Chapter 4: The Transition to War (20)

The defeated troops retreating from Lin'an walked the mountain road all night in the snow and returned to Hangzhou, and it was already the morning of the next day, and the battle had just begun on the northern line at this time, at Tashan between Shuangxi and Banqiao.

Walking here yesterday, Xu Le smiled when he heard the name of this place, and said, we have a relationship with Tashan, and whenever we see Tashan, there will be a battle. Qin Zhenyuan said with a smile: It should be said that as soon as we meet Tashan, we will take advantage of it. Huang Bamei hurriedly asked what was going on, Xu Le told the story of the battle in Si'an Tashan Village, and Huang Bamei was fascinated when she heard it, saying, this way of fighting is really incredible, only taking advantage of it and not suffering losses, this is what she likes the most.

Qin Zhenyuan decided to arrange the battlefield here, he thought it was a good place to ambush, the horseshoe-shaped terrain was very conducive to the ambush side, the terrain was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Xu Le did not approve of this passive ambush method, and advocated destroying the enemy during the movement, but he could not change Qin Zhenyuan's decision, and could only propose that Huang Bamei's people would not participate in the ambush in this place, but would go five kilometers further and make an ambush in a place called Qigu Mountain.

Qin Zhenyuan smiled dispensably and agreed to their plan, for the three hundred or so people of Huang Bamei, Qin Zhenyuan was not very careful, he thought that the ambush of the Qutian Infantry Brigade on the northern line had to rely on himself.

Chen Zhengxin, the commander of the first battalion of the 1055th Regiment, is a very thoughtful officer, he has not been very willing to transfer himself from a company commander of the 1056th Regiment to any battalion commander of the 1055th Regiment. In the last battle against the mountains, Chen Zhengxin's fire attack achieved excellent results, making Qin Zhenyuan very popular in front of the commander of the military division, and the praise of the officials at all levels made Qin Zhenyuan a little floating, completely ignoring that this idea was not his original, and he thought more and more that his ability was unbeatable. This time, Qin Zhenyuan didn't know the severity of the matter, and actually offered to block the Qutian Infantry Brigade with the strength of a regiment in Tashan, which can be described as quite arrogant, and Chen Zhengxin was deeply worried about this. Chen Zhengxin believed that it was not impossible for a regiment to win against an infantry brigade of the Japanese army, but it was necessary to adopt an operational method similar to that of the Tianhuangping Campaign, and to set up such an obvious ambush position at Tashan and engage in an offensive and defensive battle with the Japanese army, the odds of victory were not great, and even if it could barely defeat the Japanese army, it would be a disastrous victory.

Chen Zhengxin thought of this, and said to Qin Zhenyuan: "Tuanzao, my subordinates think that the three battalions in this place can't be opened, at most one battalion, and then a second battalion to replace it is enough, I want to take a battalion to ambush on the flank, as soon as the main position starts, the Japanese army will focus all their attention on this side, and I will hit him from the flank." ”

"No, I don't." Qin Zhenyuan said: "We must concentrate our forces, twist them into a rope, and take down this group of Japanese troops by virtue of the geographical advantage." Your three battalions of hand cannons are used intensively, all the Czechs are put up, we have enough bullets, I don't believe it, I can't spend 50,000 bullets to kill these thousand devils. ”

Chen Zhengxin stopped talking and silently left the regiment headquarters, and he made up his mind that this battle would no longer be in the limelight, and everything would be based on clear responsibility and protection.

The second battalion commander Lan Daigang was in the center, the first battalion commander Chen Zhengxin was on the left, the third battalion commander Zhang Qingzhu was on the right, and the 1055th Regiment lined up a semi-arc position in Tashan with great fanfare, waiting for the Qutian infantry brigade to attack. If Huang Tianhua is here, he will definitely think that this is a typical beaten formation.

Xu Le put his position on the opposite side of the mountain road, a small stream ran parallel to the mountain road, although it was winter, the stream did not dry up, in the cold wind, the place where the stream was slow had been frozen with a thin layer of ice, and the water flow could only be seen in the place where the water was turbulent. Xu Le divided the troops into two units at a jumping stone bridge upstream, a small part led by Liu Keji, and fired cold shots on the other side of the stream, and he and Huang Bamei waited in the mountains on the side of the road with a large army, waiting to pick up the leak. Huang Bamei didn't know what was missing, Xu Le told her that as long as Liu Keji's men fought accurately, wounded more and killed less, as long as the number reached thirty, the Japanese army would divide its troops. This devil soldier is the most fast, and will not march with the wounded, they will leave the wounded soldiers, and then leave some medical soldiers and logistics soldiers to form a logistics station, until they are sure that the road ahead is safe, they will take the wounded soldiers over.

Huang Bamei smiled and said, "Brother Xu means that we can eat these dozens of wounded soldiers and some logistics soldiers and medical soldiers!" ”

"That's right! Tomorrow we will eat some more, and in only half a month, this infantry brigade will be completely eaten by us. Xu Le said.

"Okay, I like this!" Huang Bamei stroked her palms and laughed, she is a bastard who is cheap, she is Huang Bamei.

Following the cold wind, Qu Tian Zhongzuo walked not hard, came out of Anji, this is the second day, the first day on the road in an unknown village to do a slaughter of the village, the men killed all the women of the adulterous light, and lived in that village for one night at night, ate all the livestock in the village, took away all the food, this morning, after the meat is full of food, he slowly set off, he got the order is to arrive in Lin'an within three days, and Guchuan Zhongzuo will be the teacher, as for how to arrange the way, he can be the master.

Just as Qu Tanakasa was excited about his first right to speak, a row of gunfire rang out from the other side of the stream, and his marching procession fell in response to the sound of almost fifty people.

All the Japanese soldiers immediately lay down, and the muzzles of their guns were aimed at the other side of the stream, and bullets rained down.

The branch on Liu Keji's head was beaten and flew wildly, and a bullet hit the mountain rock, and it turned around, half of the bullet was embedded in the shoulder of a soldier, and half of it was exposed, which was quite weird, if it wasn't for the war, everyone would laugh wildly.

A small squad of Japanese troops, rushing down the ravine from the mountain road, preparing to rush through the water, as soon as they touched the biting temperature, all the soldiers stopped their advance, and this kind of weather flowed across the river, and if they did not die, they would be frozen and crippled. The Japanese squad fired a few more shots at the opposite side of the stream, and retreated.

A few Japanese soldiers armed with hand cannons were still puzzled, so they fired a few hand cannons at the face of the stream, and the bullets landed almost ten meters away from Liu Keji's position, blowing up a pile of dirt. Liu Keji proudly said to his subordinates: Lao Tzu knows that the little devils will let go of the hand cannon, so the position that Lao Tzu chose is just outside the range of the hand cannon, and Lao Tzu is angry with these little devils.

A subordinate made fun of himself and asked Liu Keji if he would have another volley of guns and kill dozens of Japanese. Liu Keji's head shook quickly, and said: "This can't be done, you forgot what Commander-in-Chief Xu said just now, you can forgive the Japanese if you fight them once, but you will go crazy if you beat the Japanese twice, and when the time comes, they will all rush over with a brigade, and we will just end up in a dead end." Don't be greedy, you'll have to fight later. ”

Seeing that there was no sound on the other side of the stream, Captain Qutian no longer dwelled on it, and asked people to check the damage, because the shooting distance was relatively long, there were not many deaths, most of them were injured, and there were more than thirty people. The Japanese troops immediately organized stretcher teams, disposed of the wounded, and continued the march.

Seeing that the Japanese army did not leave the wounded, Xu Le smiled and said: "This group of Japanese soldiers is shrewd and knows that they can't divide their troops, since this is the case, we will change our strategy, quietly follow up, and wait until the Japanese and Regiment Commander Qin fight, and then we will find an opportunity to start." ”

Liu Keji found a jumping stone bridge from the downstream and returned to the side of the road, his mouth was still full of unhappiness, thinking that the results of the battle were a bit insignificant, and the most important thing was that he shot a bullet, but he didn't get a bargain, which was very unbearable.

Five kilometers away, just talk, Qu Tian Zhongzuo saw Qin Zhenyuan's formation on the way to come, smiled easily, fought in China for more than two months, this type of ambush has seen too much, in Nanxun, in Wuxing, in Guangde, in Guiling, all about the same, only in Gaoling because the other party's geographical advantage is too obvious The imperial army did not take advantage, and the rest can be said to be like a bamboo, there is no suspense. There is no surprise in this formation in front of you, a horseshoe-shaped ambush formation, the front is retracted, the wings are stretched forward, the other party's idea is very simple, go and attack the front position by yourself, and give them their own ribs in vain. This is the Chinese's favorite one-word long snake formation, the attack is the tail, the attack is the tail, the attack is the first and the tail is the first, and the middle is the beginning and the tail corresponding, in the imperial military academy, the teacher talked about it when he first taught the formation.

If the other party hides well, this purpose is not impossible to achieve, the problem is that the other party is ambushing with such fanfare, and if it enters the other party's preset position again, it will not only be stupid, but mentally retarded.

Nearly a kilometer away from the ambush of the 1055th regiment, the Japanese troops stopped, and soon, the Japanese set up a temporary position, loaded sacks with mud and sand, piled up several temporary machine gun positions, and set up crooked handles and 92 heavy machine guns, a defensive frame.

At this time, from the left side of the Japanese army, a squadron of Japanese troops began to attack the right flank of the Chinese side, which was the defensive ground of Zhang Qingzhu of the third battalion.

The Japanese army did not attack the main position according to Qin Zhenyuan's arrangement, which made Qin Zhenyuan very angry, and let Chen Zhengxin's first battalion immediately take the initiative to attack the temporary position of the Japanese army, relieving the pressure on Zhang Qingzhu's third battalion.

Setting up an ambush in this place could not be achieved, but the enemy went to attack the opponent's position, although the opponent only piled up some simple sacks, which had a completely different advantage compared with his own troops without cover, and to break through the enemy's position with crooked handles and 92 heavy machine guns, and to lay down the enemy's temporary position, not to mention that one of his own battalions could not do it, even if the whole regiment rushed out, it was just a few more corpses.

Chen Zhengxin directly refused Qin Zhenyuan's order, but asked a company to withdraw from its position and go around to the rear of the Japanese army, ready to harass the enemy. As soon as this company went around to the rear of the Japanese army, it encountered Liu Keji's company.

Xu Le laughed and said, there is just a shortage of manpower, and people will come soon, it is really lucky, and God can't stop it.

Let Liu Keji set up a bag with a large army, and he took about 20 soldiers with better marksmanship, and slowly approached the temporary camp of the Japanese army.

There was a row of guns, and the Japanese army fell more than a dozen, and the entire military camp was suddenly in chaos, Xu Le didn't dare to stay, and turned around and ran away with the soldiers.

Qu Tian Zhongzuo let a squad pursue quickly, and soon entered Liu Keji's ambush circle, a squad of more than 50 people, in front of three hundred guns, there was not much luck, and soon died not a single one.

At this time, the position of Zhang Qingzhu's department was broken by the Japanese army without accident, and in the face of dense hand cannons and bullets, Zhang Qingzhu's soldiers were beaten so that they could not raise their heads. Zhang Qingzhu ordered the soldiers to fight to the death and not retreat, and engaged the Japanese troops who attacked the position. Qu Tanaka Sami tore the hole and sent a squadron to reinforce, the two sides fought fiercely, Zhang Qingzhu took the lead, holding a Hanyang barge gun to fight at the forefront, was hit in the chest by a bullet, martyred, the rest could not resist, the whole battalion retreated, fled into the mountains behind him.

The Japanese army took advantage of the victory and swept towards the second battalion Lan Daigang.

Lan Daigang led the second battalion to fight fiercely with the Japanese army, and Chen Zhengxin led the remaining two companies to reinforce him. The Japanese army became more and more courageous the more they fought, the situation was extremely grim, and the 1055th Regiment was in danger. Qin Zhenyuan's whole body trembled, and he was at a loss.

The 1055th regiment is also Qin Zhenyuan's luck, at this time, a telegram broke the good situation of the Japanese army, Hangzhou called, because Lin'an still has a Chinese regular army about a reorganized division, the lonely army of the Guchuan Department has gone deep, has been defeated, the division headquarters let Qutian quickly retreat, otherwise it will be encircled by the Chinese military. Qu Tian was shocked and ordered to retreat.

Seeing that the Japanese army that had the upper hand retreated inexplicably, Qin Zhenyuan only had one strength to call the gods to bless him.

Xu Le saw that the retreating Japanese army was quite disciplined, and he did not dare to attack, and watched the Japanese army retreat calmly. He annihilated a squad of Japanese troops before, and this trip was not in vain, but compared with Qin Zhenyuan, this gain was insignificant.