Rise from the sword

Chapter 371 Retreat and Casualties

empty.

fake.

The underground ammunition depot in Beicheng District is empty, there are only some empty ammunition boxes inside, it is a fake ammunition depot.

He spent most of the 240 heavy artillery shells, more than half of the 150 heavy artillery shells, and a large number of other shells of various calibers. The casualties were close to the northern part of Shou County, which was taken by the imperial army of the regiment.

It's a trap.

It was a trap that Li Yunlong deliberately threw out to attract him to attack, restrain his troops and firepower, and consume his shells and vitality.

As for him, he attacked the northern part of the city wildly and violently for more than ten days. Nearly half of the imperial army of the regiment fell here.

For a while, Yoshio Shinozuka was dizzy, his vision gradually blurred, and a sense of powerlessness came from all over his body.

At this moment, because the attack on Shou County has not been made for more than ten days, and the Taiyuan Airport was destroyed by shelling, the high-level army and even the high-level base camp have repeatedly blamed it, and the accumulated anxiety, anger, and aggrieved burst out suddenly.

Accompanied by heavy and chaotic breathing, Shinozuka Yoshio did not come back in one breath from his chest.

then!

puff····

He spat out a mouthful of blood and fell straight down.

"General."

The staff officers in the headquarters rushed up to support their general.

Yamamoto didn't react right away, he was thinking about a question.

The information on the ammunition depot in the north of Shou County was false, and it was deliberately released by Li Yunlong to attract the imperial army's attack. In other words, there is a [-]% possibility that Zhu Ziming, a spy, has been exposed and even used by Li Yunlong.

"Baga Yalu..."

Immediately, Yamamoto was furious.

He graduated from the Imperial Military Academy, and then entered the Military Academy in Munich, Germany. He has received the most modern military education, and even served in the German army. He has rich experience. I played a trick on the newspaper.

"Zhu Ziming..."

Yamamoto gritted his teeth suddenly.

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"Hey hey..."

"Now I guess, the little devil has discovered that the ammunition depot in the north of the city is a target."

Holding up the binoculars and looking at the northern part of the city that has been occupied by devils in the distance, Captain Li is in a good mood.

Almost all of the planned battle plans were successful.

The Devil's airport was bombed, and there have never been any Devil planes in the sky in Shou County these days.

The fake ammunition depot plan in the north of the city was also successful.

At the beginning of the attack, the devils fired a large number of 240 heavy artillery shells at that side, blowing up the fake ammunition depot over there. After that, the 240 caliber heavy artillery rarely fired. The area also consumed a large amount of shells of other calibers of the devils, which attracted the devils to attack continuously, so that the devils could not allocate much force to attack the two-wing highlands. Now the two-wing highlands are still in the hands of the independent regiment.

"I don't know what the devil's expression is now."

Zhao Gang was also in a very good mood.

The longer the independent regiment persisted, the longer the tens of thousands of devils and puppet troops in front of them would be restrained, and they would be able to buy more time for the troops and ordinary people in other base areas to transfer.

Even if they retreated in the later stage, the offensive power of the tens of thousands of devils and puppet troops in front of them was also greatly consumed.

"Then that Zhu Ziming..."

Zhang Dabiao's eyes flashed fiercely.

Since the devil discovered that the ammunition depot in the north of the city was fake, the devil must have known what Zhu Ziming's independent spy group had known for a long time, and it would be useless to keep this person.

"Don't do it for now."

Zhao Gang's tone was calm:

"Now that the army is fighting devils, it is not suitable to catch spies. It will easily arouse the suspicion of soldiers and shake the morale and morale of the army."

After a pause, Political Commissar Zhao continued:
"Now Zhu Ziming is digging a bunker in the back, and it's not too late to settle the score after retreating to the safe zone. Heh heh, it must be the happiest time for our spy, and it's very suitable to do it."

"It's best to catch a devil's contact person while he is in contact with the devil. Or wait for the devil to expose him on his own initiative."

Political Commissar Zhao is not a bad hearted person. There are quite a few devils and puppet soldiers who died in his hands.

Zhu Ziming betrayed his comrades. At that time, nearly ten lives of intelligence personnel in Shou County were all on his body, and he dared to come back to work for the devils and betray the secrets of the independent regiment. He will not be merciless to such a person.

Hearing what their political commissar said, both Zhang Dabiao and Li Yunlong twitched their mouths.

Having just retreated to a safe base, Zhu Ziming was probably in ecstasy, and being arrested was simply...
Scholars are still ruthless enough.

"Zhang Dabiao."

Li Yunlong suddenly said:
"You take the troops to the two-wing highlands and let the third battalion garrison the southern defense line of the city. Next, the devil's attack must focus on the two-wing highlands. I will also ask Wang Chengzhu to call out half of his artillery to support the two-wing highlands."

"Yes."

Zhang Dabiao quickly took orders and left.

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He spat out a mouthful of blood, but Yoshio Shinozuka was fine, and after waking up, he also understood the situation.

After all, he is a powerful faction who has climbed to the position of lieutenant general by virtue of his strength. He quickly adjusted his mentality and deployment, no longer entangled with Shouxian County, and gathered all his troops and firepower to attack the highlands on both wings.

The battle in the north of the city wasted more than ten days of his time and consumed almost all of his 240 heavy artillery shells, causing him to lose more than half of the regiment, but it also made Yoshio Shinozuka understand that it is not advisable to continue attacking the county.

In the independent regiment's advantage of light firepower, familiarity with the terrain, and the mortar group that has never been eliminated, if they continue to attack Shouxian County, they can only make a mess and increase casualties.

Only by occupying the high ground on both wings and condescendingly exerting artillery firepower can the battle be resolved quickly.

Li Yunlong had already responded calmly, and transferred the first battalion to the highlands on both wings for reinforcements, and mobilized artillery support. The two sides launched a fierce battle for the two highlands.

The devil's artillery fire was still sharp, and the artillery had an absolute advantage. The positions on the two flanks of the hills between dozens of cannons were flattened, especially the 150 heavy artillery shells.

But the independent regiment was still firmly nailed to the high ground on both wings, without retreating a step.

The first and second battalions with reinforcements and supply lines took the initiative to avoid the sharp edge of the devil's artillery, and retreated when bombarding the high ground, hiding in the anti-gun holes on the rear shoe surface, and rushed to the position as soon as the devil's artillery stopped, Time and time again, the devils who had just broken into the position were driven off.

Yoshio Shinozuka saw that the attack on the highlands on the two wings was blocked, so he flexibly used the advantages of the attackers and the superiority of troops. Taking advantage of the main force of the independent regiment defending the gap on the two wings, he suddenly sent an entire regiment to attack Shouxian County.

Even with the help of fortifications and tunnels, the third battalion was unable to deal with the attack of a regiment of devils. Caught off guard, almost the entire Shou County was occupied by devils.

Li Yunlong made a decisive decision and personally led the troops to launch a night attack. Taking advantage of the devil's unstable foothold, he took back half of Shou County. After that, the two sides fell into a tragic war of attrition again. Occupy the highlands on both wings and the entire county.

The war lasted for more than half a month in such repetitions. Whether it was the independent regiment or the devils, there were huge casualties every day.

Battle of Shou County No.20 Seven days.

at night.

The independent regiment and battalion-level cadres held a meeting, during which Zhang Dabiao counted the casualties again:
"So far, our regiment has suffered a total of 900 casualties, of which 830 soldiers died, and seven 82 mortars, two Type [-] infantry guns, and seven large-caliber heavy machine guns were lost in equipment."

The voice fell, and the conference room fell into silence.

At the beginning of the war, counting the recruit reserve battalion, the independent regiment only had 5000 people, which means that the total casualties were more than half, and the sacrifice reached nearly one-third, which shows that the battle was only tragic.

The devil's artillery advantage is too great.

As for the equipment, the losses were heavy.

There are only ten heavy machine guns in total, and this time there are only three left. The Type [-] infantry guns are also completely destroyed, but the mortars are okay, and there are stocks in the army to replenish.

"How many fighters are there now?"

Li Yunlong's tone was very calm.

From the moment he decided to stick to Shou County, he knew very well that the casualties in this battle must be extremely heavy.

The little devil's artillery fire has a great advantage, and most of the soldiers who died in the independent regiment died under the devil's artillery fire.

There was also the time when Yoshio Shinozuka took advantage of the vacancy of the Independent Regiment's forces to launch a wing-level attack. This was the day when the Independent Regiment had the largest casualties in a single day. Many heavy equipment had no time to retreat and transfer, and the loss was huge.

In Li Datuan's heart, he didn't want to fight a defensive battle. Even if he was tempted by Brother Chen's price, even if the price seemed extremely high this time, he didn't want to fight such a bad battle at all.

With the help of the solid fortifications in Shou County and the complex and perfect fortification tunnel system, it can indeed effectively weaken the artillery advantage of the devils and give full play to the light firepower advantage of the independent regiment, but correspondingly, it also limits the mobility of the independent regiment and the suddenness of tactics .

What Li Datuan wanted most, and what he was best at was mobile warfare, which was penetration by surprise.

However, the devils have an absolute superiority in artillery firepower, an absolute superiority in military strength, and the decline in the quality of fighters brought about by the rapid expansion of the Ministry of Independent Regiment. In addition, the large number of people in the base area have retreated. In the past year or so, the population of the base area has increased too fast. Especially in the base areas around the Independence Regiment, the population surged, resulting in a large increase in the number of people who needed to be transferred, so he had to choose to defend Shou County.

Fortunately, more than 20 days of tragic actual combat honing is still effective. Although the losses are heavy, new fighters are also growing rapidly, especially those who have been trained for nearly half a year. Become an elite veteran.

"Currently there are a total of 3000 troops capable of combat."

Zhang Dabiao replied.

There was obviously something wrong with this data. There were 900 casualties, and more than one-third of the soldiers died. How could 3000 people be able to fight at any time.

What's more, the total strength of the Independence Regiment was only 5000 people, and Yansheng's artillery company took away more than 200 people.

Later, Zhang Dabiao explained:
"Many militiamen and ordinary people stayed to help us dig fortifications and transfer the wounded. Some of them were directly absorbed into the army to participate in the battle, and the seriously wounded were transferred out."

"The common people have helped us a lot."

Zhao Gang let out a long sigh of relief.

The independent regiment was able to face [-] devils, [-] puppet troops, and a large number of heavy artillery for so long. Even if it has lost one-third of its victims and more than half of its casualties, its morale has not been lowered at all, except for the troops brought out by Li Datuan. In addition to the strong will, there is also a big reason for these ordinary people who have always supported the troops.

"Have the people evacuated?"

Li Yunlong looked at Zhao Gang.

"People around Shou County have all evacuated to a safe area."

Zhao Gang nodded.

"We should retreat too."

Li Yunlong let out a long sigh:

"After fighting for so long, the little property we saved is almost used up."

Although more than 150 tons of weapons and ammunition were stored before the war, the consumption of 5000 people was huge. The shelling of Taiyuan alone consumed 27 tons, and the inventory of the [-]-day fighting independent regiment was almost bottomed out.

"Ah."

Zhao Gang also nodded:

"It's time to retreat, the devil seems to have called in reinforcements again."

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Outside Shou County.

In Devil Command.

A staff officer is also reporting casualties:

"A total of 590 people were killed or missing in the imperial army, and more than [-] people were injured."

"More than [-] people died or disappeared from the Royal Association Army."

The staff officer took the word "disappearance" of the Royal Association Army very seriously.

As soon as the number came out, Yoshio Shinozuka's body was shaky again, frightening all the staff members, fearing that his general would vomit blood again and faint, but fortunately he survived this time without falling down.

Taking a deep breath, Shinozuka Yoshio struggled to control his trembling wrist.

Counting it all, his entire regiment fell in Shou County, and the casualties reached half. This is not counting the Imperial Association Army. The Imperial Association Army he mobilized this time is a small number of troops with relatively strong combat effectiveness. .

As for the disappearance of the staff officer raising his tone, he also knew that there were deserters, and there were quite a few of them.Even the elite Imperial Association Army is a bunch of fools after all.

"When did the 23rd and 37th regiments arrive?"

Shinozuka Yoshio's eyes were fierce.

The attack on Shou County was blocked, and [-] troops were restrained for nearly a month. He was blamed many times, but he also let the front army headquarters know that Shou County is the absolute main force of the Eighth Route Army. General Gangcun mobilized two regiments to come to reinforce .

"Two wings will arrive tomorrow."

Yamamoto responded quickly.

"Yo Xi."

Yoshio Shinozuka gritted his teeth: "After the two regiments arrive tomorrow, we will launch a full-scale attack. The first heavy artillery battalion does not need to save shells, and shoots out all the shells."

　This chapter is self-closing.

　　The number of casualties, I counted the average number of several street battles abroad, don’t pay too much attention to this... ╮(╯▽╰)╭

　　
　
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