vstars Chapter 115: Shinozuka Yoshio's Headache
Chapter 115: Shinozuka Yoshio's Headache
Yoshio Shinozuka, who was in charge of the rear, felt a little conflicted after receiving the battle report from Kasahara Koizumi, because he also had several other battle reports in his hands.
That is, several other main regiments of the Eighth Route Army all began to move, heading towards their important transportation hubs, especially the headquarters of the 4th, 9th and 11th Brigades.
At this time, the defenses of the headquarters of these brigades were extremely weak. If any of them were not careful, they would be attacked directly by the Eighth Route Army.
Today, the First Army of the Japanese North China Expeditionary Force consists of three divisions and four mixed brigades with a total strength of more than 200,000 people. Now, nearly 30,000 troops have been directly transferred to encircle and suppress the Independent Regiment, which has also caused the defense of some areas to be abnormally empty.
For the three main teams of the Eighth Route Army that were attacking with all their strength at this time, they were almost in an undefended state.
In addition, with the regular military forces of the National Army as a constraint, if nothing was done to stop the three main regiments of the Eighth Route Army, there might be a big chaos.
Maybe these three main groups dare to attack Taiyuan!
However, it was too late to transfer troops from other areas.
How to do?
Yoshio Shinozuka felt an unusual headache.
This is a very difficult decision.
On the one hand, the independent regiment that had caused huge losses to them before and the possible core arsenal have been surrounded. On the other hand, there are three independent regiments of the Eighth Route Army running rampant in the jurisdiction with poor defense. What should they choose?
After hesitating for a long time, Yoshio Shinozuka finally made up his mind and decided to withdraw the 11th Brigade to defend the country, and add two brigades withdrawn from other areas to deal with the three main regiments of the Eighth Route Army.
The remaining 4th and 9th Brigades and one artillery regiment should be able to deal with the independent regiment.
Furthermore, at this time the main force of the independent regiment had been discovered by Kasahara Koizumi, and the next step was to use human lives to wipe out all members of the independent regiment.
Thinking of this, Yoshio Shinozuka laughed at himself. Since when did the Locust Army consider sacrificing human lives when facing the Eighth Route Army?
The offensive and defensive dynamics are different.
When Kasahara Koizumi received feedback from Shinozuka Yoshio at the front line, he almost vomited blood on the spot: After discovering the trace of the main force of the Independent Regiment, not only did they not send reinforcements, they also withdrew the 11th Brigade?
What if our brigade of several thousand people is surrounded by more than a thousand people of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment?
Who will save us then?
Kasahara Koizumi's scalp tingled. Without time to think, he strictly ordered his troops to defend their positions at all costs and not let a single soldier from the independent regiment pass.
When the Japs were going crazy, the assault team on the independent regiment's side also had a headache. The Japs were like crazy, and even though they knew they were going to die, they still kept rushing forward.
In the front, 56th assault tanks were constantly carrying out suppressive fire, and at a long distance, cluster bombs were carrying out a ground-washing attack on the Japanese.
After three waves of 13 cluster bomb attacks, Yu Ye was a little numb. He estimated that at least more than a thousand Japanese soldiers were killed in this wave, but the Japanese soldiers showed no signs of disintegration.
According to the general convention that an army will collapse if its casualties exceed 30%, the Japanese in front of the independent regiment should have collapsed at this time, but these Japanese became more and more courageous as the fight went on.
What Yu Ye and others didn't expect was that Kasahara Koizumi actually came to the rear of the front line in person to supervise the battle.
At present, it seems that the Fourth Brigade is determined to fight to the death.
Yu Ye looked at his inventory of cluster bombs, shook his head and sighed: "Lao Li, I'm afraid we have to change the direction of our breakout, the Japs in this direction are too determined to resist.
I made a total of 120 cluster bombs, 40 each for each of the three rocket launchers. I have just fired 13 of them, and I don't know how many more I have to fire to break through the Japanese encirclement in this direction.
look......"
Before Yu Ye finished speaking, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang had already understood what he meant, which was that if the Japanese in this direction were really difficult to defeat, then they should change direction.
We can't delay any longer. If the Japanese surround us soon, it will be no fun.
Li Yunlong Zhao Gang asked: "Old Zhao, how long has it been since we started fighting?"
"It has been an hour and a half since we ended our shelling. The other breakout teams should have already passed through the first encirclement of the Japanese.
After all, we have attracted most of the enemy's firepower. " Zhao Gang said while looking at the pocket watch in his hand
"Okay, then let's adjust the direction of our breakout."
Li Yunlong's bottom line is extremely flexible. He never fights a battle where he loses. Since the Japanese are going crazy in this direction, he will change direction.
It can't be that the Japs in every direction are crazy, right?
"Old Li, we just captured two puppet soldiers. After asking them the reason, they said that the one in front of us is the 4th Brigade of the Japanese, and their brigade commander is Kasahara Koizumi.
The reason why they fought so hard was because our independent regiment had previously destroyed the camp of the 4th Brigade.
If we defeat them again this time, the commander of the 4th Brigade will probably be forced to commit suicide, so the Japanese are fighting so hard this time.
Moreover, Kasahara Koizumi issued a death order that if anyone dared to retreat, the wives of these Japanese soldiers would be sent to entertain the troops." Zhao Gang said with a frown.
Li Yunlong: “…”
Yu Ye: “…”
"Old Li, it's all your fault. Who told you to fight the Fourth Brigade so hard last time? Now you're forcing them to fight you to the death.
Is it easy for Kasahara Koizumi? He is a brigade commander with 6,000 to 7,000 men under his command, and you have forced him into this state. "
Yu Ye listened to the information Zhao Gang had collected and really didn't know how to complain.
"Fuck me..."
Upon hearing the news, Li Yunlong was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. He didn't know whether to utter the Chinese curse or not.
"Old Yu, you are being a little heartless when you say that. If you hadn't come up with such powerful firepower of 107 rocket launchers and 56 assault rifles, would I have been able to hit them so hard?" Li Yunlong also began to "blame" Yu Ye.
Yu Ye: “…”
Can this boomerang hit me?
After the frontline team increased its firepower and pretended to break out, Li Yunlong led the team to quickly leave the front line and adjust the direction of infiltration.