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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 147: Jiedian

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    In order to avoid exposing their targets before the battle started, the soldiers of the Tax Police Corps crawled into the predetermined positions and placed their bullets, rifle grenades and hand grenades within easy reach.  From here, we can see the endless stream of Japanese soldiers below. They all have wooden sticks in their mouths and the soldiers use hand signals to indicate that they are ready.

    Sun Liren was at the artillery position. Seeing that most of the troops in front had entered combat positions, he immediately ordered: "Fight."

    Hundreds of light and heavy mortars roared out of the shells, and the light and heavy machine gun bullets from the front line fell into the Japanese ranks almost at the same time.  The loess was overturned by the shock wave of the artillery shells. The high temperature turned the earth and rocks black. The artillery shells mixed with black earth and rock shrapnel exploded among the Japanese troops.

    Sudden attack, the Japanese once again showed good training. They found bunkers in groups of three or more, and then used the weapons in their hands (38 large cover with crooked handle 92-type grenade) to fight back at the high ground in the northeast.

    After the gunfire started, the soldiers of the tax police regiment on the Northeast Highlands spit out their sticks. A veteran non-commissioned officer shouted: "Grenade. Give these bastards a grenade."

    ??Condescendingly, every time a mortar fires, it needs to be adjusted through the data of forward reconnaissance artillery. Soldiers prefer direct-aimed weapons such as light and heavy machine guns and rifle grenades.  In everyone's words - it's more enjoyable to watch the Japanese being beaten to death.

    All dangerous goods that can kill people are flying through the air, and the battle has become intense since the beginning.  The Japanese believe that this is a holy war called by the Emperor, and the officers and soldiers of the Tax Police Corps believe that this is to defend their country. On the battlefield, you can only kill me or I can kill you. No one thinks that they are the wrong side. Perhaps only the victorious side can win.  You are qualified to accuse the other party of being wrong.

    Hisao Tani passed through the mouth of this valley in the first echelon.  Hearing that the troops behind were being attacked, he was in a dilemma for a while. There were about two regiments and half a first-class division coming over now.  With these troops, Hisao Tani was sure to capture Shuozhou City, which was defended by the Jinsui Army, but the passage behind seemed to be too important to leave alone.

    Hisao Tani finally made the decision that Shuozhou City must be captured and the rear passage must be opened - could this be the legendary saying that both hands must be grasped and both hands must be hard.  Hisao Tani ordered that the front group continue to attack Shuozhou City.  The regiment that just came from behind changed from the rear to the front to open up the passage to Pinglu District. The other troops in the rear were divided into three parts, one to attack the troops in the northeastern highlands, one to rescue the thousands of imperial troops in the valley, and the last one.  Occupy the northwest highlands and cooperate with the first troops to attack the enemies in the northeastern highlands - this side seems to be safe for the time being.

    The dense explosions of artillery shells in the valley road made it impossible for the Japanese to tell where the enemy was. Often the counterattack they had just organized was knocked out by the artillery shells.  Until they saw some people running towards the northwest highlands, the remaining Japanese followed them based on the herd effect.

    The regiment sent by Hisao Tani to relieve the siege did not fight very smoothly. Since entering Shanxi to fight, this is the first time that this Japanese army has been suppressed with firepower - in the past, they have suppressed the Shanxi-Sui Army.  This is also a headache for the commanders at all levels of the Little Devils. Some of the enemies they encountered had shabby weapons but were very capable of fighting - such as the 29th Army. Some seemed powerful but collapsed at a touch, such as Yang Hucheng of the Little Northwest Army.  Departments, of course, there are also teams that are well-disciplined, neatly dressed and have high combat effectiveness - such as the direct departments of the Central Army.

    This makes it very difficult for the Japanese commanders to do it. When faced with troops with weak combat effectiveness and poor discipline, the Japanese can often be defeated by a fierce and fearless human wave charge with an intensive artillery strike or an aerial bombardment. But when faced with troops with strong combat effectiveness, the enemy can  This tactic often proves to be of limited use.  However, not knowing the enemy's combat effectiveness before the battle is undoubtedly a waste of soldiers' lives for a commander to conduct reconnaissance.

    After the battle started for dozens of minutes, it gradually evolved into a battle between the tax police and the three-faced Japanese. Sun Liren asked the staff officer in charge of statistics: "How was it? How many Japanese were killed?"

    The staff officer said: "Because the enemy quickly occupied the high ground on the opposite side, there was no time to clean up the battlefield. It was visually estimated that more than a thousand, maybe two thousand, of the Japs were killed in the ambush. The number of those who escaped to the high ground on the opposite side was also about this number, and the injured were  I don¡¯t know. In addition, the Japanese lost more than a hundred mules and carriages and most of the supplies on them.¡±

    Sun Liren continued to ask: "What about us?"

    "Our casualties are not large. So far, only more than a hundred people have been killed or seriously injured and have lost combat effectiveness. The men of the supplementary regiment have already been replaced, and after three hours of fighting like this, our machine rifle bullets will be exhausted. Five  In an hour¡¯s time, all types of mortar shells will be fired.¡±

    Sun Liren said: "It's okay, the supply camp will be here in less than three hours. Let the light machine guns and rifles rest for a while, and wait for the Japanese to get close and fight, except for the sharpshooters."

    The ammunition brought by the Tax Police Corps this time was only enough to fight two or three high-intensity battles, and the supply battalion behind them also brought about the same amount of ammunition.

      To a certain extent, the battle was about logistical supplies. Because this time the battle was very sudden, the supply battalion behind the team responsible for transporting supplies could not keep up.  But Sun Liren knew that even if he followed, the supply camp would only bring bullets, small-caliber mortar shells, grenades and some food tents this time.  One supply camp simply cannot supply the consumption of two main regiments for such a high-intensity battle.  If the superiors give an order to be nailed here, how long they can be nailed depends on whether the Japanese can keep up with the logistics.

    As for the Tax Police Headquarters, in Shanxi we can only count on Yan Laoxi¡¯s Jinsui Army to do the job of captain of the transportation brigade (the principal is lying on his back).  Thinking of this, Sun Liren said: "Give power generation to Nanjing, Peiping, and Taiyuan. I reorganized a hundred divisions to ambush the Japanese on the Pinglu line of Shuozhou, annihilated more than a thousand Japanese, and cut off the Japanese's passage to Shuozhou. Fierce fighting is now underway.  The high ground to the northeast is in my hands. Please replenish the ammunition as soon as possible. Sun."

    For Sun Liren, it was just killing more than a thousand invaders, which added an honor to the newly reorganized 100th Division.  But it was different for Hisao Tani.  An infantry regiment of nearly 4,000 people was severely maimed and lost its combat effectiveness. The remaining people could barely exert the combat effectiveness of a large group.  Hisao Tani brought only three divisions and ten infantry regiments, three cavalry regiments, three transport regiments, two engineering regiments and two field artillery regiments this time.  Not counting the destroyed supplies, Hisao Tani found that he had lost one-thirtieth of his combat effectiveness in less than an hour's battle. Counting the supplies, it could only be more.

    Taiyuan, Shanxi Provincial Government.

    Qingshuihe County and Pinglu County were lost consecutively.  Shuozhou was shocked. A group of Jin Army staff members, who had looked sad just now, immediately showed it to Yan Laoxi after receiving the telegram: "Commander, good news. Good news. A great victory on the front line."

    Yan Xishan, who was frowning, raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Oh, could it be that Shuozhou was victorious?"

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