Behind a mountain ridge nearly two kilometers away from the Japanese military station, a dozen gunners were assembling three mortars.
In less than two minutes, the mortar appeared in front of Wang Ping with its black muzzle raised.
"Each gun fires five shells, fire immediately, and retreat after firing the shells..." Wang Ping, standing on the ridge, stared down at the Japanese garrison with his binoculars and ordered decisively.
"Everything..."
A dull explosion sounded behind him, and a series of tiny air-piercing screams sounded above his head, getting weaker and weaker.
Soon, three fireballs shot up from the Japanese military station he was paying attention to, one of which hit a Japanese tent.
"Boom boom boom..."
After several more seconds, three violent explosions were heard.
At this time, the mortar platoon behind him had fired three consecutive rounds of shells.
"Captain, a group of little Japs are coming towards us, a whole infantry brigade..." Looking at the fireballs rising from the Japanese army station, Li Wen's voice suddenly rang in his ears.
"According to the original battle plan, the troops will attack the Japanese in this brigade in squad units. We must remember to retreat after fighting. Regardless of whether the enemy is eliminated or not, we must not be reluctant to fight, and we must not let the Japanese stick to us..."
"Bang bang bang...ta da da..."
In less than ten minutes, various gunshots rang out around the Japanese attacking troops. At the same time, the position where the artillery platoon had withdrawn also suffered a devastating blow from the Japanese artillery seven or eight minutes ago, leaving craters everywhere.
The Japanese who attacked only persisted outside the camp for half an hour before retreating, taking with them nearly a hundred corpses and dozens of wounded. It can be said that they suffered heavy casualties.
Lieutenant General Ito was in the tent and saw that the division commander was sullen and silent after listening to the report. The chief of staff could only bite the bullet and explain: "Division commander, the Eighth Route Army is too cunning. It ambushed around our attacking troops and fired cold shots.
Moreover, they moved away immediately after firing. It was difficult to see around the battlefield, and the troops could not light torches. Every time the troops attacked, they missed everything. In order to avoid greater losses, the attacking troops had no choice but to retreat."
"However, with our firepower advantage, we still killed and wounded more than a dozen Eighth Route Army troops in night battles, which we are not good at!"
Hearing this, Lieutenant General Ito even had the idea of vomiting blood, and cursed with a look of aggrievedness: "More than eighty imperial troops were killed, and more than a dozen Eighth Route Army were wiped out. Do you think this casualty ratio is something to be proud of?"
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"No, division commander, you misunderstood. That's not what a humble position means!" the chief of staff quickly explained.
Lieutenant General Ito did not grasp the problem. He frowned and ordered: "Inform the chariot brigade to be on standby... If attacked by the Eighth Route Army again, the chariot brigade and infantry will be dispatched together. We must kill the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack troops and put their
Get rid of the arrogance, otherwise we will spend every night fighting!"
"When the time comes, we will be able to bear it, but the troops will not be able to bear it~"
The chief of staff immediately thought of the five tanks that were destroyed last night, and frowned as he reminded them.
"But, division commander, the Eighth Route Army has heavy artillery shells. If they continue to use the old method of laying mine arrays, won't the tanks we dispatched be destroyed?"
"No~" Lieutenant General Ito replied firmly.
"Just now I carefully studied the mine formations of the Eighth Route Army. I used heavy artillery to deploy the mine formations. They are very powerful and can easily destroy our tanks ~ but there is also a weakness!"
"The thunder array has to wait for us to step on it before it can be effective. As long as we don't step on it, no matter how powerful the thunder array is, it will be useless!"
"Chariots attack in small groups and are spaced at least thirty meters apart from each other. They must both maintain distance and provide support to each other!"
"The infantry moves in reinforced squadron units behind each tank to protect the tank!"
"Last and most important, when chasing the Eighth Route Army, you cannot follow behind the Eighth Route Army. You must constantly change the pursuit route so that the Eighth Route Army cannot figure out where we will go next, and they will have no way to get behind us.
Lay minefields on the road!"
At three o'clock in the morning, three explosions broke the silence of the night again.
After fifteen consecutive shells were dropped, the quiet Japanese camp immediately became brightly lit.
At this time, three tanks and five to six hundred infantrymen rushed out of the station in a mighty manner.
Wang Ping stood on a high ground two kilometers away to watch the battle. When he saw the Japanese actually dispatching tanks, his hands holding the binoculars shook subconsciously, and then a very bad premonition came into his mind.
Even though they had killed five Japanese tanks last night, they still had the guts to send out tanks. There was only one possibility: the Japanese already had a way to deal with the minefields.
Then I thought that although the sneak attack troops had the cover of night, they had no positions and were completely exposed in the wilderness.
The night allowed them to escape the pursuit of ordinary Japanese infantry, but it was difficult to escape the pursuit of tanks.
"Da da da……"
As soon as I thought of this, the Japanese tanks rushed out of the station and opened fire.
Under the illumination of the tank's headlights, the sneak attack troops who had finished firing their bullets were just about to retreat and slip away, when the light as bright as day suddenly exposed their figures from the darkness.
Vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns, infantry-equipped light machine guns, and rifles were all staring at these figures like hungry wolves smelling blood.
In less than five seconds, a total of six soldiers fell on the retreat road. Each of them had several bloody holes in their bodies and were beaten directly into a sieve!
"Retreat, contact all the sneak attack troops you can contact, and retreat immediately..." Wang Ping quickly reacted from the heartache and ordered through gritted teeth.
Li Wen also calmed down from his grief and anger and quickly replied: "I will send a retreat signal right away~"
Ten minutes later, Li Wen returned to Wang Ping with a very ugly face...
"Commander, all the troops that can be withdrawn have been withdrawn. In less than ten minutes just now, we lost a total of six combat groups, 38 comrades died, including 6 commandos directly under the team, and also lost six light machine guns
, four submachine guns, five automatic pistols~"
"The Japanese are more cunning than we thought... We underestimated the enemy too much and were too impulsive... I was the first to violate the combat principles I just formulated during the day, and even lost so many soldiers!" Wang Ping said calmly
Face replied, regretting very much the decision he made a few hours ago!
Li Wen quickly said: "Captain, this is not your fault. It is a decision we made together to attack the Japanese again!"
"And no one expected that the Japanese would repeat their old trick for us. We destroyed five of their tanks last night, and now we dare to go out at night. Isn't he worried that we will blow up these tanks again?"
Wang Ping replied solemnly: "Since they dare to dispatch these tanks, they have a way to deal with our mine array!"
"The only regret is that the artillery shells and wires brought by the engineers have all been used up. Otherwise, we can still experiment and see what little devils can do to deal with our mine array!"
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