I'm killing enemies with my sword and exploding equipment

Chapter 956 If you fail, you will die!
Of course, the telegram sent by the Japanese headquarters to Okamura Ji-ning severely reprimanded him.

And he was ordered to eliminate the special forces group and resolve the crisis in Jin as soon as possible!

After all, the First Army under his command has now become an international disgrace.

If we don't suppress it resolutely, what's the point of the locust army's mission?
Okamura Jining had expected this telegram and did not take it seriously.

But the private telegram from the old devil Tojo that followed made him feel very uneasy.

In the telegram, the other party clearly told him that they could help him withstand the internal pressure for at most half a year!
If he fails to achieve significant results after half a year, his only outcome will be to transfer to the reserve force.

Faced with such overwhelming pressure, Okamura Jining's face became extremely gloomy.

After pondering for a long while, he finally said to Tanabe Mori:
"Tanabe-kun, please call the headquarters back for me.

In the next six months, the Jibei Front Army will make every effort to wipe out the Eighth Route Army. It would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let a single one escape!
Request the base camp to supply equipment, ammunition, medicine, food and other military supplies."

"Hi!"

"Also, please send a telegram to Tojo-kun for me.

Tell the other party that in the next six months, I will go to the front line in person to command the Locust Army warriors to wipe out the Eighth Route Army in northwestern Shanxi!

If I fail, I will be loyal to His Majesty the Heavenly Locust!!!"

As Okamura Ji Ning said this, he walked to the wall, took out the general's sword given to him by Emperor Tian Huang, pulled it out and looked at it carefully.

It seemed as if he was trying to see whether the knife could easily cut open his stomach.

Hearing his words, Tanabe Seigo's heart suddenly shuddered.

He knew that the other party was issuing a military order to the old devil Tojo.

If you don’t succeed, you will succeed!
And is this military order just his own?

It belongs to the entire Jibei Front Army!

……

Southwest side.

Upon hearing that they had just wiped out a division of the Japanese special forces, they made new contributions and captured Xin County and Jinchang County.

Old Chang was naturally indignant and couldn't help but curse the famous Whampoa generals under his command, saying that they were not as good as a peasant.

But scolding would not solve any problems. He circled around the office like a monkey jumping through circles. After two circles, he called Director Dai, a Whampoa student, and asked him to arrange people to set off immediately to bribe Yang Yuanshan!

As for the conditions, they were: a lieutenant general commander of an American-equipped division and 100 million oceans as resettlement allowance!

That's right, after his wife's mediation on the American side, the other party's aid agreement has been signed.

Soon, a large number of American equipment will be in place!
……

While the Special Forces Regiment was fighting fiercely with the Japanese in the Xinkou area, our main forces in the Wutai area had already assembled the strength of three regiments and marched quickly out of the mountains to the west.

On the one hand, they were preparing to attack Wutai County, and on the other hand, they were also preparing to go to Qubei County to receive equipment.

——Originally, our army's main force had at least a dozen regiments in this area, but the Japanese invaders were sweeping through central Hebei, so they dispatched a large number of troops to meet and support them. In addition, the base area also needed some troops to stay behind, so now they can only withdraw these three regiments.

Soon, the soldiers saw Wutai County from afar.

Although it has been known for a long time that there is a large battalion of Japanese troops stationed in the county town, it is very difficult to deal with.

However, after discussion, the three commanders of the 3rd, 5th and 9th Regiments of the Wutai Division took the initiative to launch a feint attack on the county town, trying to help the special forces regiment in Xin County share the pressure.

However, they are extremely short of ammunition and have poor equipment. They can only use a dozen unscrupulous cannons to launch explosive packs to bomb the artillery towers and bunkers outside Wutai County.

It took a lot of effort for each group to collect these dozen or so gasoline barrels.

In the past, they were reluctant to use smaller artillery towers or something like that.

I have to say, although this thing has a short range and poor accuracy, it makes an incredibly loud noise when it is used.

This immediately made the 9th Battalion of the 37th Brigade of the Japanese in Wutai County feel terrified.

I thought I was being bombarded by large-caliber artillery of more than 300 mm.

The battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Toshikuma Kimura, ordered his soldiers to firmly resist the enemy's attack.

At the same time, he ordered the telegraph operator to send a message to the brigade headquarters to report the situation.

……

Soon, he received a telegram from the 9th Brigade Headquarters.

When he saw the content of the telegram, he was instantly numb.

In the telegram, the brigade chief of staff Miyagi Yoshihiro told him that Xin County and Jinchang County had been captured by the Eighth Route Army, and the brigade commander Yun Sheng Toranosuke died in battle.

He also ordered him to defend Wutai County and wait for reinforcements.

Although Kimura Toshikuma really couldn't understand why the brigade headquarters was beaten so badly by just the Eighth Route Army.

But he still raised his vigilance and ordered his soldiers to defend the city firmly and never leave!

So as not to fall into the opponent's trap.

In his opinion, there could only be one reason why the brigade suffered such heavy losses, and that was that the brigade commander, Yun Sheng Toranosuke, underestimated the enemy.

If Yun Sheng Toranosuke knew what this guy was thinking, he would probably crawl out of his coffin and yell at him: It's the Tu Ba Lu who is so powerful, not me who is useless! You bastard!
……

In this way, the soldiers from the 3rd, 5th and 9th Regiments of the Wutai Military Region fought a fierce battle with the Japanese outside the city of Wutai.

Little by little, they knocked down the bunkers and watchtowers outside the city, and then gradually approached the city wall.

But that was where the effort ended. Their equipment was too poor and none of the regiment leaders had the idea of ​​taking over Wutai County by force, regardless of casualties.

But during the battle, they still sent scouts and communicators to Jinchang County to check the situation of the special forces regiment.

……

This side of Xin County.

North of the city.

He Yunfu, the battalion commander of the second battalion of the special forces regiment, followed Yang Yuanshan's order to withdraw his troops 800 meters, reorganized the team, and silently waited for Gao Yuanzhi to transfer the mountain artillery.

Soon, the battlefield sentry came to report to him:
"Battalion Commander, Captain Gao from the artillery battalion is here!"

He Yunfu hurried over and asked:
"Lao Gao, didn't the commander tell you to just send half a battalion? Why did you come in person?"

"Hey, the third and fourth battalions in Jinchang have already entered the city, so our mountain artillery is of no use.

I heard from the team leader that you need it here, so I came to take a look myself."

Gao Yuanzhi explained casually.

Then I asked He Yunfu:
"Lao He, what's going on with the Japs?"

He Yunfu immediately took Gao Yuanzhi and climbed onto the roof of one side with a ladder, and used a telescope to observe the Japanese defense situation.

After reviewing the enemy's situation, Gao Yuanzhi immediately patted his chest and said to He Yunfu:
"I have brought 24 mountain cannons with me. Let's fire three salvos at the Japanese on the north gate first!
Their remaining troops will not be able to last until the fourth round.

I will then focus on shelling Xinkou Pass."

He Yunfu quickly reminded:
"Old Gao, you can't fire all your artillery at this small city gate.

The Japanese still have several Type 92 infantry guns on the other side of the Xinkou Pass. Once you expose your gun positions, they will definitely bomb you.

If the gunners suffer losses, the commander will certainly punish you."

Gao Yuanzhi heard this and nodded in agreement:

"Okay then, I'll deploy the artillery three kilometers away, and the Japanese can only passively take the beating.

Their Type 2700 infantry gun has a maximum range of meters."

After the two men finished their discussion, Gao Yuanzhi took the soldiers from the artillery battalion to get to work.

Artillery observers, armed with binoculars and small flags, began to climb up the city walls, rooftops, walls, etc., ready for observation.

About fifteen minutes later, the soldiers of the artillery battalion had completed all preparations for the bombardment, and the artillery had also adjusted all the parameters for the bombardment.

Gao Yuanzhi immediately ordered:
"All fire!"

Upon hearing the order, the gunners immediately pulled the gun cord.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

……

After the dense sound of shells being fired, almost the entire Xin County could hear the whistling sound of 24 mountain artillery shells flying -

“Swish, swish, swish…swish, swish…”

Then there was a loud explosion.

"boom!"

"Boom!" "Boom!"

……

The huge explosion caused heavy casualties among the Japanese soldiers in an instant, and their screams were as mournful as the cries of ghosts at night.

"what--"

"Medic, help—"

"Ah - it hurts! I'm going to die - Haruko, I want to go home -"

……

However, Gao Yuanzhi obviously had no sympathy for these Japs and continued to command the gunners to continue firing.

After several minutes of shelling, the Japanese position was in ruins.

Especially at the north gate of Xin County, which was the focus of the attack, there were no living people to be seen.

Upon seeing this, He Yunfu immediately ordered a platoon of soldiers to disperse and rush towards the north gate.

At this time, the Japanese officer who was lucky enough to be alive jumped out and shouted:
"Warriors, the Eighth Route Army is charging, hurry up! Open fire!"

However, before they could finish their words, bullets flew over and killed them on the spot.

On the rooftop a few hundred meters away, Wang Xikui was lying there with the soldiers of the sniper company!
……

Under the cover of the sniper company, a platoon from the second battalion, which led the charge, easily occupied the north gate of Xin County without much effort and began to clear out the Japanese troops on both sides of the city wall.

He Yunfu was naturally very satisfied with the smooth progress and immediately ordered the remaining soldiers under his command to charge forward.

Then he took a step forward and ran forward.

The artillery company commander, Chen Sansheng, rushed over, grabbed him and asked:
"Battalion Commander, the infantry are charging, what should we do with our artillery company?"

He Yunfu answered casually:
"Fire at Xinkou Pass!

Do you still want me to teach you?"

Chen Sansheng was a little confused and asked quickly:
"Captain, do you want us to stay in the city and fire at the city gate?
But isn’t this blocked by a city wall?
How to bombard?

How about we dismantle the cannon and carry it to the city wall to assemble it?"

“What’s wrong with having a city wall?
Isn’t the elevation angle of the Type 70 infantry gun degrees?

Raise the artillery elevation angle and fire from your current position. The shells will surely pass over the city wall and land on the other side of the city wall!"

He Yunfu felt a little disappointed with his friend.

When Chen Sansheng heard this, he immediately felt that it seemed to make sense.

He nodded immediately and said:
“Okay, I understand!
I immediately arranged for the observer to guide the artillery fire and prepare to fire immediately."

He didn't want to dismantle the cannon and carry it to the city wall, after all, that would be too slow.

Who knows, by the time they've finished tinkering with it, the meat might have been eaten up by the mountain cannons at the artillery battalion.

……

After sending Chen Sansheng away, He Yunfu ran to the north gate of Xin County and saw that the Japanese had already closed the gate of Xinkou Pass and were hiding in various commanding heights of the pass, firing at them despite the artillery battalion's fire.

The Japanese had skillful marksmanship and a large number of heavy machine guns, which caused quite a few casualties to the reckless soldiers of the Second Battalion who had just rushed up the city wall.

He Yunfu immediately ordered loudly:
"Everyone, get down!

Except for the observer, no one else should stick their heads out!

Recoilless gun, fire now, blast it hard!"

He then ordered the messenger:
"Go report to the regiment commander and tell him that our Second Battalion has taken over the north gate of Xin County and is now engaging the Japanese at Xinkou Pass!"

"Yes!"

……

At this moment, Yang Yuanshan brought the soldiers of the guard battalion to the brigade headquarters of the Japanese 9th Brigade.

Seeing the mess in the brigade headquarters, Han Yang couldn't help but said excitedly:

"Captain, the Japs are running in a hurry.

I guess they were all stunned by our swift attack."

Yang Yuanshan nodded and pointed to a map of Jin on the wall that he had not taken away in time.
"Look, we picked up another map."

His face was also full of smiles.

Although the special forces regiment has seized many maps, there is never too much of this stuff.

If there are any surplus, they can be allocated to the company commanders and platoon leaders below!
Even if they are of no use, they can be handed over to superiors and distributed to other regiments, which is also a good thing that can make the regiment leaders smile with wrinkles on their faces.

"Captain, are we going to move our headquarters to this city?"

Han Yang asked.

This Japanese brigade headquarters is quite large in area and is fully equipped with facilities such as telephones. There are also maps on the wall, making it perfect as a command center.

Yang Yuanshan shook his head:
“No, you can’t indulge in pleasure.

Although this place is good, if the Japanese send planes to bomb us, we won’t be able to escape!

It’s still safer in Yuwangling.”

Han Yang disagrees:

"Commander, the Japanese bombers are coming, and they are here early.

Is it worth waiting until now?
It was clear that they had no more bombers to bring in.”

“Still can’t be careless.

Maybe they haven’t come yet, but the Japanese are still mobilizing.”

Yang Yuanshan was firm in his attitude.

Then he ordered Wang Ye:

"Wang Ye, take the guards and take away everything here, especially the documents. Don't leave anything behind!
We might find some important information."

"Yes!"

Wang Ye received the order loudly, and then arranged for the soldiers of the guard battalion to work.

……

Yang Yuanshan took Han Yang and strolled to other rooms in the brigade headquarters.

On the way, he heard the intensive sound of artillery coming from the north, and he immediately laughed:

"It looks like the artillery battalion is in position. This artillery fire will probably scare the Japanese into tears, right?"

At this moment, he realized that he should take out some shells from the system warehouse.

Otherwise, the artillery shells of each artillery unit would have been used up, right?

With a thought in mind, he dropped a large number of various artillery shells into several deserted alleys near the brigade headquarters.

……

Han Yang didn't know that Yang Yuanshan had just been distracted and had added a large amount of spoils to the soldiers.

He smiled and said:
"Captain, I think our regiment can directly set up an artillery school within the army?

Then let the superiors send people from various troops to come here to learn artillery tactics.

As long as they follow the artillery battalion and take part in a few battles, they can become skilled gunners.

After all, in a battle, it shouldn’t be a problem for each gunner to fire dozens or even hundreds of shells.”

Yang Yuanshan's eyes lit up and he nodded quickly:

"This is a good idea. We can use the chicken to lay eggs. It just solves the problem that the artillery unit has not been able to expand rapidly because there are not enough literate soldiers.

When Lao Zhou comes, I will ask him to report to his superiors.

Our regiment produces equipment and artillery shells, and trains gunners one after another.

In the future, it is possible that most of our army's artillery will be trained by our regiment. Just thinking about this scene is exciting!"

The more he talked about it, the more he felt that this idea was brilliant.

If this could really be accomplished, it would be entirely possible for us to set up five or eight artillery regiments ourselves.

By then, all the Japanese soldiers standing in the way of the Special Forces Regiment will faint in the toilet crying!

As soon as the battle started, before we could do anything, we were bombarded by artillery fire, and we were either killed or half-crippled!
An experienced Japanese soldier would probably exclaim loudly:
"What? The Russians disguised themselves as the Eighth Route Army? That's a lack of martial ethics!"

……

(End of this chapter)