Chapter 239 Attack
The battle between the Japanese attacking Yuncheng started at about 12 o'clock on the evening.
At that time, Wang Xuexin was already asleep... The living habit in the base area was to go to bed early and get up early. Every day, it was dark and then he had a little activity. He went to bed at around 7 or 8 o'clock.
No, it is because this is an agricultural society. Almost all those who rely on the weather to eat and grow crops.
Another is because of the general environment... Modern people watch TV, movies, computers, and mobile phones at night, and they just go to the middle of the night. There is no entertainment in this era, so what other nightlife can there be?
But then again, Wang Xuexin was also busy late for the "high fire" period. Today, he was just because he had more than 100 "high fire" stocks and the number was still increasing. He was relieved of half of his hanging heart, so he could have a safe sleep.
Just as Wang Xuexin was sleeping soundly, the guard knocked on the door outside the house a few times and shouted: "Report to the battalion commander, emergency situation!"
Wang Xuexin got up from the head of the bed as soon as he was sleepy. Before he could fully wake up, he asked habitually: "What's the situation?"
The correspondent was answering: "Battery Commander, Yuncheng is on the fight. Staff Chen asked me to notify you!"
Wang Xuexin was puzzled. The Japanese actually started to fight against Yuncheng? At this time?
The reason why Wang Xuexin felt strange was not because the Japanese attacked Yuncheng.
He knew that it would be a matter of time before the Japanese attacked Yuncheng. His "bluffing" or "slow-down plan" could only slow down the Japanese for a while.
If this could scare the Japanese so much that they would not dare to attack the Eighth Route Army from now on, Hans would have scared the Allies back then.
The reason why Wang Xuexin finds it strange is that the Japanese have never liked night battles, and this time they chose to start fighting at night.
Wang Xuexin took off the hat hanging on the wall and put it on, and then walked out the door.
The correspondent hurriedly used a flashlight to guide the way, and reported while walking: "It was a telegram sent by the Independent Corps, and Staff Chen just knew about it soon!"
Wang Xuexin said "hmm" and rushed to the command center in three steps in two steps.
As soon as he walked into the command center, Staff Chen came up to report: "It started at 12 o'clock. It is estimated that the enemy used two divisions, with unknown numbers. One division was used to attack Yuncheng, and the other division was used to attack Yuncheng's flank defense line."
Wang Xuexin said intimately, "Good guy," and there were two divisions as soon as they came up. The troops were twice as strong as the Eighth Route Army's defense line."
Most of the battles with regular battles are the Eighth Route Army fighting the Japanese with its superior forces... This is determined by the equipment of the Eighth Route Army. The Eighth Route Army has poor equipment and weak combat power. If it does not form an advantageous force, it can only fight guerrillas. Only by forming an advantageous force will you choose to fight.
At the same time, the Japanese were very confident in their combat effectiveness. Even if the Eighth Route Army had superior forces, they believed that they could defeat the Eighth Route Army.
So two slaps can make a slap.
The situation has changed now. The Japanese attacked the Yuncheng defense line with twice the strength as soon as they came up. This seems to be the Eighth Route Army, which means that the Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness has been improved so that the Japanese dare not underestimate it.
Wang Xuexin was not very concerned about these battle situations, so he asked directly: "Have there been any heavy artillery troops that reconnaissed by the Japanese? Is Yuncheng bombed?"
This is the top priority. The entire Yuncheng battle was actually a secret battle between the heavy artillery of the Japanese and the "high fire" of the Eighth Route Army.
As for other equipment, such as small-caliber artillery, medium-sized howitzers, and direct attacks from Japanese infantry, they cannot constitute the advantage of "you can't hit me but I can hit you" against Yuncheng.
In this situation, we fought a war of attrition with the Eighth Route Army... With the few people of the Japanese, who are afraid of whom? The Eighth Route Army dare not say anything else, but the people are several times more than the Japanese. The subsequent soldiers are still queuing up, and they will have tens of thousands of people as soon as they pull up the guerrillas.
What Wang Xuexin was afraid of was the kind of people who used artillery shells to fight the lives of the Eighth Route Army. Moreover, the heavy artillery was still outside the range of the Eighth Route Army, so many people could not fill this hole.
Therefore, Wang Xuexin went straight to the point and asked about the situation of the Japanese heavy artillery.
What surprised Wang Xuexin was that Chen Songyong replied: "No enemy heavy artillery has been discovered yet, and Yuncheng has not been bombarded by the Japanese!"
Wang Xuexin couldn't understand this.
What is Okamura Yasuji going to do?
He should know that under the management of the Eighth Route Army, especially when the Eighth Route Army was equipped with rocket launchers and rocket launchers, it was even more difficult for the Japanese infantry to directly break through the defense line.
Not to mention two divisions, even if three divisions and four divisions come in, it is very likely that they will go but go back.
At this time, Yuncheng was already a world of difference from the Jinsui Army and the stubborn army when it was stationed under Wang Xuexin.
When the Jinsui Army and the stubborn army were stationed in Yuncheng, although they could be said to be stubborn army, they were not in harmony with each other. Therefore, their Yuncheng defense line and Zhongtiaoshan defense line were not connected, and most of the Luliang Mountains were under the control of the Eighth Route Army.
For the Japanese, the defense line they faced was from north to south, the Eighth Route Army, the Jinsui Army, and the Stubborn Army.
The defense lines formed by these three troops are incoordinated with each other and even move in small ways. It can be said that there are many loopholes. As long as one of the troops has problems with one line of defense, the entire defense line will collapse... The first time Yuncheng lost its destruction was because of the loss of Zhongtiao Mountain in the stubborn army, which turned Yuncheng into a dead city.
It's different now.
Luliang Mountain, Yuncheng, and Zhongtiao Mountain were all under the control of the Eighth Route Army, and the leader handed over the defenses of the Yuncheng area, including Luliang Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain Pass to Wang Xuexin.
So Wang Xuexin was able to deploy it into a unified line of defense.
This is not so easy to attack Yuncheng, which is backed by Zhongtiao Mountain:
If a small and medium caliber howitzer wants to bomb Yuncheng, he has to consider whether he is within the range of the rocket artillery that is conspicuous in Zhongtiao Mountain. Zhongtiao Mountain or the rear of Yuncheng, the supply and troops can be reinforced to Yuncheng at any time... If the Japanese enter the middle of Yuncheng and Zhongtiao Mountain, they will wait to be surrounded.
The originally weak Yuncheng flank was also cleverly resolved by Wang Xuexin using elastic defense.
The flanks of Yuncheng are not like Yuncheng. There are many iron ore, copper ore and metallurgical factories near Yuncheng. Yuncheng cannot retreat at all, so he can only defend himself.
This problem does not exist on the flanks of Yuncheng, so elastic defense can be used.
The Japanese attacked fiercely, and the Eighth Route Army retreated from one line of defense.
After retreating from two lines of defense, the Japanese did not dare to chase after him.
Because there will be a problem when continuing to chase forward: the north is the indestructible Luliang Mountain, the south is Yuncheng and Zhongtiao Mountain, and the front is the Eighth Route Army's defense lines. There are also powerful tank troops of the Eighth Route Army hidden near Yuncheng. If necessary, as soon as it penetrates from south to north... the Japanese were sealed in this dead end.
Therefore, Wang Xuexin couldn't understand the meaning of Okamura Neji's fight like this.
Consumption of troops?
Test the truth?
Chapter completed!