Chapter 915: The Price of Impulsivity
Behind a ridge nearly two kilometers away from the Japanese army's base, more than a dozen gunners are assembling three mortars.
In less than two minutes, the mortar appeared in front of Wang Ping with its black hole holding its muzzle.
"Each cannon has five shells, fire it immediately, and retreat after it is fired..." Wang Ping, standing on the ridge, held his telescope and stared at the Japanese army's garrison, decisively ordered.
“Everything…”
A dull explosion sounded behind me, and a series of slight whistles of air breaking through the air sounded above my head, becoming weaker and weaker.
Soon, three fireballs rose from the Japanese garrison where he was concerned, one of which hit the Japanese tent.
"Boom boom boom..."
After several seconds, three violent explosions came.
At this time, the mortar platoon behind him had fired three rounds of shells in a row.
"Captain, a group of Japanese soldiers are coming towards us, a whole infantry brigade..." Seeing the Japanese army's garrison keep rising, Li Wen's voice suddenly sounded in his ears.
"According to the original combat plan, the troops sneak attacked the Japanese in this brigade in squads. You must remember to retreat after fighting. No matter whether the enemy is eliminated or not, you cannot fight and the Japanese cannot stick to them..."
"Bang bang bang... da da da..."
In less than ten minutes, various gunfires sounded around the Japanese attacking troops. At the same time, the positions where the artillery platoon had withdrawn were also devastatingly hit by the Japanese artillery seven or eight minutes ago, and the bomb craters were everywhere.
The Japanese who attacked the attack only lasted for half an hour outside the base before retreating, and brought nearly a hundred brigades of corpses and dozens of wounded people, which was a heavy casualty.
Lieutenant General Ito was in the tent where he saw the division commander calmly after hearing the report. The chief of staff could only explain with a tough look: "Teacher, the Eighth Route Army is too cunning. He ambushed around our attacking troops and fired cold guns, and then moved. He could not see his five fingers around the battlefield, and the troops could not fire a torch, and the troops would snatch a blank every time they attacked. In order to avoid greater losses, the attacking troops could only retreat helplessly."
"However, with the advantage of firepower, we still kill and injure more than a dozen Eighth Route Army troops in the night battle we are not good at!"
Hearing this, Lieutenant General Ito even had the idea of vomiting blood, and cursed with a frustration: "More than 80 imperial troops were beaten to death and more than a dozen Eighth Route Army were eliminated. Do you think such a casualty ratio is worthy of pride?"
"No, you misunderstood by division commander. This is not what you mean by humble position!" The Chief of Staff quickly explained.
Lieutenant General Ito did not catch this problem, frowned and ordered: "Notify the chariot brigade to stand by... and be attacked by the Eighth Route Army again, the chariot brigade and infantry will be dispatched together. We must kill the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack troops and knock out their arrogance, otherwise we will spend every night in the battle!"
"At that time, we can bear it, the troops can't bear it~"
The Chief of Staff suddenly thought of the five tanks that were destroyed last night and reminded with a frown.
"But, the division commander, the Eighth Route Army has heavy artillery shells in their hands. If they continue to use the old methods to arrange mine formations, then the chariots we dispatched will be destroyed?"
"No~" Lieutenant General Ito answered firmly.
"Just just now, I carefully studied the land mine array of the Eighth Route Army. I used heavy artillery to arrange the mine array. It was powerful and could easily destroy our chariots~ but it also had a weakness!"
"The thunder array must be put on before it can work. As long as we don't step on it, no matter how powerful the thunder array is, it will be useless!"
"The tanks attack in teams, with at least thirty meters apart from each other. They must maintain a distance and provide support to each other!"
"The infantry follow each chariot in the unit of strengthening squadrons to protect the chariot!"
"Lastly, and the most important thing, when chasing the Eighth Route Army, you cannot follow the Eighth Route Army behind the butt. You must constantly change the pursuit route so that the Eighth Route Army cannot figure out where we will go next, so they will not be able to lay a mine array on the road we must pass!"
At three o'clock in the morning, three explosions broke the silence of the night again.
After fifteen consecutive shells were smashed down, the quiet Japanese station became brightly lit.
At this time, three tanks, carrying five or six hundred infantry, rushed out of the base in a mighty manner.
Wang Ping stood on a high ground two kilometers away watching the battle. When he saw the Japanese actually dispatched a tank, his hands holding the telescope shook subconsciously, and then a very bad premonition appeared in his mind.
When they killed five Japanese tanks by themselves last night, they still had the courage to send tanks. There is only one possibility that Japanese people already have a way to deal with mine formations.
I thought about the sneak attack troops, although they were covered by night, had no positions after all, and were completely exposed to the wilderness.
The night color allows them to escape the pursuit of ordinary Japanese infantry, but it is difficult to escape the pursuit of tanks.
"Dadada..."
Just as he thought of this, the Japanese rushed out of the tank at the station and fired.
Under the illumination of tank headlights, the sneak attack troops who had fired bullets were about to retreat and slip away. The lights as bright as daylight suddenly exposed their bodies from the night.
The heavy machine guns on board, the light machine guns and rifles equipped with infantry were like hungry wolves who smelled blood, and they all stared at these figures.
In less than five seconds, a total of six soldiers fell on the retreat path, and each of them had several blood holes on their bodies, which were directly beaten into sieve!
"Retreat, contact all the sneak attack troops you can contact, retreat immediately..." Wang Ping quickly reacted from his heartache and gritted his teeth and ordered.
Li Wen also calmed down from grief and anger and quickly replied: "I will send a signal to retreat immediately~"
Ten minutes later, Li Wen returned to Wang Ping's side, looking very bad...
"Captain, all the troops that can be withdrawn have been withdrawn~ In less than ten minutes, we lost a total of six combat teams and 38 comrades died, including 6 commandos from direct teams, and also lost six light machine guns, four submachine guns, and five automatic pistols~"
"The devils are even more cunning than we imagined... We underestimate the enemy and are too impulsive... During the day, I was the first to violate the combat principles I just formulated, and I also lost so many soldiers!" Wang Ping replied with a calm face, regretting his decision a few hours ago!
Li Wen quickly interrogated: "Captain, this is not your fault. It was our decision to attack the Japanese again!"
"And no one expected that the Japanese actually gave us a replay of the same trick. Last night we destroyed five of their tanks in a row. Now we dare to dispatch them at night. Wouldn't he worry that we would blow up these tanks again?"
Wang Ping replied calmly: "Since they dare to dispatch these tanks, there is a way to deal with our mine array!"
"The only regret is that the shells and wires that the engineers have all used up, otherwise we can also experiment and see what the Japanese have to do with our mine array!"
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