Chapter 321: Ambush (3)
There are still very ways to deal with the Japanese puppet army Wang Zhifu, especially to deal with a small group of enemies like Liaocheng sent to take over the small army in Yanggu County. (-) Wang Zhifu's method is actually very simple, that is, an ambush. Ambush is the most commonly used method of the Eighth Route Army, no matter where it comes out, the Eighth Route Army's ambush tactics are quite good, and from time to time there will be some innovations of their own.
When Wang Zhifu learned that the Japanese army actually had two chariots, he had already thought that it would not be easy to destroy these two chariots, after all, they were steel fortresses made of jīng steel, which were war machines used to kill. With these broken guns in the hands of the Eighth Route Army now, it is simply whimsical to destroy these two chariots from a long distance, unless he, Wang Zhifu, is ruthless and ready to pay hundreds of lives to fill it.
But as an excellent commander, Wang Zhifu knows better that these lovely soldiers in his hands are the foundation of the development of the Eighth Route Army, and they are the things that their beloved commanders value the most, Wang Zhifu deeply knows that if he loses a batch of weapons and ammunition or even all the weapons and equipment of the entire brigade, the commander may give him a slight punishment. But if he buried a battalion of the 1st Brigade, then the commander would probably pull him out and kill him at the first opportunity, unless he had a great reason, otherwise even the head of the headquarters would not be able to come forward.
How to completely annihilate this small Japanese army with the least casualties has become a difficult problem for Wang Zhifu, but Wang Zhifu also knows that since the commander has given the order to completely annihilate this small army, then their brigade and regiment must complete the task. This is the leader's trust in him Wang Zhifu, and it is also a test for him Wang Zhifu and the entire First Brigade.
However, Wang Zhifu was a soldier under Han Yunhua when he was in Saibei, and he also participated in two training courses taught by Han Yunhua himself. Although Wang Zhifu did not fight many outstanding battles when he was in Saibei, Wang Zhifu's actual combat experience is still very outstanding. After analysis, Wang Zhifu believed that it was not a big problem which infantry squadron and which cavalry squad of the Japanese army were, and as long as the war started, Wang Zhifu was confident that the battle would be resolved within half an hour. Now the most entangled thing is the two Japanese tanks, those two tanks are two mobile fortresses, which can cause huge casualties to a group at any time.
"Brigade commander, what should I do, the little devil's forward unit is already less than five hours away from here, and if you don't prepare for it, it will be even more passive?" It was a regimental leader Iron Bull who spoke.
He doesn't know what Tie Niu's surname is, he is an orphan, his parents have been ancient more than ten years ago, and he was brought up by a fortune teller old blind man. When he was fifteen years old, his stepfather also died of illness, and Tie Niu was orphaned again. Later, in order to survive, Tie Niu went up the mountain to become a bandit, which was eight years, and by the time Han Yunhua and others swept through the bandits' dens, horse gangs, and rogues in the north of Saibei, Tie Niu had already become the talker of Hutouling Cottage.
Tie Niu was still good, and he was tired of being a bandit for seven or eight years, so when Han Yunhua's department was about to make a move against the big and small bandits in Saibei, Tie Niu led more than 200 men and hundreds of strong war horses under his command to join Han Yunhua's department. Because Tie Niu's riding skills are relatively good, and his fighting skills are very superb, Han Yunhua arranged Tie Niu and his brothers to the cavalry company, and promoted Tie Niu to be the commander of the cavalry company. Tie Niu has participated in almost all the big and small battles in Saibei, of course, Tie Niu's promotion speed is also very fast, it has only been two years since he joined the Eighth Route Army, but before arriving in Shandong, Tie Niu has been promoted to the commander of the cavalry. In order to build a cavalry unit in Shandong, Han Yunhua deliberately brought Tie Niu to Shandong.
Due to the limited conditions in Shandong, Han Yunhua had no choice but to transfer Tie Niu, a cavalry tactician, to the infantry regiment as the commander. To be honest, he has a very good set of cavalry combat iron bulls, and in the second Battle of Saibei, he only relied on a cavalry battalion in his hand to defeat a cavalry wing of the Japanese army. Although the cavalry wing of the Japanese army at that time was originally a cavalry unit that was not fully staffed, and the cavalry battalion of Tieniu was a super cavalry battalion with more than 100 people, the ratio of the number of the enemy and us was still 2:1. However, such a huge disparity in iron bull insisted on applying the command tactics of the cavalry to an incredible realm, and defeated this cavalry wing of the Japanese army in five hours, and if it were not for the rapid arrival of the Japanese air force, it was likely to be completely annihilated. ,
Tie Niu's cavalry tactics are very good, but he is not good at commanding infantry, so Wang Zhifu will come himself this time. After Wang Zhifu looked at the mountain road in the distance, he sighed and said: "The Japanese army underestimated us this time, and only sent an infantry squadron to take Yanggu County." If it were only that infantry squadron, I believe that your regiment would be able to solve the battle in half an hour at most, but now the Japanese army has two tanks with the army, and there is nothing we can do with the two tanks with our current firepower. ”
"He's nǎinǎi, don't really say it, the chariot of the little devil really has two hits. The last time our cavalry regiment surrounded seven broken down Japanese chariots in Chengde, according to my idea at the time, all these iron bumps were captured by the Hui Military Region, and the leaders gave me credit. But I didn't expect that it was these few iron bumps that could not walk that stopped one of my cavalry regiments for four hours, killing and wounding more than 200 of my brothers before they were captured due to the exhaustion of ammunition. We must be cautious in this battle, otherwise the casualties will certainly not be small. Tie Niu said with a palpitation.
"Well, what Tie Niu said makes sense, it won't work hard, we can't afford that kind of casualties."
"So what to do, you can't be disabled if you fight, and you can't complete the task if you don't fight. Brigadier, what do you say? If only I could paralyze those Iron Kings. ”
Wang Zhifu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he thought of a solution: "What to do, of course it's cold dressing." Since we can't destroy the little devil's iron king, then we just can't let him move at all. Iron Bull, you asked the soldiers to dig two big pits for me on this road, the deep pits are four meters long and three meters deep. The first one was put on top of me three layers of solid wood, which could hold a load of fifteen tons. The second pit is a layer of hollow wood for me, and the load-bearing requirements are not too high, so the horses and cavalry on the horses can walk over and be fine. At the bottom of each pit, I had to bury 50 kilograms of bombing and a trigger mine. ”
Although Tie Niu didn't know what the brigade commander wanted to do, he still carried out the order very happily.
Let's not talk about the situation in Songcun, although the Huyan family has withdrawn from Yanggu County and moved out of Shandong under the surveillance of the Japanese army. However, the situation in Liaocheng has not been calmed down as quickly as imagined by the Japanese military leadership, and the entire Liaocheng area is full of emergencies and wars. In a fit of rage, Lieutenant General Otaka Kamezo sent a harshly worded telegram to Major General Nobu Mizuno, commander of the 10th Independent Infantry Brigade, ordering the 10th Independent Infantry Brigade to stabilize the situation as soon as possible, otherwise he, the brigade commander, would come to an end.
Major General Nagamino Nobu was very jealous of this famous one-eyed dragon top boss in the army, and after receiving the order, he quickly attacked, and sent out several of the sharpest infantry brigades in his hands. Dong'e County and Shen County, where the situation was the most luster, each had one infantry brigade, and Pingyin County, which was in a better situation, sent two infantry squadrons, and the garrison force of Liaocheng and other surrounding counties and townships was strengthened.
However, the law and order in Liaocheng did not stabilize immediately, but there was a tendency to intensify. First of all, Liu San, the great man of Liaocheng Dongchang Mansion, was assassinated at home by mysterious armed forces, and all the family members were killed as long as they had public offices in the puppet government, and all the more than 150 bodyguards in the palace were killed. The valuable things in the house were also looted, and the murderer left nothing in the county except for a bloody skull flag.
The furious Major General Nagasinonobu ordered an immediate and thorough investigation of the matter, and the Japanese spies at the Liaocheng Station of the Special High-Tech Branch also received orders to fully cooperate with Major General Nagasinonobu's actions. But the murderer seemed to have come and gone without a trace, and the entire 10th Separate Infantry Brigade searched for three days with great fanfare and found nothing.
Just when Nagasino Nobu thought that there would be no result, and was about to deal with this big case that shocked Liaocheng as a vendetta, news came from Guanxian that all the officials of the puppet government, including the pseudo-county magistrate of Guanxian County, and all the Japanese businessmen who invested in Guanxian County were all assassinated overnight, and even the leader of the Guanxian garrison squadron was assassinated in the barracks. The next morning, all the big and small men in more than a dozen townships under the jurisdiction of Guan County were also cleaned up in a very short period of time, and the murderer's murder methods and behaviors were the same as in Liu San's case, and all the bodyguards in the nursing home were killed, and the valuable things in the house were looted.
At the same time, there were many similar cases in various parts of Liaocheng, and even several similar cases occurred in the urban area of Liaocheng. Suddenly, the whole Shandong shook, the people were happy, and all the big and small Han people were hearing the flag and changing. The prestige of the Skull Banner immediately spread in Shandong, and the mysterious armed force was also called the hoe jiān team because of their actions against the lackeys of the Han puppet army.
The appearance of the hoe jiān team quickly discouraged the deployment of Major General Nagamino Shin, and a large number of troops were pinned down on the hoe jiān team. However, the action against the bandits in various counties and districts was immediately greatly reduced, and both the intensity and speed of the attack were far from being compared with the expected plan, and of course the effect was extremely bad. Since several units were inexplicably wiped out, although there were not many troops eliminated, and the total was less than the strength of an infantry squadron, the blow to the morale of the entire army was disastrous.