Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 965 Endo Task Force

In less than an hour since the battle started, more than half of the hundred battle regiments suffered casualties and more than [-] people were lost.

After learning about the situation of the Hundred Battle Group, the chief immediately gave an order to Li Changfu: "Order the Hundred Battle Group, give up the position and retreat!"

Li Changfu was jealous with the devils, and when he saw the telegram, he refused to agree, and he called back without thinking: "Chief, we can still do it, people are in the field, as long as there is one person in the Baizhan regiment, the devils will never want to follow us." Step across the field!"

It's not that Li Changfu is greedy for meritorious deeds, and it's not that he thought that he could block the attack of an elite division of the devils by himself, but that the commanders of the Eighth Route Army often associate positions with sacrificed soldiers... Damn, in order to defend this The position, our troops killed and injured more than 800 people, so we just gave up. Didn’t the blood of comrades be shed in vain?
no!Hold on to whatever you say!Otherwise, how can we be worthy of the sacrificed comrades? !
In fact, it is common to give up one or two positions on the battlefield and retreat strategically, but many Eighth Route Army commanders will use emotional thinking to think about this issue.

The chief didn't have so many thoughts, he only replied with four words: "Obey the order!"

So Li Changfu was at a loss. He took off his hat, sighed heavily, and ordered: "Everyone is there, retreat!"

The Hundred Battle Regiment retreated in an orderly manner, covering in batches and retreating while laying mines, so that even if the devils had the firepower of "type one" tanks and several times the number of troops, they did not dare to pursue them easily... Another point is that the Eighth Route Army deployed Many of the mines are bullet mines, jump mines, and even self-explosive directional mines.

The so-called "self-explosive directional mine" refers to the fact that there is no need to manually detonate it, but a trip wire is set up. Once the devil touches this wire, it will detonate, and then shoot a large piece of steel balls at close range, almost pushing the search forward. The devil was beaten into a sieve and fell to the ground screaming.

Moreover, injuries like this are usually extremely troublesome and painful... Although skin trauma is not fatal in a short time, dozens or hundreds of steel balls are embedded in the body and it is difficult to find. Need medicine, recuperate, etc., even if you die from infection, you may not be able to fight after you recover from the injury, because your eyes may be blinded, or there are still steel balls in your body that you haven't found.

So this directional mine is a thing that consumes a lot of devil's resources, so that the devil's medical soldiers will choose to give up the treatment immediately when they see such an injured soldier, at most they will carry him to the rear and let him die on his own.

Because of the power of the landmines of the Eighth Route Army, the devils could only move forward while clearing the mines.

At this time, the devils used minesweeping vehicles.

It was a rolling minesweeper converted from a tractor, and hollow iron rollers slightly higher than the body were installed in front of the vehicle.

With the roar of the tractor's motor, the roller slowly rolled forward, pressing down the landmines on the ground while rolling, making a "ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping" sound, like setting off firecrackers.

But these are not the main points.

The point is that after the 21st Division tore a hole in the defense line, a special devil unit quickly passed the 21st Division from the rear and drove onto the road behind the minesweeping vehicle.

This unit is a mechanized unit temporarily formed by Kono Shinta, which is called "Endo Task Force" by Kono Shinta.

The reason why it is called "Endo Task Force" is because its captain is Endo Shino who has just been transferred from Tokyo.

Endo Shino is a major. He has no other specialties, except that he has two years of study experience at Hans, so he was transferred by Shinta Kono to command the mechanized troops.

Endo Shino was a little taken aback.

Because the Turtle faction like him, who learned from Hans, was not very popular, because Hans' tactics might conflict with the spiritual philosophy of the imperial army.

He originally thought that it would be enough to train recruits and do research in the military academy, but he never expected that he would be transferred to the front line to command troops to fight, especially when he was transferred to command the mechanized troops used to penetrate the enemy's hinterland!
This made Endo Shino overjoyed, thinking that his chance had come... As long as he wins this battle, it will no longer be a dream to get promoted and make a fortune in the future.

The reason Kono Shinta chose Endo Shino, an instructor who has been teaching in domestic military academies for a long time, is very simple. He is precisely because Endo Shino does not have much actual combat experience.

Because Kono Shinta believes that as an imperial officer, if he has fought on the Chinese battlefield for a few years, he will inevitably be solidified because of the rigid pattern of the entire army. At this time, it is very difficult to get this habit back. difficulty.

This is not the case for Endo Shino. He has studied tactical theory in Hans, and has been baptized by advanced tactical ideas. At the same time, he has never been on the battlefield and was influenced by the tactics of the imperial army... Kono Shinta thinks that there is no other match. He, Endo, was a more suitable commander, so he boldly entrusted him with an important task.

Sure enough, Endo Shino did not disappoint Kono. He organized a drill after he arrived in Taiyuan. Although Kono was not completely satisfied, it already looked like a "blitzkrieg".

At this time, Endo Shino led two brigades with about 95 troops, almost all sidecar motorcycles (side three rounds) plus Type 21 light combat, and each brigade added more than ten vehicles full of ammunition Under the cover of the [-]st Division, the car drove along the road towards the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army.

The car loaded with ammunition is ready to be abandoned at any time.

Endo Shino's plan was to use the ammunition of these dozens of cars as a final supplement when the troops were blocked along the road and had to take a cross-country detour.

But at this time Kono Shinta's attention is not on Endo Shino's mechanized troops, but in the air.

Since the beginning of this battle, Kono Shinta has been trying to force the Eighth Route Army's air force out.

Because this is the confidant of the mechanized troops... Although the mechanized troops are moving fast, they are all sidecar motorcycles with no defense. Even the 95 light combat can hardly block the volley fire of the enemy fighter jets.

Therefore, Kono really hopes to solve the Eighth Route Army's aviation team first, so that the mechanized troops can drive straight in with confidence.

However, the Air Force of the Eighth Route Army still couldn't get out.

This is embarrassing for the imperial army:
The mechanized troops are indeed interspersed, but at any time the mechanized troops need the cover of the air force, and it must be "zero combat"... Other models are simply not the opponents of the Eighth Route Army's "Hawker 81", especially after it is equipped with X1.

However, only 48 of the Imperial Army's "Zero Wars" remained available at this time.

If there are two batches of cover in turn, only 24 aircraft can be arranged in each batch... This makes Kono Shinta feel uncertain.

(End of this chapter)