"Wing Commander, the 1st Army Headquarters is in an emergency!"

A communications soldier delivers the telegram to Taro Ogasawara.

Ogasawara Taro is the wing commander of the 4th Guards Infantry Wing and the detachment leader of the 1st Core Detachment stationed in Shouyang, and the composition of the troops under his command is almost no different from the other two detachments of Yangquan and Jingcheng, which are also 1 infantry brigade, 1 engineer brigade, 1 baggage brigade, plus half of the field artillery brigade.

Ogasawara Taro didn't reach out to pick it up, but waved his hand and said, "Nian." ”

"Hello!" The communications soldier unfolded the telegram and read, "Ogasawara detachment: order your unit to immediately seize Zhao's homeland and block the northward route of the Eighth Route Army, and at the same time need to beware of the mines and artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army. ”

"Reply to the headquarters, the telegram has been received, and our detachment is about to recapture Zhao's homeland."

After Ogasawara Taro finished speaking, he raised his binoculars again to observe the enemy situation in front of him.

Unfortunately, since it was night, I couldn't see anything in my field of vision.

Putting down the binoculars, Ogasawara Taro said again: "Order, the engineer brigade strengthens mine clearance, and both sides of the road must also be cleared, and the Chinese army has captured a lot of 150mm caliber high-explosive grenades from the 1401st military column, these grenades can be converted into mines, even if they are buried on both sides of the road and detonated, they can pose a mortal threat to the imperial army." ”

After a pause, he said: "Order the infantry brigade, the baggage brigade and the artillery brigade to open the distance, double the search teams on both sides of the road, strengthen the search along the way, and beware of the ambush of the Eighth Route Army." ”

"Hello!" Several heralds quickly parted ways.

……

About two kilometers away.

Wang Ye has returned to the forward observation post.

Because the Eighth Route Army was ambushed in the dark, the devils could not see the Eighth Route Army.

But because the devil had a flashlight and torches, and there were also car lights, Wang Ye could clearly see the devil's procession on the highway.

Seeing that the devil sent more sappers to carry out minesweeping operations on the roadside,

And the distance between the various troops is also widening, Wei Dayong, Wei Xilai, Li Xia and others The faces of the others have collapsed, how can the little devil become smarter?

"Captain, the little devil has learned to be well-behaved."

Wei Xilai said a little depressedly: "I'm afraid the mine array can't be saved." ”

As he spoke, a dazzling red light burst out on the road ahead.

However, it was the mobile column that detonated the mine buried in the middle of the road in advance, because if it was not detonated, it would be dismantled by the devil sappers, so it was better to detonate it in advance, and it was also excellent to blow up a few devil sappers.

In the violent explosion, several sappers were instantly blown to the bones.

A mine modified with a 150mm caliber high-explosive grenade can tear the human body apart just by breaking it.

The few devil sappers who were clearing mines in front just now were really blown up to the ground, and it was difficult to put together even a complete phalange.

However, the speed of the devil's movement was not affected.

Soon a few more sappers with mine detectors in their hands ran to the front to continue the mine-clearing operation.

From time to time, mines were detonated, and from time to time, devil sappers were blown up, but the devil's advance speed was not affected at all, and they still steadily advanced towards Zhao's homeland.

Wei Xilai's little face tensed suddenly.

"Captain, I'm afraid we're in trouble now.

Wei Dayong and Li Xia also nodded subconsciously.

The little devil grows up very quickly, I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with now.

"Trouble?" Wang Ye smiled and said, "It's impossible to be troublesome, because I have already prepared a big gift for the devil." ”

……

"Order, stop advancing."

Taro Ogasawara put down his binoculars and gave the order.

Because not far in front of him was already the stronghold of Zhaojiayuan, through the telescope, he not only saw the ruins of Zhaojiayuan's stronghold, but also saw the gap dug by the Eighth Route Army in the blockade ditch.

I also saw the fortifications built by the Eighth Route Army.

And the Eighth Route Army continued to strengthen the fortifications.

This is different from what the commander said, didn't the commander say that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had already moved south in the direction of Sangzhang? Didn't it mean that Zhao Jiayuan no longer had the existence of the Eighth Route Army?

Why does Zhao Jiayuan still have the Eighth Route Army?

And it looks like there are quite a few of them?

But Ogasawara Taro didn't care.

Even if Zhao Jiayuan still has the Eighth Route Army, there is nothing.

He, Ogasawara Taro, is not the idiot of Tabu Mirasuke.

After a little thought, Ogasawara Taro gave orders one by one: "Order, the artillery brigade will be scattered on the spot to build positions, and the infantry brigade will seize all the commanding heights on the south side of the road and establish fire points." ”

"The engineer brigade and the baggage brigade built fortifications on the spot."

smiled slightly, and said: "If you don't think about winning, you can think about defeat first, but you won't be defeated in a hundred battles." ”

"The Wing Captain has mastered the essence of Sun Tzu's Art of War." A few staff officers slapped their ass.

A few heralds had already dispersed and issued orders to various brigades, and more than 2,000 devils were busy relying on the road on the south side of the blockade ditch.

Here it is necessary to say a little more about the terrain.

Zhengtai Road is a railway line connecting Taiyuan and Zhengding.

On the north and south sides of the line, about 15 kilometers away, there is a blockade ditch with an average width of more than four meters and an average depth of more than three meters.

On the inside of the blockade ditch, a barbed wire fence was also pulled.

On the inside of the barbed wire, a road was also built.

In addition, two blockade ditches in the north and south and two roads were built in the middle of the river valley.

Therefore, the Ogasawara detachment now occupies the southern side of a river valley, so Ogasawara Taro has to let the infantry brigade seize all the commanding heights on the south side of the road, otherwise there will be no ready-made firepower support, and if the Eighth Route Army launches an attack while their foothold is unstable, it is possible to defeat them in one go.

This is how many detachments were defeated by the Eighth Route Army.

He, Taro Ogasawara, would not make such a low-level mistake.

As for the north side of the road, there is a blockade ditch more than four meters wide, so you don't need to worry about it at all.

After giving the order, Ogasawara Taro began to smoke leisurely against the armored door, and only waited for the engineer brigade and the baggage brigade to build fortifications before launching an attack.

However, at this moment, the night sky on the other side of the blockade ditch suddenly lit up.

Ogasawara Taro and a few staff officers around him looked up sharply, and saw that the streamers had pierced the night sky, rising from behind the mountain beams on the north side, which was also opposite the blockade ditch.

"It's ...... Cannonball? Ogasawara Taro's eyes widened all at once.

Because I was so surprised that I didn't even realize that the butt of the cigarette was already burning my fingers.

Several operational staff officers of the wing headquarters were also dumbfounded, at least one wing of artillery bombardment of this scale!

In the blink of an eye, dozens of streamers that swept up from the sky had already intertwined into a large meteor shower in the night sky, and then crossed the mountain beams and blockade ditches, and fell towards this side of the river valley.

About ten seconds later, the meteor shower crashed to the ground and exploded violently.

In the river valley ahead, the engineer brigade and the baggage brigade that were being built were blown up at once.

But fortunately, the entire defensive formation of the engineer brigade and the baggage brigade was very open, and the distance between them was very large, so the casualties suffered were not serious.

At most, the positions of one squadron were covered.

This casualty was nothing to the Ogasawara detachment.

It was also at this time that Ogasawara Taro felt a burning pain in his fingers and quickly threw the cigarette butt to the ground.

"Kono-kun!" Ogasawara Taro rubbed his fingers, turned his head and asked, "Do you estimate the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army, how many kilometers is the distance?" ”

The named staff officer was clearly adept at judging distances from ballistic trajectories.

At this time, another streamer burst from the opposite side of the blockade ditch.

After a moment of careful observation, Kono staff officer shouted, "The distance should be between two kilometers and five kilometers!" ”

"Yaga." Ogasawara Taro was furious and said, "I want a precise distance, not an interval range, do you want our artillery to carpet shell a vast area of two to five kilometers?" ”

"Hello!" Kono Staff Officer paused, "Wing Commander, I can understand your feelings, but the fact is that the artillery of the Eighth Route Army is indeed distributed in a vast area of two kilometers to five kilometers!" Moreover, there are many types of artillery in the Eighth Route Army, including the 92 infantry gun with a range of less than three kilometers, and the 105mm cannon with a range of more than ten kilometers. ”

"Nani?" Ogasawara Taro was suddenly a little dumbfounded, how can you counteract such a large range?

Staff Officer Kono continued: "Wing Commander, even if the artillery of the Eighth Route Army is in a narrow range, our artillery is afraid that there is no way to counter it, because their artillery position is located on the anticline of the mountain, and our artillery cannot hit them due to ballistic limitations. ”

"Yaga, cunning Shina man!"

Ogasawara Taro's face suddenly fell.

But fortunately, they were already prepared, so they were not very afraid of the shelling of the Eighth Route Army.

If it has the ability, the Eighth Route Army will blow up an area of several square kilometers in the entire river valley, but we want to see if the Eighth Route Army has so many shells.

……

The blockade ditch is not a straight line.

Due to the angle, the devil on the opposite side can't see the situation in the blockade ditch here.

In fact, in the blockade ditch here, there were two commandos of the New 1st Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment quietly ambushed, and these two commandos were personally led by Ding Wei and Kong Jie.

More than a thousand fighters of two commandos,

All of them were picked out from the new 1st regiment and the new 2nd regiment.

In the previous battle, although the mobile column was victorious, it also paid a lot of casualties, and the regiments participating in the battle combined suffered more than 1,000 casualties, of which more than 500 were killed.

The six main battalions of the new 1st and 2nd regiments are already missing.

Because of this, Ding Wei and Kong Jie could only select the elite and temporarily formed a commando team.

The more than 1,000 soldiers of these two commandos are the elite of the new 1st Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment, and they are not only agile, have excellent tactical literacy, but also have abundant physical fitness.

In front of the assault team, four tanks were quietly parked.

All four tanks were already activated, and black smoke was belching out of the exhaust holes.

Li Sigen stood on the turret of the tank at the front, pinching the time in front of his watch.

At a certain moment, Li Sigen yelled and waved his hand, and the Type 97 medium tank under him took the lead in driving up the ramp and opened a blockade ditch through the gap along the ramp.

Behind the Type 97 medium tank, 3 Type 95 tanks followed.

Seeing this, Ding Wei and Kong Jie immediately took out their shell guns and roared again, and the more than 1,000 elite veterans who were sitting and resting got up together and followed with their rifles with bayonets.

In the blink of an eye, more than a thousand fighters went up the ramp that blocked the gap in the ditch to the ground.

When they looked up, they saw that the road and the river valley in front of them had been bombed to the point of gunsmoke, and they couldn't see the front of them, and it was impossible for the devils in front of them to see them.

The artillery regiment hidden in the mountains on the north side of the blockade ditch continued to fire shells, rows of shells continued to cross the night sky overhead, and constantly fell on the roads and river valleys ahead, and after the explosion, the smoke rose even thicker, and it was even more impossible to see the situation ahead.

"Ahh

Kong Jie carried the shell gun and couldn't help but sigh.

"Our old Kong has never fought such a rich battle in his eight lives."

"Who's to say it's not?" Ding Wei also sighed, this is the fucking war.

The artillery smashed the shells on the heads of the little devils as if they didn't want money, and there were tanks in front of them in charge of opening the way, and the only thing they had to do was to follow the tanks and go slowly, and harvest the devils by the way.

At this time, the artillery fire was already stretching forward, and they had already entered the position of the devils.

Although the artillery regiment's artillery fire was dense enough, it was impossible to kill all the devils.

"His Majesty the Emperor is onboard!" From time to time, devils scurried up from the bombed-up position, or carried the 38 big cover with good bayonets, or rushed towards the Eighth Route Army according to the cracked grenades, but what awaited them was the sharp bayonets or dense firepower of the Eighth Route Army.

The devils you see along the way, whether they are dead, alive or broken, will all be mended with guns or knives.

Ding Wei and Kong Jie did not forget to loudly remind the soldiers accompanying them: "I have listened carefully to Lao Tzu, and I see that the devil will mend the gun and the knife regardless of whether he is dead or alive!" ”

"Yes!" The fighters responded with a bang.

Then he walked slowly forward with his bayonet.

In the blink of an eye, I walked almost a hundred meters forward.

At this time, the firepower of the artillery regiment extended again.

"Lao Ding, Lao Cao has some ability." Kong Jie couldn't help but admire.

Ding Wei sighed and said, "Do you think this is Lao Cao's ability?" ”

After a pause, he said: "This is called Xu Jin barrage, I once drank and I heard the deputy chief of the General Staff talk about the Soviet Red Army used this tactic when fighting Finland. ”

Kong Jie said: "Xu Jin barrage? Sounds like a great thing. ”

"I can't talk about how powerful it is." Ding Wei said, "This tactic is specially used to cover the infantry to launch a strong attack on the enemy's trench fortifications. ”

As he spoke, the two commandos advanced nearly a hundred meters further.

……

"Yaga!"

"Xu Jin barrage?!"

"Tu Balu actually knows how to enter the barrage!"

Ogasawara Taro has also realized that something is wrong.

There is nothing commendable about the tactic of Xu Jin's barrage itself, but there is a good saying, there is never a good tactic in this world, but only applicable tactics.

For the Eighth Route Army at this time, Xu Jin's barrage is a very suitable tactic.

Because at this time, the Ogasawara detachment was not firmly established, not to mention the fortifications, and even the machine gun fire point on the right side of the road had not been constructed, at this time, the Eighth Route Army could easily break into front of the Japanese position with the help of the Xu Jin barrage, and launch a fierce assault on the Japanese army that had just been shelled.

But retreat is absolutely not a retreat.

Not to mention that His Excellency the Commander will not allow the retreat, even if the retreat is allowed, there is no way to retreat, because at this time, the retreating troops will directly collapse and collapse.

If nothing else, do you want heavy weapons?

Do you still want to carry the baggage?

Without heavy weapons and baggage, how much combat power is left?

At that moment, Ogasawara Taro roared in a low voice: "Order, all light and heavy machine guns are aimed at the barrage to fire at me, and the artillery team is also aimed at the front of the barrage and covered with carpet fire!" ”

Due to the barrage, the Japanese had no way to aim at all, so whether it was light or heavy machine guns or howitzers, they could only shoot indiscriminately and fire wildly at the barrage.

……

Ding Wei and Kong Jie reacted quickly, and they hid behind the butt of the Type 97 tank as soon as possible.

A dazzling streamer penetrated the barrage and swept violently, and the four tanks that hit the head were instantly hit, and the bullets hit the front armor of the tanks.

The fighters hiding behind the tanks were unscathed, and they were even in the mood to laugh.

However, not all fighters can have such good luck, after all, four tanks are still too few to cover the entire infantry formation.

Therefore, there are still many soldiers who were swept by stray bullets and fell to the ground screaming.

In addition to the machine guns, there were also shells that kept falling and exploding in the commandos.

However, the devil's shells are not so dense, and the lethality is very limited.

From time to time, fighters were hit by stray bullets or shells, but many more were steadily advancing at a speed of 50 meters per minute under the guidance of four tanks.

As the barrage continues to advance, the positions of the devils are also washed in blood one after another.

These poor little devils, who had just been subjected to a heavy shelling, finally waited for the impact point to extend back, thinking that they could catch their breath, but when they looked up, they saw swarthy tanks and countless Eighth Route Army.

The devils of the 2nd Guards Division were indeed extremely fierce, even in such a desperate moment, they still relied on their instincts to launch a fierce counter-assault on the Eighth Route Army, but the result was no different.

The Eighth Route Army not only had tanks, but also had superiority in strength and firepower.

Ding Wei and Kong Jie were very sure that if they continued to fight like this, they could easily reap the fruits of victory.

Ogasawara Taro also realized this, but he obviously didn't want to accept such a result, and he decided to fight back, yes, he was going to face the barrage to counterattack the Eighth Route Army.

Seeing that the barrage is about to extend to the wing headquarters,

Taro Ogasawara has finally made up his mind and it's time to fight back.

"Command!" Ogasawara Taro gritted the back of his teeth and hissed loudly, "All of them charge to the death!" ”

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