Anti-Japanese War: I have unlimited assistance

Chapter 261: No ethics, sneak attack!
Masao Uwagawa and Kazuki Yamamoto set out from Yangquan by car and arrived at the Wangjiawan front in more than three hours.

At the 77th Regiment Headquarters on the front line, the two men met Harushige Matsuo, or to be more precise, saw Harushige Matsuo's body.

Yamamoto Ikki's face was stiff as he lifted the white cloth and looked carefully at Matsuo Harushige's body without any fluctuation in his expression.

"Yamamoto-kun, did you see something?"

Masao Uwagawa's expression changed, and he looked at Yamamoto Ikki and asked.

Yamamoto Ikki did not answer, but looked at his adjutant Nagata and asked in a deep voice: "Lieutenant Colonel Nagata, tell me what happened at that time."

Masao Uwagawa was immediately displeased. This Yamamoto kid was simply arrogant. Although he was dissatisfied in his heart, he did not show it.

When Nagata saw Yamamoto's expression, he knew that the other party was a tough guy, so he told Yamamoto and Uwagawa Masao what had happened.

Listening to Lieutenant Colonel Nagata's report, Yamamoto Ikki's expression became slightly solemn.

After describing the circumstances of Colonel Matsuo's death, Lieutenant Colonel Nagata continued, "In addition, officers and machine gunners of the Locust Army on the battlefield also encountered this situation. Many officers and machine gunners of the Locust Army had their heads shot... gone."

Lieutenant Colonel Nagata originally wanted to say that their heads were blown off by the Eighth Route Army, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was inappropriate, so he changed his words.

"Their heads were either blown off by 20mm machine guns or anti-tank guns."

After analyzing for a while, Yamamoto Ikki came to a conclusion. His face returned to being stiff, and his tone remained flat.

"Nani?"

Lieutenant Colonel Nagata and a group of Japanese staff officers could not help but look at each other.

The Japanese army was also equipped with 20mm anti-aircraft guns, but they were generally reluctant to use them because of a shortage of ammunition. They were mainly used for air defense.

The Eighth Route Army was actually willing to use 20mm anti-aircraft guns to attack infantry?

Uwagawa Masao asked in confusion, "Can 20mm machine guns and anti-tank guns be so accurate?"

Of course, the Japanese army was also equipped with anti-tank guns, but in small quantities because the Chinese army had few tanks and armored vehicles.

"After modification, the 20mm machine gun and anti-tank gun were equipped with high-power scopes to improve accuracy."

Yamamoto Ikki said in a cold and hard tone:
"However, it cannot be ruled out that the Eighth Route Army used a large-caliber sniper rifle with an ultra-long range."

"And their snipers are very good."

"I suggest that officers above the rank of Lieutenant Colonel stay away from the battlefield in the near future, lest they follow in the footsteps of Colonel Matsuo."

Masao Uwagawa, Lieutenant Colonel Nagata, and a group of Japanese staff officers suddenly felt their anus tighten.

This is not good!

The Eighth Route Army's position was located on the highest hill nearby. If one wanted to obtain first-hand battlefield conditions, they had to observe it in person.

If you observe close to the battlefield, you will easily be targeted and killed by Eighth Route Army snipers.

Moreover, the Eighth Route Army's snipers specialized in sniping Japanese officers and machine gunners, which was greatly detrimental to the troops' offensive.

Masao Uwagawa was furious. He thought that the officers and soldiers of the 77th Regiment were all idiots. They had attacked so many times but failed to capture the Eighth Route Army positions. Instead, the regiment commander was killed by an Eighth Route Army sniper. What else could the officers and soldiers of the 77th Regiment be but good-for-nothings?
"We are now faced with two problems. The first is how to crack the Eighth Route Army's underground tactics!"

Uwagawa Masao said helplessly:
"The Eighth Route Army, relying on tunnels and artillery support, acted with impunity. The attacking Locust Army and the Locust Alliance had no trenches or foxholes, and from the very beginning of their attack, they were met with intensive machine gun, submachine gun, and artillery fire."

"The Locust Army and the Locust Alliance had over 6000 men, but they attacked for two full days and still couldn't capture the Eighth Route Army's positions!"

Not only did they fail to capture the Eighth Route Army's position, but they suffered heavy casualties and even the chief military officer was killed.

This had a great impact on the morale of the Japanese and puppet troops.

Uwagawa Masao asked in a deep voice, "What's the second question?"

Lieutenant Colonel Nagata replied helplessly: "The second is that the attacking Locust Army and Locust Coalition Army, especially the officers and machine gunners, are easily shot and killed by the Eighth Route Army snipers!"

Yamamoto Ikki asked, "Where is the Eighth Route Army sniper position?"

Lieutenant Colonel Nagata said, "On the top of the mountain."

Yamamoto Ikki frowned slightly: "Why not use artillery shells to cover the top of the mountain?"

Lieutenant Colonel Nagata replied, "Because the regiment commander believes that covering the top of the mountain with artillery fire is a waste of ammunition, he plans to organize the Locust Army snipers to suppress the Eighth Route Army snipers on the top of the mountain."

"Using artillery fire to cover the enemy's attack is indeed a waste of ammunition, and it may not necessarily hit the Eighth Route Army snipers." Uwagawa Masao nodded. "Using snipers to counterattack is a good idea."

Yamamoto Ikki couldn't help but twitch his cheeks. What a bunch of idiots, a rotten tree cannot be carved.

Lieutenant Colonel Nagata said helplessly: "In fact, the commander of the regiment had already thought of a tactic to break the Eighth Route Army, but before he could say it, he died..."

At that time, the bullet or shell was less than 20 centimeters away from Lieutenant Colonel Nagata and almost hit his head.

Thinking about it now, Lieutenant Colonel Nagata still feels a little scared.

Yamamoto Ikki asked coldly, "Do we need to save ammunition to avenge Colonel Matsuo?"

"If it can avenge Colonel Matsuo," Uwagawa Masao said, "it wouldn't matter if we used a few more shells."

Yamamoto Ikki smiled coldly: "In this case, I have a way to eliminate the Eighth Route Army snipers. This matter will be handed over to the special forces."

Originally, Yamamoto Ikki didn't want to get involved in this matter, but he found that these officers were too stupid, so he could only take some action.

In Yamamoto Ikki's opinion, the special forces team's slightest move was already the limit of this group of people.

Masao Uwagawa: "Yoshi!"

...The second day of the battle.

The Japanese puppet army only attacked twice, one exploratory attack and one formal attack.

During the official attack, Colonel Matsuo, commander of the 77th Regiment, approached the battlefield to observe and was then killed.

During the day, Uwagawa Masao did not order any more attacks, but instead focused on boosting the morale of the troops and stockpiling ammunition.

At night, Masao Uwagawa sent a squadron and a battalion of puppet troops to launch a surprise attack.

But the sneak attack was unsuccessful and the battle lasted about half an hour.

The attacking troops suffered heavy casualties and then retreated.

Early the next morning.

Wangjiawan

Japanese front-line headquarters.

After breakfast, Lieutenant Colonel Uwagawa Masao, Yamamoto Ikki, Lieutenant Colonel Nagata and other Japanese officers were in high spirits.

The ammunition consumed yesterday has been replenished, and at the suggestion of Yamamoto Ikki, Uwagawa Masao updated the offensive tactics.

We plan to capture the Eighth Route Army's position in one fell swoop today, chop off the heads of all the Eighth Route Army soldiers, and commemorate the heroic spirit of Matsuo Harushige.

Lieutenant Colonel Nagata received a call and then reported to Uwagawa Masao: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, the 6th Infantry Company and the 3rd Independent Battalion of the Locust Association Army have entered the attack position!"

Uwagawa Masao looked at the watch on his hand with an indifferent expression:

"It's almost time to send Tubalu off!"

"Hi!" Lieutenant Colonel Nagata grabbed the phone and said, "Connecting to the field artillery battalion!"

A moment later, the Field Artillery Battalion received a call: "This is the regiment headquarters. Immediately bombard the Eighth Route Army positions for 15 minutes!"

The rough voice of the field artillery battalion commander came from the phone: "Hi Yi!"

Yamamoto Ikki stood aside with a relaxed look on his face.

He has sent special agents with radios to hide close to the battlefield.

Yamamoto Ikki was very confident that with the special agents' professional concealment skills, as long as they did not open fire, the Eighth Route Army snipers would have no chance of discovering them.

Once the Eighth Route Army snipers appeared and shot at Japanese officers and machine gunners, the special agents would use radio to guide the field artillery regiment to cover the position of the Eighth Route Army snipers with artillery fire.

Yamamoto also knew snipers very well. He knew very well how to deal with them. The best tactic was not to counter with snipers, but to cover them with artillery fire.

The 77th Regiment was headquartered on a hill two kilometers away from the battlefield.

From here you can vaguely see the hill defended by the Eighth Route Army, but you can only get a rough idea of ​​it.

Masao Uwagawa stepped on the ladder, raised the telescope and looked towards the hilltop of the Eighth Route Army, ready to watch the locust army's fireworks show.

After a while.

One shell after another shot up into the sky from the field artillery position, drew arcs in the sky, and then fell at high speed towards the position of the New 1st Regiment.

Boom boom boom...

Continuous explosions and fireballs, billowing smoke and shock waves spread out in all directions, blasting the position to pieces and stirring up clouds of mud and gravel...

The corners of Masao Uwagawa's mouth curled up slightly. This attack was different from the previous ones.

When the field artillery battalion opened fire, the attacking locust army and locust army would risk being hit by artillery shells and get as close to the Eighth Route Army positions as possible.

When the shelling stopped, the troops were only a few dozen meters away from the Eighth Route Army's position.

It took about two minutes for the Eighth Route Army to get out of the tunnel.

Two minutes was enough time for the Locust Army and the Locust Association to rush into the Eighth Route Army's positions.

As long as the Locust Army and the Locust Association rush into the Eighth Route Army's positions and block the Eighth Route Army in the tunnel so that they cannot get out, then the situation will be easy.

Suddenly…

Huge continuous explosions like muffled thunder were heard two kilometers behind, and the explosions in the Eighth Route Army positions gradually stopped.

The shock wave of the explosion came, and the mud and sand above the command center rushed down, splashing all over Yamamoto Ikki, Uwagawa Masao and a group of Japanese soldiers.

"idiot?"

"what's the situation?"

Uwakawa Masao exclaimed.

Yamamoto Ikki seemed to have thought of something and suddenly narrowed his eyes.

A moment later, a Japanese staff officer rushed in and reported anxiously: "Report, the field artillery position is under attack by the enemy."

Yamamoto Ikki and Uwagawa Masao hurried out of the regiment headquarters and raised their binoculars to look at the field artillery positions in the rear.

I saw huge plumes of smoke rising from the direction of the field artillery positions, and the sound of gunfire like popping beans was heard.

Seeing this, Uwagawa Masao was furious: "Baka! The Eighth Route Army has no moral principles and actually attacked my field artillery position! Send an order! Guards, reinforce the field artillery position immediately!"

If the field artillery positions were destroyed by the Eighth Route Army, what would they use to attack?
(End of this chapter)