Because of the air superiority, Kono Shinta's "Blitzkrieg" plan was fully launched.

On the front of the Yuncheng defense line, the Imperial 21st Division continued to launch a fierce offensive against the Eighth Route Army, making it impossible for the main force of the Eighth Route Army to return for reinforcements.

In the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army, the "Endo Task Force", with a total strength of two brigades and more than 2,000 people, dispersed and advanced in squadron units.

Three of the squadrons divided into three routes and headed north to attack three stores.

The three squadrons attacked the launch silo base where 'Gao Huo' was located in an encirclement posture from the left, center and right.

The remaining four squadrons were divided into two groups, and two squadrons in each group made long-distance attacks on Wanxian Airport and Wangxing Airport respectively.

(Note: A Japanese battalion is usually divided into five squadrons, a transport squadron plus a machine gun squadron and three infantry squadrons)

The first place to catch fire was the "High Fire" silo base.

These bases are only more than ten kilometers away from the Yuncheng defense line, and their locations are all under the control of the Japanese... The Japanese have basically figured out the location of the high-fire silos during the "high-fire" interception stage with fighter planes. At this time, they only need to let

It is enough for the troops to launch an attack on these bases.

The battle was fierce.

Although the Japanese troops are not large, there are only six to seven hundred men in three squadrons.

However, each squadron is equipped with three Type 95 light combat vehicles and almost everyone has a sidecar motorcycle.

At this time, the Japanese also learned their lesson and knew that the Eighth Route Army had rocket launchers, so 95 Light War basically did not launch close attacks, but provided fire cover for the attacking troops a hundred meters away.

Sidecar motorcycles also played a very important role in combat.

This is not to say that a sidecar motorcycle can be used to charge into battle...in fact, using this kind of three-wheeled sidecar to charge towards the enemy is almost like seeking death.

However, the sidecar can provide the Japanese with sufficient ammunition (the sidecar can barely carry two ammunition boxes). In addition, the enemy also tied sandbags outside the sidecar, and immediately used the sidecar and the 95 Light Combat to form a

A line of defense.

What's more important is the Japanese's air cover.

In the past, the Japanese would not usually use bombers and fighter jets to deal with the Eighth Route Army infantry, especially the Eighth Route Army hidden in the mountains.

Because the Japanese believe that this is a waste of precious ammunition for negligible results... The Eighth Route Army's troops can be said to be almost endless. If they lose money on the battlefield, they can immediately get replenishment from the people, so use fighter planes and bombers to deal with it.

What are they for?

Therefore, fighters and bombers should deal with more valuable targets such as the Eighth Route Army headquarters, warehouses, and factories.

But this time, the Japanese put fighter planes and bombers into attacking the Eighth Route Army's defense line, and there were quite a lot of them, including 8 Type 96 fighter jets, 10 Type 97 bombers, and 5 Type 98 light bombers.

Moreover, the Japanese's offensive tactics also changed.

In the past, the Japs mostly used fighter planes to cover the infantry in their attacks, and even the infantry attacked under the cover of machine gun and grenade fire.

Now, they are hiding behind three rounds of defenses on the border to confront the Eighth Route Army, and then use mortars to fire smoke bombs to indicate targets for fighter jets and bombers.

For a while, the roar of fighter jets and the sound of bombings were heard incessantly. Coupled with the firepower of the Japanese ground troops, the Eighth Route Army defensive troops could not hold their heads up.

Then the Japanese infantry broke into the Eighth Route Army's defense line along the gap in the defense line created by the bombers.

The information quickly reached Wang Xuexin's headquarters.

Chen Songyong handed the telegram to Wang Xuexin and said: "Battal Commander, the defense line of the 'Gaohuo' launch silo was breached by the Japs. The Japs' firepower was very fierce. One regiment of our army could only defend for less than twenty minutes!"

Wang Xuexin nodded, which was somewhat unexpected.

Because the silo base was guarded by an independent regiment directly under the main division transferred from the headquarters. It was not only well-equipped (fully equipped with Eagle Springfield rifles) but also had extremely rich practical experience. Wang Xuexin originally thought that this regiment could hold off the Japanese for at least a few hours.

Unexpectedly, it only lasted less than twenty minutes, especially as the casualties between the enemy and ourselves were completely disproportionate... Judging from the telegram, the Japanese casualties were at most fifty, while the Eighth Route Army suffered more than three hundred casualties.

Chen Songyong seemed to see Wang Xuexin's doubts, so he explained: "The Japanese have learned a lot. They use infantry to set off signal flares to provide command positions for the aviation forces. Bombers and fighter jets then bombard the targets indiscriminately. The result is an important firepower support point for our army."

Often they are bombed to the ground before they can even work, and even Commander Shao loses the prize!"

Wang Xuexin said "Oh", secretly thinking that this is the case.

This should be Hans's air-ground coordination, or one of the characteristics of "Blitzkrieg".

"Blitzkrieg" actually taboos the use of infantry units to storm the enemy's defense lines. They always attack the enemy's weak points in roundabout ways.

If some strategic locations must be captured by force, then they will try to use aviation instead of infantry.

Because Hans knew that it would be the cheapest to use aviation at this time.

The reason is simple. The ground troops implementing the "Blitzkrieg" must face the situation of being surrounded by the enemy at any time, and they must make every effort to save ammunition, food and gasoline.

If these are lacking, there are only two ways to supplement them: one is to seize them from the enemy, and the other is to airdrop them from transport planes.

Seizing it from the enemy requires luck, and using transport planes to airdrop it... might as well just use fighter planes and bombers to dump the bullets and bombs that need to be airdropped on the enemy's positions.

The Japs' attack on the "High Fire" base this time should be based on this principle.

After thinking about it, Wang Xuexin gave the order: "Order Zhou Yuankai to blow up the tunnel entrance according to the situation. If it is impossible to blow up the 'High Fire', we must not let a 'High Fire' fall into the hands of the enemy!"

"Yes!" Chen Songyong responded and passed on the order.

After these days of transformation, the "High Fire" launcher is no longer as simple as a launch silo. It has actually been transformed by soldiers into a "tunnel" in which they can live.

This is one of the reasons why Wang Xuexin is very relieved about the "high fire" launch silo.

It doesn't matter if you can't defend it. As long as the entrance to the tunnel is blown up, the Japanese won't be able to get in for a while. And it's not a problem for the Eighth Route Army to live in the tunnel for ten days and a half.

Even if the Japs were able to dig a tunnel and get in, everyone would die. Even if the Japs paid a heavy price in the end and entered the tunnel, what they would get would be "high fire" that would be broken into pieces.

Shinta Kono, who was in command in Taiyuan, sighed when he heard that the Eighth Route Army had blown up the entrance to the tunnel: "The Eighth Route Army is prepared. We can't get the 'special bomb' from the silo!"

Okamura Neiji nodded. He actually knew from the beginning that the "special bomb" in the silo would be difficult to capture.
Chapter completed!