
"Send a telegram to the front line immediately: The Imperial Japanese Army will never leave friendly forces in danger without mercy."
"Send troops when they should be dispatched immediately, but the number of reinforcements must be at least half a brigade, otherwise it will be a waste of military exploits for the Eighth Route Army."
"Tell the troops stationed on the front line that there must be no accidents at our third blockade."
"Even if a hole is torn open by the Eighth Route Army, I will take it back and plug the gap again..."
"If we fail to complete our mission, all officers above the squadron level will be court-martialed."
After saying that, Okamura Neji turned his attention to the sand table in front of him, racking his brains to think of ways to break the situation.
Excluding the two blockades that had been destroyed by the independent brigade, there were only the last three blockades left on the battlefield.
If another one is destroyed by Li Yunlong, the breakout troops of the Eighth Route Army will be able to echo the remaining troops of the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield, and work together to crush their own iron wall encirclement.
At that time, the pressure faced by the imperial army will also increase exponentially.
