Chapter 84: Prelude (1)
Yan Xishan had a good impression of Han Yunhua personally, so after receiving the telegram sent by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, Yan Xishan just smiled, and ordered the logistics department of the Second Theater to send 1.2 million rounds of ammunition and 100,000 catties of grain to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and at the same time asked the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to tell Han Yunhua that he Yan Laohan could only allocate a little bullet and food for him. As for the weapons and equipment he wanted, he was powerless and couldn't help him.
Han Yunhua understood Yan Xishan's telegram from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and he also knew that the transportation volume of the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway was declining, and the Yunnan-Burma Highway was still under construction, so the domestic materials, especially military supplies, were extremely tight, even if Yan Xishan had a large number of stocks in his hands, but now he did not dare to move casually, after all, no one could say how long this war would last.
Both Chiang Kai-shek and Yan Xishan expressed their willingness to give Han Yunhua some help, although the amount was not large, less than one-tenth compared with what Han Yunhua wanted, but this incident still caused great repercussions within the Eighth Route Army, and now Han Yunhua's prestige is widely spread among the Eighth Route Army. Even the newly recruited Danzi knew that there was a boss Han in our Eighth Route Army, and that was the master that even Chairman Jiang of Yucheng and the nominal top boss of the 18th Group Army, Yan Xishan, dared to blackmail.
Several chiefs of Yan'an and most of the commanders of the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army were also puzzled by Chiang Kai-shek's sudden "submission", when Chiang Kai-shek changed his surname, although several major newspapers of the Nationalist Axe were all repeatedly propagating topics such as how Chiang Kai-shek served the country and the people, and even the allocation of materials to Han Yunhua's ministry this time was said to be based on the overall situation of the War of Resistance, and the Nationalist Axe treated the troops who really resisted the war equally..., but anyone who has read the telegram sent by Han Yunhua to Chiang Kai-shek can see it, Chiang Kai-shek was bowing to Han Yunhua, which means that he was successfully blackmailed by Han Yunhua.
But now Han Yunhua can't take care of the thoughts of the Eighth Route Army headquarters and people from the outside world, because the devil is here.
The battle between the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Yue Army broke out somewhat unexpectedly, and both Han Yunhua and Shouichi of Beiping felt that their preparations were not sufficient, and they were ready to stop the war for a while. On 2 July, a search squadron of the Fengwen Headquarters and a reconnaissance company directly under the 1st Assault Brigade and 1st Regiment of the Assault Army encountered an unexpected encounter in Xiaocunzigou Village, Youlianggou Township, Zhangbei County, and the two sides fought a tragic encounter in the village of Farmingdigou.
The search squadron of the Yue Army is the elite sharp knife infantry squadron of the Yamashita Brigade, which has always been the key development unit of the Yamashita Brigade, and it is somewhat similar to the saber in Han Yunhua's hand, but it lacks a systematic training method like the Saber Special Operations Brigade. The reconnaissance company directly under the 1st Assault Brigade and 1st Regiment is also the most elite unit of the 1st Assault Brigade, and it is a special combat team with an experimental surname that Yang Chengwu has set up after seeing the Saber Special Operations Brigade and returning to the 1st Assault Brigade himself; although Yang Chengwu's special combat team is still a bit nondescript, its combat effectiveness is not bad, especially the weapons and equipment of this reconnaissance company are the best among the 1st Assault Brigade, and it can be said that this reconnaissance company is the most elite unit in Yang Chengwu's hands.
On 30 June, Yang Chengwu received news that the forward of an infantry brigade of the Shanxia Brigade of the Yue Army, which was stationed in Daya Bay, had moved forward 10 kilometers again, so Yang Chengwu specially sent out a reconnaissance company directly under the regiment and asked them to come close to reconnoitre. Yamashita Fengwen heard that there was a lot of collusion between the common people of China in the area of Chongdigou Village and Tubalu, so he also sent the most elite troops in his hands to prepare a surprise attack on Chongdigou Village, giving an unforgettable lesson to those Chinese peasants who were rude and dissatisfied with the rule of the Great Empire.
There was still some distance between the village and the village of Xiaoyunzigou, where the advance of the army was stationed, so Chang Yong, the commander of the reconnaissance company, only sent two three-person combat teams to open the way in front, and the large troops followed 200 meters behind the combat group. The Yue Army, on the other hand, had always been arrogant, and this time it was only going to attack a village guarded by only 50 so-called "militiamen" of the Eighth Route Army, so Captain Oda Jiro, the squadron leader of the search squadron, did not have a platoon of top soldiers to open the way, and the large army drove to the village of Chongdigou at the speed of a rapid march.
The two sides met very suddenly, and the reconnaissance company went south and the search team went north, and they met unexpectedly one kilometer south of the village of Zangdigou. First of all, a combat group of the reconnaissance company first discovered the search team of the Yue Army, and since the area around Daya Bay was now occupied by devils, Chang Yong was still relatively cautious.
These two combat groups saw that there were only more than 200 devils, and they didn't pay much attention to them, according to past experience, these 200 devils were not enough for them to reconnoiter and plug their teeth. Therefore, the combat team sent people back to report the news quickly, and on the other hand, it led the remaining five fighters to build an ambush position on the spot.
After Chang Yong received the news, he was not very surprised, after all, this area is already within the scope of devil patrols, and it is not surprising that there are devil patrols here. Chang Yong thought that this time he encountered a patrol team like an army, and his task to go south this time was to teach the devil forward brigade a lesson, and as for how to fight Yang Chengwu, it was completely left to him, the commander of the reconnaissance company, to decide. With Chang Yong's thoughts, the results of a search squadron of the Annihilation Army were still very impressive, so not only was he not shocked, but he was also a little happy.
But this joy disappeared without a trace soon after the battle began, and because of the calculation and unintentionality, the search team of the Japanese army was caught off guard by the combat group of the reconnaissance company, and lost more than 10 people in a single look. However, the swiftness of the search team's reaction far exceeded the expectations of the reconnaissance company's combat team, and as soon as the gunfire rang out, all the devils lay on the ground as if they were conditionally reactive, and followed the source of the gunfire to counterattack.
When Chang Yong led people from more than 100 meters away to the ambush position temporarily constructed by the combat team, only one member of the nameless combat team remained, and the other four were all sacrificed.
Chang Yong was secretly taken aback in his heart, every soldier under his command was specially selected by the brigade commander from more than 10,000 people in the brigade, and all of them were good at being ten with one, not to mention that the brigade commander also specially asked the commander to send two extremely terrifying command guards (saber special operations brigade) members to train them for more than a month. Since the day the instructor announced that they could basically go out on their own mission, no matter what major task they performed, they were able to get away with almost zero casualties. Unexpectedly, four of them were broken in just three minutes here, which really made his heart ache, there was nothing to say, Chang Yong ordered the reconnaissance company to immediately occupy a favorable terrain to attack the little man raised by the son of a bitch, and avenge the dead brother.
Chang Yong's heart hurts, Oda Jiro is more painful than him, compared to the four people who died in the reconnaissance company, the casualties of the search team of the army are much heavier. In just three minutes, nine search teams were killed, and seven were wounded and lost their combat effectiveness, almost one-tenth of the search team's combat effectiveness.
Oda Jiro was heartbroken and extremely surprised at the same time, judging from the intensity of the gunfire, there was no more than one squad of the Shina army on the opposite side. However, the combat effectiveness of this squad of the Chinese army is really surprising, the accurate shooting level of this unidentified Chinese army is not worse than that of the elite under his command, and the weapons and equipment are even more surprising to him. The Chinese army of a single squad was equipped with at least three Taisho 11-year light machine guns, and such powerful firepower was no worse than the elite under his command.
Unable to judge the number of the enemy, Oda Jiro did not dare to order the troops to charge. Like the reconnaissance company directly under the 1st Assault Brigade and 1st Regiment, Oda Jiro's search team has also been trained for a period of time by the mysterious special attack team of the Japanese army, so Oda Jiro, who knows a little bit about special operations, knows how terrible a unit equipped with a large amount of automatic fire is.
Therefore, Oda Jiro ordered the search party to take advantage of the favorable terrain and take advantage of the numerical advantage to counterattack the Shina army in front of him.