Chapter 198 Hattori Naoomi's Speculation "Fire!" "Damn it, let me, Ding Wei, try Qin Yangming's fighting style today. Aim at the Japanese and hit them hard!" At the ambush position, Ding Wei looked at the Japanese convoy that had entered the ambush circle below and decisively gave the order to open fire. As Ding Wei's order was issued, almost at the same time, the grenade launchers, mortars, light and heavy machine guns in the position roared at the same time. In an instant, a large number of bullets and artillery shells flew towards the convoy below, with a huge momentum. Ding Wei nodded with satisfaction as he looked at the Japanese soldiers who were suppressed by the fire and could hardly raise their heads. "Tsk tsk tsk, fire coverage is so easy and convenient. In the past, we would have already launched the charge and would not have had ammunition to continue firing." Ding Wei looked at the Japanese convoy being blocked below and spoke happily to Wei Dayong beside him.
Wei Dayong listened to what Ding Wei said, nodded at Ding Wei with approval, and responded. "Who says it isn't? When I was in the Central Army, its firepower was not so strong. Although the Central Army has ammunition supplies from the mountain city. But those bastard commanders had no intention of fighting the Japs at all. They would rather leave the ammunition sent from the mountain city in the warehouse to get damp than distribute it to fight the Japs. Captain Ding, you don’t know that when I was in the Central Army, our commander even dared to sell the weapons and equipment allocated by the higher-ups. Not only that, our regiment clearly had more than a thousand people, but our bastard leader directly reported that there were two thousand five hundred people. Not only did they collect the salary without working, they also applied for ammunition replenishment from their superiors in the name of fighting bandits and defending against the Japanese, and then resold the replenished ammunition. In the end, because of the serious shortage of personnel and weapons and equipment, the entire regiment could not even stop a squadron of the Japanese. " Ding Wei listened to what Wei Dayong said, smiled, and then spoke. "I understand. If things are tight in the front, then things will be tight in the back." "Captain, the Japanese are being suppressed by us and can't even raise their heads. Do you want to organize a charge?!" Just as Ding Wei and Wei Dayong were talking, the battalion commander of the third battalion of the new first regiment quickly stepped forward and asked Ding Wei whether to launch a charge. The battalion commander of the third battalion is also a veteran, an old Red Army soldier who has walked through grasslands and climbed snow-capped mountains. At this moment, they saw the troops pouring bullets on the Japanese below like pouring water, even though they knew that the New 1st Regiment had no shortage of ammunition. But I also feel very sad. After all, the current ammunition production of the Eighth Route Army cannot meet the consumption of the entire Eighth Route Army, and it basically relies on captured ammunition. Among the nearby troops, the Vanguard Regiment seized the most spoils. Even now, much of the ammunition used by the New 1st Regiment is the old stock accumulated by Li Yunlong and Qin Yangming when they were in the New 1st Regiment.
Although Ding Wei's ability in getting equipment is not much worse than Li Yunlong's. But everyone knows that when it comes to getting equipment, ten Ding Weis or Li Yunlongs are no match for one Qin Yangming. Now that Qin Yangming has left, it will be difficult for the New 1st Regiment to obtain a large amount of spoils. If we use up most of our ammunition here now, it will be difficult to fight later. At the same time, the commander of the third battalion also believed that the Japanese had now suppressed their firepower, and that we could fully demonstrate our army's fine traditions, launch a charge and engage the enemy in a bloody battle with bayonets. Most importantly, the New 1st Regiment had the highest proportion of veterans among the four regiments responsible for attacking the Japanese 4th Brigade. At the same time, most of the veterans are the first batch of veterans of the Eighth Route Army who have received the latest military training. When it comes to close combat or bayonet skills, they are no worse than the Japanese. That's why the third battalion commander asked Ding Wei whether he should let the troops charge. While saving ammunition, it also allowed the new recruits in the third battalion to see blood and experience what it felt like to have a bayonet inserted into the body of a Japanese soldier. After all, training is just training, and training cannot produce real warriors. A true soldier must have gone through the test of actual combat and killed a Japanese soldier with his own hands, so that those soldiers who have just joined the army will understand that the Japanese soldiers are also human beings and will feel pain and die if stabbed by a bayonet! Use the blood of the Japanese to tell the new recruits that the Japanese are not scary and killing them is not a difficult task. Listening to what the battalion commander of the third battalion said, Ding Wei shook his head. "No hurry, wait a moment, wait for the report from the First Battalion, the Japanese soldiers in Dawangzhuang have come out and exchanged fire with the First Battalion before launching a charge. Don't forget our most fundamental mission. Our goal is the Dawangzhuang stronghold. This gift is just a drop in the ocean. Let the comrades work harder and force the Japanese soldiers below to ask for help from the Dawangzhuang stronghold as soon as possible. I just don't believe that with so many officers ambushed by us, the Japanese devils in Dawangzhuang would remain motionless. The Japanese don't have the tradition of remaining unmoved when friendly forces are in trouble. Block the hole for me, and don’t let the Japanese escape from the ambush circle! I want these little devils to ask for help obediently!" "Yes!" After Ding Wei finished speaking, he turned his gaze towards the direction of Dawangzhuang. At this moment, he was waiting for Dawangzhuang to send troops to support the Japanese convoy below. Surround the point and attack the reinforcements, eliminate the Japanese's mobile forces in the wild, and finally storm the Dawangzhuang stronghold. Now that the convoy below has been ambushed, it is only a matter of time before the Dawangzhuang stronghold sends reinforcements. Just now, Ding Wei saw that there was a Japanese major general in the convoy below! When a major general was attacked, Ding Wei didn't believe that the Japanese would not come to rescue him, and he watched helplessly as the Japanese major general was shot dead. Moreover, in addition to that major general, there were several Japanese colonels, as well as officers such as lieutenant colonels and majors, a rough count of more than a dozen of them.
With so many officers, they would not come to rescue unless all the Japanese soldiers in the Dawangzhuang stronghold wanted to commit suicide. Otherwise, if any Japanese officer escapes, the Japanese soldiers in Dawangzhuang will have no chance of survival. You can make excuses for not rescuing your friendly troops when they were in distress, but now that your superior has been in distress, why aren't you coming to rescue him? Ding Wei had a good idea. He believed that since so many high-ranking Japanese officials were ambushed, the Japanese in the Dawangzhuang stronghold would definitely come to rescue them. But unfortunately, Ding Wei didn't know the Japanese's little plan. People would like Ding Wei to wipe out the entire officers' observation group, so how could they possibly send troops to rescue? Therefore, Ding Wei's plan to surround the enemy and attack the reinforcements was declared a failure just as it began. It’s just that Ding Wei doesn’t know. …… "Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Hayamura Akechi shouted loudly the moment he was attacked, and without waiting for the truck he was riding in to stop, he opened the door and jumped out. Hayamura Akechi shouted loudly and ran to the truck where Hattori Naoomi was riding as fast as he could. "Sir, we are under attack. It is not safe on the truck. Please evacuate quickly!" "Cover, cover!" While asking the soldiers around him to use their bodies to shield him, Hayamura Akechi quickly opened the door of the truck and pulled down Hattori Naoomi who was about to get off. Then, under the cover of the soldiers, he pressed down Hattori Naoomi's head and made him bend over and quickly hid behind the truck engine. "Go and turn that truck sideways!" Hayamura Akechi brought Hattori Naoomi to the back of the truck engine. After dodging with the help of the truck engine, he looked at the truck in front and immediately gave orders to the soldiers beside him. In order to ensure the safety of Hattori Naoomi, Hayamura Akechi wanted his soldiers to use trucks to form a bunker. In this case, with the truck as a cover, unless one is really unlucky and the shell hits directly in the middle of the cover, otherwise, the hardness of the truck engine and various mechanical equipment are enough to withstand the bullet fire. "Hi!" Following Hayamura Akechi's order, the soldier quickly put away his gun and ran to the truck, and began to build a shelter according to Hayamura Akechi's request. "Your Excellency, the brigade commander, the road ahead is blocked. We cannot clear the obstacles in a short period of time. Breaking out on foot is too risky. I suggest that the Dawangzhuang stronghold send out troops for support immediately!" After Hayamura Akechi gave orders to the soldiers, he immediately made a request to Hattori Naoomi. I hope the Dawangzhuang stronghold can send troops to provide support. Without the speed and cover of trucks, the risk of breaking out on foot was too great. Everyone was wearing officer uniforms with epaulettes of military rank on their shoulders. If they tried to break out on foot under such circumstances, they would all be sitting ducks. However, Hayamura Akechi learned from the troops who retreated from Linyuan County that there were many sharpshooters in the Eighth Route Army who specifically targeted officers. One dozen and one is accurate. Hayamura Akechi did not dare to let Hattori Naoomi take this risk, and at the same time, he himself did not think that he, a lieutenant colonel, was unattractive to the Eighth Route Army. At this moment, Hattori Naoomi had already recovered from the panic of the initial attack.
After listening to what Hayamura Akechi said, he spoke angrily to the telegraph operator who was following him with a radio on his back. "Send a telegram to the Fourth Brigade immediately and tell them that the Officers' Observation Group has been attacked. I request that the troops in the Dawangzhuang stronghold immediately come out to support us. At the same time, the 4th Brigade needs to send troops to support us immediately!" "Hayamura Akechi, explain to me, didn't you say there was no problem? Why were we ambushed?! How do you do your security work?!" After giving the order, Hattori Naoomi looked at Hayamura Akechi angrily. At first, he praised Hayamura Akechi for his good security work in front of other officers in the observation group. As a result, they were ambushed in the blink of an eye. Moreover, judging from the firepower of the Eighth Route Army, it is obvious that it is not an ordinary force. Hayamura Akechi was also speechless when he heard Hattori Naoomi's accusation against him. Hayamura Akechi did not expect that the 4th Brigade actually did not conduct reconnaissance in the vicinity. Judging from the heavy weapons such as heavy machine guns and mortars used by the Eighth Route Army, it is obvious that the Eighth Route Army was well prepared. It wasn't a surprise attack. After all, if these heavy weapons are to exert their maximum power, they must first build positions and find suitable places to set them up. If it was a surprise attack, how could those heavy machine guns and mortars be so accurate? Obviously, it was prepared in advance. "Your Excellency, the Chief of Staff of the 4th Brigade, I and Chief of Staff Taro Yonekura, will defend in sections. My troops are in front of the Linjiaji stronghold, but the troops behind the Linjiaji stronghold are from the 4th Brigade! I don't know whether Chief of Staff Dalang Yonekura didn't understand or what the situation was, and he didn't send troops to defend the road between the Dawangzhuang stronghold and the Linjiaji stronghold. The soldiers on this section of the road were temporarily transferred from the Linjiaji stronghold. Before we had time to reconnoiter, the officers' observation group arrived." "idiot! Why didn't you tell me earlier? Why didn't you arrange for someone to conduct a reconnaissance of the area?! Those bastards from the Fourth Brigade!" Hattori Naoomi listened to what Hayamura Akechi said and was about to teach him a lesson, but suddenly he realized something was wrong. Logically speaking, this place was obviously suitable for an ambush, and it was impossible for the chief of staff of the 4th Brigade to fail to understand this terrain. It is impossible for Taro Yonekura not to understand how important the safety of the officers' observation group is. Even if there are conflicts, it is impossible not to defend such a dangerous area. Unless the other party wants to put the officers' observation group in danger! “Baga… Hayamura Akechi, get ready to break out on foot! Break out towards the Linjiaji stronghold!" Hayamura Akechi, who was originally waiting for Hattori Naoomi to teach him a lesson, was stunned after hearing what Hattori Naoomi said. Then he looked at Hattori Naoomi with great confusion and spoke.
“Your Excellency, the risk of breaking out on foot is too great. We can wait for Dawangzhuang… Your Excellency, shouldn’t we break out in the direction of Dawangzhuang? Why is it Linjiaji stronghold? " Hayamura Akechi suddenly realized that Hattori Naoomi wanted him to break out in the direction of the Linjiaji stronghold. Hayamura Akechi was confused at this moment. Logically speaking, if you want to break out, you must go in the direction that is easier to break out and where the support troops are closer. But now, the convoy was blocked and turning around was impossible. Breaking out on foot is very risky. Logically, they should break out to the nearest Dawangzhuang stronghold instead of the Linjiaji stronghold. But now Hattori Naoomi asked him to break out to the Linjiaji stronghold. What does this mean? Hayamura Akechi naturally didn't think that Hattori Naoomi didn't even know how to break out, so there must be something he didn't know. Since his own life was at stake, Hayamura Akechi didn't care about anything else and quickly spoke to Hattori Naoomi. "Your Excellency, if we break out to the Linjiaji stronghold without a car, the risk of breaking out on foot is too great. Your safety..." After listening to Hayamura Akechi's words, Hattori Naoomi spoke with a gloomy expression. "If I don't break out to the Linjiaji stronghold and break out to the Dawangzhuang stronghold, my safety will be even more insecure... Let's wait and see if the Dawangzhuang stronghold will send reinforcements..." After Hattori Naoomi finished speaking, he turned his gaze towards the direction of the Daiwangzhuang stronghold. (End of this chapter)