A picture has already appeared in Captain Zhou's mind.
Sixteen heavy artillery pieces fired simultaneously under the guidance of artillery observation posts, keeping an eye on the Japanese.
Amidst the rumbling sound of artillery, the fourteen tanks of the armored company followed the shells and destroyed the temporary defense line that the Japanese and puppet troops might have formed. The cavalry battalion followed closely to cover up...
If the independent regiment faced such an attack, it would definitely be defeated on the spot and turn into a mess.
The Japanese army also carries a head on two shoulders. In the face of heavy artillery and tanks, no matter how good the training is, it will become meaningless and they can only be massacred.
So they will also be confused.
When fighting at night, the biggest fear is chaos.
Once the troops get into chaos, it is possible to blow up the camp, let alone face the cavalry troops that come and go like the wind.
There is at least an 80% chance that the entire battle will turn into a massacre.
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. He strode to the map and said, "Captain Li, Chief of Staff Hong, I'm sure this will work."
"Let's choose the battlefield now."
Li Hao pointed to two points on the map and replied: "I have already chosen the battlefield. There are two: one for ambush and one for reinforcements."
At the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, the commander was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, walking around the headquarters with his hands behind his back.
The atmosphere in the headquarters was also very solemn. Everyone was very careful about what they were doing, and did not dare to take a breath for fear of attracting the attention of the commander.
The deputy chief of staff stayed in the telegraph room, watching the telegraph operator call over and over again, his expression tense and anxious.
"Have you not been contacted yet?" the deputy chief of staff couldn't help but ask.
The messenger put down his headphones, shook his head and replied: "Not yet!"
"After the last contact at 10 o'clock last night, we did not receive a telegram from the reinforcements. We contacted them at 3 o'clock in the morning and there was no response. Until now, there has been no movement."
"Continue to contact..." the deputy chief of staff ordered with a frown.
He hurriedly left the telecommunications room and found the equally anxious commander at the headquarters to report: "The communications radio station has not yet contacted the reinforcements from Zhangjiakou."
"The last time they sent a telegram, they were still more than ten kilometers away from the county seat and were attacked by a cavalry unit of the Eighth Route Army."
"There are more than 500 cavalry in the reinforcements. The telegram said that they were confident of defeating this cavalry force, and then no more telegrams were sent."
"Under normal circumstances, they would arrive at the county seat at one o'clock in the morning and then report the situation there to the military headquarters."
"Considering that the Eighth Route Army might intercept them, we pushed the time to three o'clock in the morning."
"But I still haven't received their telegram."
"The staff officer on duty felt suspicious and immediately ordered the telecommunications room to contact them proactively."
"But I haven't been contacted yet."
The commander took a look at the sky outside and immediately ordered: "Contact the aviation force and quickly conduct an aerial reconnaissance of the county. We must find out what happened there?"
"There were more than 2,000 reinforcements in Zhangjiakou in the past, 500 of them were cavalry. I don't believe that the Eighth Route Army had troops to eliminate them while attacking the county town."
"I don't even believe it even if I'm in a humble position!" the deputy chief of staff agreed.
Then he began to analyze: "So far, no other Eighth Route Army has been found to join this sweep. Even if there are, the number of troops is very small, otherwise they will not be able to escape our intelligence personnel and local garrisons all over the no-man's land."
"If we add up all the local troops and guerrillas, the garrison has less than 10,000 people."
"The troops staying in the base area can keep a close eye on our three-pronged offensive troops. While protecting the people, they also have the energy to attack their logistics supply lines and cause a lot of damage to the mopping up troops. This shows that there are at least two Eighth Route Army troops operating around each route of attacking troops.
Thousands of people.”
"This means that the garrison attacking the county town has a head-to-head strength of 3,000 people, and there are also many local troops mixed in."
"With this small force divided into two, it is absolutely impossible to kill our more than 2,000 reinforcements in such a short period of time, without even a chance to send a farewell telegram."
"Taking a step back, even if these Eighth Route Army gave up attacking the county town and gathered all the troops to besiege the reinforcements, they still wouldn't be able to do it."
"I'm going to contact the airline now. There must have been an accident there that we don't know about?"
The commander stopped the deputy chief of staff who was about to leave, thought for a few seconds and then added an order.
"Wait a minute, and at the same time, order the intelligence department and nearby counties to immediately dispatch intelligence personnel and reconnaissance troops to conduct investigation deep into the battlefield. The faster the better."
"I'm worried that the Eighth Route Army will repeat its old trick of letting off smoke on the battlefield."
"Aircrafts in the past could only see some general situations and could not detect the details we wanted to know."
Three hours later, the call back from the aviation force arrived.
There wasn't much content, so the deputy chief of staff read it at a glance, with a wry smile on his face.
The call back was exactly the same as the military commander’s worries three hours ago.
I found the military commander and reported with helplessness: "Your Excellency, military commander, the aviation force's investigation has produced results. The situation is exactly as you judged."
"The Eighth Route Army created a lot of smoke around the county, and today the area is even larger."
"The entire section of the city wall to the east of the county seat and the 50-meter area inside the city were shrouded in black smoke."
"The sound of gunfire was more intensive than yesterday."
"Because a large amount of anti-aircraft firepower is hidden in the black smoke, the aviation force cannot conduct low-altitude reconnaissance."
"On the way back, they searched the roads and mountain roads around the county... They did not find a single reinforcement force within a radius of 20 kilometers. Apart from sporadic blocking positions, they did not see any battlefields with large-scale firefights."
"Especially on the road to reinforce the county town in Zhangjiakou, they searched carefully and found only one trench and dozens of corpses of the imperial army."
The commander's frown deepened. He took the telegram and read it carefully before analyzing: "The east wall of the county town is shrouded in black smoke, which means that the Eighth Route Army has broken through the east defense line of the city and entered the county town, but was blocked by the garrison for five days.
Ten meters away."
"As for the reinforcements dispatched from Zhangjiakou, I still can't figure out where they went?"
A very bold idea came to the deputy chief of staff's mind. He hesitated for a long time before speaking: "Commander, have the reinforcements already entered the county?"
"Before the reinforcements arrived, there were only more than a thousand people in the city."
"The Eighth Route Army attacked for a day and a night and must have suffered heavy casualties."
"Once the city defenses are breached, the few remaining garrison troops should not be able to stop the Eighth Route Army's attack."
"We all know that street fighting consumes the most troops."
"Is it possible that the Eighth Route Army broke through the east defense line of the city last night and entered the county seat?"
"The reinforcements arrived just at this time."
"In order to stabilize the war situation, he had to abandon his previous plan of attacking from both inside and outside, rushed into the county seat, and assisted the defenders in blocking the Eighth Route Army entering the city."
"During the battle, the radio station carried by the reinforcements was destroyed by the Eighth Route Army."
"I have studied garrison regiments in my humble job. They like to strike first when fighting, destroying the opponent's command system and communication system, so as to undermine the opponent's military morale."
"It cannot be ruled out that before the reinforcements arrive on the battlefield, the communication radio station has been targeted by the Eighth Route Army."
"It just so happened that another chaotic battle broke out at this time. The Eighth Route Army would definitely not miss this opportunity to destroy our communication radio station."
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