Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 962 Acting
The battle started 20 days after Shinta Kono prepared.

The choice to start the fight at this time was not because Kono Shinta thought he was ready.

In fact, Kono Shinta believes that the imperial army at this time is still far away from fighting a real "blitzkrieg".

But Kono Shinta had to fight again.

This is because Shinta Kono learned from intelligence that the Eighth Route Army seemed to be aware of some rumors. For example, its headquarters had been transferred, and the three stores had sent additional troops and built more fortifications.

If this continues, the Eighth Route Army may have fewer and fewer weaknesses, and it will become more and more difficult to attack.

Therefore, Shinta Kono could only attack without being prepared.

The battle was first fought from the ground.

This was somewhat beyond Okamura Neiji's expectations.

Because Neiji Okamura thinks...

"Kono-kun, if your 'blitzkrieg' is based on air supremacy, shouldn't we start with the fight for air supremacy?"

This thought is normal.

Because everything is based on air supremacy, it should be tested first whether the imperial aviation can successfully seize air supremacy.

If so, proceed to the next step.

If not, then there is no point wasting ammunition and soldiers' lives in attacking.

Shinta Kono replied: "Your Excellency, I just hope that the Eighth Route Army can treat this attack as an ordinary ground attack. And if we start with fighting for air supremacy..."

So Okamura Ningji understood.

This is indeed the offensive habit of the imperial army, especially the offensive against the Eighth Route Army, which almost never starts with a ground attack rather than a fight for air supremacy.

If this time, the attack starts with a fight for air supremacy, what will the Eighth Route Army think?

Based on Neiji Okamura's understanding of the Eighth Route Army for so many years, he clearly knows that the senior generals of the Eighth Route Army are not "soil eight roads" who don't understand anything as ordinary people imagine, and they also have an international perspective to pay attention to the international battlefield.

Under such circumstances, they were afraid that they would immediately think of Hans' "Blitzkrieg". Didn't that expose their tactics from the very beginning?

Thinking of this, Okamura Ningji was a little ashamed.

I didn't expect that such a battle-tested strategist like myself would be worse than a little-known military expert. He deserved to be the talent sent by Hans!
Just when Neiji Okamura sighed, the battle on the front line had already begun.

Several heavy artillery regiments violently bombarded the Eighth Route Army's defense line in Yuncheng. At the same time, more than [-] devils and puppet troops attacked the Eighth Route Army's defense line.

The "defense line" here refers not only to the Yuncheng defense line, but also to the Luliangshan and Zhongtiaoshan defense lines of the Eighth Route Army.

Of course, the main direction of attack is the defense line of Yuncheng, which is obvious.

The attack on the Luliangshan defense line and the Zhongtiaoshan defense line was nothing more than holding down the strength of the Eighth Route Army so that it could not return to help.

Shinta Kono thinks this way: If the troops of the Eighth Route Army want to defend the three defense lines of Luliang Mountain, Zhongtiao Mountain, and Yuncheng that stretch for hundreds of kilometers, even if they only use the minimum number of troops to defend, they will have to invest a lot of troops.Only in this way, they will not be able to concentrate more troops in Yuncheng.When the mechanized units of the imperial army penetrated deep into its hinterland, they had no force to chase and intercept.

However, Kono Shinta doesn't know much about the puppet army.

The reason why the puppet army is a puppet army is because they are greedy for life and afraid of death.

Since you are greedy for life and afraid of death, how could you fight desperately with the Eighth Route Army?
If you are not willing to fight desperately with the Eighth Route Army, how can you hold back the strength of the Eighth Route Army?
Especially when the Eighth Route Army defeated the devils in several air battles, making many puppet soldiers believe that the end of the devils is coming... If there are still puppet troops fighting desperately with the Eighth Route Army at this time, they will be out of their minds.

Therefore, the puppet army even formed a tacit understanding with the Eighth Route Army when attacking the Luliangshan defense line.

(The Eighth Route Army's main defense was to attack the Lvliangshan defense line, and the Zhongtiaoshan defense line was mostly stationed in the western half after Yuncheng, and the eastern half was still under the control of the devils).

When the puppet army had to attack the Eighth Route Army's defense line under the urging of the devil officers, they would shout before launching the attack: "Listen, Eighth Route Army, we are going to attack. If you are sensible, surrender quickly! We will give preferential treatment to the prisoners!"

This call obviously sounded harmless, it seemed to be persuading surrender, and the devil officer didn't feel anything wrong after hearing it.

But if you think about it in detail...

How can anyone shout to the enemy before attacking on the battlefield?Doesn't that inform the enemy to prepare?
Then, when the puppet army launched an attack, they fired guns into the sky and shouted to kill.

Of course, this "shooting into the sky" is relatively secretive.

"Shooting the gun upward" is not difficult to do, as long as the gun barrel is not vertically upward, it is too obvious and easy to be spotted by the devils. The puppet army only needs to raise the muzzle of the gun slightly, and it looks like The target shoots, but is actually a few feet higher than the target.

The Eighth Route Army also cooperated very well.

Because the Eighth Route Army knows that if they don't play a trick with the puppet army to fool the devils, the next time the puppet army will have to attack the Eighth Route Army's defense line desperately in order to survive, which is not good for anyone.

Therefore, the Eighth Route Army would pretend to be "broken" and "flee in all directions" under the "attack" of the puppet army... In fact, the Eighth Route Army withdrew to the second line of defense.

Then it was the turn of the Eighth Route Army to shout: "Puppet Army brothers, listen, we are going to attack, come out and surrender! The Eighth Route Army treats prisoners preferentially!"

Then "bang bang" fired two shots into the sky, and then charged towards the puppet defense line with a burst of shouting and killing.

The puppet army must cooperate.

Because he also knew that if he didn't cooperate this time, then the Eighth Route Army would go serious next time, and the puppet army would have to eat and walk around.

So the puppet army fired a few shots symbolically, then turned around and fled in spite of everything, even if the devil officer waved the bastard box and shouted in situ, it was of no avail.

In the meantime, if some devil officer dared to shoot and kill the fleeing puppet army...it would be miserable. Most of this devil would be secretly "touched" by the puppet army, for example, secretly throwing a grenade at the foot of the devil officer when passing by him side.

In this chaos, who can find out who threw a grenade?

I want to say that the Eighth Route Army threw it from tens of meters away, or that it was the shells of the Eighth Route Army's [-] small artillery, who has a way to verify it?

Therefore, the devil officer actually did not dare to go too far.

If these devil officers are veterans, they know this, and they will accompany the puppet army to pretend to act... Everyone is trying to survive, why bother to be serious?
Even if you are serious, what can you get?

Was black-handed by the puppet army?

Or be killed by the Eighth Route Army?

Instead, you act hard, and your superiors will reward you when they see you play "vibrantly and vividly"!

(End of this chapter)