Bright Sword: Leading the Special Operations Squadron to Fight the Japs

Chapter 172: Established Battle Plan

I thought I could run rampant as I was equipped with advanced individual weapons and a large number of artillery.

But without air superiority, these ground guns are just toys.

"Stop complaining! The Japs will definitely attack us once the bombing is over!"

Sure enough, when the smoke and dust cleared, the Japanese had already advanced to within fifty meters.

Kenjiro Kei Miura showed a triumphant smile. He could break through the distance of 50 meters in less than a minute, but there was no movement on the Eighth Route Army's position.

"It seems that the Eighth Route Army has been completely wiped out by the Empire's planes!"

The 60th Independent Infantry Battalion of the 86th Brigade successfully attacked the position, but found that there was no one there. They were a little surprised by the empty battlefield.

Are they fighting the air?

Just when the Japanese were stunned, they saw the familiar dark green iron box, the "Broadsword Mine".

Twenty Broadsword mines are spread across the entire battlefield, ensuring 360 degrees of coverage with no blind spots.

More than 86 steel balls were fired at the th Infantry Battalion, and it was like a "steel ball rain". No Japanese soldier standing on the position was spared.

The Japanese soldiers who went down into the trenches covered their heads, feeling lucky to have escaped.

But before they had time to be happy, grenades fell from the sky again, blasting the Japanese soldiers in the trenches into corpses.

When most of the Japanese soldiers were killed, Shen Quan led the soldiers of the Second Regiment to clear the way with submachine guns and grenades, and recaptured the position along the communication trench.

"Captain, how did you come up with this idea?"

"Battles are our disadvantage. What are our advantages? Strong firepower and good equipment. Let's fight from a distance!"

Shen Quan's move used his own strengths to attack the opponent's weaknesses, and the effect was immediate.

Kenjiro Kei Miura watched as the position he had gained was lost in the blink of an eye, and he almost collapsed.

"Kill them! Order the air force to continue dropping bombs!"

Does the old devil Qing Miura want to score twice?

But the bombs on the Japanese planes had all been dropped during the second round of bombing, and now they are all deaf ears and decorations.

After Shen Quan wiped out the 86th Infantry Battalion, he thought that the Japanese planes would bomb again, so he immediately ordered the soldiers to repair the fortifications and preserve as much manpower as possible.

But after waiting for a long time, there was no movement from either the 60th Brigade at the foot of the hill or the mixed formation of the st and nd Flying Regiments in the sky.

"Damn it, what are these little Japanese doing? They're dithering!"

"Captain, could it be that the Japs are out of bombs?"

Shen Quan thought for a moment and began to mobilize two hidden 81mm heavy mortars for artillery fire.

The 81mm mortar has a range of 2400 meters using ordinary shells, and can reach 3000 meters using extended-range ammunition.

After the two 81mm mortars fired more than a dozen shells, the Japanese planes still did not respond.

"What? You don't like our two 81mm mortars? Then we'll just cut them slowly with a knife!"

Kenjiro Kei Miura was fed up with this, and looking at the relatively intact 118th, 119th and 120th Independent Infantry Battalions, he began to hesitate.

According to reliable intelligence, the strongest combat force of the Independent Column was indeed in the Yuncheng area, so he had the courage to raid the Independent Column's lair.

But how come the independent column still has such strong combat effectiveness after its strongest armored division was eliminated?

Before I knew it, I had discovered such a huge creature right under my nose!

No, after two rounds of bombing, the Eighth Route Army must have been exhausted. He didn't believe that his four infantry battalions, nearly twice the enemy's strength, could not take the position!

"Orders, the 118th Infantry Battalion and the 119th Infantry Battalion, launch an attack immediately and capture the position at all costs!"

More than 2,000 people lined up in horizontal rows, like human waves, and moved towards the Yangjingdi Village position.

The Japanese artillery and grenade launchers also began to launch precision attacks on the independent column's heavy machine guns and mortars.

The quality of the Japanese soldiers was indeed high, and their mortars and grenade launchers were accurate, but fortunately the independent column had an advantage in the number of mortars.

According to the independent column, as long as we have more guns and a large coverage area, it doesn't matter if the accuracy is a little bit worse.

Coupled with a large number of accurate shooters, the Japanese mortars and grenade launchers were suppressed for a while!

But the Japs kept pouring up like maggots in a dry toilet.

The light and heavy machine guns were smoking, and the semi-automatic rifles and Type 95 rifles were also firing in succession, but they could only watch helplessly as the Japs approached the front of the position step by step.

"Captain, there are too many Japanese. I think their planes dare not move. Why don't we ask the headquarters for help and pull out the howitzers to hit them!"

Shen Quan emptied the magazine of a Type 95 rifle and took a break while changing the magazine.

"The headquarters naturally has their considerations. Anyway, our mission is to hold our ground and never take a step back!"

"Yes!"

In a military fortress dozens of miles away, Li Yunlong and Wang Meng stood in front of the sand table with extremely serious expressions.

"Have Zhang Dabiao and Monk Wei arrived at the designated location?"

"We have reached the designated location. The enemy plane should have run out of ammunition. I think that's about the time!"

Li Yunlong nodded.

"Act according to the established plan!"

The artillery regiment, including a howitzer battalion and two anti-aircraft artillery battalions, moved forward again and marched in secret.

In the dense forest on the west side of Laoding Mountain in Changzhi City, there are many people and more than a hundred armored vehicles are neatly arranged.

"Wei Heshang, if we hadn't marched here in secret ahead of time, we would have been wiped out by the Japanese planes!"

Monk Wei half-knelt on the ground, looking at Changzhi ten miles away and counting with his fingers.

"Captain Zhang, according to the speed of our armored vehicles, we can reach Changzhi City in half an hour at most. Is Captain Wang Ming ready?"

"Well, the news just came back, we can take action at any time!"

It turned out that after completing the mission in Yuncheng, the special operations squadron quickly returned to Pingshun County, and according to Wang Meng's plan, they sneaked into Changzhi City carrying a large amount of high explosives.

At this time, Wang Ming still divided his troops into several groups.

One part was responsible for installing time bombs at key locations, while the other part was responsible for marking key enemy targets and reporting the coordinates to the artillery battalion of the regiment.

The range of the nine 9mm infantry guns was just enough to reach Changzhi City, so they locked onto their targets and waited to open fire for calibration.

Zhang Dabiao and Wei Dayong looked at their watches. The estimated time of the attack was getting closer and closer, so why was there no movement at all?

Hearing the loud explosion in Yangjingdi Village, Zhang Dabiao became anxious.

Although the Second Regiment had a large number of people and was evenly matched with the Japanese, the enemy's planes were a large mass.

Although there are anti-aircraft guns for deterrence, if the Japanese planes really fight to the death, they will be in big trouble!

"The sooner we take action, the less pressure there will be on Shen Quan!"