There is no time to be sad and angry, no time to be sad, and leave heroically, but now, everyone must continue to fight for the next battle!

After sending these two heroic intelligence officers down to rest, Zhang Qingshan immediately ordered the troops to urgently assemble outside the south gate and wait for their meritorious service.

Then, holding a kerosene lamp, he groped his way along the path little by little on a military map......

"Lao Luo, have you walked this path?" although he was asking, his gaze still stayed on the first three forks of the path.

Now, the intentions of this little devil are obvious: after they retreated in a panic, they must have made contact with reinforcements halfway, which is why they are so careful to hide themselves and send a large number of palace personnel to eliminate the trackers.

And they did this for one reason, but the result was two, but both were not good for the assault group: the reason for hiding here was nothing more than to cooperate with reinforcements and attack together.

And there are two points of attack: either after joining up with reinforcements, attack the county town with great momentum. Either it is to cooperate with reinforcements and attack the flank of the county seat.

It doesn't matter where these two attack points are, but for the assault group, one thing is already predestined: it must divide its forces to deal with this little devil.

Now is the time to embody the resourcefulness of Zhang Qingshan and other commanders.

And Zhang Qingshan was so concerned about the direction of this path, and he deliberately asked this, it was nothing more than to judge the specific direction of this path, and wanted to implement it, where exactly did this path lead? In other words, even if the little devils wanted to make a detour back and cooperate with their reinforcements to attack the county seat, then how many miles would they have to travel back by detour? How much time would it take? As for the emergency assembly, they just wanted to save a little time, because now every second counts.

"Because this path is the closest to the county seat in the east, there are more people walking. I've also walked through ......."

Zhang Qingshan nodded and asked, "Then you can judge, what will this little devil attack us?"

Luo Yingjie pointed to the path on the map with his right index finger, stroked it with his hand, and pointed at the first three-way crossing, and said: "On this three-way crossing, the path on the left is leading to Shiban Town in Baoyuan County. Besides, their reinforcements have already set out for us, so we can conclude from these two points that they will never go to Slate Town again. In other words, they will inevitably assist their reinforcements to attack us. ”

Speaking of this, he paused slightly, glanced around, and saw that everyone was listening carefully, and many people nodded subconsciously, and he felt a little better: after all, it was his own fault before, although Zhang Qingshan did not criticize it explicitly, but everyone knew in their hearts that he was very self-reproachful in his heart for making this kind of mistake that should not have been made, and now, he naturally had to rush to make up for it.

"Then, there are only two roads left: in a certain period of time, return along the same road, and cooperate with its reinforcements to attack our county seat of Sanqiao County. The road on the right leads to the county seat of Tongren County, which means that they may also attack the county seat of Tongren County while we are fighting against their reinforcements. ”

His right index finger moved back along the path on the map again, and pointed at the county seat of Sanqiao County, and said, "However, I personally think that they must be waiting for reinforcements to arrive." There are three reasons for this: First, it takes about 45 miles to detour from this small road to Tongren County, which is too far and of little significance; second, since the little devils have affirmed the arrival of reinforcements, then they will only achieve the goal of joint attack by meeting with the reinforcements or assisting the reinforcements to attack the county seat; if they divide the troops, they will not need to hide so much at all; third, the little devils have always been arrogant and have no one in their sights. If they don't even pay attention to the national army, which is better equipped than us, how can they look down on us? Then, since we have suffered such a great loss at our hands and have been directly driven away by us by force, they must be eager to take revenge and regain this face. In addition, now that the reinforcements have arrived, and they are going straight to our county seat of Sanqiao County, they will probably stand up from where they fall, and they will join forces to attack our county seat of Sanqiao County...... Therefore, they should now rest in seclusion on this path, and the resting place must not be far from our county seat in Sanqiao County, just waiting for reinforcements to arrive. ”

At this, he laughed, and said, "Therefore, I suggest that we send troops to search along this path, and we will definitely fight them on the path." ”

Zhang Qingshan nodded and motioned for everyone to return to their respective seats.

After pondering for a while and sorting out his thoughts, Zhang Qingshan gave an order with a straight face: "I order, immediately pass the flag soldiers, send an order to the Sanqiao County Guerrilla Brigade, according to guerrilla tactics, along the only main road between the two counties, ambush in stages, not to kill many enemies, but to delay the speed of the little devil's reinforcements as much as possible." ”

"Send an order to the Tongren County Guerrilla Brigade to prepare to defend the city. The personnel who were originally going to set up an ambush in the middle of the county seat of Sanqiao County immediately withdrew to the county seat for defense. At the same time, send a part of the troops, along this path, and set up an ambush not far from it, to take precautions. ”

"The 1st Battalion, the 2nd Battalion, the Artillery Company, and the Assault Company immediately followed me to the Pigeon's Pass to set up an ambush. ”

"The third battalion immediately set out and set up an ambush on the mountainside opposite this path, and when this group of little devils came back, they tried to annihilate it as much as possible. But once the little devil retreats into the path, he must not pursue, and he can divide a company to help defend the county seat. The rest of the people may continue to set up ambushes in other areas as appropriate. ”

"The rest of the militia and guerrilla brigades in the county seat are temporarily responsible for the defense of the county seat...... At the same time, there should be no mistake in the immediate transfer of supplies and wounded. ”

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When all the orders were clearly issued one by one, Qi Zixuan, the commander of the third battalion, couldn't help but stand up and asked: "Regiment commander, we are going to take the initiative to attack, but in this way, who will defend the county seat?"

Yes, relying only on these militias and a small part of the county guerrilla brigade that have been transferred from the county seat, this combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the main force of the assault regiment at all, let them defend the county seat, not to mention the reinforcements of the little devils, even if they deal with the little devils who have fled, I am afraid they will not be able to stand it for long, which is worrying.

Zhang Qingshan said with a smile: "Let's take the initiative to defend the county." Besides, don't care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, we didn't plan to defend ...... in the first place."

Speaking of this, Zhang Qingshan thought for a while and explained slightly: "The county seat has been blown up by us with such a big opening, and it cannot be repaired in a short period of time, which is equivalent to opening a door for the little devils who are attacking the city, which is a huge hole for the entire defense system of the county." In addition, the little devil's weapons are better than ours, you also heard it just now, they even brought so many cannons, and those three iron bumps, it is estimated that they are either tanks or armored vehicles, and the firepower is definitely pressing us to fight, if we defend the county, let's not talk about whether we can hold it, even if we hold it, the casualties on our side will inevitably be very large, and the little devils rely on good weapons, under the bombardment of artillery, their own losses will inevitably be small, so, instead of sticking to this county town and being pressed by the little devils, it is better to take the initiative to attack, so that as long as they seize the opportunity to fight with the little devils in close combat, their artillery will not be able to exert its power, so as to come, everyone is on the same starting line. ”

When everyone heard this, they all nodded in approval.

But Zhang Qingshan sighed in his heart, there was one thing he didn't say, that is, the time when the assault regiment was established must be a little short, although many people have been baptized by guns and bullets, they have not yet experienced the baptism of artillery, let alone fighting positional warfare. Under this big shortcoming, there is really a situation where the little devils are pressed and beaten with cannons, and under such a huge pressure, maybe some recruits will collapse directly and become deserters. In order to avoid this situation, and in order to let everyone feel the pressure of the war step by step, it is better to take the initiative to set up an ambush and fight with the little devil in close quarters, after all, most of the soldiers in the assault regiment have fought with the little devils, and it is not a fool to fight with bayonets.

"Does anyone have any additional opinions? If there is any, say it quickly, if not, the meeting will be dismissed immediately, everyone will hurry up and get ready, and set off in five minutes. ”

Everyone, you look at me, I look at you, there is no opinion, the meeting is over, and the next thing is - the big war!

It can be said that this is the first major battle between the assault regiment and the little devil in the real sense.

Outside the south gate of the city, Zhang Qingshan was about to say a few words to boost morale, but when he saw Zhao Shanhe hear a soldier's report, he immediately ran to Zhang Qingshan's side with a smile on his face, and reported happily: "Report to the regiment commander, chief of staff, our assault company found a batch of mines in a small warehouse of the little devil. ”

Zhang Qingshan immediately smiled in surprise: "Then what are you waiting for, hurry up and pull it over, just use it on the little devil's iron bump." ”

This news is definitely a relief in the snow: he learned from Li Feng's mouth that at present, the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army are not good, and it is better to deal with the armored vehicles of the little devils, at least they can bombard with not many large artillery, but sometimes the artillery is not necessarily good for dealing with the tanks of the little devils. Many times, everyone sends people to blow up the tank with an explosives bag, but this kind of behavior, not to mention the heroic, tragic and the like, even if you send a squad over, you may not be able to get into the tank, because the tank is not only equipped with a machine gun itself, but it will definitely be followed by a lot of little devils, and they are not stupid, how can they watch you blow up the tank with the explosives bag?

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Qingshan heard that the little devil had brought three iron bumps this time, he began to think about what he had to do to kill these three iron bumps, but after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't come up with a good solution, so he had no choice but to follow Li Feng's words: send someone to blow it up with an explosive bag. However, thinking about the tragedy of doing so, he was very sad and indignant in his heart...... Who made our national strength too bad, and the weapons and equipment were too poor? We can only fill it with human lives!

Now, hearing the news, Zhang Qingshan is naturally overjoyed: Even if you can't blow up the iron bumps of the little devils, as long as you bury more and blow up the vanguard of some little devils, there is absolutely no problem.

Tian Guozhong, who was on the side, frowned and sighed: "I hope it's still too late in terms of time!"

As soon as Zhang Qingshan heard this, he immediately said to Zhao Shanhe: "The men of your assault company have good physical strength, hurry up and set off with these mines first, and you must race against time to try to plant all the mines before the little devil reinforcements reach the pigeon's mouth." ”

"Yes!"

Tian Guozhong also added: "How to set up mines, you can judge the route of the little devil after entering according to the local terrain to bury it, but you must remember that don't bury the mines too concentrated, only by scattering them will the little devil be given the greatest damage, and only then can the little devil be prevented from advancing without scruples and thwarting the momentum of the little devil to the greatest extent...... Got it?"

"Got it!"

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