Although Koji Ikeda changed his tactics, he did not change his cautious style. For him, who had already made sure of the promotion, what he needed more was stability at this time, rather than underestimating the enemy and advancing like Kojiroharaji who was blinded by jealousy and ambition.

In order to be stable, although Koji Ikeda advanced in a large-scale manner during the night, he also used a lot of lighting flares to open the road, making the march route bright. Not only that, he also only bit the opponent with a vanguard when chasing him, so that the opponent would not leave his sight, and the main force would never leave the cover range of artillery fire.

Not only that, he also changed the Japanese army's usual stinginess in the use of firepower, and used artillery fire from time to time to cover all suspicious targets on both sides of the mountain road, as well as all possible ambush troops.

Anyway, when he was about to set off, Major General Ishihara Kanir, who did not explain all the truth to him, had already said that as long as these rebels who dared to twist the tiger beards of the Kanto Army could be eliminated, they would be able to supplement as much as they consume. It was precisely because of the words of Deputy Chief of Staff of Ishihara that this future colonel was very generous in the use of firepower.

However, when Ikeda Koji chose to cover firepower, he chose the dense birch forests that appeared from time to time on both sides of the mountain road and the hillsides on both sides of the mountain road. However, he ignored the closest to the mountain road, and even the dense bushes under the eyes of the Japanese army.

It was not that Ikeda Koji deliberately ignored the bushes that were extremely lush but not half a person tall even for Japanese people who were generally not tall. However, in his opinion, for those bandits based on the forest, those birch forests that were connected to the mountains and were difficult to see clearly the situation in the forest even under the flares were more suitable for those Chinese who were good at sneak attacks to hide.

As for the bushes under the eyelids, which are clearly visible under the flares, and are not even enough to hide a normal squat. For those despicable Chinese people who only attack sneak attacks and never dare to fight face to face with the Great Japanese Imperial Army, they are too short.

Hiroji Ikeda was the first to be the captain among his classmates at the same time as the non-commissioned officer school, and was about to be promoted to the captain of the colonel. Moreover, he was admitted to the Army University, which is known as the cradle of the Japanese general, not just because of his father-in-law's relationship, but on the contrary, he was also very smart.

Although he changed his tactics with the trend, he did not underestimate the enemy like his classmate who was blinded by jealousy. In addition to using small groups of troops to pursue parallel pursuits along the mountain, the main force always controlled the rhythm of the attack well. Moreover, when chasing, the artillery can always provide strong fire cover to the infantry.

But this time his shrewdness was wrong. The opponent changed his combat methods, but he was still sticking to the rules and looking at people with old eyes. He only stared at the birch forests connected to the hillside, but ignored the bushes that could also hide people. Who said that low bushes could not hide people, and who stipulated that there must be a good hidden place for ambushing? When Koji Ikeda, who was blown into the sky with his horses and was blown to the sky by grenades flying everywhere, understood these, he was powerless to turn the world back.

However, at this time, Ikeda Koji, who was standing on the artillery position and using the flares to do the same thing as Yang Zhen, was watching the effects of the shells falling in birch forests on both sides of the mountain road from time to time, never expected that the opponent who was about to give him a fatal blow would be ambushed under his nose.

Looking at the birch forests that appeared on both sides of the road from time to time, Ikeda Koji proudly picked up the neatly sniffle beard under his nose. The depression of being unable to accommodate armored cars before was swept away because the mountain road was relatively narrow, and the depression that could not accommodate armored cars had already been wiped out.

At this time, Koji Ikeda, who seemed a little proud, ordered the shelling of the perhaps empty woods around him, and wasting the precious artillery shells of the Empire in vain. This move was a little confused and confused about the combat staff of the brigade and several puppet Manchukuo officers, saying, "You don't understand your tactics."

"The opponents we face this time are very cunning, their samurai are not. I observed their several battle summaries and found that these Chinese people had never had face-to-face position wars with the clearing troops. They were very good at ambushing wars. And they used all the terrain they could use to carry out ambushing wars."

"The terrain here is a place where two mountains and one ditch are interspersed, which is a good place for ambush battles. However, the mountains here are a bit special. The mountains are mostly low bushes, but there are many birch forests at the foot of the mountain. Most of the birch forests at the foot of the mountain are connected to the mountain. These birch forests connected to the mountain can not only provide these people with an excellent hidden place, but also provide them with a place where they can move forward and retreat and guard."

"There is an idiom in China that is called "shocking the grass and rushing the snakes", and there is another sentence called "shocking the mountain and rushing the tigers". I can bombard those birch forests, which can be said to be "shocking the grass and rushing the snakes", and I can also use artillery fire to speak, so that those anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements who try to ambush us give up their cowardly attempts and fight a decisive battle with us in a regular manner."

As Koji Ikeda finished speaking, the puppet Manchukuo officers next to him did not agree with his opinion, but still flattered him: "Gao, really Gao. Your Excellency Nakasa is indeed a top student at the Imperial Japanese Army University. This opinion really makes us admire him."

When I heard the flattery of the puppet Manchukuo officers around me, although I heard too many compliments on weekdays, Ikeda Koji looked a little indifferent on his face, but he really enjoyed it in his heart.

Koji Ikeda waved his hand, stopping the puppet Manchukuo officers from continuing to take pictures, and waved his hand and said, "Order the artillery to move forward, infantry to hurry up, and never let these Chinese people escape. Although Koji Langjun's ability to command the battle is low, the combat plan this time is still well formulated. Since Koji Langjun can no longer command the battle, it is better for us to complete his combat plan for him. Order the troops to close the open breakthrough before those anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements."

Hiroji Ikeda issued an order, and naturally no one in the surrounding Japanese officers dared not to abide by it. He quickly issued an order to his troops in accordance with Hiroji Ikeda's request.

Seeing that although the Japanese and puppet troops seemed a little cautious, they firmly walked in towards the ambush circle he had carefully constructed, Yang Zhen breathed a sigh of relief. Now, for him, the most worried thing was that the several engineers who were ambushing near the weathered fossils were preparing to detonate, and not be discovered by the Japanese and puppet troops on the hillsides on both sides of the mountain road.

However, so far, Good Luck seems to be still standing on Yang Zhen's side. Although the flares are helped, the brightness emitted by the flares is still different from the daytime. In addition, when Yang Zhen was in the Lao Heidingzi Mountain Secret Camp, he had carefully trained the troops to hide. The engineer platoons are all veterans from the Lao Heidingzi Mountain Secret Camp, and they know how to hide themselves in this situation.

However, good luck will not always stand on one of the people on both sides of the battlefield. Fate is fair to everyone. Just as half of the main force of the Japanese and puppet army walking on the mountain road had already walked through the weathered fossil and entered the ambush circle, the Japanese and puppet army marched on the mountainside and were the first to encounter the heavy machine gun position placed on the mountainside by Yang Zhen.

When the heavy machine guns sounded at the moment, Yang Zhen suddenly jumped in his heart: "It's not on the mountain, are the Japanese and puppet troops at the foot of the mountain advancing in parallel? Why did the Japanese and puppet troops on the mountain arrive first?"

Now for Hiroji Ikeda, although his tactic of shocking the snake was not what he thought, it was barely partly successful. At least he found the opponent's traces, and he was sure to be the opponent's main force. The reason is very simple. Judging from the gunfire from the mountainsides on both sides, the opponent has arranged at least six heavy machine guns on the mountainsides on both sides.

The number of heavy machine guns is not something that the small army that blocked itself before. If it were the configuration of the Chinese army in Guannei, at least one of the elite regiments of the Central Army would be the one with such a number of heavy machine guns. If it was placed in their so-called miscellaneous troops, it would be possible that a division could not be properly built.

As the commander-in-chief of the encirclement and suppression, before Ikeda Hiroji left, the Chief of Staff, who was temporarily acting as the commander of the security forces, repeatedly told him that the anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements captured an imperial arms train at the Weihe Station. Although the train was blown up later, it is not clear how many weapons these Chinese people seized. But one thing is undoubtedly that for the Chinese people who have no arsenal and no logistics supplies, they will take away the weapons and equipment on the train as much as possible.

As an Imperial Army officer, Koji Ikeda could easily tell from the gunshot that the machine guns that were now arranged on the mountainside, and the machine guns that were firing heavily against his own troops were Imperial Army-style Type 92 heavy machine guns. Koji Ikeda could even easily determine that these heavy machine guns were part of the large number of weapons carried on the arms train captured at the Weihe Station.

Listening to the dense machine gun sounds coming from the mountains on both sides, Koji Ikeda finally failed to frown. He scolded the railway garrisons in his heart for being wasteful, which actually made so many weapons and ammunition fall into the hands of those anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements, and was used by those damn anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements to deal with the Japanese Imperial Army. These wastes should have all been cut off and apologized to His Majesty the Emperor.

The troops on the mountainside were the first to contact the enemy, but did not change the combat plan of Hiroji Ikeda's mountain road and the three routes along the mountainside. In his opinion, although the main forces of the anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements were captured by themselves, their main forces were not arranged on the mountainside.

Maybe, those heavy machine guns were used by those hateful anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements to remove themselves from shells and use them to get rid of themselves. They may even be used to set up ambush circles to block their pursuits, but they happened to be discovered first by themselves.

Hiroji Ikeda stubbornly believed that the opponent was not the main force of the opponent who was resisting on the mountain. Because he judged from the gunshot that although the opponent had a large number of heavy machine guns, there were very few rifle shooting sounds.

Moreover, in the past, when he was fighting against the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces or other anti-Manchuria and anti-Japanese armed forces, his opponents had never heard the unique gunshots made by Germany, or the Chinese, which were copied by themselves, and they called fast and slow machines or box guns.

Based on several aspects, in Hiroji Ikeda's view, the firepower on the mountainside was just a chess piece used by these rebels to design a small ambush to delay their pace. Their real main force should still be preparing to escape in a certain direction.

Because without an army, it would be extremely stupid to rely solely on a few heavy machine guns to defeat the enemy's attack. Without infantry, it would be extremely stupid to rely solely on machine guns to solve the battle.

Therefore, although there were dense gunfire sounds on the mountainside, Koji Ikeda did not order the people who were marching up the mountain to support the mountain, but instead ordered the main force to accelerate.

In Hiroji Ikeda's opinion, since the opponent has insufficient equipment, and since he has taken out six heavy machine guns at once to block himself, he is still so generous to them, and there is no place to replenish the bullets, it proves that the opponent's main force must be nearby. The six heavy machine guns on the mountain are just buying time for their main force.

In fact, countless practices have proved that good luck on the battlefield is only a moment. Since you are not sure, you will never come again. Ikeda Koji rejected his subordinates' suggestions to reinforce the mountain without any hesitation, but instead stubbornly ordered the troops to quickly continue to pursue along the original route.

Just as the main force of the Japanese and puppet army suddenly accelerated, the main force of the Japanese and puppet army rushed past the mountain legs with explosives buried all over the weathered fossils. A violent explosion, along with the flying stones caused by the explosion, smashed the back half of the Japanese marching formation in a mess.

These weathered stones that were caused by a violent explosion and caused a rain of stones cannot be used for any construction, but there is basically no problem in using them to smash people. The hundreds of Japanese and puppet troops in the second half of the entire Japanese marching rank were smashed to death by the gravel that was covered in the sky and broke into blood. Many unlucky guys were directly hit by the larger stones flying in the head and went to the west. The steel helmets that can only be used to prevent single-pieces have no resistance to these large stones, even large grinders.

Before he could escape the disaster, Ikeda Koji, who had been walking in the middle of the team, reacted in the sky with stone rains all over the sky, and a series of violent explosions sounded on the mountain road ahead. The shock waves caused by the explosion directly lifted the captain who was a little arrogant just now.

"Baga, what's going on?" When the guards had not been able to control his frightened mount as quickly as possible, and almost dragged to death by his war horse, Ikeda Koji got up from the ground in a panic, looking at the blown to death, and the injured subordinates almost bit their mouths to pieces.

Before he could recover from the shock brought by the explosion, there was a slight sound of artillery shells breaking through the air. With the sound of artillery shells breaking through the air, like Koji Ikeda, the Japanese and puppet troops, who had not recovered from the violent explosion, were trapped in the dense attack of mortar shells.

"Your Excellency, mortar." The fast-handed guard pressed down Hiroji Ikeda, who was in a daze, and ignored the strict hierarchy system in the Japanese army, quickly leaning on his superiors' backs.

After finally waiting for the explosion of the shell to calm down, when he pushed it away and was lying on his back, he had already been blown into a hedgehog's guards by shrapnel flying everywhere. Seeing that his subordinates had experienced the tragic situation after the baptism of the mortar shells rain, Koji Ikeda almost cried.

Under the attack of a large number of explosives and mortar shells, Ikeda Koji had eliminated the remaining thousands of subordinates who had detoured from the mountains on both sides, and at this time he escaped, he could still stand up less than 30%. Of these 30%, at least half of the people were injured.

After continuous blows, the casualties were not bad, and Koji Ikeda had long lost his arrogant attitude at this time.

When Koji Ikeda looked at his injured subordinates on the ground in a daze, he had not yet figured out a way to deal with the situation in front of him. The bushes he had ignored before suddenly flew out of the bushes on both sides of the mountain road. These grenades were different from shells. There was almost no sound from the time he threw them to the point of landing and explosion. Especially in the dark night, the flares were lost, and the Japanese and puppet troops who were beaten did not know that the god of death, who had just left, had returned to his head again.

Without the cover of the guards this time, Koji Ikeda was unable to escape the threat of death again. When he was concentrated at the same time by four or five grenades and was blown into four or five pieces, Koji Ikeda no longer had to defeat these despicable bandits and turned the situation around and was distressed.
Chapter completed!