Gu Xishui's two special operations teams stayed 400 meters outside the village, closely monitoring the surrounding situation.
The 10 students were responsible for moving the corpses of all the Japanese soldiers to a house in the village for storage, while the soldiers from the security platoon in the village worked with the villagers on the small weir pond in the village that had dried up for several years.
More than a dozen people jumped into a pit more than one meter deep and dug the pond as deep as they could. Then they wrapped all the villagers who died in the war in cotton sheets from home and buried them in the pond.
There is no time to make a coffin. This is what the villagers of Xiaozhuang Village and the officers and soldiers of the guard platoon can do to give the dead the last dignity.
In order to prevent being discovered by the Japanese army, there are no graves or tombstones here. It is just a flat piece of land covered with dry soil for camouflage.
Except for the relatives who packed their bags with soil and were about to leave for a long journey, no one knew that seventeen villagers who died fighting against the Japanese army were buried under this land.
The 23 Japanese soldiers who were killed were not given the treatment of being laid to rest. After the villagers in Xiaozhuang Village packed up the bedding and food that could be taken away, Lao Hei ordered the corpses that had been piled up with a large amount of firewood and soaked with cotton oil.
Light a fire in the room.
Destroy corpses and eliminate traces!
The rifles, belts, parallel imports, steel helmets, and leather boots of the Japanese infantrymen, all items that could prove their identity, were looted by the soldiers and directly equipped for the 18 people who wanted to join the army.
Even if the Japanese army finds this place in the future, they will only find a pile of ashes and unburned human bones. They have no way of knowing whether they are Chinese or Japanese.
Not only did he set the morgue on fire, Lao Hei also went on to burn the entire village of Xiaozhuang. Anyone who looked at it would just think that this was a Chinese small village that had been completely looted. Instead, the human bones in the ruins were
There is a place to come from.
Lao Hei covered it up very carefully. In the end, the unlucky children of the 36th Infantry Brigade did not find the team that disappeared out of thin air. In the next few days, small-scale attacks continued to break out in this area, and officers at all levels of the 36th Infantry Brigade were threatened.
In fact, I had already put this team on the death list in my mind, but because there were no corpses, I could only list 23 people including Okamoto Asahiro on the missing list.
Lao Hei and the soldiers from the guard platoon gave all the money they had to the villagers in Xiaozhuang Village. They collected a total of 50 yuan. For the sake of safety along the way, they also gave the two captured Southern Type 14 pistols and 50 rounds of pistol bullets to the leader.
two villagers and taught them how to shoot and load bullets.
The villagers were so grateful that they used door panels as stretchers to carry six seriously injured villagers. At noon, they bid farewell to the 18 people who had joined the army in tears and fled southward.
As for where they will eventually escape, no one knows or asks, but the 18 people who joined the army and the people who left their homes all know one thing. When the war is over, all of them will definitely return to their hometowns.
Here are their roots.
However, no one can be sure whether the separated people can meet again.
After bidding farewell to the villagers of Xiaozhuang Village, the guard platoon was also divided into two by Lao Hei. One guard class was responsible for leading 18 recruits and 10 students to leave for the mountains, first rendezvous with Leng Feng's company, and then chase the large army.
The other two security squads, together with Gu Xishui's special operations team, continued to operate in this area.
Lao Hei knew that since the Japanese could attack this small village, they would definitely attack other villages.
At the infantry squadron level, they can't do it, but at the infantry squad level, they can still kill.
In Jinling City, you can gather a large number of troops to make the Chinese army invincible, but here, if you have the courage to send a small team to harass the vast countryside, you must be prepared to be killed.
Lao Hei and Gu Xishui understood the essence of guerrilla warfare without Tang Dao's instruction.
War is the best stage for soldiers, and some people are destined to shine in it.
For four full days, two guard squads and a special operations squad launched six attacks within a radius of 20 kilometers, annihilating a total of 90 Japanese troops from six infantry squads.
Some crazy Japanese troops also destroyed three villages in a row.
The villagers who were originally unwilling to leave their homes and evacuate finally gave up their illusions after witnessing the brutality of the Japanese army. A large number of villagers packed up their only supplies and food and fled southward.
This is the only thing Tang Dao can do. If he didn't use this move, the villagers here would probably be killed by those beasts.
Fortunately, this is Jiangbei, not Jinling City, and there is still a way out.
The Japanese commander who finally reacted became furious and assembled two infantry squadrons in a tit-for-tat manner. They drove away the villagers in two villages in an attempt to attract the attackers by sweeping the villages.
Undoubtedly, this is the weakness of Chinese soldiers.
They succeeded!
At one of them, the Chinese soldiers finally could not bear to witness the brutality of the Japanese army and were indifferent. As Niu Er took the lead in shooting and killing a ferocious-looking Japanese captain, the guerrilla war turned into an encounter and eventually evolved into a chase.
Both sides were light infantry, and neither of them had cannons. With the help of a special operations team, two guard squads with one man and two guns blocked the attack of an infantry squadron and retreated.
The Japanese infantry squadron, which had tracked its prey and judged that the enemy would never be more than one infantry platoon, did not give up and followed two guard squads to the edge of the mountainous area six kilometers away.
Then, they encountered a frenzied attack by Leng Feng, who had already set up an ambush.
Leng Feng, the main company commander, was demoted to a top soldier, and he already had evil fire hidden in his heart. Now that he finally had a crowd to vent his anger, why not beat him to death?
In order to strengthen the firepower of the first company, before the main force of the independent battalion evacuated, almost 50% of the battalion's submachine gun bullets were reserved for the first company, not to mention an MG34 machine gun and a Japanese-style 25mm twin machine gun.
They were assigned to the fire squad in case the Japanese army brought armored equipment such as Type 94 or Type 89 tanks.
Light infantry will pay an unimaginable price in front of such armored vehicles.
Tang Dao had overestimated the 36th Infantry Brigade, an old rival. They were not even talking about equipping the infantry squadron with armored vehicles. Even the only artillery brigade did not dare to leave the city for a moment.
Moreover, on this battlefield where they thought victory was already within reach, the people sent out to search the countryside were all pure infantry. However, the most powerful heavy weapons of this infantry squadron lured over by two guard squads were only two Type 92s.
Just a heavy machine gun.
The battle was one-sided from the beginning.
Two 92 heavy machine guns were killed within 2 minutes of the start of the battle.
It was the work of two mortars.
The two mortars of Leng Feng's 1st Company were placed on a hilltop 500 meters away from the battlefield. The Japanese grenades posed no threat to them, as they were beyond the effective range of the grenades.
The two mortars were completely capable of defeating all the firepower points of the Japanese army.
When several of the Japanese army's firepower points were knocked out, and the grenade launchers were so loaded with bullets by a company of precision shooters that they dared not risk it, several of the heavy firepower points of the company began to show their power.
The terrifying rate of fire of the MG34 machine gun only made the Japanese infantry lie in the dust and cry out sadly. But when the 25mm twin-mounted machine gun, which is commonly used for air defense on warships, began to show its power, the Japanese infantry's
My heart was completely stuffed into my eyes.
A 25mm artillery shell that can penetrate a 10mm steel plate within 500 meters can explode even rocks, let alone earthen bunkers in the mountains.
Once the Japanese infantry behind simple natural bunkers were targeted by such firearms, they would basically be shattered by artillery shells along with the bunkers.
But this thing is not a machine gun after all. It has a limited rate of fire, and it basically shoots at important firepower points such as grenade launchers and light machine guns. The Japanese infantry who have long held the belief that "you will die as a friend but not a poor man" can still persist.
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But when the Chinese soldiers, whose advance was being constantly covered by their own firepower, showed off the familiar MP28 submachine guns and shell guns of the Japanese army, and they were still in a group, the mentality of the Japanese infantrymen, who had long lost the courage of yesterday, completely collapsed.
It's very simple, that posture is too familiar to them.
In Songjiang, Jiashan, and Jiaxing, they were killed by such enemies with such postures.
An infantry team at the rear escaped first, and then caused an avalanche-like escape. Unknown how many Japanese soldiers exposed their backs to crazy bullets and then fell down, but this still could not stop their determination to escape.
This scene, not to mention the ten student soldiers headed by Fang Shiheng who insisted on waiting for the old black guard platoon and the 18 recruits who were participating in the battle for the first time, were stunned. They were used to confronting the Japanese army head-on.
Leng Shen.
When did the Japanese become such good people? This is unreasonable.
Actually, this is quite reasonable.
A guy who is pushed to the ground and rubbed by the same opponent as soon as they meet, no matter how strong he is, will have a psychological shadow.
It can be said that the Independent Battalion is the number one victim of this group of unlucky children from the 36th Infantry Brigade. After discovering that they were about to encounter the same forced entry 'posture' again, it was foolish of the unlucky children not to run away!
The chain reaction caused by mental collapse and escape is that everyone runs for their lives, eventually leading to a one-sided massacre.
A reinforced infantry company faced an infantry squadron. The entire battle took less than 20 minutes, and the Japanese army was almost completely wiped out.
The Japanese army left a total of 120 corpses here and a dozen semi-finished products with breath left. No more than 10 people could leave the battlefield alive.
The infantry squadron that was still running towards this side two kilometers away in an attempt to support the friendly forces, after encountering its own defeated troops, turned back the same way without thinking, almost three minutes faster than the speed at which the reinforcements came.
In the month since then, the 36th Infantry Brigade has not sent out squad-level or even squadron-level infantry in this area. Even if the area was collected by colleagues three days later, three infantry squadrons and
A baggage train.
Those who knew the inside story knew that they were going to use horse-drawn carriages and trucks to haul the corpses. Those who didn’t know that they thought they were going to attack the city and plunder the land in a show of force!
Perhaps only the unlucky boys of the 36th Infantry Brigade know the sadness of the dejected large-scale corpse collection team best.
They had won the Battle of Jinling, but those Chinese people were still staring at them. This was really too much.
If I don’t come out, won’t it be enough?
As for the first company and the guard platoon, what they gained was not only the defeat of the 36th Infantry Brigade, they also really dug up some treasures in the past few days.
This chapter has been completed!