Chapter 113 Comprehensive Counterattack
"Instructor, the battalion commander has ordered all troops to launch a full-scale counterattack!"
In the Tongshi Town stronghold, Goudan, the impulsive messenger, quickly found Zhangye who was commanding the troops to repair fortifications and conveyed Qin Yangming's order.
"Everyone listen up, the recruit company and the artillery company will hold their positions, and the rest of the troops will launch a full-scale counterattack!"
"Goudan, quickly report the results of the battle in Tongshi Town to the regiment commander and the brigade.
We've already defeated the Japanese reinforcements at Shangdang and are hunting down the remaining enemy troops."
"The detailed battle report will be submitted after daybreak!"
"Notify the county brigade and district squad and have them organize people to come and help us clean up the battlefield."
"Yes!"
After Zhangye finished speaking, he glanced at the scene of corpses strewn all over the front of the position and continued, "Tell them not to organize the common people to come here. The common people may not be able to accept the situation on the battlefield."
Even on a relatively clean position, Zhangye could smell the strong smell of blood coming from the front of the battlefield.
"Yes!"
Seeing that Zhangye had nothing to say, Goudan turned around and ran towards the stronghold.
"Old Sun, quickly take the new recruits to find a place to guard the prisoners. I'm afraid we will have a lot of prisoners in this battle."
Sun Zhigang on the side nodded.
"I didn't expect that nearly 10,000 Japanese soldiers and puppet troops were defeated by us in less than one night."
Zhangye listened to what Sun Zhigang said and looked up at the east where a hint of red light was already visible.
"Yes, this is a real victory."
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"Captain, commander!"
Hu Zi came out of the telegraph room with a telegram and found Li Yunlong, panting.
"What's the hurry? Didn't I ask you to go ask about the situation in Tongshi Town?"
Li Yunlong watched Hu Zi find him breathlessly, and while handing his water bottle to Hu Zi, he began to ask questions.
"Did something unexpected happen in Tongshi Town?!"
"Didn't Xiao Qin stop the Japanese?"
"No, it's not."
"Captain, great victory, great victory."
"A great victory at Tongshi Town. Instructor Zhang sent a telegram saying that the Vanguard Battalion has defeated the Japanese reinforcements in the Shangdang area and is now pursuing the remaining enemy forces in an all-out effort to annihilate them completely."
"Defeat the Japanese reinforcements?!"
"Hahaha, it's been an entire night and finally there's some good news!"
"Old Li, Xiao Qin has finished his work, so we have to speed up. Old Ding is having a hard time."
"Well, pass on my order. All the mortars, grenade launchers, and light machine guns in the regiment should be concentrated in the first battalion. Attack the southern wall of Shiquan County!"
"More than 200 light and heavy machine guns and nearly 100 grenade launchers and mortars will definitely make it so that the Japanese can't even lift their heads!
Tell Zhuzi to pull the mountain artillery to the front line and blow up the Japanese city gate for me!"
"Yes!"
At Li Yunlong's command, the independent regiment quickly took action, and a large number of light machine guns and grenade launchers were handed over to the first battalion along with the guns and people.
"Machine gunners, suppress the fire on the city wall. Don't worry about the consumption of ammunition!"
"All grenade throwers, bring your grenade launchers and shells into the 100-meter range of the city wall and bomb it with your grenade launchers!"
"Each grenade launcher has twenty small grenades, which adds up to nearly two thousand small grenades. It's enough to give the Japanese on the city wall a good beating!"
"Tell the soldiers to capture Shiquan County before dawn. Otherwise, after dawn, the Japanese will send out aircraft to support us, and it will be difficult to capture Shiquan County."
"Report to the brigade commander, a telegram has been sent from Tongshi Town!"
The brigade commander, who had been waiting for news from various troops at the brigade headquarters, kept smoking and looking at the map.
A communicator brought a telegram into the operations room and reported to the brigade commander.
Hearing that it was a telegram from Tongshi Town, the brigade commander turned around anxiously.
Tongshi Town is the area responsible for blocking the Japanese reinforcements from the Shangdang area. If something goes wrong and the Japanese reinforcements escape, then the rest of the places will be in trouble.
"The Vanguard Battalion reports: We have defeated the Japanese reinforcements in the Shangdang area and are currently launching a full-scale counterattack in an effort to annihilate all enemy forces."
After listening to the communicator reading out the information on the telegram, the brigade commander finally felt relieved.
"Well done, Xiao Qin. In less than one night, with a vanguard battalion of 2,000 people, he defeated an enemy force five times his size!"
"Brigade Commander, Xiao Qin should take the credit this time!"
"Well, that's for sure. If Xiao Qin doesn't take the first prize this time, who will have the nerve to take it?"
"Has the vanguard battalion sent in a combat report?"
"I want to see how they defeated so many Japanese troops."
"Tell this news to the troops below, saying that a battalion of the independent regiment has defeated the Japanese reinforcements in the Shangdang area, and ask them how long it will take to achieve their respective combat objectives?"
"Ask them if anyone else thinks they need support. If necessary, I will have the Independent Regiment send troops to help them."
"Yes."
The communicator turned around and began to convey the brigade commander's words.
"Other captains will definitely speed up their attacks when they hear this news. They will probably use all their assets and won't be reluctant to use them."
The political commissar at the side couldn't help but smile as he looked at the several reports requesting support placed in the operations room.
"Humph, these guys, which regiment among them doesn't have Type 92 infantry guns or mortars?
Two regiments even had mountain artillery, and their firepower was no less than that of the Japanese.
Even so, he still had the nerve to ask the brigade for artillery support."
"Most of their artillery pieces came from the division headquarters, or I got them from Li Yunlong and gave them to them.
He kept shouting that it would be difficult to attack the Japanese strongholds without artillery.
Now that I have given them artillery, they still dare to ask me for support. But Li Yunlong never asked for even a single gun from the brigade headquarters.
The only reason is that the troops are expanding too fast and the brigade needs to support political cadres.
After this battle, whichever regiment suffers the greatest losses and achieves the least results will be the one I remove from the fold! "
The political commissar saw that the brigade commander was really angry and did not try to persuade him.
Indeed, compared with the Independent Regiment or the New First Regiment, the performance of the other main regiments is really poor.
The New 1st Regiment and the Independent Regiment are core regiments, although they also have numbers belonging to the main force.
However, in terms of strength, the core regiment should not be as strong as the 772nd Regiment, the main force regiment that was formed at the beginning.
In fact, this was the case with most of the troops under the Eighth Route Army.
But the situation was the opposite for the 386th Brigade.
The two core regiments directly under the 386th Brigade, purely in terms of strength, whether it is the Independent Regiment or the New 1st Regiment, can crush the 772nd Regiment or the 771st Regiment.
Even when the New 1st Regiment was at its strongest, it was able to overpower both the 772nd and 771st Regiments!
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(End of this chapter)
