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Chapter 692 Let the tank company practice!
The Art of War by Sun Tzu says: "If you make more plans, you will win; if you make fewer plans, you will not win; how much more if you make no plans at all."

Now the artillery battalion of the special forces regiment has beaten up the 35th Field Artillery Regiment of the Japanese. Even if it was intentional, the result is naturally obvious.

Although the Japanese field artillery began to fight back vigorously, they only relied on observing the flight trajectory of the shells fired by the artillery battalion to calculate the artillery parameters, and the accuracy was obviously terrible.

No matter how good the Japanese artillery are at mathematics and physics, they are not computers!

What's more, they have fewer guns than the artillery battalion.

Using only six or seven field guns against the artillery battalion's 31 mountain guns is like two fists against four hands, like a tiger falling into a pack of wolves.

They were soon beaten to a pulp and suffered heavy casualties.

……

However, while the artillery of both sides was bombarding each other, the commander of the 35th Division, Harada Yuji, was not idle either. He sternly ordered his subordinate, Lieutenant Colonel Ichiro Miyao, the commander of the 35th Regiment, who was searching for the enemy:
"Miyao-kun, take your regiment immediately to search for and attack the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army!"

The 35th Search Regiment has more than 400 members, all of whom are on horseback, and are very mobile.

After receiving the order from Harada Yuji, he immediately spurred his horse and galloped forward.

The commander of the detachment, Ichiro Miyao, knew very well that—

Although the artillery position of the Eighth Route Army appears to be in the mountains at the 3 o'clock direction, it would be completely stupid for their cavalry to climb the mountain. It would be wiser to take a detour to scout!

In addition to sending out the search team, Harada Yuji did not let his troops stay where they were to be bombed, but ordered them to continue to speed up and march forward.

Anyway, the artillery of the special forces regiment is now mainly bombarding the field artillery regiment. The infantry regiment has not been bombarded except for being frightened just now.

Of course, he did not forget to ask the telegraph operator to send a message to notify Tanaka Kyuichi of the 21st Division.

Remind them to be on high alert and not be ambushed by the Eighth Route Army's artillery.

……

Soon, Ichiro Miyao and his more than 400 cavalrymen rushed out of the Barley Valley like a black cloud and entered the vast plain north of Shuiquan City.

Seeing that the terrain here was extremely suitable for their cavalry to gallop, Ichiro Miyao couldn't help but feel a little excited.

However, since he can be the captain of this search team, he is definitely not a reckless person.

Instead of advancing rashly, he first ordered the troops to stop, then stood proudly on his horse, picked up the telescope and began to observe carefully.

Be prepared to make plans before taking action.

However, he looked through the telescope for a long time but could not see where the artillery battalion's position was.

I don’t know if this guy’s eyesight is not very good.

Finally, a captain next to him couldn't stand it anymore and pointed at the shells flying out from a hillside not far away and warned:

"Your Excellency the Captain, look!
The Tubalu's artillery position is right there!"

Upon hearing this, Miyao Ichiro finally breathed a sigh of relief.

I thought to myself: If I can’t find the enemy, I’m going to be so embarrassed!
Turning his head, he found that it was just as the captain said, and immediately shouted excitedly:

"The Tubalu's artillery position is right there. Hurry up and rush over to destroy their artillery!"

Then he took the lead and rushed towards the artillery battalion's position with a rumble.

……

At this moment, all the commanding heights around Shuiquan City were filled with sentries from the Special Forces Regiment.

Of course they saw such a large group of Japanese cavalry rushing towards them from afar with binoculars.

Immediately, a sentry passed the signal to the rear using flag language.

Soon, Gao Yuanzhi at the artillery position found out.

He immediately called the deputy battalion commander Wang Gensheng to discuss:

"Lao Wang, a group of Japanese cavalry are coming towards us. The sentry reported that there are about 400 to 500 of them. Should we retreat?"

Wang Gensheng frowned, and observed the smoke rising more than ten meters high in the distance with a telescope, and replied:

"The commander's mission is to destroy the Japanese artillery. We can't retreat because the mission hasn't been completed yet!"

“Well, I don’t want to withdraw either.

We still have a dozen heavy machine guns left over from last time, so even if the Japanese cavalry rushes over, we can still hold out for a while."

Gao Yuanzhi also nodded.

"I don't think the Japanese cavalry can reach us at all."

Wang Gensheng thought about it for a moment and said with certainty.

"You mean Lao He and Lao Li's people will block them?"

Gao Yuanzhi asked.

The Old He and Old Li he mentioned were naturally the Second Battalion Commander He Yunfu and the Fourth Battalion Commander Li Dahe.

Their two infantry battalions are now deployed in the north of Shuiquan City.

"Yes. With 3000 men in two battalions, they must have been itching to do something.

The four or five hundred Japanese cavalrymen will definitely not get any good results facing their firepower!"

Wang Gensheng nodded.

He didn't know about others, but Li Dahe was one of the ten people assigned to Yang Yuanshan by Li Yunlong, together with him.

Doesn't he know this guy's temper?
Is that someone who is afraid of death and gives in?

"All right.

Then we will continue to bombard the little devils fiercely."

Seeing that this veteran was so confident, Gao Yuanzhi had nothing more to say.

Just keep fighting.

……

In addition to Gao Yuanzhi, He Yunfu and Li Dahe, who were ambushing in the trenches north of Shuiquan City, also received the message from the sentry.

Although the two men were ready to beat up the Japanese, they did not foolishly order their men to rush out of the trenches. Instead, they silently waited for the Japanese to enter the range of their artillery.

But soon, they found that they had no chance to make a move at all—

Because suddenly, a huge roar was heard from the direction of Shuiquan City.

They turned their heads and saw several streams of black smoke rising into the sky. Eight steel behemoths rushed towards the Japanese cavalry at the speed of hungry tigers.

……

When Gao Yuanzhi's mountain cannon fired the first shot, Yang Yuanshan in Shuiquan City knew that the Japanese must be coming.

So he immediately brought the guard battalion to the north wall of Shuiquan City to observe the enemy situation.

Han Yang is here, observing the distance with a telescope.

Seeing him coming, he hurried over to greet him:
"Captain, it looks like the Japs have arrived.

This is Lao Gao's artillery battalion firing at full power."

"Yeah. I hope they can succeed in one fell swoop!

Otherwise, the Japanese field artillery with a range of more than 8 kilometers would be difficult to deal with."

Yang Yuanshan nodded, and then asked:

"What about the situation in the direction of Koga Village?

Has the Japanese division arrived yet?"

“Probably not yet.

Lao Feng's anti-aircraft artillery battalion is at the foot of Wangmu Mountain, blocking the exit of Guhe Village. If the Japanese show up, they will definitely open fire. "

“Well, that’s good.

This way Gao Yuanzhi still has time to attack Barley Valley first."

……

The two of them stood on the Shuiquan city wall, waiting for new military information while chatting about the enemy situation.

Soon, they saw the Japanese artillery firing back.

However, when he saw that the enemy's first wave of artillery fire had only six or seven shells, Yang Yuanshan couldn't help but laugh:
"Haha, the Japs are being stupid, they actually fired back within the range of our artillery.

Later, Gao Yuanzhi will blow up these cannons for them."

"yes!
Commander, didn’t you say that the Japanese field artillery has a range of more than 8 kilometers?

If I were the artillery commander of the Japanese, I would retreat seven or eight kilometers away without hesitation, and then fight back after making all preparations. "

Han Yang nodded.

"Haha, the Japanese must be panicking after being attacked in a hurry, right?

It’s reasonable to be stupid.”

Yang Yuanshan was very proud.

If the enemy behaves foolishly, our chances of victory will be greatly increased.

At this time, Han Yang suddenly pointed to the north and shouted:
"Look, Commander, there's so much smoke and dust. It looks like a large group of Japanese soldiers are coming. They must be heading for the artillery battalion."

Yang Yuanshan observed through the telescope for three seconds and nodded:

"Yes, that should be it. It seems that the Japanese reacted quite quickly."

At this time, a messenger rushed over to report:
"Commander, Chief of Staff, the observation post ahead reports that the Japs are approaching with about four to five hundred cavalrymen."

"Four or five hundred cavalry? They can't be underestimated."

Yang Yuanshan nodded and waved his hand to let the messenger go down.

"Captain, do you want to transfer Lao Guo's 2nd Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion over there?
The machine guns in his camp will surely be able to easily defeat these Japanese cavalrymen."

Han Yang suggested.

“Not yet, four or five hundred people are not worth their effort.

Besides, their cannons can easily kill the horses, so it’s hard for us to get some horse meat to eat.”

Yang Yuanshan waved his hands repeatedly.

Han Yang was speechless when he heard this, thinking: Captain, what time is it? Are you still thinking about eating horse meat?
But he also knew that Yang Yuanshan had made his decision and he could not persuade him, so he could only say:

"Then I will go give orders to Lao He and Lao Li and let them solve the problem."

“No, let them not be exposed yet.

I asked Kong Dacheng's tank company to go and practice.

Anyway, the Japanese cavalry shouldn't have any heavy weapons, so we can't do any harm to them!"

As Yang Yuanshan spoke, he smiled a little.

I imagined the miserable appearance of the Japanese devils later.

Hit, the cavalry rifle hits the tank, it's not even a tickle.

When it comes to running, a four-legged war horse may not be able to run faster than a tank track.

At that time, they would probably just be able to kneel down and scream, begging the tanks not to run over them.

……

When the tank company commander Kong Dacheng heard the order from the messenger, he immediately called out to his tank soldiers excitedly:
"Comrades, the regiment commander has ordered us to kill the Japanese cavalry!
Set off now!"

Hearing his orders, the soldiers all responded excitedly, climbed into the tanks, and soon rumbled northwards.

Only the other twenty or so tank soldiers who did not get the combat mission were left behind, drooling silently.

Among them, the 18 student soldiers sent by the brigade to learn tank driving could not help but whisper:
"When can we drive this big tank?"

……

(End of this chapter)