Dozens of cavalry marched quickly along the road, and the sound of horses' hooves gradually spread to the two wings.

On the slopes on both sides of the road, in the mountains, in the woods, in the valleys, in all the places where the troops could be hidden, in all the areas suitable for ambushes, the devils on the cavalry were carefully scouted.

The area of investigation was extended to 800 meters away from the road.

The devil is arrogant and has no one in his eyes, but he has struggled with the Eighth Route Army in the base area for more than three years, tens of thousands of devils have broken jade, and countless materials have been lost.

From the very beginning of the Pingxing Guan Heavy Brigade to the previous Wild Wolf Valley Kwantung Army Squadron, the bloody lesson made the devil finally understand that this is not the racecourse of the Great Japanese Empire, this is someone else's territory, it is someone else's country, although it has been occupied on the surface, but the resistance is still all over every piece of land, and there is still a long way to go before it is fully controlled.

In the face of Li Yunlong's independent regiment, which made the empire's North China Front army lose face, Ozawa Izumi cautiously sent a reconnaissance team to conduct a close reconnaissance of the surrounding area.

After all, he didn't want to fight the Eighth Route Army in disadvantaged terrain.

Not long after the cavalry confirmed that it was safe, Koizumi Tazawa drove in with a brigade of devils of more than 500 people.

Dozens of motorcycles on the reconnaissance devil detachment in front, the devil machine gunners on the body from time to time with machine gun fire reconnaissance, more than a dozen trucks in the middle of the team, behind the trucks towed mountain artillery and ammunition trucks, the back of the devil soldiers wearing iron nail leather boots.

On a truck, Ozawa Izumi has a solemn gaze.

Even though he thought he had forced Li Yunlong's independent group to a desperate situation, Ozawa Izumi did not have much ease.

Victory was imminent, and there was no suspense, but there was one thing he still needed to consider, and that was the issue of casualties, and if he exterminated this so-called independent regiment at a huge cost, his military career would be reversed.

Up to now, the garrison of Shou County has lost more than 400 troops, nearly a quarter, and if there are heavy casualties again in this battle, even if he finally annihilates this so-called Li Yunlong Independent Regiment, it will definitely not have a good result.

The Imperial Army has always looked down on the Eighth Route Army, thinking that it is just called the Huazi Army, which does not have much combat effectiveness, and if it fights against it, it can easily win, although this Li Yunlong has made many amazing moves, but it is still impossible to change this point of view, but it is just to make the Imperial Army think that this is an elite unit of the Eighth Route Army.

And he commanded an elite full-fledged Imperial Army brigade to fight, and the material aspect was also strengthened.

In the eyes of the higher-ups, this battle is hand-to-hand.

That's what he thought at the time.

It's just...

Looking at the slopes on both sides of the road in the distance, Koizumi Tazawa's eyes were worried, not because of the pseudo-battle this time, but because of his future.

Li Yunlong's independent regiment was terrifying beyond his imagination, especially the morale of the soldiers, which was completely different from all the Republic of China troops he had faced before, the soldiers in this unit were not afraid of death, and they were not inferior to the samurai armed with the imperial bushido, and the military quality was also quite good, and the light weapons were also very good, and the machine guns were equipped with squads.

Even if most of the strength was consumed before, it was definitely not easy to deal with in the end.

Hopefully, this time the casualties will be smaller...

Ozawa Izumi prayed in his heart.

Not too many, no more than two hundred, up to two hundred and fifty...

Otherwise, if you go back, let alone remove the deputy and become the official wing leader, I'm afraid that the wing captain will be taken out, and you won't even be able to do the deputy.

In order to reduce casualties, Ozawa Izumi even mobilized a lot of troops from other nearby forts, and finally formed a brigade of 500 people to support the Shuangma Village fort.

"Your Excellency in the report, there is a blocking force of the Eighth Route Army ahead."

The cavalry correspondent reported on the situation at the front.

"Blocking troops?"

Koizumi Tazawa suddenly perked up.

This was one of the situations he was most looking forward to, and the Eighth Route Army launched a blockade against it to buy time for the forcible capture of the Shuangma Village Fort.

Instead of feinting to attack the Shuangma Village Turret, the main purpose was to ambush his reinforcements.

The artillery tower of Shuangma Village has been strengthened by the garrison and the ammunition supply is sufficient, and it is absolutely impossible to capture it in a short period of time, and it will always consume the strength of the Eighth Route Army. With the advantage of artillery fire, he also has a great advantage in the face of the Eighth Route Army's resistance.

"The mountain artillery squadron was ordered to launch an artillery attack on the enemy's positions, and the second squadron began to attack." Ozawa Izumi quickly ordered.

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Boom Boom Boom ·····

Explosions continued to rise on the positions of the second battalion, and the civil bunkers that had not been built long ago were blown up in scattered places, but fortunately, the troops were dispersed enough that the casualties caused by these artillery fire were not large.

"The little devil is still in a hurry."

Looking at a squadron of devils rushing up behind the artillery fire, Shen Quan smiled slightly.

Devils are not stupid.

Li Yunlong had long predicted that the devils would send reconnaissance troops to spread reconnaissance around.

After fighting with the Eighth Route Army for so long and suffering so many losses, it is inevitable that it will not be defenseless against ambushes as it was at the beginning, and it is impossible to get into the pocket of narrow terrain and let the troops surround it, so this time the independent regiment did not stupidly set up an ambush position, but chose a mobile annihilation war.

Now the independent regiment is not weak against the devils, whether it is firepower or troops, and even has this great advantage.

There are only more than 500 devils, and it is absolutely impossible for the more than 300 devils left in Shou County to go out, otherwise he would dare to cooperate with the outside and take the opportunity to take the county seat of Shou County.

Even if the independent regiment excludes one battalion, there are more than 1,400 people involved in the battle.

Therefore, in this battle, the ratio of the strength of the independent regiment and the devil was close to three to one.

Although the quality of the soldiers was slightly lacking, the sufficient firepower, especially the strong firepower of the artillery battery, and the abundance of shells more than made up for it.

However, if you want to completely annihilate this group of devils, you must first attract the attention of this group of devils and let the troops complete the movement and encirclement, and the two companies of the second battalion of Shen Quan are responsible for attracting devils here.

"Fire."

Subsequently, Shen Quan ordered to open fire.

Suddenly, two companies of the second battalion launched an attack on the ghost soldiers who rushed up.

At the beginning, Shen Quan took out all his troops, two companies.

Da Da Da ·

A dense rain of bullets, coupled with grenades after approaching, the first wave of the devil's attack was easily repulsed, and as soon as the devil retreated, artillery fire began to sweep across the positions of the second battalion, destroying the bunkers of the second battalion.

Far off the road, on the Japanese position.

"Your Excellency Nakasa, the enemy has established a strong defensive position, and the firepower is also very strong, and the defensive strength is about three hundred people."

The Japanese troops on the front line reported what they had just observed during the tentative attack.

"More than three hundred?"

Ozawa Izumi suddenly smiled.

According to the information provided by the First Army, the Independent Regiment initially numbered about 1,700 people, which was comparable to the strength of the Imperial Army.

After a month of confrontation and strangulation, the ratio of casualties to the imperial army was about 1.5 to 1, and maybe even more, after all, in the later stage, the opponent sent a large number of recruits, these inexperienced recruits not only did not have any results in the night raid, but suffered heavy casualties under the blows of the elite imperial army.

That is, the reduction of this independent regiment was about six hundred people.

Even if the opponent's strength replenishment ability is very strong, even if there are only that number of people, the weapon will limit the upper limit of its strength, and its strength will definitely be lower than the original number, it is estimated that it should be about 1,500 people.

There is an attack team of 1,000 people on the side of Shuangma Village, there are 300 blocking troops here, and at most, the other side has a reserve force of 200 people, and most of them are inexperienced recruits.

"Artillery fire destroys enemy positions, and the 1st Squadron continues to attack."

Koizumi Tazawa Yuya Yuya ordered.

He only sent one squadron of attacking troops at a time, after all, only by giving the Eighth Route Army hope that they would see that the blocking force had stopped the imperial support force, and they would continue to hit their heads and bleed at the fort in Shuangma Village.

There is an old saying in the Republic of China, what is it called?

Don't hit the south wall and don't look back.

"The rest of the squadron is stationed in place."

He didn't even conduct a two-wing proliferation reconnaissance.

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Shuangma Village Turret.

It was still afternoon, but it had been more than four hours since the first battalion began to attack the turret.

At the top of the turret, the captain of the devil squad who was in charge of guarding the turret held a telescope and looked at the Eighth Route Army camped in the distance, looking anxious.

At the beginning, the other side launched three waves of group charges, which made him think that the other side was going to fight hard, using the lives of the soldiers to consume his ammunition, and he even ordered to save bullets, but after the telephone line was cut, the other side never attacked, and kept building bunkers outside the range, and even completely surrounded the turret.

For more than three hours, the Eighth Route Army did not launch an attack at all, but stationed and blockaded it for a long time.

This made him realize that the purpose of the Eighth Route Army was probably not the turret, but to encircle the point to send reinforcements, and the goal was to support the troops...

However, although he guessed the tactics of the independent regiment, he was helpless, the blockade of an entire battalion, and the wide field of vision around it, made it impossible for the devils to even send any news.

However, the Eighth Route Army wanted to ambush the support troops of a large brigade of the empire, was it a little too self-sufficient?

The leader of the devil squad did not panic, but asked his subordinates to stay vigilant.

It's just that in the distance, the dense shelling sound made the devil squad leader frown.

The sound of this cannon sounds a little bad.

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On the highway, on the blocking position of the second battalion, Koizumi Tazawa held a telescope and looked at the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army in the distance, and his brows began to wrinkle.

After an hour of leisure, he decided not to play, he ordered his troops to launch an all-out attack, and the two squadrons launched a charge against the defensive positions of the Eighth Route Army, which had been shelled by the artillery squadron for more than an hour.

The expected easy rush down to the position damaged by artillery fire did not happen, even when the troops were about to break through to deal with that position, suddenly, a large amount of artillery fire appeared behind the opponent, which was the mortar fire of the opponent, 82 and 62 calibers, nearly 200 shells made the attack of the two squadrons ineffective, and there were even a lot of casualties.

Moreover, the enemy at this time had clearly used reserves, and the defensive forces on the positions were about four hundred people, the size of three enemy companies.

This made him realize that this Li Yunlong Independent Regiment may have hidden a lot of strength, and it may even be that the current situation of the Shuangma Village Artillery Tower, which has lost contact, may not be good, so Koizumi Tazawa began to use all his strength.

"The 1st Squadron continues to attack."

"The second and third squadrons attacked in a roundabout way, and the artillery squadrons suppressed the opposing artillery fire."

Artillery suppression, frontal assault cover, and roundabout flank attack, this time Koizumi Tazawa showed the command ability of a Japanese Imperial Army Nakasa.

Although the Japanese were complained that they would only rush the infantry after the artillery bombardment, and the artillery would finish the infantry charge, but the devil can sweep across the entire Southeast Asia, and it is absolutely impossible to rely on this little thing, in fact, the Japanese army is actually best at light infantry interspersed.

Boom Boom Boom ·

The artillery squadron at the rear continued to fire, and the smoke of the explosion exploded over the position of the second battalion, destroying the little defensive bunker of the second battalion.

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, a squadron of devils launched an attack on the dilapidated position.

At the same time, under the cover of artillery fire, two squadrons of devils also began to penetrate the flanks, trying to attack the flanks of the defensive positions of the second battalion.

It's just that this time in a detour, the devils encountered a completely unexpected situation.

Before they had left the main position, the devils of the two squadrons encountered the remaining troops of the 3rd and 2nd Battalions of the Independent Regiment, which were also in a roundabout.

At this time, the troops of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, totaling 800 men, had already established temporary positions on both flanks and had also arranged firing points.

Originally, Grand Master Li's plan was to let the blocking position consume the devil's strength, and when the devil was tired and the shells were consumed, he would take the opportunity to launch all his forces to start the attack and annihilate the devil in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect the devil to suddenly intersperse his wings.

In the face of the squadron of devils rushing up, the troops on both flanks opened fire without hesitation.

Caught off guard, in the face of the sudden dense firepower, the troops on both flanks of the devil were crushed, and retreated in a hurry, trying to find a position to defend.

"Fire..."

Seeing this situation, Li Yunlong immediately made a decision and launched an attack.

With a flare lifted into the air.

On the defensive position of the second battalion, the soldiers guarding the artillery company also tore off the camouflage, and all the 82 mortars of the whole company opened fire at full speed, and with the fire companies of the second and third battalions, the shells fell in the devil's position at a density of more than 100 rounds per minute, and dense explosions rose in the devil's position.

Suddenly, the devil's position was in a panic.

After the first wave of blows ended, Grand Master Li immediately made a decision and launched a charge.

"Rush"

"Rush..."

In the loud charge, more than 1,000 people rushed to the devil's position.

"Yaga, how is it possible..."

"How could the Eighth Route Army still have artillery shells? How can there be so many people? ”

Seeing the soldiers of the Independent Regiment all over the mountains and the two wings that had been destroyed and broken, Koizumi Tazawa's eyes widened: "Aren't they besieging the artillery tower of Shuangma Village?" ”

However, he didn't have a chance to figure out the situation.

Rise from the Bright Sword /book/96399/