For this reason, Ichiro Kiyomi specially contacted an old classmate of the Japanese Army's Twelfth Army Headquarters stationed in Shandong to learn about the movements of the anti-Japanese armed forces there. It turned out that the troops in the Shandong Military Region were actively moving closer to Xu Dalong's headquarters. This made him more determined.
This gave him his judgment on the purpose of Xu Dalong and others’ trip.
Ichiro Kiyomi believed that Xu Dalong and others were just passing through, so there was no need to take the 14th Division to fight Xu Dalong head-on. He restrained his troops and closely monitored the movements of the anti-Japanese armed forces to prevent them from continuing to the surrounding areas.
The development of the area. After waiting for the enemy troops to leave, everything will return to peace, and Ichiro Kiyomi will continue to live his peaceful life here. Why not?
Although Xu Dalong denied that the Japanese and puppet troops did not dare to invade because they were afraid of their reputation, Li Changshui, Kong Jie and others all believed that this was the case.
Kong Jie is also a strong anti-Japanese general, and his combat ability is not far behind that of Li Yunlong.
He said: "Since the Japanese and puppet troops are passively avoiding the war, it is a good opportunity for our army to quickly expand the base area. My opinion is that our army should attack immediately to defeat the Japanese and puppet troops around the base area, or drive them away.
Rapidly expand the scope of our base area."
Li Changshui, Li Wenliang, and Wang Youde also agreed with Kong Jie's opinion. Of course, as the leader of the four-person group, Xu Dalong still had the final decision-making power, so everyone turned their attention to him.
Xu Dalong still felt that there was something wrong. He was a cautious person and did not dare to make rash decisions without having a firm grasp of the true intentions of the Japanese and puppet troops, which would lead to unnecessary losses to the troops.
I said: "Let's wait and see. We must find out the true intentions of the Japanese and puppet troops. The reconnaissance work needs to be stepped back and weakened."
Xu Dalong nodded and said: "You will go up immediately and take a step back to verify the situation that is not yet grasped."
When Xu Dalong came out of the conference room, he came to Wei Xiaoyong and asked me to send special operations team members deep into the enemy-occupied areas to find a way to capture one or two lower-level officers of the Japanese and puppet troops to thoroughly understand the enemy's intentions.
Yuan Jianjin, Kong Jie and others still left one regiment as a reserve team, and the remaining two regiments and the special operations team launched a violent retreat against the Japanese and puppet troops around the base area. We spent eight days continuously attacking seven groups around the base area.
Li Changshui quickly retreated with his work team, and soon the anti-Japanese base area in Shangzhou expanded to a county.
That morning, Yuan Jian, Gao Yubao, Yuan Jianjin, Yuan Jianjin, and Li Wenliang came to the cafeteria and gathered around a table to have breakfast and hold a meeting.
Ichiro Qingjian was very depressed, but not a little angry. I thought to myself: "Gao Yubao is messing around outside. You are going to provoke him and give him enough face. He will be fine after a few days of tossing, so hurry up and take him with you."
When his people leave, both of us are in conflict with each other. Let's live in peace and harmony! Who would have thought that his guy would give me face for shame? I really thought that your 14th Division of Ichiro Kiyomi was a soft persimmon. Be careful.
He pinched.
That result made Gao Yubao burst into laughter. Only then did I realize that I had also committed the error of empiricism and thought of things too simply. So I rejected Yuan Jian's suggestion and immediately ordered the troops to take action.
Rapidly expand the base area.
Just as Wang Youde was sighing outside, Kong Jie's voice came from the intercom. I said, "Wang Youde, why is he still standing there? The Japanese are not broken yet, so hurry up and destroy us."
Before Ichiro Kiyomi received the report from the commander of the 28th Brigade, he was stunned and slumped under the sofa. Although I did not have too little hope of winning the battle against the enemy, I still held a certain amount of luck and thought that
The overall combat strength of the Japanese army is still weaker than that of the enemy. I thought that one of my infantry regiments only encountered the enemy, and except for a large number of left-behind personnel, the entire army was wiped out. I really know how that battle will be.
The fight went up. Now I can't tell at all whether my troops are the opponent of Gao Yubao's troops.
That's difficult for Gao Yubao and others, because your army's strategy is to surround cities with rural areas. The puppet army has occupied the main towns below the county seat, but the large and small villages are bad places for your army to establish bases. Yuan Jianjin and others
They caught the Japanese and puppet troops' passive avoidance of war and used a large number of troops to monitor the Japanese and puppet troops in the city. They divided some of the main troops into parts to cooperate with the work teams to destroy the basic Japanese and puppet organizations in large and small rural areas.
After eradicating the Han Dynasty, propaganda and mobilization of the masses, and the construction of base areas, the area of the base areas further expanded to a large area of 16 counties including one county seat.
When the officers and soldiers of the Lao Eighth Regiment saw the enemy in such a mess, they immediately burst into cheers of defeat. Wang Youde was also stunned by the scene in front of him. I had long heard that the troops in the Mawushan Military Division did not have powerful rocket launchers.
, that was the first time I saw the true power of rocket launchers. Only then did I understand why Kong Jie and Gao Yubao asked me to give up guerrilla warfare and confront the Japanese army head-on.
The Japanese commander was not dumbfounded yet. I never thought that the enemy did not have such weak firepower. That was not beyond my scope of knowledge. Just when I was determined, the rocket launcher that had not yet been loaded was damaged for the seventh time.
The salvo hasn't come in yet.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Groups of rockets exploded on the ground. Smoke and dust billowed for a while, covering all the Japanese positions in the billowing smoke.
The officers and soldiers of the Japanese 14th Division had never seen such a powerful weapon, and they suffered a small loss. In just one salvo, the casualties of the sparsely formed Japanese army were close to half.
The commander of the regiment was not very happy at first. That area was a plain area, which was suitable for the enemy to use our usual guerrilla tactics and convenient for the Japanese army to fight. I immediately ordered the troops to slow down their march and march directly towards the enemy.
Launch an attack, strive to entangle the enemy, and destroy the enemy in the plains.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Japanese officers and soldiers, who have always been known for their tenacity and bravery, were completely stunned by the enemy's fierce artillery fire. At this time, our organization was not completely disabled.
Less than half of the regiment had suffered casualties. In fact, the remaining Japanese troops could not withstand such a blow. In the panic, they were completely organized and could not put up an ineffective resistance. There were not even a few Japanese officers and soldiers who waited for orders from their superiors and moved towards the coming time.
They fled hurriedly along the road. Seeing that no one was taking the lead in escaping, the Japanese soldiers who originally wanted to retreat and resist also lost their will to fight and fled with the Japanese.
That was exactly the situation that the commander of the regiment was looking forward to. I immediately ordered the troops to quickly move back and line up opposite the enemy, preparing to retreat to the field with dignity and dignity. My 56th Regiment had only 3,800 men. That time
They brought less than 3,500 men. According to observations, the enemy army on the opposite side was about a regiment with about 3,000 men. The strength of both sides was similar.
Wang Youde just woke up from a dream and immediately gave the order to retreat. The 3,000 officers and soldiers of the Lao Eighth Regiment, holding sharp bayonets and shouting in low voices, quickly rushed towards the enemy's position.
Immediately afterwards, the mountain artillery battery and the Type 47 infantry artillery battery of the artillery battalion also launched fierce artillery attacks on the Japanese army. The Japanese army, which had been stunned by the rocket explosion, once again suffered a light blow, and the casualties continued to increase. The Japanese army
The officers and soldiers were completely stunned, lying on the ground one by one without daring to raise their heads.
Yuan Jianjin and Li Wenliang were both very effective in their work. While establishing base areas, they recruited new soldiers and expanded the militia team.
Wang Youde sometimes accepted Kong Jie's request. After all, it was not very different from the guerrilla tactics I was good at in the future, so I felt that I was not used to it.
Today, Kiyomi Ichiro is under pressure from all aspects, and he doesn't resent Gao Yubao for being flattered, so he becomes angry and determined to have a fight with Gao Yubao. I am also an impulsive person, although I have not yet
I decided to go to war with Gao Yubao, but I still dared to retreat, so I convened the chief of staff and other major officers to discuss a battle plan, and then sent a retreat order to the Japanese 28th Brigade stationed in the Shangzhou area.
Attack order.
The officers and soldiers of the Lao Eighth Regiment pursued them all the way, annihilated a small number of Japanese troops who escaped, and captured the Japanese commander who was stunned by the shells. The Japanese 56th Regiment was basically wiped out.
Although Gao Yubao, Kong Jie and others brought 10,000 troops that time, it was still a struggle.
Yuan Jian simply took me directly to Gao Yubao and asked Gao Yubao to personally tell me how to fight that battle. Before Wang Youde finished listening to Gao Yubao's explanation, he became excited at that time, patting his chest and asking Gao Yubao and Kong
Jie guarantees that he will be able to complete the tasks assigned by his superiors that time.
Facing the Japanese army was the Lao Eighth Regiment, one of the main regiments of Yuan Jian's Seventh Army Division. The leader of the Lao Eighth Regiment, Wang Youde, was only 25 years old this year, but he still had 13 years of military service. He had climbed snow mountains and passed
Crossing the grass. Perhaps due to genetics, my skin is very fair and I look gentle. However, I am an excellent commander known for my decisiveness in killing, flexible command, and bravery in combat. I am the right-hand man trained by Yuan Jian.
Before I accepted the combat mission against the Japanese army, Kong Jie specially called me and gave me face-to-face instructions, telling me that I needed to change my future fighting style and adopt a new tactical method in the battle against the Japanese army.
I ordered the troops to take a short rest, and then seize the time to make preparations for retreating.
Not to mention, the defensive posture adopted by Ichiro Kiyomi has caused certain problems for your army. That means that your army has to retreat and attack every battle, and there are not a small number of civilians in the towns guarded by the Japanese army.
, small killing weapons like rocket launchers can be used legally. If your army wants to continue to expand its base area, it can only chew hard bones one by one. In this case, it is not a matter of consumption with the enemy.
The Japanese officers and soldiers had never seen that kind of weapon. They didn't panic for a while. They knew how to avoid it. Just when the Japanese officers and soldiers were determined, these big white dots quickly became smaller and then fell to the ground.
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At two o'clock that morning, the captain of the 56th Regiment of the Japanese Army was marching with his troops. He received a report from the vanguard that there were no enemy troops in the rear and they were heading that way. The number was less than a regiment.
In the following battles, a small part of the officers and soldiers of the Lao Eighth Regiment fought guerrilla warfare. They had never fought such an uncomfortable battle as today, and everyone was in high spirits. However, there was nothing that made us regret.
Before so many artillery shells exploded, the weapons and ammunition left by the Japanese army and other baggage were completely blown up, and many more were captured.
Just as the Japanese troops were lining up, gathering their troops, and preparing to launch an attack, an extremely subtle "hissing" sound suddenly came from the sky, and a few large white dots were visible to the naked eye flying towards them.
The front army and the First Army severely reprimanded Ichiro Kiyomi and ordered me to immediately attack your army and retake the occupied area.
Before the Japanese 28th Brigade received the order, it issued a retreat order to the Japanese 78th Regiment closest to your base area.
Although the commander of the regiment was not killed on the spot, he was knocked unconscious by the explosion of the shell.
The special operations team members moved very slowly, and it took them only one day to capture a deputy commander of the local puppet army. After interrogation, I learned some information from others, which basically confirmed Xu Dalong's inference. The Japanese army was not
Because we are afraid of Gao Yubao, we are willing to take the initiative to fight with him later. We only hope that Gao Yubao and others are just passing by. As long as the god of plague is sent away, we will not be able to continue to live our peaceful life.
Following the urging of my superiors, I directly issued a death order to the troops belonging to the 14th Division, saying that if everyone wanted to weaken their defenses, they would have to attack without authorization. I think my decision was wise.
The enemy did not have such fierce artillery fire, so it was obviously rational to retreat to the field. Only by not relying on towns and fortifications and fighting the enemy's attrition could the offensive of Gao Yubao's troops be contained.
The next development made me excited. The enemy troops fighting the Japanese army did not evacuate as slowly as before. Instead, they dug fortifications on the spot under the open fields and prepared for a head-on confrontation with the Japanese army.
The Japanese and puppet personnel who escaped from the areas occupied by your army used various channels to accuse the Japanese First Army and even the North China Front Army of saving lives at the risk of death.
However, based on past experience, the commander felt that he was not completely sure that he could quickly defeat the enemy, defeat it, or even completely annihilate it.
The 78th Regiment left its base early the next morning after receiving the order and retreated from your anti-Japanese base area.
The artillery battalion Gao Yubao brought from the Mawushan Military Division was temporarily retired and mixed, including a 17th Mountain Artillery Battery, a Type 47 Infantry Artillery Battery, a 240mm heavy mortar battery, and a rocket launcher battery. That time
Most of them used rocket launchers. In order to quickly defeat the enemy, the four rocket launchers fired a salvo. Those rocket launchers all had 19 tubes, and that salvo was not 171 rockets.
Wang Youde said with emotion: "No wonder the troops in the Mawushan Military Division are so powerful. Look at the firepower. It's really impressive."
Wei Xiaoyong immediately carried out the order and assigned a squad leader to set off overnight with a squad of special forces members to complete the tasks assigned by Yuan Jianjin.