Devil's Army

Ten days later, the Rehe Campaign ended. The Japanese army completely occupied Rehe. The Japanese army blocked the rear areas where the volunteers and the anti-Japanese armed forces could obtain supplies and maneuver. They welcomed the cold winter of the anti-Japanese war and looked for a way out.

The Oroqen tribe, which was developing rapidly, naturally became their choice.

Some of these anti-Japanese armed forces chose to join the 41st Army, while others chose to join Leng Feng's First Anti-Japanese Army.

There are more and more troops in the Oroqen tribe. In order to meet the needs of wartime communication, Leng Feng recruited soldiers from the entire army who had experience in or had some knowledge of telecommunications.

What made Leng Feng happy was that the two new female soldiers in the infirmary were originally telecom operators of the Telecom Department of the Northeast Army. There was also a soldier from the Fifth Brigade and one from the Sixth Brigade who had also worked in telecommunications in the Northeast Army.

Leng Feng used the four of them as the backbone and selected a group of educated soldiers to form the First Army Telecommunications Department. He cram telecommunications knowledge at school at night. He personally took charge of this matter.

The officers and soldiers of Wang Zhuangfei's Fourth Brigade trained in the tribe for another week. Wang Zhuangfei asked Leng Feng for permission to take the Fourth Brigade back to Hejiazhai Village for training, and Leng Feng agreed.

The next day, Wang Zhuangfei's Fourth Brigade left the artillerymen who were studying at school and returned to Hejia Village with the main force. Wu Lang also returned to Hujia Village with the Second Brigade on the same day.

The tunnel in the tribe gave Wulang a lot of inspiration. The first thing he did when he returned to Hujia Village was to dig a tunnel connecting the two sides of the cliff based on the cave tunnel. In this way, his troops could be transferred to both sides of the cliff through the tunnel, and heavy weapons could also be deployed on either side of the cliff through the tunnel.

Shortly after the victory of the Rehe Campaign, Nobuyoshi Musashi left a part of his troops to garrison various places in Rehe Province and returned to Fengtian with more than 25,000 Japanese and puppet troops.

Major Fujie reported to him that he was ambushed by a large battalion of the Devil's troops, and Lieutenant Colonel Takeda reported to him that he was facing an ambushes from two battalions of the Devil's troops.

The strength of the three battalions should be around 3,000 to 4,000 troops. Adding the reserve, the number of the devil troops should be around 5,000 to 6,000, at most 7,000.

Musashi Nobuyoshi formulated a plan to completely wipe out this devilish army based on the standard of 7,000 people and began to stockpile strategic materials.

Truckloads of supplies were sent into Fengtian City from time to time, and Leng Feng also received information from Song Zhipeng: the Japanese had been continuously transporting supplies into Fengtian City in recent days.

Leng Feng estimated that the Japanese would take action soon, so he ordered Song Lingling, deputy section chief of the Telecommunications Department, to take two radios and six telegraph operators to Hejiazhao Village to continue learning and familiarizing themselves with telecommunications operations. On the eve of the battle, Song Lingling took a radio and two telegraph operators to the second brigade station in Hujia Village through a small road.

The artillerymen of the Second and Fourth Brigades who stayed in school to study returned to the team immediately. Red Wolf and Flying Dragon were also sent to the Fourth Brigade to assist the artillery work.

In addition, Leng Feng arranged for the First Brigade, which was best at gnawing bones, to dig a trench 200 meters behind the anti-tank cone and 20 meters to both sides. The trench extended three kilometers toward the path from Fengtian. They also covered the trench with wooden boards, spread some mud on the wooden boards, and "planted" with dead grass.

Another anti-artillery trench was dug 400 meters behind the anti-tank cone.

The dark clouds of battle hung over the Oroqen tribe.

I don't know whether Musashi Nobuyoshi regarded the devil troops as fools, or he was the biggest fool. On the morning of April 4, he divided his troops into three groups, each with more than 1 imperial troops and imperial auxiliary troops, and set out from Fengtian to the Oroqen tribe, Hejiazhao Village and Hujia Village at the same time, ready to destroy the devil troops!

Soon Leng Feng received information about the Japanese actions from the Golden Eagle.

He decided to teach the Japs a harsh lesson so that they would not dare to have any ideas about them for a foreseeable period of time.

He immediately informed Wang Zhuangfei and Wu Lang of the enemy situation, and issued combat missions to the First Brigade and the Third Brigade: The First Company of the First Regiment of the Third Brigade was responsible for blocking the Japanese at the front of the anti-tank cone fortifications, and retreating to the second fortifications when the opportunity arose. When the Japanese entered 200 meters in front of the anti-tank cone fortifications, the second fortifications and other troops of the First Regiment were responsible for blocking the Japanese with all their strength.

The first regiment of the first brigade entered the trench on the left side of the path, the second regiment entered the trench on the right side of the path, and the third regiment was responsible for setting up pockets to block the Japanese's retreat.

The newly formed 4th Regiment and the 2nd Regiment of the 3rd Brigade served as reserve forces.

Based on the enemy situation reported by Leng Feng, Wang Zhuangfei reported their battle plan to Leng Feng: use the fortifications in the small woods outside Tieling County to resist step by step to consume the enemy's manpower, and finally block the enemy in the pass on the mountainside.

Leng Feng refuted the battle plan and put forward his own idea: a part of the first regiment would resist the attack of the Japanese in the fortifications in the grove, pretend to be defeated when the opportunity arises, and flee to the sides of the path. The second and third regiments would ambush on both sides of the path. A part of the fourth regiment would ambush on both sides of the mountain pass to block the Japanese from entering the mountain pass. Another part of the people would outflank the Japanese from behind after all the Japanese entered the fortifications in the grove, and block the Japanese retreat route. If a part of the "fleeing" first regiment encountered Japanese pursuit, they would eliminate the pursuing Japanese with another part of the first regiment ambushed on both sides. If the Japanese did not pursue, they would return to assist a part of the fourth regiment to block the pocket.

After reading the telegram, Wang Zhuangfei slammed it on the table and shouted, "The commander has a big appetite!"

Huang Lei, who was standing next to him, picked up the telegram and read it before saying, "Our manpower and firepower are stronger than those of the Japanese. We can handle this group of Japanese." After saying that, he immediately went out to make arrangements.

Wang Zhuangfei sent a squad of soldiers to escort Song Lingling and the other two to the Second Brigade’s headquarters.