At the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, the deputy chief of staff hurriedly walked into the headquarters and reported: "Commander, something happened to the East Road mopping up troops."
"Your previous worries have come true. The troops from the garrison that attacked our logistics base have secretly returned to their base area and set up an ambush in a place called Wushanao, hoping to severely damage the east road mopping up troops."
"This is the telegram just sent back from the raiding force."
"This Eighth Route Army is so ruthless. It has only a small number of troops, only about 3,000 people, but it is equipped with more than 100 mortars and sufficient ammunition."
"When you come up, use artillery fire. The hit rate is very high."
"If our troops break out of the encirclement under artillery fire, the losses will be very heavy, and it is possible that not even one out of ten will survive."
The army commander raised his eyebrows and analyzed: "The garrison regiment is equipped with too many mortars and cannot forcefully charge."
"Mortars fire very fast. One gun can fire at least ten shells per minute, and one hundred guns can fire more than a thousand shells."
"Even if these shells have only a 50% hit rate, the mopping up troops will suffer heavy casualties."
"Another point is that the effective range of mortars exceeds two kilometers. If the artillery position is placed one kilometer away, there will be at least a two-kilometer stretch of road on the battlefield within the range of the mortars."
"It will take our troops twenty minutes to pass this stretch of road."
"If the Eighth Route Army's artillery kept firing during the whole process, one hundred mortars would be able to fire ten to twenty thousand rounds. No matter how many of us there were, there wouldn't be enough to explode."
The deputy chief of staff's eyes widened quickly, and he asked with disbelief: "How is this possible?"
"Commander, the Eighth Route Army is notorious for its poor equipment and lack of ammunition. How can it possibly have ten or twenty thousand rounds of artillery shells?"
The army commander shook his head and replied firmly: "The other Eighth Route Army may not have it, but the garrison regiment definitely has it."
"Intelligence shows that the garrison's own arsenal already has the ability to produce small-caliber artillery shells, so they have no shortage of mortar shells."
"No matter what happened, they still seized more than 10,000 rounds of artillery shells from our logistics base."
"Just 10,000 of them can blow up the entire east-route mopping up force."
"Hiss, hiss..." the deputy chief of staff took a breath and replied with a look of joy on his face.
"Fortunately, the troops were swept away and fortunately, they did not break out under artillery fire, otherwise the losses would have been great."
After finishing speaking, he looked at the military commander and continued his report.
"The east-route mopping up troops decided to use a trick: they occupied favorable terrain in Wushan Valley and waited for reinforcements, holding back the remaining main force of the garrison."
"I hope the military headquarters will immediately order the central mopping up troops to march quickly to reinforce them. The two troops will cooperate with each other, attack from inside and outside, and take the opportunity to completely wipe out the main force of the garrison."
The combat staff reacted quickly. After the deputy chief of staff read the telegram, Wushan Ao was found by them.
The commander frowned and analyzed the feasibility of this combat plan on the sand table.
The deputy chief of staff spoke first: "Commander, the straight-line distance between the central sweep troops and the Wushan Valley is no more than 30 kilometers. They can travel up to 40 kilometers by road. They can reach the battlefield in eight hours of rapid march."
"If we encounter the Eighth Route Army's blocking troops in the middle, we will be delayed for two hours on the road, and it will take ten hours to reach the battlefield."
Seeing that the commander kept staring at Wushan'ao, the deputy chief of staff continued his analysis.
"There are more than 5,000 people in the East Road mopping up force. Many people were lost in the initial shelling, but there must be more than 4,000 people left."
"Judging from the sand table, there are many highlands here in Wushan'ao. It is impossible for every highland to be occupied by the Eighth Route Army."
"As long as they occupy one or two highlands and rely on favorable terrain to wait for reinforcements, they will definitely be able to hold on for ten hours."
The army commander was moved and analyzed with a thoughtful look on his face: "It's impossible to surround the point and call for reinforcements."
"The garrison's strength is limited. Excluding the more than 3,000 troops besieging and mopping up the east road, they have no troops left."
"There are more than 5,000 troops in the middle route who are reinforcing the troops. They are well-equipped. They will definitely be able to kill Wushan concave with overwhelming force."
Having said this, the commander's expression suddenly returned to seriousness, and he looked at the deputy chief of staff and ordered firmly.
"That's it!"
"Call back to the East Road mopping up troops: the military agrees with his battle plan!"
"Give an order to the middle road mopping up troops: The troops will immediately turn around and march towards Wushanao to reinforce the east road mopping up troops."
"The garrison must have wanted to use mortars to kill us in large numbers and bite off a piece of meat before we left. I didn't like what he wanted."
"They used to plot against us before. This time I want to fight back."
"Let them lose their wives and lose their troops."
At the Eighth Route Army headquarters in Wushan'ao, the Japanese and puppet troops had just begun to shrink their defenses when a few people saw it.
Hong Linfeng almost jumped up with joy.
This step is the key to the entire combat plan.
As long as the Japs don't leave, the garrison's battle plan of encircling the area and providing reinforcements can continue to be implemented.
Li Hao's face also beamed with joy, and he immediately ordered: "All participating troops will besiege the Japanese and puppet troops on the two highlands as originally planned."
"We must not only inflict pain on the enemy, but also give the Japanese hope of holding on."
After the attack order was finished, Li Hao looked behind him and Zhou Liang continued to order: "Now send a telegram to Zhang Yun of the Guangling Independent Battalion. Closely monitor every move of the central sweep troops and report any situation immediately."
"Send a telegram to the heavy artillery battalion, cavalry battalion, and tank battery."
"The troops have strengthened their concealment. As long as the Japanese troops sweep up the middle road for reinforcements, they will definitely search along the way to prevent us from encircling the point for reinforcements."
"Only if the troops are not exposed, we can achieve the effect of raiding them, and the losses of the Japanese and puppet troops will be greater."
Half an hour later, the radio station at the headquarters started flashing, and a few minutes later, Zhou Liang ran over to report with excitement.
"Regiment commander, battalion commander Zhang urgently sent an urgent message: The Japanese mopping up troops on the middle road are marching towards us in a hurry."
"According to their current marching speed, they can reach Pingshui Town where the heavy artillery battalion is ambushed at ten o'clock in the evening."
"Great!" Li Hao's tense nerves instantly relaxed for the most part.
After thinking for a moment, he began to issue an order: "Return the call to Zhang Yun, and immediately command two-thirds of the troops to march to Pingshui Town, and uniformly command the heavy artillery battalion, tank company, and cavalry battalion to raid the Japanese and puppet reinforcements."
"My minimum requirement is to severely damage the enemy and force them to retreat."
"If conditions permit, it would be best to annihilate them all."
Zhang Yun arrived at Pingshui Town at nine o'clock in the evening to join the troops lurking here.
As soon as they entered the headquarters, a scout from the cavalry battalion followed them in: "Batalion Commander, the Japanese and puppet troops have already reached ten miles away, and they will be able to rush here in another hour."
"There was a squadron of Japs in the vanguard. They were very vigilant and had their guns in their hands. However, because they were marching too fast, they only searched the five hundred meters on both sides of the road. They only used firepower to conduct reconnaissance further away.
It's about five hundred meters away from the main force."
"The main force marched forward in a three-way formation."
"The baggage troops and artillery troops were walking in the middle of the procession, and the march stretched for nearly two kilometers."
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