Chapter 170: True Intent
Yan Xiwen transmitted Ye Tufei's tactical ideas to Lu Yao and Han Hongxun by telegram.
In less than five minutes, Lu Yao and Han Hongxun replied separately that they completely agreed with Ye Tufei's plan.
They are all excellent commanders of the troops, and they will quickly understand the ingenuity of this tactical plan with just a little allocation.
At eight o'clock, the Erlang Mountain bandit battalion was ready to go.
Before leaving, Ye Tufei instructed the company that stayed behind: "Boss Feng, the first company is the backbone company of our Erlang Mountain bandit battalion, with the largest number of people and the most sophisticated weapons, you have to take care of my home." ”
Feng Zhongliang responded: "Don't worry, Sixth Master, now that the common people have basically been transferred, we will definitely follow the instructions of the Sixth Master to take Little Japan on a good tour of Erlang Mountain, and wait for the Sixth Master to come back and teach them a lesson!" ”
Zhang Luohui told on the side: "Boss Feng, don't fall for Little Japan, remember the explanation of the Sixth Master, never fight with Little Japan, in case you are stuck by Little Japan, don't fall in love with war." ”
Feng Zhongliang smiled and said, "Sixth Master, why don't you leave the gray mule behind!" If you look at him like that, he must be more principled than I am. ”
Zhang Luohui didn't wait for Ye Tufei to express his position, and slipped back into the team.
After the explanation was completed, the troops set off.
In addition to the one company left behind, Ye Tufei brought all the combat units in Erlang Mountain, a total of six infantry companies, two artillery companies, and an engineer company, plus a special operations brigade.
The total strength of the army reached more than 1,400 people.
After a night of rapid marching, he arrived at the predetermined position at a little more than four o'clock in the morning, and after making brief contact with Han Hongxun and Lu Yao, Ye Tufei ordered the troops to seize the time to rest.
At this moment, the strength of a reinforced regiment under Lu Yao's command had basically reached the predetermined position.
At six o'clock, according to Ye Tufei's plan arranged in advance, Han Hongxun's headquarters, which was facing the Japanese army in Suyu County, took the lead in launching an attack.
Five minutes later, Lu Yao's unit launched a surprise attack from the west side of Suyu County.
Although Suyu County does not have a city wall like Xuzhou City, Little Japan has been operating for almost two years, and has already built many permanent fortifications outside the county, and it is not easy to attack.
It is precisely because of this that Ye Tufei planned such an attack plan with a time difference, the purpose of which was to make it impossible for the Japanese troops in Suyu County to figure out which direction was the enemy's main attack direction.
Five minutes after Lu Yao's headquarters launched the attack, the bandit battalion began to move.
The bandit battalion came from Luoma Lake, just on the east side of Suyu County, and the east side of Suyu County is precisely the weakest defense of Suyu County, because from Suyu County to the east is only 50 miles, is Shuyang County, between the two county seats, there is an official road that can drive two trucks side by side, therefore, the ability to maneuver is super strong, so in this distance, there are basically no anti-Japanese armed forces in the activity.
After Han Hongxun's department attacked, the offensive was extremely fierce, and five minutes later, Lu Yao's attack was not weaker than Han Hongxun's, in order to ensure the defense of these two directions, small Japan was bound to transfer troops from the southeast and southeast.
Therefore, the defenders faced by the bandit battalion could not withstand the assault of the wolf-like special operations brigade at all.
The Japanese commander in charge of the guard of the Eastern Front was annoyed.
The enemy didn't look very strong, they didn't have a few guns in their hands, and the shells they fired were not accurate, they always landed in front of their own positions, and only occasionally one or two would land on them.
However, his own defenses were constantly being breached.
The Japanese commander took a closer look and found that his bunker and the heavy fire points on the position were all suppressed, and the opponent's vitality in suppressing his own heavy fire points was not strong, and it felt that he was only suppressed by rifles.
The Japanese commander was not only annoyed, but also had an emotion that he didn't want to believe even if he was killed.
The bandit battalion did rely on rifles to suppress the heavy fire points of the Japanese army.
It's not that Ye Tufei doesn't have no artillery in his hands, let alone a lack of shells, but he thinks that it is not cost-effective to use artillery fire to destroy the permanent fortifications of Little Japan, and he is ready to keep these permanent fortifications for his own use.
Therefore, he specially instructed the brothers of the artillery company to locate the artillery target in front of the position or the dark fort, just to provide cover for the charging special operations team.
At this time, the special operations team already had nearly ten sharpshooters like Ye Tufei and Li Zhongyun, and they could block a shooting hole in the dark fort with just one rifle in their hands.
How many soldiers can be hidden in a bunker?
Any sharpshooter and a magazine can take out the Japanese troops in the bunker.
As for the light and heavy firepower points on the position, with Ye Tufei and Li Zhongyun waiting behind, it is difficult for the machine gunner to shoot a long point without being killed.
Besides, Little Japan did not have many troops to defend the Eastern Front.
Therefore, in just ten minutes, the bandit battalion broke the defensive position of the Japanese army on the eastern front and rushed into the county seat of Suyu County.
"The special operations brigade followed me to attack the Japanese headquarters, the second company, the third company, the fourth company and the first artillery company led by the gray mule, in the direction of due north, united with Han Hongxun's headquarters to flank the Japanese army's northern line, the fifth company, the sixth company, the seventh company, the three companies, and the second artillery company, attacked to the west, and received Lu Yao's headquarters, and Wei Xiangdong was responsible for commanding."
After breaking into the county seat, Ye Tufei gave an order to divide the bandit battalion and assault it.
It's just that little Japan is not stupid and will not sit still and wait to be beaten.
When the news of the breakthrough of the Eastern Front reached the Japanese headquarters, the supreme commander of the Japanese army in Suyu County decisively gave the order to retreat on the entire front.
Half an hour later, the gunfire in Suyu County stopped.
From the first shot of the attack fired by Han Hongxun's subordinates to the withdrawal of all small Japanese from Suyu County and the surrender of the county seat to Yelu Han's third division, it took less than an hour before and after.
After the victory, Han Hongxun and Lu Yao were very excited.
This battle was fought so hard!
The Japanese army in Suyu County was simply vulnerable under Ye Tufei's tactical arrangement!
But Ye Tufei was the only one who couldn't get excited.
Han Hongxun persuaded: "Brother, you are content! Although we didn't kill many small Japanese in this battle, and we killed less than 200 small Japanese inside and out, we took a county seat! This is a huge blow for little Japan! ”
Lu Yao also stirred up Ye Tufei's emotions: "Brother Ye, our goal is not only to take Suyu County, but also to achieve our first strategic goal so easily, no matter how you say it, it's a good thing!" ”
Ye Tufei's eyes looked a little dazed, and he responded to the two: "I always feel a little strange, Brother Han, do you remember the battle we fought against Jia Jiawang last year?" ”
Han Hongxun was suddenly taken aback: "Are you saying that Little Japan deliberately let us in, and then concentrated its forces on the periphery and wanted to wrap our dumplings?" ”
Ye Tufei shook his head and said, "At least so far, there is no sign of this in Little Japan, and Brother Han doesn't need to be nervous." I mean, Little Japan's plan to deal with us this time is very similar to Takahashi Shin's style, virtual and real, real and virtual, then, Little Japan in Suyu County gave up the county so easily, I guess there must be fraud in it. ”
As soon as Ye Tufei said this, Han Lu and the others also faintly felt strange.
However, these three people couldn't figure out what the reason behind it was.
"Regardless of him, I think, let's go as originally planned, immediately march to Erlang Mountain, and crush the Japanese army attacking Erlang Mountain from behind." Lu Yao put forward his own opinions.
Ye Tufei glanced at Han Hongxun and said, "Brother Han, what is your opinion?" ”
Han Hongxun thought for a while and said: "If Little Japan really has any intentions, then I think they are ready to deal with it at this moment, let's turn around and go to Erlang Mountain, will we suffer a volley from Little Japan in the middle of the road?" ”
Ye Tufei shook his head and said, "Walking from the east shore of Luoma Lake, Little Japan is not so fast, but why do I think this Little Japan is similar."
I really want us to toss back and forth like this, and I always feel that this Takahashi Shin seems to have other intentions. ”
Lu Yao smiled: "If you can't think of it, don't think about it, when we go back to Erlang Mountain, maybe we will know the answer." ”
Han Hongxun nodded and said, "That's the only way, we won't settle down in this Suyu County and wait for Little Japan to make our dumplings!" ”
The next step was determined, and Han Hongxun sent a battalion of troops to garrison Suyu County, and all the other troops galloped in the direction of Erlang Mountain along the east bank of Luoma Lake.
Before leaving, Ye Tufei explained to the commander of the Han battalion who stayed in Suyu County: "If Little Japan wants to take back this Suyu County, then you should symbolically resist and then withdraw." ”
On the way, Ye Tufei kept urging Yan Xiwen to use the radio to contact Feng Zhongliang, but the radio borrowed from Su Yue could not contact the signal.
It wasn't until noon that Ye Tufei received the message that Feng Zhongliang had transmitted by the earthen method.
Until dawn, Little Japan did not increase its troops in the direction of Erlang Mountain.
Lu Yao also received information from the Lingbi Mountain base area, and the small Japanese wing marching in the direction of Lingbi Mountain was stationed at a place more than 30 miles away from Lingbi Mountain at this moment, and there was no sign of continuing to advance.
Combining all the information, Ye Tufei was really confused.
At this time, Erlang Mountain only had Liu Yujie's more than 1,000 Imperial Cooperative Army, and if he wanted to eat these people, he didn't need the main forces of the three parties to mobilize the people, so now everyone's actions would be useless. Just when Ye Tufei and the others were extremely confused, in Xuzhou City, the newly appointed head of the Hashimoto Division was congratulating Keigo Yamashita.
Yamashita Keigo took the opportunity to recommend Takahashi Shin to the commander of Hashimoto's division: "Your Excellency, the commander of the division, Takahashi-kun has contributed a lot to the successful completion of this fuel transfer mission. The whole plan was made by Takahashi-kun, and Yamashita was just an executor. ”
The commander of the Hashimoto division said with a smile: "I know Takahashi-kun's talent, and this time's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain is even more convincing to me, hehe, to confuse the enemy with illusions, and exchange insignificant losses for the smooth implementation of the entire mission, only Takahashi-kun can think of it." However, Yamashita-kun, it's not that I refuse to use Takahashi-kun, but that General Dohihara has already made arrangements for Takahashi-kun, and in a few days, he will go to Nanjing and take on more important responsibilities. ”