Chapter 145: Adding Pressure to the Yamazaki Brigade "Captain, is it really okay for us to be so leisurely here?" In the forward command post of the Wangjiapo Vanguard Regiment, Zhangye looked back at the kitchen team who were cooking in the rear, swallowed his saliva, and spoke with some concern to Qin Yangming who had just returned from the kitchen team giving orders. “Don’t worry, everything is under control. Here, go on, the night this thing was born has a different flavor. " Qin Yangming threw a washed raw sweet potato from the kitchen to Zhangye. He took one himself, peeled off the skin, and then ate the flesh in the middle while speaking to Zhangye. "The brigade commander told us to surround them for six hours first. It's only been two and a half hours. There's no rush." Zhangye took the raw sweet potato that Qin Yangming threw to him, wiped it on his clothes habitually, and then ate off the sweet potato skin like Qin Yangming did, and spoke while eating. "But Commander, our trenches are almost ready. If we don't attack, then... then the Japanese might suspect something is wrong." Zhangye thought of the original fishing plan and expressed his concerns to Qin Yangming.
Qin Yangming was listening to Zhangye's words and was about to say something when the telephone on the ammunition box rang. "Hello? This is the forward command post of the Vanguard Regiment's Wangjiapo position!" Goudan, who was standing behind him, answered the phone quickly, said "hmm", and turned to look at Qin Yangming. "Captain, the brigade commander is calling!" "Um? Why is the brigade commander calling me at this time? Is there a problem with the headquarters transfer?" Qin Yangming swallowed the sweet potato in his mouth and walked forward to take the phone from Goudan. "Brigade Commander, I'm Qin Yangming!" "Xiao Qin, your vanguard regiment should stop digging trenches there. The Fourth Brigade is taking its time and has sent two vanguard troops. Put some pressure on the Yamazaki Battalion and make them ask for help from the 4th Brigade! Change the time slightly, eliminate the Yamazaki Battalion within two hours, and then rush to Tongshi Town with the Vanguard Group!" Qin Yangming frowned as he listened to what the brigade commander said. If the battle plan changes, it means there must be new circumstances. "Brigade Commander, has something happened to the Fourth Brigade?" "Well, our intelligence personnel just sent a message from Taiyuan saying that half of the field artillery regiment and a tank squadron left Taiyuan. According to the observations of local comrades, those equipment were reinforced to the 4th Brigade!" "The Japanese's 13th and 9th Brigades have not yet arrived. Only the 4th Brigade has reached the mountain position north of Shiquan County." "It can be said that the current 4th Brigade has two artillery regiments and a tank company." "The vanguard of the 4th Brigade has already engaged the 771st Regiment's decoy troops, but it only attracted a battalion of Japanese soldiers. The main force of the 4th Brigade was still behind and was not being led by the nose.
I need you to put some pressure on the Yamazaki Battalion, let Yamazaki Jihei ask for help from the 4th Brigade, and then disconnect the 4th Brigade's large forces from their heavy weapons!" "Otherwise, if we let the 4th Brigade arrive at the ambush site with so much heavy equipment, even if we can successfully defeat the 4th Brigade, our casualties will probably not be small." “Moreover, the Fourth Brigade has been strengthened now. It is no longer the Fourth Brigade with only 5,000 people that we analyzed at the beginning. The military district guard regiment has now taken over Tongshi Town. Most of the soldiers in the guard regiment are new recruits, and their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the New Second Regiment. If the vanguard regiment fails to arrive at Tongshi Town in time, the guard regiment may not be able to stop the Japanese attack, and then the Japanese will break through our blockade and escape, or join forces with the other two brigades to attack Shangdang again! "We must ambush the Fourth Brigade as soon as possible while the other two brigades of the Japanese have not arrived yet. It would be best if we can eliminate the Fourth Brigade before the other two brigades arrive!" Qin Yangming quickly understood what the brigade commander said and responded quickly. "Brigade Commander, don't worry, I will put some pressure on the Yamazaki Battalion right away!" "Brigade Commander, one and a half hours. I only need one hour to resolve the battle!" "Okay, one and a half hours. I'll wait for your call in one and a half hours!" The brigade commander listened to Qin Yangming's answer, nodded with satisfaction, and then hung up the phone. "Captain, what's wrong? The brigade commander called me. Did the situation change?" Zhangye, who was standing next to Qin Yangming, didn't hear clearly what the brigade commander said. After all, Qin Yangming was so tall and his hands were so thick, so he just held the telephone receiver like someone would hold a spoon and wrapped it up directly. "Well, the situation ahead has changed. We underestimated the strength of the Japanese Fourth Brigade. Yoshio Shinozuka was ruthless enough to directly add an artillery regiment to the 4th Brigade. Now the entire 4th Brigade has almost two artillery regiments, 40 to 50 cannons, and one A tank squadron is equivalent to a tank company..." "The soft persimmon has now become a hard bone!" Qin Yangming was a little worried when he heard what the brigade commander said. The strength of the Japanese Fourth Brigade had increased so much that it could be said that the opponent had not weakened at all, and was even stronger than before. After all, at the beginning, the 4th Brigade did not have the artillery of two artillery regiments or a tank squadron. "When did the Japanese plane leave?" Qin Yangming put the sweet potato in his hand into his pocket and began to prepare to attack the Yamazaki Battalion. The brigade commander asked me to put some pressure on the Yamazaki Battalion, and then asked me to eliminate the Yamazaki Battalion of the Japanese within two hours. This was definitely not an opportunity to delay time. Instead, he let himself put some pressure on the Yamazaki Battalion, quickly destroy the Yamazaki Battalion, and then return to support Tongshi Town. But if you want to attack, you can't just do it on a whim, you need a plan. The original plan was to delay for six hours and then launch a general attack. But now the brigade commander ordered an immediate attack, so the attack plan naturally had to be revised. The troops also needed to guard against strafing or high-altitude bombing by Japanese aircraft.
The Japanese knew that the Eighth Route Army had anti-aircraft machine guns and a lot of ammunition, so they dared to set up heavy machine guns and fire into the air. Therefore, the Japanese planes did not dare to engage in low-altitude strafing and could only attack from high altitudes. Although the accuracy of high-altitude attacks is very poor, more than half of the vanguard regiment are now recruits, and the high-altitude strafing by aircraft can still scare many recruits and affect the combat effectiveness of the troops. Therefore, Qin Yangming needed to calculate the time difference of the Japanese planes and launch an attack on the Yamazaki Battalion when the Japanese planes returned to the airport. "Thirteen minutes. The Japanese plane just left thirteen minutes ago..." "Well, if you come from Taiyuan Airport, it will take about an hour, and the round trip... count as one and a half hours... there is about an hour left, which is enough..." (End of this chapter)