The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1425 What are you afraid of?

Chapter 1425 Whatever you fear will come true (Part )

"Boom boom boom..."

The sudden sound of artillery explosions on the battlefield halfway up the mountain not only scared the Kwantung Army that was besieging the Eighth Route Army, but also scared the brigade commander of the Kwantung Army who was supervising the battle at the foot of the mountain.

During the daytime attack, the Eighth Route Army deployed a lot of mortars.

However, because there were planes in the sky to escort them at the time, the Eighth Route Artillery only participated in the battle for less than a minute before disappearing from the battlefield under the attack of the planes.

The commander of the regiment thought that they were killed by the air force and didn't think about the Eighth Route Army artillery.

As a result, they made another move and scared themselves again.

There were three squadrons participating in the attack. Just now, there was a fierce exchange of gunfire halfway up the mountain. Although the brigade commander had not received the latest battle report yet, he was not sure what the exchange of gunfire was about.

But some basic judgments are still there.

The attacking force was equipped with a limited number of light machine guns, with only about twenty in total for the three squadrons.

And in the exchange of fire just now, without forty or fifty light machine guns, the gunfire would not have been so dense.

This means that the firepower of the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield is no weaker than that of its attacking forces.

The two sides fought face to face in close combat. Even if the attacking troops under his command won, the price they paid would be very high.

If the city was attacked by a dozen mortars at this time, the damage would be absolutely devastating.

The brigade leader's face instantly darkened.

Although I have been mentally prepared to lose two battalions in tonight's night battle.

But the prerequisite for the loss is that the two battalions can eliminate the Eighth Route Army defending Wulan Mountain and capture Wulan Mountain in one fell swoop.

As a result, the Eighth Route Army used mortars to attack the attacking troops from a long distance, inflicting heavy damage on them.

If the next attack is carried out in the same way, even if the Eighth Route Army loses two battalions in tonight's attack, they will only lose some artillery shells, and the total strength will not be reduced much. This is very different from the original intention of launching the attack overnight.

The more he watched, the more anxious he became. He immediately ordered his subordinates: "Artillery fire back immediately..."

"Find the Eighth Route Army's artillery positions and destroy all their artillery units."

"I don't want to see them on the battlefield again in the next battle."

At this time, the only way the brigade commander could think of to make up for it was to do something.

After destroying the Eighth Route Army's artillery unit, in the following battle, the Eighth Route Army had to send infantry to the battlefield if it wanted to hold the defense line halfway up the mountain.

Since the Kwantung Army had an absolute advantage in manpower, even if both sides fought a battle of attrition around the defense line halfway up the mountain, they would still be the winner in the end.

Unfortunately, before the brigade commander could wait for his artillery units to fire, the explosions coming from the battlefield halfway up the mountain stopped.

Based on the brigade commander’s understanding of the Eighth Route Army.

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, they would immediately move all the artillery to avoid being targeted by their own artillery.

After the brigade commander waited for nearly twenty minutes, a series of explosions were finally heard from the top of Ulan Mountain.

However, there was no sound of artillery shells flying across the sky, which meant that only mortars were involved in the current artillery counterattack, and there were no mountain artillery or heavy artillery.

The brigade commander was angry and felt that the artillery was not giving him face.

I gave them a death order to kill the Eighth Route Army artillery at all costs. But they ignored the powerful mountain and heavy artillery and instead dispatched twenty or thirty mortars to join the battle. This was really deceiving me.

He started cursing right away: "Bageyalu..."

"What the hell is the artillery doing..." "Why don't the mountain artillery and heavy artillery units participate in the battle... Do they think that twenty or thirty mortars can wipe out the Eighth Route Army artillery?"

The artillery staff officer who rushed over just happened to hear the brigade commander scolding, and hurriedly explained: "Report to the general..."

"The Eighth Route Army deployed artillery positions on the other side of the mountain top..."

"The shells fired by mountain artillery and heavy artillery can't hit them, so we can only use mortars that can fire indirect shells to fight back."

"But the Eighth Route Army Artillery began to move half a minute ago..."

"We can't determine the direction they are moving. Although we have assembled more than 30 mortars to participate in the battle, no one knows exactly how many shells hit the target. Please calm down, General..."

After hearing this explanation, the brigade commander became even angrier and angrily yelled, "How can you ask me to calm down..."

"We were equipped with dozens of mountain and field artillery, heavy artillery, and hundreds of mortars, but we couldn't even deal with the 20-plus mortars of the Eighth Route Army. How can you calm me down..."

"Go back and tell your superiors..."

"I don't care what the reason is, and no matter what he does, we must not see the Eighth Route Army artillery participating in the next battle, otherwise your commander will be sent to a military court."

The artillery staff was frightened, although the brigade commander's order was a bit too much and even impossible to do.

But facing the furious brigade commander, he dared not utter a word of rebuttal and could only obey the order.

As for whether the mission can be completed, that is up to the captain.

Anyway, if the sky falls, there are tall people to hold it up, so no matter how you hold people responsible, it will not be placed on me, the artillery staff officer.

No one knew whether the artillery could defeat the Eighth Route Army, but the three squadrons attacking the halfway point defense line would certainly suffer a devastating blow.

If he did not send troops to reinforce the battlefield as soon as possible, the Eighth Route Army hiding in the tunnel would probably take advantage of the situation, break out of the tunnel, return to the ground fortifications, and destroy the few remaining attacking forces on the battlefield. Then the halfway point of the mountain defense line that he had finally occupied would probably be lost again.

To avoid this kind of accident, the brigade commander immediately ordered the chief of staff beside him: "Gather three more squadrons to attack the defense line halfway up the mountain. We must completely occupy it and eliminate the Eighth Route Army defending there, so as to create conditions for us to capture Wulan Mountain tomorrow."

At this moment, the thing that the brigade commander was worried about was happening on the battlefield halfway up the mountain.

After the troops retreated into the tunnel, thinking that there was no chance for them to surprise the Kwantung Army's attacking forces on the ground battlefield, Yang Song did not hesitate at all and immediately ordered the troops to move along the tunnel to the top of the mountain, officially abandoning the defense line halfway up the mountain.

As soon as I turned around, there was a loud explosion above my head.

The excited report from the observation post reached Yang Song's ears at the same time: "Battalion Commander..."

"It's our guns..."

"The artillery company is attacking the Kwantung Army offensive forces on the ground... They are finished..."

He was delighted when he heard it, and immediately ordered: "The troops stop retreating... and immediately assemble at the entrances and exits of the tunnels that have not been destroyed..."

"Reload the light machine guns. Once the artillery fire stops, we will charge out. After killing the remaining Kwantung Army troops on the battlefield, we will immediately retreat back to the tunnels and fight the next wave of Kwantung Army attacking forces."

then……

As soon as the Kwantung Army brigade commander issued the order for reinforcement, fierce gunfire was heard on the battlefield halfway up the mountain.

His face suddenly turned pale, and he ordered: "Not good..."

"The Eighth Route Army hiding in the tunnel has taken action. The reinforcements have suspended their attack. The artillery will immediately cover the defense line halfway up the mountain."

"The Eighth Route Army wants to take advantage of the situation and wipe out our first wave of attacking troops. So we will use their tactics to wipe out their troops in the ground fortifications with artillery fire, and destroy both sides."


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