Just as the secret service battalion was making preparations for war in full swing, intending to devour the brigade that had just left Heyuan County, the commander of the brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Yoshihiro Yokoyama, was looking at the Locust Alliance Army No. 3 in front of him with an unhappy look on his face. Tian Wenshan, the leader of the fifth regiment of the Three Groups, wanted to kill people with his sword.
"idiot!
Tian Sang, this is the third time your team has requested a break today. If you don't give me a reasonable explanation, I have reason to suspect that you are from the Eighth Route Army and are deliberately delaying our time! "
Tian Wenshan broke out in cold sweat on his forehead, complaining in his heart, and quickly defended:
"Taijun Hengshan, how can you be a member of the Eighth Route Army in a humble position?
It's really a lowly job for these subordinates to push these heavy supplies. It takes a lot of physical strength and they can't move! "
Although he complained so much, Tian Wenshan certainly had his own little Jiujiu.
In the past two months, the Locust Alliance Army in Shanxi has been commanded by the First Army Headquarters. They have gone into the mountains to collect food and hunt down the Eighth Route Army. They are not allowed to bring more heavy weapons and ammunition. One company after another is often eaten by the Eighth Route Army. Lose.
Naturally, Tian Wenshan had to be extremely careful to prevent his regiment from being as unlucky as those of his colleagues.
So when his 5th Regiment was sent from Jinyang to Heyuan County, he made up his mind to seek no faults but no merit. Once the superiors asked him to go out to find trouble with the Eighth Route Army, he could drag them away. , if you can’t drag it, try to drag it anyway.
Anyway, there is only one principle, it is best not to let him meet the Eighth Route Army.
After all, when he became the Locust Alliance Army, he just wanted to make money, not to lose his life!
That's why now, he does this trick.
Yokoyama Zenhiro didn't know Tian Wenshan's little thoughts, and he wasn't interested in knowing. He just said viciously:
"Baga! I think you are a coward!
Rest for ten minutes now. After ten minutes, hurry up and hurry up. If you can't reach Qixia Town before dark, I will make you regret being born! "
"Yes, yes, Taijun Yokoyama."
Seeing that the other party agreed to rest for ten minutes, Tian Wenshan was immediately very happy and pretended to be respectful.
But he was muttering in his heart: Huh, ten minutes? Just dream, you old devil.
As for old soldiers like me, once they sit down, you can't get them to stand up again within half an hour!
Sure enough, ten minutes later, Yokoyama Zenhiro ordered the march to continue.
These Locust Alliance soldiers were all lying on the ground, motionless.
He was so angry that Yokoyama Zenhiro drew his sword and wanted to kill someone.
These Locust Alliance soldiers saw that the princes were about to kill people, so they reluctantly stood up and formed an array.
But one by one, you stood up, I sat down, and it took half an hour of hard work before taking action.
Hengshan Shanhong was so angry that his throat was full of smoke, but he was helpless.
If all these wastes are killed, the task of carrying the baggage will have to fall on the Locust Army warriors, which will affect the combat effectiveness of the warriors.
And just when they had not gone far, the telegraph operator suddenly came over and reported to Yokoyama Yoshihiro:
"Your Excellency, the Brigade Captain and the Wing Commander sent a report saying that this morning's aviation confirmed that Qixia Town has been captured by the enemy, the Xiachuan Brigade has been completely wiped out, and we have lost the goal of rescue."
"Nani?
The entire Xiachuan brigade was wiped out? "
Yokoyama Yoshihiro was stunned.
The squadron leader next to him, Captain Keita Ogura, was equally surprised and asked quickly:
"Didn't the intelligence synchronized with us by your Excellency, the commander, say that the Xiachuan Brigade took an armored train to Qixia Town for rescue?
Although there was an ambush on Tubal Road, it should be extremely easy to hold on for 48 hours with the heavy artillery and heavy machine guns on the armored train, right?
Why has the entire army been wiped out in less than 30 hours?
Could it be that Tubal Road dispatched more than one division of its main force to besiege them? "
They received the rescue order at noon yesterday and immediately led their troops out of the city. Due to the slow movement of the Locust Alliance Army along the way, they only walked a few dozen miles until dark.
After camping on the road for a night, they continued marching again at dawn. However, they did not expect that after walking for a while, they encountered this new situation.
Of course, the telegraph operator could not answer Keita Ogura's question and could only pretend to be deaf and dumb.
Yokoyama Yoshihiro asked with a gloomy face:
"Does your Excellency, Wing Commander, order us to withdraw?"
"Yes."
The telegraph operator nodded.
Yokoyama Zenhiro pondered for a while and then said immediately:
"Immediately call back to the commander of the company and tell him that we are about to arrive at Qixia Town. It is a pity to turn back immediately.
Although the Xiachuan Brigade has been completely wiped out, I hope to enter Qixia Town to investigate the situation on Tubal Road. "
The first brigade he led was under the 226th Regiment that had been ordered to rescue Heyuan County.
After they arrived at Heyuan County, they never got a fight due to the attitude of commander Okamura Shiro and Osaka Mingtetsu to protect themselves.
If there are no battles, there will be no military success.
Captains such as Yokoyama Zenhiro were naturally very unwilling.
So this time they got the order to go out of the city to rescue Qixia Town. Several of their captains almost lost their minds in order to grab this task.
In the end, Yokoyama Yoshihiro of the First Battalion got the job.
As a result, now, after just one armed march and without even meeting Tubalu, the captain of the regiment actually asked him to go back. How could he be willing?
So he told a little lie and claimed that his troops were about to arrive in Qixia Town.
The telegraph operator didn't know where the team was now. After hearing Yokoyama Zenhiro's words, he quickly nodded in agreement and went to send the telegram.
Soon, he came back with a call back from the commander of the regiment, Colonel Shiro Okamura.
Yokoyama Zenhiro took the telegram and looked at it, and he was very happy:
“Yoshi!
Your Excellency, the captain, is indeed wise. "
The squadron leader next to him, Captain Keita Ogura, asked quickly:
"Your Excellency Captain, what is our next mission?"
"Keep moving forward, occupy Qixia Town, and destroy the anti-aircraft guns on Tubal Road!"
Yokoyama Zenhiro's eyes were filled with viciousness.
"Nani? There are anti-aircraft guns on Tubal Road?"
Keita Ogura's mouth opened wide.
"good.
Your Excellency the Wing Commander's telegram said that Tubal Road destroyed 12 bombers of the aviation force with heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft guns in two battles. It is simply a shame for our Locust Army! "
Yokoyama Zenhiro was also shocked when he saw this record.
12 bombers. Such a huge loss will probably shock the Northern Hebei Front Army!
It even shook the base camp.
When the time comes, I'm afraid General Shinozuka will receive a lot of blame.
Thinking of this, he suddenly had another idea -
If at this time, if my own brigade can eliminate this Eighth Route Army, wouldn't it gain the attention of General Shinozuka and be promoted soon?
In this way, maybe one day I can become a general!
Thinking of this, his blood boiled a little, and he wished he could rush to Qixia Town immediately and eliminate all the Tuba Road who dared to occupy the town.
Moreover, he felt that Tubalu must have suffered heavy casualties and become exhausted after annihilating the Xiachuan Brigade. His own brigade would definitely be able to easily annihilate them if they rushed over.
So he didn't take it to heart at all about Okamura Shiro's telegram reminding him to be careful.
He put away the telegram, waved his command knife and ordered:
"Quick, quick, the whole army marches quickly, don't let Tubalu escape!
Make great achievements today! "
…
At the secret service camp, Yang Yuanshan led the security squad to the entrance of Hedi Village. Seeing that He Yunfu and his people were already working hard, he did not interrupt and walked to the side to observe.
I saw that this is a trumpet-shaped mountain pass, with the road coming from the east narrow and the west wide.
It is very helpful for our army to block the attack.
This is also the main reason why he asked He Yunfu to come here to build a position.
Now, when Yang Yuanshan saw that He Yunfu had deliberately built the blocking position at about 800 meters, the narrowest point of the mountain road, he couldn't help but nodded secretly.
At this distance, the Japs emerge from the narrow mountain road. Before they form a formation, our army can concentrate fire on them. By then, the Japs' losses will be very heavy.
And at this time, it was difficult for the little devil to fight back. The distance of 800 meters was far beyond the effective range of the 38-meter Gai.
"Old He, the trench excavation for the first position is completed. Back off 100 meters, you can dig the trenches for the second and third positions to leave us room for maneuver. Do you understand?
Our troops are sparse and our soldiers lack combat effectiveness, so we need to make more preparations. "
Yang Yuanshan walked to He Yunfu and explained.
"Yes! I understand."
He Yunfu nodded quickly.
He understood what the other party meant. He was preparing to retreat to the second and third positions to block the attack after the first position was lost.
You can even plant explosives under the position in advance to severely deceive the little devils.
…
After viewing the position, Yang Yuanshan climbed up to the mountain cannon on one side and looked around with a telescope.
Suddenly, he saw a cave on the mountainside of a nearby mountain, and he was overjoyed.
He thought to himself: Hey, isn't this a chance to take out the eight Oerlikon 20mm machine guns?
Immediately, he walked around pretending to be careless, climbed up from this mountain to that mountain, pretended to come to the cave casually, and threw 8 machine guns and 40,000 rounds of ammunition into it.
Then he shouted:
“There seems to be something in this cave!
Xiaohe, get a torch! "
Zhang Xiaohe, the security guard who was following not far away, heard the words and ran over quickly, went in in the dark to take a look, and shouted in surprise:
"Battalion Commander, there seems to be an ammunition box in here!"
After saying that, he ran out quickly and soon came in with a few people holding torches.
Then everyone was shocked. They saw eight strange-looking weapons inside, which looked like guns but were not guns, and looked like cannons but were not cannons. There were ammunition boxes piled next to them.
Zhang Xiaohe couldn't help but exclaimed:
"Battal Commander, why are there so many weapons here?
What kind of gun is this?
The caliber is so small? "
"Then who knows!
We found it, then this weapon is ours.
Judging from the caliber of this gun, it should be 20 mm, and it looks like it should be a machine gun.
Quick, go call more people and get these cannons down the mountain. "
Yang Yuanshan answered falsely.
When Zhang Xiaohe and others heard this, they thought to themselves: That's right, why do you care so much? As long as you can beat the little devil!
Maybe God saw that our Eighth Route Army was short of equipment and sent it specially?
…
Soon, they called He Yunfu and others who were digging trenches down the mountain.
He Yunfu and others were naturally surprised when they saw these things.
Everyone looked at Yang Yuanshan with admiration and thought: The battalion commander is so lucky. How come he can pick up a cannon just by observing the terrain?
Can this artillery piece be picked up casually? ?
He Yunfu quickly asked Yang Yuanshan:
"Battal Commander, this looks like a 20mm machine gun. When I was in the new regiment, I heard the veterans in the regiment say that there are two of these in the division, but the shells are scarce, so we have to fire one shell. All must be approved by the teacher.”
Yang Yuanshan nodded when he heard this:
"Well, the one in the division should be the Sulotong ST-5 20mm cannon. Lao Chang gave it to us when we were reorganized."
“Yes, yes, that’s the name.
Battalion Commander, is this the kind of cannon in this cave?
Although the weight of this thing is not heavy, it is not easy to carry it halfway up the mountain. "
"Then who knows.
No matter what kind of gun it is, it is a good gun if it can hit the Japs. Now hurry up and get this thing down the mountain, and then place it behind the position you dug. Later, I will ask Feng Shuanglin's anti-aircraft gun company to use these machine guns.
When the little devil comes, with these cannons, I don't believe that the little devil won't cry for father and mother. "
"yes!"
(End of chapter)
