For this God-knowing resistance battle, Lan Duzhong did not have the slightest interest. His concern is not how to fight this battle well, but how to preserve his strength. Duan Renyi is not a military strategist, he is, he understands the importance of strength to lead troops. Therefore, as soon as Duan Renyi, Staff Officer Fang, and others left the forward position, he immediately sent the battalion deputy Zhou Jili and the four company commanders under him to the door of the mill at the head of the village of Xiagangzi to negotiate, and prepared to bargain at the regiment headquarters meeting to reverse the current passive situation.

The current blocking layout was unfavorable for his second battalion. He had four companies, two of which were placed on the forward position for first-line resistance, and the other two were placed in the village of Xiagangzi, ready to reinforce the front-line defenders and to carry out a second-line blockade after the collapse of the front. The distance between the second line and the front line is less than 500 meters, and the elevation has only risen by 37 meters, and the actual second line does not exist. As soon as the battle began, the forward positions and the mobile troops defending the city in Shanggangzi Village were within the range of effective Japanese artillery fire, and the Japanese army could destroy its defensive line by the Xima River. In this way, he will suffer a great loss, and he may be wiped out by the whole army.

This was arranged by the staff of the bastard party. Duan Renyi didn't understand the stakes, but Staff Officer Fang did. Staff Officer Fang obviously didn't have a good heart in this arrangement, obviously protecting Zhang Fangzheng and Hou One-eyed of the death squad, and he was loyal. He Lan is not as loyal as Zhang Fangzheng and Hou Duyan, he only knows that there is a staff officer, but he doesn't know that there is a section commander. Therefore, the people put Zhang Fangzheng's first battalion and Hou Duyan's third battalion on the mountain to watch the battle in Gangzi Village, and pushed his second battalion to the front to be beaten.

Blame him too. He was wrong from the beginning, and then he made mistakes one after another, which caused the unfortunate situation on Ma'anshan today.

He shouldn't have been a part of the incident three months ago. He, Zhang Fangzheng, and Hou Duyan have never kowtowed to change posts, nor have they messed up together, just for the widow Zhao Company Commander's dog to make such a big mess together, which is really inappropriate. Company Commander Zhao has been with him for a few days, but he has been with Zhang Fangzheng and Hou Duyan for several years, and she may have been instigated by Zhang and Hou to make a complaint with him. Zhang and Hou had never mixed in the regular ranks of the national army, and they were not courageous, knowing that he had been a company commander in the ranks of the national army, nine times out of ten they wanted to use him to eat the artillery battalion of the 23rd Route Army, expand the strength of the death squad, and dominate the place. If it weren't for the fact that his self-defense regiment and the death squad of both of them were later incorporated into the new third regiment, perhaps the death squad would have attacked the self-defense regiment - the death squad had more than 300 people, and his self-defense regiment only had 100 people.

It's really hard to get up, and the more than 300 people in the death squad are not necessarily the opponents of the 100 people in the Self-Defense Regiment. Most of the death squad are two-pole people, and they can protect their families, and they may not be able to fight. The self-defense regiment is different, there are no less than 30 people mixed in the ranks, chief of staff Zhang Jinkui has been a pistol platoon commander in the Tang Corps headquarters for three years, deputy regiment commander Zhou Jili has been a squad leader and gang leader of the artillery regiment, and he himself has even led a machine gun company to participate in the Nankou blocking battle. If it weren't for the injuries he was wounded in the battle later, he wouldn't have returned to his hometown of Jiadian at the end of last year to join the self-defense group.

As soon as he started the self-defense group, he met the widow Zhao Company Commander, who was more loyal than Talan, and the house was full of men with guns. He first asked her to buy a gun, and then through her and Zhang Fangzheng and Hou Duyan of the death squad, he played haha, and then got on her big kang, and donated all his anti-Japanese patriotic enthusiasm to her warm and white belly.

This brings up trouble. Company Commander Zhao stood in front of him with a dogskin and asked him, "In addition to that gun, will other guns be used?" "He couldn't stop doing it. If you don't say anything else, you're just at that belly, so I'm embarrassed to say no. Is there a famous hall in this, how can you think about it too much?! He and Zhang Fangzheng and Hou Duyan spent less than half an hour in total, and they decided their own fate, and also decided the fate of the men in the city of Jiadian.

The first step was so wrong.

The fatal mistake was discovered that night. looked at Battalion Commander Lu who was tied up, looked at the national army uniform on Battalion Commander Lu's body, and suddenly remembered that he was also wearing this kind of military uniform. He thought it was ridiculous, so he ignored the strong opposition of Zhang Fangzheng and Hou Duyan, and released Camp Commander Lu before dawn, and released a group of wounded soldiers after dawn.

Therefore, he decided that the later resolution of the incident of that night by the 23rd Route Army Headquarters in the form of incorporation was necessarily related to his leniency and awakening. Duan Renyi's contribution to the rescue of Xie Jiadian in the midst of danger is indispensable, and he is also very meritorious in easing the development of the situation as much as he can.

Duan Renyi admitted this, and when the new Third Regiment was formed, he listened to him very much. He recommended his brother, Zhang Jinkui, chief of staff of the Self-Defense Corps, to Duan Renyi as the deputy of the regiment, and Duan Renyi agreed and appointed him on the spot. He suggested that the self-defense regiment be used as the backbone to form a battalion, and Duan Renyi immediately formed it. But it was at this time that he made the second unforgivable mistake: overestimating the legal power of Commander Duan Renyi, and underestimating the actual power of Staff Officer Fang and Adjutant Huang. He was only thinking about sending Zhang Jinkui to catch Duan Renyi, forgetting to look at the eyes of Staff Officer Fang and Adjutant Huang, and neglecting to be vigilant against his potential opponents Zhang Fangzheng and Hou Duyan. Later, he was dumbfounded when he saw that Staff Officer Fang, Adjutant Huang supported Zhang, and Hou formed two battalions with the people of the death squad as the backbone.

The team pulled out of Xijiadian, and when he was training in Baiji, a neighboring county, he began to try to correct this mistake and curry favor with the staff officer and adjutant as much as possible. When Adjutant Huang smoked, he gave the "Old Fort" and "Platinum Dragon", and Staff Officer Fang loved to drink, so he offered the old cellar wine that had been treasured at home for many years and invited Staff Officer Fang to drink. But these two are really not things, they smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol, but they just don't help. During the exercise, he proposed that there were quite a few brothers in the former national army of the Self-Defense Corps, and some of them could be assigned to the first and third battalions as company commanders and company deputies. The two of them said first: yes, yes. asked them to go to the first and third battalions to lead the gang of tofu soldiers to exercise, but later, they were all allowed to go back to the second battalion. Half a month ago, they suddenly announced that they were going to fight, and the two immediately pushed the second battalion to the front line to fight the main attack. Fortunately, the battle did not start, and the second battalion avoided a bloody disaster and retained its position of strength.

The issue of preserving strength is a major and fundamental issue. If you can't preserve your strength, you don't deserve to lead troops. He thinks. When he went to Ma'anshan to block and deploy defenses this time, he explained to Zhang Jinkui very seriously, asking him to grasp Duan Renyi and avoid putting the second battalion at the forefront. Zhang Jinkui made Duan Renyi through. But Duan Renyi is really useless, and as soon as Staff Officer Fang says two words, everything is over. According to Zhang Jinkui's report, Staff Officer Fang said that the platoon commanders of the second battalion company are basically old men of the national army and have actual combat experience, and only by placing the second battalion at the forefront can the blocking battle be guaranteed. What a bastard! When he was about to fight, he thought that his company platoon commander was an old man of the national army, but if he wanted to send these old men of the national army to the first or third battalion to lead the troops, he couldn't it, didn't he know how to play him?!

He is not a fuel-efficient lamp, Staff Officer Fang and Adjutant Huang play him, he can also play them. The trenches dug by the brothers were very unusual, he knew it clearly, and he was not in a hurry at all when he saw that the staff officer was in a hurry. This battle is bad, he will be unlucky, and Staff Officer Fang will be even more unlucky! Staff Officer Fang is the minister sent by the headquarters of the 23rd Route Army, responsible for the overall war, and if something goes wrong, he is the first one to be shot!

Naturally, this is a negative approach, not a good one. It was so irresponsible that the brothers and the Japanese got caught on fire, and they had to pay the price. The price paid by the brothers is the price he pays, and without these brothers, there would be no future for him to be faithful.

The meeting of the regiment headquarters was about to start, and the time was very short, so he could not delay it longer. Stopping under the big tree at the door of the mill, he put forward the issue of preserving strength straight to the point, and in order to deepen the sense of survival of Zhou Jili and the four company commanders, he also talked about a past incident he experienced.

“…… Hit Jiang Miao that year, my brother is so stupid! The commander asked me to fight well, so I fought well, and personally charged with a machine gun, but the result was good, after a battle, two platoons of casualties, the commander came again, and asked how many people I had left? I said that there were about 40 people left, and the commander said, okay, make up a platoon, I don't know if I changed from a company commander to a platoon commander, do you say that you are wronged?! ”

Battalion deputy Zhou Jili reminded:

"Later, when we rested by the Huai River, the top still returned the system to us!"

"Yes, it was later returned to the establishment, but it was in the Tang Army, and now it is in the 23rd Route Army! To hope that after the light, Han Peige of the 23rd Route Army will return the establishment to us, that is a dream! ”

Zhou Jili immediately understood, scratched his scalp and said:

"That's just as well!"

He lit a cigarette, took a sharp puff, and said:

"Military orders cannot be disobeyed, and strength must be preserved, brothers, take up ideas!"

The idea was not easy to take, and the brothers were stunned in the moonlight. After a long time, the company commander with a pockmarked face Wood Guigui said:

"There is a burden for everyone to pick, and now it is too unreasonable to put our entire second battalion at the forefront to block shells. Can we ask Regiment Commander Duan to draw a company from each of Zhang Fangzheng and Hou Duyan, and put them on in the name of strengthening the forward defense?! ”

Ma Dashui, the commander of the fourth company, thinks it is reasonable:

"Yes, if they don't go, let's make it clear, this front-line force is insufficient to hold it, and we are not responsible if something happens!"

Zhou Jili rolled his eyes:

"We have to ask the regiment to allocate the light and heavy machine guns of the first and third battalions to us."

Qian Yong, the commander of the third company, found another way:

"It's better to adjust the defensive line, give up the front line of laid-off posts, and stick to the front line of the whole regiment, if this is the case, the burden will not be all on our second battalion."

……

Everyone talked about it, Lan Quanzhong had the bottom, he thought that Qian Yong, the commander of the third company, had the best idea and the most suitable for him. If the defense line is adjusted and the whole regiment sticks to their posts, Zhang Fangzheng and Hou Duyan will definitely not be able to bargain. Of course, taking a step back, it is also a wise proposition to draw one company from each of Zhang and Hou's subordinates and replace the third and fourth companies at the front.

However, will Staff Officer Fang and Adjutant Huang listen to him? What if you don't listen? Is this battle still fought?

it, it's really hard to do!