Otozo Yamamoto still did not come to the front line in person, but in order to be able to better command the battle, Otozo Yamamoto's adjutant, General Yokohama, the deputy commander of the Kwantung Army, also came here in person with the reinforcements. At this time, there were 70,000 people under his command. There was a larger army assembled than when they first moved.
Moreover, they did not disperse as they did in the initial operation, but gathered together, which further showed the strength of their army. At this time, the area occupied by the temporary resident is also particularly large. The devil's tent can't be seen at a glance, just like the momentum of the ancient army going out.
It was already dark at night, and in a field tent in the center of the garrison, General Yokohama was having a meeting with his division commanders and brigade commanders.
"Just wait for our supply convoy to arrive. With sufficient ammunition, we have full confidence to wipe out the Helen area. We have changed our tactics this time and used our cannons as the main force of the attack."
Because the Eighth Route Army is a cavalry force, they naturally want to use cavalry to fight against the Eighth Route Army. This turned out to be the wrong choice, so they also changed tactics and decided to use a unique form of propulsion. The tactics this time were completely formulated according to the characteristics of the previous Eighth Route Army operations. Although the little devil was very rigid in terms of strategy, he was still flexible in tactics.
When General Yokohama said this, suddenly, short and rapid gunshots sounded in the distance.
Hearing the gunshots, everyone present became vigilant. This is an automatic weapon of the Eighth Route Army!
Soon someone came to report.
"Report that the Eighth Route Army cavalry units are attacking. They have attacked our peripheral security forces. A patrolling team is completely smashed."
Hear the news. Everyone's faces were a little ugly. They had already retreated 100 miles, but they did not expect that the Eighth Route Army was still in hot pursuit, and they dared to leave the base area 100 miles and come here to make trouble.
Now, how should the elite of the Kwantung Army deal with them?
General Yokohama had a sneer on his face: "The Eighth Route Army is already afraid of us. They know that if they don't take any countermeasures, they will only be killed by us. Now they just want to use harassment tactics. If we send more If our army goes out to wipe out these Eighth Route Army, it will be greatly fooled."
Hearing what General Yokohama said, everyone present nodded in agreement.
? They learned the lesson from last time, twisted into one rope, and no longer dispersed their actions. And the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack outside is probably trying to lure them to send troops to search for the Eighth Route Army's cavalry units.
No matter what kind of troops they send, whether it is a cavalry brigade or a cavalry regiment, the result is the same, and they will definitely disappear without a trace in the darkness.
So now they can't go out. As long as they stick to their camps, the Eighth Route Army cannot do anything to them.
As for the harassment operations outside, they will also be resolved by their tactics.
General Yokohama thought for a while, and continued: "Withdraw all our peripheral patrols and defend our own camp. The cavalry must protect the rear line and let our transport convoy come over safely."
He knew that the Eighth Route Army was very capable of fighting at night. Now that there had been a firefight, the Eighth Route Army wanted to kill all the people on their periphery. Rather than leaving it as a delicious meal for the Eighth Route Army, it is better to withdraw it.
Hearing his order, a division commander said: "General, if we withdraw all the patrols, then we will lose our eyes."
"If we don't withdraw, those eyes will only be gouged out by the enemy. It's just one night. The Eighth Route Army has no other way to deal with us. They can't attack our camp in the dark. Our machine guns and artillery made their attack a suicide."
Hearing what he said, the head of the division didn't object anymore.
Sporadic gunshots were still coming from outside. It was the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army who continued to hunt and kill the patrols of the devils, so the patrols they deployed outside were meaningless.
The night was still dark.
Li Yunlong personally led the team, and a large number of cavalry had already approached the little devil's garrison. Li Yunlong showed the outline of the little devil's camp in the distance in the dark, and smiled.
"Brother Baoshan, what you said is absolutely right, you little devils, you actually withdrew all their patrols." Li Yunlong said to Qin Baoshan who was beside him.
"That's for sure. If they don't withdraw their patrols, in order to protect their patrols, they will have to mobilize more people, which will make us cheaper. Now we have made the little devilsBecame blind. So hurry up and deploy quickly. "
The patrols outside the little devils are their eyes. If they withdraw these patrols, they don't know what will happen outside. This is the biggest miscalculation of the little devil.
The little devil is not worried that the cavalry of the Eighth Route Army will take the initiative to attack their garrison at night, because anyone with a clear mind will know that it is impossible.
Even if the Eighth Route Army had advanced weapons and equipment, it would not be easy to break through the little devil's defense at night. The previous successful battles of the Eighth Route Army were all sudden attacks by the little devil's maneuvers. The little devil had no defense at all. This time the little devil's defense is very sufficient, so the Eighth Route Army can't go to the point of the little devil's gun. .
They never thought about launching an attack on the little devil's garrison at all. They came outside the devil's garrison just to do one thing.
Everyone came with a shovel. They drove off the little devil's patrol, shielded the little devil's eyes, and then they started working.
On the ground, holes soon appeared one after another. What are they digging holes for? Needless to say, of course it is a landmine.
The number of mines is not many, but they have a lot of explosives. So the landmines are completely used as fuzes. They can dig a long trench of tens of meters or even hundreds of meters, and then pour explosives into it along this trench. Put a landmine in the center of this long ditch, so that as long as the landmine is stepped on and exploded, it means that all the tens of meters or even hundreds of meters will explode at the same time, and the effect is absolutely spectacular of.
Doing so is actually very wasteful. These explosives are all powerful TNT explosives, which can be poured into the warheads of artillery shells. However, the seized materials are used for combat. Now they are going to deal with the main forces of the little devil's divisions, so Qin Baoshan It was extravagant to bury all the hundreds of tons of high explosives brought back this time underground.
Those propellant gunpowder can be used to fill bullets, and these explosives can be used to make shells, but at the early stage of military industry development in Northeast China, it is definitely not possible to directly make shells, so the hundreds of tons of explosives are simply used here.
At this time, even Qin Baoshan was looking forward to the spectacular scene the next day. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com