If Wang Xuexin were to come here, he would never be able to grasp the accurate offset in this darkness.
Old wine has this ability.
Then the third artillery shell hit accurately, and the Japanese gun towers lost their firepower in an instant... The gun towers in this area were all made of bricks and stones. After being hit by a shot, the broken bricks and gravel sprayed in like shrapnel.
They beat the Japanese and puppet troops inside into a mess.
Even if there is no direct hit, the shock will make the defenders tremble and have no intention of defending.
Because everyone knows what will happen next... A big hole has been knocked out of the turret, and enemy grenades will soon be thrown in one after another from there.
The smart veterans already know that this turret cannot be defended, and if they don't run away, they will be buried here.
But the Japanese were determined not to let the puppet soldiers escape. The Japanese military commander blocked the door with a ferocious face, waving the bastard box in his hand and shouting at the top of his lungs: "Go back...or you will die..."
When the puppet troops were at a loss, several smoking grenades fell from the sky to their feet...
At that moment, the puppet soldiers were shattered. If they had known better, they would have defeated the Japanese and escaped.
But it was already too late to regret it. Just after hearing a few "boom boom" explosions, bursts of smoke burst out from the turret, and then the Eighth Route Army soldiers rushed in with bayonets and poked at the corpses inside.
If the artillery tower was in the hands of the Japanese, it would become a support point for the Japanese defense, but if it fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, it would become a breakthrough point for the Eighth Route Army.
Because the Eighth Route Army could hide in the gun tower and shoot at the enemies on both sides through the perforations. If they climbed to the roof and mounted a machine gun, they could completely suppress the enemies on both sides.
The Japanese were instantly beaten until they screamed, and then they retreated like a tide... To be precise, it was not the Japanese who retreated, but the puppet troops.
Most of the troops stationed in the forward gun towers were puppet troops.
The reason is that the frontal defense line is too long, from northwestern Shanxi to the Taihang Mountains, almost circling the entire Shanxi Province with the railway line as the center.
For such a long defense line, even if Neji Okamura deployed three additional divisions, it would only be a drop in the bucket.
Okamura Neji’s defensive thoughts are:
Use mixed brigades and puppet troops with insufficient combat effectiveness to guard the periphery, and several divisions with strong combat effectiveness to guard the core. Once somewhere on the periphery is attacked, the core troops can rely on road maneuvers to immediately reinforce that location.
This kind of dynamic defense makes sense. If this is not possible, trains and cars can be used to maneuver, so that the purpose of maximizing the force can be achieved.
The problem is that now they are being attacked everywhere. Not only the 22 regiments of the Eighth Route Army that participated in the first batch of attacks, but also the guerrillas hiding in the tunnels have heard the news and moved, and the whole Shanxi is boiling.
Telegrams asking for help flew one after another like snow flakes to the headquarters of the First Army of the North China Front. Okamura Neji and Shinozuka Yoshio looked at the enemy information with their mouths dumbfounded and couldn't believe it was true.
"Shinozuka-kun!" Neji Okamura asked, "Have you ever encountered this kind of situation before?"
Yoshio Shinozuka shook his head and replied firmly: "Never, Lieutenant General!"
Okamura Neji turned his attention to the sand table. The staff was planting flags there according to the telegram. A small red flag was placed where there was enemy situation. At this time, the sand table was already bright red.
Okamura Neji didn't understand what the enemy's intention was.
decisive battle?
Okamura Neiji remembered what Shinozuka Yoshio had said before, that the Eighth Route Army might have been forced by him and had to fight to the death with the Japanese army.
If this is the case, Okamura Neji is not worried yet.
Because with the strength of the Japanese army at this time, although it was unable to fully control the overall situation, it was more than enough to defend several important cities and even surrounding counties.
However……
When Okamura Neiji thought about the previous failed raid and the Eighth Route Army unexpectedly blocking his offensive from the front, he lacked confidence in his own judgment.
What if the Eighth Route Army does have such capabilities?
Or is this a counterattack by the Eighth Route Army, the Shanxi-Sui Army, or even the Chongqing Army against the North China Front Army?
Okamura Neji was shocked when he thought of this.
If this is the case, then the enemy will be able to launch a counterattack.
The Eighth Route Army has 400,000 people, the Shanxi-Sui Army has 200,000 people, and the Central Army has 300,000 people... This is nearly a million people, which should not be underestimated!
(The Jinsui Army actually only has about 120,000 people, but the phenomenon of empty pay is extremely serious. It has been receiving military pay as more than 189,000 people. This has also made the Japanese army confused about the true strength of the Jinsui Army)
Thinking of this, Okamura Neiji ordered: "Order all ministries to station in place, and no reinforcements are allowed without orders!"
"Yes!" Yoshio Shinozuka responded, turned around and conveyed the order.
How could Okamura Neiji have imagined that the Eighth Route Army's strategic goal was not the so-called "decisive battle" at all, nor was it to capture cities and territories, but to destroy their transportation routes.
But even if Okamura Neji was aware of the Eighth Route Army's strategic goals, it would be useless.
The reason is that transportation routes are difficult to build but easy to destroy. For example, a tunnel that took several years to be opened only needs a few explosives to destroy, and the same is true for bridges, railway tracks, etc.
The entire defense system of the Japanese was built on traffic routes. Once the traffic was damaged, their troops would not be able to deploy effectively and would be restricted everywhere.
At this time, Wang Xuexin had led his men across the Japs' highway defense line. Most of the corpses lying on the defense line were Japs... The puppet soldiers ran faster than rabbits and couldn't catch up even if they wanted to.
The Japanese held on for dear life, but they only had one squadron of over a hundred men. The puppet troops scattered and fled, leaving many gaps. So the independent regiment swarmed up and surrounded the squadron, easily eating up the squadron.
The 1st and 2nd Battalions continued to advance, while the 3rd Battalion was behind, searching for the remaining enemies and cleaning the battlefield.
Except for a dozen or so houses in Nantu Village, which were used by the Japanese, the rest of Nantu Village has become a scorched earth.
Wang Xuexin led his men to search more than a dozen Japanese houses one by one in squad units.
The search method is to throw a few grenades from the window regardless of the situation, and then rush in with a gun after a few bangs.
There was almost no one in the room, but occasionally there were a few puppet soldiers who were injured and unable to walk, "humming, hahaha" inside. Wang Xuexin and others stepped forward without hesitation to give them a few more shots.
Something unexpected happened while searching for the earthen house at the end of the village...
When Wang Xuexin and the soldiers rushed in after throwing grenades as usual, they found piles of French currency inside, and many more were blown up by grenades and were floating in the sky.
Wang Xuexin's eyes were dazzled because he had never seen so much money in his life.