For this platoon commander, the requirement that No. 1 should hit the first shot without a test launch is itself a rather high requirement. Although he had practiced before, his platoon was directly under the guard regiment after all. Although he has also fought in field units, he is not very experienced in actual combat in general.

In addition, his position was deployed under the city walls, and although it was hidden, the line of sight was blocked by the city walls, and he could only rely on the targets indicated by the artillery observers. He was really a little worried that when he was about to set off, the company commander left him the observer who had just returned from training in the artillery training team. So after handing over the troops to the deputy platoon commander, he took the place of the observer and prepared to personally direct his two mortars to fire.

After arriving at the city gate tower, he used the artillery secret table in the north of Renqiu County formulated by the original headquarters staff officer in the shortest time to complete the mortar firing boundary division of the entire battlefield outside the north gate. It was just that what made him feel puzzled was that after he had all been deployed in place, in the face of the increasingly fierce battle outside the city gate, No. 1 did not give the order to open the cannon.

And it was not only he who was puzzled, but also the platoon of armored vehicles that was also after reaching the designated position at maximum speed. After the armored car platoon arrived at the designated position in fifteen minutes according to the order, Yang Zhen only told them to get ready, and did not give any combat orders.

No. 1 clenched his fists like this, but he never hugged his head and hit it. The two platoon commanders are undoubtedly a little confused, how does No. 1 want to fight? But an order is an order, no order was given, and neither of the two dared to act, so they could only wait patiently for the order to be issued. Especially at present, it is still the number one of the whole army who is in command of the operation, so that the two of them can only always maintain the posture of attacking, but there is no action.

As for the reason why Yang Zhen did not give the order to attack for a long time after all the troops had been deployed in place, it was very simple. At present, the Japanese army outside the north gate is in full swing, and it has not yet shown obvious fatigue. Even though he mobilized some reinforcements, everyone's strength was still roughly equal.

Launching an attack at this time makes it difficult to guarantee that this Japanese army will not slip away after realizing that something is wrong. And judging from the combat effectiveness shown by this Japanese army, it launched a counterattack prematurely when it was still entangled. This is quite unfavorable to completely encircling and annihilating this Japanese army at the north gate.

Yang Zhen believed that if artillery and armored vehicles were put into operation, the Japanese army would inevitably pull out its legs and slip away under the pressure of the great increase. His own troops are insufficient, and it is difficult to completely intercept them once they desperately break through. The Jin-Cha-Ji troops on the periphery lacked experience, and it was difficult for them to play a role in this kind of war situation.

If the troops of any military region on the periphery are concerned, as long as they are old troops, even if there is only one company. Yang Zhen launched a counterattack on the whole front as soon as the two troops were deployed. As for the reinforced battalion left by Du Kaishan on the battlefield of Lugongbao, even if the distance was not far, he didn't want to use it for the time being.

Whether it is Renqiu County or the battlefield of Lugongbao, he will completely eliminate these Japanese troops in one go, rather than fighting a rout. Therefore, his idea is to wait a while, and wait until the progress of the battle situation reaches the standard in his heart, and then order a counterattack on all fronts. As for those two mortars, if they entered the war too early, it would be easy to startle the snake.

Yang Zhen has made up his mind at all costs, even if these two companies are exhausted, he must leave these Japanese troops in Renqiu County, and he must not let them flow to other places. He even did not hesitate to break his routine of never easily interfering with the command below after the expansion of the troops, and directly commanded this battle, which was actually a battle at the company level, in addition to the special identity of the troops participating in the battle on both sides.

Of course, the one opposite him was quite complacent, plus the ambitious Mashiko Shigeo Shaozo. Until now, I don't know that his opponent at the moment is the No. 1 military leader of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. If you know, even if Yang Zhen scratches a little skin in this battle, I'm afraid he will be blown into the sky by this guy. Of course, this had to be if he could run back.

In fact, from the beginning of this battle to the present, Mashiko Shigeo is very dissatisfied. Although Xing Renfu was already recognized by others, he could no longer conceal it, so he fired the gun first. But he was still quite dissatisfied with Xing Renfu's move of shooting and exposing the target in advance.

If he didn't need these people, he would directly kill these guys who made him look very unpleasant. But the current situation is unpleasant for him, and he can only endure it. If you kill these guys, it will not be so convenient to move in the Great Plains of Jizhong.

Although both in the 41-year sweep and in this interspersed infiltration operation, he relied on those Chinese who were despicable in his eyes to achieve his goals. But for Mashiko Shigeo, these guys who can betray even their own country and nation still don't deserve any trust.

Especially at present, the north gate of Renqiu County has been unable to attack for a long time, and the battle has become a stalemate. In the case of some anxiety in his heart, Mashiko Shigeo gritted his teeth even more for those traitors who made great efforts. He didn't care what the two guys who shot were for any reason, but firing early revealed his plan.

In the eyes of this guy who is no stranger to raid warfare, as well as independent activities behind enemy lines. To carry out a surprise attack, it is natural to get as close to the enemy army as possible before it starts. Even if it is closer than fifty meters to the city gate, the odds will be greater. So before Xing Renfu shot, he kept trying to get as close to the north gate of Renqiu as possible.

Although the enemy's defenders at the North Gate had a reinforced platoon, in Mashiko's opinion, with the combat effectiveness of his own troops, as long as they could get close to a distance of 100 meters, they could completely capture the North Gate in a few minutes. As long as you can take the north gate, how difficult can the rest of the battle be?

is also the anti-union alert force at the North City Gate, just the Mashiko Shigeo of the ordinary guard force. I don't know that the camouflage unit I am carrying can mix with the new troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. However, if you want to be in Renqiu County, it is mainly the troops of the Anti-Japanese Federation, especially the special guard troops, who are on guard. If he wants to sneak into the county and fish in troubled waters, I'm afraid it's not as simple as he suddenly imagined.

The special team he brought with him had already been discovered by the alert force of the Anti-United Nations forces at the north gate before they could get close to the county seat. It's just that his opponent's idea was to wait until these people were as close to the city gate as possible, and his plan to kill and injure at least half of his troops with dense firepower was also rashly opened by his own people to ask, and the whole thing was disrupted.

And his opponent actually made the same mistake, and at the beginning, he also used this Mashiko special advance team as an ordinary Japanese reconnaissance unit. It was not expected that this was a special unit reorganized and trained by the Japanese army. In order to train this Japanese army, the North China Front once mobilized a division to cooperate with this unit's exercises.

This unit is not the Japanese search wing they have been in contact with on the battlefield, and it is not just a Japanese scout with makeup. Mashiko Shigeo's opponents on the battlefield of the North Gate, until he actually fought with them, did he realize that the Japanese army in front of him was wrong.

If it weren't for the liaison staff officer on the Jilu side, he recklessly asked after recognizing Xing Renfu. I'm afraid that if Mashiko Shigeo and his troops get too close, they may be in the situation where the difference in strength between the two sides is too great. If you can't beat the tiger, you will be injured by the tiger, and the north gate is now lost.

But he didn't know that the defenders on the opposite side had already noticed the abnormality as soon as they appeared in the field of vision, and Mashiko Shigeo, who had already prepared a sumptuous meal for himself, hated Xing Renfu to the extreme at this moment. And as the battle continued, the war did not progress for a long time, and this hatred became deeper and deeper.

Although it was for a reason, this guy who was obviously carried away by the idea of making a contribution. His actions were exposed, and all the problems that arose, were blamed on these few traitors. In other words, this guy may be subconsciously ready to start looking for someone to carry the blame for the failure of the operation, or directly to find a scapegoat.

Mashiko Shigeo is not stupid, he knows very well that the discovery of Renqiu County this time is very likely to be an enemy army, and it is a pure coincidence that the entire Jizhong battlefield headquarters is located. If you are not a communications person, when you turn on the radio and are about to receive instructions from your boss, you suddenly find that there are a large number of radio signals around you.

And judging from the strength of the signal, they are all high-power stations. This discovery made him immediately keenly aware of it. Just around the place where he was resting, there must have been a sizable command of the enemy's army. Despite the contents of the telegram, they did not have the ability to decipher. But one thing is certain, where there are high-power radios, it is not necessary to think that it must be the high command.

What's more, his communications staff officer vouched with his head that there must be more than one high-power radio station within the range of this radio signal. The density of radio communications is quite frequent. In several frequency bands of his radio station, signals from high-power stations were found.

After carefully analyzing the strength, frequency band, and density of the radio signal, as well as checking the situation of the entire Jizhong battlefield, Mashiko Shigeo even judged it to be the highest command of the entire Jizhong battlefield and the Anti-Japanese Federation. If it weren't for the High Command, there wouldn't have been so many high-power radios, and such frequent contacts.

After discovering this situation, Shigeo Mashiko was extremely excited. After his constant urging, the signal corps, and the radio listening personnel specially assigned to him by the North China Front finally locked the approximate location of the signal. Although I don't dare to be too sure, I am basically certain that the location of this signal source is in Renqiu County.

After getting this result, Mashiko Shigeo didn't even think about it, and immediately decided whether it was the Supreme Command of the Anti-Japanese Federation in Jizhong or not, but judging from the results of the current judgment, it should not be a bad thing to kill here. Judging by his many years of experience fighting the Chinese army, if the command is taken out, the enemy army will be thrown into chaos on the battlefield.

Even if the communist army has a strong ability to act independently, it is not very dependent on the command system of its superiors. But the current battlefield in Jizhong is not a small fight like they used to do before stealing a chicken today and touching a duck tomorrow. In such a big battle, the enemy army will definitely have an overall command system.

As long as this command headquarters can be defeated, it will certainly play a great role in changing the current overall situation of the entire Jizhong battlefield. Even if it can't turn the tide of the war, it can give the Imperial army even a brief respite, and maybe then they will get more than just a medal.

Especially after careful reconnaissance, it was discovered that the enemy's guard unit on the outskirts of Renqiu County was a new unit, and it was also a resistance alliance with the main force on the battlefield in Jizhong at present, and it was not a systematic unit. In a short period of time, Shigeo Mashiko's head had a fever of 40 degrees.