From the time the reconnaissance platoon first met the enemy at dawn, until now, it has repelled five Japanese attacks. The time passed unconsciously, and it was already 11 a.m.

According to the orders of Zhou Jianping and Liu Daosheng, the independent battalion must hold out on the front line of Nianzigou until dark before it can be evacuated. It's only 11 a.m., and it's still more than 6 hours before it gets dark!

The tactical principle of the Eighth Route Army at this time was to fight guerrilla warfare in the mountains and not to engage in frontal resistance with the Japanese army.

The reason why Zhou Jianping and Liu Daosheng gave the independent battalion the order to resolutely block the Japanese army in the area of Nianzigou until dark was to determine the true intention of the Japanese army to attack Yuxian County on three routes, and they needed the troops to block the attack and cover the movement of the masses and local organs, and they also knew that the Japanese army was strong, and the troops could only find an opportunity to retreat if they held out until dark.

The reason why Xiao Siming was irritable after listening to the order conveyed by the correspondent and felt that this battle could not be fought was mainly because he was worried that the casualties of the three detachments might be very large, and he was worried that the Japanese army would outflank the rear of the independent battalion after the withdrawal of the three detachments. In that case, the independent battalion will be exposed to the enemy, and the blocking battle will eventually evolve into a breakout battle, and the casualties of the troops may be very large!

Due to the favorable terrain and correct tactics, the fierce fighting has been fierce until now, whether it is the reconnaissance platoon or the three companies led by Wang Meng, the casualties are still zero. But the next battle was different from the previous battle, the troops had to hold their positions to the death, and they could not evacuate their positions before dark!

It's useless to be upset, you have to fight if you can't fight!

The War of Resistance itself was imposed on the Chinese by the Japanese, and in the eyes of some people who had studied in Japan and had a certain understanding of Japan's national strength, the War of Resistance itself could not be fought, and China was not Japan's opponent! But that's the way it is, don't talk about Xiao Siming, who has crossed the soul, that is, the ordinary Chinese army and Chinese soldiers in this era, from the command headquarters to the soldiers pulled by Lazhuang Ding, knowing that this battle can't be fought, why don't you fight it anyway? If you don't fight, you have to be a slave to the country, and if you don't fight, how do you know that China will definitely not be able to defeat little Japan?

This is at the macro level, the strategic level, specific to the current blocking battle, although he knew that the independent battalion might fall into the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army, this battle could not be fought, but Xiao Siming was not discouraged, not only fighting, but also defeating the Japanese army, forcing the Japanese army to retreat!

At this time, the units of the three detachments were separately blocking the Japanese troops attacking from Shouyang and Pingding. If the independent battalion does not fight well and cannot withstand it, and let the Japanese troops pass this way, the troops of the three detachments fighting in the east and west directions will be separated, and the situation will be even more dangerous.

The foundation of the three detachments is a company of the 2nd Battalion of the 685th Regiment, more than 60 people of the 771st Regiment of the 120th Division and a company. But now the three detachments have developed from two companies to three regiment-sized brigades, the main force is seriously diluted, and the combat effectiveness has fallen instead of rising, and once it falls into the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army, the consequences will be unimaginable!

In other words, in Xiao Siming's mind, he would rather let the Japanese army outflank the back road of the independent battalion than let the three detachments fall into the encirclement of the Japanese army. He knew that although the three detachments were later reorganized into the Fifth Regiment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and after being tempered on the battlefield, they became the main force of our army, although the current three detachments are brigade-level teams, their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the later Jin-Chahar-Hebei Fifth Regiment.

Only the independent battalion struck hard and hard, which made the Japanese army cowardly and afraid, even if the blocking troops of the three detachments were defeated by the Japanese army, they could retreat calmly!

After taking a few breaths and smoking another cigarette to gradually calm down, Xiao Siming said to the deputy battalion commander Zheng Xiuchuan, the second company commander Cao Ming'an, the instructor Zhang Huaide, the captain of the heavy machine gun team Mou Guangyao, the instructor of the artillery team Li Hubao, and the engineer captain Sun Zhizhuo: "The company-level cadres go down to each platoon and squad to effectively control the troops!" Tell the soldiers to stay in the fortifications and aim and fight, and not to leave the fortifications to pursue the Japanese army! Every time you repel the Japanese army, you must retreat to the fortifications behind the mountain beams as quickly as possible to avoid the bombing and shelling of Japanese planes! All the troops changed into Japanese uniforms, and the signal and communication squad set up the Japanese army's anti-air contact board to confuse the Japanese planes! It is necessary to make the soldiers understand that there is no way to retreat behind, either we will push back the Japanese army, or we will be wiped out by the Japanese army, and there is no third way to go! As long as we hold on until dark, it's easy and we can move quickly! ”

Each infantry squad of the independent battalion had one or two pack horses to carry the baggage. The soldiers' Japanese costumes were all carried on pack horses, and it was easy to change their clothes.

After speaking, Xiao Siming ordered Li Hubao, the instructor of the artillery team: "All the grenadiers on the command position of the artillery team are not allowed to fire without my order!" Pay attention to concealment, and strictly prevent being discovered and destroyed by Japanese aircraft and Japanese artillery. You divide the shelling squares in the mill ditch in advance, and calculate the shelling coordinates and data. When the Japanese army's early attack was frustrated and the main force was concentrated and ready to break through in one fell swoop, he listened to my order, sent two infantry guns and grenadiers to the position as quickly as possible, and used poison gas bombs to aim at the main Japanese force gathered in the ditch and opened fire. This time, I'm going to let the Japanese army drink a good pot! ”

It must be cool to use the gas bombs of the captured Japanese army against the Japanese army!

Li Hubao's eyes lit up when he boarded, and he replied "yes" loudly, and went to carry it out.

Xiao Siming turned to Mu Guangyao, the captain of the heavy machine gun team, and ordered him to command the remaining four heavy machine guns of the heavy machine gun team in a unified manner, not to fire in the early stage, and to carefully observe the situation on the opposite mountain beam with a telescope.

As long as the senior commander of the Japanese army is defeated, this battle will naturally be easy to fight!

The Japanese army is a first-class training force, and even if their supreme commander is killed, the force will not collapse. Just like in the Loess Ridge Battle in history, the troops of the 1st Division killed the supreme commander of the Japanese army on the battlefield and the commander of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade and Regiment, Abe Norihide, and the Japanese army was still trapped and fighting to the death. It was not until the Japanese military planes airdropped a new batch of officers that our army had to retreat and retreat, and failed to completely annihilate the Japanese army.

Still, the importance of taking out the Japanese commander is self-evident. At the very least, it can cause chaos in the Japanese army for a short time and reduce the pressure on our army!

This Xiao Siming is not very old, but his moves are all ruthless, so ruthless that after the little devils know that their opponent is called Xiao Siming, the target of the future recruit training will be written with Xiao Siming's name!

As soon as Xiao Siming's side was deployed, the figure of the little devil had already appeared on the opposite mountain beam.

The Japanese planes were humming and screaming in the sky, bombing and strafing continuously, covering the infantry and finally attacking the mountain beam on the southeast side of Nianzigou Village, where Xiao Siming and Wang Meng had just evacuated.

The little devils who climbed the mountain beam, this time they learned well, and quickly pounced into the craters on the mountain beam and the foxhole left by the Eighth Route Army, and observed around with their guns, searching for traces of the blockers. It wasn't until it was confirmed that the Eighth Route Army on the mountain beam had already withdrawn without a trace, and the little devil's flag soldiers had to get up and play the flag and inform the follow-up troops that they had occupied the mountain beam!

Xiao Siming saw clearly through the binoculars that no one stood up and raised a gun to cheer from the little devil who occupied the mountain beam from beginning to end! It seems that the little devil already knows that he has encountered hard stubble, for fear that he will be hit by a sudden flying bullet if he exposes his body!

Putting down the binoculars, a wicked smile hung on the corner of Xiao Siming's mouth, originally due to the pressure of the Shouyang Japanese army and the Pingding Japanese army attacking the county seat of Yuxian County from the communicator, it disappeared when he landed.

After the 109th Division of the Japanese Army was transferred to North China to participate in the war, it was first assigned to the Second Army of the Japanese Army and participated in the operation of the northern section of the Jinpu Road with the strength of a brigade. After capturing Cangxian, according to the North China Front's operational plan, the 109th Division attacked and advanced along the left bank of the Fuyang River, which was tantamount to cutting off the waist on the North China Plain in an attempt to gather and annihilate the Chinese troops deployed on the front line of Baoding. After the plot failed, the 109th Division was ordered to turn to the Pinghan Line to fight, capture Xingtai, an important town on the Pinghan Line, and the Shexian and Baiqikou lines in Shanxi, and the troops were also under the command of the First Army of the Japanese Army.

During the Battle of Taiyuan, the 109th Division cooperated with the 20th Division of the Japanese Army advancing west along Zhengtai Road to attack Taiyuan, and was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army in Changshengkou, Dongshimen, Huangyadi and Guangyang in the east of Niangzi Pass, and after several battles, the division lost about 2,000 people. The 109th Division was ambushed by the second detachment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region in Fanzhi, with a loss of more than 100 people, and was ambushed by the three detachments of the Jin-Chahar-Hebei Military Region in Shangshe, Yuxian County, with a loss of more than 100 people, and was attacked by an independent battalion around the county seat of Yuxian County, with a loss of more than 700 people. In other words, since the Japanese 109th Division invaded China, it has lost about 3,000 people, which is nearly the strength of an infantry wing!

Since the 109th Division invaded China, it has undergone two rectifications!

One was after the Battle of Taiyuan, and all the units of the Japanese army participating in the war were replenished. Compared with the 5th Division that participated in the Battle of Xinkou, the Chahar Corps of the Kwantung Army, and the 20th Division of the Japanese Korean Army that stormed Niangzi Pass, the battle losses of the 109th Division were still relatively low, and the replenishment was quickly completed. The second time was that after the Japanese army besieged the Jinchaji Border Area on the Eighth Route some time ago, the 109th Division had to replenish it for the second time, but this replenishment was completed within the division, that is, the infantry brigade that suffered losses was directly replenished with the division and regimental replenishment team.

Generally speaking, the 109th Division has always suffered losses and not taken advantage of the Eighth Route Army!

Although they all suffered losses in the fight with the Eighth Route Army, and they all suffered big losses, the way of suffering losses was different! Like Xiao Siming's style of play, it is to make the Japanese army suffer losses to the bones, and it hurts to the bone marrow!

Just now, Xiao Siming's style of fighting Japanese officers was pulling the tendons of the Japanese army, and what was destroyed was the officer base that the Japanese army relied on to replenish the troops, can the little devil not hurt to the bone marrow!