The opening of the bright sword leads a battalion

Chapter 8 Ambush
Five 10 minutes passed quickly.

After arriving near the ambush point, Captain Luo directed the whole regiment into a hidden location, and did not reunite with 771 and 772.

Because, on both sides of the ambush site, there are two narrow and long hills, and the space is limited, and it may not be enough to deploy two regiments.

At this time, the Kinoshita brigade is speeding up and rushing on the road. As a brigade leader, Kinoshita is actually a classmate of Sakata at the same time.

But it is a pity that Kinoshita, as a commander, is too radical.Therefore, Sakata is now the captain of an elite alliance, but Kinoshita is still only a captain. There is a reason for this.

And after the scouts confirmed that the chasing troops were Ding Wei's 28th Regiment... Kinoshita even urged the troops under his command along the way, telling the soldiers to speed up and pursue quickly.

When approaching the ambush site, Kinoshita also wanted to pass quickly, but for some reason, he always felt something was wrong.

——This place conforms to the landform of the ambush site often chosen by the Eighth Route Army, and the surrounding buildings seem to have some signs of being passive.

Kinoshita is not a fool, at least, being able to become a lieutenant officer shows that his military thinking is quite normal.He waved his hand lightly, and several soldiers jumped out from behind him.

"You guys, go up and have a look!"

He said word by word.

Hearing this, a few soldiers let out a "kill", carefully climbed up the steep slope, and scouted around.

While investigating, the soldiers also poked the grass with bayonets and stabbed the ground to confirm that there was nothing hidden.

But... almost all the details have been searched, but there is still nothing new.

After searching about 30 meters, the soldiers returned and stood in a row in front of Mu Xia.

"Sir, I didn't find it!"

said the soldiers.

Hearing this, Kinoshita looked at the steep slopes on both sides again, and he still felt unsafe.

But...he thought about it, he had a brigade in his hands, so what was the Eighth Route Army?
——The thinking is the same as that of the Yamazaki Brigade, which broke into the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army by itself. At this moment, Kinoshita also looks down on the Eighth Route Army.

In his opinion, a brigade of him is enough to deal with mere eight routes.

So, he waved his hand, and the troops continued to march, tracking down the fleeing 28th regiment of the Eighth Route Army!
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When Kinoshita decided to pursue again, he was 70 meters away.

Cheng Xiazi of the 772nd Regiment and his political commissar exchanged glances, feeling that it was very dangerous just now.

Fortunately, this time, they learned from the previous ambush experience of the Eighth Route Army, and did not set the ambush position at the intersection of this narrow road, but at a distance of 70 meters.

——Before this, the Eighth Route Army had ambushed the Japanese army many times. The more famous one was the battle of Mingpu where the [-]th regiment attacked the enemy's logistics and supply troops in Mingpu.

During the Battle of Mingpu, the Eighth Route Army's ambush troops were discovered by the devils, but fortunately, the [-]th Regiment predicted the retreat route of the devils after they discovered the ambush, and ambushed the devils again, so that the devils did not escape.

But that battle was also very difficult.

Since then, the Eighth Route Army has learned from experience and paid great attention to the concealment of its own troops during ambushes.

Just like this time, Cheng Xiazi and the head of the 771 regiment discussed with the head of the 70 regiment after calculating that the enemy would not investigate too deeply, and placed the troops in the woods [-] meters away from the intersection of the narrow road.

And it was precisely because of this that the Eighth Route Army escaped the detection of the devils and the ambush continued.

"..."

Cheng Xiazi took a look at the marching speed of the devil's troops. In about 2 minutes, most of the devil's troops had entered this narrow road.

He turned on the trigger of the pistol in his hand, glanced behind him, and said:
"Let's miss the enemy's vanguard, we will mainly attack the enemy's luggage behind, follow my order and attack again!"

Hearing this, the soldiers nodded and entered the position gently one by one.

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The troops of the 771st and 772nd regiments approached the ambush position lightly.

In order not to disturb the enemy as much as possible, they stopped a little distance from the top of the ambush position. At this moment, they were ambushing on the mountainside of a hillside.

They had to wait for the commander to give an order before they could rush up a certain distance and enter the position completely.

And Cheng Xiazi carefully observed the devil's forward speed from behind, and made a rough count in his heart.

After all the devil's supply troops entered the narrow road, Cheng Xiazi gave the order.

"fry!"

Hearing this, several soldiers beside him unscrewed the cover of the grenade in their hands and quickly threw the grenade in their hands.

When the soldiers heard the words, they also quickly climbed to the top of the ambush position, poked their heads out quickly, and fired the first shot.

"boom!"

"Bang bang... bang!"

"boom--!"

Continuous rifle shots rang out, grenades exploded all over the place, and with just one encounter, the devils suffered a large number of casualties.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of machine gun bursts also sounded. At this moment, the 772 regiment wanted to run out of bullets in their hands as quickly as possible and annihilate the enemy.

Seeing the fallen devils one after another, the soldiers were even more delighted.

But only the battalion commanders and Cheng Xiazi looked serious, knowing that the next battle would not be as easy as it was at the beginning.

——The Japanese army has never been easy to deal with, especially now, it is still an elite Japanese army.

The Eighth Route Army's ambushes often achieved good results at the beginning, because at the beginning of the ambush, the enemy hadn't reacted yet, and killing the enemy at this time was the most effective.

But then, when the Japanese soldiers reacted, their first reaction must be to find a bunker first and protect themselves.

Then, relying on bunkers to resist the Eighth Route Army, and even in the end, there was a tendency to counterattack.

Right now, Kinoshita Brigade is doing just that.

The follow-up supply unit was attacked, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and Kinoshita was furious.

But fortunately, many soldiers immediately found a bunker and tried to protect themselves as much as possible.

Seeing this, Kinoshita immediately led the vanguard troops that had been missed by the Eighth Route Army. The front team changed to the rear team and rushed up, preparing to counterattack.

As for Cheng Xiazi, because the enemy's marksmanship was very accurate and the fire support was timely, he was also beaten so hard that he couldn't hold his head up for a while.

The battle situation suddenly entered a disadvantage.

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　tell me
　　According to the timeline of the Liangjian TV series, when Cangyunling was hit, it was already early 1940, probably in February

　　In history, in the summer of 1940, the Eighth Route Army launched the Hundred Regiments Campaign.

　　Therefore, at this time, it is not a downsizing, but an expansion. The protagonist is the newly promoted battalion commander, not the demoted deputy commander.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)