Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 141 Tunnel Warfare

The chief deserves to be the commander who has fought all the way from the battlefield. He can always grasp the strategic points and consider issues from the overall situation.

The most important thing is the ability of the chief to stick to his point of view... If most people are in this situation, all the staff around them will say that when they retreat, they will probably retreat and choose to retreat.

After all, retreat is an easier choice: not to mention that retreat is a long-established guerrilla warfare policy, once you retreat, you can basically disengage from the devils without any combat risk.

As for whether it will be blocked or divided, that is a matter for the future, and we will talk about it later... Most people have this inertia when thinking about problems.

However, the chief took a long-term consideration and made a decision that was more risky and difficult for him, and it could even be said to be a mistake... The superior clearly formulated the policy of guerrilla warfare and agreed not to fight for one city and one land, but the chief insisted on Fighting, who is responsible for losing the battle?

This is why when Wang Xuexin talked about tunnel warfare and tunnel warfare with the chief, the chief always emphasized "initiative"... If any tactic is passive and negative, then there must be a big problem in the battlefield application.

For example, in tunnel warfare, if you only think about hiding and defending but don't think about attacking, then you will be locked up by the devils and unable to move.The Maginot Line is a typical example of a passive defense that emptied the French treasury but was largely useless.

If Neiji Okamura could hear the commander's evaluation, he would feel wronged for himself... He didn't expect this situation, the usual raids are not done like this, the tactics of the Eighth Route Army never change, and he just waited for him to take office Once you change, isn't this bullying?

The chief did not hesitate, and issued several orders one after another:

"Order the brigades, squadrons, and squads in the guerrilla area to preserve their strength during the day and actively carry out guerrilla warfare against the devil's supply at night. Roads, railways, warehouses, cars, etc., any that can increase the devil's transportation burden and supply difficulties can be used as offensive targets. Especially ammunition!"

"Order the troops stationed in mountainous areas to prepare for long-term battles with the enemy on high ground, and to preserve their strength and consume the enemy's ammunition and vital forces."

"Order the troops withdrawing from the plains to reinforce the mountain troops nearby to obey the command of the mountain troops."

Then the chief gave another order separately: "Pull the Hundred Battle Regiment up to reinforce the Independent Regiment, and send a batch of bullets and artillery shells up with the troops!"

Li Yunlong was delighted when he heard the order.

He had seen the fighting power of the Hundred Battles before. It was indeed a force capable of fighting tough battles, and it was the main force of 3000 people. It would be safe to have it come for reinforcements.

Coupled with the continuous breakout and withdrawal of troops ahead, batches of reinforcements here and there, even if there is a regiment of devils in front of them, so what?Like Lao Tzu, you can't move even if you stand in front of Zhaojiayu.

It took a lot of trouble for the order to reach the guerrilla zone.

The main reason is that the guerrilla zone is already surrounded by devils, and it is difficult to pass orders in.

However, because the Eighth Route Army has always had communication problems, the communication equipment and methods are extremely backward.

And often the more backward things are, the less likely they are to be blocked.

For example, if every village has a telephone connection, the devil only needs to cut the telephone line and it will be over.

But the guerrillas could not afford to use telephones at all, and the carrier pigeons were considered good, mostly relying on two legs, in addition to shaking torches, flashlights, hanging tree branches and other signals.

It is difficult to block these methods, such as homing pigeons... No matter how dense the ground is surrounded, it will not be able to stop flying in the sky, and it is even more difficult to defend against flashlights and torches.

Many guerrillas could not read a single word, but they knew how to signal by shaking a torch, and they could accurately transmit information with just a few shakes. Even professional coders in the Eighth Route Army were convinced.

So, the devils in the guerrilla zone had a big problem that night:

It is trivial to cut and steal telephone lines, bridges are bombed, roads are dug up, warehouse cars are burned, food is poisoned, landmines are planted in front of doors, etc. Various problems emerge one after another, making it difficult for the devils to guard against.

One by one, Okamura Neiji frowned and asked Shinozuka Yoshio suspiciously: "Why haven't you seen these questions in your combat records?"

Shinozuka Yoshio stood up straight and nodded, and replied: "I'm very sorry! Your Excellency, Lieutenant General! In the past, our army raids rarely encountered these problems. I think this is because the guerrillas and civilians fled to the mountains to hide in the past. .Because they hide in the mountains, it is very difficult to come out to make trouble. But now..."

So Okamura Ningji understood that this is the authentic reason.

The guerrillas and ordinary people hid in the tunnels instead of leaving their villages. At the same time, these people were familiar with the terrain of the village, and the Japanese and puppet troops lived in the village, which gave them a lot of opportunities.

After thinking about it, Okamura Ningji ordered: "Burn the village and blow up all the tunnels!"

"Yes!" Yoshio Shinozuka responded and went to give the order.

Okamura Ningji thought that this would trap the people and guerrillas hiding in the tunnel, but he didn't know that the chief had mentioned his idea a long time ago and it was also solved by Wang Xuexin... At this time, the invisible tunnel entrance came into play.

Among them, Lao Hei also made a contribution. He and the guerrillas discovered a temporary warehouse of the devil... This warehouse is actually an earthen house far away from other houses in the village. The devil thought it was safer and used it to store ammunition. .

Lao Hei led the guerrillas to secretly dig tunnels towards the warehouse during the day.

The reason why we had to dig during the day was because all the devils had gone out to sweep the house at this time, and only a few guards were guarding outside the house.

As a result, without the guards outside the house noticing, Lao Hei dug the tunnel all the way to the bottom of the warehouse to make an exit, and emptied hundreds of boxes of ammunition in the house without the sentry outside the house knowing.

When the devil came back and opened the door, he was dumbfounded: the ammunition disappeared out of thin air, leaving only a big hole in the center.

If there is anything left, there are still a few bullets and mines buried in the house. The exasperated devil is about to go into the tunnel to recover the ammunition. Bullets and mines can be buried in the house, so how better is the tunnel?
Lao Hei's move is easy to say but not easy to operate.

Because he dug a tunnel more than [-] meters long in the tunnel, there would be a problem in doing so, the new soil dug out could not be transported outside.

So Lao Hei used the method of digging coal in the mine, and the villagers lined up in the tunnel to transport the soil one by one, and then sprinkled it evenly in the tunnel to step on it.

This requires every fellow villager to be silent, and they all operate in the dark in the dark tunnel. As long as one person has a problem, the whole process will be affected and even life-threatening.

But young and old, men and women, all completed their tasks very well.

(End of this chapter)