Zhaozhuang Village on the plain is an ordinary village, no different from other villages.
In normal times, it is five or six miles east of Zhaozhuang Village, where the Wei River merges into the Grand Canal from south to north.
Due to drought and the people on the riverside cutting off water in the upper reaches of the Wei River, the originally slow-flowing river on the plain had long since stopped flowing in Zhaozhuang Village.
The low-lying rivers have not completely dried up. If wasteland is cultivated in the rivers, the land will appear to be very fertile.
But there was no water in the river, and the waterwheels could not lift the water in the river to the ditches on the plain. As a result, there was no water all over the plain, so that it was impossible to grow crops. The people who were left behind had to risk a lot of money to reclaim wasteland in the river. risk!
On the one hand, they may be killed by the Japanese raiders. On the other hand, in the summer, God will bring two rains, but all the crops planted by the people in the rivers will be washed away by the river water.
Faced with such a situation, most people on the plains had to choose to leave!
Only in the villages along the river, there are still some people who continue to wait here. They hope that God will rain in spring. Seeing that spring has arrived, the sun still rises every day, but no rain falls.
There are always people who start to cultivate land in rivers with a sense of luck. Their hope is very simple. God must not rain until the summer harvest!
The information that Captain Yang can master is not comprehensive, and even a lot of the information obtained cannot be sent to him in the first time.
On the plains, the Japs were too mobile. The original plan to clear out the Taoist reactionary forces in the north had new variables due to the negotiations between the two parties. Just now, the four of them were still discussing how to fight this battle. It must be fought!
The reason is very simple. Those demons and ghosts who know Taoism must realize that the Eighth Route Army is not so easy to mess with! Otherwise, as soon as the Eighth Route Army leaves, those young people will jump out and attack the anti-Japanese forces under the inducement of the Japanese.
Unexpectedly, the originally planned replenishment of troops did not arrive, but the superiors arranged for a national army guerrilla team to arrive!
The enemy also reinforced with a company-sized army of Japanese soldiers and an unknown number of security forces, which should be around one or two hundred people.
But now the superiors have arranged for a national army guerrillas to arrive, and the strength of both sides has become subtle again.
All the wounded have been sent away. There are currently more than 300 troops, and the weapons and equipment are not bad. There is nothing to worry about this time. The people have been moved away long ago. Anyway, the houses in the nearby villages have been burned several times by the Japanese. Even if the Japanese attack again, Burning is just that.
The Japanese have armored vehicles, which are almost invincible on the plains, but they are nothing if they leave the road!
It can only be used as a firepower point from a distance.
Long Fanzhang sat opposite Hu Yi and Captain Yang: "...If we can destroy that armored vehicle, there are more than a hundred Japanese soldiers, and my brother has not taken it seriously! Come here this time, my unit brought two mortars Artillery, I heard that your army invented the mortar level shooting tactic, can you tell me about it?"
Gao Yidao was stunned for a moment. The mortars were useless without shells. When he heard that the friendly commander had brought two cannons, he immediately turned to look at Hu Yi, meaning to find a way to get him to support him with more shells.
As for asking him to ask for artillery shells from friendly forces, it is absolutely impossible! What is the national army? That's a mortal enemy!
Hu Yi had heard of it when he was studying in the division. A simple direct mortar firing method involves digging a pile of soil to fix the seat, laying the mortar flat, placing the grenade at the muzzle, and using a sorghum pole to push the grenade into the barrel of the gun. Push it forward, allowing the firing pin at the bottom of the mortar to hit the primer, thereby detonating the gunpowder in the tail and the additional powder package wrapped around the shrunken tail and warhead to control the range.
To put it bluntly, it is just a push with a high beam pole instead of relying on its own gravity. However, Hu Yi never saw the instructor demonstrate it when he was studying. It was said to be very unsafe.
But to truly convert it into a direct-fire gun, the mortar must be modified, and the fixed firing pin at the bottom of the barrel must be changed into a movable firing pin. The method is not difficult, and it is not a military secret. Besides, the national army is rich and powerful. When it comes to attacking fortifications, just push the mountain cannon into battle. How can it be like the Eighth Route Army without heavy firepower!
After Hu Yi briefly explained the principle, Long Fanzhang next to him was stunned for a moment: "According to you, modification is definitely not realistic now, but will the cannonball get stuck when poking it with a sorghum pole? It will explode the barrel. ..”
Hu Yi was speechless. Only Li Xiang fired a few shots at random in the entire independent regiment: "I haven't tried it either. I just heard that some brothers used this method to hit the Japanese artillery tower. It shouldn't be stuck, right?"
Long Fanzhang nodded: "When the time comes, you can give it a try. At worst, it will only blow up a cannon, but artillery is expensive..."
Gao Yidao was stunned for a moment: "Why don't you be responsible for the shooting parameters? Battalion Commander Hu also has artillery, and let him arrange the people?"
Long Fanzhang was a little surprised. In his impression, many regiments of the Eighth Route Army did not have mortars, but the battalion commander in front of him...
However, he felt happy in his heart: "Do you have mortars?"
"There are two...but all the shells were fired last night!" Gao Yidao immediately became interested. Although the cannons were fired by bandits yesterday, the shells were indeed fired yesterday.
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The sun is slightly westward, at one o'clock.
After setting off a fire in the fort tower and having lunch.
The Japanese Lieutenant's battle arrangements have been announced.
Under his personal command, the troops were divided into three groups and pressed directly on the southward army at the three demolished gun towers.
The attacking team was actually divided into five levels!
When the bandits burst forward, one squad in each group served as the leading scout, followed closely by most of the security force bandits.
Then behind them came the reorganized Royal Association military camp.
The Japanese commanded behind the Imperial Alliance Army, and the convoy could maneuver to the two wings at any time in the middle to provide firepower to the security forces and Imperial Alliance Army attacking in front!
At the end are the civilian men from the baggage train brought by the bandits.
Perhaps because both the bandit soldiers and the Imperial Alliance Army were ambushed at night, they adopted a steady and parallel advance this time.
What surprised the lieutenant was that the bandits didn't even raise any objections to the arrangement for them to fight in advance...
Maybe Commander Wang really wanted to take revenge. No, it should be that with the imperial army at their disposal, they became bolder.
In Chinese terms, this should be called a dog fighting against the power of others... There is also a word called a fox marrying a tiger. What's that? Can't remember...
Half an hour later, the leading bandit squad arrived at the turret.
The south side of the blockade ditch is endless. Without the suspension bridge, it is difficult for the attacking bandits to stop them. They directly fill the blockade ditch with bricks from the demolished gun towers. The armored square vehicles of the imperial army will have to pass through here later.
A bandit soldier stared with tired red eyes, thinking about whether he could get close to the armored vehicle and throw a grenade into the armored vehicle's observation hole.
However, the Japanese were very defensive. As the Imperial Alliance Army, they had no chance of getting close to the armored vehicles.
We can only think of a solution after the battle starts.
The Japanese Lieutenant commanded one or two thousand soldiers. Although most of them were a ragtag group of men, he also experienced the joy of being a captain.
He did not expect that these vulnerable bandits and the Imperial Alliance Army could really wipe out all the rebels!
It is said that Ba Lu can run very fast on his legs. If you can't defeat him, he will definitely run away.
What he cares about now is how to make this ragtag group of people help the empire manage the occupied areas. Strict orders have been issued from above to restore local security as soon as possible.
In his eyes, even if he killed a few Eighth Route Army and National Army guerrillas, it would be of no use. In this poor plain, everything that should be robbed had already been robbed.
It is said that in some places in the south where people are starving to death, the imperial army has begun to distribute grains and porridge to the poor so that they can farm well and collect grain during the summer harvest. Whether those people die or not has nothing to do with him... In his eyes, can those who can't even put on clothes be considered human beings?
The desolate scenery on the plain meant that the Japanese Lieutenant didn't have much nervousness before the war. He only wanted to come out to stretch his body in spring.
"Reporting to Taijun, it was in that village where we first fought against the Eighth Route Army guerrillas yesterday..." Wang Sanzhu, riding on his horse, reported seriously to the Japanese lieutenant sitting in the sidecar of his motorcycle.
(About Long Fanzhang, I can’t write it for some reasons, please see the comment area)
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To explain, Long Fanzhang is based on Fan Longzhang, the guerrilla commander under Du Shu of the 27th Army of the National Army. His identity is very complicated and his real name cannot be used in the book. He joined the party through Zhou, Zhu, and Liu (who were more senior than division commanders). The senior person) personally signs and agrees.
In addition, Hu Yi had to go through a very complicated review before being promoted to battalion commander without joining the party.
Earlier, I wrote about Team Leader Zheng’s review of Hu Yi...it was like filling in a hole.
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