The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 475 How important is an ambush? Reporter Shen's Field Interview
On the 27th.

Four o'clock in the afternoon.

In this seasonal afternoon, although it is not too hot, it is still unsettlingly hot when the sun shines on it.

Second Battalion Commander Shen Quan led a company's main force and set up an ambush on both sides of the hillside of the Unnamed Mountain Road.

The soldiers crawled among the grass and trees on the slope one by one, quietly waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

"After we launched counterattacks in various places during this period, the devils have all been threatened at the outskirts of the guerrilla area of ​​our independent regiment. According to intelligence, there will be a Japanese army transport team departing from Yangquan this afternoon to go to this area to replenish Japanese troops. Supplies for the puppet army."

Right now the ambush deployment has been fully arranged. After bathing in the summer sun for nearly 20 minutes, the heat was a bit unbearable and mixed with boredom, Shen Quan introduced to the reporter Shen Wenyue at the side.

"According to the information, the devils should pass by here. This mountain road is located between the strongholds of the Japanese army and a mountainous area in the center of the county. Now the Japanese army's strongholds have been controlled by our army. The devils and puppet troops dare not leave the stronghold easily. Let's take the opportunity to detour , The devils and puppet troops didn't notice any movement, and suddenly ambushed here, they would definitely catch the devils' transport team by surprise."

As Shen Quan spoke, he wiped the sweat from his forehead. In this damn weather, when it's hot, it's annoyingly hot, and when it's cold, it's deadly cold.

He laughed and said, "I would say that every time an ambush is launched, the most difficult thing is not after the battle begins, but the period of waiting patiently before the ambush. force."

Shen Wenyue nodded. She has a capable personality and has short hair. Even so, under the blazing sun, there are still many beads of sweat on her temples.

What surprised Shen Quan was that he originally thought that Ji Zhe Shen was a young lady who couldn't bear much hardship.

But during the more than 20 minutes under the sweltering sun, even Shen Quan was a little impetuous due to the heat, but this reporter Shen just wiped his sweat stains from time to time, and didn't make a sound.

For this reason, Shen Quan felt a little admiration, and looked at reporter Shen with admiration.

"Battle Commander Shen, is there any particularity in the current ambush deployment?" Shen Wenyue said, which is considered to be an on-site interview with the troops.

Shen Quan asked: "You mean?"

Shen Wenyue said: "During the ambush, why do you divide the ambush into four small parts? I have also watched some local national army troops ambush the Japanese army on the front line. Their ambush against the Japanese army seems to be very simple. On both sides of the road that the Japanese army was going to pass, wait until the Japanese and puppet troops stepped into the ambush circle, and then suddenly opened fire until the end of the battle."

Shen Quan smiled, and asked back: "Then what is the result of the final battle?"

Shen Wenyue thought about it for a while, and replied: "I remember that the national army that participated in the ambush at that time was much more powerful than the passing Japanese army. After the battle started, those Japanese soldiers reacted very quickly. Be able to react and launch a counter fire."

"At that time, Commander Qi originally wanted to wipe out all the Japanese troops, but in the end, nearly half of the Japanese troops escaped."

"The Japanese army's grenade launchers are very skillful, and the reaction is extremely fast. There is no artillery fire from the national army. Some light and heavy machine gun firepower fired at the Japanese army in the ambush circle for a while, and they were destroyed by the Japanese artillery fire. The entire regiment He also suffered some minor injuries."

After hearing this, Shen Quan became more curious and asked, "So, it was a regiment of the local national army that ambushed the Japanese army at that time?"

"Yes!" Shen Wenyue said.

"How many people are there?"

"I remember that there were more than 200 troops in combat at that time."

"Where's the Japanese army?"

"It is said that there is a Japanese squadron with nearly 200 people."

"The final result is that after the ambush, nearly half of the devils were eliminated, and the other half escaped?"

"Yes."

"How about the casualties of the national army that ambushed the devil?"

"More than 200 people were sacrificed, and more than [-] people were injured."

Shen Quan nodded, and said: "It's an ambush battle, with an advantage of nearly five or six times the strength, but it's still like this... After all, with the fighting power of the local mob army, it's not bad to have such a record. "

"The devil's army is far superior to these local miscellaneous troops in terms of the quality of its soldiers and its superiority in equipment. Usually, even if it is an ambush, the number of troops that needs to be dispatched must be three to five times that of the Japanese army, or even more."

"That's it, don't try to please. While eliminating the devils, your own casualties are also unavoidable."

"However, if the head of the national army at that time could deploy his troops like I am now, maybe not a single devil in that devil squadron would be able to escape."

Shen Wenyue asked: "Battle Commander Shen, is there any point in dividing the ambush force into four parts like this?"

Shen Quan said: "Of course there are particulars, since it's an ambush, we naturally came here with the aim of eradicating all the little devils.

But the devil has legs, and he can run. If we want to wipe out all the devils in this situation, we naturally have to spend some time on ambush deployment.

Right now, the mountain road that the devils must pass runs from east to west. I will divide the troops into four parts. On both sides of the mountain road, one on the left and one on the right are the main ambush points. 300 meters away from the east side, another interception point is set up.

These two points are naturally used to prevent the devils from escaping from these two directions after encountering an ambush.

The other is the arrangement of troops. The four ambush points are also particular. For example, at least [-]% of the troops must be arranged for the left and right ambush points in the middle.

As for the interception points in the east and west directions, about [-]% of the troops are arranged for each. "

Speaking of this, she saw Shen Wenyue beside her with beads of sweat on her temples, but she still listened seriously.

Considering that this simple ambush tactic is not a military secret, our Eighth Route Army troops have always been broad-minded. Even the guerrilla tactics we rely on for survival, during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, didn’t we often publicize it to the outside world and pass on experience to some national army generals?

There is no need to keep the tactics used to fight devils private.

It would be a good thing if Reporter Shen could really publicize this ambush tactic through newspapers to improve the combat experience of various national army troops.

Shen Quan smiled and continued: "With this arrangement, after stepping into the ambush circle, the devil suddenly encounters a surprise attack. He will definitely not stay in the ambush circle and fight our army foolishly. Most of the time, he will choose a direction, or Break out eastward or westward.

Then it will be ambushed by the two interception points we deployed in advance. The firepower of these two interception points arranged in advance is relatively abundant. It is not so easy for the devils to break out of the siege for a while.

The four points instantly formed an encirclement circle, attacking the Japanese army in the ambush circle from four directions.

In this case, even if the ambushed Japanese army is equal in strength to ours, it will suffer a big loss.

After the devils are restricted in their mobility on the mountain road, the possibility of completely annihilating the devils in the encirclement will be much greater. "

After hearing this, Shen Wenyue exclaimed, "I didn't expect that such a simple ambush would turn out to have so many tricks. Battalion Commander Shen, you are really amazing."

With such high praise, Shen Quan scratched his head in embarrassment, and said with a smile: "Reporter Shen, don't say that, the ambush deployment in front of me was an ambush operation a year ago, and I learned from our regiment leader." of it!"

When it comes to Kong Jie, Shen Wenyue always has great interest in her eyes, "I have interviewed many generals of the national army, most of whom have attended military academies or taught martial arts. Commander Kong is so powerful, it is because he is very powerful. Graduated from military school, right?"

Shen Quan did laugh and said, "Our team leader is purely self-taught."

"... Has Commander Kong never been to a military academy?"

"Not even a day, even cultural knowledge was learned after entering the army." Shen Quan said.

"It's incredible!" Shen Wenyue exclaimed.

"Battle Commander Shen, is Commander Kong usually a very serious person?"

"Why do you say that?" Shen Quan asked puzzled.

Shen Wenyue recalled most of the times when she met Kong Jie, and some of the times when she interviewed Kong Jie, and said: "When I see Captain Kong on weekdays, I rarely see him smiling."

"I think, an iron-blooded general like Commander Kong who commands thousands of troops to fight on the battlefield should be very serious."

Shen Quan said happily: "Reporter Shen, then you have misjudged your eyes, you have never seen our regiment leader and the two old comrades-in-arms Ding and Li together, there is no seriousness.

Our team leader is actually very talkative.

Usually even the little soldiers in the regiment can joke a few words with the regiment leader. "

"So Captain Kong still has such a side?" Shen Wenyue laughed.

Taking a peek at Shen Wenyue's smile, Shen Quan muttered to himself:

Commander, Commander, we have done everything we can, such a beautiful woman, you have to seize the opportunity, thousands of soldiers in our regiment are still bachelors, can you break this gap? Counting on you.

... As for whether the head of the team is satisfied with this reporter Shen, Shen Quan and other cadres don't care.

There are thousands of bachelors in the independent group, not to mention dating, they have never even touched a girl's hand.

In addition, there are basically no women in the regiment. After a long time, the soldiers look at the sows raised by the old king of the cooking squad, and they all look a little pretty.

Not to mention that reporter Shen in front of them is still a handsome man with culture and self-cultivation.

Kong Jie, the head of the team, also said: "It's the same reason to fight a war and find a wife. Those who are capable eat meat, and those who are incompetent can't even drink soup. If you meet a beautiful woman, if you are slow It’s someone else’s. As for feelings, what’s a relationship? After being together for a long time and cultivated, that’s called a relationship.”

That's it, since she is a good woman, according to the soldiers' wishes, it is right to give it to the head of the regiment first.

……

Just as he was thinking about it, the scouts sent by Shen Quan to reconnaissance in advance returned and reported: "Report to the battalion commander, the figure of the devil was found one kilometer away, and he is coming in our direction."

"What's the specific situation?" Shen Quan asked.

"A Japanese transport squadron, about [-] devils, did not see the puppet army, there were more than a dozen mules and carriages, followed by two trucks. In terms of heavy weapons, there were two heavy machine guns exposed."

Shen Quan nodded and said with a smile: "The information is very accurate. The situation of the Japanese army transport team is basically not much different. I guess this battle can be won smoothly."

With that said, Shen Quan gave an order to the communications soldier lying beside him: "Notice, after leaving observation posts on the front of the slopes on both sides, the other teams will retreat to the preparation ambush site according to the plan."

"Yes!"

After giving the order, turning his head, Shen Quan said to Shen Wenyue: "Reporter Shen, let's retreat too!"

Seeing that the Japanese army was coming, Shen Wenyue didn't understand why they retreated from the ambush site at the front of the hillside. With doubts in her heart, she followed behind Shen Quan and retreated all the way to the left rear of the ambush site at the front for 100 meters. outside the place.

It wasn't until the withdrawn troops started lurking again that Shen Quan smiled and explained to Shen Wenyue who was beside him:
"Ambush warfare is not as simple as imagined. It's like ambushing troops on both sides of the road, waiting for the devils to come, and then suddenly start fighting. This is the roughest way to fight."

"In the words of our regiment leader, this is called foolish play."

"The Japanese are not stupid. They have already developed corresponding methods for this possible ambush."

"When the Japanese troops advanced along the roads and mountain roads, on the one hand, they would dispatch scouts ahead of time to conduct scouts on both sides where there might be ambushes, and on the other hand, they would send vanguard troops as bait for temptation."

"Not only that, when passing through some places that may be ambushed, the Japanese army will also conduct fire reconnaissance, using machine guns and grenadier shells to conduct fire probing on the hillsides on both sides of the road."

"At this time, if we arrange the main force on both sides of the mountain road, it is easy to be detected by the Japanese reconnaissance firepower in advance, and unnecessary casualties will be caused. At that time, a good ambush will become a battle between the two sides. It’s not easy to fight in an encounter.”

"Therefore, we need to withdraw the frontier troops that the devils can easily detect with firepower, leaving only a small number of observation posts."

"After deceiving the devil's eyeliner, the main ambush force that has withdrawn will lurk again to the ambush sites on both sides of the road, waiting for the devil to step into the ambush circle."

Only then did Shen Wenyue suddenly realize, and then asked: "Battle Commander Shen, why didn't we make preparations like this from the beginning, but temporarily retreated the frontline combat troops after we detected the arrival of the devils?"

Shen Quan said: "This is the control of the details. Our regiment leader often said that it is better to do it once than to say it ten times. What the troops need is the correct command of the commander, but what is more needed is that the soldiers can complete the orders of the commander. Execution."

"Ambush on both sides of the mountain road in advance, because this is the specific location where the soldiers will launch an ambush for a while, so we need to understand and get familiar with it in advance, and ensure that our camouflage will not be noticed by the Japanese troops on the mountain road, and then retreat slowly. "

"In this way, after the observation post conveys the order to sneak into the ambush site, the soldiers can more calmly and skillfully lurk in the previous position again."

It turned out that a seemingly simple ambush had so much to pay attention to.

Shen Wenyue became more and more amazed the more she listened, then raised the miniature camera that had been hanging on her chest, and said, "Can I take some more pictures? This ambush deployment is really ingenious."

Shen Quan said: "Of course, it will take some time for the devils to arrive here! Just wait until the Japanese army appears, reporter Shen, you can no longer take pictures at will, because it will easily reveal our position."

"Okay!" Shen Wenyue responded, and then with the camera in her hand, she took a few pictures of the soldiers' lurking situation and the surrounding terrain, and then said with a smile:

"Battalion Commander Shen, I guess, you sent scouts out in advance to scout the situation of the Japanese army, and you want to adjust the deployment of the ambush according to the specific firepower configuration and the number of troops of the Japanese army, so as to cope with the changes in the situation?"

"Smart!" Shen Quan gave a thumbs up, "If the situation of the Japanese army exceeds the estimate of the intelligence I got, then I can only lead the troops to withdraw in advance."

"If everything is normal, I will continue to deploy troops according to the method of encirclement and ambush."

After all, Shen Quan confessed: "Reporter Shen, it is very dangerous for you to follow us to the front line, but since you insist on following, I have nothing to say.

It's just that the battle will start soon, I'm afraid I don't have the energy to take care of you.

You just hide in the rear, don't get close to the battlefield, otherwise I can't explain to our regiment leader what happened to you. "

Explain to Commander Kong?

Shen Wenyue was a little unresponsive.

Shen Quan didn't say any more, the business was important, he left Shen Wenyue, left a soldier as a guard, and then arranged for the battle...

(End of this chapter)