The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 435 Give Lao Kong a Day Job
Niukou Village, Regiment Headquarters.

The head of the regiment, Kong Jie, took the command and waited for the situation on the front line.

After the battle between Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang around various nodes gradually stopped, the news quickly spread to the regiment headquarters.

"Reporting to the head of the regiment, there is news from the front. The various ministries have successfully laid down the nodes and repelled several Japanese attacks. The Ishii Regiment in Zhangjiazhuang and the Japanese Independent Fourth Mixed Brigade in Xicun failed to attack and temporarily retreated to the mountainous highlands outside the village. Stay safe."

Until around twelve noon.

The battle between Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang is becoming more and more stable. The Japanese army has made up their minds and temporarily switched from offense to defense, preserving their strength and waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

Next to the battle sand table of the regiment headquarters, Commander Kong was smoking a cigarette and puffing out clouds, while concentrating on analyzing the battle situation on the sand table, accompanied by the guards and monks.

"Leader, let's block the node between Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, and the devil will not run away. We have completed the task of enclosing the point, and the next step is to fight for aid."

Kong Jie nodded, leaned over on the battle sand table, and drew a circle around Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, showing a tendency to encircle him. Then he turned his gaze and placed it between Xicun and Xinyi Regiment, and Zhangjiazhuang to Xiner Regiment. superior.

"The Ishii Regiment and the [-]th Brigade of the Japanese Army are under siege and cannot break out for the time being. They will definitely ask for help from the Japanese army in the area where the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment are stationed. Immediately send scouts to stare at these two directions and send the Japanese troops at any time. progress."

"Yes!" The monk replied.

"In addition, monk, arrange two scouting cavalry to quickly scout in the two directions of Xiaoshan Village and Xiaosongpo. If you find that the fifth regiment and the [-]nd regiment who came to reinforce them After the rendezvous, let us scouts send news to the teams of the two regiments, and the two teams will move closer to Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang respectively."

"Yes, head, I'll arrange it right away!" The monk replied. .

The monk turned around and left the house, gave orders through the waiting messengers, made arrangements, and returned to the house.

Kong Jie's gaze was still on the sand table, thinking about the details of the current battle between Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.

"The best defense is to attack. The two Japanese troops in Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang are currently forced to retreat, but after a long time, they will definitely find a way to break out and cooperate with the peripheral Japanese reinforcements, especially the two from the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment. After the reinforcements of the Japanese army were ambushed by us, the devils decided that they couldn’t sit still.”

"In this way, while each node strengthens the defense of the node, it then dispatches a small group of combat troops to continuously harass the retreating Japanese army."

"Mainly use [-] small artillery for long-range sneak attacks, arrange various ministries, and send shelling teams. Even if the devil is in the mountainous area, even if he doesn't come out, he has to use a pot to cook. As long as there is thick smoke, he will directly bombard it."

"Let the little devil not even eat in peace."

"In addition, let the sniper platoon continue to stare at the surrounding strongholds, and beware of the Japanese strongholds reinforcing Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang."

"Yes!"

"Especially the big stronghold where the devil's artillery unit is located. The devil can't break through the strongholds in Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang. Most of them will use the artillery from the big stronghold to try to break through from the outside."

The monk said: "Don't worry, the head of the group, I have already arranged for the guards over there. In addition, local comrades cooperated to set up ambushes on the mountain road along the way. That is the only way for the devils to reach West Village and Zhangjiazhuang. As long as the devil's artillery comes over, he can't run away."

"Although our guard company is small in number, all of our soldiers are elite. Especially this time, in order to deal with the devil's artillery unit, the repair shop has provided us with a lot of secret weapons."

Kong Jie smiled and said, "I'm really looking forward to the power of the rolling thunder and the grenade."

"Monk, just in case, you don't need to worry about my side for the time being. You hurry up and rush over there. Be sure to stop the devil's artillery unit. If the artillery can be captured, if it can't be captured, just blow it up." We can’t let the devils support us to go to Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.”

"Yes!" The monk took the order and left.

Soon Kong Jie was the only one left in the room. Looking at the sand table, he used a small wooden stick as a route, marking out the Japanese Army and the Eighth Route Army's multiple reinforcements, and fell into deep thought...

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West Village.

The temporary headquarters of the Japanese Independent Fourth Mixed Brigade, the Japanese brigade commander Yamaguchi Shube, after sending an emergency call for help to the surrounding Japanese mopping up troops, then contacted the big stronghold in the rear and informed the artillery squadron to advance in the direction of Nishimura. Explode the fortifications of the Eighth Route Army nodes such as Xiaohuanggou and Dongxiangshan Road from the periphery.

At this time, Yamaguchi was analyzing the battle situation with the map, and his stomach suddenly growled for a while.

"What time is it?" Yamaguchi raised his head and asked,
The chief of staff, Hideo Nakajima, looked at his watch and replied, "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, it's almost one o'clock in the afternoon."

Yamaguchi said: "I'm hungry. It has been nearly a week since this march. After continuous fighting, the soldiers are already exhausted. Nakajima-kun, I think the big raid this time will cause a lot of trouble. It's almost the end."

Hideo Nakajima said: "The Empire of Japan will surely win, and this sweep will surely triumph!"

The tree by the mountain pass remained silent, and the lowered eyes showed that the master was not in a happy mood.

Triumph?

Yamaguchi and Nakajima knew exactly what was going on in the current situation, and the triumph they were talking about at this moment was more like a comfort to themselves.

Not to mention other troops, just talk about his independent fourth mixed brigade, even if he wins now, it will be a miserable victory at best.

The constant setbacks at the hands of the Independence Regiment made Yamaguchi and Nakajima lose their spirits.

Nakajima, who knew that he had made a slip of the tongue, felt a little regretful when he said the words, but he could never take back what he said. He coughed twice, and quickly changed the embarrassing topic:
"The cooking soldiers are already preparing lunch, fighting continuously, and being able to eat a hot meal, the soldiers' fighting spirit will definitely pick up."

"Your Excellency, brigade commander, please wait a moment, the food will be ready soon."

Yamaguchi nodded, and asked again: "After the order to beware of snipers of the Eighth Route Army was issued, what is the situation of each department?"

Nakajima replied: "The effect is excellent. From this morning to now, there has never been an officer killed by a hidden sniper."

"I have ordered increased security around the defense zone, and there is absolutely no way for Eighth Route Army snipers to infiltrate."

"Yangxi!"

Only then did Shankou Shubian feel relieved, the feeling of being targeted by snipers before was not good, and he was always worried about it.

Then when it came to relying on the mountains and forests, according to the feeling of being stubbornly defending, Yamaguchi said: "The mountainous environment is more conducive to the defense of the troops. , but one of the reasons why we have been able to fight against our Great Japanese Empire until now."

"In a mountainous environment, it is difficult for the main force to launch a full-scale attack, and our artillery transportation will also become more difficult. Armored vehicles and tanks are restricted by the terrain, and their mobility is greatly reduced, and even conventional operations cannot be carried out."

"In contrast, the Eighth Route Army is more familiar with the mountainous environment, and their equipment is lighter and more mobile."

"Fight if you can fight, and retreat if you can't fight. Using this simple and practical guerrilla tactic can often drag down our Imperial Japanese Army to exhaustion."

"This is very different from the battles we fought with the main force of the national army on the plains in the past, which mainly focused on positional warfare."

"If you continue to deal with the Eighth Route Army in the old way, you will definitely suffer a big loss."

"Right now, the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army is showing excellent equipment and powerful firepower. When such an army relies on the mountains to carry out guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare, it will appear even more terrifying."

"Sneak attacks from time to time are unpredictable, but they can cause great damage to our department."

"At the moment, we are only sticking to the nodes, and we can completely surround our army."

"I feel great danger from the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment."

"Mr. Nakajima, what method do you think we will use to completely wipe out such an independent group?"

Nakajima hesitated, "This..."

boom -

The sudden explosion interrupted Nakajima's thoughts.

There was more than one sound, followed by multiple explosions, coming from all directions.

"What's going on?" Yamaguchi's face changed slightly.

Nakajima hastily arranged for communications soldiers to investigate the situation.

After a while, the communications corps rushed to the headquarters to report: "Report, sir, many places in the defense area have been attacked by artillery fire from the Eighth Route Army. It seems that the smoke from our troops' cooking was noticed by the artillerymen of the Eighth Route Army and attracted the artillery shells."

"The ministries have quickly extinguished the fire and stopped cooking."

"Baga!" The face beside the tree in the mountain pass was full of anger, "These dirt roads are so rampant that we can't even start a fire."

Nakajima said: "Your Excellency, brigade commander, the mountain area is covered by dense forests, which is an excellent hiding place, but the smoke from cooking is easy to expose."

"During each sweep, we also used the smoke from the Eighth Route Army troops to lock the location of the Eighth Route Army."

"The current situation is reversed. It seems that the soldiers will not be able to eat hot meals for the time being."

Shankou bitterly said: "There is an old saying in China, coming and going is indecent. We can't eat hot meals, and the Eighth Route Army can't even think about eating hot meals. Immediately arrange several artillery units to go to various nodes. As long as the Eighth Route Army dares to cook , Thick smoke came out, and the bombardment raid was carried out directly."

"Hi!" Nakajima responded.

However, the results of the facts disappointed Yamaguchi and Nakajima.

The dispatched artillery units rushed around the nodes with grenades one after another, but they didn't find any thick smoke, and couldn't lock the position for bombardment at all, and finally had to return without success.

"It means that these tuba roads don't have a fire for cooking at all?" Yamaguchi was depressed.

Nakajima reassured: "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, since this Tubalu could think of attacking us with smoke, he must have anticipated the possibility of us attacking them in turn, so he didn't light a fire."

Yamaguchi had no choice but to think this way. In a small-scale confrontation, he was defeated.

But the actual situation is that the dirt road and Xiaohuanggou to the south, the mountain road to the east, and the small mountain pass to the north, when it was time for lunch, the independent regiment, local troops, and militia comrades were not idle.

It is time to fight wars and to fill our stomachs.

They ate hot rice, and the comrades in the cooking squad who accompanied the army brought iron pots and used local materials to cook a large pot of delicious meals.

Of course there was smoke, but the thick smoke was diffused through the flue of the smokeless stove, and the devils couldn't detect it at a long distance.

This is an old tradition in the Independence Regiment. The simple way of building a smokeless stove in the field is a compulsory subject for almost every soldier.

In the independent group, Kong Jie personally taught the digging and installation of the smoke-free stove.

Since the Japanese army launched a big raid, the combat units of the Independence Regiment, every time it is time, the soldiers can almost eat hot food.

It is absolutely impossible for the devils to detect the positions of the soldiers of the independent regiment through the smoke from lighting the fire and cooking.

Not to mention the distance, let's talk about the sniper platoon. When they were dealing with the devil's stronghold in the rear, they needed to light a fire for cooking. The soldiers of the guard company dug out the smoke-free stove in the wild.

At that time, Huang Baiyang, Su Zhengqiang and the comrades in the sniper platoon from the fifth regiment were quite surprised.

Then, after learning how to dig a smoke-free stove, Huang Baiyang couldn't wait to arrange soldiers to bring the skills of how to dig a smoke-free stove back to the fifth regiment.

In Huang Baiyang's view, it will be sooner rather than later. The application of this smoke-free stove is very important for field operations, especially for troops during the anti-sweeping period.

Being able to make a fire and cook, so that the soldiers can eat hot meals, is an important factor to ensure the physical fitness of the soldiers and the combat effectiveness of the team.

The Fifth Regiment had suffered in this regard. During the anti-sweeping period, it was bombarded by the Japanese army many times because of the thick smoke from the fire.

But in the winter, the soldiers couldn't even eat warm food.

If this smokeless stove technology has existed for a long time, why is it so?
In addition to the excavation skills of the smoke-free stove, Huang Baiyang also learned a lot of relevant combat tactics of the Independence Regiment from some military comic booklets of the Independence Regiment.

For example, the combat tactics of the [-] small artillery, the tactics of the sniper team, the digging skills of the cat's ear hole fortifications, etc., all of which were brought back to the fifth regiment.

After Kong Jie found out about this, he burst out laughing, and ordered the monk to prepare other types of military brochures for Huang Baiyang, and asked him to send them back to the Fifth Regiment.

Naturally, it also included a militia military training manual.

After these things were delivered to the Fifth Regiment, Regiment Leader Feng was deeply moved by this. On the one hand, he lamented that Lao Kong had many crooked ideas, and on the other hand, he felt that it was really not wrong to let the first battalion of Huang Baiyang go to the Independent Regiment to work part-time.

He returned some favors to Lao Kong, and earned a batch of equipment, not to mention.

It can also bring back the good things learned by the independent group to the group.

The fifth regiment is a new regiment. As long as it develops according to the experience of the independent regiment, it may be a main force capable of fighting tough battles in the future.

It's no wonder that Li Yunlong, who didn't even buy it from the king of heaven, was able to go to the independent group as the deputy head and work for Lao Kong.

This old Li definitely did not take advantage of it.

If it weren't for the newly formed regiment, how could the equipment of his new second regiment develop so fast?

Thinking of this, Captain Feng felt a little sour, and couldn't help but have an idea in his heart:
Or, let's also go to the independent group as the deputy head and work part-time for Lao Kong?

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(End of this chapter)