Bright Sword: Hosting the independent regiment, all become special forces

Chapter 231 This devil is too cautious.

"Ding! The current mission is cleared! The mission rewards have been issued."

"Mission content: Lure the pursuing Japanese army into the minefield (optional)

Mission Reward: Landmine Improvement Technology (1950 Edition)"

Back to the Japanese army.

The No.20 Second Brigade was chasing them, which is also the main force of the Eleventh Division.

第22旅团：旅团长黑岩义胜少将，下属步兵第43联队、步兵第44联队、骑兵第11联队、重炮第11联队、工兵第11联队、辎重兵第11联队、通信队、卫生队：第1至第4野战医院，一万八千余人。

In the eleventh division, there is still a heavy rattan detachment organized by Taiwan's garrison detachment, and its combat effectiveness is relatively average.

Shan Bao Zongwu took the heavy rattan detachment and the 10th Infantry Brigade to Datong to join the No.40 First Division.

The 41st Division is now just a fully staffed infantry regiment, and the rest has been exhausted in half a year of battle.

For this reason, the 41st Division, the head of the division, in order to replenish its troops, basically transferred back the garrison teams of the three northern counties in Datong, leaving only one detachment stationed in place, and the main force of public security was handed over to the local locusts. Alliance Army.

That is to say, the pursuit force that Lao Pao reported just now was the No. 40 Third Infantry Regiment, and the force that was annihilated was also under his command.

Pingping Xiaotai looked at the corpses everywhere in the distance, and asked coldly, "Why haven't you dealt with it yet?"

"Report to the regiment leader. The Eighth Route Army deployed a large number of booby traps on the body. It is difficult for us to clean it up. Please ask the engineering squadron for assistance!"

Ping Ping Xiaotai sighed, waved his hand without saying anything.

The adjutant immediately understood and led the engineers to clear the mines.

This time took them more than an hour.

Taking Zhang Wei and the others as an example, more than an hour is enough for them to retreat for six or seven kilometers. At this distance, it is not so easy for the devils to catch up.

This is not flat land, and the cavalry had to make a detour if they wanted to come over, which took at least four hours. If they wanted to chase, the Eighth Route Army had already disappeared.

Pingpingxiaota stared quietly at the engineering troops who cleared all the booby traps. Pingpingxiaota looked up at the sky, thinking that the sky had already darkened.

The number of troops that can wipe out one of their brigades will not be bad, and according to the battlefield situation, the enemy has at least one artillery unit, which is quite a number.

The collective jade of the brigade under his command made Pingping Xiaota very cautious.

As soon as he stayed in place, Yoshikatsu Heiyan, who was waiting behind, immediately dispatched a communication soldier to inquire about the situation.

Before Pingping Xiaotai could explain, there were bursts of explosions in the distance.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, his adjutant ran over in a disheveled manner: "Your Excellency, the captain, the village ahead has been deployed with a large number of explosives by the enemy, and it will take some time to clean it up."

Pingping Xiaotai smiled at the communication soldier: "Please tell us: we need a certain amount of time, please be calm and don't be impatient, brigade commander!"

"Hay!"

When Heiyan Yisheng received the news, he was obviously very satisfied with his subordinates. Although he was worried about the complete annihilation of an infantry brigade, they had already heard about the record of the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi.

It is a very correct thing to treat one's enemies in this way, so Yoshikatsu Kuroiwa expressed a full understanding of Kota's behavior for equality.

Zhang Wei and the others had already retreated [-] kilometers away, and the sky was gradually getting dark. Everyone stayed in place to rest and set up camp.

An hour later, the soldiers at the back of the palace reported that Pingping Xiaotai's pursuit troops were resting at Liujiazhuang.

Zhang Wei frowned and looked at Xie Guiyang, and said, "Commander Xie, you will bring your troops to Dai County early tomorrow morning, and there will be brothers' troops over there to support you."

Xie Guiyang nodded after listening: "Commander Zhang, what about you? I know that your special column has a high combat effectiveness, but these devils are really not vegetarians. After only two days of fighting, the regiment of more than 2000 people is left. More than 300, hey!"

"This group of devils is really difficult to deal with. Now these devils are really cautious. If they were at least chasing after us at the beginning, they wouldn't worry about being ambushed or anything."

"But now, these devils would rather spend more time to fight steadily than to be greedy for merit. If this is the case, our chances will be much less!"

Geng Jihui stood aside and nodded: "That's right, our task is to support Captain Xie and the others in Laiyuan County. Now they are out of the battle, the people have also been transferred, and our task has basically been completed."

"In the next stage, we can go directly to the northern mountainous area of ​​Lingqiu County to deal with the remaining troops, or go directly to Guangfa County and wait for further instructions."

"We can't conduct beheading raids now, and judging from the previous performance of the Sixth Division, even if their command center is destroyed, they can continue to cooperate with them with good military quality, and even Okamura Ningji's leapfrog command is no problem. .”

In the previous anti-encirclement and suppression process, the Sixth Division showed good combat quality, and almost crushed Zhang Wei's independent regiment, Kong Jiexin's second regiment, Ding Weixin's first regiment, etc. at the cost of more than one third of its own casualties. The main force at the end of the Northwest facelift.

This is based on the fact that they lack supplies and their buttholes are stabbed, and their combat effectiveness is still like this.

In the battle of Yangquan, the two main regiments under the unified command of Li Yunlong and the two local regiments were fought by one's own strength. They even retreated to Luochang County without being able to hold on for three days.

The gap in combat effectiveness cannot be made up by one or two new weapons, not to mention that Li Yunlong had a main force in his hands before.

Now the combat time is too short, and Zhang Wei doesn't even have time to train the troops, let alone rely on the training cards, performance cards, doubling cards, shooting cards and other props provided by the system to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops.

That requires a training process, and the devils don't seem to be ready to give the Eighth Route Army a little breathing time now.

Zhang Wei rubbed his chin and said, "Do you think the devil will choose to go south directly?"

"I think the probability is very low. If they go directly south into the mountains, they will directly enter the eastern Jidong area. Our troops are no longer active in the eastern Jidong area. Then why would they bother to attack the source county?"

Geng Jihui said and pointed to the railway line marked on the map: "If they want to go south, they can use the railway line to go all the way south, gather in the first generation of Changshan, and directly threaten the hinterland of the base. Then they attack Laiyuan County. It’s all superfluous.”

"Yes, Yangquan is currently in our hands. Three main brigades have been deployed in the area around Yangquan, and there are even four additional local regiments. The terrain in the Niangziguan area is very dangerous. The Japanese army has suffered a lot. They should choose to attack more easily. Laiyuan-Lingqiu, Daying Town, Fanshi County, Dai County from east to west, and then south.”

"Yes, even if they attack directly south from Lingqiu County, their heavy artillery unit will not be able to enter the mountain. In this case, they will lack strong artillery support. They should not go to this kind of thing. Do."

Zhang Wei analyzed with several captains, and the facts proved that the judgment of Zhang Wei and others was in line with the movements and judgments of the Japanese army under normal circumstances.

However, their division head is a normal Japanese military thinking, as is the brigade head, but the problem lies in the captain of the vanguard brigade.

As the vanguard, the Pingping Xiaotai Brigade actually only traveled [-] kilometers in one day, barely reaching Laiyuan County, where only a few people are unwilling to leave home.

After entering the city, the equality and filial piety strictly restrained the military discipline of subordinates, and did not commit any crimes to the common people, even arranging soldiers to live in empty houses that no one lived in.

Zhang Wei and the others just waited for a whole day on the only road leading to Lingqiu County, without even seeing a shadow of a bullshit devil.

Even Yoshikatsu Kuroiwa was very puzzled, what on earth is Pyongyang Xiaota going to do?Such a marching speed is slower than that of a tortoise.

No.40 Third Regiment Temporary Headquarters, the adjutant looked at Ping Ping Xiaota with a tangled face: "Regiment Captain, Your Excellency the Brigade Commander called again to ask why our march is so slow."

Pingping Xiaota smiled: "Just say that we found traces of the enemy's large-scale march on the outskirts of the county, and we were worried about being ambushed by the enemy, so the marching speed slowed down!"

"General, your Excellency the brigade commander is not a stupid person, not to mention our subordinates also have officers arranged by the brigade commander."

Pingping Xiaotai waved his hand indifferently: "That's it!"

Ping Ping Xiaotai is not only the captain of the No.40 triple team, but also has a layer of identity, that is, he is a member of the locust tribe, and he is related to the devil Tianlocust, so he can be regarded as a distant prince.

Once this relationship is contaminated, even if he only walks five kilometers a day and nothing goes wrong, his boss will have nothing to do with him.

But Ping Ping and Xiaotai knew in his heart that the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi was not easy to mess with. Although his boss admired him a lot on weekdays, he still looked down on him, a guy who relied on his connections for his position.

Otherwise, he would not arrange for his troops to pursue him.

The success of the pursuit was due to his meritorious command of Heiyan Yisheng, and he also gave himself enough face by giving the credit to him, a related party, and no one else could say anything.

If the pursuit fails, he will die, and Heiyan Yisheng will not be able to hurt his muscles and bones. After all, the captain of the infantry regiment who was killed by the Eighth Route Army is really shameful, and no one else can use this kind of thing to trouble Heiyan Yisheng.

It doesn't matter to him whether he does meritorious service or not.

But my life is my own, and my opponent is a fierce man who wiped out the Japanese brigade and successfully raided the division headquarters twice. The most recent time was to wipe out the fourth mixed brigade with very good combat effectiveness.

Pingping Xiaotai himself did not think that one of his regiments could withstand the siege of the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi.

The adjutant looked at Pingping Xiaotai who was drinking tea and sighed: "Captain, I will arrange tomorrow's march plan, and it is best to reach Lingqiu County tomorrow!"

"Huh? Lingqiu? We're not going to Lingqiu County!"

The adjutant was puzzled and said: "Captain, the road from Laiyuan to Lingqiu County is relatively flat. If something happens, the No. 11 Cavalry Regiment can quickly support us!"

"Support?" Pingping Xiaotai smiled and said, "Wait until dawn to send a report to the head of the brigade, saying that we have found traces of the enemy and will join them in Wanhua County along the Xiaguan line!"

The adjutant turned pale when he heard this: "Commander! Isn't it too risky for us to go directly into the hinterland of the Eighth Route Army base like this?"

Pingping Xiaotai waved his hands indifferently, this is not his marching plan, his goal is to go south out of Fuping County, enter the eastern Jidong area, and attack the Eighth Route?At worst, say that I went wrong.

What's wrong with suppressing a few bandits along the way and claiming that you went the wrong way and treating the bandits as enemy guerrillas?
Thinking of this, Ping Pingxiao took a sip of tea in peace of mind, and went to bed to rest after his subordinates cleaned up the room.

They had a comfortable night's sleep in the city, and Zhang Wei and his superiors were out of luck.

The soldiers sent by Zhang Wei to reconnaissance have not returned yet, and Zhang Wei and others are still standing there. They have been waiting for a day, not bad for a few hours at night.

Countless times to appease the soldiers' emotions, Zhang Wei himself was cold-faced in the end. These bastards crawled slower than turtles. What the hell are they doing?
Zhang Wei even wanted to spend some points to ask the system, where are these devils now, could they get lost in Laiyuan County?

Shi Dafan himself was shivering from the cold, and Zhang Wei was not feeling well, let alone the other soldiers. Some soldiers were holding back their urge to urinate at first, but then they ran to the back to deal with it. There is time to run a few kilometers away to fill up the water and then come back.

At this time, Zhuang Yan ran back with two soldiers, and came to Zhang Wei with a face full of displeasure: "Leader, these bastard little devils have not come out since they entered Laiyuan County. , the other devil troops are still at Liujiazhuang, they have camped and rested, let's not wait, go to sleep!"

Zhang Wei frowned after hearing this: "Retreat and rest!"

"Captain, what the hell are these bastards doing? They haven't come here for a whole day!"

Zhang Wei rolled his eyes at him angrily: "I'm sleeping in the county seat, I ordered the troops to retreat to Jinggou Village to rest, and leave four sentries in place to prevent the devil from getting sick!"

"Yes!"

As soon as the soldiers heard that they were about to retreat, they all laughed happily. Although they were already veterans and knew how to relax themselves in the tense waiting, no one could resist being able to lie on the spot for a day and a night without even a ghost. not see.

The soldiers around chatted until they even asked about their birthdays, and there was no longer any topic to continue chatting.

This retreat is naturally very happy.

In the early morning of the next day, Zhang Wei and others ate and drank enough at the same place, and with the rest last night, they had enough energy to prepare for battle.

This time the devils will have to pass through the minefield after eating and drinking, right?
However, Zhang Wei found out that he was wrong, it was outrageously wrong!
According to the normal marching speed, the ghost should have reached the ambush area, but after waiting all morning, there was no sign of the ghost.

After Heiyan Yisheng came to Laiyuan County, he looked at the deserted county and the No.40 Triple Regiment who had lost contact with him, and turned his head to look at the communication soldier: "Baga! What did Pingping Xiaotai tell you?"

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, the regiment captain received the news. According to the trail left by the Eighth Route Army, he led his troops to chase after dawn. The marching direction is probably the Xiaguan line!"

After hearing this, Heiyan Yisheng frowned, and went to the front line of the pass. This is a good opportunity to go directly south and insert into the hinterland of the base. Could it be that he blamed Pingpingxiao too?

(End of this chapter)