Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Shangganling

Chapter 86 Three Battalions (Additional Update)
After Chen Chengxing returned to the base overnight, he immediately convened an emergency meeting.

After informing everyone of the contents of the headquarters meeting, Chen Chengxing looked at everyone's solemn faces and said, "Although the Japanese sent out 3 people this time, according to my judgment, of the nine-way siege, only one or half of the Japanese will target us."

"Even if it's just one route, it would probably have the strength of a regiment." Luo Ping said seriously.

Although the regiment and the regiment are at the same level, a regiment of the Japanese has 1 people, not to mention the heavy weapons, which is no match for the New Second Regiment.

"Even if the Japanese want to attack Dayun Mountain, they can't march all the way. They will have to divide their troops into several groups to encircle us. Then we will look for opportunities through guerrilla warfare," said Chen Chengxing.

If the Japs want to wipe out the New Second Regiment, they must not join forces and advance, otherwise the two sides will become engaged in a game of hide-and-seek.

The new Second Regiment, marching lightly and with the bonus of Chen Chengxing's characteristics, can get away with just about anything the Japanese can't do.

“In this way, all the mines and reloaded bullets in the logistics and arsenal were taken out and distributed to the guerrillas for future use.

"At the same time, have the guerrillas and the county brigade pay close attention to the movements of the Japanese. Also, send out all the staff of the regiment headquarters and organize the people to fortify their defenses and clear the fields, ready to enter the mountains at any time."

"As for the main force of the regiment, assemble immediately and wait for the opportunity to fight." Chen Chengxing ordered.

Chen Chengxing still wants to use the old method of "when the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy retreats, we pursue; when the enemy stays, we harass; when the enemy is tired, we attack". After all, this method has been tried and tested, and the enemy can't do anything to you.

"Yes!"

Two days later, Chen Chengxing received the scout's report and the latest movements of the Japanese invaders from the brigade headquarters.

"Old Luo, the Japanese are moving." Chen Chengxing handed the information to Luo Ping.

The Japs have officially dispatched their troops.

The 36th Division was the main force, and it set out from Liangcheng, Yangfeng, Xifen, and Linxian, and marched towards Hongshan County, Anqiu, and Migu Town.

A regiment of the 20th Division marched from Shuiquan towards Dagu Town, and two battalions advanced from Fu'an to Ping'an County and began to march towards Hongniwan.

A regiment of the 37th Division set out from Luyang and marched towards Anqiu.

A regiment of the 41st Division set out from Taiyuan and Taigu, with one part heading towards Hongniwan and the other towards Migu and Anqiu.

(Just take a quick look, this is the ultimate goal of the devils, in order to sweep along the way)
"Three battalions?" Luo Ping was a little surprised.

He didn't expect that the Japanese would station three infantry battalions in Dayun Mountain, which was already 1/10 of the Japanese's strength.

"Haha. This is really fun!" Chen Chengxing said with a smile.

This time, the Japanese really think highly of Chen Chengxing.

"Pass on my order: All guerrillas, county brigades, and militias should harass the Japanese with sparrow warfare and mine warfare; the 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Battalion, and the regiment's direct troops and supplementary battalion should immediately move towards Shanggezhuang; the regiment's field artillery platoon should move to Erlang Mountain to establish artillery positions!"

Chen Chengxing stood up, put on his hat and gave the order.

"Yes!" The combat staff officer next to him immediately took note of Chen Chengxing's order and went out to arrange for the delivery.

After the troops are transferred to Shangge Village, they can go south to Liangshan to support the headquarters at any time, or they can go east to Feihu Mountain to cut off the road from Hekou Town to the base. Moreover, if the Japanese discover Erlang Cave, they can provide support at any time.

However, due to its weight, the Italian artillery could not move with the regiment headquarters, so moving it to Erlang Mountain in advance was the only option.

However, after establishing artillery positions on Erlang Mountain, the Italian artillery could use its height advantage to strike the Japanese coming from the east and south, especially Liangzhuang, which was also within the strike range.

"It's not a good idea to just let the guerrillas come," Luo Ping said.

Although the guerrilla teams have basically reached a full staff of five platoons after two months of development, their weapons are not complete.

"No rush. Let the guerrillas lead the Japanese in a circle first. When they are confused, we can ambush them along the way." Chen Chengxing said.

According to intelligence, a battalion of the Japanese 20th Division was marching from Zhengfeng Town to Xizhuang. It goes without saying that they were planning to enter the mountains via the Laolongshan Highway to attack Hongniwan. Another battalion started moving eastward in Ping'an County. Their target should be Zhangjiahui, and the next step might be to attack Liangzhuang.

As for the Japanese devils from Taigu, they have already arrived at Zhuangluo Town. The next step will inevitably be to enter the mountains through Sanhe Town. As for whether to sweep the Jiaozi Mountain area or continue to move westward, it depends on the choice of the Japanese devils.

(Completely fictional, any similarity is purely coincidental)
After the New Second Regiment withdrew from the base, the villages near the enemy's marching route also began to retreat to the mountains under the organization of the New Second Regiment. This time, even the landlords and rich people did not dare to stay at home any longer. After all, the previous lesson had only been passed not long ago, and no one thought that their life was too long.

After the Japanese troops entered the guerrilla zone, they began to be attacked constantly from morning to night without stopping.

There were mines every few hundred meters on the road. Three brigades walked for a whole day, chasing the Eighth Route Army in circles, but finally found that they had only advanced less than 3 kilometers.

In the end, the Japanese were forced to abandon the road and take the mountain route instead, but this idea of theirs was impossible to realize.

According to the order of the First Army Command, their sweep would last from half a month to one month.

For this purpose, they carried a lot of large carts carrying supplies, but after leaving the road, the carts could not move at all.

Hirosuke Nomura, the captain of the Nomura Brigade heading from Ping'an County to Zhangjiahui, was so angry when he looked at the map.

"Bagayalo! The Tubalu are so disgusting!"

"Captain, should we send out troops to counterattack?" asked Deputy Captain Nobuo Yasuda.

In just one day, the Nomura Battalion has suffered more than 20 casualties.

Although there were not many people who actually died, they could not bear the casualties alone.

Moreover, the Tubalu would add shit to the landmines! Who can believe this?

There were also wooden stick traps, with shit smeared on the sticks. Some soldiers stepped on the traps and their feet were pierced directly.

In order to treat such contaminated wounded soldiers, military doctors would roll gauze into a rope, apply medicine on it, and then pull the rope back and forth in the wound.

How painful is this? You can tell by just listening to the sound of the wounded, which is like the sound of a pig being slaughtered.

"Counterattack! We must counterattack!" Hirosuke Nomura affirmed.

"Yasuda-kun, you go down and arrange for a squadron to be deployed in small teams to stand guard within 2 to 3 meters of the main force."

"If there is a surprise attack by the Eighth Route Army, the squad leader will organize the pursuit on his own, but there is one thing you must pay attention to, under no circumstances should you leave the 1-kilometer range of the main force," ordered Hirosuke Nomura.

After a day, Hirosuke Nomura had discovered the attack pattern of the Eighth Route Army.

When launching a cold gun attack, the Eighth Route Army usually stayed within a range of 100 meters and used volley fire to increase their hit rate.

And those Lafa mines have wires pulled over a range of dozens of meters.

With nine small teams on guard at the periphery, it is enough to prevent the large force from being harassed by most attacks.

As for the remaining mines, it all depends on the sincerity of the vanguard troops. As long as they are sincere, the locusts will naturally protect them.

This time the brigade also brought an engineering unit, which can clear mines as soon as they appear.

In this way, the casualties of the large force should be greatly reduced.

"Hai!"

With Nomura Hirosuke's arrangement, the guerrillas' chances of a sneak attack were greatly reduced. Even if they could attack the small teams on the periphery, they would not be able to achieve much results, and they would also suffer casualties due to the Japanese's accurate shooting.

The guerrillas can only choose to bury more bullet mines, but bullet mines can usually only injure one Japanese soldier, and then they will be cleared by the Japanese engineers.

In desperation, the guerrillas began to gather their forces, attract the Japanese squad to pursue, and then use traps to attack the Japanese squad.

But this is not easy, after all, each Japanese unit has a light machine gun, while the guerrillas do not even have complete rifles.

Although the Japanese's Type 99 light machine gun is very lousy, a machine gun is still a machine gun.

However, the guerrilla fighters still used their wisdom to continue to fight with the Japanese, which made the Japanese troops exhausted.

(End of this chapter)