Chapter 248 Commander: I don't want to be a criminal of the North China Front
Ten minutes later, the New Second Regiment successfully captured the second line of defense of the Japanese army, killing nearly a thousand little Japs one after another.
The total strength of the New Second Regiment also dropped sharply from more than 900 people before the attack to more than 400 people, with more than half of them lost...
After another half hour, the new regiment began to attack the Japanese third line of defense.
This time, as before, the Japanese prepared a large number of suicide bombs to launch a counterattack against the attacking troops.
The attacking troops fired desperately, trying to use bullets to stop them in front of the attacking troops.
But Colonel Sakamoto prepared at least twice as many living bombs as the previous attack.
The new regiment was unable to defend itself, and in the end, dozens of Japanese soldiers rushed into the attacking force carrying explosive bags.
"Boom, boom..." explosions sounded one after another, and the attacking troops were blown away one by one. At this moment, Ding Wei also felt the pain of Li Yunlong and Kong Jie just now.
At one o'clock in the morning, all the fighting on Taurus Mountain ended.
Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei...the three of them arrived at the Japanese enemy's headquarters at the same time. They looked at Colonel Sakamoto who had been beaten into a sieve at his feet, and they were not happy at all.
In order to capture Jinniu Mountain and open a breakthrough, the three regiments paid a huge price...
They were in agony when they thought of the bloody remains of soldiers on the battlefield.
Kong Jie was the first to regain his composure from his grief, and with a long sigh he ordered: "People cannot be resurrected after death... We cannot let the blood of those sacrificed soldiers be shed in vain!"
"Give me an order. All the soldiers from the three regiments who are still able to move should enter the position and clean the battlefield. Take away all the weapons and ammunition that can be taken away. We have paid back these things with our lives. Not a single bullet can be left behind. In one hour
Then evacuate the battlefield!"
"Notify the Chief of Staff... We have broken through the Jinniushan blockade, and the transport team can set off... We must enter the base area before dawn!"
"Send another victory telegram to the brigade commander: the Independent Regiment, the New Regiment, the New Regiment, after a bloody battle, successfully captured Jinniu Mountain and wiped out all the defenders..."
"The convoy transporting military equipment has already set off. Please be prepared for the response!"
"The participating troops will follow up and strive to return to the base within two days!"
"Report the casualties of our three regiments again!"
"After this battle, our three regiments have been severely injured... Even if we bring back a large amount of weapons and ammunition, it will take half a year to regain our combat effectiveness."
"After this big sweep, the old base will definitely not be able to go back..."
"Let's report the real situation so that the headquarters can assign us a new base!"
At the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, the communications staff officer ran to Yoshio Shinozuka and reported in a panic: "Your Excellency, Commander... our radio contact with Jinniu Mountain has been interrupted..."
"No matter how I called, there was no response from Colonel Sakamoto..."
"All the radio stations equipped by the three infantry brigades have also lost contact. I suspect that something happened to them!"
"Nani..." Yoshio Shinozuka looked up at the big clock on the wall and shouted in disbelief: "How could it be so fast!"
"I remember that the Eighth Route Army started attacking at eight o'clock. Our troops stationed at Jinniushan had a reinforced unit... It had only been four or five hours. How could it be killed so quickly?"
"When did Colonel Sakamoto send his last telegram?"
"An hour and a half ago!" the communications officer replied.
"It said that the Eighth Route Army had broken through two of their blockades in succession... but they also caused more than 2,000 casualties to the Eighth Route Army!"
"Although there is only the last blockade left, Colonel Sakamoto is still 70% sure of holding the position and severely damaging the Eighth Route Army, causing them to lose their ability to attack!"
"Then contact between the two parties was interrupted!"
"There must be an accident that we don't know about?" Yoshio Shinozuka analyzed with a stern face, his brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and he stared at the sand table. No one knew what he was thinking.
This is indeed the case...
After the New Second Regiment conquered the Japanese second line of defense at great cost, Colonel Sakamoto adjusted the defensive strategy in a timely manner.
Two infantry squadrons were in close contact with the Eighth Route Army's offensive troops, covering one squadron's suicide bombers as they entered the battlefield. As before, they consumed the Eighth Route Army's offensive troops head-on.
An infantry squadron lurked in various bunkers, covered with mud and the corpses of dead soldiers, and holding explosive packets in their arms. They waited for the Eighth Route Army to rush to them and then detonated the explosives, further inflicting heavy damage on the attacking troops.
The remaining guard troops, baggage troops, and artillery troops of the headquarters formed a mobile force of more than 400 people.
After the last offensive unit of the Eighth Route Army was severely damaged, it launched a counterattack, defeating the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop and rendering them incapable of attacking.
But he far underestimated the new regiment's battlefield adaptability.
Also underestimated their level of firepower.
The suicide bombs of the two squadrons did cause huge casualties to the new regiment, and the total strength was directly reduced to more than 400 people.
But these 400 people are equipped with more than 20 crooked guns, more than 40 submachine guns, 60 or 70 Mauser pistols...
Colonel Sakamoto took it for granted that when both sides had no artillery fire to participate in the war, if equal forces fought in a close encounter, he would win...
But God played a big joke on him.
As soon as the mobile unit of more than 400 people rushed more than 100 meters away, they were fired upon by more than 20 light machine guns.
After losing more than a hundred people, they finally managed to reach a position of 60 to 70 meters, only to be shot wildly by more than 40 submachine guns, causing another loss of nearly 200 people.
When they succeeded in fighting to a position of thirty or forty meters, they felt that they only needed one assault to fight against the remnants of the Eighth Route Army and turn defeat into victory.
The Eighth Route Army took out another seventy or eighty Mauser pistols and pointed them at them.
A Mauser pistol killed two Japanese soldiers, and all the mobile troops organized by Colonel Sakamoto were killed.
I'll kill you while you're sick.
The new group decisively launched an attack on the top of the mountain...
Encountering almost no resistance, he easily climbed to the top of the mountain, shot and killed Colonel Sakamoto, and captured the Japanese headquarters.
This change happened too suddenly, and the new regiment's attack speed was too fast, and there was no time for Osa Sakamoto to send a farewell telegram. As a result, the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan did not receive the bad news that Jinniushan had been lost.
Yoshio Shinozuka didn't know the actual situation on the battlefield. After thinking for a long time, he couldn't think of a reason. He could only give a serious order: "If the radio station can't contact Colonel Sakamoto, let the intelligence department investigate... hurry up!"
When Cao Cao was told that Cao Cao was about to arrive, the person in charge of intelligence rushed into the war room in a panic. When he saw Yoshio Shinozuka, he hurriedly reported it, even speaking a little awkwardly!
"Your Excellency Commander...an emergency..."
"The firefight on the Jinniu Mountain battlefield has stopped..."
"Our intelligence personnel lurking around reported that half an hour ago, an Eighth Route Army unit fought from halfway up the mountain all the way to the top of the mountain, and the gunfire stopped..."
"The Eighth Route Army is everywhere in Jinniu Mountain now..."
"They also saw a large number of transport vehicles passing through the Jinniushan blockade and rushing to the Eighth Route Army base..."
"In the past half hour alone, more than 60 vehicles have passed through the Jinniushan blockade, and a large number of mules and horses loaded with weapons, ammunition and supplies have passed through the blockade..."
“We’ve seen more than a thousand of them!”
Upon hearing this, the chief of staff rushed to Yoshio Shinozuka and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, from various signs and expressions, the Jinniushan defense line has indeed been breached by the Eighth Route Army. We must find a way to remedy it immediately!"
Yoshio Shinozuka did not answer, but stared at the intelligence staff and asked nervously: "You just said that the Eighth Route Army has fifty or sixty cars passing through the Jinniushan blockade... Can you confirm what is on the cars?"
"Didn't the aviation force searching for the Eighth Route Army during the day tell me that they had destroyed sixty or seventy vehicles used by the Eighth Route Army to transport military equipment? Why are there still so many?"
"I remember that the total number of cars taken by the Eighth Route Army from Taiyuan and Jinzhong did not exceed 90, but the number of cars that passed through the Jinniushan blockade and the number of cars blown up by the aviation force exceeded 120, and the extra cars were from
Where did it come from?"
"Someone's report must be false, find out immediately!"
The person in charge of the intelligence replied firmly: "Commander, please rest assured that the intelligence in the hands of this humble official is accurate and there is no problem!"
"Then the intelligence department's battle report is wrong?" Shinozuka Yoshio's face immediately darkened.
"Those cars transport military equipment..."
"Once they enter the Eighth Route Army base area, they can quickly establish an arsenal and produce their own weapons and ammunition!"
"The Eighth Route Army's fighting will and combat effectiveness are very strong, even compared to the Imperial Army!"
"The only shortcoming is that the weapons and equipment are too poor and the ammunition is insufficient...that's why they dare not fight us head-on."
"If they set up their own arsenal and can produce their own weapons and ammunition, then the two biggest problems they face will be solved, their combat effectiveness will rise linearly, and our combat pressure will increase, even affecting the entire war in North China.
situation!"
The chief of staff became more and more anxious as he listened, and decisively stepped forward to answer the call: "I will contact the aviation force now to find out how many war results they have falsely reported, and hold them accountable!"
"What's the point of holding people accountable?" Yoshio Shinozuka said angrily.
"If the military equipment that the Eighth Route Army snatched from the Taiyuan arsenal were intact and they used these military equipment to build the arsenal, all of us here would become criminals of the North China Front."
"We must find a way to destroy these equipment immediately. We must not let the Eighth Route Army build an arsenal!"
"As for the aviation force's responsibility for falsely reporting military exploits, someone will naturally investigate after the war!"
The chief of staff stared at the sand table and analyzed: "The car is very fast. If there are no troops to intercept it halfway, it will be able to enter the Eighth Route Army base area before dawn!"
"With the mobilization capabilities of the Eighth Route Army, it only takes one or two hours to move the military equipment on the vehicles to the mountains and hide them. Even if we find those transport vehicles and launch air strikes to destroy them, we will not be able to blow up the military equipment on the vehicles..."
"I propose that we immediately mobilize troops from the strongholds and gun towers along the highway. Even if we don't need those strongholds and gun towers, we still have to drag the convoy halfway!"
"As soon as day breaks, we will dispatch aviation forces, air raids on convoys, and destroy all military equipment!"
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