The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1359: When the east is not bright, the west is bright (first update)

The terrain outside the mountain is flat, which makes it easier for the Kwantung Army to deploy and give full play to its artillery advantage.

Even if Duan Peng and Cao Xing wanted to lure the snake out of the hole, it would be difficult to find a suitable position to ambush the Kwantung Army's pursuers.

It's different in the mountains.

The complex terrain provided the Eighth Route Army with a sufficient number of battlefields where troops could hide and ambush almost everywhere.

For the Eighth Route Army, another huge benefit is that because the terrain here is complex, with high mountains and dense forests, heavy weapons cannot be brought in. The Kwantung Army has a large amount of equipment but cannot use its firepower advantage.

Once the Kwantung Army loses its firepower advantage, the terrain here will be more favorable to the Eighth Route Army. As long as the Kwantung Army is forced to divide its forces, the Eighth Route Army will be able to occupy an absolute advantage on the local battlefield and suppress them.

"Da da da... bang bang..." A relatively dense burst of gunfire suddenly sounded on the flanks of the Kwantung Army's encirclement and suppression troops. Seven or eight Kwantung Army soldiers who were exposed to the gunfire fell to the ground in response, and everyone was beaten. There were several bloody holes,

The Kwantung Army has become accustomed to such sneak attacks and has long summed up some countermeasures.

The mortar squadron closest to the battlefield immediately stopped marching and quickly set up artillery to cover the high ground where the attackers had just hidden.

Although this attack cannot kill a few little Japs, it can drive away the Eighth Route Army that just attacked everyone immediately and reduce the casualties of the troops on the subsequent march.

Listening to the rapid explosion of artillery shells and the quickly disappearing gunfire not far away, the captain of the Kwantung Army was not happy that the artillery successfully defeated the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack force. Instead, he had a solemn expression on his face.

He could hardly remember how many times this was the sneak attack launched by the Eighth Route Army.

Anyway, every sneak attack can take away the lives of several subordinates.

In order to prevent the wounded from affecting the marching speed of the troops, the baggage team had to free up a large number of manpower and mules and horses to help transport the wounded.

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

The lessons learned from the Jinzhou garrison told him that the best solution to the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack was to dispatch artillery to counterattack.

If they took the initiative to send troops to attack, not only would they destroy the Eighth Route Army that attacked them, but they might also fall into the Eighth Route Army's trap of luring the enemy out of their lair and deep into their territory, resulting in the loss of more troops.

But the troops have been so passively beaten. Although the Kwantung Army's commander said nothing, he couldn't accept this situation in his heart. He really wanted to send troops to attack to see if the Eighth Route Army's method of luring snakes out of holes and luring the enemy deep would really be like that of the division. What the regiment headquarters said was so mysterious.

However, the division headquarters issued an order: mopping-up units were not allowed to actively pursue and kill the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack units, and mopping-up units were not allowed to split up and go deep into the mountains and forests alone to pursue and kill the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack units.

No matter how unwilling the commander was, he still had to obey military orders, so he could only keep the thought of attacking in his heart.

"Regiment commander...an urgent call from the division headquarters..." The operator's voice suddenly sounded not far away, pulling the commander back to the display.

The commander of the regiment received the telegram with a confused expression. He didn't know why the division headquarters was sending him a telegram now.

After reading ten lines at a glance, just halfway through, the captain's frowned brows relaxed, as if he had been stimulated by something, his eyes shone brightly and he shouted: "Yoshi..."

"We have been fighting in the mountains for so long, and we can finally let go and have a good fight with the Eighth Route Army who sneaked up on us..."

After saying that, he raised the telegram in his hand and introduced it to the surrounding subordinates: "The division commander ordered..."

"Let us take the initiative to attack the Eighth Route Army sneak attack troops, seize the initiative on the battlefield, and consume the Eighth Route Army troops in the mountains little by little through various defeats until they are completely wiped out." The chief of staff of the regiment reminded cautiously: "Captain of the regiment..." Jinzhou Garrison The past experience proves that if we take the initiative to attack the Eighth Route Army troops in the mountains, it is very likely that we will lose our wives and troops in the battle, and pay a huge price in casualties..."

"Could the division headquarters have made a mistake..."

The commander of the regiment shook his head and answered confidently: "This issue has been analyzed by the division headquarters..."

"Since we entered the mountains, although we have not taken the initiative to attack the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack troops, we still lost nearly 400 people due to their endless sneak attacks, but we did not eliminate many Eighth Route Army troops."

"If we take the initiative to attack the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack troops, even if we lose two hundred people in one counterattack, these casualties will be enough for us to launch two counterattacks."

"Kill the enemy by one thousand and lose eight hundred by yourself..."

"Even if the Eighth Route Army is in the dark during our attack, and we are in the open, and even fall into their trap of luring the snake out of its hole, it will take the loss of six or seven Kwantung Army soldiers to kill one Eighth Route Army, and the casualties of 400 people can still allow us to kill fifty or sixty Eighth Route Army soldiers. ”

"The total number of Eighth Route Army troops operating in the mountains is only a few hundred. Even if we fight them, we can eliminate them at the cost of one or two thousand men."

"If the troops urgently need to use artillery fire to counterattack the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack troops and give up the attack, even if we lose one or two thousand people in the subsequent raids, we may not be able to kill a hundred Eighth Route Army troops."

"In this case, it is better to fight a war of attrition with the Eighth Route Army in the mountains."

"In this way, at least the initiative on the battlefield will be in our hands."

"The morale of the troops will also be improved a lot by taking the initiative."

The commander could not wait any longer and immediately issued the order to attack to the ears of all squadron commanders.

If the troops are attacked by the Eighth Route Army again during the march, the three closest squadrons will immediately launch a counterattack.

One infantry squadron launched an assault from the front, and the other two infantry squadrons carried out roundabout outflanking, trying to kill the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack troops in one counterattack, even at some cost.

"Pap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap..."

The gunfire that the commander was expecting finally rang out from the flank of the team. Looking down from the air, the three infantry squadrons sent by the commander were like three unsheathed sharp knives, thrusting straight into the rear of the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack troops, trying to block them at the sneak attack point. Gather them together and annihilate them,

"Withdraw..." Ma Wenshan, commander of the 5th Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the Northbound Detachment, finally saw the Japs sending troops to attack them. Without even looking back, he spread his legs and ran towards the pocket formation prepared by the 5th Battalion for the Kwantung Army. .

"Throw a few rifles and a light machine gun to make the Kwantung Army think that we are on the road to defeat. Don't lose us..." Ma Wenshan continued to order.

“Boom, boom, boom… da da da…”

More than half an hour later, fierce exchanges of fire could be heard in the woods at most three kilometers away from the main force of the Kwantung Army.

The attacking troops were not equipped with mortars, but there were explosions in the woods. The Kwantung Army commander knew without thinking that the attacking troops had fallen into the Eighth Route Army's plan to lure the enemy deeper.

But he wasn't worried at all.

(End of this chapter)