A regiment sent from Taiyuan has completely fallen into the quagmire of the People's War.
“Boom, boom, boom… da da da…”
Listening to the increasingly fierce firefight behind him, the Japanese commander was like an ant on a hot pot, anxious and rogue...
The reason for being anxious is to reinforce the future of the troops.
In the past few hours, although I kept changing my marching route, there would always be various traps on the mountain road at my feet.
Although it did not kill or injure a few soldiers in the reinforcements, it made the troops extremely annoyed, and both their morale and marching speed were more or less affected.
The main force of the independent group biting behind him was like a dog-skin plaster, constantly catching up and biting him...
If you are lucky, the reinforcements will lose an infantry squad; if you are unlucky, the reinforcements will directly lose a reinforced squadron.
In this surprise battle that was taking place behind the team, half of the reinforcements were intercepted...
If they were also killed by the independent regiment, the reinforcements would have lost more than five infantry squadrons since their departure, almost half of the regiment.
The commander of the regiment was very anxious and kept praying for them in his heart, hoping that they could break out of the Eighth Route Army's pocket formation and join the main force to continue to reinforce Shijiazhuang.
The helplessness was because as the captain of the regiment, he was unable to rescue his subordinates when they were attacked.
The ambush behind them was clearly a conspiracy.
The Eighth Route Army wanted to use this to hold itself back and slow down its reinforcements in Shijiazhuang.
If he leads his troops to meet the two squadrons in the Eighth Route Army's pocket formation, a larger-scale battle will inevitably break out between the two sides.
Even if he had an absolute superiority in strength and was able to kill the independent group participating in the ambush, it would still take several hours.
The reason why the reinforcements were able to raid dozens of kilometers forward in the Eighth Route Army base area was because the marching routes of the troops were uncertain and all were temporarily decided by themselves based on the actual situation.
The troops were erratic.
The Eighth Route Army was unable to lock its position, and even if it wanted to gather heavy troops to besiege it, it was unable to do so.
If he stayed here for several hours to fight a decisive battle with the Jinzhong Independent Regiment, the other Eighth Route Army troops operating nearby would definitely be like a pack of hungry wolves smelling blood, coming from all directions to surround and eliminate him.
It will be difficult to reinforce Shijiazhuang by then.
So he could only watch helplessly as his two squadrons were besieged by the Eighth Route Army. Not only could he do nothing, but he had to lead the main force of the regiment to continue to reinforce Shijiazhuang and stay away from the battlefield.
The entanglement and pain in my heart simply cannot be described in words.
"Captain...the two squadrons intercepted by the Jinzhong Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army seem to be almost finished..." The commander of the regiment was also panicked. He walked up to the commander and reported with a serious look on his face.
The captain frowned and answered: "The sound of firefights is getting weaker and weaker. They must be unable to hold on any longer."
Seeing the helpless expression on the commander's face, who was not willing to accept the two reinforced squadrons being killed by the Eighth Route Army, the chief of staff seized the opportunity to express his thoughts to him.
"Sir...whether you want to hear it or not..."
"I feel that this battle cannot continue like this."
"The strong man's broken wrist seems to have saved the main force of the reinforcements, preventing us from being dragged on the battlefield by the Eighth Route Army, and maintaining a high degree of mobility to continue to reinforce Shijiazhuang. In fact, it is not as good as we imagined."
"We had more than half of our casualties before we even passed through the Eighth Route Army base in Jinzhong."
"On the way to reinforce Shijiazhuang, we have to pass through at least three such Eighth Route Army base areas."
"With this little strength left in the reinforcements, even if we maintain our marching speed, we can't keep our troops."
"Perhaps before they got even halfway, the reinforcements were wiped out by the Eighth Route Army in their base area."
"Please captain, please consider our next tactics carefully."
"We can no longer do what we did before, where a strong man's wrist would be cut off when the Eighth Route Army raided him."
Seeing that the commander was deep in thought and seemed to have heard a lot of what he just said, the chief of staff continued his analysis: "There is something else we have to consider."
"Although every time the Eighth Route Army raided us, the main reinforcements immediately broke away from the battle and evacuated the battlefield, but I always paid attention to the firefighting situation on the battlefield during the march."
"In the first raid, the Eighth Route Army's Jinzhong Independent Regiment had only one reinforced battalion, equipped with three mortars and five or six heavy machine guns."
"In the second raid battle, the number of troops participating in the Jinzhong Independent Regiment did not increase, but the number of participating mortars increased by three."
"It must have been captured from our rear troops."
"In the fourth raid battle, the independent regiment's participating troops increased to two main battalions, with as many as six mortars and more than ten heavy machine guns participating in the battle."
"In the raid just now, the number of troops participating in the independent regiment did not increase. It was still two main battalions."
"But they have taken part in eight mortars and more than ten heavy machine guns."
"If we do not change our tactics and continue fighting like this, the number of mortars participating in the next raid of the independent regiment will definitely exceed ten, and the number of heavy machine guns will increase to more than fifteen."
"Our reinforcements became weaker and weaker in the raid battle, but the Jinzhong Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army became stronger and stronger in the raid battle."
"The strength of both sides waxes and wanes. It won't be long before they have the strength to eat up a full brigade of our army in one go."
"After all, we are walking on small roads and mountain roads. The terrain is rugged and dangerous, which is very conducive to the Eighth Route Army's ambush."
"We don't carry heavy equipment. If we really have a decisive battle with the independent group in the mountains, we will have almost no advantage."
The commander of the regiment was thinking about how to complete the reinforcement mission and lead the troops to the outside of Shijiazhuang on time.
The chief of staff analyzed that he really had not thought about it.
But that doesn't mean he doesn't know these issues.
It's just that I haven't paid attention to it.
Now that it has been raised by the chief of staff, the problem is very serious and even affects the life and death of the reinforcements, so he has no choice but to ignore it.
The more I thought about it, the more solemn my face became.
Because he found that the two problems raised by the chief of staff were far more serious than what he analyzed.
If we continue to be raided by the Eighth Route Army like this, let alone passing through the remaining base areas of the Eighth Route Army, the reinforcements may not even be able to penetrate the Jinzhong Independent Regiment defense zone.
Frowning, he asked, "How do you think we should change?"
The chief of staff hesitated and reminded: "Instead of letting the Jinzhong Independent Regiment continue to grow and expand during the raid, and the total strength of the reinforcements is getting smaller and smaller, it is better to take two hours to fight a counterattack and block the Jinzhong Independent Regiment.
Bundle."
"If the bet is won, we will no longer be attacked during our march, and the troops will be able to march all the way through the Eighth Route Army base in Jinzhong."
"If we lose the bet, we can severely damage or even annihilate the Jinzhong Independent Regiment before we die, instead of being cut up by them bit by bit like now, and ending up with the entire army being destroyed."
