The chief of staff had not yet reacted and looked at Lieutenant General Ito with disbelieving eyes.
"Division Commander, I don't understand...the engineer regiment generally does not go to the battlefield, but only plays a supporting role in the battle, posing little threat to the Eighth Route Army. They spent a lot of materials and equipment to set up this mine array. Is it just to explode it?"
Drop our engineering unit?"
"It's really for our engineer regiment." Lieutenant General Ito, who looked pale, replied solemnly.
"The Engineer Regiment plays a supporting role on the battlefield. But for us, their current role is no less than that of an infantry regiment... If the Engineer Regiment is gone, how will we repair the remaining roads destroyed by the Eighth Route Army? Who will
Come and repair it, can the speed of repair be guaranteed?"
Lieutenant General Ito asked a series of questions, and the chief of staff showed a speechless expression of shock.
He was stunned for several seconds before he realized: "Division commander, I understand, blow up our engineering unit... Even if the Eighth Route Army no longer attacks us, just destroying the road will delay us for several days!"
"We brought a large number of heavy vehicles, cars, heavy artillery, and tanks. We must rely on roads to get to Linfen, and the roads must be smooth and without potholes!"
"The Eighth Route Army is too cunning to think of such a method... No, I will go to the forward troops now. The Engineer Regiment must not be killed by the Eighth Route Army, especially the several engineering vehicles equipped by the Engineer Regiment. There must be no accidents!"
After saying that, the chief of staff climbed on a war horse and rushed towards the location of the forward troops.
The two-hundred-meter-long highway was completely covered by the intense blast caused by the explosion, making it impossible to see even one's fingers.
After a full two minutes, the smoke slowly dissipated, and a row of eighty huge craters appeared in the sight of the Japanese forward troops!
"Hiss, hiss~"
All the devils couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
The craters are really too big, each one more than one meter deep, one after another, just like meteor craters. It is impossible to tell that this was a five or six meter wide road just a few minutes ago.
Many of the nearly a thousand Japanese engineers and infantrymen were blown to pieces in the explosion.
The remaining broken arms were blown up everywhere, and it looked like hell at a glance. It was very tragic.
Coupled with the corpses on the ground that were constantly bleeding from their wounds, this stretch of road looked even more human...
The chief of staff who hurried over happened to see this scene. When he saw that his subordinates around him were motionless, he shouted loudly: "Bagoya Road, what are you doing here? Go over immediately to rescue the wounded and see if there are any warriors alive...
...and the engineering vehicles equipped by the engineering unit, can they still be used..."
Ten minutes later, a major rushed over with his head lowered and his face looking very ugly...
"Chief of Staff, except for the minesweeper squadron, which did not suffer much loss because it was caught in the middle of the infantry, everyone else was in the minefield that just exploded... There were only 118 imperial troops alive in the entire explosion area, but they were all seriously injured and completely lost their combat effectiveness. Inside
There are still many seriously injured people who may not survive tonight..."
"All three shovels were destroyed, and there was no possibility of repair. They were directly blown into scrap metal..."
"Other equipment equipped by the Engineer Wing also suffered heavy losses, and many of them were destroyed~"
"It's over..." These two words came directly to the chief of staff's mind. Then he thought of Lieutenant General Ito's judgment just now.
The engineering regiment is gone, and the engineering vehicles are gone. Even if a large number of infantry are deployed to build roads, without engineering vehicles, the speed will only be half of the original. This means that the troops can only march fifteen kilometers a day...
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If the Eighth Route Army had any other means to deal with itself, the marching speed of the troops would definitely be even slower.
There is still about a hundred kilometers left, and I might not even be able to cover it in ten days!
"Immediately send all the wounded to the rear for treatment... The forward troops immediately pulled out their troops and repaired the road in front of them. If nothing else, we shouldn't go any further today!" the chief of staff ordered with a stern face, and then hurriedly
Go back and report to the division commander.
A few kilometers away, Wang Ping, Li Wen... all witnessed the entire explosion process with their own eyes.
In less than five seconds, the more than 200-meter-long highway was covered in thick smoke, dust, flying sand and rocks generated by the explosion.
Seeing this, Wang Ping's tense heart completely relaxed.
"Captain...it's done. With such a violent explosion, the Japanese Engineer Regiment will definitely be blown up completely!" Li Wen was more excited than anyone else. He reported excitedly as soon as he saw the smoke-filled scene on the highway.
Chen Jianqiao, commander of the engineer company, then affirmed: "Captain, there are eighty heavy artillery shells and four hundred kilograms of high explosives seized from the Japs. Even if the Japs' tanks are on the road, the explosion just now can destroy them."
Exploded into scrap metal, not to mention those engineering vehicles and defenseless little Japanese engineers!"
"I guarantee that the Little Japanese Engineer Regiment will be bombed to the point where there are not many people left..."
As the smoke cleared, the tragic scenes on the highway all proved the judgment of the two subordinates.
After another ten minutes, a group of Japanese infantrymen entered the blasting area, picked up the equipment scattered on the ground by the engineering unit, and began to repair the road with manpower. After the main force of the Japanese stopped to rest, Wang Ping knew that what happened just now
With one explosion, he directly completed the task of slowing down the marching speed of the Japanese army.
"Commander, as long as we continue to destroy the Gua Highway, and destroy it as thoroughly as possible, and prepare a few mines for them from time to time, we will definitely be able to keep them from marching no more than fifteen kilometers a day..." Seeing the little Japs busy on the highway,
Li Wen reported excitedly.
"Fifteen kilometers is too long. I want them to march no more than ten kilometers in a day~" Wang Ping replied after his eyes shot out two sharp rays.
"You just talked about our most common methods of slowing down the march of the Japanese army. It seems you didn't include us..."
"Destroy roads and lay mines. Just hand them over to the engineering company. The remaining 300 combat troops, including the direct team and the reconnaissance platoon, cannot remain idle and must be mobilized!"
"In the past two days, we have had many concerns about fighting the Japanese. We need to consider how to slow down their march. Now that this concern is gone, we should let go and take care of them."
"We will fight however we can to kill them, destroy them, and save ourselves!"
"In the past two days, I have carefully observed the march of nearly ten kilometers of front-line Japanese soldiers. The security was very tight and the vigilance was high. In order to prepare for our sneak attack, more than 2,000 cavalry and more than 1,000 infantry patrolled and investigated on both sides of the team. The main force
Even if we could approach and successfully launch an attack within one kilometer on both sides of the road, the troops would not be able to withdraw."
"The Japs' cavalry are so fast and their reaction speed is so fast. It only takes a minute or two to gather three to four hundred cavalry to attack our sneak attack troops from all directions. Today's sneak attack during the day is the best example. The Japs' cavalry are very vigilant.
In a sneak attack under such circumstances, even the direct team lost four members. If it were replaced by ordinary troops, the entire army might be destroyed~"
"And with this sneak attack, the Japanese will definitely become more vigilant and more alert. It will be difficult to make a sneak attack. Moreover, one thousand enemies will be killed and one will suffer eight hundred losses. This kind of attack
We are at such a disadvantage that we cannot fight and cannot withstand the consumption..."
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