Chapter 158: The Iron Wall Closes

Speaking of this, Zhou Yu sat helplessly on an ammunition box and sighed.

"That's right......."

Putting the weapon in his hand into the box, Zhao Shixun looked at the pillar and asked:

"Pillar, when you were in the national army, what soldier died the fastest."

"Needless to say, of course, it's a heavy machine gunner. The devil's squad has several hand cannons, and every time they fight, they pick machine gun positions and smash them, and after a few shots, few heavy machine gunners can survive to the end of ......the battle. ”

Eventually, the pillar's voice grew quieter and quieter, as if something was blocking his throat.

In the end, Zhu Zi and Zhou Yu looked at Zhao Shixun and were dumb almost at the same time.

Squinting his eyes and looking into the distance, Zhao Shixun looked at the two of them and said lightly:

"I didn't know that the devil's heavy machine gun was a good thing, but no matter how good it was, could it be better than the Shangmin 24 heavy machine gun? No! ”

"The devil's heavy machine gun hits it accurately, and that's because we don't have a grenadier mortar to threaten it! But let's face a different devil, a devil with an infantry squad with three grenadiers, a squadron with mortars and even 92 infantry guns.

Everyone knows that using a heavy machine gun can suppress the enemy, but it is also the first target that the devil wants to clean up on the battlefield. Light machine guns can change places with a magazine, but heavy machine guns cannot. It can only stay in a fixed place, and even if it is to be transferred, it will take at least a few people to complete.

For the current battlefield environment of our company, a heavy machine gun that will be knocked out by the devils in a few minutes as soon as it is fired will not only not be of any help to the Seventh Company, but will also become a burden to the Seventh Company and a life-saving talisman for the Seventh Company in future battles.

Do you understand......? ”

Speaking of which, whether it was Zhou Yu or Zhuzi, the two of them looked at Zhao Shixun with burning eyes.

In that way, it is like a student seeing a teacher who solves his doubts, and a lost person seeing a guide.

Ignoring the adoring and admiring gazes of the two, Zhao Shixun took out the pipe that the old immortal bought for himself, leisurely put in the tobacco and lit it, and took a beautiful puff.

"Alright, let the brothers put away all the weapons and ammunition, and we should escort the commissioner back to his life."

……

In late August, due to the eventual failure of the Kuomintang's plan to counterattack Jinnan in the Second World War Zone, the Japanese army was relieved and was able to transfer a large number of troops from the front line back to consolidate the occupied areas in the rear.

After the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, some of the Nationalist troops who failed to cross the Yellow River south were left north of the Yellow River, and a small number of them broke through to the Nationalist-controlled areas in Henan and escaped, and most of them were either annihilated by the Japanese army or captured by the Japanese army.

Of course, there are also some remnants of the national army who did not choose to surrender. After there was no hope of breaking through, they chose to fight guerrillas in the Japanese-occupied areas, and gained some foothold after disintegrating some of the Japanese puppet forces in the occupied areas.

However, as the Japanese army transferred a large number of troops from the front line to return to defense, the Eighth Route Army and the remnants of the Kuomintang troops who remained in the Jinnan area soon became the target of the Japanese army's next key strangulation.

After learning about the large-scale assembly and mobilization of the Japanese army through various intelligence channels, the units of the Eighth Route Army in the Jinnan area also entered the highest state of alert.

Due to the extremely backward intelligence reconnaissance and communication capabilities of the Chinese army and the Japanese army, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in the Jinnan area, after studying, decided to divide the troops into parts and flexibly attack the enemy by dispersing the troops, and at the same time prevent the troops from being surrounded by the Japanese army in an organized manner due to lack of intelligence, causing irreparable losses.

Because the pioneer regiment was named a column of a certain military region in southern Jinnan, it became logical that it became one of the targets of the Japanese puppet army's next key liquidation in the Zhongtiao Mountain area.

After receiving this precious information, the regiment commander quickly summoned everyone to the regiment headquarters.

……

In the conference room, the regiment commander, political commissar and staff officer Xue were studying carefully in front of the map on the table, while the others were silently smoking cigarettes and drinking water.

The atmosphere in the conference room was very solemn, and everyone seemed to be able to feel the tension before the big war.

At this meeting, all the cadres of the first column and above were present to attend the meeting, and none of them were pulled down.

More than a dozen people sat in the small room at once, and it seemed slightly crowded.

Ten minutes later, when the commander and instructor of the second company finally arrived, the meeting began.

At the beginning of the meeting, the political commissar first announced the letter of appointment of the higher-level organ and the plan for the new number of the troops.

In order to unify the number of troops in the Jinnan area of the Eighth Route Army and coordinate the anti-Japanese operation.

The southward vanguard regiment of a certain military region of the Eighth Route Army in southern Jinnan was formally reorganized into a column of a certain military region in southern Jinnan.

The commander of the column was Lei Wancheng, the political commissar of the column Jiang Hongfei, and the acting chief of staff Xue Liqun.

The subordinate units are the guard company directly under the column, the company commander Li Guichuan, and the deputy company commander and instructor Lin Hongda.

The column is directly under the special service battalion, and the battalion commander Yang Chenghu is also the instructor, and the deputy battalion commander is Xie Gouzi.

The column is directly under the first battalion, with battalion commander Han Weimin and deputy battalion commander Xu Dongsheng concurrently serving as instructor. The first battalion is a recruit battalion, which has three companies of recruits under its jurisdiction, namely the fourth, fifth and sixth companies.

The column is directly subordinate to the second company, the company commander Shen Cunzhi, and the deputy company commander is also the instructor Hao Ping.

The column is directly subordinate to the third company, the company commander Xu Guofeng, and the deputy company commander is also the instructor Pan Danian.

The column is directly subordinate to the Seventh Company, with company commander Zhao Shixun, deputy company commander Zhuzi, and instructor Zhou Yu.

In addition, the column was equipped with an artillery company directly under it, with two 80-mm mortars and six Devil's Type 89 grenadiers. The company commander is the old Qin head of the former regiment's quartermaster department.

However, due to the extreme shortage of ammunition, the artillery company is basically just a showcase, and there is no combat effectiveness at present.

After reading out the personnel arrangements, the new column commander Lei Wancheng stood up and looked at everyone.

"Comrades, although the shelves of the first column have been pulled up, due to the extremely severe situation at present, today is the day when the first column is established and the day when the first column is separated."

Speaking of this, Lei Wancheng picked up a small wooden stick on the table and pointed to several pencil locations on the map on the table.

"Comrades, we have just received information that the Japanese army has repelled the counterattack of the Kuomintang troops in the second war zone and stabilized the Yellow River.

Two days ago, the 69th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in the Yuncheng area had transferred two field wings, plus a regiment of the 33rd Brigade of the puppet army mixed with the Yuncheng area, to prepare to march from the three directions of Xia County, Jiang County, and Hengqu County to launch an intensive sweep in the Zhongtiao Mountain area. At the same time, the 36th Division of the Japanese Army, which was stationed in the Jinzhong generation, also sent a wing of troops, with a regiment of the puppet army, to the south along the railway line, and began to sweep from the Qinshui generation to the south. ”

Looking at several eye-catching locations on the map, many people, including Zhao Shixun, could see at a glance that the Japanese army was coming to the real thing.

From the point of view of the distribution of troops, the Japanese are almost surrounded on all sides, that is, their usual tactic - iron wall encirclement.

Hengqu in the south, Xia County in the west, Jiangxian in the north, Qinshui in the northeast, and Wangwushan Mountain Range in the east, although there are no Japanese troops. And Yangcheng County, on the east side of Wangwu Mountain, has long been occupied by the Japanese army.

Speaking of this, Lei Wancheng looked at everyone with nervous faces and smiled.

"Isn't it strange to everyone, for the sake of our army of less than 1,000 people, the devil did not hesitate to mobilize three wings and several regiments of puppet troops to come and strangle him, did he take the wrong medicine?"

"yes, Riesling, this little devil thinks too highly of us, doesn't he?"

As soon as Han Weimin returned from his wounds, he learned that the Japanese army had encircled and suppressed the base area, and he obviously didn't believe it.

Looking at everyone, Lei Wancheng suddenly ordered Yang Chenghu's general.

"Yang Chenghu, your spy battalion is the sharp knife of our column, what do you think when you tell everyone?"

Seeing that the commander of the column had pointed at himself, Yang Chenghu touched his unshaven chin and stared at the map for a while.

"With our current strength, let alone sending a field wing of more than 2,000 people, two infantry brigades are enough for us to drink a pot.

In my opinion, the devil made such a big move, obviously the purpose is not just us! ”

Wen Yan nodded and looked at Yang Chenghu approvingly. Lei Wancheng picked up the wooden stick and pointed to the east of Jiangxian again.

"This is Dingjiawa, not long ago, more than 4,000 people from the Shiziyu Division of the 70th Division of the National Army, which was scattered in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, have just arrived here to fight guerrillas in the Jinnan area according to the order of Chongqing."

As soon as the words fell, Zhao Shixun immediately chuckled in his heart.

He is very familiar with Shi Ziyu, and he is even more familiar with the Seventy Division.

For this general of the Jin Sui Army, who became the commander of the first division at the age of thirty-six, Zhao Shixun accompanied Tang Huaiyuan to meet the other party several times.

Shi Ziyu is different from ordinary generals of the Jin Sui Army, he is in a high position, but he really relies on military merits. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Shi Ziyu commanded the troops to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army many times, and achieved proud results, and was a rare general in the Jin Sui army.

I thought that the 70th Division had withdrawn to the south bank of the Yellow River, but I didn't expect that the other party was still insisting on the War of Resistance in Jinnan.

Seeing that everyone was not familiar with Shi Ziyu, political commissar Jiang Hongfei stood up, pointed to the map and said:

"Shi Ziyu is from the Jin Sui Army, and he is a very famous young general in the Jin Sui Army. After the defeat of the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, most of the Kuomintang troops in the southern Jinnan area either fled or surrendered, and only a small number of Kuomintang troops remained in the southern part of Jinnan to persist in the war of resistance, and the 70th Division was one of them. ”

"Hmph...... it's the Jin Suijun gang again, a bunch of guys who don't have enough success and more than enough to lose."

As soon as he heard that it was the old enemy Jin Suijun, Yang Chenghu's face immediately darkened a little, and his words were full of dissatisfaction.

Syllable......

As a calloused palm clanged the teacup on the table, everyone's eyes immediately turned to the column commander Lei Wancheng.

"Yang Chenghu Lao Tzu warns you, if you can't control your broken mouth, you will get Lao Tzu out of this room. Hear me! ”

…… To be continued, please collect and recommend.

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