kingnovel Chapter 742: A few devils' "Jingguan"
Chapter 742: A few devils' "Jingguan"
"Report to the column commander, the Japanese follow-up troops have caught up with us.
The Japanese had about two infantry regiments, with a total of about 6,000 people.
I looked behind them and saw a gun carriage pulled by horses.
Judging from the number of guns, these should be two artillery battalions of the Japanese.
Their number, including the two infantry guard squadrons, totals about 2,000."
Captain Yun Zong: "The number of Japanese soldiers coming up from behind doesn't match up.
They are not regiments, brigades or regiments. What kind of organization are these 5,000 people in? Are they part of a detachment?"
Commander Ma looked at the credentials of the two Japanese captains in his hands.
As expected of a graduate of the Northeast Military Academy, he immediately analyzed the organization of the invading Japanese invaders.
"Captain Yun, please take a look at the organization of the Japanese. These two Japanese battalion commanders are not from the same unit.
One of them is from the 76th Division and the other is from the 201st Division.
Looking at their number, you can tell that the 201st Division is a newly formed division from Japan.
The way they formed a team to attack our position shows that they are using the old to guide the new, and they want to give us a training.
The reason why the Japanese troops were not in a match was that each of their two regiments was missing an infantry battalion.
Since they are organized into three battalions, the Japs only have a little over 4,000 soldiers who can actually fight, excluding the artillery."
Yun Guichuan: "Haha, Commander Ma, you really are worthy of being a top student who graduated from the Northeast Military Academy.
How come your analysis is exactly the same as mine? Do you think this is what great minds think alike? "
Commander Ma: Comrade Yun, Gui and Sichuan, you are at least a military-level cadre of 20,000 troops.
Why does it sound so clumsy when you talk like this?
"Ahem, Captain Yun, it's been such a long time, why haven't I seen your column's political commissar?"
Yun Guichuan didn't know whether Commander Ma was planning to file a complaint against him.
He said: "I am the commander of the First Column and also the political commissar of the First Column."
Qin Haichuan wanted to create a red image for the First Column.
Yun, Guizhou and Sichuan, who came from the First Corps, were directly appointed as the column commander and first political commissar.
From now on, if anyone dares to investigate the "culture" problems of the Gannan Sixth Division, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan will have to deal with them.
As a rescued slave boy, his background was definitely not a problem.
I heard that he once worked as a guard for a leader in northern Shaanxi for a few days.
If you really dare to investigate him, he will send a telegram back to the headquarters and report you to that leader.
Yun Guichuan: "The Japanese still want to use me as a training ground. This shows that they look down on me, Yun.
But it doesn’t matter. I just like my enemies looking down on me.
The order was for the First Regiment of the First Column to open a gap and let the Japanese in.
Let the second and third regiments outflank from both wings.
The Fourth Regiment will wait for the Japs to enter the encirclement and immediately seal the opening for us.
The entire column waited for the artillery to open fire and then immediately wiped out this group of Japs.
After the battle started, send a telegram to the Second Column immediately.
Just say we have already started working here so that they can wake up.
Don’t let the main force behind the Japanese take advantage of you again.”
Commander Ma now already knew the organization of the 1st Column.
This first column is an army-level unit that is not fully established.
Their column was composed of two divisions and four regiments. In addition to four infantry regiments, there was also an artillery regiment and a cavalry regiment.
The reason why it is said to be not fully staffed is that the framework of the column has been set up, but the division commander has not been appointed.
This time, the four groups came out, perhaps they wanted to consider it.
The ability of these four regiment commanders will determine the candidates for the two division commanders.
However, Commander Ma used his cavalry to capture Wei County, so he, as a borrowed cavalry commander, could not return to the cavalry division.
In Yun Guichuan's heart, a position as a division commander has been reserved for him.
Yun, Gui and Sichuan did not lead Captain Ma onto the road of revolution in order to repay him.
Or it is because Captain Ma is really good at fighting and is a fierce general.
The reason why Captain Ma has not been promoted in these years is that he has been in Gansu, doing military transport work.
This time, it was also because of Political Commissar Mo that these veteran Red Army soldiers were allowed to work on the front line, which gave Captain Ma the opportunity to show his skills.
There is another reason why Political Commissar Mo released the people, which is that the speed at which the Gannan troops expanded in recent years was indeed a bit too fast.
As a last resort, he released hundreds of old Red Army soldiers who had stayed in Gannan to serve as military and political cadres.
For example, Commander Ma, who launched a surprise attack on Wei County, came to the First Column to serve as the regiment political commissar.
Because Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan knew his military capabilities, they appointed Political Commissar Ma as the commander of the cavalry regiment.
It is easier to get things done when there are more people, and the soldiers from the ethnic detachment also came to help.
The bodies of the Japanese soldiers who had been "cleaned up from the battlefield" had been piled up into a dozen or so corpse-heaps along the road into the mountains.
This was the scene they saw when the two main forces of the Japanese army regiments chased them along the mountain road.
Fortunately, they did not strip the Japanese soldiers of their clothes, and there was no intention to respect the Japanese soldiers.
One reason is that everyone’s horizons have broadened, and they no longer like the Japanese soldiers’ clothes because they are too short.
Another thing is that if these Japanese military uniforms fell into the hands of ordinary people, it would be troublesome.
Given Okamura's vengeful character, he will definitely take revenge after the war.
If he found out that some civilians were wearing modified Japanese military uniforms, he would massacre the entire village and town.
The commander of the 76th Division, Watanabe, said: "All troops stop advancing and immediately stay on alert.
The signalman reported the situation here to the division commander and requested tactical guidance."
Captain Watanabe had his reasons for giving such an order.
The two infantry battalions, Tanaka and Tanashita, are both combat-capable battalions of the two regiments.
The combined strength of their two battalions is almost 2,400 people.
In less than half an hour, everything was shattered. It was too horrifying.
This means that the number of Chinese troops is at least five times theirs.
Only the elite among the elite troops could do it so easily.
Therefore, Watanabe believed that he could not rashly go into the mountains and pursue the retreating Chinese troops.
Otherwise, there must be a danger that they are not aware of waiting for them!
"Bakayarū, why didn't Watanabe-kun stop moving forward? Are you frightened by the brutality of the Chinese army?"
Watanabe knew without looking back that such nonsense must have been said by Captain Kumamoto of the 201st Division.
This Kumamoto regiment commander is different from his subordinate Captain Tanaka.
Tanaka humbly learned fighting skills and kept a very low profile, which is why he received careful teaching from Tanaka.
If it weren't for the guerrilla division, Tanaka might have been able to do something.
As for Kumamoto now, not only does it not fall, it also refuses to lower its attitude.
Instead, he becomes sarcastic and mocking towards himself day after day and doesn't respect himself at all.
At this time, a communications staff officer came running over to report the situation to him.
"Report to the commander, we just used the radio and walkie-talkie to contact the division and brigade headquarters behind us.
But twenty minutes have passed and I still can’t contact them.”
"Baga, why didn't you tell me earlier? Send the messenger back on horseback immediately.
Report our defeat to the brigade commander and ask him to send reinforcements."