The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 736 Waiting for the Japanese invaders to take the bait

Five days.

Both sides are moving.

It was determined from various channels that the independent regiment had indeed hoarded all the food from the three villages of Laohugou, Banan Village, and Sanhe Village secretly in the Dafengzhuang area.

The devil commander Yoshio Shinozuka finally stopped hesitating, dispatched a surprise armored unit, and issued a surprise order.

In the early hours of the morning, it was probably just dawn.

A sizable unit composed of Japanese armored and cavalry, which is quite rare for the enemy's rear battlefield, secretly rushed to Dafengzhuang, the transportation granary on the center line of the independent regiment's guerrilla zone and the center line of the base.

This force consists of two parts.

One part is a cavalry squadron composed of 134 cavalrymen.

The other part is made up of six Japanese Type [-] cavalry tanks, two Type [-] medium tanks, six Type [-] ultra-light tanks, and eight armored vehicles, the Japanese First Army in Shanxi. tank squadron.

They were jointly led by Okazaki Nishimasa, the captain of the Japanese cavalry squadron, and Kazuo Uehara, the squadron leader of the tank squadron.

Among them, Kazuo Uehara was an officer of a special unit with the rank of Major Commander, leading the raid on Dafengzhuang.

"Mr. Uehara, if this raid on the Eighth Route Dafeng Village is successful, it will definitely cause heavy damage to the Independence Regiment and play a considerable role in our army's food shortage. I don't need to say more about the importance of this battle."

"Everything is up to you!"

When he secretly left from the headquarters of the First Army in Taiyuan City, Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the First Army of the Japanese Army stationed in Shanxi, asked Kazuo Uehara earnestly.

Kazuo Uehara, who was quite confident, answered with confidence.

"Hey, please rest assured, general, the raid mission will definitely be completed this time."

In the early hours of the morning, when Kazuo Uehara gave the order to advance, he brought more than 20 tanks and armored vehicles, accompanied by the advance of the cavalry squadron.

This young devil officer's face was full of high spirits, and his smile was so bright.

In Kazuo Uehara's opinion.

"It's nothing more than dealing with Tubalu in the occupied area who only dare to hide in the mountains as a coward."

"It's really overkill for me to send out tank troops and cavalry troops to carry out a surprise attack."

"This time I plan to arrive at Dafengzhuang within two hours, and within 10 minutes, the cavalry and armored troops will jointly advance to take down Dafengzhuang in one fell swoop, and bring the grain that your Excellency the Commander is looking forward to. back."

The squadron leader of the Devil Cavalry, Okazaki Nishi Masahara, wanted to remind Uehara that this independent regiment was not easy to deal with.

But thinking of the use of tanks and cavalry raids this time, plus the Eighth Route Army, they should be defenseless.

In the eyes of the two of them, there was no difficulty in winning Dafengzhuang, so he didn't remind them much.

These chariots that drove in amidst the roar gave these Japanese soldiers great confidence.

In fact, the domestic industrial level of the Japanese military is relatively advanced compared with China, which was backward during this period.

Compared with some western countries with advanced industrial levels, Japan's industrial level is completely out of reach.

Bullying, bullying, bullying, and bullying. At this time, the professional level is so backward, and it may be difficult for China, which can't independently produce a tank by gathering the industrial power of the whole country, to do well.

Any tank, even some ultra-light tanks, is also rare and precious to devil troops.

Within the five-level divisions of the Japanese Army, including A, B, C, D, and the reserve.

Except for some independent tank formations, such as tank brigades and tank divisions, which have a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, most of the remaining divisions have not many tanks and armored vehicles.

For example, the First Army in Shanxi led by Yoshio Shinozuka, because most of the divisions under its jurisdiction are Type B divisions, not the elite Type A divisions, the number of tanks and armored vehicles owned by each division is even smaller .

A division can be attached to a tank squadron with more than a dozen tanks, which is quite good.

Some divisions don't even have a single tank.

Most of the tanks of the First Army were used in confrontation with the national army on the frontal battlefield, and not many were used to sweep up the Eighth Route Army in the occupied area.

In addition, the tanks and armored vehicles owned by his First Army over the years had lost a lot on the frontal battlefield. In the process of mopping up the Eighth Route Army behind enemy lines, the combined losses of one or two vehicles also caused the First Army heartache.

This time, Yoshio Shinozuka also spent a lot of money in attacking Dafengzhuang in order to deal with the independent group.

There are a total of [-] tanks and [-] armored vehicles, but he only pulled together from multiple divisions of the First Army.

In Taiyuan City, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army stationed in Shanxi.

Since it is very important whether Dafengzhuang can be captured this time, even the devil commander Yoshio Shinozuka and Chief of Staff Kitagawa are closely watching the battle situation of the raid on Dafengzhuang with the battle map.

"General, Uehara-kun has already taken the tank squadron and cavalry squadron and set off secretly from Yangquan according to the pre-planned time."

Having said that, Bei Chuan looked at his watch.

"According to the speed of cavalry and tanks and armored vehicles, it will take less than two hours to rush all the way to the Dafengzhuang area."

"Our army set off in secret, and chose to open the city gate ahead of time at dawn, and the people near the city gate have been strictly supervised by our army."

"I think our cavalry and armored troops have already raided Dafengzhuang by the time the eighth-route spies got the news."

"Yangxi!"

Shinozuka Yoshio nodded, this old devil has been defeated by Kong Jie too many times, but this time, he thinks he has no reason to fail.

"Uehara and his party's secret assault would best require the cover of our army."

"After one and a half hours, notify the squadron immediately, and bomb the independent regiment's base as planned!"

"While destroying all kinds of military buildings inside the Independence Regiment base in one fell swoop, cover Uehara's surprise move."

"Hi! General, I'll arrange it right away." Bei Chuan replied.

the other side.

A team command.

When the devil commander Yoshio Shinozuka paid attention to the battle situation in Dafengzhuang.

Kong Jie was waiting closely for the news from Dafengzhuang.

After all, this is a matter of whether Commander Kong's armored troops will be settled.

"Old Kong, do you think the little devil will come today?"

Chief of Staff Xu Guoan, who was staring at the study of the combat map, asked a question abruptly.

Kong Jie laughed and said, "Who knows, logically speaking, early in the morning is the best time for the devils to raid Dafeng Village."

"We have already waited for the day before yesterday, and we have also waited for yesterday. Today is not bad. If we don't come today, we will come tomorrow, sooner or later."

"That's true."

"Why, are you still thinking about the devil's sneak attack?"

"How am I thinking about devils? I'm obviously thinking about our team's tanks!" Xu Guoan joked.

"Did our literary and art propaganda department arrange comrades to go there? This is the first time that our Eighth Route Army has conducted large-scale anti-tank operations. Such a precious scene should be filmed."

Suddenly remembered that Kong Jie asked at this time.

The political commissar Li Wenjie replied: "Reporter Xiao Song has been sent over, and a few soldiers have been arranged for protection."

"That's good!"

"In our enemy's rear, this kind of rare large-scale anti-tank combat is rare. This time it can be photographed. It can not only be used to promote the morale of our soldiers and civilians, but also serve as a precious teaching for our Eighth Route Army troops to conduct anti-tank warfare in the future. video."

"The video camera I bought from John last time, Xiao Song just came in handy this time."

"By the way, the simple crane modified by our repair shop has also been sent over?"

"After capturing the little devil's tanks and armored vehicles, some tanks and armored vehicles that fell into traps will definitely come in handy. Our speed must be fast, otherwise the devil will definitely send planes to bomb. If the speed is slow, then But it’s wasted work.”

Xu Guoan smiled and said: "Old Kong, don't worry, do you still need to worry about such trivial matters?"

"All the things have been sent there. In addition, Shi Dahu has also rushed over with his comrades from the Battle Call Bureau, pulling a camouflage tank."

"In addition, all the armored comrades we trained during this period have also followed. Each tank is equipped with at least five tank soldiers."

"These comrades were almost overjoyed when they heard that they could drive the real thing this time."

"Everything is ready right now, just waiting for the little devil to take the bait."

(End of this chapter)