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Chapter 538 Using Poison Gas Bombs!
Outer positions of Dagu Town.

A commanding height with a wide view, the headquarters of the new regiment.

Li Yunlong was staring at the map, and scouts had sent news that, as expected, the main force of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army concentrated their forces to attack Dagu Town and Lijia Town.

Right now, more than [-] devils and puppet troops have assembled on the outskirts of Dagu Town.

The defense of Dagu Town is the first battalion and the second battalion of the new regiment with a total of more than 4000 people.

The two battalions of the Sixth Division and the Seventh Division have already jumped to the outside line to hibernate in advance, looking for opportunities to destroy the devil's logistics supply line.

"Captain, the devils are attacking."

Zhang Dabiao's voice suddenly sounded.

Li Yunlong raised his head, with a stern expression, he walked quickly to the artillery mirror, and looked forward through the artillery mirror.

In the field of vision of the telescope, about a company of puppet troops and a small group of devils rushed towards the first battalion.

These puppet troops were all cannon fodder, Li Yunlong didn't pay too much attention, and directly focused on the devils behind the puppet troops.

These devils are very chicken thieves, walking lightly and coquettishly, walking forward with a bowed body, always ensuring that there are puppet soldiers directly in front of them to block bullets, and try to get as close to a position with a bunker as they move.

Just judging from the probing attack, this group of devils is very different from the devils of the second-line division that they encountered before.

The tactical movements are very skillful, and the marksmanship must be accurate and scary.

Zhang Dabiao put down his binoculars, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly: "Commander, if you want me to say that this type A division is nothing, it's still the same old way, as soon as it comes up, it will test the attack, after the test, the artillery will bombard it, and the infantry will charge after the artillery bombardment. As soon as the regiment's firepower comes out, the little devil who is going to fight is called ancestor, is it okay to disrespect ancestor?"

Li Yunlong sneered and asked, "Have the scouts found the Devil's artillery position?"

Zhang Dabiao replied: "According to the report of the scouts, the devil did not set up the artillery position at the artillery position of the 36th Division last time. The specific location has not been found yet. The defense around the artillery position of the little devil is very tight. At least two There are devils from a cavalry squadron and an infantry squadron for protection around, and even the sword squadron can't get close."

The artillery positions set up by the Devils last time were within the firing range of the new regiment of 150mm heavy artillery.

And the shooting elements were calibrated in advance. If the devil set the artillery position at the last position, the heavy artillery position of the new regiment only needs a few rounds of shelling to blow up the devil's artillery position.

Li Yunlong didn't think it was a pity either, the devils of this type A division were smarter than those of the second-tier division.

In front of the Xinyi Regiment's frontal position, the vanguard of the puppet army has already reached a distance of 50 meters from the forward position.

"Call me!"

One company of the first battalion had already prepared in the trenches, and followed the order of the company commander.

The soldiers pulled the trigger, gunshots rang out, and there was a crackling sound like fried beans in the new group of positions.

The soldiers of the puppet army fell down instantly.

"Tom tom tom!"

"Da da da!"

Four 4mm machine guns, M20 heavy machine guns, and 2mm mortars belonging to the fire platoon fired simultaneously.

In an instant, a large number of puppet soldiers fell down again, and more than a dozen puppet troops were torn apart by 20mm shells and M2 heavy machine guns.

Although the puppet soldiers were afraid of death, their combat quality was touching, and they responded the moment the gun fired, but their actions were still not as fast as the devils.

The moment after the gunshot, the devil soldiers crawled and rolled behind the bunker in different postures, then pushed the bullets, loaded them and raised their guns to shoot.

It's just that most of the bunkers outside the frontal slope were buried with landmines, and these bunkers were deliberately left uncleared, which is a way to prevent devils.

Accompanied by a burst of bang bang bang, blood mist rises along with the gunpowder smoke from the soil.

The soldiers of the new regiment were not very interested in the puppet army. After killing two rows of puppet soldiers, the puppet soldiers were all prostrate on the ground, not even daring to fire their guns under the dense rain of bullets.

As a result, the firepower of the Xinyi Regiment extended towards the devils behind. The devils were very accurate with marksmanship and had already killed three machine gunners and several riflemen of the Xinyi Regiment.

But as the rain of bullets extended, the remaining devils didn't dare to show their heads at all, and they would be beaten into a sieve.

"Ba Ga, retreat!"

The leader of the Devil squad shouted loudly from behind the cover, turned around and slipped away, followed by the Devil soldiers running wildly.

The puppet soldiers lay on the ground and did not dare to move. They were too close to the front line of the Eighth Route. If they turned around and ran away, they would definitely be shot and killed on the spot. Playing dead was the best choice.

……

Seeing that nearly 200 people were defeated and less than 20 people retreated, Tatsuharu Yamaguchi's face was gloomy.

The more than 100 puppet troops were cannon fodder, and the old devil didn't feel bad at all, but more than half of the more than 60 Japanese soldiers in a small team suffered casualties, and this casualty rate was somewhat beyond his expectations.

If the fight continues like this, I am afraid that the 40th Infantry Regiment will suffer more than half of its casualties?
Taking a deep breath, Tatsuharu Yamaguchi stabilized his mind and walked into the brigade headquarters.

General Tatsuharu Yamaguchi was about to speak, when the head of the brigade, Major General Saburo Miura, said coldly: "I have already seen it. After the artillery shelling by the locust army is over, your 40th Regiment will attack again!"

"Brigade commander, how many troops will be invested this time?" Tatsuharu Yamaguchi asked.

"One battalion of the Locust Alliance Army, one squadron of the Locust Army!"

Saburo Miura said coldly:
"Those locust alliance troops are all fearful of death. Such behavior is simply detrimental to the honor of the soldiers."

"Order the artillery to conduct indiscriminate bombardment within 100 meters of the eight frontier positions, and show the Locust Alliance Army a look at what will happen if they do not cooperate honestly with the Locust Army."

As a battle-tested old devil with vicious eyesight, he can naturally see that there are still some puppet troops pretending to be dead in the forward positions of the Eighth Route Army.

"Hi!"

Yamaguchi Tatsumura sneered, turned and left.

"What about the left wing?"

Saburo Miura looked at Bino Ono, the Chief of Staff.

Chief of Staff Nobino said: "Report to the head of the brigade, the left wing's attack is not going well, the small road can indeed lead to Dagu Town, but the Eighth Road is full of landmines on that small road, and even built thicker bunkers, The attacking squadron suffered more than 40 casualties and has been withdrawn."

Miura Saburo narrowed his eyes, expressionless.

Following the order from the brigade and regiment headquarters, the muzzle of one of the mountain cannons burst into flames on the Japanese artillery position 3 kilometers behind.

The shell rose into the air, crossed an arc in the air, and landed at a position 50 meters away from the front position of the new group. A dazzling red light and a large cloud of mud fog burst out, blowing the two puppet troops into the air. stand up.

Not long after, the second shell arrived and landed on the Xinyi regiment's position.

It's just that the soldiers of the new regiment have already hid in the tunnel, leaving only a few observation posts with walkie-talkies in a safer position.

"Boom boom boom!"

Immediately afterwards, a round of intensive artillery shells landed on the new group's position, bursting out clouds of fire and smoke.

The devil's 28 guns started firing at full speed.

……

New regiment headquarters.

With a helmet on his head, Chen Feng walked into the headquarters under the protection of Yan Shuangying.

Li Yunlong was taken aback when he saw Chen Feng coming to the forward command post: "Brother Chen, no, Consultant Chen, this place is too dangerous, you should go to the back and watch."

Chen Feng is the father of the Xinyi Regiment and even the Eighth Route Army, and Li Yunlong is really afraid that something will happen to him.

Maybe one of the devil's shells missed and fell into the headquarters, it would be cool.

There are too many unexpected situations on the battlefield.

"I'll just take a look." Chen Feng said, "I will definitely not interfere with your command. Since you are all here, how can I be afraid?"

"Okay then, but don't go down." Li Yunlong could only nod his head.

Li Yunlong also had nothing to do with Chen Feng, he couldn't let Zhang Dabiao put Chen Feng down.

If he did that, Chen Feng would definitely not cooperate with him, and Li Yunlong would become a sinner of the Eighth Route Army.

Chen Feng took the telescope from Yan Shuangying, and looked through the field of vision of the telescope.

The artillery shells continued to fall, and violent explosion smoke rose from the frontal slope, and even a shell exploded at a position 100 meters away from the command post, scaring Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao into a cold sweat.

The two of them are naturally not afraid of the devil's shells, but Boss Chen is here, they can have an accident, and Boss Chen must not.

Seeing that Li Yunlong and Zhang Dabiao were nervous because of his arrival, Chen Feng had no choice but to leave.

Before leaving, Chen Feng told Li Yunlong that he wanted to kill the devils to enjoy himself if he left a few wounded devils.

Li Yunlong naturally agreed: "Don't talk about a few devils wounding soldiers, even if you want Iwamatsu Yoshio's life, I can twist the old devil's head off and use it as a chamber pot for you, brother. The price is negotiable..."

Chen Feng ignored him, turned around and walked away quickly with Yan Shuangying, his mind was full of business these days.

……

The devils shelled continuously for about 5 minutes, blowing up the new group of earthworks to pieces, and by the way plowed the 100-meter area of ​​the forward position with shells.

Most of the puppet soldiers who pretended to be dead were killed by bombing.

Subsequently, a battalion of the puppet army and a squadron of the Japanese army with nearly 600 troops rushed towards the position of the first battalion.

This round of the devil's attack was defended by two companies from the first battalion. Under the intensive firepower, the devil's puppet army fell in pieces.

The main reason is that the firepower of the Xinyi Regiment is too dense. Whether it is the puppet army who are the cannon fodder or the devils who are the main force behind them, they are crushed under the intensive firepower.

The devils in Division A are very powerful. Soldiers must be accurate in marksmanship, and the tactical coordination is perfect. The two wings attack together.

But it's useless, even if the artillery blows up the puppet troops who crashed to death, under the intensive firepower, these puppet troops only persisted for a while and then fell into chaos.

As some bunkers of the new regiment and battalion joined the battle, the 82mm mortars on the reverse slope began to operate, and the dense shells blew up the puppet army and the ghost soldiers of the first division.

Under the dense rain of bullets and artillery fire, the ghost soldiers of these Type A divisions died in the same way as the ghosts of the puppet army and the second-line division.

In less than 10 minutes, the Devils and Puppet Army quickly retreated, and the second attack was fruitless. The Devils and Puppet Army suffered more than 600 casualties, while the Xinyi Regiment only suffered dozens of casualties.

"Your Excellency, Head of the Brigade!"

In the Japanese Army Headquarters, the chief of staff, Bino Ono, said: "It is impossible to fight like this. The Eighth Route uses a combination of reverse slopes and tunnels. Our artillery has hardly played a role."

"Then how do you fight?"

Major General Miura Saburo's face was a bit ugly, and he continued to attack like this, but he continued to take the lives of the soldiers of the locust army.

Bino Ohno said: "Aiming at the tunnel and reverse slope tactics of the Eighth Route Army, General Kazuki Yamamoto proposed a countermeasure to let the engineers dig in the way of soil work to shorten the impact distance. As long as the locust soldiers rush into the Eighth Route Army's position , with superb stabbing skills, he will soon be able to capture the position."

Miura Sanlang waved his hand and said, "No, first attack with gas bombs again!"

"Hi!"

Bino Ohno had no choice but to nod his head helplessly.

The use of gas bombs in combat in violation of international law was nothing more than routine for the 10th Division.

(End of this chapter)