...The details of the battle in the direction of West Village were reported to the independent regiment headquarters. Kong Jie was determined. Sure enough, the Japs' main attack point was still in Zhangjiazhuang. They spent so much effort just to confuse his own judgment. p>
It’s really hard for that old devil Ishii Haraichi.
After the news reached the Zhangjiazhuang temporary headquarters, the first battalion commander, second battalion commander, and third battalion commander were also determined and immediately launched a battle plan all the way to Zhangjiazhuang.
Now that it has been determined that the main force of the Japs is all the way to Zhangjiazhuang, we can let go and have a good fight.
According to Kong Jie's troop deployment this time, there are 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion, and 3rd Battalion all the way to Zhangjiazhuang. These three veteran battalions are jointly responsible.
These three veteran battalions are more powerful, better equipped, and have more troops. After the independent regiment was expanded again, the regiment still consisted of five battalions. Each battalion alone has a strength of more than 700 people. Next
It has five infantry companies, plus a heavy machine gun company.
No wonder First Battalion Commander Wang Leihu has been walking with his head raised recently.
The three old battalions put together have a strength of about 2,000.
As for the fourth and fifth battalions in charge of West Village, their strength is about 800.
After the expansion again, the independent regiment has about 3,500 troops, and the remaining troops are left in Niukou Village, such as the cavalry company, the guard company, the repair shop, the health department, the material department, the transportation department, and the cooking team.
Waiting for non-combatants.
In addition, in the direction of Zhangjiazhuang, Wang Chengzhu brought an artillery battery to support. Since Wang Chengzhu's artillery battery was responsible for the main attack route of the Japanese army, it also borrowed two 75mm mountain cannons from the howitzer battery.
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West Village.
Fourth Battalion Commander Lei Dasheng continued to retreat with his team.
The Japanese and puppet troops are in hot pursuit at the rear.
The puppet army was afraid of death. The commander of the puppet army had been shot dead by Wang Xikui before. In order to ensure the safety of the main force, the remaining adjutants took three soldiers from the team as vanguards and opened a distance of 20 meters between the team.
March forward to prevent more people from blindly stepping into the Eighth Route Army's minefields.
"50 meters is a matter of life and death, and wealth is in the sky. After walking 50 meters, change to the next group and continue to explore the road."
No one wanted to serve as cannon fodder to explore the road. It was just that the Japanese were watching closely from behind and the puppet soldiers did not dare to resist. The deputy leader of the puppet army came up with this method. A group of three people, 50 meters away
If the situation were changed once, whoever was unlucky enough to step into a minefield and be blown up to death would not be his fault.
Just like that, when the puppet soldiers at the front stepped on the second minefield, the two puppet soldiers in the lead were killed on the spot, and another soldier was slightly injured. He squatted on the ground and watched.
Looking at the bloody companion not far away, I was so scared that my crotch was wet.
The Japanese captain once again ordered mine clearance, but he frowned. He noticed something was wrong. Why were mines laid one after another on the road, but the Eighth Route Army's counterattack was nowhere to be seen?
Is the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the West Village?
Unable to think of a reason, after the mines were cleared again, the Japanese captain ordered the pursuit to continue.
The Eighth Route Army fleeing not far away seemed to be intending to lure them deeper, deliberately slowing down their pace to whet their appetite.
Then, in the middle of the second minefield and the third minefield, the Japanese captain ushered in the long-awaited attack of the Eighth Route Army.
As soon as the attack began, the Japanese soldiers experienced deep despair and fear.
Because in the previous sneak attack, the Japanese reconnaissance force was defeated by the Eighth Route Army, and because they were busy chasing along the way, the Japanese army did not have time to continue to arrange scouts along the way.
Therefore, the ambush in front of them was actually caught off guard for the Japanese army.
It came so violently.
First, on both sides of the mountain road, the Japanese were on guard against the puppet troops in the front row stepping on landmines. In the mountains and bushes on both sides, a large number of Eighth Route Army soldiers suddenly appeared. The grenades in each hand even had the fuses ripped off.
Throwing them towards the Japanese troops behind the mountain road.
The soldiers of the Independence Regiment were attacking the Japanese. As for the puppet troops passing by first, they didn't bother to pay attention at all.
Just as Lei Dashan arranged, there were 50 bombing groups on each side, totaling 100 people. Each person had 5 grenades, and they were all thrown out within 15 seconds.
With the help of the condescending terrain, the soldiers who usually can only throw grenades more than 30 meters can now throw grenades to a horizontal distance of about 50 meters.
So in just 15 seconds, a total of 500 grenades flew out from both sides of the mountain road.
This grenade is not made in the border area produced by Zhang Wanhe's arsenal and explodes in half. It is a fertilized field powder explosive produced by the independent regiment's repair station through fertilized field powder. It is used as a wooden-handled grenade filled with gunpowder.<
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This kind of grenade explodes into pieces after being released, and its power is not small. The Japanese who were a little further away could not even see wounds on their bodies, but they were also injured and their orifices were bleeding.
Amid the explosions of grenades flying all over the sky, even the Japanese troops fell into a hellish situation.
The Japanese captain roared and told the team to hide.
In the midst of a desperate situation, he still tried to command the troops and launch a counterattack with firepower.
It's just that the soldiers of the Fourth and Fifth Battalions, who have been waiting for the enemy for a long time, have long-prepared attack methods. How can they be so single?
"500 grenades are just an appetizer!"
Du Aiguo, who was commanding from the rear, confidently said to Lei Dasheng beside him.
After the firepower of the grenade throwing team was covered, within 100 to 150 meters from the rear, light and heavy machine guns opened fire simultaneously, and the explosive charge ejector and explosive charge launcher that Du Aiguo had arranged long ago made their debut.
These two weapons seem to be the same, but they are actually different.
The purpose is the same, which is to throw the ten-kilogram explosive package a hundred meters away into the Japanese troops down the mountain road.
But this explosive charge ejector is more similar to the ancient trebuchet.
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Using simple mechanical principles, place the explosive package on the launch pad, tear off the lead and throw it out. It's that simple.
As for the explosive pack launcher.
The main body is a very simple launch tube, which can be a gun barrel, a cylinder made of steel, or even an empty gasoline barrel. After filling it with propellant, put the explosive package bundled into a disk shape.
Then the propellant is ignited, and a ten kilogram explosive package can be thrown to a distance of 150-200 meters.
One exaggeration of this type of launcher is that there is no caliber limit. The caliber of your gun barrel or launch barrel is the same as the caliber of this alternative artillery.
As you can imagine, the explosive packets fired by this alternative artillery can even weigh ten kilograms.
How terrifying is the power?
The explosive packs and wooden-handled grenades produced by the Independent Regiment contain fertilized field powder explosives.
To produce a wooden handle grenade, only more than 200 grams of gunpowder is needed.
The ten kilograms of explosive packets in front of you are equivalent to the amount of ten thousand grams of gunpowder.
To describe it briefly, it is equivalent to tying 50 grenades together and then throwing them more than 100 meters away into the area where the Japanese troops are.
This is simply an upgraded application of cluster grenades.
I remember that Li Yunlong came to the Independent Regiment once. After seeing this kind of explosive charge launcher with his own eyes and listening to Kong Jie's introduction, his eyes turned red on the spot. He was holding the launcher in his arms and kept asking questions.
Kong Jie asked for one.
Of course, the price is that Lao Li produced five boxes of grenades.
However, in Li Yunlong's view, this transaction is definitely a sure profit.
Lao Li is worried that the wooden-handled grenades produced by his new second regiment are of no use. A dozen cluster grenades put together weigh five or six kilograms.
In terms of manpower, even a warrior like a monk can't throw him very far.
You were killed by the Japanese machine gun before you even had time to take action.
If this kind of explosive bag launcher can be used to throw the explosive bag equivalent to a cluster of 50 grenades more than 100 meters away, the power will be absolutely amazing.
Once such an explosive package is launched, the strong explosive impact will cause the sky to collapse wherever it passes.
The shock wave can even reach a radius of more than twelve meters.
There are often no wounds found on many of the enemies who were blown down around them, but they will bleed to death from seven holes and be shocked to death.
When seven or eight ten-kilogram explosive charges suddenly flew into the air from the mountain forest through three explosive charge ejectors and four explosive charge launchers, and then crashed down, the Japanese soldiers who witnessed all this
Inexplicable horror was revealed in his eyes.
Then, the Japanese captain witnessed with his own eyes that more than 30 imperial warriors, more than 50 meters away, met the emperor collectively during two explosions.
The five or six Japanese soldiers at the center of the explosion were not even dead. The Japanese soldiers within a dozen meters around were directly thrown away. After falling down, they never got up again. When the Japanese health workers came forward to investigate in a hurry, they saw only these.
The soldiers bled to death one by one.
The hellish scene makes the lives in it tremble.
This is a new type of weapon that the Japs have never encountered before. Even the determined Japs soldiers have frightened expressions on their faces.
On the mountain forest, looking at the astonishing results achieved by throwing explosive packets for the first time, Fourth Battalion Commander Lei Dasheng and Fifth Battalion Commander Du Aiguo couldn't help but cheer loudly.
Lei Dasheng said: "It's so enjoyable, it's so enjoyable. No wonder the regiment leader said that this kind of cannon can be called a heartless cannon. Once the gun is fired, all the devils around will see the King of Hell. It is indeed heartless."
Du Aiguo said: "It's a pity that we have to save ammunition. This kind of explosive bag cannot be used indiscriminately. The amount of gunpowder used in one explosive bag is equivalent to 50 grenades. In our short time, it is equivalent to 500 grenades."
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Lei Dasheng laughed and said: "That makes sense. After we finish this battle, the ammunition consumption cannot be greater than the amount captured."
"Comrades, use the cover of artillery fire to beat me hard, and after ten minutes, launch a direct charge!"
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The battle instantly became intense. Unfortunately, the Japanese troops on the mountain road were basically beaten unilaterally.
As for the puppet troops in the front row, they were only affected by Chiyu, and the whole team was in chaos.
A soldier shouted, "Regimental deputy, the Eighth Route Army is going for the Japanese, we should just stay calm, otherwise these bombs will be coming for us!"
When the deputy commander of the puppet army heard this, he quickly nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice and shouted: "Brothers, no one is allowed to fight back without my order. Let's stay away from the devils!" p>
"Baga!"
The Japanese captain not far away vaguely heard the order of the deputy commander of the puppet army, and yelled angrily, but there was nothing he could do.
The deputy commander of the puppet army looked at the wide-eyed Japanese captain, and cursed in a low voice: "You damn little devil, what are you doing? It looks like you won't be able to hold on much longer."
Looking at the extremely tough Eighth Route Army troops on both sides of the mountain forest, the deputy commander of the puppet army couldn't help but secretly swallow his saliva.
It’s no wonder it’s Master Ba!
This is too fierce.
Just stay there honestly, maybe you can still survive.
When the battle reached this point, the Japanese captain finally accepted his fate. While issuing orders for a tactical retreat, he ordered the communications troops to send communications to the Ishii regiment in Zhangjiazhuang through the radio.
Now the Japanese captain has determined that the one attacking him is definitely the main force of the Independent Regiment. The mountains and fields seem to be full of enemies, and with the fierce artillery fire, it would be a damn thing if it wasn't the main force of the Independent Regiment.
The content of the communication is:
"Our unit was violently attacked by the main force of the Eighth Route Army. The enemy's firepower was well-equipped and the number of artillery showed an overwhelming advantage. In a short period of time, more than half of our units suffered casualties and were forced to conduct a tactical retreat."
At this point, the communication stopped abruptly.
The Japanese communications troops along the way to Xicun, along with the radio, were blown up by the soldiers.
The two parties completely cut off communication.
"Your Excellency, Captain, the situation does not seem to be good. Nishimura seems to be unable to hold on any longer!" The adjutant's face was full of urgency.
The Japanese Chief of Staff said: "Your Excellency, Captain, it seems that the Eighth Route Army was indeed fooled and arranged all its main forces along the way to Xicun. This made the attacking troops in Xicun unable to withstand it."
"Xicun lost to the Eighth Route Army all the way, but if we retreat, we won't be wiped out."
"Now is the best opportunity for us to break through Zhangjiazhuang and reach Niukou Village in one go."
"Since the main force of the independent regiment is deployed in the direction of Xicun, there is probably not much strength left in the Eighth Route Army along the way to Zhangjiazhuang."
Ishiihara nodded. Although he felt that the battle was going quite smoothly, he didn't think much about it.
It is too late to support the troops along the Xicun Road now, and it will affect the attack on the Zhangjiazhuang Road.
For the current plan, the only way is to quickly break through Zhangjiazhuang, and then attack the Eighth Route Army from the back of Xicun to support the troops all the way to Xicun.
"Speed up the pace and march!" Ishiihara ordered.
"Hi!"
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Zhangjiazhuang.
After confirming that the focus of the Japanese attack was indeed on Zhangjiazhuang, and that the 4th and 5th Battalions of Xicun had already approached the enemy first, started a confrontation with the Japanese army, and made the Japanese mistakenly believe that Xicun was the main combat force of the independent regiment.
The commander of the first battalion, the commander of the second battalion, and the commander of the third battalion also started the operation according to the combat plan formulated by Kong Jie.
"Remember, your mission is to lure the enemy. You must lead the enemy to the low cliff area."
First Battalion Commander Wang Leihu enjoined.
"Yes, battalion commander, please rest assured and promise to complete the mission!"
After saying that, the first company commander turned around and said to the team of more than 500 people standing behind him: "Comrades of the first company, listen up, this time we are carrying out a plan to lure the enemy and pretend to encounter the Japanese army. After the battle begins,
Everyone, please protect your militia comrades."
"We must make the little devils believe that we are the main combat force defending Zhangjiazhuang all the way."
"Do you understand everything?"
"Yes——"
A company of soldiers plus more than 300 militia comrades responded in unison...