Although this tactic was proposed by Wang Xuexin to solve the problem of Heiyun Village, it is not nonsense.
The advantage of elastic defense tactics is that after giving up the front surface position, some troops are still hidden in the underground fortifications, that is, in the tunnels.
Because these tunnels will be difficult to clear for a while, it will be difficult for the enemy to organize an effective defense on the reverse slope.
Because the back of the fortifications constructed is likely to be facing the entrance of the enemy's tunnel.
Moreover, these tunnel entrances need to be sealed with machine guns or sentries, or explosives can be used to blow up the tunnel entrances.
However, because of the existence of invisible tunnel entrances, these are not very good methods.
Wang Xuexin's Seventh Company was ordered to withdraw to No. 2 Highland, along with the Eighth Company. Only the Ninth Company, with more than 70 people in squad units, dispersed into the tunnel fortifications to continue fighting.
The reason for this arrangement is that the seventh and eighth companies have stronger combat capabilities and are more suitable for surface combat.
Among them, especially the seventh company, all the sharpshooters who fired original bullets were transferred to Wang Xuexin's platoon.
It is conceivable that if Wang Xuexin's platoon is arranged in the tunnel, the long-range 38-meter cover will be completely unable to function.
Highland No. 2 is the position of the Second Battalion.
As soon as Wang Xuexin and others withdrew, the soldiers of the second battalion shouted to them one by one:
"Comrades, thank you for your hard work!"
"Comrades of the Third Battalion, well done, let's see what happens next!"
"We want to learn from you!"
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Wang Xuexin felt a little warm in his heart when he heard this.
Although the Independent Regiment usually fights fiercely internally because of the order "Whoever grabs the equipment will belong to him", when they really want to fight against the Japanese, they still share the same hatred with the enemy. This is a perfect interpretation of "brothers playing against the wall.
The phrase "keep at bay".
After the Seventh and Eighth Companies withdrew, they had some rest time and replenished some ammunition.
The resting place is behind the first line of defense of the Second Battalion.
Since they are familiar with the terrain and the location of the tunnels, they will then need to cooperate with the soldiers of the Second Battalion to counterattack, and then they can switch defenses with the Second Battalion and hand over the position to the Second Battalion.
Wang Xuexin still couldn't sleep.
It started to rain lightly. In order to prevent his cotton-padded clothes from getting wet, Wang Xuexin put the poncho on his body, then took out the tortillas from his bag, and drank the cold water with a kettle in his other hand.
Fill your stomach.
"Platoon leader!" Huzi came up at this time and reported: "The second squad leader has a severe fever and can hardly hold on anymore!"
Wang Xuexin was stunned. He had never noticed anything strange about Chen Hao. Why could he suddenly not be able to hold on anymore?
Wang Xuexin did not hesitate, stuffed the tortillas into his bag, tightened the kettle lid, and followed Hu Zi as he walked along the traffic ditch in the dark.
After walking for more than ten meters, he stopped. Wang Xuexin stepped forward and saw Chen Hao, the second squad leader, lying on the ground looking pale and breathing rapidly.
Wang Xuexin touched his forehead and it was as hot as a hot water bottle.
Liu Da used his flashlight covered with black cloth to take photos of Chen Hao's body and said, "It's strange, I don't see any injuries!"
Wang Xuexin looked at the extremely tight armed belt around Chen Hao's waist and seemed to understand something.
He gently untied the armed belt and then opened the cotton-padded coat, and then everyone understood that there was blood inside, and it was only bandaged with a bandage. Because it was wrapped in a cotton-padded coat and then tied with an armed belt, it didn't look out of the ordinary.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier that you were injured?" Wang Xuexin frowned.
"Platoon leader." Liu Dazuo explained for Chen Hao: "The squad leader said, 'You can't leave the line of fire for minor injuries.' He was worried that you would let him go down, so..."
Wang Xuexin was speechless for a moment. This is not a minor injury!
"Send him down immediately!" Wang Xuexin ordered: "Move quickly!"
"Yes!" The two soldiers responded and brought up a stretcher to send Chen Hao away.
Wang Xuexin couldn't understand this persistence.
If you continue to fight despite being injured, won't you become seriously injured or even lose your life?
This is also a loss to the troops and combat effectiveness. Is it really worth it?
Later, Wang Xuexin realized that it was not worthwhile to use rationality and science to calculate, but the battlefield requires more than just these, it also requires spirit and will.
Before Wang Xuexin could clear his thoughts, Wu Lei shouted: "Everyone is here, ready to fight!"
Then came a counterattack. The soldiers successfully annihilated a Japanese squadron that entered the anti-slope defense and captured a lot of ammunition.
Before this, soldiers had rarely been able to capture ammunition.
The reason was that the Japanese knew that the Eighth Route Army needed to replenish their ammunition, so they reduced the original 125 rounds of ammunition to only one front box and one magazine in the rifle, which was 35 rounds.
This amount of ammunition is not too small for mountain attacks, because many people cannot even finish 35 rounds.
Even after the fight is over, the enemy can throw the ammunition box to the location where it needs to be replenished.
Although it is troublesome and sometimes affects the battle, it can progressively reduce the amount of ammunition captured by the Eighth Route Army in the battle... This is also a combat result for the Japanese.
However, this time it was different to let the Japanese in and then counterattack.
The Japanese thought that the Eighth Route Army was unable to hold Highland No. 1 and would give up completely. In order to hold on to the place they had finally captured, they moved ammunition forward and organized defense.
As a result, the Eighth Route Army's surface and underground forces coordinated a beautiful counterattack and annihilated a Japanese squadron, seizing more than 30,000 rounds of ammunition and a large number of grenades in one go.
Adachi Twenty-three, who was directing the battle from the rear, finally understood and sighed: "So that's it! What a brilliant tactic!"
As he spoke, he wrote down the key points of the tactics in his notebook.
Anda 23 has not launched a general offensive until now. On the one hand, he does not want to attack rashly without knowing anything and cause excessive casualties to the troops. On the other hand, he wants to thoroughly understand the role of this tactic.
"Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you be victorious in every battle." This is a famous Chinese saying taught by Okamura Neiji to Adachi Twenty-san.
Then Adachi Twenty-three called Okamura Neiji: "The tactics of the Eighth Route Army are not as simple as they appear on the surface. They sometimes withdraw from the surface positions and leave a small number of soldiers in the tunnels. When our army enters the position, they will
It will create an unfavorable situation similar to being hit by an 'infiltration war'."
Okamura Neji couldn't help but suddenly realized.
It is very difficult for the Japanese army to launch an "infiltration war" because it requires a lot of time to train soldiers who can speak Chinese and even cultivate their living habits. Only then can they sneak into the enemy's cities and defense lines and launch a fatal blow at a critical moment.
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But the Eighth Route Army needed nothing.
They only needed to leave some soldiers in the tunnels, and when the Japanese troops came up to occupy the surface fortifications, the Eighth Route Army soldiers in these tunnels would come out... They would immediately form a "penetration war" against the Japanese troops in the dark.
Then he felt strange: "It is unimaginable that such a mature defense system would appear on the battlefield in such a short period of time. It should be gradually improved! Why... it is almost perfect as soon as it appears!"