Chapter 51: Luring the Enemy to Hengshui
"Baga, why is most of our garrison in Baoding surrounded and annihilated by Tubalu? I want to know the answer. Xu Shui was besieged by the guerrillas, and nearly 2,000 Baoding Japanese puppet troops rushed to the rescue were surrounded and annihilated, and this news smashed like a bombshell into the hearts of many Japanese officers in Shijiazhuang, especially Tada Jun, the commander of the North China Front who had just arrived from Hunchun in Manchuria, was particularly annoyed.
Tada Jun is a China expert, who has taught at the Army University in Beiping three times, and the coalition government in Chongqing has tried to cover up the news of the New Army, and most of the troops of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party on the front line still go their own way, so in Tadajun's view, the so-called cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is simply a flash in the pan. In particular, he did not know that in the areas controlled by the Japanese army, the underground party organizations of the Chinese communists had already joined forces with the military command, and that the Tubalu guerrillas that were now turning the surrounding areas of Baoding upside down were formed by veterans of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.
After convening a meeting of his officers, Tada Jun began to issue a series of tasks, and for a while, the undercurrent in North China surged. Zhuo Fei, who was far away on the outskirts of Baoding, had already learned the news that Tada Jun had taken over as commander of the North China Front, and while he was no longer taking it lightly, Zhuo Fei used the radio to contact other guerrilla detachments scattered in North China.
When this guerrilla column was established behind the enemy, Zhuo Fei's idea was to block the Japanese puppet army in the enemy-occupied area, and now he has opened up the situation around Baoding, and the next thing is to wait for the Japanese puppet army in North China to make a move, and his own side is to accept it. "Mr. Zhuo, these young people are the best selected by our Korean Patriotic Regiment, I hope Mr. Zhuo you remember what you promised me, and I hope you can train them well to become a real warrior." Jin Yingji, who had already arrived in Baoding, did not disappoint Zhuo Fei, and she brought 300 young Koreans selected by the Korean Patriotic Corps to prepare for guerrilla training.
"Miss Jin, as I said, as long as your people can come here, they will definitely receive the same training as them, and after each battle, we will allocate a certain percentage of weapons and ammunition to you according to the performance of your people on the battlefield." Hearing this, Zhuo Fei just glanced up at the straight Korean young men who were standing, and then turned his head and smiled at Kim Yingji. 300 Korean young men who can speak Chinese, this is something Zhuo Fei didn't expect before, he didn't expect the Korean Patriotic League to have such a big hand.
In several battles in a row, although the puppet army was annihilated for thousands of days, the guerrillas commanded by Zhuo Fei also suffered casualties, but fortunately, the surrounding guerrillas were coming in a hurry, and Zhuo Fei did not have a shortage of troops. "Lao Zhao, give them guns and bullets, form them into a team of 50 people, and follow the search team out to warm up." Zhuo Fei called the temporarily assigned quartermaster to secretly advise him for a while, and the latter nodded and left, and it didn't take much effort, and the 300 people brought by Jin Yingji had already received a Japanese-style rifle and 50 rounds of ammunition.
There were still blood stains on the rifles and bullets issued to these Koreans, it was not that the guerrillas did not have time to wipe the weapons and ammunition, Zhuo Fei was just paying attention to these Koreans who received weapons with the corner of his eye, to see how they would react after receiving them. Of the 300 people Kim Young-hee brought, only a small number of them had obviously used rifles, and when they received weapons and bullets, the first reaction of those who had used rifles was to wipe off the blood stains on the weapons and bullets, and then carefully inspect the rifles they received.
And those guys who didn't have any experience with guns actually let out bursts of strange screams when they saw the blood stains on the rifles and bullets, and even Zhuo Fei saw someone vomit out because of those blood stains. "Miss Jin, to be honest, I'm a little disappointed with these people you brought. are already adults, and there are still people who vomit because of a little blood stain, such people may not live long even if they go to the battlefield, do you have to send them to the battlefield? You know, the battlefield can kill people. ”
Obviously, Jin Yingji was not very appreciative of Zhuo Fei's persuasion, "Mr. Zhuo, I guess you may vomit when you kill someone for the first time." They are not real warriors yet, but they all have the determination to sacrifice their lives for the country at any time, and I believe that as long as you train them patiently, they will definitely become real warriors. Kim Ying-hee's insistence made Zhuo Fei not persuade him, anyway, these are just Koreans, and if they die, they will die, and whoever calls them their own people has this idea.
According to Zhuo Fei's order, the guerrilla team that went out to search brought these Koreans who were not yet hot in their butts, and their task was to clear the Japanese puppet army strongholds and traitor forces around Baoding. Shunping, Tangxian, Wangdu, and the guerrilla detachments commanded by Zhuo Fei pushed all the way through, and when Tatianjun made a formal response, most of the strongholds of the puppet army along the road from Baoding to Dingzhou were all uprooted and clean.
"Well done, we just want to fight like this, don't care how the Japanese army arranges and reacts, they arrange theirs, we fight ours. We don't have a head-to-head confrontation with the Japanese puppet army, all we want is to accumulate a small amount and use our methods to clear the strongholds and living forces of the Japanese army. We must have our own rhythm of fighting, we must not be led by the nose by the Japanese puppet army, and if we encounter something that cannot be fought or cannot be beaten, we will jump over, are you still afraid that the bullets in your gun chamber will not have a place to go? Zhuo Fei, who had already learned of the deployment of the Japanese army in North China, held a meeting with the captains of the various guerrillas, and his words showed full confidence, which also made these guerrilla leaders full of confidence.
Zhuo Fei marked dozens of circles of different sizes on the map spread out on the spot, and Zhuo Fei pointed on the map with a branch that served as a command baton, "The Japanese army in Shijiazhuang has reacted, and according to the intelligence found from the inside, the Japanese army in North China now hates us to the core. The current commander of the North China Front Army is an old devil named Tada Jun, this product is an authentic Chinese expert, especially very familiar with North China, so the terrain advantage we have been relying on is afraid that it will not work this time, because people are familiar with the terrain of North China. ”
"But it doesn't matter, I don't plan to fight them this time, based on the information we've gotten so far. The Japanese army pressed over from Shijiazhuang, Hengshui, Cangzhou, and Datong, and a large number of Japanese puppet troops were also assembled on the front line of Langfang and Zhuozhou. Zhuo Fei's baton was compared back and forth on the map, and the guerrilla leaders who participated in the meeting secretly wondered if this was really the case.
"At the moment, the Japanese puppet army in Langfang Zhuozhou can't fight, there are more right troops behind them, the Japanese puppet army in Shijiazhuang is also numerous, the only thing we can do is the Japanese puppet army from Hengshui and Datong, these two Japanese puppet troops are smaller. But even if we repel the Japanese puppet army from Hengshui, the Japanese army in North China can still mobilize troops from Cangzhou and Dezhou to encircle and suppress us. ”
"So this time, let's not fight with them, first break it into pieces and go north to Laiyuan, and then wait for a good opportunity to go straight to Shijiazhuang." Having said this, Zhuo Fei's face suddenly showed a smile, but his decision made those guerrilla leaders confused. Zhuo Fei didn't explain too much, but said with a smile, "Everyone, although we are a guerrilla column, as long as we are equipped with enough heavy weapons, we are a regular army. The more the Japanese army thinks that we dare not go to Shijiazhuang, I just want to go to Shijiazhuang, if we can kill the old devil Tadajun, we will make a lot of money this time. ”
The Japanese army in North China mobilized heavy troops to try to form an encirclement, and Zhuo Fei asked himself that there was no good way to deal with it, although the various guerrilla units were already expanding the work, but after all, they did not have the combat effectiveness to confront a large number of Japanese puppet troops. Zhuo Fei is also unwilling to use such an armed force to fight to the death with the Japanese puppet army, after Zhuo Fei changed his mind last night, he found that he was not facing a dead end, first jumping out of the encirclement of the Japanese puppet army is only the first step, otherwise, Zhuo Fei's next move will not be able to be carried out and implemented smoothly.
The guerrillas are best at moving quickly and rushing, and Zhuo Fei gave an order, regardless of whether the guerrilla leaders understood it or not, the guerrilla forces active around Baoding disappeared overnight. Zhuo Fei himself led a team of men and horses to go straight to the direction of Hengshui blatantly, but the large force of the guerrillas had quietly gone north, when the Hengshui Japanese puppet army learned that there were guerrillas in Anping County, Zhuo Fei had set up an ambush less than 5 miles away from Shen County.
Zhuo Fei was not polite this time, and used all the materials captured from the Japanese puppet army along the way, not to mention the light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers, which were hundreds of catties of explosives captured by the Japanese puppet army, which was enough to make the guerrillas excited. The work of planting explosives and mines was completed by Zhuo Fei personally with Zhuo Zhuo, and for this ambush, Zhuo Fei also exchanged a lot of high explosives from the system, and it was for this reason that the work of planting explosives could only be completed by him and Zhuo Yan.
"Brother, did you say that the little devil will be fooled this time? If they don't fall for it, we'll all bury all these explosives. Zhuo Yan asked a question that even Zhuo Fei didn't know. If the Japanese puppet army in Hengshui is not fooled, their team acting as a decoy will really face the encirclement of many Japanese puppet troops, which is a situation that Zhuo Fei definitely does not want to see.