Chapter 7 Waiting for the Fish to Take the Bait
Zhao Zhi was in full swing in Zhangwu County and the CCP to discuss the matter of flanking the attack, and they were not easy for Willis in Laiyuan County, Zhang Yi successfully left the national army in the county seat, and then took his scout squadron to Xiahe Village by the Xiangshui River. Not bad as he thought, the three guys who left the county just ran across the Xiangshui River without a trace after sending a radio report in Xiahe Village.
"I estimate that it won't take an hour for the Japanese puppet army troops coming from other directions to rush over, Willis, have you figured out how to deal with them?" In the past, the scout troops did small-scale ambushes and pursuit battles, opening up positions and large-scale positional battles with the Japanese army, but they had not done it yet, and besides, he had more than 30 people in his hands and was not enough capital to fight against the Japanese puppet army, so Zhang Yi took the initiative to hand over the command to Willis of the Jewish Infantry Regiment.
"Let's not fight, let them cross the river" Willis held a cigarette in his hand, posing leisurely, his Jewish soldiers were well-equipped and specially trained for mountain warfare, and the terrain by the Xiangshui River had long been studied by him. Not to mention anything else, with the weapons in his hand, the Japanese puppet army who rushed back and forth to help Laiyuan couldn't escape, not to mention that he still had 4,000 soldiers who had been trained for two years in his hand.
Zhang Yi's face was a little stiff, he originally wanted to rely on the terrain of the Xiangshui River to block the Japanese army on the spot, as long as he could drag out the Japanese army for a day, the scouts under his command would be able to find a suitable airdrop site. With the airdrop field, Zhang Yi can use the radio to call Qinglongping to airdrop supplies and weapons and ammunition to himself, as long as he has guns and food in his hand, no matter how many Japanese troops come, he is not afraid, but Willis wants to let the Japanese puppet army go across the river, which is contrary to Zhang Yi's idea, it is completely two cars running on the road, and it is in the opposite direction.
"Willis, we just took Laiyuan County, and the surrounding villages and towns have not been cleaned up, if we really let the Japanese puppet army go across the river, and we can't suppress it, then our action this time will be in vain" Zhang Yi said quite vaguely, and did not directly say that they might be forced to withdraw by the Japanese puppet army that returned to Laiyuan, and now is the time for battle, he doesn't want to affect the morale of the army.
Willis listened to Zhang Yi's words and just smiled slightly, "Zhang, you underestimate my soldiers too much, many of them have served in the army, and the people who scout me are not as good as you, but if you want to fight positional warfare, your people can't do it" Zhao Zhi brought back these Jews from Europe have been learning Chinese since they arrived in Burma, and it has been more than two years.
"Zhang, your task is to find a suitable airdrop field for us, if you can, it is best to find a suitable place to build an airport" Willis looked straight and solemnly put his finger on the map, "This is Taiyuan, an important town in Shanxi, as long as we have an airport here in Laiyuan, our fighter troops can bomb Taiyuan at any time, think about it, if we capture Taiyuan, what will happen to the Japanese army in Shanxi?" Zhang Yi suddenly realized at this time that the 4,000 Jewish soldiers sent by his husband did not just want to contain the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Luliang here in Laiyuan, but the main purpose was to build an airport here.
"You just have to complete your mission, and these Japanese soldiers who crossed the river will be handed over to me" Zhang Yi stayed here for a long time, and Willis, who was waiting for the airdrop of supplies, had to issue an eviction order to drive Zhang Yi and his scout squadron out like flies. It is not difficult to meet the Japanese puppet army, the difficult thing is that after this wave of Japanese puppet army is defeated, more Japanese troops will come from the direction of Luliang, and his infantry regiment does not carry too many heavy weapons and ammunition in order to speed up the march.
"Get Nathan to meet me," Zhang Yi and the group left the woods where Willis was hiding, and Willis busied himself summoning his officers. When Zhao Zhi formed the Jewish Legion, the officers promoted were all given priority to those who had previously served as officers in the European army, so don't look at the 100,000 Jewish soldiers in his hands, but there were few officers in the army. The establishment of a Jewish regiment of 20,000 men was only divided into five infantry regiments, and the infantry regiment of 4,000 men was divided into four battalions according to the size of 1,200 men, each battalion had four companies of 300 men, so there were only 20 officers above the company level under Willis, and Nathan's 1st Battalion was the battalion with the most veterans under Willis.
"Naxun, this place is called Lao Ye Ling, only 30 kilometers away from the Xiangshui River, I want you to take the 1 battalion to hold Lao Ye Ling, where to block the Japanese troops crossing the river" Willis found the location of Lao Ye Ling on the map and pointed out to Naxun, "Your 1 battalion is to block the enemy head-on, I will transfer half of our heavy weapons to you, the Japanese army's weapons and equipment are not as good as ours, go and don't call your people to charge, just hold Lao Ye Ling and block the way of the Japanese army, I will take the 2nd and 3rd battalions to attack them from the flank"
Although Naxon is a Jew, he is also an extremely belligerent guy in his bones, and he has been training his soldiers in the training camp all day long, and those days are too boring, and now he has the opportunity to confront the Japanese army, so he is naturally full of confidence, and he can't immediately take his 1st battalion across the river to defeat the Japanese troops who have returned. Xu saw Nason's thoughts, and Willis said earnestly, "Nason, this is the first time we have fought with the Japanese army, only Xu can win and not be defeated, otherwise our Jewish Legion will no longer have the right to speak in front of Mr., don't forget that we still have millions of compatriots in Kunming, no matter how good China is, it will not be our home after all."
Zhao Zhi concentrated a large number of Jews in Kunming, seemingly for the sake of thunderous material construction, but also to provide a safe living environment for the Jews, in fact, those Jews stranded in Kunming are a bargaining chip in Zhao Zhi's hands, with them in his hands, Zhao Zhi is not afraid that the soldiers of the Jewish Legion will not work for him, with them, Zhao Zhi is not worried that the Jewish Legion will betray him at all. If the Jewish soldiers really wanted to do that, the price would be too great, and the Nationalist government would have mobilized the few provisional divisions to train around Kunming and would bloody the entire Jewish ghetto overnight.
From the time Zhao Zhi negotiated the conditions with the Jewish patriarchs in Suez, the Jews already knew that they were on Zhao Zhi's thief ship, but there was no place for them in the whole of Europe, and the West Asian countries were not unarmed places where they could go at present, and the only people they could rely on were Zhao Zhi and Thunder. Fortunately, Zhao Zhi did not blindly ask for the Jews, the Jews lived, ate, used, and clothed themselves were all provided by Zhao Zhi, and Zhao Zhi also built schools and churches for the Jews gathered in Kunming, allowing Jews to open trading houses in Kunming and participate in the commercial activities of transporting materials from Burma, so the Jews still identified with Zhao Zhi from the bottom of their hearts.
Most of the Jewish officers, Willis, were the backbone of the various Jewish families, and the attitude of the family determined the strength of their actions. Originally pulled into the training camp by Zhao Zhi in Burma, these Jews were not very optimistic about Zhao Zhi, they thought that Zhao Zhi was just a warlord madman who made war money, and the Jews were attached to Zhao Zhi only temporarily, and after they were forcibly moved into China by Zhao Zhi, these Jewish families really understood Zhao Zhi's strength and influence in China, so the attitude of the Jewish family has changed greatly, and they began to plan to improve their position as Jews in Zhao Zhi's heart, and only really become Zhao Zhi's henchmen, These homeless Jews are the ones who have really found their way to life.
Based on this reasoning, Willis and the officers who commanded the army were based on showing themselves in front of Zhao Zhi, so that they and the troops under their command could occupy a certain position in Zhao Zhi's heart, and also find a good way out for their future. With these plans, Willis decided to return the Japanese puppet army to aid Laiyuan to cross the river, he wanted to leave all the Japanese puppet troops who crossed the river, and draw a successful end to the first battle of the Jewish Legion's attack, so as to show a small face in front of Zhao Zhi.
Not to mention that Willis was busy arranging troops along the Xiangshui River, digging traps and waiting for the Japanese puppet army to rush back to help, and the three Japanese agents who were deliberately released out of the city by Zhang Yi to report the news crossed the Xiangshui River and went straight to Guanyao Town, which was more than ten miles away. Guanyao Town was originally not called this name, in the early years of the Republic of China, the ancestors had been for the palace to burn porcelain Yan family fled here, in order to make a living to copy the old industry here digging kiln firing porcelain, with the prosperous development of Yanjia kiln factory, this originally only a dozen families of the small mountain village slowly developed into a town that made a fortune from porcelain, here is also called Guanyao Town.
With more than 4,000 people, Guanyao Town is the key place where the Japanese army is stationed, where the Japanese army is stationed in a squadron of Japanese troops and a company of the Imperial Cooperative Army, and these Japanese puppet troops in Guanyao Town are also the largest Japanese puppet army within a radius of dozens of miles around Laiyuan. "Ono-kun, hurry up and send troops, Laiyuan County now says that there is a battalion of the Zhina Army, but we look at it as just a company, the Zhina people have always been cunning and cunning, maybe they deliberately exaggerate the strength of the troops, and it may not be said" The three intelligence officers with embarrassed faces poured a breath of cold water into their stomachs, and urged Xiaoye, who was stationed in Guanyao Town, to send troops back to Laiyuan.
Ono couldn't help but agree to send troops, Laiyuan could hoard a large number of food and supplies collected by the Japanese army, which was originally intended to be transported to the Luliang area, if it weren't for Laiyuan's empty troops now, those grains might have been transported away long ago. If the food was snatched up by the Chinese army or burned by fire, the Japanese puppet army stationed on the front line of Luliang would be hungry, and Ono was just a lieutenant and could not afford such a responsibility.