Chapter 207 Three Days and Five Kilometers Section 3 Grinding Plate Tactics

It was another thrilling night, and after three nights, I didn't see a single shadow of the Eighth Road, and the thousands of people in the Kuroda United were tortured and had a nervous breakdown! This was not the worst-case scenario, Kuroda got up early in the morning and received a telegram from Beiping that the troops used for the sweep operation against the 1st Division of the Eighth Route Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region would be withdrawn from the Langya Mountain area in three days.

This means that the friendly forces in the Langya Mountain area, the flank of the Kuroda Wing, will soon be withdrawn, and then the tens of thousands of troops of the 1st Division of the Eighth Route Army may be free to join forces with the troops of the 11th Division to deal with Kuroda.

The strong combat effectiveness of the troops of the Eighth Route and the 1st Division is the same as the prestige, and Kuroda Osa is also knowledgeable, so on this sunny and long morning, Kuroda sat in the tent like a deflated ball and looked at this telegram, and he didn't know what to do.

After thinking about it, he convened a meeting of all the officers above the rank of adjutant and re-studied the next action plan based on this battle report, and at the same time, Kuroda contacted his own cronies and lieutenant commander who had been sent back to Beiping to recuperate from his wounds, and then he went to help him go to the front headquarters and the intelligence department to inquire about the situation.

Judging from the current situation, the supply line from Bauhinia Pass to Lianggang Town to Yinfang Town, which is more than 100 kilometers long and winding and rugged mountainous kilometers, is very difficult to do in terms of garrisoning and keeping it unblocked, and the 36th Division used the strength of a wing to set up more than 10 strongholds along the way to keep the communication line open, and from time to time let the Eighth Road cut off traffic, not to mention that there are no permanent garrison strongholds now.

If the supply lines were cut off, the troops of the 1st and 11th Divisions of the 8th Route would be united. It is very likely that the Kuroda United will be besieged in this basin with high mountains on all sides. Rely solely on Army airplanes to airdrop supplies. That cannot be counted on, seven or eight thousand people have to consume several tons of food in a day!

So Kuroda and the officers who attended the meeting decided to retreat! Retreat to the front line of Heiyaogou and Shahe Village first, and after the battle situation changes again, it will be easier to retreat to Lianggang Town, and it will be much easier to retreat to Lianggang Town than hundreds of miles.

But it's not so easy to retreat, Kuroda doesn't even know the number of enemies in front of him, and if he retreats immediately, he won't be bitten by the Eight Roads, which is a very troublesome thing. You have to study the retreat plan carefully.

The plan for retreat has not yet been released, and Kuroda's legitimate lieutenant finally found out some news through his fellow villagers in the Ministry of Intelligence, and learned that the front army's use of Kuroda Wing is a decoy, and the real protagonist is the Shimizu Wing belonging to the 110th Division!

This wing was directly deployed by General Gangmura, and it is said that it is a special operations wing specially used for operations against the command organs of the Eighth Route Army in North China, Kuroda has always thought that he is the protagonist, and then he finally understands that he is just a deputy used by General Gangcun to attract the Eighth Road!

But it's smoking! It turns out that he has traveled thousands of miles to transfer himself just to be cannon fodder! If the fight is good, it is also the command credit of General Gangmura. If he doesn't fight well, he just uses it as cannon fodder and scapegoat, and the angry Kuroda faces dozens of officers under him. Screaming at the message!

Nakasa, who was temporarily acting as the adjutant chief, understood that it was Kuroda Daisa who finally understood that his team was being tricked by others, and when he persuaded Kuroda, he revealed some of the inside stories of his knowledge to Kuroda Daisa, and the implication was that he should stop thinking about defeating the Eight Roads, just make a show, and just find a chance to retreat.

This time, Kuroda really listened to the persuasion, and after returning to the tent, he stopped scolding, and immediately took these officers to study the retreat plan, and emphasized that it was not allowed to leak this plan, especially not to report it to the Beiping side!

On the morning of the same day, the Kuroda Wing also called for army bombers to help bomb the positions and rear of the Eighth Route Army on the front line of Xiaochagou, but on the ground, the infantry invested more troops, launching five attacks in a row on a frontal area more than a kilometer wide!

At the same time, the rear base camp of Beitan Village sent more than 600 soldiers to the north to Heiyaogou, and built defensive positions and fortifications on the mountains at both ends of the pass.

The first four attacks were stubbornly fought by the Eighth Route Army guarding the mountains, and the fifth time Kuroda personally went to the front line, changed the way of attack, and used a grinding plate tactic, the so-called grinding plate refers to the cooperation between the planes in the sky and the artillery group on the ground, like the upper and lower halves of a grinding plate, using the large-scale blocking bombardment in the air and the regional fixed-point bombardment of the ground artillery group to destroy the position of the Eighth Route as much as possible, and suppress and eliminate the vitality of the defenders as much as possible.

When this steel millstone pressed against the body of the eight roads, the infantry attacking forces on the ground quietly approached the mountain beams and other places to lurk, and as soon as the bombardment and artillery bombardment stopped, they immediately turned to the attack!

Not to mention this kind of tactics of not stinging with steel, it is still quite effective, and it may also be a shame for Kuroda's cannon fodder troops, the North China Front's style of using army aviation planes has always been a big change this time, and the call for air support for Kuroda Wing is basically satisfied! In one morning alone, six groups of bombers and destroyers with a total of more than 50 sorties were dispatched to provide support over the battlefield.

The troops of the 3rd Battalion of the 20th Regiment, which garrisoned the Xiaochagou Mountain Beam and Pass, after inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy, themselves also suffered a large number of losses under the frenzied bombardment and artillery bombardment of the devils.

At the same time, the front-line headquarters in Xiaochagou began to retreat north at dusk, and the base camp in Yinfang Town began to move northward, and merged into the camp in Beitan Village after dark.

Including the news of the reappearance of a large number of devils in Heiyaogou, it was only after the guerrillas and the first battalion that went to attack the Japanese camp as usual after nightfall that they found that there was an abnormal situation in the formation and deployment of the devils, and then reported it to Yang Bangzi.

At the time of the fierce battle on the front line of Xiaochagou, Yang Bangzi had already completed the deployment of the campaign, and all the headquarters of the first and second battalions secretly went north to the mountains on the east and west sides of Heiyaogou, and the troops directly under the military sub-district and all the troops who came to participate in the battle were also divided into multiple units, and the deployment was completed in an area from Weizigou to Nanhekou, which was 5 kilometers wide from east to west and more than 10 kilometers long from north to south.

When Ji Lu and other devils attacked the outskirts of Kawaguchi Town, when the troops were tired and demoralized, and when it was difficult to supply, these secretly lurking troops advanced from north to south, east and west, cutting off the devils' retreat and supply lines in one fell swoop, sweeping the rear camp of the devil's wing, and converging with the three battalions and other troops in Kawaguchi Town, and crushing this devil's wing in one fell swoop.

Now that the devil has not yet reached the end of the crossbow, he wants to withdraw and retreat north, and this plan to encircle and annihilate is about to fail! The fire in Yang Bangzi's heart suddenly rose, and he smashed his fist on the information sent by the communicator, and said fiercely: "Niangdi! I want to run! No way! If you don't unload one of your legs and let you get a few liters of blood out, Lao Tzu will fight with a mouth full of broken teeth, and I can't let you run away from the dog! ”

Immediately use the code telegram to order the first and second battalions to quickly advance to the northeast and capture the temporary stronghold of the devils in Shahe Village, and they must also hold it! Choke the passage for the devil Black Sky Wing to return north and the pass for the devils in Lianggang Town to go south to support!

The order to the old blind man is to let the troops of the third battalion not rest, and immediately set off to bite the tail of the devil's retreating troops and entangle them, and they can't let them go so easily!

At the same time, the troops on standby in Weizigou and Nanhekou were ordered to move in the direction of Beitan Village and Heiyaogou, not to engage the enemy, not to move, and to get as close as possible! Don't reveal your whereabouts!

After giving the order, Yang Bangzi led the guard company and the communication company, left Kawaguchi Town, and went to chase the third battalion, and he was going to personally go to the front line to command the pursuit battle! This is also a grinding plate tactic for the devil, Yang Bangzi is ready to turn the first line of Shahe Village into the upper half of the grinding plate, and the black kiln ditch into the lower half of the fan, just in the valley of more than ten miles in the middle of the two places, grinding the devil little by little! (To be continued......)