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Chapter 668 The curtain opens!

On a small soil bag more than ten meters above the ground, the Eighth Route Army set up a lookout post.

Lying on this observation post, you can clearly see the movements of the devils on the road.

A platoon leader and a soldier directly under the reconnaissance company of the two new regiments were lying on the observation post at this time.

Seeing the Devil's cavalry unit passing by, followed by Devil's infantry, as well as a large number of cars and armored vehicles, the soldiers couldn't help but gasp: "Platoon leader, how many devils are there here?!"

"How many devils?" The platoon leader said flatly, "It's shocking to say that, this time we have more than 3 devils to ambush."

"3 devils!" The soldier continued to be shocked, "No wonder, brothers from the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment have come."

"Platoon leader, I saw two devil major generals." The soldier put down his binoculars and said.

"Where is it?" The platoon leader was startled, and hurriedly raised his binoculars to look.

Both of them were lying on the snow, the platoon leader was holding a semi-automatic sniper rifle camouflaged with white cloth strips, and the soldiers acted as his observers.

According to the direction prompted by the soldiers, the platoon leader raised his binoculars to look, and sure enough, he saw two tall Japanese horses and two devil officers with the rank of major general.

The soldier said in a regretful tone: "If Commissar Zhao's big sniper is in my hands, I can also kill the two devil major generals."

The two devil major generals were riding on horses, and they were about to walk right in front of their observation posts soon.

Their location is about 1.5 kilometers away from the road, and the semi-automatic sniper rifle in their hands cannot reach them.

Political commissar Zhao killed two devil officers with a big sniper in Niangziguan, which became a myth and record of the Eighth Route Army, and no one has ever broken it.

Under Zhao Gang's encouragement and Boss Chen's provision of a large number of training bullets, a large number of sharpshooters emerged from the New Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.

"Your boy has a talent for shooting, but Commissar Zhao is not so easy to surpass." The platoon leader said, "Even if you are given that big sniper, it is impossible for your boy to have that marksmanship."

The soldier said: "I can't do it now, but it doesn't mean I won't do it in the future."

"You guys are quite ambitious." The platoon leader didn't want to dampen the enthusiasm of the soldiers, and said, "Give me the walkie-talkie."

"Yes."

The platoon leader took the walkie-talkie from the soldier, then opened the communication channel of the walkie-talkie and called: "Regiment headquarters, regiment headquarters, call the regiment headquarters..."

Immediately, the platoon leader reported the positions of the two devil major generals to the regiment headquarters.

……

"Report to the head, observation post No. [-] found two devil major generals."

After the staff received the news, Wang Dehou immediately reported the information to Li Yunlong.

"Major General, or two?"

Li Yunlong's heart skipped a beat, and he found out the location of observation post No. [-] on the map.

According to the map, the No. [-] observation post is almost at the entrance of the large ambush position.

That is to say, the two devil major generals were discovered by the observation posts of the Eighth Route Army as soon as they entered the ambush position.

These two devil major generals did not ride in a car, but rode a horse, and they were not with the cavalry, so they were easily spotted by the observation post of the new regiment among a group of infantry.

Xing Zhiguo said: "These two devil major generals should be Major General Ito Shinpei, head of the First Brigade of the First Division, and Major General Iteng Yoshio, head of the Second Brigade."

Li Yunlong nodded. There are only two major generals in the first division. Who else could it be?

"God, this is to make our old Li rich."

The corner of Li Datuan's mouth curled up slightly.

Kill a major general, the price is an opportunity for air support, or 4 B4 heavy howitzers.

Two devil major generals appeared at once, and these two devil major generals had already entered the ambush circle of the Eighth Route Army!
The fat has reached his mouth, and now Li Yunlong only needs to roll his tongue to lick the fat into his mouth and eat it into his stomach.

In this ambush, a total of 5 main troops were used. Even if only these two devil major generals were killed, the battle would not be a loss.

"Pass my order."

"The observation post always reports to the regiment headquarters the location of these two devil major generals."

"After all the devils entered the ambush circle, the heavy artillery battalion took the lead in firing at the positions of the two devils major generals."

In order to kill the two devil major generals, Li Yunlong planned to use more than 30 150mm howitzers from the heavy artillery battalion to bombard the devil major generals.

"Hey hey hey..."

Leader Li smiled, but the smile was a bit cold:
"More than 30 150mm howitzers, placed on the devil's side, can also form a heavy artillery regiment, enough for the two devils to drink a pot."

Wang Dehou immediately asked the combat staff to notify the observation posts along the way to report the location of the two devil major generals at all times.

……

An hour passed quickly.

Major Generals Ito Shinpei and Yoshio Iteng had no idea that they had been targeted by more than 30 150mm heavy artillery.

Instead of noticing the danger, the two old devils felt very comfortable. Looking at the endless snow, they even wanted to write a poem.

Ito Shinpei said with a smile: "Although the weather here is relatively cold, it is far worse than outside the customs."

"Yeah." Yoshio An Teng said bluntly, "I don't know what happened to the North China Front Army and the First Army. They couldn't even defeat a group of peasants. They were first transferred from our Kwantung Army. Three divisions, and our first division was transferred into the customs, the Eighth Route New First Regiment in Northwest Shanxi, is it that difficult to deal with?"

"Who knows, I heard from my classmate Kazuki Yamamoto that the Eighth Route in Northwest Shanxi has strong firepower and sufficient logistics supplies. It is normal that the First Army is not an opponent."

Ito Shinpei said:
"An enemy who is worthy of being the opponent of our first division should not be an ordinary person."

"Kazuki Yamamoto?" Yoshio Anteng asked, "Is that the one who was sent to Germany to study, but devoted himself to studying special operations and wasted the resources of the empire?"

Kazuki Yamamoto and Shinpei Ito were classmates at the Imperial Japanese Army University.

At that time, Kazuki Yamamoto and the secret service team also belonged to the First Division, but they were only the rank of Zhongzuo. They formed reinforcements with the artillery unit of the First Division to participate in the Battle of Nomenkan, but the battle was over before reaching the battlefield.

later.

Kazuki Yamamoto and his secret service team were favored by Yoshio Shinozuka, and Kazuki Yamamoto and his secret service team were transferred to the First Army and promoted to the rank of Dazuo.

And then Yoshio Shinozuka sent the Yamamoto special team to Daxia Bay to attack the Eighth Route Army headquarters.

While the two were talking, a devil officer who looked at the rank of Major over his shoulder rode up and chased him up.

The devil officer wearing the rank of Shaozuo is named Ma Yuanxinyi, and he is a combat staff officer of the division and regiment headquarters.

"Ma Yuan-kun." Ito Shinpei reined in his horse and asked, "What do you want?"

Ma Yuanxin exclaimed and said, "For the safety of the two major generals, Chief of Staff Xin Ye asked me to invite you to the armored vehicle. This area already belongs to the northwest of Shanxi Province. It is very difficult for the two major generals to march on the road on horseback. The former deputy chief of staff of the North China Front Army, Hirata Zhengjuan, was shot and killed by a sniper from the Eighth Route Army at a distance of 1.7 kilometers.”

Iteng Yoshio and Ito Shinpei shrank their pupils slightly when they heard the words, they looked at each other, and they both saw a hint of surprise in each other's eyes.

Shooting and killing the major general 1.7 kilometers away?

What level of sniper is this?What level of weapon is it?

……

at the same time.

About 7 kilometers from the road.

On the artillery position of the new heavy artillery battalion, 34 150mm howitzers had already deployed their mounts and raised their barrels.

"Azimuth... 7 kilometers away..."

"Ruler..."

"left……"

When the two devil major generals stopped, the artillery observers in front communicated the shooting figures to the heavy artillery battalion position by walkie-talkie.

Following the commanding flag commander, the soldiers suddenly waved down the command flag in their hands.

The 34 150mm howitzers shook together, and at the same time as the wind blew up the snow and splashed, orange-red fireworks burst out from the muzzle.

The 34 high-explosive shells with a caliber of 150mm soared into the sky driven by the propellant, drew a series of low arcs in the sky, and finally swooped down and smashed in the direction of the two devil major generals.

……

Although Ito Shinpei and Iteng Yoshio refused to accept the chief of staff of the First Division, Shinno Kazuo.

Because their military rank is Major General, while Xinye Yihuo's military rank is Major General, which is why they did not ride in an armored vehicle with Xinye Yihuo.

But for the sake of their own safety, they decided to dismount and find an armored vehicle to sit on.

Sitting in an armored vehicle, even if there is a local sniper, and the sniper's sniper rifle is powerful enough to penetrate the armor of the armored vehicle, but the target must be locked on, right?

After thinking about it, Ito Shinpei and Iteng Yoshio felt that it would be safer in the armored vehicle.

At this moment, there were some weird whistling sounds in the air, and the sound swept across the endless snow field, from far to near.

The two major generals, Ito Shinpei and Iteng Yoshio, had experienced many battles, and their faces turned pale in an instant. As professional soldiers, they certainly knew that the sound was made by high-speed projectiles piercing the air.

And judging by the whistling sound, there are a lot of shells.

Ito Shinpei and Iteng Yoshio couldn't help shrinking their chrysanthemums.

He was about to get off his horse and lie down, but it was too late, and the first round of shells had already landed on the road and its vicinity.

Boom boom boom...

Amidst the earth-shaking explosion, the entire highway and its vicinity were filled with gunpowder smoke and shrapnel flew across.

A German 150mm shell from the running group of the heavy artillery battalion was falling on the positions of two major generals, Ito Shinpei and Iteng Yoshio, turning two devil major generals, a devil major, and three army horses into a pink mist .

When the first round of shells exploded and the smoke cleared, the two major generals, a major and three army horses disappeared without a trace.

Due to the coverage of artillery fire, there was no test firing in advance, but the shooting elements were determined by precise methods.

If you are poor, you will strike with precision, and if you are rich, you will be covered by artillery fire.

As soon as the heavy artillery battalion opened fire, dozens of hundreds of signal guns on each ambush position were fired almost simultaneously. With a series of red signal flares rising into the air, the ambushing soldiers jumped up from the ambush position.

The infantry approached the road with their guns in hand, and the artillerymen quickly set up mortars and fired at the devils on the road in the distance.

Not long after, shells fired from cannons of various calibers fell from different directions near the road, and the metal bullets with a breath of death made a terrifying sound.

The battle begins.

Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Ding Wei, Kong Jie, and Xing Zhiguo walked out of the cave to the top of the mountain to observe the situation on the battlefield.

On the other hand, Wang Dehou stayed at the headquarters to coordinate and command the battlefield. If he encountered a situation that he couldn't decide, he would use the walkie-talkie to call Li Yunlong.

The location where they are located is the highest mountain in the vicinity, which is tens of meters high. Looking down from here, they can almost overlook the entire battlefield.

Everyone quickly raised their hands and looked towards the battlefield.

On the seven-kilometer-long front, more than 800 artillery pieces fired at the same time, and the artillery shells formed a cobweb-like orange-red ballistic trajectory over the snow. .

Two guards set up a pair of artillery mirrors, and Li Yunlong bowed in front of the artillery mirrors and looked at the battlefield, with a stern look on his face showing a fierce killing spirit.

A combat staff officer held a camera, facing Li Yunlong's sideways and face at this time, and clicked the shutter.

A picture of Captain Li Datuan watching the battle in person was frozen forever.

Immediately afterwards, the combat staff took a camera and took a picture of Zhao Gang, Ding Wei, Kong Jie and others.

"Haha, I want to sing a poem in this situation."

Seeing this grand fireworks show, Shi Xing, the head of Confucius Institute, said:
"Looking at the big scene from a distance, it's big when you look up close. It's really big. It's really big."

"I'm stupid." Ding Wei cursed when he heard the words, "Old Kong, who taught you to write poems like this?"

"I think Lao Tzu's poems are bad." Kong Jie retorted, "Then you have one?"

Ding Wei said unhappily: "What time is it, who is still in the mood to write poetry?"

"The Devil's Cavalry Squad has started running, coming towards us." Kong Jie said suddenly, "Is it the Devil's Cavalry who discovered the location of our headquarters?"

"Probably not." Li Yunlong shook his head, "Pass my order, the 1st Battalion of the Cavalry of the New First Regiment, the 2nd Battalion of the Cavalry, the Cavalry Battalion of the Independent Regiment, the Cavalry Battalion of the New Second Regiment, and face the Devil Cavalry Wing."

The devil's cavalry regiment was also shelled, but they were cavalry after all, and they ran much faster than infantry, and they quickly left the shelling range.

The cavalry companies of the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment were also expanded into cavalry battalions, but the cavalry battalions of their two regiments only had more than 300 cavalry, which did not reach the size of a cavalry regiment.

However, with the addition of the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Battalions, the total cavalry strength reached 2000 cavalry.

All the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army who participated in the battle used modified semi-automatic carbines and Yunlong swords that could suppress the devil cavalry swords.

The Devil Cavalry Wing only has more than 1300 cavalry, and it has just been bombed for two rounds.

The Eighth Route Army cavalry was hiding in the nearby woods, and they had already received orders to attack. At this time, they were less than 3 kilometers away from the Devil cavalry.

……

Datong.

Inside the Japanese Army Headquarters.

"Teacher commander!"

A staff officer hurried in:

"The locust army headed to the northwest of Shanxi was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army. The chief of staff, Chief of Staff Xin Ye, asked for tactical guidance!"

"Which regiment was ambushed?"

Mitsuo Nakazawa, head of the First Division, who was playing chess with Shigetoku Kuroda, head of the 26th Division, frowned slightly.

Being ambushed and harassed on a small scale was expected by Mitsuo Nakazawa.

Could it be that 3 infantry regiments, 1 cavalry regiment, 2 artillery regiments, external processing regiments and supply regiments, a total of 8 regiments with nearly 3 elite locust troops, could not cope with the Eighth Route Army ambush?
Also request tactical guidance?
Niano-kun is a waste.

"It's not that any wing was ambushed, but all the wings were ambushed at the same time. The enemy's firepower is very fierce!"

The devil's staff officer lowered his head and answered.

"Nani?" Mitsuo Nakazawa stood up abruptly, with an unbelievably shocked look on his face, "All the alliances were ambushed? How is this possible?"

(End of this chapter)