The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 431 Is So Confident (please subscribe and ask for a monthly ticket)

Zhao Gang's doubts are also Xu Lianzhong's worries.

After the questioning, Zhao Gang and Xu Lianzhong focused their gazes on Kong Jie.

Kong Jie smiled and said, "Lao Zhao, Lao Xu, don't worry, I have considered this in advance."

"In combat in mountainous areas, the side that takes the initiative to attack suffers more damage, while the side that defends in advance suffers less damage. This is an advantage in the use of terrain and features."

"For example, in the current battle situation around our independent regiment, it is impossible for the devils to fight from Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang to Niukou Village."

"But at the same time, with the remaining strength of our independent regiment, it is also very difficult to eat up the [-]th Mixed Brigade and Ishii Regiment who are besieged around."

"But if you choose the key points in advance and fight the blocking battle, it will be much simpler."

"Whether it is in Xicun or Zhangjiazhuang, the route nodes that the Japanese army can evacuate and advance are limited. I just need to send people to guard all these nodes, and then send troops to carry out a feint attack, pretending to gradually shrink the encirclement circle, in an attempt to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army. Devil Definitely will fall for it.”

"In addition, the local troops and even militia comrades will help in the siege of the Japanese Fourth Mixed Brigade and the Ishii Regiment. In this way, in the eyes of the Japanese army, our independent regiment will have a lot more troops at once."

"At that time, I will use part of the main combat force to cooperate with local troops and militia comrades to besiege the Japanese troops in Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang."

"Buy enough time for our two sides to fight for aid."

With Kong Jie's explanation, Zhao Gang and Xu Lianzhong reassured their doubts, and they nodded.

Then, for this joint operation, Kong Jie, Zhao Gang, and Xu Lianzhong discussed the specific combat deployment and arrangements for encirclement and reinforcements for nearly an hour. .

Considering that the station still needs someone to be in charge and command, Zhao Gang and Xu Lianzhong returned to their respective stations through the secret transportation channel at night, and Kong Jie sent comrades from the guard company to escort them all the way.

After Zhao Gang and Xu Lianzhong left, Kong Jie held a military meeting overnight. The fourth battalion, fifth battalion, and troops directly under the regiment, as well as battalion and company-level cadres, all arrived.

At the beginning of the meeting, Kong Jie got straight to the point:

"This time our Independent Regiment cooperated with the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment to carry out the tactic of besieging and attacking the Japanese army. Our independent regiment is mainly responsible for two tasks. The first is to besiege the Fourth Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army in West Village And the Ishii Regiment in Zhangjiazhuang; the second point is to separate part of the main force to cooperate with the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment to encircle and wipe out the Japanese reinforcements."

"Considering that we have insufficient troops to stay in the base area this time, the local troops and militia comrades will assist us in fighting this time."

"The general combat arrangement is as follows. This time we gather the remaining troops in the base area. On the premise of ensuring the internal stability of the base area, we can mobilize more than 500 troops, of which more than 300 will cooperate with local comrades and militia comrades to encircle the enemy. Zhangjiazhuang's Ishii United."

"Another 300 people, with the cooperation of local comrades and militia comrades, besieged the Fourth Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army in Xicun."

"The nearly a thousand troops that have been vacated will be divided into two parts, and they will unite with the New Second Regiment and the New Second Regiment respectively to ambush the reinforcements supporting Xiangxi Village and Zhangjiazhuang."

Speaking of this, Kong Jie asked: "How is the fourth battalion commander, the county brigade, the district squad, and comrades from the village soldiers all coordinating?"

Lei Dasheng said with a smile: "The head of the regiment, the local comrades, and the militia comrades have all made it clear that they will execute the orders of the regiment headquarters at any time."

"Comrades have already said that since the Battle of Zhengtai, as long as you fight with our independent regiment, there must be meat to eat."

"Leaving aside, let's just say that among the county brigades, the county brigade of our independent regiment is the most luxurious, and its weapons and equipment are almost on par with some of the main regiments."

"Comrades are waiting for this battle, and then follow our independent regiment to eat meat!"

Kong Jie nodded with a smile, and continued: "The people in our villages and towns have all evacuated, and the local comrades, as well as the militia comrades, can spare their hands. Calculated in this way, there are quite a lot of troops."

"Speaking of the Zhangjiazhuang road alone, we have more than 300 troops. The county brigade, district squad, and various village soldiers are added together. There are almost 500 people. This is more than 800 troops. We set up fortifications at key points to stop the Japanese army and surround Zhangjiazhuang's Ishii United, as long as the tactics are right, it may not be impossible."

"In addition, after the battle started, we disguised these five hundred local comrades and militia comrades as our main force, so that the devils would think that we were using the main force to besiege his Ishii unit."

Du Aiguo said: "Regimental Commander, this is easy. We have captured some puppet soldiers. The puppet soldiers said that since the rise of our independent regiment, the main combat troops of our independent regiment have many characteristics that are different from other Eighth Route Army troops. Devils It is by virtue of these characteristics that we can judge whether it is a team of our independent regiment."

"Oh, how do you say that?" Kong Jie became curious.

Du Aiguo said: "The little devil said that the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment, apart from its exceptionally strong firepower configuration, has several other obvious characteristics. One is uniform uniforms, and the other most important point of judgment is their Soldiers don't wear cloth shoes or even straw sandals like regular Eighth Route Army troops.

What are you wearing?They wear military boots made of cowhide, and a large number of Showa military boots seized, and then slightly modified, became the military boots of the soldiers of the Independence Regiment.

This is the biggest feature that the devils recognize in our independent regiment. "

Kong Jie laughed, it turned out that was the case.

Commander Kong felt the hardships and bitterness of the Red Army. While the independent regiment was developing weapons and equipment and promoting the economic construction of the base area, he often communicated with Dong San of the logistics department, and always paid attention to the basic necessities of the soldiers.

According to Kong Jie's standard:

Wear, at least warm, and then pursue comfortable clothing. Soldiers must have cotton-padded clothes in winter and thin shirts in summer, at least they can be changed and washed.

Eating, not to mention eating enough for every meal, at least let the soldiers get the nutrition from the food, which can supply the consumption of combat and training.

To live, the living environment should be suitable, not too humid or too dry, and ventilated frequently to avoid soldiers getting together and causing more diseases.

OK, in addition to the bicycles, motorcycles, unicycles and horses provided by the army logistics, Kong Jie attributed more of the "OK" to the shoes worn by the soldiers.

During the hard times of the army, the straw sandals worn by soldiers had to find a way to replace them.

These straw sandals are not wear-resistant and not strong, and they are often damaged during the march. Soldiers even have to find new grass to weave straw sandals on the spot while marching.

Straw sandals made of straw and hemp can hardly be called comfortable. The barbs of the straw sandals often inadvertently scratch the soles of the feet, and even lead to repeated infections during the march.

Coupled with poor warmth retention, many soldiers were frostbitten because they wore straw sandals barefoot.

What's more serious is that wearing straw sandals for long-term marching with heavy loads can easily lead to flat feet and make soldiers lose the ability to march long distances.

So after the independent regiment became rich in logistics, Kong Jie immediately told Dong San that the problem of the soldiers wearing shoes should be completely solved first.

The infantry relies on a pair of feet to fight. The comfortable and fit shoes can even increase the combat effectiveness by half. This is a crucial factor.

Kong Jie's request was not to mention a pair of military boots for each person, but at least a pair of cloth shoes.

This condition was met very quickly. Later, the Independence Regiment had multiple business avenues, and together with the money obtained from the cash flow from the armed seizure of the Devil’s county seat, Kong Jie used part of it to buy a lot of fabrics and The soles are back.

Then I invited some big ladies from the village to rush to make a lot of military shoes.

Therefore, as early as more than half a year ago, the soldiers of the independent regiment had two pairs of cloth shoes per capita as soles. During the winter, they even issued a pair of cotton shoes with animal hair in the soles.

At this point, Captain Kong is still not satisfied.

Later, Kong Jie came up with the idea of ​​Devil Showa Type [-] military boots.

The devil's military boots are made of cowhide, which are durable and waterproof. The entire boot can cover the calf at once. The sole of the boot is supported by the heel and the arch of the foot. Most importantly, there are anti-skid steel nails at the bottom. Great grip.

Wearing this thing, you can even run in the mountains.

In addition, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army never regarded Jin Gui's bare feet.

It's just like a tiger with wings.

So without further ado, Commander Kong began to think of ways to make the soldiers of the independent regiment wear these military boots.

Kong Jie’s great wish at that time was: Every number of our independent regiment counts as number one. Even the comrades in the cooking class must get at least one pair of these military boots to wear. Everyone’s military boots are worn, and I will be the last to wear them. When can I even wear this kind of military boots, the problem of our independent regiment soldiers wearing shoes has been completely solved.

Later, every time a battle was won, the devil's military boots were seized, and the devil's gun tower stronghold, all kinds of cowhide raw materials in the devil's material warehouse, and military boots were taken.

Kong Jie even used the power of the enemy's Ministry of Industry to find a way to buy some materials for making military boots in the counties and counties occupied by the enemy.

Up to now, even though Kong Jie, the commander of the regiment, still wears a pair of single cloth shoes, it is only because the commander Kong spit on a nail. As long as there is one soldier in the regiment who has not put on military boots, he will not wear them. This combat boot.

But in fact, so far, almost all the soldiers of the main combat force of the Independence Regiment have been issued this kind of combat boots.

This is one of the highlights that distinguishes the soldiers of the Independent Regiment from other soldiers of the Eighth Route Army. It is no wonder that the devils use this to distinguish whether they are members of the Independent Regiment or not.

"Interesting, it's easy to say, the local comrades who assist in the battle, as well as the militia comrades, are all equipped with such military boots."

Speaking of this, Kong Jie joked: "Just said it, don't be stingy, the military boots were distributed to local comrades and militia comrades, and after the battle, don't ask people to come back. Our independent regiment can't afford to lose face." .”

The cadres all laughed, and Lei Dasheng said with a smile: "Head, don't worry about that. Our independent regiment has always been generous to the outside world. Otherwise, why do the comrades in the surrounding areas like to fight with our independent regiment?"

After joking for a while, Kong Jie marked all the nodes with a small red flag on the combat sand table.

Looking down, these nodes are connected into a line, and then connected to the mountains and cliffs between the nodes, just forming two large encircling circles, enclosing the West Village and Zhangjiazhuang areas respectively.

"Count them carefully, there are fifteen nodes in total."

"The Japanese army besieging Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang this time, as long as they can take and hold all these nodes, the encirclement will be formed."

Lei Dasheng said: "Regimental Commander, the troops we used to besiege the two routes of Japanese troops in Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, even if we add local comrades and militia troops, there are only more than 600 people, and there are fifteen nodes. We divide each node equally. Down, there are only about 100 troops."

"There are still some large nodes among them. The Japanese army can deploy their troops to launch an attack. When we are short of troops, it may not be easy to defend these nodes."

Kong Jie said: "If it is not fully prepared, it will not be easy, but if we make full preparations in advance with the help of the terrain and features around these nodes, we may not be unable to defend."

The cadres all looked over expectantly.

Kong Jie said, "Don't you forget the defensive methods we used when we took down the Yangquan stronghold last year?"

As soon as these words came out, Lei Dasheng was the first to react, and said, "That's right, Captain, how could I have forgotten this?"

"The devils have always used bunker tactics to hold on to the fortifications, and we can also use concrete fortifications and bunkers to hold on to the nodes."

"The large amount of cement, sand, and gravel that our independent regiment reserves for building concrete buildings is not for viewing."

"As long as we can take the opportunity to control these nodes, and build a sufficient number of concrete bunkers in advance at these nodes, relying on the fortifications to hold on to the danger, it will not be so easy for the devils to break out."

Kong Jie said: "This is the advantage of taking advantage of the terrain and features to fight defensive warfare. Fortifications that are easy to defend and difficult to attack can give us the possibility to fight more with less."

"Some of these nodes are in the hands of the Japanese army, but the devils probably never thought that we dare to besiege them in reverse. In addition, these nodes are some distance away from the concentration area of ​​the Japanese army, so the Japanese troops staying at these nodes are not strong. not much."

"Before tonight, take down all the nodes controlled by the Japanese army, and build concrete fortifications during the night."

"The solidification of this concrete building and the improvement of its strength will take time, and we must hurry up."

"Yes!" The cadres responded in unison.

Kong Jie said: "In this way, we have a strong fortification in our hands, which is enough to hold on to the danger, but this is not enough. No matter how strong the fortification is, it cannot stop the powerful artillery."

"Once the battle starts, in order to eliminate the threat of the Japanese army's attacking artillery to our bunker fortifications, we must find a way to destroy the devil's artillery units in advance."

"This requires the tactics of luring the snake out of the hole. The devil's artillery unit is currently staying in a large stronghold at this point. We need to ambush halfway and eat this artillery unit in one bite."

"In addition, there are some accompanying infantry artillery squads in the Japanese army, and we have to find a way to knock them out, otherwise they will also pose a certain threat to our fortifications."

"And as long as the large-caliber artillery in the hands of the Japanese army is knocked out, the devils will only have some grenadiers left. With the power of grenadier shells, they want to blast our concrete bunker fortifications. It's a dream!"

What Captain Kong said was domineering, that's how confident he is.

The cadres were infected by this self-confidence, and for a while, they felt that victory was within easy reach.

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(End of this chapter)