The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 1443: Only Surprising Stratagems Can Be Developed (Part )

On the Jinzhou battlefield.

After driving on the mountain road for several hours, Huang Yu finally saw Duan Peng, who had ambushed the other three regiments of the Kwantung Army.

After just a few days of not seeing him, Duan Peng seemed like a different person.

Unshaven, with dark circles under his eyes, his face is filled with fatigue...

This alone shows how much combat pressure he is under here.

that's the truth.

A battalion has a full strength of about 500 people, but their opponents have three reinforced regiments with 12,000 to 13,000 people, a difference of more than 20 times in strength.

Any negligence or small accident on the battlefield could lead to the annihilation of the entire battalion of the island owner.

"Thank you for your hard work..." Huang Yu patted Duan Peng on the shoulder.

If the First Battalion had not used guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare to continuously launch surprise attacks on the remaining three regiments of the mopping-up force, the battle by the First Regiment's main force to encircle and annihilate the Koike Regiment would never have been so smooth.

If things go wrong, the encirclement and annihilation battle will turn into a stalemate, and the main force of the regiment’s opponent will change from one reinforced regiment to two reinforced regiments.

Duan Peng answered with all his strength: "It's not hard..."

"As long as the main force successfully eliminates the Koike Regiment, all the hard work will be worth it..."

"Captain..."

"How shall we fight next?"

"Do you want to pull out the teeth from the tiger's mouth and eat up a main regiment of the Kwantung Army?"

"I have been hiding in the dark and attacking the enemy for the past two days, fearing that I would be surrounded by the Kwantung Army on the battlefield if I showed up. I am almost going to get sick from holding it in."

"Now that the main force has arrived, we can finally have a fair fight with the Kwantung Army."

Huang Yu met Duan Peng's expectant gaze and replied: "You think too much..."

"Although the main force of the regiment completely wiped out the Koike Regiment and cut off a finger of the Kwantung Army's mopping-up force."

"But the Kwantung Army is not a pig..."

"As the saying goes, if you kill one thousand enemies, you will lose eight hundred of your own..."

"We also paid a heavy price in the battle..."

"Minus the casualties, I only brought four reinforcement companies and an artillery company. The rest of the troops followed the chief of staff back to the base."

"With this little force, let alone pulling out the teeth from the tiger's mouth and devouring a regiment of the Kwantung Army..."

"To put it bluntly, it is very difficult to tear off a piece of fat meat from the Kwantung Army and eat up a battalion of them."

"Don't even think about fighting a big war..."

"My main mission this time is to find a way to force back the remaining Kwantung Army in the mountains and put an end to this sweep."

Duan Peng had never imagined that after waiting for the team leader and main force with great difficulty, this would be the result.

He widened his eyes and asked in confusion, "You want to force the Kwantung Army's mopping-up troops to retreat..."

"The most direct and simple way is to make them feel the danger..."

"But we have no troops and no equipment now. How can we pose a threat to the Kwantung Army?"

"Ordinary small-scale fighting, guerrilla warfare, mobile warfare... will definitely not have this effect."

Huang Yu deeply agreed: "We can only think of a surprising way..."

"The Kwantung Army does not know the losses we suffered in the siege of the Koike Regiment, nor does it know the current strength and combat effectiveness of the First Regiment."

“I want to start from this aspect.”

"Through bluffing, the Kwantung Army's mopping-up force will feel the danger." "Of course..."

"The Kwantung Army is not stupid..."

"Simply bluffing is definitely not enough to make them retreat, so I brought the six large-caliber mortars and most of the shells we just seized from the Koike Regiment, as well as more than a dozen flying thunder cannons."

"Seize the opportunity and try to use these heavy weapons to catch the Kwantung Army off guard and kill several hundred people."

"Combined with our bluffing, we should be able to force the Kwantung Army in the mountains to retreat."

"This is the second round of sweeps launched against us by the Fujita Division."

"Although we didn't wipe out any organized troops in the first round of sweeps, we still managed to kill several thousand people in piecemeal attacks."

"Including the Koike Regiment we just destroyed, the direct loss of the Fujita Division must be more than two regiments. If we lose another regiment in the mountains, Fujita will definitely be sent to a military court by the Kwantung Army."

"So that old devil Fujita can't afford to lose another regiment."

"The reason why he didn't withdraw now is probably because he felt that our regiment had suffered heavy losses in the battle to encircle and annihilate the Koike regiment, and that we no longer had the strength to defeat another regiment of theirs."

"They want to ascertain our true situation and then take advantage of our weakness to annihilate us in the mountains and avenge the Koike Unit."

"This way he could give an explanation to the Kwantung Army Headquarters and minimize his guilt for losing two regiments on the Jinzhou battlefield."

"Let's not waste any more time. Tell me the situation of the other three regiments in the mountains. The more detailed the better."

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Jinzhou City Fujita Division Headquarters.

The Chief of Staff walked up to Lieutenant General Fujita with a serious face and said, "Division Commander..."

"The reconnaissance team has already sensed the Koike Regiment's base..."

"After investigation, it was confirmed that all the soldiers of the Koike Regiment, from the commander down, were wiped out by the Eighth Route Army. They didn't find a single survivor on the battlefield..."

"and……"

"They also found traces of heavy artillery involvement on the battlefield."

"There are hundreds of huge bomb craters scattered across the battlefield. Judging from the distribution of corpses around the bomb craters, the killing radius of these shells is more than 30 meters. The shock waves generated by the explosions are still quite lethal at a distance of 30 meters."

"In order to facilitate marching, the Koike Regiment is only equipped with one squadron of twelve large-caliber mortars."

"And these heavy mortar shells are not as powerful and lethal as this."

"So these craters were obviously not caused by the Koike Brigade..."

"The reconnaissance team determined that..."

"The Eighth Route Army operating in the mountains should be equipped with a heavy weapon that is powerful but very light and can be quickly moved in the mountains."

"This heavy equipment played a crucial role in the annihilation of the Koike Brigade."

"Their investigation results also prove this..."

"Of the more than 3,000 Kwantung Army soldiers found on the battlefield, nearly 2,000 were killed by this heavy weapon."

"The total number of soldiers who died from machine guns and mortars was only about a thousand."

Lieutenant General Fujita's face looked increasingly serious, and he was obviously unable to accept the results of the investigation.

The chief of staff paused for three minutes, waiting for the division commander to digest the reconnaissance results before continuing.

"Because the Eighth Route Army used heavy weapons unknown to us on a large scale on the battlefield, killing a large number of troops of the Koike Regiment, the reconnaissance troops also made another conclusion: the casualties of the Eighth Route Army in the battle to encircle and annihilate the Koike Regiment were not heavy..."

"They still have strong fighting power."

"Moreover, of the twelve large-caliber mortars equipped by the Koike Regiment, except for three that were blown into scrap metal and left on the battlefield, the remaining nine guns were all missing, and 80% were captured by the Eighth Route Army."

"Perhaps their firepower after the war is stronger than before the war."