One team faced off against the main force of the Japanese Sixth Field Division.
This is a life and death game and contest.
The law of war is like this. It is always full of changing factors. No matter how well you plan before the war, once the war begins, slight variables will lead to an undirected reversal of the final situation.
Kong Jie, Li Yunlong, and Ding Wei wanted to severely damage or even annihilate the Japanese Sixth Field Division.
In a large-scale battle, it is difficult to completely defeat the opponent just by relying on small-scale harassment and attrition.
After all, a decisive confrontation is inevitable.
If Kong Jie can lead the main force of a team to defeat the elite main force of the Sixth Division and go straight to the secret aviation base, he will defeat his opponent in the enemy's strongest field.
Under a series of chain effects, the Sixth Division is destined to collapse.
But if a team loses.
The main force of the Sixth Division's advance can not only destroy the scheduled aviation base of a team, but may even use this to break through the core defense area of a team and destroy the foundation of the anti-Japanese revolutionary base that the team has worked hard to develop over the past two years.
This is the same conspiracy being planned by old devils like Oka Cun and Guancun.
Both sides know it.
The final contest gradually unfolded in this way.
A team headquarters.
Except for Wang Huaibao, the leader of the Fourth Independent Regiment who was fighting in Zhongtiao Mountain, all the other five leaders were present: Lei Dasheng, the leader of the First Independent Regiment, Wang Leihu, the leader of the Second Independent Regiment, Shen Quan, the leader of the Third Independent Regiment, and Commander of the fifth regiment... Commander of the sixth regiment...
Regardless of what Kong Jie said seriously in front of Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, he said that the development of our Iron Triangle Force can be a little out of the ordinary, but it cannot be too exaggerated.
It can't be that a regiment can grow to be more terrifying than a division, right?
But in fact, this guy Kong Jie has always made a fortune in silence. On the surface, he pretends to be serious, but he does the same things he should do.
His independent regiment was originally the first to be expanded into the first independent anti-Japanese detachment in northwestern Shanxi due to its growth in size, coupled with the needs of the war situation and its outstanding military exploits.
His organization is very special.
Let's say it's a regiment, but it's much larger than a regiment-level combat unit. Let's say it's a brigade, but it can't reach the brigade-level combat unit.
The establishment is particularly free, and the scale is completely under the control of detachment leader Kong Jie.
A year ago, considering the needs of the Anti-Japanese War, Kong Jie took the initiative to propose that our Eighth Route Army troops could actually implement a policy of better troops and simpler administration in major base areas to reduce the pressure on the base areas to support the troops and at the same time improve the combat effectiveness of the troops more efficiently. and cohesion.
But then Kong Jie realized a situation.
Lao Li was right about this. Refining troops and streamlining administration was forced by the helpless situation of the Anti-Japanese War, and by the plight of insufficient logistics and insufficient supplies in the base areas.
Once these dilemmas are resolved.
Even if the policy of lean troops and simpler administration continues to be implemented, the trend of troop growth will be difficult to control.
Kong Jie knew this very well, so he talked about opening up an anti-Japanese revolutionary base area in the Zhongtiao Mountain area and seeking development of the Fourth Independent Regiment.
The leader of the team at that time was Wang Huaibao, the leader of the Fourth Independent Regiment, and he led a main force of more than 2,000 people.
With the development up to now, I remember that a few months ago, Kong Jie had a communication with Wang Huaibao's headquarters.
In the communication, Wang Huaibao said very embarrassedly: "Old commander, I'm sorry, the original team of our fourth regiment has been expanded two or three times by accident, and this still does not include the local armed forces. in the case of."
After the winter counterattack launched by one team achieved great success, the Fourth Independent Regiment on Zhongtiao Mountain took the opportunity to develop.
At this moment, even Kong Jie doesn't know how big his independent four regiments have grown.
As for the team under his nose, due to the rapid economic construction of the base area, the improvement of equipment level, and the improvement of the combat literacy of the troops, the size of the troops has almost increased independently.
It’s easier to understand with an example.
A team of more than 100 people in a company, light and heavy machine guns, mortars, grenades, submachine guns, American semi-automatic rifles...
Adding up all kinds of weapons, a team of more than 100 people can't use them all, and the extra weapons can only be used to suppress the warehouse.
What else can be done?
We can only think of ways to expand the size of the army.
In this regard, one team has successively reinforced the arms and equipment of neighboring brother troops many times.
As a result, the entire team is further and further away from the original elite troops and simple administration.
Kong Jie, who had some headaches about this, specially formulated some military orders for recruitment, requiring that when the main force is expanded, priority should be given to selecting local comrades with solid military literacy and certain combat experience from local armed forces.
In addition, there are special assessment items corresponding to entering the main combat force, including several basic skills of infantry, such as shooting, bombing, soil work, blasting, etc.
In addition, under the call of the leader of the Kongda detachment, a fierce military competition began within the detachment.
Each regiment, each battalion and even each company often held internal military competitions. The companies competed in shooting, assassination, soil work, and conducted simulated roundabout combat exercises.
In the end, within a team, how exaggerated is the degree of involution?
Just say the most common sentry.
He is very likely to be an excellent scout and a skilled machine gunner when the light and heavy machine guns are in front of him. Maybe he is also very skilled in operating various types of mortars.
When you see someone driving a car, you might wave your hand and say, "Comrade, let me drive for a while!"
When new recruits come, he can speak like an instructor.
During the assassination training, the new recruits competed effortlessly against three.
For local comrades, this is even more touching.
..."Why, did you fail the assessment to apply for transfer to the main force again this time?"
"Yes, captain, I was eliminated in the first shooting event of the assessment!"
"What happened? How did you eliminate them?"
"Don't mention it. I was still crazy at first. I think my marksmanship is pretty good for our team."
The district captain nodded in agreement. Lao Zhang's marksmanship was indeed among the best among the comrades in the district team.
But Lao Zhang said with a depressed look on his face: "As a result, in the shooting assessment of a team, they only fired two bullets at a 200-meter fixed target. If they failed to hit, they left immediately.
Because I was a little nervous at the time, I failed to hit..."
Lao Zhang is so depressed!
The district captain smiled and said: "Old Zhang, if you ask me to tell you, just don't hang yourself from a tree. The assessment requirements of this detachment are strict, so you go to other main forces, isn't that the same!
Including the 771st Regiment, the 772nd Regiment, and the newly formed Fifth Regiment, as long as you go with your level, people will definitely be happy to hire you! "
Unexpectedly, Lao Zhang shook his head without hesitation and said: "Captain, as the old saying goes, if we want to be soldiers, we must be the best soldiers, and we must never be cowards.
Who in our area doesn't know that the First Independent Anti-Japanese Detachment of Northwestern Shanxi is the most powerful team in our entire Taihang region.
Many of our local comrades are eager to get in!
Since we want to join the main force, we should join the best main force. This time, I blame my inability and failed the test. At worst, I will practice more and go again next time! "
In this regard, even the members of the old commandos of the independent regiment felt great pressure.
In the words of deputy captain Ye Min jokingly: "If we continue like this, our entire detachment will probably become special forces. Comrades, if we don't work hard and strengthen special training, we might go back to the cooking class to cook." , even the old squad leader thinks he has been buried!"
Then roll it up!
Roll it hard!
Even under such an exaggerated involution, the size of a team could not be suppressed and gradually grew.
The four regiments have also expanded to the current six regiments.
Except for Wang Huaibao's fourth independent regiment, the strength of the remaining five regiments was barely suppressed to more than 3,000 men at Kong Jie's special request.
Of course, since this time they were under pressure from the Japanese army to conduct a comprehensive sweep of the base area, a team had to consider not only the attack, but also the comprehensive defense of the base area.
Therefore, in the absence of external reinforcements, the mobile forces that Kong Jie can allocate to deal with the Sixth Division are far less than the total number of combatants.
Maybe not even 1/3, that is, less than 5,000 troops.
But what kind of team is the Eighth Route Army?
This team has always been a gang of three heroes, with the top and bottom working as one, and they have never been particular about fighting alone. Joint operations have long been commonplace for each unit.
When Kong Jie reported to the headquarters on the battle plan to destroy the 6th Division, the deputy commander-in-chief immediately arranged an order to mobilize various troops to form the first unit of the first brigade and the first unit of the tenth brigade. The Ministry of Defense, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Base Area Mobile Reinforcement Force, and the Special Agent Regiment directly under the Military Region were all assigned to a team to assist in this combat plan.
With the addition of this group of troops, Kong Jie can not only defend comprehensively, but also release a large number of mobile troops to counterattack.
Focus on dealing with the Sixth Division.
In this way, all five main groups of a team are freed up.
This is why Kong Jie dared to challenge the Japanese Sixth Field Division.
After the meeting officially started, Kong Jie went straight to the topic: "Without any nonsense, what we are specifically discussing is how to severely damage or even completely annihilate the main force of the Japanese Sixth Division that penetrates deep into our fake airport area."
In this regard, the several group leaders are all confident.
Wang Leihu, leader of the Second Regiment, was the first to speak out, "Old leader, there's nothing to say. If the little devil dares to come, we'll beat him up. We haven't fought a decent battle for a long time.
We have always been training and competing internally.
But after all, we are all comrades, what fun can there be in having military exercises all the time?
This time, we have finally come to this big battle. I don’t care about you regiment leaders. Anyway, our second regiment must take this as the main attack. Let’s kill him! "
When the other regiment leaders heard this, they were naturally unwilling to be outdone, and each of them expressed their intention to compete for the main attack mission.
Kong Jie smiled. What he wanted to do was very simple, which was to completely mobilize the combat enthusiasm of several regiment leaders.
As for how to fight in the end, this is naturally a problem for the detachment headquarters.
As early as half a day ago, when discussing the final battle plan for this battle with Chief of Staff Xu Guoan and Political Commissar Li Wenjie, Kong Jie put forward his idea.
In other words, it is the arrangement of actual actions.
Dong San, the head of the logistics department of a team, was called to the headquarters by Kong Jie. Kong Jie then whispered in Dong San's ear for a while.
Dong San's eyes became brighter, and he knew very well in this regard.
"Please rest assured, captain, I will arrange this matter immediately!"
Kong Jie explained: "Remember, this matter must be kept confidential. In addition, I will ask the Camouflage Bureau to cooperate with you. This plan must be successful."
"yes!"
After Dong San returned to the Logistics Headquarters, he immediately continued: "Yes, aluminum powder, various processing grinding powders, various plastic powders, wheat flour, sawdust, dyes, tea, tobacco and other powders, coal dust, etc., in short, the quantity is increasing. The more the better. Also prepare the blower for me in advance.
What is it for?
You don't need to ask any more questions. In short, it is the arrangement made by the detachment leader, and it will definitely be of great use when the time comes. "
Back to the current pre-war military meeting.
On the military simulation sand table, a white flag was planted in a position located in the west of the core defense area of a team.
"This is the location of the secret aviation base that we deliberately exposed to the Japs. When we first built this fake airport, Shi Dahu said that this airport was used to lure the enemy in and deceive the Japs. It is very likely that it will be used in the future. An ambush broke out in this area.
Therefore, the terrain and terrain around the fake airport were considered in advance.
The west side of the airport is an open area, with mountains on its back to the east. The Japanese army is not stupid, and they will definitely strengthen their vigilance and reconnaissance during the advance.
If we want to ambush the Japanese army in an open area halfway, I am afraid it is not realistic, and it is easy to scare the enemy. Once the Japanese are alerted in advance, and we fail to form an encirclement, we may not be able to stop the Japanese soldiers from running away.
The headquarters' initial combat deployment is as follows. The main force of the First Regiment is hidden at the foot of the north side of the mountain east of the airport. The main force of the Second Regiment is hidden in the valley on the south side, waiting for an opportunity. Once the Japanese army enters the airport, the First Regiment and the Second Regiment will be assigned. The mobile troops coordinated and quickly detoured from the north and south to the back and side of the Japanese army, preparing to launch a blockade.
The mission is to delay the retreat of the Japanese army, but not to fight to the death with the Japanese army.
Buy time for the Sixth Regiment and the Fifth Regiment deployed in the rear to build blocking fortifications along the way.
As a mobile regiment, the Third Regiment is directly under the detachment headquarters and can reinforce various battlefields at any time.
In addition to the main force participating in the war, the other departments, with the cooperation of local comrades who reinforced it, carried out comprehensive defense work. While launching this ambush operation against the main force of the Japanese Sixth Division, we must ensure the safety of our entire base area.
Each regiment was prepared for air combat at the same time, and the detachment's air defense forces were all mobilized to be on guard against Japanese air fire reinforcements at any time.
After the main force of the Japs retreated from the airport, we relied on the terrain along the westward route, deployed troops step by step, and launched a layer-by-layer attack. Even if we picked off each skin layer by layer, we would drag the little Japs to death and annihilate them..."
After Kong Jie finished talking about his deployment, he immediately asked: "Do you have any other questions?"
At this time, Shen Quan, the leader of the third regiment, said unhappily, "Old regiment commander, when our old independent regiment was first formed, my second battalion was the old team of our regiment.
I definitely have no objection to the command and deployment you arranged this time, but you can't let our Third Regiment, a veteran main force group, be left behind as a mobile group, right? "
As soon as Chen Quan said this, Wang Leihu, Lei Dasheng and other group leaders secretly laughed.
You, Old Shen, have this day too!
Kong Jie glanced at Shen Quan, smiled and cursed: "You are the only one who has a lot of troubles. After the Japanese launched their May Day raids, among our several groups, the team led by you, Shen Quan, was the most noisy.
I heard that you led the main force of the Japs by the nose and jumped back and forth around the Yellow River three or five times. You also took the opportunity to ambush the Japs three or five times, and you even brought down a Japs field brigade.
Chen Quan, you are really capable! "
Chen Quan smiled and said: "Hey, old commander, as the old saying goes, there are no weak soldiers under a strong general.
During our Long March, when we crossed the Chishui River four times, we were beaten so hard that the enemy cried for father and mother, making it difficult to prevent them. I thought that the little devils had not experienced this yet, so naturally I had to teach them a lesson this time! "
Kong Jie said: "So the troops you led back this time are less than half of the main force of your third regiment, right?
The soldiers of the third regiment have also worked hard for so many days, following you back and forth. This time, you should be more honest, do your mobile regiment's work well, and let the soldiers take the opportunity to rest.
If you keep going through it like this, even a tough guy will probably be exhausted. "
Chen Quan smiled and agreed.
Once you have this face, you will naturally no longer show off your strength.
The issue is……
"Old commander, I don't understand one thing about this. All the troops of our five regiments are arranged on the way to block and ambush. In the airport area, the battle should be the main attack. Which team is assigned to it? ?
You can't just rely on the air to repel the Japs, right? "
At this time, Shen Quan asked the common doubts of several group leaders.
Kong Jie shouted toward the door, "Ye Min."
"arrive!"
Ye Min, the deputy commander of a team directly under the Assault Corps, jogged into the headquarters...
(End of chapter)
