Although most of the Japanese troops are stubborn and very few will be taken as prisoners, nothing is absolute. The Eighth Route Army has been fighting the Japanese for so many years, and it has captured some Japanese soldiers, but they are all just soldiers, with the rank of lieutenant or above.
There are basically no officers, let alone junior officers.
Today, we were able to capture a major. This is great news.
And Li Changan was also very happy. Gao Hongming, the boss of the Liantai Militia, took money very lightly. After all, he was a wealthy landowner himself, but he was only very interested in some rare things of the Japanese army, such as the regiment flag and the officer's flag.
Command knives and other items, so generally the officers and soldiers of the Liantai Militia would be very sensible and give them to them after seizing the Japanese command knives.
Of course, Gao Hongming would not take it for free and would always buy it at a price higher than the market price.
And today he actually captured a Japanese major. If Gao Hongming knew that he had captured a major today, he would definitely be very happy.
After capturing a major, both of them were very happy, but after the happiness passed, problems arose.
Ding Wei thought for a moment, and suddenly found with some embarrassment that this major seemed to have been captured first by the Liantai Militia.
After hesitating for a moment, he poked Li Changan's arm with some embarrassment and said, "Battle Commander Li, I want to discuss something with you."
"Just say whatever you want, Chief Ding." Li Changan didn't take it seriously, thinking that Ding Wei was embarrassed to talk about the seizure, so he said happily: "You can take whatever you like from the seized materials."
"No." The more cheerful Li Changan became, the more embarrassed Ding Wei became. He was speechless for a long time before saying, "Just... can you give me this prisoner?"
"Give you the prisoner?"
Li Changan was startled, and then his head shook like a rattle: "Sir Ding, if you want the captured guns and ammunition, you can just take them all, but this prisoner cannot do that. Our regiment is still useful to the Japanese prisoners."
, This cannot be allowed, if you insist on it, then we have to nod."
"Oh... forget it then."
Seeing Ding Wei's disappointed expression, Li Changan explained: "Sir Ding, our regiment formed a Japanese National Salvation Army some time ago, which is full of captured Japanese soldiers. We are short of manpower, so we really can't give this to you."
"You... also formed the Japanese National Salvation Army?" Ding Wei was greatly surprised when he heard this, "How did Captain Gao come up with the idea of forming this thing?"
"How do I know that?" Li Changan smiled and said, "We don't dare to guess what the commander is thinking. We just follow the orders. Some time ago, our regiment issued an order to send the prisoners who captured the Japs as far as possible."
"In this case, why did your brothers kill the wounded Japs just now?"
Ding Wei said with some dissatisfaction that he had just seen with his own eyes that some soldiers of the militia actually stabbed the wounded Japanese soldiers to death with bayonets. You must know that this was against discipline in the Eighth Route Army. If he had not stopped the soldiers of the new regiment in time,
Maybe there will be a conflict between the two parties.
Li Changan didn't take it seriously and said: "Those are all seriously injured Japs. If you don't kill them, will it be a waste of medicines? Or is it that your new group has too many medicines to use up and you want to give some to the little Japs?"
Ding Wei stopped talking. What Li Changan said just now contained a lot of information. Gao Hongming actually formed a Japanese National Salvation Army?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile and shook his head.
Japanese prisoners are notoriously difficult to capture. Since the Anti-Japanese War, there have been countless large and small battles, and the Eighth Route Army has captured only a few hundred prisoners.
Gao Hongming, a mere militia group that had just been established less than a year ago, had captured more than ten or twenty prisoners at best, so he wanted to set up a Japanese National Salvation Army. This guy did this purely to disgust the Japanese.
However, he still planned to ask Gao Hongming when he saw him to see if they could hand over the major to them. After all, the major captain was already a mid-level officer and was still very useful to the Eighth Route Army.
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"Captain Gao... Brigadier... What a great victory..."
Just as Li Changan and Ding Wei were leading their troops to clean up the battlefield, Gao Hongming and Brigadier Chen outside Yushe County, dozens of kilometers away, also received the good news.
"Okay...great!"
Brigadier Chen looked at the telegram sent by his staff, and even though he was calm, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, "The New Regiment and the Armored Battalion fought well. They not only drove back the reinforcements of the 41st Division, but also turned back."
Eaten a whole group of them.
Not only that, they also seized more than a thousand rifles, more than 30 light and heavy machine guns, and even captured more than 30 prisoners, which is an amazing result."
Political Commissar Wang said happily on the sidelines: "We must report this good news to the head of the headquarters immediately."
"Old Wang, you are right... we will send a report to the headquarters immediately." Brigadier Chen would naturally not refuse such a good thing.
Unlike Brigadier Chen and Political Commissar Wang, Gao Hongming felt a little distressed.
"Three Panzer IV tanks were damaged, a Lynx reconnaissance tank was blown up, four armored soldiers were killed, and the infantry company suffered more than 20 casualties."
Gao Hongming muttered the numbers and frowned a little. The loss of tanks was second, but the loss of armored soldiers made him feel very distressed.
Unlike ordinary infantry, it takes a lot of time and energy to train a qualified armored soldier. Positions like gunner even require a certain cultural foundation, which is extremely troublesome to supplement.
The first person to notice something was wrong with Gao Hongming's expression was Political Commissar Wang, who made a mockery of Brigadier Chen.
Brigadier Chen is such a shrewd person. He understood in a flash and patted Gao Hongming on the shoulder: "Commander Gao, we also know about your department's losses. In order to cooperate with the new regiment's operations, your department lost four vehicles.
Tanks and dozens of soldiers, this loss is indeed not small, I wonder what our Eighth Route Army can do for you?"
Gao Hongming smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid you can't help me with this. The loss of tanks comes second. What worries me is the loss of armored troops. This is a technical branch and it is very troublesome to replenish it."
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Brigadier Chen was a little dumbfounded. Although the Eighth Route Army had grown to a size of hundreds of thousands, it was still not easy to find someone who could drive a tank. They really couldn't help with this.
However, Gao Hongming just complained. Seeing Brigadier Chen's helpless look, he sighed: "Look at me, I'm being pretentious again. There are no immortals in a war. I'm just lamenting that our huge China has so much power.
Population of 450 million.
Liantai County, where I am located, is considered a large county with a permanent population of more than 300,000, but it is so difficult to even find a few people who have graduated from primary school. How can we not make people sigh."
Brigadier Chen also sighed: "Yes... the country has been weak for hundreds of years. If we want to revitalize China, we have a long way to go."
Seeing the trace of sadness flashing between Brigadier Chen's brows, Gao Hongming felt moved in his heart. If someone else really said that, he would definitely suspect that the other person was being pretentious, but for an older generation of proletarian revolutionaries like Brigadier Chen, he
But I know that what the other person says must be sincere.
He couldn't help but say: "Mr. Chen, don't worry, we in China will definitely return to the forest of the world, not to mention just elementary school students, even college students are everywhere."
Brigadier Chen laughed dumbly, thinking it was Gao Hongming trying to comfort himself, and said smoothly: "I'll lend you some good advice. In fact, let alone college students, I'm very satisfied if 30% of the people in the country have the level of primary school graduates."
Hearing this, Gao Hongming couldn't help but laugh out loud. In later generations, calling someone a primary school student was definitely an insult, but now, people who graduate from primary school can already be called scholars in the local area.
The mood that was a little depressed because of the loss of so many armored soldiers also became much lighter.
He pointed at the map and said: "Sir Chen, look at Political Commissar Wang... After the reinforcements of the 41st Division were beaten back by us, they will definitely not dare to come out again in the short term. Now the only Japanese who have the courage to reinforce Yushe County are
The only ones left are the Japs in the few strongholds on the right wing.
I think that although we don’t have to worry about the arrival of a large number of Japanese reinforcements in the short term, I think that in order to avoid long nights and long dreams, we should capture Yushe County as soon as possible, otherwise the longer the delay, the more variables will arise.”
"Well……"
Brigadier Chen and Political Commissar Wang nodded at the same time. The situation on the battlefield was changing rapidly. No one could guarantee what changes would occur. Since they had repelled the reinforcements sent by the 41st Division and had taken a big advantage, they had to meet each other.
Just accept it, otherwise they may still be able to take advantage if it continues, but the risk will increase exponentially.
"Well... we can't wait any longer. It would be a joke if we let the cooked duck fly away. Order the troops attacking the city to launch a general attack in an hour. It's time to take down Yushe County."
"Old Kong...Old Li...the order from the brigade headquarters has come down. The brigade commander ordered a general attack on Yushe County in one hour!"
In a courtyard outside Yushe County that had a corner destroyed by the bombing, Zhao Gangxing hurriedly walked in and happily said to Li Yunlong, who was chatting with Kong Jie: "The news came from the new regiment responsible for the reinforcements on the left wing.
Today, the Xinyi Regiment and the armored battalion of the Liantai Militia Group blocked the Japanese from the five brigades of the 41st Division who came for reinforcements. Not only did they repel the Japanese, they even killed one of the small Japanese brigades and captured them.
Countless, it can be called a great victory."
Li Yunlong was the first to question: "What...that guy Ding Wei actually repulsed the reinforcements from five brigades of Japs? Why do I sound so unbelievable?"
Kong Jie also said: "What are you bragging about? We still don't know the level of the new regiment? I still believe that it can deal with a large group of Japanese soldiers, but it can deal with the strength of five Japanese army groups, and it can still drive away the Japanese soldiers."
Eating a whole brigade is probably not something that only happens in dreams."
It's no wonder that Li Yunlong and Kong Jie didn't believe that the new regiment was brought out by Li Yunlong, and Li Yunlong knew best about its combat effectiveness.
Although the combat effectiveness of the New Regiment is good, its real combat effectiveness is actually about the same as that of a Japanese army brigade. If it really wants to face five Japanese army brigades with a strength of almost 6,000 people, let alone eat one of the opponent's brigades, it can survive whole body.
It would be good to withdraw.
"This is real."
Seeing that Li Yunlong and Kong Jie didn't believe what he said, Zhao Gang became a little anxious and shook the order in his hand: "Look, this is a battle report personally issued by the brigade headquarters, and the brigade commander also ordered an attack on Yushe County in an hour.
A general attack and strive to end the battle today."
Seeing Zhao Gang's sworn look, Li Yunlong took the battle report in his hand with some doubts, read it twice and then slapped his thigh: "I know, the key to why that kid Ding Wei was able to win the battle is high."
Brother’s armored battalion.,
I heard Brother Gao say that his armored battalion had dozens of tanks. Think about it, when dozens of tanks started moving together, what a momentum it was, and the Japs from the 41st Division came in a hurry
, being rushed by dozens of tanks, their commander’s first reaction must have been that they were surrounded by large troops.
Moreover, the terrain in Dulong Ridge is dangerous and it is a good place to set up an ambush, so the Legislative Council immediately ordered a retreat, which gave Ding Wei a big advantage."
Li Yunlong is indeed a soldier with extremely rich battlefield experience. He can guess the course of the battle with just a piece of battle report.
Kong Jie understood what Li Yunlong said, "Old Li, I also remembered what you said. Although I have never seen a tank charge, I have seen those tanks of Commander Gao.
It weighs dozens of tons, and once it charges, its posture will definitely be quite astonishing. It is not unusual for the little devil to retreat hastily when he sees that the situation is not going well."
Li Yunlong said angrily: "Damn it, that guy Ding Wei is so lucky. He got such a huge advantage and wiped out more than 1,300 enemies. Such great results were enough for him to be in the newspapers. Headquarters
The chief doesn’t know how to reward him yet.”
Kong Jie laughed and pointed at him with his pipe: "Old Li, if you want to say that, why don't you apply to the head of the headquarters after this battle, and you and Ding Wei can swap, and you can return to the new one?"
Are you going to be the leader of this old army?"
When Li Yunlong heard this, he jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on: "Don't even think about it... I, Old Li, have worked hard to develop the independent group to its current scale. Why should a kid like Ding Wei eat what is ready? He thought
Demei!"
Kong Jie and Zhao Gang were both happy when they saw Li Yunlong's angry look, and they laughed.
Li Yunlong groaned angrily for a while and then laughed. Under his hard work, after nearly half a year of development, the independent regiment is now among the best in the entire 386 brigade, let alone the new regiment.
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Especially with the support of Gao Hongming, a big benefactor, the Independent Regiment has become a fully armed force. The light machine guns have been equipped to the platoons, and the number of heavy machine guns has reached two per company. Li Yunlong also formed an artillery company and a cavalry unit.
The number of the company has reached more than 2,000, and it is also equipped with a radio station for the first time. This kind of strength is beyond the reach of the new group, not to mention the old main groups like 771 and 772.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Lao Kong, please hurry back to your new second regiment. Get ready. We will launch a general attack. If you have any questions, we can wait until we take Yushe County!"