The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 415 The equipment gap in comparison
Kong Jie smiled and said, "That's exactly what it means."

Lei Dasheng asked: "Commander, how many troops should we send to intersperse?"

Kong Jie thought for a while and said, "The rest of the devils are trying to contain the troops in our base area, but we still have to beware of the devils taking the opportunity to launch an attack.

The troops sent out should not be too many, of course, too few would not be of great use.

Just send a reinforcement company!A part of the guard company and cavalry company was transferred to temporarily form a reinforced company with fast mobility.

I lead the team myself. "

Kong Jie wanted to lead the team himself, which shocked the commander of the fourth battalion. Lei Dasheng hurriedly said: "Regimental commander, you should stay at the command post. The regiment still needs you to take command. The devils are sweeping up, and you can go everywhere." It's not safe, if something happens to you, how can I explain to Lao Shen and the others?"

Kong Jie scolded with a smile: "You don't need to tell me, you know that the devils are launching a big raid right now, and no one can stay out of it. My two old comrades-in-arms, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei, have already led the troops to fight to the death. I went to the rear, you let me stay in the root?"

"In the tradition of our Eighth Route Army, commanders must lead by example in combat."

"In the past year, our independent regiment has developed too fast. It has developed, but what about other regiments? Many regiments have outdated equipment and scarce ammunition. The machine gunners in the regiment are all controlled by the company commander. The battalion commander and even the regimental commander personally went into battle and took charge.”

"It is precisely because our commanders personally operate these important firepower points that the combat effectiveness of the troops can be brought into full play."

"Right now, the Japanese army attacking our independent regiment is withdrawing its troops again and returning to aid. With you and Lao Du here, the defense of the base area is absolutely no problem. It is useless for me to stay at the regiment headquarters. It is better to go out and fight a few battles."

When Kong Jie said this, Lei Dasheng had nothing to say, he knew the temper of his head.

"Reporter Shen sent someone to take care of the spot. When asked about my situation, he said that there was another military operation, so I couldn't disclose it."

"In this way, let her be arranged in the rear to stay with the people. Doesn't she like interviews? Just to interview the people, so that she can know why our Eighth Route Army is called the people's soldiers."

"Yes!" Lei Dasheng replied. .

Before leaving, Lei Dasheng told Monk Wei again and again: "Monk, you must bring me back a piece of hair from the head of the regiment, or I will take you as a question."

The monk slapped his chest loudly, "Fourth Battalion Commander, don't worry!"

But in fact, the monk with the same itchy hands has already flown to the battlefield.

The reinforcement company that started secretly was quickly integrated, consisting of 120 soldiers from the guard company, plus [-] soldiers from the cavalry company, plus Kong Jie and his party, a total of more than [-] people and more than [-] horses.

In terms of commanders, there are regiment leader Kong Jie, guard company commander and regiment commander Wei Monk, cavalry company commander Sun Desheng, and cavalry company instructor Chen Dalian.

After a team walked up the secret passage from the Independent Regiment to the New Second Regiment, Kong Jie said to Sun Desheng:
"Old Sun, I heard you scolded your mother in the team again?"

Sun Desheng scratched his head in embarrassment.

The instructor at the side, Chen Dalian, laughed, "Regimental Commander, you don't know about Lao Sun. The devils are launching a big raid right now. The rest of our regiment's troops are participating in the battle. The cavalry company is only responsible for the transportation back and forth in the middle. Ah, he's in a bad mood!"

Kong Jie snorted, "I think it's not just Lao Sun, you, Lao Chen, are also complaining in your heart!"

Chen Dalian did not deny it, "Regimental Commander, you said that the anti-mopping up is such a big matter, and our cavalry company can't do anything about it."

Kong Jie said: "You guys are in a hurry, as I said earlier, the cavalry is the treasure of our independent regiment, raising one of you cavalry costs me the price of raising four or five infantrymen, tell me, I can take your cavalry as a treasure." Infantry?"

"I've always told you that this good steel must be used wisely. There is always a chance for your cavalry company to fight. Why can't you hold back your temper?"

Chen Dalian has always had a thick skin in front of Kong Jie, "What the leader criticized is that we have to correct our impatience without fighting... Captain, now this is a good steel that needs to be used on the blade Bar?"

"It's just your quick thinking." Kong Jie scolded with a smile: "It's really time to use it wisely, and it's been the third day since the devil's sweep.

Except for the three regiments of our Iron Triangle, which had a solid defense and even broke through the encirclement of the Japanese army, allowing the devils to encircle our area with little progress.

In other aspects, the encirclement around our Taihang area has been shrinking.

After the sweep, a large combat area was vacated.

This gave us the space and opportunity for cavalry to fight.

The defense area of ​​our Audio-Technica is located in the mountainous area, but to the west and east, the [-]st Regiment, the [-]nd Regiment, and the newly formed Fifth and Seventh Regiments, the defense area where these troops are located, in addition to the mountainous area, can also be There are quite a few flat areas.

It is unrealistic for cavalry to fight directly, and I don't want cavalry to fight on flat areas.

Right now, we are just using our horses to improve the rapid mobility of our reinforced company, so that we can quickly support the brothers who are being surrounded by the Japanese army. "

Chen Dalian nodded and said with a smile: "Commander, although our reinforced company has a small number of people, apart from mobility, all kinds of light weapons are absolutely powerful."

"An average of three war horses will carry a light machine gun and a [-] small cannon. You even ordered to abandon some rifles, but also carry a sufficient amount of light automatic firepower and small-caliber artillery."

"Behind the encirclement encircled by the Japanese army, as soon as our troops appeared, the sudden burst of firepower would definitely scare the devils."

"However, although we have mobility, we also have quite powerful explosive light firepower. Once we encounter large-scale Japanese troops, I am afraid we will not get any benefits."

Kong Jie asked: "Old Chen, how do you think we should fight this time?"

Chen Dalian thought for a while, and replied: "Regimental Commander, I think that one is a quick raid, and you can specifically select the small-scale troops of the Japanese and puppet troops who are alone, and fight a quick annihilation battle.

The mobility of our cavalry is high, coupled with the explosive firepower at hand, as long as we move fast enough to wipe out the small-scale mopping up troops of the devils, the rest of the devils will not be able to react at all.

As for the sneak attack on the devil's large-scale troops, I don't recommend this.

It's completely thankless, at most it will cause certain casualties to the devil troops, and once the artillery of the Japanese army hits us, we cannot avoid sacrifices.

Therefore, if it is a surprise attack on a large-scale Japanese army, it can only be one situation. This Japanese army is fighting with our other Eighth Route Army troops, and we are taking the opportunity to make a surprise attack to support our brother troops. "

Kong Jie looked at Sun Desheng at the side again, and Sun Desheng scratched his head: "Regimental Commander, when it comes to cavalry tactics, Old Chen knows better than me."

Chen Dalian said: "In actual cavalry command and combat, Lao Sun is worth two of me."

Kong Jie said with a smile: "You two are still humble. It seems that I can rest assured that the cavalry company is handed over to you two. One focuses on actual combat and the other focuses on theory. When you two are combined, it will be actual combat plus theory. , almost victorious in all battles.”

Everyone chatted and laughed for a while, and Kong Jie said: "Now we are taking the horses through the secret transport passage, and some hillsides have to be detoured, otherwise the horses will not go. It may take a while to go back and forth. We have to hurry up .”

"Yes!"

……

……

Go back in time two days.

The periphery of the Taihang area.

Komatsupo.

The [-]th Brigade joined the regular battle order of the national army, the [-]nd Regiment, one of the two main regiments reorganized from the old Red Army.

A large-scale ambush was fought here. Among them, the [-]nd Regiment participated in the ambush with the main combat force of more than [-] people.

The one that was ambushed was a sweeping brigade of the Japanese army, with a strength of about 800 people.

After a fierce battle, the two sides deserved to be one of the old main regiments of the 300th Brigade. The Japanese brigade was defeated and retreated in a hurry after leaving more than [-] dead soldiers behind.

"Reporting to the regiment commander, two infantry guns have been seized in a row!"

As soon as they started to clean up the battlefield, the communications soldier reported the good news to Commander Cheng.

At that time, Captain Cheng's eyes were almost gone from laughing, and he was cursing all the time: "Finally, I got the infantry artillery. Isn't that old boy Li Yunlong relying on his new second regiment to have two infantry artillery? I'm scared in front of me, I see what he has to say this time, these two cannons, but we seized them with real skills."

As a result, Captain Cheng was not happy for a long time. The scouts in charge of spreading the security returned in a panic and reported:
"Head, something is wrong, the devils have come back again, and the number of people has doubled compared to before!"

Captain Cheng's heart skipped a beat, "No, the devil's reinforcements have arrived!"

"Quick, everyone retreat immediately."

Looking at the battlefield that hadn't been cleaned yet, the commander of the first battalion was full of reluctance, "Regimental Commander, there is so much good equipment, and we haven't had time to seize it yet!"

Leader Cheng cursed: "Don't worry about it so much, first take away the rifles and other things that are easy to capture, and retreat quickly, the devil's shells will come right away."

After the arrangement, Captain Cheng, who was still thinking about his two infantry cannons, explained: "My cannon, don't forget, immediately get the manpower and pull out the two infantry cannons first."

"Yes!"

boom -

The scouts sent by the devil noticed that the soldiers on Cheng's side were still cleaning the battlefield. After passing the news back, the defeated Japanese brigade brought another brigade of reinforcements to fight back. The distance began to bombard the previous combat areas of both sides.

The devils would rather blow up their weapons than leave them to the Eighth Route Army.

Looking at the battlefield submerged in the sea of ​​flames, and the corpses of the devils staying on the battlefield were bombarded to pieces, Captain Cheng and his party felt lingering fear.

"Captain, fortunately your order was timely, we withdrew early, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable."

Leader Cheng was a little helpless, the devils were finally repelled, and the devils' reinforcements came before they had captured many good things.

"Let's retreat! If we continue to block here, the devil's reinforcements will only increase, and we may even be surrounded!"

The first company commander who was in charge of transporting the two infantry guns ran over with a bitter expression on his face, and reported: "Commander, the wheels of these two infantry guns were damaged and could not be pushed forward. We came to ambush this time, and we didn't bring mules with us. Horses, relying on manpower alone, move too slowly."

"If you continue like this, you will definitely be caught up by the devil."

The facts are indeed true. Although the Type [-] infantry artillery is not an excellent weapon of war, it is also a treasure in the eyes of the resource-poor Japanese army. At least they are assigned to the brigade level and are called brigade artillery.

Now that two infantry cannons have been lost, the leader of the devil brigade who withdrew earlier is full of anxiety!

This is no small crime for losing infantry artillery on the battlefield.

Now that he was fighting back again, the captain of the Devils was determined to take back the two infantry cannons.

"It exploded. The devils are about to come after them right now. We can't delay here because of the two cannons. We won't get them, and we can't leave them to the little devils."

Captain Cheng gritted his teeth and said.

A battalion commander on the side rolled his eyes and suggested: "Commander, it's a pity to blow up, why don't we find a place to dig a hole and bury these two cannons first! After the devils withdraw, we Just come back and dig out the cannon."

Leader Cheng was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, this idea is good, so he nodded immediately.

In this way, the guard troops of the [-]nd Regiment exchanged fire with the Japanese army for a while, buying the team a moment.

The soldiers dug an earthen pit in a relatively hidden place around the battlefield, buried two infantry cannons in it, and treated the surface of the earthen pit naturally.

Only then did Captain Cheng lead the team away with reluctant eyes on the infantry artillery.

The Japanese soldiers who were chasing all the way didn't think so much. They were wondering how the Eighth Route Army could run so fast with the captured infantry artillery.

In the end, I chased all the way and failed to catch up.

The feet of the Eighth Route Army, that's not bragging.

……

Stationed in the east direction of Taihang, the new Fifth Regiment of the Eighth Route Army near Xiaoshan Village was established at the same time as Li Yunlong's new Second Regiment.

The regiment has only a thousand troops.

The firepower configuration within the regiment is far behind that of the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment of the Independent Regiment, but compared with other combat units of the Eighth Route Army, it is indeed conventional.

The entire regiment had only one heavy machine gun, and in battle, the battalion commander of the regiment, even the commander of the fifth regiment, served as the machine gunner.

Each company has only three light machine guns, and each light machine gun is equipped with less than [-] rounds of ammunition.

Anyway, it is also a regular combat force, and the soldiers in the whole regiment have less than ten rounds of bullets per capita.

The devils raided the small mountain village this time, also with the strength of a brigade, not a full brigade, with less than 800 people, and they directly pushed the base of the new fifth regiment.

The fifth regiment arranged cadres in advance to transfer the masses to the rear, and the remaining troops relied on the mountainous areas to fight guerrilla warfare with the devils, but the casualties were still not small, and they kept retreating amid the Japanese raids.

In the battle just a few hours ago, Feng Zheng, the head of the new Fifth Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, was shot while holding the only heavy machine gun in the whole regiment. Fortunately, he hit his shoulder and suffered only minor injuries. ...

(End of this chapter)