Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Just as Lowe expected, the problem facing the 24th Brigade at this time was how he should make a decision!
Mitsui Taro was only a major, and he was at the same level as Ueno of the 23rd Battalion! Even the directions and missions of their two battalions were different, and his Imperial Army had fewer troops than the 23rd Battalion. Of course, this was not the point. The point was that he came here after receiving Ueno's request for help, and he came to reinforce.

According to the telegram sent by Ueno, there are three regiments of the Eighth Route Army in Shili Township in the north. These three regiments are the main force of the Eighth Route Army and the target they want to eliminate in every security battle!

But now, the main force of the Eighth Route Army is in the open, and Ueno has also led a large number of troops there... but now he can't get in touch with them! Not only that, his most elite squadron has also lost contact. In other words, the Eighth Route Army in the north should be very powerful, so powerful that it can destroy its own reinforcements in a short time and encircle and annihilate Ueno's troops.

Inoue was very sure that in the north, the Eighth Route Army was spreading a big net, waiting for him to get in. At this time, the Eighth Route Army was the Zhuge Liang sitting firmly in the central army tent, and he was the Meng Huo waiting to be captured?

Don't ask why Inoue was so confident, because the last telegram Ueno sent him was to inform him that the artillery of the Eighth Route Army was very powerful and he must be careful.

"Captain, we have been resting for 20 minutes. Do we need to continue?" Seeing Inoue put down the telegram in his hand, the adjutant next to him asked.

"No, don't stop here! Let's do this. You arrange a small team to lead two squadrons of the Imperial Army to continue heading north. Go slowly and try to see if there are any ambushes around! If you encounter our convoy, you need to check what's going on! By the way, bring two more of the latest radios, we need to get the latest news from the front!"

"Hai..." The brigade's adjutant hurried to make arrangements.

"Signalman, you, send a telegram to the division headquarters immediately. The content is: Our 24th Battalion is on the way to reinforce and temporarily stopped in Gu County. The current situation is that the 23rd Battalion has lost contact, and our mobile force has also lost contact in a short period of time! According to the analysis of the 23rd Battalion's telegram, the Eighth Route Army in the north has deployed heavy troops, with a strength of at least one division, and a large number of heavy weapons!"

"At this moment, the 23rd Battalion has lost contact. We are requesting tactical guidance! Commander, our empire is increasingly running low on manpower. We need to preserve our strength!"

"Okay, let's send the message like this. We'll wait for 10 minutes. If we don't get a response within minutes, we'll head towards Persimmon Village."

"Ha!" The communications staff officer repeated the message and went to send it.

Soon, a small group of Japanese soldiers, carrying two radios and more than 300 puppet soldiers, headed north along the Guxian River Valley. Although Inoue had instructed the Japanese soldiers to walk slowly and test for ambushes, the Japanese soldiers still walked fast, at least when they passed Songshuling.

Well, it's not that the puppet army is not afraid of death, but in their view, their own team and the imperial army team together have more than 2,000 troops! With so many people, even if the Eighth Route Army sets an ambush, they will not fight on Songshuling, which is so close, right? How many people can be put here? Well, there really can't be many people on Songshuling, more than a hundred people are enough. And it just so happens that the special operations team led by Luo Wei and the reconnaissance company have just over a hundred people and less than two hundred people. And the key point is that these are the teams that are best at using the environment for camouflage, and they are more than 800 meters away from the river valley at the foot of the mountain. If you don't get closer, you really can't find them.

"Captain, the puppet army has passed by, there are 364 of them, there are 15 Japanese soldiers, two of them are carrying radios! Captain, the Japanese radio is the radio we have been dreaming of, it is so tempting!"

"I'm also very greedy, but now is not the time to fight. Our task is to keep an eye on it here, monitor the movements of the Japanese in the south, and send situation reports to the battalion headquarters in a timely manner! By the way, have you reported on the situation of the Japanese puppet troops in the past?" asked Lowe.

"I've informed you that Captain Guo has instructed us to stay where we are and not to act rashly! Hey, Captain, don't you think alike?"

"Get lost! Stop smiling so frivolously! Right now, the Japs are probably still struggling over what to do next! While they still haven't reacted, I'll assign you a task! Although our artillery squad only has one 60mm mortar, we have brought enough shells, so our firepower won't be too bad!"

"Well, if the enemy's main force continues to move north, we will stay put! But if the enemy moves east, we will have to withdraw. We can't let them get away with it! Comrades in the artillery squad, if this really happens, your mission is to find the Type 92 infantry guns in the enemy's ranks and blow them up!"

"The Japanese are getting weaker and weaker. A battalion can only rely on a few Type 92 infantry guns to hold up the front! At this distance, as long as we find their infantry guns, we must blow them up decisively! Even if the infantry guns are in a disassembled state or in a towed state, blow them up! Even if they cannot be blown up, we must kill the surrounding artillerymen!"

"Then it's our grenade launchers' turn. Your mission is to control the situation! It's still the same old rules. Shoot the pepper bombs into the enemy's ranks according to their length! Don't be stingy. Give the enemy three rounds of pepper bombs first. This will greatly weaken their combat effectiveness! Don't sit idle after shooting the pepper bombs. Keep firing high-explosive bombs. Bomb wherever there are more people!"

"When the grenade launchers are bombing, all the machine gun groups should not be idle. Each of you should find a suitable firing range and fire at the enemy troops. We don't ask for a large number of kills, but only for fire suppression and shock! The enemy troops are in a marching state, and they will not have time to react in the first ten seconds or so, so they must be suppressed!"

"As for what's next, all snipers and precision shooters, when the Japanese are marching, they will find their heavy machine guns, grenade launchers and other units! When I give the order to start shooting, use the first wave of bullets to snipe and kill them! Sniper and kill these targets that pose the greatest threat, and then those elite soldiers carrying flags and officers carrying command swords."

"Then, it's the assault team! Do you see that ridge on the eastern hillside? When the battle starts, go there and use the firepower in your hands to eliminate the enemy as quickly as possible! But don't rush down, we are outnumbered and will not have the advantage in a fight! But we have strong firepower and accurate shooting. Try to make the most of the advantages of semi-automatic sniping, assault rifles and submachine guns!" (End of this chapter)