Just after dawn, the explosion of the Japanese army destroying the tunnel rang out in Pingyang Town.
Eight demolition teams entered the town again.
Compared with yesterday, each demolition team has an additional infantry squad and a heavy machine gun squad.
Dig the tunnel entrance, set up the heavy machine gun first, and then send people into the hole to lay out explosives.
Major General Fujita believed that the outcome could be decided today with the Junpei garrison.
There are fewer and fewer usable tunnels in the town.
By the afternoon at the latest, the Junpei garrison will break out of the tunnel due to lack of space for movement.
Heavy machine guns were stationed at the entrance of the tunnel, no matter how many Eighth Route Army soldiers emerged from inside, they would not be afraid.
"The tunnel entrance has been dug..." a puppet soldier shouted,
After saying that, he prepared to retreat and give up the tunnel entrance to the little devil behind him.
Yesterday afternoon, attacking the tunnels and covering the engineers to deploy explosives were all the work of the Japanese, and today is certainly no exception.
As a result, as soon as I turned around, a row of kidnappers pointed their rifles at me.
A Japanese soldier, Commander Cao, ordered them at the same time: "Baga..."
"Your battlefield is on the underground ground. Are you a deserter?"
"Take weapons and enter the tunnel, cover the engineers to deploy explosives, hurry up."
The puppet soldier's face instantly turned pale and he looked at his squad leader.
Yesterday's battle scenes are still vivid in my mind. Even the little devils who enter the tunnel are no match for the Eighth Route Army, let alone the Imperial Alliance Army.
With a look of panic on their faces, they hoped that the squad leader could take them out of here and not go into the tunnel and die.
It turned out that the squad leader was more timid than them.
Seeing the Japanese with a bayonet pointed at his chest, he gave in. He picked up his rifle and rushed towards the tunnel entrance.
"What are you still doing? Taijun's order must be carried out."
"Take your weapons and enter the tunnel, and move faster. I want to look good on whoever goes in."
The squad leaders all chose to bow to the Japanese, and the ordinary soldiers did not have the capital to challenge the Japanese, so they could only walk towards the tunnel entrance with despair.
"Boom boom boom..."
Explosions and screams soon sounded in the tunnel, and smoke poured out from the tunnel entrance. No one knew what happened inside.
The Japanese team leader was lying next to the tunnel, feeling very nervous.
Although the people who entered the ground were puppet troops, he did not care about the life or death of the puppet troops.
But there are only so many puppet troops in hand. If all the puppet troops are dead, in the end, we will still have to rely on our subordinates to cover the engineers and lay explosives.
I especially hope that the puppet troops can complete the cover mission.
The result was the opposite.
A series of "da da da..." machine gun fire suddenly sounded in the tunnel.
It ended as quickly as it started, lasting only five seconds.
The tunnel immediately fell into silence, and even the initial screams disappeared.
"You guys go in and take a look, quickly..."
The impatient Japanese squad leader immediately turned his attention to the other puppet soldiers.
The orders of the Japanese must be carried out,
A few puppet soldiers had no choice but to rush in no matter how afraid of death they were.
As a result, no shots were fired this time, and there was no movement after a few puppet soldiers entered the tunnel.
It made the Japanese squad leader anxious and panicked.
I thought the Eighth Route Army had prepared some new gadget in the tunnel, which could instantly take away the lives of those puppet soldiers.
Little did they know that most of the puppet troops who had just entered the tunnel had become prisoners of the Eighth Route Army.
This was the masterpiece of the Junpei garrison last night.
In one night, not only a large number of secret rooms and secret passages were built in the tunnel, but many secret passages and secret passages were also connected together, so that the troops could reach behind the enemy through the secret passages at any time and attack them from the front and rear.
After the puppet troops entered the tunnel, in addition to their feet, there was also a secret passage beside them.
Several soldiers surrounded them through a secret passage, and there were soldiers in front blocking the way with machine guns.
The puppet troops were either beaten into sieves by bullets or taken prisoner by the Eighth Route Army.
Most of the puppet soldiers were just making a living, not really working for the Japanese.
Faced with the choice of dying in battle or living, no one hesitated and all chose to be prisoners.
The devil squad leader didn't know about this.
Faced with the disappearance of several puppet soldiers again, he panicked and decided to send a few Japanese into the tunnel to take a look.
"Bagya Road..."
"The Imperial Alliance Army is too unreliable, we still have to rely on our own people."
Pointing to a commander beside him, he ordered: "Take your men into the tunnel."
"Cover the engineers to deploy explosives."
Five Japanese soldiers bent down and walked into the tunnel, equipped with three rifles and a light machine gun.
As soon as they entered the tunnel, three grenades were thrown in by the riflemen.
Amidst the violent explosions, smoke and smoke enveloping a large amount of dust rushed towards us.
"Da da da……"
The Japanese machine gunners fired at the same time, moving forward while holding fire.
The riflemen followed closely behind.
Before the bullets in the machine gun magazine were exhausted, three grenades rolled past them and deeper into the tunnel.
This is a temporary assault strategy summed up by the Japanese army.
Machine guns and grenades worked together to suppress the Eighth Route Army in the tunnel, without giving them a chance to breathe or fight back.
This style of play is very useful if there is an ordinary tunnel under their feet that was blasted yesterday.
However, this tunnel was specially designed for fighting.
The soldiers hid in dark rooms and behind firing holes. No matter how hard the enemy grenades exploded or how hard the machine guns hit them, they could not be harmed at all.
Soon the Japanese came to the corpses of several puppet soldiers and prepared to bypass the corpses and continue their assault.
Too late, but not too long ago, a machine gun team suddenly appeared behind them through the secret passage.
"Da da da……"
As soon as the gunfire rang out, dense bullets struck behind the Japanese.
The three riflemen walked in a formation behind the machine gunner, like three living targets, and the bullets instantly raked their backs into sieves.
The machine gunners hiding in the dark room in front started looting at the same time.
The bullets flew towards the Japanese machine gunner head-on. The two men did not even scream, and their chests were also beaten into sieves.
The Japanese team leader lay outside and was worried, but there was nothing he could do.
The sound of the exchange of fire just now proved that there were many Eighth Route Army troops hiding in the tunnels, and they were also equipped with machine guns.
Continuing to send people in is just like the tactic of adding more fuel, as many people will die as many people enter.
The demolition team has lost enough troops here, and he doesn't want to sacrifice more soldiers' lives in vain.
In less than ten seconds, the sound of firefighting in the cave stopped.
If the attack team wins, they will definitely send people out to call in engineers.
But apart from the smoke that was blowing out from the tunnel entrance, there was no sign of a soldier.
The team leader was very unwilling, but had to admit the fact that the commando encountered an accident.
Then he had to retreat and give the second order: "It is too difficult to blow up more than ten meters at a time. We will only blow up five meters."
"The commandos stopped five meters into the tunnel and covered the engineers to deploy explosives..."
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The enemy's encounter with the Japanese mopping up troops on the left and right was completely opposite to that of the Japanese mopping up troops in the middle.
They arrived at Pingyang Town in the middle of the night last night.
Immediately afterwards, they deployed around Pingyang Town, waiting for the Eighth Route Army in the wings to hit the muzzle of their guns.
The Eighth Route Army never abandons its friendly troops when marching and fighting.
Pingyang Town was surrounded by Major General Fujita, and the Junpei garrison's retreat was blocked, and it was possible to be massed and annihilated at any time.
The other Eighth Route Army troops in the wing will definitely not let it go.
As long as they dare to come, the first two rounds of mopping up the troops will make them bloody in Pingyang Town.
Regrettably, the reinforcement troops did not find a single Eighth Route Army soldier from midnight until noon today.
It was like seeing a ghost.
They watched the middle route mopping up troops drinking and eating meat in Pingyang Town, but they could only stay in their position and stare blankly, not even being able to drink a sip of soup.
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In a valley three kilometers east of Baoding City, Li Yunlong squinted and lay among the corn stalks, closing his eyes and meditating.
Ahead was the city of Baoding, and he had to be mentally prepared to prepare for tonight's decisive battle.
"Deputy commander, we have obtained the Baoding city defense map..." Deng Jingyexing hurried to Li Yunlong to report.
His closed eyes suddenly opened, he took the city defense map and looked at it carefully, and soon his eyes were fixed on the Japanese brigade headquarters in the center of the city.
"Right here..."
"Is there anyone familiar with the situation here? The more details the better."
The intelligence officer who sent the city defense map followed Deng Jingye and immediately stood up and reported: "Chief, I know the situation in the city."
"You are referring to the Japanese brigade headquarters."
"At the beginning, the Baoding garrison only had one reinforced brigade, which occupied a courtyard as the garrison headquarters."
"After the garrison was increased from a reinforced group to a brigade."
"The headquarters is getting bigger and bigger."
"They occupied three or four surrounding courtyards, and even the security forces occupied one courtyard."
"We also demolished the courtyard around the headquarters to prevent people from climbing over the wall to sneak attack on the headquarters."
"In this large area you are referring to, apart from the Japanese headquarters and the garrison, there is not a single civilian."
Li Yunlong immediately turned his attention to the artillery company commander.
"The field artillery is too heavy to carry."
"We only brought mountain artillery and infantry artillery."
"Old Zhang, you are an old artilleryman."
"Let you unified command all the infantry artillery and mountain artillery in the regiment, and place them wherever you can to blow up the Japanese brigade headquarters."
The artillery company commander thought for half a minute against the city defense map and then replied: "The range of the infantry artillery is too close."
"Only by mounting it to the top of the city can the artillery shells be fired into the Japanese brigade headquarters."
"Mountain artillery mounted within 500 meters outside the city can fire shells into the headquarters, but the accuracy is very poor."
Li Yunlong said with a nonchalant look: "It doesn't matter if it's almost accurate."
"That old devil Okamura Neji is the commander of the Japanese North China Front."
"There are a lot of guards around me, and I'm not so arrogant as to kill him with a burst of artillery fire."
"As long as I can scare him, the mission is accomplished."
"If I can really kill Okamura Neji with one shot, I will definitely be luckier than stepping on shit."
"After dark, I will find a way to send all the mountain artillery brought by the two regiments within 500 meters of the city."
"You should seize the time to rest and recuperate your energy."
"After the operation begins, aim and hit me."
"Whether the counter-mopping up in the base area can be won, and whether Deputy Chief of Staff Huang can turn the situation around, depends on you."
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At the former enemy headquarters in Pingyang Town, Major General Fujita's patience was about to be worn out.
I thought I would be able to force the Junpei garrison out of the tunnel in the afternoon, have a decisive battle, and capture Pingyang.
As a result, it was almost dark before the troops blew up half of the tunnels in Pingyang Town. The other half was still in the hands of the Eighth Route Army.
What annoyed him most was the casualties among the demolition team.
The puppet army suffered more than 70% casualties, the engineers suffered more than 50% casualties, and even the supplementary troops who cooperated with the operation suffered nearly 400 casualties.
This is the result of the large-scale use of puppet troops as cannon fodder.
If there were no puppet troops blocking bullets in front, infantry casualties would have doubled.
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