Although Japanese Major General Nakamura did not visit the front line in person, his attention was on the battlefield from beginning to end.
Watching the Yamaguchi Regiment launch a new round of attack, the smoke-filled blocking position seemed to have been leveled by mountain artillery and mortars, and a confident smile immediately flashed on the serious face.
Direct order: "Get the main force ready to go."
"This attack on Yamaguchi-kun will definitely capture the Eighth Route Army's blocking position and completely wipe out the opponent."
As soon as he finished speaking, the scream of artillery shells streaking across the sky rang in his ears.
It was very ear-piercing, even louder than the volley of eight mountain cannons just now.
More importantly, the explosion did not come from the Eighth Route Army's blocking position ahead, but from the road less than 500 meters away from him.
The fire was soaring into the sky and the smoke was billowing. The soldiers gathered there were like paper toys, either being blown away or being blown over.
Just one round of artillery fire killed and injured nearly a hundred people.
"Baga, what happened to the sudden artillery attack just now?" Major General Nakamura looked heartbroken and asked anxiously as he stared at the battlefield.
"I don't know about my humble position..." the chief of staff replied with a confused look on his face.
"But the sudden artillery attack just now involved at least thirty field guns, which is no less than an artillery regiment. We must counterattack immediately, otherwise the infantry will surely suffer heavy casualties in the artillery fire."
Major General Nakamura suddenly slapped his head and reacted suddenly: "I understand..."
"The Eighth Route Army in Yi Zhong is indeed exactly the same as the analysis in the intelligence. It likes surprises..."
"But they are too arrogant. They actually want to use thousands of troops to annihilate us and give the Kwantung Army more money."
"I just don't know how I died."
"The mountain artillery that attacked us just now must be all the heavy weapons equipped by the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong."
"We're being targeted."
"Now that you're here, don't go back."
"Order: Field artillery brigade, heavy artillery brigade, counterattack immediately, kill the Eighth Route Army artillery unit for me, hurry up."
"Boom boom boom..."
As soon as Major General Nakamura issued the order, a series of denser explosions suddenly sounded behind him.
He trembled with fright and quickly turned back to look in the direction where the sound of the cannon came from.
The battlefield that was still dark just now was completely illuminated by the flames caused by the shells.
Major General Nakamura clearly saw more than 20 field guns and heavy artillery parked on the road.
The order to counterattack has not yet been sent, and the gunners are gathering next to their own guns to make repairs.
As a result, more than a hundred mortar shells fell from the sky, raining down on them.
Although the power is very small, it is difficult to directly blow up the artillery.
But this kind of shell is very lethal to the gunner.
One cannonball formed twenty or thirty pieces of cannonball fragments, and more than a hundred cannonballs added up to two to three thousand fragments, flying everywhere around the artillery, ruthlessly harvesting the lives of the gunners.
As far as the eye could see, there were everywhere the bodies of gunners who had been blown over, the wounded who were screaming in agony, and the gunners who were running around in panic.
"Boom boom boom..."
The soldiers who luckily escaped the first round of shelling were just about to move when the second round of shells followed, and dense explosions sounded again...
Major General Nakamura's face quickly turned pale, and he cried out: "How come the Eighth Route Army has so many mortars..."
"How did they do that."
"Let the mortar squadrons under each brigade counterattack immediately to prevent them from continuing to shell the field artillery brigade and heavy artillery brigade."
"Otherwise, all the gunners in the two brigades will be blown up."
"We must also divide two mortar squadrons to counterattack the Eighth Route Army's mountain artillery units, disperse the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire, and reduce the pressure on the infantry to defend against artillery."
Before the chief of staff could answer the question, the artillery staff officer on the side reported impatiently: "General, we should concentrate all mortars to attack the Eighth Route Army's mortar positions and rescue the field artillery brigade and heavy artillery brigade."
"I just made a calculation. The Eighth Route Army's mountain field artillery positions are very far away from us. The mortars can't reach them. We can only use field artillery and heavy artillery to counterattack."
"Nani?" Major General Nakamura's face became more and more ugly, and he cried out.
"I see……"
"The Eighth Route Army in Yizhong is engaging in Tian Ji horse racing with us."
"Using mortars with the shortest range and the least power to deal with our field artillery and heavy artillery battalions may seem like a huge disadvantage, but it can hold them back from participating in other battles."
"Use more powerful and longer-range mountain artillery to deal with our infantry and mortars."
"It seems like killing a chicken with a knife, but the range is different."
"No matter how many mortars we equip, they cannot threaten the safety of their mountain artillery. We can only be passively bombed."
"The Eighth Route Army in Yi Zhong is indeed very difficult to deal with."
"Just give the order as the artillery staff just proposed."
"Gather all the mortars to counterattack the Eighth Route Army's mortar units and rescue the field artillery and heavy artillery brigade."
"Let them counterattack the Eighth Route Army's mountain artillery unit."
"In this way we can turn defeat into victory and change the situation of the war."
"Rumble..."
When several messengers went separately to give orders, the roar of horse hooves suddenly sounded not far away.
Major General Nakamura hurriedly ordered: "Send flares in the direction of the sound, hurry up..."
"There are also Eighth Route Army cavalry lurking around us. The terrain here is flat, which is very suitable for cavalry assault. We must not let them get close to the road."
"boom……"
The flare quickly rose into the sky, instantly burned into a ball of white light at an altitude of one to two hundred meters, and slowly fell to the ground.
The dark battlefield was also illuminated into daylight at this moment.
More than a hundred cavalrymen, brandishing their sabers, plunged straight into the road that had just been plowed by field artillery.
There were bomb craters everywhere, and soldiers' corpses and wounded were scattered around.
Hundreds of elite Kwantung Army soldiers were dead and injured, and less than 20% were still able to move.
They reacted very quickly. When they saw the cavalry, they immediately established a defense line along the road. The remaining four or five light and heavy machine guns were placed on the ground, firing at the cavalry company as if bullets were free, hoping to block the cavalry offensive.
But the cavalry's assault speed was too fast, and their blocking firepower was too weak. No matter how hard they tried, it was in vain.
After losing nearly one-third of the cavalry, the remaining cavalry were like a group of tigers, slamming into the road.
More than a hundred Japanese soldiers were instantly smashed to pieces and lost their fighting power.
The cavalry company's speed did not slow down and continued to charge forward, completely cutting the Kwantung Army's several-kilometer-long team into two pieces.
Major General Nakamura was dumbfounded.
Before he could recover from the shock, a commando team of more than a thousand people came into view again.
"Eighth Route Army infantry..." a combat staff officer shouted at the same time.
"General, the Eighth Route Army is following the cavalry to attack the road..."
"They want to divide us into two parts."
Major General Nakamura also realized this and quickly raised his telescope to look around, hoping to deploy troops to block the gap and block the Eighth Route Army commandos.
As a result, he saw a picture that made him even more desperate.
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