Without the planes to cause trouble, the battalions of the independent regiment made rapid progress.
Under the cover of thunder cannons and mortars, almost no Japanese and puppet troops could stop their troops.
After Huang Yu captured Ando Daizuo, he originally planned to take the assault battalion to other battlefields to help, but the battle there was over before he arrived, so he had to order the troops to help clean up the battlefield.
When we returned to the former enemy headquarters, the sound of firefights on the battlefield had stopped.
"Xiao Huang, your assault battalion played an indispensable role in this battle!" Kong Jie praised Huang Yu without hesitation when he saw him.
"First use guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare to kill more than 2,000 Japanese puppet troops, then cooperate with the Sixth Battalion to kill the Japanese rear troops, then cooperate with the cavalry battalion to capture the Japanese artillery positions, and finally catch the Japanese commander on the road, gather together and annihilate them!"
"Without you, this decisive battle would definitely not have gone so smoothly!"
Li Wensheng likes to talk with data, and he praises: "The troops on the middle road were swept away by the puppet troops for more than 5,000 days, and you killed more than 2,000 people on the road..."
"After the decisive battle began, the number of Japanese and puppet troops who died at the hands of the assault battalion was not much less than 500. The total number was 2,500 or 600!"
"Half of the Japanese and puppet troops in the middle sweep force were killed by you!"
"Not only did he make an indispensable contribution, he also played a vital and decisive role in the entire decisive battle!"
Kong Jie nodded in support: "The chief of staff's analysis is good..."
"After the battle, you must summarize the entire battle process. I will personally report it to the brigade headquarters and ask for your credit..."
"Especially the battle where thousands of Japanese puppet troops were killed in one night, it must be written clearly!"
When Kong Jie was about to continue talking, Shen Quan, commander of the first battalion, rushed in: "Regiment commander, chief of staff... we won the battle!"
"All the Japanese and puppet troops who entered the pocket formation were wiped out, and not a single one escaped!"
"Our attack speed was too fast. Many Japanese and puppet soldiers were killed by us before they had time to destroy their weapons and ammunition. As a result, most of the weapons and ammunition they brought into the base area were seized by us!"
"The specific results are still being calculated, and the harvest is definitely not small!"
Huang Yu followed Shen Quan's words and said, "I don't know about other troops, but I know what we gained from the Japanese heavy artillery positions!"
"Excluding those destroyed during the battle, there are still four 105mm caliber mountain guns, four field guns, two infantry guns, and two 120mm caliber mortars..."
"There are countless types of ammunition...Many shells are still loaded on the cart and have not been unloaded!"
"If all these artillery pieces are equipped with an artillery battalion... our artillery battalion can be expanded into a heavy artillery battalion immediately..."
When it came to the seizure, Kong Jie's smile became even wider.
Especially the heavy artillery captured by the assault battalion.
At the beginning of the decisive battle, he saw with his own eyes how heavy artillery destroyed a machine gun bunker with a single shell.
If the independent regiment can also be equipped with a 105mm caliber mountain cannon, whether it is attacking strongholds and gun towers or attacking cities in the future, it will be able to cause devastating blows to the enemy and greatly reduce the combat pressure of the siege troops.
He immediately told Huang Yu: "We must protect those artillery pieces!"
"These are the trump cards that the independent regiment will use to fight the Japanese in the future. There must be no problems!"
Li Wensheng suddenly interrupted: "Captain, Xiao Huang, and Shen Quan..."
"The troops achieved a great victory, which is indeed worthy of joy...but the price we paid was also high!"
"In addition to the Japanese and puppet troops we just killed, there are two more mopping up troops in the base area!"
"The result of active retreat is the best... If they don't plan to retreat and decide to fight us to the end, the independent regiment will definitely face increasing combat pressure. We must seize the time to rest and reorganize the troops and prepare for battle in advance!"
The smile on Kong Jie's face instantly solidified. He looked at Shen Quan and asked, "How many people are left in your battalion to continue fighting?"
The smile on Chen Quan's face was immediately replaced by solemnity, and he replied with a stern face: "There are still more than 190 people in the whole battalion who can continue to fight..."
"More than 500 people were directly sacrificed, and all heavy weapons were lost. There were not even a few machine guns left, and the combat effectiveness was almost lost!"
At this point, the serious expression on Shen Quan's face was suddenly replaced by anger. He clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said, "The artillery fire and air strikes of the little devil are too harsh!"
"Many soldiers did not even see the shadow of the Japanese army. They were buried in the artillery holes during the Japanese artillery preparations and suffocated to death!"
"Many soldiers were hit by heavy artillery shells..."
"It was blown into pieces on the spot, and not even the body was left behind!"
"We captured four heavy artillery pieces this time. If we fight against the Japanese in the future, we will definitely let them taste the feeling of being blown into pieces!"
Kong Jie nodded: "Yes!"
"Tit for tat...Sooner or later our independent regiment will retaliate with tooth for tooth to avenge our comrades who died in the artillery fire!"
After saying that, he turned his attention to Huang Yu: "Where is the assault camp? Are there many casualties?"
"More than half of the casualties!" Huang Yu's face darkened at the same time, and he frowned as he answered.
"Our encounter was similar to that of the First Battalion. The enemy's firepower advantage was too obvious...many soldiers died in their shelling..."
The expression on Kong Jie's face was very serious. He was silent for a while before answering: "You two battalions have suffered such heavy losses, and the losses of the other five battalions must not be small!"
"Let me tell you what you think. If the remaining two groups of Japanese and puppet troops do not intend to retreat and continue to sweep the base area and force us to fight decisively, what will the troops do next?"
"You can't fight head on!" Shen Quan fired the first shot of the decisive battle. He was the only commander in the independent regiment who had fought a tough battle face-to-face with the mopping up troops, so he had the most say!
"After this battle, the overall strength of the Independent Regiment will definitely be weakened by several percent!"
"We must concentrate the strength of the whole regiment to win the decisive battle at hand and kill the mopping up troops in the middle!"
"Now that our strength has been damaged, we can no longer fight a big battle with the Japanese, or eat up the troops we wiped out along the way!"
"If the Japanese army really decides to continue fighting, we'd better use guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare against the enemy, slowly fight against them, use up all the ammunition supplies they carry with the army, and then find a way to cut off their logistics supply lines, leaving two Japanese and puppet routes.
The army will naturally retreat!"
Huang Yu particularly wanted to fight a big battle, but the Independent Regiment no longer had the strength to fight a big battle, so he could only settle for the next best thing and said: "I agree with Battalion Commander Shen's analysis!"
"If the Japanese army does not retreat, our next counter-mopping campaign can only be based on guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare!"
"If we encounter a suitable fighter plane, we can still engage in some small-scale annihilation battles!"
Kong Jie nodded immediately: "My thoughts are the same as yours, Chief of Staff, just follow the suggestions of Shen Quan and Huang Yu!"
"First clean the battlefield, count the battle losses and results, and then rest the entire army and prepare for a new battle!"
At the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, Yoshio Shinozuka sat blankly in his chair, his face looking very ugly.
He had already received the bad news that the entire mopping up force in the middle had been wiped out. His mind was full of doubts and confusion, and he didn't understand where he had lost in this battle.
"Your Excellency, Commander... we have an urgent call to clear up the troops on the left..." the chief of staff hurried over to report, his expression tense and dignified.
"Have they reached Baipogou?" Yoshio Shinozuka asked subconsciously.
The chief of staff shook his head and said: "The Eighth Route Army's blocking troops are too tenacious. The marching path is littered with mines. It will take them at least three hours to reach Baipogou!"
"Apart from this, what other emergency can they have?" Shinozuka Yoshio asked dissatisfiedly.
They walked more than 20 kilometers and walked for more than five hours without reaching Baipogou. Their speed was not slow."
If they had marched normally and spent more than three hours to reach Baipogou, the mopping up troops in the middle would not have been completely wiped out. They could have taken the opportunity to surround the independent regiment and attack them from both inside and outside to annihilate them.
After more than three hours of mopping up the troops on the left, they arrived at the battlefield. The independent regiment had even cleaned the battlefield. It must have captured the escaped soldiers long ago. If they wanted to take revenge, they could not find the target, so they could only collect the bodies of the soldiers who died in the battle.
The chief of staff did not see the commander's dissatisfaction and anger, but still dutifully reported: "They have just determined the identity of the Eighth Route Army around them!"
"Those Eighth Route Army troops are neither the main force of the Independent Regiment nor the local troops of the Independent Regiment!"
"All from the New Second Regiment..."
"This is impossible!" Yoshio Shinozuka thought he had heard a big joke and retorted without hesitation.
"The New Second Regiment is clearly blocked by us from outside the Independent Regiment's base, how could it possibly appear on the battlefield..."
"This is absolutely impossible...the left sweep force must have made a mistake!"
The chief of staff replied firmly: "You can't be wrong!"
"The mopping up troops captured several guerrillas who cooperated with the operation during an attack... and found out this news only after being tortured!"
"I am also shocked... I think it is impossible..."
“Then I thought about it and realized it can be done!”
"The main force of the new second regiment attacked the blockade, pretending to reinforce the independent regiment at all costs to attract our attention!"
"Secretly send troops to take small roads, bypass the blockade, and reinforce the independent regiment!"
"Although these reinforcements cannot carry heavy weapons and too much ammunition, the independent regiment has heavy weapons. As long as the New Second Regiment sends troops there, it will be fine!"
"I now have serious suspicions that the Eighth Route Army that blocked our right-side mopping up troops did not belong to the Independent Regiment, but came from the New Regiment!"
Yoshio Shinozuka did not answer, but his mind did not stop.
Working quickly, he analyzed the feasibility of the chief of staff's proposal, and replayed the entire battle in his mind. Finally, he sighed and said: "Your judgment should be right!"
"We were fooled by the independent group from the beginning!"
"Their main force has been hiding near Baipogou and has not moved. They let the reinforcements sent by the New Second Regiment and the New First Regiment pretend to be their main force, besieging the left and right groups and mopping up the troops, confusing us and making us mistakenly think that the main force of the independent regiment has been divided!
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"When all of us felt that there was no danger to the middle route mopping up troops, the Independent Regiment assembled all its main forces to ambush them southwest of Baipogou..."
"Bageya Road, we have been cautious enough in this big sweep, but we still got fooled by the independent group!"
"And the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment actually joined forces with the Independent Regiment to trick us into building a plank road in secret to confuse us..." This chapter has been completed!
