Chapter 34: The Smell of Danger
Although the quality of these people left behind is not very high, they are usually good at tracking and hunting in this mountain jungle, that is, once they face a large group of organized enemy troops, it is easy to break up because of fear, after all, they have not received professional military training, and they are not very accustomed to formation warfare, and they do not understand the importance of professional army tactics such as crossfire, segmented blocking, frontal feints, flank outflanking, etc., so they are temporarily assigned to take care of the light and serious wounded in the camp. After all, more than 40 people were injured in a battle, and if they all relied on four Chinese and Japanese female medical soldiers to take care of them, they would all have to lie down tired.
"Liao Peng, have the brothers sent back any latest Japanese military movements?" Fu Zhiyong was lying on the sand table in front of him with his arms hanging at this time, frowning and thinking about something solemnly, and asked casually to Liao Peng, who was grinding beside him, without looking back.
In the past half a month, Fu Zhiyong has been tossing and turning back and forth on the map and the sand table regardless of the pain, thinking about the next move of the Japanese army and the retreat of his group.
Although the Japanese army has not made any moves at the moment, the longer the time passes, the more uncertain Fu Zhiyong's heart becomes, and the soldiers sent out in half a month have reported that the Japanese army has no signs of troop movement, and there is no tension at all.
"No, the Japanese army didn't move at all, and the battalion commander was too abnormal, and I always didn't feel very down-to-earth in my heart." Liao Peng also replied with a solemn face at this time, and seemed to smell a dangerous smell through the faint fresh air.
"No, there must be a problem here, but what's the problem? The Japanese army didn't move, it didn't move......" Fu Zhiyong slowly narrowed his eyes and began to ponder to himself, his right hand kept gesturing on the sand table, as if there was always something important that he had ignored, but he couldn't grasp the point for a while.
"Battalion commander, I'm back, fuck, I'm tired." Just when Fu Zhiyong and Liao Peng were each in thought, Zhang Weidong hurriedly walked in from outside, sat down at the table next to him, grabbed the water cup on the table and drank it in a big gulp.
"Weidong, have you and your brothers found out anything about the situation?" Fu Zhiyong straightened up and walked slowly to Zhang Weidong and asked.
"Battalion commander, you said this is really fucking evil, for so many days, the devil actually didn't look like he was going to go out at all, and he couldn't even see the devil's truck and carriage transport team on the road, probably because we were scared, and he didn't dare to come out again, haha......" Zhang Weidong wiped his mouth and laughed a little proudly.
"Don't be too happy, the Japanese devils will be revenged, I don't believe they will eat this dumb loss if they are killed, there is no transport team on the highway, it's just ...... What did you say! The transport trucks and wagons on the Japanese highway were out of sight? Fu Zhiyong's hand just about to get the water cup suddenly shook, and he hurriedly looked at Zhang Weidong and shouted in surprise.
"yes, what's so strange about that?" Zhang Weidong looked at Fu Zhiyong's expression and was stunned, nodded and replied with certainty.
"It's absolutely impossible, I can understand if you can't see the carriage convoy, after all, it's easy to be attacked by us if you run slowly, but I don't believe it without trucks to transport supplies! The 11th Division of the Japanese Army is now stationed in the city of Nanjing, and the 10th Infantry Brigade of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army is stationed in the city, plus the newly replenished soldiers and second-line troops, there are nearly 10,000 troops, and there are also the men and horses of the two regiments of the Security Regiment that have just been reorganized and formed recently, and a large number of residents who have been forced to move over are waiting for food and clothing, and the railways on the first line of Danyang and Zhenjiang have been seriously damaged by us, and even if there are railroad tracks for two or three months, they cannot be repaired at all, and it is not enough for them to drink a bowl of gruel a day by relying on a number of river boats to transport supplies. Besides, the main means of transportation of the Japanese army are trucks and horse-drawn carriages, and it is impossible for them to give up and not use them, and if they want to use trucks and horse-drawn carriages to transport materials, then the highway in Jurong is the closest, if it were you, would you abandon it and detour to Zhenjiang from the Longtan line into Nanjing? Fu Zhiyong walked back to the sand table quickly, and said to Liao Peng and Zhang Weidong while gesturing.
"Well, if it were me, I would not abandon this important transportation route, and I would not allow the enemy to act arbitrarily in my hinterland." Liao Peng also walked over, looked at the marked path on the sand table in front of him, nodded and said.
"I haven't thought about that." Zhang Weidong also stood up and walked over and said, he also understood a little at the moment, and his original contempt for the enemy was also reined in.
"Weidong, did our soldiers find the enemy's baggage troops or convoys in Jurong and Nanjing?" Fu Zhiyong continued to ask.
"This is not the case, because many places are heavily defended by the Japanese army, and it is strictly forbidden for any Chinese to approach, and once they get close to a position of twenty meters, they will shoot decisively, and this is how one of our brothers died during reconnaissance." Zhang Weidong shook his head and replied with a sigh.
"And what about on the streets?" Fu Zhiyong continued to ask.
"I don't know about this, you wait a minute, I'll ask the soldiers who came back." After Zhang Weidong finished speaking, he turned around and walked out quickly.
"Battalion commander, if the enemy's transport convoy is gone, what do you mean......" Although Liao Peng already had an answer in his heart, he still wanted to hear whether Fu Zhiyong's opinion was the same as his own.
"What I'm worried about now is not the enemies that are in the open, but the enemies that we can't see or that we haven't discovered yet...... It's the worst thing. Fu Zhiyong said as he pointed his finger at two specially marked prominent positions on the sand table.
Liao Peng looked at Fu Zhiyong's fingers, and suddenly chuckled in his heart, because the two locations that Fu Zhiyong pointed to were not elsewhere, they were Zhenjiang and Danyang, which were completely consistent with what he thought in his heart.
Once the Japanese army used trucks and horse-drawn wagons to quickly dispatch troops and heavy artillery from these two places to encircle and suppress them, with their current reconnaissance methods, they would not be able to detect the approach of danger at all, because their current manpower and equipment could only reconnoiter the area of Nanjing and Jurong at the farthest, and if they were far away, they would lose the value of reconnaissance, and even if you could find out the movement of Japanese troops, you would not be able to rush back to the camp in time to report the news, because it was impossible for the soles of your feet to run past the wheels of cars speeding on the highway in the mountains and forests.
"Battalion commander, I asked clearly, and the brothers who came back said that the Japanese trucks and carriages in Nanjing City have not seen any signs of decreasing, but the Japanese baggage troops and transport teams stationed in Jurong and Lishui have indeed not been seen in the city." Zhang Weidong quickly turned back in a hurry, and said with a gloomy face as soon as he entered the door, feeling very annoyed that he who was in charge of directing the peripheral investigation would neglect such an important link.
"I'm afraid we're in big trouble this time, we didn't expect that the Japanese army would actually put the troops close at hand, but directly transferred troops from other places to come over and encircle, you two came over to see ......" Fu Zhiyong sighed and beckoned to the two.
Zhang Weidong and Liao Peng immediately gathered in front of the sand table and checked together.
"Now our position is almost heavily surrounded, we have nearly 8,000 devil soldiers in the north of the 11th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese 11th Division stationed in Nanjing, and a brigade of the Japanese Hasegawa Wing in Jurong in the east, although we have killed one of their squadrons of infantry and a transport squadron, but their strength is still nearly 1,200 people, and Liyang in the south also has the strength of a brigade of the Hasegawa Wing, because it has not been fought, so the strength should be about 1,500 after replenishment, Only the southwest of Lukou and Moling Pass of the Japanese army has the least troops, and the defense is also the weakest, there is only one less than 200 Japanese squadrons stationed in each place, this point of strength to defend the city is okay, if you want to block a nearly 40-kilometer-long front, it is, this is why I dare to hit his transport team under their noses, from the sand table our position is quite unfavorable, but it is also very safe, once the Japanese army wants to enter the mountains to encircle and suppress us, we can withdraw from the Moling Pass to the Lukou line at any time... Fu Zhiyong pointed to several locations on the sand table and explained.
"Yes." Liao Peng already knew Fu Zhiyong's thoughts, so there was nothing to be surprised about, the sand table and the map were drawn by him personally, if he didn't even have this strategic vision, then he really couldn't mix up with the rank of an officer in the military police.
"That's right, our current position is indeed offensive and defensible." Zhang Weidong also rubbed his chin and nodded in response.
"This is my original idea, but the current situation is completely different from the previous idea, it seems that the commander of the Japanese army is not a general, at a glance I saw through my mind, now they are everywhere without moving, just waiting for the troops to be transferred to Moling Pass and Lukou line to unfold it, then our retreat will be completely cut off, I estimate that this enemy is from Zhenjiang, Danyang side of the army, when the time comes Lishui and Jurong line of the Japanese army along the road blockade the east side of the forest, The 10th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army on the Nanjing side and the Japanese reinforcements transferred from the north and south attacked so much that it is estimated that we will have to go all the way to the west to the river even if we are not completely annihilated. Fu Zhiyong narrowed his eyes and said as he thought about countermeasures.
"If Moling Pass and Lukou are blocked...... There is simply no way back for us. Zhang Weidong was taken aback when he looked at the terrain on the sand table, and immediately exclaimed......
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