Sword of Light: I Can Summon the Fourth Disaster

The temporary command post built by the Japanese on Koizumi Mountain

Iwamatsu Yoshikuma looked angrily at the Japanese major generals who had surrounded him. These were the brigade commanders of the newly formed independent mixed brigades.

In his opinion, the defeat in the Jiaodong Campaign was entirely caused by the fact that the headquarters sent too many new recruits. Several divisions could not even defeat the enemy's regimental-level units.

At this time, Yansong Yixiong had completely forgotten the embarrassment he had experienced when he was blocked in turn by the 34th Independent Regiment and the th Regiment and had been fighting for several days without making any progress.

If the 15th Division had not decisively abandoned a regiment as bait, Iwamatsu Yoshikuma would probably have been wiped out in the mobile warfare.

Although Iwamatsu Yoshikuma showed disdain for these Japanese recruits, the sufficient numbers of them made him feel a little at ease. As the highest-ranking Japanese officer here, Iwamatsu Yoshikuma easily gained command of the hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers in Koizumi Mountain.

Yansong Yixiong looked at the map with a smug look on his face. In his opinion, the gap deliberately left by the 4th Division had mountains, water and depth, and was not so easy to break through.

"I believe you have all seen clearly the battles in the past few days. The enemy has a large number of armored forces. Our troops do not have enough anti-tank guns. We can only try our best to dig trenches to delay the enemy's attack."

As he spoke, Iwamatsu Yoshikuma turned to look at Colonel Watanabe and said, "Mr. Watanabe, please lead the engineering regiment to build the bunkers and communication trenches as soon as possible. We don't have much time."

"Hai!"

However, there was no chance for Iwamatsu Yoshikuma to make further arrangements, as the battle outside Koizumi Village began.

Here, Bo Guangbai surrounded from all sides, and more than 40 heavy artillery companies formed an artillery cluster and began to continuously bombard the periphery of the battlefield.

On the other hand, Badao simply calculated the coordinates and then led the rocket artillery battalion to carry out a surgical strike on the Japanese positions.

After three rounds of rocket fire, the target position had sunk to form a small pond.

After Bo Guangbai's trump card, the heavy artillery regiment of the 4th Division arrived, it launched a fierce attack on the intersection of Shangquan Village and Xiaoquan Village.

This area was the cemetery he personally selected for Yansong Yixiong. He was familiar with the topography and topography here. He knew that such a large number of Japanese soldiers could not hide here, so he prepared to make a gap from this side.

The shells fell like raindrops, and the broken limbs of the Japanese flew everywhere. The artillery fire plowed through the land, and the Japanese were blown to pieces.

After the bombardment, the roars and groans of the Japanese soldiers continued to be heard from the outer positions of the gap. The commander of the Japanese soldiers on the front line directed the Japanese soldiers to clean up the battlefield and guard against the sudden appearance of the Fourth Division to break through the positions.

Meanwhile, on the Fourth Division side, Bo Guangbai had just put down his telescope and said to Ba Dao with a smile, "In this way, they won't be able to escape from our grasp."

Ba Dao said with a look of regret: "What a pity that there is such a clear spring in front of us. When we drop tens of thousands of tons of artillery shells, I'm afraid the mountain tops here will be flattened."

Hearing this, Bo Guangbai patted Badao on the shoulder and said, "As a general, you must not be soft-hearted. The people here have been properly resettled by us, and we can only reluctantly give up this place."

Knowing the priorities of the matter, Badao also knew that rounding up the Japanese and attacking them was a last resort. He just felt sorry that the destroyed landscape could not be restored.

"Mr. Bai, I don't know if you have noticed that the Japanese artillery seems to have been towing and positioning." At this time, Ning Mou only spoke for you.

Just as he said, the Japanese in the encirclement had begun to direct their fire towards the artillery positions that had opened fire earlier.

As soon as the Japanese opened fire, the artillery staff in the rear used abacus to calculate the Japanese artillery positions. Listening to the rumbling of artillery outside, the staff grinned.

As the staff officers were calculating on the abacus, the commander of the heavy artillery regiment came to ask for the coordinates.

"How's it going, old masters, how are we finding the Japanese's position?" Zhang Dapao asked with a smile.

An artillery staff officer handed the calculated data to Zhang Dapao and whispered, "It's all here."

Looking at the coordinates and types recorded in the notebook, he knew that these staff officers had done their best. Zhang Dapao bowed and went to the heavy artillery regiment.

.....

On the outskirts of Xinzhou, two brigades of the Second Division have begun to attack the outskirts of Xinzhou.

Zhan Loulan put down the telescope in his hand, smiled at the White Banner leader, France, and said, "Is this a battle of Xinkou where we exchange positions?"

After compiling the telegrams in his hand, the leader of the White Banner, France, frowned and said, "The Japanese and puppet troops in the cities near Xinzhou add up to 30, and we only have 6. The situation is really reversed."

Zhan Loulan was also stunned when he heard this. What the leader of the Plain White Banner, Falanxi, said was right. The offense and defense really had changed.

"Yes, we had 300,000 troops to go fishing, but we didn't expect the fish to slip to our side."

"Notify the 4th Brigade to change the direction of attack and move the troops to Dingxiang. Notify the Armored Division and the Combined Division and tell them that their big fish has jumped out of the net and the 1st Division has already stopped them in Yangqu."

"This time it really depends on the First Division. Our previous brigade has already suffered heavy losses." The leader of the Plain White Banner, France, explained with some concern.

"You have to believe in the First Division, believe in Huang Zherang!"

……

Xiyang County, International Youth Column Headquarters

Xiao Zongmin's chief steward Xiao Wen was entertaining several officers from the National Government.

Looking at the sumptuous meal on the table, a major general of the National Government raised his wine glass and said to Xiao Wen tentatively, "General Xiao can remain calm even when disaster strikes. I admire you."

Xiao Wen raised his glass and gestured. Several officers of the National Government raised their glasses one after another. After drinking one glass, Xiao Wen spoke: "Everyone here is my friend. Can my friends harm me? Hahahaha."

Looking at the unruly Xiao Wen, the national service officers looked at each other for a while and then nodded silently. No wonder Xiao Wen was so brave and had become the chief logistics officer of the International Youth Column at such a young age.

So the major general of the National Government stopped probing and asked directly, "General Xiao, you have seen our sincerity. I wonder how much General Xiao will offer."

Xiao Wen picked up the wine glass, looked at the major general of the National Government and said with a half-smile: "Master Chen, that adjustment division is the elite of President Chang. You are so reluctant to give it up. Aren't you afraid of being investigated by the higher-ups?"

Upon hearing this, Commander Chen drank a glass of wine and then slammed the glass on the table. He said angrily, "So what if we are elite troops? We will still go hungry. How dare I, a well-trained division, go head-to-head with a division? If it weren't for the lack of supplies at the back..."

Seeing Commander Chen getting more and more excited, Xiao Wen picked up the wine glass and drank it all, then said to stop him: "Don't talk about national affairs!"