The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1343 Division Commander: Weave a net first (first update)

Daxing stronghold.

As the battle continued, the squadron leader guarding the fort slowly calmed down from the initial panic and felt that the Eighth Route Army attacking him from outside was not as strong as he thought.

In the initial artillery attack, they fired a total of five rounds of 30 artillery shells at the stronghold, killing and injuring more than a hundred Kwantung Army and Puppet Manchurian Army, directly reducing the strength of the stronghold garrison by almost 30%.

Considering that the Eighth Route Army, which has six mortars, must be very powerful. The opponent has reduced its strength by 30% before the opponent officially launches an attack on the stronghold garrison. When the opponent's real attack begins, the casualties of the troops will definitely increase sharply, and the defensive pressure they will face will also be very high. big.

As a result, after the first round of artillery fire attack ended, the Eighth Route Army attacking him looked like a different person. Not only the attack firepower dropped sharply, it was difficult to even see the attacking troops.

"Could it be that the Eighth Route Army just wanted to use artillery fire to sneak attack the garrison at the stronghold from a long distance, and had no real intention to attack the stronghold?" the squadron leader thought secretly in his heart.

But he didn't let his guard down.

Although Jinzhou City sent a mixed formation to reinforce itself, it would take at most two hours to reach the battlefield.

But no one knows whether the sudden slowdown of the Eighth Route Army's offensive hides any ulterior secrets.

If they were deliberately showing weakness and suddenly launched an attack after they let down their guard, the garrison at the stronghold would definitely be killed again just like before and caught off guard.

Therefore, the squadron leader did not report the weakening of the Eighth Route Army's offensive to the Jinzhou Garrison Headquarters. He still ordered the troops to strengthen their alert, not giving the Eighth Route Army any opportunity to take advantage of, and waiting for the arrival of reinforcements.

If the Eighth Route Army that had just attacked him was really bluffing, he would have said that they retreated before reinforcements arrived.

Anyway, the garrison at the stronghold was attacked by artillery fire from the Eighth Route Army, and the bodies of more than 100 casualties were still in the open space of the stronghold.

In the face of the facts, even if he failed to hold back the Eighth Route Army's attacking troops, no one would accuse him of lying about the military situation.

As for being a bait, holding back and annihilating the Eighth Route Army's attacking troops, it's all nonsense when it comes to saving one's life.

Of course, if the Eighth Route Army that had just attacked him had not withdrawn and was finally surrounded by reinforcements on the Daxing battlefield, whether he participated in the final decisive battle or not, he would not be able to lose the first contribution to winning this battle.

One o'clock.

The sound of firefights on the large battlefield stopped completely.

If it weren't for the fact that there were still more than a hundred corpses lying in the open space of the stronghold, and there were some machine gun holes on the turrets and bunkers, I would never have thought that this Li had just experienced a bloody battle.

"Someone...sir, there are torches on the road in the direction of Jinzhou City." A team leader next to him suddenly shouted, his face full of excitement.

No matter whether the Eighth Route Army that just attacked them escaped or not, as soon as the reinforcements arrived, the stronghold would be completely safe and they could relax.

The squadron leader immediately raised his binoculars and looked at the road.

The torches that appeared one after another have formed a fire dragon on the road. They are so vast that they can't see the end at a glance, and they are rushing towards the stronghold.

When he was still four or five hundred meters away from the stronghold, a faint roar of an engine suddenly reached his ears, and two car lights appeared at the end of the road.

An armored fighting vehicle followed the infantry and roared towards the stronghold.

When the forward squadron of the mixed company was still two hundred meters away from the stronghold, there was still no gunfire around the stronghold, and not even the Eighth Route Army was seen moving around.

Faced with this situation, no matter how stupid the squadron leader was, he realized that the Eighth Route Army that had just attacked him with artillery fire had escaped.

He quickly adjusted his military uniform and strode towards the entrance of the stronghold.

The reinforcements were vast and endless, with numerous troops and well-equipped equipment. The leader was at the very least a captain of the Colonel-General, and his military rank and position were several levels higher than his own. No matter how bold the squadron leader is, he would not dare to neglect the commander who came to reinforce him.

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Fujita Division's former enemy headquarters.

Before the crisis facing the Jinzhou defense zone was resolved, Lieutenant General Yoshino, commander of the Kwantung Army's Jinzhou garrison, decided to stay here and work with Lieutenant General Fujita to resolve the crisis.

"Your Excellency, Commander..." A communications staff officer suddenly rushed to Lieutenant General Yoshino.

His expression was obviously much more relaxed than before, and he took a long breath and reported: "The mixed formation to reinforce the Daxing stronghold has arrived on the battlefield."

"But the Eighth Route Army that attacked the Daxing stronghold has withdrawn from the battle..."

"According to statistics, during the battle between the two sides, the Kwantung Army and the Puppet Manchuria Army stationed at the Daxing stronghold killed a total of 129 people and seriously injured 38 people. One-third of the casualties came from the Kwantung Army, and the remaining two-thirds came from the Puppet Manchuria Army. "

"The reinforcements are asking for instructions: should we follow the traces left by the Eighth Route Army when they retreated?"

"They left for almost an hour in advance, and the troops could catch up with them in about five hours of rapid march."

"But there must be many small roads during the pursuit. The chariot brigade and the mountain artillery brigade will definitely not be able to march. Please allow them to divide their forces and advance lightly to pursue the Eighth Route Army outside the mountains."

"The troops cannot be divided..." Although Lieutenant General Fujita had not seen the contents of the telegram, he had already stopped reading the communications staff report and refused with a serious face before Lieutenant General Yoshino could speak.

"Two light infantry regiments operating alone without artillery support are too dangerous."

"Although the terrain outside the mountains is not as complex as in the mountains, the Eighth Route Army can also use guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare to sneak attack on us."

"If the troops are not equipped with enough artillery, they will still have nothing to do in the face of guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare."

Lieutenant General Yoshino was obviously a little unwilling. He frowned and asked: "Then we will just watch the Eighth Route Army attacking the Daxing stronghold escape from under our noses, and then attack other strongholds..."

Lieutenant General Fujita shook his head and replied: "No..."

"The deaths of the more than 100 Kwantung Army and Manchurian Army stationed at Daxing will definitely not be in vain."

"When the two reinforced regiments I transferred back from the mountains all return to the outside of Jinzhou City, we will go after the Eighth Route Army operating outside the mountains."

"Two strengthened wings and a mixed brigade formed a large net in the Jinzhou defense zone."

"Similar to the raids in the mountains, we first compress the Eighth Route Army's living space, surround them, and then gather together to annihilate them to end the battle."

"And I discovered a problem in the battle where the Daxing stronghold was attacked."

"Although the stronghold was attacked by heavy artillery fire from the Eighth Route Army, the Eighth Route Army did not dispatch infantry to storm the stronghold."

"I suspect that the Eighth Route Army attacking the Daxing stronghold did not have as many people as we judged."

"It's possible that you just have a strong artillery force, but not much infantry..."

"You can only use artillery fire to attack our stronghold from a long distance, but it cannot threaten the security of our stronghold."

(End of this chapter)