The colonel of the Central Army admitted frankly that the success of the counterattack on Fengdian County was inseparable from the intelligence that the Japanese garrison was empty in advance. At present, the 391st Regiment has only two battalions of troops in the county town, and it is a problem to share the defense of the city.

"Please also ask Major Wang to give me a little time, and I will send the brothers to reconnoiter first, and find out the approximate strength of the Japanese army in the mountains before making a decision."

Seeing Qin Zhongxiao's hesitation, Wang Suihua felt even more unhappy, the telegram order sent by the Wei Lihuang Commander's Department in the Second World War Zone to the 391st Regiment was to tell them to fully cooperate with the military command.

The chief of staff on the side saw the unhappiness of the female major of the military commander, and hurriedly diverted the conversation: "You have to dare to ask Major Wang, what kind of organs does the Japanese army have in Little Elm Mountain?" When our regiment attacked Fengdian, a Japanese army was reinforced from the direction of Little Elm Mountain, but fortunately, the Eighth Route Army Forest Division came to the aid and killed it. ”

When Wang Suihua heard the three words of the Eighth Route Army, she couldn't help but move in her heart: Shanxi Station had received instructions from the Northwest Region to collect the distribution and activity patterns of the Eighth Route Army in central and northern Shanxi, and the station commander mainly entrusted this task to the intelligence group. It is said that this is the intention of the General Headquarters and even the Military Commission.

"This Lin Master, where is the main force now? Why do they also appear here, how many people are there? Wang Suihua did not answer the chief of staff's question, but asked Qin Zhongxiao and the chief of staff at the same time.

"Well," Chief of Staff Zhang Hong looked a little embarrassed: "I was in a hurry to lead people to participate in the attack in the city, and I didn't communicate too much with the Eighth Route Army, there were about a few hundred people, and the leader was a deputy battalion commander. ”

Wang Suihua pondered whether to report this unexpected information to the station for a while, but after thinking about it, she still took care of herself first: "So, how long will it take for Qin Tuanzuo to find out the reality of the Japanese army in Little Elm Mountain?" ”

Of course, Qin Zhongxiao also saw the mood of the female major of the military commander--at the moment, he still needed the help of the military commander to contact the headquarters of the Second War Zone, implement the military salary and replenish the equipment--I hurriedly replied: "I will arrange for Zhao Mutou's spy company to go, and there should be results in a day or two." ”

It's just that, I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, so I can only do this first. Wang Suihua was anxious in her heart, but she remained silent on the surface: "Okay, please Qin Tuanzuo must be careful, this matter is an important task assigned by the Military Command Headquarters." ”

Qin Zhongxiao and the chief of staff carefully touched the words "Military Command Headquarters", which had a unique taste. It seems that whether it is Fengdian or Little Elm Mountain, there must be major secrets of the Japanese.

Wu Zijian took the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion and won the division all the way back to Hekou Village.

During this period, the three platoons of the 8th Company took over the defense area of the 5th Company, and when they saw the deputy battalion commander leading the people to return from the harvest, everyone rushed out and displayed the trophies at the head of the village.

The artillery squad became the protagonist. In addition to the Republic of China Type 20 82mm mortar and a Type 92 heavy machine gun that were moved out of the Hongxing Gorge in Guanmen Mountain before, a Japanese mortar and a Type 92 heavy machine gun were captured on this trip, and the shells and bullets were all in boxes!

Wu Zijian and Li Tianlin calculated on the way back that it was time to set up an artillery squad and a heavy machine gun squad separately. The artillery squad was still led by Zhao Yejiao, and the heavy machine gun squad was formed with a few soldiers from the 5th Company who had played with Makqin in the past.

In the open field at the head of the village, Zhao Yejiao and his artillery squad were of course the most beautiful, two mortars, plus two grenadiers, five boxes of thirty rounds*, and four bags of twenty-three grenadiers*. In the words of the deputy battalion commander, the 5th Company and even the entire 2nd Battalion have never been so arrogant!

The captured Japanese mortars, their official title is "infantry curved artillery", and according to Zhao Yejiao's statement, it is a mortar, which is a product of the Japanese imitation of the French Bronde 81 mm mortar, and the Republic of China Type 20 mortar of the 2nd Battalion of the Lin Division is "a mother-raised"; It's just that the caliber of the guns of the Japanese is 81 mm, and the caliber of the guns of the Jinling Arsenal is 82 mm.

"Deputy battalion commander, company commander, look," Zhao Yejiao took a captured Japanese artillery shell in his hand, and carefully compared it to his own Republic of China 20-style gun, and sure enough, the shell could be easily stuffed into the muzzle: "Our shells have all been shot under Fengdian City, if there is still one round left, I will take our shells and load them into this gun of Little Japan, you can see clearly, absolutely not fit!" ”

Wu Zijian had heard Zhao Yejiao say this, so he didn't think it was strange, but Li Tianlin and the commanders and fighters of the 5th and 8th companies felt fresh and listened to it with relish.

Xiao Junping, the captain of the enemy engineering team, limped in, and Wu Zijian and Chen Xuanzhu, the deputy captain, greeted him from afar, and the deputy battalion commander praised the performance of the enemy engineering team and informed him of the brilliant results.

Xiao Junping was quite surprised by the counterattack of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army on Fengdian - in the end, it was the elite of Chairman Jiang's lineage, and with an incomplete regiment, he dared to attack the county occupied by the Japanese army and seize it. Recalling the performance of the 12th Brigade of the Jin Army, which was originally guarding the county with the 391st Regiment, Xiao Junping felt ashamed again. He was originally worried that Wu Zijian might not be able to successfully occupy a city gate in Fengdian and then seize the mortars and heavy machine guns on the city, but as soon as the 391st Regiment came out, it did the second battalion a great favor from the side.

"Providence, this is providence," the captain of the enemy engineer smiled and nodded frequently: "Originally, the Central Army attacked the county seat first, and there was no oil and water to be fished out of our second battalion, but such a Japanese army ran out of the Little Elm Mountain, but they brought mortars and heavy machine guns, isn't this providence?" ”

Wu Zijian talked about his friendship with the chief of staff of the 391st Regiment, saying that the other party was coaxing the stinky shelf of the Central Army. However, he also admired their courage in attacking the county seat. Xiao Junping carefully questioned the deputy captain Chen Xuanzhu, and asked him to tell as completely as possible about the scene of the 391st Regiment attacking the south gate of Fengdian in disguise when he was lurking outside Fengdian City. Then, he summed up with Wu Zijian:

"Looking at their means of seizing the county seat, the Central Army must have learned the information that the main force of the Japanese army had left in advance, so they dared to enter the city with a few hundred people," Immediately, Xiao Junping turned to his deputy captain and criticized: "Why have you all withdrawn?" A few men should be left behind to continue to investigate the situation in the city. ”

This made Wu Zijian suddenly realize, and he hurriedly made self-criticism: "This is mainly to blame me, I was in a hurry to evacuate with the loot, and I didn't bother to think about it." ”

Xiao Junping criticized Chen Xuanzhu for still lacking a string in intelligence warfare in his mind: "The commander-in-chief should consider the overall situation, and he may be negligent for a while, but as a member of the enemy's engineering team, he should remind the commander-in-chief to pay attention to the collection of intelligence clues at any time." ”

Wu Zijian secretly said in his heart: This enemy engineer captain who was born as a staff officer of the Jin Army had spent time in the regular army, and compared with him, he seemed to be a little rich and safe, and lacked the concept of a big war situation.

Chen Xuanzhu was already ashamed and embarrassed, he was only a platoon commander of the 5th Company, and he had little experience in intelligence work.

Xiao Junping immediately asked Wu Zijian for instructions, asking the enemy engineering team to immediately arrange manpower to return to Fengdian, and if the battle is over and the city gate has been opened, he will sneak into the city, while collecting the movements of the 391st Regiment of the Central Army, and at the same time waiting to see whether the Japanese army will make a comeback. Wu Zijian agreed, and in front of the entire enemy engineering team, he officially announced that in the future, all matters of going out to reconnoiter could be decided by Captain Xiao Junping without having to ask the battalion headquarters for instructions in advance.

After the assignment was completed, Wu Zijian accompanied Xiao Junping to visit the spoils. At this time, Zhao Yejiao had already put down the mortar shells and was showing and explaining the grenadiers.

The two captured grenadiers were both Japanese Type 89 guns, and their entire length was not much longer than a shell gun, and the caliber was only 50 millimeters thin. Zhao Yejiao and his comrades-in-arms of the 14th Army once fiddled with the grenadiers captured from the Japanese army during the Battle of Xinkou, so they were quite experts in this thing. The commanders and fighters of the Eighth Route Army were amazed when they stared at the swarthy iron pipe and the small * used to launch it.

Zhao Yejiao first demonstrated the principle of firing the grenadier in a non-bullet state, and its technique was far less familiar than manipulating a mortar, which seemed a little stiff; Then, he loaded the small* into the mouth of the grenadier and compared how this would fire the live ammunition. It is hard for everyone to believe that such an inconspicuous device can actually shoot * more than a mile away (author's note: the maximum range of the Type 89 grenadier is 700 meters, and the effective range is 500 meters).

Wu Zijian, who was catching up with this scene, hurriedly stopped this coaxing behavior. Zhao Yejiao blushed and argued with everyone, saying that the front line in northern Jin Province had indeed been bombed by this thing, and no one could be spared within a kilometer of the bombing point. Xiao Junping, who was born in the 33rd Army under Sun Chu, also confirmed it to everyone, which caused the officers and soldiers of the second battalion to be amazed.

Xiao Junping of the Japanese expert further introduced that the Japanese army's grenadier is very powerful in the infantry, and each detachment of the division and regiment fighting on the front line (author's note: the detachment of the Japanese infantry is the smallest combat unit, with 13 people, equivalent to a squad of the Chinese army) is equipped with a grenadier canister; In this way, an infantry squadron of less than 200 men is equipped with 9 grenadiers. The grenadier is usually made up of two people, one for firing and the other for observation and feeding. Their marksmanship is often very skilled, and a grenadier can knock out a heavy machine-gun position of the national army with great accuracy!

Wu Zijian asked Li Tianlin and Zhao Yejiao to pick a few clever fighters and prepare to practice manipulating grenadiers. In the future, when there is a lot of money, it can be separated from the artillery squad and a grenadier squad can be formed. Li Tianlin suddenly said: Deputy battalion commander, the artillery squad now has two guns, are you considering transferring the two gunners from the division headquarters to the second battalion from Xiping together?

Unexpectedly, Wu Zijian was silent for a moment.

He was thinking, how to report to the battalion commander and instructors? This time, he led the main force of the 5th Company to Fengdian, which was completely different from the nature of the last confrontation with the cavalry of the puppet Mongolian army in Hekou Village, which was definitely an act of "taking the initiative to attack the Japanese army". Do instructors get angry? Is the battalion commander still willing to wipe the mud for himself?