1209. Follow Camp Commander Luo to have meat to eat
At this time, Sangou made an important decision, an absolute one that Xiucai and they all opposed, that is, Sangou asked the battalion headquarters to separate from the mortar company, go out lightly, and march to Lujia Village and Longbei Village in the northwest of Sixi.
Then along Longbei Village to the north, similar to a big detour of the rapid march, rushed to Zhujia Village, Shanbei area, to see if it could reach the headquarters of the 34th Division of the Japanese army.
According to Sangou's prediction, the main force of the 34th Division and the division headquarters should be withdrawn in the direction of Tianziling, which is directly north of Sixi, and they are already withdrawing in that direction.
There are heavy troops of the 57th Division guarding Tianziling, and according to the equipment and combat strength of the 57th Division, and occupying favorable terrain, the 34th Division may not be able to defeat it in one day.
As long as they stayed in Tianziling for one day, the Chinese army that caught up behind them would make the Japanese army even more frightened, so the 34th Division would rather make a detour in front of Tianziling and go around the Guanqiao in the northwest.
At present, two wings of the 33rd Division and a field artillery brigade are being blocked by the 58th Division of the 74th Army in the north of Guanqiao, as long as the 34th Division goes around to the south of Guanqiao and attacks the 33rd Division at both ends, it is very likely to open up Guanqiao and open up this passage of life.
Sangou knew the terrain of this area well, and he also knew the location, distance, and marching route of each place, so he knew the next move of the Japanese army without looking at the map.
Sangou's analysis was correct, but Xiucai disagreed, mainly because the main force of the 34th Division has not yet been completely defeated, and Ogamo should still be commanding strongly, so the backbone has not fallen, and the 34th Division is still very combative.
Just Sangou and the battalion headquarters of the third battalion, a group of people who were not combat soldiers in the first place, wanted to go to the Shanbei Village in the south of Guanqiao to hold the division headquarters of Oga Shigeru, which was simply ridiculous and even extremely dangerous.
Sangou said to Xiucai that it was necessary to get rid of the headquarters of the 34th Division and get Oga Shige, so that the main force of the 34th Division would lose its command system and collapse.
Xiucai was still reluctant, feeling that this was something that the Luo headquarters and the 74th Army Military Department were considering, not something that a small battalion headquarters could do.
It's man-made, Sangou is determined to go, Xiucai has no choice, so he has to take people to follow, but he was stopped by Sangou, Sangou doesn't want the three battalion commanders and deputy battalion commanders to be together, in case there is a mistake, it's all gone.
Xiucai was finally ordered by Sangou to stay behind to command the machine gun company, and together with the bamboo poles, he fought in the back to clear the remnants of the enemy while collecting his own troops.
The key is to see if you can get the good things of the Japanese army, but this is really a bit difficult, judging from the urine of the Japanese army, there are good things, and when you can't hold it, you will destroy it.
Besides, now that the Japanese army itself is so poor, how can there be anything valuable, at most mortars or infantry guns.
Infantry artillery and mountain artillery, even if they get it, it will not be the turn of the three battalions to use it, and they all have to be handed over, at most in exchange for bonuses, but for an infantry battalion, fighting is just for a bonus, and the pattern is too small.
Just when the three dogs were discussing and preparing, Wu Dingli, the commander of the seventh company, came over with a platoon of people, in fact, this is all the personnel of the seventh company.
Originally, the Seventh Company lost the third platoon of its beard at Jingshan Pass, and after losing Xia Chen's second platoon at Phoenix Ridge, only Ma Zhaokai's platoon and Wang Xinjia's platoon remained.
After a scuffle in Sixi, the first platoon and the fourth platoon, which were not fully manned, were also beaten to only half a platoon each, but fortunately, the two platoon commanders were only slightly injured and could continue to command and persist in the battle.
Wu Dingli, the commander of the seventh company, led a few people from the company, who were originally lined up with Wang Xinjia, but later when he was going around, he encountered Ma Zhaokai's platoon in the northwest of Sixi, and immediately gathered the two platoons together.
Now that I saw the commander of the third battalion and the battalion headquarters, they naturally gathered over, and the three dogs were short of troops, and when they saw the seventh company coming, they were overjoyed, and immediately wanted to pull them to the northwest according to their own will.
However, now that the afternoon of March 26 was approaching evening, and he was afraid that the melee and rapid march at night would cause the brothers to be separated, Sangou specially made up a password to let everyone know, in fact, it was very simple, it was the three words "Oga Shige".
Then he also asked everyone to identify their team leader and squad leader, not to mess around easily, even if there is a fighter, to endure it, quickly report to the boss, report level by level, all the way to the side of Sangou.
Everyone was running in the direction of Longbei, which was relatively quiet, and now the battle was concentrated in the northeast of Lujia Village, due north of Sixi.
On the side of Longbei is the northwest direction of Sixi, there are almost no Japanese troops, at most they have encountered a group of Shanggao Laoxiang transport teams, which are rushing to transport the wounded down.
When the villagers saw Sangou walking briskly on the road, they were eating some fried rice in a dry food bag, so they immediately took out the steamed buns they had eaten with them and wanted to give them to the soldiers of the third battalion.
Sangou was not polite, asked everyone to take it, and also filled the kettle with some water, and some fellows directly changed the kettle, and the kettle with water on them directly replaced the empty kettle on the soldiers.
When everyone was sitting on the side of the road eating steamed buns and drinking water, and Sangou was chatting with his fellow villagers to inquire about the situation, a group of troops caught up behind them, and they issued a code from afar.
Even though it was the code of the third battalion, Wu Dingli still led the soldiers to immediately make preparations for a temporary battle, and when this group of people arrived, it turned out to be Zhu Dayong of the Ninth Company and Wang Weidong of the Machine Gun Company were about two platoons of people.
After Dayong and Wang Weidong came out of the Du family compound, they met Xiucai and the machine gun company in the northwest of Sixi, and Wang Weidong also thought about returning to the machine gun company.
But Xiucai ordered them to rush to this side immediately, and maybe they could catch up with Battalion Commander Luo, join up with the battalion commander, and strengthen the strength of the battalion commander's troops.
Dayong took the second platoon of the Ninth Company and the third platoon of Hailong (in fact, there was only one platoon of people), and Wang Weidong was a relatively full platoon, and immediately spread his feet and chased after the dragon's back.
"Follow Battalion Commander Luo to have meat to eat", this is the experience from the Seventh Company to the Third Battalion, and it is true that the Third Battalion has fought many battles under the leadership of the Three Dogs, most of them can eat meat, and how much can they get some achievements.
Seeing that two more platoons of people came, Sangou naturally smiled, and now that he had counted the strength of a company, he immediately asked the captain of the transportation team of the Shanggao Township next to him to take everyone to the temporary supply station in Xiongjia Village to receive weapons and ammunition.
Xiongjia Village is three miles west of Longbei, not far away, and it should be the baggage regiment of the 74th Army, and a supply depot has just been built there this morning.
This Shanggao Laoxiang transport team had also just come from there, and had gone north of Sixi to carry a group of wounded soldiers down, and was about to go there, when there was a big truck of the 74th Army's baggage regiment, which put the wounded on the truck and transported them back to the field hospital in the rear.
This would save a lot of time on the road and bring back more valuable wounded veterans, which is the philosophy of the American Aid Advisers, who have repeatedly asked trucks to prioritize the delivery of the wounded.