The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 452 The Net of Heaven and Earth Laid by the Sato Division (Part [-])
At the former enemy headquarters of the Independent Regiment, Li Wensheng was reporting to Kong Jie on the drawdown of the troops.

"Regimental Commander, according to your order, the nine main battalions of the regiment will be reduced into three reinforced battalions. Each reinforced battalion has three reinforced companies with [-] people, an artillery company, a guard platoon, and a reconnaissance platoon. ...a full staff of one thousand people..."

"Deploy half of the troops from the guard battalion to supplement the assault battalion, reaching a full strength of [-] people!"

"The original guard battalion was downsized into a strengthened guard company, with a full staff of [-] people..."

"The heavy artillery battalion was downsized into four companies...the cavalry battalion was downsized into four companies...the reconnaissance company, the special warfare brigade, and the communication platoon remained unchanged..."

"The whole regiment is full of [-] people...but we only have more than [-] people left to continue fighting..."

"I mobilized [-] people from the local army and the guerrillas to supplement the troops... and mobilized more than [-] people from the captives to join the independent regiment to ensure that the main force is full!"

Kong Jie didn't answer, looking at the chief of staff and asked directly, "Are there enough weapons and ammunition?"

"Weapons are fine!" Li Wensheng replied.

"In the battle of Longgong Village, we seized a large amount of weapons and ammunition... In the chase yesterday, we also captured a large amount of equipment, which is enough to make up for our loss on the battlefield!"

"It's just that the ammunition is a little short!"

"The opponents in the two victories were devil combat troops. The ammunition they carried was limited, and a lot was used up on the battlefield. The ammunition that fell into our hands was even less, less than a quarter of what we used!"

"Including the inventory, the per capita ammunition of each soldier in the regiment has dropped sharply to [-] rounds."

"There are fewer shells... Only some mortar shells and infantry artillery shells were seized in the two victories, and no mountain artillery and heavy artillery shells were seized..."

"Every shot from the heavy artillery battalion is one shot less!"

"I asked Chen Daliang specifically: there are 105 shells left on the four [-]-caliber mountain guns, and they can only fire salvos for ten minutes..."

"Twelve 120-caliber mortars still have [-] shells left. If they fire at full strength, they can only fire for seven minutes..."

"Because of the loss of a large amount of equipment, the mountain artillery shells are consumed at a relatively slow rate. There are more than [-] rounds left. They should still be able to fight several big battles..."

"Tough battles and big battles are really not easy to fight!" Kong Jie said with a long sigh.

"We saved so much wealth before the war, and it was exhausted after only a few days of fighting!"

"Fortunately, the Sato Division has been severely damaged by us and has temporarily lost its offensive ability!"

"Otherwise, with our current ammunition reserves, it would be very difficult to withstand their attack for a day!"

Communications platoon leader Zhang Xuelin suddenly ran over to report: "Regimental Commander, Commander Li of the New Second Regiment and Commander Ding of the New First Regiment jointly sent a telegram, asking if we want reinforcements!"

"If they don't need it, they also want to fight a big battle with the devils, and get more benefits before the devils withdraw!"

Kong Jie turned to look at Li Wensheng: "Chief of Staff, what do you think?"

Li Wensheng thought for a while and replied: "From the analysis of the current situation of the Sato Division, it is the best choice to end the sweep and evacuate our base!"

"The possibility of the independent regiment fighting another major battle is very low!"

"Take a step back, even if Sato wants to save face and suffer, and continue to attack us, with the existing troops and firepower of the Independence Regiment, he can suppress them... use guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare to drag them to death, and win the final victory of the anti-mopping up!"

"I think the proposals of Head Li and Head Ding are very feasible!"

"Concentrate forces and fight two big battles in their base areas, completely disintegrating the Japanese army's sweep against Northwest Shanxi!"

Kong Jie looked at Huang Yu and asked, "What do you think, Xiao Huang?"

"I agree with the chief of staff's analysis..." Huang Yu replied while thinking.

"Without chariots and heavy artillery, the Sato Division is like a tiger without fangs, and its combat effectiveness has dropped sharply."

"Although they still have more troops than us, as long as there are no major changes, the independent regiment can definitely take the initiative in all battlefields in future battles and press them down with heavy artillery!"

"The troops that were originally scheduled to reinforce us really don't need to come here again!"

Kong Jie immediately made a decision: "Then let Li Yunlong and Ding Wei fight on their own, concentrate all our forces to fight the Japanese and puppet troops in the defense zone, and strive to achieve the greatest result with the least cost, and leave us alone!"

At [-] o'clock in the morning, the Sato division a few kilometers away was motionless, with no intention of retreating...

At ten o'clock in the morning, more than a dozen planes appeared above the head of the Sato Division.

Except for the three escort fighters, the remaining six are all transport planes with bloated fuselages.

Hovering low above the head of the Sato Division, dropped more than a hundred boxes of supplies in a row and left the battlefield...

Kong Jie and Li Wensheng stood on a high ground less than three kilometers away from the Japanese garrison, and witnessed one after another large boxes being dragged by parachutes, slowly falling to the ground, and being transported away by the devils...

"Captain, what does Sato mean by this... Even the airdrop is used, is he still planning to fight us to the end here, to a showdown!" Li Wensheng asked angrily.

Although it has been analyzed before that the Sato division will continue to attack the independent regiment.

But because the probability was too low, everyone didn't take it seriously and didn't make much preparations.

As a result, the Sato division did just that.

It made the independent group have no chance to take a rest, so they had to bite the bullet and continue to fight with them.

Kong Jie replied with a wry smile: "Satou is too elusive!"

"He chose to continue attacking us... Doesn't he know that the Sato Division has become a tiger without fangs?"

"Initiating an attack without the advantage of artillery fire will have no benefit other than losing troops!"

"I can't figure it out either..."

Li Wensheng suddenly thought of a possibility, hesitated for a moment and said, "Commander, could it be Yoshio Iwamatsu who prevented the Sato division from retreating!"

"The devils assembled three main divisions to sweep Northwest Shanxi, and the Sato division was just one of the raids. If the other two raids go well, the Sato division really cannot withdraw!"

Kong Jie understood as soon as he heard it: "You mean Yoshio Iwamatsu wants to use the Sato Division to hold us back and give the other two mopping up troops a chance to break through?"

"It's not impossible!"

Speaking of this, the frown that was already tightly furrowed deepened, and he analyzed calmly.

"The overall strength of the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment is slightly weaker than ours, and each faces a division of little devils, and the pressure is greater than ours!"

"The original anti-sweeping plan was to cut off one of his ten fingers, concentrate all the forces of the three regiments to severely damage the Sato Division, and repel one of the mopping-up troops..."

"In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes, the other two sweeping forces can only retreat."

"Now the Sato Division has been hit hard by us, but it has not retreated!"

"Instead, we put the breakthrough on the other two divisions. In this way, our previous battle plan will be useless, and the anti-mopping pressure in Northwest Shanxi will also fall on Li Yunlong and Kong Jie."

"Without foreign aid, the two regiments certainly wouldn't last long."

"And we couldn't divide our troops to reinforce them under the attack of the Sato Division."

"The pressure they face will only increase!"

Huang Yu interrupted suddenly: "Commander, regardless of whether Yoshio Iwamatsu has such an idea, as long as the Sato division does not retreat for a day, the devils who attacked the new first regiment and the new second regiment will not retreat, and their combat pressure will increase. Bigger!"

"Only by injuring the Sato Division again and repelling them can we completely break the situation..."

The dignified expression on Kong Jie's face was gradually replaced by seriousness, and he immediately ordered: "Notify the independent regiment that the troops that can still fight will immediately replenish ammunition and prepare for battle..."

"As soon as it gets dark and the Devil's planes are unable to reinforce the battlefield, we will take the initiative to attack the Sato division's garrison!"

"Even if all the remaining artillery shells of the Independence Regiment are fired, the Sato Division will be smashed to the ground, and thousands of devils will be killed, forcing them to retreat..."

Huang Yu reminded again: "Leader, I'm worried that Sato still has a trump card hidden in his hands that we don't know about!"

"The tiger teeth of the Sato Division have been pulled out by us. They dare not retreat at the risk of our troops being severely injured again. They must have something to rely on."

"There are eight thousand little devils stationed in front of us!"

"No matter how courageous Yoshio Yansong is, he would not dare to sweep Northwest Shanxi at the cost of a division!"

"I suspect that there is something wrong with the more than one hundred boxes that Yoshio Iwamatsu airdropped to the Sato Division just now!"

"The last support of the Sato Division is likely to be in those boxes!"

Kong Jie replied very seriously: "No matter what support Sato has, we must take the initiative to attack them, continue to hit them hard, and repel them, otherwise Yoshio Iwamatsu's sweep against Northwest Shanxi will never end!"

"Besides, only by taking the initiative to attack and driving the Sato Division to a dead end, can we force out all the cards in Sato's hand!"

Huang Yu faintly felt a little uneasiness in his heart, and always felt that the Sato Division had some conspiracy.But he couldn't find a reason to refute Kong Jie, so he could only nod in support.

The Sato division was stationed, and after seeing the supplies airdropped by the military department to the troops, the chief of staff regained confidence in the division's future.

After sorting out the airdrop supplies, he ran to Sato and reported: "Division commander..."

"A total of [-] ordinary mortar shells, [-] gas bombs, and [-] bullets were dropped by the military department!"

"In order to prevent our gas bombs from being taken over by the independent regiment during the artillery battle, I divided them into five, and each infantry brigade divided them into [-] rounds..."

Lieutenant General Sato kept staring at the map. After the chief of staff finished speaking, there was no response, and it took another five minutes before he spoke.

"Let the troops continue to strengthen the perimeter of the station!"

"The independent regiment wants to force us back and end the sweep, so they can only take the initiative to attack!"

"We have aircraft reinforcements during the day, no matter how bold they are, they dare not show their faces!"

"I suspect the Independence Regiment will launch an attack tonight!"

With the gas bombs, the chief of staff wished that the independent regiment would launch an attack now and immediately take orders: "Regimental commander, please rest assured..."

"I will definitely let the troops set up bombing nets around the garrison... As long as the independent group dares to come, I guarantee that they will never come back!"

Lieutenant General Sato added: "Let the artillery get the gas bombs ready!"

"The Independence Regiment is definitely not equipped with a gas mask... The troops have no choice but to release poison when they attack. At that time, the use of gas bombs will definitely damage the Independence Regiment!"

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