The War of Resistance

"Hey! Hey!" Cheng Peng pointed to the front and shouted. Although the other soldiers did not shout, they were also surprised, and Shang Zhen showed a thoughtful expression on his face.

The reason for all this was that now they saw that the puppet army was chasing them from behind, so what about the Japanese army? Because the terrain was open, they could also see the Japanese army, but the Japanese army was surrounding this side from both wings!

"It seems that our second ambush will not work!" Qian Chuan'er said with regret, and everyone thought so.

According to Shang Zhen's plan, he used himself and Shen Mugen as bait to lure the Japanese army to chase them.

Then during the pursuit of the Japanese army, they ambushed Cheng Peng and Qian Chuan'er with soldiers to attack the Japanese army again.

But they never thought that the Japanese army behind them was probably scared by Shang Zhen, and they did not play according to the routine. Instead, they pushed the puppet army out as a shield, and then the Japanese army began to encircle from both wings.

Shang Zhen's ambush target was the Japanese army, not the puppet army. However, the plan did not change quickly. How could he have thought that the puppet army was sent up, but the Japanese devils hid!

In this way, how could they succeed in the second ambush?

Ambush requires terrain. Shang Zhen would not ambush the Japanese army on flat ground, otherwise it would become a duel.

If it became a duel, even if the casualties were one to one, Shang Zhen and his men could not afford it!

"Why don't we retreat now? It's still in time to withdraw from the encirclement of the devils." Cheng Peng suggested.

Although the puppet army is chasing very fast now, Shang Zhen and his men also know that as long as the gunshots on their side sound, the puppet army will not have such strong combat effectiveness.

The Japanese army always takes a detour when encircling from both wings. Even the Japanese puppet army that made a detour before has not yet circled them.

However, if you want to retreat, you have to hurry up, otherwise it will be too late to retreat. .

"If it doesn't work, let's retreat first." At this time, Shang Zhen had no other choice.

He certainly wouldn't let the Japanese and puppet troops surround his people.

If he wanted to be surrounded by the Japanese army, he might as well defend the Zhuangzhongzhuang in Shuiquan Town directly, at least there was a place to defend.

But just when Shang Zhen finished speaking, they suddenly heard faint gunshots from the direction of Shuiquan Town.

The gunshots made Shang Zhen wave his hand and stop his men who were about to retreat.

This time, the Japanese and puppet troops came with a lot of troops, if not a thousand, there were at least seven or eight hundred people.

Since Shang Zhen pulled the team here, he also planned to ambush the Japanese army again, so their original plan to block the Japanese and puppet troops on both sides of the road would naturally fail.

Precisely because there were many Japanese and puppet troops, the more people and soldiers, the more they could divide a part of their forces to encircle and suppress them, and the other part would continue to attack Shuiquan Town.

Now the forces of Shang Zhen's camp in Shuiquan Town are only Liu Keqiang with a platoon, which is to assist Chen Laocai in defending Zhuangzhongzhuang.

As for other armed forces that came to get food, they were in Shuiquan Town, of course.

As far as Shang Zhen knows now, there are people from Zhao Tieying's group, the Eighth Route Army, and the Security Division.

Although the above-mentioned forces are nominally anti-Japanese forces, Shang Zhen does not know how many troops they have, but Shang Zhen knows that it is unlikely that each family will fight to the death with the Japanese army. I am afraid that they are all thinking of "fishermen benefiting from the snipe and the clam fighting".

So, what should I do now?

The Japanese want to fight, but they cannot fight hard. The only plan now is to let the Japanese surround them, which will not work. They can only withdraw first.

"Hurry up and retreat, and talk about it after it's over." Shang Zhen finally gave the order.

The military order is like a mountain. Shang Zhen led Cheng Peng's company and the other two platoons to retreat quickly to the distance.

When the puppet army behind them climbed up the hill where they had ambushed before, Shang Zhen and his men had already reached another hill.

There was a forest on the hill, so they avoided being discovered by the puppet army.

As for the Japanese troops coming from both sides, Shang Zhen was not worried.

Because there were still cut wheat fields and bushes around, those obstacles could completely block the sight of the Japanese army and prevent them from discovering the number of their troops.

Now the hill that Shang Zhen and his men arrived at was relatively high.

When Shang Zhen looked into the hill again, he was surprised to find that the front was extremely low, with a piece of water rippling in the middle.

There was water here, and the area was not small. At this time, they even saw the reeds by the water move, and a little wild duck turned its head and swam quickly to the middle of the water!

There were hills around, a basin in the middle, and water in the basin. This was the terrain that Shang Zhen and his men were facing now.

A soldier couldn't help but shout "It's bad!" But Cheng Peng glared at him immediately. Although the soldier immediately shut up, everyone knew what he meant by "It's bad"?

There were pursuers behind, and a large area in front was called a water bubble (the way people in Northeast China call it).

If they wanted to run now, they had to run around the water, but this would bring the Japanese and puppet troops even closer.

This was all caused by unfamiliarity with the terrain!

The inexperienced soldiers who had never faced such a situation were naturally a little panicked, but the veterans were very steady. They all looked at Shang Zhen, and then one veteran said "go", and four or five veterans turned around and ran in different directions in tacit understanding.

They ran to the top of the hill to serve as lookouts.

Since there were pursuers on three sides, how could one lookout be enough? For such a thing, the superiors didn't need to give orders.

At this time, Shang Zhen spoke again: "Cheng Peng, you go to the left, Qian Er, you go to the right, and I go to the middle. You two should look carefully. How many Japanese soldiers have come?"

After Shang Zhen said this, Cheng Peng and Qian Chuan Er naturally followed his orders, and a squad leader in the team whispered to the soldiers in their squad: "Do you have enough ammunition in your hands?"

"Yes, I didn't shoot more before."

"I still have more than 50 rounds."

"I still have 70 or 80 rounds, including the rifle and the box gun."

"I still have a grenade."

The soldiers in their squad answered one after another.

"Squad leader, are we going to ambush the Japanese again?" Another soldier asked.

"Needless to say? This time we have to fight a tough battle. We must be spirited. We must shoot accurately and think about saving ammunition." The squad leader whispered as he looked at Shang Zhen's back.

Shang Zhen, who was running to the top of the hill at this time, naturally heard the soldiers talking.

Yes, he had to fight another battle.

Of course, if he took his subordinates and continued to flee to the mountains, it would still be in time considering the distance between them and the Japanese army.

However, he couldn't watch the Japanese army take down Shuiquan Town.

And now they couldn't go to Shuiquan Town to defend against the enemy, so the only thing he could do now was to hurt the Japanese army that was chasing him and transfer the Japanese army in Shuiquan Town over, which could be regarded as a strategy of attacking Wei to save Zhao!

Although the terrain here is not suitable for positional warfare, it is precisely because it is not suitable for positional warfare that the Japanese army will not be prepared.

And Shang Zhen also observed while running all the way here, and he felt that he still had some chance of winning in this terrain.

In fact, the rules of war have remained unchanged in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad.

Wanting to strike the invaders is one thing, that is a strategic goal, just like in later generations, if you want to carry out a project, you need to establish a project, and how to implement it requires a feasibility study report. If there is no feasibility study report, no matter how good the project is, it cannot be done.

Shang Zhen thought that a loss-making business should not be done!

Why did he lead his own people to win this battle? That is two words-pragmatic.

There are many details in this process, and it does not mean that you, as a commander, can think of this and that.