Chapter 516: Dissenting Opinions
Although the commander of the little devil hated his wing commander for disobeying orders, the soldiers of that wing were all his soldiers, so he couldn't ignore it.
After receiving the order, the Japanese support force began to move closer to the town of Weizhou, but there were still soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade harassing their march along the way. What made the little devil even more angry was that at first, the Chinese soldiers only hid in the shadows and fired cold shots, and their casualties were small.
But later, the Chinese soldiers began to intensify their efforts, replacing cold guns with cold guns, each soldier had a grenadier in his hand, and a grenade came down, and they suffered not only one or two people, but seven or eight people, which made the reinforcements of the little devil very annoyed.
Although the reinforcements were not far away, the harassment and casualties along the way seriously slowed down the march of the Japanese army, and it took them three times as long as usual to reach the designated place.
However, the fighters of the special operations brigade also began to suffer casualties, after all, it was a continuous battle, no matter how strong their mobility ability was, they were fighting guerrilla warfare with little devils all day long, and there was always a time when the fighters' physical strength could not keep up.
Ma Wanzhong breathed a sigh of relief in his heart after learning that the Japanese army in Sunzhuang Township had surrendered in Jingcheng, because his plan to concentrate his forces to fight a wing of the Japanese army was very risky, and if the Japanese troops in the direction of Weizhou Town noticed that this wing would attack Weizhou Town with all their might, it would probably jump out of the encirclement.
Then this wing will join up with the Japanese reinforcements, and then march towards Sunzhuang Township, threatening the troops of Sunzhuang Township, then the remaining Japanese troops will also have a high probability of jumping out.
However, the Japanese troops in the direction of Weizhou Town did not break through and were still defending in place, apparently not aware of the signs of Ma Wanzhong's mobilization of troops.
The sky was dark at one time, and after a day of fighting and rushing, Liu Chundao's department, Li Weimin's department, and the artillery brigade all arrived at the designated position, and at this time the entire artillery brigade finally joined forces, and more than 300 guns were erected not far from the Japanese position.
When night came, the Japanese reinforcements did not stop their steps, because they were already very close to the town of Weizhou.
Ma Wanzhong ordered Liu Chun's knife division to send out a regiment of troops to cooperate with the soldiers of the special operations brigade to block the enemy's reinforcements. At this time, in the headquarters of Weizhou Town, Huang Changsheng, Liu Chundao, Li Weimin and Liao Jundong got together again, but Ma Wanzhong and Hu Guoshan were missing.
A few days ago, Hu Guoshan was very good in Pingding County, and the operation of attacking Xiyang and Pingding County was very smooth, and they successfully captured 5,000 puppet troops and 300 Japanese troops, and at least wiped out more than 1,000 Japanese troops.
Since then, the three county towns under the control of the new 33rd Army in Jindong are no longer threatened by the little devils, but the troops of Hu Guoshan's division have expanded to 20,000 people, threatening the safety of Yangquan at all times.
The commander of the little devil in Shanxi is already on pins and needles, but he no longer has the slightest way to deal with Hu Guoshan.
This time the New 33 rd Army attacked the Jingcheng area, and the Hebei side sent a telegram asking for help to the Shanxi side, hoping to flank the New 33 rd Army on both sides and then open up the Zhengtai Line, which had been cut off for more than a year.
The little devil commander in Shanxi knew that it was already impossible, and Yangquan was already in danger, let alone opening up the Zhengtai line. At this time, he really had more than enough heart and not enough strength.
At present, the Huguoshan Division is stationed in Heshun County and Pingding County in two parts, and as for Xiyang County, Hu Guoshan has only one battalion of troops left, which is responsible for coordinating all aspects of work.
After all, whether it is from south to north or from north to south, it has to pass through the defense area of Hu Guoshan's division, so Hu Guoshan's division focuses its defense on both sides.
For the economy of the county, Hu Guoshan is really lazy to take care of it, and directly moves over according to the mold of Heshun County, at least the people can afford to settle down, and there has been no problem with the order of the county.
Since everything is fine, Hu Guoshan is getting more and more idle, since he is idle, he wants to find some entertainment, Hu Guoshan, who is five big and three coarse, has recently become obsessed with listening to operas, as long as there are singing operas in these three counties, no matter whether they are good or bad, Hu Guoshan will go to the scene.
In order to protect Hu Guoshan's safety, Zhao Caizhu strictly forbade Hu Guoshan to take a step out of the headquarters.
But in the past few days, Hu Guoshan really couldn't help it, and heard that there was a singing opera in Pingding County, so after he took two soldiers to dress up, he sneaked out of the headquarters and went to listen to the play.
However, listening to the play, I heard that there was a problem, and someone made a fuss with the girl who sang the play, and at this time it happened to be bumped into by Hu Guoshan. According to Hu Guoshan's temper, of course, he roared when he saw injustice, and he also shot when he shouldn't have made a move.
So Hu Guoshan beat people, and some people recognized Hu Guoshan in public, and the incident of Hu Guoshan's beating quickly fermented in Pingding County, and many ordinary people blocked the gate of the barracks to ask for an explanation.
"Why should I give them an explanation, they did nothing first!" Hu Guoshan tried his best to explain everything to Zhao Caizhu.
Zhao Caizhu has apologized to those fellow villagers several times, but the matter has not been resolved, but it is also developing in an increasingly unfavorable direction. As long as you apologize, it means that you are wrong, and since you are wrong, why is the person concerned unwilling to come out to apologize, and you have to let your subordinates bear the blame.
Hu Guoshan was very depressed about this incident, and he wanted to go out to apologize, but Zhao Caizhu stopped him and didn't let him go out.
"My master, you must go elsewhere, this matter is obviously someone who is deliberately trying to get along with our New 33rd Army! What if it's the people of the little devils, who lurk among the common people, take the opportunity to attack you? ”
Zhao Caizhu is also for the sake of Hu Guoshan's safety, and now the work of more than 20,000 people in the division depends on him Hu Guoshan, if something happens to Hu Guoshan, then the entire division will fall apart, and if the Japanese army takes the opportunity to attack, the consequences will be unimaginable.
"But we can't let the common people block the door of our barracks every day!"
Hu Guoshan already knew that he was wrong, but this did not mean that he was willing to rely on the people for everything.
"Teacher, will you leave this matter to me? If you use troops to drive them away, things will definitely be more tricky afterwards than now, and now you are beating people, and if you use troops to drive away the common people, it will damage the reputation of our new 33rd Army! ”
Zhao Caizhu also has no experience in dealing with such things, he is the same as Hu Guoshan, but Zhao Caizhu is calmer than Hu Guoshan, and he knows how to deal with this matter slowly, rather than directly using force to solve it.
It has been two days since the beating of people in Pingding County has not been resolved, and the common people are still blocking the gate of the barracks, and Hu Guoshan is not eating well and cannot sleep, and the days of leisure a few days ago are gone forever.
In the Jingcheng area, the New 33rd Army surrounded the Japanese troops, but they did not attack, but began to dig fortifications 500 meters from the Japanese fortifications, which were much better than the Japanese ones.
In order not to let his troops suffer, Huang Changsheng also tried the firepower of his armored troops and launched an armored charge against the Japanese reinforcements.
The little devil looked at the tanks and armored vehicles that rushed towards his house, and for a while he was a little confused, and when they figured it out, the armored troops had already rushed in front of them and launched a crazy strafing fire on them with a vehicle-mounted machine gun.
In just one night, the Japanese reinforcements actually withdrew and went to ten miles, which made the Japanese commander very depressed, because he knew that the Chinese army had robbed their armored vehicles and tanks, but he did not tell the supporting troops about this, so this situation occurred.
The fighters of the special operations brigade did not understand the tactical coordination of armored units at all, they just formed a long snake formation and directly shot at the little devils, and there was Liu Chundao and a regiment in the rear.
The little devils saw their own tanks and armored vehicles firing at them, and they didn't react for a while, that's why they were defeated so quickly, if they could have known in advance that this would happen, I am afraid that the soldiers of the special operations brigade would be in trouble.
In the early hours of the morning, Ma Wanzhong came to Weizhou Town, where the senior officers of the New 33rd Army had gathered.
"My plan is to only surround the little devils, not attack, after all, the little devils of this wing still have very strong combat effectiveness, and now the reinforcements of the Japanese army are not too much threat to us, as long as we surround for ten days and half a month, the hungry little devils don't even have the strength to hold a gun, we just go up to receive the prisoners!"
"Lao Ma, your idea is good, but our troops are concentrated in the south of the Jingcheng region, and now there is only one battalion of Xiaojue to the upper three levels of the first-line troops, they have to maintain local law and order, and they have to guard against the sneak attack of the little devils, and there is no way to deal with it!"
Li Weimin insisted on attacking, they now have an advantage in firepower, an artillery brigade has more than 300 guns, plus the artillery that each unit has, they only use artillery to solve these little devils, why do they have to drag on for ten days and half a month.
"I agree with my master's opinion, I heard that the artillery attached to this company was blown up when they attacked Beizheng Township, and now their armored units have also become ours, although these Japanese troops have fortifications, they can't stop our attack!"
Liu Chundao also insisted on attacking, and it took them ten hours to eliminate a Japanese wing attacking Sunzhuang Township. Now their firepower is even stronger than when they were in Sunzhuang Township, and they can completely take down the remaining Japanese troops in one day, so there is no need to delay time.
"I don't agree to delay, the Japanese airfield is too close to here, they can airdrop supplies to the Japanese troops in the encirclement at any time, and they can also choose to bomb our troops, we should take advantage of the dark now, immediately launch an attack on the Japanese army, hoping to take the Japanese position at dawn tomorrow!" Liao Jundong suggested.
Now three people are opposed, and only Ma Wanzhong insists on attacking.
Li Weimin saw that Ma Wanzhong had his own thoughts in his heart, otherwise he would have chosen to besiege: "Old Ma, what ideas do you have to talk about, if there is a problem, we will solve it together!" ”
"Actually...... After you withdraw from the Jingcheng area, our division will defend the Jingcheng area alone, and the county town and mining area are within the bombing range of the Japanese army, so we need Japanese prisoners of war as shields! Ma Wanzhong said what he thought.
There was silence in the headquarters, they only considered ending the battle as soon as possible, and did not think that Ma Wanzhong's division would face the Japanese army alone in the Jingcheng area in the later stage.
"Hmm...... This is easy to do! Liao Jundong thought for a while and said, "Liu Chundao and Li Weimin, don't bring back the prisoners of war captured by your division in this battle, and then notify the regiment commander and let him escort all the Japanese prisoners of war over!" In this way, we can get together, and there are nearly 2,000 Japanese prisoners of war, so how can we use it as a shield for your division! ”