under fire

Chapter 910 Mentality

The political commissar was not polite to Zhang Qiwang at all.

Both of them came from poor families, and they were old comrades-in-arms before participating in the Long March.

After receiving the order to separate from the political commissar, Zhang Qiwang got on his horse directly, pulled the horse's head and ran to the west.

The Ninth Battalion is in the east, preventing the puppet army from the Bali Battalion. His task is to stop the traitor Wu Jinshan and the puppet army from the west.

The political commissar led people to drive the devils into the village, and then sent some people to the west to join him to deal with the puppet troops who came from the west for reinforcements.

Feeling a bit inappropriate, the purpose and meaning of this battle seems...unclear!
The enemy had just raided the subregional base areas, and launching such a large-scale operation against the enemy with great fanfare did not meet the requirements of the superiors for the secret development of the subregional base areas.

Since the political commissar arranged this way, maybe there is another meaning...

Now I have to do the things in front of me well. Before the battle, I naturally have to look at the surrounding terrain and conditions before making further arrangements.

His level of education is not as good as that of the political commissar, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know how to command battles. After more than ten years of fighting, it stands to reason that he would have been able to be a battalion commander long ago, but he would rather stay in the cavalry regiment as a company commander.

The devil's car appeared in the lens of the telescope, and he subconsciously drooled when he saw it. Unfortunately, it was too big and the target was too obvious on the plain. He had shot it many times before, but in the end he could only burn the car down.

A soldier rushed to his side and reported to him that the nearby ministries were ready, and that the political commissar could launch an attack at any time when he set up a blocking position.

in the sun.

The Nine Battalion, which was advancing quickly southward along the ditch, arrived near the road, and part of it directly crossed the road to the south.

Some people stayed directly in the ditch on the north side of the road, wielding iron bars to deepen the ditch, and the excavated soil was piled up on the east side of the ditch to form a fortification.

The puppet army definitely didn't have much heavy firepower, so the soldiers didn't even consider the artillery holes.

Hu Yi walked back and forth in the ditch with his rifle on his back, checking the dug bunkers from time to time.

Walking near the road, Ma Liang, with his arms hanging on his chest, quickly stood up: "Brother"

Hu Yi nodded: "How is the injury?"

"fine."

"Has the nearby telephone line been cut?"

"The soldiers who climbed the telegraph poles brought their phones. Half an hour ago, they overheard the devil's order to the puppet army in Baliying Town, asking the puppet army in the town to go west for reinforcements."

"Why hasn't the puppet army appeared yet?"

"Half an hour has passed, should they come?" Ma Liang was not sure: "Maybe, they came out to reinforce after waiting for half an hour?"

"Get the fortifications done first, and when the battle starts, Li Xiang will outflank their rear!"

Ma Liang quickly added: "The political commissars of the division are not far from us in the south. According to our correspondent, they have a cavalry company with more than 60 cavalry!"

Hu Yi was a little surprised: "The Divisional Cavalry Regiment is back?"

Ma Liang nodded: "Some of them should have come. The political commissar arranged for them to stop the puppet troops who came for reinforcements from the west of the highway! Li Huanzhang just sent people here, and I gave them ten mines."

Hu Yi nodded: "To stop a battalion of puppet troops, there are more than 60 cavalry in the sub-division plus Li Huanzhang's platoon, plus the militia and the county brigade to form an echelon. Planting landmines on the road in advance, this arrangement is no problem."

The observation post next to it suddenly shouted: "The puppet army is coming, five miles away!"

Those who were digging a bunker hurriedly raised their dusty and sweaty faces, put on the awning with their hands, and looked eastward.
In the sunlight far away from the highway, a moving team appeared like a small black dot, which was very blurry and couldn't be seen clearly unless you looked carefully.

Hu Yi raised his binoculars and quietly looked in the direction of the puppet army.

Putting down the binoculars and looking left and right, the position in the ditch is almost formed, and the soldiers have already started to check the guns with grenades.

Quietly staring at the road to the east, excitedly waiting for Hu Yi, who was standing on the road, to give an order.

Hu Yi shook his head: "It's five miles away, what's the use of holding a gun at this time? Hurry up and dig the ditch a little deeper horizontally."

The nervous soldiers were immediately discouraged, and the battalion commander didn't seem to care about the puppet troops from the east at all.

Besides, in Wulidi, those with bad eyesight can't even see the enemy, so be nervous at this time.

Immediately began to yell and continue to work.

"Our battalion commander is really good. If we found an enemy in the past, everyone would have raised their guns and waited."

"Hey, with your grass-headed weapons, can you compare with the battalion commander? You don't even deserve to lift the battalion commander's shoes."

"But digging ditches at this time, can there be a fart?"

"You know what a fart. If you keep holding the gun, you will always be excited. When the enemy comes, how will you maintain your state?"

"What keeps you in shape?" the recruit asked in confusion.

"You don't understand what you said, so dig it quickly." The person who spoke actually didn't understand what status was.
Now that everyone is doing it, it is impossible to go wrong with following along, so that when the enemy keeps approaching, the soldiers of the Ninth Battalion are still copying tools and continuing to dig.

After a while, the observation post reported: "Four miles away."

There is no difference between five miles and four miles, it is still far away!Only occasionally someone looked up curiously.

After a long while, the observer reported again: "The distance is three miles."

When the soldiers heard the sound, they quickly raised their heads and looked east again. They turned their heads to look at the battalion commander, but found that the battalion commander didn't even lift the binoculars. .

It seemed that after a few shovels of soil were shoveled, the voice of the observation post came again: "The distance is two miles."

Some soldiers began to breathe unsteadily, stopped their hands and started copying their guns.

Time passed by, and the voice of the observation post began to be tense and eager: "The enemy's vanguard is 500 meters away."

Immediately afterwards, the voices of the messengers finally spread horizontally: "Everyone hide on the spot and prepare for fire!"

There was such a big commotion on both sides of the road that the vanguard of the puppet army on the road had seen it clearly for a long time.

He stopped directly one mile away, and began to unload his equipment to prepare for the assault.

The voice of the messenger came again from the ditch: "Everyone pay attention, the team that is 50 meters away from the road fires first, and the others are not allowed to fire without an order."

Finally someone quit: "I'm a little farther away from the road, so you let me just stare here?"

"If you're not afraid of kicking you, go talk to the battalion commander." The voice of the orderly was as calm and calm as Hu Yi's: "Listen up, the rifle shoots accurately, and the machine gun must not fire."

After a while, the observation post reported again: "The enemy has started to move, the distance is [-]"

Hu Yi didn't intend to let everyone open fire as soon as he came up, because the distance from the road was far away, and with the level of the soldiers under his command, it was a waste of bullets to shoot.

Attack the vanguard of the puppet army first, and don't expect to kill many enemies. The key is to let the puppet army be beaten and then expand the team.

The Ninth Battalion took the ditch first and was almost invincible!

Even if the puppet army goes around far to the two wings, they have to guard against the cold guns hidden in the ditches in the wilderness at any time.

And Jiuying can definitely run faster than them in the ditch, because there is no need to worry about getting bullets when pulling away.

As long as the puppet army takes a detour, no matter how fast you run in the wilderness, can you outrun the Ninth Battalion in a straight line?

Therefore, in Hu Yi's view, there was no need for all to fire.

Although we got a lot of bullets, we still need to save money.

In addition, Li Xiang has taken people to hide in the North Ditch, ready to copy the puppet army's retreat at any time.

Now the puppet army on the opposite side, apart from retreating with all their strength after Li Xiang's outflanking is not in place, there is still a chance to ensure that most of them will not die
As long as they connect with Jiuying, the fate of the puppet soldiers is basically doomed.

More than [-] people fought against the puppet army of [-], and took the advantage of occupying favorable terrain in advance to fight frontal battles, flanking front and back.

Mainly due to the different mentality of the two sides.

The puppet army is eager to meet the devils, but it is actually a slave mentality. How can the puppet army have any opinions?
When I saw my master, my first thought was to let the devil act as the commander-in-chief. Even if he himself was cannon fodder, it would not change the behavior of the puppet soldiers.

On the battlefield, anything can happen.

If there were no devils, it would be impossible for the Ninth Battalion to fight against this group of puppet troops who hid in the town and could not come out.

The Digger, who was at the northernmost end of the battle line, did not dare to underestimate Boss Hu's order. Not only did he dig out a bunker, but he even dug out a bomb hole!

At this time, he was directing a group of subordinates, planning to set up a temporary headquarters.

(End of this chapter)