Chapter 242: The Deputy Commander is here
The devil is crushed on an unsheltered road and beaten passively, like a beast bound with its hooves and claws tied or locked in a narrow cage, with sharp teeth and brute strength useless. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Bow down, aim and shoot, aim and shoot." The officers kept shouting reminders so that hot-headed, hot-blooded recruits could waste a few fewer bullets and sacrifice a few fewer lives.
The dense gunfire in the distance fainted, and after a while it rang out violently in a closer place, and another unit, after eliminating the search force of the devils, attacked and killed along the main road, and together with the troops on both sides of the road, like rolling up a straw mat, they advanced step by step, crushing the "locusts" in the "straw mat". The gunshots on the other side were also ringing fiercely, and the devil's retreat had been cut off......
The smoke of gunpowder has drifted away in the wind, but the stench of choking charred flesh and blood still stays in the air, and the craters on the highway are full of craters, corpses of different shapes, and hideous and terrifying struggles before death, which make people remember deeply. Blood, scraps of meat, stumps, and broken arms were everywhere, and it was truly a shocking Shura field.
In stark contrast to the recruits, the company and platoon commanders walked on the battlefield as if nothing had happened, directing the soldiers to collect the capture and clean up the battlefield.
A Japanese soldier covered in blood and covered in stomach but not yet dead, lying on his back, moaning in a low voice, this guy's gradually sinking eye sockets were actually full of tears, and his bloody lips moved as if he wanted to say something.
"Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself, don't be that ruthless to be a soldier, go home and pick up the child!" A squad leader reprimanded the hesitant soldier standing next to the devil, reached out and picked up a spear with a bayonet on the ground, and stepped forward to make a demonstration.
The soldier was scolded so red that his face was red, and he gritted his teeth and stabbed the devil first. Poof, the bayonet stabbed into the devil's chest, and the devil's eyes widened, looking at the soldier in front of him, the light in his eyes gradually dimmed.
There is no mercy for the enemy, especially for the Japanese devils, these humanoid beasts indoctrinated with bushido, unworthy to live in the world. Yang Tianfeng and the people who fought viciously with the devil knew this, but for the recruits, they obviously still needed to be tempered with iron and blood, or they could kill like hemp after appreciating the cruelty of the devil. And this is the Predator that Yang Tianfeng needs most.
Just as Yang Tianfeng told the officers, Japan's war potential was insufficient, but "greed was not enough to swallow elephants," and the vast land and long battle front had already used up to the limit of troops, which became their fatal wounds.
Although it went all out to prepare for the winter sweep against the devils, the New Seventh Army did not stop military operations altogether, but mainly took light actions such as shooting cold guns and attacking and harassing small troops, and while consuming and killing Japanese troops, it also used combat as a substitute for training, so as to increase the combat experience and murderous courage of the recruits.
In fact, the more ordinary the soldier, the less he mentions words about "patriotism" and "lofty ideals". What drives them to survive on the battlefield and fight to the death is more of a most primitive emotion - hatred.
The Japanese devils burned, killed, and plundered Chinese soil, igniting the anger of almost all conscientious Chinese people. The perverse actions of the aggressors have provided a steady stream of material for the propaganda work of the New Seventh Army. It may feel uncomfortable after killing the first enemy, but the thought of a comrade or compatriot who was killed will gradually become ruthless, and you will be eager to kill as many Japanese devils as possible.
Vengeance mania can obscure the fear of death, and while this obscuration is sometimes temporary, it is enough to enable a rookie to overcome the psychological barrier of killing and take a solid step towards becoming a killing machine.
The small battles continued, on the one hand, it was to train the team, and on the other hand, it was a counterattack against the devil's road construction and cannibalization. Xiao County and Su County are the two big strongholds that the devils encroach on the base area, directly threatening Yongcheng and Mengcheng. In order to effectively contain it, Yang Tianfeng dispatched troops and even transferred most of the special combat team to the east to engage in-for-tat competition with the devils.
As for the devils in the north of the Longhai Road to control people by "roads", Yang Tianfeng intensified his support and assistance for the anti-Japanese armed forces while strengthening intelligence reconnaissance, including the two major military regions of the Eighth Route Army, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, and Hebei, Shandong, and Henan, as well as the guerrilla units of the Kuomintang Army, all of which obtained mines and steel fists and other weapons and ammunition to fight and fight against the devils.
Miyamoto, who has been promoted to the commander of the Xiao County garrison, has always been regarded as a great enemy by Yang Tianfeng, if it is an orthodox devil officer, he may not pay much attention to it, but Miyamoto, who was born as a spy, has a cunning and ruthless nature. This can be seen from his vigorous promotion of the policy of using "roads" to control people, as well as the ways and methods he adopted.
He not only built roads and strengthened railways, but also had the means to change. In the case of road construction, for example, Miyamoto used four methods.
One is the Ring Car Highway. With the county seat as the center, a ring road was built around the outside of the city, and a large number of villages were included in the ring road. Cars patrolled around the clock, making it difficult for anti-Japanese forces to approach.
One is the parallel car highway. Between the two places, between the strongholds, several parallel roads were built. When sorting, one could be chosen at will, which made it more difficult for the anti-Japanese forces to use ambush tactics.
Then there is the radial highway, which is the construction of multiple roads from the center outward. The last is the roadside trenching method, which builds the roadbed high and digs deep ditches on both sides of the road, which is both like a turret and a city wall.
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After reading the information, Yang Tianfeng looked thoughtfully at the map hanging on the wall.
It's not obvious on the map yet, but it's already showing its way. The most striking thing is the thick and thin black lines. The thick line represents the railway, and the thin line represents the road. In the future, the thick and thin lines will be more and more numerous, and they will cover it like a huge net. At that time, the huge net woven by those black threads will seem to be waiting for the prey, giving people a very oppressive and heavy feeling.
The anti-Japanese armed forces, which lacked heavy weapons to attack fortified positions, including the Eighth Route Army in North China, would find it difficult to resist the increasing number of devil strongholds and the extension of railways and highways. In this regard, Yang Tianfeng is more certain. But the devil's scattered use of troops like beans also has a great weakness, and he will be caught by the Eighth Route Army in the future, and Yang Tianfeng will naturally not let it go.
It's just that now is not the time! Yang Tianfeng narrowed his eyes slightly and smiled coldly. With the knock on the door, he turned his head away.
"Throne, the time is almost up." Staff officer Lin Cunxiao walked in and reminded Yang Tianfeng.
Yang Tianfeng nodded, put away the documents on the table briefly, put on his military uniform, and walked out.
The former commander Sun Dianying, deputy commanders Xing Zhaotang and Kang Xiang, and the commanders of all divisions and brigades all received orders from the state government to go to Chongqing to attend the special training class of the general school, while some could stay, but the duties would be assigned by army commander Yang Tianfeng.
In other words, these people have been relieved of military power, and it is unknown how they will be distributed in the future, whether they will continue to lead troops to fight, or whether they will serve as idle posts. Everyone knows that this is the way for the government to sweep away the reorganization for rookie Yang Tianfeng. But when it was ordered, they could not disobey. Moreover, it is very difficult to persist in fighting behind enemy lines, and even if they want to pull their troops back to northern Henan, they must worry that the officers and men are unwilling to leave, and they also have to worry that the national * army around Kaifeng will take the opportunity to clean them up.
Therefore, Sun Dianying and others had no choice but to follow Yang Tianfeng's suggestion and the order of the First War Zone, and drive the troops to Zhecheng one regiment after another to accept the reorganization. They also knew that Yang Tianfeng would not organize these troops into a division, but what could he do.
To Yang Tianfeng's surprise, Sun Dianying actually accepted the appointment of the deputy commander of the New Seventh Army and stayed with some cronies. In this regard, Yang Tianfeng discussed with his subordinates, and felt that this might be a check and balance for the government, so that Sun Dianying, who regarded Chairman Jiang as a "reborn parent", could supervise and restrain Yang Tianfeng. Sun Dianying's psychology is more complex and difficult to understand.
The soldiers are gone, can these more than 20 people restrict and supervise me? Yang Tianfeng was a little dismissive of this, but orders must always be listened to, and the new deputy commander must also give face, and today is the day when he will go to greet Sun Dianying.
Actually, for this deputy commander, Yang Tianfeng is not very jealous, very despised, and very much. As long as it doesn't get in the way, he won't strongly reject it. As for Sun Dianying's later surrender to the Japanese army and becoming a traitor, that is a historical thing, can't it be changed? Moreover, he also has the means to ask Sun Dianying to retreat knowing the difficulties, which is justified and not complicated.
As for Sun Dianying, who bears the name of the Tanglin thief, he was still brave and tenacious in the early and middle stages of the Anti-Japanese War. For example, in the Chifeng Anti-Japanese War, in the situation where the enemy was strong and I was weak, I fought with the Japanese army for nearly a month. In the battles behind enemy lines in southern Hebei and northern Henan, although cunning rabbits and three caves, they also fought against the Japanese army many times, and did not surrender until 1943, when they were surrounded by heavy Japanese troops.
And judging from Sun Dianying's life trajectory, he doesn't want to be a traitor, but out of his philosophy of life and life creed. Just like during the Chifeng Anti-Japanese War, his idea was that no matter what the victory or defeat, he could also be a national hero, but it was not a decisive battle to the death.
Before the war, he said at a meeting of officers above the battalion level: "Our troops do have a lot of stains, and some people call us a bandit team. This time to go to Rehe to fight the war, it is a good time to wash away our stains, and we must **** a decent game. However, the war of resistance will be lost, and we cannot completely sacrifice there, so we must plan a retreat first......"
That's right, it's to leave a way out, that is, you can't break the kettle and see death as home. And there are many Chinese people like Sun Dianying who have a philosophy of life at any time. (To be continued.) )