Chapter 320: The Situation
The war has been fought for more than two years, and the devil soldiers are not as arrogant as they were at the beginning, and the garrisons are all second-line troops who have been recruited later, and the idea of fighting to the death and not retreating is much slighter.
Knowing that the devils who are invincible and still fighting to the death are now fewer and fewer, and they are not stupid enough to fight with the bayonets of the Eighth Road when the troops are absolutely inferior, and naturally they will not find a mountain to defend themselves.
The best way is to spread out his feet and run, although the little devil has short legs, but he is not slow at all, and he will run away as soon as he slips away.
Although the loss of a heavy machine gun may be punished, it is better than losing one's life, and in such a moment of escape, heavy weapons naturally become a burden.
However, the military quality of the devils at this time is still good, and the defeated devils are also embarrassed, but their own military quality is not bad, they see that the situation is not right, and the speed of retreat is very fast.
The devils who retreated in time retreated quickly by means of alternate cover, the devils' marksmanship was accurate, and the terrain where the battlefield was located was relatively rugged, so it was more advantageous for the side with fewer troops to carry out a blocking battle.
Such terrain was not suitable for the deployment of large forces, and the two reinforced companies had to outflank and encircle, and cooperate with the frontal troops to encircle and annihilate most of the enemy.
The devil command at the rear of the front reacted in time and slipped out of the encirclement network before the reinforcements were encircled, and as for the other devil troops who attacked frontally with the puppet army, they were not so lucky.
They were half a beat slower, they were blocked, the devil is not like the puppet army, they immediately chose to surrender if they couldn't do anything, they formed a formation to try to resist, and some saw that they couldn't break through, so they directly chose to commit suicide.
The Japanese puppet army that tried to outflank Zhang Yunfei and their back caused Zhang Yunfei and them a lot of passivity, and even almost put their entire battle plan in danger.
In the end, though, they survived, and in three battles in a row, their troops didn't pay much.
Needless to say, it was an ambush and a sneak attack, and they easily took down the other party, and the detour troops of the Japanese puppet army were ambushed before, not to mention, they collapsed in advance.
As for the battle in front of you, not to mention, the typical Eighth Route Army's tactics, concentrate superior forces, encircle and eat the enemy.
There is nothing to say about this, with several times the enemy's strength, and a sudden encirclement and surprise attack, if this still can't be defeated, then they can really find a rope to hang themselves.
There is not much loss, but the harvest is quite rich, looking at the piles of puppet soldiers squatting on the ground, Zhang Yunfei's face is dark, these guys, there are them everywhere.
The battle was so fierce, these guys didn't have a few dead or wounded, and I don't know how they survived, just like Xiaoqiang, the vitality thief is strong.
But not to mention, these guys are lackeys for the devils, although it is a bit embarrassing, but fortunately, they often transport a batch of weapons and ammunition to the Eighth Route Army.
To completely capture it from the hands of the devils, this is very difficult, and the devils often resist stubbornly, so if you want to seize them from them, you will often be unable to make ends meet.
The deficit can only be made up from the puppet army traitors, looking at the piles of weapons and ammunition seized over there, Zhang Yunfei breathed a sigh of relief.
In the evaluation of the success or failure of the Eighth Route Army, the score of capture accounted for more than half.
In the three battles, tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition and more than 200 guns were captured, especially they also captured a heavy machine gun, as well as some barge guns, Wang Ba boxes and other pistols.
In the face of so many loot, Zhang Yunfei's mood is still happy, as for slipping away some of the devils, Zhang Yunfei doesn't care too much, the devils are not puppet troops, even in the unfavorable situation of the battle, even in a desperate situation, they will rarely raise their hands to surrender, if they stop this team of devils, the other party will definitely be dying and struggling, but it will delay the progress of the entire battle, and only increase our casualties.
Anyway, now the enemy's main force and flanks have been solved by themselves and others, even if they run away a few, it won't affect anything, and their ultimate goal is not to kill many devils, but also to destroy the devil's important communication lines, so that the devil's north-south traffic is paralyzed.
Even if they can't completely paralyze the devil's communication line, at least they have to block and delay for a while to slow down the devil's march, so it's not a good job for them to fight the Japanese puppet army here.
Zhang Yunfei didn't care about the devils who ran away, but looked at the sixty or seventy puppet soldiers he caught and the large amount of loot he had captured.
It's just that before Zhang Yunfei could be happy for too long, the messenger sent by the regiment headquarters rushed over, making his good mood fly away at once.
The regimental headquarters and the 1st battalion were fighting on the northern front, and the situation on their side was not optimistic.
Here, the two reinforcements that have eliminated the devils, at least in a short time, there will be no reinforcements sent from Pingchuan County on the southern front, but the northern line is different.
A large number of Japanese puppet troops were dispatched from Qingling County, among which the devils also had a 92 infantry gun, which was reinforcing the section of the road that the regiment headquarters and the first battalion were responsible for.
According to the correspondent of the newspaper, the devils in Qingling this time almost poured out, except for a small number of troops and puppet troops left behind, most of them were withdrawn.
This is not to say that the section of the road that the new regimental headquarters and the first battalion are responsible for is very important, but it is not necessarily that everyone is responsible for destroying a section of the road.
It's just that the devils in Qingling County are much richer than Pingchuan in terms of troops, and if you want to talk about strategic location, the two counties belong to the same area, and their importance is naturally the same.
If you have to distinguish between high and low, Pingchuan is a little higher in importance than Qingling, but Pingchuan has a new city in the south and Qingling in the north.
Staying in the middle means being in the core area, and the overall security is also the best, before Zhang Yunfei led the team into Pingchuan.
The local organizations in Pingchuan could not form a decent anti-Japanese armed force, and they formed the Pingchuan detachment under the deception of Sister Jia.
At that time, the armed forces of Pingchuan really improved, but the Eighth Route formed an independent brigade, and his Pingchuan detachment was transferred and merged into the new second regiment, which made the anti-Japanese armed forces in Pingchuan weak again.
Although Pingchuan is a place with high mountains and dense forests, there are also plains and rivers, and this kind of terrain and landform with clear distinct topography makes it very difficult for them to form anti-Japanese armed forces.
Fighting guerrilla warfare is not to hide deep in the mountains and old forests, and it will not be anyone's troops who are all Pingchuan detachments, and Pingchuan chickens and dogs can make noise.
However, not everyone was part of the Pingchuan team, and after they were transferred, the local organization in Pingchuan was faced with a dilemma, that is, it was too difficult to form a real anti-Japanese armed force as before.
Since the anti-Japanese forces in Pingchuan are not strong, there is naturally no need to stay in a large number of troops, which is also the reason why the local forces in Pingchuan are so stretched.
This is not the case in other counties, such as Qingling, where a large number of troops can be mobilized, and at this point, Qingling is much better than Pingchuan, and a large number of reinforcements can be quickly organized.