There is a reason why reinforcements from headquarters arrived so late.
The leader raised his head alertly when he heard the gunfire: "No, the enemy has gone around to the rear to attack the arsenal, and there are quite a lot of troops!"
The next second the leader shouted out: "Chen Fujun, lead troops to reinforce immediately..."
"Chief!" the chief of staff stopped him: "The enemy may be attacking in the east and west. If the first company is dragged up, who will defend the headquarters?"
"The military situation is urgent. Let's pull them up first!" the leader replied: "Pull them over here and immediately pull back the Second Company on the east side. Besides, we have also dug a tunnel. The headquarters can be temporarily transferred to the tunnel to take shelter!"
Although what the chief said makes sense, if you send them here and pull them back there, reinforcements will arrive at the arsenal much faster.
But this will cause the headquarters to be in an unprotected vacuum. As long as there are a few enemies in the village, they may pose a threat to the headquarters.
So the chief of staff firmly disagreed.
"Chief!" said the Chief of Staff: "Even if you don't consider your own safety, you should consider the food piled up in the warehouse! There are thousands of tons of it, and they can't be moved in a short while!"
The commander was stunned. This food was the lifeblood of the base area. If it was burned down by the Japanese, there would be no way to explain it to the soldiers and civilians.
Thinking about it, the chief had no choice but to frown and nod, and turned to Chen Fujun and ordered: "Organize personnel immediately to protect the warehouse. If there is any loss of food, come to me with your head raised!"
"Yes!" Chen Fujun responded, turned around and went to strengthen the defense of the warehouse.
Unexpectedly, the commander's order to "protect the warehouse" was mistaken and confused the Japanese who sneaked into Lujia Village.
There were a total of thirty Japs who infiltrated Lujiacun, all members of the Mainland Advancement Team. They were responsible for inquiring about information and responding to the Japs' attacks internally, such as tracking the location of the enemy's headquarters in real time.
From this, we can also know that the decision of the chief of staff is correct. If the guard company is sent to the arsenal for reinforcements at the first time, the headquarters will most likely be attacked by the Japanese elites from the mainland advance team, and the consequences will be disastrous.
Leading this team was a captain named Yoshiaki Takeda, who served as the platoon leader in the mainland advance team.
Compared to his imperial name, Takeda Yoshiaki is more accustomed to his Chinese name Jiang Zhenhua.
Because they were usually required to use Chinese names, he almost forgot his real name after a few years.
At this time, Jiang Zhenhua had found the headquarters and was lurking around.
Some of them pretended to be businessmen passing by, some pretended to be ordinary people visiting relatives, and some mingled with the transportation to help push the carts...
Because they spoke an authentic dialect and could answer questions fluently, no one in the army or civilians doubted them... This was actually because the people at the headquarters were so talkative during this period, and there was an endless stream of transport teams arriving from various places to transport food to the headquarters, with unfamiliar faces.
Very normal.
Jiang Zhenhua made a plan. As soon as the main force launched an attack on Lujiacun, they would attack the enemy's headquarters and try their best to create chaos.
This is something that the Continental Advance Team often does.
The offensive headquarters can force enemy commanders to evacuate and prevent them from effectively commanding the troops.
Creating chaos can make it impossible for the enemy to distinguish between ourselves and ourselves and to organize effective resistance.
Jiang Zhenhua and his party even wore the uniforms of the Eighth Route Army inside. As long as they took off their coats and put on their hats, they could pretend to be Eighth Route Army soldiers.
However, the battle did not start in Lujia Village as Jiang Zhenhua imagined. Gunfire rang out in the direction of the arsenal.
Then Jiang Zhenhua realized that the main force had been blocked outside the village.
Then, Jiang Zhenhua discovered that the security company sent troops to the other side.
Jiang Zhenhua judged that emergency reinforcements during wartime were likely to be more important places that must be saved, so he immediately led his troops to follow the reinforcements and rush to the target.
Chen Fujun, who rushed to the warehouse with a platoon of reinforcements, immediately felt something was wrong.
When the people heard the gunshots, they should have found a place to hide. Why did this group of people follow the troops as if they were not there?
After thinking about it, Chen Fujun realized that these "common people" were probably the Japanese in disguise.
Chen Fujun calmly continued to lead the troops towards the warehouse.
But halfway through, he stopped when he passed the chief's dormitory and pretended to give the order: "Protect the chief and never let the enemy get close!"
Then he ordered the troops to spread their guard.
Jiang Zhenhua was surprised and happy. It turned out that the head of the Eighth Route Army was here, and there was only one platoon to defend him. He had to go through hard work to find nowhere, and it took no effort at all to get there!
So without thinking much, he immediately took off his disguise and launched an attack.
Jiang Zhenhua never thought that he had been tricked by Chen Fujun and his identity exposed.
Chen Fujun continued to pretend to be guarding the dormitory while commanding Ruoding to mobilize troops to encircle and suppress the enemy in front of him.
If it were at night or when the Japanese launched a full-scale attack on Lujiacun, it would still be difficult to annihilate the mainland advance team.
But at this time... Jiang Zhenhua and his party can only be said to be fighting alone.
Jiang Zhenhua thought it was worthwhile at first. After all, he was the head of the Eighth Route Army. If he could be killed, the mission would be considered a success.
However, when he rushed into the mud house that he had sacrificed all his men's lives to knock down with a cluster grenade in hand, and saw only an empty room, he realized that he had been deceived.
Jiang Zhenhua looked outside and saw that he had no way to escape, so he had no choice but to light the grenade!
Since then, the Japanese sneak attack on Lujiacun has been completely defeated.
But the leader was not happy about this. Instead, he slapped the table angrily and cursed: "What tricks are you using? We don't know if the enemies have sneaked into Lujia Village! There are also enemies in the direction of the arsenal. I heard there are five or six hundred
Man, how did such a huge force get around to the rear of our army?"
The chief of staff didn't know the reason either.
It stands to reason that after the last sneak attack, the Eighth Route Army's security network has become relatively mature.
In particular, the front line has used reverse slope fortifications to block the Japanese attack. It is impossible for the enemy to have such a large force infiltrate and not know anything about it.
But the fact is that the enemy did it.
If Xiaodongbei's troops had not blocked it, the entire Lujiagou would have been massacred, and the losses also included the headquarters, arsenal and granary.
Soon the investigation results were sent by telegram. It was only when the chief of staff received the telegram that he suddenly realized it. He took the telegram and reported to the chief: "Chief, the enemy has bypassed the Shanxi-Sui Army defense area! At this time, he has bypassed the Shanxi-Sui Army defense area."
Then call back!"
As soon as the chief heard this, he lost half of his anger.
After all, this cannot be regarded as the fault of his own troops. The main responsibility lies with the Jinsui Army who is holding back.
But then he got angry again: "This Yan Laoxi is good at blocking us. The Japs even walked around his field without knowing it! One day, the Japs took off his head and he is still confused!"