The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 588 Chief: It really depends on human effort (second update)
Gangcun Ningci was not as optimistic as the deputy chief of staff. He frowned and reminded: "Bageyalu, how many times have I told you that you must not underestimate the enemy when facing the Eighth Route Army, and don't be too superstitious that the heavy weapons we are equipped with are aircraft."

"If they could really defeat the enemy, the Eighth Route Army would not have grown to its present size in North China."

"The second regiment of the Beiping guerrilla detachment left in Fangshan will not seriously damage the sweeping troops sent by the mixed brigade."

Although the deputy chief of staff was scolded bloody, he didn't dare to say a word of rebuttal.

The prestige of the commander in the North China Front Army is unrivaled. What he says is the imperial decree, and he can only keep his opinions.

Moreover, the Eighth Route Army became stronger and stronger under the encirclement and suppression of the North China Front Army. This is a fact that no one can deny.Even if the deputy chief of staff wanted to refute, he couldn't find a reason, so he could only nod and admit his mistake.

"The commander is right in reminding you, the humble post is too careless!"

"I will contact the mixed brigade now and ask them to speed up their march. Even if the Beiping guerrilla detachment finds them, they will not have time to launch an attack."

Neiji Gangmura added: "Although aviation has a limited role on the battlefield, it is also an important means for us to attack and monitor the Eighth Route Army."

"Send another telegram to the air force: Ask them to send twice as many planes to monitor the Beiping guerrilla detachment and escort all the troops that reinforce Tong County."

As soon as he gave the order, he saw the communications officer running towards him in a hurry: "Sir, there is an urgent call from Tianjin City..."

"Tianjin Wharf was attacked by long-distance artillery fire from the Eighth Route Army. The oil on the wharf was destroyed by the artillery fire. In order to avoid greater losses, they hoped that Tianjin's reinforcements in Tongxian County would send half a brigade back to the wharf immediately. The Eighth Route Army there."

"Those Eighth Route Army must have been sent by the Beiping guerrilla detachment..." Gangcun Ningci made a judgment with a sullen face after hearing this.

"What a cunning opponent. When we took Tong County, we guessed that we would transfer troops from Tianjin City to take back Tong County. We arranged in advance for troops to lurk at Tianjin Wharf to wreak havoc, so that they couldn't do their best to reinforce Tong County."

"What a powerful plan..."

After sighing, he stared at the communication staff and ordered: "Call Tianjin City back immediately, agreeing that they will send half of the brigade back to the dock."

"But sir, don't we join the Eighth Route Army?" the deputy chief of staff asked with a look of reluctance.

"Then what else can we do?" Gangcun Ningci was also very uncomfortable, and turned his eyes to the sand table again, with a helpless expression on his face.

"I don't want to be led by the nose by the Eighth Route Army, but there are too many weapons and ammunition hoarded in Tianjin Wharf, which is no less important than Tong County. It is impossible to give up Tianjin Wharf in order to regain Tong County, right?"

"They only dispatched half of the brigade back to the pier, and the main force of the reinforcements is still rushing to Tong County."

"Our counter-offensive force is only half of the brigade missing. After the siege battle started, let the aviation soldiers drop a few more aerial bombs on the enemy, and use firepower to make up for the half brigade reduction of the ground troops."

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On the official road more than ten kilometers northeast of Tong County, more than 900 little devils are rushing forward desperately.

They are a mixed brigade that Okamura Ningji has just gathered together. Two planes circled back and forth above their heads. When they find suspicious situations, they will lower their flight altitude, stick to the ground to determine the enemy's position, and launch an attack directly without giving the opponent any sneak attack. Opportunity.

But the little devil still underestimated the opponent's latent ability.

Wearing a thatch woven hat, sticking branches or something on his body, he burrowed into the bushes, and even the little devil infantry could not spot them from a distance of more than ten meters, let alone the devil pilots at an altitude of dozens or hundreds of meters.

A mortar team has five soldiers, three gunners are responsible for transferring mortar parts, and two gunners are responsible for transferring shells.

The five people hid in a patch of grass motionless, with a mortar mounted among them, with the muzzle pointing directly at the official road, and the gun barrel was camouflaged with thatch, leaving only a fist-sized muzzle.

It looks like a thatch stack from a distance.

"Boom..."

The mortar wrapped in thatch suddenly spewed out a burst of flames, and the shells were wrapped in flames to the very barrel, flying in a parabola towards the official road.

The distance between the two sides was too far, and the little devil didn't hear the sound of the gunfire, but knew that there were shells hitting them.

It wasn't until the flames splattered and the explosion sounded around them that they realized that they were under attack.

By this time, the second mortar shell had flown out of the barrel.

The gunner squatting next to the mortar shot again, followed by the third shell, and then disassembled the artillery, carrying part of the mortar parts by one person, and quickly moved around.

It wasn't until this moment that the little devil plane escorting in the sky saw the ground troops being attacked.

Hurry up and lower the flight altitude, trying to find the attacker, and this time is enough for several gunners to move four to fifty meters away.

They didn't continue to retreat, they threw themselves on the ground, using thatch and branches as camouflage, and remained motionless.

"Buzzing..."

The plane whizzed past everyone's heads close to the ground, and the huge roar almost deafened everyone's ears.

What surprised the Devil pilots was that apart from the low grass and bushes, there were no moving figures on the ground, let alone the mortars attacking the mixed brigade.

"Did I miss something?" The unbelieving pilot said to himself, while driving the plane to dive towards the ground again, ready to check again.

In the end, they still found nothing, so they could only shake the wings and tell the ground troops that they had not found the attacker.

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The Deputy Chief of Staff of the North China Front Command of the Japanese Army in Beiping is confirming the latest location of all reinforcements against the sand table.

Seeing that Tong County had been surrounded by three reinforcements, the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up, thinking that he would win the next siege, and that the Beiping guerrilla detachment of the Eighth Route Army would undoubtedly lose.

"Sir..." The radio operator who was in charge of contacting the mixed brigade suddenly put down his earphones and ran towards him.

"The mixed brigade reported that the troops were attacked by long-range artillery fire from the Eighth Route Army on the marching road, but the planes escorting them did not find the attackers."

"They want to send out an infantry squadron to eliminate the attackers, otherwise they will be attacked by the Eighth Route Army's long-distance artillery fire all the time. Even if they successfully reach Tong County, the troops will suffer heavy casualties."

Gangcun Ningci issued a death order: In order to prevent the Eighth Route Army from destroying the reinforcements one by one, no unit can divide its troops without an order from the headquarters.

Facing the mixed brigade's request for instructions, the deputy chief of staff couldn't make a decision, so he hurried to Neiji Okamura, trying to get him to make up his mind.

"I heard..." Okamura Neiji just walked towards him, his face was very ugly, and he frowned for analysis.

"I knew that the Beiping guerrilla detachment would not let the reinforcements reach Tongxian easily."

"Sure enough, the mixed brigade was targeted as soon as it was established. It can be seen that their intelligence collection capabilities far exceed our imagination, and the speed of information transmission is also very fast. We must pay attention to this."

"As for the request for instructions from the mixed brigade, although we know that this is a conspiracy by the Eighth Route Army to consume our army's strength, we still have to jump in."

"Compared to the safety of the entire mixed brigade, the loss of a squadron is obviously nothing."

"Call them back immediately: send out an infantry squadron to chase down the Eighth Route Army that attacked them, and use the aviation to cover them. Even if the entire army is wiped out, they must cover the main force of the mixed brigade to reach Tongxian."

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The Eighth Route Army Headquarters and the Deputy Commander are also paying attention to this battle.

He had just received a piece of information forwarded to the headquarters by the Baoding Underground Party: The thousands of recruits that Gangcun Ningci had added to the Baoding Mixed Brigade had all integrated into the army and were undergoing integrated training.
The three regiments of the Royal Association Army obtained through rotation have also formed combat effectiveness. Not surprisingly, the Japanese army's sweep against Yizhong will start in two days at the latest.

Facing the Japanese and puppet troops pressing down on the border, the deputy commander-in-chief was particularly worried about the future and fate of the Duer Regiment. While studying the map, he asked, "Is Kong Jie ready? If they are not well-prepared, they will definitely suffer a great loss, and their hard-earned bases outside the mountains will be destroyed by the enemy, and they will have to sneak into the mountains to fight guerrillas."

The deputy chief of staff also looked very unhappy, and shook his head and replied: "The expansion of the Second Regiment is too fast, the steps are too big, and the preparation time given to them by the devil is very short."

"Although we have been training our troops desperately these days, there are still very few troops that can be pulled out to face the little devil head-on."

"If the devils really plan to start the raid in two days, the next anti-sweep will definitely be an egg hitting a rock, and it will undoubtedly fail."

The disparity in strength between the two sides is too great.

In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy will be smashed to pieces.

The deputy commander-in-chief understood this truth better than anyone else, so he could only sigh.

"It's man-made."

"Tell Kong Jie, fight if you can, and withdraw if you can't win."

"But we can't run away in desperation and give the little devil the hard-earned base outside the mountain."

"Even if we retreat, the Japanese and puppet troops will have to pay a huge price. We must not let them take our base easily."

Just as the deputy chief of staff was about to go to the telecommunications room to send a telegram, the communications staff officer rushed in with a beaming face.Without waiting for him to ask a question, he happily reported: "Chief, Captain Yi Zhongkong sent a good news..."

"It is said that the Beiping guerrilla detachment successfully captured Tong County, wiped out more than 5000 Japanese puppet troops, and is preparing to establish a base centered on Tong County and Fangshan County. Please cooperate with the headquarters..."

The deputy commander did not forget about Huang Yu's raid on Peiping as a guerrilla detachment, but he didn't pay much attention to it either.

He only brought a reinforced battalion, but Beiping is the headquarters of the North China Front Army of the Devils. Even if five thousand elites were transferred away, the dead camels were still bigger than horses. Huang Yu wanted to make a breakthrough there and forced Gangcun Ning to transfer The difficulty of returning soldiers to aid is not ordinary.

After explaining that the telecommunications office sent telegrams to the Beiping guerrilla detachment from time to time every day, they stopped paying attention.

Unexpectedly, this commando, which has almost no possibility of success, would make such a big commotion in Beiping. It wiped out four or five thousand Japanese puppet troops in just a few days, and they even took down the east gate of Beiping. A surprise he never expected.

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