Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1450 Zhangbei County

The first goal of the independent regiment was Zhangbei County.

Zhangbei County is 55 kilometers away from Zhangjiakou. There is a brigade of devils stationed there, and there are also two puppet battalions.

The Devils Kwantung Army's garrison in the northeast is weak in the west and strong in the east.

This is because the Kwantung Army of the devils is not willing to clash with Mao Xiong... In fact, the devils are worried that once Mao Xiong launches an attack, they will wipe out the main force of the devils with lightning speed, so the devils use Daxing'anling and Nuluerhu Mountain as natural The barrier blocks the bear army.

Under this strategic policy, there are not many troops in the west of the mountain range and heavy troops in the main cities in the east.

The original garrison in Zhangbei County consisted of only a small group of devils with dozens of people, plus a company of puppet troops with more than a hundred people, and the total strength was no more than 200 people.

But after the Eighth Route Army occupied Zhangjiakou, the devils mobilized "heavy troops" to strengthen: a brigade of the Kwantung Army plus two battalions of puppet troops, with a total strength of more than [-] people.

From the devil's point of view, this is already giving the Eighth Route Army a lot of face. It is a brigade and it is also the main force of the Kwantung Army... This Fujii brigade is a brigade of the Devil's 117th Division, which is part of the third front army of Okabe Naozaburo.

The reason why the Fujii Brigade reassured Okabe Naozaburo was because this brigade had participated in the Battle of Nomonhan and made great achievements in battle.

Naozaburo Okabe thinks this way: They have no problem dealing with bears, let alone the Eighth Route Army!
Considering that the Eighth Route Army had a "Sherman" tank, Naozaburo Okabe also specially added an anti-tank gun squadron to the Fujii brigade. This squadron was equipped with three anti-tank guns... These anti-tank guns were originally for What was prepared to deal with Mao Xiong did not expect to be used on the Eighth Route Army now.

In addition, Naozaburo Okabe also ordered the fighter planes at Chifeng Airport to prepare reinforcements for Zhangbei County at any time.

After completing these arrangements, Naozaburo Okabe was relieved.

He thinks that such a force can stop the Eighth Route Army from moving out of the Northeast... The point is that the Okabe doesn't think the Eighth Route Army has the guts to attack the Northeast. That's a place where more than thirty elite divisions are stationed. Dare to send troops to the Northeast, isn't that a sheep into a tiger's mouth?

However, the Eighth Route Army really fought, and it was fought in the daytime openly!

Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang had an argument about when to start.

Zhao Gang said: "Lao Li, if we want to fight, we should catch the devils by surprise, so that we can exchange the least cost for the greatest benefit..."

"Who says no?" Li Yunlong raised his hands in agreement.

Zhao Gang wondered: "If this is the case, how can you wait for dawn before setting off? Don't devils know when they set off at dawn? Then how can you catch devils by surprise?"

"Old Zhao!" Li Yunlong raised his head and said, "You don't understand war. Think about it, with the devil's virtue, can they not send spies outside?"

Zhao Gang nodded: "There must be spies, but if we set off at night, wouldn't we be able to avoid the spies' eyes and ears as much as possible?"

"How far can we avoid it?" Li Yunlong asked back: "Five miles? Ten miles? Or twenty miles?"

Hearing these words, Zhao Gang fell into deep thought: Even if the Eighth Route Army sent scouts to wipe out the spies all the way, it would be impossible to wipe out all the spies. Sprinkling a handful of beans on the ground might not be enough to find them all, let alone hiding in the dark. Secret Service!

and so……

"Ten miles is about the same!" Zhao Gang replied, "Ten miles is better than nothing!"

"Success!" Li Yunlong continued Zhao Gang's words: "Just ten miles! But our mechanized troops march at least half slower at night, and the speed of 30 kilometers per hour has become 15. Which one do you think is faster?"

Zhao Gang was speechless, thinking like Li Yunlong... It is indeed better to fight during the day!
Therefore, the suddenness of the battle does not necessarily have to be a sneak attack at night. Sometimes it will have better results if it is opened up during the day, especially the large grasslands in Zhangbei County are very suitable for mechanized troops to march, and there is no need to stick to the rules and engage in night attacks. .

That's what the Independent Regiment did afterwards, attacking as soon as the sky dawned in the early morning.

Prior to this, the secrecy work was done quite well. Everyone from top to bottom, including the battalion commanders, thought that preparing for battle at night was for the next day's exercise. Unexpectedly, they drove north after dawn!

Li Yunlong's tactic was right, because the battle situation developed just as he thought.

Although the devils immediately knew that the Eighth Route Army was going to attack and notified the headquarters, the 55-kilometer distance was covered in less than two hours based on the speed of the mechanized troops at 30 kilometers per hour.

It's not actually two hours.

Because after Li Yunlong's tank walked through the minefield...the devils laid a minefield of more than 500 meters on the road. They thought that such a long minefield had blocked the Eighth Route Army, but this was nothing to the minesweeper modified by the "Sherman" It only takes ten minutes.

Then a vanguard force composed of half-track vehicles rushed to Zhangbei County ahead of the team.

Li Yunlong believes that if you want to be fast, you should be fast at all costs. Although half-track vehicles are thinly armored and attacking forward is dangerous, but firstly, they have a large number, and secondly, they can prove the enemy's firepower. More importantly, their speed and offensive ability Disrupt the devil's preparations.

As a result, the dozen or so half-track vehicles ran all the way to the city wall of Zhangbei County before stopping... The devils pulled up the anti-tank guns in time and destroyed the two half-track vehicles.

The vanguard did not attack by force, but divided into two teams to outflank Zhangbei County.

The half-track vehicles were fast and well-armored. Ordinary rifles and machine guns couldn't do anything to them. Sometimes they rushed into the devil's defense line and killed them, sometimes they defeated the engineering battalion that was constructing fortifications, and sometimes they beat up a transport team.

This situation only made the Devil Commander Major Hideo Fujii yell "Wow", but there was nothing he could do about the Eighth Route Army's tactics of guerrilla warfare using the mobility of half-track vehicles...

Move up the infantry, the infantry's equipment is no threat to the half-track.

Adjust the anti-tank guns to go up, the anti-tank guns can't catch up with them!
From this point on, the devil can be said to have lost.

The reason is not only that the vanguard of the Eighth Route Army has figured out that the devil's firepower deployment can be targeted to attack, but also that the morale of the devil and the puppet army has been lost by such a disturbance.

The devils and puppet soldiers would think: If even the dozen or so half-track vehicles of the Eighth Route Army can't deal with it, what will happen when the Eighth Route Army's large troops come up?

Then they asked for benevolence and benevolence, and soon a large force of the Eighth Route Army appeared in front of them.

The first thing that came up was the rocket fighters bombarding the location suspected of having anti-tank guns, and then the "Sherman" led teams of soldiers to launch a fierce attack on the low earthen city wall in Zhangbei County!

(End of this chapter)