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"Report to the commander! The Guard Battalion and the First Quick Reaction Battalion have arrived at the designated location and have begun to build a second line of defense!"

"Send a telegram to Zhao Han and tell them that they can withdraw the troops to the front line."

"Yes, Chief!"

After the two battalions of the Red Alert Force arrived at the designated location, the 6th Combined Forces Battalion, which was on the front line of defense, could finally retreat.

The main role of the first line of defense in Zhao Han's plan is to hold out until Zhang Shijie and Zhou Jingren's troops arrive at the second line. Although the troops on the front line still have the ability to defend, in order to reduce casualties, Zhang Shijie and Zhao Han still ordered the troops on the front line to retreat to the surrounding defense nodes.

At this time, the two Japanese armies were taking a short rest.

After all, after recruiting a large number of new soldiers, the Japanese 15th and 17th Armies no longer had the ability to launch high-intensity offensive operations.

The Japanese reinforcements that came from mainland Japan this time were very different from the troops that the Japanese army expanded with before.

When the Japanese army first expanded, they recruited young and strong soldiers between the ages of 20 and 30, and later recruited a small number of people under the age of 35. However, this time, the Japanese army's supplementary forces are basically around 40 years old.

This also shows that the Japanese's war potential has been overdrawn a lot.

However, compared with the Japanese devils in another time and space after the end of 1944, the current Japanese army is not so miserable.

At least for now, teenagers under the age of 17, school students, and male factory workers in Japan have not been recruited into the Japanese army.

At the same time, the Japanese army selected a large number of Korean puppet troops and selected a large number of loyal Korean puppet troops to enter the combat sequence of the "Locust Army".

However, once these people are incorporated into the Japanese army, their combat effectiveness will definitely be seriously affected.

Henan, Caizhuang, the headquarters of the Japanese 15th Army.

At this time, the commander of the Japanese 15th Army, Genichirō Fukui, was furious in the headquarters.

"Baka! We are about to break through the defense line of the Ping'an County Security Corps. Why are the troops withdrawing? Can anyone tell me why?!"

Seeing that their commander was in a furious state, the Japanese staff officers around him did not make themselves uncomfortable.

After Fukui Genichirō's anger subsided, the 15th Army's Chief of Staff advised: "Commander, we lost a lot of forces in the previous battle with the Ping'an County Security Corps. The newly added troops cannot adapt to large-scale combat in a short period of time, so..."

Hearing the chief of staff's words, Fukui Genichirō also sighed.

The combat effectiveness of this group of replacement soldiers is average, but they are relatively old.

But these older and more experienced people are not easy to brainwash, and they do not really believe in Bushido. Sometimes when the army's losses are less than 10%, these old hands may flee on their own.

On the battlefield, the act of fleeing is contagious!

Therefore, after facing heavy casualties from the small-scale Red Alert force, the Japanese army, even with its absolute advantage, was still unable to break through the Red Alert force's defensive positions.

In order not to affect subsequent operations, they could only rest.

However, the Japanese soldiers did not know that during the time when they were resting, the Red Alert troops deployed on the front line had already begun a covert retreat.

Of course, given the character of the Red Alert soldiers, there will definitely be a lot of welcome gifts left on the battlefield.

For example, booby traps.
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Just two hours after the Red Alert troops had completed their retreat, the Japanese 15th and 17th Armies launched another attack.

"Order the troops to move the artillery position immediately after 10 minutes of artillery preparation. Do not let the Ping'an County Security Corps' air force catch us again!"

"Hai!"

As the order was issued, a large number of Japanese artillery units began to launch rapid fire at the Red Alert forces, in an effort to project more firepower to the Ping'an County Security Corps in the shortest possible time.

However, what the Japanese didn’t know was that there was no one in the Red Alert’s defensive position!

Now the Japs are fighting a battle of wits and courage with the air.

Because of this, the two airborne support battalions led by Zhou Jingren have also arrived at the second line of defense where Zhang Shijie is located and have begun to join the ranks of building positions.

"Why are the Japs so slow? Aren't they here yet?"

At this time, Zhang Shijie was using a periscope to observe the movements of the Japanese army in the command post of the Guard Company 1, but it was a bit unexpected that the Japanese had not appeared in his sight yet.

"Commander, the reconnaissance plane just called back and said that the Japanese are still preparing artillery fire on the first line of defense. They should not have discovered that the front-line troops have retreated yet."

Hearing this, Zhang Shijie was speechless for a moment.

"It seems that the new batch of reinforcements from the Japanese have a great impact on their combat effectiveness!"

To be honest, Zhang Shijie had witnessed the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army. If we only talk about the fighting will of the personnel, the fighting will of the Japanese devils is quite strong in the world. The most profound impression was when a company in Xigu Township fought against a regiment of the Japanese devils.

After the Japanese army increased its troops and changed its equipment, the quality of the Japanese soldiers declined a lot due to the addition of new recruits. However, with the blessing of Bushido, the Japanese army still had considerable combat effectiveness. However, this time Zhang Shijie clearly realized that the combat effectiveness of the two Japanese armies had declined sharply.

After so many years of "training" by the Red Alert, the Japanese's uninterrupted offensive mode has become very mature. This time, a small force was able to allow the Japanese army to rest for at least three hours, which shows to what extent the Japanese army's combat effectiveness has declined.

"Order the Air Force to give the Japs some snacks to digest their food. If nothing else, don't the Japs still have a tank division and a heavy artillery brigade? Try to make them lose at least one-third of their strength before they arrive!"

"Understood, Chief. I will contact the Air Force now."

So under the harassment of the Air Force, it took the Japanese five hours to reach the second line of defense of the Red Alert Force.

For the Japanese, this experience of a journey of less than 30 kilometers was really not something they could tell outsiders about.

"How can we stop? We have finally escaped from the Ping'an County Security Group's air raid zone! Without the support of the aviation force, the losses are simply too great!"

After experiencing the large-scale air raid by the Red Alert, the morale of the Japanese soldiers has visibly declined. The Japanese troops are now in a panic, as if they will collapse at the slightest disturbance.

The bombing resulted in the loss of nearly 60 people from the Japanese th and th Armies, and the loss of tanks from the tank division.

Just looking at this data, it seems acceptable for the two army-level organizations of the Japanese Army, but the most expensive heavy artillery division of the Japanese army lost half of its artillery and two-thirds of its artillery reserves in this air raid.

In addition to the slow transfer speed of the heavy artillery, the Japanese themselves did not expect that the Ping'an County Security Corps' Air Force could hit the artillery shells they were transporting.

The fact that the ammunition area was blown up by just two rockets was enough to make the commander of the artillery division's air defense wing commit suicide!

However, for the Japanese, no matter what, they finally broke through the defense line of the Ping'an County Security Corps. As long as their attacking forces can avoid the main force of the Ping'an County Security Corps that encircled and annihilated the 12th Army as much as possible, they will have the opportunity to inflict serious damage to Zhang Shijie.

Normally, this kind of operation requires the support of accurate and timely intelligence, but Hata Shunroku can no longer care about that.

However, they did not expect that just when they thought they had a smooth journey, the Ping'an County Security Corps had already established a second line of defense behind them.

"Report to the commander, the reconnaissance plane reports that the Japanese are less than 5 kilometers away from us!"

"Order the troops to prepare for battle. It seems the Japs don't know we are here yet. Let's give these Japanese beasts a surprise attack first!"

"Understood, Chief!"

Zhang Shijie and the guard company's defense line has been built very well, and because Zhang Shijie is here, Zhang Ning, who is in Dagu Mountain, is also keeping an eye on this place to ensure that the air force can provide ground support at any time. The Japanese 15th Army is still advancing without any vigilance.

"Attention all units, the Japanese troops have entered the visual range! According to intelligence, the Japanese troops here have a brigade of troops!"

"The Japanese vanguard has entered the 3,000-meter target!"

"Two thousand meters!"

"One thousand meters!"

After the Japanese troops entered the Red Alert's position within 100 meters, the Guard Company immediately opened fire at full force.

The first to open fire were the twin 37mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, twin 23mm anti-aircraft guns and a series of anti-aircraft firepower that had entered the armored position.

After all, when facing a dense crowd of people, anti-aircraft firepower with a large enough caliber and a fast rate of fire is definitely the most useful equipment.

"Fire! Fire!"

"Chug chug chug chug chug."

As the elite of the Red Alert Force, the First Guard Company's firepower is unmatched by any other army of this era.

At this time, under the attack of the Red Alert soldiers, countless projectiles weaved an impenetrable firepower network among the Japanese infantry. Countless Japanese troops fell down in groups like harvested rice. Even several accompanying Japanese tanks were directly blown up by the Red Alert troops' anti-aircraft firepower.

"Bakayaloo! Retreat! Retreat quickly!"

Looking at the steel storm in front of him, the Japanese brigade commander immediately ordered his troops to retreat. However, just as the Japanese were about to retreat, the artillery platoon of the first guard company was ready to fire.

"Attention, all platoons! Napalm, one salvo, fire!"

“Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.”

Rockets flew out from behind the Guard Company 1 and headed straight for the main force behind the Japanese army.

"Ping An County Security Corps' rockets! Quick-defense artillery!"

After hearing the whistling sound of the rocket launcher, the Japanese immediately began to evade.

However, unlike the previous method of evasion by lying down, the Japanese army's evasive method this time was to run as far away as possible.

After all, the most commonly used weapon by the Red Alert Force is not fragmentation bombs, but napalm bombs!
Facing an incendiary bomb, lying down is of no use.

So, under the artillery attack and steel storm of the Red Alert troops, a brigade of the Japanese army abandoned three-quarters of its troops and finally withdrew from the attack range.

"Call the division headquarters. The Ping'an County Security Corps has a second line of defense!"

"Hai!"

The Japanese brigade, which had been beaten up by the guards, was no longer able to launch another attack. Now they could only wait for their reinforcements to arrive and see what happened next.

At the same time, since the Red Alert's second line of defense had been fully replenished, the attacks of the Japanese 15th and 17th Armies were severely hindered, and the two sides once again launched a positional war.

It was not until the next day that the Japanese 57th Division, which was sent to provide support, arrived opposite the st Guard Company led by Zhang Shijie.

However, although the Japanese support arrived, during the arrival process, due to repeated harassment by the Red Alert Air Force, the Japanese artillery, armored, air defense and other technical arms suffered heavy losses.

Now, apart from a small number of mountain and field artillery and mortars, it is difficult for the Japanese to organize sufficient artillery units.

The Japanese also hid the few remaining artillery pieces as much as possible to avoid being covered by the air strikes of the Ping'an County Security Corps.

At this time, Zhang Shijie was still using a periscope to observe the Japanese command center.

"It looks like the Japs are about to launch another attack! Tell the artillery to prepare for artillery fire!"

"Understood, Chief!"

Still because Zhang Shijie was here, the battalion commander of the 6th Combined Battalion sent an additional infantry company and a firepower company to Zhang Shijie's location, making this place a small firepower support point.

At the same time, the Japanese were also adjusting their only artillery in the hope of providing as much support as possible to the infantry during the offensive phase, even though their artillery had in fact become disposable equipment under the Red Alert's artillery reconnaissance radar.

"Your Excellency, the division commander, we have prepared a brigade of troops for this attack. The artillery support includes 5 75mm field guns, 8 Type infantry guns, and more than mortars. This force is already half of our existing artillery force!"

"Yoshi, order the artillery unit to move as soon as possible after firing!"

"Hai!"

Although there was no time to evacuate the area by running into the mountains, the mortar still had a chance to be evacuated under the fire coverage of the Red Alert force.

If it was a fully equipped Japanese division, they would not care about these mortars at all. But now it is different. The Japanese have only a few artillery pieces left after the attack of the Red Alert Forces. Now every artillery piece is very important to the Japanese.

"Order the attacking forces to begin to advance in secret, the artillery to fire five rapid rounds, and then move immediately!"

"Hai!"

"Boom boom boom boom."

As the Japanese artillery opened fire, the Red Alert's artillery reconnaissance radar immediately began to calculate the coordinates and launch a counterattack.

But what was unexpected was that a 75mm mountain cannon flew directly towards the company headquarters of the First Guard Company.

The worst part was that Zhang Shijie was at the headquarters of the first guard company at that time.
"Commander, lie down!"

"boom!"

Seeing the explosion at the Guards 1st Company's headquarters, the surrounding Red Alert soldiers no longer cared about the Japanese artillery fire and attacks and ran towards the company headquarters like crazy.

The position of the entire guard company suddenly became chaotic.

Seeing that the Ping'an County Security Corps troops were in disarray at this time, the commander of the Japanese front-line troops was excited.

"The Ping'an County Security Corps is in chaos! Warriors, break through their positions, it's dark, load up!"

"Onboard!"

"Onboard!"

"Onboard!"

Looking at the fierce attack launched by the vanguard troops and the fact that the Ping'an County Security Corps' firepower was no longer as sparse as before, the commander of the 57th Division of the Japanese Army immediately realized that something had happened to the Ping'an County Security Corps in the previous shelling.

It is very likely that their artillery fire hit a very critical target!

But they didn't know that this one shot consumed all of Japan's national destiny.
"Save the leader!"
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