As a mature and experienced commander, Hattori Naoomi naturally knew that his greatest advantage was long-range artillery.

Likewise, the biggest weakness is the long-range artillery.

His hope of victory in taking Yangcun and attacking Shitou Bay lies in his more than 30 mountain cannons and four long-range cannons. But similarly, as long as Tubal Road can suppress his artillery regiment, he will face the advantage of the guerrillas.

With his light firepower, even if the opponent's artillery shells were scarce, he could not break through Yangcun's follow-up defense line.

But Mr. Hattori obviously did not expect that the independent regiment would reserve tunnels around it and hide a brigade-level artillery firepower.

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The Japanese took the time to prepare for the attack.

The independent group is not idle either.

Taking advantage of the opportunity given by the Japanese to consolidate their positions, the Independent Regiment seized the opportunity to mobilize troops, transport supplies, repair damaged roads and positions, and transport the wounded.

The enemy's artillery superiority is not just talk.

The battle lasted for a day and night. Like the previous five days of battle, most of the casualties of the independent regiment were still caused by Japanese long-range artillery, especially the transport troops and support troops. The casualties were even greater than those on the front line.

There are solid positions on the front line, but there are no reinforcements in the rear. The Japanese have air superiority. Mountainous areas can limit the bombing effect, but there are not many restrictions on artillery observation.

At a height of 800 meters, the machine gun cannot reach it, but observation is just right.

On the flat, open and hard mountain horse trail that had just been repaired, groups of stretcher teams carried the wounded one by one, heading towards Yangcun.

After arriving in Yangcun, he was transferred to a hidden open space at the rear, and then directly transported by Black Hawk to the field hospital established by the system master for treatment.

Li Yunlong secretly mobilized all the troops to prepare pocket formations, put the Japanese in them, and at the same time put anti-tank guns into the troops.

Although the Independent Regiment has been equipped with anti-tank guns for a long time, in order to paralyze the unwary Japanese, they have never been sent to the battlefield. As for the Japanese spies lurking in the Independent Regiment,

Firstly, not all spies know about it, and secondly, during the frontline war, all personnel movements have stopped, and you still want to spread the news?

"It seems that there are more seriously injured people than there are beds, right?"

At the headquarters of the independent regiment, a staff officer looked at the list of wounded in his hand and raised his eyebrows.

"You just realized, it's several times better."

Another staff officer rolled his eyes.

The Japanese and Yangcun fought bloody battles for seven days and seven nights. The independent regiment suffered more than 3,700 casualties, including 1,700 lightly wounded and more than 700 seriously wounded.

All the wounded were sent to the hospital of the regiment leader's friend for treatment.

Some of the lightly injured people have returned to Yangcun to recuperate, but all the more than 700 seriously injured people are being treated.

No matter how good the technology of Boss Mo's hospital, the team leader's friend, is, it is impossible for the seriously injured to recover in a few days.

In Boss Mo's contract, there are only 250 beds for Yangcun.

"Actually, we surpassed it a long time ago."

The second staff officer suddenly lowered his voice.

"Boss Mo is awesome!"

The first staff officer was silent for a moment and then said something he learned from the regimental leader.

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the next day.

It's November 5th.

The two sides fighting near Yangcun ceased their activities.

Hattori Naoomi was building artillery positions, sending aircraft to reconnoiter the independent regiment positions, and preparing for a new round of decisive attacks. He planned to drive straight to Yangcun and Shitou Bay along the highway.

In order to realize the freedom of 82 mortar shells, Li Yunlong mobilized all his troops to form a pocket formation, preparing to eat most of Hattori's brigade at one go.

It was also at this time,

stone bay,

Hundreds of trucks loaded with various supplies, with four pneumatic tires and shock-absorbing steel plates, were pulled by Pelton horses and drove toward the depths of the base along the wide road that had just been built.

I had a premonition of increasingly large supplies,

The two main roads starting from Shitou Bay are both built according to the highway level and are main roads that can accommodate two heavy-duty trucks.

at this time,

In the sky, a Japanese reconnaissance plane flew over,

On the ground, the horse-drawn cart transportation team did not stop, but continued to move forward at a constant speed, but on the carriage, general-purpose machine guns raised their heads and pointed toward the sky.

Five hundred meters in the air,

The Japanese reconnaissance pilot in the cab looked at the long convoy below, moved his finger on the machine gun trigger, and at the same time subconsciously pushed the control stick, and the reconnaissance plane began to dive at a low angle.

He really wanted to go down and shoot...

But after hesitating for a few seconds, the Japanese pilot finally released his fingers and leveled the control stick.

To be effective, strafing needs to drop to a height of 300 meters. At this height, you will face fierce anti-aircraft firepower from the ground.

He's just a reconnaissance plane,

As for the critical strike aircraft, they need to support frontline operations and cannot be spared for the time being.

Then, after taking a few photos, the reconnaissance plane shook its wings and left the sky above Shitou Bay.

On the road below, like ants moving, camels carrying pallets weighing more than a ton were transporting bags of grain, fertilizers, seeds, and pesticides to the base area along the winding road.
Chapter completed!