What made Cao Yafan even more unacceptable was that the reason why he entrusted the task of encircling and annihilating the Japanese army to this brigade of the Advance Army. This is because when adjusting the deployment, the brigade commander and political commissar of the brigade repeatedly asked their own troops to shoulder this burden and undertake the battle of setting up ambushes along the way to annihilate and break through the Japanese army.

This brigade was formed by the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Army, and the brigade commander and political commissar were all from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. After another brigade, which was mainly formed by the Taihang troops, completely annihilated a reinforced brigade of the Japanese army in a short period of time, it was obviously stimulated a lot. In the case that he had not been able to catch the main battle before, when Cao Yafan adjusted his deployment, he repeatedly asked to hand over the burden of the ambush to himself.

Cao Yafan also took into account his current troops, and the use of troops has reached the extreme. Under the circumstance that the remnants of the Japanese army west of Luofu Gou were still to be encircled and annihilated, it was really impossible to draw too many troops to carry out the entire plan of encircling three and missing one and annihilating the enemy in the movement.

At the same time, considering that when the Japanese army broke through, although the vitality was still there, the total number of troops had dropped to half of what it was before. This brigade, which advanced into the army, had an advantage in strength and was not inferior to the Japanese in terms of firepower. The most important thing is that they are deployed on the route of the Japanese army's retreat, and using them to undertake this task can save time to the greatest extent.

So after several considerations, they finally agreed to the request of their brigade commander and political commissar and gave them the task of setting up ambushes along the way. As a result, it turned out to be like this, and almost all of the reinforced battalions were killed. The old bone suffered such a big loss all of a sudden, how could he explain it to the headquarters?

Although with the strength of a reinforced battalion, three incomplete infantry squadrons of the Japanese army were completely annihilated, plus a subordinate artillery unit. This result is the first time for the advance army. But the casualty figures in this battle are really difficult for Cao Yafan to accept.

If it weren't for the fact that the battalion commander was covered with wounds, even if it was a brother unit, Cao Yafan couldn't control the anger in his heart and discipline him well for their leader. However, although in front of the battalion commander, Cao Yafan held back his anger. But for the political commissar of their brigade who rushed over, even though it was a brother unit, he didn't have a good face.

Compared with Cao Yafan Tieqing's face, the political commissar of the brigade who rushed back from the Shijiazi Nangou battlefield is now full of anger. There were such large casualties in the First World War, and a reinforced battalion was exhausted, to say that he was more distressed than Cao Yafan. This battalion was originally formed from the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region's Great Meritorious Battalion and the Military Region's Political Department Guard Company.

All the cadres and soldiers are old bones from Jinchaji. There were even two company commanders who were old Red Armymen. Even the average soldier has at least one year of military experience. There was not a single recruit in the whole battalion, and it was the only battalion in their brigade that was fully formed.

The battalion commander and instructor, one of whom was the company commander of the 29th Army, fought with the Japanese army at the Lugou Bridge. After participating in the Eighth Route Army, he has repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and the troops he led have always been the firefighting troops in the hands of the boss. One is a top student of Beiping Normal School, and he has been trained in Yan'an Kang University, and he is a rare military and political cadre.

The Wei family's shack battle was so hard before, and the brigade commander was reluctant to transfer them to participate in the battle. The brigade commander and he were going to use this steel knife on the blade. This time, the brigade commander also made a lot of determination to put this battalion on the first ambush circle.

As a result, after the first battle, the battalion did not even leave a single shelf. A steel knife was broken like this, so that he, who was the political commissar, was not distressed, you must know that this was the main battalion of their brigade leader. It is also the fist unit of the whole brigade, and it has always been used in the most critical places.

This is just a political work cadre, this brigade political commissar who came down from the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Political Department of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. Although it was also full of anger, it could barely be suppressed. The battle has been fought like this, and now is not the time to hold accountable.

For fear that the ministry would be in the last ambush circle, Cao Yafan, who also looked like this, did not dare to delay too long in Shijiazi. After arranging for people to immediately take care of the bodies of the fallen cadres and soldiers, as well as to treat the wounded. The political commissar of their brigade grabbed his jeep and immediately rushed to the front-line battlefield from Shijiazinangou to Damaigou.

Fortunately, although he was in a hurry, and the straight-line distance between the two places was not far, Cao Yafan arrived in time. Finally, the brigade commander on the Nangou battlefield in Shijiazi rushed to his command post before launching a general attack. did not let the scene of the ten families re-enact it on another battlefield.

Originally, after the first line of Shijiazi started, the front was already invincible. Okajima Shigetoshi Osa, who didn't dare to turn back, didn't expect it. He took the only three remaining infantry squadrons, a machine gun squadron and a large artillery squadron, and when he entered the line from Shijiazi Nangou to Damaigou, he plunged into the last ambush circle arranged for him by Cao Yafan.

In the face of the rushing Japanese army, the commander of the advancing army, who personally commanded the last ambush circle, immediately mobilized the only two battalions in his hand, and under the cover of concentrated artillery fire of almost the entire brigade, relying on the commanding heights under his control, he fought fiercely with the Japanese army in front of him.

He used the only six German-made MG 34 machine guns in the whole brigade and reinforced two Maxim heavy machine guns to contain the front of Damaigou at the exit of the entire mountain road. With the high rate of fire of this German-made machine gun, using the cover of the terrain, the route of the Japanese army to break through was blocked. At the same time, 12 Type 92 heavy machine guns of two battalions and two heavy machine gun companies, reinforced with some light machine guns, were deployed around various commanding heights in a cross-fire range.

The main force of the brigade's mountain artillery battalion was deployed in the direction of the flank after the battle of Damaigou, specifically to suppress the enemy's group charge. The infantry artillery company of the regiment was deployed in Damaigoutun. Specialized in hitting the Japanese machine-gun positions in advance, as well as suppressing the enemy's forces in depth.

On both sides of the mountain road, he did not place the firing points on the ridges, but all on the fronts and flanks of the mountainside. At the same time, all mortars, all moving up the mountain, were deployed on the anticline of the mountains on both sides of the mountain road. Field telephone lines were erected between the various positions.

And concentrate a group of sharpshooters, in the form of combat groups, take advantage of the terrain to ambush, and specialize in hitting the enemy's grenadiers. In order to ensure the safety of the machine-gun position, he repeatedly told these sharpshooters not to shoot easily. They didn't have to worry about anything else, the only thing they needed to do was to never let the Japanese grenadiers get within a hundred meters of the machine-gun position.

This brigade commander, who had been dealing with the Japanese army behind enemy lines in North China for four years, was very clear about the power of the grenadier. Once the Japanese grenadiers were allowed to come within 100 meters of the machine-gun position, the machine-gun position was almost silent and had no defense capability against this kind of weapon.

In all the anti-sweeping operations in North China, the Japanese grenadiers brought great harm to the machine guns of the troops. In the absence of heavy weapons, machine guns, especially light machine guns, are the firepower of almost all units in North China. Once the already small number of light machine guns was knocked out, the entire line of defense basically collapsed.

Without the cover of machine guns, it was difficult to withstand the Japanese attack with rifles and homegrown grenades, which had little ammunition. With his previous experience, the brigade commander knew very well that in order to achieve his tactical objectives in this battle, various machine gun positions were the key.

Especially on the Damaigou line, only one company was deployed, and those few German-made machine guns were almost the core of the entire defense. If these German-made machine guns were knocked out, the strength of the only company alone would not be able to withstand it in any case, and the Japanese army would attack in turn for a long time.

And once the Damaigou line was broken through by the Japanese army, the entire battlefield would collapse. He was not worried about the Japanese artillery, in his eyes, in this kind of close combat, no matter how good the Japanese army's infantry artillery coordination ability was, it would not be able to show it. What he was most worried about was the large number of Japanese equipment, and the threat to machine gun fire was also the biggest grenadier canister.

It hardly requires any positions when launching, is extremely easy to fight, and is a silent thing. Not only the original Anti-United Nations, but also suffered countless big losses in the Guannai, whether it was a battlefield behind enemy lines or a frontal battlefield. It's just that in order to deal with this thing, the Anti-Union is equipped with 60 cannons.

Although the advance army is also equipped with a certain amount of this kind of light mortar manufactured by the Anti-United Nations, it is limited by the production capacity of the Anti-United Nations, and the number of equipped is not much. Close support firepower is still dominated by captured grenadiers. Therefore, in the case that it is necessary to target other directions, the limited 60 artillery cannot all be concentrated on this one thing.

It was also in the customs that he suffered countless big losses, and when he was preparing, he paid special attention to the grenadiers of the Japanese army. A group of sharpshooters was specially arranged and equipped with the best rifles. His order to these people was that even if the Japanese army rushed in front of them, they would not have to care.

They had only one mission, and that was to keep an eye on the Japanese grenadiers. The grenadiers of the Japanese army must not be allowed to knock out a single machine gun. As for his grenadiers, he strengthened the machine gun position, only hitting the Japanese tactical group, blocking the parts where the Japanese might set up machine guns.

Compared with the ten families who fought the front line, relying on bayonets to see red, they forcibly killed the battalion commanders of the three dissatisfied infantry squadrons of the Japanese army. This brigade commander is a veteran cadre who served as a regiment commander during the Red Army period, and he has much more experience in ambushes. His firepower deployment has some characteristics, and it is quite targeted.

In his opinion, the line from Shijiazinangou to Damaigou was the only way for the Japanese army to retreat in the battlefield east of Luofugou. And this line is basically mountainous. Whether the Japanese army broke through in the direction of Chaoyang or Jianping, they had to pass through here. Therefore, he thought that he had no need to worry about the Japanese soldiers and scouts, and after discovering his ambush, he would choose other routes.

As long as they carry the Japanese army who broke through here, the Japanese army has almost no choice except for desperately breaking through. And as long as he keeps a few of the most important commanding heights, he can suppress the Japanese army on the mountain road. When the time comes, he will be able to calmly eat the besieged Japanese army in one bite.

Of course, he knew that even if he concentrated two battalions here, he would not have much advantage in the comparison of forces. Therefore, he wisely chose to use firepower instead of troops to block the Japanese army's breakthrough route. Moreover, in terms of firepower deployment, it was even heavier in front and lighter in the rear, and all the machine guns were put on the front line by him. In order to be able to give the Japanese army the maximum damage in the shortest possible time.

Using the small amount of artillery in their hands, they were divided into several clusters, each locking on to the target and marking the firing boundary of the entire mountain road. The concentration of troops that specialize in fighting the Japanese army will definitely not allow the Japanese army to be concentrated together. In the entire deployment of firepower, a point-based cross-fire control surface has also been adopted, with points as the main focus and point-like cross-fire control surfaces.

In order to ensure that the troops could be concentrated to the greatest extent in this battle, he even moved a battalion deployed in the Tang family's cane, as well as the attached artillery, to the front line of Damaigou. In order to send reinforcements to the front line of Damaigou at the first time if necessary, to ensure the encirclement and annihilation of the enemy in front of them.