The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 457 Lieutenant General Sato: Letting them have gas bombs is useless (second update)
"Division commander, something seems wrong!" the chief of staff said suddenly.

"You can see it too!" Lieutenant General Sato said with a serious face!

"The Cavalry Battalion of the Independent Regiment launched a very fierce attack at the beginning. After rushing to the front of the formation for [-] meters, it began to slow down, then turned around and retreated [-] to [-] meters in front of the formation, and continued to attack..."

"It seems to launch attacks one after another, without giving the defenders a chance to breathe!"

"Actually, there is no threat at all... If they hadn't stopped shelling, the defenders on the line of defense probably wouldn't even have a single wounded!"

"Snapped……"

A red flare suddenly lifted off to the south of the station, and the burst of fire was particularly dazzling, instantly attracting the attention of everyone on the battlefield, Lieutenant General Sato was no exception.

As soon as I looked over there with the binoculars, the sound of fierce firefights sounded from the blocking position in the south.

Sato looked over subconsciously.

Five or six hundred and eighth Route Army suddenly appeared in front of the position. Like a pack of wolves, they rushed towards the blocking position with great speed.

The blocking position was still covered by artillery fire, and only a small number of soldiers fought back against the artillery fire.

But the bullets they fired were too sparse to stop the assault battalion attack at all...

The sudden attack shocked everyone on the high ground. The chief of staff was stunned for a while before he analyzed to Lieutenant General Sato: "The head of the division... the independent regiment will not play tricks with us anymore, right? !"

Lieutenant General Sato stared at the attacking battalion in the south for a long time before answering: "The attack of this unit is real, not a show..."

"Light and heavy machine guns, grenades, and mortars all cooperate very well. Our troops stationed on the defense line have been completely suppressed by them..."

"Fortunately, there is a mortar squadron behind them, otherwise we will definitely lose the outer defense line to the south!"

After speaking, he put on a posture of watching a show, waiting for the mortar squadron to fire...

Two minutes passed, and the assault battalion had rushed to the position [-] meters in front of the formation, and the counterattack firepower on the blocking position became weaker and weaker, but no poisonous gas bombs came to the attacking troops...

Five minutes later, the assault battalion rushed forward another [-] to [-] meters, and the blocking firepower was weakened by nearly one-third compared with just now. The gas bomb that Lieutenant General Sato was looking forward to still did not appear.

In a hurry, he couldn't help yelling: "What's the matter, what is the mortar squadron doing? The enemy is rushing in front of us, why don't they fire..."

A combat staff officer mustered up his courage to remind: "Division commander, something happened to the mortar squadron..."

"The red flare we saw just now was fired from the mortar position!"

"The mortar squadron will not fire signal flares casually, and there is no reason to fire signal flares...then the enemy must have fired the signal flares just now!"

Lieutenant General Sato seemed to have thought of something, frowned and asked back: "Are you sure the place where the signal flare was fired just now is a mortar position?"

The combat staff officer answered very firmly: "The humble post is responsible for the fortifications on the south side of the garrison. No one knows the exact location of the artillery positions better than me!"

The more Lieutenant General Sato listened, his face became more serious, and he opened his mouth to give an order: "Then why are you still here, send someone to find out what happened to the artillery position immediately?"

"Contact the interior garrison in the south and let them prepare for battle immediately..."

"In case the independent regiment breaks through the outer line of defense, they must defend the inner line of defense for me."

"The reserve mortar squadron will be reinforced immediately, and I will leave all the offensive troops of the independent regiment..."

"Drop two more reinforced squadrons from the reserve team to reinforce the battlefield, a little faster!"

Five minutes later, the assault battalion that launched an attack from the south suddenly stopped, like a wave that lost its momentum, and quickly retreated, not even a single body was left behind...

Just when Lieutenant General Sato looked puzzled and didn't know what the independent regiment was doing, the messenger who contacted the artillery position ran over.

His face was serious, his brows were tightly furrowed, and he knew that he brought bad news without asking.

"Reporting to the head of the division... The mortar position of the second brigade was attacked by an unknown enemy. All the gunners and ammunitionists were killed, and the gas bombs we distributed to them were also missing..."

Lieutenant General Sato was dumbfounded. Before he could react to the bad news, the communications staff brought another bad news.

Climbing up to the high ground, he panted and reported: "The commander of the division... the report of the second brigade defending the blocking position in the south..."

"They were attacked by a small unit of the Independent Regiment while they were covered by artillery fire. The two infantry squads on a section of the defense line were completely wiped out, and many enemies crossed the defense line and entered the station..."

"When the neighboring troops wanted reinforcements, the independent regiment's artillery covered the entire position again..."

"During the bloody battle just now, the real purpose of the Independence Regiment was not to conquer the line of defense, but to cover the withdrawal of the Eighth Route Army that entered our garrison!"

"The defense troops desperately intercepted, wiped out six Eighth Route Army troops who entered the station, and intercepted three boxes of gas bombs they stole!"

Lieutenant General Sato fully understood, clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and cursed: "Bageyalu, all of us have been tricked by the independent group..."

"The real purpose of their attacking us is poison gas bombs, not to conquer the outer line of defense... We were all wrong in our previous judgments!"

"With gas bombs, they can fight an eye for an eye and threaten us so that we don't dare to use gas bombs casually..."

Cursing and cursing, Lieutenant General Sato suddenly flashed a sneer on his face, looking at the completely quiet battlefield in the distance and commanding murderously: "But the Eighth Route Army has underestimated the strength of the Imperial Japanese Army!"

"Just because they don't have gas masks doesn't mean the imperial army doesn't have..."

"As long as we distribute a pair of gas masks to the troops, no matter how many gas bombs the Independent Regiment steals, they will not be able to threaten the safety of the troops!"

"Order the troops to strengthen their vigilance... I will send a telegram to Taiyuan now, asking them to airdrop gas masks to our army!"

"I'd like to see how they can deal with us after the gas bombs in their hands have lost their effect!"

At the former enemy headquarters of the Independence Regiment, Kong Jie held up his binoculars and stared at the southern battlefield where the Assault Battalion was located without blinking.

It wasn't until the assault battalion withdrew from the battle and the special forces team successfully broke out of the devil's garrison that the hanging heart was put down together with the telescope.

After a while, Huang Yu returned here with an excited smile: "Commander, the special forces team lived up to expectations and successfully completed the mission..."

"A total of 29 boxes of 145 poison gas bombs were brought back... During the operation, two infantry squads were killed, half an artillery squadron had more than 12 gunners, and [-] mortars were destroyed..."

"It's just that the loss is a bit big... A total of six special forces members died on the way to retreat..."

Kong Jie patted Huang Yu's shoulder to comfort him: "If the Sato Division can really worry about the gas bombs in our hands and not continue to use gas bombs in the next battle...it will be worthwhile for the Special Forces to sacrifice twice as many members!"

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(End of this chapter)