In addition to shrinking the defense, Huang Sheng could not think of any other way to solve the current dilemma!
The strength of the third battalion is too weak, and it is not at the same level as the little devils in Laiyuan City!
Continuing to act according to the original plan, the little devils who have various advantages have countless ways to deal with themselves! The third battalion has only one response: run!
Use guerrilla warfare to deal with the Japanese!
No, there is no use fighting guerrilla warfare here!
As long as those local snakes who work for the Japanese are eliminated, the sharp sword hanging on the foreheads of the common people will not be eliminated, and they will not dare to support the Eighth Route Army!
Without the support of the common people, the Eighth Route Army would become a fish out of water. Even saving its own life would be a problem, let alone fighting guerrillas and fighting against the Japs, which would definitely be harder than climbing to the sky!
The instructor saw the pain and embarrassment in Huang Sheng's heart at a glance, and hesitantly reminded: "Batalion Commander, do you want to think about it again?"
"Once we decide to shrink our defense, it means that our first round of confrontation with the Japs will end in failure!"
"Those traitorous spies hiding in the dark will definitely emerge and run the villages and towns within their snobbish range with the support of the Japanese. When the time comes, it will definitely be more difficult for us to reoccupy those villages and towns, and the price we pay will also be high.
Bigger!”
Huang Sheng struggled with this question for a long time and finally made up his mind and answered with pain on his face!
"I won't consider it anymore!"
"If the Eighth Company is also defeated, we will immediately shrink the defense line, first completely control several villages around the battalion headquarters, and then expand outward step by step!"
"My idea is very simple. A temporary failure will only cost us some troops!"
"If you keep the green hills, you won't have to worry about running out of firewood. Sooner or later we will be able to regain our strength and fight back!"
"Continue to act according to the original plan, and this temporary defeat will turn into a complete defeat!"
"By then we won't even have the foundation to turn defeat into victory!"
In Guangling, the situation of the Second Battalion is also very bad!
The Japanese and puppet troops were stronger here. After entering Guangling, the Second Battalion became blind and deaf!
When the common people saw them, it was like seeing bandits. They hid as far away as they could and never came face to face with the troops!
If the troops want to obtain some intelligence, they can only conduct on-the-spot investigations through a platoon of dozens of people!
Zhang Yun has been fighting for so long behind enemy lines, and his relationship with the common people has always been as good as a fish in water. He has never been so aggrieved!
"Batalion Commander, everything has been checked!" the instructor walked in and reported, with a very ugly look on his face!
"Before we came, there was a guerrilla attack in Lingqiu. In order to consolidate their rule over Lingqiu, the Japanese and puppet troops carried out a very bloody suppression!"
"With only a few dozen guerrillas, the Japanese and puppet troops slaughtered nearly five hundred civilians!"
"At that time, anyone who had anything to do with the guerrillas would be arrested and shot by the Japanese and puppet troops on charges of collaborating with the enemy!"
"This suppression happened just a few months ago, causing great shock and panic to the local people! Since then, everyone has kept silent about the Anti-Japanese War, and they have stayed far away when encountering anti-Japanese teams like us, deep inside
He was afraid that if he got involved with us, he would suffer bloody revenge from the Japanese and puppet troops and lose his life!"
"In addition, we also learned from the underground party that before the Japanese and puppet troops retreated, every household was threatened by them!"
"No matter who is involved with our Eighth Route Army, they will be retaliated against in the future, including their relatives and neighbors, all of them will be affected!"
"Of course, if you can take the initiative to report that your relatives and neighbors have a relationship with our Eighth Route Army, and it is proven to be true, then the reporter will be exempted from punishment and will also be rewarded by the Japanese and puppet troops!"
"In order to shock the people, this kind of revenge actually happened!"
"After getting no information from ordinary people, we could only pin our hopes on the underground parties, and then we found several underground parties!"
"I didn't expect that as soon as we left, they were reported to us!"
"Those traitorous spies who were hiding took action that night and directly exterminated them!"
"Three underground party members and a whole family of more than ten people were killed. Not a single one was left. When our troops rushed back, the corpses were hardened and hung at the entrance of the village for public display. It was so cruel!"
"When I find these murderers in the future, I will definitely shoot them to avenge the sacrificed comrades and fellow villagers!"
"After this retaliatory action took place, the Japanese and puppet troops specially publicized it, and it spread throughout Lingqiu in just one day!"
"The common people who were originally wary of us and avoided us were even more afraid to approach us when faced with the living example of more than a dozen people being killed!"
A few words suddenly popped up in Zhang Yun's mind: white terror!
He remembers that experience clearly and will never forget it!
At that time, I was not a Red Army soldier, just a guerrilla!
In one white terror after another, my family members were all killed because of their status as guerrillas...
At that time, the enemy's methods were almost the same as those used by the Japanese and puppet troops in front of us!
At that time, in order to break this white terror, the most common method used by the Red Army was to take the initiative and retaliate in kind!
Get rid of those white troops who are harming the common people, and make them so afraid that they dare not show their butcher's knife in front of the common people!
Thinking of this, Zhang Yun decisively ordered: "We can't be so passive anymore, we must take the initiative!"
"Order each company to send out all scouts to find out the location of these spies and traitors, and then kill them!"
"Especially those who have the blood of the common people on their hands, even if they are captured, they will all be executed in accordance with the policy. It is best to execute them in front of the common people to eliminate the common people's fear of us!"
"Yes, battalion commander!" the instructor replied with confidence!
This was the only way he could think of to solve the problem!
Great idea, but they ignored two issues!
In addition to those traitorous spies hiding in Guangling, there are also more than a thousand little Japs stationed in the city!
Well equipped and plenty of ammunition!
Everyone was staring at the second battalion eagerly, ready to pounce and take a bite at any time!
Also, when the problem of white terror was being solved, although the common people were hiding from the Red Army and ostensibly avoiding the Red Army, they were still siding with the Red Army in their hearts and were still secretly providing intelligence. In addition, there were guerrillas who were familiar with the terrain and supported it covertly and covertly.
Red Army!
But right now, the Second Battalion has no mass base in Guangling!
The people and the guerrillas have nothing to ask for, and they can’t even find a local person to lead the way!
If you are not familiar with the place in life, you are like a blind person or a deaf person, how can you take the initiative!
Just less than a day after the order was reached, a message was sent to the battalion headquarters: "Battal Commander, urgent report from the reconnaissance platoon: a group of Japanese soldiers broke out of Guangling City three hours ago, with a reinforced squadron and heavy weapons!
The target is unknown, but the reconnaissance platoon has sent people to follow them, and there should be new information soon!"
Zhang Yun raised his eyebrows and analyzed: "The Japs will definitely not leave the city casually. A strengthened squadron, if arranged, can easily eat up one of our companies. We must understand their direction of action immediately!"
"Also, find out the specific locations of our three main companies and order them to be more alert. The target of this little devil must be them!"
The quiet battalion headquarters soon heard the sound of horse hooves, and five messengers rushed out of the village, then quickly dispersed and disappeared at the entrance of the village!
None of this escaped the enemy's agents lurking in the village!
A few minutes later, several people left the village one after another for various reasons!
The common people have always avoided the Eighth Route Army. In order to avoid further causing panic among the common people, making them more afraid of the Eighth Route Army and intensifying conflicts, the troops have been very loose in their control over the local people since they entered the village, almost to the point where they can enter and leave the village at will without inspection.
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The messengers rode very fast, but they were traveling on roads after all, and many places were several times longer than taking small roads!
The messenger heading to the Fourth Company had no idea that he would be the target of an attack. A trip rope would suddenly appear on the road ahead!
Before he could make any reaction, the war horse fell to the ground!
His movements were very fast. The moment the war horse fell to the ground, he jumped off the horse and rolled sideways to slow down the huge inertia brought to him by the war horse!
He conveniently held the rifle on his cell phone, loaded the bullet, and stared at the surroundings with a vigilant look on his face!
The tripping rope will never appear suddenly, there must be enemies around, this is a fact that even a fool can think of!
But the enemy's reaction was faster, and it wasn't just the two people pulling the rope!
As soon as I half-crouched on the ground to stabilize my body, gunshots rang in my ears!
The ordering soldier subconsciously rushed towards the bushes around him to avoid the bullet, but his movement was still too slow, and a bullet just pierced his thigh!
The heartbreaking pain quickly spread throughout the body, and beads of sweat poured out of his forehead like rain!
He hid in the bushes, and before he could take a breath, the gunfire rang out again.
The bullets flew over, some were blocked by the bushes, some flew close to his body and flew behind him, and one bullet happened to hit the ordering soldier in the chest!
Except for the fourth company, the other two companies all received orders to strengthen their alert!
Two hours later, an encounter started on the only way for the fourth company to attack!
By the time the soldiers from the reconnaissance platoon tracking the Japs reacted, the battle had become intense and no one could retreat!
"Battal Commander, something happened!" The second battalion headquarters and the fourth company messenger rushed in and reported with a sad face!
"We encountered little Japs on the way to raid the traitors!"
"They were equipped with heavy mortars and used artillery fire when they came up. The company commander and instructors were all sacrificed. In the end, the deputy company commander led us out of the encirclement, but there was no one left in the whole company, and only a dozen people rushed out!
"
"It's so tragic. A Japanese artillery shell hit one of our squads, and many soldiers were blown to pieces on the spot. When we returned to the battlefield, we searched all over but couldn't find the company commander's body. He must have also been blown up by heavy artillery during the battle.
Gone!"
"How could this happen?" Zhang Yun shouted with eyes wide open in disbelief!
"Didn't I send someone to inform you that there are kidnappers coming out of the city? Didn't the troops step up their vigilance? Why does something happen again, and it's an encounter!"
"Didn't you send out scouts during the operation? This is not a step up security!"
The ordering soldier was stunned for a moment, then decisively denied: "Battal Commander, I have been following the company commander, and I didn't see anyone sent by the battalion headquarters. I didn't receive an order at all!"
"What's wrong, something must have happened to the messenger on the road!" The instructor's face suddenly changed, and he suddenly reacted!
"This must be a premeditated move by the Japanese!"
"They are familiar with the terrain, and there are a lot of traitor agents lurking around us. We can't escape their eyes in every move we make!"
"Stop the messenger we sent to the Fourth Company, make the Fourth Company completely blind, then concentrate our forces and kill them!"
The battalion commander also reacted at this time, his face turned red instantly, anger was boiling out, and his whole person was like a powder keg that could explode at any time!
It took a full two minutes for him to calm down, gritted his teeth and cursed: "You cunning little devil, sooner or later I will make you pay with blood!"