The sudden incident made Gao Hongming a little confused. He never expected that Kazuki Yamamoto would do such a thing to him, which would cut off his escape route.
Even he couldn't help but feel a little panicked at the thought of facing a reorganized division of the Japanese army.
"Tour leader, you have spoken. What should we do now?" Wu Chengfeng asked anxiously from the side.
Seeing Wu Chengfeng's slightly panicked expression, Gao Hongming suddenly realized that as the leader of a regiment and the spiritual support of thousands of soldiers of the Liantai Militia, he could not show any fear whatsoever, otherwise it would inevitably cause panic among the entire regiment.
Taking a deep breath: "Old Wu, you should immediately summon all the officers of the regiment and above to come here for a meeting."
Half an hour later, all the officers of the battalion and above in the regiment rushed to the conference room in Qixiaguan. Dozens of officers crowded the large conference room to the brim.
Gao Hongming, who was wearing a steel helmet and a military uniform, stood at the front seat, looked around the crowd, and said loudly: "Brothers, you must have heard about the matter. Just over an hour ago, a small force sent by the Japanese
The Nishikawa Bridge has been blown up, which means our retreat has been cut off. Tomorrow we will have to directly face the Japanese 41st Division with hatred, what do you think we should do?"
There was silence in the conference room, and everyone's brows furrowed into a frown.
Despite their continuous victories during this period, all they dealt with were small groups of troops.
Although they killed Nobuyuki Sakata in the battle of Cangyunling and took away their alliance flag, they only caught Nobuyuki Sakata by surprise. In the end, if Li Yunlong hadn't led a new regiment to come to the rescue, they would have been there long ago.
It's cool.
Even when they attacked Ping'an County this time, they had the advantage of three times the enemy's troops, coupled with superior equipment, so they had the courage to encircle and mobilize reinforcements.
But once faced with the attack of a reorganized division of the Japanese army, the difficulty of the battle would increase exponentially, and the worst outcome would be the complete annihilation of the entire army.
"Group seat."
Xiao Zhankui said: "As far as I know, although the Xichuan Bridge is the only way for us to retreat, there are other ways, such as some remote mountain roads. Can we abandon our luggage and go around the roads?"
"Absolutely not!"
As soon as Xiao Zhankui finished speaking, Geng Changshun, commander of the 1st Artillery Battalion, was the first to stand up and said, "Captain Xiao, our regiment has dozens of heavy artillery, dozens of tanks, hundreds of trucks, ammunition trucks, and more than a hundred
A lightly or seriously injured person. These heavy equipment were obtained by the regiment with great pains. Do you just want to throw them away with just a word?
Besides, once there is no heavy equipment, what combat effectiveness does our regiment have?"
Zhuang Mancai, commander of the 2nd Artillery Battalion, also said: "I agree with what Battalion Commander Geng said, not to mention whether we can return to Liantai County safely after losing our heavy equipment. To say the least, even if we can return home unscathed,
Without these equipment, what percentage of our combat effectiveness is left?
What if the 41st Division did not stop after occupying Ping'an County, but went straight to Liantai County? Without heavy equipment, how can we resist the Japanese? You know, although the 41st Division is not a horse-drawing division,
regiment, but it is an integrated division with more than 18,000 people?"
The officers below also started talking, and many people agreed with Zhuang Mancai's view.
Without these heavy equipment, even if they fled back to Liantai County, the Japanese would definitely not let them go. What would they have to do to resist the Japanese troops?
Some people also say that as long as they can withdraw to Liantai County, they can call Yan Xishan and ask him to send more troops.
But even the person who made it knew that this proposal was too whimsical.
Yan Xishan is known to be timid and afraid of getting into trouble. He wants him to risk all his wealth by sending troops to protect the Liantai militia. This is only possible unless Gao Hongming is his biological son.
Some people also said that since the Independence Regiment had just left, they could call Li Yunlong and ask him to lead the troops back to increase the number of troops. However, this proposal was rejected by Gao Hongming.
It is not for Li Yunlong to make the final decision on such a big matter. Besides, the Xichuan Bridge was bombed, so Li Yunlong couldn't come even if he wanted to.
Although Gao Hongming remained silent on the surface, his heart was spinning rapidly. After the officers below argued for a while, he lightly knocked on the table, and the conference room immediately became quiet again.
He slowly stood up and said in a deep voice: "Now I give the order!"
"Wow!" Hearing his voice, all the officers stood up.
Gao Hongming raised two fingers: "There are two things we have to do now. First, the engineer company will set off immediately to the Xichuan Bridge to check the damage to the bridge and see how long it will take to repair the bridge.
Second, after the meeting, all the troops immediately began to build fortifications in Qixia. Since the Japanese don’t want them to leave, then we won’t leave. We will have a good encounter with them here. I want to see the forty
Does the First Division have such good teeth to swallow up our independent regiment?
Even if I die, I will still have one of his teeth broken!"
"Yes... even if I die, I will break the enemy's teeth!" Perhaps knowing that they were on the verge of a desperate situation, the officers were all aroused and shouted in unison.
"Okay, now I'll start assigning defensive zones..."
Half an hour later, all the troops who were planning to evacuate stopped retreating. Under the command of the officers, the soldiers picked up their engineering shovels and started digging up the fortifications in full swing. They wanted to dig up the fortifications on the original fortifications before dawn.
Dig out two more defensive fortifications.
When it was dark, Gao Hongming, who was at the Qixiaguan headquarters, received a telegram from the engineer company.
The Nishikawa Bridge has been blown up and it will take at least four to five days to repair it to the point where it can be opened to traffic.
Hearing this, Gao Hongming was silent. Can their regiment sustain for five days under the attack of several times the enemy?
He walked out of the headquarters, and each torch illuminated the position in the dark night. He knew that the soldiers were digging trenches overnight. Facing the upcoming battle, the soldiers were sitting silently doing their own things.
Just at dinner time, Gao Hongming ordered all the soldiers to write their wills. Illiterate soldiers could ask people around them to help them write their wills. They should all be handed over to the regiment headquarters before dark. Then Gao Hongming put these wills away and sent someone to keep them.
good.
That night, everyone in the militia did not sleep.
The soldiers had to build trenches overnight, while Gao Hongming was silently thinking about his thoughts and the upcoming war.
In the middle of the night, he suddenly thought about the issue of ammunition. He secretly went to the Japanese arsenal in the almost deserted Ping'an County alone and secretly replenished a large number of weapons and ammunition, and asked the guard camp and the supply camp to transport them away overnight.
Externally, he claimed that this was a batch of ammunition that he had just delivered beforehand. The commander of the supply camp was already somewhat immune to the elusive and almost miraculous methods of his regiment. He did not ask any questions and immediately ordered the soldiers to load the vehicles.
After transporting for most of the night, I finally finished transporting a warehouse full of weapons and ammunition before dawn...