Chapter 112: Reinforcement Arrives, Prelude to Battle.
Eating a hot bun in a few bites, Zhao Shixun was reminiscing about the long-lost aroma of meat between his lips and teeth. Not far away, on the dirt road, the big pillar came with dozens of men with guns in civilian clothes.
It is estimated that the underground party with increased membership has arrived, Zhao Shixun handed the bun in his hand to the old immortal, casually touched the grease stains on his mouth, and stepped forward to meet him.
Soon, when Zhao Shixun walked in front of the team, a short-haired woman with a height of more than one meter and six meters and wearing a navy blue women's top stepped forward, and smiled and took the initiative to stretch out her right hand.
"Hello, Company Commander Zhao. I rushed back with someone, and I finally missed the matter on the team. ”
Staring at the fair-skinned woman in front of him, Zhao Shixun finally managed to match the yellow-faced woman with freckles on her face in her memory yesterday.
"You ......, it turns out that you look quite white."
"Hehe, yesterday I rode a horse alone, and it was really inconvenient not to Qiao Zhuang."
Smiled helplessly, Zhao Shixun didn't talk nonsense.
"How many of you came? What about weapons and ammunition. ”
Li Chunfeng smiled shyly, revealing a neat row of bright teeth. She wiped the sweat from her head, turned around and pointed to a middle-aged man behind her and said:
"This is our vice captain, named Guo Huaxing, and he is also an old underground party. We came with thirty men this time, and brought five earthen guns, eight steel guns, and seventeen short guns. We had a short supply of ammunition, only 10 rounds per steel gun and almost 30 rounds per short gun. ”
"Oh?! That's just a little ammunition! Do you have grenades? ”
Hearing that the other party actually had a soil gun, and there was not much ammunition, Zhao Shixun's brows furrowed deeply.
"Our underground party doesn't have many weapons in the first place, and most of the ammunition relies on seizure, so you can also see ....... As for the grenade, we don't have any of them. ”
Seeing that Li Chunfeng also looked embarrassed, Zhao Shixun waved his hand helplessly, sighed and said:
"Well, I'll give you five rounds of ammunition each. As for the grenades, we don't have many of them, so I won't give them to you. ”
Speaking of this, Zhao Shixun pointed to the hillside on the west side of the highway and said:
"Your task is to cooperate with the soldiers of the third and fourth squads to hold this hillside, and you have to obey the orders of our instructor Zhou and this veteran during the battle, can you do it?"
Li Chunfeng has seen Zhou Yu, but she has never seen the old immortal.
Looking along Zhao Shixun's hand, Li Chunfeng saw a thin black veteran who was nearly one and a half years old, sitting on a broken basket on the ground with an apron, swallowing clouds and spitting fog, while waving and smiling at himself.
"He? Isn't this a fellow man? What is it for us to listen to the orders of a fellow man, and the ability of our underground party is not as good as that of a fellow man? ”
Without waiting for Li Chunfeng to speak, the man named Guo Huaxing next to him had a dark face and said in an unkind tone.
"Your name is Guo Huaxing, right? The order you have received is to obey the command of the Eighth Route Army unconditionally, and if you don't want to, you can leave here now. I don't have time to talk nonsense with you. ”
There was not much time left for the Seventh Company to prepare, so Zhao Shixun did not give the other party any face, and directly pointed out the way to the other party. Shut up and stay, or get out of here!
"You ......, why do you, a comrade of the Eighth Route Army, speak with such an attitude? We're here to help you fight devils, is that how you treat your comrades? I want to see your superiors! ”
"Whatever you want!"
"Alright......! Lao Guo, you don't have to say a word! ”
Li Chunfeng glanced at Lao Guo with round eyes, and turned to look at Zhao Shixun apologetically.
"Don't mean Lian Commander Zhao, Lao Guo didn't mean that, I hope you can understand."
Ignoring the black-faced old Guo, Zhao Shixun looked at the shy Li Chunfeng and said in a deep voice:
"The high ground on the east and west sides and the road in the middle are mined, so don't walk around if you're fine. In a while, I will arrange for the third squad leader Kiko to take you up the mountain, you go to the veteran to get something to eat and then rest in place, and I will go and get you some ammunition first.
After the words were closed, Zhao Shixun smiled at Li Chunfeng, then turned around and walked quickly to the top of the mountain on the east side.
Watching the tall and handsome Seventh Company Commander walk away, Li Chunfeng suddenly felt that his face was a little hot. Subconsciously touched his cheek, Li Chunfeng shook his head angrily, and hurriedly suppressed the trace of annoyance in his heart.
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At noon, Zhao Shixun and Zhou Yu walked down the east hillside by side. Looking at the blocking positions that had been set up on both sides, Zhao Shixun gently patted Zhou Yu's shoulder.
"Old Zhou, I estimate that after my attack is frustrated, the devil will immediately besiege you with all his might. As long as the first line of position can effectively kill and injure the enemy, it is time to give up, and it is necessary to give up decisively, and never fall in love with war. Before retreating, put a few tripping mines on the enemy, and just give the devil a good pot to drink.
…… If I can't resist the first wave of enemy attacks here, don't bring people down the mountain to support us. The task is the most important, get it? ”
"Lao Zhao...... I understand, don't worry. ”
Zhou Yu wanted to say a few words, but in the end he didn't say a word.
Seeing Zhou Yu run up to the position on the west side of the hill, Zhao Shixun took a deep look at the soldiers of the third and fourth classes who waved at him on the opposite mountain, and returned to the east side of the hill without looking back.
In this blocking battle, in order to increase the defensive flexibility of the position, Zhao Shixun deliberately asked the soldiers to build two trenches on the mountains on both sides. The two positions were then connected by means of communication trenches.
The first line was placed on the mountainside, less than sixty meters from the road, and was heavily camouflaged with weeds.
This distance was chosen to improve the shooting accuracy of the soldiers, and secondly, it was just enough for the soldiers to condescendingly throw grenades into the ranks of Japanese soldiers on the road. In this way, the first wave of surprise attacks can effectively kill and injure the enemy who has entered the ambush circle, and the pressure on the Japanese counterattack will be quickly reduced.
The distance between the second and first positions is exactly about fifty meters, and they are located on the top of the hill on both sides. The terrain here is higher and the view is wide, and the positions of the machine gunners of the 7th Company are arranged here.
According to Zhao Shixun's plan, after the first line of positions has completed the role of the raid, they will immediately abandon the defense after laying mines, and the machine gunners will cover the soldiers of the first line to return to the second line. After waiting for the Japanese troops to rush up the hill to occupy the first line of positions, the second line of positions happened to condescendingly throw a wave of grenades, and the landing point happened to be the first line of positions occupied by the Japanese troops.
Continuously mined. Trick Thunder. After a rain of grenades and a harvest of machine rifle bullets, Zhao Shixun estimated that the first wave of the Japanese offensive was almost over.
As long as you can kill and injure almost a small squad of Japanese troops in the first wave of defensive battles, then this blocking battle is half completed. After that, even if the Japanese army organized an attack again, it would not be as brave as the first time. The casualties of a squad were still very painful for the Japanese army, after all, as long as it was not a large-scale organized sweep, the number of Japanese troops fighting a security war in the rear was still very small.
In this way, the Seventh Company has enough time to entangle with the enemy, and holding on for three hours is not an impossible task.
After returning to the position, Zhao Shixun took the big pillar and two soldiers to change all the eight Japanese-style 97-style grenades left in the Seventh Company into trick mines and buried them 40 meters in front of the first position.
The first wave of the Japanese attack was definitely the strongest wave, and in order to hold the position, Zhao Shixun took out all his family resources.
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At half past one in the afternoon, the sky was clear and the breeze was blowing.
Under the green gauze tent on the top of the mountain, Lei Wancheng licked his chapped lips, holding the captured Japanese-style telescope and staring intently at the end of the road in the distance.
At this time, in the improvised bunker not far away, Political Commissar Jiang and Staff Officer Xue stared at the map spread out on the ammunition box in front of them, trying to find out what had been missed.
For this ambush battle, in addition to the wounded and a dozen old and weak, the whole regiment poured out of the nest and almost all of them participated in the battle.
In terms of deployment, all 200 members of the special service company were ambushed on the hillside on the east side of the road, and their positions were about 80 meters away from the road, where the command post of the regimental headquarters was located.
As for the majority of the first battalion, about 300 men, they were ambushed on the hillside on the west side of the road, including the 4th Company of Recruits and the 5th Company of Recruits. The battalion commander Han Weimin personally commanded the battle. The remaining recruits, the 6th Company, had about 100 men ambushed in a col two miles away on the south side of the road, and Xu Dongsheng, the deputy battalion commander, was responsible for leading the team to prevent the Japanese from breaking through the minefield and attacking the flank of the 7th Company.
The only tactical reserve in the regiment, the 110 men of the 3rd Company, were ambushed in the green gauze tent not far behind the regimental headquarters, and listened to the direct command of the regimental headquarters behind.
On the hillside on the east side of the ambush position, Yang Chenghu, the commander of the spy company, was comfortably leaning against the trench, his face covered with a shabby military hat and dozing leisurely.
Beside him, a row of long dogs was holding Yang Chenghu's binoculars and looking at the flowers and plants under the mountain in a leisurely manner.
"I said dog, you're not really a dog, are you?! Roll and hum, and then buzz in my ears, Lao Tzu kicked you down the mountain, do you believe it? ”
The dog was scolded by Yang Chenghu and was not angry, but put down the binoculars with a smile, stepped forward to look around, and asked in a low voice:
"Company commander, I see that the expressions of the regiment commander and the political commissar are serious, you tell me a letter, we won't be a hard stubble today, right?"
Tearing off the broken military hat on his face, Yang Chenghu glared at the dog, then stretched his waist and slowly sat up straight.
"Company commander, smoke a cigarette."
The dog playfully took out a box of seized Japanese cigarettes from his body, took out one and handed it to Yang Chenghu eagerly.
……
The seized Japanese-style cigarettes handed over by the dog were handed over by the dog, and the probe was let the dog light it.
Taking a deep breath and exhaling it, feeling the pressure on his body slowly disappear, Yang Chenghu looked at the mountain and said lightly:
"You can see it all, and why are you asking me? If it is an easy battle, the regiment commander and political commissar will not personally lead the reserves to suppress the formation. Go tell the brothers not to be reluctant to give up ammunition, and when the fight starts, give me a hard greeting devil......!" ”
…… To be continued, ask for collection, ask for recommendation!
(End of chapter)