Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1205 Command Error
This can be said to be Li Yunlong's command error.

It is true that the "blitzkrieg" must be fast, but it must be fast when there is sufficient intelligence.

During the day, because there are fighter jets and reconnaissance planes reconnaissance over the independent regiment, it is impossible for the enemy's artillery to deploy without the Eighth Route Army noticing it.

But at night, the enemy's artillery can rely on the still intact railway line to move forward.

Standing in front of Li Yunlong is the devil from Datong.

The devils responsible for the defense of Datong were just a gendarmerie brigade, and they didn't have artillery.

The gendarmerie brigade is a force with a police nature, mainly to deal with enemy guerrillas and intelligence personnel, and does not require too much heavy equipment.

Major Omori Hirono, the battalion leader, was born as an intelligence officer...Intelligence officers are actually very suitable as commanders of gendarmerie brigades, because they are very familiar with the operations of guerrilla and Eighth Route Army intelligence personnel.

After receiving the news that his superiors stationed in Datong and formed a unit to intercept the Eighth Route Army based on armored trains, Omori Hirono was nervous and excited.

The nervousness is because Omori Hirono has never experienced a frontal battlefield... He refers to the battlefield where he confronts the enemy's regular army head-on. The biggest battle Omori Hirono has ever fought was commanding a small team to resist the Eighth Route Army on the defensive line. The rest of the guerrillas attacked.

That is not a kind of "combat" at all, because the equipment and quality of the guerrillas are not at the same level as the imperial army, even though he is in command of the gendarmerie brigade.

He had some doubts whether he could command a battle with the enemy's regular army, and it was a battle with the mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army.

At the same time, Omori Hirono is excited about this, because he can finally prove his ability. He is no longer a major who only deals with guerrillas and enemy intelligence personnel and even ordinary people in the eyes of others.

Because he paid enough attention to this battle, and perhaps because of his intelligence background, Omori Hirono collected and analyzed the information about the Eighth Route Army as soon as he could... This is quite rare among devil commanders. Most of the devil commanders After receiving the order, all the officer can think of is to get the troops ready, bring enough supplies, and then set off to fight.

As for the tactics, that is the usual training set, and it will be no problem to do it step by step.

"Half-track vehicles, chariots, and bursting rifles?" Omori Hirono was taken aback: "Has the Eighth Route Army developed into this?"

Omori Hirono was a little unbelievable when he heard that the Eighth Route Army had such a configuration, which was completely different from the Eighth Route Army in his memory.

This is also due to the fact that the devils have done a good job of "secrecy measures". Only the devils on the front line know the truth about the Eighth Route Army. The ears of the puppet army made them think of rebellion.

Therefore, if it weren't for the fact that the Eighth Route Army was about to hit Datong at this time, Omori Hirono might still be kept in the dark.

Omori Hirono glanced at the staff officer with some guilt. This kind of troops cannot be dealt with by a gendarmerie brigade with only rifles and grenade grenades.

Obviously, the staff officer was a little panicked. He said, "Your Excellency, the repeating rifle? What kind of rifle is that!"

"I don't know very well!" Omori Hirono replied: "It is said that it is a rifle with a range of more than 300 meters and can fire continuously like a submachine gun. That is to say, the enemy's firepower will be much stronger than ours!"

The staff officer swallowed hard: "And the enemy still has chariots, but we don't have any equipment..."

Then the staff officer suggested: "Your Majesty, in this situation, we should stay in the city for defense, right? At least we still have the city wall!"

The staff's thinking is understandable. If the equipment is not as good as the enemy's, at least the defense in the city still has a geographical advantage. Why take the initiative to go out of the city to fight?
Therefore, the staff officer hoped that Omori Hirono would report to his superiors, report the equipment comparison between the enemy and ourselves, and then suggest defense in the city.

Omori Hirono thought for a while, and then replied: "Sugami-kun, do you think our city walls can withstand the bombing of enemy chariots?"

The staff officer fell silent.

Although Datong has an important strategic position, because the city has been in the hands of the empire for too long (37 years), and it has always been the hinterland of the empire, the empire has not repaired its damaged city walls to increase defense... Gendarmerie brigade The responsibility is mainly internal rather than external. In some places, the city walls even collapsed due to years of disrepair, and the empire simply built a brick wall to prevent the people from fleeing.

Therefore, the city wall of Datong really can't stop the enemy's attack, so defense is not the way.

The staff officer added: "But Your Majesty, our equipment..."

"Equipment is not a problem!" Omori Hirono replied: "As far as I know, there are two trains full of military supplies. They were originally transported to the front line and sent to the 59th Division. Some of them were artillery reinforcements from the Artillery Wing , because Ningbei Railway Station was occupied by the Eighth Route Army, we can only wait here, we can use them to equip our troops!"

The staff officer originally wanted to say, "But we have no artillery and no artillery training!", but when he saw Omori Hirono's dissatisfied eyes, he could only stand up and respond, "Yes, obey the command of the major!".

Omori Hirono let out a "huh".

In fact, he didn't have a clue in his heart, but he knew that if he also lost confidence in this battle, then he wouldn't be able to win this battle.

Omori Hirono forced his composure and ordered the staff: "Sugami-kun, prepare the armored train immediately. In addition, lead the troops to receive the equipment of the military train, especially the artillery. It is best to gather veterans with artillery knowledge and learn it in the shortest time. Artillery operation!"

"Yes!" The staff officer responded and went to organize.

After the staff officer left, Omori Hirono planned the battle plan in his mind.

Obviously, it is not feasible to fight during the day, and it is necessary to take advantage of the darkness to attack at night.

But simply attacking at night is not enough, you should make preparations in advance, otherwise, their half-tone army and half-tone artillery, I am afraid that they will not be able to achieve any results.

Therefore, Omori Hirono immediately ordered: "Send scouts to reconnaissance the terrain west of Datong! Look for the pass that is easy to defend and difficult to attack!"

After the staff found veterans with artillery experience, Omori Hirono immediately sent them out to scout suitable artillery positions first, and even asked them to do the surveying and mapping and took a risk to complete the test firing with an artillery .

This has actually completed the arrangement of the artillery. What Omori Hirono has to do is to pull the artillery to the designated position as quickly as possible after the sky gets dark and complete the erection.

Omori Hirono's preparations, to some extent, made up for their inexperience with cannons.

(End of this chapter)