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#238 - The big fish is hooked!

Jiang County.

Under the command of the Brigade Commander, the Independent Regiment's New Third Regiment and New Fourth Regiment, after continuously 'losing' over half of their positions, finally patiently awaited the merging of the Japanese 39th Division and the 11th Division.

"Colonel Eimori, when will we be able to break through the forward positions of the Eighth Route Army? Do we need our 39th Division to launch a flank attack?" The commander of the 39th Division was not polite upon seeing Eimori Takao.

He had suffered enough from the guerrillas along the way and had been holding back a bellyful of anger.

Arriving at Jiang County and discovering that the 11th Division had not yet broken through the first line of defense of the Eighth Route Army, he couldn't help but feel impatient.

"Colonel Sumida, the Eighth Route Army now has very fierce firepower, completely unlike the guerrillas of the past. The powerful weapons that our Eighth Route Army guerrillas encountered along the way are even more abundant in the hands of the Eighth Route Army regulars, especially the Eighth Route Army's 107 rockets. With their mobility and firepower, one of them is no less than our army's 105 howitzer battalion." Eimori Takao's eyes were bloodshot. After attacking for several hours, thousands of casualties were suffered, in exchange for only a little bit of ground.

They hadn't even touched the shadow of the Eighth Route Army's main force.

Through their efforts, they finally figured out that the enemies defending the front were the Eighth Route Army's New Third Regiment and New Fourth Regiment.

In addition, the ones encountered in Hengshui Town were the Eighth Route Army's New First Regiment.

But after fighting until now, apart from losing troops and generals, there were almost no achievements to show for it.

But this finally awakened Eimori Takao.

He gave Lieutenant General Sumida a simple introduction to the current battle situation on the map.

"In that case, my 39th Division will divide into three routes and immediately launch an attack from the flanks. It is best for our army to take these positions before dark. Relying on the positions, we can spend the night relatively easily. The Eighth Route Army's artillery is unexpectedly powerful. Without fortifications, we will be very difficult to resist," Lieutenant General Sumida said with a solemn expression.

Having been beaten along the way, Lieutenant General Sumida, although full of anger, also realized that the current Eighth Route Army was no longer what it used to be.

Their weapons and ammunition supply exceeded everyone's previous understanding.

The intelligence department's information about the Eighth Route Army was too outdated.

"Colonel Eimori, I will give you the 231st Regiment, the 232nd Regiment, and the 233rd Regiment to command. Our two armies must take the Eighth Route Army's positions," Lieutenant General Sumida said crisply. Now was not the time to fight for power and profit. They must work together to seize the Eighth Route Army's positions as a base.

Otherwise, in this plain area, with the enemy's heavy artillery units coming and going like the wind, Sumida felt even more dangerous than in the mountains.

After all, when ambushed in the mountains, the army still had the opportunity to hide in the mountains and forests.

In this small basin plain, they did not have much room to maneuver.

Now they were the two main divisions on the southern front, and according to seniority, Eimori Takao should temporarily take charge here.

Ding Wei and Zhang Dabiao, these front-line commanders, had to bring out their regimental 107 artillery and mountain guns.

The battle finally entered a white-hot stage.

Even Sun Desheng's cavalry battalion was now taking the artillery company back and forth, constantly switching positions to fire rockets in support of the front lines.

This time, the Japanese devils adopted a tactic of dispersing artillery fire, with infantry launching assaults in platoons spaced several hundred meters apart.

Relatively speaking, the impact of this kind of assault formation was slightly worse, but relatively speaking, the losses after being shelled were also limited to a controllable extent.

After being beaten badly in the front, the Japanese devils finally learned a little bit, braving the mortar shells that roared almost all the time on the position, as well as the terrifying rockets that flew over from time to time.

The Japanese devils who were able to survive the combined firepower and charge to the front lines of the Eighth Route Army were all considered lucky ones, with a one-in-three or even one-in-four chance.

When it was confirmed that the main force of the Japanese devils had arrived, they no longer held back on each position. Hundreds of mortars and dozens of 107 rockets finally showed their fierce firepower on the battlefield, covering the entire position of more than a dozen square kilometers in a cloud of smoke.

Hearing the continuous sound of artillery explosions, the faces of Eimori Takao and Sumida, two old devils, couldn't help but turn pale.

They were both veteran Japanese devils, and they could tell whether the sound of artillery was from their own side or the enemy's as soon as they heard it.

Now it sounded like the enemy's firepower had far exceeded their own.

The two couldn't help but look at each other in horror. After the Eighth Route Army's firepower was exposed, they realized that even if they had repeatedly increased their attention to the Eighth Route Army, they had still underestimated them.

The Eighth Route Army's firepower had exceeded the most pessimistic estimates before. In terms of pure artillery density, the opponent had surpassed the field division.

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The intelligence department had no reaction to this huge change, which was a huge dereliction of duty!

The two looked at each other and saw a trace of unease in each other's eyes.

When formulating the combat plan and troop deployment, they had used the Eighth Route Army's weapons and equipment from a year ago to estimate their firepower.

While the opponent was rapidly improving, the locust army had made no progress. Throughout the battlefield, the continuous sound of mortar explosions indicated that the opponent was very well equipped with mortars and ammunition.

In terms of firepower alone on the forward positions, the infantry battalion had a big gap with the opponent's infantry regiment.

However, now they could only bring out the spirit of soldiers' determination to die.

Time passed by minute by minute, and soon it got dark.

The Japanese devils' attack had to stop as it got dark, and a stalemate formed on the position, but the battle did not end, and the two sides continued to exchange artillery fire on the battlefield.

According to the prior deployment, the trenches occupied by the Japanese devils had been destroyed by landmines, which not only killed many Japanese devils, but also destroyed the anti-artillery holes. Therefore, when the Independent Regiment and the New First Regiment shelled, the Japanese devils could only bury their heads in the trenches and shiver. When the Japanese devils shelled, the Eighth Route Army had anti-artillery holes to hide in.

Back and forth, during the artillery exchange between the two sides, many Japanese devils in the trenches died under the artillery fire.

But the Eighth Route Army was very safe, and basically few were directly hit by artillery fire and sacrificed.

In addition, after the Japanese devils' artillery was attacked, they had to disperse. The overall number of artillery was already much less than that of the Eighth Route Army. In the artillery exchange, the two divisions of the Japanese devils were not as fierce as the Eighth Route Army's main regiments.

Unknowingly, in just a few years, Ren Chong had completely changed the Eighth Route Army's weakness in firepower. Now they didn't even need to rush out and fight the Japanese devils with bayonets.

Relying on the ammunition advantage of fighting on their home field, they continuously carried out firepower coverage on the Japanese devils' positions.

Even if the Japanese devils had more people, with such fierce artillery coverage, plus the infantry firepower composed of front-line machine guns, Type 56 semi-automatic rifles, and rocket launchers, like a barrage, they firmly blocked the Japanese devils above the absolute defense line of the position.

Even if the Japanese devils organized many times of pig-突冲锋, it was useless, and the fierce firepower would kill the Japanese devils on the position in minutes!

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