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Chapter 273: Night Battle with the Japs

拦截李云龙他们的小鬼子，来自于关东军第30军的148师团（下辖了383，384，385步兵联队，148炮兵联队）秋山义隆中将、第4军的149师团（下辖386，387，388步兵联队，149炮兵联队）中岛义雄中将和87师团（下辖了第204步兵联队、第206步兵联队、第390步兵联队，87炮兵联队）田村义富中将等三个师团组成。

Lieutenant General Yoshitomi Tamura was the most senior among them, and he was temporarily appointed as the commander-in-chief of this interception group.

According to the intelligence sent back by the Japanese spies along the way, Yoshitomi Tamura placed the interception cluster in the Yucheng area, with the 87th Division as the spearhead, the 148th Division to its left, and the 149th Division to its right, arranged in a V-shape, with a distance of about 1 kilometer between them.

If the 87th Division's position in front was attacked, the 148th and 149th Divisions could quickly outflank it from both wings. At the same time, the artillery regiment could provide timely artillery support to the front line. The tank regiment assigned to the interception group was also on standby behind the 87th Division. The four specially reinforced teams were all equipped with the "Type 4" medium tank. Although the performance of this medium tank was unsatisfactory and it had no effect on the front of the M3 tank, the Japanese had learned a painful lesson and had studied a new tactic of supporting each other in groups of two and trying to attack the M3 tank's flanks.

From the perspective of blocking, there is nothing wrong with this formation.

If they followed Guosu's tactics and everyone showed their cards and fought head-on, then this Japanese interception group would be a real threat to Li Yunlong and his men. After all, they had preset positions in advance and blocked the Jinpu Railway Line tightly. If Li Yunlong and his men wanted to go north, they would have to fight a big battle with them.

However, Tamura Yoshitomi overestimated Li Yunlong's integrity. After communicating the intelligence with the leaders of Ji Zhong, the two sides decisively decided on the method of surprise attack.

That night, taking advantage of the darkness, the Independent Brigade opened fire in front of the 87th Division, attracting the attention of Tamura Yoshitomi, who sent out the tank regiment to prepare for a decisive battle with Li Yunlong.

With the mountain artillery of three brigades, Li Yunlong made full use of the firepower coverage, making Tamura Yoshitomi believe that this was the enemy's main attack.

However, they did not expect that Ding Wei and Kong Jie's teams would use their rapid mobility on the plains to directly insert themselves behind the artillery regiment of the 87th Division. Using the very bright artillery fire in the night sky and laser rangefinders, they quickly covered the positions of the 107th Artillery Regiment of the Japanese with 87 rocket launchers. Then, two tank companies launched an attack and, under the protection of two infantry reinforced battalions, rushed directly towards the 87th Artillery Regiment of the Japanese.

There was no doubt that all the Japanese artillery was wiped out.

On the other side, the five main regiments of Ji Zhong and the cavalry regiment of the military region attacked at the same time, also first attacking the positions of the artillery regiments of the 5th Division and the 148th Division. Although their artillery fire was not as fierce as that of Ding Wei and Kong Jie, they had the advantage of numbers. They rushed forward and used the huge advantage after their weapons were fully converted to the 149-gun family. They engaged in close combat and wiped out the remaining artillery of the Japanese and the two infantry battalions following them in the chaos.

The complete suppression of infantry firepower has given the battalion and company level a powerful firepower advantage over the Japanese battalions and squadrons. In close combat such as night attacks, the Japanese firepower system, which is mainly composed of grenade launchers and light and heavy machine guns, cannot withstand the attacks of mortars and rocket launchers. As soon as the first sign of fire is seen, it will be doomsday.

By the time the Japanese infantry regiment rushed to the rescue, the attacking artillery regiment had already succeeded. The 107 rocket launcher could just start a covering free bombardment of the charging Japanese infantry regiment!
Combined with the infantry battalion's 82mm mortars firing non-stop shells at the Japanese infantry battalion that was charging forward, the attacking Ji Zhong troops and Ding Wei, Kong Jie and their men had a truly thrilling and enjoyable battle.

Except for Li Yunlong, the rest of the group had difficulty fighting in the wild because they attracted the Japanese tank regiment and had no support.

Fortunately, Ding Wei and Kong Jie made rapid progress. They eliminated the artillery positions of the 87th Division in less than half an hour after the war started. This gave Li Yunlong a slight artillery advantage, and he suppressed the Japanese infantry charge with three mountain artillery companies and mortars.

Then the RPG rocket launcher team was deployed forward and ambushed on the ground. Taking advantage of the night when it was difficult for the Japanese tanks to be spotted, the RPG rocket launcher team waited until the Japanese tanks were about a hundred meters away before opening fire!
At this distance, almost everything was easy to capture, and the Japanese tanks were set on fire one after another by rocket launchers!
After losing nearly half of their troops, they found that they could not break through the Eighth Route Army's rocket launcher interception, and the Japanese tank regiment could only retreat in disgrace! Originally, they were fighting against Li Yunlong and his tanks in an extreme one-for-one decisive battle, but who knew that they did not even see the shadow of the opponent's tanks, and more than half of them were killed or wounded by the opponent's rocket launchers!
Not only the tank regiment commander, but even Yoshitomi Tamura who was observing on the scene could not accept such an outcome.

Before the battle started, he was not optimistic and expected the tank regiment to create a miracle.

But at least we have to defeat the enemy's tanks. More than 50 Type 30 medium tanks against 3 M57 light tanks, on paper it's almost two against one, even if the 76mm tank gun suffers from the caliber disadvantage against the mm tank gun, but it's not completely powerless, right?

Who knew that the enemy would be so unsportsmanlike and launch a surprise attack at night, not giving the tank regiment any chance to engage in a tank duel, and instead using rocket launchers to launch a surprise attack!

The opponent is really cunning and crafty, and doesn't have the demeanor of a strong man at all.

Yoshitomi Tamura watched the tank regiment collapse and retreat, and the infantry regiment being constantly hit by the enemy's artillery fire during the charge. He finally understood the despair that Guo Su felt when he faced them.

Now that they have lost their artillery regiment and their tank regiment, they are completely unable to compete with their opponents relying solely on their infantry regiment.

"Let the entire army move forward! I, Tamura, will bear the responsibility for this battle!" Yoshitomi Tamura looked at the sounds of artillery shells exploding everywhere on the battlefield, most of which were caused by the enemy, and could not help but say to the combat staff in despair.

Today's night attack has been declared a complete failure, but I don't know how many people can be brought home?

"It's so exciting! It's so exciting! Today's battle was so exciting!" Kong Zhuoyin, who had been chasing for half the night before stopping to meet up with Ding Wei and Li Yunlong, couldn't help but shouting loudly when he saw Li Yunlong and Ding Wei.

"Don't be so pleased, Lao Kong. Let's hurry up and take advantage of the recent defeat of the Japs. Our air force will have a hard time protecting us from this place. We'd better get to Ande overnight and load up the trucks and leave. Otherwise, the Japs will bomb along the railway and it will be too easy for us. We won't even be able to hide!" Li Yunlong interrupted Kong Jie angrily.

"Then let's go?" Kong Jie had a lot of cheerful words in his heart, but he had to hold them back and said in a daze.

"Let's go. Leave the battlefield to our comrades in Ji Zhong to clean up. Who would be interested in these scraps left by the Japanese now?" Li Yunlong said with a wave of his hand.

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