Peng Shilu's worry was not unreasonable. At this time, all the main forces of the four divisions were taken away by Du Kaishan to join the war. The remaining troops were only a basic regiment that was being formed, a backbone regiment, and the Baoqing County Brigade that had just completed reorganization. , the total strength of the troops is only more than 3,000.
Among them, the Fourth Division Backbone Regiment, which has the most abundant troops, only has the strength of two companies because the reserve personnel of the seven companies allocated according to the plan have not yet arrived.
Even after receiving the telegram from the headquarters, Peng Shilu urgently added three squadrons from the Baoqing County Brigade and two platoons from the divisional guard company left by Du Kaishan to this basic regiment, which only had a strength of seven and a half companies. , the only ones with combat experience were the two and a half companies left by Du Kaishan to form the new unit and one platoon from the divisional guard company.
As the main force, the Baoqing County Brigade was organized into this basic regiment even before the armbands with the word "guard" on the military uniforms could be replaced. Since it was formed for the second time based on the basic militiamen transferred from Fujin, it was equipped with It is still very weak. The main equipment is still Italian rifles that have been replaced by the main force. Each squadron only has three crooked machine guns, and the entire county brigade only has three heavy machine guns and five grenade launchers.
Although the basic regiments have been supplemented and the weapons and equipment have been somewhat strengthened through mixing and reserve equipment allocated by Peng Shilu from the division, they still appear to be very weak, especially the large gap in the number of artillery. Compared with the main force and the original basic regiments of the division, , this basic regiment has only one Japanese 90mm mortar company and one 92-type infantry artillery company.
Each company only has six crooked machine guns and twelve submachine guns that the main force has gradually begun to phase out. Each battalion only has four Type 92 heavy machine guns and one or two refurbished Vickers water-cooled heavy machine guns. Infantry equipment What was more important was the inventory of Italian-made rifles allocated by the military region before the battle began. Compared with the main force's grenade launchers that were equipped at the squad level, each company of this basic regiment only had three grenade launchers.
In fact, compared with the fact that even after temporarily strengthening the three squadrons of the county brigade, there were only six companies in total of the backbone regiments trained for the military region. This backbone regiment was temporarily formed to take on the task of guarding Baoqing after the main force was transferred. The military strength is actually quite sufficient.
Originally, according to the overall battle plan, Baoqing County was a chess piece that could be discarded when necessary to disperse the Japanese forces. It was not planned to hold on to it for a long time, or even the entire Baoqing County, except for the western mountainous area and the Qixing River line in the north. , Yang Zhen has no intention of sticking to it.
These two regiments are firstly to form new troops, and secondly, they are to play a certain deterrent role. The most important thing is that Baoqing County still has to leave some troops for defense before the Japanese army goes north. When the Japanese army entered Baoqing, a county town couldn't be an empty city, and the logistics department also had a field hospital and a material delivery point here.
Although most of the residents of Baoqing County have now moved north, and apart from soldiers, there are very few residents in the entire county who have moved away, but as a support point on the eastern front, this place is ready to give up at any time. , but the troops should be left behind.
However, the situation suddenly changed. This time, the Japanese 11th Division gave up its westward march and marched northward. With two unsatisfied regiments, with huge disparity in strength and firepower, they blocked the main force of a Japanese division. You can imagine the pressure. , three days, to be honest, Peng Shilu really didn’t have much confidence in his heart.
In fact, the Japanese army did not leave much time for Peng Shilu to adjust his deployment. Just half an hour after Yang Zhen's two guard companies entered Baoqing County, the leading troops led by Colonel Asakawa, who had marched all the way, We have arrived at Jiaxinzi, a small town southwest of Baoqing.
Those holding Jiaxinzi were two companies from the first batch of troops airlifted from the pass, plus the reserve troops mobilized by the Production and Construction Corps, and a battalion of the fourth division's backbone regiment consisting of three squadrons from the Baoqing County brigade. A battalion has only two companies in actual strength.
Now for Peng Shilu, the most advantageous thing is that after Du Kaishan was transferred to the commander of the fourth division, he built a lot of fortifications along the periphery of Baoqing, which was the support point of the entire eastern battlefield. Although these fortifications were not available due to lack of Reinforced concrete made it appear a bit fragile, but after all, it was much stronger than nothing, especially the anti-tank trenches and traffic trenches that surrounded almost all key parts of Baoqing's periphery, which bought a lot of time for this battle.
He was ordered to lead a battalion, but actually only two companies arrived at the front line of Jiaxinzi. Liu Yihu, deputy commander of the basic regiment and commander of the first battalion, was temporarily replaced by the director of the regiment's political office who acted as the instructor of the first battalion because the instructor was still studying. Feng Haishan and Liu Yihu were veterans who joined the army at Qunce Mountain, while Feng Haishan was a cadre transferred from the pass.
The temperament of these two partners is exactly opposite to that of other ordinary troops. Although the battalion commander's name is Liu Yihu, he joined the army when Yang Zhen captured the Japanese Jingpo Lake Hydropower Station. Although his qualifications in the army are the same as those of the old black top secret The group of people in the camp are incomparable, but they went to middle school in the customs before being arrested as laborers.
This guy has a very good character. As long as he is not fighting or training, he usually remains silent. He is as gentle and quiet as a big girl. However, he is not only smart and capable, but also willing to use his brain when fighting. He also has a very vicious eye when looking at problems. He is usually silent, but once he strikes, he goes straight to the opponent's vital points.
When a war started, his attacks were extremely vicious, and his behavior on the battlefield was extremely bold, completely different from his usual behavior. His old superior Wang Guangyu once said to him: "There is a needle hidden in the cotton." It explains his problem very well.
He has a problem, that is, the more difficult the task assigned by his superiors, the more excited he becomes, and the expression of his excitement is that the expression on his face is like a cement block, without any expression. When he was the battalion commander, if the soldiers below looked at him His face straightened, and he knew without asking that a war was about to begin.
This is not that he meant to show off. In fact, when he was working as a laborer at the Jingbo Lake Hydropower Station, he was slapped in the face by a Japanese supervisor because of a slight negligence during work, which hit a nerve in his face. It's broken. Because I don't have money for treatment, I'm left with this problem and I can't laugh at all.
However, although this guy usually looks calm on the surface, he is actually the kind of guy who just doesn't complain and makes a big splash. In Du Kaishan's words, this guy is a typical two-kicker type of person who doesn't usually click. Otherwise, it will explode at one point.
Originally, when the Political Department of the Fourth District was selecting cadres for the formation of a new cadre regiment, it planned to directly appoint him, who had just graduated from the training class, as the deputy regiment leader. It did not intend to let him also serve as the battalion commander. However, this guy was unwilling to be the deputy and threatened to I would rather be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix. I would rather be demoted to a company commander with the right to make my own decisions than be someone else's deputy.
Although Huang Yuqing, the district political commissar who was in charge of cadre allocation work, was extremely dissatisfied with his character and was very embarrassed by him, his character just suited Du Kaishan's appetite, and he immediately made the decision to make him deputy commander and chief officer. The battalion commander, Du Kaishan, who was about to lead the troops on an expedition at that time, was still doing his work personally despite his busy schedule.
Du Kaishan told him directly, if you can bring this regiment to me, I will personally find the commander to bring you a regiment, but he must also serve as the deputy commander, because in order to ensure the troops, Yang Zhen, especially It is the quality of mid-to-high-level commanders. It is mandatory that all military commanders above the regiment level who have not served as deputy regimental commanders are not allowed to be promoted to regimental commanders.
However, on the surface, this guy seems to have been through Du Kaishan's work. In fact, if he is really successful, then you have to ask himself. Since taking office, this guy has spent most of his time in his own camp and rarely Going to the regiment headquarters, from this incident, you can see how stubborn this person is.
The instructor, Feng Haishan, was originally a military cadre and later became a political cadre. He graduated from high school and was considered an intellectual among the Red Fourth Front Army, which lacked intellectuals in its early years.
But it is far different from his status as an intellectual. Not to mention his fiery personality, he rarely talks about truth like other political cadres. On the contrary, he is a bitch, Ge Laozi, and a turtle son. All the words that Japanese immortals use to express themselves come out.
It turned out that one of them was the battalion commander of the third regiment of the first brigade, the newly promoted deputy regiment commander and battalion commander, and the first deputy regimental cadre among those who joined the army in Jingbo Lake. On the battlefield, he was flexible and not rigid in fighting. He said that he was ruthless and accurate, and he never knew what it meant to follow orders rigidly. People with his personality were also the kind of cadres that Yang Zhen was most proud of.
The other one was a battalion political instructor of the 129th Division of the 18th Army when he boarded the plane in Yan'an half a month ago. He was born in the old Red Army and served as a battalion commander in the Red Army. He had rich practical experience and was on the West Road. After the defeat of the army, he dragged a leg that was chopped off by the Ma Jiajun cavalry and trekked nearly a thousand miles alone from the Hexi Corridor, begging for food all the way back to Yan'an. His tenacity is evident.
One of these two people is a cadre trained by the Jidong Military Region itself, and the other is a cadre who has just been transferred from Guan Nei and has not yet had his butt warmed up. Before being transferred to the Fourth District, let alone meeting him, he had never heard of it. After the other party was transferred to a regiment, because Liu Yihu rarely went to the regiment headquarters, he didn't meet much.
When Feng Haishan was temporarily appointed as the acting instructor of the 1st Battalion, he had only met twice. After rushing to Jiaxinzi with the only two companies in the battalion, the two partners, who were still strangers, discovered that We can only get to know each other on the battlefield.
After checking the terrain, they arranged for the troops to enter the preset positions. Before the Japanese troops arrived, the two people took the time to sit together. They were familiar with each other. Before they could figure out each other's temperament and even smoked a cigarette, A fierce quarrel broke out between the two partners.
The reason is very simple. Both of them are people with strong personalities. They both believe that this battle should be fought according to their own ideas. The reason for their quarrel is just one sentence, which is who has the final say. They are both used to saying it in their own troops. When people who have the final say meet, it is impossible not to be filled with passion.