Duanwu's enigmatic smile made Ma Ping'an have to recall what Duanwu had done.
Just when he got into the car to send the report, it seemed that more than a dozen people were sent out during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Ma Ping'an didn't know what these dozen people were going to do. Moreover, on the march, there were several places that were favorable terrain for an ambush, but Duanwu did not even stop. On the contrary, in this place that was not suitable for an ambush, Duanwu led his men to ambush.
This distance is at least fifty meters away from the mountain road. There is an open land in front of it and a forest behind the mountain.
The forest is not very dense. Although it can provide some cover when retreating, it does not seem to be very effective.
Ma Pingan really didn't know why Dragon Boat Festival chose such a place. Because as an ambush location, it is indeed useless. It was neither the best nor the worst ambush location, and for this ambush, Dragon Boat Festival divided a company into three parts, otherwise they would not be able to hide on such a small hilltop.
However, how many people are there in a company during the Dragon Boat Festival?
There are more than three hundred people, which is more than enough for a general army rather than a battalion, but here at Dragon Boat Festival, this is just a company establishment.
Therefore, the theoretical strength of a regiment in the Dragon Boat Festival has reached at least a brigade.
In other words, if the little devil fights against the Dragon Boat Festival according to the organization of a regiment, he will definitely die miserably.
Of course, hiding one's troops in this way is not Duan Wu's specialty, and the little devils often use this method to confuse their enemies.
Based on their brigade structure, there are about a thousand people in Changli. But in fact, a Japanese brigade has multiple organizations, including squadrons.
A brigade has two squadrons, three squadrons, or even five squadrons. And the number of squadrons is also different.
A squadron of little devils had at least about forty people, but at most it had nearly a hundred people.
So even if you eavesdrop on a certain Japanese brigade invading our defense area, and you send two regiments to fight, only to find out on the battlefield that the enemy's brigade has as many people as a regiment, how are you going to fight this battle?
Therefore, you cannot fight a war according to common sense. If the enemy says that I will send out a large group, if you believe it, even if it is a thousand or nine hundred people, then you will die without knowing how you died.
Fighting is not just a game, it is really killing people. One wrong move and the whole game is lost.
As for Duanwu, his independent regiment was also very deceptive. Duanwu said that Lao Snoring would leave a company behind, but in fact, this company was almost as big as a battalion, with more than 300 people.
Although it is not as exaggerated as Li Yunlong's regiment of more than 10,000 people, it is probably a fool's errand for the little devil to see the true strength of the Dragon Boat Festival from its organization.
But at this time, although Ma Ping'an clearly knew the actual strength of Duanwu, he still couldn't understand why Duanwu would choose to ambush in such a useless place. Once the enemy counterattacked, it can be said that the consequences would be disastrous.
He kept staring at the Dragon Boat Festival and wanted to know a result, because it was very important to the Eighth Route Army. If he could learn and imitate the Dragon Boat Festival tactics, he felt that this would greatly reduce the Eighth Route Army's casualties and its ability to annihilate the Japanese.
Duanwu stuck his head out and took a look. It would take a while for the Japs to come, and then he said to Ma Pingan: "Actually, my choice here is very simple. First, the Japs were ambushed by the lookout post I sent. During the report At that time, those monkey boys were all snickering, so I knew without even thinking that these boys might have taken advantage.
Moreover, all the grenades they took away were missing, so I guessed that these guys must have used grenades to blow up the little devil's reconnaissance team. Then they ran back with ease.
Second, the Japanese will become suspicious after being attacked, and they will fight against every enemy. At this time, I asked a dozen soldiers to go to a nearby location suitable for an ambush, and they all made a lot of marching marks, which made the Japanese more suspicious.
And in this way, the enemy's marching speed will be slowed down. And what do we need? All we need is time. If the Japanese move slower, Zhou Weiguo and others can reach the predetermined location as soon as possible.
Of course, those traces will do more than just that. I have to get the Japanese to let down their guard, and if he doesn't let down his guard, our ambush will not succeed, and even if it succeeds, the damage to the Japanese will be very small.
Therefore, when the Japanese encounter those traces, they will definitely investigate, then search the entire mountain or forest, and move forward anxiously after finding nothing.
Because they also lack time, during the cycle of stopping several times for reconnaissance and starting again, the Japanese will gradually think that their enemy has escaped, so they set up a maze to slow down his march.
So at this point, do you see it? This is how we walked along the mountain path. The little devils saw the trampled dead grass and the messy footprints on the mountain path. But they won't send anyone over to check.
Because so many locations suitable for ambush were empty before, let alone such a small dirt dump now?
What's more, there can't be many people hiding behind this bumpkin, and the Japanese have at least two brigades.
And why do I think that? Because the Japs in Lai'an County were originally an infantry regiment, plus an artillery brigade.
One of his infantry brigade and artillery brigade were defeated by us, so the troops that can pursue us fastest at this time must be the Japanese from Lai'an County.
So there are so many of them, and they will definitely not take the more than 100 of us seriously. They even thought that if we ambush them in this position, we would be seeking death.
Of course, this does not mean that the little devils are stupid, it is just because they are used to using oval grenades and they do not know the advantages of wooden handle grenades.
Oval grenades are undeniably more powerful than wooden handle grenades and are lighter.
However, the oval grenade has a fatal weakness, and that is the distance at which it is thrown.
Its throwing distance is fifty meters. Therefore, the Japanese are determined that even if we actually ambush someone here, the grenade will not be thrown there. As for gun battles, the little devils believe that their shooting skills are unrivaled in the world.
But the little devil doesn't know that although the wooden handle grenade we use is heavier than the oval grenade, it can be thrown farther, up to about 80 meters.
Although, at this distance, the accuracy is a bit off, but fortunately there are more of us. Two hundred grenades, if I kill a hundred of them, that's a profit. "
Ma Pingan smacked his lips when he heard this, but after thinking about it, he said: "Brother Duanwu, compared with our Eighth Route Army, you are really a rich man!"
(End of chapter)
