"Company Commander, is there any conspiracy by the Japs? Shouldn't they be retreating to Laiyuan City to reorganize their troops now? Why are they still coming out?" Zhou Zhengyang, the second platoon leader, frowned and asked, very confused.
A trace of helplessness flashed across Zhang Qing's face quickly, and then he replied: "The Japs are trying to repeat their old tricks! Didn't we just suffer a loss from their supporting troops? They must be worried that we will ambush their troops returning to the city again, and then they
We sent out the response team so early so that we could have another head-to-head collision and break out blood!"
Zhou Zhengyang asked anxiously: "It's not possible to have an ambush. We are prepared to attack the Japanese. So what should we do next? Do we just watch the Japanese enter the city!"
"A surprise attack will definitely not work. Including the supporting troops, the total strength of the Japanese is more than one squadron. As long as they launch defense on the spot, we can't surprise them even if we attack the whole company! The Japanese reaction speed is too fast, we must find other ways!"
Zhang Qing affirmed.
At this time, instructor Zhao Wenhua and guard platoon leader Zhong Yusheng rushed over with their troops at the same time, as if they had agreed.
After listening to the introduction, Zhao Wenhua had no choice. But Zhong Yusheng, who had followed Wang Ping for the longest time, did have a thoughtful expression.
Although Zhong Yusheng was only a platoon leader, Zhang Qing did not dare to look down upon him because he followed the battalion commander every day.
"Old Zhong, do you already have an idea?"
Zhong Yusheng thought about it and replied: "Captain Zhang, I think you made a mistake and fell into a misunderstanding!"
"The mission given to us by the battalion commander is to kill a large number of Japanese veterans, one by one, but he does not ask us to annihilate them all. This place is too close to the county seat, so we cannot be too concentrated, otherwise the Japanese will fire a round of artillery shells, and we may all be wiped out.
The army was destroyed. Therefore, it is almost impossible to completely annihilate the Japanese troops returning to the city in one battle while still seriously injuring them!"
Zhang Qing replied angrily: "Isn't this nonsense? I also know that this method will not work, so I just stood still here and thought of other methods!"
Zhong Yusheng actually smiled at this time and explained to Zhang Qing and Zhao Wenhua: "I just said that you two have fallen into a misunderstanding. Since we have no way to severely injure the Japanese, then we will do the opposite, piecemeal, bit by bit.
Use them up."
"What kind of battles were we best at fighting when we were still the Red Army? You are all old Red Army soldiers. Don't forget our roots!"
"Guerrilla warfare!" Zhang Qing and Zhao Wenhua answered in unison.
At the same time, like Zhong Yusheng, both of them had smiles on their faces. After the two looked at each other, Zhang Qing spoke first.
"Instructor, you say it first!"
"Then I'm welcome!" Zhao Wenhua did not hesitate.
"When we discovered that the Japanese troops were returning to the city, they were still at least two kilometers away from the city gate. If we used guerrilla warfare to fight against them, we would not be afraid even if they had supporting troops."
"Our light weapons and equipment are no worse than those of the Japanese. We can hit them with a few rounds of bullets from a long distance and then retreat. We can also lay booby traps along the way they must pass! Didn't they bring a lot of large vehicles? We can also destroy official roads and slow them down.
The speed of their retreat will give us a long time to fight them with guerrilla warfare!"
"Even if we only kill two or three Japs within 100 meters, by the time they finally retreat to the city gate, we will have wiped out a small team!"
Zhang Qing then added: "We can also divide our troops into two groups. Didn't the Japs send a supporting force? We can also recruit some soldiers to fight them with guerrilla warfare, so that the Japs in Laiyuan City lose their wives and soldiers, and the losses will be even greater.
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"That's what it means!" Zhong Yusheng affirmed!
"Now we are short of troops. After the other two companies arrive, we can still think of ways to ambush the Japanese. Of course, the ambush I am talking about is not a large-scale ambush battle that eats up the Japanese retreating troops. It is a platoon-based ambush.
The unit's small-scale ambush battle, retreat immediately after the attack, without giving the Japanese any chance to counterattack!"
"Of course, if the Japanese have the guts to send troops to hunt us down, then we won't be polite to them and just eat them!"
"However, the Japanese troops are so tight now, especially these veterans. Unless the Japanese commander is a fool, he will definitely not send people to hunt us down!"
Captain Akino led two infantry squads and two Imperial Army companies, and drove all the way for nearly four hours before finally entering the artillery fire coverage of the Laiyuan City garrison.
Along the way, he was worried that he would be ambushed by the Eighth Route Army. He was so frightened that he kept urging the troops to speed up their march.
Now that we are here, Akino is relieved.
In Qiuye's view, the Eighth Route Army would not dare to ambush him here even if he had the guts. This is because fighting here may not only be counter-surrounded by reinforcements from Laiyuan City, but may also be attacked by artillery fire from the garrison in the city at any time. The gain outweighs the loss.
In addition, the supporting troops have been eliminated in the city. If the Eighth Route Army has the courage to attack itself here, it may be attacked from both sides at any time!
Because of this confidence, as soon as the troops arrived here, Akino issued an order to slow down the march and let the troops take a good rest so that when they entered the city, they could show their best condition to their superiors.
There is a word called "what goes up and what goes down". The squadron leader is confident that he will not be attacked by the Eighth Route Army again, so he relaxes. The more than a hundred Japanese soldiers below will definitely put down their vigilance and maintain the battle formation. At this time, the marching column also becomes scattered.
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In this way, the Japanese and puppet troops moved forward smoothly for five or six minutes.
With such a smooth march and the fact that they were one step closer to Laiyuan City, they became more confident in the squadron leader's judgment and gradually became more unscrupulous in their walking.
"Papapa ... Da Da ..." A messy but dense sound of gunfire suddenly sounded at the corn field one hundred meters away from the official road.
The flying bullets were all aimed at the Japanese soldiers walking in the middle of the team. Although they were not very accurate, they were more successful because of their large numbers, and they still defeated four Japanese soldiers on the spot.
"Baga, it's an enemy attack! The machine gunners stayed behind to counterattack with firepower to repel them. The troops continued to retreat to the county town. Don't stop! Akino was shocked. He didn't expect that his confident judgment was wrong. However, he did not lose it.
I was sensible and immediately gave the order to retreat and counterattack to the troops who had begun to be in chaos."
"Da da da..." The Japanese reacted very quickly. As soon as Akino gave the order, two crooked guns started shooting at the scene.
The two grenadier soldiers also squatted on the ground and began to play with the grenade, preparing to use grenades to blow up the Eighth Route Army in the sneak attack position.
However, the devil's idea was doomed to fail.
After their gunfire rang out, the Eighth Route Army's sneak attack position more than a hundred meters away immediately fell silent, as if no one had been there.
When the two grenades hit the sneak attack position in a parabola and exploded, except for some soil and shrubs and weeds that were blown away, not even the shadow of the Eighth Route Army was seen.
Guerrilla warfare is a special skill for the old Red Army soldiers in the Independent Battalion, and everyone is proficient in it. In addition, they have sufficient ammunition and well-equipped equipment, so there is no need to engage in close combat with the Japanese to give them a chance to counterattack.
Therefore, when Zhang Qing issued the order, he repeatedly requested that the position chosen by the surprise attack troops must be far enough away from the official road, and that the retreat route must be planned in advance and retreat immediately after the attack.
Because of this order, the Japanese's counterattack has no effect except a waste of bullets and grenades!