Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

When it comes to completely destroying the Japanese army, the greatest pressure naturally lies in Kong Jie's independent regiment base.

After all, the Japanese army's largest and best-equipped troops against the three regiments of the Iron Triangle were the 36st Infantry Brigade of the th Division, as well as the armored forces and artillery regiments that were targeting the base of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment.

There were nearly 10,000 Japanese soldiers along the way.

After Kong Jie led the elite of the independent regiment to detour to the rear of the Japanese and launched an attack, cooperating with the 21st Regiment in the base to attack from both sides.

The Japanese 1st Brigade and Artillery Regiment also had their defenses broken through by the soldiers, and their camps were dispersed. They were divided into four parts and were completely surrounded.

One of them was an infantry regiment of the Japanese army, with nearly 3000 devils.

The other part was the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Japanese 1st Brigade plus some armored units.

The third part is the artillery regiment that accompanied the Japanese 1st Brigade in the battle and some logistical troops.

The old Japanese Major General Miki was also very cunning. He knew very well how powerful the elite Eighth Route Army was, how well-equipped they were, and that they would never lack artillery for sieges.

So after the troops were divided into three parts, he specifically ordered the three troops to choose more suitable commanding heights and temporarily build field fortifications.

Especially the reverse slope fortifications used to resist the artillery attacks of the Eighth Route Army.

Excavation is mainly carried out with the help of the original mountain.

The Japanese moved quickly and efficiently. On the one hand, they arranged for the blocking troops on the outside to build multiple lines of defense, buying time for the main force on the inside to dig reverse slope fortifications.

On the other hand, the Japanese soldiers in the main force used all their strength to dig reverse slope defensive fortifications in the mountains, waiting for the final battle with the Eighth Route Army.

Reverse slope fortifications are indeed excellent fortifications for dealing with direct and indirect artillery fire.

It is like a 45-degree slope, and the solid fortifications can block all artillery fire.

The Japanese army could hide in the blind spot at this 45-degree angle so that artillery fire could not reach them at all.

In this way, even if the Eighth Route Army had a large number of siege artillery.

They could do nothing to the Japanese army.

The actual situation seems to be true. Faced with the Japanese field fortifications divided into three parts, which were mainly reverse slope fortifications.

Under Kong Jie's arrangement, several battalion commanders of the independent regiment concentrated their forces and launched several attacks, all of which were repelled by the Japanese army.

Faced with the fierce artillery attack of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese moved all the artillery and artillerymen to the anti-artillery fortifications on the reverse slope.

When the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire stopped and the troops launched a charge, the Japanese quickly moved the artillery out of the reverse slope fortifications, carried out shelling, and assisted in the defense.

The independent regiment's attack failed as a result.

The troops also suffered some casualties.

In order to avoid more soldiers from being killed, Kong Jie quickly called a halt to this blind siege.

But we are facing the Japanese who are like cowards.

What to do?

In fact, if we insist on encircling but not attacking, as long as we use up all the food that the Japanese soldiers carry, they will starve to death.

But that would take time, and secondly, after all the Japanese army's May 1st mopping-up forces had withdrawn, they could send reinforcements to the Taihang base at any time.

By then, it would be difficult to eliminate these Japanese devils in the base under the pressure of heavy reinforcements from the Japanese army.

Kong Jie didn't want the Japanese to arrogantly think that the Eighth Route Army lacked the ability to attack and could not break through their fortifications at all.

Including the New 1st Regiment Base, the New 2nd Regiment Base, and the counterattacks initiated by the anti-mopping-up forces of various military regions and sub-districts in the Taihang Base.

Except for the initial encirclement and annihilation battle which went relatively smoothly.

The Japanese soldiers behind learned from this and started to build reverse slope fortifications.

The progress of the various troops was not smooth.

The Japanese's reverse slope fortifications!

How to deal with this?