Chapter 161 An unexpected situation!
"Brigade Commander, Brigade Commander, emergency!"
At the top of Baihu Ridge, in the headquarters of the 386th Brigade, the Chief of Staff of the 386th Brigade rushed into the headquarters in a hurry with two telegrams.
The brigade commander, who was looking at the sand table and discussing the battle plan with the political commissar, saw the chief of staff rushing in and hurried forward.
"Chief of Staff, what happened?
Why are you in such a hurry?!"
Seeing the anxious face of the chief of staff, the brigade commander suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Could it be that Li Yunlong's independent regiment failed to stop the Japanese Fourth Brigade and was captured by the Japanese Fourth Brigade?!"
“No, no, it’s the Brigade Commander, the message came from both the Independent Regiment and the 771st Regiment.
The 4th Brigade originally sent out a regiment to attack Yuxi Town, but for some unknown reason, the regiment suddenly changed direction and headed towards Tongshi Town!
The 771st Regiment reported that the 4th Brigade, which was originally entering the ambush circle, suddenly stopped and sent out two battalions of troops to retreat and reoccupy those blocking positions!
The 771st Regiment saw that the 4th Brigade had reoccupied the blocking position, and now they don’t know what to do and are waiting for orders.
The brigade commander and the political commissar listened to what the chief of staff said, and each of them took a telegram and began to check the information on it.
"Brigade Commander, have the Japanese figured out our plan?
They knew that Yuxi Town was actually a trap, so they gave up attacking Yuxi Town and attacked Tongshi Town instead?"
After reading the message, the political commissar immediately asked the brigade commander.
If the 4th Brigade saw through their plan to conceal the truth, they would be in big trouble.
Now the Shiquan County defense line has been opened, allowing the Japanese Fourth Brigade to come in.
The original plan was to lure the Japanese Fourth Brigade into the deep territory alone, and then the Eighth Route Army would create a time difference and encircle and destroy the Fourth Brigade with superior forces.
Before the other two brigades arrived, they directly crippled the Fourth Brigade.
After all, the initial estimate of the Fourth Brigade was only about 5,000 people.
In addition, the Eighth Route Army was preparing to launch an attack at night, and the Fourth Brigade did not have aircraft support from Taiyuan. In terms of equipment, there was not much difference between the Eighth Route Army and the Fourth Brigade.
Apart from artillery, the Eighth Route Army's light weapons are even stronger than those of the Fourth Brigade.
Moreover, during nighttime combat, the threat posed by artillery is not as great as during the day.
Therefore, the Eighth Route Army has a great advantage in night combat.
But now the Japanese Fourth Brigade did not enter the ambush circle as planned, but instead sent out new troops to occupy those blocking positions.
This means that the 4th Brigade will no longer be alone in advancing deep into the enemy's territory. When the other two brigades of the Japanese arrive tomorrow, Linyuan County and Shiquan County will face an attack from three brigades.
Moreover, all the blocking positions in Shiquan County were abandoned in order to lure the 4th Brigade. The original plan was to wait for the 4th Brigade to advance deep into the ambush circle and then occupy them again.
But now the Japanese Fourth Brigade has sent a large number of troops to reoccupy these blocking positions, and it is not as easy as planned to recapture them.
After reading the information on the telegram, the brigade commander immediately began to look at the sand table. He pulled out several flags representing the Japanese devils on the sand table and began to conduct simulations on the sand table.
"No, it's impossible. If the Japanese Fourth Brigade saw through our plan, they shouldn't have attacked Tongshi Town.
Attacking Tongshi Town would bring no benefit to the Japanese Fourth Brigade.
If they knew that the Yamazaki Battalion at Wangjiapo had been completely wiped out, they should retreat to Linjiaji. Going to Tongshi Town, for the 4th Brigade, except for being able to better support the Yamazaki Battalion, basically has no other benefits.
Although the surrounding terrain is flat and suitable for large-scale troop operations, it is also suitable for tank troop charges.
However, it is impossible that the Japanese were unaware of the fact that we had seized their tanks in the Shangdang area.
Tongshi Town is suitable for the Japanese to deploy their troops for combat, and it is also suitable for our troops to deploy their troops for combat.
The Japanese tanks are suitable for charging, but our tanks can charge as well!
The most important thing is that although the terrain in Tongshi Town is not as complicated as that in Yuxi Town and is not as suitable for ambushes as that in Yuxi Town, it is also a good place for an ambush.
Our original plan was to encircle and suppress the 4th Brigade from four directions: Tongshi Town, Yuxi Town, Guzhen Town, and Shiquan County.
But if the Japanese want to take Tongshi Town now, the most we can do is not be able to encircle and suppress the 4th Brigade from Tongshi Town.
However, we can still send out troops from Baihuling and form an encirclement around the 4th Brigade, thus launching a suppression campaign.
At most, the cost of encircling and suppressing the 4th Brigade in Tongshi Town was slightly greater than that in Yuxi Town."
"Nothing bad will come of it."
“But the question now is, why did the 4th Brigade suddenly change the direction of attack?
And they also sent troops to the rear blocking positions to deploy defenses? !
If the 4th Brigade breaks out along the rear route when it is surrounded, and there are troops outside who can provide timely support, we will not be able to stop the 4th Brigade from breaking out! "
The brigade commander kept deducing various possibilities in his mind, wondering what exactly caused the Japanese 4th Brigade to suddenly change the direction of attack.
"Brigade Commander, do you think the location of the headquarters has been exposed?
The reason why the Japanese Fourth Brigade changed the direction of attack was because they knew that the headquarters was at Baihuling.
So we want to get close to Baihu Ridge, and then wait for the other two brigades to come and besiege Baihu Ridge!"
The political commissar on the side made a bold guess.
The brigade commander listened to what the political commissar said and simply waved his hand.
"Impossible, the headquarters is escorted by the special forces of the Vanguard Regiment and the guard company of the Vanguard Regiment.
Apart from us, the guard company and the special forces have not contacted anyone, so the location of the headquarters cannot be leaked!
Moreover, even the troops directly under the headquarters were mobilized only after the generals arrived at Baihuling. Those troops had no idea that the headquarters was also in Baihuling!"
The brigade commander listened to the political commissar's guess, thought about it for a while, and then denied the political commissar's guess.
Because the headquarters now has equipment that can detect radio signals, if an undercover agent secretly tipped off the Japanese, the detection equipment would definitely react.
But now the investigators did not report any abnormal radio signals.
So there is no undercover.
As for the undercover agent delivering the note, that is even more impossible.
Along the way, the route of the headquarters was random. Only the special operations team captain Duan Peng, the head of the headquarters, the chief of staff, and himself, the brigade commander, knew the route and destination.
(End of this chapter)
