readsfreenovel Chapter 319: Taking Jiao County
Chapter 319: Taking Jiao County
The captain continued, "Captain, the enemy has strong firepower and artillery support."
"If we expose all the firing points, we will inevitably be hit hard by the new country's army. Wouldn't it be better to hide the heavy machine guns outside the bunker and wait for the new countrymen to launch a charge before giving them a heavy blow?"
"Yes, Ono-kun, let's do as you wish." After listening to the introduction, the captain nodded in agreement.
"Hey, Captain, don't worry. I will convey the order immediately and have the heavy machine guns ready to strike hard at the New Country's troops."
On the other side, the 202rd Battalion of the nd Regiment, which was attacking head-on, kept its distance from the dwarf locust position and stopped outside the minefield.
After the commander of the third battalion saw the bunkers on the Little Locust's position, he instructed the signalman, "Mark these coordinates and send them to the regiment headquarters. Ask them to use mortars to blow up these bunkers."
The communications soldier immediately took out a pen and paper and recorded the coordinates of the several bunkers one by one.
"Captain, I've made note of it."
"Okay, I'll take a look."
He took the small notebook where the messenger had recorded his thoughts, and after confirming that everything was OK, he returned it to the signalman.
"Go and report to the leader."
"Yes. Captain."
After the signalman left, the battalion commander gave another order: "Gather all the snipers in the battalion and look for the soldier who showed up on the dwarf locust position."
After the order was conveyed, all the snipers from the third battalion gathered together and kept an eye on the small locust position. Anyone who showed up would be met with precise shooting by the snipers.
"Snipers. There are snipers in the New Country's army."
After dozens of corpses fell on the battlefield, the dwarf locust army became a little panicked.
"Baga, everyone, return to your posts and defend your positions. The new people were just defeated by us. As a little locust warrior, how can we be frightened by the new people?"
Captain Ono was patrolling the position and immediately reprimanded them when he saw this situation.
"Boom boom boom."
After calming everyone down, Captain Ono was about to inspect the next position when the sound of a shell hitting the ground and exploding was heard.
Captain Ono shouted subconsciously: "Anti-artillery, quickly avoid the artillery fire."
"Sir, the New Country's army is shelling our bunkers." The position was in chaos again. A sharp-eyed soldier discovered that the explosion occurred at the bunker and quickly spoke out to remind them.
Captain Ono and the others finally calmed down and looked towards the bunker position.
The so-called bunker positions were actually made of wood and sandbags. There were originally six bunkers, but two were destroyed in the initial bombardment, leaving only four.
Although the 202nd Regiment used mortars in the artillery attack this time, the power of the 120-caliber mortar should not be underestimated.
Two bunkers were blown up on the spot, and the other two bunkers were damaged to varying degrees.
Captain Ono saw this and shouted frantically on the battlefield: "Baga, these new people have no martial ethics, if you have the guts, charge at us with real swords and guns."
On the other side, the first and second battalions quickly circled around to the outside of Jiao County.
"Brothers, follow me."
There were not many dwarf locust soldiers in the entire Jiao County, only a hundred or so. Under the attack of two battalions, they quickly captured the entire county.
"Should we, the first battalion, go or should you, the second battalion, go?"
"Let's go together."
"it is good."
The two battalion commanders of the first and second battalions met and looked at the position not far outside the city. They smiled at each other, and led their men to rush towards the dwarf locust position from the rear.
"boom."
When charging forward, some soldiers also stepped on landmines. Although the dwarf locusts were crazy and had laid landmines in the rear, they did not lay many.
"Nani, the new people are coming from behind."
When the explosion occurred in the rear, some dwarf locust soldiers discovered the soldiers from the first and second battalions.
"Baga, hurry up, gather all the troops and stop the enemy behind us."
When the news came, the captain immediately ordered the entire army to assemble. After all, the New Country troops in front were blocked by the minefield, and the New Country troops behind were the threat.
Soon the dwarf locust soldiers gathered, and Captain Ono came to report: "Captain, there are only about 500 warriors left."
"What? How is this possible? It's only been such a short time, how could the loss be so huge?" The captain of the dwarf locust brigade was full of disbelief.
You know, the battle had only been going on for less than two hours, and he had a fully-strength battalion, but it had lost half of its men. How could he accept this?
"Captain, I have counted the number of people three times."
"Okay, Ono, lead the entire army to resist the counterattack of the new country army in the rear, and you must hold the position."
"Hi, Captain, rest assured, I will fight for His Majesty the Little Locust until the last moment."
Both of them understood that now that their retreat was cut off, they would not be able to hold out for long even if they could. They had already anticipated the outcome.
Under the leadership of Captain Locust Battalion and Captain Ono, more than 202 Locust soldiers frantically resisted the attacks of the st and nd Battalions of the nd Regiment.
After holding out for more than 202 minutes, the nd Regiment soldiers finally broke into the Little Locust position. More than people were killed, and no one surrendered.
Seeing the achievements of the first and second battalions, the commander of the third battalion also gave orders to the soldiers: "All battalions listen to my orders and cooperate with the engineers to remove the mines in the entire minefield."
"Yes, battalion commander."
The Third Battalion took immediate action. The engineers used detection equipment to carefully detect the mines, and then directed the soldiers to begin dismantling them.
After all, this is the main road outside the county town. After the war, ordinary people still have to pass through here to enter the city. If these mines are left unattended, they may accidentally injure ordinary people.
Although the 202nd Regiment captured the Little Locust position, Mu Junwen's face was not very good.
The Second Division lost more than 500 soldiers in destroying a thousand Dwarf Locust soldiers, and this was with the assistance of artillery and mortars.
On the other hand, at the end of the Jiaoxian Campaign, the First Division also arrived outside the Moxian County.
In the temporary command center, Division Commander Han Shaorong and the chief of staff were looking at the map.
"According to the reconnaissance company's report, the Dwarf Locust Army has set up a front outside the city, which is similar to the layout of Jiao County."
The chief of staff suggested: "Send one regiment to fight a positional battle with them in the front, one regiment to go around and capture the county town, and then send another regiment to Qingzhou."
"Okay, let's arrange it this way."
There are only 10,000 dwarf locusts in the whole Qingzhou, 2,000 each in Jiaoxian and Moxian, and 8,000 in the urban area of Qingzhou.
Behind Jiao County and Mo County is the Mo River, and only after crossing the Mo River can you reach Qingzhou city.
Sending a regiment to Qingzhou was to test the deployment of the dwarf locusts and see if they could control the Mo River.
The Mo River is not dangerous, being only twenty or thirty meters wide, but it is quite long, so it is very easy to cross the river unexpectedly, establish a position on the other side of the river, and gain a foothold.
Han Shaorong looked at his watch. It was already around three o'clock in the afternoon.
"Hurry up and get the entire army deployed quickly, and try to capture Mo County today."
"Yes, Commander."
As the order was issued, the 1st Division immediately took action. The three infantry regiments rushed to their mission targets, while the artillery regiment selected locations and set up artillery positions.