Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 126 Misjudgment
Okamura Ningji couldn't help but be overjoyed when he received the telegram from Shigekawa Lizhi.

For this battle, what he worried most was that the Eighth Route Army would preserve its strength and withdraw its personnel to the mountains in time, so that he would not be able to effectively attack the main force of the Eighth Route Army and expand the results of the battle.

Neji Okamura implemented the so-called "fish-scale encirclement" tactic, which actually meant to trap the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

He hoped to encircle guerrillas, militias, or part of the Eighth Route Army with a heavy force.

In order to rescue these besieged troops, the main force of the Eighth Route Army will inevitably come to reinforce or help the friendly troops break out of the encirclement.

In Huaxia's words, it is the so-called "surround the spot to fight for aid" tactics.

It's just that Neiji Okamura did not "surround the dots", but cast a "big net".

At this time Okamura Ningji heard that Chongchuan Lizhi had encountered the main force of the Eighth Route Army, he took it for granted that the Eighth Route Army had been fooled, and immediately ordered Chongchuan Lizhi: "At all costs, hold the main force of the Eighth Route Army!"

At the same time, he ordered the 37th Division following the Ninth Mixed Brigade: "Speed ​​up the march to Zhaojiayu, reinforce Zhaojiayu with one part, and break through from the flanks with the rest of the troops, and quickly complete the encirclement of Zhaojiayu!"

What Neiji Okamura didn't know was that it was his misjudgment and wrong order that ruined a brigade of the Ninth Mixed Brigade, and also caused heavy casualties to the 37th Division.

The anti-slope fortifications built by the Eighth Route Army were worried that the Japanese army would not attack. If the Japanese army did not attack, the Eighth Route Army would have nothing to do with the Japanese army due to insufficient artillery fire.

As soon as the Japanese army attacked, they misjudged the situation and thought that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was concentrated in Zhaojiayu, and other places were small groups of troops, so they rushed forward desperately.

The result of doing so is undoubtedly losing troops in the face of anti-slope tactics.

At this time, Shigekawa Riki already felt that something was wrong.

Originally, he also thought that the Eighth Route Army was retreating... This was not only because he was used to the usual tactics of the Eighth Route Army that retreated as soon as it was hit, but also because the Eighth Route Army had already withdrawn from the hilltop position.

If it wasn't for retreat, how could they voluntarily give up such a contested place on the top of the mountain?

But soon Shigekawa Lizhi discovered that this was not the case.

First of all, the Japanese army was hit by the opponent's steady and precise attack during the charge on the front slope: mortar shells, grenades, batch after batch were thrown from the other side to this side, causing heavy casualties to the charging Japanese army.

It's not like the kind of firepower a retreating force can muster.

Secondly, when the Japanese army braved the enemy's artillery fire and grenades to finally attack the position on the top of the mountain, there was a hail of bullets.

If the enemy retreated, of course it would be impossible to leave so many troops behind, nor would it be possible to organize such a tight defense.

The situation at this time is very favorable to the Eighth Route Army.

The soldiers had already uprooted the vegetation and shrubs on the side facing the reverse slope of the hilltop position in advance, and filled in the hiding places that could be used by the devils. The stones that could be used as shelters were either pushed down the mountain or blown to pieces with explosives.

At this time, as soon as the Japanese army attacked the position on the top of the mountain, they were nakedly exposed to the guns of the soldiers.

The enemy was only 50 meters away, standing in front of him like a target, while the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were hiding in the built fortifications one by one, with grass and bushes in front of them...

To use Li Yunlong's words to describe it, it is: "Damn, I have fought for so many years, and I have never fought such a comfortable battle! I am surprised that the devils who are usually alive and kicking, once they arrive in front of the reverse slope fortification Why don't you dare to move like a mouse seeing a cat!"

In fact, this is not because the devils "did not dare to move", but because the fortifications on the reverse slope made the devils have no place to hide.

Speaking of which, devils also have places to hide. As the saying goes, "take a step back and the sea and the sky will open up." If you retreat to a positive slope, you can at least avoid the threat of bullets.

The problem is that Shigekawa Riki is staring at the rear, and he keeps waving his command knife and shouting: "Yoshida Battalion, attack! It's time to be loyal to the empire!"

As a result, a group of Japanese troops rushed up and were destroyed, and another group rushed up and were destroyed again...

It is very difficult to hit the enemy with reloading bullets in ordinary combat, but it becomes easy and simple in reverse slope fortifications.

It can even be said that the power of reloading bullets at this distance exceeds that of original bullets.

The reason is that the [-]-cap bullet has strong penetrating power and a stable trajectory. After hitting the target, there is often a double penetration, and the hole in the front is as big as the hole in the back.

The reloading bullet is different. Its warhead is extremely rough by hand, and it is a round bullet with extremely poor penetration. This is basically a modern Dum bullet. The quality problem is broken into several pieces... This is really crazy!

Shigekawa Riki was also helpless.

Because Neiji Okamura has already issued an order: "Hold the main force of the Eighth Route Army at all costs."

"Holding" means to keep attacking. Otherwise, once the main force of the Eighth Route Army is out of contact and retreats calmly, how should he explain to Neiji Okamura?
Therefore, Shigekawa Lizhi could only constantly urge the Japanese soldiers to attack.

Another advantage of the reverse slope is that as soon as the attacking Japanese soldiers are knocked down, the corpses will roll down the slope and roll to the front of the soldiers' fortifications... This is almost sending guns and bullets to the soldiers of.

The direct commander of the Japanese brigade was called Yoshida Chimori. He couldn't bear to see his subordinates rushing up and disappearing one after another, so he suggested to Shigekawa Lizhi: "Your Excellency, Major General, we can consider solving the enemy first." Mortars and grenades, this may be more beneficial to our army's attack!"

Shigekawa Riki heard that he thought it was reasonable, so he nodded and said: "That's right, Yoshida-kun, this task is entrusted to you!"

"Yes!" Yoshida Chimori replied, and led the troops up.

Yoshida Chimori first organized artillery to suppress enemy mortars.

Although they couldn't see the position of the enemy's artillery, they gathered the curved guns of the entire brigade to bombard the opposite side indiscriminately, and took advantage of this time to organize a group of soldiers to throw the grenade back at the position where the grenade was thrown.

Yoshida Chimori's idea is simple.

The enemy's grenade is thrown from this direction, and our side throws the grenade back from the corresponding position, which will definitely kill and injure the enemy pitcher.

But this was not the case. Groups of Japanese soldiers risked their lives and threw grenades wave after wave, but they still couldn't stop the grenades from the other side from throwing them.

This puzzled Yoshida Chimori.

What Yoshida Chimori didn't know was that his approach was doomed to fail.

The grenade throwers of the Eighth Route Army soldiers did not simply stand opposite. They dug a cat's ear hole for themselves, and dug a deep trench under the cat's ear hole.

The soldiers leaned out when they dropped the bombs, and hid in the cat's ear holes when they didn't drop the bombs.

The grenades thrown by the devils fell into the deep trench one by one, and of course they couldn't hurt the pitcher hiding in the cat's ear hole.

(End of this chapter)