On the official road about five kilometers southwest of Baoding.
For more than 4,000 days, the puppet troops huddled together and quickly moved toward the Sixth Army Division in the Wing Center.
About a platoon of soldiers from the assault company was ambushing on a high ground where the Japanese and puppet troops had to pass. A heavy machine gun was prominently mounted on the commanding heights of the high ground.
"The Japanese and puppet troops are coming..." a reminder suddenly sounded on the high ground.
Dozens of commandos quickly lay down and covered their backs with camouflage thatch, blending in with the surrounding environment.
Even if the forward scouts sent by the Japs ran up to them, they might not be able to detect these ambush troops.
The Japanese and puppet troops on the road obviously did not do this.
In order to speed up the march, although the forward reconnaissance force had multiple troops, these Japanese and puppet troops were deployed in battle formations on the road. They constantly confirmed through fire reconnaissance that there were no ambushes on the roadside and that no Japanese and puppet troops left the road.
More than thirty meters.
It's not that they didn't want to, but the conditions were limited and the fast marching speed gave them no time to get close to the roadside to investigate the situation.
"Fire...dong dong dong..."
As soon as the main force of the Japanese and puppet troops entered the effective range of the heavy machine guns, the command from the platoon leader of the assault company sounded on the high ground.
The familiar sound of heavy machine gun fire sounded on the high ground at the same time.
Due to the deliberate action of the machine gunner, the bullets fired from the heavy machine gun whizzed past the heads of the Japanese and puppet soldiers, without injuring a single Japanese and puppet soldier on the road.
The riflemen who were ambushing on the high ground opened fire with the light machine guns at the same time. Some shot their bullets in the sky, while others shot their bullets on the ground at the feet of the Japanese and puppet troops.
Although no one was killed or injured, the formation was very scary.
The Japanese and puppet troops who were attacked immediately panicked and wandered around on the highway. Only a small number of Japanese and puppet troops immediately lay on the ground and fought back with guns raised.
At the same time, about three hundred Japanese and puppet troops suddenly rushed out of the team and outflanked the high ground where the assault company was lurking.
Until then, the chaos on the highway was still not under control.
No matter how hard the Japanese and puppet troops suppressed them, those ordinary people pretending to be soldiers never calmed down.
Some people even threw away their guns and ran for their lives in the other direction of the road at all costs.
Seeing this, the platoon leader of the assault company decisively issued a retreat order...
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Another sneak attack battlefield more than ten kilometers away.
What this assault platoon faced were real Japanese and puppet troops, and they were reinforcements composed mainly of Japanese troops and supplemented by puppet troops.
Gunshots suddenly rang out on the left side.
What surprised the assault platoon was that except for a small number of Japanese and puppet troops who immediately threw themselves on the ground and raised their guns to fight back, most of the Japanese and puppet troops seemed to lose their combat effectiveness in an instant, running around on the road in a panic, and ordinary people were attacked.
The reaction afterwards was exactly the same.
The leader of the assault platoon did not know that they were real Japanese and puppet troops.
After seeing the reaction of the Japanese and puppet troops after being attacked, I immediately made my own judgment: "The Japanese and puppet troops along this route are fake..."
"Except for less than a thousand real soldiers, the others are ordinary people pretending to be... We withdraw..."
"Immediately notify the company commander of the news and report it to the division headquarters..."
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Divisional Headquarters of the 6th Yizhong Army.
As soon as the telegram from Duan Peng arrived, Kong Jie showed a confused expression.
The telegram clearly stated that the four reinforcements dispatched from Baoding were all disguised as ordinary people. The real Japanese and puppet troops totaled less than 4,000 people, and they were mainly puppet troops.
"How is this possible?" Kong Jie asked subconsciously, and the telegram was handed to Huang Yu.
Huang Yu shook his head after reading it and said: "Commander..."
"It is true that among the four lines of reinforcements, there must be one group of Japanese and puppet troops, and this group of reinforcements is still mainly composed of little Japanese soldiers, supplemented by puppet troops."
"Only a thousand or so of the other three reinforcements are real Japanese and puppet troops. They are mainly puppet troops and supplemented by Japanese troops. They are specially designed to confuse us so that we cannot identify their true identities, so we cannot gather heavy troops to attack.
If the reinforcements are divided, they will be deceived by Neji Okamura."
"Real reinforcements can quickly attack our base area and capture prisoners, or directly attack Shijiazhuang. Even if we want to mobilize troops to intercept, we will have no troops available."
Kong Jie frowned and asked, "Since one of the four reinforcements is a real Japanese and puppet army, how did they deceive the assault company?"
"The assault company is not an ordinary force."
Huang Yu shook his head and explained: "It is very difficult for ordinary people to act as a real Japanese and puppet army. If they are attacked, their flaws will be exposed. After all, they have never been on the battlefield and their mental quality is very poor."
"No matter how hard the Japanese and puppet troops force them, this is something they cannot change in a short period of time."
"But it would be easy to let a Japanese and puppet army act as ordinary people."
"The Japanese have calculated that we don't dare to attack them rashly. As long as we show our panic after the troops are attacked, the assault company will treat them as ordinary people."
When Kong Jie thought about it, he immediately showed a look of realization: "It's really..."
"The telegram said that the four Japanese and puppet troops under attack were all in chaos. The soldiers were in a panic. Many of them dropped their rifles and fired towards the building. They had no intention of lying down and taking cover."
"It seems that the only way to force out the true identity of the four reinforcements is through a frontal attack."
"Xiao Huang, are our troops ready?"
"Success or failure depends on this one move. If we fail to plan a frontal attack, we will be in danger."
Huang Yu immediately replied with a confident expression: "Commander, don't worry..."
"Although the frontal interceptors are all independent regiments, their combat effectiveness is not much worse than the main force."
"Even if the reinforcements are all little Japs, it is impossible to wipe out all our independent regiments in a short period of time."
"The reserve team is also ready to go to the battlefield at any time."
"If we find the real Japs reinforcements, we guarantee that they will be on the battlefield within five hours to join the battle."
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Outside Shijiazhuang City.
Listening to the sudden weakening of the firefight in the city, Li Yun felt that something unexpected had happened in the city even though he had not been to the battlefield in person.
Just as I was about to take the guards up to the city wall to see what was going on, I saw Commander Zhou of the 16th Regiment rushing into the headquarters.
With a frown and a solemn expression, something must have happened during the street fighting in the city.
"Chief...the Japanese and puppet troops used a large number of mortars in the city..."
"Our offensive troops were attacked by mortars and suffered heavy losses."
"In order to avoid greater losses, I ordered the troops to move to the defensive position without authorization and not to gather together to avoid being targeted by the Japanese and puppet artillery units again."
"Our opponents are very powerful..." Li Yunlong frowned and sighed after hearing the report.
"We used artillery to take the initiative and strike first, destroying all possible targets on the offensive path and consuming a large number of their troops."
"The little Japs turned around and attacked us in kind, using mortars to kill and injure a large number of our attacking troops..."
"This move is so cruel..."
"As long as they kept moving their artillery positions, those mortars would continue to hit our attacking troops with energy. Knowing that we could not afford such heavy casualties, we had to end the battle and give up the attack."
