"Oh, it's such a pity that so many weapons... nearly a hundred light and heavy machine guns and thousands of rifles were destroyed..." Zhou Baozhong followed closely behind and said with a long sigh...
"Old Zhou, don't sigh. There are only so many people in the army now, and the weapons are enough for us at least now. The only thing we lack now is ammunition. We should hoard ammunition as much as possible. We will give it to us later to prevent the little devils.
During the two encirclement and suppression operations, there was an embarrassing situation where we had guns but no ammunition... Well, the Xiaolonggang battle has ended successfully, and then there are several other targets..." Liu Hua said...
"Commander, just give the order. Now that the morale of the troops is high, we should win more battles and eliminate more enemies before the main force of the Japanese army reacts..." When it comes to fighting, Commander Zhou Baozhong has a look on his face.
of excitement.
"Old Zhou is right, we should fight a few more big victories before the little devil reacts..." Yang Jingyu nodded in agreement...
"Well, in the Xiaolonggang battle, we not only won the battle. More importantly, it gave the troops a good opportunity to train. If nothing else happens, the combat effectiveness of the current troops must have been greatly improved. So, in the next step
During the operation, I plan to divide the troops for combat." Liu Hua nodded and expressed his opinion...
"Commander, what do you mean..." Yang Jingyu asked...
"Xiaolonggang is the largest stronghold of the Japanese army around us. This stronghold was captured by us. In the remaining small strongholds, the strength of the Japanese and puppet troops is basically between 4,000 and 5,000 people, and the ratio of the Japanese army and heavy firepower
The equipment is very small. If we use more than 10,000 people to attack a stronghold held by 4,000 to 5,000 people, it will be a bit like killing a chicken with a sledgehammer. Therefore, I plan to divide the troops and give the enemy a bloody attack.
, in the shortest possible time, capture the tens of thousands of Japanese and puppet troops around us..." Liu Hua explained...
"I agree with the commander's opinion. With so many artillery, coupled with sufficient weapons and ammunition, we now have enough capabilities to launch attacks on the Japanese army in several locations at the same time."
"What's more important is that now that we have so many heavy artillery, there are many strongholds defended by the Manchurian Army. Perhaps as long as our artillery fires are used as a deterrent, those Manchurian Army soldiers will surrender to our army in an organized manner..." Yang Jingyu clicked.
He nodded in agreement.
"Commander, how should we divide our troops next..." Zhou Baozhong followed closely and asked...
"Guards, inform all units to end cleaning the battlefield immediately, and the troops will enter a state of rest. At the same time, commanders at division level and above, and two captains of the advance detachment, rushed to the headquarters in the shortest possible time to hold the next stage of combat planning and deployment meeting
..." Regarding Zhou Baozhong's question, Liu Hua did not answer immediately. Instead, he ordered the guard at the entrance of the command department...
"Comrades, last night, we achieved an unprecedented victory in the offensive battle against the Japanese and puppet troops in Xiaolonggang. It effectively dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army. At the same time, to a certain extent, it also played a role in
It has a very good role in training troops. However, everyone knows that Xiaolonggang is our first target. In the entire campaign plan, there are still many Japanese and puppet troops that we need to eliminate. Now, please give me, Comrade Commander,
Everyone assigns specific combat tasks..." The combat meeting had just begun, Deputy Commander Yang Jingyu was the first to stand up and said. At the same time, he was the first to applaud...
"Comrades, everyone's applause today is much louder than the previous meetings. I am very happy here. Because, from everyone's applause, I know that from now on, everyone recognizes me as an outside commander.
..." Liu Hua stood up and said with a smile...
Suddenly, everyone in the headquarters laughed sheepishly. The atmosphere in the headquarters, which was still tense just now, gradually eased with a burst of hearty laughter...
"Comrades, we won the first battle and defeated the puppet troops for more than 7,000 days. However, we must not be proud. We must take advantage of this morale to fight well in the second, third and even third battles.
This is the fourth battle... Here, I want to give everyone a thorough explanation first, hoping that everyone will be mentally prepared and ready to fight a protracted battle. Please tell me if you have the confidence to follow me to fight the next battle...
Liu Hua encouraged loudly...
"have…"
Hearing the roaring roar and seeing the confidence on everyone's faces, Liu Hua nodded with satisfaction and continued.
"Very good, I won't say that much. Now I order: The first division is equipped with 12 75mm field guns and corresponding mortars, plus the strength of two squadrons of the advance detachment, with Xiaolonggang as the center
, attack and advance to the north, commanded by Commander Zhou... The second division is equipped with 12 75mm mountain guns and corresponding mortars, plus the strength of two squadrons of the advance detachment, and attack and advance to the south, commanded by Deputy Commander Yang...
The third division is equipped with 12 mountain guns, infantry guns and corresponding mortars, plus the strength of two squadrons of the advance detachment. I will personally direct the eastward attack... The troops directly under the Anti-Japanese Alliance continued to clean the battlefield, guard the prisoners, and captured all
As well as the prisoners, send them back to Shimenling...Do you have any opinions..."
"No…"
"Comrades, this time, our combat goal is very simple. During the march, each department must annihilate all the Japanese and puppet troops in front of them. At the same time, I would like to remind everyone of gains and losses. During the attack, we must pay attention to
Air defense...Okay, after a night of fighting, everyone takes a two-hour rest. Two hours later, the troops will attack immediately. Two days later, regardless of whether they have completed the scheduled combat mission, they will immediately assemble in the Baishan County area..."
Two hours later, at the sound of Liu Hua's orders, more than 10,000 people from the anti-alliance alliance, like three sharp knives, quickly penetrated the vast forest of Changbai Mountain and advanced towards their next target...
At this moment, after a night of rest, the tiredness of the main Japanese troops around Baishan County due to several days of rapid marching was immediately gone...
After eating the sumptuous breakfast specially prepared for himself, Lieutenant General Sato put on all his equipment and slowly walked out of his tent with the help of the orderlies as usual. At this moment, the division chief of staff also
As usual, I stood at the door of the tent, waiting for the division commander to issue specific orders...
"Chief of Staff, were there any unexpected incidents at various troop stations last night..." Lieutenant General Sato nodded with satisfaction when he saw the Chief of Staff who was fulfilling his duties at the entrance of the tent...
"Hai, commander of the 34th Infantry Regiment reported. At one o'clock last night, a group of Eighth Route Army troops dressed in Imperial Japanese Army uniforms tried to break through. However, after twenty minutes of fierce fighting, our troops
Successfully blocked the breakthrough opened by the Eighth Route Army. However, according to the report of the 34th Regiment, during these more than 20 minutes, hundreds of Eighth Route Army soldiers still successfully escaped from the encirclement of our army..." the Chief of Staff reported...
"Baga... What does Iwamatsu-kun do for a living? He has completely disgraced the Imperial Army of Japan... I have reminded the troops many times to be vigilant at night, but they still made mistakes. Baga Road..." Sato was dissatisfied.
swore angrily...
"Hai, division commander, this is all because the Chinese people are too cunning. According to Colonel Iwamatsu's report, many of the Chinese people who broke through can speak proficient Japanese, making it difficult for people to detect. Please calm down, division commander..."
"That's all. Although Iwamatsu-kun's mistake caused hundreds of Chinese people to break through, the main force of China is still in our encirclement after all. Therefore, it does not have much impact on the strategic purpose of our army. I
I believe that after today's search and attack, the main force of China will be compressed into Baishan County by our army, waiting to be completely annihilated by our Imperial Japanese Army..." Lieutenant General Sato nodded and said with confidence...
"Hai, your Excellency, the division commander, is wise. I believe that the final victory must belong to the Empire of Japan..."
"Yo Xi, now I am ordering all combat units to attack in half an hour. It is required that each combat unit must conduct a carpet-like search during the advance to ensure that their troops cannot let go of a single China.
People. If someone's troops have another accident, then they will wait for the trial of the military court..." Lieutenant General Sato ordered...
With the issuance of Lieutenant General Sato's order, more than 40,000 Japanese troops, like a war machine, began to operate in an orderly manner. The huge encirclement just formed last night also began to slowly shrink...
However, what the Japanese army did not expect was that right behind them, more than a thousand special operations team members, with the cooperation of a large number of guerrillas, were quickly laying various types of landmines behind them...
In less than half a day, nearly 10,000 landmines of various types formed a huge encirclement around Baishan County, tightly surrounding more than 40,000 little Japs...
As time passed by, the huge encirclement became smaller and smaller. Finally, just as night was about to fall and the day's search was about to end, the first Japanese search force finally arrived at Baishan County.
The periphery of…
However, what disappointed these menacing little devils who were preparing to make meritorious deeds for the Japanese Empire was that until they arrived at the corner of Baishan County, they still did not encounter even a single enemy... And this unit was the one that was attacked just the day before.
At night, they were attacked and ran away with hundreds of Eighth Route Army soldiers. The Yansong Regiment vowed to retaliate...
A day's operation yielded no results. In addition, this morning, he received a reprimanding telegram from the division commander. Colonel Iwamatsu, who had been holding back his anger for a long time, finally couldn't help it anymore and roared loudly to the chief of staff beside him...
"Baga, cunning Eighth Route Army, today, I must let you taste the power of our Yansong Regiment. Order the troops to launch an attack immediately. Let the Eighth Route Army in the county have a taste of the power of the Japanese Imperial Army soldiers..."
"Hai, your Excellency, Captain, I will immediately issue an order to attack the city..." Looking at the silent city wall not far away, the chief of staff replied loudly without any melancholy...
"Boom, boom, boom..." In less than a few minutes, the infantry artillery, mountain artillery, and mortars belonging to the entire regiment began to fire one shell after another at the city wall in front of them. After several rounds of shooting,
The entire city wall was shrouded in fierce artillery fire...
Finally, amidst the roar of the commander, the artillery troops smashed all their few artillery shells at the city wall in front of them... After being baptized by nearly a thousand artillery shells, the city wall that was still intact just now finally appeared.
There were countless gaps. However, what surprised the little Japanese outside the city was that after such a fierce shelling, there was still no movement on the city wall in front of them...
"Bagya Road, the cunning Eighth Route Army can still keep calm. Today, I will let you know that no matter how many strategies you have, they will have no effect in front of the heroic Imperial Army of Japan. Order
The troops will immediately attack the city. After entering the county town, all units must move forward together to continuously compress the enemy's living space, and do not rush in for the sake of success..." Looking at the silent city wall not far away, Colonel Iwamatsu had a sinister smile on his face.
, he ordered loudly to the subordinates around him.
"Hai..."
"Da da da... kill me..." In an instant, the sound of light and heavy machine gun fire, the explosion of grenades, and the soldiers' shouts of killing began to sound outside the city. An infantry squadron responsible for the main attack, with more than a hundred Japanese soldiers, carried
The siege equipment rushed towards the city wall with great momentum...
Two hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters... One hundred meters, fifty meters, ten meters... When they saw their troops rushing to the foot of the city wall with almost no resistance, the Lianhe who was watching the battle from behind
The captain couldn't help shouting excitedly...
"Yoshi, the Imperial Japanese Army is invincible... Warriors, rush into the county and kill all the Chinese people..."
And the scene in front of me was exactly as Colonel Iwamatsu said. The Japs were invincible...More than a hundred Japs, under the cover of light and heavy machine guns behind them, easily climbed onto the city wall without encountering any resistance...
As the city gate was opened, follow-up troops entered the county. The four infantry brigades, immediately under the strict orders of Colonel Iwamatsu, marched hand in hand and quickly attacked the city...
An hour passed. What Iwamatsu didn't expect was that the troops in the county did not engage in even a sporadic exchange of fire. Just when he was feeling worried about the quiet county where only soldiers shouting to kill could be heard.
.A lieutenant squadron leader rushed out of the county town panting and came to him...
"Reporting to the captain and chief of staff, after a search by our army, in the entire county, except for a large number of corpses of imperial soldiers, there is not a single Chinese soldier. All kinds of strategic materials hoarded in the county have also been moved away. The entire Baishan County
, is an empty city..." Under Colonel Iwamatsu's puzzled gaze, the captain replied breathlessly...
"Nani? It's an empty city. How is it possible? We wasted so many artillery shells and actually captured an empty city. How is it possible? You are lying..." The commander, who felt that he had been deceived, squeezed the squadron leader in front of him tightly.
collar, roaring loudly...
"Hai... Captain, our four infantry brigades have completed searching the entire county. There is not a single living person in the county. Please tell me clearly..." the squadron leader replied with a blushing face...
"Captain, please calm down. We will find out if Baishan County is an empty city as soon as we go in..." Seeing the squadron commander who was almost dying in front of him, the chief of staff quickly reminded...
"Yo Xi, order the troops to enter the city immediately..." the commander immediately ordered...
Sure enough, when entering the county town, the first thing that caught your eye was the corpses of imperial soldiers who had been shot to death on both sides of the street... As the streets went deeper and deeper, there were more and more corpses. However, within ten minutes,
After that, the captain, who was full of expectations, finally despaired.
Because, on the streets that are hundreds of meters long, except for the corpses of imperial soldiers everywhere, there is not a single shadow of a Chinese soldier. What makes people even more angry is that even the various strategic materials stationed in the county town have been destroyed.
Being moved...
"Baga, we have been fooled... We have all been fooled... Boom boom boom..." However, before the angry captain could finish his sentence, a series of explosions reached his ears.
.
At the same time, as soon as the explosion sounded, the guards who were doing their duty surrounded the commander of the company and used their bodies to block possible sneak attacks...
As the explosion subsided, the captain of the 2nd Infantry Battalion, who was protected by everyone, slowly stood up from the ground. What greeted him was a captain of the 2nd Infantry Brigade whose face was covered with gunpowder smoke and whose arms were blown off...
"Captain, we were fooled. The Eighth Route Army laid a large number of landmines in the county. Just now, our soldiers detonated the mines at the county headquarters. At least 500 soldiers were killed in the series of explosions just now. In order to
For your safety, I request you to evacuate the county immediately, lead the engineers in your position, and clear all the landmines before entering the county..." Before Colonel Iwamatsu could ask the question, the captain, whose face was covered with gunpowder smoke, panted and replied...
"Bastards, cunning Chinese people, cunning Eighth Route Army... Troops will withdraw from the county immediately. All engineering troops will stay and clear all landmines in the county, quickly..." In the face of huge casualties, the commander of the regiment, Colonel Iwamatsu, was very angry, but
, had to issue an order to retreat...
What made Colonel Iwamatsu feel desperate was that during the retreat of the troops, he faced landmines everywhere in the county. More and more unlucky little devils fell forever in the streets and alleys of Baishan County...
As the engineering troops completed the search of the entire county, a huge casualty report appeared in the hands of the commander...