Chapter 86: Late Night Raid (1)
The leader of the Indonesian nobles, Sufino, led an army of more than 50,000, and joined a search team composed of 500 Dutch people led by Major Mani in the Dutch near Pontianak. He rushed all the way and rushed to Qingyuanzhuang.
After hearing Major Manny's talk about the more than 600 noble Dutch colonial troops led by Major Niyoko, as well as the Indonesian spies sent to inquire about the news, all disappeared, the smart and warlike Sufino knew that he had encountered an unbearable enemy this time.
However, Sufino secretly thanked that the 50,000 troops he led were all elite soldiers of the Tuwang tribes and families. Moreover, this joint army was accompanied by a 3,000-person bore gun musket brigade and a 500-person breech gun squad. There was absolutely no problem with those Chinese and Tuwang troops holding big swords and spears.
After entering the sphere of influence of the Lanfang Republic Army, the Chinese and Local Army were indeed a bit fierce and they resisted fiercely. However, since the gunfire of the Indonesian army's musket team rang out, the arrogant Chinese and Local Army suddenly disappeared and fled in panic.
These cowardly Chinese and local troops were even more vulnerable than the previous Lanfang Republic Army. They left countless empty villages and green fields to the Indonesian army.
Seeing that these Chinese and local soldiers gave up so much land and houses so easily, Sufino, who knew that the Chinese had to fight for every inch of land, couldn't help but relax his vigilance and began to feel a little proud.
He believed that the disappearing Dutch soldiers and Indonesian spies must have failed because the heroes could not resist the many fists. He led 50,000 elite soldiers to deal with these Chinese and local troops wielding big swords and spears! Therefore, in order to quickly reach Qingyuanzhuang and annihilate the main force of the Chinese and local troops, Sufino urged the army to accelerate forward.
However, after four days of travel, it started to rain continuously, which greatly slowed down the marching speed of the Indonesian army. The army rushed to the ground every day and could only walk more than 30 miles. Moreover, the logistics brigade that followed closely behind was unable to keep up, which made Sufino very depressed.
At this time, the weaknesses of the army that the elite soldiers pieced together were fully revealed. The arrogant soldiers and generals from the Tuwang tribe and the big families began to clamor. They pointed at Sufino and asked to stop and rest for a few days before leaving.
Sufino could not resist them, so he had to lead his army to a village called Chenxia Village. With this convenient and well-connected village as the center, he set up a camp and prepared to rest for two days before leaving. Of course, Sufino, who claims to be an excellent commander, would not forget to order his scouts to step up patrols and prevent them.
However, the rain continued to fall. Sufino originally wanted to set off in the rain, but under the strong resistance of those arrogant generals and the Dutch Major Manny, Sufino had to compromise and continue to let them rest.
On the afternoon of the fifth day, more than 50,000 Indonesian troops stationed in Chenxia Village and nearby were trapped in the crowded encirclement of the PLA without knowing it.
In the evening, the continuous rain finally stopped for days. Songjia Village, 7 miles away from Chenxia Village, senior commanders and fighters at all levels of the People's Liberation Army reorganized divisions were gathered together, and the final pre-war meeting was underway.
Chief of Staff Liu Liang looked calm, without any tension as the war was coming, and said loudly: "By 5 pm, all regiments had arrived at the designated attack position and were on standby. At the same time, the reconnaissance companies had already dispatched reconnaissance. Because Indonesians were very strict in their defense, in order to avoid alarming the snakes, the reconnaissance company only monitored the movements of the Indonesian scouts. If they had not had to, they would never alarm them."
"Very good!" Xia An nodded and said with a cold expression: "Now I order that at 12 o'clock tonight, the special brigades of each division will take the lead, secretly killing all the patrols and the reconnaissance posts.
The eight main groups then dispatched at the same time and entered the Indonesian camps from all directions. Each of your groups should use companies as units during wartime, just like mercury pouring into the ground, and constantly advance into the depths of the Indonesian army. There must be no pause at all."
The senior leaders of the People's Liberation Army responded.
Chow Tai Fook, the former captain of the Third Guerrilla Brigade, is currently the commander of the Second Regiment of the First Division. He pays more attention to marching and formation and safe attacks. After accepting the order, Chow Tai Fook asked Xia An hesitantly: "Commander-in-Chief, 2 divisions, 8 main regiments, conduct in-depth advance attacks in companies. Aren't the entire army all messed up?"
Xia An smiled slightly, and before he could answer, the political commissar Luo Jun, who was standing by, replied: "Our People's Liberation Army often conducts night battle training and is good at night attacks. Those Indonesians will temporarily mess up after being attacked by us late at night. Our eight regiments quickly entered in companies, in order to make the Indonesian army completely divided and massacred by our army at the lowest cost before they reacted, and could not form any effective resistance."
"This battle is to win the chaos!" Xia An said in a deep voice: "You must explain to the battalion commanders and company commanders below that you must not let the Indonesians form a group and fight with our People's Liberation Army in an organized manner. Once you find that an Indonesian officer is organizing the Indonesians to resist, don't look forward and kill them directly, and spread them out. Do you understand?"
After the meeting, Xia An asked Chen Hao, who was listening, “Principal, do you have anything else to explain specifically?”
Chen Hao smiled with satisfaction and said, "Your night attack plan is perfect, and I have no objection at all. This time, the most elite Indonesian army in Borneo led by Sufino was destroyed. From now on, our enemies will be invincible except for the Dutch and Indian colonial army.
Okay, the principal is going back to Yamaguchi Yoshima now. The American arms dealer Mr. James will arrive in a few days. He has to come over early to greet him."
Xia An, Luo Jun and others were overjoyed. Liu Liang came forward and asked, "Principal, how many guns did the American arms dealer who regards you as God? Is it enough to equip us two reorganizers?"
Chen Hao shook his head helplessly and said, "We originally only booked 10,000 m1903 rifles from James. If he could get 20,000, we would have to pay homage to God and worship Buddha! How could it be possible to transport more than 60,000 rifles?"
Chapter completed!