I'm killing enemies with my sword and exploding equipment

Chapter 961: As a team leader, do I need to report to you?
Yuwangling, the temporary command post of the Special Forces Regiment.

Just when Yang Yuanshan was struggling with how to make a decision, a combat staff officer who was busy in the corner suddenly stood up excitedly and reported to him:
"Captain, I found an important piece of information!"

After the battle of Hedi Village, Yang Yuanshan instructed Zhou Xianpei to arrange some smart and literate soldiers to learn the Japanese language from several captured Japanese translators.

After a period of time, many soldiers learned well and were assigned to various camps by Yang Yuanshan to facilitate interrogation of intelligence after capturing prisoners in combat.

The best among them is the young man in front of him, Lu Tao.

Not only can he speak, he can also read and write!
Yang Yuanshan would certainly not miss such a talent and immediately promoted him to be his combat staff officer.

After returning to Yuwangling from Xin County, he asked this guy to carefully look through and search the documents he had brought back from the headquarters of the Japanese 9th Brigade, trying to find some important information.

Unexpectedly, I have gained something now.

Yang Yuanshan asked in surprise:
"What information?"

"It's a telegram!
It was sent to the 9th Brigade from the Japanese First Army Headquarters two days ago.

The content said: They have mobilized the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade from the garrison in Mengtun to move south to support Xinkou, and asked the 9th Brigade to hold the Xinkou area and wait for them to arrive.

In addition to the 2nd Brigade, the 26th Division will also arrive later.

At that time, their division and brigade will move south together to wipe us out!"

Lu Tao answered excitedly.

After flipping through the documents for a long time, he was already feeling extremely bored.

Now that he can find something useful, it’s finally worth it that he almost went blind!

"Good guy!

One brigade and one division, that's not a small number of troops!"

Yang Yuanshan's already furrowed brows became even more furrowed into the shape of the Chinese character "川".

Han Yang and the other man's expressions instantly became extremely ugly.

With the current strength of the Special Forces Regiment, it is obviously impossible to fight against the 3-strong enemy force.

So they all looked at Yang Yuanshan, wanting to see what decision he would make.

After Yang Yuanshan walked around the headquarters twice, he finally spoke firmly:
"I decided to take over Xinkou Pass first!

At the same time, send two artillery companies to help the comrades in the Wutai Division to directly capture Wutai County!"

That’s right, since the enemy reinforcements will be arriving soon, Yang Yuanshan decided to have it both ways!

Eat the meat quickly and run away!

Seeing that he had made the decision, Han Yang and Zhan Haishan stopped trying to stop him and instead discussed the specific arrangements with him.

……

Speaking of Zhang Xiaohe, he followed Yang Yuanshan's order and took Gu Dafeng and others to the outside of the cave to rest.

Seeing that these comrades were walking along, their uniforms were soaked with sweat and their stomachs were rumbling, he immediately asked them to find a few rocks to sit down and said:

"Comrade Gu, please sit here for a while. I'll go get you some food."

After saying this, he hurried away.

Qi Erniu looked at his back and couldn't help but ask Gu Dafeng curiously:
"Platoon Leader Gu, what do you think the Special Forces will give us to eat?

I’m starving.”

Gu Dafeng took out his kettle and drank some water, then shook his head and said:

"I have no idea.

At least you can get us some cornmeal steamed buns, right?

Seeing how well-equipped this special forces regiment is and how new their uniforms are, the food should not be bad."

"That's great. I'll be so happy to have cornmeal steamed bread to eat!"

Qi Erniu revealed his true nature as a foodie.

……

A moment later, Zhang Xiaohe came back with a basket and a wooden barrel.

"Comrade Gu, come and have something to eat and some water!
If the captain gives you any orders later, you will have to hurry back to report it."

Gu Dafeng and the others looked at the things in the basket and couldn't help swallowing their saliva:

"Comrade Zhang, is your food so good?"

In the basket was a pile of two-grain flour cakes that were bigger than his face, and four cans of beef.

In that wooden barrel was a bucket of clean water.

Hearing their words, Zhang Xiaohe replied with disdain:

“Is this considered good?
This dry noodle cake is dry and hard.

There's not much real beef in the Japanese canned beef, just scraps and a little broth, which is only slightly better than pickled cabbage."

After hearing this answer, everyone was speechless.

I was complaining in my heart: My goodness, you, the Special Forces Regiment, actually despise even such white flour buns and canned beef. Isn’t that too much?

In Wutai, we have to eat black bean and wild vegetable porridge for several months a year!

At this time, Zhang Xiaohe had not yet realized that his words had hurt his heart, and continued to say with regret:

"Comrade Gu, you came at an unfortunate time, as we happened to be bombed by Japanese planes.

Otherwise, we would have had soft white flour buns to eat and warm meat soup to drink at noon today.

I heard that the meat is all fresh pork, chickens, ducks, geese, etc. that were captured!"

Upon hearing this, Gu Dafeng and others couldn't help but saliva wildly.

It’s rare for them to have a sip of fresh meat soup during the Chinese New Year!

My hatred for the Japanese planes increased even more.

I cursed inwardly: Damn Japs, they ruined my chance to have a feast!
But he kept saying:
"It's okay, it's okay. These biscuits and canned food are great!"

As they spoke, they each picked up a piece of pancake, took a big bite, and immediately felt a rich wheat aroma bursting in their mouths, and a sense of happiness overflowed.

As for the canned beef, none of them were willing to eat it. They put it in their pockets and prepared to take it back to the wounded.

……

After the four of them finished their meal, Yang Yuanshan called the leader Gu Dafeng in and arranged:
"Comrade Gu, thank you for your three regiments for helping us to launch a feint attack on Wutai County and contain the Japanese.

But my character, Yang Yuanshan, is: either don’t fight, or if you fight, you must ruthlessly destroy the Japanese.

Therefore, I would like you to go back and inform the leaders of your three regiments to change the feint attack to a strong attack and completely capture Wutai County!"

"What? Force attack?

Captain Yang, this is impossible!!!"

Gu Dafeng suddenly became anxious.

He quickly waved his hand to refuse.

"How is that impossible? How many people are there in your three groups?"

Yang Yuanshan asked.

The number of soldiers in our army's regiments ranges from a few hundred to a few thousand.

If each of these three regiments has only a few hundred people, then attacking Wutai County by force would be a futile act and not feasible.

But he felt that as one of the earliest bases of our army, the Wutai Division was manned by many bigwigs and it was impossible for it to have only this much strength.

"Our 3rd Regiment has the largest number of people, about 1800 people, while the 5th and 9th Regiments have slightly fewer people, about 1100 people each."

Gu Dafeng replied.

“Don’t those three regiments together make 4000 people?

My people have already done some reconnaissance and found that the Japanese only have one fully staffed battalion of more than a thousand people in Wutai County.

In terms of heavy weapons, there were only 2 Type 12 infantry guns and Type heavy machine guns.

You have 4000 people against 1000 people on the other side. The advantage is obvious!"

Yang Yuanshan vaguely guessed that the reason why Gu Dafeng felt that it was unrealistic to attack Wutai County by force was probably because their weapons and equipment were too poor.

Sure enough, Gu Dafeng became a little anxious. After listening to him, he responded fiercely:
"Captain Yang, although we have 4000 people, we can't even provide one rifle for each person, and bullets are even more scarce, with an average of less than 8 rounds per person!
Even so, most of them are reloaded bullets produced by the arsenal in our base. If the distance is far, they can't be hit accurately at all!
As for artillery, there are more than a dozen flying thunder cannons, but there are not many explosive packs. If they want to complete the goal of the feint attack, they will probably be used up.

It's fine to ambush a small Japanese unit, but to storm a county town with a full-strength battalion garrisoned is simply a pipe dream!"

Hearing what he said, Yang Yuanshan didn't mind at all, and smiled slightly and said:

“This problem is easy to solve.

Our regiment captured Xin County and Jinchang County and seized a lot of weapons.

Go back and report, and ask your three regiments to send people to move the things.

I promise that you will not only have a gun and hundreds of bullets per person, but also light and heavy machine guns and grenade launchers to use!"

"What? A gun for each person and hundreds of bullets?

There are also light and heavy machine guns, grenade launchers???

Captain Yang, you are not kidding, right? "

Gu Dafeng almost thought he had heard it wrong.

The director of the Wutai base arsenal, or even Director Zhang of the headquarters logistics, wouldn't dare to say this, right?

"Of course not. Your regiments are helping our special forces regiment fight, so this little equipment is nothing."

Yang Yuanshan waved his hands, looking inhumane.

Gu Dafeng felt like he was a wealthy landlord, filthy rich!
He forced himself to suppress his inner excitement, his brain worked rapidly, and he still shook his head and said:
“Captain Yang, even if we are fully equipped, without artillery, if we storm the county town, there will still be heavy casualties!

You should also know how many comrades had to sacrifice their lives to blow open the city gates with explosive packs under the heavy machine gun fire of the Japanese!

Moreover, the Japanese have built artillery towers and bunkers outside the city gate. If we want to get close to the city gate, we have to deal with these artillery towers and bunkers first."

“I will send two artillery companies to support you!

With them here, the Japanese heavy machine guns and the like will all be blown up!"

Yang Yuanshan said with certainty.

"Two artillery batteries? With mortars?
Captain Yang, I'm afraid this won't have much effect, right?
The Japanese bunkers were so strong that the mortars could not blow them open.

And they have infantry guns with even longer range!"

Gu Dafeng was still a little hesitant.

"Mortar? How is that possible?

One of my two artillery companies is equipped with 12 Type infantry guns.

One is equipped with forty or fifty 57mm recoilless guns. "

Yang Yuanshan inadvertently acted like a Versailles again.

Gu Dafeng immediately began to doubt his life:
"What? Twelve infantry guns?

Forty or fifty 57mm guns???
This... is this really just two companies?"

Although he didn't know what a recoilless gun was, when he heard the caliber of 57mm, he knew that these things were definitely not small gadgets like grenade launchers!

……

After sending Gu Dafeng away, Yang Yuanshan immediately ordered the telegraph operator:
"Send a telegram to Wang Quanfa and Zhao Tietou to move all the weapons and equipment seized from Jinchang and Xinkou counties to the woods south of Jinchang County.

Also, order Liu Changshun, the commander of the Fifth Battalion Artillery Company, to come to my place."

"Yes!"

The telegraph operator agreed, sat down and started sending the message.

Yang Yuanshan thought about the weapons and ammunition he had promised to give to the three regiments of the Wutai Division, and the weapons captured on the battlefield might not be enough. He had an idea and threw a batch of various bullets, grenade launchers, grenades and other things into the woods.

……

Just as he finished this task, two more people rushed in from the command center and saluted Yang Yuanshan:

"Report! Captain!"

Yang Yuanshan took a look and saw that it was Feng Shuanglin, the battalion commander of the 1st Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion, and Guo Youqing, the battalion commander of the 2nd Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion, who came together.

He asked anxiously:

"Why are you here? What are the casualties in the camp?"

At this time, he saw Feng Shuanglin had gauze wrapped around his head, and Guo Youqing had a wound on his left arm, and he quickly added:
"Why are both of you injured?

So careless?"

The two explained with a wry smile:

"Captain, these are just superficial injuries!
This time the Japs were very alert and the bombs were too dense. Even though we hid in chest-deep anti-gun holes, we still couldn't escape the shrapnel."

Yang Yuanshan knew from the blood oozing from the gauze that their injuries were not light. He felt very distressed and quickly asked them to find a stone to sit on.

Then asked:

"Let's talk about the casualties. Shuanglin goes first."

Feng Shuanglin nodded and answered immediately:

"Commander, our battalion has only four anti-aircraft guns left, 4 soldiers have been killed and 357 have been seriously injured.

Now there are only about 600 people in the camp who can still fight. "

Under the bombing of dozens of kilograms of aerial bombs, most of the soldiers died directly, so the number of seriously injured was only one-third of the casualties.

"More than 600 people?

A battalion of 1500 people was reduced to more than 600 in less than a week. The casualties were heavy!"

Yang Yuanshan sighed.

He didn't care if 41 anti-aircraft guns were lost, but he was really heartbroken that these skilled gunners were sacrificed!

Feng Shuanglin's face was full of sorrow, and tears seemed to be rolling down his cheeks.

Choking with sobs, he said:
"Captain, my third company commander Liu Changshou has died!"

"What? Liu Changshou?"

Yang Yuanshan suddenly remembered that when he attacked Shuiquan Coal Mine, it was Liu Changshou who went with him with a machine gun.

At that time, he was also seriously injured, but he finally survived.

I didn't expect that today, I would still die under the Japanese aerial bomb!
He couldn't help but said with red eyes:

"We feel so sorry for his parents!

They named him "Longevity", but they didn't expect that he would not live to be a hundred years old and died at such a young age.

Shuanglin, do you know where his hometown is?
I will write a letter of apology myself and have someone deliver it to his parents."

Feng Shuanglin could no longer hold back after hearing this, tears rolled down his cheeks, and he said in a trembling voice:
"Captain, his parents have been killed by the Japanese.

He is the only child left in Changshou's family, so he joined the army!"

Upon hearing this, Yang Yuanshan roared:

"Damn little devils!!!"

……

After a long while, Yang Yuanshan finally controlled his inner grief and anger, patted Feng Shuanglin on the shoulder, turned around and asked Guo Youqing:

"Youqing, what's the situation of your Second Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion?"

"There are only two Suloton machine guns left, the rest are gone.

However, our casualties were lighter, with only 246 people killed and 97 seriously injured.

However, since we had already suffered several hundred casualties in Qubei County, there are only about 700 people left in the entire battalion now.”

Guo Youqing replied.

Another one with more than half of the casualties.

Naturally, Yang Yuanshan couldn't help but feel distressed.

But now the two battalions, together, still have more than 1300 people, so he felt a little relieved.

He knew that his troops had not completely lost their air defense capabilities.

If the Japanese planes come again, they can still fight!
As his mind turned to other things, he immediately said to Feng and Guo:
"Shuanglin, Youqing, since the Japanese are bombing us on such a large scale, this cannot be just the first wave.

So you still can't withdraw to rest.

I hope that when you return later, you can immediately reorganize the team and prepare for the subsequent operations."

"Yes! Captain."

The two agreed in unison, and then reminded:

"But now we only have these few guns left, and they are useless."

"I have had the cannons transported here and placed them in a valley east of Yuwang Ridge. You can organize your team and carry them yourselves.

Were the mules and horses that were transporting the artillery killed by the Japanese? "

With a thought, Yang Yuanshan threw the 50 Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns and 16 Suratong ST-5 machine guns that the system had just rewarded him into the valley east of Yuwangling.

"Of course not. We hid the mules and horses in advance."

Feng Shuanglin answered excitedly.

With cannons, he is not afraid of the Japanese bombers.

The worst that can happen is we'll just continue to fight!
Who is afraid of whom!
"That's good, let's act quickly.

By the way, send the wounded to Xingshupo, and don’t forget to clean out the bodies of the martyrs.

Put it in a hidden place first, and wait for Lao Zhou to come. I will ask him to mobilize the villagers to help carry it back."

"Yes!"

The two men loudly received the order and then walked away quickly.

As soon as they left, Han Yang next to them asked curiously:
"Captain, when did you arrange for someone to bring in the anti-aircraft guns?"

Yang Yuanshan rolled his eyes at him guiltily and asked:
"Who is the head of the secret service group?"

"It's Yang Yuanshan!"

Han Yang's expression froze.

"Then do I need to report to you, Han Yang???"

"No! No need!"

……

(End of this chapter)