735 Just waiting for the Japanese invaders to take the bait
Five days.
Both sides are taking action.
From various sources, it was confirmed that the Independent Regiment secretly transported and stored all the food from Laohugou, Banan Village, and Sanhe Village in the Dafengzhuang area.
Japanese commander Yoshio Shinozuka finally no longer hesitated, dispatched a surprise armored force and issued a raid order.
In the early morning, it's probably just dawn.
A large-scale Japanese armored and cavalry force, which is quite rare for battlefields behind enemy lines, secretly advanced towards Dafengzhuang, a transportation granary on the outer guerrilla zone of the Independent Regiment and the center line of the base area.
This force consists of two parts.
One part is a cavalry squadron composed of 134 cavalry.
The other part was made up of six Japanese Type 92 cavalry tanks, two Type 89 medium tanks, six Type 94 ultra-light tanks, and eight armored vehicles, which were improvised by the Japanese First Army in Shanxi.
Tank squadron.
They were jointly led by Japanese cavalry squadron leader Okazaki Nishimasa and tank squadron leader Kazuo Uehara.
Among them, Kazuo Uehara was an officer of a special force with the rank of major, and was in charge of the combat mission of raiding Dafengzhuang.
"Uehara-kun, if the attack on Eighth Route Dafengzhuang is successful, it will definitely cause heavy damage to the independent regiment and play a considerable role in our army's food shortage. I don't need to say more about the importance of this battle." p>
“I’ll leave everything to you!”
When secretly leaving the First Army Headquarters in Taiyuan City, the commander of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi, Yoshio Shinozuka, gave Kazuo Uehara a serious and sincere message.
Kazuo Uehara, who was quite confident, answered with confidence.
"Hey, general, please rest assured that we will definitely complete the raid mission this time."
In the early morning, when Kazuo Uehara gave the order to advance, he brought more than 20 tanks and armored vehicles with him, accompanying the cavalry squadron.
This young Japanese officer's face was full of high spirits and his smile was so bright.
According to Kazuo Uehara.
"To deal with the Tuba Road in the occupied areas who only dare to hide in the mountains and act like cowards."
"We are actually asked to dispatch tanks and cavalry troops to conduct a surprise attack. It is really overkill."
"This time I plan to arrive at Dafengzhuang within two hours, and within twenty minutes, with the joint advance of cavalry and armored troops, I will capture Dafengzhuang in one fell swoop and bring the food that the Commander has expected.
Return."
Japanese Cavalry Squadron Leader Okazaki Nishimasa originally wanted to remind Uehara that this independent regiment was not easy to deal with.
But considering the use of tanks and cavalry in this assault, the Eighth Route Army should be unprepared.
Taking down Dafeng Village didn't seem to be any difficult at all, so he didn't give any more reminders.
The roaring tanks that drove in gave these Japanese soldiers great confidence.
In fact, the Japanese military's domestic industrial level was relatively advanced compared to China, which was lagging behind during this period.
Compared with some Western countries with advanced industrial levels, Japan's industrial level is completely inferior.
Bullying and bullying China, whose professional level is so backward at this time, that even if it gathers all the industrial power of the country, it would be difficult to produce a tank on its own, it would be okay.
Any tank, even some ultra-light tanks, is actually also rare and valuable to the Japanese troops.
Within the Japanese five-level divisions A, B, C, D and reserves.
Except for some independent tank formations, such as tank brigades and tank divisions, which have a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, most of the remaining divisions do not have many tanks and armored vehicles.
For example, the First Army in Shanxi led by Yoshio Shinozuka, since most of its divisions are B divisions and not elite A divisions, each division has fewer tanks and armored vehicles.
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A division can be assigned a tank squadron and have more than a dozen tanks, which is already quite good.
Some divisions don't even have a single tank.
Most of the tanks of the First Army were used in frontal battlefield confrontations with the National Army, and not many were used to mop up the Eighth Route Army in the occupied areas.
In addition, the tanks and armored vehicles owned by his First Army have suffered a lot of losses on the frontal battlefield over the years. In the process of mopping up the Eighth Route Army behind enemy lines, the losses of one and two vehicles were added up, which also caused heartache to the First Army.
This time, Yoshio Shinozuka made a surprise attack on Dafengzhuang in order to deal with the independent group, and he also spent a lot of money.
There are a total of fourteen tanks and eight armored vehicles, but he pieced them together from multiple divisions of the First Army.
Taiyuan City, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army in Shanxi.
Since it is of great importance whether Dafengzhuang can be captured this time, even the Japanese commander Yoshio Shinozuka is closely following the battle map of the raid on Dafengzhuang with Chief of Staff Kitagawa.
"General, Uehara-kun has already taken the tank squadron and the cavalry squadron and secretly set off from Yangquan according to the planned time."
Having said this, Beichuan looked at his watch.
"According to the speed of the cavalry and tanks and armored vehicles, it will take less than two hours to rush all the way to the Dafengzhuang area."
"Our army set out in secret, and chose to open the city gate early at dawn, and the people near the city gate have been strictly monitored by our army."
"I think when the Eighth Route Army spies got the news, our cavalry and armored troops had already raided Dafengzhuang."
"吆西!"
Yoshio Shinozuka nodded. This old devil had been defeated by Kong Jie too many times, but this time, he thought he had no reason to fail.
"The secret advance of Uehara and his party would ideally need the cover of our army."
"After an hour and a half, the squadron will be notified immediately to bomb the base of the independent regiment as planned!"
"While destroying all kinds of military buildings inside the independent regiment's base area in one fell swoop, we also covered the sudden action of Uehara and his party."
"Hi! General, I'll make arrangements right away." Beichuan responded.
The other side.
A team headquarters.
When the Japanese commander Yoshio Shinozuka paid attention to the battle situation in Dafengzhuang.
Kong Jie was waiting closely for the news from Dafengzhuang.
After all, this is related to the issue of the availability of Commander Kong’s armored force.
"Lao Kong, do you think the little devil will come today?"
Chief of Staff Xu Guoan, who was studying the battle map, asked abruptly.
Kong Jie said with a smile: "Who knows? Logically speaking, if the Japanese want to raid Dafengzhuang, early in the morning is the best time."
"We have been waiting for the day before yesterday and yesterday. If we don't come today, we will come sooner or later tomorrow and the day after tomorrow."
"That's true."
"Why, are you still thinking about the Japanese sneak attack?"
"How am I thinking about the Japanese? I am clearly thinking about the tanks of our team!" Xu Guoan joked.
"Have any comrades from our Art and Propaganda Department arranged to come over? This is the first time our Eighth Route Army has conducted large-scale anti-tank operations. Such a precious scene must be filmed."
Suddenly I remembered that Kong Jie asked at this time.
Political commissar Li Wenjie on the side replied: "Reporter Xiao Song has been sent over, and several soldiers have been arranged to protect him."
"That's good!"
"Such a rare large-scale anti-tank battle is rare behind enemy lines. It can be photographed this time, which can not only be used to promote the morale of our soldiers and civilians, but also serve as valuable teaching for our Eighth Route Army troops to conduct anti-tank battles in the future.
Video."
"The camera I bought specially from John last time, Xiao Song came in handy this time."
"By the way, the simple crane modified by our repair shop has also been sent over, right?"
"After capturing the tanks and armored vehicles of the little devils, some of the tanks and armored vehicles that fell into traps will definitely come in handy. Our speed must be fast, otherwise the devils will definitely send planes to bomb. If the speed is slow, then
But it’s all in vain.”
Xu Guoan smiled and said: "Lao Kong, don't worry, do you still need to worry about such a trivial matter?"
"All the things have been delivered. In addition, Shi Dahu has also led his comrades from the War Bureau and rushed over with a camouflaged tank."
"In addition, the comrades in the armored soldiers we trained during this period have also followed, and each tank is assigned at least five tank soldiers."
"These comrades were almost overjoyed when they heard that they could drive real things this time."
"Everything is ready now, just waiting for the little devil to take the bait."