Chapter 20 Mobile Artillery
The battle in the col ended in a very short time. Lu Zhengchao's troops, with the assistance of the Protector Army, wiped out all the Japanese troops in the mountain col who had the ability to resist. The remaining more than 300 wounded Japanese soldiers who had no ability to resist lay on the ground and wailed, and the sergeants of the 691st Regiment did not know how to deal with it and reported to Lu Zhengchao.
Lu Zhengchao also had a headache, according to the Geneva Convention, prisoners of war cannot be killed, so he consulted with Bai Fei. Bai Fei snorted coldly and said: "Although the Geneva Convention stipulates that prisoners of war are not killed, it also depends on the object, Commander Lu, it is not the first time that you have contact with the devils, in the past battles, they captured our Chinese soldiers, but they have all acted in accordance with the convention, and there has never been a massacre of our Chinese prisoners of war?" β
Lu Zhengchao shook his head and was silent, Bai Fei continued: "The evil deeds of the little devils are known to the world, not to mention the Chinese soldiers, even to the civilian people, they will kill and humiliate if they want to, they are no different from beasts, they came to China to launch a war of aggression, and they are here to destroy our country and exterminate the species!" I think to be merciful to them is the greatest cruelty to ourselves! Commander Lu, if you are afraid of the infamy of slaughtering prisoners, I will do this matter, and my national protector army will never take prisoners of devils. β
After speaking, Bai Fei immediately ordered Wang Weiguo and Li Shuyang to lead the team to kill all the injured devils in the valley, and after a crackling gunshot, Wang and Li came out with the team. After coming out, Bai Fei found that the soldiers of the 691st Regiment looked at them differently, and most of them showed expressions of happiness, admiration, and hatred.
Lu Zhengchao was embarrassed and didn't know what to say, Bai Fei said apologetically: "Head Lu, I'm sorry just now, my tone is a little heavy, don't take it to heart." β
But seeing Lu Zhengchao with a smile on his face, he waved his hand and said: "Where is Captain Bai, what you said I Lu don't know, it's just that people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes, and some orders I can't give casually as the head of the regiment, since now Captain Bai has done what I want to do but can't do for me, it's too late for me to be happy, how can I be angry?" β
Bai Fei was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt like he was being overshadowed. Although he did not regret killing the wounded prisoners of the devil, he was still a little uncomfortable in his heart, and was thinking about how to get back some ground, when he saw Lu Zhengchao's guard company commander come over and say something in his ear.
Lu Zhengchao's eyes lit up, he turned his head to look behind, Bai Fei followed his gaze, and saw more than a dozen soldiers wearing Eighth Route uniforms in the distance walking over under the leadership of the guard company.
When he was twenty-six or seventeen years old, he took a few steps, saluted Lu Zhengchao, and introduced himself first: "Meng Shun, instructor of the third company of the first battalion of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment, may I ask if it is Lu Zhengchao and Commander Lu." β
Lu Zhengchao said: "I am Lu Zhengchao, the head of the 691 Regiment," and then pointed at Bai Fei, "This is the captain of Bai Feibai of the Anti-Japanese Protector Army." β
When Meng Shun heard this, he immediately turned his head to observe Bai Fei, and after a few glances, Meng Shun said to Lu Zhengchao: "I am on the order of our regiment commander to inform your regiment that about a wing of Japanese troops is coming from Matianling, although our independent regiment keeps harassing the Japanese army along the way, but the other party is very fast, at this time the Japanese army is less than ten kilometers away, please make plans for Commander Lu early." β
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It is said that Abe Norihide learned that the advance team was trapped in the cattle canal, and immediately sent the second wing to rush to help, but the team received a farewell telegram from Inouehara halfway. Abe's eyes were dark, and he was so angry that he almost vomited blood. The attendants beat their chests and wiped their backs, and Abe Guixiu relieved himself.
The staff officer said: "Your Excellency, the brigade commander, I know that I know that I will not be defeated in a hundred battles, and now we can't even figure out which branch of the Chinese army near the drinking cow canal is, and the telegram sent by the advance team is messy, one will say that it is a guerrilla, and the other will be the Jin Sui army, Inoue Yuan said in the last telegram that there are other Chinese troops participating in the war, anyway, at this time, the advance team has been completely broken, and the plan to quickly occupy Laiyuan has been unable to achieve, and the Chinese army is obviously fully prepared, although I don't want to say, But in reality, the plan to encircle and annihilate was already bankrupt. The Taihang Mountains are high and densely forested, and the roads are narrow, which is not conducive to the development of our army, and it is impossible to mobilize combat vehicles, tanks and other mechanized equipment to cooperate with the battle during the battle, even if the air force is difficult to form an effective blow to the enemy in the dense forest, in order to avoid further losses, I suggest that we withdraw our troops as soon as possible. β
"Yaga! It was you who suggested the march, and now that you encounter a little difficulty, you want to suggest that you withdraw from the army? If you talk nonsense like this again, I'll shoot you for disturbing the morale of the army! The fierce Abe Norihide wanted to slash him with a knife, but the rank of the combat staff officer was almost the same as his, and he had a certain background in Tokyo, so he could only apply for a change of staff officer at most, and he could not kill him at will.
What's more, what the staff officer said was also true, and Abe Norihide himself understood it very well. It's just that at the beginning, he thought that this plan was seamless, and he had just been promoted to major general and was full of spirit, and wanted to make new achievements on the battlefield to prove himself, and despite the opposition of some people in the Kwantung Army General Staff, he tried his best to lobby the commander of the Kwantung Army, Ueda Kenkichi, and finally got approval and led the team into the Kannai battlefield. If he leads the team back now, not only will he not succeed in an inch, but the team will also lose more than 2,000 people, how can Abe Norihide be willing, and then he, the flower of a famous general, will become the biggest laughing stock of the Kwantung Army.
Therefore, despite the opposition of his staff officers, Abe ordered the 2nd Wing to move forward and destroy the Chinese troops near the Yinniu Canal at all costs, in an attempt to save a little face.
At the same time, Lu Zhengchao and Bai Fei had already received a message from the Independent Regiment. LΓΌ Zhengchao immediately consulted with Bai Fei, and finally the two sides decided to resist the Japanese army on the spot. Lu Zhengchao explained a few words to Meng Shun, who came to deliver the letter, and asked him to go back to his life.
After Meng Shun left, LΓΌ Zhengchao discussed the details with Bai Fei, and he was very impressed by the fire cover provided by the Protector Army in the previous battle, so he planned to let the Protector Army continue to provide fire support and cooperate with the 691st Regiment to block the Japanese army.
Bai Fei couldn't ask for it, so he immediately agreed. He only has so many people left now, but he doesn't want to be consumed in the battle with the devil. Seeing that the manpower of the Protector Army was thin, Lu Zhengchao transferred another 120 people from his own team, and the company was led by a platoon commander named Yang Jun and handed over to Bai Fei's command.
Bai Fei immediately ordered the brothers of the Protector Army to hand over all the heavy weapons such as light and heavy machine guns and mortars they had used to be captured from the Japanese army to the 120 people who came to support.
He himself found a hiding place, and exchanged 15 RPG-7s and more than 100 rockets with the system, plus the remaining from the previous exchange, a total of 20 RPGs and more than 140 ammunition, and redistributed them to the Protector Army soldiers. Of course, the exchange cost a lot of merit, but this time it annihilated the two brigades of devils and provided Bai Fei with more than 25,000 merit points, so it was also consumed.
RPG is simple to operate, hugely powerful, everyone holding an RPG on the battlefield is equivalent to a mobile turret, it is easy to carry, easier to conceal, very suitable for Bai Fei's requirements.
Send rockets and RPGs, basically an RPG distributes 7 rockets, in teams of two, a main shooter, a secondary shooter, the secondary shooter is responsible for carrying ammunition, the main shooter is responsible for firing, and the sniper team is responsible for covering and sniping the enemy.
Bai Fei's team has been sorted out, and Lu Zhengchao's department has already cleaned up the battlefield. This time, the Japanese army was annihilated, leaving behind a large number of weapons and ammunition, although all the heavy weapons were destroyed, but there were a lot of light machine guns and 50 grenadiers.
The 691 regiment has fought several times on the battlefield in Baoding, the consumption is large, and it has not been replenished, and now looking at the mountain of equipment, Lu Zhengchao is excited, and he thanked Bai Fei again and again, and ordered the troops to replenish the equipment, and at the same time build a position on the spot, ready to meet the devil.