Sword of Light: Humanoid Self-Propelled Artillery

Chapter 100 Internal and external attacks
However, after hearing what the staff officer said, the regiment commander Kasahara Koizumi asked in confusion:
"Why, what's your reason?"

The staff officer immediately stated his reasoning:
"This is an isolated village with a plain behind it. From a military perspective, once the defenders are surrounded, this place will become a desperate situation, and the possibility of breaking out is slim!"

Regarding the staff officer's analysis, the regiment commander, Kasahara Kozen, nodded in agreement.

"I agree with you. I don't believe that after such a brutal raid, the scattered units of the Eighth Route Army would dare to put up an organized resistance!"

At this time, the staff officer smiled and said:
"What they need to consider most now is how to escape!"

So after Captain Kasahara Kozen concluded with his staff that there was no one in Xinzhuang, he swaggered towards Xinzhuang. You have to know that it was already past three o'clock in the afternoon and there was heavy snow in the sky, so the deeper meaning of Captain Kasahara's intention was that he needed to go into the house to rest.

After all, sleeping on a warm kang at night is much more comfortable than sleeping in the cold snow.

However, it was this unfounded inference that caused the captain to be killed at the very beginning of the battle.

When Captain Kasahara was riding his horse towards Xinzhuang, Li Yunlong, who was already in ambush, did not rush to shoot. Instead, when Captain Kasahara approached two hundred meters and the Japanese soldier in the lead was about to hit Li Yunlong in the face, Li Yunlong raised his Type 38 rifle and shot Captain Kasahara in the head, knocking him down.

You have to know that Li Yunlong joined the Eighth Route Army during the Huang Ma Uprising, which was only 1927!

It is now 1942, which means that Li Yunlong has been in the army for 15 years. So his marksmanship cannot be said to be very good, but he can easily shoot an arrow through a target from a hundred paces away and make a headshot from two hundred meters away.

After all, without this shooting skill, Li Yunlong would not have been able to rise from a soldier to a regimental commander.

Following this shot, the Japanese soldiers also became confused. There was no way they could defeat their main force before the battle even started!

Fortunately, this time it was not like Cang Yunling, where the regiment commander was killed with one shot. Not only the regiment commander, the colonel, but also the staff officer and even the deputy regiment commander were killed.

Although Li Yunlong killed the regiment commander, Colonel Kasahara Koizumi, this time, the regiment staff and the deputy regiment commander were still there.

Therefore, the regiment staff immediately issued an order to retreat, but after the retreat, the regiment staff quickly ordered people to disperse and directly surround the entire Xinzhuang.

They wanted to launch multiple attacks to make Li Yunlong vulnerable to attacks from both sides, making it impossible for him to defend comprehensively.

However, just when Li Yunlong was fighting with less than a company of troops against more than a thousand Japanese soldiers and more than a thousand Japanese traitors.

Wang Gensheng's side was in a bit of a difficult situation. Although the number of Wang Gensheng's side, plus the independent regiment soldiers gathered along the way, had exceeded 600, it was still difficult for these 600 people to fight against the Japanese and the Japanese invaders with a total of more than 2,000 people.

Unless the soldiers of the independent regiment that have been gathered have the same configuration and firepower as the special cavalry company, they will be able to break through the encirclement formed by these two thousand Japanese and traitorous devils in one bite, otherwise it will be very difficult.

However, if the quick annihilation war with the Japanese turned into a protracted war, they would be immediately defeated by the various support calls from the Japanese. So Wang Gensheng recalled the entire process of this battle in the plot of Bright Sword, to see if he could find an appropriate time to break in and rescue Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang from the encirclement.

Although Li Yunlong has always been said to be good at attacking, from the Battle of Cangyunling, to the Battle of Lijiaopo, to the later attack on Ping'an County, Li Yunlong played the role of the attacker.

However, the Xinzhuang breakout was a rare example of Li Yunlong fighting a defensive battle. Faced with the large-scale sweep launched by the Japanese devils, Li Yunlong decided to break out in a dispersed manner and divide the independent regiment's forces into several parts.

Therefore, Li Yunlong did not have many troops around him. When they retreated to Xinzhuang, Li Yunlong only had one company left. What was worse was that Li Yunlong was sick at the time.

Under such circumstances, facing a large number of Japanese and Transmigrator troops chasing after him, whose number reached two thousand, and with such a large force and insufficient manpower of his own, it would be difficult for Li Yunlong to hold out until dark and then break out in the dark.

But in the end, Li Yunlong completed the plan he had made before the war. He first stayed in Xinzhuang until dark, and then took advantage of the night to successfully break out of the Japanese encirclement and retreat into the mountains only twenty miles away from them.

Li Yunlong did not have many troops at the time, so it was very difficult for him to lead the troops to retreat safely, but the miracles created by Li Yunlong were far more than that.

The enemies who surrounded Li Yunlong in Xinzhuang actually thought that there was at least a regiment of troops in Xinzhuang, but the reality was that Li Yunlong had less than a company around him.

Moreover, he and Zhao Gang had to split their troops into two groups to resist the Japanese invaders who attacked Xinzhuang. So why did the Japanese invaders who surrounded Li Yunlong make such a mistake in judgment?
In fact, this was just a trick played by Li Yunlong on them. Li Yunlong wanted to find a way to prevent them from taking advantage of their firepower. One of the methods Li Yunlong adopted was not to drive out all the enemies who had attacked the village.

Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang built two lines of defense in the village to block the enemy's attack. They always left some enemies in the village, because only in this way could the Japanese artillery fail to take advantage.

Therefore, if the enemy wanted to attack the village, the only way was to use soldiers to search and attack. The Japanese used this method, which was exactly what Li Yunlong wanted, because the enemy's attack method brought the firepower of both sides to the same level.

Moreover, once close combat and street fighting began, this was exactly the tactic that the Eighth Route Army excelled at. It was precisely because the Japanese devils had fallen into the "pocket" that Li Yunlong had prepared for them in advance that they had been unable to capture Xinzhuang.

Not only that, because they were always led by Li Yunlong, the Japanese suffered heavy losses. It was under such circumstances that the Japanese misjudged the Eighth Route Army in the village.

After recalling the entire Xinzhuang battle process, Wang Gensheng had found a way to rescue Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang from the Japanese devils at the lowest cost.

That's right, the method is to let the Japanese invaders break into Xingzhuang. After most of the Japanese invaders enter Xingzhuang, its outer defense force will definitely become vulnerable.

In this way, Wang Gensheng could take this opportunity to break through the encirclement and enter Xinzhuang to pick up Li Yunlong and others.

As for the plains of dozens of miles outside Xingzhuang, it was naturally impossible for infantryman Li Yunlong to escape.

But for Wang Gensheng, that was not a big deal. You know, the more than 800 captured war horses have not been fully occupied yet!

(End of this chapter)