In the blink of an eye it was dawn.
Cloudless and nice weather again.
Zhaozhuang.
All the wounded were carried to the homes of the fortress households to recuperate, and the soldiers who moved the villagers also returned one after another.
Not long after Hu Yigang got up, he sat at a broken table in front of the window. He was peeling peanuts in a broken tea jar like a political commissar. He looked at the morning light outside the window in a daze. There was a map on the table.
He was thinking about the latest information sent to the task force from the division.
This trip was not a military reinforcement after a battle broke out in the military region. The puppet army was sweeping the divisional base areas on a large scale. The independent regiment's small number of people was undoubtedly a mantis in the way of counter-sweeping. Naturally, the divisional leaders also saw this.
Therefore, the task force is only required to bring the soldiers of the independent regiment to clear out the Huidaomen armed forces who have surrendered to the Japanese. This also poses a threat to the puppet army Li Ying in the north, making the swept puppet troops afraid to go south with confidence, and looking for opportunities to destroy the puppet army's supply lines. Of course, the battlefield The wounded soldiers who were carried down were also within the strike range.
Last night, there was a sneak attack on Wang Sanzhu and a group of bandits who had defected to the Japanese. More than 20 soldiers were killed and more than 30 were injured. The casualties were really high for the 1st and 2nd companies!
This aroused Hu Yi's vigilance. The combat effectiveness of the first and second companies was not as strong as he imagined!
He had an absolute advantage and launched a sneak attack, but still suffered such heavy casualties. It was not that he underestimated the combat effectiveness of the bandits. The problem lay with the independent regiment itself, which overestimated the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the first and second companies.
During the period of study, the people I dealt with were almost all the grassroots commanders of the Eighth Route Army. Their communication and combat capabilities were naturally not comparable to those of the first company recruits or those soldiers who were born bandits in the second company. The house leaked and it rained continuously, and the spies called the enemy at critical moments. Gun warning.
No one can blame this incident, but the spy who surrendered to the Japanese actually warned the bandits and was not afraid of death, which was a bit unexpected!
Up to now, the traffic officer sent by Captain Yang to contact the Ninth Company has not returned yet. According to time, there should be news tonight.
The sound of Luo Fugui snoring could be heard from time to time in the main room.
The door curtain of the west room was raised, and footsteps sounded. Hu Yi turned his head and looked out along the door. A girl in gray clothes and cloth shoes, with her hair scattered like a chicken nest, stretched out her hands and raised her little neck, yawning, swayed out.
Hu Yi saw this and smiled heartily, and put down the broken teapot in his hand: "Girl, hurry up to the east courtyard, Tiedan will warm your breakfast..."
The little girl rolled her eyes at Hu Yi, pulled off the lunch box on the wall, walked to the door of the main room, and shouted to the big dog who had just collected a company of soldiers and weapons there: "Go find Tiedan!"
"Okay!" Wen Wuquan was overjoyed, took the lunch box and ran away.
The petite body pushed open the door and took a deep breath. The sun warmed her body and dazzled her eyes. She squinted her big eyes and looked around the yard. Then she walked to Hu Yi's window and took out something from his pocket. The comb is used to deal with the hair that is scattered on the top of the head.
After a few clicks, he tightened his headband and raised a pigtail from the back of his head. He clenched his fists again and looked at Hu Yi: "Hey, are you tired from looking at this crappy map every day?"
Hu Yi looked away from the braid on the girl's head and said seriously: "The bandits are powerful. It will be very difficult to lead them to the south!"
"It's all that idiot Gao Yidao!" The girl waved her little hand bitterly.
"The key is that the puppet troops are sweeping up, and our friendly guerrillas have fled to the divisional base area. If the bandits are lured to our base area, the bandits may not dare to go!"
"Hey, let's say to the outside world that we are part of the Eighth Route Army. This is not because we have captured guns and ammunition from bandits... Let's pick out the guns that are useful and send the rest to the guerrilla headquarters named Du. Although the bandits are not very good at fighting, they all like to put sand into their opponents' nests. Sooner or later, the bastard named Wang will get the news! The person named Du has run away. Isn't it easy for the bandits to go over and cause trouble? "
"You mean to frame our friendly forces?"
The girl gave Hu Yi a look of disdain: "...you...when did I do something wrong? Hey, let's just say we are Eighth Route Army to the outside world! As for whether the bandits believe it or not, who knows?"
Hu Yi shook his head: "It's a pity that the bandits don't have the courage..."
"Whether he has the courage or not is none of our business. As long as his surname Wang dares to come out, we can take the captured bandits and rob our friendly forces of food and grass first!"
Hu Yi was stunned: "You can also attack friendly troops. Isn't this too shameless?"
"Don't forget... cluck... our friendly forces attacked our base area the year before last, and the puppet troops fled to the subdivision base area as soon as they were swept away. How can it be so cheap? This time we can give them some color!"
Hu Yi had a dark line on his face: "After talking for a long time, what do you mean...we are now pretending to be Wang Sanzhu's bandits to rob the national army guerrillas' food and grass? We are the Eighth Route Army, we cannot do this!"
"Didn't Wang Sanzhu's people do it? What's the matter with the Eighth Route Army?"
Hu Yi was stunned. He had obstacles in his heart when his own people beat him. After all, he had come out of the National Army before, but if he robbed them of some food, he could consider it. Who told them that the New Fifth Army had more food than three meals a day? They are all doing it. You have to take care of the little brother who can still see someone after eating gruel for a day or two, right?
He opened his little chest, stretched out again in the sunshine, then returned to the main room through the door, and kicked Luo Fugui who was sleeping on the ground in the main room.
"Your grandma..." Luo Fugui cursed for a while, half-opened his eyes to see the girl standing in the middle of the room, and muttered: "You unlucky girl, you don't even look at what time it is now... I Get some more sleep."
The girl raised her leg and kicked Luo Fugui, who was snoring on the ground. This time, the bear only moved his eyebrows and did not wake up at all.
Seeing that the mule was pretending to be asleep and not making any movement, the girl felt bored and turned around to go to Hu Yi's east room.
He put his little hands behind his back and raised his face, then sat down on the broken table and asked, "When will Ma Liang arrive?"
Hu Yi looked away from the map: "I guess tonight!"
...
Neihuang County Government.
The bandit commander Wang Taigong's lair.
Wang Sanzhu, who had just returned to the city and ran into the courtyard, looked disgraced. Looking at his father and his adjutant who were basking in the sun, he immediately stepped forward to mourn: "Dad, we were attacked by the Eighth Route Army last night. Of my team of more than a hundred people, only seven of them escaped." One! I want revenge..."
Commander Wang stood up and asked, "Where were you attacked?"
Wang Sanzhu said hoarsely, "Zhao Zhuang."
Commander Wang slapped the short man next to him: "How dare you disturb Tai Sui's head? This Tubalu is really courageous!"
Wang Sanzhu picked up the teapot in the yard and took a sip: "Dad, I must avenge this. You gather a group for me first, and I will lead people to recover the place later!"
Wang Taigong nodded: "Those Tubalu who don't have a long memory are being swept away by the Imperial Alliance Army, but he still dares to attack our Wang family! This anger is really unbearable."
Wang Sanzhu hesitated for a moment: "Dad, I suspect that this time it may be the National Army guerrillas and the Eighth Route Army working together to plot against us!"
"What's the meaning?"
Wang Sanzhu hesitated for a moment: "Zhaozhuang was originally the territory of the national army guerrillas surnamed Du. After the Imperial Army's raid, we originally agreed that this territory would belong to us. The team that attacked us last night was very powerful, and the Eighth Route Army was not so. A powerful team, so it doesn’t look like the Eighth Route Army! I suspect it was probably the National Army guerrillas who did it.”
The old bandit commander Wang thought for a while: "Don't underestimate the Eighth Route Army. Don't forget that they ambush Li Ying's department last year!"
"There is news from the internal line we installed in the Eighth Route Division that three days ago, all the Eighth Routes ran away, so I am a little undecided about this matter!"
"I'm wondering...you mean...the Imperial Alliance Army swept away, the National Army guerrillas ran away, we went to take over dozens of villages, and last night we encountered the Eight Route Yin and we took over the troops?" "
"We took advantage of the imperial army's raid this time. Logically speaking, the man named Du would not be willing to accept it! So I think it was probably him pretending to be the Eighth Route Army to sneak attack on us."
The old bandit nodded: "You have confused me. Zhaozhuang is the territory of the national army guerrillas. Things are indeed a bit strange..."
After the Eighth Route Army was raided by the Japanese last year, the base area on the plains was very small, and even the bandits looked down on it...
Even if they were beaten to death and captured more than a hundred people, the two bandits did not believe that the Eighth Route Army had that ability...
