The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

"Regimental Commander, the casualties of the Second Battalion and the Eighth Battalion have been reported!" the combat staff put down the microphone and reported happily.

"Exactly as you expected... After the Devil Mountain Field Artillery Brigade and the infantry artillery squad were hit hard, their losses in the Little Devil's artillery raid plummeted!"

"Before the Heavy Artillery Battalion took action, we had to lose one or two hundred people to repel an attack by the Sato Division. The loss in the previous battle has dropped to more than one hundred and twenty people..."

"The Sato division lost more than [-] people, and the casualty ratio was far more than three to one, and it was almost four to one!"

Kong Jie's face immediately beamed with joy: "This is just the beginning!"

"When the troops become more and more familiar with the devil's attack methods, and dig more ventilation holes in the anti-aircraft holes at the back, which can withstand the attack of incendiary bombs, our casualties will be further reduced!"

"After the Guizishan Field Artillery Brigade and the infantry artillery are severely damaged, the threat they pose to us will become smaller and smaller. The mortars and thunder cannons equipped by each battalion will have a chance to participate in the battle..."

"Just like the blocking battle just now, six flying thunder cannons joined the battle together, and just one round of salvo caused nearly a hundred more casualties to the attacking troops..."

"Combined with the results of the mortar companies of the battalions, the losses of the Sato division in the offensive will definitely increase."

"One goes up and down, the casualty ratio between us and the devils can definitely break through one to three...or even one to four..."

As soon as Kong Jie said these words, the oppressive atmosphere in the headquarters immediately became more relaxed.

Although he had analyzed it with everyone before, saying that the heavy artillery battalion would turn the tide of the battle as soon as it took a shot, but after all, there was no fact to prove his statement.

Now that the evidence came out, everyone began to believe Kong Jie's analysis, thinking that the Heavy Artillery Battalion had turned the tide of the battle, and that the balance of victory on the battlefield was tilting towards the Independent Regiment little by little...

"Weng buzzing... rumbling..."

Just when everyone was fantasizing about victory with joy, the roar of the plane's dive suddenly entered everyone's ears. Before they could react, two dull explosions sounded behind the headquarters.

Kong Jie hurriedly rushed out of the headquarters, and when he looked up, he saw two puffs of thick smoke rising more than a thousand meters behind him...

"The artillery positions are over there!"

A combat staff officer cried out aloud, with panic in his eyes, very afraid that what he was worried about would become a reality.

Kong Jie frowned at the same time, but before he could speak, another plane began to dive towards the ground...

Another thick column of smoke rises more than [-] meters away from the black smoke.

The terrain there is relatively high, and Kong Jie's position is higher, and the raging fire burning from the artillery position can be clearly seen.

Kong Jie frowned even deeper, especially when he heard an explosion sound in the raging fire.

It is taken for granted that the Devils plane found the position of the heavy artillery battalion, and the explosion just now was caused by the detonation of the shells.

While walking back, he ordered: "Contact Chen Daliang immediately..."

"How did he do it? The regiment headquarters trusted him to hand over the heavy artillery battalion to him, and let him decide when to join the battle. The regiment headquarters will never intervene!"

"As a result, the Heavy Artillery Battalion was knocked out by the Devil's Heavy Artillery Brigade as soon as it entered the battle, and now two artillery companies were blown up by the plane... I am so disappointed..."

"Rumble..."

Two more explosions came here, interrupting what Kong Jie hadn't finished speaking.

Looking back at the location where the explosion came from, he frowned two points deeper than before, and continued to order: "No, three artillery companies were blown up by the little devil's plane!"

"Ask Chen Daliang, is he satisfied with defeating all the artillery base I have managed to accumulate!"

"If he feels that he is not capable of being the battalion commander of the heavy artillery battalion, just ask, there are plenty of people in the independent regiment who can take his place..."

After a series of orders, Kong Jie felt much better.

Li Wensheng went straight to the phone, and just as he was about to grab the receiver, the phone rang...

Putting down the phone two minutes later, the solemn expression on his face disappeared at the same time. He ran to Kong Jie and reported excitedly: "Commander, we made a mistake. We misunderstood Battalion Commander Chen Daliang!"

"In the air strike just now, the heavy artillery battalion did not suffer any losses..."

"The explosion was not caused by the martyrdom of the shell!"

"Chen Battalion Commander Chen was brought by Deputy Chief of Staff Huang!"

"Before the start of the war, several fake artillery positions were repaired, and more than [-] fake cannons were built out of wood..."

"In order to make the devil pilots mistakenly think that they are blowing up the real artillery positions, they even arranged explosives in the fake artillery positions!"

"The explosion just now was all caused by the detonation of the explosive package!"

"In this way, Sato will mistakenly believe that the heavy artillery battalion was severely damaged in the air strike and lost its combat effectiveness, so he will have the idea of ​​​​underestimating the enemy!"

"When we encounter fighter planes in the next battle, the Heavy Artillery Battalion will participate in the battle again, and it will definitely kill the Sato Division by surprise..."

"During the previous artillery battle, one field artillery company and two mountain artillery companies of the Heavy Artillery Battalion were attacked!"

"But because the shooting range is too far, the hit rate of the Devil's heavy artillery is not high. Although the three companies suffered heavy losses, they still withdrew four artillery pieces, and nearly [-]% of the gunners!"

"Chen Battalion Commander reduced them into a company and continued to participate in the battle!"

"The current heavy artillery battalion still has one heavy artillery company, two heavy mortar companies, one field artillery company, two mountain artillery companies...a total of six companies!"

Kong Jie's face immediately beamed with joy, and he couldn't help laughing and cursing: "Good boy...even I was tricked by him, making us worry for nothing here!"

"Call Chen Daliang back immediately: The Heavy Artillery Battalion will continue to be under his command, and strive to make new achievements..."

Lieutenant General Sato was very happy when the Japanese army attacked the position.

Seeing the three planes have been diving, dropping bombs, and circling behind the Independence Regiment...the subconscious first reaction was that they found the Independence Regiment's heavy artillery position.

The bad mood caused by the heavy damage to the mountain artillery brigade was instantly swept away, and a long-lost smile appeared on his heavy face.

When the second batch of three planes arrived on the battlefield, the chief of staff trotted towards him with a happy expression on his face: "Division commander...the pilots in the sky report..."

"They found three artillery positions where the independent regiment was moving!"

"After continuous attacks, the three artillery positions were all turned into the sea, the shells on the positions were martyred, and the gunners were completely lost..."

"Including the three artillery companies killed by the Heavy Artillery Brigade... we have already killed six artillery companies of the Independent Regiment..."

"They have at most two artillery companies left, and the impact on future battles should be very low!"

Lieutenant General Sato couldn't believe his ears a little bit, thinking he had heard it wrong.

All I've heard before here is bad news.

Suddenly hearing such great news, my first reaction was to not believe it.

The chief of staff replied very firmly: "The second batch of three planes conducted a round of low-altitude reconnaissance on the attack target and confirmed the results..."

"The three artillery positions destroyed a total of twelve artillery pieces, and none of them were missed!"

"Yoshi..."

A long-lost smile flashed on Lieutenant General Sato's serious face, and he said happily.

"After fighting for so long, I finally heard good news..."

"The aviation unit and the heavy artillery unit have done a good job... When the anti-sweeping victory is over, I will definitely ask the military department to give them credit!"

The chief of staff interrupted again: "Master, this should be the second good news..."

"I just received news that when the attacking troops captured the Duanjiabao, they also found nearly a thousand corpses of soldiers from the Independence Regiment at the Duanjiabao position... In addition to the lightly and severely wounded they took away, the Independence Regiment was on the Duanjiabao defense line. At least [-] people have been lost, and the casualties are no less than ours!"

"Many soldiers suffocated to death hiding in the anti-blasting holes, which shows that the effect of incendiary bombs on the anti-blasting holes is very good!"

"If we continue to use incendiary bombs on a large scale and maintain this casualty ratio, we only need to pay the loss of one regiment to severely damage the independent regiment and make them lose their combat effectiveness!"

The smile on Lieutenant General Sato's face grew stronger, and he replied with satisfaction: "This is indeed good news."

After finishing speaking, he raised his binoculars to look at the battlefield, and ordered while watching: "All the planes that rushed to the battlefield will attack the second line of defense of the Independent Regiment with incendiary bombs... I will burn all the troops of the Independent Regiment hiding in the bomb defense holes. die!"

"Send a telegram to the Aviation Command and ask them to prepare more incendiary bombs!"

"All aircraft that will reinforce us in the future will be equipped with incendiary bombs!"

"Then inform the other two divisions of our combat experience... and strive to win Northwest Shanxi with the least cost!"

At three o'clock in the afternoon, with the help of incendiary bombs, the devils successfully took down the third line of defense of the independent regiment.

But Lieutenant General Sato was not as happy as he imagined. On the contrary, his mood was very complicated, with excitement and worry in his heart...

The troops were in such a state of momentum that they took down the two defense lines of the Independence Regiment in a row, and found nearly a thousand dead soldiers on the two defense lines... It shows that incendiary bombs can indeed destroy the carefully built bunkers and artillery holes of the Independence Regiment.

But the casualties of the attacking troops were a bit beyond his estimate!
In the previous continuous battles, more than [-] attacking troops have been killed, more than [-] people have been seriously injured, and more than one infantry regiment has been directly lost!
This is not counting the seven or eight hundred people lost by the artillery unit...

Although it is estimated that the independent regiment lost more than [-] people, not much less than the Sato division, but the independent regiment still has no intention of retreating on the battlefield.

It shows that these losses are not enough to deal a fatal blow to the independent regiment.

According to previous estimates, the loss of one multi-wing team of the Sato division can severely damage the independent regiment.

Judging from the current battle situation, it seems that this goal has not been achieved.

Could it be that I was wrong in my estimation, the theater of the independent regiment did not exceed [-] people!
After all, the offensive troops only found nearly [-] corpses of soldiers from the Independent Regiment in three blocking positions.

Just when Lieutenant General Sato was hesitating whether to continue the fight, the chief of staff suddenly ran towards him with a smile on his face, obviously something good happened.

"Division commander... the aviation unit has just detected a situation!"

"We found a large number of independent regiments three kilometers to the northwest... They used stretchers and carts to transport the wounded to the rear... The team was at least three kilometers long..."

"It is estimated that there are no less than [-] seriously injured people..."

"It shows that our judgment on the casualties of the independent regiment is completely correct... The reason why the troops on the defense line did not retreat is probably to buy time for the troops to transfer the wounded!"