Chen Chong did not intend to directly fight with Li Youde's troops. The real plan was to besiege the puppet troops in the village under the nose of the puppet troops.
In the plan, Li Youde's troops should charge hard outside, and the Eighth Route Army should give the puppet troops a long memory while being attacked from both sides.
The Japanese War Officer is not a fool!
First, we have to act with Li Youde's troops in the west, and second, we have to really deal with the company of puppet soldiers in the village!
If the puppet troops cannot be beaten hard, the base area will fall into endless raids by the security forces.
The combat plan was completely arranged by the division headquarters long ago, but the details were decided by the grassroots commanders on the spot. However, the division commander's combat plan was to give full play to guerrilla tactics, surround the puppet troops, and at the same time dare to attract the puppet troops to surround themselves. However, it was Jiulian, who dares to commit suicide, came up with his own idea!
Even Qin You, the instructor of the Ninth Company, agreed to Chen Chong's plan.
Being surrounded is actually not scary, and it is actively attracting the enemy. We have already planned to concentrate our forces to break out. However, if we cannot break away from the enemy before dawn, we will really be surrounded by the enemy. The result will definitely be playing with fire and burning ourselves!
The Ninth Company was so confident, firstly, it brought enough mines, and secondly, it was familiar with the terrain. The puppet army did invest a lot of troops in mopping up, but the area to be mopped up was so large, and there was no absolute strength advantage in the local area. On the way to escape, just use Hang up the mines you laid earlier and finish.
Let the pursuing puppet troops be frightened!
This was the first time Chen Chong organized a battle alone. In the absence of the company commander, instructor Qin took the initiative and transferred almost half of the main force of the ninth company to him as the platoon leader.
Almost half a year ago in the Nine Company, Qin You followed Hu Yi's habit of digging trenches and tunnels, digging trenches and tunnels inside and outside the village to set up positions everywhere in this vast land. If it weren't for the shortage of manpower, it is estimated that all villages would have dug tunnels!
There happened to be a tunnel in the village where the puppet army was stationed!
This is also the reason why Qin You chose to fight against the puppet troops in this village.
Qin You's command level is really not that good. The key is that he trusts Chen Chong!
I have been studying at Kang University for two months. How can I not be bloated? How can I not apply what I have learned!
Chen Chong was carefully thinking about every detail, only to realize that when things came to a close, the plan seemed to be full of loopholes.
The enemy's strength was far greater than what was known from the reconnaissance, and they were surrounded on all sides. Although this situation was expected, the puppet troops did not move in groups, but spread out in parallel to advance the encirclement!
The situation in the village has not yet been clarified. I just know that there is a platoon ambushing in the village. The fighting outside was so fierce that the Japanese did not lead the puppet troops out of the village. The mines buried about 200 meters from the entrance of the village were all in vain. !
At this time, he finally understood that it was much easier to be a squad leader or platoon leader than a company commander!
As a commander, even though he is extremely nervous in his heart, he is still calm and calm on the surface.
He frowned and continued to walk around the village to observe carefully. As for the siege outside the village, the puppet army was not afraid of it at all. This time they brought in troops: nearly two hundred people! Two whole "big rows"!
If a "platoon" is ambushing the puppet troops outside, its own "platoon" must prepare for an attack.
This was the first time that he really observed and judged carefully, and finally remembered the words of the company commander: If there is a stalemate with the enemy, then he must find a way to move and look for opportunities in the movement, so he decided to attack the village: " Order, blow the whistle to contact the people in the village, after the battle outside begins, feint attack from the east, and five minutes later, attack from the north, and capture the village in one fell swoop!"
After saying that, Chen Chong turned and walked towards the north, where the main force of his platoon was gathered.
The puppet troops on the periphery are also preparing for an attack.
After the puppet army was blown up by a landmine, the puppet company commander's mentality changed a lot. He never expected that his despicable opponent would play with high-tech gadgets.
No one who was lying on the ground dared to bend forward and bravely rush forward.
Thinking of the tactics taught by the instructor, the pseudo company commander had to admire the imperial army instructor's skill. It turned out that he really had so much knowledge in fighting, and he finally understood what it meant to advance rashly.
Lieutenant Terao, the Japanese instructor who oversaw the battle, had now put away his previous arrogance.
Unexpectedly, these Tubal Road troops actually knew how to use landmines to delay the attack of the Imperial Alliance Army. If they had not figured out the size of the Tubal Road troops that came to harass them, they would have ordered a rapid advance.
After the landmines exploded continuously, Second Lieutenant Terao finally understood that Tubalu was no longer the simple opponent who ran away when he saw the Imperial Army and the Imperial Association Army in the past.
If there are still landmines ahead, the advancement of the Imperial Alliance Army will become extremely difficult.
However, this also aroused the ambition of Second Lieutenant Terao, who dared to stroke the beards of the secondary elites trained by the imperial elites! You have to give Tubal Road some color.
The wave of explosions just now laid at least dozens of landmines, which also showed that the number of Tubazhong in the encirclement was absolutely indispensable!
Several explosion points just now were far away from the position of the Imperial Alliance Army. Second Lieutenant Terao judged that the 8th Route was definitely not a mixed mine.
How many mines would be needed to lay mines in a vast plain?
Tubal Road was so poor that they definitely didn't produce many mines, so they must have used pull-out mines.
This is easy to deal with. As long as you advance fast enough, I won't even have time to react when I ask you to pull the rope!
Thinking of this, Second Lieutenant Terao breathed a long sigh of relief.
After a period of rest and treatment, Second Lieutenant Terao found Li Youde and directly started to intervene in the attack: "Captain Li, please immediately organize a company to test and attack quickly. As long as the speed is fast enough, the mines on the eighth route will not pose a threat at all.
Li Youde happily accepted the order: "Brothers, you have to be fast when you rush. The accommodation expenses have been prepared. If you are not afraid of death, you will be rewarded with two yuan if you kill an eight-year-old!"
Li Youde had to express his position in front of the imperial army, but he knew that this attack was definitely not that simple. He had fought against the Ninth Company so many times, and their machine guns had not fired yet!
Not even a single person from the Ninth Company was seen. I really wonder if Second Lieutenant Terao has a brain problem. Has he ever fought in a war?
The best way now is to surround without fighting and wait for dawn!
As long as it lasts until daylight, when the hilly areas on the edge of the plain are endless, and as long as it can occupy one or two small hills, Tubalu's best ambush warfare will not be effective at all!
In fact, Second Lieutenant Terao was helpless. It was obvious that the Eighth Route Army was carrying out harassment. If these rats could not be caught tonight, they might slip into another rat hole and disappear when dawn came.
No one dared to question the orders of the imperial army.
So, Li Youde quickly separated out a company of nearly a hundred men, holding torches and guns on their waists, and searched forward along the wilderness.
Mines can't be everywhere in the wilderness. The instructor said that as long as you run fast, the mines are just a decoration.
The confidence of the squatting puppet soldiers greatly increased, and the speed of advancement began to accelerate.
The puppet troops didn't care at all whether they had to coordinate with the friendly forces surrounded on all sides.
If you find the eighth route, then fight it. As for who cares now, it's a question of whether to advance rashly!
Passing a hurdle and crossing a slope in the wilderness.
Seeing that the encirclement was getting smaller and smaller, the landmines on Tubal Road did not appear. It seemed that they only brought a few mines and they must have been used up. The tactics of the imperial army instructors were indeed impeccable.
I can already see the village that is used as a bait in the distance. Hey, there is a company stationed there!
I'll let you come here to harass me. Let's see where you go this time. Even if you get into a mouse hole, I will dig three feet into the ground to dig you out!
You thought you were harassing this village, but you also wanted to take advantage of the darkness to tear open the large encirclement of Nuo outside.
We went up another small slope, but still found no trace of the Eighth Route Army.
Follow behind to encircle the skirmisher line. As the encirclement continues to shrink, the formations of the Imperial Association have begun to become denser. Now, no matter which direction the Imperial Association's troops are pressing forward, Tubal Road has been surrounded!
To borrow an old saying, catch the bastard in the urn!
After descending the hillside and continuing to push forward, we saw that we were less than a mile away from the village!
Chen Chong, who was still patrolling around, looked at the approaching puppet troops and let out a sigh of relief: "The warehouse is full. When the mines sound, hit them immediately! Press them down the hillside."
Mancang turned his head and said, "Platoon leader Chen, we are just defending. They are puppet troops, not Japs. They don't have heavy firepower. Why don't we move closer? By then, even the grenades we throw out will be able to reach them."
"You make the decision yourself, just don't get yourself involved!" After Chen Chong finished speaking, he turned and left.
For some unknown reason, the fighting situation of the Ninth Company was somewhat different from that of many main forces.
The chief officer was neither in the direction of the main attack nor in the position where the battle was about to start. Instead, he was checking the layout everywhere on the battlefield.
This is all because Hu Yi's subordinates have learned his habits.
Hu Yi arranges battles, and most of the time he just leaves it alone, which seems a bit irresponsible on the surface.
This is based on Hu Yi's extremely accurate judgment of the battle process, which is completely based on experience. Even the instructors of the Anti-Japanese University who have experienced hundreds of battles cannot teach him from books.
Fortunately, Chen Chong had followed Hu Yi for several years and had long forgotten the tactic of charging after three shots taught by Wang Peng.
Even Chen Chong never had the idea of rushing in front of the soldiers!
Second Lieutenant Terao was standing behind the puppet army, looking at the advancing battle line and analyzing with a frown.
In this battle, if the Eighth Middle School was harassing the Imperial Army in the village, then he should not provoke the nearby puppet troops!
According to the habits of the Eighth Route Army, there must be observation posts set up, but so far, apart from the first few shots fired, no more shots have been fired by the Eighth Route Army!
So far, it doesn't look like an attack, nor does it look like encircling a point for reinforcements. Besides, the small force of Leitubal Road can't encircle it.
It's like he is seeking death sandwiched between two Imperial Alliance armies! !
Now that the army is approaching, according to Tubalu's guerrilla tactics, they should run away, but in the dark night, not a single person is seen. What exactly is Tubalu doing?
Do you still dare to play positional warfare with the Imperial Association Army?
This seems unlikely!
In the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are useless.
