Chapter 285 Chief of Staff: Eat a cut, grow a wiser
"It's over..." These two words came to the squad leader's mind quickly. Before he could call his subordinates to defend themselves, bullets were flying from behind.
The squad leader took a bullet in his thigh and fell to the ground with a plop, unable to get up again...
The outflanking reconnaissance company and special forces continued to fire. Under the suppressed firepower, no matter how powerful the Yamamoto special forces were, they could not resist the bullets fired by the Eighth Route Army with their own flesh and blood...
He could only lie on the ground and watch the Eighth Route Army rushing towards him...
Yamamoto's special agents are good at sneak attacks. When interspersed with raids, a dozen special agents play as much a role as one or two infantry squadrons.
But they are now fighting a positional battle, and the combat effectiveness displayed by the special agents is only slightly stronger than that of ordinary Japanese soldiers.
Under siege that was several times larger than the elite Eighth Route Army troops, all of them were killed before they could even hold on for two minutes...
Huang Yu was very excited. Since time travel, he has fought several battles with the Yamamoto special agent team.
Previously, due to various restrictions, it was impossible to annihilate all opponents.
The battle in front of him was the first time that he wiped out all the invading Yamamoto special forces.
But the battle is far from over.
Annihilating the Yamamoto special agent team that attacked Baipogou is only the first step. There will be second and third steps next...
Only after all three battles have been fought can the independent regiment achieve its scheduled combat objectives and order it immediately.
"Clean the battlefield immediately and prepare to fight against the Japs' supporting troops... hurry up, we must eliminate them around Baipogou, and don't let them interfere with the chief of staff's raid on the Zhangjiachong stronghold!"
At this moment, the Zhangjiachong stronghold was in chaos.
The stronghold was only equipped with one radio station. Although the Yamamoto special agent team also brought one, in order to ensure that the communication between the special agent team and the responding troops was not interrupted, the Japanese took both radio stations with them when they set off.
The telephone line was also cut off by the independent group in advance, making it impossible to contact the outside world.
Facing the Eighth Route Army that suddenly rushed outside the stronghold, the troops left behind were unable to respond to their calls every day. They could only defend the stronghold in panic, hoping that the attacking troops would quickly complete their mission and return to the stronghold...
"Chief of Staff... all offensive forces are in place and can launch an attack at any time!" Shen Quan ran to Li Wensheng and reported hurriedly.
"Is the artillery movement in place?" Li Wensheng asked.
"Mountain artillery and infantry artillery have been aimed at the central gun tower in the stronghold... all flying thunder cannons are aimed at the machine gun bunkers and defensive positions around the stronghold..." the report continued.
"I heard that there are only about a hundred Japanese and puppet troops left in the stronghold, and there are less than thirty real Japs..."
"I think there is no need for the flying thunder cannon to participate in the war... knock down the central gun tower, and almost all the Japanese in the stronghold will be killed..."
"The puppet troops will also be frightened... Then use infantry artillery and mountain artillery to knock down one or two bunkers and scare them more. The battle should be over. Maybe forty or fifty puppet prisoners can be captured!"
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Li Wensheng shook his head and said: "You think too simply..."
"The puppet troops in the stronghold were trained and commanded by the Japanese. The fear of the Japanese has long been deep in our bones. If we don't kill the Japanese inside, do you think the puppet troops dare to surrender?"
"This is an attack, not an ambush... The Japanese and puppet troops are all hiding in bunkers and strongholds. No matter how powerful our troops are, we can't tell who is the puppet army and who is the Japs officer, so we can't pre-emptively kill the Japs."
Officer, force the puppet troops to surrender!"
"We suffered a lot when we established a stronghold in northwestern Shanxi before. We must not make the same mistake a second time..."
"After the attack begins, infantry artillery and mountain artillery are responsible for blowing up the gun towers in the stronghold, and flying thunder cannons are responsible for killing the Japanese and puppet troops in the bunker..."
"Use artillery fire to level the stronghold and then attack with infantry!"
"After entering the stronghold, unless the two Japs inside surrender voluntarily, we will not take the initiative to capture prisoners. When we encounter the enemy, whether they are Japs or puppet troops, we must strike first and not give them a chance to shoot or detonate grenades!"
"Tell the artillery troops not to save shells for me!"
"Staff Huang told us that only by making quick decisions and annihilating the enemy as quickly as possible can we seize enough weapons and ammunition to support the war!"
"Otherwise, even if we try our best to kill the enemy, we won't be able to capture many weapons and ammunition!"
"The attack will begin in five minutes..."
On the top of the central turret, the Japanese squad leader who was left behind to guard the stronghold was observing the Eighth Route Army outside with a look of panic.
He swallowed his saliva for a while and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He was obviously very nervous.
"Captain... we are surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, at least five hundred people..." The puppet company commander on the side was a Japanese soldier, Captain Cao, who was observing and reporting.
He is an out-and-out elemental, deeply influenced by Bushido. Not only is he not afraid of death, but he especially yearns to die on the battlefield.
It is for this reason that he was sent to the puppet army as a company commander.
Leading by example, he used very bloody methods to train a group of Chinese people to be obedient. When he saw him, he was afraid...
Although the combat effectiveness of that group of people is not as good as that of the real imperial army, in defensive battles, their combat effectiveness will not be much worse than that of the imperial army.
There are more than 80 puppet troops in the stronghold, all trained by him.
Commander Cao was confident in his own troop training methods and felt that he could rely on them to defend the stronghold...
Therefore, when facing the independent regiment, he did not panic like the captain, and observed the enemy's situation with a calm expression.
But the squad leader had no confidence at all.
He saw mountain artillery and infantry artillery outside the stronghold...
These two types of artillery are powerful weapons for attacking fortresses. As long as the Eighth Route Army has enough ammunition, it can use artillery shells to name all the turrets and bunkers in the stronghold one by one!
Once the stronghold is razed to the ground, no matter how many defenders there are, they will be exposed to the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, and finally they will blow them up with artillery shells...
The team leader did not express his concerns, fearing that Commander Cao would lose the courage to hold the stronghold. Then the majority of the puppet troops in the stronghold would definitely collapse in morale, and the chance of holding the stronghold would be even slimmer.
"Rumble..."
The sound of the explosion of artillery shells suddenly reached the squad leader's ears, very close to him, as if right under his feet...
In the violent explosion, the turret under my feet trembled twice, and then I saw two balls of black smoke rising from the bottom of the turret...
"Baga, the enemy has begun to attack... They want to destroy our central gun tower..."
"Retreat immediately...leave the turret...it's dangerous here..."
Before the team leader finished speaking, he ran towards the stairs.
The inside of the blockhouse was filled with gunpowder smoke. It can be seen that the shelling just now not only hit the blockhouse, but also the shells exploded inside the blockhouse.
The team leader couldn't care less, so he covered his nose and ran to the first floor...
As soon as I reached the second floor, the second round of artillery shells fired by the Eighth Route Army was already roaring towards me...
