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#115 - The proposal of sparrow warfare and mine warfare

In the Battle of Dabeigou, all 30-plus members of the armed work team were killed, and over 150 villagers of Dabeigou were massacred. Hirata Ichiro used this "victory" to secure his precarious position as the captain of the military police.

Upon receiving the news, Zhang Dabiao and Ren Zhong rushed to the scene, consumed by rage. The horrific scene turned them into volcanoes on the verge of eruption.

Given Zhang Dabiao's temperament, he wanted to gather the troops and storm Heyuan City to seek revenge!

However, after much deliberation, Ren Zhong suppressed the urge and calmed Zhang Dabiao's agitation.

Firstly, they lacked the weapons for a city assault, and secondly, the strategic timing was wrong.

Using the Flying Thunder Cannon to attack pillboxes was manageable, but achieving success in front of the wide-open city gate was nearly impossible.

If the Independent Regiment concentrated its full strength and managed to produce four 82mm mortars, along with the Flying Thunder Cannons, capturing Heyuan City would be almost certain.

But Zhang Dabiao currently only had two gasoline drum-based Flying Thunder Cannons. No matter how many men he had, attacking such a city was unrealistic.

They had nothing to counter the infantry guns; they couldn't break through even with human wave tactics!

Concentrating the entire Independent Regiment's strength was unrealistic at this stage. The headquarters' plan was taking shape. Capturing a county seat would inevitably cause a major shock to the Japanese, and at this stage, Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't tolerate the loss of a county seat under any circumstances.

He wouldn't be able to explain it to the North China Area Army Headquarters.

This wasn't just a matter of losing a few strongholds.

Hirata Ichiro's attack this time was certainly due to local Chinese traitors and hoodlums informing on them, but more importantly, it gave Hirata Ichiro a heaven-sent opportunity to reverse his passive situation.

Hirata Ichiro falsely reported the Battle of Dabeigou as a major victory, claiming to have annihilated over a hundred enemies.

As a result, Hirata Ichiro, who had been continuously losing strongholds, became someone who could still be salvaged in the eyes of Major General Yamada, the brigade commander. Hirata Ichiro remaining in Heyuan was very beneficial to the development of Ren Zhong's new base because Hirata Ichiro concealed the overall collapse of Heyuan.

Therefore, strategically, temporarily sparing Hirata Ichiro's life was beneficial to the development of our army.

Dabeigou.

"This vengeance must be taken, or I'm no gentleman, but not now," Ren Zhong said, cooling down the rage-filled Zhang Dabiao. "We currently lack artillery for attacking the city. Without 82mm mortars to take out the Japanese 92 infantry guns, our troops would suffer huge casualties attacking the city, and we might not even be able to capture it!"

The Japanese, plus the puppet troops in the city, still numbered nearly two thousand. The city defenses on all four sides were intact. Attacking such a city would be madness.

"We won't let this go. When the time is right, we'll take it down in one fell swoop and hang Hirata Ichiro on the wall!"

Now, Ren Zhong placed even greater emphasis on taking down the areas surrounding Heyuan.

"The armed work teams have too loose connections, and their combat power is too weak. Yao Zhihai's 30-plus member team couldn't even hold off a Japanese company for an hour. They're too weak."

Zhang Dabiao's lips twitched as he listened. Only Ren Zhong would dare to think that a squad could hold off a company, and he even had a way to solve it. If they could popularize the SKS rifle among the armed work teams...

"My idea for Heyuan is to strengthen connections and bolster combat power. There should be hand-held radios or walkie-talkies for real-time communication between villages, forming a network and a joint defense and combat system in the vast countryside."

Ren Zhong's words were even more profound than Zhang Dabiao had imagined.

"The Japanese are building cages; we'll do the opposite and let the Japanese know what a people's war is like!"

"Regarding the Dabeigou massacre, we must not only remember this blood debt, but also use it as an opportunity to publicize and expose the Japanese's cruel atrocities to the broad masses of the people. Our organization has already taken photos of the scene of the massacre. I'll have someone send several hundred copies of the photos back to Heyuan and various base areas in Taihang, and also send them to relevant departments in the border area to publicly expose the latest atrocities of the Japanese nationwide!"

Ren Zhong also brought his mobile phone to the world of "亮剑". After the Dabeigou massacre, Ren Zhong told people not to touch the scene first, and he secretly took photos of the tragic scenes at the entrance of Dabeigou Village and at the top of the mountain.

This was the first time Ren Zhong had witnessed the brutality of the Japanese. Everyone left in Dabeigou, regardless of age, was killed! Yao Zhihai's armed work team fought to the last man, forcibly wiping out a puppet army company and routing a Japanese company!

This was also why the Japanese were not at the scene when Yang Changshun's armed work team arrived. They had hastily fled back to the county town after a round of burning, killing, and looting.

"Boss Ren, our armed work team's current equipment only includes rifles and pistols. In terms of firepower, we're much weaker than even a Japanese squad. If the Japanese conduct sweeps at the company level, even if we occupy favorable terrain, it will be difficult to withstand the Japanese machine guns and grenade attacks," Zhang Dabiao interjected.

"In terms of firepower, we certainly can't compare to the Japanese for the time being. There's no way to improve that in the short term." Ren Zhong also wanted to quickly improve the firepower configuration of the Independent Regiment and even the entire Eighth Route Army, but there was really no way, with the 60 kg trans-dimensional carrying limit per day.

"But we can change the tactics and methods of attack and defense," Ren Zhong thought of many innovations in the people's war. Among them, the most suitable for the current situation in Heyuan was the mine warfare and the sparrow warfare!

"For example, before the armed work teams have significantly changed their firepower configuration, we can carry out mine warfare and sparrow warfare on a large scale."

The two tactics proposed by Ren Zhong had not yet been carried out on a large scale at this time.

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But the concept of sparrow warfare has already been put forward, but there are not many actual combat examples now, and it has not been widely promoted in the whole army.

"What is mine warfare and sparrow warfare?" Zhang Dabiao had already been attracted by Ren Zhong, feeling that this young boss was really unfathomable, knowledgeable as the sea, not only powerful in military industry, but also seemed to have read military books extensively in terms of fighting, no less than those military masters.

Zhang Dabiao's eyes lit up as he listened. If he really did what Ren Zhong said, it wouldn't be a big problem for Yao Zhihai's armed work team to hold back Taro Fujino's sweeping force of several hundred people.

Zhang Dabiao himself was a grassroots commander. He imagined how he would cope if he led hundreds of people into the mountains and faced such tactics. The ultimate result was that he couldn't cope!

If the team doesn't disperse, then it will always be passively beaten, completely unable to keep up with the flexible movement of opponents who are familiar with the terrain, unless they are divided into small teams, but if the opponents gather and ambush after the division, these small teams are very dangerous!

Taking an armed work team with sufficient ammunition as an example, twenty or so people attacking a Japanese detachment of a dozen or so, under the circumstances of occupying a favorable position, has a high probability of directly eating them!

The tactical thinking of sparrow warfare proposed by Ren Zhong has potential!

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