Chapter 652 Strange Sneak Attack Battle (Ask for Subscription!) ）

There are no strange sneak attacks

A series of violent explosions sounded on the road, and the Japanese vanguard troops, about a squadron of devil soldiers, were immediately enveloped in smoke and dust from the explosion. Immediately after, there was a heart-rending wail, which quickly came out of the thick smoke and dust....

In order to slow down the retreat of the three divisions of the Japanese army, the remaining two infantry regiments of the 15th Division, under the command of division commander Sun Shen, rushed to the front of the Japanese army in advance with all the mines in the logistics department. Prepare to use every possible means to slow down the Japanese army's march. And just now, a squadron of the avant-garde troops sent by the Japanese army was very lucky to step into a chain of minefields arranged by the soldiers with fifty mines of various kinds...

In the face of the instantaneous change of fifty mines, plus a squadron, nearly two hundred little devils, there was no time to make any tactical response in the sudden explosion. As the smoke and dust that shrouded the position slowly cleared, there was not even a single soldier standing in the infantry squadron that had just been a complete infantry squadron.

As far as the eye can see, the marching road, which stretches for dozens of meters, is full of bloody corpses blown up by landmines. Or the wounded soldier rolling around on the ground, his legs blown off, and wailing....

Less than five minutes after the explosion sounded, a little devil cavalry correspondent appeared in front of the three division commanders who were in the middle of the queue. Then, he reported loudly: "Report to the three division commanders, the avant-garde troops have been attacked by enemy mines, and the avant-garde reconnaissance squadron has suffered heavy losses and has completely lost its combat capability. ”

"It seems that the Eighth Route Army wants to leave our three divisions here and wait for the arrival of their main force..."Hearing the report of the cavalry correspondent, Lieutenant General Yokoyama, the commander of the 125th Division, the highest commander of the avant-garde reconnaissance squadron, said with a mocking expression. Used to vent, the other two are the regiment commanders, and let their troops come out to take the lead in dissatisfaction +...

"Yokoyama-kun, don't be alarmist here. Our three divisions, so far, have a full 50,000 troops. And our opponent, the Eighth Route Army, has only 20,000 troops at most. If they want to stop us, it also depends on whether they have the ability....order the engineer wing to which the 125th Division belongs to immediately send a demining squadron to clear the mines... Half an hour at most, and after half an hour, the troops must set off quickly...."Lieutenant General Minoru waved his hand and commanded loudly to the cavalry communicator in front of him.

However, things are far from being as simple as he imagined. Just when a demining squadron had just arrived at the site of the attack on the avant-garde reconnaissance squadron. On a hill about 500 meters away from the position, dozens of dense tongues of heavy machine gun fire suddenly erupted. And these thick tongues of fire have only one target for shooting, that is, the Japanese troops, which have relatively little combat effectiveness.

After a dull sound of machine gun fire, the more than 100 little devil sappers who were so surprised by the sudden blow that they laughed arrogantly did not have time to make any reaction. It was like harvesting wheat, and it was cut to the ground by dozens of thick tongues of fire. In less than two minutes of firepower, more than half of the sappers were directly hit into a hornet's nest by the rain of bullets. As for the remaining dozens of people, they are either missing arms and legs, or are seriously injured and lose their combat effectiveness ....

"Yaga... Enemy attack... Quickly, the troops immediately counterattacked, heavy machine guns, immediately carried out suppressive fire. Artillery, immediately shell the hilltop positions directly opposite ...

The squadron of engineers was suddenly attacked by fire from a very heavy machine gun and suffered heavy losses. An infantry wing followed closely behind the sappers, and more than 3,000 little devils reacted from the shock at the first time. Immediately, under the command of commanders at all levels, a dense rain of bullets and rained shells were fired at the top of the mountain a few hundred meters away...

After a few minutes of fierce blows, a squadron of imps, under the command of an officer, managed to rush up the hill a few hundred meters away. However, what disappointed these little devils is. At this moment, on the huge hill, except for the bullet casings everywhere and the craters from the explosion of the shells, not even a shadow of an enemy could be seen...

And in a wilderness about 100 meters away from the mountain, nearly a hundred figures of the Eighth Route Army who were rapidly retreating appeared in the eyes of the little devil. Of course, at this moment, in the face of the Eighth Route Army troops that were already thousands of kilometers away, they had no choice but to be angry....,

However, the units of the Eighth Route Army, which were active around the Japanese army, were far from over in this round of attacks on the Japanese army. Just when the Japanese avant-garde wing received the news that there was no danger signal ahead, it had just ordered the troops to assemble and prepare to continue the march. Unbeknownst to him, it was in a hollow about two kilometers from the road. A mortar cluster, a total of more than 50 mortars, is under the debugging of the fighters, quickly raising their own black hole muzzle, ready to fire at any time....

And just after all the mortars were ready, a very deep command began to echo in the middle of the artillery position.

"All the gunners were there, and fifteen shells per gun were fired rapidly. Then, take your gear and retreat immediately. Now I order, all of them have....fire...."

In an instant, a series of dull mortar guns began to sound on the artillery positions. More than 50 shells, driven by the burning gunpowder in the barrel, quickly flew out of the barrel. Then, in the sky, a perfect arc was drawn, and it quickly flew towards the Japanese marching army....

Fifteen shells, for a good mortar gunner, can be fired in two minutes at most. And today, the gunners gathered here are obviously very good gunners. In less than two minutes, the gunner, who had fired all the shells around him, began to quickly disassemble the mortar in front of him with the assistance of the ammunition man around him. Then, carrying various parts on his shoulders, under the command of the commander next to him, he quickly withdrew from the position...

At this moment, after receiving an instantaneous blow from more than 700 mortar shells, more than 3,000 soldiers of the avant-garde wing, which had just been assembled by the Japanese army, had been blown apart. As far as the eye can see, on the road, which is less than a kilometer long, at least nearly 1,000 soldiers have fallen motionless in a pool of blood and turned into corpses. More soldiers were lying on the ground, squirming their bodies over and over again, and let out bursts of heart-rending wails......

For this kind of sneak attack tactics with small casualties, large results, and only need to consume a large amount of ammunition, Liu Hua, the commander-in-chief of the entire campaign, can be said to be very enthusiastic. Basically, every one to two hours, the main force of the Japanese army would come to do so.

With the arrival of night, after losing the cover of the overhead plane. In order to avoid a larger-scale sneak attack by the Eighth Route Army, under the repeated harassment of the soldiers, the little devil who was already exhausted was already exhausted. I had to stop myself and start camping on the spot, waiting for the dawn of the next day...

Ordinary soldiers, after receiving the order to camp, lay down on the ground very relaxed, waiting for dinner to come, and began to replenish their physical strength and energy consumed by the day's march. However, after a day's march, the three division commanders, as could be seen from the frowning brows on their faces, did not have any intention of relaxing ....

After a short silence, Lieutenant General Yokoyama, commander of the 125th Division, who had suffered heavy losses in the day's fighting, first broke the solemn atmosphere in the tent and spoke.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it's a day today. Under the repeated harassment of the troops of the Eighth Route Army, we not only suffered heavy losses, but more importantly, the speed of the troops' march was very seriously affected, and they only advanced a distance of less than 25 kilometers. At such a marching pace, in three days, we simply will not be able to get out of the encirclement that the Eighth Route Army is about to form against us..."

As soon as Lieutenant General Yokoyama's words fell, Lieutenant General Inoue continued to speak: "Yokoyama-kun, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is the casualties caused by the continuous attacks of the Eighth Route Army to our army... If we continue like this, even if we successfully get out of the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army, how many soldiers will we be left in our three divisions? ”

As soon as Lieutenant General Inoue's words fell, the remaining two division commanders immediately closed their mouths and fell into deep thought. However, at this moment, the chief of staff of the 125th Division rushed in with an anxious face and reported to the three division commanders in front of him who looked depressed.

"Report to the three division commanders, during the one-day march, all the casualties of the troops have come out..."

"How's it going?"

Lieutenant General Yokoyama, commander of the 125th Division, was the first to react, and he also asked with an anxious face. After all, in today's one-day march, his own 125th Division was at the forefront, and all the troops that were attacked were also in his own 125th Division. This could not but worry the division commander, Lieutenant General Yokoyama....,

"Report to the division commander, in one day of fighting, my 125th division lost a total of 4,297 people. Among them, the number of dead is 2,189, and the rest of the personnel are temporarily incapacitated due to various injuries, and need to be cared for by two soldiers... According to statistics, these attritions were mainly caused by the three intensive artillery attacks launched by the Eighth Route Army on our marching army columns..."Seeing the division commander with an anxious face in front of him, the chief of staff hurriedly replied loudly...

"Baga, cunning Eighth Route Army, I'm going to break all of you into ten thousand pieces...."Hearing such huge casualty data, after a short shock, the division commander, Lieutenant General Hengshan, couldn't help but clench his fists and scolded loudly.

However, after listening to the report of the chief of staff in front of them, the other two division commanders beside him were shocked and had the rest of their expressions of sympathy for Lieutenant General Yokoyama. After all, those lost soldiers are not their own subordinates.

"Minoruta-kun, Inoue-kun, I think that in the next march, we must change the predetermined battle plan. Otherwise, if you go at this pace, the final result will be exactly as Inoue said. Even if we get out of the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army, there will be very few troops left in our hands..."Lieutenant General Yokoyama suggested angrily to the two gloating partners beside him...

"I agree with Yokoyama-kun's idea. Today's heavy losses in the troops in one day have taught us a good lesson, and we must come up with a proper solution? His idea was recognized and approved by his colleagues, and Lieutenant General Inoue, who originally proposed the idea, immediately spoke out in agreement.

"Then, Yokoyama-kun, Inoue-kun. I don't know if you have any good ideas and suggestions to solve the current predicament that our army is experiencing..."Lieutenant General Minoru nodded and asked rhetorically with a puzzled expression.

"This... Minoru, of course, the specific method needs to be discussed by the three of us before it can come out....However, I have a preliminary idea, I will say it, and we will discuss it together. The total strength of the Eighth Route Army is only 20,000 at most, while we have more than 50,000 troops in three divisions. If our three divisions advance and retreat in unison, then the limited strength of the Eighth Route Army will also be dispersed. When the time comes, they will ignore each other, so as to relieve the pressure on our army..."After a short period of thought, Lieutenant General Yokoyama said with a hesitant expression.

Speaking of which, if the division of troops is carried out, it is no surprise that the most loss-making is the 125th Division of Lieutenant General Yokoyama. After all, after a day's march, the 125th Division was once again reduced by more than four thousand people. At this moment, the entire 125th Division has less than 15,000 troops left. If you exclude the 5,000 people who took care of the wounded and sick, the number of troops that can still fight will only be more than 10,000 people...

And if he does not divide his troops to break through, his own division will undoubtedly replace the 125th Division, which has suffered heavy losses, and continue to serve as the vanguard of the troops during tomorrow's march. When the time comes, the lost troops will be their own men. Thinking that his subordinates would lose thousands of troops on tomorrow's march, the eyes of the remaining two division commanders immediately showed a look of worry.

Regardless of the division of troops, their own troops, in tomorrow's march, will definitely have several thousand casualties. And with the division of troops, these thousands of people will survive. More importantly, of the current three divisions, the 125th Division is the worst. After the division of troops, according to the temperament of the Eighth Route Army, the 125th Division will definitely be the first to attack. Then, when the time comes, your own division can quickly break away from the battlefield and break through under the 'cover' of the 125th division...

Think about the different results of the two decisions. In the eyes of the two division commanders, there was a decisive look in their eyes. Then, almost in unison, he replied.

"Hengshanjun, since you have made a decision, then, I, the 126th Division, completely agree with your idea. In addition, in order to support you in transporting a large number of light and serious wounded in your troops, I will definitely draw a large group of troops from the baggage wing to assist you in your retreat and transfer before we divide our troops..."

"Yokoyama-kun, my 127th Division will also support a brigade of your baggage wing, assist you in transporting all kinds of light and serious wounded, and speed up the march of your troops...."Lieutenant General Minoru replied not to be outdone.

I saw two very 'generous' and 'generous' comrades-in-arms in front of me. Although Lieutenant General Yokoyama knew what they really thought in their hearts. However, for the sake of the entire army, under the siege of the Eighth Route Army, it was possible to go out part of it, and not to destroy the whole army here. Lieutenant General Yokoyama replied with a smile on his face. ,

"Thank you, if I can successfully get out of the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army, I will definitely invite the two Excellencies to drink in Shenyang City, to thank the two Excellencies for their support and love for my 125th Division..."

"Yokoyama-kun is welcome, we are both great Japanese emperors, and it is appropriate to help each other..."The two division commanders waved their hands and said embarrassedly.

In this way, the plan of the three main divisions of the Japanese army to retreat was decided in the selfless and selfish minds of the three division commanders...

In the temporary headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, which was marching side by side with the Japanese Army's Third Route Army, early in the morning, when Liu Hua was just about to give the troops a new day's combat mission, an operational staff officer ran to him out of breath and reported.

"Chief, the Japanese army has begun to move, however, according to the report of the forward observation post, the Japanese army has changed its retreat plan, changing the original army of one route to the army of three routes, retreating separately..."

As soon as the words of the operational staff officer fell, Zhou Baozhong, who was still happy with the tremendous results achieved by the troops in yesterday's sneak attack, frowned at himself. Immediately, he asked Liu Hua in front of him.

"Commander, the Japanese army has changed its retreat plan, what should we do?"

Liu Hua shook his head and said speechlessly: "Old Zhou, the little devil has found our weakness and prescribed the right medicine... This time, it seems impossible to leave all the three divisions and 50,000 troops in front of us... It's the same thing I said two days ago, and now it's time for us to make a choice...."

Seeing Zhou Baozhong nodding thoughtfully, Liu Hua continued: "The 125th Division of the Japanese Army suffered heavy losses in our army's sneak attack yesterday. In addition, there are still a large number of light and serious casualties that need to be transported. This division, which is not satisfied with the establishment, will leave me behind for everything. Since the little devil has divided his troops, then we will also divide his troops. Now I command...."

"Comrade Zhou Baozhong led two regiments of the 15th Division and the 39th Regiment of the 13th Division, totaling three regiments, while killing and injuring a large number of the living forces of the Japanese 125th Division, slowed down its march as much as possible until the arrival of the main force of the field army. The five regiments to which the recruit column belonged, under my personal command, were responsible for slowing down the march of the Japanese 126th Division. The column guard regiment, responsible for the 127th Division, ensures that the 127th Division of the Japanese Army does not reinforce the remaining two divisions ...

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