Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1353 Surrounding but not attacking

After more than seven hours of fighting, Zhangjiakou Fort was occupied by the Independence Regiment around one o'clock the next morning.

The reason why it took so long was because the independent regiment did not attack at all.

Li Yunlong played another psychological tactic when attacking Zhangjiakou Fort. He said to Zhao Gang: "Old Zhao, we are not in a hurry anyway. If we come to Yuanbao and take down the devil's Kwantung Army, we will not be able to enter. We will not be able to enter this Jiakou Fort." Slow down!"

Zhao Gang asked suspiciously: "Isn't there still the main force of the devils on the northern line? Are you not worried that the main force of the devils will come back to help?"

Li Yunlong smiled and shook his head: "Old Zhao, all the devil's supplies are in this family fort. We are surrounded by us at the moment. How long can the devil's main force fight?"

Zhao Gang stopped objecting after hearing this.

Li Yunlong was right. The main force of the devils in the northern battle relied on Zhangjiakou Fort to continuously deliver ammunition to it. Now that Zhangjiakou Fort is besieged, it means that the main force of the devils has been cut off.

A troop without supplies will lose one bullet every time it is fired. Do they still have the courage to return to Zhangjiakou Fort?
You must know that this is not the Type A division of the devils, but the so-called main force of the devils' rear troops.

As expected, Li Yunlong guessed correctly. When the news of the siege of Zhangjiakou Fort spread to the northern front, the main force of the devils immediately chose to break out of the siege instead of returning to aid... If it was later, I'm afraid there would be no chance of breaking out.

In the battle against Zhangjiakou Fort, Li Yunlong's method of attack was very simple, that is, to fire into the fort, one shot at a time, sometimes using the howitzers and infantry guns handed over from the devils, and sometimes using his own M30 to shoot empty bombs.

If the Devil's artillery dared to fight back, the artillery detection radar would immediately detect its exact position, and then use the M30 to suppress it for a while, and the Devil's artillery would be wiped out in two hits.

Li Yunlong's purpose of fighting like this is very simple, it is to continue to increase pressure on the devils and puppet troops in the fort.

Especially the puppet army... If the puppet army saw the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army so powerful, the artillerymen who hit the devils would be hit with a hundred shots. There are cannons and shells in it, but they just dare not fire.

In addition, when the puppet army thought about it, if the fighting continued like this, that is, the Eighth Route Army would shoot artillery outside the city, would Zhangjiakou Fort still be able to hold it?Isn't it a matter of time before this fall?
Or it can't be said that it is lost, but that the defenders in the city will be blown up by the Eighth Route Army sooner or later!
Even at this time, the puppet army still didn't have the courage to rebel, because the devils had surrounded them intentionally or unintentionally.

However, Kawamura Masano felt apprehensive when he saw the puppet army, which was even more numerous than them, so he made a decision that could be said to be correct or wrong: send the puppet army out of the city to break through.

It is said that this decision is correct because the devil seems to have no other better choice.

It is definitely not possible to directly attack the puppet army. This is to force the puppet army to rebel.

It doesn't work if you don't do it, and you don't know what to look at them.

Then there is only one choice, to send them out to fight, that is, to use up the hands of the Eighth Route Army to consume the puppet army.

For this reason, Kawamura Masano also gave a morale-boosting speech to the puppet army, saying that this is the only way for everyone to survive. The imperial army will fight with the puppet army, and the puppet army who fought bravely will be commended later.

To say that this decision was wrong is because the puppet army has been fighting with the devils until now, and it is not so easy to be fooled.

In fact, it’s also because the devils usually do too much. They beat and kick the puppet soldiers at every turn and don’t treat them as human beings. If they die in a war, the puppet soldiers go to the puppet army. The credit is all due to the devils. ...

Now, if there are still puppet soldiers who believe that the devils will praise their "heroic combat", they will be out of their minds. Everyone knows that the devils are using them as cannon fodder again.

Just at this time, the Eighth Route Army fired another shell.

When the devil was dodging shells and relaxing his vigilance, someone yelled: "Brothers, don't listen to the devil! It's all reversed! The only way out is to be reversed!"

Then I don't know who fired the first shot, and the puppet army rushed towards the devils in a swarm.

Li Yunlong outside the city had been waiting for this moment for a long time. As soon as he heard gunshots in the city and no bullets came out, he knew that the uprising of the puppet army had begun, so he immediately ordered the troops to attack the city...

How could the devils be able to withstand this kind of internal and external attack, and the Eighth Route Army entered the city and controlled the situation in less than half an hour.

In the entire process of attacking Zhangjiakou, the Eighth Route Army only paid more than 300 casualties, and this casualty was even much less than the more than [-] casualties during the battle with the Matsuzaki United outside the city.

Wang Xuexin was a little surprised that Li Yunlong could take down Zhangjiakou so quickly.

He originally thought that Zhangjiakou was more than 200 kilometers away from Datong, and even if it would take four days to march, it would take seven or eight days to fight it!
Unexpectedly, it was four days before and after, which was almost the marching time of the independent regiment.

However, after looking at the entire attack process in detail, the danger in it was not so smooth.

Whether it is the blocking of the Devil Ishihara Artillery Regiment or the ambush of the Matsuzaki Regiment, if there is no artillery detection radar and airburst fuze, the independent regiment is likely to be seriously injured.

Even when attacking Zhangjiakou Fort, the puppet army probably wouldn't have collapsed so easily if it wasn't for the artillery detection radar that suppressed the devil's artillery.

However, war is such a reality. The Eighth Route Army can obtain greater benefits at a lower cost with artillery detection radar, and no one can change this.

Wang Xuexin thought, the devils at this time didn't even understand what was going on.

And it is true...

Nejina Okamura was still a little puzzled when he heard the report on the course of the battle. He had never heard of the expansion of the artillery of the Eighth Route Army. Why did the artillery of the Eighth Route Army suddenly become so powerful?

Even if the Eighth Route Army expanded its artillery, it wouldn't mean that an artillery regiment in the empire would be disabled within 10 minutes!
If an artillery regiment of the Empire is to be crippled in such a short period of time, what size does the artillery of the Eighth Route Army need?
Could it be that it's not about the artillery but... what new equipment did Xiaodongbei invent?

However, what kind of new equipment can have such power?

Umezu Yoshijiro didn't think about it at all, he just felt the pain on his face.

Before, he had always looked down on the Eighth Route Army and had ridiculed Neji Okamura's incompetence more than once in Tokyo, but now, the two brigades he sent... These two brigades were originally going to fight a show battle, and wanted Neji Okamura to What is a real imperial soldier.

Who would have thought that the result would be that the two brigades were completely wiped out by the Eighth Route Army without any reaction, and until now they didn't even know how they were defeated.

(Note: The Matsuzaki United team was destroyed by air-burst shells, and the radio station was damaged immediately and could not communicate with the outside world)
Umezu Yoshijiro turned pale with anger, and said silently: "Has the Eighth Route Army already become this powerful?"

(End of this chapter)