Chapter 399
"Captain, this time it's different."
Wang Ye said: "This time the Japanese will definitely counterattack wildly. Even if we cannot destroy our independent group, we will definitely strive to destroy the weapons and ammunition seized by us."
“The reason is also very simple.”
"Once these weapons and equipment fall into the hands of our independent regiment."
"All the strongholds in the northwest Shanxi, county towns and even Anhua City are all the flesh we talk about!"
"This is really." Li Yunlong said, "With these dozens of cannons and so many shells, the entire county and even Anhua City in northwestern Shanxi are really the fat meat at the mouth of our independent regiment."
Speaking of this, he smiled and said, "We can eat whenever we want."
Wang Ye said seriously: "So, the Japanese will definitely counterattack at any cost. In addition to the two infantry brigades that went out, they might also transfer all the Japanese and puppet troops scattered in various strongholds. The total number of Japanese Japanese in these seventy or eighty strongholds is 70,000 or 80,000. In addition to the two brigades that fought for the vanguard, it is enough to eat us!"
Hearing this, Xing Zhiguo, Zhao Gang and several battalion commanders were no longer calm.
They originally thought that after winning this battle, this anti-sweeping would be done.
As a result, Wang Ye said this, he found that the current situation is still almost inseparable.
If this is not careful, it will not be a problem of being a slasher. Maybe it will turn the victory into a defeat.
"What should I do?" Xing Zhiguodao, "Our Independent Regiment has just finished a big battle. Although the battle was won, the troops suffered a lot of casualties, and the soldiers were also very tired. If they only faced two infantry brigades, it would be a big problem, but if they faced tens of thousands of Japanese, it would be a big trouble!"
In fact, Xing Zhiguo did not say the point.
There are great casualties and fatigue is not the most critical.
The most important thing is that the cadres and soldiers of the Independent Regiment all believed that after the war, the anti-sweeping campaign was over, so they had already relaxed from a psychological level.
This psychological relaxation is the most troublesome.
It’s like after the clockwork is loosened, it’s hard to think about it tighter.
"Old Li." Zhao Gang said anxiously, "Otherwise, retreat directly into the Fuliangshan Fortress? Or is it important for people!"
"How can that work? The battlefield has not been cleaned yet." Li Yunlong said, "What should I do if the person is evacuated? Is it possible to seize it?"
"Let the soldiers move as much as possible." Xing Zhiguo said, "Anything that can be moved is counted as much as possible. All those who have not had time to move are destroyed."
"That won't work." Li Yunlong said, "These weapons and ammunition seized cannot be given up even with a cannon or a shell. These are all exchanged for their lives by the brothers."
Zhao Gang said anxiously: "But the problem is that the Japanese are about to launch a large-scale counterattack now."
Xing Zhiguodao: "Yes, we can definitely fight hard."
Li Yunlong said: "Then you can't give up seizure, there is no discussion on this matter!"
"Stop arguing!" Wang Ye couldn't help it and said with a dark face, "Now is not the time to argue!"
After saying this, Wang Ye directly issued orders to Zhang Dabiao, Wang Huaibao, Sun Bin, Shen Quan and others.
"Battlefield Commander Zhang, you lead all the soldiers in the first battalion who can participate in the battle, hurry up and replenish the ammunition, and then go two kilometers to build fortifications in the direction of Qingyun Town to face the Japanese reinforcements coming from Qingyun Town."
"Captain Cao has already brought the artillery troops there to build a good artillery position."
"With the fire support from the artillery, at least there shouldn't be much problem before dawn."
"Yes!" Zhang Dabiao agreed and immediately returned to the rest area of the first battalion to gather the troops.
However, judging from the reactions of the soldiers, there was obviously a problem, and most of them were surprised.
"Battlefield Commander Wang." Wang Ye's eyes turned to Wang Huaibao again, and then said, "You lead all the soldiers of the Second Battalion who can participate in the battle to build fortifications two kilometers from the direction of Lijia Town, don't forget to replenish ammunition."
"Yes!" Wang Huaibao agreed and immediately went to reorganize the troops.
Although the first battalion had artillery support and the second battalion did not, Wang Huaibao did not ask any more questions.
Watching Wang Huaibao rectify the troops of the Second Battalion, Zhao Gang said: "Xiao Wang, since you know that the two infantry brigades of the Japanese will return from the original route, can't you organize an ambush in advance?"
"It's too late." Wang Ye shook his head and said, "If the two infantry brigades of the Japanese return to the rescue regardless of everything, then at most five or six kilometers will be left from Fuliangshan Fortress at this time."
"It will take less than half an hour to march in a hurry."
"There is no way to organize an ambush at this time."
Speaking of this, he said, "It's too late to find an ambush."
Zhao Gang sighed and asked again, "What should I do next?"
"What should I do next?" Li Yunlong said, "Of course, I should hurry up and clean the battlefield."
"Be sure to transfer all your weapons, equipment and ammunition into the fortress before dawn!"
"Or otherwise, as soon as the Japanese bomber arrives, the bomb is thrown, and the duck that reaches its mouth will really fly, then our independent group will really become a joke."
Wang Ye said: "Let the puppet army prisoners of war come to move too."
"Oh, yes." Zhao Gang nodded suddenly.
"I forgot these three thousand puppet army prisoners."
Speaking of this, Zhao Gang said again: "I will organize the puppet army prisoners now, and the guard company will follow me!"
"Old Li, Xiao Wang, I will take people to clean the battlefield." Xing Zhiguo said again, "The comrades directly under the regiment, the Third Battalion and the County Brigade, all follow me."
But Wang Ye suddenly said, "Stay in the Third Camp!"
Xing Zhiguo was stunned for a moment and immediately said, "Stay in the Third Camp."
Sun Bin, who was about to turn around and leave, stayed with several company commanders.
Wang Ye said to Yang Hu and Feng Xianghe again: "Butchman, mouse, hurry up and fill up the tanks of the tanks and armored vehicles, and then match the ammunition enough."
"Yes!" The two of them responded, turned around and hurried away.
Wang Ye said to Sun Bin again: "Battleman Commander Sun, you should also replenish your ammunition quickly."
"Yes!" Sun Bin responded, turned to several company commanders and said, "Hurry up and settle the wounded, and then go to the baggage camp to replenish ammunition. Fuck me all the actions!"
Watching Sun Bin and several company commanders turn around and leave,
Li Yunlong said: "Xiao Wang, what medicine do you sell in this gourd?"
"The Japanese only have two brigades. The first and second battalions are not enough to fight and block? They also keep the third battalion?"
"You kid, can you want to swallow the two infantry brigades of the Japanese in one bite? I tell you, the most important thing to avoid insatiable wars is to break your teeth without eating them."
Li Yunlong’s meaning is that it is more than enough to block the two battalions.
If you still want to fight an annihilation war, it will be far beyond the limit of the independent regiment.
The Independent Regiment had just fought a decisive battle, and many soldiers were killed or killed, but their physical strength was also consumed greatly. Even the iron-killed steel could not withstand continuous combat.
It is a taboo for military strategists to fight against the enemy's elite troops with a tired army!
Li Yunlong was worried that Wang Ye would float away after commanding a large-scale annihilation battle, and he didn't know the southeast, west and north, so he couldn't help but want to hit the young man.
But how could Wang Ye be such a superficial person?
Wang Ye said: "Captain, what are you thinking?"
"These two infantry brigades are real elite Japanese."
"If it is in the peak state, our independent regiment may be able to barely chew these two infantry brigades of the Japanese, but in its current state, we can't chew at all."
Li Yunlong said: "Then what does it mean to let the Third Camp stay?"
Wang Ye lowered his voice and said, "It's just in case."
"Just be in case?" Li Yunlong said in a deep voice, "What if?"
"I'm afraid the Japanese will fight us." Wang Ye said in a deep voice, "Then we will be in trouble."
"Change a war?!" Li Yunlong reacted immediately after hearing this, and took a breath of air and said, "Oh no, the Japanese are most likely to fight a war with us!"
"Xiao Wang, think about it. Apart from the two infantry brigades returning to the rescue, the remaining six or seven thousand Japanese were scattered among seventy or eighty strongholds. The distance between these strongholds and Fuliang Mountain is far and near, and the Japanese have no time to gather, so it must be early and late to arrive at the battlefield of Fuliang Mountain."
"Isn't that just a chaotic war?"
"Oh, this is really bad."
Wei Dayong suddenly entered and said, "Captain, what's the terrible thing about fighting a war?"
"You know, that's a big deal." Wang Ye said angrily, "Of course the veterans of our Independent Regiment are not afraid of arbitrary wars, but the problem is that the number of veterans is less than two thousand. If you remove the sacrifices and injuries in the battle just now, there are at most a thousand people left. The rest are militias that have just been replenished into the main force. If you really fight with the Japanese, you will have to suffer a big loss!"
These militias are far from competing with the Japanese infantry, in terms of combat experience and shooting skills.
Wei Dayong curled his lips and said, "I don't believe it. With cannons, tanks and armored vehicles, I can't beat the Japanese."
"You don't understand, you kid really don't understand." Li Yunlong cursed, "It's only when fighting a position war, tanks, cannons and armored vehicles work, and these weapons will not be used for chaos."
Wang Ye said: "Tanks and armored vehicles are still useful when fighting a war, but cannons are really not useful."
"You can't give up at will," Li Yunlong waved his hand, "especially the thirty or forty field howitzers must be dragged back to the fortress and hid!"
Wang Ye said: "The leader, there are not as many as thirty or forty gates."
"How could it be?" Li Yunlong said, "Didn't you say there are four artillery brigades and one brigade of twelve artillery pieces, which is a total of forty-eight?"
After pausing, Li Yunlong said again: "By the way, there is another brigade equipped with 105 caliber field cannons. Damn, this thing is amazing, one blows up a large piece of it! If our independent regiment has these cannons, its combat effectiveness can be greatly improved. The artillery towers and even the county towns of the Japanese will be like playing."
Wang Ye sighed and said, "Captain, I have counted it just now. Only twelve Type 38 75 field cannons are intact. The remaining thirty-six cannons, including the twelve 105mm caliber field howitzers have been blown up by the Japanese, and they have been completely destroyed and have basically no maintenance value."
"What?" Li Yunlong heard this, his horse's face collapsed.
Li Yunlong instantly felt a sense of the difference between the duck that reached his mouth and flew again.
Once his mood is bad, Li Yunlong habitually wants to scold people, and he will scold anyone who catches them.
Now there is only Wang Ye in front of you, so you catch Wang Ye and scold him: "Xiao Wang, what are you doing for? Om? You can't move faster?"
"You don't know that the Japanese will destroy weapons and ammunition first when the situation is not good, but you don't know how to stop it?"
"Look at me, the Japanese want to destroy the ammunition from the baggage camp, but I didn't give them a chance. I killed them before the Japanese destroyed the supplies."
Li Yunlong's words are purely nonsense.
The reason why the Japanese did not have time to destroy all the ammunition in the baggage camp was not because the independent regiment acted quickly, but because the safety measures in the baggage camp were taken too well.
Since the gunpowder era, preservation of ammunition has been a difficult problem.
Especially when preserving ammunition on the battlefield, you must be extremely careful.
Otherwise, the enemy only needs one shell or accidentally creates a spark, which is very likely to cause a series of explosions in the entire ammunition depot. That is not a big loss, and the entire camp may be ruined.
Therefore, materials such as oil, shells, bullets, etc. are stored in scattered.
The baggage force of the Second Guards Division added another layer of insurance.
It is to hollow out dozens of loess bales in the baggage camp and build hundreds of small material warehouses to store bullets, shells, medicines and oil.
Although the independent regiment direct team led by Li Yunlong advanced very quickly, it still failed to completely stop the Japanese. However, the Japanese gave priority to destroying medicines and oil, because the Japanese felt that the value of oil and medicines was greater than that of bullets and shells. As a result, just halfway through the destruction, the independent regiment direct team arrived.
But Wang Ye didn't know about this.
So there is no way to refute it for a while.
Li Yunlong scolded Wang Ye and felt better after he felt.
After pausing, Li Yunlong said again: "Then the last twelve 75 field cannons left, there must be no more accidents. Otherwise, let's dig a few big holes first and bury the twelve cannons?"
Digging pits and burying cannons is a routine operation for the Eighth Route Army.
Many times the troops were forced to move, or the shells were exhausted, and the Eighth Route Army would bury the cannons and wait until they came back or seized more shells again, and then dig out the cannons.
"No hurry." Wang Ye shook his head, "I'll talk about it after this battle."
"That won't work." Li Yunlong said anxiously, "It's too late to finish the fight."
"It's time." Wang Ye said, "In fact, these twelve 75 field cannons are easy to hide."
"It's easy?" Li Yunlong said in surprise, "How easy is it? Where are you planning to hide these twelve cannons?"
Wang Ye stretched out his hand and pointed to the fortress and said, "It's hidden in the tunnel entrance of the fortress. Although the Japanese blew up all sixteen tunnel entrances, we can easily dig it up again."
“Broaden it a little bit later.”
"Reinforce it with wood stone."
"It's enough to hide a 75 field cannon."
"At that time, not only can we avoid the bombing of the Japanese bombers,"
"You can also use these twelve 75 field cannons as fortress cannons."
"From now on, the Japanese will not be able to attack Fuliangshan Fortress again."
"This is a good method." Li Yunlong's eyes lit up, killing two birds with one stone.
While we were talking, gunfire sounded at the same time in the northwest and southeast directions.
The gunshots were very sparse. Obviously, the only one who came was the Japanese vanguards, but it was almost a quarter of an hour earlier than Wang Ye and Li Yunlong expected.
This is very troublesome.
Because the faster the Japanese come back, the greater the possibility of a chaotic war.
From the current perspective, not only the Japanese who returned from various strongholds, but also the two infantry brigades that returned from the establishment will likely also fight the independent regiment.
...
In the dark wilderness.
Kasekiov bent over and walked forward carefully.
It's really a fate. As soon as the Eighth Route Army launched an attack, Kasekiov escaped by pulling his companion's body and pressing him on his body.
When the Eighth Route Army passed by,
Kase Yoshio quietly stood up.
However, Kase Kief did not return to the barracks to participate in the battle.
After all, Kasekiov is not a brave person. He does not have any Bushido spirit. All he wants is to return to Japan alive and meet his relatives and wife.
So after leaving the trenches, he resolutely chose to escape.
Relying on his strong desire to survive, Kase Kief eliminated several dangerous situations.
Among them, the most thrilling situation was the most dangerous. At that time, he was quietly climbing forward with the help of the cover of night when an Eighth Route Army suddenly drove past him.
The Eighth Route Army's cloth shoes were almost stepping on him.
At this time, as long as there is a flashlight shining on him, he will be unlucky.
Kase Kiyoshi held his breath and did not dare to move. He could only pray to Amaterasu in his heart.
Perhaps his prayers worked. Although the Eighth Route Army fired a lot of flashlights, there was no flashlight shining on him. One by one, the Eighth Route Army passed by him, but they all regarded him as a pile of loess buns. Perhaps, it was because he was covered with too much loess, which was no different from loess buns.
It took several minutes for the Eighth Route Army to finally pass by.
After the last Eighth Route Army passed and walked away, Kasekiov dared to get up from the ground, and then chose a random direction to stagger forward.
Kase Kief has lost his sense of direction.
Moreover, this is in the Fuliang bandit area, where Chinese people are everywhere, and they will die as long as they are discovered, so Kasekiov is not sure if he can escape.
But no matter what, he would not give up easily.
I don’t know how long it took to leave in the dark, maybe five minutes, maybe half an hour.
A bunch of lights suddenly lit up in front of them, with flashlight lights, and more were torches. With the flashlight and flame light, you can see clearly the military uniform of this army: yellowish! The imperial army uniform!
Kase Kief's nose suddenly felt sour, and he felt a sense of gladness of meeting his relatives.
Kasekiov then greeted him and waved and shouted, "Don't go, don't go!"
"Warning!" The headed officer gave the order, and the Japanese behind him dispersed loudly.
"Go back, go back!" Kasekiov rushed to the officer quickly and gasped, "The military camp has been lost, and the division commander has died. Don't go and die again."
ps: It is necessary to explain the number of troops in the book.
Chapter completed!