Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1418 Showing the enemy to be weak
The so-called Fifth Regiment of the Public Security Army is the puppet army stationed on the edge of Luliang Mountain.

Attacking them were the five regiments of the Eighth Route Army passing through Luliang Mountain.

In fact, the defense line of the puppet army cannot be called a "defense line" at all.

A serious defense line should have barbed wire, mines, trenches, and defense depth, and it should be connected together to form a whole fortification.

Although the "line of defense" of the puppet army also had barbed wire, landmines, and trenches, they were all built around the artillery towers to protect themselves: the barbed wire and landmines were for fear that guerrillas would sneak in to bomb the artillery towers in the dark, and the trenches were regarded as Traffic trenches... When the puppet army has to get out of the gun tower, they can move along the trenches.

The biggest problem with this fortification is that there are many blind spots and defensive loopholes between the gun towers.

Before the battle, the Eighth Route Army sent people to infiltrate through these blind spots and loopholes. When the attack started, it attracted the enemy's firepower and attention. Suddenly, a few bazooka shooters appeared from behind and shot incendiary bombs into the gun towers, taking down the gun towers one by one with ease.

Originally, Wang Xuexin thought that after the five regiments launched an attack on the puppet army, the devils in Taiyuan would respond immediately... This is one of the difficulties in attacking Taiyuan. The Eighth Route Army is still more than ten kilometers away from Taiyuan. If the devils mobilize their troops immediately Taiyuan still has at least a few hours of preparation time to rush to chase and intercept or suppress it with fighter planes and bombers.

For this reason, Wang Xuexin was waiting to send aviation reinforcements, but there was no response after waiting to go to Taiyuan.

This made Wang Xuexin a little puzzled.

Could it be that Okamura Ningji had an ambush?
Or are there other reinforcements?

Otherwise, why was he so calm when the backyard was on fire? !
Later, Wang Xuexin learned that Taiyuan had neither ambushes nor reinforcements. The reason why Okamura Ningji was so calm was because he did not believe in the puppet army...

It's not that Okamura Neji is stupid, but that the puppet army has done a lot of deception: whenever the puppet army encounters a guerrilla group of dozens of people, it will report to the "main force of the Eighth Route Army" and say "the main force of the Eighth Route Army" after firing a few shots. Annihilate so many people from the Eight Routes and then go to ask the devils for rewards.

The story of "Wolf is coming" has been told too much, and the result is that the devils, including Neiji Okamura, are numb. As long as the news comes from the puppet army, especially the so-called "main force of the Eighth Route Army", they only half believe it.

In addition, Okamura Ningji firmly believed that the main force of the Eighth Route Army could not cross Luliang Mountain, and even if they crossed Luliang Mountain, they would not have the strength to launch an attack on Taiyuan, so he did not take the report of the Puppet Security Army Fifth Regiment too seriously.

What Okamura Ningji did was ask a staff officer to ask, and then turned his attention to Ningbei Railway Station.

So there was a situation that puzzled Wang Xuexin: the troops of the five regiments of the Eighth Route Army were chasing and killing the puppet army and advancing towards Taiyuan, but Taiyuan's fighter planes covered a large number of transport planes and flew to Ningbei Railway Station...

In the end, it was Ningbei Railway Station that started the fight first.

The devil's bicycle brigade arrived at the train station half an hour later. The commander was a major named Jian Shakutaro. As soon as he arrived at the destination, he ordered the troops to disperse and surround the train station.

Jian Shakutaro divided the troops into five parts, each with 500 people, four of which surrounded Ningbei Railway Station on all sides, and the fifth part was used as a reserve team.

During this period, the siege warfare usually adopted the tactics of "encircling three corners", and sometimes only encircling two sides.

This is not only because of psychological warfare, but also because modern warfare does not need to surround the enemy with hot weapons.

For example, to surround Ningbei Railway Station, it is entirely possible to only surround the north and south sides.

As for the east and west sides, as long as the defense lines on the north and south sides are stretched out to the edge so that the view will not be blocked by the city wall, they can be blocked by artillery fire and machine guns on both sides to form crossfire.

In addition, blockade and delay can also be implemented by means of laying mines, bridge bombing, and barbed wire, or deploying mobile forces nearby. Once the enemy escapes, the mobile force can be used to reinforce the fire blockade.

Captain Jianchi did not do this.

Because his first task was to cover the landing of the airborne troops... Only when the Eighth Route Army was blocked in the train station, would there be no mechanized troops to break through and attack the airborne troops.

The devils were frightened by the mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army. They didn't know that the three mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army were all concentrated in Zhangjiakou to prepare for the battle.

More importantly...

Okamura Ningji gave Jian Chi a death order: "All the equipment at Ningbei Railway Station must be seized. If the Eighth Route Army escapes, it will be dealt with by military law!"

It goes without saying what the "military disposition" of the imperial army means. In addition to dying, it will also bear a bad name and become the object of ridicule by others.

Therefore, the first thing Jian Chi did when he arrived was to order the troops to cut off the railroad tracks... He was worried that the Eighth Route Army would use the train to forcefully break through.

Facts have proved that Jian Chi's idea is superfluous, and Wu Zicang, who is commanding in Ningbei Railway Station, has no intention of breaking out at all.

This is not due to Wu Zicang's will, he is thinking about the air defense system.

Wu Zicang said this to the political commissar: "Old Liang, do you know what Director Ren said about the batch of air defense equipment we protect?"

"How to say?"

"He said that our batch of air defense equipment is unique in the world!" Wu Zicang's eyes were full of pride: "Even the sun never sets and there are no bears!"

The reason why Wu Zicang said "the sun never sets and Mao Xiong" is because "the sun never sets" was still the number one in the world during this period.In Wu Zicang's opinion, it must be compared to the number one in the world to be powerful enough!
Then Wu Zicang said: "Our army has such a great thing, we can't destroy it in my hands, otherwise I will be a sinner through the ages? So we can't break through, we have to hold the train station and wait for the reinforcements to arrive!"

"What does this have to do with breaking through?" Liang Lianbing asked strangely.

Wu Zicang replied without even thinking about it: "Our air defense system has a total of more than [-] vehicles, can they break through? The devil can blow up a few vehicles with a random batch of shells. Isn't this air defense system finished? What else is there?" The meaning of breaking through?"

Liang Lianbing thought it made sense, so he nodded and asked, "Then, how do you plan to fight?"

"Protect the air defense system!" Wu Zicang replied: "Send them to the underground warehouse, and then...show the enemy weakness!"

"Show the enemy weak?" Liang Lianbing laughed: "Old Wu, we are all technical soldiers and artillery, and the ground combat troops add up to only three to four hundred people, and the devils are just surrounded by more than 400 people. Not weak enough?"

Wu Zicang slapped his thigh and shouted: "You are right to think so! You think so, and the devil must think so too! Then let's keep pretending, let the devil think we are really scared, and beat his mother when the time comes... ..."

"Old Wu, don't mess around!" Liang Lianbing reminded: "The order given to us by the headquarters is to defend..."

"Old Liang!" Wu Zicang replied: "You know how to use offense instead of defense? If our self-propelled anti-aircraft gun defends, how many people can it hit!"

(End of this chapter)