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Chapter 552 Chapter 551, Not a Chimney
Good steel should be used on the blade. This time, Commander Guo really used this sentence to the extreme! He had been fighting with the Japanese for several hours without using a single round of the mortar, but now he fired 135 rounds at once!
Of course, there is no such thing as a free meal, and no such thing as a free artillery shell! At this moment, in the Laowugou, a ditch that was originally more than 80 meters wide and more than 2000 meters long, the Japanese artillery had long been turned into minced meat, and the mountain artillery was also blown apart and broken, and it was completely unusable...

In order to attack Dayou Town, the Japanese mobilized more than 4000 Japanese and puppet troops. After discovering that they could not attack the Eighth Route Army's position, they transferred a Type 5 mountain artillery battalion. Laowugou was the artillery position selected by the Japanese. However, the Japanese did not expect that the artillery they had placed high hopes on would be met with counterattacks from the Eighth Route Army after only bombing for more than minutes.

When one of those large mortar shells exploded, the surrounding area was filled with death shock waves and shrapnel that would kill anyone who came into contact with it. That was really enough to blow up two and a half acres. The key point was that more than 20 shells flew over at once and exploded at the same time, and the artillerymen had no way to dodge! What made the Japanese feel even more desperate was that the Eighth Route Army seemed to have a lot of such shells.

The commander of the 110th Division was shocked! Just one artillery battalion's 12 mountain guns were bombarded with more than 100 shells! Are they still poor beggars?
Well, this unlucky division didn't realize how far the Eighth Route Army had developed, and was still looking at it with the old eyes. But the Japanese commander was not stupid. Seeing that his own artillery was finished, he realized that the Eighth Route Army in front was not easy to deal with. Then, he had two choices.

One way out is to lead the team to continue the attack and rely on the powerful infantry of the Locust Army to defeat the eight routes in front; the other way out is to quickly return to Panlong Town and join the remaining forces to hold the town.

One is radical, the other is conservative, these are the choices the devil can make. No matter which one he chooses, he will have to bear the consequences of his choice.

At the artillery position in Dayou Village, Captain Situ was urgently ordering the artillerymen to move around. He didn't know that the Japanese mountain artillery had been destroyed, but he knew that if the Japanese still had artillery, they would be bombed in retaliation! Fortunately, there was a plan before the war, and he only needed to move the artillerymen to the No. 2 position.

Just when the artillerymen were busy moving, the front-line observers reported the latest discovery to Commander Guo - the Japanese were retreating!

"The Japanese are retreating?" Commander Guo was surprised at first, then he picked up the phone and called other positions to ask them to report the movements of the Japanese in front. Then, he got a final result - the Japanese retreated across the board, and even ignored some wounded soldiers left on the battlefield.

"This is our territory. The Japanese can come and go as they please. They really don't take us seriously!" Commander Guo said this, but he was thinking about how to respond next.

The Japs retreated across the board, and logically they should have been pursued, but the Japs had more than 4000 troops, and only about 3000 of them were left, so their strength had not been weakened much.

If the Japanese continued to attack, he was confident that he could kill some of them, or even wipe them out completely. But if the Japanese were determined to escape, it would be hard to say. Chasing and leaving the protection of the position, the soldiers could fight the Japanese on equal terms, but who could say that this was not a deliberate attempt by the Japanese to confuse the enemy? What if the Japanese were trying to lure the enemy away from the mountain?
Without an absolute advantage in manpower and firepower, Commander Guo decided to play it safe and then make plans! After all, the enemy's position was in Panlong Town, far away from Wuxiang Duan Village controlled by the enemy, and just within the area controlled by the Second Division. From Panlong Town to the east, the main ridge of Taihang Mountain is Xijing Town, and it seems convenient for the headquarters to mobilize troops.

"Tell the front line that the infantry should not pursue! If the artillery can reach them, chase them with mortars and grenade launchers! Although the Japanese have retreated, their strength has not been weakened much. We will be the ones who suffer if they fight back! Remember, don't leave the position casually!" After thinking for a while, Commander Guo gave such an order.

Then, based on the current battle situation, he wrote a battle report and asked the signalman to send it to the headquarters so that the leaders of the headquarters could make accurate judgments. At the end of the battle report, he also wrote his own strategy: mobilize the main force of the second division to quickly assemble in Panlong Town, and force the devils to leave Panlong Town and return to Wuxiang. However, he led the team near Dayou Town all the way south and ambushed the enemy in Changle Village. Commander Guo’s tactics were not spoken out of thin air, because from a geographical point of view, Changle Village is 6 kilometers south of Dayou Village. Walking southwest along the river, you can also reach a place more than 5 miles west of Changle Village, and you can go east. And Panlong Town, along the river, is a full 13 kilometers away from Changle Village.

As long as they deploy part of their troops to guard the Dayou Village line and prevent the Japanese from advancing westward, the Japanese can move south and then turn west under the pressure of heavy troops, return to Wuxiang, and reach Changle Village!

Commander Guo participated in the pursuit battle of Changle Village. At that time, he was the battalion commander of the 772nd Regiment. It was also in that battle that Commander Ye died for his country at the age of 24.

Now, he, the battalion commander, is the commander of the third division. If the regiment commander is still there, how good would it be? We now have semi-automatic rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, and more convenient light machine guns. We have one grenade launcher per squad, four 82 mortars per regiment, and heavy mortars that can fight back and forth with the Japanese mountain artillery... But the comrades who sacrificed their lives can't see it!

Commander Guo's telegram soon reached the deputy commander's desk, which aroused the commander's interest: "This little Guo, is he planning to inflict another heavy blow to the Japanese at the place where Xiao Ye died!"

"Boss, I think this plan is feasible. We just need to mobilize the main force of the Second Division, let the heavy artillery of the Second Division continue to bombard the devils, mobilize troops to attack Panlong Town, and force the devils to leave. It is still possible to do it! It is just that after the devils leave, whether they will act according to our expectations is hard to say, after all, the devils are not stupid. Moreover, in this way, Panlong Town will be destroyed!"

Listening to the chief of staff's words, the general slapped the table and said, "If we don't fight, will the devils not destroy it? If they are damaged, we can repair it for the people! But it's not possible now, because the devils from Liao County are coming south. We need to repel them first, and we can't let them gather together!"

"Report, the 1st Regiment of the 1000nd Division and the Special Forces Regiment stationed at the arsenal reported that there are more than Japanese soldiers coming along the mountain road towards Zuohuishan!" The signalman's report interrupted the conversation between the two.

Bang... The deputy commander slammed the table and said, "These sons of bitches are still not giving up on our arsenal? Send a telegram to Xiao Ou and tell him that the most important thing to be installed in the arsenal is not the chimney!"

The familiar words sounded again, making the staff of the headquarters laugh in their hearts. Ever since the arsenal increased the production capacity of heavy mortars, the deputy commander-in-chief has been busy arranging heavy mortars for brigade-level units, and upgraded them to battalion-level units on the original basis. For example, the third division originally had a heavy mortar company, but it was strengthened with 18 more guns. Yesterday, they told them that it was not a chimney...

(End of this chapter)