Kuroda Osa finally breathed a sigh of relief after receiving the report of all the eight road positions, he thought that the eight road resistance was very tenacious, and originally thought that this was the decisive battle battlefield of the eight road to the death, but now the eight road retreated, and it seems that the decisive battle may have to start in Yinfang Town.

The soldiers of the engineer unit and the logistics baggage team took turns to clear the Heiyaogou road, and by midnight all the roads and passes had been cleared, and vehicles and personnel could pass, but Kuroda ordered the whole army not to move, to guard all directions, and to guard against a sneak attack on the eighth road at night.

After two days of bloody fighting, the Japanese army, which had suffered hundreds of casualties, really needed to rest, although many officers, including Fukushima, thought that they should take advantage of the good opportunity of the defeat of the Eighth Route to send cavalry units and chariot troops to pursue them all the way, and take advantage of the condescending advantage of the terrain to attack the silver fang, but Kuroda was the supreme commander, and no one dared to say a word about the order to be stationed on the spot.

The repair personnel of the combat team are indeed very dedicated and professional, and they didn't rest all night, but they just pieced together parts and components from these tanks that were blown up and lost power, and repaired three tanks! Although there is one with a big hole and a small eye, it can be opened anyway!

As soon as the morning dawned, the troops were still preparing breakfast or something according to the usual battlefield routines, Kuroda Osa suddenly ordered a brigade of cavalry, together with the convoy of infantry carrying a squadron of infantry, to attack Yinfang Town at the fastest speed! The rest of the troops still arranged breakfast and packed up their things at the normal time to prepare for the march.

Fukushima was still puzzled when he received the order to attack, because he didn't strike with the hot iron last night, and he didn't let him have breakfast early in the morning. Is this a play man?

Kuroda said to Fukushima, who was complaining, with a slightly contemptuous look. This is called a rush to attack. The Eighth Road is the same as us, and we are very tired after two days, thinking that we will immediately attack Yinfang Town, it must be an overnight rush to repair the fortifications or something, but we rested all night and did not move, when the Eighth Road was very tired after guarding all night in the morning, we suddenly used mobile forces to attack quickly, and we must be able to catch them off guard!

Put it this way. Fukushima felt that it was still very reasonable, after two days of fierce fighting, he was able to sleep peacefully for a night, and when he got up in the morning, he looked at the soldiers' complexions and expressions much better, and he didn't have anything to do without breakfast, just use biscuits or something on the road.

In fact, Kuroda's rapid attack on Xu Jin is not his new invention, the Japanese army has a long history in the use of cavalry, Kuroda's tactics are to put it bluntly Takeda Shingen's "Wind Forest Volcano" during the Warring States period of Japan.

The concept of the wind forest volcano comes from "The Art of War", the original text is: "The Art of War? Military Struggle": Therefore, it is as fast as the wind, and its Xu is like a forest. Plunder like fire, immobile like a mountain. Thunder and thunder. It is as fast as the wind: the army moves as fast as the wind. Its Xu Rulin: When the army moves slowly, it is like a strict forest, solemn and quiet. Plunder like fire: When attacking the enemy, it is like a fire, and it is fierce.

Immovable as a mountain: When the troops are stationed, they are like mountains, unshakable. Difficult to know as cloudy: when hidden, it is like a cloudy cloud covering the sky and not seeing the sun, moon and stars. Movement is like thunder: action, like a thunderbolt, brave and swift, so that the enemy has no way to retreat.

Specifically used in cavalry, that is, the attack must be high-speed and must hit the enemy's vital point with one blow, Kuroda sent the most elite cavalry brigade and a convoy with artillery and machine guns to destroy the eight roads in Yinfang Town in one fell swoop with high-speed mobility and firepower superiority per unit area.

The mixed formation set off at six o'clock in the sky, reported to Beitan Village at seven o'clock, and defeated a small force of eight road blockades, the eight roads in Beitan Village were having breakfast, and after being attacked by the Japanese army that suddenly appeared, they panicked, and their backpacks were thrown all over the ground, and they didn't even need the pot for cooking on the march, and ran back to Yinfang Town.

Kuroda read this telegram on horseback, and after reading it, he proudly handed it to the adjutant next to him, which means you see, I am very correct in this arrangement, otherwise I will have to fight with the Eighth Road in Beitan Village, and then the Eighth Road will collapse and flee back to Yinfang Town, and when you and I arrive in Yinfang Town, I will not be able to see any Eight Roads.

At eight o'clock, Kuroda Osa, who was marching slowly along the road with the wing headquarters and artillery and other troops, received a telegram from the mixed formation in front, Fukushima Nakasa reported that he had reached the outskirts of Ginbo Town and occupied the mound north of the town, but there seemed to be an ambush on the eighth route in the town, and asked Kuroda for his next move.

After reading it, Kuroda smiled contemptuously and said to the adjutant that the courage of a soldier drilled in an iron shell is far worse than that of a soldier on horseback! Then tell the staff officer, go and generate electricity, let Fukushima command the infantry brought by the tank, and launch an attack on the town!

Not long after the telegram was sent, the sound of gunfire was faintly heard from the southwest across the earthen beams and hills, which should be the attack of the chariot support infantry squadron on Yinfang Town.

More than 30 miles from Heiyaogou to Beitan Village, the Japanese army brigade walked for more than three hours to arrive! A marching contingent of several thousand people lined up for several kilometers on the road, and on the dirt road destroyed by the Eighth Road, trucks and other vehicles were not as fast as the infantry marching!

Let the wing group stay in the area of Beitan Village to rest, Kuroda took his cavalry escort team to the front to inspect the battle situation, and when he arrived at the big mound north of the town, he realized why Fukushima and the captain of the cavalry brigade did not send him a report in the next hour or so!

The Type 95 tank still emitting black smoke at the north entrance of the town, the corpses scattered in the clearing, the more than a dozen dead horses under the high ground on the west side, and the dozens of wounded and groaning soldiers on the back of the mound all told Kuroda, a mixed brigade that had been advancing all the way, had hit a hard nail!

Fukushima Nakasa and the captain of the cavalry brigade said with a bitter face that they launched a total of three charges, two against the town and one against the high ground on the west side, all of which were beaten back by the Eighth Road, and the Eighth Road's firepower in the town and on the high ground was too fierce, and this open space seemed to have become an insurmountable obstacle, and the tanks that drove over to clear the way for the infantry were also scrapped by the death squad sent by the other side with explosives packs.

Kuroda didn't reprimand the two subordinates, he squatted on the top of the mound with a telescope, looked at it for a while, and then realized that the terrain of Yinfang Town was indeed unfavorable to the attackers, and from the air, the entire Yinfang Town was surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped, and the bottom was the mountain beam on the side of the small fork ditch, and the ring hill was wrapped around a huge town, and the mouth was open in the north, and the attackers came from the north, and they would inevitably be attacked from three sides from the highlands and the town on the east and west sides!

Moreover, in order to maintain high-speed mobility, the mixed troops did not carry artillery of more than 75 mm caliber, and the small-caliber guns on the tanks did not play a role in the stone fortified courtyard houses on the high ground on both sides and in the town.

Kuroda walked down the mound, asked the herald to return to Beitan Village immediately, and ordered the heavy artillery team to build a long-range support fire position in Beitan Village, and all the 75mm mountain artillery to build a front-line artillery position in the mound north of Yinfang Town, and the baggage and others were left in Beitan Village, leaving a cavalry brigade to defend and protect, and all other combat troops to assemble in the north of the town!

At 12:30 p.m., the devil's 105-mm heavy artillery in Beitan Village began to bombard from a distance! Not only the town, but also the mountains on the east and west sides of the area were covered by regional fire, and the 75-mm mountain artillery group behind the mound in the north of the town bombarded the courtyards of the houses in the town with all its might.

After the last street battle in Yinfang Town, the courtyard of the house that had just been repaired collapsed and became ruins under the fire of the devils, and the wooden beams and others crackled and burned in the fire, and the dozen or so locust trees and willow trees that survived in the town were not left this time, either blown up or dumped!

I didn't see a single figure! The shelling lasted for a long time, and the adjutant asked Kuroda if he wanted to send infantry into the town, and Kuroda observed it in the binoculars for a while, shook his head, and told the artillery to fight for a while! (To be continued......)