Chapter 288 Encounter
In the anti-Japanese war drama, anyone can manipulate the little devils into applause, but in fact, ordinary people don't have that ability.
The little Japs caught them all with just a casual return of the carbine. The village militiamen had received some training and reacted quickly enough when they heard the gunfire. They covered some villagers and escaped, but most of them were blocked by the Japs in the village.
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By the light of the fire that had not yet been extinguished in the village, Zhang Yunfei discovered that there was more than one group of Japs, and there were also many puppet troops. The exact number could not be seen clearly in the dark.
However, it is estimated that there are at least hundreds of Japanese soldiers, and there are almost hundreds of puppet troops. Of course, this cannot be the mistake of our scouts. If we can't even distinguish the number of enemies, then it is really all in vain.
Zhang Yunfei understood after thinking about it that there was indeed only a small group of Japs stationed in this village, but now the extra troops should be reinforcements brought in from nearby.
From the moment he discovered that there were Japs in this village, Zhang Yunfei knew that the Japs were definitely not isolated. After all, the strength of a small team was too small.
No matter how crazy the Japs are, they can't be so mad that a squad can act alone. It's not easy for the Eighth Route Army to kill a squadron of Japs, but if it's a squad, that's a different story.
Now the Eighth Route Army is in a very difficult situation. The ammunition in hand is seriously insufficient. If you encounter a Japanese with a small number of soldiers, you will pounce on it like a hungry wolf. Why should you work hard to find brother troops? If you follow these guys, you can steadily find brothers.
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A team of Japanese soldiers acting alone is definitely a piece of fat, and it is impossible for no one to keep an eye on it.
The harsh living environment forced the Eighth Route Army not to miss any fighter opportunity. The Eighth Route Army was definitely a force with a sensitive sense of smell.
They are like wolves wandering in the wasteland, hungry and tenacious. They must save every ounce of energy to find the easiest target to attack, and they must hit the target with one hit, because they are hungry and have no physical strength to attack a second time.
The enemy's raids have always been carried out one after another, and the various armies are very meticulous. Although the enemy discriminates against each other equally seriously, they will never do the kind of thing where friendly forces are in trouble and refuse to save them.
When encountering enemies along the way, all other parties will definitely mobilize to rescue. The Japanese are very famous for their overall discipline.
Coupled with the Japs' advantages in strength, firepower and communication methods, it was very difficult to seize fighter planes. In order to kill a squadron of Japs, the Eighth Route Army sometimes needed to mobilize thousands or even tens of thousands of people for reinforcements.
Otherwise, it would be difficult to find a suitable fighter plane. Especially in such a large-scale raid, it would be even more difficult to seize the enemy's loopholes and find a fighter plane.
If there really was only one small group of Japanese soldiers acting alone, they would definitely be regarded as fat by the Eighth Route Army who were eager to replenish their ammunition.
Let alone not being able to detect it, how could the hungry wolf not be able to detect the enemy's weakness?
However, it is meaningless to investigate the extra number of Japanese soldiers now. Whether it is the firepower or the number of soldiers, these Japanese and puppet troops are far beyond what they can shake.
Looking at the blocked villagers, Zhang Yunfei was helpless. With the help of the puppet army, the villagers in the blocked village were all gathered together. The Japanese and puppet troops tried to force the villagers to hand over the Eighth Route Army soldiers who might have been protected by the villagers.
Cadres and wounded soldiers, as well as food and supplies hidden by strong walls and clear fields.
However, no matter how the puppet troops tried to coerce and induce, no one responded to the villagers who were blocked back to the village. Not all villagers were really fearless of life and death, but in this era when the grass roots and tree bark were all eaten away, handing over food and supplies, and directly
Killing them actually makes little difference.
No matter what, they could not escape death, so they had no choice but to fight to the end and save food and supplies. At least the militiamen and villagers who had already protruded could survive.
Seeing that the villagers refused to obey, the Japanese became angry and tied all the young and middle-aged villagers to the trees at the head of the village.
It was very clear what the Japanese wanted to do. Seeing that a dozen young and middle-aged men were tied up and about to be massacred, Zhang Yunfei began to sweat a little on his forehead.
Moments like this test the will of a person the most. Zhang Yunfei kept thinking about how to solve this dilemma.
At this time, the Japs in the village had already picked up rifles with bayonets, preparing to use the young men in the village as targets for assassination practice. Other Japs once again captured and tied up women and children from the crowd, forcing the villagers to submit.
To the west of the village, intensive gunshots and machine gunfire suddenly rang out, knocking down the puppet troops on the periphery.
When the gunfire rang out, Zhang Yunfei couldn't help but be startled. This was not Sun Zhiqiang's troops. They should be in the south.
Just when Zhang Yunfei was wondering, which group of fraternal troops would appear here? The Japanese and puppet troops who suffered a sudden attack were also in a state of chaos. Sun Zhiqiang's Eighth Company took this opportunity to attack from the south.
Zhang Yunfei did not bother to consider where this group of brothers came from, and immediately sent his seventh company, ninth company and fire platoon into battle to defeat this group of Japanese and puppet troops first.
This group of Japs was attacked from the south and west at the same time, so it was a little difficult to deal with it. Now that the main force of the third battalion was attacking from the north, it was even more uncertain. Seeing such a formation, it was meant to encircle and annihilate them. The Japs commander saw that the situation was not right.
, had to retreat to the east.
The battle has ended like this, and the outcome has been decided. However, it is a pity that when the Japanese are attacked, their defense changes very quickly, and they are not easily defeated.
Although the fight was lively, the enemy was not seriously damaged. This group of Japanese and puppet troops retreated on their own initiative, and they could not keep each other at all.
The Eighth Route Army came to the rescue with only four to five hundred men, probably a battalion. With such a large number of troops, it was not impossible to annihilate more than a hundred Japanese and hundreds of puppet troops.
However, given the tenacity of the Japanese, it would inevitably require a hard fight, which was obviously not cost-effective. Therefore, upon seeing the Japanese retreating, this group of brothers immediately withdrew their troops and began to clean up the battlefield.
Seeing this, Zhang Yunfei also immediately ordered everyone to prepare to go out. With the sound of this battle, enemies from all directions will quickly surround them.
Although they came with reinforcements, they only had one battalion. In this crisis-ridden situation with Japanese soldiers everywhere, they couldn't do anything. They didn't improve the situation of their unit at all. At most, they only added a few more guards.
That's all.
It was no longer safe here, so they had to move again and hurry up and run away.
At noon the next day, after running all night and all morning again, they rested again. Now they were finally out of the core area of the Japanese raids and could finally make fire and cook food.
After such a long time, I finally had a good rest and had a good sip of hot soup. However, most of the bowl of porridge I finally made went into the stomach of the battalion commander of my brother unit, er, the acting battalion commander.
Seeing Qi Dajiu snoring and drinking rice porridge, the taste was so sweet that even the rice grains in the lunch box were scraped clean by him. Seeing his satisfied look, Zhang Yunfei suddenly lost his appetite.
What suddenly appeared last night was the second battalion of the new regiment. They and their third battalion were temporarily recruited to the division headquarters at the same time, and naturally became the only mobile force that the division headquarters could use.
Chapter completed!