When others heard this, they thought Xu Dacheng was bragging again. How could two people surround more than 100 Japanese troops?
Don't tell me, he really didn't brag this time. Currently in the wilderness of Jehol, Zhou Wen and Xu Dacheng have indeed recorded more than 100 soldiers from the 1st Squadron of the Lingyuan Garrison Brigade temporarily formed by the Japanese army.
Japanese soldiers surrounded them and killed and wounded more than 50 of them.
It turned out that when Zhou Wen decided to act alone, he thought that it was rare for him to let himself go anyway, so he might as well be bolder and go straight through the Dushan Mountains and come to the borders of Rehe Province to hunt the Japanese troops.
And Xu Dacheng is also a bold leader, so he naturally has no objections after listening to Zhou Wen's suggestion. This is the first time the two brothers have acted alone since they were kidnapped to Henan, and both of them have an inexplicable feeling in their hearts.
of excitement.
Zhou Wen decided to enter Jehol directly because of his consideration.
Just because he knew that in history, after the Japanese army captured Rehe, they didn't even pay attention to the fact that there were many remnants of the Northeast Army and some guerrillas of the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army in the rear. After replenishing some supplies, the main force moved forward without stopping.
Along the Great Wall, in the rear they only controlled Chifeng and Chengde, and stationed several garrison troops of varying strength in major towns along several railway lines.
Zhou Wen's target was these Japanese garrison troops.
Some people may ask why Zhou Wen didn't touch the main force of the Japanese army, but instead came to cause trouble for these second-line troops of the Japanese army. Isn't this just picking on soft persimmons?
You are not wrong, Zhou Wen is here to pinch the weak persimmon.
The Japanese garrison brigade originated in Northeast China in 1907. Its main function was to protect the safety of the South-Manchuria Railway. In the early days, six brigade were established to implement a reserve and reserve volunteer military service system, mainly recruiting from veterans of the Japanese army.
After 1930, the Japanese garrison brigades in Northeast China were already composed of reserve and active soldiers. Indicators were issued to each Japanese division to recruit volunteers for mixed formations.
From here we can see who made up the Japanese garrison.
Among the main divisions of the Japanese army, only those soldiers who are just waiting to die, or veterans who have little room for advancement, will actively sign up to join the garrison. Coupled with a large number of retired veterans, the garrison brigade is just a group of older people.
It is composed of veterans who are big and unwilling to accept the status quo.
The combat effectiveness is definitely not as good as those of the field brigades in regular divisions, but they are better than the experienced and slick chicken thieves, and the quality of individual soldiers has not deteriorated much. At least the marksmanship of most veterans is better than that of ordinary soldiers. This is
As a result, they can better utilize their own advantages when doing guard work.
However, these veterans no longer have much future in the army, and most of them have passed the age of angry youth. They have more plans for themselves, and they are more ruthless in plundering the Chinese people's money and using methods to deal with the Northeast Anti-Japanese Armed Forces.
It's also a bit sinister. In addition, after having been a master in the Northeast for many years, my heart is naturally a little swollen and distorted. They all use different methods to bully the civilians in the Northeast. It can be said that everyone has hands stained with the Northeast.
The blood of the people.
Let’s not talk about anything else. Let’s just talk about the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, which left a tragic mark in the history of the Patriotic War. Their main opponents are these Japanese garrison brigades. Finally, the national heroes of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, such as Yang Jingyu, Zhao Shangzhi,
Zhao Yiman and others were all killed by these Japanese guards who were bad to the core.
After Rehe was occupied, the Japanese Kwantung Army immediately dispatched three of the six garrison brigades in the Northeast to Rehe to escort the Japanese army's railway transportation. Among them, the 3rd garrison brigade was stationed in Rehe.
Lingyuan County is an important fulcrum of the railway line from Jinzhou to Chengde.
Of course Zhou Wen didn't know that the opponent he was looking for was the Japanese 3rd Defense Brigade, but as a time traveler, he knew that these old Japanese soldiers who had been guarding the rear were even worse and more vicious.
Especially after many of these Japanese soldiers stationed in the Northeast for many years, killed countless civilians in the Northeast, harmed countless women in the Northeast, and robbed countless money, they actually retired and returned to China to live a peaceful life. After World War II, they actually
He was not tried or punished in any way.
Is this justified?
There was no natural reason, so Zhou Wen used a gun to reason with them.
Moreover, Zhou Wen also had safety considerations in choosing to shoot guns along the railway line.
He knew that as long as there was a town or train station that the railway passed through, there would be Japanese troops stationed there, so there was no need to look for them specifically, he could just follow the railway line and fight there.
Moreover, the number of Japanese troops stationed there will definitely not be large. As long as I don't go crazy and go to Chengde City, which is heavily garrisoned, in other towns, it will only have the strength of a garrison brigade at most.
The establishment of a garrison brigade of the Japanese army is much worse than that of a regular brigade. Although a brigade has four infantry squadrons, it only has one machine gun squad, none of the infantry cannons, and only four heavy machine guns. In other words, there is a garrison brigade of the Japanese army.
Including the logistics personnel, the number of troops is only 700 to 800.
With the abilities of Zhou Wen and Xu Dacheng, even if the Japanese army came to a squadron of a hundred or so little devils, they would not pay any attention to them.
So after assigning tasks to the brothers in the early morning of March 6, he took Xu Dacheng to spend a day walking dozens of kilometers of mountain roads, passing through the Dushan Mountains, and came to the Jincheng Railway Line in Rehe Province (Jinzhou
To Chengde) near a town called Sanjiazi.
It was already dusk at this time, and just when the 1st Brigade of the Japanese 14th Mixed Brigade was retreating from the Yanshan Mountain Forest in embarrassment, Zhou Wen's first bullet was fired from the barrel of the gun.
A 6-man Japanese patrol was patrolling on the railway outside the town. The leading Japanese soldier, a sergeant, tilted his head and fell on the railway embankment. The other Japanese soldiers, who were indeed experienced veterans, fell to the ground in an instant.
He looked warily towards the direction of the shooting and stretched out his long 38-meter rifle, ready to shoot.
At this time, Zhou Wen, who was hiding behind a foundation, admired in his heart. These Japs were indeed veterans. Their reaction was not slow, and they quickly found the direction of the shooting through the posture of the sergeant who was shot.
But that's all. No matter how experienced they are, they have never seen what it means to be a professional sniper.
In the clear mirror of the German Zeiss quadruple sight, the helmets protruded by these old devils were all in Zhou Wen's line of sight. To Zhou Wen, it didn't make much difference whether you exposed your whole body or only your turtle head.
Thus, for the first time, these old Japanese soldiers who had been bullying Chinese civilians in the rear learned what fear and terror were.
