Chapter 36 Discovery of the Devil's Advance Team
After dinner, company headquarters.
The company commander and instructor are all here, and they are marking the information obtained during this period of reconnaissance on the terrain on a simple map. The Nationalist government's military map of its own country is not as good as the Japanese. They all brag about their vast territory and rich resources, but the economy is too big.
Worse, even military maps have to be tested and made on the spot.
Li Yuan entered the door, said hello, saluted, and without any nonsense, he said to the company commander and instructor: "When our 49th Army retreated, we still had a batch of weapons in Kunshan, more than a hundred guns, and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition. Please arrange it."
The correspondent contacted his superiors and asked the comrades in the organization to find a way to transport some of it to us."
Li Yuan knew that there were many guerrillas entering Suxi, and their weapons and equipment were not very good. Wang Jin would divide those groups into various ministries and made arrangements before coming.
"There are so many, it's really great." His four eyes were radiant.
"Arrange immediately."
"I have a suggestion. You can go directly to Taihu Lake and operate at night. You must pay attention to safety. There are Japanese patrol boats in Taihu Lake, and there are even bandits and some local armed forces. It is safer if you operate at night."
Captain Qing's eyes were gleaming, and he wanted to go get the guns and ammunition himself. After some discussion, he finally decided that Wu Xing would make a trip in person. It would take him back to Taihu Lake in at most three days, but he still had to ask his superiors for permission.
Wu Xing took the second platoon down the mountain overnight.
The next morning, the recruits began to practice how to select terrain, dig trenches, individual soldier pits, and bulletproof pits. Li Yuan underestimated the learning ability of the soldiers in the three rows. Soldiers who have been on the battlefield learned it in half a day.
We used to fight every day, but no one could explain why.
After the meal, the first, third and fourth platoons gathered together. Li Yuan began to teach the soldiers in the first platoon how to disassemble the guns and reassemble them, letting them know the basic troubleshooting and maintenance of the 79 rifle. On the battlefield, if the rifle malfunctions at a critical moment
That will cost you your life.
The soldier's love for guns has long exceeded Li Yuan's imagination. All the guns in a row were dismantled into parts, and then assembled step by step according to Li Yuan's instructions. Two people worked in pairs, taking turns to disassemble and assemble.
There are no guns in the fourth row. The recruits look at it and the veterans do it. The recruits occasionally touch it and get scolded.
The people in the third row all studied it carefully with their eyes wide open. They read it over and over again without getting tired of it. The soldiers used to take very poor care of themselves. They just wiped it on every day and rarely took it all apart. But when they took it apart, they found that many
The parts of the gun are almost useless. I heard that a good gun will come back soon, so dismantling the gun will not be so painful.
On the third day, it was already March 8, 2008. Li Yuan asked the first and third platoons to conduct sports shooting training. Of course, even if they were temporarily short of bullets, they mainly conducted tactical training, grouping, target selection, battlefield gestures, battlefield observation, obstacle crossing, and climbing.
Climb, escape cross cover, block.
The more he practiced, the more Li Yuan admired him. The soldiers in the first and third rows were all able to fight in actual combat. Even though the movements of the soldiers were stiff, awkward, and there were many strange military movements, they could not be corrected for a while, but they made rapid progress.
March 9th, morning.
Captain Qing, who had been watching the training, was discussing with Li Yuan: "Should we stop practicing bayonet fighting?"
"We have enough bullets, why are we still fighting for bayonets?"
"Old Chiang Kai-shek will not refill our bullets."
I haven’t thought about this, so let’s practice it.
Li Yuan himself is not good at bayonet fighting, but he knows some theories. The Chinese are taller than the Japanese. Combined with the three Japanese soldiers supporting each other and covering each other, he made adjustments to the soldiers fighting in groups and fighting alone. The effect is not yet known.
Li Yuan's 400 rounds of ammunition were divided between the first and fourth platoons. After the soldiers knew that 240 rounds was the base number for an individual soldier, the soldiers had more ideas. One person from the Kuomintang had enough bullets for two platoons. What?
Can we be so rich then?
The Nanjing Japs have already attacked north. There are two possible next moves. One is to stabilize the current war situation and consolidate the occupied areas. The other is to move all the way north and west. The Japs' attack is so smooth that there is no reason not to attack the Nationalist Government in one go and let it go.
Surrender. The second possibility is most likely. The National Government must also know about it, but Li Yuan himself knows that it is useless.
The training is still going on, and the veteran's technical and tactical problems are not big. He has learned a lot in the past few days, and I feel itchy to practice without fighting.
In the past, when ambushing, you would line up in a line with no depth on the side of the road. You would use a pack of explosives, a few grenades, and three to five bullets before charging into hand-to-hand combat. The casualties would be heavy. If there were too many enemies, you would have to run away. Now I teach you the battle of annihilation and defeat.
, I have a greater understanding of blocking warfare and lag warfare, and I also know that the purpose of attacking the enemy is not necessarily to kill, but to attack with small amounts and defend with more emphasis on wounding, positional warfare, street fighting, assault, infantry and artillery coordination, although I have no culture.
, Li Yuan’s lectures were easy to understand, and I was eager to learn.
Shooting range, ruler, ranging, offensive machine gun coordination, burst fire, fire suppression, fire attraction, anti-shell prone position?
Although it was all theory and had been taught by the troops before, it was not systematic. The questions asked by the soldiers were also all kinds of strange. Li Yuan was exhausted, more tired than fighting. After theory came practice, and his enthusiasm for training was unprecedentedly high.
Organizationally speaking, the main reason why Li Yuan was sent over was that Company Commander Qing had been engaged in guerrilla warfare for a long time and lacked knowledge of large-scale operations. In order to adapt to the new situation of the Anti-Japanese War, the reorganization work of guerrilla units in various places was in full swing.
There are relatively few villagers in the mountains, and there is no way to carry out large-scale mass work. The guerrillas originally wanted to gain a foothold in this place and establish a red local government. The people sent by the organization have not yet arrived, so they can only wait.
After a long period of theoretical study and training, the time has come for the soldiers to go out for training.
The original plan was to go west, but Li Yuan believed that when you get to the top of the mountain, you should go west along the ridge. The terrain is simple and not difficult. He changed it to go south, passing through the joint headquarters of the 60th Division and the Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangsu Guerrilla Commander-in-Chief Xie Shengbiao to Huzhou, and reported to the organization.
, the second platoon has not returned from receiving weapons.
The three platoons were training. Li Yuan came up with the idea to ask the third platoon leader to temporarily borrow the four rows of bullets. During this period, the third platoon leader found that the guns had poor performance and the rifling was almost polished, so he kept them.
Ten spears are used to practice stabbing for four.
If we really want to fight with these ten guns, they are just decorations. Even if we aim them, they will not hit. The key point is that Li Yuan said that he would ask the landlords and rich bandits to "borrow" a few guns. The third platoon leader readily agreed.
Li Yuan split each squad into four groups, one firepower group, which now has no machine guns and mainly uses grenades, three attack groups, coordination between squads, and coordination between platoons?
After preparing dry food for three days, we set out on the road. We turned directly into the hunting trails in the mountains without a guide. We only relied on maps and compasses. While walking, we explained the map operations to several platoon leaders and made simple annotations.
The mountains are full of bamboo forests. Some roads in the bamboo forests are impassable. Most of them have too much bamboo and can be cut down. The leading soldiers have been walking in front. Although the mountains are not steep and the speed is not fast, at noon, we march south for about
About 10 kilometers, according to the map, after walking for more than 10 kilometers, you will leave the mountains and enter the hilly area.
A guard in front stopped, as if he had discovered something.
The three-man team of leading soldiers said to the bamboo forest: "Come out quickly, or we will shoot." There was someone on the roadside.
Hearing the call, a young man with a dark face, his clothes hung to pieces by the bamboo branches of the bamboo forest, emerged from the bamboo forest.
Li Yuan quickly stepped forward to give way, and the sentry continued to explore the way forward.
Li Yuan looked at the young man on the roadside and said nothing.
Ma Xiaosan saw that this group of people were wearing gray military uniforms, but he heard that they were definitely not Japs and were not vicious towards others.
Suddenly his feet went limp and he sat on the ground, crying loudly.
"If you're a man, stop crying and stand up."
A platoon leader took the young man all the way and asked if he was good at this.
Something changed on Li Yuan's face, and he learned from the young man: The young man's name is Ma Xiaosan, and there are Japs in the Zhu family's nursing home in the south. He thought that this matter is a bit troublesome now, because the 60th Division did not report that there was a Japs attack there.
, the situation is somewhat complicated.
After thinking for a while, Li Yuan's heart skipped a beat. Something bad had happened. It should be the Japs advance team. An advance team had appeared. According to the Japs' tactics, the attack was in rhythm. The time for a large-scale attack should be in the near future.
Immediately arrange for two people to return to the company headquarters, pass the news to the company commander Qing, and then forward it to the organization, who will notify the friendly forces. His brain quickly calculates that the 60th Division will be able to get the information tonight at the earliest. He will arrange reconnaissance and clearing out the information as soon as tomorrow.
According to the Japanese offensive tactics, this group of Japanese soldiers should have come from Huzhou in the south along the west bank of Taihu Lake. This area has no strategic importance. The military purpose of the Japanese large-scale offensive is to attack Anhui from the west along the Xuancheng-Changxing Highway. The first thing to be solved is
It was the 60th Division near Changxing and the Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangsu Guerrilla Corps of Xie Shengbiao's Department. The independent company was located in the center of the war zone!
The purpose of this group of Japs is obvious. It is probably to reconnoiter the terrain and destroy the 60th Division's logistics. If the 60th Division retreats, they will choose favorable terrain and delay the retreat. The Japs are short and have short legs, so they have no advantage in pursuit.
Ma Xiaosan looked at this unit. They were poorly dressed and equipped, but they were in good spirits. Although he knew that the national army had been losing battles and was badly defeated, this unit was friendly and a little bolder.
Through communication, I now know that the current team is a team for the poor, a team for the common people. I am a little excited, and I can't help but think: My relatives don't want to see me, so maybe it is a good choice to work with them.
I have heard a bit about the guerrillas, but I have never heard of them doing anything bad.
Li Yuan was still questioning Ma Xiaosan in detail about the situation around the Zhu family's yard. This boy was very familiar with the terrain of the place where he grew up and answered every question. Li Yuan liked this boy's cleverness.
With Ma Xiaosan leading the way, the group walked through the woods and approached the Zhu family's yard just after 4 p.m.
Li Yuan looked at the terrain carefully. He was surrounded by mountains on three sides. Going eastward, he entered the plain and hilly area. The troops were now on the high ground to the west of Zhu's courtyard, about 500 meters away. It was marked Qingwujie on the map. The troops started from
If you come down the mountain from the north, turn east for about a mile to where Ma Xiaosan started to escape from Zhu's courtyard.
Chapter completed!