Shigekawa Kazuichi did not hesitate, and immediately ordered with a straight face: "Order the troops to pursue immediately and be sure to recover the tanks captured by the enemy!"
"Yes!" the scout responded, but then gave a somewhat strange reply: "But your Excellency, Captain, they did not escape..."
Shigekawa Kazuichi originally wanted to get back into the armored vehicle and pursue the pursuit with the troops. Hearing these words, he froze, turned around and asked with a surprised look on his face: "They didn't escape?"
"Yes, they didn't escape!" The scout lowered his head in fear, as if it was his fault that the Eighth Route Army did not escape.
No wonder Shigechuan Kazuichi thought so. He had been fighting in China for so many years. How many times had the enemy not fled when they saw them? Especially the Eighth Route Army. They always retreated immediately after successful sneak attacks, and they retreated to the mountains.
But this time, the enemy stayed where they were after knocking out a reconnaissance team and did not escape!
Then Shigekawa Kazuichi felt an inexplicable anger. He thought this was the enemy's provocation and insult to him.
This gave Shigekawa Kazuichi an impulse to immediately send his troops to fight these Eighth Route Army troops to the death.
Shigekawa and Ichi anxiously walked back and forth beside the armored vehicle several times, during which they also used their flashlight to shine on the map spread out by the staff on the fenders of the armored wheels, and finally endured it.
This is what he thought about:
The enemy can annihilate a reconnaissance team in a short period of time, which shows that they are the main force with artillery fire.
Armored units are not suitable for night fighting. If an attack is launched at this time and there is a small river in front, it is likely to suffer heavy losses like the reconnaissance team.
I looked at my watch again and saw that there was still more than an hour before dawn. If the enemy was building defenses and not escaping, there was no need to rush.
Thinking about this, Shigekawa Kazuichi gritted his teeth and ordered: "Order the troops to rest where they are and launch an attack after dawn!"
"Yes!" the staff officer responded and passed on the order.
The independent regiment built the fortifications more than 200 meters on the west side of the creek.
Only then did Wang Xuexin have time to get to know his company.
In fact, this was what the instructor told Wang Xuexin. He has been doing the ideological work of the soldiers all day long and enjoys it. The entire company's commanders and fighters are in his mind, and there is no need for a roster at all.
"I think Comrade Fang Hu is very suitable to be the platoon leader!" The instructor, while digging a bunker with an engineer shovel, introduced the situation to Wang Xuexin as if chatting: "Although Comrade Fang Hu is resistant to being the platoon leader and is very uncomfortable with it,
But when you go to work at headquarters
He acted as the platoon leader, and he got used to it over and over again. I did some ideological work for him, so that he could be the platoon leader with confidence and boldness, without too much psychological burden. Now he is not as ignorant as before.
At a loss! So I think..."
"No problem!" Wang Xuexin interrupted the instructor: "Where is the second platoon leader?"
"The second platoon leader's name is Liang Guisheng!" the instructor said, "This comrade is an old subordinate of Comrade Ergou. Although he was recruited from Heiyun Village, under our influence he has reformed and integrated into the revolutionary ranks.
He has strong fighting determination, excellent military quality, and quite good commanding ability. He has killed and wounded five enemies so far in the battle, three of them were Japanese..."
"Where is the third platoon leader?" Wang Xuexin asked again.
The conversation between Wang Xuexin and the instructor was basically completed in this mode. If Wang Xuexin did not interrupt, he could talk all night just by talking to one person.
"Third platoon leader Zhang Qingcai!" the instructor replied.
"Zhang Qingcai?" Wang Xuexin asked doubtfully, "Isn't he the third squad leader?"
The instructor nodded: "This matter begins with the last time we stopped a train and seized dozens of carts of ammunition. Although the brigade commander took away forty carts of these supplies, the regiment commander left more than a dozen
The car is full of original bullets. With these bullets, the regiment leader thought that the number of sharpshooters could be expanded, so he expanded the sharpshooters of the third squad into one platoon, and the soldiers from the original three platoons were transferred to the first platoon!"
When Wang Xuexin heard this, he understood that the third platoon at this time was no longer the previous three platoons, but a platoon of sharpshooters from the entire battalion who fired original bullets.
Therefore, this seventh company is really the main force of the third battalion: the first row is composed of veterans and old backbones of the original seventh company, the second row is composed of Jianghu soldiers with some skills and foundation in Heiyun Village, and the third row is all sharpshooters.
This team is somewhat interesting to lead.
At this time, Xie Baoqing came up with his waist up and said: "Company Commander, the battalion commander has given the order, let us retreat to the back to assist!"
"What? Let the seventh company play assists?" Wang Xuexin immediately said: "If our seventh company plays assists, who the hell can play the main attack!"
As he spoke, he shoved the engineer's shovel into the ground and said with a dark face: "Stop digging this fortification. Let's go to the battalion commander for comment!"
Thinking about it later, even Wang Xuexin himself found it funny.
This was not the case when Wang Xuexin first came to this world. At the beginning, he was lucky that he didn't have to go to the battlefield in the enemy engineering department! Now he didn't agree when he heard that he was put in the assist position.
This may be the so-called red when approaching red, and black when approaching ink.
While Wang Xuexin is trying his best to change the world, why isn't the world changing him?
Who would have thought that after finding the battalion commander, the battalion commander would just say: "Who the hell said that retreating to the back is an assist? I mean, Xiao Dongbei, it was you who came up with this tactic. How dare you tell me this?
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Wang Xuexin was embarrassed and asked for trouble.
But what the battalion commander said is true.
The combat troops deployed at the front will retreat, leaving only the anti-tank shooters lurking and waiting for fighters. By then, aren't the second-line assists the main attackers?
Although the front line is nominally the main attack, it is actually just a pretense of firing a few shots.
What's more, all the sharpshooters in the battalion are in the seventh company. If the seventh company assists, how can we fight this battle?
Now Wang Xuexin knew what to do.
Treat the individual bunkers in front of you as an undefended open space, and if there are people... people from the anti-tank firepower team are hiding there.
For this reason, Wang Xuexin also went to find Xia Daniu and Sun Defa.
Daniel is the instructor of the anti-tank firepower team, and Sun Defa is the leader of the firepower team. They decide where to deploy the anti-tank rocket launchers.
After setting these positions, Wang Xuexin could deploy covering fire.
Sun Defa also habitually wanted to place the rocket launcher shooters behind the hills. He believed that the shooters would be safer there.
But Wang Xuexin rejected this plan in just a few words.
"Comrade Sun Defa!" Wang Xuexin analyzed: "It is true that it is safer behind hills, but tanks have problems with elevation and depression angles. When going uphill, the gun barrel is pointed toward the sky and cannot hit the enemy. When going downhill, the gun barrel is pointed toward the ground.
Not touching the enemy is a terrain that tanks should try to avoid when attacking. On the contrary, it is the commanding heights occupied by enemy infantry. If we place anti-tank shooters there..."
Needless to say, Sun Defa nodded repeatedly: "Comrade Wang Xuexin is right, I am using anti-infantry thinking to fight tanks!"