Niujia Village.
The Japanese Major was slightly injured. He was attacked by the Eighth Route Army last night. Although the loss was not big, it made Xiao Zuo very angry.
The main reason is that the Eighth Route Army actually went to the brigade headquarters and threw a grenade, killing a lieutenant. The major then looked ferocious. Looking at the corpse of the Japanese lieutenant on the ground, he could not find a living commoner to vent his anger. The other two lieutenants under his command had a ferocious look on their face. His nose was bruised and his face was swollen after being slapped, and he was bowing his head to apologize.
"Report, urgent telegram from headquarters." The radio soldier next to him handed over a telegram without getting up.
A lieutenant who was beaten and dizzy quickly took the telegram and presented it to the major.
The major didn't take it. After cursing at the top of his lungs, he looked at the telegram in his hand carefully.
It was the commander of the First Army of North China, Yoshio Iwamatsu, who issued a fatal order, requiring the main force attacking from the east to immediately encircle the Eighth Route Army Division Headquarters at all costs. Another telegram was sent by friendly forces in the west, and the content was They had already made contact with the Eighth Route Army, but were once again blocked by the Eighth Route Army and were trapped under a cliff. Their location was only more than ten miles away from the Eighth Route Army's division.
The major felt that anger could not solve the problem: "Map."
With a clatter, the map was spread out on the table by the assistant again. The major rubbed his hot palms, looked at the watch on his hand, stared at the map with a gloomy face and muttered: "It's five o'clock in the morning, there is still an hour before dawn, let's go now On the main road, there are people from the 20th Division in front of us who are blocked. Those stupid pigs can't get through. We go there, but it seems to be of no use other than adding to the blockage.
Then, you can only take the small road. After walking for about four hours, you will reach the same cliff section. There is also the Eighth Route Army in front of you. How to chase it then is also a problem. Moreover, the strength of the Eighth Route Army in front is ominous. If it is a small Eighth Route Army, you should If they still have a chance, they don't have the ability to intercept them, but there are too many places where the Eighth Route Army can choose to ambush. If they also occupy the terrain advantage, the encirclement mission this time will not be completed! "
The assistant listened to the major's muttering, thought about it, and felt that it seemed impolite to let the major speak alone. He quickly comforted the major with bird songs and said: "At least we know that if the second division enters the west, half of them will not be able to get through. Well, we are only one team, so even if we can't get through, it doesn't seem to be a shame."
"Stupid pig, you are bringing shame on the empire by saying this. We have no time now! We have wasted a whole night here. Order the headquarters team to set off immediately. We must hurry up and get here before ten o'clock in the morning." The major pointed. The cliff is marked on the map.
The lieutenants surrounding the major stood at attention one by one and took orders. The Japanese signal corps again sent a report to the headquarters. After asking for instructions, they confirmed the marching route. The lieutenants began to leave the command post in a hurry and rushed to their respective teams.
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Commander Lu led his troops north, taking the eastern path to the division headquarters. Although he did not have many troops, it would not be a problem to occupy the position at Xuanchu first and block these Japs.
Suddenly, it occurred to me that Brother Xu and Section Chief Xu had died there. It was just a path carved out of the cliff in the middle of the mountain. Generally, no one would want to walk on it. It was too dangerous.
There was a lot of noise in the attack on the Japs last night. According to a soldier who escaped, the squad leader touched the Japs headquarters before ending the battle. The specific results of the battle are unclear. Anyway, the Japs didn't sleep all night, which delayed the Japs' mission. It has been completed, but Commander Lu is not satisfied with this.
"Report, the Japanese have already moved out and are taking the east path." A sentry came to report.
"Okay, just wait for this group of devils, and immediately find a way to notify the supplementary regiment, asking them to immediately stop coming for reinforcements, and find a place to set up an ambush southward. We must stop the reinforcements behind this group of devils." Lu The regiment leader gave Xiao Bing firm orders.
Two female soldiers, undressed, were lying in the grass next to the temporary regiment headquarters, soundly asleep. Last time, they fought with the regiment commander to block the attack, and found that the regiment commander didn't seem to be too scary. They brought back the news of the ninth company. There are "two" companies with a lot of troops.
"Old Qin, if Jiulian Company can get here first, you should also know this place. If the Japanese want to pass by that cliff, hehe, it is absolutely impossible for the cliff with only one road. Although there are not many people in Jiulian Company now, , but another company of 'friendly troops' has arrived. There is no problem with the strength of the troops, and the Ninth Company has no shortage of ammunition. I just don't know if there are Japanese soldiers entering the mountains in the west. That is the defense area of the Model Regiment."
There is no radio station here, so if you want to know some information, you have to do errands.
Lao Qin and Lao Meng smoked cigarettes and choked to tears. Neither of them said a word in response to the group leader's questions.
Commander Lu continued: "If the Japs want to attack the division headquarters, both roads can be blocked now. The only loophole is that if the Japs attack from Licheng in the west, then it only depends on whether the Model Regiment can block it. There are also natural dangers, and it should be impossible to get through. The only variable now is the Japanese advance team."
"Captain, according to what you said, if the Japanese occupy the division headquarters first and block our way to the north, squeezing both sides, we will have no choice but to jump off the cliff!" Lao Meng understood the current situation. Due to the situation, I finally started to say something, if I keep being depressed all the time, it doesn't seem to be the same thing.
Lao Qin added: "Wouldn't it be safer if we unite with the supplementary regiment and directly defend the division headquarters?"
"No, we have few people. We can only fight guerrillas with the Japanese. We can lead the Japanese to run in the mountains. We need to find a good place to block the Japanese in the mountains so that they can't advance or retreat. There is no food in the mountains. We only need to replenish the regiment and cut off the Japanese's retreat. Hey, hey, I can’t starve them to death!” Commander Lu had his own wishful thinking.
"But how can we stop the Japanese?" Lao Meng had never been to the mountains, let alone the division headquarters, and did not know the terrain very well.
"No problem, haha. That place is dangerous. You will know it when you go there. The road is in the middle of the cliff. One man is the real barrier and no one can open it. If it doesn't work, we will blow up the mountain road. The devils want to use this road. Attack on the road, thinking about the past, there is no way, let alone our regiment, even if there is only one squad, as long as there is enough ammunition, we can defend it. Hehe, he really thought that this place in Taihang Mountain is in the flat land at the foot of the mountain, and his devils can come if they want. Come, you can leave if you want?" Commander Lu felt more and more that the mountains were really good.
"Start now, head north immediately, and establish a position first. We will make the little Japs stare this time." Commander Lu felt that there was no problem in stopping the Japs, and only his own regiments with little property stayed in the mountains. The others Several brigades and three or five regiments had already gone to the plains and were fighting fiercely with the Japanese.
As a group leader who has never had a full staff, he spends all day in the mountains. Basically no one is optimistic about the independent group. To put it bluntly, he doesn’t even have a number. If he can seal both roads in the south this time, then if It must be a natural thing to be able to get a designation and go out of the mountains and enter the plains to fight guerrillas with the Japanese.
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