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Now, on average, each of our soldiers has about 80 to 100 bullets, and we have all kinds of light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers. Even the company-level combat units have a mortar squad. In fact, with this level, we can already compete with the Japanese with the same number of people. Even if the overall strength is a little weaker, it will be very weak.

And the most crucial thing is that the strength of the Japanese has been determined, while our troops still have a lot of room for improvement, especially the old soldiers who rarely conducted live-fire shooting due to lack of ammunition. Now we can completely make up for this shortcoming.

As our military and industrial strength gradually grew, the Japanese also began to take it seriously. They no longer dared to enter our base with just a battalion of troops as they did before.

After hearing the discussion, Lieutenant Commander Ito said seriously, "It's five o'clock in the afternoon now. The main force of the brigade will not arrive until the morning of the day after tomorrow. We can't just sit there and wait, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to the brigade commander."

"Now I order you to build defensive positions tonight to prevent the Eighth Route Army's night attack, and to launch a tentative attack tomorrow morning after breakfast to find out the enemy's deployment."

"Hayi!"

After that, everyone returned to their respective units and began to build fortifications, especially various defensive measures to prevent night attacks. They had everything they needed, and they also equipped the frontline troops with a large number of flares. At night, they had to fire a few flares into the sky at regular intervals. This was also the experience of the Japanese devils.

However, on our side, Captain Yang of the First Company of the First Battalion asked curiously, "Captain, what are the Japs on the other side doing? In the past, when they saw our main force, they would rush over recklessly like flies seeing something. Why are they so obedient this time and even prioritize building defensive positions?"

"Are these still the arrogant little devils we know? This makes me feel a little weird."

Zhang Dabiao took a look and said the most philosophical words in his life: "People always have to suffer losses in order to grow. The Japanese devils have been beaten by us so many times, and finally reacted. This is understandable."

"But now the Japs have learned their lesson, and future battles will be harder to fight. In fact, I still like the Japs' reckless approach, where they launch reckless attacks and then get shot to pieces by our light and heavy machine guns."

"Okay, there's nothing to see now. Order the troops to take turns to rest. The battle will officially begin tomorrow."

"By the way, I asked you to prepare a gift for the Japanese in advance. How is it going on your end?"

"Captain, I have been with you for so long, just rest assured that I will do my job."

"When we were building our positions, we had deliberately deduced that the Japanese could only build fortifications in the area we had designated. At night, when they were asleep, we would give them a huge surprise."

"Our battalion has a mortar company, and each company has a mortar platoon. The entire battalion has a total of eighteen 60mm mortars. This time, eight of them will be deployed for the night attack. We will divide them into four groups, each with two guns and ten rounds of ammunition per gun."

"As soon as the scheduled time comes, we will fire all the shells according to the mortar coordinates we calculated in advance. Eighty shells, and it will be blind firing at night. It will be enough to give this Japanese regiment a hard time."

"But we have to make it clear in advance that I will lead the night raid this time. You can't let a big battalion commander snatch this small job from us like you did in the previous times."

Speaking of this, Zhang Dabiao felt very depressed. Logically speaking, this kind of thing is his favorite to do. It is thrilling and not very dangerous.

After all, the Japanese had just arrived and were not familiar with the terrain at all. Our artillery bombardment lasted only a few minutes at most, and the enemy had no time to react. They could only take the beating and could not fight back.

However, Political Commissar Zhao had specifically requested during the meeting that the commander of the independent regiment and the battalion commanders were prohibited from serving as assault team captains or night attack team captains. Otherwise, they would have to make individual self-criticisms at the regiment's combat meeting after the war and write an 800-word self-criticism report.

This trick was indeed effective. A brave general like Zhang Dabiao was not afraid of anything except writing reports. Even if he asked others to help him write, it would be too much to ask them to read more than 800 words. This novel trick immediately shocked all the arrogant soldiers of the independent regiment.

After hearing this, Zhang Dabiao was immediately very depressed and could only pretend to be angry and said:

"Okay, okay, it's yours. I won't fight with you for it. You have to run around in the wild in the dark. You might as well just sleep comfortably in the headquarters."

Although he said this, the company commander heard a lot of insincerity and sourness in the battalion commander's tone.

At night, the Japanese soldiers of Ito Regiment finally repaired their defensive positions. Then they ate something and took turns to fall asleep. They were exhausted from the period and now they needed to have a good rest.

I have to say that the Japanese field infantry brigades are quite capable, otherwise they would not have been able to run rampant in China for so many years.

In order to defend against our infantry's night attacks, they not only built three lines of fortifications, but also built the forward early warning positions very far forward, so that once we launched a night attack, they would definitely be able to provide early warning in the first place.

In addition, the engineering squadron of the regiment also arranged a large minefield in front of the frontline position to serve as an early warning.

Captain Ito thought that this arrangement was foolproof, so he went to bed with peace of mind. After all, they had not had a good night's sleep this week.

But we didn't expect that we had concentrated a large number of artillery pieces specifically for sneak attacks, and we didn't even have to worry about the shells and could just bombard them as much as we wanted.

This is also the advantage of having your own arsenal. In the past, if you captured a mortar and a dozen shells from the enemy, they would be treasures that could only be used at critical moments. But to consume eighty shells just to harass the enemy is the behavior of a prodigal.

At around 1300 o'clock in the evening, Captain Yang led his men to transport the artillery to about 12 meters in front of the Japanese position. This position was also specially calculated to be able to exert the maximum power of the mortar. The high-explosive bombs used were developed by the arsenal, with a killing radius of up to meters.

According to the plan, our artillery must fire twenty shells within one minute. This kind of covering bombing is enough to give the Japanese on the opposite side a good beating.

Captain Yang quietly confirmed, "Squad Leader Wang, is your first artillery group ready?"

"Your team is the most skilled in our battalion. You must perform well in this first battle. I managed to snatch this opportunity from other company commanders. If you mess up, I will be too embarrassed to see anyone."