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Chapter 256 The Surrounded Airborne Support Group
"Has the fifth brigade set off?" Yoshio Shinozuka asked the staff officer beside him.

"Reporting to your Excellency, Commander, the fifth brigade has just completed its assembly preparations and is expected to be ready to depart in 10 minutes."

Yoshio Shinozuka nodded with satisfaction upon hearing this.

According to the normal dispatch efficiency of the Japanese army in the past, it is very rare for a brigade of troops to complete the assembly and pre-war preparations in such a fast time.

The main reason why the Fifth Brigade was able to complete its departure mission so quickly was that the distance between Yangqu County and Taiyuan was indeed too close.

At this distance, the little devil won't have too many worries about logistics.

So, the little Japs of the Japanese Fifth Brigade set out without knowing anything about the enemy's situation.

At this time, after the Red Police Airborne Support Brigade completed the assembly of troops, it evacuated to the north without any hesitation, striving to join the Sixth Battalion as quickly as possible.

Near Yangqu, the Second Airborne Support Squadron has arrived at Puyangou and began to build a blocking position.The main force of the airborne support brigade has also carried out a forced march to Yangxing Township through Huangzhai Town.

The Japanese Fifth Brigade arrived in Yangqu County an hour later.

After entering Yangqu County, the little devils looked at the scene in front of them and immediately understood what kind of blow the Bantian United Team had suffered.

"Is the Chinese army's attack speed so fast?" The little devils originally thought they were going to conduct a siege in Yangqu, but they did not expect that the Red Police Force had already finished all the work in their hands. The entire Yangqu County was basically It has become a ruin.

The bodies of the Japanese soldiers who supported the Bantian unit had been dumped outside the county town by the Red Police soldiers.

But after a while of searching, the little devils did not find the Red Police Force.

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, there are no Chinese troops in Yangqu City now. According to the traces they left, they fled to the northeast."

Listening to the report from the staff around him, Yuichiro Morisaki, commander of the Japanese fifth brigade, had a gloomy expression.

On their way to Yangqu County, they had already discovered the cavalry regiment that had been wiped out by the Red Police Force, and now they had to collect the bodies of the Bantian regiment stationed in Yangqu. At this time, Yuichiro Morisaki felt very heavy.

It would be okay if this Chinese army was still in Yangqu County, but now this Chinese army has escaped!

The Japanese military strongholds along the way will definitely be brutally attacked!
The little devil's guess was correct. At this time, the area where the main force of the airborne support brigade and the Sixth Battalion passed had been reduced to a mess.

"Squad 5! What the hell are you doing! If you can't take down this stronghold in [-] minutes, why don't you go back and plant potatoes!"

Due to the urgent mission of the Second Squadron, the Japanese strongholds along the way to Puyangou were not cleared, so this task fell on the Fifth Squadron, which opened the way for the main force.

The captain of the fifth squadron expressed dissatisfaction with the combat efficiency of the fourth squadron that was conducting the critical task.

In response to the squadron leader's urging, the squad leader of the fourth detachment was also helpless. After all, who the hell knew what the devil was doing here?The stronghold was actually built with concrete.

He ignored the investigation for a while and only sent two infantry squads to attack the Japanese stronghold.

The infantry squad's offensive firepower is only 40 fire. Facing the semi-permanent defenses of the little devils, the attack power of 40 fire is still a bit lacking.

"Machine gun fire suppression! Smoke grenades cover the demolition crew!"

The detachment structure of the airborne support group is equivalent to the platoon structure of a conventional army. The support firepower of the detachment structure only has two Type 80 general-purpose machine guns and one mortar, and there is no direct attack firepower.

Under the command of the squad leader, two riflemen equipped with Type 81-1 assault rifles and grenade launchers instantly replaced the rifle grenades with smoke grenades. After a "bang!", two smoke grenades fell instantly. In front of the firing port of the Japanese stronghold.

The area around the Japanese stronghold was instantly filled with smoke under the action of smoke bombs, and the little Japanese and puppet troops inside could not see the route of action of the Red Police troops.

"Platoon leader, what are we going to do? If our stronghold is attacked by the Guo army, won't we all die?!" A puppet soldier panicked instantly when he saw this. After all, the Chinese army had deep feelings about the methods of hardcore traitors like them. is very clear.

The puppet platoon leader looked at the white smoke outside, thought for a moment and said: "Let the machine gunner continue to shoot, maybe we can catch a few!"

Just when the machine gunners of the puppet army were about to fire again, the blasters of the Red Police Force had already moved to the wall of the stronghold and attached the 5 kilograms of C4 explosives in their hands to the wall of the stronghold.

As the blaster retreated to a safe distance, he pressed the remote detonator in his hand.

"boom!"

A violent explosion sounded instantly, and the little Japanese stronghold was wiped out together with the Japanese and puppet troops inside.

After the last Japanese stronghold from Yangqu County to Puyangou was eliminated, the main force of the airborne support brigade also passed through Puyangou where the second squadron was stationed, leaving the first squadron to strengthen the blocking force and sent an artillery squadron to Build positions in the rear to support the infantry.

The airborne support brigade has five infantry squadrons and one artillery, air defense, mobile, engineer, and support squadron. Each squadron has about 5 people, which is equivalent to the company-level organization of the Red Police Force.

After all, there is a brigade of Japanese pursuers behind, and it is very unrealistic to rely only on a squadron of infantry to block them.

At this moment, the air command of the airborne support group will run out of fuel, and then the air command calls the ground command.

"The air command is about to return, and the command will be handed over to the ground command."

"Ground command has been received and has now taken over command."

As the Yunba, which continued to hover in the sky, began to return, the command of the airborne support group was completely handed over to the group headquarters that had completed the airborne landing.

"Send a telegram to the Sixth Battalion and ask them where they are now and how long it will take to reach Puyangou."

"Yes!"

In less than 5 minutes, the communications soldier reported the information fed back by the Sixth Battalion to the captain of the airborne support group: "Captain, the Sixth Battalion called back. At this time, the Sixth Battalion captured Dingxiang County and is now heading towards Nanwang Township. We are marching forward and are expected to rendezvous with our troops in one hour."

After learning about the progress of the Sixth Battalion, the captain of the airborne support group suddenly smiled.

This is solid!

But before he could be happy for a long time, bursts of gunfire rang out from the direction of the blocking position, and the surrounding Japanese garrisons were arriving in a steady stream.At this time, the Third Squadron, which was on guard in the rear, also sent a telegram.

"The vanguard of the Japanese army is only half an hour away from Puyangou. Please prepare the blocking troops!"

A brigade of troops is nothing to the airborne support group, but the Japanese troops gathering towards Puyangou from other directions require them to be more vigilant.

After all, Xinzhou is not far from here. If the Japanese army determines the location of the red police force, it will not be difficult to assemble a force of 3 to [-] people within half an hour.

At this time, Yoshio Shinozuka, who was in Taiyuan City, began to frantically mobilize the troops north of Taiyuan based on the intelligence from the fifth brigade.

Due to the experience of many battles with the Red Police Force, the Fifth Brigade always marched forward while laying telephone lines while marching. Therefore, the electromagnetic interference of the Red Police Force against the Japanese army had a great impact on Taiyuan and the Fifth Brigade. Communication is useless.

Although this method of communication is very cumbersome and prone to failure, given the powerful electromagnetic control power of the Red Police Force, this method is the only effective long-distance communication method for the Japanese army.

After receiving intelligence from the front line, Yoshio Shinozuka issued orders to the Japanese troops stationed in various areas according to the situation, and then the cavalry brigade of the Fifth Brigade on the front line conveyed the orders to various Japanese troops.

Although the process was very complicated, for the first time the little devil completed the command and deployment of remote troops under the electromagnetic suppression of the red police force.

A large number of troops are now advancing towards the blocking position of the airborne support group, and they are determined not to stop until they completely annihilate this force.

At this time, if you look down from the air, nearly a hundred Japanese troops, large and small, are already gathering towards Puyangou. The large troops have a regiment, the small troops only have one or two squads, and there are many ant-killing elephants. posture.

However, these more than 2 troops put considerable pressure on the Red Police troops. After all, the airborne troops, as light infantry, do not have a large amount of heavy equipment carried by conventional infantry battalions.

It is also a battalion-level unit. The conventional Red Police Infantry Battalion can easily deal with more than 2 Japanese troops, but it is a bit difficult for the airborne troops to confront so many people head-on.

"Order the troops to use Puyangou as the node to defend the entire line and wait for support from the Sixth Battalion!"

"Yes! Captain!"

As the Japanese army completed the encirclement of the airborne support brigade with its superior strength, the current situation of the airborne support brigade was simultaneously sent to the Sixth Battalion and the regiment headquarters in Dagushan.

"What?! The airborne support group was surrounded?! How did the little devil complete the troop assembly under electromagnetic suppression? How did he complete the battlefield command?!"

What Zhang Shijie didn't expect was that the Japs' encircling troops were assembled only because the airborne troops were in the rear of the Japanese army, and the Japanese troops in these assembled troops did not have unified command at all.

If these tens of thousands of people were integrated troops, the airborne troops would definitely suffer heavy casualties now, but under the current circumstances, the artillery of the Red Police troops could still fight back against the Japs.

In fact, the reason why the captain of the support team made this decision was because he saw that the little devil had no command system at all.

Therefore, he chose to be surrounded by the Japanese army and wait until the Sixth Battalion arrived to completely annihilate these Japanese troops.

Otherwise, it would be absolutely easy to complete the breakout with the combat effectiveness of the Red Police Force.

"Artillery squadron! Fire freely according to the area responsible for each gun!"

The artillery squadrons of the airborne troops are mainly equipped with 82mm mortars, because the weight and lethality of this artillery are quite suitable support firepower for the airborne troops.

And the entire artillery squadron of 500 people is equipped with nearly a hundred 82mm mortars. In terms of artillery organization, so many artillery even exceed the number of equipment of an artillery regiment.

When these artillery pieces began to attack the Japanese encircling troops, the little Japanese were blown to pieces under such intensive bombardment.

While the airborne support brigade was attacking the encircling Japanese troops, Zhang Shijie issued orders to the fifth and sixth battalions on the front line.

"Order the fifth battalion to launch an offensive against the Japanese army's third line of defense on the southern front. The sixth battalion will speed up its march to support the airborne support brigade!"

As for the Japanese encirclement, the soldiers of the airborne support group did not feel much pressure. First, because there were very serious problems in the little Japanese's troop command system, and second, it was normal for them for the airborne troops to be surrounded.

At this time, in the plain north of Shexian County, the Fifth Battalion became excited immediately after receiving Zhang Shijie's order.

The attack on the southern front was very unsatisfactory due to Zhang Shijie's call to stop. Now, after receiving Zhang Shijie's order, the fifth battalion commander was finally able to assemble his troops and fight the little Japanese.

"Order the troops! Stop resting and attack the Japanese army!"

"Yes!"

After receiving the order to attack, the soldiers of the fifth battalion and the troops reinforced to the fifth battalion all became excited.

With the armor support of powerful artillery support, combat operations on the southern front killed Japanese soldiers like chickens.

As for Zhang Shijie's choice to let the Fifth Battalion continue the attack, it was mainly to prevent the Japanese troops gathering south from returning to defend north. After all, the Sixth Battalion did not have a large amount of artillery support like the Fifth Battalion, so Zhang Shijie did not want to fight in such a situation without heavy firepower. With fire support, they faced a large base of Japanese troops.

"Old Zhang! Order the air force to dispatch attack aircraft units to support the airborne support group!"

"Yes! Chief!"

After Zhang Ning received Zhang Shijie's order, he immediately issued the order to the Air Force and personally went to the Air Force headquarters to conduct command operations.

Chief of Staff Chen Xi marked the current situation of the airborne troops on the sand table and analyzed it based on the current deployment of enemy and friendly forces.

As a chief of staff, Chen Xi is very qualified and is also very forward-looking in tactical command.

"Chief of Staff, have you discovered anything?" Zhang Shijie asked Chen Xi.

"Chief, the current situation of the Japanese army is very strange. They have completed the communication and command of the assembled troops under electromagnetic interference. But on the front line, judging from the action trajectories of various Japanese troops, their cooperation is frighteningly low and there is no unity at all. The state of the command. This Japanese operation is indeed a bit unexpected."

Zhang Shijie looked at the current situation of the enemy and ourselves in the sand table and said: "Is there a possibility that our electromagnetic interference is still effective against the Japanese army? It's just that the Japanese army now has a method of rapid communication that does not rely on radio, but this method is very cumbersome. ?”

"Then this communication method should have a key node, and this node should be right here!" Chen Xi pointed at the sand table, pointing in the direction of the Japanese fifth brigade.

(End of this chapter)