Chapter 273: Contingency

As a local armed force among the local armed forces, the Luobei County Brigade was the first among several counties in Yang Zhenkong's district to form a county brigade. However, this county brigade was based on the original self-defense regiment of Luobei County, which was the puppet Manchurian self-defense regiment, plus some puppet Manchurian military and police, and a mountain and forest team in Luobei that was recruited, plus some personnel from the original Fifth Army.

Although the formation of combat power is relatively rapid, the internal composition is extremely complex. Due to the short time of formation, the interior has not yet had time to be cleaned up. Therefore, not only is discipline corrupted, but the combat effectiveness is far less than the ideal that was originally envisioned by the first divisional team.

Although the 1st Squadron, which was composed of the incorporated mountain and forest brigades, was resolute in resisting Japan, its discipline was loose and abnormal. There is also some resistance to political workers. Moreover, the cadres sent to receive the cadres drawn from the original Fifth Army were not reborn and reorganized according to Yang Zhen's requirements, but were still received in accordance with the practice of the Anti-Japanese Federation in the past to incorporate the mountain and forest teams. Its transformation is extremely incomplete.

In addition to the relatively thorough transformation of the second squadron, the third squadron incorporated by the former Luobei County Self-Defense Force was even more chaotic. The team members call each other brothers, and eat and drink together all day long. It even developed to the point of collecting protection money in private, and drinking flower wine in the entire brothel.

When Wang Xiaoming was the political commissar of the first sub-district, he proposed on several occasions that the county brigade be disbanded and that the personnel be re-selected and reorganized. However, due to the resolute opposition of the commander of the 1st Division, he had no choice but to give up.

In the eyes of the commander of the 1st Division, who had no experience in local work, the county brigade was only performing some local security tasks, such as looking at grain warehouses and prisons, which were actually of a police nature. It is almost impossible for such a unit to pull to the front, it is enough to have a façade.

At present, the military region is recruiting troops in Luobei County, which has caused tension in the entire military formation, and the sub-district cannot find enough candidates to replace these people for a while. Moreover, a big war is imminent, and in the face of no major reason, it is easy for the military spirit to fluctuate in the light of the reorganization of the troops.

What's more, this commander of the military division resolutely opposed the disbandment of the county brigade, and in his heart he was still influenced by his dozen or so old subordinates who were sent to serve as brigade leaders, instructors, and squadron leaders. In his opinion, the fact that these people were transferred to the county brigade was a pretty good placement for the old subordinates who had fought with him for many years.

These people have persisted in the struggle in the deep mountains and old forests for many years, and few of them are not injured, and some have even become crippled. Now it's a little more stable, let's enjoy it, talk about eating and drinking, as long as it's not too out of line, it's not a big deal. Maybe one day it will be glorious again, but now it's just a little bit of food and drink, and it's not worth making a fuss.

But he didn't know that those who were sent by him were just eating and drinking? At least half of them have already been dragged into the water by the spies in the county brigade with women and money. The people who were pulled into the water were basically all rotten. It was his connivance with these people that brought great danger to Yang Zhen's battle plan.

These old anti-Japanese federations, who have been fighting guerrillas in the deep mountains and old forests for a long time, in the most difficult time, in the face of the crazy encirclement and suppression of the Japanese puppet army, have no food and clothing for several days, and even can only fight in single clothes in the cold of minus thirty or forty degrees, but they have not bowed their heads, but they can't pass the women's pass.

Although the county seat of Luobei is not large and prosperous. However, under the influence of the puppet Manchurian deformed economy, brothels and big tobacco houses cannot be said to be everywhere, but they should definitely be there. It can be said that the sparrow is small, but it has all kinds of organs.

These anti-union fighters who live and fight in the deep mountains and old forests all the year round were dazzled by the drunken gold fans in front of them as soon as they entered the county. In addition, when he was transferred to work in a local area, discipline was not as strict as required in the main army, and he himself was somewhat relaxed about himself. The change in the environment has made many people relax themselves.

Many of the people assigned to work in the county brigade by the 1st Division were soon dragged into the water by the unscrupulous elements in the troops. They learned to accumulate private wealth, drink flower wine, visit kilns, and call some people in society brothers, kowtow to their sons, and some even became addicted to smoking. Among them, there are many military and political chiefs such as squadron leaders and instructors.

Even the captain of the county brigade was dragged into the water by those in the society in a very short period of time with several prostitutes. not only covers prostitutes and gambling, but also acts as a protective umbrella for them. He turned a blind eye to several orders from the Northeast Bureau to close brothels and gambling stalls, and even acted as thugs for their smuggling and secretly sold arms.

He sold five Italian-made rifles, sixteen British-made rifles, and six pistols at one time. More than 10,000 rounds of ammunition of various calibers are high. In a word, this county brigade is actually rotten. It's good for them to spy on the Japanese army and not lure wolves into the house.

This time, the 22nd Wing of the Japanese Army was brought out of the swamp by the 3rd Squadron of the Luobei County Brigade, a squad equivalent to a platoon-level establishment. This squad leader himself was a lieutenant in the original Luobei Puppet Manchurian police. After the liberation of Luobei, this guy pretended to be progressive, and was absorbed into the newly formed local government by people who lacked local work experience.

After the formation of the county brigade, he was appointed as the squad leader because he had served as a puppet Manchurian policeman and had a certain military knowledge. The guy, after enlisting in the army, not only pulled his own squadron leader into the water with a woman. And use this as a threat, trying to force the squadron leader to defect.

If it weren't for the squadron's quick response and discovery of the abnormality, he would immediately take the first action and adjust the third squadron to disarm the unstable unit and firmly control the troops, so that the squadron leader only took one squadron away. This squadron of more than 200 people is afraid that all of them will be coerced into mutiny.

After the defeat of the coercion, the guy did not stop doing anything, took his renegade subordinates into the swamp, and picked up the 22nd Wing trapped inside. and took the lead in leading the way, and directly touched the line of the general's stone. Although he didn't know Yang Zhen's overall deployment, as a native of Luobei, he was familiar with every road here.

If it weren't for Yang Zhen's sudden premonition that he didn't know when, according to the marching speed of the 22nd Wing that came out of trouble, and the detour direction, there would be a danger of overturning the general's stone line.

After encountering the 22nd Wing, Yang Zhen was very glad of his decision, and even more glad that he listened to Guo Bingxun's words and transferred a basic battalion from the 2nd Brigade. And when marching, use this base battalion as the vanguard. Otherwise, after the battle began, those recruits of the supplementary regiment looked like they were in a hurry, and they had to smash the pot if they didn't get this encounter.

In fact, at the beginning of the encounter, no one expected that the main force of the other side was also here. When the vanguard company encountered the 22nd Wing on the birch tube, both sides thought it was just a small force of the other side.

As soon as they saw the face, the vanguard company regarded the Japanese troops in front of them as part of the remnants of the 24th Division that had fled. When the 22nd Wing got out of trouble, it had been wandering around the swamp for more than five days, all the heavy weapons had been lost, and everyone was almost as if they had been dug out of a mud pit, which was no better than calling Hanako.

The wolf bèi of the 22nd Wing was unbearable, which naturally made the vanguard company treat its vanguard as the remnants of the Japanese army that ran out of the general stone line. And it didn't attract much attention from the vanguard company. For that somewhat stupid and bold company commander, although he can't say that he will take a bite when he sees fat. But I also made up my mind to pay attention, and I will him first. Anyway, there is still the main force behind him.

As for the extremely hungry and extremely hungry Fat Dazuo, who did not expect to encounter the opponent so early, and wanted to grab some food first, light a fire and eat some hot food to fill the two days of running out of food, he did not get any reports from the opponent's rebels that there were new reinforcements.

Those who led the 22nd Wing out of that damn piece, let themselves lose almost all the heavy machine guns, infantry guns and other heavy weapons, and couldn't even find a single dry firewood, and the life of the 22nd Wing for a few days almost became a nightmare for the 22nd Wing, the rebels in the swamp once swore to sù Nishi Ojo Fat Dasa, the opponent's main force was in a fierce battle with the main force of the division on the front line of the general's stone.

And from what they knew about the battle, it was clear that the opponent's casualties were very large. At this time, the territory of Luobei, where a considerable amount of supplies had been gathered, was very empty, except for a basic regiment of a military subdivision in Binsui, there was only one local police force such as the county brigade that had been rebelled against and had the intention of surrendering to the imperial army.

Therefore, for the report of the encounter between the vanguard team and the other party, this figure is very similar to his name, even if he has been hungry for a few days, he has not seen the thin Nishidaijo Fat Dazuo at all, and it is natural to think that what he encountered is the small force of the basic regiment of the opponent's military division.

After rushing to grab some food to fill his belly, according to the order of the division and regimental headquarters, he advanced to attack the flank of the first line of General Shi, and did not want to entangle with these small armed forces, Nishiojo Fat Osa, with a wave of his hand, mobilized a reorganized squadron, trying to break the opponent's resistance in the shortest possible time.

But what the two sides, who were not mentally prepared, did not expect that there were not many opponents who seemed to be fighting more and more. First, Yang Zhen's vanguard even besieged the opponent's team. When the team realized that something was wrong, they immediately reported it, and when the reinforcements arrived, it developed into a company-sized heads-up.

As time goes by, the more the two sides fight, the more wrong it feels, how can the opponent get bigger and bigger? Both sides found out that something was wrong, and they called their bosses to come over for reinforcements. When the main forces arrived, a scuffle broke out on the birch tube. Two hours passed, but the two sides were evenly matched.

Yang Zhen's department is fully equipped and has a large number of automatic firearms. Not only in terms of numbers, but also because of the complete range of light and heavy machine guns, it also has a clear advantage in firepower. This can be seen from the very beginning of the encounter, when the 22nd Wing was sent to destroy the enemy who stood in its way, and the squadron was killed and wounded by a large number of submachine guns.

However, the Japanese army is superior to the soldiers, and their tactical cooperation with each other, the battlefield experience is far better than that brought by Yang Zhen, except for the company platoon leader, all the soldiers are rookies who have never been on the battlefield. After two hours of scuffle, the two sides ended in a draw.

Regarding the situation in front of them, both Yang Zhen and Nishidaijo Fat Dazuo are quite dissatisfied. In Yang Zhen's view, he has an absolute advantage in both strength and firepower, even if he can't defeat the opponent, he should also press the opponent to fight. Why is there a tendency to be pressed and beaten by the other party now?

And for Nishiojo Fat Dazuo, although he is extremely confident in the combat effectiveness of his subordinates. But now that the opponent is fighting more and more, he is not only worried about whether he can rush to the front line of the general stone on time to participate in the battle according to the orders of the division and regiment headquarters, but he is even a little worried about whether he can be entangled by the opponent and trapped here.

It's just that the division and regimental headquarters have not been able to get in touch, so even though he knows that his subordinates have not eaten for two days, and even because they can only drink the internal organ water of the swamp, a considerable number of people have severe diarrhea, so he can only fight the opponent hard.

After two hours, no one could help the two sides of the other, so they could only patiently knock back and forth with the opponent. Compared with the anxious Nishidaijo Fat Dazuo, Yang Zhen, who was victorious in the main battlefield of General Stone, seemed more calm. After the shape shì steady dìng down, he immediately adjusted the deployment.

The two recruit regiments were dismantled, and the battalion was used as a structure, and the veteran battalion was transferred out to take turns into battle, so that these recruits who had no combat experience could master what they could not learn in the training ground on weekdays.

A lot of things are on the training ground, no matter how your squad platoon commander teaches them, say them ten thousand times, these recruits may not be able to remember. It's better to go to the battlefield and walk around, even if you only pick soft persimmons and pinch them once, you can learn quickly. This may be the answer to the old saying that it is better to move your mouth a thousand times.

Yang Zhen, who used the 22nd Wing as a training ground, was a little dissatisfied with the development of the battle situation, but he fought quite easily. Even if it had been confirmed that the opponent was the main force of the 22nd Wing who was spinning around in the swamp, he did not seem to be in a hurry. is still patient, and grinds with the opponent a little bit.

But after receiving a few prisoners of war sent by the vanguard of the first wave of encounters with the 22nd Wing, as well as the interrogation records, Yang Zhen no longer had the previous calmness. He immediately sent a telegram to Li Yanping, who was in Binsui at this time, and asked him to immediately rush to the headquarters of the 1st Division to take over the command of the 1st Division.

At the same time, he sent a telegram to Chai Shirong, commander of the 1st Division, acting political commissar Li Tai, and chief of staff Wang Ruqi, who were now on the Suibin front, ordering them to immediately hand over the troops to the command of Li Yanping, political commissar, and to immediately rush to the birch tube line. However, in order to appease these people, Yang Zhen was cautious in his words on the telegram. Just tell a few people that the military region has an important task to explain.

At the same time, Yang Zhen did not care about the fierce battle with the main force of the 22nd Wing in front of him, and transferred two infantry platoons of the basic battalion from the front line, and one main battalion of the first regiment immediately went north, under the command of Gao Yumin, director of the political department who was now in Luobei County, and immediately disarmed all the Luobei County brigades.

Yang Zhen's order to Gao Yumin was very clear, if there was resistance, no matter who it was, it would be solved on the spot. And when Chai Shirong and Li Tai, who received the order to hurry up, arrived, they were immediately disarmed and detained by Yang Zhen along with the guard platoon.