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Chapter 572 Neiji Okamura: Great advantage!
As the time goes.

The tanks of the new regiment soon came within 100 meters of the forward positions of the devils and puppet troops.

In the back, the soldiers have always maintained the formation of the three-three combat attack.

At this time, the heavy artillery group and the mountain artillery group had stopped firing, because it was easy to accidentally injure their own people.

However, the 82mm mortars and 60mm mortars of the first battalion continued to pour shells towards the positions of the devils and puppet troops.

The devils and puppet soldiers hiding in the tunnel have already come out of the tunnel one after another, facing the dense explosions and shooting at the soldiers of the third company.

Da da da…

In the continuous gunfire, facing the shrapnel that swept over at any time, and listening to the deafening explosion, the Devil's machine gunner sprinkled barrage after barrage at the soldiers of the new regiment and third company.

Devils were constantly being hit by shells, but the devils seemed not afraid of death, and the devils and puppet soldiers shot with guns one after another.

The marksmanship of the devil soldiers of the 10th Division was displayed at this moment. At a distance of about 100 meters, the marksmanship of the devils was terrifyingly accurate.

Two Leopard tanks fired at the devil's position.

Accompanied by a muffled sound of tom, the body of the tank shook slightly, a burst of fireworks burst out from the tank's gun barrel, and a shell hit a point of fire of the devil's heavy machine gun.

boom!
At the targeted firepower point, several devils and Type [-] heavy machine guns immediately flew into the sky.

The Devil's 20mm anti-tank gun and 37mm anti-tank gun were also firing, but unfortunately they hit the Leopard tank without pain.

The tank's machine gun was also firing at the devil's position 100 meters away. Occasionally, the machine gun bullet hit the head of the devil's puppet army and exploded like a watermelon.

At this time, as the smoke bombs gradually dissipated, the Devil's machine gunners in the gun towers and bunkers had a clear vision, so they joined in the shooting of the soldiers of the third company.

at the same time.

The Guizishan artillery in the distance opened fire, under the guidance of the Guizi observers, the target was two attacking tanks.

Explosions are constantly rising around the tank. The turret is the weakest part of the tank. The armor on the top of the turret is only 16mm thick. If a 75mm shell hits the top turret of the tank, it is also very dangerous.

Coupled with the continuous firing of mortars and infantry artillery from the devil's reverse slope, the attack of the third company was suppressed.

In the battalion headquarters of the first battalion, Li Yunlong, who saw this scene, immediately said to Zhang Dabiao: "Stop the attack immediately, and withdraw the third company and the tanks!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Dabiao picked up the walkie-talkie and called, "Hello, Sanlian?"

"This is the battalion headquarters. I am Zhang Dabiao. I will immediately order your company to stop attacking and retreat immediately!"

Following the order from the battalion headquarters, the attacking third company retreated under Yang Chuanlin's order, and withdrew from the offensive area under the cover of two tanks.

The Xinyi regiment's two attacks were frustrated. If there were no tanks to cover them, the devils and the puppet army might have made a countercharge.

Then, the two tanks also withdrew and were not hit by the devil's mountain cannon.

The 10th Division has only one artillery regiment, and it is still divided into two parts to fight, one half is on the side of Lijia Town, and the other half is on the side of Dagu Town.

Although the third company did not capture the position, the devils and puppet troops were also uncomfortable.

There were nearly 82 60mm mortars and 30mm mortars in the first battalion. With full firepower, about half of the devils and puppet troops on the position were filled with shells.

Looking at the retreating Sanlian, Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes slightly, and the most worrying thing still happened.

Sure enough, the 10th Division used the tactics of the new regiment to deal with the new regiment.

The tunnels, reverse slopes, thickened bunkers and gun towers, and the artillery support of the distant mountain artillery group are exactly the same as the new regiment resisting the attack of the 10th Division.

The difference is that the 10th tunnel is not as stable as the tunnel of the new regiment, the thickened bunkers and gun towers are individual, and the bunker group is not as dense as that of the new regiment, and the artillery firepower of the devils is far less powerful than that of the new regiment.

In the attack of just over ten minutes, three consecutive casualties accounted for nearly one-third of the troops.

If the devils had a new regiment of bunkers, artillery firepower, and powerful infantry firepower, it would not be surprising that two-thirds of the three companies' casualties would be two-thirds.

The combat power of the third company is at the top of the new regiment. If the enemy is a second-line division and there are no tunnels, after the artillery group bombards the devil's position, it will be able to capture the position without the cover of tanks.

Right now, the three companies are equipped with 8 flamethrowers, 2 in each row.

If you can rush to the devil's position, even if the devil and the puppet soldiers hide in the tunnel, they will be roasted into roast pigs by the flames from the flamethrower.

Li Yunlong knew very well that in just the middle of the night, the devil's tunnel must not have been dug very deep, and the flamethrower could completely burn the devils and puppet troops hiding inside.

Devils in bunkers and gun towers will also be burned into roast pigs.

The problem now is that the devils have built a lot of earthworks around the gun towers and bunkers. If the fire-breathing soldiers and infantry want to approach the tunnel entrances and bunker towers, they must first take down their positions.

If you want to win the position, you have to pay at least two-thirds of the soldiers of a company.

If the devil's infantry is still hidden on the reverse slope, the devil's counterattack will not only fail to take the position, but even all 200 people will have to be reimbursed.

Although there is tank cover, tanks can't protect the infantry from being killed by the devil's cannons on the reverse slope and the devil's machine guns on the thickened bunkers and gun towers.

Although the casualties of the devils and puppet troops of the 10th Division were indeed greater than those of the Xinyi Regiment, there are more than 30 such thickened blockhouses and gun towers from here to Heyuan County.

Even if there is no place to thicken the bunkers and gun towers, the devil's engineers can find a hill at random by the side of the road, build earthworks and dig tunnels.

According to this way of fighting, it is estimated that half of the new regiment will have to fight to break out, and it will take more than ten days.

But what Xinyi regiment lacks most now is time. The Xinyi regiment must defeat the 10th division as soon as possible, and open a gap to cover the retreat of the common people.

However, Li Datuan, who always had a lot of tricky ideas, suddenly ran out of a better way.

"Da Biao, suspend the attack before the order is issued!"

"Let's go back to the regiment department!"

Li Yunlong first said something to Zhang Dabiao, and then called Chen Feng and Xing Zhiguo to get on the jeep and return to the regiment headquarters.

He went to the battlefield to take a look, just to see if the devils used that tactic, and to think of a way to see if he could think of a counter tactic.

……

After more than 20 minutes.

Li Yunlong, Chen Feng and Xing Zhiguo returned to the regiment headquarters in Dagu Town.

The three of them walked towards the regiment headquarters while discussing tactics.

As soon as he entered the regiment headquarters, Wang Dehou greeted him and said to Li Yunlong and others: "Just now the headquarters received a call. The 26th Independent Infantry Regiment of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Datong has already set off from Datong to reinforce the 10th Division."

"This is really not good news." Li Yunlong frowned slightly.

The 10th Division actually received reinforcements from an infantry regiment, which made the already unfavorable situation for the new regiment even worse.

"How is the battle going in the first battalion?"

Seeing the expressions of Li Yunlong and Xing Zhiguo, Wang Dehou couldn't help but thump in his heart, and then asked.

"The battle situation is not good." Xing Zhiguo said, "The devils used our tactics, and the position is really fucking difficult to attack. Three consecutive attacks and two casualties caused one-third of the casualties, but they failed to capture the position."

"That's not a good situation." Wang Dehou frowned. "The other battalions and sub-battalions have just reported. It's the same situation as the first battalion. The attack is not going well."

His tactics of tunnels and reverse slopes are indeed powerful, making it difficult for the 10th Division to advance an inch, and causing heavy casualties to the four devil divisions attacking the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment.

Now the devils of the 10th Division are using this tactic to deal with the new regiment in turn, and they can't think of a good counter tactic.

Suddenly, Wang Dehou seemed to have thought of something, and looked at Chen Feng aside: "Consultant Chen invented the tunnel and reverse slope tactics. Does Consultant Chen have any countermeasures?"

Li Yunlong and Xing Zhiguo also hurriedly looked at Chen Feng.

"There are no counter tactics, but I have a weapon that can greatly reduce casualties and increase attack speed." Chen Feng glanced at everyone and said.

If the tunnel and reverse slope tactics were so easy to crack, the U.S. military would not be beaten to the point of crying by the volunteers.

Unless there are weapons of mass destruction such as thermobaric bombs, cloud explosion bombs and ground penetrating bombs.

However, this is also the first time for the devil to play this kind of tactics. He has explored and studied in the battle, and has not yet grasped the essence of tunnel tactics.

"What weapon?" Li Yunlong asked hastily.

……

noon.

Heyuan County, Headquarters of the 10th Division.

Chief of Staff Ryoichi Asada reported to Moritake Tanabe and Jiro Ishikawa the combat reports submitted by the brigades:

"This morning, the 8th Brigade repelled 6 attacks from the Eighth Route, and the 33rd Brigade repelled 5 attacks from the Eighth Route, killing at least 500 soldiers from the Eighth Route, and more than 800 soldiers from the Locust Army."

In addition to the first battalion attacking, the other battalions were also attacking the devils, and it became a mess.

"Yo Xi!"

"Yo Xi!"

Ishikawa Jiro and Tanabe Moritake heard the words and said almost at the same time, with long-lost smiles on their faces.

Although the casualties of the Japanese soldiers were more than those of the Xinyi Regiment, the casualties of our own soldiers were several times that of the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army during the attack a few days ago, which is much smaller.

"The tunnel and reverse slope tactics are really powerful!"

Moritake Tanabe said with emotion, if it weren't for the tunnel and reverse-slope tactics, the new regiment would probably be in full swing.

"This is called walking the enemy's way, leaving the enemy nowhere to go."

石川二郎表情恢复了自信：“第26师团独立步兵第11联队将补充进第10师团，第10师团的兵力就远超八路军新一团，第10师团完全能耗得起。”

Moritake Tanabe nodded with an extremely satisfied expression:
"It seems that Li Yunlong has nothing to do with this kind of tactics, otherwise he wouldn't have played so hard."

Then, Moritake Tanabe looked at the chief of staff and said, "Asada-kun, send this battle report to Commander Okamura immediately."

"Hi!"

Ryoitsu Asada paused, turned around and walked towards the division communication team.

About 20 minutes later, Neiji Okamura, who was far away in Beiping, received a telegram from the frontline headquarters.

Hearing the contents of the telegram read by the communications staff officer, Deputy Nei Okamura heaved a long sigh of relief.

The locust army has a great advantage!

(End of this chapter)