The destruction of the Izawa Brigade has severely damaged the Nagano United, as if someone had chopped off a thigh. But they still had three legs left - two infantry brigades and artillery directly under the wing. The three-legged Nagano Wing is not something that Zheng Weiguo and his four regiments can compete with, at least one army must be there.

Zhang Changgui, the commander of the spy company, has always been not afraid of heaven and earth, but with so many enemies coming at once, he couldn't help but be secretly frightened. After he finished reporting the enemy's situation, he asked in a low voice, "Brigade seat, do you want to fight?" ”

Zhang Changgui's attitude made Zheng Weiguo realize that there was a relatively serious panic among the military and civilians in Ping'an County. If the main force avoids the enemy and does not fight, this sentiment will deepen. Of course, there are many difficulties in not fighting. The disparity between the strength of the enemy and the enemy is too great, and once you are stuck by the enemy, it will not be easy to retreat with your whole body.

Zheng Weiguo thought about it for a while, and finally decided to fight a blocking battle on the front line of Chenjiagou to frustrate the enemy's spirit, and at the same time to enhance the confidence of all departments of the security regiment. If you flee every time you encounter a strong enemy, the troops will be infected with the problem of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, which is the guerrilla habit often mentioned in film and television works. This style of work is very harmful to a unit, and the elite army will become mediocre as a result.

In addition to the above-mentioned reasons, Zheng Weiguo also hoped to use this battle to run in the troops and exercise the combat capability of the troops. For a new unit, borrowing the Nagano Wing to train troops is indeed a bit arrogant. However, Zheng Weiguo believes that as long as he deals carefully, the troops will not be in much danger. Besides, if you want to sharpen a steel knife, you must also have a good whetstone.

Since he was determined to fight, Zheng Weiguo no longer hesitated. He ordered Zhang Changgui to quickly report the enemy situation to all units of the 129th Division, and at the same time ordered all units of the security regiment to advance eastward to prepare to block the Japanese army along the way.

After receiving the news, Division Commander Liu felt that relying on the security regiment alone to block the Japanese army was too weak, so he also sent the 772nd Regiment over, and said that Zheng Weiguo would command the two armies to fight in a unified manner. The terrain around Chenjiagou is narrow, and the strength of the two regiments cannot be placed at all. Zheng Weiguo successively arranged all units of the security regiment on the line from Chenjiagou to Panjiaao, and the 772nd regiment served as a reserve and did not undertake direct tasks. In terms of the comprehensive quality of the soldiers, the 772 Regiment is much stronger than the Security Regiment, but the command system and operational ideas of the Eighth Route Army and the Security Regiment are quite different.

A blocking position was set up here, and the Nagano United over there also entered Ping'an County again. As soon as they entered Ping'an County, they divided into multiple roads, burning houses and killing people when they saw them. Looking west from Tongping County, there is billowing smoke everywhere, and the intention of venting anger and revenge is quite obvious. Fortunately, the soldiers and civilians on both sides of the official road have already been evacuated, otherwise there would have been a river of blood at this moment.

The scouts reported that the Japanese troops were not in a hurry to move westward, and seemed to have the intention of staying in the 3rd East Sector. This is very dangerous for the military and civilians in the 3rd East Zone, and it is absolutely not a problem to create a large "no man's land" according to the destructive power of the Japanese army.

Ma Biaoqi, the commander of the first battalion, said: "Isn't the devil in a hurry to avenge the destruction of the Jingze brigade? How could it be that it was shrunk in the East Third District and did not move? ”

Zhang Changgui said: "I have a worry, I am worried that the devils are using the slaughter of the people as a means to force our army to fight a decisive battle in the plain area. If our troops do not move, they will lose the support of the people; If you attack rashly, you risk suffering heavy losses from the Japanese army. ”

Zheng Weiguo's face was solemn and he said, "Your idea is not unreasonable. Since the devil is a shrunken turtle in the East Third District, I will go and drag them out of the turtle shell. ”

Zhang Changgui hurriedly asked for war and said, "Luzao, you don't have to go." Let me take the cavalry on a run, fight and come back quickly, the devil can only eat ashes with our butts! ”

Zheng Weiguo said: "The cavalry has a large target and a large movement, so I am afraid the effect will not be good." You take the spy company out to reconnoitre, try not to alarm the devils. I'll take the sniper platoon and arrive later. ”

Zhang Changgui said: "The snipers have just started training, so why don't you take our spy company!" Our marksmanship is no worse than theirs! ”

Zheng Weiguo said with a smile: "How can you let go of such a rare sniper training subject? Wang Dazhui, this is the first battle of your sniper platoon, do you have confidence? ”

The sniper platoon commander is Wang Da Hammer, don't look at his short enlistment, but his marksmanship is now among the top five in the security regiment. This is not surprising, everyone has different talents, and some are naturally good at shooting.

Wang Dazhui hesitated for a moment and said, "I, I don't think we're good yet." ”

Although this is not a good statement, it is a big truth. There are many subjects that snipers need to train, and the fighters have a short training time, and many skills have not yet been mastered.

Zheng Weiguo quipped: "It's good, being able to correctly recognize your own shortcomings is also a valuable quality as a sniper." Don't be nervous, it's just a live-fire training. ”

Under the full escort of the special service company, Zheng Weiguo took the sniper platoon to the combat area. Why do you want a spy company escort? It's a bit embarrassing to say that these future snipers do not yet have the ability to protect themselves, and once they are attacked by the Japanese army, the consequences are unimaginable.

The position chosen by Zheng Weiguo is about 400 meters away from the enemy, and it will be difficult to carry out training if he goes any further. It is said that the Japanese army can shoot accurately within 400 meters, although Zheng Weiguo does not believe it, he is not willing to experience it himself.

In front of the sniper position was a small village near the official road. About a squad of devils were lighting a fire in the village, shouting and having fun. Watching the houses being engulfed in flames, the muscles on Zheng Weiguo's face twitched hard. He turned around and asked, "Are you sure about this distance?" ”

Some fighters said yes, some shook their heads, and some kept their heads down.

Wang Dazhui looked at it for a while, and said with some embarrassment: "Luza, I'm really not sure that it's so far!" ”

Zheng Weiguo smiled: "You don't have to be nervous, I'll give you a demonstration first, and then you can also try to shoot twice." As he spoke, he raised the 38 big cover and knocked down a devil who dropped the order with one shot. Since the devils were also shooting everywhere, the noise in the village was loud after the fire, and it did not alarm the other devils.

After confirming the hit, Zheng Weiguo turned around and smiled: "See? Sniping is that simple, which of you is next? ”

The fighters fired several shots in turn, and unfortunately, not one of them hit the target. Fortunately, because the deviation was too large, it did not alarm the devils. Wang Da Hammer came on the field at the last and hit one with one shot, but only hit the devil's shoulder. This lucky and unlucky devil opened his mouth and was about to shout, but was shot dead by Zheng Weiguo.

Next, the fighters shot another round, and still no one could hit. It seems that this distance is still a little far away for them, and the wind is a little strong, so it is indeed not easy to grasp. Zheng Weiguo was not in a hurry, and while teaching the soldiers to accurately measure the distance and calculate the wind deviation, he gave a demonstration to the soldiers. This kind of "actual combat training" brought a great shock to everyone, and not only the soldiers of the sniper platoon have strengthened their determination to become snipers, but even the soldiers of the spy company responsible for covering and guarding have also asked to "jump ship" to the sniper platoon. Zheng Weiguo had no choice but to add a sniper team within the special service company.

After Zheng Weiguo killed 16 devils in a row, this sniper operation was finally exposed. The Japanese forces then launched a massive counterattack. Seeing that the purpose of the battle had been achieved, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Zheng Weiguo withdrew with his troops. The devil died so many people, of course he refused to give up, and chased after his ass.

Two or three thousand devils were not afraid of any ambush at all, so they plunged into the ambush circle set up in Chenjiagou. Here, Zheng Weiguo prepared a lot of surprises for the devils, including the two infantry guns that were also marked to shoot Zhu Yuan.

No sooner had a squadron of Japanese troops appeared than they came under heavy fire, including two infantry guns. After inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy, the troops quickly withdrew.

The extremely angry devils soon began to fight back, and the infantry artillery and the wing artillery opened fire one after another, and the explosion was accurate and ruthless. The soldiers looked back, only to see that the previous position had become unrecognizable, and they couldn't help but be secretly afraid.

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the Japanese infantry who were fighting in concert rushed to the ambush position of the security regiment. However, at this time, Zheng Weiguo had already commanded the transfer of troops, leaving them only with a mess after the bombardment.

After this round of blows, the Japanese army became cautious when advancing, which was also what Zheng Weiguo wanted. After all, the Japanese army has a strong ability to march on foot, and if they are allowed to attack, the troops will be easily entangled. On the other hand, if the Japanese army is a battalion step by step, although it is difficult to fight, it can calmly mobilize troops, and it will be easier to deal with it.

A team of devil soldiers cautiously searched along the official road. They paid attention to the front and the sides, but ignored the threat from under their feet - mines! These mines were still seized from Black Eagle Village, and Zheng Weiguo has never been willing to use them, and this time he took them out to entertain guests, which is very worthy of Nagano.

With a loud bang, several devils screamed and fell to the ground. I don't know where the bandits got this mine, and it's not very powerful.

Zhang Changgui muttered: "Brigade, this mine is not good, not a single devil has been killed!" Look, those devils are lying on the ground and screaming! ”

Zheng Weiguo said with a smile: "This kind of immortality will deal a greater blow to the morale of the devils." ”

Sure enough, seeing that there were mines ahead, the Japanese soldiers did not dare to continue to advance, so they could only wait for the sappers to come and clear the mines. According to the establishment of the Japanese army in World War II, there were no engineers below the wing, but they were often temporarily equipped during combat.

There is often such a scene in film and television works: a captain of lewd and even more obscene devils bent over the highway with a hoop-shaped mine detector in his hand like picking up dog shit. Then the dirt road that was ambushed in the distance was pulled and mixed with the rope, and the devil man turned over on his back.

In fact, mine removal requires not only mine detectors, but also mine rods. The eddy current electromagnetic field acts on the electronic system of the mine to make it lose its original equilibrium state, or detects the eddy current electromagnetic field signal through the receiving system of the mine detector, so as to know the location of the metal object (mine). It reliably finds mines with metal parts, but is susceptible to interference from metal objects such as shrapnel on the battlefield.

Once the mine detector has spotted a suspicious target, it uses a mine detector rod to further determine the location of the mine. Generally, skilled mine detectors can directly determine whether it is a mine by probing the side shape of the probe rod at an angle, and more powerful people can determine the type of mine from this.

It didn't take long for the devil's sappers to come up. One team in front of the road was holding a mine detector, and some in the back were holding a mine detector. However, it is unlikely that the sappers will be blown up with mixed mines, because the mixing mines cannot be set up too long, and if they are too close, they will be easily exposed.

Shooting cold shots may be an option, but at most a few sappers will be killed, because there are still a lot of devil infantry on guard near the minefield. The slightest movement will be attacked by them.

In this regard, Zheng Weiguo still uses the old method - electronically controlled mines. This is the same principle as the last bombing of the Yamamoto Brigade, but the scale is much smaller. After killing several sappers one after another, the Japanese army's mine detection work was in a difficult situation.

Nagano was very dissatisfied with this, and ordered a dozen horses to be driven to the mines. This method is really good, because the horse is moving fast, and it is difficult to cause too much damage to the horse if it is not an instantaneous thunderbolt. Even instantaneous lightning is generally difficult to kill a horse, and at most it can injure a horse. Injured horses, on the other hand, will become very manic and will run faster for a short time. Therefore, ordinary mines have little effect on cavalry, unless they are high-power mines that can shock people to death or jumping mines that are specifically used against cavalry.

Since there were not many mines planted by the security regiment, they could not threaten the Japanese army after being trodden by the horses for a while. They began to advance along the official road. Zheng Weiguo saw that the mine array had failed, and after a fierce fight with his troops, he quickly withdrew to the next blocking point.

This kind of resistance made the Japanese army satisfied, and they then climbed on both sides of the official road in several ways, trying to encircle the blocking force of the security regiment from both flanks. However, due to the terrain, some of the detour Japanese troops were isolated, and Zheng Weiguo commanded the troops to suddenly kill the horse pistol, eliminate the troops who had dropped the order, and then quickly evacuated.

In this way, fight a dozen, defend a defend, and from time to time make a counterattack. Mines, bombs, artillery, and cold guns are all in action. Although the Nagano United team has a lot of strength, they are entangled by the security team and can't give full play. It wasn't until it was almost dark that Zheng Weiguo gave up the blockade and disengaged from the Japanese army with the response of the 772nd Regiment.

The scale of this battle was relatively small, and the results were not great, but the ambush warfare, counterattack warfare, defensive warfare, and retreat warfare were all complete, and it was of great benefit to the training of the troops. Historically, the Eighth Route Army also used this means to gradually train paramilitary forces such as county brigades and district squads into a hundred battle heroes.

In the evening of the same day, the Nagano United finally reached the county seat of Heian County, but it became an empty city again, even more dilapidated than when the Izawa brigade came. Furious, Yuichi Nagano was so angry that he had nowhere to vent his anger and had to order the destruction of the entire castle in retaliation.

Due to the tight fighting on the Jinpu Line and the urgent need for reinforcements for the Japanese army, the Nagano Wing had to withdraw the next day, and Ping'an Prefecture was able to see the light of day. However, as long as the devils do not roll out of China for a day, the haze that hangs over Ping'an County cannot completely dissipate.