Chapter 40: Interception
The vanguard of the Eighth Route Army, which was ordered to attract the attention of the Japanese puppet army in North China, fought with the Japanese army in Cishan Town, and the Japanese troops who were originally assembled in Cishan Town could rely on superior artillery fire to the other side, but it was a pity that the Eighth Route Army troops who confronted them had the new army as a helper, and several elusive small units of the New Army were active around Cishan Town, and once they found the heavy firepower of the Japanese army, they would rush up and launch various attacks.
For a whole week, the originally unknown Cishan Town has become a key point repeatedly fought for by the enemy and us, and in order to take Cishan Town, whether it is the Eighth Route Army advancing eastward or the Japanese army in North China, they have continuously increased their troops here. Cishan Town is hot here, Zhuo Fei who went north also learned about it, and then changed his itinerary and went north to Cishan Town, he wanted to help the Eighth Route Army troops on the front line of Cishan Town to defeat the heavy firepower of the Japanese army, and then go to Shijiazhuang to sit in Shijiazhuang.
Zhuo Fei arrived at Cishan Town, which was already the fourth day of the exchange of fire between the enemy and us, and the troops of the Eighth Route Army assembled in Cishan Town had already exceeded four regiments, but the actual combat number of these four regiments had not exceeded 2,000 people. "Draw people, draw a reinforced battalion out, and I will get weapons and equipment for you as soon as possible." After a brief contact with the commander of the Eighth Route Army, Zhuo Fei did not stop long, so he left the station with Zhuo Yan and walked straight to the Japanese defense line.
Zhuo Fei has too many secrets that he can't say to people, and the only thing he can believe in is Zhuo Yan, so he can only take Zhuo Yan with him. After sleeping in the wilderness, Zhuo Fei's equipment has been replaced, not counting the full set of special forces outfits, and even the firearms they use have been replaced. Zhuo Fei had a modified M1 Garand rifle hanging from the gun belt on his chest, and two Type 92 pistols stuck in the leg strap, while Zhuo Yan had an AK74 assault rifle with a scope attached to the gun belt on his chest, and a Remington Xia shotgun on his back.
The reason why Zhuo Fei chose to use the Garand rifle was not because of how well this semi-automatic rifle was modified, Zhuo Fei chose the Garand because he needed the Garand to have a slightly stronger range than the assault rifle. With automatic gun aiming skills in hand, Zhuo Fei never worries about his marksmanship, relying on this Garand in his hand, Zhuo Fei can easily hit targets 300 meters away, and this modified Garand is much lighter than an assault rifle.
After having breakfast with Zhuo Yan and using the radio to contact several surrounding troops, Zhuo Fei opened his map system and began to search for and lock on to the heavy firepower units of the Japanese army. and Zhuo Yan left the position of the Eighth Route Army, Zhuo Fei actually did not think about attacking the Japanese army alone, he is only playing the role of a scout now, as long as he can find and lock the Japanese army's heavy firepower unit with the help of the map system, and the rocket artillery unit that rushed to Cishan Town with him, he can send the Japanese army's heavy firepower unit back to his hometown with strong firepower.
The number of rocket artillery vehicles brought to Cishan Town by Zhuo Fei is not very large, only 6 of them, and 6 rocket artillery vehicles can release as many as 72 rockets in a salvo, which is enough for Zhuo Fei to use against the Japanese army's artillery positions or logistics supply points. According to the guidance of the map system, Zhuo Fei and the two wandered around the periphery of the Japanese-controlled area for a while, and when it was close to lunch, Zhuo Fei, who had moved to a woodland, finally locked on a material assembly point of the Japanese army.
If you come here during the day, perhaps no one can see that this silent village hides Japanese troops and a large number of supplies. Glancing at the dense red dots on the map system, Zhuo Fei grinned, but he didn't expect that he had just started the search, and he had found a vital part of the Japanese army.
The calculated coordinates were handed to Zhuo Yan, who turned on the walkie-talkie and began to call the New Army troops close to the village to retreat, and then sent the coordinates back by radio. A few minutes later, Zhuo Yan was contacted by walkie-talkie at the rocket artillery position behind the Eighth Route Army's position, and after determining the coordinates, the first test-fired rocket soon landed in the field on the edge of the village with a whistling sound. According to the landing point of the rocket just now, Zhuo Fan rested the coordinates in time, and before the Japanese troops in the village could react, the rockets fired from the rocket artillery position were already overwhelming.
A landslide and tsunami-like explosion rang out, and the entire village was immediately engulfed in flames and rising plumes of smoke, and a single salvo from the rocket artillery position completely covered the village. Zhuo Fei and the others, who were waiting in the woodland to watch, quickly ran out of the woodland and into the village full of fireworks after the explosion. Cutting the grass is to eradicate the roots, this is Zhuo Fei's consistent style, the rocket is super powerful, but it can't do it to wipe out all the Japanese troops in the village.
Short gunshots rang out from time to time in the smoke-filled village, and Zhuo Fei and the others quickly cleaned up the ruined village, and when they finally left, Zhuo Fei also took out a large bucket of gasoline from the space he carried with him, and set fire to the materials that had not been destroyed by the rockets. Half an hour later, a group of Japanese soldiers rushed here after hearing the news, looking at the village that had been reduced to ashes, a group of Japanese soldiers wanted to cry without tears, and here they could hoard their entire brigade for a week's supplies.
After eliminating a Japanese army's material hoarding point, Zhuo Fei and the others immediately changed their route and began to follow the rut marks left by the Japanese trucks all the way north. Zhuo Fei and the others spent a morning, relying on the map system, to go around the ten miles around Cishan Town, but they never found out where the Japanese large-caliber artillery positions were. Unable to find the artillery position of the Japanese army, it meant that Zhuo Fei could not go north to Shijiazhuang for a period of time, and Zhuo Fei did not want to be tied up here in Cishan Town, so he had to decide to search north for Wu'an.
Wu'an had originally been controlled by the Eighth Route Army and established a base area, but later a large number of scattered Nationalist troops gathered here and clashed with the Eighth Route Army. After a series of bribery, division, and key attacks by the Japanese army, Wu'an was once again controlled by the Japanese puppet army, and Zhuo Fei suspected that the Japanese artillery unit might be stationed in Wu'an.
Wu'an is only more than 60 kilometers away from Cishan Town, which is not far for Zhuo Fei, and after contacting the two new army teams with walkie-talkies, Zhuo Fei and the two immediately went north to Wu'an. Nanmazhuang is considered the middle point between Wu'an and Cishan, and Zhuo Fei, who stopped to rest, is hiding on a slope outside Nanmazhuang at the moment, and not far from them, there is a checkpoint set up by the Japanese puppet army.
In Zhuo Fei's map system, it shows that there are only 12 Japanese puppet soldiers in this checkpoint, but Zhuo Fei did not take these Japanese puppet soldiers under the knife, he was waiting for the Japanese puppet army from Wu'an to pass here. With the map system in hand, Zhuo Fei didn't need to enter Wu'an at all, he could know the movement of the Japanese puppet army in Wu'an City. An hour later, Zhuo Fei's long-awaited brigade of Japanese puppet troops finally appeared in sight, the group of Japanese puppet troops from Wu'an was huge, and the Japanese army alone looked at the size of a brigade, in addition to more than 1,000 soldiers of the Imperial Cooperative Army.
For more than 2,000 days, the puppet army walked on the highway mightily, but none of them would have thought that hundreds of meters away from them were hiding two guys who planned to kill them. This team of Japanese puppet troops from Wu'an is still far away from Cishan Town, and the rocket artillery brought by Zhuo Fei can't hit such a long distance, after confirming that this Japanese puppet army unit is carrying large-caliber artillery, Zhuo Fei immediately contacted the two new army squads that he had previously contacted with walkie-talkies to move closer to him.
The rocket artillery is powerful, but it consumes extremely ammunition, and Zhuo Fei did not plan to put the rocket artillery into battle early until the critical moment. Confirming that this Japanese puppet army was carrying large-caliber artillery, Zhuo Fei already had a plan in his heart, even if he couldn't leave these Japanese puppet soldiers in the middle of the road, he could at least delay the opponent's marching speed first, and then find an opportunity to attack their artillery. followed this Japanese puppet army all the way south through Diantou Village, and Zhuo Fei joined the two new army squads who were ordered to come.
"Your main task is to delay the march of this Japanese puppet army as much as possible from now on, and you must drag them until dark before evacuating." Without too many words, Zhuo Fei just explained the task to these new army soldiers, and then disappeared into the field with Zhuo Yan. According to Zhuo Fei's requirements, these two squads of new army soldiers must hold off this Japanese puppet army for at least 6 hours, so that the Japanese puppet army troops heading south will not be able to reach Cishan Town, which is 30 kilometers away, within 6 hours.
The new army soldiers used cold guns, laying tricks, digging traps, and so on, and the Japanese puppet army troops who left Wu'an and went south to Cishan Town to help the battle have not been able to rush comfortably since they had fought through Diantou Village. First, the spearhead troops who went out to explore the road were continuously sniped by cold guns, and then the marksmanship troops walking on the road were attacked by mines, and then there were mortar shells falling into the queue, in short, the attackers' all-encompassing methods gave the Japanese puppet troops who were eager to go south to Cishan Town a headache.
Naturally, it was Zhuo Fei and the two who used mortars to bombard the Japanese puppet army, and Zhuo Fei and the two, who were thousands of miles away, set up a heavy mortar early, Zhuo Fei was responsible for adjusting the gun distance according to the map system, and Zhuo Yan was responsible for loading the shells. The two of them would change positions almost once after two shots, so that the artillerymen of the Japanese puppet army on the road could not lock their position, and the time passed at this point, four hours passed, and the Japanese puppet army unit that left Wu'an was only 3 miles away from the Diantou village they crossed in the morning.