I am a wolf warrior

After a while, the Japanese stopped shelling.

Then even hundreds of Japanese infantry broke through the sparse skirmish line and charged forward with bayonets in hand.

Behind these hundreds of Japanese infantry, there are hundreds of Japanese engineers with engineering picks. The task of these Japanese engineers is to fill the tunnel entrance outside Yunqi Town.

This time the Japanese army only advanced 500 meters before being blocked by the Eighth Route Army.

The figures of the Eighth Route Army emerged from the hundreds of tunnel entrances on the crop field in front of them almost at the same time.

Those closest to the Japanese army used submachine guns or pistols, those more than 200 meters and less than 500 meters used rifles or machine guns, those who were more than 500 meters to 1000 meters used heavy machine guns, and mortars were used at any distance.

Not to be outdone, the Japanese army immediately set up heavy machine guns and light machine guns to start shooting against the Eighth Route Army. More than a dozen grenadier teams also set up grenade launchers and fired rows of grenades into the Eighth Route Army's positions.

However, whether it is a heavy machine gun, a light machine gun or a grenade, the killing effect is not ideal.

For direct firepower such as light and heavy machine guns and rifles, the Eighth Route Army is lying on the entrance of the cave, and the surface of the projectile is small, so the hit rate is not high. Yes, shells tend to fall above the hole, and it is difficult to fall directly into the hole, so the effect is not ideal.

Therefore, despite the fierce firepower of the Japanese army, the killing effect is very poor.

On the contrary, the Eighth Route Army's killing effect was good, because the Japanese army had no bunkers, so they could only lie on the ground, and the bullets were large, and the Eighth Route Army soldiers in Ge Dazhuang's regiment were all veterans, and their marksmanship was still very good. More importantly, the tunnel dug by the Eighth Route Army Most of them can form crossfire with each other, and there is almost no shooting dead angle.

And what made the Japanese army even more desperate was that while the two sides were exchanging fire, more and more tunnel crossings appeared in the crop fields ahead. Obviously, the Eighth Route Army continued to dig more tunnel crossings!The Eighth Route Army that did not participate in the exchange of fire is digging an exit to the ground with all its strength underground, and the situation is not very good.

The exchange of fire lasted for about half an hour, and the Japanese army was finally defeated.

Seeing the Japanese army being defeated again, Yanagawa Kouji's nose crooked with anger.

However, Koichi Akutagawa thought of a better solution, and said, "General, I have thought of another method. Although it will take more time, it can definitely solve the tactics of the Eighth Route Army."

"What tactics?" Yanagawa Kouji said urgently, "Akutagawa-kun, tell me quickly."

"Tunnel digging." Akutagawa Koichi said in a deep voice, "Dig tunnels from the attack position, advance in a zigzag line, and dig directly in front of each tunnel entrance of the Eighth Route Army, and then carry out landfill operations."

Chapter 559 Can't last tonight

Time passed quickly for half an hour.

What surprised Ge Dazhuang, Li Goudan, and Lin Han was that the Japanese army did not launch a retaliatory bombardment this time, nor did they rush to launch a second attack.

Ge Dazhuang said: "It's weird, why hasn't the devil moved yet?"

Li Goudan said: "Could it be that the little devil scares us?"

"Captain Li, what are you thinking?" Lin Han said angrily, "The devil is not scared."

"Damn, that's what I said." Li Goudan said with some embarrassment, "Then tell me, why hasn't the devil moved yet?"

"I don't know that." Lin Han said.

While talking, Wei Xilai suddenly said: "Captain, there is movement!"

Wang Ye was leaning against the wall of the underground shelter, closing his eyes and resting his mind. Hearing this, he stood up: "What's happening?"

Wei Xilai snarled forward and said, "At six o'clock, it seems that there are devil engineers digging tunnels, but there are no devils showing their heads, only handfuls of loess rising up."

"Let me see." Lin Han reached out to grab Wei Xilai's sniper rifle.

"Don't touch the concealed gun." Wei Xilai refused decisively, this is his treasure.

"Stingy." Lin Han snorted, and could only lie down in front of the lookout hole and watch with the naked eye.

Ge Dazhuang is the head of the main regiment of the second detachment. Of course, he has binoculars, so he immediately raised the binoculars to observe.

Li Goudan, the captain of the county brigade, couldn't be equipped with binoculars, so he could only watch eagerly, hoping that Ge Dazhuang would show him after he finished watching.

Wang Ye also raised his binoculars, and sure enough, he saw loess rising from the devil's position directly in front of him.

Seeing this scene, Wang Ye was overjoyed, it was really a turn of events, two years ago they beat Lijiapo, they used soil work, and now it was replaced by devils to fight Yunqi Town, it was also soil work.

Ge Dazhuang said: "This is earthwork, Director Wang, this is troublesome."

"Ah, soil work?" Li Goudan said in astonishment, "This is really troublesome."

Wei Xilai now also has a wealth of combat experience. Hearing the words, he hummed lightly and said: "The devils use the method of soil work to advance, and our firepower will not be able to hit them."

Li Goudan said: "It's not just the lack of firepower, the devils will dig all the tunnels."

"Don't panic." Wang Ye said flatly, "If the devils want to dig, just let them dig, wait until they push the tunnels to our position, wait until they dig all the tunnels around Yunqi Town, and get In the Year of the Monkey, the battle at Killing Zhukou will be over long ago, and the main force of the column should rush to Yunqi Town."

"It seems to be right." Ge Dazhuang and others finally realized it.

Wang Ye said again: "What's more, we are not completely helpless."

"I know." Wei Xilai hurriedly said, "When the devils push the tunnel to within 50 meters, we can attack them with grenades. The bullets can't hit the tunnel, but the grenade can still be thrown into the tunnel."

"That's it." Wang Ye said, "Anyway, what we have are grenades."

……

Beiping, No. 11 Iron Lion Alley.

Neiji Okamura caught up on his sleep after lunch, and it was already four o'clock in the afternoon when he returned to the battle hall, and he saw Arisue Seizo leading several combat officers from the staff department working on the sand table.

Seeing Okamura Neiji, Yusue Seizo hurriedly bowed his head and said, "Your Excellency, General."

Ningji Okamura waved his hand and asked, "Youmo-kun, has Nanqun captured Yunqi Town?"

A look of embarrassment flashed across You Mo Jingsan's face, he shook his head and said, "Not yet, Nanqun Group is still fighting with the Eighth Route Army outside Yunqi Town, and it seems that the fight is quite difficult."

"What's going on?" Okamura Ningji's face instantly collapsed.

You Mojing said: "Because the Eighth Route Army invented a very disgusting tactic."

"A disgusting tactic?" Neiji Okamura frowned, "I don't know what kind of disgusting tactic it is?"

Youmo Jingsan said: "Didn't the bandit area in Northwest Shanxi dig a lot of tunnels like the bandit area in Central Ji? There are also spider web-like tunnels around Yunqi Town. Originally, this tunnel network was only used to transfer personnel, equipment and supplies. , the entrances and exits of tunnels are generally very concealed, and even camouflaged."

"But the Eighth Route Army in Yunqi Town is uncharacteristically."

"They dug thousands of exits for the tunnel network covering two to three kilometers around Yunqi Town!"

"Then build these thousands of exits into firepower points. These firepower points can not only avoid shelling, but the Eighth Route Army can also quickly transfer between these firepower points through tunnels."

After a pause, Youmo Jingsan smiled bitterly and said, "It's really tricky."

"Baga, you're really cunning." Neiji Okamura also frowned.

Yusue Seizo smiled wryly and said: "Facing this kind of tactics, a strong attack is obviously not enough, because the casualties are too high, even though the Southern Group has two divisions, they can't afford it, so Yanagawa-kun thought of the tactics of soil work, It is to dig tunnels, push forward in a broken line, and then launch a sudden attack after advancing to the tunnel entrance, using this tactic to destroy and fill the tunnel exits one by one, until all the thousands of tunnel entrances outside Yunqi Town have been filled."

Okamura Ningji nodded and said, "This is a good idea."

Yusue Seizo smiled wryly, "But it will take a long time."

Okamura Ningji sighed when he heard the words, time, time again.

His eyes fell on the sand table, Okamura Ningji asked again: "What about the situation in other directions?"

Arisue Seizo immediately pointed to the sand table and said: "Your Excellency, please look, the 71st Division is in Yelangyu, and the 72nd Division is making very slow progress at Xijikou, only advancing more than 100 meters."

"The collapse defense set up by the Eighth Route Army is disgusting."

"The 1st Division only advanced more than 300 meters in Yezhugou."

"But fortunately, the simple road outside Yezhugou will be repaired soon."

"That is to say, the chariots of the 2nd Chariot Regiment and the 1st Search Team can drive up the mountainside to assist the infantry to attack the Eighth Route Army bunkers on the hillsides on both sides of Yezhugou."

Speaking of this meal, Yusue Seizo said again: "With the protection provided by the chariot, I believe the advance speed of the 1st Division will be greatly accelerated. Optimistically, there is a high probability that we can break through the Yezhugou Fortress within a week."

Okamura Ningji said: "What did you just say, this method of warfare is called collapse defense?"

Youmo Jingsan said: "The technicians of the special high school deciphered the secret code of the Eighth Route Army, and found that the term collapse defense was frequently mentioned in the previous telegrams between the [-]th Brigade and the Eighth Route Army headquarters. I speculate that this is very likely. It is the defense strategy designed by Wang Ye for the four fortresses, so we named it collapse defense for the time being."

"Don't tell me, it's really appropriate." Neiji Okamura said, "This is really similar to the collapse of the car body frame when the car collides with each other, but the car body frame cannot recover after collapsing. , but the fortress defenders of the Eighth Route Army could launch a counterattack after retreating and retake the lost bunker.”

Speaking of this meal, Okamura Ningji asked again: "Wait, Yumo-kun, what did you just say? The technicians of the special high school deciphered the secret code of the Eighth Route Army?"

You Mo Jing said: "But the Eighth Route Army just changed again."

"Damn it." Neji Okamura was a little annoyed when he heard this.

After a pause, Ningji Okamura asked again: "What about the northern cluster? Is there no progress?"

"Yes." Yusue Seizo said with his head down, "the Eighth Route Army's local armed forces gathered in front of Tiandagang have at least 5000 people, and they firmly occupy the advantage of the terrain, so despite the continuous onslaught of the North Group , but there was still no way to break through the Eighth Route Army's line of defense."

"Baga Yalu." Neiji Okamura said bitterly, "Are the northern cluster and the southern cluster all pigs? If the frontal attack is blocked, won't they make a detour? Send an alliance to detour, won't it?"

Youmo Jingsan said: "The north and south clusters have been detoured, but it's useless."

Speaking of this meal, Yousue Jingsan said again: "The Southern Group even sent two infantry regiments to detour behind Yunqi Town and cut him off from the outside world, but it didn't work at all."

"The Eighth Route Army is not the Central Army, let alone the Jinsui Army."

"As long as the Central Army and the Jinsui Army lose their flank positions, they will be shaken across the board in an instant."

"But the Eighth Route Army, even if you surround him, you won't be shaken in the slightest."

After a pause, he continued: "Therefore, before the local armed forces of the Eighth Route Army in Tiandagang and Yunqi Towns have not been completely wiped out, the Northern Group and the Southern Group will not dare to go in rashly."

In a word, the Japanese army was also afraid of being cut off by the Eighth Route Army.

Once the back road is cut off, they might be made dumplings.

In any case, Northwest Shanxi is the territory of the [-]th Brigade. Under the premise that the back road has not been opened, Okamura Ningji dare not let the two major groups of the north and the south go deep.

Immediately Okamura Ningji turned his attention to the Shazhukou battlefield again.

"Where is Shazhukou?" Neiji Okamura asked, "How is the 28th Division? And when will the 4th Brigade going north for reinforcements arrive at Shazhukou?"

Arimeseisan said: "The situation of the 28th Division is still good, because the attack aircraft of the 3rd Flying Division continue to provide air fire support, so the defensive pressure is not very high, but the 4th Brigade has been attacked. One of the main regiments of the [-]th Brigade's tough blockade can be said to be difficult."

"It's hard to move an inch?" Okamura Neji said angrily, "What a waste."

"Yes." Usue Seizo said deeply, "The combat effectiveness of the divisions and brigades of the First Army has declined too much. It seems that the past few years of stationing in Shanxi have been too comfortable."

Ningji Okamura said: "If it wasn't for this, why would I have dispatched troops from Hebei to sweep up the bandit area in Northwest Shanxi? Northwest Shanxi is the defense zone of the First Army, these trash, idiots!"

After a pause, Ningji Okamura said again: "Did the artillery group of the [-]th Brigade participate in the battle?"

"No." Arisue Seizo said, "Until now, the artillery group of the [-]th Brigade has not made any movement."

"It's a big trouble." Okamura Ningji lamented, "With Mo-kun, the 28th Division may be in big trouble now."

Yusue Seizo couldn't help frowning. He felt that it was inappropriate for Neiji Okamura to say this. You are the commander of the North China Front Army and the backbone of the entire Front Army. How could you say such depressing words? Woolen cloth?

Sure enough, as soon as Okamura Ningji said this, the expressions of the dozen or so staff members present all changed.

But Ningji Okamura soon realized that he had slipped his tongue, and immediately made amends: "However, I believe that the 28th Division will be able to hold on until the reinforcements arrive!"

He asked again: "How is the preparation of the 110th Division?"

Arimeseisan said: "All the personnel on vacation have returned to the team, and the supplies are also being loaded. It is expected that some combatants and supplies will be able to depart from Zhengding by this evening, and they will be able to join the 4th Brigade tomorrow morning. If there is no accident , Tomorrow at noon, we can advance to Shazhukou and join the 28th Division."

"Yoxi." Neiji Okamura nodded happily.

"Call the 28th Division, no matter what, stick to it until noon tomorrow."

"Hai." Youmo Jingsan paused heavily, then turned around and arranged to send a report to the 28th Division.

……

Killing Zhukou, the temporary headquarters of the 28th Division.

Tonegawa Yong walked into the underground shelter and said, "Division Commander, the headquarters has sent a telegram."

Ishiguro Sadazo, who was resting with his eyes closed, opened his eyes and asked in a deep voice, "Is it about reinforcements?"

"Yes." Yuto Tonegawa said with a sudden pause, "Due to the ineffectiveness of the 4th Brigade, the Front Army Command has urgently decided to transfer the 110th Division from Zhengding to reinforce Shazhukou."

"The 110th division?" Shiguro Zhenzo asked, "When will we arrive?"

"Tomorrow's noon." Tonegawa Isamu said in a deep voice, "Let's hold on until noon tomorrow."

"Tomorrow at noon?" Shi Hei Zhenzang said with a slightly relaxed expression, "Tomorrow's noon will not be a big problem, but if it takes longer, I'm afraid it will be really troublesome."

Speaking of this meal, Ishiguro Sadazo also ordered: "Order all the regiments to save ammunition as much as possible, and implement a unified rationing of dry food and drinking water."

Due to the rush to retreat in the early hours of this morning,

The 28th Regiment did not carry too much combat supplies, so now, not only ammunition is in a hurry, but also dry food and drinking water are running out. You can continue to fight if you are hungry after eating all the dry food, but if there is no drinking water, People can't hold on for too long, so they must be rationed uniformly.

"Hai." Tonegawa Yong nodded heavily.

……

On the other side, Li Xia was also reporting the situation to the brigade commander.