The Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Army's Independent Mixed Brigade was formed in Hebei in February this year, and it was announced that it would be established on March 24, and it was subordinate to the First Army of the Japanese North China Front, and the brigade commander, Major General Kawamura Dong. Vertex. Fastest updates

The 4th Independent Mixed Brigade consists of five infantry brigades: the 11th Independent Infantry Brigade, the 12th Independent Infantry Brigade, the 13th Independent Infantry Brigade, the 14th Independent Infantry Brigade, and the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade. Each infantry brigade consists of three infantry squadrons, one machine gun squadron, and one artillery squadron. There were eight heavy machine guns and two infantry guns.

The 4th Brigade is directly under the 4th Brigade and Regiment of the Independent Mixed Artillery Corps, Engineer Corps, Signal Corps, etc. Among them, the artillery team has a total strength of about 600 people, including one mountain artillery squadron and two field artillery squadrons, with four 75 mountain guns and eight 75 field guns.

The entire independent mixed brigade has a total strength of 5,024 people.

To put it bluntly, the Japanese army at this time was an independent mixed brigade, which was actually a small division and regiment composed of multiple arms.

The eastward advance detachment was no stranger to the Japanese army's independent mixed Fourth Brigade, and after this unit was formed, it was transferred to Zhengtai Road to participate in the battle to recapture Shouyang County, and followed the 16th Division to fight the autumn wind.

Xiao Siming, who has crossed the soul, is even more clear about the Japanese army's independent mixed fourth brigade. After participating in the Battle of Xuzhou in the history of this unit, it was transferred to the Shanxi battlefield and has been stationed in Yangquan, guarding the Zhengtai Railway and controlling several surrounding counties. Like Yu County and Pingding County, where Xiao Siming fought, they all belonged to the defense areas of the Fourth Brigade and Regiment that were independently mixed. The little devils set up strongholds in Yuxian and Pingding, forcibly recruited comfort women, and did bad things. During the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the Yangquan section of the Zhengtai Railway, which was garrisoned by the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, was the main battlefield, and the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade was dealt a heavy blow by our army!

Later, the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade and the 6th Independent Mixed Brigade were combined into the 62nd Division.

Hu Qingyun, Zheng Xiuchuan, and Li Qi were very quick with their hands and feet, and after a while, they marked the first situation on the map according to the enemy situation reported by Wang Quanyou, the commander of the reconnaissance company.

The reconnaissance company itself was three platoons scattered, and in the front of the main march, the movements of the Japanese army's independent mixed fourth brigade all fell into the eyes of the reconnaissance heroes.

According to the report of the reconnaissance company, the 4th Brigade of the Japanese Army Separate Mixed Brigade arrived at the front line of the Zhanghe River in the afternoon. Among them, the 12th Independent Infantry Brigade was stationed on the front line of the Zhanghe River in the Daimyo, using the Zhanghe Highway Bridge as a fulcrum to block the Zhanghe River crossing in the territory of the Daimyo; The 13th Independent Infantry Brigade, placed on the road from Wei County to Daimyo, defended to the north; The 14th Independent Infantry Brigade drove to the south bank of the Zhangwei River at the junction of Wei County and Guantao, and held on to the water.

It's a T-shaped defensive formation. Needless to say, the 11th Independent Infantry Brigade, which was independently mixed into the 4th Brigade, was located in Daimyo Castle behind the 12th Independent Infantry Brigade, and could be reinforced, operating in three directions at any time.

As for the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade, which is independently mixed with the 4th Brigade, it is likely that it will remain in Puyang and still carry out the task of protecting the crossing of the Yellow River and maintaining contact with the 14th Division.

Xiao Siming, Wang Lushui, Huang Hua, Hu Qingyun, Huo Cheng, Zheng Xiuchuan, and Li Qi all gathered around the map, staring at the map, thinking hard about the best way to defeat the enemy.

Yan Rou went to eat and came back, and saw that Xiao Siming and Wang Lushui were both looking at the map, and felt sorry that Xiao Siming had not eaten, so she simply shouted "report", and then said softly: "Commander, you can eat first!" Let's talk about it after eating! ”

Xiao Siming didn't look back, opened his mouth and said, "What to eat?" The little devil blocked the passage, we may fall into the encirclement of the Japanese army, you mother-in-law knows to eat, eat, and the daylily will be cold if you eat it again! ”

Yan Rou is still a yellow flower girl, Xiao Siming actually said to her, "You mother-in-law!" "Moreover, I said it in front of so many people!

Xiao Siming was also worried about the war, and he didn't choose what to say. In fact, his words are very sick, not only the beautiful Yan Rou can't accept it, but it is also easy for Wang Lushui and Huang Hua to doubt his relationship with Yan Rou!

No, Wang Lushui and the others all turned their heads to look at Yan Rou, their eyes full of doubts!

Yan Rou immediately froze there, her face was flushed, her eyes were full of tears, and she held back a sentence for a long time: "You bully people!" ”

After speaking, Yan Rou turned around and left, ran out of the door, and her tears couldn't help but pop and drip down!

Crying and crying, Yan Rou suddenly thought, Xiao Siming actually said that she was "you mother-in-law", could it be that he was closer to him than before?

As soon as she thought of this, Yan Rou immediately stopped crying, and was busy sorting out her bags and preparing to go.

Xiao Siming's mind was full of thinking about how to fight this battle, he didn't think about it that much at all, he just said it casually, and he didn't even go through his brain.

After more than ten minutes, Xiao Siming took his eyes off the map again, saw the food on the table, walked over and sat down, took a steamed bun, picked up the cucumber shreds with chopsticks, and ate it.

After eating two steamed buns in one go and drinking a bowl of cornmeal, Xiao Siming thought of Yan Rou and asked, "What about Yan Rou?" Let her come and put away the dishes and chopsticks, wash them and return them to the landlord! ”

Huo Cheng said angrily: "That mother-in-law was angry with you and cried, and left!" ”

Xiao Siming then remembered that he was in a hurry just now, saying that Yan Rou was "your mother-in-law", but he ignored the dissatisfaction and ridicule in Huo Cheng's tone, smiled, and shouted to the guards at the door to come in and put away the dishes and chopsticks.

After eating, he lit a cigarette and took two puffs, Xiao Siming said slowly: "Political commissar, Lao Huang, Lao Hu, Lao Huo, Lao Zheng, according to the current situation of the Japanese army, I think there are three ways to fight this battle!" ”

The fourth brigade of the Japanese army suddenly appeared on the south bank of the Zhanghe River, sealing the southward passage of the eastward advance detachment.

Wang Lushui was in a hurry to die, and when he heard the words, he said: "Don't sell it, hurry up and say your thoughts, let's study it, so that we can make up our minds!" ”

Huang Hua followed and said, "The soldiers are fast! Our army has been here for a long time, and it is bound to leak the news, and if the Japanese Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division catch up, it will really fall into the encirclement! ”

Xiao Siming smiled, took another sip, and then said: "The three ways I said, the first one, is to say a frontal breakthrough, seize the opportunity of the Japanese army when they first arrived at the Zhanghe River and did not have time to build a complete and solid fortification system, seize the Zhanghe Highway Bridge, break through the Japanese army's Zhanghe River defense line, and defeat the Japanese army's independent mixed Fourth Brigade head-on, annihilate one of its parts, shake the Japanese army, attract the fifth division and the sixteenth division to rush to help, and then we took the little devil's nose and went to Nanle County and Puyang County, and led the two elite divisions of the little devil to the Yellow River, and then disengaged from contact with the enemy, marched to the southwest of Shandong, and after making peace with the new corps, crossed the Yellow River and advanced into the mountainous area of central and southern Shandong! ”

When Wang Lushui heard this, he shook his head and said that it was a brigade of the Japanese army in front of him, and if he forcibly attacked, he was likely to be entangled by the Japanese army and would not be able to get out. By dawn, Japanese planes would come to help, and the troops would be completely exposed. This method is worth thinking about!

Wang Lushui is equivalent to vetoing Xiao Siming's first tactic!

Xiao Siming continued unhurriedly: "The second method of warfare is that since the Japanese army has blocked the frontal passage, our army will not fight hard, quickly retreat, detour through Guantao, cross the Zhanghe River from Guantao, and detour behind the 14th Independent Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army, launch a surprise attack, eliminate or cripple the 14th Independent Infantry Brigade, attract Japanese reinforcements, ambush it halfway, expand the results of the battle, and mobilize the Japanese Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division to quickly pursue our army south. ”

Wang Lushui thought about it for a while and said that this tactic was better than the hard confrontation just now, highlighting the characteristics of our army being good at fighting skillful battles, and it could also use a series of tactics to expand the results of the battle.

Xiao Siming said: The disadvantage of this second method of operation is that the troops have to walk a lot and delay time.

Huang Hua said that as long as you can win the battle, what is it to run more? The 25,000-mile long march has come through, will you care about this journey?

Xiao Siming went on to say the third way of fighting, that is, to ignore the main force of the 4th Brigade of the Japanese Army that blocked the front line of the Zhanghe River, detour to Guantao, cross the Zhanghe River, hide and advance south, go to Puyang County, find and annihilate the Japanese troops guarding the Yellow River crossing, capture the materials transported by the Japanese First Army to the Yellow River crossing, supply the 14th Division, the 3rd Brigade, and the 13th Brigade, and force the Japanese Army to withdraw to the first line of the Zhanghe River, turn around and go south for reinforcements, ambush it on the way, expand the results of the battle, and then mobilize the 5th Division of the Japanese Army. The 16th Division rushed to the Yellow River.

Wang Lushui, Huang Hua, Hu Qingyun, and Huo Cheng almost didn't think about it, and directly applauded, saying that the third way of fighting was the best, which could not only avoid the heavy casualties that our army might cause by forcibly breaking through the existing positions of the Japanese army, but also capture a large amount of supplies from the Japanese army, and also mobilize the Japanese army to independently mix into the fourth brigade, the fifth division, and the sixteenth division to quickly go south for reinforcements, killing three birds with one stone!

Hu Qingyun, chief of staff, also said that this is our army's tactics, and it is necessary to attack the enemy by surprise, and it is also the one who must be saved by attacking the enemy! Across the Yellow River, the 14th Division of the Japanese Army, the 3rd Brigade and the 13th Brigade of the Japanese Army stared at each other but could not save them, and there was no way at all! The Japanese army was independently mixed into the Fourth Brigade, which was equivalent to the back road being copied and the supplies of the guards being robbed, and they would definitely rush south to reinforce in a hurry, which created a fighter plane for our army to carry out the second and third steps of the operation.

As for the 5th and 16th Divisions of the Japanese Army, Hu Qingyun didn't have to pay attention to them. By the time they arrived, our army had already been transferred, and they could only follow our ass and eat fart!

Huo Cheng then added: "Think about it, the Yellow River crossing has a steady stream of shells, bullets, grenades, rice, white noodles, canned beef, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, soap, toothpaste, and so on and so forth!" There was no Yellow River bridge in that area, and the Japanese army could only rely on ships. It will never be finished for a while, and there must be a lot left. I ran away in Shijiazhuang for nothing, and there was no oil and water at all! Well, now the troops can replenish it well! ”

Several people's eyes looked at Xiao Siming, waiting for him to make up his mind! (To be continued.) )