Bright Sword Military System

Wang Xuexin immediately realized the critical situation in the defense line.

The Fengtian Defense Line is not tactically wise, because it spreads out [-] troops to provide opportunities for the Japanese to defeat them one by one.

But from a strategic point of view, we have to do this, especially the weak point between Fengtian and Xinjing: if the Japanese break through here, it means that the transportation line between the two cities will be cut off, and Xinjing’s troops will have to Less fuel and ammunition than Fengtian.

On the other hand, the battle in the direction of Xinjing has also changed.

Encouraged by the successful landing at Donggang, the Japanese Kwantung Army regained confidence and was currently besieging Ping'an Village with heavy troops... According to Li Yunlong's estimate, the Japanese had invested about three divisions in the small Ping'an Village, and one of them was from Ping'an Village. Go around the mountains and directly attack the artillery positions on the highlands.

It seems that the Japanese are desperate to capture Ping An Village.

Therefore, it is now urgent to launch a counterattack against the Japanese.

However, at this time, only five anti-ship missiles had been produced, and only six air-to-air missiles had just been developed. Wang Xuexin believed that this number was not enough for the coastal defense regiment to defeat the Japanese fleet.

and so……

You still need to wait a little longer, even if it's two or three days.

After thinking for a while, Wang Xuexin gave the order: "Order the troops to abandon Ping'an Village!"

Chen Songyong was stunned for a moment, and then responded: "Yes, give up Ping An Village!"

Ping An Village originally had no oil and no strategic value. It was no big deal to give up. It was just to let the Japanese know that they had been deceived.

And this is exactly the result Wang Xuexin wants:

If the Japanese knew that there was no oil discovery in Ping'an Village and this was a trap set up by the Eighth Route Army, would Tokyo still desperately invest troops and reinforcements in the Northeast?

Will the Japanese navy and army still coordinate as they do now?

Will the Kwantung Army still launch a desperate attack at all costs?

As long as the Japanese hesitate a little or have internal disagreements, the Eighth Route Army can buy these days!

The garrison in Ping'an Village retreated at night, or to be precise, in the early morning.

The reason is that the Japanese attacks are usually launched at night, when the Eighth Route Army cannot retreat... When the Japanese attack during the retreat, everything will be in chaos.

That night, the Eighth Route Army fought with the Japanese on the defensive line as usual.

The Japs' charge had reached the point of hysteria. In the darkness, Japs kept rushing into the Eighth Route Army's defense line with explosives and blowing up firepower points. Then the Japs came up like a tide.

Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army deployed a lot of artillery fire on the high ground behind. The artillery could always blast a wall of fire at this time and interrupt the charging Japanese alive.

The battlefield was littered with corpses of the Japanese... or should be said to be body parts. The Japanese had no time or inclination to drag the corpses away. These corpses were bombarded by artillery fire over and over again in front of the position until they were mixed with the soil and disappeared.

There were so many corpses that the originally yellow land had turned into a shocking dark brown. Occasionally, you could still see human organs that had been blown beyond recognition.

Then before dawn, the Eighth Route Army launched a powerful counterattack. Before the counterattack, there was a 10-minute artillery preparation... This was actually the Eighth Route Army consuming artillery shells that could not be taken away, and the artillery had to be destroyed before retreating.

Afterwards, the Eighth Route Army shouted and launched a counterattack towards the Japanese defense line, and Xinjing on the other side also launched a counterattack at the same time.

The Japanese once thought that the Eighth Route Army had accumulated enough resources for a counterattack during this period, and now they launched a full-scale counterattack. They were so frightened that they retreated three kilometers in one breath.

When the Japanese finally stopped and built a defensive line, they found that there was no movement from the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese emboldened themselves and sent a team of scouts up to take a look. They found that the Eighth Route Army had long since withdrawn without a trace.

Moreover, this withdrawal was very complete. The entire Eighth Route Army in Ping'an Village withdrew completely, leaving only the mines along the way for the Japanese to clear.

It took the Japanese more than an hour to clear a passage and "kill" them into Ping'an Village.

When the forward troops entered Ping'an Village, Major General Itakura, who was commanding the operations on the front line, was overjoyed and reported to Umezu Yoshijiro: "Your Excellency, General, after the fierce battle, our army has entered Ping'an Village, and it is estimated that we will be able to fully control Ping'an soon. village!"

Umezu Yoshijiro was sitting in his office with a sad face at that time, holding a can of beef for breakfast. He was looking sad not because the can tasted bad, but because if the situation continued, the Kwantung Army would have to die at least 4 to [-] people before he could take it. Go to Pingan Village.

These are the elites he has managed for many years. Are they just being wasted needlessly under the enemy's fire?

At this moment, Hashimoto Toranosuke hurriedly opened the door with a telegram. His face was flushed with excitement. Before he saw Umezu Yoshijiro, he couldn't wait to shout: "General, good news! We have broken into Heian Village. Got it!"

Umezu Yoshijiro thought he heard wrongly. The food he was about to put into his mouth was hovering in the air, and he looked at Hashimoto Toranosuke in confusion.

"Your Excellency, General!" Hashimoto Toranosuke handed the telegram to Umezu Yoshijiro and repeated: "It is absolutely true, the Itakura Division has already entered Heian Village, and it won't take long to capture it!"

Umezu Meijiro's eyes lit up, and he immediately jumped up from his chair and gave a series of orders:

"Order the Tanabe Division to fully reinforce the Itakura Division and maintain the offensive line at all costs!"

"The Pingye Division continues to attack and must contain the Eighth Route Army artillery. They must not be allowed to blow up our army's follow-up troops!"

"In addition...order the aviation force to prepare for combat!"

The aviation force is the only 37 bombers left by the Kwantung Army. The Kwantung Army only has enough fuel for them to take off twice for combat.

Umezu Yoshijiro planned to use this precious fuel.

However, what Umezu Meijiro didn't know was that none of the orders he gave were useful.

Because the situation on the front line is not that the Itakura Division has invaded Ping'an Village, but that the Eighth Route Army has completely withdrawn from Ping'an Village.

Umezu Yoshijiro then used all his strength to track the Itakura Division's battle in the direction of Heian Village, but it took a long time for the Itakura Division to send back any news.

At this time, the Itakura Division had actually "occupied" Ping'an Village. They were looking for oil everywhere but there was not even a trace of oil seedlings, only a few abandoned drilling wells.

Major General Itakura grabbed a piece of mud from the drilling well and crushed it in his palms. It was all dry mud.

Even someone with no knowledge of geology like Major General Itakura could easily see that these wells found no oil.

Major General Itakura's face became very ugly. He looked around and sighed: "The imperial army sacrificed more than 6 troops just for this pile of yellow mud..."