Chapter 322 Kong Jie: Let Li Yunlong and Ding Wei act in a scene
At the Baipogou Independent Regiment Headquarters, Huang Yu felt the depressive atmosphere in the room as soon as he entered the door.
Kong Jie, the regiment leader, and Li Wensheng, the chief of staff, all frowned and stared at the sand table without saying a word...
Several staff officers also stood nearby with sullen faces, discussing in low voices from time to time, but they all ended up sighing...
"Captain...this battle is impossible to fight!" Li Wensheng complained as he threw the pencil in his hand on the table.
"The Japanese and puppet troops are strong and well prepared. They have defeated all the anti-mopping methods we can use. I can't think of any other way to hold the base!"
"If it doesn't work, let's do what the boss said, break it into parts, and go into the mountains to fight guerrillas with the Japanese and puppet troops!"
"When the sweep is over, we will go out and regain our strength!"
Kong Jie's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and he obviously didn't think of a good way to break the situation. But as soon as Li Wensheng's idea came out, he retorted without hesitation: "Let's not even think about this method!"
"The troops can indeed be broken into pieces and hide in the mountains to fight guerrillas with the Japanese and puppet troops..."
"What should we do with the people in the base area? There are hundreds of thousands of people. It's impossible for them to join us in the ravines to fight guerrillas, right?"
"If we ignore them and leave them to the little devils, the enemy will definitely vent their anger on them, and they will be the ones who suffer in the end!"
"We finally opened up the situation in northwestern Shanxi and gained the support and trust of the local people!"
"If we really abandon them to the Japanese and puppet troops, the morale of the military and the people will definitely be wiped out!"
"The results of previous efforts will be in vain!"
"It will be even more difficult to get local people to trust us and support us!"
Li Wensheng frowned and asked, "What should we do?"
"Are we really going to stay in the base area and confront the Japanese and puppet troops head-on?"
"The disparity in strength between the two sides is too great. Fighting like this is tantamount to seeking death!"
Kong Jie hesitated for a while and then said firmly: "As long as we can protect the local people and maintain the people's hearts and morale, it will be worthwhile even if all the troops are used up!"
"Commander, Chief of Staff, what happened?" Huang Yu was confused and asked quickly.
"This is the enemy information report just forwarded to us by the headquarters... Yoshio Shinozuka's large-scale raids against us have already begun. You will know after reading it!" Kong Jie said while pushing the information on the table to Huang Yu.
"Twenty-five thousand Japanese puppet troops, so many?" Huang Yu picked up the telegram and was frightened by the first series of numbers. He couldn't help but exclaimed.
Kong Jie responded: "Not only do we have a large number of troops, we also bring a large number of artillery troops and half a month's supply of ammunition!"
"Preliminary judgement, the enemy was the first to sweep away our independent regiment..."
"Boss and others believe that 80% of the heavy artillery carried by the Japanese army are prepared for our army's bunkers!"
"The ammunition supply for up to half a month is to prevent us from cutting off their logistics supply lines!"
"If they don't divide their troops after entering the base area and don't give us a chance to defeat them..."
"Then our three most commonly used counter-mopping methods will all be ineffective!"
"I have been discussing with the chief of staff for half an hour, but we still don't have any clue, and we haven't thought of a good way to break the situation!"
Huang Yu didn't answer. He just stared at the map after reading the information. Two minutes later, he suddenly asked: "Can you get the specific combat plan of the little devils to sweep us away?"
Kong Jie shook his head: "It's hard to get the specific combat plan, but we can guess pretty much from the direction of the march of the Japanese and puppet troops!"
"About 10,000 Japanese puppet troops penetrated directly into our junction with the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment, cutting off the communication between us and preventing them from sending reinforcements to us!"
"The remaining 15,000 puppet troops were divided into three groups and swept across our base area along three highways!"
"There are 5,000 troops mopping up the troops along the way, equipped with large-caliber mountain artillery, heavy mortars, field artillery, infantry artillery, and ordinary mortars!"
"With the current strength of the independent regiment, even if all the troops and firepower are concentrated, it will not be able to deal with mopping up the troops all the way!"
"The machine gun bunker will also be useless in the face of heavy artillery and aircraft..."
Huang Yu suddenly interrupted: "Captain, the heavy mountain cannons and large-caliber mortars equipped by the Japs can indeed easily destroy the bunker, but this does not mean that the bunker will lose its effectiveness. At most, the bunker will be weakened and the enemy-killing effect will not be as good as before.
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"Without taking the initiative to expose the bunkers, no matter how many heavy artillery the Japanese army carries and how much they cover our positions with artillery fire, they will not be able to destroy all the bunkers!"
"As long as one blocking position survives and one bunker... suddenly joins the battle when blocking, you can still kill a large number of enemies..."
"And this method of fighting consumes too many artillery shells. If we place blocking positions and bunkers along the highway, it won't take them long to carry half a month's supply of ammunition!"
"Once the artillery shells carried by the army are used up, it will become particularly important to raid the army's logistics supply depots..."
"It will be useful if we divide our forces and cut off their supply lines!"
"In case this road doesn't work, we can still find a way to kill the mopping up troops along the way..."
"As long as one of the three lines of mopping up troops has an accident, the remaining two lines of mopping up troops will definitely not dare to stay in our base... Then the counter-mopping up force will be won!"
Chief of Staff Li Wensheng suddenly interrupted: "Easier said than done!"
"If this battle was really that easy to fight, the regiment leader and I wouldn't be here worrying about anything!"
Then I expressed my worries...
"We swept away about 5,000 troops along the way, including two regiments of Japanese Japs, and 3,000 real little Japs..."
"Equipment with four large-caliber mountain guns, four large-caliber mortars, four field guns, four infantry guns, and 24 ordinary mortars..."
"There are a total of forty artillery pieces of all kinds. We can also call for air support at any time, completely suppressing us in terms of firepower."
"In the past, when we ambush the Japanese and puppet troops, we needed at least twice the number of troops to have a chance of winning!"
"Now we have less than 6,000 people. When all the troops are gathered together, there are only 1,000 more people than the enemy. If we fight head-on, the chance of winning is less than 20%!"
"This method is too risky and won't work..."
Huang Yu stared at the map and suggested: "What if we use guerrilla warfare, blockade warfare, and mobile warfare to consume the strength of the Japanese and puppet troops in advance and reduce the number of troops swept along the way to 3,000?"
"It still doesn't work..." Li Wensheng objected again.
"The main force of the regiment is indeed more than 5,000 people, but we still have to divide our forces to deal with the other two groups of Japanese and puppet troops!"
"At least two reinforcement battalions must be separated."
"The main force of the regiment can at most assemble four thousand people for a decisive battle with the Japanese and puppet troops!"
"The Japanese army mopped up 5,000 troops all the way... Our guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare are indeed very powerful, but it is impossible to turn the 5,000-day puppet army into a 2,000-day puppet army!"
"The enemy is not a fool. He will not just watch his troops being consumed by us. He will definitely try his best to counter us!"
"Kill the enemy by one thousand and injure eight hundred. When we consume the strength of the Japanese and puppet troops, we will also suffer casualties..."
"Even if there is a chance to reduce the number of troops sweeping up all the way to 2,000, the main force of the regiment may be reduced to 3,000, or even more than 2,000..."
"Not only has our advantage not been expanded, but it has been greatly reduced!"
"Can you ask Commander Li and Commander Ding to borrow troops?" Huang Yu was not discouraged by the chief of staff's rebuttal and continued to introduce his ideas while pointing at the map!
"Our three regiments share weal and woe... As long as the regiment leader asks, it's no problem for each regiment to borrow two battalions!"
Li Wensheng shook his head again and interrupted: "We have thought of borrowing troops from the beginning!"
"Captain Li and Commander Ding can indeed send troops to reinforce us... but Yoshio Shinozuka had anticipated this and arranged for 10,000 troops to penetrate the joint between us in advance, establish a defense line on the spot, and divide us!"
"With the intersecting forces sent by the Japanese and puppet troops, the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment will not be able to kill our base area if they are dispatched. A large amount of strength will be consumed by the blocking battle, and the gain will not be worth the loss!"
Huang Yu suddenly picked up a pencil and drew a few circles on the map.
Kong Jie was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized: "This is the only way for us to connect the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment..."
"The Japanese and puppet troops interspersed to cut off our communication and prevent Lao Li and Lao Ding from reinforcing us. We must arrange heavy troops to defend at these four points."
"Ten thousand troops were interspersed and divided into four groups. There are still 2,500 people at each point, and the majority are Japanese."
"In case of danger at any of these four points, the Japanese will send reinforcements from other places, making it more difficult to break through the blockade..."
"As long as the Japs choose the terrain well, even if the two regiments are lucky enough to break through the blockade, they will suffer heavy casualties and will be unable to continue to support us!"
"Xiao Huang, the four points you marked out should be more than what I see on the surface!"
Huang Yu nodded and explained: "Captain, our Eighth Route Army is not a Japanese army. We don't have that many weapons and ammunition supplies... we can not only walk on roads, but also drill into ravines..."
"These four points are just the only way to go by road...there must be many paths nearby that can bypass the blocking position!"
"Captains Li and Ding could have staged an eastward attack with the Japanese and quietly sent reinforcements into our base area. Their main force would have continued to pretend to attack the Japanese blockade, making Yoshio Shinozuka mistakenly believe that the independent regiment had not received any reinforcements.
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"As long as each of the two regiments sends a reinforced battalion to reinforce us, we can gather more than 5,000 people to fight against the enemy's mopping up troops in one direction!"
"As for the issue of consuming the Japanese and puppet troops before the decisive battle, if the regiment commander believes in me, I am confident that the casualties will be controlled within 500 people, and the Japanese and puppet troops will be reduced by more than 2,000 people!"
Once the problem of insufficient strength of the independent regiment is solved, other problems will be solved directly.
Kong Jie's frown finally relaxed, and he looked at Huang Yu and asked seriously: "There is no joke in the army!"
"Promise to complete the task!" Huang Yu replied firmly.
"Then I'll leave this task to you... Just ask for anything you need, and the regiment will support you unconditionally!"
"I will be in charge of contacting Lao Li and Lao Ding. They will definitely cooperate with us unconditionally..."
"Chief of Staff, prepare 100,000 rounds of ammunition, 2,000 grenades and hand grenades, and 200 artillery shells!"
"The troops reinforcing us must advance lightly in order to penetrate the ravine, and their ammunition must be provided by us!"
