The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 1813 Pre-War Planning

Under the light of a kerosene lamp in a room, Hou Kanshan, Cheng Peng and Liu Keqiang who were sitting in the room all looked up at Shang Zhen who was standing in front of the window.

Shang Zhen had been silent for a while, and the three of them were waiting for Shang Zhen to make a decision.

It was naturally easy for Hou Kanshan to enter Shuiquan Town. He just stood in the light of the lantern. Who in the whole camp didn't know his ugly face?

What's more, Qin Chuan happened to be on sentry duty at that time, so the so-called command was meaningless to him.

After Hou Kanshan hurriedly found Shang Zhen, he reported to Shang Zhen about Chu Tian and his company's situation in blocking the Japanese army, such as the strength of the Japanese and puppet troops, and that the Japanese army would reach Shuiquan Town tomorrow.

Then, Hou Kanshan mentioned the deaths of Hu Lielie, Shi Laosi and others.

He was sure that Hu Lielie, Shi Laosi and the twins were all killed by box guns.

So were the Japanese or puppet troops the ones who killed Hu Lielie and the others? Or, in other words, had the enemy who killed those soldiers already reached Shuiquan Town? Who were they targeting? This puzzled even Hou Kanshan, a veteran soldier who had been on many battlefields.

Intuitively, he knew that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure it out, so he could only report it to Shang Zhen.

After listening to the report, Shang Zhen carefully asked him some other questions and then fell into deep thought.

However, before Shang Zhen could come up with a conclusion, the soldiers came to report that Mo Jianchen had arrived with the Eighth Route Army guerrillas, but was blocked outside by Qin Chuan.

Shang Zhen did not express his opinion on this, and he continued to think about it.

Seeing that Shang Zhen had no attitude, the soldiers naturally continued to waste time with Mo Jianchen at the town entrance.

Whether it was Hou Kanshan, Cheng Peng or Liu Keqiang, none of them had ever encountered such a complicated situation.

They came out to get food, and if they withdraw now, it would be tantamount to giving up the alliance relationship for Chen Laocai. Moreover, the Japanese and puppet troops are attacking in large numbers, and the people of Shuiquan Town will definitely suffer.

They always have to help Chen Laocai and others to withstand this wave of Japanese attacks.

But since the word "carry" was mentioned, they had to fight a positional war with the Japanese army. For example, their people would guard the village within the village to resist the attacks of the Japanese and puppet troops.

But this is inconsistent with their usual fighting style. Their battalion is bound to suffer heavy casualties.

This time, those who participated in the game included not only their battalion and the Japanese and puppet troops, but also the Eighth Route Army, the Security Division and even Zhao Tieying's Regiment of their 113th Division. All those who should and shouldn't have come came.

  If they insist on holding out here, will other armed forces take advantage of them? And this kind of advantage does not only mean that they and the Japanese army will suffer losses on both sides, but it is also very likely that they will add insult to injury when their camp is in trouble!

Everyone said they would unite to fight against Japan, but in reality, everyone had their own agenda during the fight.

If we have a good relationship, I can help you, but that doesn’t mean I will die for you.

If the relationship is not good, it may be that I would rather die than have a friend.

As for those who have a bad relationship with you or even have a grudge against you, they will most likely take advantage of your illness to kill you.

With united efforts, we will build our new Great Wall. This is the ideal state in the March of the Volunteers.

But if we compare the anti-Japanese war to pulling a cart, in the actual process of pulling the cart, many times it is donkeys, horses, and mules that pull the cart, each pulling its own harness and singing its own tune.

It is certainly right to consider the overall situation, but on the basis of considering the overall situation, each family must always live their own life. That is, after brothers divide up their property, they will never help each other with all they have, right?

Faced with such a complicated situation, everything depends on the decision made by the battalion commander Shang Zhen.

Again, we cannot say that Shang Zhen did everything well, but at least no one could do better than him.

"We must not let the Japanese invaders break into Shuiquan Town. Even if they do, we must not let them occupy Chen Laocai's farm." Shang Zhen said finally.

"If that happens, the loss of our battalion--" Liu Keqiang said worriedly, but was stopped by Shang Zhen with a gesture: "When you are a soldier in a war, you always have to fight to the death. I won't talk about the big principles. In fact, you all understand that sometimes you have to go to war. It is unavoidable."

After Shang Zhen said this, Liu Keqiang, Cheng Peng and Hou Kanshan understood Shang Zhen's attitude.

This means that their battalion also has a bottom line when fighting, and there are always people to protect and things to do.

When there was no way to avoid it and there was no room for maneuver, what could they do if they didn't go? If they died, they died. This was just like when Hou Kanshan protected his wife and children. Could he ignore his wife and children just because there were too many Japanese devils?

You have to go, and you have to admit it even if you die!

This is the responsibility that a man cannot avoid, and this responsibility is greater than his own life and death!

Zhang Zhen, Cheng Peng and Liu Keqiang imagined the possible fierce battle, and they both said "yes" in unison.

However, at this time, Shang Zhen slowed down his tone and said: "In fact, it is not as pessimistic as you think. Although we cannot let the Japanese devils occupy Shuiquan Town, we may not necessarily fight a positional war."

"What do you mean?" Cheng Peng, Liu Keqiang and Hou Kanshan asked together.

Whether they are afraid or not, the atmosphere in Shang Zhen Camp is such that when they think of defending Chendi and the fierce firepower of the Japanese army, they all become overwhelmed!

They once used long guns, that is, rifles and machine guns, to "deal with" bandits who only had pistols.

But by the same token, the Japanese army, whose firepower was much stronger than theirs, had light and heavy machine guns as well as grenade launchers and mortars.

  They really had no way to deal with the enemy in positional warfare. Under the fierce firepower, what else could they do except be killed directly? Living and dying with the position was not the purpose of fighting, but defeating the invaders!

"Find your own terrain, and also work in squads and platoons. It's up to the platoon leader to decide how to fight the Japanese, but you must kill or injure some Japanese and puppet troops.

When the puppet army suffered many wounded that day, they would not attack again.

This way our casualties will be smaller, and we can run away as we like after the fight. There will definitely be casualties, but there will always be some who will not be caught up by the Japanese!" Shang Zhen said again.

He once again used this tactic of scattering flowers from the sky, or it could be said that he turned a large blocking battle into many small guerrilla battles.

  "I will tell the squads and platoons to decide how to fight, but they must not just shoot the little devils a few times symbolically and then run away. These are not my soldiers, Shang Zhen!

At the end, I will bring people back and see if we can fight the Japanese again at Chen Laocai’s farm.

Shen Mugen, go and inform Chen Laocai and ask him to organize the people in the town to evacuate.

And he can't fool me about this matter. If too many ordinary people die, I'll make it clear in advance, don't blame me for not helping Chen Laocai.

We also need to leave some people in the town, not too many, just a platoon."

Having said that, the big story ended and Shang Zhen shut up.

"Battalion Commander, Mo Jianchen is outside." Hou Kanshan reminded.

"Let them in and tell them I don't want to see them. No matter how many people come, they can stay in the town. When the Japanese invade, we won't have many people guarding here, so they can fight the Japanese." Shang Zhen said unhappily.

Why Qin Chuan didn't have a good attitude after seeing Mo Jianchen? This was of course related to Shang Zhen.

As for why Shang Zhen has this attitude towards the Eighth Route Army now, it is of course related to his wife Leng Xiaozhi.

The reason was that Shang Zhen had promised to give Leng Xiaozhi the 20,000 yuan they had seized. However, due to various reasons, they were unable to deliver the money to the Eighth Route Army, or Leng Xiaozhi did not take it away.

As a result, Leng Xiaozhi was blamed by the Eighth Route Army, which made Shang Zhen very unhappy.

But when he wanted Leng Xiaozhi to come and find him, the Eighth Route Army sent Leng Xiaozhi to do other work.

Shang Zhen was of course dissatisfied with this.

"There is one more thing, which is the matter of Hu Lielie and the others' death that I told you about. Aren't you careful, Battalion Commander?" Hou Kanshan saw that Shang Zhen had arranged everything and reminded him again.

"There is no way to prevent the matter that has not been touched. What else is not important? I'll leave this matter to you, Brother Hou. See if you can capture another Japanese prisoner or something.

We just happened to have captured a Japanese translator here. Let's see if we can get some information out of him.

All right, gather the team, I'll tell you guys." Shang Zhen said at last.