Chapter 343: Full Preparations The Great War is imminent

Morning. Gourd Valley of Yufeng Mountain in western Hebei. Fangjiazhuang Fangxin Garden. Inside the study.

Fang Jiren wanted to select thirty short, thin boys and ten girls from the Hulu Valley Youth Company, who were short and thin, but had strong martial arts, good physique, and were smart and quick-witted, and took them out of the mountains to participate in the battle after tracking and reconnaissance training.

Fang Jiren's explanation is that in the recent period, the Japanese military police and detective teams have been inspecting everyone entering and leaving the city gates at the four gates of the county seat of Lin'an County, in the southeast, northwest, and northwest, and there has been a strange anomaly of sometimes tightening and sometimes loosening. When the inspection is loose, it is not checked at all, and passers-by are allowed to come and go casually; When the inspection is tight, it is like facing a great enemy, and the men, women, and children who enter and leave the city gate must be forcibly searched, and even the young and middle-aged men and women suspected of colluding with the Communist Party to resist Japan will be brought into the inspection room next to the city gate and forcibly stripped naked for inspection, but the inspection of children aged 12, 3, or 4 years old is relatively lax. This can be done by the children to cover and cooperate, which is conducive to the special column to carry out various activities inside and outside the county town without attracting attention and without arousing too much vigilance and suspicion of the enemy.

"Well, I understand everything when you say that. However, you have to protect these children as much as possible, and you can't afford to be poor. Little Liuzi, what are you going to let these children do? How? ”

"In addition to tracking and reconnaissance missions, we also have to frequently go back and forth to various secret stations, villages and towns inside and outside the county town to deliver news, send letters, send materials, and send intelligence. The children are two or three people walking in groups when they carry out their tasks, with different identities, begging along the street, selling cigarettes along the street, selling newspapers on the street, and squatting in specific places, and there will be two groups of brothers from the Fangjia Martial Arts Hall who are responsible for responding, supporting and protecting them not far behind, so it should not be a big problem to ensure the personal safety of the children. ”

"Good, good, wonderful. I can rest assured that such a thorough arrangement is made. ”

"Uncle Seven, if you form two more companies, are the weapons and ammunition enough?"

"There should be enough ammunition, depending on the amount of fighting, the size of the war and the consumption of ammunition. There may be dozens of rifles missing, and I will have to go to the arsenal to search carefully, and then repair all kinds of damaged guns. Xiao Liuzi, it's really not good, I'll pull out the Suluotong 20-mm anti-aircraft machine gun that I bought from the national army three years ago and put it in the offensive and defensive position at Hulugukou as a field artillery, it's amazing! Tanks and armored vehicles that specialize in fighting dog mongrel little devils. ”

"Huh?! Uncle Seven, do you still have such a baby here? Great, why did you never tell me? Yin enough, your seventh uncle. ”

"Hmph, how can I tell you everything? You don't have to take it all away for me, do you? ”

"Hey? You're a miser, a stingy ghost. Uncle Seven, let's be serious. Anti-aircraft guns must not be used like this. ”

"Huh? Can't use it like that? Little Liuzi, then what do you say should be used? ”

"Build a concealed anti-aircraft artillery position on the hill behind Fangxin Garden to prevent the devil's bombers from coming to Hulugu for low-altitude bombing and attack aircraft attacks."

"Huh? yes, why didn't I think of that? You see, the terrain of the entire Hulu Valley is a plain valley that is long from east to west, narrow from north to south, surrounded by mountains and recesses, and the little devil's bombers must have flown over from the southwest to dive and bomb, and then pull up and turn around and bomb for the second time, and the important targets should be Fangjiazhuang, the core area of Hulu Valley, and Fangxinyuan, the command center. From the mouth of the gourd valley to the pass of Yufeng Mountain, these ten miles are all winding serpentine roads, and on both sides are cliffs that almost go straight up and down, and the bombers and attack planes of the little devils are basically useless. It can only attack Hulu Valley from the air first, and the infantry troops attack from outside the mountains to the mountains at the same time, and the air and ground, inside and outside the mountains are coordinated and attacked, and they are flanked from both sides. Little Liuzi, what you said about building a concealed anti-aircraft artillery position is too good and timely, so let's do it. It can be built in 10 days. Ay? No, no, this is a new problem. Little Liuzi, what if, I mean what if. What if the little devil's tanks and armored vehicles enter the mountains? How to block the way and block the outside of the gourd valley? ”

"Uncle Seven, you have analyzed very thoroughly and accurately in front of you, and you are worthy of being a professional soldier who served as the commander of a reconnaissance company in the regular army. However, your assumptions are wrong. We are not afraid that the tanks and armored vehicles of the devils will enter the mountains, but we are afraid that they will not enter the mountains. If you want to completely destroy the tanks and armored vehicle units that destroy and completely destroy the devils, you must put them in the mountains to fight. The troops we had arranged in advance to lay in ambush first pushed down rocks weighing several hundred and a half tons from the cliffs more than 100 meters high, completely blocking the way to block the advance and retreat of the devil troops, and then cutting off the water source, so that the tanks and armored vehicles trapped would become immovable iron lumps. During the day, we sent small troops to attack and harass from top to bottom on the mountain, and after dark, we sent large troops to launch sneak attacks, night attacks, and surprise attacks on the mountains and on the ground at the same time. The troops took turns to fight, looking for opportunities to annihilate, and constantly encircled and fought day and night for a month, and the remaining little devils were dying of thirst, starvation, and frightening to death even if they were not killed. ”

"Okay, I think it's okay, when necessary, use this tactical method of warfare, make full use of the favorable terrain in the mountains, make use of the strengths and avoid the weaknesses, and attack the enemy's weaknesses with your own strengths. Our Fang Family Guard has used this trick a few times before, and it has been used repeatedly and successfully. Ay? By the way, Xiao Liuzi, you give Uncle Seventh an account, how many troops can you organize? Can you intercept the tanks and armored vehicles of the little devils in the mountains? ”

"Don't worry, Uncle Seven? Now I have four companies in my hands of less than 600 people, I took three companies from Hulu Valley with nearly 400 people, pulled out more than 100 people from the county seat and martial arts hall, and then gathered 200 people from the Fang family in the western Hebei region and armed them, a total of more than 1,000 people, equivalent to the strength of a regiment. The strength of my regiment is all strong generals with high martial arts, who can fight well, and dare to fight, and their combat effectiveness will only be stronger than the 2,000-strong supplementary regiment of the Eighth Route Army, but not weak. It's no problem to block the devil in front and intercept it in the back. ”

"Well, good. However, Xiao Liuzi, your troops and the troops of the Eighth Route Army together are only more than 3,000 people, and it is still dangerous and difficult to deal with the Japanese puppet army of 30,000 people. ”

"Yes, Uncle Seven is right. So we have to fight skillfully and not hard. ”

"Well, that's right. Little Liuzi, when are you leaving? When will the troops come out with you? This is said and exquisite. Fang Zhenhai asked with concern.

"It's hard to say right now. Seventh Uncle, it depends on the progress of the war, the size of the battle, and the changes in the enemy's situation in order to determine the timing and time for the troops to leave the mountain. ”

"Huh? This? That? So how do I prepare? When will the troops be assembled? ”