Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 370

1940 10 Month 12 Day.

The garrison regiment of the independent detachment of the Tainan Military Region and five local armed forces fought bloody battles, and the vanguard of the [-]st Division, the Yamazaki Brigade, was wiped out in Lijiagou.

The fighting in Lijiagou has ceased, but the smoke is still lingering.

The soldiers were cleaning the battlefield. A soldier from the county brigade picked up a big [-] cover, looked at the worn-out miscellaneous brand on his back, and immediately replaced the rifle on his body.

Although the captured weapons and equipment will eventually be distributed uniformly, and the [-] big cover may be distributed to the main force for use, but it is good to be able to memorize it for a while.

At this time, several people under Li Daben were reporting the results of the battle to Zhou Weihan.

I saw Li Daben with a smile on his face, and said: "Detachment leader, this time we have seized more than 530 7th guns, 16 Type [-] heavy machine guns, [-] crooked handles, and many throwing guns." Cartridges, grenades, and by the way, many self-defense pistols used by artillery were seized!"

"It's a pity, the little devil saw that the situation was not good and blew up all the four mountain cannons and rapid-fire guns, or else" Li Daben said with a distressed look on his face.

Zhou Weihan didn't care much about weapons and equipment, and asked directly about the casualties.

"Our garrison regiment sacrificed 192 people this time, with 65 seriously injured and 201 slightly injured. The county brigade and district squadron had a total of 112 casualties!"

In the Battle of Lijiagou, the garrison regiment and local armed forces that participated in the battle had a total of 567 casualties, and the battle loss ratio with the Yamazaki Brigade was + nearly 2:1.

Zhou Weihan nodded after hearing this. The casualties were mainly concentrated before the artillery battalion came here. He was already very satisfied with this level of fighting.

Then he said: "The weapons and equipment seized this time don't need to be handed over to the military area. You garrison regiment, comrades from the county brigade and district squadron, discuss the distribution!"

The victory was bought by the comrades with their lives, and Zhou Weihan was not willing to continue to cut flesh from them, and since there was no shortage of these equipments, he simply let them distribute them themselves.

"Commander Zhou, are we really going to distribute these equipment ourselves?" the captain of the Wu'an County Brigade asked in disbelief.

"The main force's equipment is almost complete. Let them find the rest by themselves. They can't give birth to cubs in the warehouse. You comrades are not weak in combat. It's just right to use these captured equipment!"

These local armed forces in the Tainan Military Region are somewhat different from those in other base areas. Zhou Weihan has not relaxed the training of the local armed forces.

Even if some elites were mobilized before, the combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of other base areas.

To put it bluntly, although the newly established three core regiments have better weapons and equipment than the local armed forces, they are almost meaningless in terms of combat effectiveness.

Although there are main forces and local armed forces, and the local armed forces are under the jurisdiction of the prefectural government, they are all armed by the Eighth Route Army. Zhou Weihan doesn't mind the beauty of adults, so there is still a pattern.

"By the way, the villagers who died in Lijiagou must send someone to be buried in Wuling Mountain!" Zhou Weihan instructed.

"I'll take care of it. Xiao Wu from the Lijiagou Militia is now in our squadron, and we will have a good burial!" said Bao Jinwu, the captain of the Nanyi District.

"Now immediately withdraw from the Lijiagou area, the garrison regiment withdraws from the battle, and the political commissar is still sitting in Yanwangshan. You will replace the garrison regiment with the third battalion of the first regiment, and the county brigade and district squadron will return to Wu'an. Retreat in the forest!"

When Li Daben heard about it, his face immediately collapsed. He still wanted to lead the defense team to continue earning the title of a main force group. He had just started to get motivated, but at this time, he unexpectedly withdrew from the battle.

"Captain"

Li Daben was interrupted by Zhou Weihan before he finished speaking: "The situation of the wounded cannot be delayed, and the main force must fight on the outside. According to the needs of local armed comrades in the area to maintain law and order, only you and the counties You are the most familiar with the local armed forces, and at the same time you can talk to Si Neiyong, this matter is none other than you, remember to keep in close contact with Si Nei Yong, and if the situation changes, please notify me immediately!" Zhou Weihan finally instructed.

"Yes!" Li Dashen replied.

The troops near Lijiagou withdrew one after another. After watching a lively cavalry regiment, the regiment came late.

On the day of the battle with the Yamazaki Battalion, as soon as the [-]st Division of the Japanese Army got the news, they dispatched according to the formulated No. [-] combat plan.

At this time, the Japanese army was far from being a mechanized force, and most of the accompanying trucks were used to transport luggage, so most of the infantry of the [-]st Division walked on two legs.

In order to rescue the Yamazaki Brigade as soon as possible, Tian Daoshengwu, the head of the [-]st Division, assembled some trucks and let some Japanese troops go first.

As a result, as soon as they left Changzhi and arrived at the border of Lucheng, the roads along the Hanchang Highway were destroyed by the 28th regiment together with local armed forces and militias, and the roads were completely blocked.

This is not over, Ding Wei's 28th regiment has arranged many fortifications on both sides of the Hanchang Highway. Every time the Japanese army repairs a road, there will be some casualties.

In the end, this group of Japanese soldiers simply walked. Originally, they used pack horses to transport heavy machine guns and luggage, but now they can only be transported by manpower.

While struggling to carry heavy machine guns and ammunition boxes, but also guarding against sneak attacks by soldiers from the 28th Regiment, it was really miserable.

At the same time, there was also movement on the Han side. Si Neiyong received an order from the division headquarters to deploy two brigades to march westward along the Han-Chang Highway.

Trying to advance from the east and west sides at the same time, forming a pincer offensive, annihilating the independent detachment in one fell swoop.

Not to mention, the Japanese troops of these two brigades set off from Handan, and they were still "presentable" along the way.

Among them, the Ryukyu Japanese soldiers had just arrived and were eager to make contributions, but they didn't have the command power in their hands.

The Osaka soldiers who were mixed in by Isamu Terauchi, who acted as sergeants and officers, seemed not in a hurry, and these veterans even educated the young people in turn.

The commanders of this group of Japanese troops seemed to have comprehended the spirit of the instructions conveyed by Isamu Terauchi, and carried them out unswervingly.

There was no Eighth Route Army raid along the way, but most of the day did not even arrive at the Dongxiaozhuang stronghold on the boundary between Wu'an and HD suburbs.

The words are divided into two parts.

Except for the large-scale mobilization of troops by the Japanese army around Tainan, the Japanese army in other areas seemed to have been ordered to send troops to sweep up the designated targets.

The Japanese army's routine was like withdrawing. Each of the Eighth Route Army's bases successively discovered that a wave of Japanese troops appeared from nowhere, and suddenly appeared in the hinterland of the base.

The two sides exchanged fire immediately, and the main forces around the Japanese army quickly surrounded the battle site.

Xijing Town, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. At this time, the division headquarters of the 129th Division has been separated from the headquarters, commanding operations alone.

The boss and others are studying the battle report sent by the Tainan Military Region, and the deputy chief of staff said: "You can see the whole leopard from a glimpse, and you can know the late autumn from a leaf. Boss, judging from the situation in Tainan, the Japanese army's plan is targeted. It is purposeful and purposeful, you are looking at the situation in other base areas, it is exactly the same as Tainan, the pace of the Japanese raids this time is surprisingly consistent!"

"Zhou Weihan's guess is not unreasonable. It is obvious that a bait was put out, waiting for us to come up to bite, and then let this bait drag us down, but a net is set up around it!"

(End of this chapter)