The guerrilla battalion commander Wang Huzi was leading the battalion commander, the second company, the third company, and the battalion's machine gun company, following closely behind the sharp knife company, heading towards Huaiyin. The team was huge and dense.
After receiving the report from the communications troops, he learned that the enemy situation was discovered in the front, so he did not dare to neglect and quickly sent out the sharp knife company to reinforce the knife.
When Wang Huzi arrived at the battlefield with the main force of the battalion, the ambush battle was over. The brothers of the Sharp Knife Company were cleaning the battlefield. The corpses of Japanese soldiers were lying on the ground.
"Report to the battalion commander that we have eliminated an infantry squad of Japanese soldiers!"
Seeing Wang Huzi's urgent reinforcements, company commander Dao Zi hurriedly ran up to Wang Huzi, bumped his feet, and made a report with a grin.
An infantry company of one hundred and sixty men wiped out a well-equipped Japanese squad with very little damage. This made the company commander Daozi feel bright and his head could not help but be raised a lot higher.
"Well played,"
Wang Huzi was also very satisfied. Continuous battles had greatly improved the military quality of the troops. Seeing that the veterans under his command could now stand alone, he naturally praised them.
"Thank you, battalion commander, for your cultivation!" Captain Daozi of the Sharp Knife Company laughed out loud after receiving the praise, and his heart was filled with joy. After all, not everyone can get this honor.
"Okay, stop being poor. What happened to those people?"
Wang Huzi noticed the more than 100 Liu Jinhu and others in ragged and dirty clothes beside the highway.
The knife calmed down and pointed at Liu Jinhu and the others: "They are from the first guerrilla detachment. The big man is their detachment leader named Liu Jinhu. They were attacked by Japanese and puppet troops outside Huaiyin City last night. They just broke out. We
What they will destroy are the Japanese who are chasing them..."
Daozi reported the whole story in a short story, and the battalion commander Wang Huzi's face also sank, completely losing the joy after winning the battle.
They were ordered to assemble in Huaiyin, then attack Huaiyin, eliminate the Japs and puppet troops in the Huaiyin area, and cooperate with the counterattacks against the Japs in various war zones across the country.
Before they even arrived at Huaiyin City, they received such bad news. The friendly troops assembled in Huaiyin were unexpectedly attacked by Japanese soldiers. Seeing Liu Jinhu and the others' embarrassed appearance, the situation might be a bit bad.
Wang Huzi was now eager to know what happened under Huaiyin City, and immediately strode towards Liu Jinhu.
The two parties saluted each other and got to know each other. Without any care for pleasantries, Wang Huzi went straight to the point and directly asked about the situation in Huaiyin. After all, this was related to the next move.
"Captain Liu, do you know how many Japanese and puppet troops are attacking you?" Wang Huzi asked carefully.
Liu Jinhu and the others were suddenly raided. Who knew how many Japs there were? They shook their heads helplessly. Thinking of the brothers who had sacrificed their lives during the breakout, sadness surged onto their faces.
"What about the other brothers? Have they broken out?" Wang Huzi asked again when he saw Liu Jinhu shaking his head.
"When we broke through, the rest of the guerrilla detachment was still in chaos. We wanted to open the door to cover their retreat, but the Japanese opened fire on us. We were worried that we would be trapped in a tight siege again and had to withdraw first. As for whether the rest of the brothers would break out, we are currently
unknown."
After hearing what Liu Jinhu said, Wang Huzi could also imagine what kind of chaotic scene it would be if more than a dozen unfamiliar detachments were attacked at night.
As questions were raised one after another, and while listening to Liu Jinhu's explanation, Wang Huzi's heart sank to the bottom. Those brothers who did not break out were probably in danger.
After all, the Japanese and puppet troops came well prepared, and they were surrounded. In such chaos and without command, there was little hope of being able to break out of the encirclement alive.
Thinking that the main force of the Ninth Guerrilla Column had been destroyed before they even arrived at Huaiyin, Wang Huzi was glad that they had escaped the disaster a step too late, but he was more puzzled as to why they were surrounded by the Japanese.
What Wang Huzi didn't know was that the Guizi Shankou Brigade had already planned this incident. They retreated step by step and lured the main force of the guerrilla column to the unobstructed Huaiyin City, just to catch them all.
But what the cunning and vicious Yamaguchi Brigade Captain Yamaguchi Akamatsu didn't expect was that although the trap they laid eliminated the main force of the Ninth Guerrilla Column in one fell swoop, there were still fish that slipped through the trap.
The fish that slipped through the net was the Third Guerrilla Detachment, which was delayed in clearing out the Japs in Qinghe Town. The rapidly increasing strength of the Third Guerrilla Detachment was destined to become a nightmare for the Japs.
"knife!"
After learning some important information from Liu Jinhu, Wang Huzi did not dare to continue leading the team forward.
"have!"
"Quickly dispatch a reconnaissance platoon to investigate the enemy's situation in the direction of Huaiyin and find out whether the brothers from the other detachments have broken out."
"yes!"
Dao Zi responded and hurriedly arranged for people to go. Soon a brother from a platoon was running towards Huaiyin.
"The second company, the third company, and the machine gun company quickly set up positions on the spot!" Wang Huzi waved his hand, and the three company commanders also took active action.
The people in the communications class also quickly sent people in the opposite direction to report the situation to Yang Ling.
"Cooking squad, get some food for Captain Liu and the others." Seeing Liu Jinhu and the others looking tired and hungry, Wang Huzi gave all the instructions and gave the order to the cooking squad of the camp.
"Thank you, Camp Commander Wang."
Liu Jinhu and the others were as embarrassed as they were now. When they heard Wang Huzi's words when they were hungry, their hearts were filled with gratitude.
"We are all brothers who fight against Japanese invaders. Why should we be so divided? You should rest and eat first while I go and set up the position."
After Wang Huzi and Liu Jinhu said hello, they climbed up to the low hills next to the highway and directed the brothers to dig trenches and fortifications on the spot to prepare to stop the Japanese.
Yang Ling and the others currently have backward communication methods, so they rely on communication soldiers to deliver orders and messages on foot.
In the villages near Xiaowangzhuang and Zhangjiaji, message trees and other methods for transmitting intelligence were established. However, now that Qinghe Town has been recovered and they are advancing towards Huaiyin, many of these things cannot keep up with the expansion of the base area.
It was already noon when the communications troops sent by Wang Huzi and others rushed back to Qinghe Town. Yang Ling was waiting in Qinghe Town for the deputy detachment leader to arrive from Xiaowangzhuang to hand over.
They captured hundreds of puppet soldiers and many traitors and enemy agents in Qinghe Town. These people are huge security risks and will cause serious consequences if they are not handled properly.
Therefore, Yang Ling did not dare to mobilize all his troops to the direction of Huaiyin when the rear was unstable. Instead, he sent Wang Huzi to go ahead and stayed in Qinghe Town with part of his troops.
As the saying goes, you don’t panic when you have a gun in your hand. With Wu Changqing’s second battalion and the security troops directly under the detachment to control the situation, it will be of great benefit to the restoration of order in Qinghe Town.
Before the deputy detachment leader arrived at Qinghe Town from Xiaowangzhuang, Yang Ling had already begun to organize people to interrogate traitors and enemy agents, and held public trials in an effort to eliminate the drug stream as soon as possible.
Among the captured puppet soldiers, policemen and plainclothes teams, Yang Ling also began to screen them, and those who had committed the most heinous crimes would all be tried and executed.
Those who did not commit serious crimes but helped the tyrants were not killed immediately, but were sent to newly established labor camps according to specific circumstances to undergo reform through labor.
As for those who joined the puppet army and police in order to make a living, Yang Ling granted them forgiveness and allowed them to become ordinary people again or join the guerrillas to fight against the Japanese.
All kinds of things are complicated. Now the Third Guerrilla Detachment has many officers who can fight, but there are very few who can handle these government affairs.
After all, their Third Guerrilla Detachment is considered a combat force and has never thought of taking over government affairs. Now Yang Ling and the others have to fight while restoring local order and management.
Due to the lack of management talents, Yang Ling had to do many things by himself, lamenting that he had too few talents to share the burden for himself.
But at this juncture, Wang Beard sent another bad news, which made Yang Ling even more exhausted mentally and physically.