The Sword of Swords is a Guard for Kong Jie

Chapter 640 Guan Gong is playing big swords in front of him (second update)

Last night's victory gave Maj. Kawasaki confidence in tonight's raid.

He decided to get a good night's sleep tonight, and wait until tomorrow morning to listen to the summary of the results of the chief of staff. That way is more direct, and he doesn't have to feel up and down like last night, tense and worried.

This sleep was very peaceful, and I didn't enter the war room until nine o'clock in the morning the next day.

I thought that the atmosphere in the war room should be very good after the army won the battle, but the picture I saw was completely opposite to what I imagined in my heart.

Chief of Staff Cun Shangzhong Zuo studied the sand table with a sullen face. Several combat staff officers were discussing something around the sand table. joy.

"Did something go wrong in the travel notes last night?" Major General Kawasaki quickly flashed a bad feeling in his mind, and his steps became faster and faster, and he hurriedly asked without waiting for Lieutenant Assistant Cun Shang to open his mouth.

"Chief of Staff, last night's raid failed?"

Lieutenant Assistant Cun Shang seemed to have encountered something unspeakable, he hesitated for a while before speaking: "It's not considered a failure...it's just..."

"What does it mean to be a failure?" Major General Kawasaki was very dissatisfied with this ambiguous answer and continued to ask.

"If you win, you win, if you lose, you lose. There is nothing wrong with it."

"We win and lose half..." Lieutenant Zuo Cunshang replied boldly.

"Nani?" Major General Kawasaki still didn't understand.

Lieutenant Assistant Cun Shang could only show the statistical results and continue to report: "Last night we assaulted six garrisons of the Eighth Route Army."

"The two commando teams won a complete victory, wiped out a main force company of the Eighth Route Army, and severely damaged a main force company."

"Three of the other four commandos returned without success and lost many soldiers. Although one commando did not complete the raid mission, they temporarily changed the target of the raid and captured a village located in the Eighth Route Army base area. Not only did they wipe out three More than a dozen guerrillas and local armed forces also shot and killed more than 300 rioters who supported the Eighth Route Army, severely deterred the local people, and severely damaged the Eighth Route Army's people and soldiers."

"In addition, the Eighth Route Army also dispatched several troops to raid the area occupied by the Imperial Army. They captured three of our strongholds, lost three reinforced teams, three companies of the Imperial Association Army, and a large amount of weapons, ammunition, and supplies."

"Including the losses of various commandos, we smashed a total of 346 imperial troops last night, and 418 puppet troops were killed and captured."

"But we also wiped out more than 300 Eighth Route Army and guerrillas. That's why I said that winning and losing will be divided equally."

Seeing that Major General Kawasaki's face darkened in an instant, becoming more and more ugly, Lieutenant Assistant Cunshang quickly added: "However, Beizhi has readjusted the raid plan based on the reasons for last night's failure, so as to ensure that there will be no accidents in tonight's operation."

Major General Kawasaki's bad mood didn't get better because of this promise, and he thought for a while with a sullen face before he spoke: "There is an old saying in China: Guan Gong uses a big knife in front of him. I don't know if Cun Shangjun has heard of it."

"Hayi..." Lieutenant Zuo Cunshang seemed to guess what Major General Kawasaki wanted to say, and answered with his head down.

Major General Kawasaki continued: "Then do you think we use guerrilla warfare to attack the Eighth Route Army in Yizhong, is it considered a big knife in front of Guan Gong..."

"This..." Lieutenant Assistant Cunshang hesitated, not knowing how to answer this question.

The Eighth Route Army's style of attack with guerrilla warfare was formulated by Neiji Okamura. If he agrees with what the brigade commander said, it means that the commander's decision was wrong from the beginning.

The head of the brigade has the rank of major general and is qualified to question the orders of the commander.

He was just a lieutenant chief of staff, and he rashly questioned the commander's military order. If it reached his ears and angered him, just wearing a small shoe might ruin his military career that he had worked hard for half his life.

Major General Kawasaki saw the hidden worries of the chief of staff and did not continue to ask this question. He said bluntly: "It is not impossible to use guerrilla warfare against the Eighth Route Army, but we cannot just copy it."

"The Eighth Route Army has fought guerrilla warfare for several years. We will definitely suffer a lot if we copy it over."

"My idea is to combine guerrilla warfare with our advantages, sum up a set of guerrilla warfare of our own, and continue to raid the Eighth Route Army garrison, and we will definitely achieve some unexpected results."

"Order……"

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That night, the six commandos sent by Major General Kawasaki did not attack on time, until eight o'clock the next morning, they went straight into the base of the wing under the cover of the aircraft.

It is daytime now, and there are planes covering overhead, the marching speed of the Japanese and puppet troops is at least [-]% faster than at night.

Although the guerrillas who monitored the stronghold returned to the base area to report the situation as soon as possible, they arrived an hour or two earlier than the Japanese and puppet troops.

Time was tight, and the troops would definitely not have time to set up an ambush on the road that the Japanese and puppet troops must pass through. The main companies selected by the Japanese and puppet troops as assault targets could only cover the common people and retreat in a hurry.

Here comes the running problem.

Usually the Eighth Route Army mixed with ordinary people, and it was difficult for aircraft to lock the attack target.

Now that the army is leading the people out of the village, it happens to be a living target for the planes.

"Buzzing..."

The roar of the plane slowly spread to the ears of the retreating troops on the ground from far to near.

The orderly team just now became chaotic in an instant, and the common people ran around like a flock of frightened sheep.

The warriors protecting them tried desperately to stop the chaos and called everyone to disperse and get down.But ordinary people are different from the army, and their psychological quality is not as good as that of the army. No matter how hard the soldiers try, the ground is still a mess.

"Buzz... woo woo..."

The roar became louder and louder, and when I looked up, I saw the little devil's plane slanting down towards the ground. When it was 200 meters away from the ground, the aerial bomb slumped out of the fuselage and roared down, hitting the middle of the crowd.

"Rumble..."

A thunderous explosion sounded on the ground, flames splashed, and thick smoke billowed. Countless soldiers and civilians were blown up and overturned in the explosion, screaming and falling in a pool of blood.

"Buzzing..."

The planes that returned to the high altitude joined the battle again. This time they did not continue the bombing, but stuck to the ground. Two rows of aviation bullets shot out as if they didn't need money, and directly plowed two blood paths on the ground.

After strafing back and forth three times, the little devil's plane shook its wings and flaunted its might to leave the battlefield, leaving behind a field of dead bodies and broken limbs.

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At the headquarters of the Duer Regiment, Kong Jie didn't know the news that the base area had been jointly attacked by Japanese commandos and aviation at twelve o'clock at noon.

A pair of eyes were suddenly red with anger.

The loss is too great.

The five main companies were severely damaged in the air strike, and nearly 400 people were sacrificed, and there were dozens of seriously injured.

More than 800 people in five villages were killed, and nearly 700 were seriously injured.

Since Kong Jie took office in the Solitary Second Regiment, it was the first time that ordinary people in the Yizhong base suffered such heavy casualties.

If this story spreads, the support of the people in the base areas for the Eighth Route Army will definitely be greatly reduced.Maybe they will hide from the Eighth Route Army and ask the Eighth Route Army to leave their homes to prevent the Japanese from treating them as a target to vent their anger.

The Eighth Route Army is a team of ordinary people. Without the support of the local people, the army cannot gain a foothold, and the so-called establishment of base areas becomes a joke.

Chief of Staff Liu Sen obviously also saw this, and before Kong Jie could open his mouth, he hurriedly said, "Commander, we must find a way to break the situation as soon as possible, and we can't let the little devils enter our base like wandering in the back garden, otherwise we will lose even more." will increase, and the base area will also fall into turmoil as a result."

Kong Jie replied solemnly: "The base area is too large, the strength of the troops is limited, and there are still many troops that have not formed combat effectiveness. There are defense loopholes everywhere around the base area. It is impossible to defend firmly."

"We can only find a way to take the initiative to attack, force the little devil commandos back to the occupied area, and then find a way to gather and annihilate them. At the very least, we must severely injure them."

After finishing speaking, he shifted his gaze to Huang Yu: "Xiao Huang, you have a lot of tricks, think about whether there is a way to prevent the Devil Commando from going deep into our base area."

"Without the cooperation of the infantry, our troops would not have to leave the village, and there would be no need to move under the noses of the Japanese planes. Neiji Okamura wanted to use planes to bomb us, but we couldn't find the target."

Huang Yu was also frightened by the massacre launched by the devils.

If all the sacrifices were soldiers from the Eighth Route Army, he wouldn't be so angry.

However, the little devil killed a group of unarmed ordinary people, and there were many old and weak women and children among them, so firing at them was like a beast.

Clenching his fists, he replied with a murderous look on his face: "Commander, there is nothing to say, we must find a way to kill all the little devils who invaded our base area."

"Not only can we avenge those sacrificed people, stabilize the morale of the army and the people, and prevent the base area from falling into turmoil. It can also wait for work with leisure, and completely dispel the idea of ​​the Japanese and puppet troops using guerrilla warfare to attack our base area."

"If it's just to repel the commandos of the Japanese and puppet troops and seek temporary stability. The little devils who took advantage of it will definitely send troops to raid the base area again and continue to harass us."

"There are only so many troops in the Baoding mixed brigade. If we take the opportunity to eat up the two infantry brigades that formed six commandos, the Japanese army will fall into a passive state of shortage of troops."

"It will take a lot of time to replenish the loss and restore strength, let alone gather troops to sweep our base again."

"We will also have more time to train our troops and develop base areas."

"The little devil doesn't move at night, but raids our base areas under the cover of planes during the day, sabotages everywhere, and threatens the safety of the army and civilians in the base areas. Then we will attack at night, gather heavy troops to attack the strongholds stationed by the Japanese and puppet commandos, and gather and wipe them out."

"The garrison regiment doesn't have the strength to take down the devil's infantry brigade in one bite. The devil divides the troops into a commando team, which just gives us a good chance to defeat them."

"I did the math just now. There are 500 commandos in each route of the devils. They have a reinforced squadron, a mountain artillery squad or an infantry artillery squad, and one or two companies of second devils."

"After a few days of fighting, the total strength of these commandos should be reduced to less than 400 people, and there will be more than 500 people including the garrison at the stronghold."

"The garrison regiment has its own artillery company and mortar company. If all these heavy weapons are brought to the battlefield, it will be no problem for one regiment to kill all the commandos."

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