The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Nearly a thousand soldiers were tirelessly busy in the blocking position of the Earth Temple.

Some people waved shovels to deepen the trenches, or dug anti-aircraft holes underground along the inner walls of the trenches, and some soldiers built planks on the top of the bunkers, and then covered them with a half-meter-thick layer of soil to build semi-underground machine gun bunkers.

"Battalion Commander, as long as the devils are not equipped with heavy weapons like mountain artillery, ordinary mortars are completely useless to our machine gun bunkers and anti-blasting holes, and they will definitely teach the devils a hard lesson!" Zhong Chengjun pointed to the machine gun at his feet The bunker looked confident.

Huang Yu nodded: "According to the information sent back by the county brigade, the Japanese and puppet troops are not even equipped with infantry artillery in order to speed up their march!"

"But the little devil has air support, we have to guard against this!"

Zhong Chengjun comprehended: "The Battalion Commander, don't worry..."

"We still have a few hours before encountering the Japanese and puppet troops. This time is enough for us to build another seven or eight machine gun bunkers!"

"The anti-blasting holes are almost repaired... Learn from the experience and lessons of losing a platoon when one anti-blasting hole is destroyed!"

"The anti-blasting tunnel we built this time is very small... There can be at most one infantry squad for Tibetan soldiers in one anti-blasting tunnel!"

Huang Yu shook his head and said, "This is not enough!"

"Deployed a company to dismantle the Earth Temple for me, and all the wood from the dismantling was used to reinforce the anti-blasting holes and machine gun bunkers!"

"After the blocking battle, the troops will help the villagers rebuild the earth temple!"

"Didn't we bring a lot of telephone lines and telephones? We used them all, and arranged a telephone for each defensive position, and all of them were equipped with double lines to ensure that the battalion headquarters can give them orders at any time!"

"Add fifty landmines to the first assault company and the second assault company!"

"Once the retreat order from the battalion headquarters is received, landmines will be buried on the position immediately to let the Japanese and puppet troops know that even if we voluntarily retreat, the assault battalion position is not something they can occupy if they want to."

Zhang Dashan, the commander of the cavalry company, followed Huang Yu without saying a word.After hearing that each company in the assault battalion had missions, he became anxious.

"Captain Huang... What is the task of the cavalry company? You can't let the cavalry company watch the show!"

Huang Yu replied very seriously: "The mission of the cavalry company is very heavy. It is related to whether we can severely injure the enemy and whether we can make enough money in this battle!"

Zhang Dashan became excited when he heard it, looked at Huang Yu expectantly and asked, "What task is so important!"

"Assault on the devil's artillery position and the supply unit!" Huang Yu replied.

"After the blocking battle started, the Japanese army wanted to capture the Temple of Earth, so they would definitely deploy artillery positions in front of the blocking position and bombard us!"

"I will voluntarily give up the first two lines of defense during the battle, and lengthen the distance between the devil's attacking troops and the artillery..."

"Ambush around in advance, launch a surprise attack on the devil's artillery position as soon as the time is right, take down their artillery position, and then go to raid the devil's supply unit!"

"I will let the regiment's special operations team and the reconnaissance platoon cooperate with you!"

"After the raid is successful, it's best to hold the devil's artillery position. If you can't hold it, take some spoils and retreat, and destroy the spoils you can't take away!"

"There are more than [-] Japanese and puppet troops from us to reinforce Ping'an County... The county brigade and district squad can kill four or five hundred people no matter what, otherwise they will be blinded by the good weapons I gave them!"

"When we reach the Earth Temple, the total strength of the Japanese and puppet troops should be reduced to [-]!"

"Kill five hundred of them in the first line of defense, and four or five hundred of them in the second line of defense...the total strength of the Japanese and puppet troops will drop sharply to about [-]!"

"Minus the supply team and artillery, and the combat troops in their early thousand, they will definitely gather in front of the third blocking position to launch the final attack. Their artillery position and supply team will leave at most one infantry squadron for protection!"

"Maybe there isn't even a single infantry squadron, so arrange the supply team to protect the artillery positions with guns!"

"According to this calculation, the cavalry company's opponents are only about five hundred devils, and most of them are gunners and heavy soldiers with little combat effectiveness..."

"How about it, do you have the confidence to complete this raid mission!"

The more Zhang Dashan listened, the more he looked forward to it, and he took the order without hesitation: "Please rest assured, Commander Huang, the assault battalion promises to complete the task!"

On the road more than forty miles away from the Temple of Earth, the fast-moving Japanese and puppet troops stopped again because of landmines.

A total of five landmines exploded at the same time just now. In the violent explosion, dozens of Japanese and puppet troops were blown up piece by piece like ripe wheat.

This is a series of mines prepared by the county brigade for Mr. Miyamoto.

A total of five landmines were lined up along the road, ten meters apart from each other, and the trigger device was on the last mine.

When the leading puppet army stepped on the trigger device, three landmines had already been stepped on by the puppet army, and two landmines had been stepped on by the Guizidu team...

"Da da da... papa papa..."

The moment the mine exploded, gunshots rang out on both sides of the road at the same time.

Two crooked handles, nearly a hundred rifles, the soldiers split up and pulled the trigger on the devils on the road at the same time...

As soon as the gunshots sounded, they retreated without stopping for half a second.

The devils reacted quickly, and the bullets from the rifle machine guns shot towards both sides of the road as if they didn't need money, but they all felt lonely. The county brigade that raided them just now had long since disappeared...

Miyamoto Dazuo was unmoved, and prepared to order the troops to move on, saying that he could not be fooled by the Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army would affect the marching speed of the troops.

Before he could say anything, a major officer suddenly rushed towards him and reported seriously: "Sir, you can't go on like this!"

"In the past few hours, the forward troops have detonated more than [-] landmines... including several serial mines!"

"Not only did we lose more than [-] imperial association troops, but we also lost [-] imperial armies..."

"The morale of the Royal Association Army is about to be blown up!"

"If you let them continue to go to the front, they must collapse!"

"There are still a lot of imperial association troops who self-mutilate when the mine explodes in order not to step into the mine ahead...

After hearing this, Colonel Miyamoto became furious, and said angrily, "Find out all those imperial alliance troops who self-mutilate, shoot them in public, and make an example to others!"

"The troops continue to advance, and arrange two more infantry squads to supervise the battle!"

"If there is a collapse of the Imperial Association Army, it will be shot immediately. Don't be merciful!"

"Anyway, their task is just to beat the thunder. As long as the marching speed is guaranteed and the morale is gone, it will be gone!"

"If there is an imperial association army that wants to rebel, they will be deserters and suppress it directly with force. You don't need to ask me for instructions!"

"We have so many imperial troops, if you don't believe it, you can't see hundreds of imperial association troops!"

Shao Zuo continued: "It is true that the Imperial Association Army can force them to go to the front through bloody suppression... But we must pay attention to the loss of the Imperial Army..."

"In the first few hours, we were attacked 19 times, eight of which involved machine guns. When there were few troops, there was an infantry squad, and when there were many, there were two platoons..."

"Combining our losses in the sneak attack just now, the reinforcements have already killed 83 imperial troops, wounded 28 imperial troops, and lost more than [-] people in direct combat!"

"We still have six or seven hours to get to Ping'an County!"

"According to the current loss rate, even if the New Second Regiment didn't send troops to block us head-on, the guerrillas along the way would have caused more than a thousand casualties to us!"

"The loss far exceeds our previous estimate!"

"The humble officer suggests that the chief dispatch a reinforced squadron, and arrange another company of the Royal Association Army for them!"

"Against the Eighth Route Army's sneak attacking troops again... the strengthened squadron will take the initiative to attack, bite the guerrillas who are sneaking up on us, chase them down, and let them have no time to continue to attack us!"

"Even if this strengthened squadron encounters an accident, we will only lose more than a hundred imperial troops, which must be smaller than the loss of the Eighth Route Army continuing to attack us!"

"Besides...the Eighth Route Army that attacked us just now has a large number of people, but they are only equipped with a few light machine guns. Judging from the firepower, they should be local troops like the county brigade!"

"Our reinforced squadron has heavy machine guns and mortars, as well as a large number of light machine guns and grenades, which can completely crush the opponent in terms of firepower!"

"As long as they hug each other and hunt them down cautiously, and don't fall for the Eighth Route Army, self-protection will definitely be fine!"

Colonel Miyamoto did not immediately make a decision.

Frowning to analyze whether the subordinate's proposal is feasible...

After a minute, he nodded and said, "This method is feasible!"

"The worst plan is to lose a reinforced squadron, but it can ensure that the main force will not be attacked during the next march, and solve the problem of the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack once and for all!"

"Go and prepare now..."

"The troops continue to advance, and immediately counterattack when encountering the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack troops, and bite them!"

On the Jinniuling plateau, Kong Jie was observing the hillside.

Three trenches lie on the mountainside, and the trenches are connected by traffic trenches.

In order to better combat the devils, the third battalion also built seven or eight machine gun bunkers between the trenches, camouflaged with thatch and shrubs, and gave the devils a fatal attack at critical moments!

"Regiment commander... such a good terrain, it's too bad to only block for one or two hours... If you believe me, the third battalion can hold on here for at least five hours!" Guan Dashan, the commander of the third battalion, said with disappointment and expectation.

"Then let me ask you: After five hours, how many people are left in your third battalion, and how many devils can you kill?" Kong Jie asked Guan Dashan without nodding or objecting.

"The little devil has an infantry artillery, and can call for air support at any time. Our bunker only has logs and sandbags. It cannot withstand aerial bombs and mountain artillery attacks. It can only be used as a one-time firepower point..."

"Relying on such fortifications for five hours, there are at least [-] people left in the third battalion!"

"As for the Japanese and puppet troops, no matter how well equipped they are, we will kill three or four hundred people!"

Kong Jie continued to ask: "The one-on-one casualty ratio does not seem to be a disadvantage... But have you ever considered how we will fight after this blocking battle is over? If this battle is based on one-on-one casualties If we continue to fight, we can wipe out the devils, and what a price we will have to pay!"