Although everyone knew there was something wrong, in the end they still couldn't guess what kind of medicine the Japanese were selling in the gourd.
Wang Xuexin was equally confused.
Later, Wang Xuexin realized that he had overestimated the enemy's goals. Wang Xuexin always kept guessing about the overall strategy and the direction of the offensive situation. Who the hell would have thought that a general like Okamura Neiji would invest the strength of a division?
It was just to surround an independent group.
By the time Wang Xuexin thought of this, it was already three days later.
On this day, Wang Xuexin and Sun Ming were training troops together... This was due to the coordination between the Independent Regiment and the Shanxi-Sui Army. In the past, the two armies were not in conflict with each other, so there was no need for coordinated training. Now they have to fight the Japanese together.
, but you can’t hit you and I’ll hit mine.
Because the Jinsui Army is well equipped and has relatively sufficient ammunition, it has always adopted a tactic of deploying its troops centered on machine guns.
To be precise, the tactics of the Jinsui Army were actually those of the Japs. Yan Laoxi came back from studying abroad with the Japs. After he came back, he trained the Jinsui Army with the Japs' tactics. Even the rifles they used were imitations of the Japs' 38s.
Big cover.
Wang Xuexin gave Sun Ming some advice on this.
"Adjutant Sun!" Wang Xuexin said: "In the past, your style of play might have been okay. But now that you can't return to the army for a while, you will use this tactic again..."
When Wang Xuexin said this, Sun Ming understood.
It is indeed unrealistic to return to construction immediately. This does not mean that we don't know where Yan Laoxi is, but that the roads to the south are all occupied by the Japanese and are impassable. To go south from Honggou Village, you have to climb mountains one after another.
Not to mention that the road is far and difficult to reach, the Eighth Route Army and guerrillas are everywhere on the road. If they suddenly see a Shanxi-Sui army appearing in front of them, it would be strange not to fire a few shots immediately.
Therefore, these more than a thousand people will not be able to go back for a while.
Since we can't go back and have to fight with the Eighth Route Army, we must rely on the Eighth Route Army's supplies.
The Eighth Route Army's ammunition was extremely tight. How could it be possible for the Jinsui Army to use machine guns as a fire support and then deploy its troops to fight like this?
Thinking of this, Sun Ming nodded and said: "In this case, I will cancel the use of machine guns in the squad."
"It's not possible to cancel it!" Wang Xuexin said: "You just simply cancel the machine guns, but your soldiers still pretend to be covered by machine guns and rush forward as usual? Is it still possible to fight?"
"What Company Commander Wang means..." Sun Ming looked at Wang Xuexin in confusion.
Wang Xuexin raised his head towards Qilian who was training on the other side and said: "Look here, just follow this way!"
Sun Ming originally thought that the Eighth Route Army fought indiscriminately... It did feel like a random attack before.
But when I took a closer look, I saw that they were advancing and retreating in an orderly manner amidst the chaos. Although they did not have a strong firepower unit, they were not missing any attack, cover, or reinforcements.
The more he watched, the more frightened he became. These were not the mud-legged men he had known before. They were clearly well-trained elite soldiers. It was no wonder that the Eighth Route Army was able to inflict losses on the Japanese on the battlefield time and time again.
So Sun Ming no longer hesitated and immediately ordered the troops to practice according to the Eighth Route Army's "three-three system" tactics.
Just then the assembly horn sounded, and the soldiers hurriedly packed their bags and rushed to the assembly point.
The assembly point was an open space in front of the regiment headquarters. When Wang Xuexin arrived with his troops, Li Yunlong was already waiting in full gear.
Although Li Yunlong didn't say anything, you could tell from the serious look on his face that nothing good happened.
Sure enough, I heard Li Yunlong shouting to the soldiers: "Comrades, the Japs are here to trick us. They changed their attack route overnight and went around to our rear. Our superiors ordered us to hold off the Japs for a while, otherwise our army will
The two regiments on the flanks, including ourselves, will be surrounded. The goal is to turn around the mountain, march quickly, and set off!"
After giving the order, the troops moved forward in the direction of Shanguai.
On the way, Li Yunlong came close to Wang Xuexin and said as he ran: "You are right, the little devils are really thinking of not fighting from Highway 6. After they captured Xiaolinkou yesterday, they changed direction overnight and followed the highway from west to east.
At the same time, the Japs in the east also launched an attack and used tanks to forcefully break through our defense line. If the two of their troops close the encirclement... we will be trapped in this area!"
Wang Xuexin nodded secretly. The Japanese were obviously planning to divide and encircle them.
But it seems wrong to divide and encircle them... They can obviously attack from Highway 6, which can also surround the two regiments of the anti-slope fortifications. Why do they have to attack Highway 7?
Then Wang Xuexin understood.
"Captain!" Wang Xuexin said: "The enemy's target is probably our independent group!"
The difference between attacking Route 7 and Route 6 is that the independent regiment will not be forced back.
Only in this way can we explain why the Japanese would sacrifice easy things for difficult things.
"That's bullshit!" Li Yunlong replied without thinking: "How can the Japanese be so clever as to know where our independent regiment is? Besides, our independent regiment has less than a thousand people, so why would they allow one division of the Japanese to go to war in such a big way?
Surrounded!"
After Li Yunlong said this, Wang Xuexin believed that he was right.
Of course the Japs know the location of the Independent Regiment, and having Zhu Ziming here is no problem at all.
As for why the Japanese used a division to surround them... Wang Xuexin vaguely felt that it might be because of himself.
A big tree attracts the wind, doesn’t it?
He had created so many things in the Eighth Route Army, and if Zhu Ziming confessed them all, wouldn't the Japs come out in a hurry?
Otherwise, what a coincidence that this happened shortly after Wang Xuexin returned from the headquarters?
But it's hard to say this, otherwise one of them is a selfish encirclement, and the other is suspected of being greedy for life and wanting to withdraw from the encirclement as soon as possible.
What's more, I'm just guessing, and I can't overturn the orders and overall plan of my superiors just because of a guess!
So Wang Xuexin didn't say anything and just took it one step at a time.
Shanguai is located more than ten kilometers away from Honggou Village. Because the road makes several turns around several mountains here, it is called Shanguai... At this time, the people's place names were so direct and vivid.
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After the independent regiment arrived at Shanguai, they immediately built fortifications and planted explosives and mines in the middle of the road.
Then the order from the superior came down: "In order to cover the retreat of the main force, we must block the enemy for three hours, and then look for opportunities to break out!"
Li Yunlong looked at the nearby terrain and said, "Three hours, that's not a trivial matter!"
No wonder Li Yunlong was so confident. This area is full of mountains and is a suitable area for the Eighth Route Army to fight. It would not be difficult to hold off the enemy for three hours and then break out.
But what Li Yunlong didn't expect was...
The Japs' goal was not to encircle any main force, but to encircle his independent regiment.