Bright Sword: Develop alone, bring back an artillery regiment

Chapter 96 The Shocked Old Devil Shinozuka

After 3 hours.

After Wang Chengzhu cleaned the battlefield, he led the troops away from Dashawan and walked about 10 kilometers. A special combat team member rode over on a three-wheeler. It happened that the main force led by Wang Chengzhu ran into him and reported the results of the battle to him. .

"Reporting to the battalion commander, the battle to capture Xingxian County is over. The reconnaissance company, the third company, the fourth company, and the fifth company, according to your instructions, first ambushed and wiped out the Japanese reinforcements headed by Tanaka Jiro on the road. Killed more than 400 enemies, and then took advantage of the trend to capture Xingxian County, and are currently counting the spoils."

Zhao Hong and the others were shocked when they heard that another army under Wang Chengzhu's command had quietly captured Xing County and killed more than 400 enemies.

Although Wang Chengzhu used tricks to lure out the devils in the city and eliminate them, but tricks are part of the combat power, not everyone can use tricks, and not everyone's tricks can be effective.

If the Japanese army was really easy to deal with, the Chinese army would not retreat steadily and lose thousands of miles.

To be honest, Zhao Hong and others came from the regular army, just like Monk Wei back then, and at first they looked down on grassroots teams like the Eighth Route Army.

The reason why Zhao Hong accepted Wang Chengzhu's reorganization when he was in the mine was, on the one hand, because he had received favor from the other party. Even more than two or three years.

They just listened to the newly captured soldiers intermittently narrating some of the things that happened outside. They didn't know the specific situation at the moment, and it was very difficult to return to the original army for a while.

For example, Zhao Hong is the head of the first regiment of the 25th Independent Brigade. Now that he goes back, there may be no troops. Even if the troops are still there, can he still be the head of the regiment?
Therefore, they actually had nowhere to go, so they could only join the Eighth Route Army temporarily, planning to stay here for a while before making any plans.

But when they saw clearly the equipment under Wang Chengzhu's command, especially when the Spike Special Forces and the guard platoon were all equipped with submachine guns, Zhao Hong and the others were astonished.

Isn't the Eighth Route Army a group of humble troops that are even inferior to the Sichuan Army?How come this unit is so well-equipped, not to mention the Spike Special Forces and the guard platoon, even ordinary soldiers are holding devil's [-]-style rifles, or regular rifles.Among them, there are also a lot of light machine gun grenade launchers. Such a luxurious configuration is not much worse than that of the Central Army, right?

This is because Zhao Hong didn't know that the Independent Battalion also had an artillery company of more than 300 people and a cavalry company of more than 100 people, and that in this raid, heavy machine guns and other firepower weapons were not carried.

Otherwise, they would be even more stunned!

Now, Zhao Hong heard that the Independent Battalion split into two groups and captured Xingxian County overnight. This shocked him even more. There is a certain sense of belonging.

Soldiers will always worship only the strong, and what they yearn for will always be troops that can win battles...

It is worth mentioning that both the Dashawan Mine and Xingxian County have many trucks for pulling coal, army cards for transporting troops, and tricycles, etc. Transporting loot is not a problem.

On the way back, Wang Chengzhu was not worried about exposing his targets, even if they were exposed, the devils would not have time to mobilize troops to chase them down.

So when they go back, they always take the main road. Wang Chengzhu led the Spike Special Forces to disguise themselves as devil troops to open the way ahead, and directly attacked the devils' checkpoints along the way.

Finally, after breaking through four or five checkpoints set up by the Japanese army, Wang Chengzhu finally led the troops back to the Eighth Route Army's control area.

After a few more hours of driving, they returned to the base of Wangjiacun.

During this trip, the Independent Battalion has recruited so many people, so it naturally needs to be reorganized. However, considering that when he returned to Wangjia Village, it was already 6 o'clock in the evening, so Wang Chengzhu postponed the plan to reorganize the troops until the next day...

All night.

The next day.

Early in the morning, Wang Chengzhu gathered the troops and the newly recruited soldiers to the training ground in the back mountain of Wangjia Village.

After Wang Chengzhu made a brief introduction and summary, he first screened the recruits, among whom more than 500 were not suitable for continuing to join the army because of incurable diseases at the Dashawan Mine.

Wang Chengzhu arranged these people near Wangjia Village, and allocated them newly built wooden houses and land for them to cultivate and plant.

It can be regarded as setting up a home for them in the base area of ​​Wangjiacun.

Of the remaining 1500 soldiers, except for those with artillery experience who directly joined the artillery company, the rest of the soldiers were directly organized into each company in disorder.

In addition, Wang Chengzhu also newly established a reserve company and a supply company, and expanded the original communication squad into a communication platoon.

The reserve company is dedicated to training recruits. Once the troops participate in the battle and suffer casualties, they can be recruited directly from the reserve company. Zhao Hong will be the commander of the reserve company and be responsible for the training of the recruits.At the same time, he also serves as the instructor of the training class for officers of the independent battalion, training the military command and other abilities of the independent battalion cadres at night.

As for the commander of the supply company, Shi Yichuan, the former commander of the supply battalion of the 25st Regiment of the Independent [-]th Brigade, was Zhao Hong's old subordinate and a two-star talent in supply management.

The leader of the communication platoon was Yao Zhiyuan, a former communication soldier of the 20th Corps of the Central Army. He was also a two-star talent.

For talents, of course Wang Chengzhu wants people to make the best use of their talents and resources!

This trip to Xingxian County can be said to be the biggest victory for the Independent Battalion since the establishment of the artillery platoon. It not only captured a county town, wiped out hundreds of enemies, but also recruited more than 1500 soldiers and more than 500 households.

So far, the total number of independent battalions has exceeded 2700, more than twice that of the Xinyi Regiment during the Cangyunling period.

Although Wang Chengzhu is only a battalion commander in name, he has lived a more comfortable life than many regiment leaders...

Taiyuan.

Japanese 1st Army Headquarters.

Shinozuka Yoshio was playing Go with his chief of staff, Miyano Toshi, when Iijima Mori, who was in charge of intelligence work, suddenly rushed in from the outside.

"Your Excellency Commander, Your Excellency Chief of Staff!"

Iijima Mori gave Yoshio Shinozuka and Toshi Miyano a respectful meal, and then reported: "The previous information about Shilipo being attacked by the New First Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and Staff Takaki Kato was also killed by the New First Regiment of the Eighth Route Army. To be precise, this matter was not done by the Xinyi Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, but by the artillery directly under the Xinyi Regiment."

"In addition, it was also this unit that attacked Donghui Township, ambushed Yamamoto's special agent team in Maple Leaf Ridge, and attacked Wanjia Town and Shiting stronghold."

"After a month of development, the Artillery Battalion directly under the Xinyi Regiment has grown to a size of more than 1000 people and has been expanded into an independent battalion."

"The battalion commander's name is Wang Chengzhu. When he was in the Cangyunling battle, he was just an artilleryman. It was he who bombarded the headquarters of the Sakata Regiment."

The Japanese army had its own spies in the Eighth Route Army, the Central Army, and the Jinsui Army. Therefore, when Wang Chengzhu submitted the combat report, these incidents were no longer secrets.

Of course, the Eighth Route Army, the Central Army, and the Jinsui Army also placed their own spies inside the Japanese army...

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(End of this chapter)