NCCnovel Chapter 401 Model Village Battle
Chapter 401 Model Village Battle
Originally, the team was expanded, and he himself went from being a small guerrilla captain to the commander of an independent battalion, and then to the commander of a regiment. This was a great thing.
But he couldn't be happy, because these were all new recruits, ordinary people who had just put down their hoes a few days ago.
Although they still have ten full-time instructors, it is still a drop in the bucket for the additional 1,700 to 1,800 new recruits.
In order to improve their military quality in a short period of time, more thorough and detailed training must be organized, and the demand for instructors will be extremely urgent.
Although the veterans under him were good at fighting, they were all unskilled and had not received any systematic training, so the effectiveness of their teaching would probably be greatly reduced.
Peng Liang had no choice but to take things one step at a time. When he arrived at Weishan Island, he saw the soldiers of the 201st Airborne Regiment lying in a house recovering from their injuries. He suddenly had an idea and immediately sent a telegram to Li Yunlong.
"Commander, a telegram from the Weishanhu Independent Regiment!"
Li Yunlong took the telegram, glanced at it, and then handed it to Wang Meng.
"Mengzi, look, are they going to detain the soldiers of the 201st Airborne Regiment?"
"Hahaha, they're all from the same pot anyway. I personally have no objection! And this can be considered as supporting their development, so it's a good thing, right?"
Li Yulong nodded and immediately sent a telegram to Monk Wei, but there was no response for a long time.
At this time, a combat platoon led by Monk Wei had arrived at Qinshan, Shanxian County, west of Weishan Lake after four days of trekking.
At this time, Monk Wei, who was preparing to bypass Shan County, suddenly heard a burst of gunfire, and from the chaotic gunfire, it seemed like it was from local armed forces.
"Let's go and have a look!"
Wei Heshang and others quickly moved to Nanjiuguan and saw a group of Chinese people in gray military uniforms attacking a manor.
"It looks like they are from the Eighth Route Army. Let's go up and make contact with them!"
Monk Wei, who was dressed in ordinary people's clothes, sent someone forward to identify himself.
Before he could get close, he was stopped by several Eighth Route Army soldiers.
"Countryman, there is a war ahead, don't go over there!"
"Comrade! I'm Wei Dayong, the commander of the 201st Airborne Regiment of the Jinnan Independent Column, and I want to see your leader!"
These Eighth Route Army soldiers were confused and undecided, so they reported the situation to Chen Zhanying, the battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 10th Regiment of the 4th Teaching Brigade.
Chen Zhanying rushed over and stretched out his hand from a distance.
"Are you a soldier of the Independent Column? I am Chen Zhanying, the commander of the Second Battalion of the Tenth Regiment! Are you going back to Shanxi? We have received orders to cooperate with you along the way and escort you across the border. Please wait for a moment. We will take you there after we have dealt with them!"
"No hurry, no hurry! Captain Chen, if time permits, please give us a brief introduction of the situation!"
Chen Zhanying looked at the bustling manor and felt itchy in his heart.
"I'll let Staff Officer Du Hengcan explain it to you later!"
After Chen Zhanying finished speaking, he lifted his legs and ran towards the battlefield.
After a while, Staff Officer Du Hengcan came running over and shook hands with Monk Wei with a look of regret on his face.
"Captain Wei, I'm Du Hengcan, the reconnaissance staff officer of the 10th Regiment. Captain Chen asked me to come and give you a report."
"Then I'll have to trouble Staff Officer Du!"
It turned out that during the period of their rule over Shan County, the Japanese focused on arming the Qinshan District in order to strengthen their rule around Shancheng and continuously compress the living space of the anti-Japanese armed forces.
The Japanese deployed two puppet army squadrons in Qinshan District, with 150 soldiers, all of whom were well-equipped with Type rifles and four Type light machine guns.
The two puppet army squadrons were stationed in a manor owned by the landlord Jia in Nanjiuguan, and this village was turned into a "model village" by the Japanese and the puppet army.
The village is surrounded by high walls, with watchtowers at the four corners and a moat outside. There is only one gate in the entire village, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.
The puppet troops of these two squadrons relied on the high walls and deep trenches to bully the locals and commit all kinds of evil. They also killed many Eighth Route Army soldiers and political cadres.
They were so arrogant that they even declared that they were not afraid even if the main force arrived!
In order to strike a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese devils, the Huxi Prefectural Committee decided to launch an attack on the Japanese and puppet troops during the "Green Gauze Tent" period.
Before the battle started, Du Hengcan, the reconnaissance staff officer of the 10th Regiment of the 4th Teaching Brigade, led three scouts to conduct a detailed reconnaissance of the terrain of Nanjiuguan and the enemy's firepower deployment, and found out the enemy situation.
The next day, the commander of the 50th Regiment of the th Training Brigade made a decisive battle deployment, ordering the nd Battalion Commander Chen Zhanying and the reconnaissance staff officer Du Hengcan to lead the th and th companies to cooperate with more than guerrillas from Qinshan District to launch a surprise attack on the manor of the landlord Jia.
That evening, the instructors of the 6th and 7th companies set out from Lijing Village, south of Xinyang Temple, and secretly moved westward along the Taihang Dike under the cover of the "green tent". At nightfall, they met with the guerrilla squadron in Yangquan Village and agreed on a quick battle plan.
Battalion commander Chen Zhanying led the Sixth Company to carry out the main attack and the spearhead infiltrated; the Seventh Company withdrew a platoon as a reserve, and the other two platoons cooperated with the guerrillas to be deployed at three intersections on the city wall north of Nandianzi to prevent reinforcements from the Japanese and puppet troops in Shancheng.
The original plan was to wait until nightfall to launch the attack, but according to intelligence, a portion of the puppet troops had returned to patrol the city of Shan County, and the garrison was relatively weak.
Moreover, the puppet army certainly would not have thought that the Eighth Route Army would launch an attack in the daytime.
So, we decided to start the battle in the evening!
"Staff Officer Du, with two companies and a guerrilla unit, there should be no problem with 200 people!"
"Of course, no problem! With only two hundred puppet soldiers, we can resolve the battle before dark!"
Du Hengcan brought Monk Wei to the gate of the manor and saw that the puppet army was retreating step by step and was almost retreating to the core area.
The remaining puppet army squadron leader Kong Fan stood on the wall of the village with his bare chest, holding a Mauser pistol and firing downwards, while the four machine guns in the turrets at the four corners of the manor also fired downwards.
Chen Zhanying picked up a bag of explosives and prepared to rush towards the artillery tower, but was beaten to it by a soldier.
The soldier had just stepped out of the trench and had not run five meters when he was shot through the chest by a machine gun.
"Damn! The puppet army's firepower is too strong!"
Chen Zhanying didn't expect that all four machine guns were left in the manor, directly blocking their attack route.
Staff Officer Du thought for a long time and concluded that since they had no siege weapons, they could only attack with explosive packs or earth tanks.
"Go find a flatbed truck, some quilts and sandbags!"
The so-called earth tank was nothing more than a flatbed truck with quilts and sandbags piled on top to block the bullets of the puppet army.
But this thing can't withstand grenades!
There was no other way, so Staff Officer Du could only give it a try.
"Captain Chen, Staff Officer Du, since we have caught up, we have to help out. Leave these artillery towers to our independent column!"
"Just the thirty or so of you?"