Chapter 1267 Proud Japanese Army
"Commander, the secret service group sent a telegram, they have seized the bridgehead position!"
Tian Kezhi promptly reported the news from each regiment to Zhao Zhiguo.
"In the next three days, the secret service group will be on their own." Zhao Zhiguo said, "If the entire secret service group is wiped out..."
In fact, when he sent the special agent team there, Zhao Zhiguo had already thought of the worst outcome.
Moreover, the special agent group is not considered the elite of Zhao Zhiguo's troops, and has only a small number of troops!
Even if he is beaten and disabled, he doesn't feel bad at all.
"Old Tian, get in touch with each regiment as soon as possible. Before dawn, have each regiment arrive at the designated location as soon as possible. If they wait for one minute, one more brother from the special agent group will be able to survive."
After the battle near Pingcheng is over, Zhao Zhiguo's main force will immediately march towards Jinyang.
The gunfire outside the city was still ringing intensively, and when night came, the Japs' attacks never stopped.
As if the little devils were not tired, their troops continued to surge towards the shore like the waves of the sea.
Zhao Zhiguo has ordered the troops in the city to take over from the troops in the outer positions.
"Old Zhao, I asked the logistics to replenish supplies for the frontline troops again. After this replenishment, it will be enough to last for two days." Matthew Wen came back to report.
Their supplies are quite sufficient. If they only fight defensive wars, they will definitely be able to last for a month or two.
"This Miura seems to be really not a parallel import. He has something. He must know that prolonging the time is not good for them, so he did not attack our position day and night."
"After all, he is a general who was fought on the battlefield." Matthew said.
The officers trained on the battlefield are indeed capable. At least they are very capable in judging the situation on the battlefield.
But no matter how capable they are, the officers in the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters all graduated from military academies, and they only rely on their own imagination to fight the war.
Think of the Chinese army as vulnerable and the Eighth Route Army as a team of farmers.
"We have to encircle the main force of the Miura detachment as soon as possible. If we haven't broken through Heicheng's peripheral defense after fighting for a day and night, Miura will definitely be able to sense that something is wrong!"
The Japanese offensive became more fierce at night. Due to the darkness, scattered troops of the Japanese invaded the position many times.
The little Japanese couldn't bear the cost of casualties. As long as he rushed to the position, he would directly pounce on the Chinese soldiers, trying to pull all the Chinese soldiers to die together.
"According to the original plan, our troops participating in the siege will be able to arrive at the designated location at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning," Matthew said.
"This is just the original plan. The battlefield is complicated. Let's not talk about other things. If the Japanese army discovers the whereabouts of one of our troops and divides their troops to intercept it, they will not be able to reach the designated location within the scheduled time." Zhao Zhiguo said.
If one unit cannot arrive, they cannot completely encircle the Japanese army.
If there is a gap in the encirclement, Miura can jump out of the encirclement at any time with 20,000 Japanese troops.
Now that the little devils are here, how could Zhao Zhiguo let them jump out like this?
In order to wait for news from each regiment, Zhao Zhiguo was restless in the headquarters.
Similarly, as the commander of the Japanese army, Miura was like an ant on a hot pot.
The attacking troops had not made any progress, and the Chinese soldiers on the opposite side were extremely tenacious, which was beyond his understanding of the Chinese troops.
Although he did not fight against any unit of the Eighth Route Army, he did fight against the Central Army.
The Central Army's troops are the best equipped in China, and according to the news he heard, the Eighth Route Army is the worst equipped among the Chinese troops.
Why is this army so capable?
In the past, no Chinese army could have withstood their continuous attacks like this.
The Chinese army in front of them not only resisted their continuous attacks, but also caused them to lose one-third of their tanks and half of their armored vehicles.
"Have you checked out what weapons they used to deal with our tanks and armored vehicles?" Miura asked the Japanese officer around him.
Tanks and armored vehicles were originally weapons that the Japanese were proud of. Because China did not have them and the Chinese troops lacked heavy weapons, they were unable to cause effective damage to the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles.
A dozen or so little Japanese tanks can cause huge damage to the Chinese army.
Today, the tanks and armored vehicles they were proud of in the past have not produced the effects Miura wanted.
"Report to the general, our tanks and armored vehicles were blown up about 170 meters in front of the Chinese army's position. It is impossible to determine what weapons the Chinese army used."
At first, the little Japanese thought there were landmines in front of the position, but the mines couldn't be blown up so accurately, and they only blew up their tanks and armored vehicles, without doing any harm to their infantry.
"We have never lost so many armored vehicles and tanks in an attack. The army on the opposite side must be equipped with weapons targeting our tanks."
"Your Excellency General, the scouts have discovered that there are traces of Chinese army activities in our north. It is too dark to judge their number and marching direction." A Japanese officer reported.
It is difficult to mobilize tens of thousands of troops without leakage.
Especially when the Japanese army was approaching Pingcheng and had enough troops in hand, it was impossible for Miura, who had been marching and fighting for many years, not to forget to send scouts around.
"Continue the reconnaissance. I don't believe that the Chinese army has the strength to surround us." Miura said, "At most, it is a small force that wants to penetrate into our rear and harass us."
Even if his troops were surrounded by the Chinese army, with the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, how could they have the ability to eat them?
Miura believed that if the Chinese army wanted to eat them, it would have to gather at least 100,000 troops.
Zhao Zhiguo cannot have a hundred thousand people.
However, why Pingcheng and Jinyang were lost did not attract Miura's attention.
If Miura knew that Zhao Zhiguo had captured Pingcheng and Jinyang with almost only a slight advantage in troops, he would definitely not think so.
It was precisely because Miura made such a judgment that the troops under Zhao Zhiguo had the opportunity to rush to the designated position.
The battle lasted all night, and the soldiers on both sides did not stop at all.
As dawn approaches, the Japanese troops are still attacking the Chinese army's positions desperately.
The little Japanese launched twelve charges in one night. It was not until dawn that everyone saw clearly that the tragic battlefield was covered with densely packed Japanese corpses.
Similarly, in the trenches of the Chinese army, the corpses of Chinese soldiers and Japanese soldiers were crisscrossed. It was the scattered Japanese soldiers who rushed into the position last night and the Chinese soldiers on the position who died together.
"Why! Why on earth, it's been one night and we haven't made any progress yet!"
Chapter completed!