"Let's go back. The Japanese have changed their attack methods, and our tactics must also change!" He Jun analyzed with a serious look on his face!
"Continuing to use the old method of relying on houses and courtyard walls to fight the Japanese in street battles will be a living target for the Japanese artillery!"
After joining the guard platoon, He Jun did not explain, but directly ordered!
"Platoon Leader Zhang, immediately send someone to contact all the troops you can contact and get them out of the yard and houses!"
"The enemy's attack method has changed. They will first use artillery shells to destroy nearby houses and yards, and then attack!"
"Continue to guard the house and yard and engage in street fighting with the Japanese attacking troops. You will definitely be killed by the shells fired by them before you even see the Japanese!"
"Bomb craters! The little devils dropped at least fifty aerial bombs during the bombing just now. Adding to the bombing yesterday afternoon, there are at least a hundred bomb craters in the city!"
"Aerial bombs are so powerful that each crater is at least two meters deep, and houses more than ten meters around were blown into ruins!"
"The little Japanese offensive troops will definitely not shell these ruins and waste the shells in vain!"
"In this case, those bomb craters will be safe for the time being!"
"Order all the troops to leave the houses and yards, disperse and hide in the bomb craters and surrounding ruins, and wait for the Japanese to attack the front. Then launch an attack directly from behind them and use the ruins to engage in street fighting with the Japanese!"
"We killed many of the Japs last night, and the reinforcements were also raided by the regiment leader, resulting in the loss of many troops!"
"So the Japs must have insufficient troops. They have to deploy some troops to guard their backs and guard against the regiment commander's sneak attack. The troops actually used to attack us are definitely insufficient!"
"If there are troops sneaking up on them from behind, it will definitely slow down their attack speed!"
"If we can kill them in large numbers, it's possible to force them back!"
"Immediately contact all the troops you can contact, tell them my analysis just now, word for word, let them hide in craters and ruins to avoid shelling, and touch the enemy's back to attack them!"
"Also. Report the analysis I just made to the Chief of Staff!"
"The chief of staff gave an order last night. The battlefield is changing rapidly, and our troops are seriously insufficient and cannot afford to lose them! As long as there is a way to reduce troop casualties, we must report it to him as soon as possible, and then promote it to the whole regiment!"
"Boom boom boom..."
Explosions kept ringing in the city. The courtyard walls and houses looked like paper in front of the mountain cannon, and were easily destroyed!
The Japanese squadron leader was very excited. The troops used this fighting method to advance fifty meters without being attacked by the Eighth Route Army. The casualties were almost zero!
"The Eighth Route Army must have been frightened by our new tactics and took the initiative to evacuate those yards and houses, otherwise they would definitely be buried in the ruins!" the squadron leader shouted excitedly!
"The artillery continues to fire. The troops should not rush forward. We will advance little by little. If the Eighth Route Army wants to withdraw, let them withdraw!"
"Lingqiu City is only so big, and there are imperial troops attacking from all four directions!"
"When they are unable to retreat, the troops will gather together, and then a barrage of artillery shells will hit them and cause them heavy casualties!"
In one hour, the Japanese advanced one hundred meters!
The speed is very slow. At this advancing speed, it will take at least six hours to reach the center of the city!
The Japanese brigade headquarters, in order to facilitate command and understand the most real battle situation at the first time, Major General Sakai directly moved the headquarters to the city head!
From a high position, you can see the progress of the three infantry squadrons in Nancheng without using binoculars!
"Sir, isn't their attack speed too slow? It's taking too much time to blow up one room and one courtyard wall. Why don't you remind them to hurry up!" the major suggested standing nearby!
"No!"
The major general refused without hesitation!
"As long as it can reduce casualties, it doesn't matter if the attack speed is a little slower!"
"We don't have enough troops. If we lose more, we will have no one left. It might even be difficult to encircle the Eighth Route Army!"
"So we would rather go slower to minimize casualties!
"Today, we will first trap the remaining Eighth Route Army in the center of the city, compress their range of activities, and then build an impenetrable line of defense around them to completely block them in!"
"Before dawn tomorrow, two more brigades of reinforcements will arrive on the battlefield!"
"As soon as they arrive, we will have enough troops, and then we will have a decisive battle with the Eighth Route Army. We will concentrate all our troops and firepower to kill them in one battle!"
"Sir is wise!" the Major complimented with a thoughtful look on his face!
"Bang bang bang...ta da da..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a series of gunshots rang out less than a hundred meters away from everyone!
The attacking troops were stationed at the final artillery position, and four of the six gunners from the two mortar teams fell on the spot!
Major General Sakai frowned and looked in the direction of the gunfire. The gunfire had stopped abruptly!
It was as if nothing happened in the ruins where the gunshots were fired just now, and there was no movement at all!
"Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army is hiding there, they are moving!" The major reacted faster, pointed to a point in the ruins and shouted!
Major General Sakai only saw a few fast-moving figures. In the blink of an eye, these figures disappeared into the ruins again!
"Da da da...! Boom boom boom..."
A series of gunshots also came from behind another attacking force, including several explosions!
When Sakai turned around, he saw several clouds of black smoke rising from the attacking troops!
The position where three mortars were set up was filled with smoke, and six or seven soldiers were dead or wounded lying on the ground!
Two consecutive sneak attacks cannot be an accident!
Major General Sakai's brows instantly twisted into a big "Sichuan" sign, and then he shouted: "Baga, who can tell me what is going on? Why did the Eighth Route Army run behind our attacking troops!"
"Order the attacking troops to divide their forces immediately and kill them!"
The captains of the two squadrons that were attacked were both veterans on the battlefield and did not need orders at all!
Dozens of Japanese soldiers, armed with light machine guns and rifles, immediately dispersed and formed a semi-encirclement to attack the sneak attack troops!
Major General Sakai keeps a close eye on these sneak attack troops. He wants to see them killed with his own eyes!
However, the expected battle situation did not appear!
Several grenades were thrown at the location where the gunfire had been fired. The troops pounced on the explosion, but not a single Eighth Route Army soldier was caught.
"The Eighth Route Army has escaped, they are on the left!" the major next to Sakai shouted again, with shock on his face and a hint of panic!
"Hurry and take cover, the Eighth Route Army is going to throw a grenade!" the major shouted!
The distance was too far. Covered by the sound of gunfire, it was impossible for their voices to reach the combat troops!
Before the combat troops moved, three grenades had already hit them!
"Boom boom boom..."
In the violent explosion, several more soldiers fell down!
It wasn't until this moment that the remaining Japs discovered the traces of the sneak attacker!
A new semi-encirclement circle was quickly formed, and then it rushed towards a few Eighth Route Army troops who had just emerged!
"Boom boom..."
Just as the people moved, two more explosions rang out in the crowd, and three soldiers were knocked over!
"Baga, why are there still Eighth Route Army? When did they run behind the counterattack troops!" the brigade leader subconsciously shouted!
He saw the flight trajectories of the two grenades, and the attacker was less than thirty meters behind the troops!
After throwing the grenade, the two Eighth Route Army soldiers disappeared into the ruins!
All Major General Sakai could see was their figures constantly moving in the ruins! Their movements were very vigorous, like monkeys, sometimes appearing and sometimes disappearing, and there was no way to pinpoint their specific location in the ruins!
The ground offensive troops don't know all this. Faced with a sneak attack, they must fight back!
Otherwise the back will be too dangerous!
Most of the team of Japs immediately divided up their forces. Half of the Japs pounced on the Eighth Route Army that had just emerged, and half of the Japs quickly turned around and pounced on the newly emerged Eighth Route Army behind them, hoping to kill them all at once!
Major General Sakai kept his eyes on the battlefield and could clearly see the Eighth Route Army moving rapidly among the ruins!
Two Imperial Army troops followed closely behind, almost completing the encirclement and blocking the Eighth Route Army's retreat.
"Da da da……"
The sound of machine gun fire started again!
The encirclement that had just been encircled was instantly opened with a gap!
Facing the rain of bullets flying overhead, the Japanese subconsciously threw themselves on the ground to avoid danger!
And at this moment, the three Eighth Route Army troops in the encirclement moved!
He quickly got out of the gap and threw several grenades at the encircling troops before leaving!
This change happened so suddenly that Major General Sakai was dazzled!
It wasn't until three Eighth Route Army troops jumped out of the encirclement under the cover of machine guns and the grenades exploded that he reacted from the shock, his face suddenly turned pale, and he screamed!
"Why are there heavy machine guns on Bagya Road? How did they get behind our attacking troops?"
The major frowned, he had no reason to explain all this!
In less than five minutes, the counterattacking team did not kill a single Eighth Route Army soldier, but also suffered nearly twenty casualties!
"Boom boom boom..."
Several more violent explosions reached Sakai's ears again!
Before anyone could say anything, the Major shouted with a look of fright: "It's an artillery attack, the Eighth Route Army artillery is counterattacking our artillery position!"
Several plumes of thick black smoke rose into the sky from the artillery position, and one of the artillery shells hit a mountain artillery emplacement!
After the shell exploded, the mountain cannon was still standing intact on the street, but the gunner was not so lucky, and fell to the ground with all his feet facing in and his head facing out!
"The artillery will counterattack immediately. The Eighth Route Army only has three mortars, kill them!" the brigade commander shouted with a heartbroken look on his face!
The garrison was short of troops, and he was also short of troops. The death of one person would be heartbreaking for a long time, not to mention the difficulty of training an army of gunners!
The major hesitated and replied: "General, it's useless!"
"In addition to fighting the Eighth Route Army and killing them bit by bit! Ordering the artillery to counterattack will not achieve any results except wasting artillery shells!"
"Impossible!" Sakai shouted with disbelief!
"We have two mountain guns and four mortars. The Eighth Route Army only has three mortars. How could we not kill them!"
The major quickly explained: "General, I must be humble. They must have moved now. Every time a round of artillery shells is fired, an artillery position is moved. Our artillery has no chance to lock on them!"
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