"Your Excellency Colonel!" After the staff officer passed on the order, he asked: "The general ordered us to rush to Yuncheng at full speed. If we miss the fighter plane..."
Tomijiro raised his hand to interrupt the staff and asked: "How far is it from Yuncheng?"
The staff officer looked at the map and replied: "Seven kilometers away from the Eighth Route Army's defense line!"
"Rest where you are!" Aritomijiro ordered.
"Rest where you are!"
"Rest where you are!"
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Tomijiro's order is correct. The chariot unit is different from other units.
For other units, such as the mountain artillery regiment and the cavalry regiment, a one or two-hour march is nothing, and even a two-hour march for the infantry regiment is just a warm-up.
But the chariot regiment marched for two hours...the driver had almost reached the upper limit of his physical fitness. He even took a short rest for twenty minutes, but he was still very tired at this time.
If the Eighth Route Army's defense line is only infantry, then the cavalry regiment, the mountain artillery regiment plus the tank regiment, of course, can break through and hit Yuncheng in one go without rest.
But if there are tanks in the Eighth Route Army... fighting them in such a tired state is almost courting death.
What Tomijiro didn't expect was that just because he stopped didn't mean that the Eighth Route Army couldn't do anything...
At this time, Wang Xuexin was organizing the Yuncheng attack.
After the Eighth Route Army invaded Yuncheng, it did not mean that the battle was over. The Japanese were still entrenched on the city walls and even resisted in the bunkers and gun towers outside the city.
At this time, for the Japanese, it was unnecessary and even dangerous to defend the bunkers and gun towers outside the city.
Because as long as a certain section of the city wall is captured by the Eighth Route Army, the bunkers and gun towers outside this section of the city wall will be surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, and they will be attacked from both sides...
The bunkers and gun towers all have holes facing outwards, and the entrances to the city wall will make it difficult for the Japanese to resist.
The Eighth Route Army could set up the Japanese's 92 Infantry Cannon on the city wall and destroy these bunkers and gun towers one by one.
But the Japanese refused to retreat.
To be precise, it is not that we will not retreat, but that we will withdraw the main force and leave only a few people.
For example, if a gun tower can accommodate two squads of troops, the Japanese would leave two or three men in the gun tower, with one on each floor constantly shooting out of the perforations.
What the devil did was very clever.
The main purpose is to buy time for the main force to build new defenses in residential areas.
The second reason is that the Eighth Route Army cannot obtain these fortifications... Once these bunkers and artillery towers are completely in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, they will become a weapon to resist Japanese reinforcements. By then, the Eighth Route Army may be able to fight on two fronts, that is, fight internally and externally at the same time.
If the Japanese left a few people in the fortifications, the Eighth Route Army would have to blow them up one by one if they wanted to take over, leaving the bunkers and gun towers in ruins.
The tactics were right, but they came at the expense of the lives of the soldiers... The Japanese commander's cruel style made people tremble with chills.
However, this tactic had little effect.
All the soldiers need to do is approach the bunkers and turrets from the rear, and then throw grenades or Molotov cocktails into them from the perforations... At this time, the soldiers prefer to use grenades instead of Molotov cocktails, because grenades only kill the enemy.
It will not burn out or explode the equipment and ammunition inside.
Just when Wang Xuexin was commanding the tanks to attack the city wall section by section and clean up the bunkers outside the city, Li Yunlong called: "Xiaodongbei, the Japanese tanks have arrived! There are more than fifty tanks in a tank regiment, but they are parked seven miles outside the defense line.
Don’t move!”
The Eighth Route Army had scouts along the way, so the situation of the Japanese was naturally under control.
Wang Xuexin was a little surprised by what the Japanese Chariot Regiment did.
Wang Xuexin originally thought that when the Japanese arrived, they would immediately put the chariot troops into attack, so that they could catch the Japanese by surprise while waiting for work.
Now the Japanese actually stopped seven kilometers away.
It was obvious that the Japs were trying to buy time to rest.
"What about the cavalry regiment and artillery regiment?" Wang Xuexin asked.
"The artillery regiment hasn't arrived yet!" Li Yunlong replied: "The cavalry regiment is already building fortifications and making preparations."
"How many troops?" Wang Xuexin asked again.
"About a thousand people!" Li Yunlong replied.
The standard establishment of the Japanese Cavalry Regiment is four cavalry squadrons and one machine gun squadron, with a full strength of 1,400 men.
But in fact, such an organization cannot be achieved... This should be limited by horses. The Japanese need large numbers of horses for transportation rather than for combat.
Therefore, a cavalry regiment usually has only seven or eight hundred cavalrymen, and as few as three or four hundred.
However, the cavalry requires more logistics to provide food for the horses, so it usually requires three to four hundred logistics personnel. These logistics personnel usually drive mules to follow the troops and also participate in ground battles. Therefore, although it is a regiment, it is actually only a large group.
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But if we look at the usual comparison of combat power, even if there is only one brigade, it is not a problem to defend against a division of the Eighth Route Army. What's more, there is a tank regiment a few kilometers away, and there is also a mountain artillery regiment on the way.
en route.
Therefore, after the cavalry regiment arrived, they openly built fortifications outside the Eighth Route Army's defense line, and only waited for the troops to arrive before launching an attack.
Wang Xuexin replied on the phone: "Commander, don't we still have useless rockets?"
Li Yunlong laughed "hehe" when he heard this: "We just thought of it together. I just said whether I wanted to beat him up. The political commissar asked me to ask you. I am worried about the rockets. Do you have any plans?"
!I feel relieved when you say that!”
Therefore, Li Yunlong actually knew how to fight this battle. After all, a person who had fought in battles for so many years would not be able to become the leader of the regiment if he had no skills.
Soon, there was a "whooshing" sound in the sky. Hundreds of rockets hit the Japanese cavalry unit's position hard, and then there were shouts of killing everywhere. The main division of the Eighth Route Army in charge of defense did not wait for the Japanese.
Be prepared and launch a counterattack.
The Japanese were immediately stunned.
They were not stunned by the bombing, but were stunned by the counterattack of the Eighth Route Army.
A regiment faced a division of the Eighth Route Army. Instead of retreating, the Eighth Route Army launched a counterattack?
What's going on?
However, the Eighth Route Army at this time was indeed capable of launching a counterattack, even without rocket artillery preparations.
In the past, the Eighth Route Army, even as the main division, was only equipped with more than half of its firearms. Many of them were overused firearms and seriously insufficient in ammunition. Its combat effectiveness could not be calculated in terms of numbers.
But now, after acquiring a large number of guns and ammunition, the main division's equipment rate has reached 100%, and each person is equipped with fifty rounds of ammunition... Although it has not yet reached the enemy's ammunition rate, it is already a qualitative leap.
In this case, this division is completely different.
If you still use the old perspective to compare combat power, it means a serious misjudgment and you will lose the battle.