"All communications squads are dispatched..." Before the enemy's encirclement was formed, Captain Huang immediately made arrangements for the troops.
"Immediately contact all the main forces, local troops, and guerrillas that can be contacted in the surrounding area, and rush towards here on a rapid march, forming a huge encirclement around the battlefield."
"Since the little devil wants to fight us here, let's have a good fight."
"The artillery unit immediately established an artillery position, used all the mortars we captured, and used artillery guerrilla methods to attack the Japanese attacking troops."
"Other troops established a defense line on the spot, relied on the favorable terrain to move to defense, and held on to provide reinforcements."
"Let the little devils hit us head-on and bleed us. Once the reinforcements are in place, we can attack them from both inside and outside and annihilate them all."
"Tell all battalion commanders."
"Don't be anxious after the battle starts. Take your time with the little devil while minimizing casualties."
"They need time now more than we do."
"The longer the battle drags on, the more anxious they become. When people are anxious, they will be impulsive and do stupid things that are more beneficial to us. Do you understand?"
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The captain of the Japanese team was very disappointed.
I thought that after the outflanking troops I sent were in place, a single assault would prevent the Eighth Route Army from looking at each other, and plunge it into chaos.
Once the main force arrives on the battlefield, they can be defeated.
The results were quite different.
The Eighth Route Army actually built a temporary defense line in a hurry. Relying on light and heavy machine guns, it not only blocked the first attack of the outflanking troops head-on, but also killed them in a counterattack under the cover of mortars.
If the main force had not arrived in time, they would have been defeated, not the Eighth Route Army.
Although he was shocked, the commander immediately understood the true purpose of the independent regiment's deployment.
"What a cunning opponent..." the captain made a sharp judgment.
"The Jinzhong Independent Regiment wants to switch from offense to defense and drag us here."
"Either we continue to gamble, concentrate our superior troops and firepower to attack the Eighth Route Army in the encirclement, and destroy them quickly."
"Either we quit the battle immediately and continue on our way to Shijiazhuang."
"Just like this, the Jinzhong Independent Regiment will definitely catch up with us again and continue to consume our troops through surprise attacks until we are eliminated in their base area."
The chief of staff couldn't wait for a long time, so he stood up and asked for a fight: "Commander Captain, let's fight..."
"A rare opportunity……"
"If we continue to wait, the strength of the Jinzhong Independent Regiment will become stronger and stronger, while our strength will become stronger and weaker in the continuous war of attrition."
"The strengths of both sides are ebbing and flowing. Sooner or later, the Jinzhong Independent Regiment will have the strength to swallow us up."
"While they are not very strong yet and they are surrounded by us, launch an attack immediately. The battle will be over quickly."
The two captains agreed: "Sir, I also suggest fighting this battle."
"After being a coward all the way, everyone in the reinforcements had been holding back their anger and had nowhere to vent it, so they just took the opportunity to vent it out."
Seeing that his subordinates had formed a unified opinion, the commander stopped talking nonsense and directly ordered: "Then fight."
"The troops are divided into squadrons. For the time being, they will attack the Eighth Route Army in the encirclement without distinguishing between main attack and feint attack. Whoever breaks a hole in their defense line first will be the main attacking force."
The chief of staff immediately accepted the order: "Sir, I am wise, and I will make arrangements now. We must end the battle in the shortest possible time."
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Ten minutes passed, and not a single infantry squadron broke through the independent regiment's defense line.
Twenty minutes passed, and the Japanese offensive force still stalled in front of the independent regiment.
The number of Japanese troops falling in front of the defense line exceeded 300.
At first, the two captains on the front line were too embarrassed to report it, feeling it was too embarrassing. They believed that as long as they continued to attack, strengthened the offensive, and used all the remaining mortars and heavy machine guns in the army, they would be able to break through the Eighth Route Army's defense line.
As a result, the harder you attack, the greater the casualties your troops will suffer.
After suffering a direct loss of more than 300 people, the two captains did not dare to hide it anymore. They immediately went to the commander of the company to report the situation, hoping that the well-informed commander could help them find a way to break the situation.
The troops were unable to attack for a long time, and the commander of the company had long realized that something was wrong.
As soon as the two captains came over, they analyzed with a serious face: "We seem to have underestimated the enemy again..."
"The Eighth Route Army in the encirclement is equipped with a large number of light and heavy machine guns, as well as a lot of mortars to support the attack. They attack our attacking troops without warning... If you want to break through the Eighth Route Army's defense line, you must first destroy these mortars."
"Otherwise, no matter how powerful our offensive is, it will be disrupted by the Eighth Route Army's mortars!"
The captain who came to report was convinced, but it was too difficult to do this.
He frowned and replied: "Sir..."
"My humble position has always required the artillery squadron to lock down the Eighth Route Army artillery positions and destroy them..."
"But the enemy is too cunning..."
"Not only are the light and heavy machine gun positions not fixed, but they change shooting positions after a few shots, they don't even have fixed artillery positions."
"A group of three mortars can fire up to five rounds of shells at most every time it fires... many times it will move after three rounds of shells."
"By the time our counterattack shells hit their artillery positions, the Eighth Route Artillerymen would have disappeared long ago..."
"The best way to break the situation is to concentrate a large number of mortars on the Eighth Route Army's artillery positions to cover a wide range of artillery fire. Even if they retreat in time, they will not be able to escape the artillery fire coverage~"
"One artillery counterattack destroys two or three mortars, and several artillery counterattacks can kill the Eighth Route Artillery."
"But we don't have that many mortars..."
"Deducting previous losses, the entire regiment only has 18 mortars left to continue fighting... It is impossible to organize a large-scale artillery counterattack."
The captain frowned and thought for a moment before asking, "Can we use the old method..."
"A part of the main force attacked frontally to attract the attention of the Eighth Route Army...Other troops detoured from both wings and went straight to the flank of the Eighth Route Army to launch an attack..."
"This style of play is almost unfavorable on other battlefields, and it will definitely be useful here."
The captain shook his head and replied: "Report to the captain..."
"We also fought, but to no avail..."
"The Eighth Route Army does not have many troops defending the flanks, but it is equipped with a large number of light and heavy guns.
"On average, each squad has one machine gun, and some key positions are also equipped with heavy machine guns. Our troops have no chance of getting close to their blocking positions..."
"Sir..."
A scout suddenly rushed towards the commander of the company, very fast, with an anxious expression on his face. He gasped and reported before he could stand still.
"An Eighth Route Army army is coming behind us... Although there is only one company, they have brought thousands of guerrillas and ordinary people, and are building a defense line behind us, trying to block us here..."
