Chapter 269: The Black Whirlwind of Bandits (Part I)
After handing over the matter of rescuing people and exterminating the bandits in the township to Shi Qiang, Liu Tianshu was concerned about the safety of the base area, and led his troops through the Wild Wolf Valley and rushed directly to the direction of Fuya Mountain. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The devil who attacked Pingyuan Town was Saito Shaozuo, the old enemy of the Independent Regiment, his brigade fought with the Independent Regiment for more than half a year, and suffered a lot in the hands of the Independent Regiment, knowing that Liu Tianshu's Independent Regiment was the division of tigers and wolves, and as long as he was careless, he would let the other party take advantage of it.
Therefore, after receiving Sasaki's order to lead his troops to attack Pingyuan Town, he immediately called his officers, and after informing the wing commander of the order, he looked at several subordinates who looked a little nervous and said: "Everyone, according to the information we have received, Liu Tianshu has rushed to Rongshan with two battalions of the Independent Regiment, and there are only two main battalions in the base of the Eighth Route Army. The Wing Commander ordered us to immediately launch an attack on Pingyuan Town. The Eighth Route Army in Pingyuan Town is the third battalion of the Fuyashan Independent Regiment, and the battalion commander Ma Chaoyuan is the main force fortified in these places. Nomura Nakasa, as the vanguard of the brigade, immediately launched an attack on the enemy in Wangzhuang, the second and third squadrons were deployed on the two flanks of the first squadron, and the fourth squadron, machine gun squadron and transport squadron remained at the Chengou stronghold to strictly prevent the Eighth Route Army from taking the opportunity to sneak attack. Captain Sun, your troops are responsible for cooperating with the imperial army to guard Chen Gou. ”
Hearing the captain's arrangement, several officers immediately nodded in agreement.
However, as soon as they heard the arrangement of the brigade commander, they knew that he had no confidence in capturing Pingyuan Town, otherwise, they would not have left an infantry squadron, a machine gun squadron and a transport squadron in Chengou to defend, and they would also leave all the Imperial Allied troops of Captain Sun in Chengou Town.
Because it was seen that the purpose of the captain's battle was only to launch a tentative attack on the Eighth Route Army in Pingyuan Town, these Japanese troops naturally got very close and did not take advantage of Ma Chaoyuan at all.
Nomura's squadron, as the vanguard of the brigade, cautiously advanced towards the area around Wangzhuang, and on either side of him, Saito's 2nd and 3rd squadrons were close to each other, and when they arrived at Wangzhuang, they immediately launched an attack on the positions of the 3rd Battalion and 7th Company guarding Wangzhuang. 、
However, the commander of the seventh company guarding Wangzhuang is Liu Sutang, a company commander with old qualifications in the independent regiment, and he has a unique set of fighting and defending. He planted a large number of homemade mines on the road that the devils might pass, which made Nomura, who rushed ahead, very troubled. Fortunately, the captain did not force him to speed up, so Nomura had to let the sappers find the mines while telling the troops to advance carefully.
The first squadron of the county brigade ambushed on both sides of the avenue, saw that the devil was advancing at a speed like a snail, so he lay on the hill and smoked comfortably.
Anyway, their purpose is not to kill many enemies, but to slow down the devil as much as possible.
Of course, there are also one or two devils who are extremely moldy, and they will be hit by them, either screaming and falling to the ground, or returning directly to their hometown.
When Saito received the report, he was not impatient, but only ordered the troops to be on guard.
It was not easy to break through the blocking position of the Eighth Route Army in Wangzhuang, and it had not yet reached the periphery of Pingyuan Town. Saito received an urgent telegram from the Wing Commander saying that the intelligence department had discovered that a large number of troops of the Eighth Route Army had suddenly appeared in the area of Changrae Mountain, and it seemed that it had circled his back. Sasaki ordered the Saito Brigade to retreat quickly and take strict precautions in the area around Chengou.
After receiving this order, Saito did not hesitate at all, and immediately took the 123rd Squadron and quickly withdrew to Chen Gou.
Ma Chaoyuan received a call from Political Commissar Liao and knew that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had galloped to Pingyuan Town, preparing to attack from behind the devil. He was overjoyed and was about to order his troops to prepare for a counterattack, only to find that the cunning Saito had retreated rapidly southward, and his troops could not catch Saito's tail at all.
The Eighth Route Army was ordered to rush to the aid of Fuya Mountain, the regiment commander was named Du Ningyuan, when he was in Qingyan Town, he had met with Liu Tianshu, and when he rushed to the southwest of Wangzhuang with his troops, he received a report that the devils who attacked Pingyuan Town had retracted to Chen Gou, so he had to give up the idea of encircling the devils and led the troops directly into Pingyuan Town.
Liu Tianshu was relieved to learn that Saito, who had attacked Pingyuan Town, had retreated, and when he was about to arrive at the base area, he received a report from Hua Xiaohu, the commander of the fourth battalion, that the Japanese army attacking Songkan Town had also retreated.
Knowing that the base area was safe, Liu Tianshu ordered the troops to rest for a while.
Shi Qiang rushed to the Wild Wolf Valley with a reconnaissance team and soon joined Kuang Guosheng.
"Captain Shi, this group of bandits is very cunning, and after discovering that we were chasing behind, they actually divided into two groups, and they have chased after a platoon." Kuang Guosheng saw Shi Qiang and said in a low voice.
"Company Commander Kuang, this gang of bandits has been scourging the people in this area, and since we have met them this time, we will kill them no matter what. In this way, I will take someone to catch up first, you try to find it, see if you can find the villagers, and inquire about the specific location of the Black Fish Cave. Shi Qiang nodded, the fourth company, as the vanguard, has been very tired since the attack, and his reconnaissance team has rested for a while, and his physical strength has been somewhat recovered. Besides, the extermination of bandits belongs to jungle operations, and although the combat effectiveness of the Fourth Company is good, its own reconnaissance brigade is more suitable for carrying out this kind of task.
"Okay, just do as you say, I'm ready to respond at this position, and once I find out the location of the Black Fish Cave, we will immediately close it." Kuang Guosheng said murderously.
After Shi Qiang said goodbye to Kuang Guosheng, he immediately led the reconnaissance team to chase forward, and after a while, he met with a platoon of soldiers.
"Platoon length, in which direction did the bandits run away?" Seeing a long line, Shi Qiang asked anxiously.
"Captain Shi, just now a few bandits got into that forest and disappeared, and the other bandits, with that girl, ran away from there."
The long line panted, and when he saw Shi Qiang arriving with someone, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and said.
"Wang Dachun, you immediately pursue in the forest, Su Xiaopeng, you take your people to be responsible for rescuing the girl." After Wang Dachun and Su Xiaopeng chased after them with their subordinates, Liu Tianshu took care to ask about the situation in the first row.
"Platoon leader, I heard gunshots just now, how are you doing?"
When the platoon commander heard this, he gritted his teeth and said: "Captain Shi, these bandits who have suffered a thousand knives are really not things, they dare to hide in the woods and sneak attack, one soldier died, and the other was seriously injured. ”
Hearing that a platoon of soldiers sacrificed one person and one person was seriously injured, Shi Qiang's expression froze, and he looked at the platoon leader and said: "Platoon leader, don't worry, the blood of the soldiers will not be shed in vain, I will definitely make them pay the price, Company Commander Kuang is behind, you just wait here, and leave the rest to us." ”
The platoon commander knew that when it came to fighting in the jungle, they were indeed inferior to the reconnaissance brigade, and now that the two squadrons of the reconnaissance brigade had arrived, he believed that the black whirlwind bandits would not be able to escape.
After Shi Qiang said goodbye to the platoon leader, he quickly led the two teams to the hill in front.
If you want to catch this gang of bandits, in addition to sending troops to pursue along the way, you must also stand on the commanding heights and observe the surrounding situation clearly.
After the independent regiment seized the low-power radio stations of many devils, at the insistence of Liu Tianshu, the reconnaissance brigade was originally equipped to the squadron level. This time, at the supply station of the devils in Baima Town, six more low-power radios were confiscated, and Liu Tianshu added three more to the reconnaissance brigade, so that each of the two squadrons ordered to pursue was equipped with two radios.
As soon as they reached the top of the mountain, the communication soldiers who followed him reported that the two combat groups led by Wang Dachun had caught up with the bandits who were hiding in the forest, but unfortunately these bandits resisted stubbornly, and finally even raised a grenade to die with them.
Hearing this report, Shi Qiang couldn't help but be stunned, in his impression, everyone who went up to the mountain to be a bandit was forced by life, but he would rather die than surrender, and chose to die together, which seems to be not the style of bandits.
"Order Wang Dachun to immediately conduct a careful inspection of these bandits, not even a single hair is allowed to be spared, and the results will be reported quickly after the inspection." Shi Qiang pondered for a moment and resolutely ordered.
Wang Dachun received Shi Qiang's order, and his heart was confused. All five bandits were killed, so why do they have to check carefully? You must know that these people have a lot of blood holes drilled by bullets, and two of them were blown up by grenades, and their flesh and blood have long become blurred.
But an order is an order, he had to hold back the nausea in his heart, ordered the soldiers to lift these bandits aside, and then remove all the things on their bodies, including their clothes, and finally, he couldn't help but be shocked when he saw the crotch of the three bandits who rushed desperately with grenades, which were the cloth pockets worn by the Japanese.
"Japanese?"
Immediately, Wang Dachun carefully examined the five bodies and finally confirmed that three of them were Japanese. And in a Japanese ****, a tattoo of a black dragon was also found.
Shi Qiang received a report and asked Wang Dachun to bury the bodies of the five bandits, and then moved closer to his position.
Obviously, the Japanese have infiltrated Black Whirlwind's ranks, but Black Whirlwind doesn't know that there are Japanese in his ranks.
This also explains that the Rongshan Independent Regiment once sent people to try to persuade Black Whirlwind to cooperate with the Eighth Road, but in the end, these two people were not heard from.
Liu Tianshu frowned when he received Shi Qiang's report, and after a while, he asked Yang Juan to send a telegram to Shi Qiang, asking him to clean and completely eliminate the Black Whirlwind bandits.
Shi Qiang understood that what the regiment commander said was clean and thorough, that is, not to let a bandit escape, or to be taken back to the base area by his own captives for review, or to make them disappear physically.
Two hours later, Wang Dachun and his soldiers met Shi Qiang, and saw Shi Qiang squatting under a tree, staring at the map in front of him, and his fingers were gesturing on the map from time to time. (To be continued.) )