When landing and fighting, the most dangerous time should be when the landing troops are still on the water.

Therefore, when dealing with landing operations on the battlefield, there is a saying: "Eliminate the enemy on the water."

Of course, except for Hawk Sauce.

Because Eagle Sauce can use warships and planes to blow up the enemy's coastal defense lines for days and nights before landing, for Eagle Sauce, all facilities and fortifications set up on the shore are futile.

On the Pacific battlefield, the Japanese realized this in the later stage, so they gave up the strategy of "eliminating the enemy on the water" and instead allowed the Eagle Sauce to land and chose to build authentic fortifications on the island to fight the war of attrition.

The Japanese did not have this level of understanding at this time.

However, the Eighth Route Army was not Hawkshop, and they did not have their firepower.

Therefore, if the landing ships of the Eighth Route Army were seriously fighting against the Japanese during the day, the thirty landing ships of the Eighth Route Army were almost no different from seeking death... The Japanese only needed a single shot to blow up the salt lake. The landing ships of the Eighth Route Army that had no resistance to sinking and stability would be half as good as the first time.

Fortunately, this did not happen. The Japanese still fought with the Eighth Route Army's harassing troops on both wings and knew nothing about the movements on the lake.

The 226th Regiment was stationed in the south of Yuncheng. The corps leader, Colonel Shangzhu, was now holding a telescope on the top of the city to observe the enemy situation.

The one who reported to Anda 23 that the Eighth Route Army was bombarded violently was actually Colonel Shangzhu himself... When Anda 23 asked, he hurriedly said that his subordinates were lying about the enemy's situation.

In fact, if there was a violent bombing, how could he, the regiment leader, not know?

That is the enemy's shells, which hit the ground. It can be heard how many shells there are to bomb to what extent.

However, Shangzhu guessed something correctly. At this time, the Eighth Route Army was gathering more than a dozen rocket launchers to aim at this direction, but the fire had not been opened yet.

Colonel Shangzhu looked at the battle situation in the telescope and felt a little strange. The enemy's offensive seemed like a feint attack, not a feint attack.

A formal feint attack should be to invest considerable forces to force the opponent to deal with it with considerable forces.

This is also the purpose of a feint attack, to drag down the enemy's troops.

But the Eighth Route Army in front of them... they seemed to just make a sound, such as the area clearly lacked the attack of the Imperial Army, and the sound of gunfire and grenade explosions were heard.

This obviously cannot help to hold back the troops.

Colonel Shangzhu felt a little surprised. Has the Eighth Route Army had so much ammunition recently that it could be wasted like this?

But, if it weren't for a feint attack, what was the Eighth Route Army doing?

What is the purpose of doing this?

If Wang Xuexin knew that the Japanese would think of this, he should invest more troops to fight a serious feint.

But Wang Xuexin was soft-hearted. He thought that the casualties were too great, so he just asked the cover troops to "make some noise."

Unexpectedly, this made the Japanese suspicious.

Colonel Shangzhu thought for a while, pointed to a direction in the darkness and ordered the adjutant: "Send a small team to that location to check which unit is fighting against the Eighth Route Army!"

"Yes!" the adjutant responded, and immediately rang the phone and conveyed the order.

The Japanese moved very quickly and responded in a few minutes.

"Your Excellency Colonel!" The adjutant reported with disdain: "No troops there were fighting against the Eighth Route Army. The enemy fired randomly at the bunkers in the dark, and threw grenades at us from a long distance!"

Then the adjutant concluded: "This is the Eighth Route Army testing our army's firepower. Don't these cowards dare to rush closer?"

The adjutant took it for granted that this was the Eighth Route Army's cowardly behavior, and thought that the enemy did not dare to launch an attack and acted in the dark to show his superiors... This often happened in the puppet army. When the Japanese sent the puppet army to the battlefield, the puppet army often just fired fire in the air and pretended to fight the enemy fiercely. The adjutant thought that the Eighth Route Army did this as a matter of fact.

Colonel Shangzhu thought for a while and said, "Naoshima, how long have you been fighting with the Eighth Route Army?"

The adjutant thought about it and replied: "It should be more than a year since I was transferred to Shanxi!"

Colonel Shangzhu asked again: "So, have you seen the Eighth Route Army afraid of death in the war in more than a year?"

The adjutant thought about it and replied: "It is indeed suspicious to be said by Your Excellency the Colonel! This is not the style of the Eighth Route Army!"

Colonel Shangzhu nodded: "Although the Eighth Route Army is also afraid of death, it is very rare. This is a unit with poor equipment and difficult conditions. If they don't even have morale or courage, they will not survive until now, nor will they become our biggest concern!"

The adjutant couldn't help but ask: "So, Lord Colonel, why did the Eighth Route Army do this?"

This is also what Colonel Shangzhu felt strange, so he was silent.

They made deliberate sounds, which must be covering up other sounds.

But what sound can the Eighth Route Army have to cover up?

Chariot?

Very unlikely!

The narrowest part of the passage formed by the city walls and salt lakes on both sides is only a few hundred meters. If a chariot enters this passage and attacks the bunkers and the city walls is tantamount to seeking death. They will only squeeze into a group and become an excellent target for artillery soldiers.

In addition to the chariots, what else is there that the Eighth Route Army needs to cover up?

At this time, Colonel Shangzhu faintly heard a different sound from the darkness, as if it was the sound of a motor or a paddling sound.

salt lake?

Colonel Shangzhu was shocked and immediately ordered: "Call the flares, hit the lake!"

The adjutant was shocked by Colonel Shangzhu's words. It was actually the lake? This is impossible!

Although the adjutant thought so, his movements did not stop at all. He immediately shouted to the correspondent: "Three lights are coming, the lake is right in front of him!"

Soon, several flares flew into the dark air with a few "splashes", and then released dazzling light in the air to illuminate the originally pitch-black lake surface like daytime.

Then everyone was stunned.

Under the light of the flares, there were clearly ships approaching, and there were still war chariots on the ships...

"Architecture!" The next second Colonel Shangzhu screamed: "Organize artillery bombing now!"

"Contact the artillery!" the adjutant shouted at the communications officer: "In addition, drop the mortar! There is also the third squadron..."

The third squadron is the reserve of the 226th Regiment and is a unit used to put out fires in emergency situations.

The reserve team was used before the battle started, which was probably the first time in the history of the Japanese war.

However, it seemed too late at this time, because the landing ship was only more than one hundred meters away from the shore, and the Japanese artillery did not set up the elements of the salt lake. They even needed to complete the accurate bombing.
Chapter completed!