The War of Resistance

In a room illuminated by a kerosene lamp, Hou Kanshan, Cheng Peng and Liu Keqiang, who were sitting in the room, all looked up at Shang Zhen, who was standing in front of the window.

Shang Zhen had been silent for a while, and the three of them were waiting for Shang Zhen to make a decision.

It was easy for Hou Kanshan to enter Shuiquan Town. He just stood in the light of the lantern. Who in the whole camp didn't know his ugly face?

What's more, Qin Chuan happened to be checking the sentry at that time, so the so-called password was meaningless to him.

After Hou Kanshan hurriedly found Shang Zhen, he reported to Shang Zhen about Chu Tian's company's blocking of the Japanese army, such as the strength of the Japanese puppet army, and that the Japanese army would arrive in Shuiquan Town tomorrow.

Then, Hou Kanshan mentioned the deaths of Hu Lielie, Shi Laosi and others.

He was sure that Hu Lielie, Shi Laosi and the twins were all killed by box guns.

So who killed Hu Lielie and the others, were they Japanese or puppet soldiers? Or did the enemy who killed those soldiers have already reached Shuiquan Town, and who were they targeting? This made Hou Kanshan, a veteran soldier who had been on the battlefield for a long time, confused.

Intuitively, it was a bad thing, but he couldn't figure it out, so he could only report it to Shang Zhen.

After listening to the report, Shang Zhen asked him some other questions carefully and fell into deep thought.

However, before Shang Zhen could think of a result, the soldiers came to report again that Mo Jianchen had come with the Eighth Route Army guerrillas, but was blocked outside by Qin Chuan.

Shang Zhen did not express his opinion on this, so he continued to think.

Seeing that Shang Zhen had no attitude, the soldiers naturally continued to waste time with Mo Jianchen at the entrance of the town.

Whether it was Hou Kanshan or Cheng Peng and Liu Keqiang, none of them had ever encountered such a complicated situation.

They came out to get food, and if they withdraw now, it would be equivalent to giving up the alliance relationship directly for Chen Laocai, and the Japanese puppet army will attack in large numbers, and the people of Shuiquan Town will definitely suffer.

They always have to help Chen Laocai and his men to withstand this wave of Japanese attacks.

But since the word "carry" is mentioned, they have to fight a positional war with the Japanese army, for example, their people defend the village in the village to resist the attack of the Japanese puppet army.

But in this way, it is not in line with their usual fighting style. Their battalion is bound to suffer a lot of casualties.

And this time, in addition to their battalion and the Japanese puppet army, the Eighth Route Army, the Security Division and even the Zhao Tieying Regiment of their 113th Division participated in this game. That is, all the ones who should and should not come have come.

If they insist on resisting here, will other armed forces take advantage of the ready-made advantage? And this kind of ready-made advantage does not only mean that they and the Japanese army will suffer losses, but it is also very likely to add insult to injury when their battalion is "in trouble"!

Everyone said that we should unite to fight against Japan, but in fact, everyone was thinking their own way during the fight.

I can help those who have a good relationship with me, but it does not mean that I will die for you.

For those who have a bad relationship with me, it may be better to die than to die for me.

As for those who have a bad relationship with me or even have a grudge against me, they may take advantage of your illness to kill you.

With unity, we can build our new Great Wall. This is the most ideal state in the March of the Volunteers.

But if we compare the fight against Japan to pulling a cart, in the actual process of pulling a cart, many times it is the donkey, horse, and mule that pull the cart, each pulling their own harness and singing their own tune.

It is definitely right to consider the overall situation, but on the basis of considering the overall situation, each family must live their own life. That is, brothers will never help each other after they have separated, right?

In the face of such a complicated situation, all this depends on the decision made by the battalion commander Shang Zhen.

Again, it cannot be said that Shang Zhen did everything well, but at least no one can do better than him.

"We must not let the Japanese invaders enter Shuiquan Town. Even if they do, we must not let them occupy Chen Laocai's farm." Shang Zhen said at last.

"If that happens, the loss of our battalion--" Liu Keqiang said worriedly, but was stopped by Shang Zhen with a gesture: "When you are a soldier, you always have to fight hard. I won't talk about the big principles. In fact, you all understand that sometimes you have to go to war. It is unavoidable."

After Shang Zhen said this, Liu Keqiang, Cheng Peng and Hou Kanshan understood Shang Zhen's attitude. .

This means that their battalion also has a bottom line when fighting. There are always people to protect and things to do.

When there is no room for maneuver in the middle, what can they do if they don't go? If they die, they die.

This is just like when Hou Kanshan protected his wife and children. Can he ignore his wife and children just because there are too many Japanese devils?

Then he must go, and he must admit it even if he dies!

This is a responsibility that a man cannot avoid, and this responsibility is greater than his own life and death!

Zhang Zhen, Cheng Peng and Liu Keqiang imagined a possible fierce battle, and both of them said "yes" in unison.

However, at this time, Shang Zhen slowed down his tone and said: "In fact, it is not as pessimistic as you think. Although we cannot let the Japanese devils occupy Shuiquan Town, we may not necessarily fight a positional war."

"What do you mean?" Cheng Peng, Liu Keqiang and Hou Kanshan asked together.

It doesn't matter whether they are afraid or not. Anyway, there is such an atmosphere in Shang Zhen's camp now, that is, when it comes to defending Chendi and thinking of the fierce firepower of the Japanese army, their heads are all big!

They used long guns, that is, rifles and machine guns to "fix" the bandits who only had pistols in their hands.

But by the same token, the Japanese army, whose firepower was much stronger than theirs, had light and heavy machine guns as well as grenade launchers and mortars.

They really had no way to deal with them in positional warfare. Under the fierce firepower, what else could they do except being killed directly? Living and dying with the position was not the purpose of the battle, but defeating the invaders was the purpose!

"Find your own terrain, and also use squads as units. The platoon leader decides how to fight the devils, but you must kill and injure some Japanese and puppet troops.

When the Japanese and puppet troops have many wounded, they will not attack again.

In this way, our casualties will be smaller, and we can run according to our own abilities after the battle. There will definitely be casualties, but there will always be some that will not be caught up by the devils!" Shang Zhen said again.

He used this tactic of scattering flowers again, which can also be said to be that he turned a large blocking battle into many small guerrilla battles.

"I will tell the squads and platoons to decide how to fight, but they must not just shoot a few shots at the devils symbolically and then run away. These are not my soldiers, Shang Zhen!

At the end, I will bring people back to see if we can fight the devils again in Chen Laocai's manor.

Shen Mugen, go and inform Chen Laocai to organize the people in the town to retreat.

And he can't fool me about this matter. If he says that many people died, don't blame me for not helping Chen Laocai.

In addition, we have to leave some people in the town, not too many, just one platoon."

Speaking of this, the big thing was over, and Shang Zhen closed his mouth.

"Battalion commander, Mo Jianchen is outside." Hou Kanshan reminded.

"Let them in and say I don't see them. No matter how many people they come, they can stay in the town. When the devils come in, we don't have many people guarding here, and they can fight the devils." Shang Zhen said unhappily.

Why Qin Chuan didn't have a good attitude after seeing Mo Jianchen, of course, it has something to do with Shang Zhen.

And why Shang Zhen has this attitude towards the Eighth Route Army now, of course, it has something to do with his wife Leng Xiaozhi.

The reason is that Shang Zhen promised to give Leng Xiaozhi the 20,000 yuan they seized last time, but due to various reasons, they were not able to send the money to the Eighth Route Army or Leng Xiaozhi didn't take it away.

As a result, Leng Xiaozhi was complained by the Eighth Route Army, and Shang Zhen felt very uncomfortable about this.

And when he wanted Leng Xiaozhi to come to him, the Eighth Route Army sent Leng Xiaozhi to do other work.

Shang Zhen was of course dissatisfied with this.

"There is another thing, that is, the matter of Hu Lielie and the others' death that I told you about, battalion commander, aren't you careful?" Hou Kanshan saw that Shang Zhen had arranged everything and hurriedly reminded him again.

"There is no way to prevent the matter that has not been touched. What is not important? I'll leave this matter to you, Brother Hou. Can you capture another Japanese prisoner?

We just happened to capture a Japanese translator. Can we get some information from him?

Okay, gather the team. I'll tell you." Shang Zhen said at last.