Bright Sword: From Soldier to Brigade Commander

One after another, the captured Japanese officers had their mouths stuffed with their own socks, their hands tied behind their backs, and their hands and feet tied together, like carrots and potatoes.

"Hey! This guy is a major. Su Fei, Captain Su, you actually captured a major? Incredible! Absolutely incredible."

Deputy Head Kong Jie was the first to shout.

Zhang Dabiao shouted the second: "Lieutenant Colonel, this is a Lieutenant Colonel, my god, this is a Colonel, Colonel! A Japanese Colonel!"

The third person to shout was Sun Desheng: "Fuck you, you damned Japanese Major General! Am I seeing things?"

The fourth person to shout was Zhuzi, Wang Chengzhu: "Wow, another one, another one, another one, de de de de, Major General!"

Two major generals, three colonels, three lieutenant colonels, five majors, and seven captains were all captured after being knocked unconscious by artillery shells, or the cavalry squadron leader was intentionally left behind and captured alive when he was ambushed.

Japanese prisoners are precious resources!

The Nationalist government has decreed that captured Japanese officers will be rewarded generously according to their ranks! Capturing an officer is like a big red envelope. Furthermore, the more prisoners you capture, the more valiant you are in combat, which gives you a lot of face. You can even exchange prisoners to rescue our comrades.

Su Fei took the documents and photos and introduced the identities and positions of these Japanese officers.

The Japanese officers had been tied up and starving for several days and had no energy to show their temper. The shame of being watched made them hang their heads.

Then there were various officers’ personal belongings such as sabers, pistols, binoculars, pocket watches, as well as Japanese military combat logs, a large number of military maps, and so on.

Li Yunlong and Kong Jie were so excited when they saw the military map that they snatched it away to study.

Political Commissar Zhao Gang ordered the enemy officers to be detained and fed. He then inquired with Su Fei about the details of their capture. He couldn't help but exclaim in admiration, "Captain Su Fei, your approach is truly despicable and old-fashioned. We never dared to do this, nor did we even think of it this way. Such deceptive tactics could actually bully the self-proclaimed shrewd Japanese into this state, and their combat efficiency was so high. It's truly a miracle! A miracle!"

That evening, Su Fei arrived at the Eighth Route Army headquarters and was warmly received by all the leaders of the headquarters, which made him extremely happy. All the leaders of the headquarters and the leaders of the 129th Division and the 386th Brigade who had gathered together also held a meeting to listen to Su Fei's military report!

Also present at the venue were more than a dozen specially invited commanders, deputy commanders, political commissars, etc. of the main regiments of the Eighth Route Army.

There was thunderous applause at the conference venue.

Everyone believed that some of Su Fei's victory was due to replicable tactics, such as the deception at Lijiaopo, the development of the flying thunder cannon, and the intelligence fraud after the seizure of the enemy's radio station and secret codes. However, Su Fei's proficiency in Japanese, his ability to change clothes to deceive the enemy, and his tactics of assassinating the enemy were almost impossible to imitate. It required solving many detailed problems and was too difficult.

"Comrade Su Fei, you have a talent for military command. You are good at defeating the strong with the weak and winning by surprise. This is very rare! Compared with the Independent Regiment, the New 1st Regiment, the 28th Regiment and so on, you have never fought a tough battle and you are not a ferocious tiger. However, you have the cunning and viciousness of a fox. I think I will call you Little Fox, Su Fox, from now on." The head of the headquarters applauded and smiled rarely.

The commander of the 129th Division said, "Yes, the general's words are very vivid. Let's call it the Fox of Taihang!"

The meeting lasted for a long time. The Eighth Route Army leaders conducted a serious discussion and summary on Su Fei's special tactics and great achievements. They finally decided: first, to promote some appropriate tactical methods and ideas to enrich our military experience and technology; second, to give Su Fei the greatest military freedom of command and establish a special guerrilla brigade at the regimental level. Su Fei will be the brigade commander, and military operations generally do not require permission from superiors; third, in order to strengthen the military and political qualities of the guerrilla brigade, Kong Jie will be transferred to the guerrilla brigade as deputy brigade commander and political commissar.

In addition, the guerrilla corps has a special radio station that can directly contact the headquarters!

Everyone else nodded frequently, thinking it was natural. However, when the last sentence came out, the commanders and political commissars of all the dozen or so main regiments of the Eighth Route Army were all surprised.

This is an unprecedented special treatment and the highest honor!

A regimental unit can actually bypass the brigade and division headquarters and connect directly with the headquarters?

Even if it is a brigade-level command, it usually has to follow normal organizational procedures, report to the division headquarters, and then pass it on to the headquarters!

In the eyes of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, Su Fei's team has emerged as a rising star and is now on par with brigade-level units!

Several leaders at the headquarters repeatedly emphasized one sentence: "Su Fei's team, with 800 militiamen and a cost of less than 200 people, wiped out the elite Japanese 9th Independent Mixed Brigade headquarters and its subordinate units, a battlefield tour group, another cavalry battalion, and a rapid detachment, totaling over 2000 people, in one day, and captured two brigade commanders, all major generals. It was a miracle! It was unique!"

Li Yunlong couldn't help but feel jealous: "Captain Su, in the eyes of the headquarters, you are much more popular than us!"

Most of the captured artillery, ammunition, firearms, etc. were taken over by the main force of the Eighth Route Army. 300 war horses were requisitioned, and more than 100 were left for Su Fei's troops.

In addition, Su Fei's combat performance was fully affirmed, and he was awarded the title of Special Combat Hero, Model Hero of the Eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountains, and the whole regiment was awarded the second-class merit!

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After the meeting, Su Fei, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang, Kong Jie and others returned to the independent regiment’s headquarters.

Then, Su Fei and Kong Jie returned to Baijia Town together, rested for a while, and then entered the county town to set up camp.

Regarding the division of labor, Su Fei asked Kong Jie, the political commissar and deputy regiment commander, to be in charge of the main infantry of the guerrilla regiment in the county, and to conduct serious training and defense, because a new round of brutal retaliatory sweeps by the Japanese army was about to begin. Without solid basic training, it would be difficult for the guerrilla regiment to succeed in a head-on battle with the enemy.

The Japanese can be deceived for a while, but they will never be deceived for a long time. The news that Su Fei's team deceived the enemy spread like wildfire. How could the enemy not take precautions seriously?

From now on, deception tactics can be put aside. Our war of resistance still requires tit-for-tat, gun-to-gun, head-on combat.

Su Fei himself led and trained the cavalry.

To fight tough battles, it has to be Commander Kong Jie. To carry out mobile maneuvers and blitzkrieg, cavalry is necessary.

A month later, Commander Kong Jie and the Political Commissar had three infantry battalions of more than 1,800 men and an artillery company in the county seat. Su Fei also had a cavalry battalion of 350 soldiers in Baijia Town, with 320 horses.

One hundred of them were allocated by superiors, some were captured in previous battles, and more than one hundred were left behind by Su Fei using the excuse of injured military horses and not handed them over.

Su Fei invited Sun Desheng to come and teach. Sun Desheng didn't know the scale of Su Fei's cavalry battalion and looked down on it, so he sent four veterans to do it perfunctorily.

Su Fei was overjoyed and appointed the four veterans as tactical instructors and company commanders.

Riding horses and waving swords, Su Fei Cavalry Battalion is about to shine in the brutal counter-mopping-up operation!