Nineteenth.

Since the Japanese troops stationed in Shanxi launched a sweep of the Eighth Route Army in the Taihang area on the 12th, it has been the eighth day.

At about 6 o'clock in the afternoon, from Xicun to the mountainous area where the new 1st Regiment was stationed, Lei Dasheng, commander of the 4th Battalion of the Independent Regiment, and Xu Lianzhong, deputy commander of the 1st Regiment, once again cooperated in the battle, took a detour, outflanked, and ate a lone Japanese puppet army.

Among them, more than 50 puppet soldiers and more than 80 Japanese soldiers were eliminated.

When the soldiers cleaned up the battlefield and seized equipment and materials, Lei Dasheng found a problem: "Deputy Regiment Commander Xu, I don't know if you have found it, this little devil's satchel is getting lighter and lighter." ”

"When I was cleaning up the battlefield a few days ago, the weight of each devil's satchel was not light, millet, biscuits, canned meat, dried fish, sugar, nutritious rations or something, and some of them even weighed more than ten catties."

"Every time after eliminating the devil puppet army, our soldiers' favorite thing to capture is this kind of satchel, why? It's full of delicious food! ”

"Right now, the satchel is empty, there's nothing left in it."

Xu Lianzhong said with a smile: "The devil's sweep this time is not short, and today is the eighth day, according to our understanding of the devil, this devil's individual soldier will generally be equipped with about six days' rations." ”

"A few days ago, the devil still had unfinished rations in his satchel, so it was heavier, and now it is enough to show that the little devil is about to run out of cooking."

Lei Dasheng said: "That's true, when the devils are generally sweeping, in addition to the rations they bring for a few days, they often take local materials and plunder the materials of the villagers in our villages that they meet on the way to sweep. ”

"In the future, we will also transport supplies from the rear of the sweep to the nearest strongholds to the front-line sweep troops, and these strongholds will stock up on sufficient food in advance before launching a sweep."

"But this time it's different, let's move the villagers in advance, leaving only the empty village for the devils, as well as all kinds of mines and traps we have laid in the village, if the little devils go in, let alone seize food, it's not good that even their lives are in it."

"The stronghold in the rear, after the regiment commander made a detour to the main force this time, he pulled out the little devil cleanly, and the transportation channel on the way was cut off by us, and the devil's front-line sweeping troops had no follow-up supply of materials at all."

"Thinking about it from this point of view, this sweep of the devils, even if we don't launch a counterattack, the little devils will retreat because of the lack of cooking."

While the two were talking, the communications corps who came all the way from the temporary headquarters in the West Village reported to Lei Dasheng: "Report to the battalion commander, there is news from the regimental headquarters, the regiment commander has ordered that the attack should be changed to defense before dawn the next day, if the fourth mixed brigade and the Ishii wing cannot be taken before then, they can only choose to give up." ”

After speaking, seeing Xu Lianzhong beside him, the signal soldier reported to Xu Lianzhong again: "Deputy Regiment Commander Xu, the regiment commander wants us to bring you a message, our independent regiment is ready to switch from offensive to defensive, please make corresponding adjustments and preparations for your new regiment." ”

After the signal corps finished reporting the situation, he left.

Lei Dasheng and Xu Lianzhong analyzed the orders from the regiment headquarters.

"Give up? It was not easy to besiege the two devils of Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang...... It seems that the reinforcements of the devils are menacing, and the regiment commander gave the order with this layer in mind. ”

Although he was unwilling, Lei Dasheng still chose to obey the order absolutely.

After all, the information received by the regimental headquarters, as well as the overall judgment, must have been more accurate and comprehensive than that of his fourth battalion.

"Deputy Regiment Commander Xu, as the Japanese army continues to reinforce Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, once the Japanese puppet army far surpasses us, if we divide our troops to intersperse detours, it will be easy to be broken one by one."

"The regimental headquarters should have received definite news."

"You and I continue to join forces, outflanking the battle, I'm afraid we will have to stop temporarily."

Xu Lianzhong nodded, and there was a solemnity in his expression, "Okay, Battalion Commander Lei, I also received the news that Lao Ding is already on his way back to the regiment headquarters, how to fight in the future, let's see the arrangements of the regiment headquarters!" ”

"Be careful all the way!"

"Take care!"

Lei Dasheng and Xu Lianzhong said goodbye and each led their troops to shrink back from the area of joint operations.

In the other two directions, after returning from the rear of the Japanese army, Ding Wei divided his troops into two parts, one of which was dedicated to transporting a large amount of equipment and materials captured in the ambush back to the new regiment station, and the other part of the force continued to move closer to the direction of Xicun.

Li Yunlong's side is almost like this, Lao Li, who has made a lot of money, when he left from the county, town, village and town occupied by the devil, he just pulled more than 30 board cars.

Along the way, the soldiers who transported the supplies were almost exhausted, and it was not so hard to fight the devils.

Fortunately, the mood of the soldiers was high, and such a large amount of equipment and materials were captured, and they were full of joy and tiredness.

Kong Jie's three main battalion commanders also arrived at the periphery of Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.

Since there were still the Fourth Mixed Brigade of the Devils and the Shijing Wing on the periphery of Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, it was not convenient to transport supplies during the day, so Shen Quan sent a signal soldier to report the situation to Kong Jie, and decided to transport a large amount of captured materials back to the regiment after nightfall.

Soon after, Shen Quan, Wang Leihu, and Wang Huaibao also received orders from the regimental headquarters transmitted by the signal soldiers:

Before dawn the next day, the independent regiment will switch from attack to defense, and now the 4th mixed brigade of the Japanese army in Xicun, and the Ishii Wing in Zhangjiazhuang, can only give up if they can't eat it.

The situation in Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang was investigated by scouts sent by the three battalion commanders, and they also communicated with the comrades of the 4th and 5th battalions stationed at various nodes.

The Fourth Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, because of the continuous deployment of troops to reinforce Yangquan, now only has more than 1,000 troops left, and the Ishii Wing only has more than 1,000 troops, among which there are many wounded soldiers.

But it is not easy to eat these two Japanese troops in one go.

The old devil Yamaguchi and Ishii Haraichi are very cunning, and they are besieged by the soldiers of the independent regiment using the node, and they have failed to break through the node defense after many attempts.

These two old devils directly stuck to the danger, relying on the mountains in the besieged area, built fortifications on the mountain, and acted as shrunken turtles, waiting for reinforcements to come to reinforce, and refused to take the initiative to attack.

Yamaguchi, the old devil, took advantage of the unique topography of the mountain to build an anti-slope defensive offensive, and was ready to guard against the artillery fire of the independent regiment.

Coupled with the periphery of the nodes, Japanese reinforcements continued to arrive.

The soldiers at each node must also be on guard against the Japanese army on the periphery to attack the node fortifications at any time.

The main forces of the 4th and 5th Battalions sent reinforcements in the mountainous areas, united the troops of the New 1st Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment, interspersed with detours, and eliminated the Japanese puppet army.

There were not many troops left behind in Xicun, Zhangjiazhuang, and Niukou villages, which were not enough to forcibly eat the Japanese 4th Mixed Brigade and Ishii Wing.

Kong Jie also did not want to launch a strong attack and cause unnecessary casualties.

In the opinion of Commander Kong, if he can't exchange victory for a smaller price, then he would rather not have this victory.

The independent regiment should not only fight for the final victory, but also strive to nourish the war with war and avoid its own sacrifice as much as possible.

If you can't win the battle in front of you, it will lead to a big loss of vitality of the independent regiment, so what will you do in the future battle?

For this reason, Kong Jie, who was analyzing the battle situation at the regimental headquarters, racked his brains.

In the evening of the same day, the monk returned with the comrades of the guard company and reported the battle situation to Kong Jie, and the guard company, with the cooperation of the local comrades and the militia comrades, successfully defeated the artillery units supporting Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang in the big stronghold of the devils, and captured a considerable number of artillery.

Kong Jie patted the monk's shoulder and praised: "Good job, this battle was fought beautifully, monk, go back and give you credit!" ”

After Kong Jie finished speaking, if this was an ordinary monk, his mouth would be crooked.

At this moment, the monk was calm and blamed himself.

"What's wrong?" Kong Jie asked.

The monk said what had happened with a depressed face, and finally blamed himself: "Regiment leader, if Jiang Huaimin hadn't passed the news back in time, I would have fallen for the devil." ”

"If I put the focus of the ambush on the bait of the devil's lead, the devil's follow-up artillery strike will be covered immediately, and our guard company will not only fail to complete the task, but may even be killed by the devil's artillery."

"Regiment commander, it's my lack of command ability, you can punish me!"

Looking at the monk with a straight face, Kong Jie also sighed a little, I don't know when the monk has matured a lot, and he is no longer as arrogant as before, but more stable and modest.

"Monk, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and even the best commander may not be able to see opportunities everywhere and grasp them at all times."

"I am very pleased that you can take the initiative to ask for sin, and I believe that sooner or later, monk, you will be able to take charge on your own one day."

"I won't say anything about the punishment, but I want you to take this experience as a lesson and take it to heart."

"As a good commander, you have to think carefully about commanding operations at any time, you have to think thoroughly, things will be as simple as they seem?"

"In this way, there is a task right now, bring your guard company, if you kid can successfully complete the task, even with the artillery unit that defeated the devil, and give your guard company credit for the two battles, but if you can't complete the task, then you kid and I will be punished for two crimes."

The monk hurriedly straightened up and responded, "Regiment leader, you can give the order, and I promise to complete the task." ”

"Good!"

Kong Jie nodded heavily, and then beckoned the monk to rush to the side of the battle sand table.

After locking the combat area in the Zhangjiazhuang area, Kong Jie said: "At present, the Fourth Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army and this Shijing Wing are holding on to these two big mountains. ”

"I have thought of a lot of ways, trying to kill these two devils, and even thinking about fire attacks, but these methods are a bit unrealistic, and they cannot guarantee the casualties of our troops."

"Now that you're coming back with the guard company, this suddenly inspired me that there is a way, maybe I can take down the Ishii United team in one fell swoop."

The monk responded: "Commander, you say!" ”

Kong Jie pointed to one of the points of the sand table and said: "Here, the Zhangjiazhuang Shijing Wing is stationed on the right flank of the mountainous area, more than three hundred meters away, there is a weedy field, a half-human high weedy field, if you crawl forward, it can play a good concealment effect." ”

"If you want to take these two Japanese troops, if our main force attacks, it will be very difficult, and the casualties of the troops will not be avoidable."

"So I decided to use stealth tactics, stealth tactics, what do you mean? Towards dusk, I would order the main forces to launch a non-stop feint attack on the Ishii Wing in order to attract the attention of the Japanese troops. ”

"And what your monk has to do is to avoid the reconnaissance of the Japanese army, and lead the comrades of the guard company to lurk in this weedy field, waiting for the opportunity, and taking the opportunity to quickly attack the Japanese position."

"At a distance of more than 300 meters, with the help of the cover of night, in less than a minute, the soldiers of the guard company can approach the Japanese fortifications and start close combat."

"It only takes ten minutes to delay, and our follow-up main force can arrive."

"When the time comes, I can take down Ishii United in one fell swoop."

The monk understood the specific task, and immediately patted his chest and responded, "No problem." ”

Kong Jie smiled: "Don't be in a hurry to make a guarantee first, this mission is not as simple as you think." ”

"This is an absolutely dangerous mission to send stealth troops to infiltrate and lurk at the front of the Japanese position."

"Among them, the test is not only the quality of the soldiers of the latent troops, but also the willpower and spirit of the soldiers, and the most important test is the commander's on-the-spot command and improvisation."

"During the entire lurking process, in all the time periods before the battle broke out, there was only one requirement, Jing!"

"Absolute silence, even the slightest sound, which could cause the entire team to be exposed, cannot be heard."

"During the mission, the fighters even had to breathe as gently as possible."

"All the commands in the process can only convey orders in sign language."

"When a bullet hits a soldier, even if the blood runs dry, you have to keep quiet; When the fire burns on the body, even if the whole person is consumed, it must be kept quiet, which is the absolute discipline in the execution of the hidden mission. ”

"One voice may lead to the exposure of all the soldiers of the guard company, and more than one comrade will be sacrificed at that time."

"But behind this high risk, it also means that once the plan is successful, we can eliminate Ishii United at the lowest cost."

"Monk, what's the matter, I've said so much, do you kid still have confidence in completing this hidden mission?"

"Report to the head of the regiment, there is! It's all two shoulders and one head, who is afraid of whom? Don't worry, the regiment commander, the brothers of our guards, they are all the best comrades, this hidden mission, our guard company will definitely give you a brilliant shot! ”

The monk spoke categorically, and an overwhelming domineering aura rushed to his face.

Kong Jie breathed a sigh of relief and praised: "Good boy! ”

"Listen, the next step is the specific operational deployment."

"Around seven-ten-a.m., when the sky is about to end, I will give the order to launch a feint attack on Ishii United."

"Before nine o'clock in the evening, you have to lead the guard company to the weedy field on the right flank of the mountain, and then in absolute silence, wait for the follow-up attack of the main force."

"Now the preliminary setting is 11 o'clock in the evening, the offensive will begin, and the main force will be the first to shell the positions of the Ishii Wing."

"The duration of the shelling is five minutes, and after the five-minute shelling is over, the main forces will attack directly."

"What your guard company lurking in the weeds has to do is to perfectly connect the point where the shelling is over, and within a minute, break through to the Japanese fortifications."

"In this operation, each soldier of your guard company is equipped with two shell guns to deal with night combat and close combat."

"In addition, the bombardier is equipped with six grenades, two incendiary bombs, and the shotgunner is equipped with an additional double-barreled shotgun."

"In a group of three, cooperate with the operation, while the shelling has just ended, the Japanese army was blown to pieces, and your combat team quickly broke through the Japanese fortifications."

"The bombardier first threw the incendiary bomb into the trench dug by the devil in the mountains and forests, and with the help of this light, the shotgunner could raid the devil's puppet army at close range at any time, and the bombardier and the pistolster covered the rest of the Japanese puppet army at the same time."

"All combat teams must not easily jump off the trenches, just outside the trenches, and use this tactic to quickly clear the trenches where the Japanese troops are located."

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