"Is the air defense company nearby?" Kong Jie seemed to have thought of a way to use airplanes, his eyes lit up and he asked.
"Set up defenses around the former enemy command post to protect the safety of the command post!" Li Wensheng replied with a puzzled look on his face.
"Tell them to return to Baipogou immediately, establish an air defense position there, and dispatch a few light and heavy machine guns to go there together..." Kong Jie raised his head and began to give orders.
"Deploy another county brigade back to Baipogou, pretend to be the main force, and drag the heavy baggage trucks to move into the mountains!"
"When the Japanese planes ran over Baipogou again for reconnaissance, all the anti-aircraft machine guns opened fire, forcing them to high altitude and covering the county brigade as they continued to move into the mountains."
Li Wensheng understood and immediately accepted the order: "I understand!"
"Captain, you want the Japanese to think that the headquarters of the Independent Regiment is still in Baipogou and is seizing the time to retreat to the mountains!"
"If they don't rush to Baipogou quickly, when we enter the mountain, they will be beyond their reach and lose our trace!"
"In this case, the central mopping up troops will definitely attack forward with all their strength!"
"The faster they charge and the more powerful their attack, the less vigilant they become!"
"He ran into our pocket formation... By the time they reacted, the outflanking troops had already blocked them here. They couldn't escape even if they wanted to, so they had no choice but to let us slaughter them!"
At this moment, Ando Daizuo was blocked by the assault battalion in front of today's first blocking position.
The Japanese and puppet troops copied their previous tactics and massed all their heavy artillery to bombard the position, preparing to scare away the Eighth Route Army on the position before launching an attack.
When the artillery fire coverage lasted for five minutes, the operator suddenly ran towards him: "Sir... the aerial reconnaissance aircraft was attacked over Baipogou..."
"The Eighth Route Army organized several anti-aircraft machine guns and a large number of light and heavy machine guns to shoot in the air...The pilots reacted quickly and immediately climbed up after being attacked, avoiding ground anti-aircraft fire!"
"Reconnaissance planes also found a large number of signs of the Eighth Route Army retreating in Baipogou..."
"The highway to the northeast of Baipogou is full of Eighth Route Army troops, carrying a large number of large and heavy vehicles, marching in a hurry towards the mountains..."
"The anti-aircraft firepower is to cover these troops!"
"No...the Independent Regiment is going to run away!" the adjutant immediately exclaimed.
"Baipo Valley is where the headquarters of the Independent Regiment is located... They sensed the danger and wanted to retreat to the mountains to fight guerrillas with us before we reached Baipo Valley!"
"Sir, we must speed up our march to intercept them!"
"Once they are broken into pieces and retreat into the mountains, it will be difficult to annihilate them all!"
Ando Daizuo didn't speak immediately. He took the telegram and read it carefully before saying: "The intelligence shows that the independent regiment headquarters only has one guard battalion and one cavalry battalion. Together with the logistics troops, the total strength is exactly more than a thousand people!"
"The troops that the pilot saw in the northeast direction of Baipogou coincided exactly with each other. They should be the independent regiment headquarters we are looking for!"
"You are right... The Eighth Route Army entering the mountains is like a fish entering the sea. It is very difficult to find them, let alone annihilate them..."
"The mission given to us by the military is to gather and annihilate the independent regiment headquarters in the Baipogou area. They must not be allowed to enter the mountains..."
"The artillery will continue to fire for five more minutes. The artillery bombardment is over. Try to attack and capture the blocking position with one attack!"
"The battle is over, the troops march directly towards Baipogou!"
"The engineering team withdrew... while clearing mines and marching at the same time, the speed was too slow..."
"By the time we reach Baipogou, the independent regiment headquarters will have already gone into the mountains to hide!"
"Assemble two companies of the Imperial Association Army to explore the road ahead, and arrange an infantry squadron to supervise the battle. Let the Imperial Association Army detonate the mines on the road, and strive to reach Baipogou within two hours!"
"If any of the Imperial Alliance troops disobey the command, battlefield discipline will be directly enforced!"
"Rumble..."
Without engineers to help clear mines, a serial mine was quickly detonated by the puppet troops, and nearly ten soldiers fell to the ground dead or injured.
Before the smoke rising from the explosion point dissipated, the Japanese officers' shouts and curses rang out from behind the puppet troops.
"Carry the corpses and the wounded to the side of the road. There will be troops behind to help handle them. The others will continue to move forward, otherwise they will die..."
"Move forward quickly...or we will shoot..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of pulling the bolt of a gun reached the ears of the puppet soldiers.
"Brothers... If you don't want to die, please move forward... The imperial army will not be polite to us. If we say they will shoot, they will shoot... hurry up!" the puppet army officer shouted at the top of his lungs.
But he did not act immediately. Instead, he waited for the ordinary soldiers to walk out and followed him from a distance...
Under the threat of death, the puppet soldiers had no choice but to continue to serve as cannon fodder for the Japanese and use their feet to detonate landmines on the road...
"Rumble..."
The explosion sounded again, and it was the serial thunder that the Japanese and puppet troops hated most!
In the thick smoke, another dozen puppet soldiers fell in a pool of blood.
At this time, many puppet soldiers had expressions of fear on their faces and did not dare to move forward.
"Bang bang..."
Two gunshots suddenly rang out behind them, and the two former comrades fell to the ground with expressions of disbelief on their faces, with blood still at the corners of their mouths...
I never thought that I would become a traitor without my conscience, and in the end I would not die in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, but in the hands of my own master... It’s so ridiculous!
The Japanese didn't care so much. They planned to kill the chickens to scare the monkeys and force the remaining puppet troops to move forward.
"Brothers... the imperial army really killed people..." The company commander who led the puppet army was also shocked. He didn't expect that the Japanese would kill people when they said they wanted to. He didn't even say hello. In order to avoid being targeted by the Japanese.
, and quickly signaled to his subordinates to continue moving forward.
"Keep going forward, you may be injured by landmines, save your life!"
"If you stop and don't leave, the Japanese will definitely kill you!"
"Brothers who want to live, keep rushing forward... go faster!"
Five hundred meters away on the hillside, Wei Dayong was shocked to see the Japanese actually sending puppet soldiers to the front as human minesweepers. In his opinion, this was even more shameful than the Japanese using puppet soldiers as cannon fodder.
Cannon fodder is still on the offensive battlefield no matter what. As long as you rush fast enough and powerfully enough, you still have a high chance of surviving.
To detect mines, you know that there are mines in front of you, but the Japanese have mine detectors in their hands but don't use them. They let the puppet soldiers use their feet to detonate the mines and clear the way for the main troops behind...
"Battal Commander, the kid must be crazy..." Wei Dayong couldn't help shouting as the puppet army detonated another series of mines.
"They don't use good mine detectors, but let the puppet troops use their feet to detonate landmines... Do they think the puppet troops have too many troops and want to use mine detection to consume some of the puppet troops?"
Huang Yu shook his head: "After the middle mopping up troops were hit hard by us one after another, they are seriously short of troops. Do you think they will think they have too many troops?"
"Then why didn't they use mine detectors to detect mines and suddenly let the puppet soldiers detonate the mines with their feet!" Wei Dayong asked increasingly puzzled.
"It detonates landmines faster!" Huang Yu answered after thinking for a while.
"When they first started marching today, the Japanese army was still letting their engineers detect mines... they suddenly withdrew their engineers and asked the puppet troops to go to the front and detonate the mines to clear the way for the main force!"
"It shows that this order was suddenly decided by the little devil!"
"They must have received some bad news and were in a hurry to move forward. They had to give up their engineers to clear mines and directly let the puppet troops go to the front to detonate the mines..."
"No matter what the reason is for the Japanese and puppet troops to do this, it is an excellent opportunity for us to consume a large number of Japanese and puppet troops!"
"Contact Third Company Commander Wang Minghua immediately and ask him to increase the density of mines!"
"Try to kill a few more people before the Japanese and puppet troops enter the pocket formation..."
At one o'clock in the afternoon, Ando Dazuo, who had lost nearly two hundred puppet troops, finally reached the second blocking position.
Break through here and attack two kilometers further, Baipogou will be trampled under your feet.
Ando Daizuo seemed to have arrived at Victory to recruit himself, and immediately ordered the artillery to fire and break through here as soon as possible.
Chen Quan was hiding in a bunker about 70 to 80 meters behind the blocking position. From the moment the Japanese and puppet troops appeared, he never put down the telescope he held in front of his eyes.
"The Japanese have started shelling... Let the first company prepare for the bombardment!" Shen Quan suddenly ordered.
"Rumble..."
In less than a minute, a violent explosion sounded in front of us, and billowing black smoke mixed with orange-red flames rose from the ground, forming seven or eight mushroom clouds in the blocking position...
Seeing the soil, stones, logs... being blown away one after another, Chen Quan's heart was in his throat at this moment.
The bunkers and anti-gun holes on the position have been deepened and reinforced by ourselves, but after all, there have been no experiments with real guns and live ammunition.
No one knows whether those fortifications can hold up until the artillery fire coverage is over.
As everyone waited anxiously, the last round of artillery fire finally sounded, and the battlefield fell into brief silence.
Two or three seconds later, the dull sound of heavy machine gun fire began to sound in the Japanese offensive position. Bullets were flying everywhere on the position as if they were free, creating an airtight fire network.
As long as someone pokes his head out of the trench, he will be beaten into a sieve immediately!
"Contact the position immediately... Find out the casualties of the troops and prepare them for battle..." Shen Quan stood behind the observation port and ordered while observing the battle situation.
"The artillery platoon aims at the Japanese heavy machine gun position for me... After hearing the order to fire, each gun will run four rounds and fire rapidly. After the attack, move away. Don't be locked by the Japanese artillery, otherwise you won't be able to escape!"
"Batalion Commander..." The instructor frowned and put down the phone.
"Three platoons of the company have been contacted... Four anti-gun holes were blown down... The other anti-gun holes are so boring..."
"One bunker was blown down, but the others can still be used..."
"Twenty-four soldiers were sacrificed and one heavy machine gun was lost..."
"Bang..." Shen Quan clenched his fist and slammed it on the log pillar next to him, gritted his teeth and said with a heartbroken expression: "We still underestimated the power of heavy artillery..."
"It's so frustrating to lose most of the platoon without even seeing the enemy!"
"If we encounter Japanese heavy artillery in the future, our anti-artillery fortifications and bunkers will need to be further strengthened!"
"Let the first company prepare for battle...The battalion headquarters will provide them with blind artillery support. We must repel the first attack of the Japanese and puppet troops and avenge the comrades who died just now!"