At this point in the battle, I was full of confidence that I thought that the advantage was in my old devil Ishikawa, and I originally thought that the main elite of the three major brigades would definitely be able to eliminate the main force of the Eighth Route Army of the 385th Brigade in one fell swoop.

Because it was only a moment in front of him, the heavy casualties caused by the astonishing artillery raid of the Eighth Route Army were shaken a little.

Such a cunning and tough, well-armed Eighth Route Army.

Is it true that they can be eliminated without any problems?

Unfortunately, the evolution of the battle situation has long been completely beyond Ishikawa's control.

At this time, not only his 3rd Mixed Brigade, but also a considerable number of elites of the 9th and 16th Mixed Brigades, which had been reinforced one after another, had also fallen into this big quagmire in the base area of the 385th Brigade.

Most of the Imperial troops were caught in bitter battles.

Even Ishikawa has now made up his mind and given the order for the entire army to evacuate.

It was not so easy for the Japanese army to escape from the deep trap set by the 385 Brigade.

As Brigade Commander Chen, who was at the command, said:

"Lao Tzu has been waiting for this moment for a long time, since this fish has been hooked, how can it be so easy to spit the hook out of his mouth again?"

The Chief of Staff through the Ministry of Communications delivered good news at the same time.

"Brigade commander, there has been a communication from Ding Wei's side that the reinforced offensive troops are detouring in the direction of our 385th Brigade.

As long as we can contain the main force of these devils in front of us as much as possible in our base area.

Wait until the attacking troops of the Iron Triangle sent by Ding Wei to launch a surprise attack from the back of the devil.

Our two armies can attack from both sides and inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army! ”

Brigade Commander Chen said excitedly: "Haha, that's great, this time I want to see where his little devil can run."

Ding Wei, this kid really has two brushes!

The Iron Triangle teams were clearly commanded by him, not only able to block the attack of the Mongolian army, but also free up their hands to bring the attacking troops back to our side to help.

Our 385 Brigade will not work hard this time. It's really compared to the commanders of the 386 Brigade! ”

"Hehe, it's all two shoulders and one head, who's afraid of whom!

Brigade commander, you can see, this time our 385th Brigade can still play majestic! The chief of staff said confidently.

The tide of battle continues to evolve.

At this time, the 3rd Japanese Army, including the 9th and 16th Mixed Brigades, basically fell into the big quagmire of the 385th Brigade base area.

In the other direction.

In the 386th Brigade's Iron Triangle Defense Area, the Eighth Route Army, which was dominated by three regiments of the Iron Triangle, had an increasingly fierce confrontation with the elite infantry and cavalry units of the Japanese army stationed in Mongolia in the south.

What is the strength of the Mongolian army stationed in the south?

With the elite infantry of the 11th Wing of the 26th Division as the main combat strength, the total elite is about 5,000 people.

In addition, there are two cavalry wings that launched a breakthrough to the Iron Triangle base area in advance, with more than 3,000 cavalry troops.

In other words, the total number of elite troops stationed in Mongolia is about 8,000.

Amazing, plus some security forces reinforced from the devil's security zone.

In the eyes of the main field elites of the Iron Triangle, where the security forces are now well-equipped and their military literacy has gradually become extremely solid in training again and again, the second-rate combat effectiveness is not counted.

Basically negligible.

Under the command of Ding Million's arrangement.

First, the two cavalry wings of the devil strayed into the hinterland of the Iron Triangle base area, and almost annihilated, and when they evacuated in embarrassment and joined up with the main force of the southbound Mongolian army, they were attacked by Ding Wei with a long-range explosive package hidden in the stronghold turret that the soldiers took the initiative to abandon.

After these two waves of attacks, Ichiro Kawatani, the captain of the devil company who led the 11th Wing of the Mongolian Army south, immediately realized that this iron triangle was far more well-equipped and more powerful than he imagined.

As the two sides continue to face each other.

For the Japanese army, the exaggerated situation seemed to be repeating itself.

If it is said that the troops of the Eighth Route Army of the 385th Brigade have been assigned to the company platoon, including the combat squad of some main companies.

Then, the 50 small guns, 60 mortars, gun grenades, etc., of the Iron Triangle regiments, have been completely assigned to each squad.

In addition, a platoon will even strengthen a small artillery squad.

A company will even be assigned to a platoon.

After the confrontation between the two sides broke out, the superiority and intensity of the artillery fire were not blown.

This seems to be a common problem of the Eighth Route Army, which was tormented too hard by the dilemma of lack of guns and ammunition in the past, but when there is an opportunity, it is necessary to do everything possible to increase the intensity of firepower.

Most suffer from a phobia of insufficient firepower.

Although the detachment commander Kong Jie has explained many times, no matter how good the equipment is, it is indispensable to have excellent soldiers who can give full play to these equipment, so we cannot put the cart before the horse, and we must not only ensure the improvement of the equipment level, but also keep up with the training of the troops.

It is necessary to ensure that after the soldiers get these sophisticated equipment, they can exert the corresponding combat effectiveness.

Otherwise, what is it like?

It's like giving it away for nothing!

Great guns and shells were given to the little devils for nothing.

After a battle, no matter how much sophisticated equipment there is, all the devils have captured it.

This is simply an act of adversarial behavior in disguise.

However, the soldiers will continue to increase the firepower density of each combat unit to an appropriate extent.

Once, when the command headquarters was discussing how to determine the firepower configuration of the basic combat squad, a company commander even said happily:

"At the very least, you have to have a machine gun, a 50 small cannon and a 60 mortar, a grenade, preferably a grenade launcher that can fire continuously, and preferably a submachine gun or two.

Plus, with some semi-automatic Garand rifles, that's about the same! ”

In the end, Kong Jie asked with a dark face: "Then let me ask you, how many people are in our class?" ”

The company commander was stunned, snapped his fingers and replied, "Under normal circumstances, there are about 12 people." ”

Kong Jie said: "There are only 12 people in total, one machine gun, even if there are few, you have to have a machine gunner, a deputy shooter, and an ammunition man, right?"

A small cannon, a loader and a gunner, you have to match at least two people, right?

In addition, you have to have a shooter and an ammunition hand in charge of gun grenades, and if you are holding a submachine gun, you can't carry a rifle anymore, right?

In this way, once the battle starts, there may be one or two riflemen in a squad, and the rest are either artillery or machine guns.

Even if our team has a big family, then we can't play like this, and sooner or later we will have to break down.

I said you kid why don't you suggest it, just a class of 12 people, one person holding a machine gun suddenly sudden! ”

The discussion was a bit of a joke.

However, the company commander's inclination to increase firepower can basically represent the thoughts of all the officers and men of the Eighth Route Army.

Of course, the issue of the firepower allocation of specific combat units is very particular, and it is necessary to cooperate with a variety of weapons to coordinate operations, rather than a single weapon to purely enhance firepower.

Do you really think that a squad with 12 light machine guns will suddenly rise in combat effectiveness?

Not to mention, the little devil took the cartridge to the dead end, and then several rounds of shells fell down, and 12 soldiers in a squad plus 12 light machine guns had to be reimbursed in a moment.

Therefore, the basic combat squad and the conventional combat performance must not be wasted.

When it comes to a platoon or a company, a fireteam squad can be formed to take on the problem of insufficient firepower for the entire platoon or company.

This kind of coordinated operation, multi-weapon, multi-arms coordinated operation, is the king's way.

At this time......

The little devils of the Mongolian army deeply felt the strength of this Eighth Route Army unit after special firepower transformation.

In the clash at the squad and platoon level, the little devil was suppressed by firepower almost the whole time.

The way the Eighth Route Army of these iron triangles played, it was quite simple and rude,

Grenades are hailed at the closest, machine guns and semi-automatic rifles are used at the distance, and small cannons or mortars are used to fire farther away.

After several confrontations, Ichiro Kawatani, the captain of the devil company who commanded the operation in the rear, was bluffed.

Kawatani still has a killer feature, which is an artillery squadron attached to his 11th Wing, with more than a dozen artillery pieces, including some Type 92 infantry guns, and Type 41 mountain guns.

The battle has reached this point, and it has been quite torturous for the little devils of the Mongolian army.

Originally, against the troops of the Eighth Route Army, their combat units formed by these wings would carry some infantry guns and mountain artillery.

But all this time, there were not many opportunities to use these larger-caliber guns.

First, the troops of the Eighth Route Army have always been outdated in equipment and scarce in ammunition, and only the combat units at the squadron and squad level of the Japanese army can easily defeat the troops of the Eighth Route Army with the use of some grenadiers.

Kill pigs with a slaughtering knife.

There is no need for artillery units in the rear at all.

Second, the Eighth Route Army was good at guerrilla warfare, using mountains as a cover, and its position was always erratic.

And the artillery units behind the devils, those infantry guns and mountain artillery are actually very suitable for positional warfare or siege warfare.

If you really take these larger-caliber artillery pieces and bombard them at the small units of the Eighth Route Army that are moving quickly in the mountains and forests.

It is quite a bit of a cannon to hit mosquitoes, which is purely a waste of shells, and it may not have any effect.

However, the battle reached this point, and in the combat units at the grassroots level, the Eighth Route Army completely gained an advantage in artillery fire.

Even if they used artillery to fight mosquitoes, the Japanese army could only fight like this.

Infantry artillery and mountain artillery could only be used to gain artillery superiority and turn the tide of the battle.

Until......

It was about dusk.

In less than 30 minutes, it will be completely dark.

The infantry guns and 41-type mountain guns transported by this devil's artillery squadron are actually very troublesome to transport due to the bulky gun body.

Often, transport vehicles were used as means of transport, after transporting these disassembled guns to their designated positions.

The soldiers then quickly disassembled and transported the guns, unloaded the cars, and reassembled them to build artillery positions.

More than a dozen artillery pieces lined up in three or four rows on the not very spacious mountain road.

Three or five guns in a row.

Due to the different performance, infantry artillery and mountain artillery are placed in front of the other and behind them, and each has its own division of labor.

The little devil No. 100 is quickly busy.

Immediately after selecting the location for the shelling, the transported guns were disassembled and reassembled.

Just when the devil artillerymen were in full swing.

Hula-

The original dead silence on both sides of the mountain road was abruptly broken by this sound.

Immediately after that, as some of the devil artillerymen who were busy stopped their movements, they stopped to look into the distance, and saw that the branches and shrubs on the hillside one or two hundred meters away were overwhelmed in an instant.

Before the little devils realized what was really going on.

This was followed by shouts of killing.

There were small groups of the Eighth Route Army, covered with dead branches and green leaves, like savages, from the originally leafy dense forests on both sides, like Menghu descending from the mountain, with the help of the topography of the raised soil slope, rushing towards the artillery position of the devils.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

The devil captain who was directing the assembly of the artillery saw this scene, and hurriedly reminded with a shocked face.

The devil artillerymen did not have time to continue assembling the artillery, and used the cannon body as a cover on the spot to launch an attack.

The flurry of reactions was not unpleasant.

Boom –

There were flying shells that smashed on the artillery positions that the devils had not yet built, and the sound of violent explosions spread.

The devil artillerymen who were fighting back realized in horror.

What are the monsters that rushed down from the mountains and forests in one breath, several monsters covered in withered vines and green leaves?

- Armored vehicles!

"Damn, how can there be armored vehicles on these dirt roads?"

The devil captain scolded angrily, and couldn't help but be a little desperate, and from the flanks on both sides, there were four armored vehicles, all covered in armor, and they seemed to be slightly different from the armored vehicles of the Imperial forces they were familiar with.

The style of the body is more or less the same.

It's just that the number of machine guns and artillery loaded on the body is several times more than that of regular Imperial tanks.

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Again machine guns, again loaded artillery.

Guns and cannons rang out.

These four big monsters themselves are full of thick defensive armor, and the bullets of the little devils hit them, leaving only shallow bullet marks.

In the slightest, it could not stop the advance of the opposing armored vehicles.

What followed was almost a one-sided slaughter.

First, the small assault force that rushed out first attracted the attention of the devil artillery.

Immediately afterwards, the four armored vehicles that had long been hidden by the soldiers in the mountains and forests on both sides, and the bodies were camouflaged everywhere, and even the soldiers were buried below the ground, suddenly appeared like ghosts, and rushed directly towards the artillery position of the devil.

This was a surprise attack of armored forces.

In order to achieve today's combat results, these four armored vehicles, including the armored troops inside the armored vehicles, as well as the officers and men of the assault force lurking on the ground, lurked for nearly three days and three nights.

Eat, drink, and Lazar almost never left the area.

With an astonishing will, the fighters held on until the perfect moment to strike.

This is when the command analyzed the situation, Ding Wei pointed out, once the Japanese army set off a sweep of the Iron Triangle.

The baggage of the devil and the artillery unit, the place where it is most likely to pass.

Therefore, the soldiers of this armored corps company, which originally belonged to a team, hid the armored vehicles in the mountains and forests on both sides in advance, and even buried them shallow below the ground, and made all kinds of camouflage around them.

The soldiers also dug some temporary tunnels and lurked in them, like groundhogs hiding underground.

Even if the devils set off a sweep and there were reconnaissance troops that took the lead in passing through, they did not find any flaws.

The vast base area of the Eighth Route Army is in the mountainous area.

It's impossible for a little devil to dig deep into the ground and search.

The little devils stationed in the Mongolian army never thought that they would have to pull military dogs to search carefully when they went south to reinforce the First Army to fight.

was directly caught off guard.

In the midst of the slaughter in which four armored vehicles were the first to break through.

After a short confrontation, the more than 100 artillery pieces behind the devil were almost completely wiped out.

"Company commander, the devil's reinforcements heard the movement and are about to rush over!"

A mile away, the soldier in charge of the reconnaissance held a somewhat cumbersome stepping machine in his hand and delivered a message reminder in time.

The company commander looked at the dozen or so artillery pieces in front of him, and although a few were damaged by the previous attack, most of them were still good.

He was a little reluctant, and finally gritted his teeth, but still ordered:

"Grandma's, I don't care about being distressed, I can't leave it to the little devil anyway. We still have a combat mission ahead, comrades, blow up all the devil's artillery for me, and then evacuate immediately! ”

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