Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1218 Skirmishes

The speed of the train is actually not much faster than that of a half-track car.

The maximum speed of the train is 60 kilometers per hour, but this speed has to be discounted in actual driving, because this is a test on a flat road with no load on the empty train. Considering the load and actually going uphill when driving, Guan Dashan deliberately slowed down the speed Putting the troops down to perform tasks, it can reach a speed of more than [-] kilometers per hour, which is slightly faster than half-track vehicles.

So it's almost like the train "passing through the gate" in front, and the half-track car carrying the main force of the Eighth Route Army behind.

Under this "bean-scattering" tactic, small-scale battles continued to break out along the railway.

This kind of battle often happens in normal times... The Tongpu Railway is the focus of attack in the Taihang Mountain base area. The Eighth Route Army and guerrillas often sneak up on the devil's artillery towers and blow up the railway. This is why the devils want to build so many artillery towers in this area.

Therefore, the devil has long been familiar with the several gunshots and explosions coming from around him.

They didn't know that this kind of "skirmish" at this time was different from usual.

Usually it is the harassment and sabotage operations of the guerrillas, but this time, it is the independent regiment's battle to annihilate them... Everywhere there is gunshots and explosions, it is the soldiers of the independent regiment who are targeting the devils Elimination almost means that all the devils there have been wiped out.

"Almost" is used here because there will always be accidents when there are too many places to attack.

For example, a squad encountered difficulties when carrying out the task of blowing up the enemy's gun tower... The bazooka failed to hit the target even after two rounds.

This cannot be entirely said to be poor marksmanship or insufficient training, but that rocket launchers sometimes have a lot of luck in them: rockets have a high wind deflection rate, and if they are affected by unstable airflow after firing, the accuracy will be poor. It is not human-controlled.

But the battlefield is very realistic, a miss is a miss.

As a result, not only failed to blow up the gun tower, but awakened all the devils and used firepower to suppress the Eighth Route Army frantically.

The devils are not "crazy", because they know that the "sprayed bombs" in the hands of the Eighth Route Army are powerful, especially the kind of incendiary bombs. Although the exterior is made of masonry, the interior is separated by wooden partitions. In addition, ammunition such as bullets and explosives are stored inside. Once it is ignited by an incendiary bomb, it will basically come to an end.

Therefore, no matter what the devil said, the Eighth Route Army could not give the Eighth Route Army another chance to fire bombs.

The grenades were thrown out from a high place one after another, the searchlights searched vigorously, and the machine gun bullets shot out one after another, and every time there was a disturbance, there would be a row of bullets.

The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were so beaten that they did not dare to move when lying on the mud below, let alone launching rockets... To shoot rockets, you need to kneel down to aim, and if you lie on your stomach and hit its tail flame, you will easily burn yourself.

But if you get up together, you will be discovered and killed by the devil immediately, and the result is that it will not play any role except for the sacrifice of the shooter.

The soldiers also wanted to suppress the devils' firepower with the burst rifles in their hands.

But this is also very difficult, not because the devils have more powerful firepower. A devil usually only has three machine guns in a blockhouse... one in each direction, and the machine guns are crooked.

The Eighth Route Army's repeating rifles did not have much pressure to suppress them.

The problem is that the devils are hiding in the gun towers and shooting out from the perforations, and the soldiers are fighting from the bottom up and it is difficult to pose a threat to them.

In the end, the main force arrived to solve the problem... Although the half-track vehicles did not have tank guns, the machine guns fired at the gun towers and immediately attracted the firepower of the devils.

The snipers extinguished the searchlights in both directions one by one, and the devil became blind.

At this moment, the bazooka shooter took the opportunity to get up and fired a rocket to burn the devil's turret into flames...

Although there are accidents like this, they don't actually waste much time, because the battle will always end within a few minutes as soon as the main force arrives.

Under the command of Li Yunlong, the independent regiment has been advancing towards Datong at a speed of more than [-] kilometers per hour.

The Datong garrison didn't know about this. They even thought that Damori's troops were still fighting the Eighth Route Army a hundred kilometers away.

This is the message the monk gave them.

Commanding the overall situation in Datong is Captain Hashimoto, the deputy captain of the Gendarmerie Brigade.

The gendarmerie brigade is different from the devil's regular army.

The deputy of the chief officer of the regular army is generally a staff officer, while the gendarmerie brigade has a deputy captain.

In fact, the two captains of the Kwantung Army had the highest military ranks in Datong at this time, both majors.

But firstly, the Kwantung Army was only "passing by", and secondly, the power of the military police brigade was higher than that of regular troops, which was somewhat similar to Hans' Gestapo.

The devil's gendarme has always been highly respected in his country, not because of the popularity of the gendarme or how much fighting power they have, but because of the power and treatment in their hands...

Needless to say power, the "police" responsible for supervising the regular army, they say that if you are afraid of war, you are afraid of war, and they can easily arrest the regular army for crimes and send them to court-martial.

In terms of remuneration, the monthly allowance of a senior soldier of the regular army is usually 50 yuan or [-] cents, while that of a senior soldier of the gendarmerie is [-] yuan and [-] cents, which is more than six times higher.

Therefore, in principle, the status of a major in the regular army is still below that of a captain, even if this major is an invincible major in the Kwantung Army.

But what is more strange is that the military police's equipment and military training are hardly worth mentioning.

Before the war, the devil's military police were equipped with a samurai sword and a southern pistol... because they were police, they were not equipped with rifles at all.

It was not until entering Huaxia and fighting guerrillas on the second line that they began to be equipped with basic infantry equipment such as rifles and grenades.

Under the style of the devil, of course it is Captain Hashimoto who is in charge of the overall situation, even though he has almost no actual combat experience like Omori Hirono.

After Captain Hashimoto lost contact with Omori Hirono, he immediately got in touch with the armored train.

"What's going on?" Captain Hashimoto asked, "Is the battle intense? How is your Excellency Major?"

At that time, Shi Sha was guarding the radio station with a few devils as captives. He was stunned when he saw the telegram, and then immediately asked the translator to call Hashimoto back:

"Yes, the battle was fierce! Our army was heavily shelled by the Eighth Route Army, and the radio station was broken! The railroad tracks were also blown up, and the armored trains could not go forward to participate in the battle!"

The latter sentence was added to block Hashimoto's suspicion first, because it perfectly explained why Omori Hirono did not use an armored train to contact Datong.

Finally, Shi Sha added: "But please rest assured, we have blocked the attack of the Eighth Route Army! We will retreat before dawn like last night!"

(End of this chapter)