The War of Resistance

The next battle that Ma Tianfang mentioned was of course the order issued by Shang Zhen to conduct a phased blocking attack in squads and platoons.

The next battle they mentioned was that after they finished the battle, there was another squad waiting to attack the Japanese army. This time, the squad ambushing beside the road was led by the company commander Cheng Peng.

Cheng Peng was the company commander. This time, only Cheng Peng's company and Liu Keqiang's company entered Shuiquan Town.

Liu Keqiang led a platoon to guard Shuiquan Town.

The situation in Shuiquan Town was complicated, so of course there needed to be someone useful there to watch.

And what about this blocking battle? In terms of official position, apart from Shang Zhen, there was only Cheng Peng left.

As a company commander, Cheng Peng needed to set an example for the soldiers behind him, so when Shang Zhen led them to ambush along both sides of the road near the Japanese army's station, Cheng Peng originally asked to stay in the first group.

It's just that the terrain there was not very ideal, so Qin Chuan took the initiative to take the "job" away.

According to Qin Chuan, the terrain here is very good and very suitable for ambushes. You should give me this nest!

For this reason, Cheng Peng really looked up to Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan's words were very sophisticated.

If Qin Chuan said that you are the company commander and you are a high-ranking official, how can you personally take the first position? In that case, Cheng Peng must stay in the first blocking position.

If this is a dangerous mission in other armies, it is unlikely that officers will go first, but in Shang Zhenying, no matter which company commander, they will say, I am the company commander, so what? Don't I fight the devils as a company commander?

But Qin Chuan didn't talk about his official position, but said that the terrain here is very suitable for ambushes.

As for how good this terrain is and how we retreat, the mountain people have their own tricks, I won't tell you!

In this way, he gave Cheng Peng, the company commander, a decent step, allowing him to find a relatively favorable terrain for ambush.

Cheng Peng accepted Qin Chuan's kindness, but at the same time, he also felt that he needed to show his strength!

Shang Zhen was promoted to battalion commander later.

Cheng Peng was not an old man who followed Shang Zhen, and when Shang Zhen first made him the battalion commander, he was not very adaptable to the disciplines of Shangzhen. Although he didn't say it, he didn't get along very well with the veterans under Shang Zhen sometimes.

Cheng Peng now needs to use such a battle to prove himself, so as to narrow the distance between himself and veterans like Qian Chuan'er.

But in fact, even if Cheng Peng became Qin Chuan's favor, the next position can only be said to be slightly better than the position where Qin Chuan and his team are.

Compared with the ambush position of Qin Chuan and his team, the position where he led this squad was just a little more wheat fields and wormwood.

There was nothing he could do about it.

Since wheat can be grown in this area, it is all gentle hills. Who has ever seen wheat grown in the mountains? Planting wheat in the mountains is not called wheat fields, it has to be called terraced fields!

In other words, looking around, five or six hundred meters, or even thousands of meters, are open areas, which is normal.

Cheng Peng wanted to show off his ability to prove that he was not a company commander for nothing.

But who would have thought that Qian Chuan'er, who took the initiative to ask to be in the same group with him, would prove to him how smart the veterans under Shang Zhen were!

They set up an ambush on the edge of a wheat field where wheat ears had been cut, and to their right was a small patch of wormwood that was neither too high nor too low.

It was impossible to block bullets with just that patch of wormwood, but if people ran in the wormwood and bent over, they could block the sight of the Japanese army.

At first, Cheng Peng wanted to set the ambush behind the wormwood.

That was because there was a grassland behind the wormwood, and there were a few bushes on the sparse grassland, so at least they could run when they shot at the Japanese army and retreated.

Anyway, if they set up an ambush in the wheat field, the wheat field behind them would become a hindrance to their retreat when they retreated after shooting.

And when they ran through the open space and the woods, there would be a carriage waiting for them.

Shang Zhen led his men to stop the Japanese army in a carriage, and perhaps to take care of Cheng Peng as a company commander, Zhang Zhen also specially assigned a carriage to Cheng Peng.

Of course, Shang Zhen would say that.

What Shang Zhen said to Cheng Peng at the time was, I know you are good at fighting the Japanese, and you have to run fast. A two-legged person can't run faster than a four-legged horse. You have made a great contribution, so you deserve a carriage.

Everyone knows that after attacking the Japanese army, the chance of running happily is greater. Of course, this is from the perspective of survival. How many Japanese soldiers are killed is another question!

At that time, Cheng Peng wanted to refuse, but Shang Zhen directly said that this was an order, which left Cheng Peng speechless.

Cheng Peng is not a stupid person.

How could he not see that Shang Zhen was accommodating him everywhere, taking care of him, and even ordered his veterans to take care of his dignity.

So he had to fight even better!

According to his idea, they could fight the Japanese army for a while longer, since there was a carriage behind them. Once they got on the carriage, the Japanese army would not be able to catch up.

But what Cheng Peng did not expect was that after observing the terrain here, Qian Chuaner opposed him to shoot the ambush point behind the wormwood, but set the ambush point at the junction of the wormwood and the wheat field.

When Qian Chuan explained why he did this, or talked about his own battle plan, Cheng Peng could not help but sigh, there is really no weak soldier under a strong general!

Just in front, more than half an hour after Qin Chuan and his men started the battle, the Japanese army entered Cheng Peng and his men's sight.

Cheng Peng was the company commander. He had a telescope in his hand. Under his observation, he saw that the Japanese soldiers, who were not tall to begin with, were now fully alert and holding their rifles, with ghost-like eyes.

It was obvious that the Japanese army was frightened by the series of attacks by Qin Chuan and his men, or by Shang Zhen and his battalion.

The reason why it is called an attack instead of a harassment is that the purpose of an attack is really to kill the enemy, while a harassment is to disrupt the rhythm of the Japanese army's attack through an attack, and the casualties of the latter will not be greater than those of the former.

But what's the use of you little Japanese devils being afraid of attacks?

As long as you want to advance to Shuiquan Town and achieve the goal of occupying Shuiquan Town, then as long as the gunshots of the Northeast Army officers and soldiers hiding in the dark sound, you little Japanese devils are bound to suffer casualties!

After observing the advancing Japanese army for a while, Cheng Peng suddenly said: "Let's not attack the scouts in front this time. I think it's better to attack the large group behind."

When he heard what Cheng Peng said, Qian Chuan'er whispered: "This is a good idea!"

The reason here is that their ambush site is about 300 meters away from the road. The farther away, the lower the hit rate will be.

So instead of attacking the Japanese army in front, they might as well attack the large group of Japanese army behind.

This time they are not aiming to destroy a lot of Japanese troops, because it is obvious that the Japanese and puppet troops are too many this time and they can't beat them.

But if they injure more Japanese and puppet troops, then the Japanese and puppet troops need two people to carry one.

If there are 900 Japanese and puppet troops, if they can injure 300 people, then all 300 people can't walk and lie on the ground, and they don't have to fight this battle.

Because the remaining 600 Japanese and puppet troops must be carried by two people.

There are still 600 Japanese and puppet troops left. Of course, we cannot say that they have lost their combat effectiveness, but is it realistic to ask the Japanese and puppet troops to carry one person each to attack Shuiquan Town? Now the Japanese and puppet troops simply do not have enough horse carriages!