All gods, the lord who started with the bright sword

Chapter 126, the thoughts of Chief Yamashita

"Baga, this is the eighth attack, and the heavy artillery brigade specially dispatched by the commander is also in place.

Tell those two bastards, if you can't take the two reserved positions before dark, you can go and apologize to the brigade leader yourself! "

In the command post of the Japanese army, before the eighth attack, Colonel Yamashita put down his binoculars and said this to his wing chief of staff.

The infantry regiment he led was formerly known as Sakata Regiment.

Although the regiment leader Sakata Shinzhe was chasing Cangyunling of the Eighth Route Army, he was killed in a sneak attack, which made a regiment of the Eighth Route Army escape from the encirclement.

But that still does not damage the reputation of the alliance, they are still the honorary alliance that defeated two divisions of the Central Army.

Yamashita, the newly appointed joint captain, is of course unwilling to admit that he is inferior to others.

He wants to come up with some results to prove that his ability is not inferior to Sakata, and even much stronger than him.

But in fact, with his superior force, he attacked the position of a main regiment of the Eighth Route Army, but he failed to make any progress in seven attacks.

How is this not annoying!

The more he lacked, the more he longed for something. Of course, Colonel Yamashita couldn't tolerate the failure of the army's attack, so he gave the same harsh order as before.

Without making him wait too long, a massive attack was launched.

The cannons were roaring, and his soldiers were all over the mountains and plains.

Seeing the earth-shaking scene through the binoculars, Colonel Yamashita spoke with a strong sense of superiority:

"For those Tubalu, this must be a rare scene in their life."

The chief of staff of the wing knew that His Majesty the Colonel had participated in the Battle of Songhu.

At that time, there were as many planes in the sky as there were birds, and the navy's large-caliber naval guns were roaring, and a single shell could clear the size of a football field.

Compared with that big battle, it was indeed a small scene.

If it was in the usual way, if it was in the first place, he would definitely flatter the captain and say a few nice words that he would win this battle.

But in the previous few attacks, the fierce firepower and tenacious fighting power of the eight routes easily blocked the attacking Japanese imperial army back.

After flattering before the battle, you have to find a way to get over it after the battle.

After rounding up several times, the chief of staff of the alliance really couldn't go on rounding up, so at this moment he could only pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Colonel Yamashita was very unaccustomed to not hearing flattery, turned his head and glanced at the chief of staff, hesitated for a while, but finally did not ask again.

Still, Yamashita is confident in his troops.

The regiment he took over was an elite team that fought all the way from Songhu, and the grassroots officers and veterans were experienced in many battles.

Moreover, with the addition of a heavy artillery brigade to the battlefield, the artillery advantage of the Eight Route Army was wiped out.

The enemy is just a grasshopper on a rope, unable to jump up.

The corner of Yamashita's mouth curled into a sneer and he said, "It's not that you can win a battle with a good weapon. A local leopard is a local leopard. Let's wait and see!"

Suddenly, he widened his eyes and cursed: "Bastard, why is the artillery of the second brigade in that position?"

In his field of vision, the roaring and falling rockets covered the artillery positions of the Second Infantry Battalion.

The fate of the three [-]mm caliber mortars there was very clear under the shelling of this scale.

A quarter of the artillery of the regiment was destroyed. Colonel Yamashita was very distressed, and grabbed the phone on the table:
"Damn it, get me the heavy artillery brigade immediately!"

After coordinating the air team and the heavy artillery brigade, the pilot provided the coordinates of the enemy's artillery positions, and six [-]-type howitzers fired in unison.

Even because of the occlusion of the hills, it is impossible to see the scene where the enemy artillery positions were bombed.

The corner of Yamashita's mouth twitched, and a smug expression appeared on his face: "You have been allowed to show off your power for so long, and you thought that our Imperial Japanese Army had no way to punish you."

"I want to cry now, and it's too late for you."

"Your Majesty's ingenious calculation, the Eighth Route Army must have never imagined that we can know the location of their artillery positions from the sky. It's high, it's really high."

Finally seeing a reliable opportunity, the Chief of Staff of the Alliance immediately sang his praises and offered flattery that sounds disgusting to outsiders.

Objectively speaking, this style of play is somewhat advanced.

Large-caliber heavy artillery has an extremely long range, far beyond the sight range of artillery.

Generally speaking, there are two solutions. Send artillery observers carrying radio stations to take risks and lurk near the target.

According to the drawn artillery map, indicate the coordinates of the bombardment to the artillery.

This method is more difficult to realize if there is no frontal battlefield where we can intersperse and lurk.

Another one, the artillery hot air balloon is raised, and the artillery observer stands on the hot air balloon to observe the enemy's position.

There is an old saying that you can see far from standing high.

But standing high, it is easy to be spotted by the enemy, and there is a risk of being destroyed.

Furthermore, it takes time to raise a hot air balloon, and there are certain requirements for the weather.

Compared with the use of aircraft for reconnaissance proposed by Colonel Yamashita, it is clear that the latter has more advantages.

Facing the praise from his subordinates, Colonel Yamashita waved his hands modestly:
"It's a small matter, not worth mentioning. As long as we can destroy the artillery of the Eighth Route and complete the task assigned by the commander, no matter how hard I wait, it will be worth it."

People with a little social experience know that this is a complete irony.

If the leader says it's not worth mentioning, then he has to mention it every time and offer disgusting compliments, so as to win the favor of the leader.

The chief of staff of the wing said this deeply, flattering one after another.

Does it work...

The smile on the corner of Colonel Yamashita's mouth is the best proof.

It's just that before I was happy for a long time, something worse happened.

The position of the Third Infantry Brigade was bombarded violently, countless rockets fell from the sky, and the mud pillars raised by the explosions were one after another, just like the scene of the end of the world.

Standing in the command post, I can still feel the ground trembling.

Just by raising the binoculars and taking a look, Colonel Yamashita's face changed 180 degrees, his whole face was as pale as if he had been dead for three days.

"This... This is the power of two heavy artillery regiments firing in salvo. Doesn't it mean that there is only one heavy artillery regiment on the Eighth Route?"

Of course he didn't know that a [-]-type rocket launcher fired twelve rockets in ten seconds, which was equivalent to a salvo of a heavy artillery battalion.

The prestige of the six rocket launchers is no less than that of the two heavy artillery regiments.

After a short gap, the second round of rockets began to fall.

A large number of Eighth Route Army in gray uniforms could be vaguely seen behind the Third Infantry Battalion.

"It's over, the people of the [-]rd Infantry Battalion who stayed in the position are finished."

The chief of staff of the wing almost said in a trembling tone: "Under the bombardment of this scale, the infantry of the Eight Routes rushed up immediately. Even if they survived, they would be lambs waiting to be slaughtered."

No need to be reminded by others, Colonel Yamashita, who has rich combat experience, naturally thought of it.

He even saw two key problems. The Eighth Route reinforcements arrived. Although he didn't know why they were so fast, they also brought two heavy artillery regiments.

Once the position of the Third Infantry Brigade fell, their task of surrounding the Eighth Route Army and destroying it would be completely impossible to complete.

He eagerly picked up the phone: "Take the heavy artillery brigade... Give me the first-line infantry on the eighth route. Be sure to block their offensive and buy time for the third infantry brigade!"

Immediately afterwards, he immediately ordered the first-line troops to stop attacking and withdraw in an orderly manner to defend the whole army.

And sent a telegram to the headquarters to report the situation, and dumped the blame for the failure of the attack to the friendly troops who did not find the Eighth Route reinforcements.

Seeing that he didn't mention the matter of asking for help, the chief of staff of the wing quickly reminded:
"Your Excellency, these are two heavy artillery regiments, and the infantry that can cooperate with them will not be less than one division!"

An infantry regiment is usually equipped with an artillery company, at most an artillery battalion, and it is impossible to equip an artillery regiment.

Only one brigade can be equipped with one artillery regiment, so the emergence of two artillery regiments is undoubtedly a division.

The reinforcements that came to support from the Eight Routes could never be one or two regiments fighting in small groups, at least three or more regiments, with a scale of 8000 people or even 10,000 people.

"Do you mean to ask me to ask the commander for help?" Colonel Yamashita gave him a cold sideways glance.

The chief of staff of the regiment hurriedly argued: "No, I didn't mean that. I was just worried that under the attack of the enemy's two heavy artillery regiments, can our heavy artillery brigade hold up?"

The brigade is equivalent to a battalion level, at least in terms of artillery, it will not be too bad.

Sakata once led the regiment to defeat two divisions of the Central Army and an artillery brigade. Couldn't it hold down the two heavy artillery regiments of the Eighth Route Army?
This idea turned around in my mind, and Colonel Yamashita couldn't hold back his calm expression, so he hurriedly said to his subordinates, "Send a report to the commander..."

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(End of this chapter)