The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 776 Ningji Okamura Was Slapped In The Face Again (Second)

At nine o'clock in the morning, the Kwantung Army, which had been up for half the night, finally reached the outside of Baoding City.

The open city gate, the silent city head... It seems that there is a mystery everywhere in the city, making the devil's vanguard troops in a dilemma at the gate of the city, fearing that there is a conspiracy in the city, if they enter, they will not be able to get out.

Okamura Ningji also stared at Baoding City without saying a word.

He is familiar with the Chinese art of war and has heard stories about empty city plans, but this may be just the appearance.

Baoding City actually ambushed a large number of the Eighth Route Army, ready to give the siege troops a trap.

If you are not careful, you may lose another one or two thousand elite Kwantung Army.

But no matter what the enemy's situation is, you have to send someone to try it before you know.

Neiji Okamura did not put down the binoculars in front of his eyes, and directly ordered: "Send a squadron into the city, first occupy the city wall, and then move forward to investigate the city, and find out the situation in the city as soon as possible."

Time passed by, and there was no sound of firefighting in the city.

A few devil officers who looked down on the Eighth Route Army from the bottom of their hearts immediately released bold words: "The Eighth Route Army also fights guerrilla warfare, and it is very good at field warfare."

"On the frontal battlefield, a single brigade of the Kwantung Army can overwhelm the two of them."

"It's daytime and we still have air support."

"Even if they have city defense fortifications as a cover, they dare not stay here and fight with us."

"Your Excellency, Commander, the Yizhong Eighth Route Army that captured Baoding must have been scared away by us."

Neiji Okamura did not answer the call, but he very much agreed with the words in his heart.

Although I also suffered defeat at the hands of the Yizhong Eighth Route Army, but it was a defeat in strategy, and I suffered a real loss.

If the Yizhong Eighth Route Army fought head-to-head with me, let alone a single division, even with only one main force brigade, they would be able to defeat them.

Want to return to thinking, but did not show.

It is a fact that I lost to the Yizhong Eighth Route Army, and it is impossible to say that the Yizhong Eighth Route Army is vulnerable as soon as I lose the battle. Such words are tantamount to slapping myself.

Put on a calm expression and replied: "Don't underestimate the enemy..."

"Even if the Eighth Route Army abandoned Baoding, it was their own initiative to retreat."

"It shows that the Eighth Route Army knows that they are not good at fighting positional warfare, so they take the initiative to give up Baoding."

"Comparatively speaking, this kind of enemy who knows himself and the enemy is even more difficult to deal with... Boom..."

When Okamura Ningji was about to explain a few more words, an explosion suddenly came from the city.

Including Neiji Okamura, everyone had an embarrassing expression on their faces.

Just now they were discussing that there was no Eighth Route Army in the city, and the explosion was like a loud slap, slapping them hard in the face, telling them that there were still enemies in the city, otherwise the explosion just now would not have come out of nowhere.

"Boom..."

Two more explosions came from the city, making Neiji Okamura even more sure that there was still the Eighth Route Army in the city, and ordered him immediately.

"The troops are ready to attack the city immediately..."

"The Vanguard Squadron immediately withdrew from Baoding to confirm the strength and equipment of the Eighth Route Army in the city..."

Teams of little devils followed the tanks and armored vehicles and moved quickly outside the city. Mortars, mountain artillery, and heavy artillery all raised their muzzles, waiting for Neiji Okamura to issue an attack order.

"Your Excellency Commander..."

The captain of the squadron entering the city finally ran to Neiji Okamura panting heavily, his body was blackened by gunpowder, and he looked like he had just been withdrawn from the battlefield.

Neiji Okamura hurriedly asked without waiting for him to speak: "How many Eighth Route Army troops are there in the city, and where are they mainly concentrated..."

The squadron leader was puzzled and hesitated for a few seconds before speaking: "The Eighth Route Army..."

"Didn't we encounter the Eighth Route Army in the city?"

"Then what happened to the explosion just now?" the division head asked anxiously.

He suffered a loss at the hands of the Yizhong Eighth Route Army last night, and he always wanted to make up for it.

If there is an Eighth Route Army in the city, he can save face with a head-to-head victory.

In the end, his subordinates actually told him that there was no Eighth Route Army in the city, so wasn't he just happy for nothing?

The squadron leader answered with certainty: "Report sir..."

"There really is no Eighth Route Army in the city..."

"The explosion just now was caused by our stepping on a landmine."

"The Eighth Route Army planted a landmine in the barracks, and unfortunately we stepped on it when we went in to investigate..."

"The humble job has ordered the troops to seal off the barracks, and no one can enter until the engineers have cleared the mines."

"Baoding Garrison Headquarters was also planted with landmines by the Eighth Route Army..."

The embarrassment on Neiji Okamura's face disappeared in an instant. If the explosion just now was just a landmine, then the so-called slap in the face would not exist. Immediately ordered: "Send three more infantry squadrons into the city..."

"All the engineering teams under each brigade entered the city to clear all the landmines buried in the city by the Eighth Route Army."

At eleven o'clock in the morning, the captain of the entering city hurriedly answered Neiji Okamura: "Your Excellency, Commander."

"All the landmines planted by the Eighth Route Army in the city have been cleared. There are more than 600 mines in total."

"Fortunately, you realized the danger in the city in advance and sent troops into the city to investigate and find out these mines. Otherwise, these mines would at least cause us thousands of casualties."

"Has the arsenal in the city been destroyed by aviation..." Okamura Neiji suddenly asked another question instead of taking the report from his subordinates.

"Ha Yi..." Although the team leader felt that this question was a bit inexplicable, he still answered it seriously.

"All four arsenals were razed to the ground..."

"The weapons and ammunition stored there by the Baoding Garrison must have been completely destroyed."

Neiji Okamura is not the kind of person who is overjoyed. He shook his head and replied calmly: "Total destruction is impossible."

"The Eighth Route Army entered Baoding City in the early morning, and captured Baoding at two or three o'clock in the morning."

"The air force didn't feel the bombing of the arsenal over Baoding until after dawn."

"There is at least five or six hours of transit time."

"They must have taken a lot of weapons and ammunition."

"The Yizhong Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness is already very strong. With so much equipment and ammunition all of a sudden, the overall combat effectiveness must be stronger."

"It seems that we have to be careful in the next big sweep."

The head of the division immediately comforted: "Compared with the equipment and ammunition stolen by the Eighth Route Army, the ones destroyed by us must account for the majority."

"Even if the combat power of the Eighth Route Army improves, it won't be much."

Okamura Ningji thought about it, this is really the case.

This is a war, and it is impossible for me to take all the benefits, and I always have to suffer some losses.

Little did they know that the four razed arsenals in the city were all bombed by Kong Jie himself.

The purpose is to make Neiji Okamura mistakenly believe that the Eighth Route Army in the Yizhong only got a part of the arsenal of the Baoding Garrison, which will bring limited benefits to the Eighth Route Army in the Yizhong, thus making them think of underestimating the enemy.

For the Yizhong Eighth Route Army, the most obvious change was artillery.

Deducting the artillery for supplementary support troops, each battalion-owned mortar company in the Yizhong base has reached full strength and is equipped with nine mortars.

Although the artillery company directly under the regiment is still organized at the company level, it has been expanded to four rows and eight artillery pieces.

The most exaggerated ones are Sudoku two groups and only one group.

As the main base of Yizhong, they all formed their own artillery battalions, equipped with all field artillery and heavy artillery.

The number of siege artillery alone is nearly double that of before the capture of Baoding, let alone mortars.

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