235. Seven Consecutive Stays
Taking advantage of the victory and retreating, the Japanese army could only watch the national army withdraw, not to mention that it was in the dark night, and they didn't know what the national army was doing in the retreat, there was no way, they were still in shock, and they still had other things to think about.
However, in the middle of the night, the 48th Army, which took over the defense of the position, had not yet come up, and it could not evacuate the position, otherwise the position in the white sky would be picked up by the Japanese army tomorrow, and the 48th Army would suffer.
Therefore, the 51st Division came down and ordered that a part of the original troops should be left on the main defensive points of each position, and that they would withdraw from the battlefield only after handing over the defense to the 48th Army, and follow the personnel or signs of the joint troops along the road to the next battlefield.
Why not leave a regiment to defend the entire position? At least it can be unified command, and the top brass of the 51st Division also thought of this at first, but then did not adopt this method.
Leaving a single formed regiment alone will certainly have the advantage of unity in command, but it will lose the advantage of each unit being familiar with its own position.
What's more, at this time, the devil is already in a state of chaos and panic, and there is no way to quickly organize a counterattack or a total attack force, at most it is a partial retaliatory action.
Second, a small number of people in each unit can use their familiarity with the terrain to contain the enemy in their original positions; Finally, there is another point, which is that you can have a good handover with the 48th Army, and explain which positions are used and how to use them, which is very important.
Therefore, the people left behind by the third battalion are naturally the seventh company, and the position of the seventh company is the main position of the third battalion, and it is also the eye of the entire third battalion defense area, especially the tunnel under the hill, if it is not the seventh company, the other troops still don't know how to use it, and when the 48th army comes, we must explain it to them well.
Originally, Lao Hu said that it was okay to leave one platoon in the Seventh Company, but Niu Gu thought about it and still left all of the Seventh Company behind, because the total number of people in the Seventh Company now adds up to seventy or eighty people, and it is at most two reinforced platoons.
If you leave a platoon, that is, a dozen people, and which platoon is left? It must have been his fellow countrymen who stayed in the fourth row, and now there are only seventeen or eighteen people left in the fourth row, and it is too dangerous to stay like this.
So, Niu Gu decided to stay in the seventh company, and Lao Hu didn't say anything more, but just patted Niu Gu's shoulder meaningfully and agreed to Niu Gu's decision.
It was almost dawn, Lao Hu took the eighth company, the ninth company and the battalion headquarters, followed the large troops of the 51st Division, withdrew from the position, and Niu Gu also divided the people:
The first platoon went to the position of the eighth company to keep an eye on it, the second platoon went to the position of the ninth company to observe and guard, the fourth platoon was in its own position, and the third platoon stayed in the tunnel as a mobile reserve in case of accidents.
There are only a dozen people in each platoon, scattered in the position of a company, sparsely, but fortunately, the devil was beaten last night, and today he will not be able to slow down for a while and a half, and the position is still very calm for the time being.
After breakfast, everyone basked in the late autumn sun, warm, and simply set up an observation post in each position, and the others sat in the trenches to sleep.
I was busy last night for most of the night, and I was so tired that I didn't want to talk about last night's grand occasion today, but in fact, I had experienced a lot, and I felt that there was nothing to talk about.
Lao Li Tou was sorting out the luggage of the cooking class in the tunnel, as well as last night's trophies, and if there were any documents and letters, he would hand them over to Sangou.
Sangou is also squinting for a while, not sleeping much, often sleeping two or three hours a day, very normal, and not tired, even I feel a little strange, maybe the potential of people is very strong.
In the morning, after reading the information in these trophies, Sangou wrapped the devil's photos, letters, amulets and other things in an oilcloth and threw them outside the front of the position, hoping that the devils could pick them up, maybe they could send them back.
As for the official warrant or something, Sangou saw one, which made him very nervous, the goal of the 13th Division was not only Luodian, but also Xuhang, Jiading, Liuhe and other places on the side of Luodian were their inevitable targets.
Moreover, the 9th Division will also come from Yang Xing and Su's house, and the 11th Division will attack and surround Luodian together, and the time will be in these two days.
I'm going, it's not enough for the 48th Army to eat a pot, I'm a little worried about them, but now I have to wait until I see them and tell them.
Everyone waited until the sun set, and they didn't see the shadow of the 48th Army coming, but the devils returned to their own positions one after another.
The more he waited, the more anxious Sangou became, he knew the devil's next plan, but he couldn't tell everyone about this, for fear of disturbing the morale of the army, so he just told Niu Gu.
Niu Gu also had no choice, the order of the higher authorities was to wait until the 48th Army that took over the defense, otherwise he would leave without permission, and he would be regarded as a deserter; There is no way but to wait.
Their small company was not equipped with a power station, and the third battalion only had one, and there was no way to give it to the seventh company, and they had to contact the regimental headquarters.
There is a telephone, but it is only a short distance from the company headquarters to the battalion headquarters, and they usually use Lao Hu and Niu Gu to talk; No matter how long the distance is, it is often impossible to get through, there are too many traitors, and they are always sabotaging.
In addition to guiding the target of the devil plane, the traitor is to send intelligence and cut the telephone line of the national army, which is really incomprehensible, why should he help foreigners and beat his own Chinese, just for a little Japanese money, it is estimated that it is not so simple.
These are not things that Sangou is considering, what is being considered now is, what if the 48th Army can't come? What if you can't contact your troops all the time?
It was originally planned that the 48th Army would arrive today, but it turned out that it did not arrive until the evening, and everyone had no other way but to wait for the time being.
When it was time to go to bed at night, the anxiety spread in the Seventh Company, and everyone was cursing for why the 48th Army of the Dog Day had not come yet, and threw us here as a substitute for the dead to die.
It's normal to have such a mentality, everyone has been fighting a hard battle with the devil for almost two months, everyone wants to end such a life in purgatory, they all want to leave this ghost place, enjoy the sunshine every day, and don't worry about whether they can survive until the night and not die.
Especially when they saw that their large troops had withdrawn, this kind of psychology was even more urgent, but as a soldier, they had to obey orders, but everyone thought that this task was easy to accomplish, and it was just a matter of handing over positions with other friendly forces.
And now, watching the large army go away, the friendly troops have not come at the specified time, and they can't leave, they have to be on guard against the super strong attacks of the Japanese army from time to time, and they will die at any time, this kind of psychology is really uncomfortable.
Niu Gu didn't say anything, didn't let the brothers complain, and didn't complain about the 48th Army, as the commander of a company, and now the supreme commander of the position, not only to consider the brothers' emotional venting, but also to consider that he can't vent with him and disturb the morale of the army.
Everyone survived the relatively safe night, and ushered in the next morning with both hope and trepidation, but the 48th Army still did not even come to fart, and the Japanese army did not send planes and artillery to bomb it.
Such an unusually calm makes people feel unreasonable, everyone walked out of the tunnel, and soon Niu Gu received a report from Xiao Liu, the observation post, and everyone heard it and took a closer look.