Chapter 60, Page 60: Good evening, Captain Kong (Seeking follow-up reading)
Because he had just completed a defense change, Kong Jie, who was tired after a day of work, rested early.
He even started to dream. He dreamed that there were people around him drinking and eating meat. He could even smell the fragrance, but he just couldn't eat it.
In a trance, Kong Jie seemed to have realized something, and suddenly opened his eyes and stood up.
Kong Jie noticed the light coming through from the other side of the door curtain, and at the same time he heard the sound of Zhen eating from behind the curtain.
Kong Jie listened to the eating and drinking sounds, and while feeling puzzled, he quickly pulled out the Mauser pistol that was placed beside him.
This is the regiment headquarters. Next to the room where he rests is the conference room with the battle map. Which soldier from the independent regiment is brave enough to go to the operations room to eat?
"Old Kong, come over and have a drink when you wake up."
"Li Yunlong's voice?"
Listening to the sound coming from behind the door curtain, Kong Jie was full of doubts. He pinched himself hard and realized that he was not dreaming.
Why did Li Yunlong's voice appear in his own regiment headquarters?
"What the fuck."
Kong Jie pressed the hammer on the back of the revolver with one hand, then walked out barefoot, holding the gun, and lifted the door curtain.
I saw that on the table in the operations room, which was originally used to place maps, there were now several bottles of wine, a pile of peanuts, and some meat.
And the person sitting opposite Kong Jie was Li Yunlong himself.
Sitting in the main seat was the deputy commander of the independent regiment, Xing Zhiguo.
On the other side was Qin Yangming, whom he was deeply impressed by.
Qin Yangming felt that Kong Jie was looking at him, and clasped his fists towards Kong Jie somewhat embarrassedly.
"No, Lao Li, what are you doing so late at night?"
Seeing that it was really Li Yunlong, Kong Jie breathed a sigh of relief, then turned around to put on his shoes, put on his clothes, walked out and sat down next to the table.
Kong Jie looked at the people around the table, his eyes full of confusion.
"Old Li, when did you come? No, why didn't anyone notify me?"
"Old Xing, why do you look so bad?"
Kong Jie noticed that Deputy Head Xing's face looked very bad, and asked worriedly, "Are you feeling a little uncomfortable?"
Deputy Headmaster Xing shook his head: "Headmaster, our independent regiment has been wiped out..."
After listening to what Deputy Captain Xing said, Kong Jie became even more confused.
"No? What the hell? My independent regiment was wiped out?
Lao Xing, how much did you drink?
Lao Li?
"Captain, all the people in our regiment were killed, even the two of us were captured. There were more than a thousand people in our regiment headquarters, and they were all killed without firing a single shot. Alas!"
As soon as Deputy Captain Xing finished his words, he drank the wine in front of him in one gulp, then lowered his head, feeling confused.
"Am I dreaming? I didn't hear a single gunshot, but my independent regiment was wiped out? Old Xing, this joke is not funny."
Listening to what Deputy Captain Xing said, Kong Jie was a little confused. He looked directly at Li Yunlong, hoping that Li Yunlong could give him an explanation so that he could understand what had happened.
Seeing Kong Jie looking at him, Li Yunlong did not keep him in suspense. He peeled a few peanuts, threw them into his mouth and said:
"Okay, Lao Kong, what Lao Xing said is right, your independent regiment is gone."
"Your regiment headquarters has nearly a thousand men and women, but they were all wiped out by my battalion, or rather, a platoon!"
Li Yunlong poured a bowl of wine for Kong Jie, then pointed outside the gate and spoke to Kong Jie.
"All your platoon leaders and company commanders are outside the regiment headquarters. The defense of Yang Village is now in the charge of the Vanguard Battalion. Go out and take a look yourself."
Kong Jie took the wine and put it on the table but did not drink it. Instead, he stood up and walked out of the regiment headquarters.
……
"Not a single shot was fired, not a single shot was fired. A platoon of about a thousand people were wiped out!"
"I usually tell you to train well and stand guard, but you don't listen. Today, the vanguard battalion is here. What if it's the Japanese?!"
After Kong Jie thoroughly understood what happened, even though he was a good-natured guy, he couldn't suppress the anger in his heart.
At the same time, my back was soaked with cold sweat. Fortunately, they were the people brought by Li Yunlong and Qin Yangming. If it were the Japanese devils who came tonight.
Apart from anything else, if the Japanese defeated the independent regiment and discovered the location of the headquarters, then even if Kong Jie was shot a hundred times, it would not be able to make up for this huge mistake.
Even if the Japanese didn't find the headquarters, Kong Jie would definitely be their prisoner at this moment.
Finally, Li Yunlong persuaded Kong Jie: "Old Kong, to be honest, if it was my New 1st Regiment, my New 1st Regiment would not be able to withstand Xiao Qin's actions."
"Old Kong, your soldiers are really good. The first thing they thought of when they were pinned down was to pull out the grenade."
"No one is willing to expose the position of your regiment headquarters. As soon as you let go, they will either want to shout or draw their bayonets to fight back."
"Captain, to be honest, when Captain Li appeared in my room, I thought I was dreaming. Then when Captain Li took me to appease the soldiers, I realized that our entire independent regiment had been wiped out by the Vanguard Battalion."
"The Vanguard Camp is giving us a wake-up call."
"We can all have a team like this. The Japanese are unreasonable. We must prepare defensive measures against such small forces." "Xiao Qin, think of a way. Arrange a defensive measure for the independent regiment specifically against the assault platoon's attack method."
Li Yunlong looked at Qin Yangming. He thought that since there were offensive guns, there must be offensive spears.
But Qin Yangming just shook his head and said, "There is no good way to deal with this kind of troops. Either we find them and send a large force to encircle and suppress them. No matter how powerful a small force is, it can't stop the attack of a large force."
"If you want to find them, the best way is to send out a small group of troops to engage them."
"In this situation, I can only suggest one solution."
"Tell me."
"Arrange more sentries, especially secret sentries."
"For places like those cliffs where you think it's impossible for anyone to come up or over, you have to arrange for people to keep watch."
"As for places like underpasses, we arranged four or five people to face each other at a distance of ten meters. If there was anything unusual, we would open fire immediately."
"That's all we can do. We don't have the ability to train a unit like the assault platoon."
……
The next morning, after being scolded, Li Yunlong and Qin Yangming went to the logistics department and the bedding factory respectively.
"The head of the logistics department is my fellow villager, Zhang Wanhe. His personality is the same as that of the old rich man in Shanxi. He is stingy."
On the way, Li Yunlong introduced several major department leaders to Qin Yangming and told Qin Yangming to talk less.
Qin Yangming naturally had no objection.
As for Qin Yangming's vanguard battalion, they would naturally follow him to protect the logistics department and the headquarters hospital.
……
Taiyuan, the Japanese headquarters in Shanxi.
A Japanese soldier in a colonel's uniform entered the headquarters under the guidance of the guards.
"Commander, I am here under orders from Yamamoto Ikki."
Yoshio Shinozuka looked at Yamamoto Kazuki who walked in with a smile on his face.
"Yamamoto-kun, I wonder if the special forces are ready for their first operation?"
Yamamoto Ikki said firmly: "The special forces are ready to go at any time!"
"Commander, please rest assured and leave the task to our special forces!"
Shinozuka Yoshio nodded: "Well, I was planning to let your special forces take action after a while."
Yoshio Shinozuka handed a newspaper to Ikki Yamamoto and pointed at the news in the newspaper that two regimental flags were seized from the Japanese and started talking.
"Two of our Shanxi garrison's flags were seized at once, and they launched a large-scale propaganda campaign about it."
"The morale of the Chinese people and the army, which had been suppressed by us, has risen again."
"In addition, the North China Front Army Headquarters and the headquarters were also extremely dissatisfied with the fact that two of our regiment flags were seized."
"Although the reasons for the failure have all been pushed onto Sakata Nobutsu, the shame is pinned on our Shanxi garrison."
"So I need you to lead the special forces to attack the Eighth Route Army headquarters in advance! This will eliminate the shame and undermine the morale of the Chinese military and civilians!"
Yamamoto Ikki looked at the newspaper, thought for a moment and said, "Commander, I think we can do more than just sneak attack the Eighth Route Army headquarters."
"We can also arrange personnel to take back the squadron flag!"
"When the time comes, we will publicize that the Eighth Route Army seized our flag, but when the flag fell into the hands of the Nationalist Army, we immediately snatched it back."
"I believe that Chongqing will definitely feel very embarrassed about this matter, and the Chinese people will also be very dissatisfied with Chongqing."
"Why didn't the locust army snatch the regiment flag when it was on the Eighth Route Army's side, but it was snatched away by the locust army when it was on their side..."
Shinozuka Yoshio listened to the plan that Yamamoto Ikki said and nodded thoughtfully: "Yoshi, this is a very good plan."
“If successful, it would improve the popularity of the Eighth Route Army, but it would also significantly damage the popularity of Chongqing.
Let their already not-so-friendly relationship with the Eighth Route Army become even worse!"
"Even if there is no problem with the Eighth Route Army headquarters, without the support from Chongqing, the Eighth Route Army will be nothing but a castle in the air."
"By then, it will be easy to destroy the Eighth Route Army!"
Yoshio Shinozuka thought of the information recently sent from Chongqing, saying that Chongqing had once again provided a large amount of material support to the Eighth Route Army.
He guessed that the Eighth Route Army was able to hold out for so long because Chongqing must have provided secret support.
It was only because the amount of support materials this time was so great that it was discovered by their intelligence personnel.
Otherwise, he really couldn't understand how an army without any support, weapons and equipment, and pay could hold out for so long under the large-scale encirclement of their locust army.
(End of this chapter)
