Chapter 822 The Eighth Route Army wants to break through?
"Company commander, the Japanese and puppet troops who attacked us did not enter the village." The guard squad leader at the rear caught up and reported.
"Everyone is hiding. If the enemy can't move, I won't move!" the company commander replied solemnly, his brows furrowed deeper than before.
A look of solemnity flashed across the face of the district squadron leader, and he replied in a deep voice: "Company commander, the little devils outside the village are more cautious than I thought."
"We have given up the entrance to the village, but they still won't come in!"
"This way we won't be able to fight with them in the streets."
The seventh company commander was also anxious, but what he was anxious about was not that the troops could not fight in the streets, but that they could not complete the task of attacking from the east to the west, leading the Japanese to Dongzhuang, and buying time for the regiment commander to launch a surprise rescue.
Frowning, he analyzed: "What I'm most worried about right now is that the Japs will surround us but not attack us. They will ask for plane reinforcements after daybreak, and then use bombs to level the place and kill us without even using a single soldier."
"In this case, the Japanese army only needs to dispatch a small number of troops to surround us here, and a lot of troops will be left in the garrison. The possibility of the regiment commander wanting to lead troops to rescue the villagers from their hands is almost zero."
The deputy company commander thought for a moment and replied: "Company commander, you mean we can't let the Japanese drag us on."
"It's about starting street fighting as quickly as possible, and the more brutal the better."
"Only in this way can we attract more Japs and buy time for the regiment leader to attack the Japs station?"
The company commander affirmed: "Yes, street fighting is the only way we can kill a large number of Japanese and puppet troops. We must fight."
"First kill some of the Japs and force them to mobilize more troops. It is best to allocate all the troops they have left to guard the garrison, so that the regiment commander will have a chance to attack."
The deputy company commander directly showed an expression of disbelief, and then denied: "I think this is impossible to do."
"The devils won't listen to us. It's impossible for them to do whatever we say?"
"If I were a little Japanese officer, I would definitely choose to encircle rather than attack, and wait until dawn to send out planes to bomb us. This will not only reduce casualties, but also ensure that there will be no problems at the station, killing two birds with one stone."
The company commander thought for a moment and replied with certainty: "There is a way!"
"Let the Japanese and puppet troops outside the village realize that if they don't attack now, they will have no chance to eliminate us after dawn!"
"Breakout?" the deputy company commander asked thoughtfully.
The company commander affirmed: "It is by breaking through and making the Japanese realize that we have the strength to break out that they will seize the time to attack us and then eliminate us here at all costs."
"You must know that night fighting and guerrilla warfare are the special skills of our Eighth Route Army."
"As long as the troops rush out of Zhangzhuang, they can march into the woods in half an hour."
"At that time, we will be like fish in the ocean. No matter how powerful the devil is, it will be difficult to catch us."
"As for those hostages, we have already rescued them once, but because they were too weak, the rescue failed. Even if we give up the rescue operation now and return to the mountains, if they continue to make a fuss about those hostages, our influence will be greatly reduced. The devils
You definitely know that."
"So as long as they see that we have signs of a breakthrough and have the strength to break through, they will attack immediately."
Seeing that the deputy company commander was still confused, the company commander began to issue orders directly without explaining.
"The west side of the village is closest to the mountains, so we will break out from the west to let the Japanese see our strength to break through."
"Order, the artillery's two mountain cannons and four medium-sized mortars to be ready to fire immediately to the east of the village where the Japs are most numerous."
"Heavy machine guns were also set up, and as soon as the shelling stopped, they opened fire on the little devils outside the village."
"With such fierce offensive firepower, even if the blockade outside the village is an iron wall, we can still tear a hole."
"The Japanese will definitely react immediately."
"My judgment is that their artillery was the first to fire. While counterattacking our artillery position, they concentrated their firepower to blockade the west side of the village and prevent us from breaking through."
"Then the troops marched into the village, attacked us from all directions, held us back, and annihilated us here."
"So, as long as the devils fire, our goal will be achieved."
"When the time comes, the artillery participating in the battle will move if they have time to move the artillery. If they don't have time to move the artillery, they will give up and withdraw the people."
"We can still seize the equipment if the equipment is gone, but if the people are gone, especially technical arms such as artillery, they may not be able to train them in half a year."
"The troops scattered in the village all shrink to the center of the village and do not exchange fire with the Japanese troops entering the village. This will give them the illusion that we are all concentrated in the west of the village and are about to break out. This will attract more Japanese soldiers into the village and then fight back and fight them.
street fighting.
At the Japanese offensive position outside the village, the major was giving orders to a sketch that had just been drawn by the reconnaissance team.
"Everyone, I have decided to surround the Eighth Route Army in the village without attacking. I will ask for aircraft reinforcements after daybreak."
"First blow up the village all over, razing all the usable fortifications and bunkers to the ground, then bombard it again with artillery fire, and finally the infantry goes up to annihilate the remaining enemies and end the battle."
"This way we can minimize the casualties of the imperial army."
"Because after this battle we have to take advantage of the situation and advance into the garrison base area to completely eliminate them."
"If the troops suffer too many casualties, the next attack will be impossible."
A scream of artillery shells streaking across the sky suddenly came, interrupting the major's words, followed by a burst of explosions from the west of the village, which was very violent.
The artillery commander was the first to react: "Sir, I never gave the artillery an order to fire, and the sound of artillery came from the village. I am sure that it was our Eighth Route Army surrounding the village that was firing the artillery just now."
"Listen to the sound of artillery, there are two mountain cannons and four mortars."
"Da da da……"
As soon as the artillery squadron leader finished speaking, the sound of heavy machine gun fire also came over, very intensively.
"Three heavy machine guns have joined the battle, and the sound of gunfire also came from the west end of the village." an infantry squadron leader shouted.
The major's face instantly darkened.
"The Eighth Route Army in the village on Bageya Road must want to break out."
"Originally I thought of encircling them but not attacking them, letting them survive for a few more hours and waiting for the planes to arrive at dawn before attacking."
"Now it seems we can't wait any longer."
"With such fierce offensive firepower, and even mountain artillery being used, if we charge hard, we will definitely be able to tear a hole in our defense line and break through."
"It took a lot of effort to surround them here. We are trying to catch a turtle in a jar. We must not let them escape again."
"Immediately change the battle plan. The order just now is cancelled. The troops will start attacking now. The artillery is divided into two. One part of the artillery will counterattack the Eighth Route Army artillery, and the other part of the artillery blocks the west end of the village to intercept their breakout troops."
"The infantry will attack immediately. Let me rush into the village and kill them quickly."
