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Chapter 198 The decisive battle

Xiyingzi.

This is an ordinary village at the foot of Jiufeng Mountain.

Before the Japanese arrived, almost all local farmers and herdsmen were mobilized to the rear.

So when they got here, the Japanese supply corps entered the tents of local farmers and herdsmen without any hesitation, and even saved the trouble of setting up their own tents.

Cars were parked one after another on the roadside and in the open spaces of the villages. Behind the cars were horse-drawn carts. The Japanese were seriously short of fuel, and now priority was given to supplying the huge Combined Fleet and large-scale air force on the Pacific battlefield.

The army's share was pitifully small. A baggage regiment was only equipped with 7 cars, 80 trucks and 2 repair vehicles, but there were quite a few horses, more than 600 in total. After all, horses were the most abundant thing on the prairie.

More than 1100 Japanese troops from the supply corps surrounding Xiyingzi lived in the tents of farmers and herdsmen in the village.

In a small woods outside the village, after risking his life to crawl for nearly 500 meters, Batu, a soldier from the reconnaissance company of the rd Cavalry Regiment, stopped and pointed the telescope on his back at the Japanese convoy outside the village and observed carefully, and found that there was indeed no trace of cannons.

"Eagle 1 calling, area 347 is confirmed to be the supply team vehicle, distributed in areas 347 to 350, 343, and 345. Report completed." Batu observed for a while and whispered on the intercom to reduce the volume to the minimum.

"Eagle's Nest received, Eagle 1, distribution area 347 to 350, 343, 345. Over." After the other party quickly repeated, Batu heard it correctly and turned off the intercom. Then he slowly crawled to his hiding place.

As a front-line scout, he had completed his reconnaissance mission. All he had to do now was hide in the cellar he had dug earlier and wait to observe the effects of the attack.

Other than that, he doesn't need to do anything extra.

"Report to the headquarters. Areas 347 and 598 have been confirmed to be the Japanese supply trains. Areas 186 and 821 have been confirmed to be the Japanese artillery regiments. Area 651 has a clear number of radio stations and is suspected to be the enemy headquarters. Please give instructions." The intelligence from the front was quickly transmitted back to the front-line headquarters.

With an information network consisting of walkie-talkies and radios, the front-line command can obtain front-line intelligence in real time.

"Order: abandon the plan to attack area 347 and area 598 in the first round. The artillery of the 186st and 821nd Cavalry Regiments will aim at area 651. The rd and th Cavalry Regiments will aim at area to achieve double coverage. The th Cavalry Regiment will aim at area and strive to destroy it in the first round of strikes. Do not give the Japanese artillery regiment a chance to escape." The head of the Saibei Military Region, who had made up his mind, immediately changed his order.

There was no target more valuable than the artillery regiment. He would rather waste firepower and destroy the Japanese artillery, the most threatening enemy.

"Order the first and second battalions of each cavalry regiment to move out and enter the area of ​​the Japanese artillery regiment after providing firepower coverage. Try to completely wipe out the Japanese in these two regiments and eradicate them completely! Action in 10 minutes!"

With cavalry, a distance of several kilometers can be covered almost instantly.

Area 186 is the base of the Japanese 21st Division Artillery Regiment.

Colonel Saiki Toshi, commander of the 21st Division's artillery regiment, was outside inspecting the troop deployment when he suddenly saw something like a fireball flying towards him from the sky.

"It's heavy artillery! Alert! Full alert!" Colonel Saiki Toshi suddenly lost color and screamed loudly.

However, at this point, the Japanese were already powerless to turn the tide.

A total of 382 rockets fell like meteors on the location of the 21st Division Artillery Regiment, which lasted for more than 5 minutes, and the artillery regiment's location was fired back and forth twice!
Saimutosi was also wiped out by this wave of overwhelming attacks.

When the main force of the cavalry regiment came over, they saw the scene was in a mess, with huge holes everywhere, and only two or three hundred Japanese soldiers who were either injured or stupid. The cavalry regiment did not hesitate to kill them. When they encountered artillery that was not blown up, they directly stuffed two grenades into the muzzles. The Japanese soldiers died even more miserably in the places where the artillery shells exploded, and there was almost no trace of fists. In less than half an hour, the cavalry regiment cleaned up the position, almost killing all the remaining artillery soldiers of the Japanese soldiers, and destroyed the few artillery pieces with grenades.

Then, when the Japanese infantry regiment was rushing over, it disappeared right under their noses.

He then called for a wave of artillery fire and launched a small-scale artillery attack on the Japanese infantry chasing after him. Sure enough, the Japanese infantrymen all lay down obediently.

Overnight, the two Japanese artillery regiments were almost wiped out, and the headquarters of the 21st Division was also wiped out. The Japanese division commander, Tanaka Hisaichi, was also sent back to the shrine on the spot.

Then an entire baggage train was almost wiped out, and all military supplies were lost.

As a result, several infantry regiments also suffered varying degrees of artillery attacks and suffered heavy losses.

It was just that due to the warning of the strange phenomenon in the sky and the earth-shaking explosion, some of the Japanese soldiers fled their original bases in panic and were not wiped out in one fell swoop. Even so, the total loss of the Japanese soldiers killed or injured that night exceeded 5000!

The next day, under the protection of the tank regiment and three fighter planes in the sky, Lieutenant General Ichiro Shichida of the Mongolian Army was in tears after seeing the tragic scene.

In one night, the heavy equipment of two divisions was almost destroyed, and one-fifth of the troops were lost. Anyone would collapse!

However, the Japanese devil Ichiro Nanada did not give up. He gathered the remaining troops, sent out Qingcheng's Cavalry Brigade and the 26th Division Artillery Regiment for reinforcement, and used the tank regiment as the vanguard to attack Jiuyuan directly.

He just didn't believe that with two divisions and one brigade at hand, such a powerful force could be invincible in the battlefield of North China. He didn't believe that they would lose in a head-on battle with the Eighth Route Army that had just risen on the grassland.

After all, in addition to the powerful tank squadron at hand, he also has more than 10 fighter jets in his hands that have not been played yet.

As long as these powerful troops were sent to Jiuyuan, Nanada Ichiro was ready to give the Eighth Route Army a full-scale counterattack.

At this time, what he hoped most was that these Eighth Route Army troops would not retreat to the south bank of the Yellow River or the mountains north of Jiuyuan.

Jiuyuan front command post.

"The enemy is coming very quickly this time. The main force is boarding the train and advancing under the protection of the tank regiment. It is expected to reach our first line of defense in three hours." Staff Officer Liu's eyes were bloodshot, and it was obvious that he had not slept all night.

In fact, everyone in the command center was like this. At most, they would take a nap at the table for ten or twenty minutes, and the rest of the time they would summarize the results of the battle and command the troops to counterattack.

The results of the battle were very brilliant. The Japanese artillery regiment was completely destroyed, leaving only a bunch of human scum and artillery scraps.

Of course, the consumption of rockets was also huge, and the three rounds of rockets fired were almost all used up.

In order to prevent the cavalry regiment from confronting the main force of the Japanese infantry, the front-line command ordered the main force of the cavalry regiment to retreat to Jiuyuan for rest and recuperation, except for leaving behind a reconnaissance company to continue monitoring the movements of the Japanese.

They will still be the main force in the decisive battle.

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