I am God of War in Snow Leopard

Chapter 191 The devil is about to run away

Xu Qingfeng, Zhou Weiguo, Liang Shan and others, with the main force, had arrived at the front line 10 minutes ago.

After discovering that the reconnaissance company and the cavalry company were exchanging fire with the Japanese army, Xu Qingfeng and the others did not rush to order an attack because the enemy's situation was unclear.

Instead, he ordered the troops to stop on the spot and turned to defense.

Just when Xu Qingfeng was about to send reinforcements to meet the cavalry company and reconnaissance company, he found that they had been separated from the battle.

So he sent someone to notify Wang Changgui and Xu Hu to come over and understand the situation so that he could plan the next attack.

It was almost a temporary command post on Xu Qingfeng's side, which had just been secretly set up.

A cavalry soldier came galloping on horseback from the northeast direction. When they arrived, Xu Qingfeng, Liang Shan and the others took a closer look. They were the guard soldiers sent out to contact the reconnaissance company and cavalry company just now.

Liang Shan immediately stepped forward and asked, "How are you? Have you contacted the reconnaissance company and cavalry company?"

The guard soldier quickly got off his horse, stood at attention to Xu Qingfeng, Liang Shan, Zhou Weiguo and the others, and saluted: "Reporting team members, attendees, we've been in touch, Deputy Company Commander Xu and Company Commander Wang will be ready to talk."

Sure enough, the guards had just finished speaking.

There was a rush of horseshoes coming from the northeast again, and everyone looked up to follow the sound, and saw two cavalrymen galloping forward side by side.

As he got closer, he could see clearly that the people coming were Xu Hu, deputy commander of the guard company, and Wang Changgui, commander of the reconnaissance company.

The two rode their horses and galloped over, reined in their horses and stopped abruptly, immediately turned over and dismounted smoothly, took two steps forward, and saluted Xu Qingfeng, Zhou Weiguo, Liang Shan and the others: "Team seat, attendant seat, deputy seat. "

Seeing that the two of them were safe and sound, Xu Qingfeng immediately stepped forward and asked, "How is it? How is the battle going?"

Xu Hu said: "With the cooperation of the reconnaissance company, I led the cavalry company to attack and kill one of the enemy's artillery positions.

At present, the enemy has turned to the defensive and will no longer continue to attack the national army positions in Dashu Mountain. "

Wang Changgui followed suit and said, "Deputy Company Commander Xu and the cavalry company brothers are invincible in their bravery. They killed more than 200 Japanese artillery and infantry soldiers in one surprise attack, and destroyed more than ten enemy cannons."

"Nice job." Both Xu Qingfeng and Liang Shan couldn't help but praise in unison, and then asked, "How about the casualties of the cavalry company and the reconnaissance company?"

Wang Changgui was the first to answer: "The reconnaissance company only has a dozen lightly wounded people, and no one died."

Xu Hu also immediately followed: "The cavalry company's casualties are not large, and the specific number has not yet been calculated."

"En." Seeing that the two direct subordinates didn't even lose much, Xu Qingfeng was completely relieved.

Continue to ask: "How is the situation of the Hefei defenders? Have you contacted them?"

Wang Changgui shook his head and said: "We haven't contacted them yet, but the Japanese troops attacking the Shushan area have stopped attacking because of our attack and appearance."

Xu Hu said with great interest: "We just watched the battle for more than an hour, and the troops guarding the Shushan position are really good.

They fought bayonets against bayonets, killed hundreds of devils, and repelled the devils' attack from the front.

Although their equipment doesn't look very good, their performance is beyond words. "

"Oh?" Xu Qingfeng was a little surprised to hear this, because except for the troops under his command.

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, especially before the outbreak of the Battle of Taierzhuang.

Except for the 29th Army stationed in Beiping, which once relied on the well-trained broadsword team to defeat the devils in hand-to-hand combat, there is no other army that has ever defeated the devils in hand-to-hand combat.

As we all know, the 31st Division stationed in Taierzhuang is also from the Northwest Army, and it has the same root as the No.20 Ninth Army.

So, Xu Qingfeng turned his head and asked Liang Shandao: "Chief of Staff, do you know which army is guarding Hefei now?"

Liang Shan thought for a while and said, "According to the battle report and order telegrams provided by the 31st Army, it should be General Xu Yuanquan's No. 20 Sixth Army."

"Xu Yuanquan?" Xu Qingfeng didn't have a deep impression of this person. In his vague memory, he vaguely remembered that he led the 2nd Army Corps to rescue Nanjing in an emergency, but it was not clear what happened afterwards.

From the current point of view, his 2nd Army should have successfully broken through from Nanjing.

"Can you get in touch with the radio station of the defenders in the city?" Xu Qingfeng asked again.

"I'll go to the communications office and give it a try." After Liang Shan finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Xu Qingfeng asked Xu Hu and Wang Changgui again: "How many Japanese troops attacked Hefei? Have you scouted them?"

Wang Changgui immediately replied: "Reporting to the group seat, we have already scouted, there should be at least 3000 people.

Among them, there were more than a thousand devils who attacked the Dashu Mountain area, but after our surprise attack and the hand-to-hand combat on the Dashu Mountain National Army's position, there should be only a few hundred of them now. "

Xu Hu nodded and agreed: "That's right, Tuan Zuo, now it seems that together with the defenders, we have an absolute advantage in strength.

If you can contact the defenders in the upper city and attack from inside and outside, you will be able to easily defeat the Japanese army attacking Hefei and break the siege of Hefei. "

As soon as the two finished speaking, a cavalry soldier galloped from the northeast.

Before he arrived, he reported to Xu Qingfeng and Zhou Weiguo in a panic: "Regiment leader, Deputy Commander Zhou, it's bad, an unknown number of Japanese troops are coming from the south of Hefei City towards the Japanese troops in the direction of Dashu Mountain. Reinforcements approaching.”

Xu Qingfeng and Zhou Weiguo couldn't help but change their expressions when they heard the words, Zhou Weiguo said to him: "Qingfeng, it seems that the devils want to gather troops."

Xu Qingfeng nodded and said: "It should be like this, if the situation detected by the reconnaissance company is accurate, their strength is less than 3000.

Without knowing how many of our reinforcements there are, naturally we dare not continue to divide our troops.

It is their most correct choice to shrink their troops to keep warm. Whether it is turning to defense and waiting for reinforcements, or concentrating troops to break through, it is better than soldiers. "

"Yeah." Zhou Weiguo nodded and asked, "Then what should we do? Shall we launch an attack immediately to prevent them from meeting?"

Xu Qingfeng shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's too late."

As soon as Xu Qingfeng finished speaking, the cavalry soldier who came to report the news couldn't help but interjected: "The regiment is wise, the Japanese move very quickly. When I came over just now, they were already approaching the Japanese offensive position at the foot of Dashu Mountain. , I’ve probably gone in by now.”

"Then can we send troops to surround them, gather and annihilate them?"

Zhou Weiguo tentatively said to Xu Qingfeng.

Xu Qingfeng's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, he held the supporting firepower of a Katyusha rocket artillery regiment in his hand, and [-] well-equipped troops, it would not be a problem to eliminate these devils at all.

But if we can surround them, attract other Japanese troops to come for reinforcements, and carry out several rounds of encirclement and reinforcements, we can not only eliminate as many of the Japanese's effective forces as possible.

It can also reduce the casualties of the Huben regiment and improve the actual combat experience of the entire regiment's officers and soldiers, especially the recruits, as quickly as possible.

Because the frontal siege war is much more difficult than the ambush war of the siege point.

The current Huben Regiment has good strength and equipment, but what is lacking is actual combat experience.

If you can pick a few ambush battles that are less difficult, you can not only temper the tiger recruits to improve their combat effectiveness, but also quickly increase their confidence and morale against the enemy.

Besides, Xu Qingfeng has another important purpose.

That is to force the Japanese army to dispatch planes for airdrops by besieging the more than 2000 Japanese troops under the city of Hefei.

At that time, I can legitimately withdraw the various rewards I just received through signing in by pretending to be airdropped by the Japanese army.

Thereby further enhancing the equipment level and combat effectiveness of the Huben Regiment.

Thinking of this, Xu Qingfeng immediately said to Zhou Weiguo: "It's feasible, but we have to wait until our radio station gets in touch with the defenders in the city before making a decision.

Without the cooperation of the city's defenders, it would be difficult for the 4000 of us to complete the blockade and siege against the more than 2000 Japanese troops.

Not to mention the ability to divide the troops to ambush other Japanese troops who might come to help! "

As he said that, Xu Qingfeng immediately ordered Wang Changgui and the cavalry soldier: "Company Commander Wang, go back immediately and closely monitor the enemy's movements.

From now on, the cavalry company and the reconnaissance company are under your command. "

"Yes!" Wang Changgui and Wang stood up to attention and saluted, then got on their horses and took orders to leave.

As soon as they left, Chief of Staff Liang Shan ran back panting, saluted Xu Qingfeng and said: "Regiment, thanks to the support of the 31st Group Army Headquarters, we have already contacted the radio station in the city.

Chief Xu Yuanquan was very happy to learn that it was you who led the troops. "

"Really?" Xu Qingfeng immediately said to Zhou Weiguo, "Come on, let's go to the communication office."

After finishing speaking, several people followed Xu Qingfeng back to the communications office camp on a hill not far behind the temporary headquarters.

The reason why the radio station is set here is very simple. The terrain here is higher, which is convenient for receiving radio signals.

When Xu Qingfeng arrived with his men, Liu Bohui, the director of the communications department, was directing his communications soldiers to be busy.

Due to Xu Qingfeng's good protection, all the troops suffered heavy losses in the previous breakout battle from Nanjing.

But Liu Bohui and his communication team were the only ones who broke out under the protection of the whole system.

With the addition of a large number of recruits to the Huben Regiment, Xu Qingfeng specially recruited some educated youths, including Xiao Ya and other female students who were rescued from the girls' school, and added them to the communication class.

The current Communications Department was established. Although the Communications Department only has one radio station, it has a lot of manpower.

When the time comes, it can be expanded at any time.

What Xu Qingfeng thought was that when the time was right, they would be expanded into several separate communication squads, each main battalion would be equipped with a radio station, and the companies below the battalion and platoon-level units would be equipped with wired telephones as appropriate.

In this way, the individual combat capability of each main battalion and the communication capability of the whole regiment can be greatly enhanced in the future.

Seeing that Xu Qingfeng and Zhou Weiguo were both here, Liu Bohui immediately turned around and stood at attention to greet them, saying, "Come here, you guys are here."

Xiao Ya originally wanted to come over and say hello, but seeing Xu Qingfeng and Zhou Weiguo's solemn expressions and understanding the military emergency, she had to give up.

He just looked at Zhou Weiguo, then lowered his head and continued busy with other things.

"Contact General Xu immediately and ask him about the current distribution of troops in Hefei's garrison and the situation of city defense in various parts of Hefei."

Xu Qingfeng ordered straight to the point.

"Yes!" Liu Bohui accepted the order gladly, and immediately turned around and commanded his communications soldiers to start sending telegrams.

Not long after the meeting, Liu Bohui took a newly translated telegram, saluted Xu Qingfeng and reported: "Regiment, there are still more than 8000 defenders in the city, and there are less than 500 on Dashu Mountain.

At present, the devils attacking the south and east of Hefei City have stopped attacking, and joined forces with the devils at the foot of Dashu Mountain to the west. "

"General Xu specifically asked if we were going to attack the Japanese army. If so, he would personally lead all the officers and soldiers of the city out of the city to attack the Japanese army inside and outside the city with us!"

Xu Qingfeng pondered: "More than 8000 troops, in terms of military strength, it is enough to besiege the devils, but it must consume the vital strength of the Japanese army at the foot of Dashu Mountain.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for these 8000 people to stop the Japanese from breaking through! "

The chief of staff who followed him in said with a confused look on his face: "Master, why can't I understand what you mean?"

Xu Qingfeng looked at Zhou Weiguo with a smile, Zhou Weiguo understood and said: "Chief of Staff, the meaning of the regiment is to join forces with the Hefei defenders to encircle the remaining Japanese troops at the foot of Dashu Mountain."

"Gather them and annihilate them?" Liang Shan seemed to understand: "Then why did the group say that the 8000 defenders in Hefei alone might not be able to stop the devils from breaking through?
Aren’t our Huben regiment also there? "

Zhou Weiguo said with a smile: "Of course our Tiger and Ben team will be used for reinforcements."

"Calling for help?" Liang Shan was completely confused.

"That's right, it's to send reinforcements." Xu Qingfeng continued: "Use the remaining Japanese troops at the foot of Dashu Mountain as bait to attract other Japanese troops to come to help, and then we will set up an ambush to destroy them."

"Oh." Liang Shan finally understood, and immediately expressed his concern, "But, Tuanzhao, if the devils have too many reinforcements, how can our Huben regiment not be able to eat them?"

"Then we will call for reinforcements instead. Our Huben regiment will be responsible for blocking the Japanese reinforcements, and let the Hefei defenders be responsible for annihilating the remaining Japanese soldiers in the encirclement." Xu Qingfeng said.

"What if they can't fight?" Liang Shan asked.

"So, before that, we have to find a way to injure the devils here so that they will completely lose their ability to break through.

At least it is impossible to break through the encirclement of more than 8000 Hefei defenders. "Xu Qingfeng said.

"How to consume them? Attack?"

Liang Shan asked for instructions.

Before Xu Qingfeng had time to make a decision, there was another sound of galloping horseshoes outside.

Before they could go out, they heard another rush of footsteps, and then a soldier from the reconnaissance company rushed into the tent of the communication office. After sweeping his eyes, he saw Xu Qingfeng and immediately saluted: "Sir, Not good, the devil wants to run away!"

"What?" Xu Qingfeng and Zhou Weiguo were taken aback: "The devils are starting to break through?"

"Yes." The scout cavalry nodded anxiously and said: "After joining forces, the devils quickly began to bypass my forward security position and break out towards the southeast of Hefei.

Company Commander Wang asked for instructions, whether to pursue? "

(End of this chapter)