The commander of the 301st Regiment was reporting to Wang Yaowu on today's battle situation, and he sighed, "The speed of the Japanese devils' advance is very slow, but this is not a way, every day they will occupy part of our position, and the night counterattack will not be able to counterattack at all." If we lose a little bit every day, lose a little bit every day, then lose and lose, and China will be lost by us sooner or later. ”

The commander of the 301st Regiment was in a hurry, and hurriedly said: "Division commander, you have to give me a little artillery support, after retreating on the 6th, the Japanese army sent a small force to harass the front of our regiment, and there have been five or six hundred casualties. ”

Wang Yaowu comforted him and said: "I came here this time to solve this problem, don't worry, let people retreat your company on the front line, leaving only one platoon on the position, I will re-send a new company over, and tell the platoon commander who remains that he must listen to the arrangement of the new company commander." ”

"Good!" The commander of the 301st Regiment immediately arranged it, and then asked: "Division commander, can that company do it?" We've sent a lot of companies, and they've all been knocked down. ”

"Whether it can be done or not depends on them." Wang Yaowu said, "Wait." ”

The scouts of the division headquarters quickly ran to the newly formed company and told Xia Yuan about entering the front line.

"Brothers, pack up your gear and let's go."

When it got dark, the Japanese suspended the offensive and were changing their defenses, and the 11th Cavalry Wing of the Japanese Army, which was also quite capable of fighting, continued the method of the 22nd Wing, attacking in small groups and continuing to attack the positions of the Nationalist Army during the day.

There were only three days left before the 20th day of the general offensive, and during these three days, the 11th Wing had to wear down more positions of the national army in preparation for the next counteroffensive.

The Japanese army is changing its defenses, and the national army is also changing its defenses, and this time it is the newly formed company, the troops led by Xia Yuan.

The strength of the unit is about 110 men, and this is still the strength of a platoon left by the division commander on the position, and the strength of the newly formed company has only reached about 110 men.

Japanese command post.

The commander of the 11th Division was named Yamamuro Sotake, and his unit participated in the Jinling Massacre.

There were a bunch of papers on the table, and one of them was very special.

There is only one number above the document, named 'Ghost', Yamamuro Sowu sat on the stool with an expressionless face, and said: "Our enemy is not the national army, but this ghost, since our landing operation, so far, the casualties have reached more than four thousand, of which one-tenth of the casualties are from this ghost's troops, according to the intelligence department handed over the information, this ghost has participated in the Luodian War, he does not belong to the fifteenth group army of the national army, but a set up in Jiading, The person who led him was named Xia Yuan! ”

"Xia Yuan!?"

At the table, there were more than a dozen Japanese devils of the 11th Division wearing military uniforms of different levels, with different positions, Shaozuo, Zhongzuo, Dazuo, and Major General.

For ghosts, they are no strangers, in recent days, the national army near Luodian began to completely stop attacking Luodian, and then out of nowhere a small force appeared, every night will attack the Japanese positions in Luodian, they choose the place is very accurate, always the weak point of their defense, and in this more than a week, he attacked a total of eight times, resulting in more than 600 Japanese casualties.

What is the concept of 600 people, you must know that many brigades in the division have not suffered casualties of 600 since the landing operation, and the casualties of the eight attacks exceeded 600, which is indirectly equivalent to directly destroying half of the Japanese brigade, and the degree of casualties shocked all the Japanese commanders.

This Nationalist unit, which attacked their position at night, also appeared in the field of vision of many Japanese commanders.

These days, they ordered the spies within the national army to keep inquiring and collecting information, and finally found this unit, and to their surprise, their enemy, Chen Cheng, commander-in-chief of the 15th Group Army, was also looking for this unit, that is, this force was not from the 15th Group Army.

Subsequently, the spy continued to operate, and finally collected the basic information of this unit a few days ago.

This unit came from Jiading, was composed of a group of routs, and its initiator was a platoon commander named Xia Yuan, who had previously participated in the Battle of Luodian and the Battle of Sitang River, and had previously arrived on the battlefield as a recruit, and eliminated four Japanese detachments in one night, and that night, a Japanese squadron suffered heavy casualties, which was committed by this person.

After that, the position of Qiao's house on the west side also fell, and it was the only position lost in the entire defense line of the 22nd Wing of the Japanese Army.

Subsequently, this person traveled to the Sitang River, participated in the battle of the Sitang River, and in the battle of the Sitang River, he once again created a brilliant fighter, with 53 bullets, destroyed 53 enemies, and became the marksman of the Sitang River.

And before he became the sharpshooter of the Sitang River, at the beginning of the month, in the first round of attacks launched by the Japanese army on the Sitang River, a large number of Japanese troops were eliminated, and then under the supervision of Li Youcai, the adjutant of the 160th Battalion, he became the sharpshooter of the Sitang River.

In addition, in the last wave of fierce offensive organized by the Nationalist Army on the 6th, the front position of the Second Brigade of the 44th Wing of the Japanese Army was broken through, and an important machine-gun fire point was lost.

If you think about it, this person is really scary.

With his participation in battles, their defenses are always able to be breached, and their casualties are always increasing.

"The commander of the 15th Group Army, Chen Cheng issued an order to the commander of the 67th Division to recruit Xia Yuan into the 67th Division, but according to intelligence, on that day, the 67th Division focused on resisting the attack of the 44th Wing, and did not go to Jiading, but his adjutant went, I estimate, this person is in the 67th Division."

The voice of the division commander Munetake Yamamuro was relatively heavy, and his eyes fell on the Japanese 44th Wing Osa and Chitaka II, as well as the Japanese 43rd Wing Asama Yoshio.

The Asama Detachment formed by the 44th Wing of the Japanese Army and the 43rd Wing of the Japanese Army attacked the 67th Division of the Nationalist Army.

In the end, he stayed on the body of the 22nd Wing of the Japanese Army, Osa, Nagajin Sabi, for a few seconds, and then said: "You must always keep an eye on the casualties of the troops, and once the casualties of a certain unit become strange, you must immediately react and strive to kill this person!" ”

"Yes!"

The atmosphere of the Japanese command was rather solemn, they had never seen such a powerful Shina man, and fortunately, there was only one Shina man who fought so fiercely.

If it were a little more, the casualties of troops fighting on the front line would not be this number.

In this meeting, in addition to mentioning the ghost and Xia Yuan, the counteroffensive plan for the 20th was also mentioned.

"On the 20th, we will concentrate the troops of the four wings to carry out a counteroffensive on the positions of the national army, and what we want is to completely drive the national army out of the Luodian defense line, stabilize the defense line of our 11th division, and wait for the arrival of rear support troops."

The Battle of Luodian has lasted for more than a month, and the Japanese 11th Division has suffered more than half of the casualties, which is the heaviest casualty since the Japanese 11th Division participated in the war of aggression against China.

Yamamuro Sotake's heart was holding back a fire, and this fire continued to be vented on the Shina people.

The meeting of the Japanese army lasted three hours, after which the commanders of all ranks took cars, along the path, to rush back to the troops before dawn.

In the wee hours of the morning.

The 11th Cavalry Wing of the Japanese Army had just completed the handover with the 22nd Wing, and it was a squadron of Japanese troops who entered the frontal defense area, and they arrived at the forward position, learned from the combat experience of the 22nd Wing, and placed a large group of troops in the rear of the squadron, quietly waiting for the arrival of the next day.

The Japanese offensive pattern was very solid, first using artillery to destroy the houses on the offensive route, and then sending scouts to reconnoiter the housing area, and after a brief reconnaissance, immediately sending a small force to attack the Japanese position as quickly as possible.

This is the retreating company of the 301st Regiment, the platoon commander of a platoon left on the position said, there are more than 30 people in the platoon, after a battle, there are only a dozen people left, the platoon commander's surname is Li, Li Platoon Commander has been fighting with the Japanese devils for so long, and has suffered a lot of losses, and the soldiers in the platoon are also veterans, and they know the Japanese devils' offensive mode very well.

After listening to Platoon Commander Li's story, Xia Yuan smoked a cigarette and gave it to him, and said: "The offensive mode of the Japanese devils has remained unchanged throughout the ages, since before the 918 incident, they have adopted this offensive mode, which has never changed, but this trick has a miraculous effect on us. ”

"It's not that our weapons and equipment are inferior to theirs, the little Japanese devil's individual grenadiers are all equipped in the squad, and our battalion can have a few mortars, which is already quite good." The veteran smoked a cigarette and looked at the company commander, not knowing if the company commander told them could deal with the little Japanese devils.

Platoon Commander Li then told Xia Yuan about the situation on the position, "The Japanese devils only attacked two houses, one is the Du family house in the north, and the other is the Sun family house in the south. ”

There is no doubt that the Japanese devils are all houses.

"Because of the way the house is built, in terms of defense, it can withstand the bombardment of the Japanese small-caliber grenadiers, on the other hand, it can also resist the strafing of heavy machine guns, and its geographical location is very good, that is, the span between these two points on the east and west sides is too large, if you divide a small force to harass and need to take care of the east and west sides, then you need to send more troops, but it is in the hands of the Japanese army."

"And it was a very unwise decision to separate the troops."

Xia Yuan's words made Platoon Commander Li feel the same way:

"Company Commander Xia, you are right, a company is scattered to hold two houses, so you need to send a platoon of troops to watch in the middle position, and the strength of a company will be divided into three units."

"In this way, the Japanese army only needs to harass two of these points, and then concentrate their forces and break them one by one." As soon as the veteran pondered, he immediately thought of the plan that the Japanese devils had to do.

"Yes, we were attacked by the Japanese army like this, and it was only with half of the casualties paid by the company that we held the position."

Platoon Commander Li sighed and said: "On the contrary, the casualties of the Japanese army are the smallest, which company can withstand such casualties, you are here, I have to tell you about the situation of the Japanese devils, when the Japanese devils fight, they are very cunning, they will shoot first, and when they hear the sound of your return shot, they will use a grenadier to blow you up first, and then they will send a squad to bypass from the side." ”

Lao Qi's eyes widened, and he said, "The Japanese devil is so cunning!?" ”

Everyone was also slightly surprised, they knew that the Japanese devils were cunning, but they didn't expect to be so cunning.

According to the method that Platoon Commander Li said, once the Japanese devils began to attack, no matter how well they organized their defense, but under the attack of the Japanese devils, the position still could not be held.

The Japanese army's man-grenadier was used to break points, but it was very powerful.

Xia Yuan frowned, thinking about a way to break the situation, "If the goal of the Japanese army is only two houses, then the problem will be troublesome." ”

This was somewhat different from the guerrilla warfare program he had developed.

First of all, the premise of the guerrilla program is that the target of the Japanese combat units should be on them, or on the position, so that they can use the position to carry out guerrilla attacks.

And once the target of the Japanese attack is the house, then the situation is different, they can not carry out guerrilla attacks, after all, the Japanese attack target is only the house, after the Japanese army takes the house, it will rely on the house to build fortifications, defense, wait for reinforcements to arrive, and stabilize the position.

After thinking for a moment, Xia Yuan also thought of a countermeasure, "We only have two plans, the first plan is to send a force to hold the house, and then send two combat teams to harass the Japanese army on the periphery, but what will happen in this way, our combat team is not the opponent of the Japanese army, and it is limited by the house, once the guerrilla attack is too deep, the Japanese army will give up the pursuit, if these Japanese troops cannot be eliminated in a short time, they will react, and they will concentrate on attacking the house." ”

"The second plan is to destroy the house, as long as the house has no offensive value, the Japanese army will naturally abandon the house."

"But how to destroy the house is also a huge problem, so we have no choice but to choose the first one."

"Company commander, is there a third plan?" The veteran listened to it, these two offensive plans didn't seem to work, but in fact, Xia Yuan's guerrilla warfare plan was very powerful, and he secretly thought that such a guerrilla war would be more than enough to deal with the Japanese army.

But the problem is that they are limited by position.

"Do you have a third plan?" Xia Yuan asked the veteran.

"For example, what if we abandon our positions and retreat back?" The veteran looked at Platoon Commander Li and said, "The problem now is that the front-line position is very unfavorable to us, and we can find a position that is conducive to our operation." ”

"It's okay, but the consequences of voluntarily abandoning positions are very serious, and it's no different from desertion." Xia Yuan said: "Moreover, where can we retreat? ”

(End of chapter)