Bright Sword: Develop alone, bring back an artillery regiment

Chapter 282 Li Yunlong: We must destroy the enemy as quickly as possible, we can't let Cheng Xiazi take advantage of it!

"Including the wounded, no more than 3000 people?"

Hearing this data, Masao Nishiyama's old face turned into a liver-colored face, as ugly as it could be.

There is no way, the 4th Brigade has two infantry units under its jurisdiction, plus the troops directly under the brigade, a tank squadron, and an artillery brigade, the total strength exceeds 8000 people.

With so many troops dispatched, he couldn't even wipe out a heavily damaged independent battalion of the Eighth Route Army, and more than 5000 people were killed in battle. To him, this was tantamount to a huge failure, and even more a shameful humiliation.

He has even seen his end, and he will definitely not be better than Kazuo Watanabe, the brigade leader of the 9th Brigade.

Although more than half of the 5000 people killed in battle had nothing to do with him (Kasahara Koizumi lost more than 1500 people in the first battle, and the vanguard Sanada brigade lost nearly a thousand people).

Strictly speaking, only the subsequent deaths of more than 2500 people were personally directed by him.

But it doesn't matter so much above.

The commander-in-chief of this battle is Masao Nishiyama, so he must bear all the blame for the defeat!
"Hi Yi!"

Major Guizi nodded heavily, drooping his head, his eyes dodged, not daring to look directly at the brigade leader Masao Nishiyama's almost cannibalistic eyes.

Chief of Staff Tada Ichiro asked cautiously: "Your Excellency, brigade commander, what should we do now?"

Masao Nishiyama said with a gloomy expression: "Attack! Launch a counter-charge!"

Ichiro Tada was stunned: "Your Excellency, brigade commander, do you mean to break out from the front of the main force of the Chinese army?"

Masao Nishiyama: "I'm talking about offense!"

Ichiro Tada: "But right now the main force of the Eighth Route Army of China is attacking."

Masao Nishiyama: "Of course I know that the main force of the Eighth Route Army is attacking, but this is exactly what I want!

The Independent Battalion of the Eighth Route Army has been huddled inside the turtle shell, and we can't do anything about it for the time being, just to collect a little interest from the main force of the Eighth Route Army.

Maybe it can be used to force the independent battalion out of its shell! "

"Besides, what is there to be afraid of if you have only a brigade of troops?"

"Hi Yi! Your Excellency, brigade commander, is wise!"

Tada Ichiro knew that Nishiyama Masao was on fire, and also knew the other party's temper. A disagreement would really kill people, so he didn't dare to touch the other party's bad luck at this time, so he could only bow his head heavily and agreed to his action plan.

So, in addition to leaving about a reinforced squadron of the 4th Brigade of the Japanese Army to prevent the independent battalion from launching a surprise attack from the rear, the rest of the infantry under the cover of artillery launched a countercharge against the main force of the oncoming Eighth Route Army.

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the other side.

The ones who suddenly came out from the rear of the Japanese 4th Brigade were of course the new regiment led by Li Yunlong and the independent regiment led by Ding Wei.

One brigade of the Eighth Route Army has two regiments under its jurisdiction. Therefore, Shao Zuo Guizi reported that the Eighth Route Army has at least one brigade of troops, and there is no problem at all.

What's more, both the Xinyi Regiment and the Independent Regiment are strengthened regiments, with a strength of more than 2500 people and a lot of mortars.

When they arrived at the border of Wangjiacun, although the devil's security force found the Xinyi regiment and the independent regiment hastily killed, the total strength of the two regiments combined exceeded 5000, and the devil's security force was only a squadron , Besides, there is no heavy firepower weapon yet, so how can Li Yunlong and Ding Wei's opponents.

With just one face-to-face encounter, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei defeated the devil's guards, and then continued to fight towards the devil's attack position.

Then, it was time to attack the devil's attack position.

Needless to say, although Li Yunlong and Ding Wei killed the 4th Brigade by surprise, the 4th Brigade quickly reacted, organized troops, and launched a defense.

Although the 4th Brigade suffered heavy casualties when they attacked the Independent Battalion, it is still very difficult for Li Yunlong and Ding Wei to directly defeat the 4th Brigade in one go.

So the two sides fell into a stalemate.

To say that the biggest threat to the Xinyi regiment and the independent regiment is the artillery of the little devils.

Although the Xinyi Regiment and the Independent Regiment have also acquired a lot of artillery recently, there is a big gap compared with the Japanese 4th Brigade in terms of quality and quantity.

Moreover, the quality of artillery is far inferior to that of devils.

After paying a certain amount of casualties, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei had no choice but to give up the storm for the time being, and then discussed together how to defeat the enemy.

Ding Wei: "Old Li, the devil's artillery is too much of a threat to us, especially their artillery is where to shoot.

The firepower of our machine guns can barely last for half a minute before the devils will definitely call in artillery fire. "

Li Yunlong frowned: "The devil's artillery is indeed our biggest threat. We have to find a way to break this threat. We can't wait until Cheng Xiazi and the others arrive, otherwise the spoils will be divided in half between them for nothing." .”

Kong Jie: "Old Li is right, but we can't just take human lives for the sake of sharing more spoils, right?"

Hearing this, both Li Yunlong and Ding Wei fell silent.

Indeed, a large part of the reason why the Eighth Route Army couldn't beat the little devil was that it couldn't deal with the devil's artillery.

Just like now, if you want to defeat the Japanese 4th Brigade, the first thing you have to deal with is their artillery, and to deal with the devil's artillery, you must get close to the devil's artillery position.

But on this road, he will definitely be severely attacked by devils.

You use machine guns to cover, and you will be attacked by devil artillery, which becomes an endless loop.

Therefore, whether it is positional warfare, defensive warfare, or battle of fortifications, when the Eighth Route Army confronts little devils, it almost always has to be beaten.

This is still based on the fact that the devils do not have active aviation and armored forces.

Therefore, when facing the powerful Japanese invaders, the Eighth Route Army could only break up into pieces and fight guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare, or night warfare and ambush warfare.

Because of these battles, the threat of the Devil Artillery can be minimized.

Just as Li Yunlong, Ding Wei and the others fell silent, thinking about how to deal with the devil artillery, there was suddenly a burst of more intense gunfire in front of them.

Then, Zhang Dabiao, the first battalion commander of the new regiment, hurried over and reported to Li Yunlonghui: "Regiment commander, the devils have launched an attack!"

Hearing these words, Li Yunlong, Ding Wei, Kong Jie and others all had several big question marks on their heads.

"What devil launched an attack? Aren't we attacking?"

Zhang Dabiao: "It was indeed us who were attacking before, but now it's the little devil who is actively attacking!"

Li Yunlong was even more confused: "Isn't Masao Nishiyama out of his mind? How dare he take the initiative to attack?"

Ding Wei thought for a while and said, "Lao Li, I don't think it's Masao Nishiyama's brain that's flooded. On the contrary, I think this just proves that this old devil is an extremely difficult opponent!"

Li Yunlong: "Oh? How do you say it?"

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(End of this chapter)