The Rise of the Great Powers in the War of Resistance

When Ichiro Watanabe hurried back to the county with the remaining hundreds of little devils, Liu Dazhu led the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion who had already left the county. Ichiro almost lost his mind.

Ichiro Watanabe grabbed a little devil's staff officer with red eyes, and shouted desperately: "Baga, how could this happen?"

The sad little devil's staff officer only knew "Hi, hi, hi...".

Ichiro Watanabe returned to his command room in a daze, knowing that today he was to blame. Hundreds of imperial elites were killed in today's defeat. They were transported from Shijiazhuang to Xin'an County a few days ago, and they were going to arrive in Taiyuan in a few days. The supplies of a field regiment were carried away by the Eighth Route Army. These were enough to cut open their stomachs to thank the emperor. Thinking of this, Ichiro Watanabe faced the east, and used his command knife to cut a standard cross in his abdomen, in honor of their emperor. I am loyal.

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Not long after Zhang Yunfei led the special operations team back to the headquarters of the third battalion, he heard urgent footsteps coming from outside. Not long after, the instructor Fang Zheng pushed the door in and said excitedly to Zhang Yunfei: "Battalion Commander, Deputy Battalion Commander Liu Dazhu and the others are back."

"Oh, good! Instructor, let's go to the entrance of the village to meet our triumphant heroes." Zhang Yunfei also said with a smile on his face.

When I came to the entrance of the village, I saw a long line of soldiers coming slowly. Every soldier was smiling and in high spirits. Every soldier was carrying several guns, and some were carrying a whole box of ammunition. , Behind the soldiers, there were hundreds of ordinary people who were pushing wheelbarrows or driving ox carts. It seemed that this time they went to the county town to get enough oil and water, and they made a lot of money.

Seeing the battalion commander and instructors standing at the entrance of the village to welcome the soldiers, Liu Dazhu walked forward quickly and reported at attention: "Report to the battalion commander, Liu Dazhu has successfully completed the mission and led the soldiers of the 3rd Battalion back in victory."

Zhang Yunfei patted Liu Dazhu on the shoulder and said, "Dazhu is doing well, he didn't disappoint us."

A big victory was fought today, and the entire 3rd Battalion was full of joy. Zhang Yunfei also specially ordered the cooking team to give the soldiers extra meals tonight. In the evening, the cooking team slaughtered another big fat pig. In the evening, the entire 3rd Battalion It is filled with charming meat fragrance.

In the evening, in the conference room of the 3rd Battalion Headquarters, Zhang Yunfei called all the platoon leaders and above military officers of the 3rd Battalion for a meeting. We have fought such a big victory today, so we must summarize it well.

Looking at the comrades who were sitting neatly and smiling, Zhang Yunfei said: "Comrades, today we won a big victory, wiped out hundreds of devils, and seized even more equipment and materials. The number has been counted before the meeting. A total of more than 3 200-type fast guns, more than 100 crooked machine guns, more than 12 36-type heavy machine guns, and hundreds of thousands of bullets of various types were seized. In addition, 60 5-type infantry guns and 100 There are [-]mm slapping guns with [-] base shells, and more than [-] Thomson submachine guns and several sniper rifles were also found in this batch of supplies, which happened to be the supplies that our special forces urgently needed."

"Battalion Commander, our 3rd Battalion is very rich now, even richer than Lao Jiang's Central Army." The company commander Wang Haiyang said with a smile, and the other comrades agreed with the company commander. eyes.

"Actually, the battalion commander hasn't finished talking yet. The first company commander is right. Our 3rd Battalion is really rich now. Among the seized equipment and materials, there are more than 5 yuan of ocean and more than 100 kilograms of gold. , more than 1 shi of food, and a large amount of cotton and cloth, some "medicine", and thousands of brand-new military uniforms for little devils?" The instructor also happily added.

Hearing that so much real gold and silver had been seized by the instructor, it took the platoon leaders of each company a long time to recover, and everyone laughed and applauded after a while.

Seeing everyone's joy from the heart, Zhang Yunfei pressed his hands down, and everyone fell silent immediately. Zhang Yunfei went on to say: "We currently have a lot of weapons and equipment, and the troops need to speed up their development. I decided: from 1, 2, The 3rd company transferred 30 veterans to form the 4th company, the artillery company, and the heavy firepower company.

As soon as Zhang Yunfei stopped talking, the deputy battalion commander Liu Dazhu asked eagerly: "Battalion commander, how are the personnel and weapons of each company and platoon equipped?"

"This is exactly what I'm going to say next. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th companies are infantry companies. Each company has 3 infantry platoons and a company directly under the slapping artillery squad and a company headquarters. The company headquarters consists of a cooking squad. , a health emergency team of 5 people, and a small number of communications and security personnel. Each platoon has three infantry squads, each with 12 people, equipped with 8 3-type rifles, a crooked machine gun and a grenadier. The directly subordinate slapping gun squad is equipped with three 60mm slapping guns, with more than 140 people in the whole company.

The artillery company is equipped with 12 24-type infantry guns and 60 160mm slapping guns. The company has more than [-] people and several horses for pulling the guns and transporting ammunition.

The heavy firepower company has three heavy firepower platoons, each of which is equipped with 6 Type 6 heavy machine guns, 120 crooked machine guns, and more than [-] soldiers in the company.

The security platoon directly under the battalion has three infantry squads, all equipped with Thomson submachine guns. "

After saying this, Zhang Yunfei looked around everyone, everyone was still immersed in the deep shock, more than a month ago, everyone was still used to the hardships of living in poverty, haha, suddenly became a landlord and rich man, and the role couldn't be changed for a while .

After a while, after everyone accepted the idea of ​​becoming a landlord and Lao Cai, Zhang Yunfei went on to say: "In the next stage, on the one hand, we need to strengthen training, especially live ammunition shooting training; on the other hand, we need to speed up the expansion of our troops. , continue to carry out the conscription work, and we want all young and middle-aged men who want to fight the devils, and they can be temporarily incorporated into the recruit company for training. In addition, our companies will be stationed in nearby villages to increase strategic depth. "[

On the second day, each company organized its equipment and set off, distributed and stationed in various nearby villages, and the base area was further expanded. A few days later, several large villages around Xin'an County had troops from the Eighth Route Army stationed, and some small villages were established. For the militia teams of a dozen or dozens of people, Zhang Yunfei gave the former Hanyang made and old sleeves replaced by the 3rd Battalion to each militia team.

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Taiyuan, the First Army Headquarters of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Kozuki Kiyoshi, the Commander of the First Army, and the Chief of Staff are sipping tea comfortably. Two young and beautiful Japanese women in kimonos are kneeling and serving carefully on the opposite side of Kozuki Kiyoshi. .

Picking up the delicate teacup, Kiyoshi Kozuki took a sip, and said to the chief of staff next to him, "Jingxia-kun, the Longjing tea from China is really good, it has a long aftertaste."

The chief of staff replied respectfully: "Hi, Your Excellency, the Longjing, Maojian, and Guapian teas in China are all famous teas, comparable to teas from the Empire."

Suddenly, a communications soldier walked up to Xiangyue Qingsi with a few messages in his hand, stood at attention and saluted: "Your Excellency, the Watanabe Brigade of Xin'an County sent an urgent message. The message said that Xin'an County was attacked by the main force of the Eighth Route Army. The equipment of about one field regiment in the arsenal in Xin'an County was looted, and more than 500 imperial warriors from Watanabe's brigade were broken into pieces, and Ichiro Watanabe's lieutenant had been disemboweled to serve His Majesty the Emperor."

"Baga, Ichiro Watanabe is an idiot." Kiyoshi Kozuki was so angry that he threw the exquisite teacup in his hand to the ground.

"Your Excellency, Commander, do we need to increase the garrison in Xin'an County? Xin'an County is adjacent to Taihang Mountain in the east. If Xin'an County is occupied by China, the China Eighth Route Army will further expand their Taihang Mountain base." The chief of staff suggested with a serious expression.

Xiangyue Qingsi walked to the huge military map with a solemn expression, staring at the map of Xin'an County in a daze.

目前驻守山西的第1军下辖第6、第14、第20师团。第6、14两个师团和山西南部的阎锡山的晋绥军和卫立煌的中央军形成战略对峙。第20师团的步兵第1旅团驻守大同。

"Have you found out which unit of the Eighth Route Army attacked Xin'an County?" Xiangyue Qingsi looked at the map for a while and said to the communication soldier.

通讯兵立正低头道：“司令官阁下，20师团刚才在电文中说，是八路军120师359旅717团3营攻击了新安县城。”

When he heard that a battalion of the Eighth Route Army had attacked Xin'an County, where an infantry brigade of the Japanese Army was stationed, Qingyue Qingji said angrily: "Baga, Ichiro Watanabe is such an idiot. The county town that was heavily guarded was actually captured by a battalion of the Eighth Route Army." gone."

Neither the chief of staff nor the communications soldier dared to answer, so they stood at attention and bowed their heads in front of Xiangyue Qingsi.

"Order to transfer the Ozawa Brigade of the 20th Division to station in Xin'an County, and strengthen the vigilance of the surrounding eight roads." Xiang Yueqing said.