The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1340 The Kwantung Army wants to fish (second update)

"Division commander..." The communications staff officer suddenly rushed to Lieutenant General Fujita with a furious expression.

"The Jinzhou Garrison Headquarters just received an urgent telegram. The Qingshiling Coal Mine, about fifty kilometers northeast of the raiding force, was attacked by unknown armed forces. All the Kwantung Army and mine protection teams stationed at the coal mine were killed, and no one escaped..."

"All the absentees in the mine were rescued and lost their traces..."

"The local garrison suspects that this is the work of the Eighth Route Army. Please ask us to immediately send troops to reinforce Qingshiling, find the Eighth Route Army that attacked the coal mine, and eliminate them."

"Otherwise, the Eighth Route Army will definitely mobilize the deserters they rescued to join them and increase their strength..."

"The local garrison also reported..."

"Half of the more than 500 workers in the mine are prisoners of war from within the customs. Joining the Eighth Route Army and being equipped with weapons can form combat effectiveness."

"If we slow down, the Eighth Route Army active in the mountains will soon have more than 200 new troops."

Lieutenant General Fujita quickly found the location of Qingshi Ridge on the map, and then frowned and fell into deep thought.

From the map, the mopping up force looks like a semicircular sledge. Starting from Jinzhou, it clears out the mountains where the Eighth Route Army may be hiding little by little, compresses their living space, and finally gathers them together to annihilate them.

If you now deploy troops from the mopping up troops to reinforce Qingshiling.

Then there will definitely be loopholes in the encirclement he organized in the mountain.

If the Eighth Route Army got behind the mopping up troops through this loophole, the efforts of the Fujita Division in the first two days would be in vain, and the difficulty of finding the Eighth Route Army would be greatly increased.

Thinking of this, Lieutenant General Fujita quickly made a judgment in his mind: "We cannot divide our troops to support Qingshiling..."

"This is 80% the Eighth Route Army's plan to attack the east and attack the west."

"Forcing us to divide our troops to support Qingshiling, buy time and create opportunities for their troops hiding in the mountains to break through."

"Immediately call back to the local garrison in Qingshiling: let them assemble their troops to find the Eighth Route Army attacking the coal mine and snatch back all the absentees."

"The mopping up troops inside the mountain continue to operate as planned. No one can make any changes without my order..."

The brigade commander on the side suddenly reminded: "Division commander, what if the local garrison in Qingshiling fails to find the Eighth Route Army's offensive troops, fails to recapture the absentees, and allows the absentee prisoners to successfully join the Eighth Route Army that we are about to encircle and suppress?"

Lieutenant General Fujita replied confidently: "Then destroy them all together."

"As long as we sweep the Eighth Route Army's activity areas as planned, sooner or later they will be forced out to fight us."

"We have four reinforced regiments with a total strength of more than 20,000 troops. Even if they have one or two thousand more combat troops, they will not be able to defeat us in a head-to-head battle."

Lieutenant General Fujita's arrogant confidence left the brigade commander speechless.

He wanted to retort, but he swallowed the words as soon as they reached his lips.

As the commander of the brigade under Fujita's division, it was impossible for him to tell the division commander that the mopping up troops were probably no match for the Eighth Route Army.

It's too demoralizing for the military.

He decisively chose to shut up and waved his hand to the communications staff to send a telegram.

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Daxing is a very important town fifteen kilometers due south of Jinzhou.

The Puppet Manchuria Army, which has stationed a reinforced squadron of the Kwantung Army and a battalion for many years, closely monitors all villages and settlements within a radius of 20 kilometers to prevent the emergence of resistance forces.

Although the Eighth Route Army began to operate in Jinzhou and severely damaged the Kwantung Army's mopping up troops in the mountains, wiping out two of the main regiments, they were very close to Jinxiu City.

In the event of an accident, the Jinzhou garrison would be able to come over in just half an hour by car.

With the current strength of the Daxing garrison, even if it is besieged by the Eighth Route Army, it will be no problem to hold on for two hours, let alone half an hour. Therefore, they are eager for the Eighth Route Army operating in Jinzhou to come and besiege the Daxing stronghold. In this way, they can use themselves as bait to drag the Eighth Route Army inside the battlefield to the battlefield, and then gather them and annihilate them after the main force arrives.

In this way, a garrison force that had no chance of meritorious service could achieve the first success of annihilating the Eighth Route Army with this operation.

then……

From the moment the Kwantung Army garrison squadron leader learned about the Eighth Route Army's activities in the Jinzhou defense area, he deliberately let the garrison at the stronghold relax their vigilance and lure the Eighth Route Army to attack him.

Otherwise, he would never have a chance to defeat the Eighth Route Army while guarding the Daxing stronghold, nor would he have a chance to make meritorious service on the battlefield and get promoted.

A day flies by in a blink of an eye.

No matter how vigilant the garrison at the stronghold relaxed, the squadron leader did not receive any sign of the Eighth Route Army entering or leaving the territory, which meant that he had once again waited in vain.

I felt very reluctant, but there was nothing I could do.

There are only so many Eighth Route Army, and the Jinzhou Defense Area is fighting like this, and there is still a division in the mountains to encircle and suppress them. If I want to wait at the Daxing stronghold until the Eighth Route Army takes the initiative to attack, it is no different than Jiang Taigong fishing, which is very difficult.

Ten p.m……

The little devils stationed at the stronghold got into the barracks and slept soundly as usual, leaving the duty of security to the puppet Manchurian Army.

About a platoon of Japanese soldiers guarded every corner of the stronghold, trying to hold on to the constant sleepiness and staring at the surroundings to prevent anyone from sneaking into the stronghold.

"Da da da……"

Intense light machine gun fire suddenly sounded more than two hundred meters outside the stronghold, and the three machine gun flames looked particularly dazzling under the cover of night.

Several puppet Manchurian Army soldiers who were on guard on the top of the gun tower were shot and fell to the ground without even uttering a scream.

The piercing alarm sounded simultaneously inside the stronghold.

The quiet stronghold suddenly became lively.

The Kwantung Army and the Puppet Manchuria Army quickly put on their military uniforms, grabbed weapons and ammunition and rushed outside, hoping to get into combat positions as soon as possible.

The Japanese and puppet barracks are all concentrated at the very back of the stronghold. If they want to enter the position, they must pass through an open space specially used to gather troops.

In the blink of an eye, more than two hundred Kwantung Army and Puppet Manchurian Army gathered here.

More Japanese and puppet troops poured into this open space, trying to pass through and enter the position.

"Boom boom boom..."

Six mortar shells roared down, exploding into six balls of fire in the open space. The unprepared Japanese and puppet troops were immediately blown up in a large area.

Faced with this sudden artillery attack, the Japanese and puppet troops stationed in the stronghold became even more anxious.

The opponent shot out six mortars, which were more than the mortars equipped by the garrison at the stronghold. They must be very powerful.

Only by entering the position immediately can you hold the stronghold and repel the enemy's attack.

So a scene like this appeared inside the stronghold.

Although the open space that the Japanese and puppet troops had to cross was targeted by enemy artillery, in order to enter the position early, the soldiers in the barracks still rushed into the open space as usual and entered the position under artillery fire...

"Bagya Road..."

The squadron leader of the Kwantung Army lived in the turret. He clearly saw the scenes of his subordinates being killed and wounded by artillery shells, and his heartache was so painful that his nails dug into his flesh.

(End of this chapter)