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Chapter 262 Comprehensive Counterattack
Huaizhou forward point.

"We have just almost destroyed the heavy weapons of the Japanese tank division and the front-line field division. In Jizhou, the Japanese heavy weapons are no longer a threat. The military district artillery regiment has arrived, and now our heavy firepower has completely overwhelmed the Japanese." The brigade commander summoned the five main brigade commanders and artillery regiment commanders under his command, ready to do something big.

"Right now in Jizhou, the Japanese still have 4 divisions and the remnants of the 6 divisions that escaped. It is estimated that there are still 6 to 7 troops. Although there are a lot of troops, even more than our current strength. But our five mechanized infantry brigades have extremely strong firepower, plus we have an overwhelming tank force advantage and our artillery regiment. I think it is mature to launch an attack now, drive the Japanese out of Jizhou, and then annihilate most of them in a field battle."

Upon hearing that the brigade commander was about to face a massive counterattack from the Japanese who had superior military strength, Li Yunlong and his men showed no fear at all. Instead, they felt very excited.

The quality of the Japanese has been revealed, and those sent out now are basically their counterfeit goods.

Although these "parallel imports" are still very tough when facing ordinary troops, they are unlucky when facing mechanized infantry brigades.

一个机步旅除了坦克60门坦克炮外，另外还有54门107火、75毫米山炮和105毫米榴弹炮组成的强大炮兵队伍，加上新来的一个军区独立炮兵团，这可是装备了1个107火炮兵营和2个105毫米榴弹炮兵营！
They are all heavy artillery!

In this way, although each mechanized infantry brigade has only a little over 7000 troops, and the five together have only more than 5, for the Japanese, it seems like the troops are half less, but the firepower is now completely overwhelming.

Therefore, Li Yunlong and his men did not think that it was risky to fight a larger force with a smaller one. On the contrary, they felt that this was the correct approach.

We cannot passively take a beating. We must seize the opportunity to beat the Japanese to death.

"Brigade Commander, it shouldn't be a problem for us to drive out the Japanese. But if so many of them try to escape, I'm afraid we don't have enough troops to chase them. In this way, it will be difficult for us to expand our victory." Ding Wei said, frowning as he looked at the map.

"Don't worry about that. In the coming period, 10 Type B regiments of reinforcements will arrive one after another. We will take them down and leave them to these people to take charge of logistics and local garrison." said the brigade commander.

"We are determined to use this battle to not only defeat the main force of the Japanese's Zero Combat Force, but also take the opportunity to seize back all the way from Jizhou to Shimen, and at the same time resolve the Japanese's occupation of the entire Jizhong land. Now the troops of the Jin-Cha-Ji-Ji-Zhong Military Region have completed the work of equipping weapons and are beginning to secretly return to Jizhong. By then, they will cooperate with us to take Jizhong back completely."

Hearing that the brigade commander had already prepared all the follow-up questions and that his big chess game had already been run in advance, no one had anything to add.

The current war situation is completely unpredictable. We originally thought that the Japanese were very strong and needed to use land and space to exchange for time, which actually meant abandoning the cities and retreating to the countryside to fight guerrilla warfare.

This is how we have always done it, but the conditions are different now. After a battle, everyone looked at each other and realized that they were wrong. Everyone was not who they thought they were.

In this way, we now have to revise our estimates of the opponent's strength.

The brigade commander boldly changed his thinking from defensive counterattacks in deep positions to proactive attacks!

This change of thinking is quite rapid.

Taiyuan, Shanxi Province.

Staff Officer Ye, along with two assistants, conducted a new war game simulation with Ren Zhong.

They were verifying the feasibility of the brigade commander and division commander's counterattack strategy.

This time, the division commander and the brigade commander had the same idea, which was to fight back and take down large strongholds such as the core base currently occupied by the Japanese.

Ren Zhong, as the representative of the Japanese, completed this free war game without rules. According to the intelligence information obtained now, even if Ren Zhong used all his tricks, there is no hope of turning the tables. Unless the Japanese go crazy and mobilize the air force on a large scale!
Or else more artillery should be deployed. Now the decisive battle has almost turned to artillery to determine the outcome of the battlefield!

Of course, there is a prerequisite, that is, the artillery can hold the position!

To meet this condition now, we have to rely on tank troops.

Or it could be a very powerful anti-tank force.

It can deal with all enemies such as tanks and armored vehicles that rush up.

From now on, the Japanese are unsatisfactory. Their strongest anti-tank weapon is the 37mm anti-tank gun, but the quantity of this thing is seriously insufficient.

There is no way to form a large-scale defense. For tanks, just a few shots are enough to destroy these anti-tank guns!
37mm versus 76mm main gun, isn't that just asking for trouble?
So according to Ren Zhong's idea, the brigade commander and his men might be able to win this battle, but they cannot push the Japanese too hard. If they push too hard, they might use civilians as shields, which would be really bad for a siege battle.

Therefore, in order to avoid such things, the brigade commander and his men need to innovate their tactics.

Change the siege war into a drive-out war, drive the Japanese out of the city, and then find a way to eliminate these Japanese one by one in the wild.

The current situation is that the Eighth Route Army has improved its field combat capability a lot. It has super flexible rocket launchers. The resistance of the Japanese's thin armor is almost zero.

Jizhou.

"Boom boom boom" the cannons bombarded the east, west and south sides of Jizhou City continuously. The artillery of the three mechanized infantry brigades of the Iron Triangle began to show their power, pouring fire on the towers and walls on three sides.

Behind them, an artillery position at a more distant location began firing calibration shots.

These are the 107mm and 105mm howitzers of the military region's artillery regiment. For the Eighth Route Army, this is the strongest firepower at the moment, and now this firepower is beginning to be used against Jizhou City.

The Japanese in Jizhou City were very panicked but there was no way to reach a consensus.

According to the radicals, the idea is to rush out and fight a decisive battle.

However, the conservatives believe that giving up the current territory and retreating to the previous strongholds will preserve their strength, but this will lead to rumors of running away. For the conservatives, this does not matter, it is better than losing their lives.

But not much stronger.

The Jizhou City was now besieged from both inside and outside, leaving only the north as a chance for them to escape.

However, the Japanese knew that this was an open conspiracy of the enemy, but they found it difficult to reject such a conspiracy.

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