Deep in the village, the monk and the cavalry company commander Sun Daping and his group met.
"Company Commander Sun, how is the situation over there?"
Sun Daping couldn't help but swallowed, gave a thumbs up and said: "Captain Wei, you really have nothing to say about being the King of Killers. Half of the dozen or so Japanese who came here in a detour were injured on the spot." p>
"The little devil is dragged down by the wounded, so the advancement speed is no longer that fast."
The monk nodded, looking at the groups behind Sun Daping, and then smiled and said: "It seems that everyone fought well, and we didn't have any major casualties."
Sun Daping said with a smile: "Who can say otherwise? This street fight was really exciting. The Japanese and puppet troops fell in large areas without even seeing anyone. We soldiers didn't have to take risks at all. Relying on our familiarity with the terrain of the village, we held the hand.
Just let the kid's nose wander."
"There are only two soldiers in our group, because when we arranged the King of Killing, we were clearly hiding behind us. We were far enough away, but we were still scratched by the fragments."
When the monk heard this, he was startled and asked again and again:
"That directional anti-infantry landmine - the King of Killing, although it shows the front fan-shaped area facing the enemy, which is the main strike range, it also has a certain lethality within twenty meters behind it, and the soldiers are using it.
You must explain clearly at the time.”
"Hey, I don't dare to make this kind of mistake again!" Sun Daping responded quickly, feeling a little guilty.
When the soldiers of the Independent Regiment deployed the King of Killing, he hid behind with his team, wanting to see what this new landmine was.
Then the soldiers of the Independent Regiment persuaded them that it might not be safe behind them, but Sun Daping didn't listen, which resulted in the two soldiers being slightly injured.
... Before the operation, the monk divided the cavalry company and the soldiers from the guard company brought by himself and Duan Peng into groups of three, dividing a total of nearly 40 combat groups. The leader of each group was an independent regiment.
The soldiers here serve temporarily.
At present, each group has basically made gains, wounding and killing many Japanese and puppet soldiers.
Among them, the main ones were sneak attacks using various types of grenades, secret shooting, and the killing of the new mines, which caused a large number of casualties to the Japanese army.
As temporary team leaders, the soldiers of the Independent Regiment have a very clear goal, to traumatize as many Japanese as possible.
"Injuring a Japanese soldier is much more effective than killing one."
"If you kill a Japanese soldier, he is dead. It does not affect the fighting of others."
"When a little Japs is injured, the Japs can't just leave their comrades alone. At least they have to send two people to carry him back."
"Calculating this way, if there are twelve or three Japs in a class, as long as four or five are injured, the Japs in this class will basically be useless."
For the soldiers of the independent regiment, they served as temporary command of the group leaders.
The soldiers of the 28th Regiment were originally just obeying the orders of Second Battalion Commander Sun Chuanzhong.
Until the following battle, I saw the various methods used by the independent regiment soldiers to deal with the Japanese.
The soldiers of the 28th Regiment were completely convinced, even some cadres were no exception.
As time passed, the Japanese advanced from the front and back villages.
After the monk and Duan Peng chose to fight in the streets, the people on both sides had used the houses scattered around to get completely mixed up.
The monk's side originally had 30 groups assigned to the King of Killing, but now only the last 8 are left.
And for every Killing King, the soldiers have witnessed its terrifying power with their own eyes.
If used well, a whole squad of Japanese soldiers will be crippled within the fan-shaped strike area.
If you use it even slightly, you can at least injure two or three Japs at once.
This new type of landmine seemed to be everywhere in the villages, turning the Japanese and puppet soldiers into frightened birds.
Whenever they see some unknown object that is beyond the scope of their understanding, the little devils will be frightened and retreat quickly.
New directional anti-infantry landmine - the king of killing.
The Japanese have completely reached the conclusion:
The power is terrifying, and the frontal killing range is very large. The shape is mainly curved, or it is placed on the ground, or buried shallowly in the soil, or hidden in the corners, with the front facing the steel plate in the open area. In addition, some of these steel plate explosions are like booby traps.
Others seem to be artificially controllable, and when you get close, the hidden Eight Routes will detonate them.
It’s simply impossible to guard against.
Street fighting was originally an attempt by the Eighth Route Army to drag the Japanese into densely populated villages in order to fight with less, and then use their familiarity with the terrain to even out the gap in equipment, strength, and even the quality of the soldiers with the Japanese.
When the Japanese entered the village, what they were most afraid of were the Eighth Route Army's various mines.
Even in some of the most ordinary villages, even some militiamen with low combat levels, as long as they have enough mines, can often cause considerable trauma to the Japanese who enter the village.
Like stone mines, hanging mines, jellyfish mines, chain mines, etc., the little devils will be knocked off their feet when they explode.
But the Japs who have experienced the battle in front of them firmly believe that there has never been any self-made mine on Tubal Road that is more exaggerated than this hellish new weapon in front of them - the curved steel plate! p>
As the advance continued, the wounded Japanese and puppet soldiers were carried out one after another.
Out of anger, Nakano Kazuo has adjusted his advancing tactics many times.
On the one hand, engineers were sent to follow up, armed with mine detectors, and always on guard against sneak attacks by landmines from the eighth route.
On the one hand, always pay attention to whether there are eight new weapons hidden on the road ahead - steel plates with curves.
If the current conditions didn't allow it, Kazuo Nakano would have even wanted to use artillery to level the entire Lijia Village.
This old devil even considered whether he could use fire to burn down the entire Lijia Village, and burn all these Tubal Roads to death.
However, when I came here, there were no trees in the village, and these houses made of earth and stone were not easy to ignite.
In addition, Nakano Kazuo is worried that the Tubal Road in the village will be moved using the newly dug tunnel.
Only then did he give the order to enter the village for encirclement and suppression.
At the same time, grenadier soldiers were dispatched to follow the mopping up team. Once they were attacked by an eight-pronged attack, they would immediately use grenadier shells to reinforce them.
But some cunning Tubalu simply hide in the house, so you can't bombard the house with artillery shells, right?
I accidentally buried one of my own again.
The villagers in the countryside are relatively poor, with two, three or three or four mud houses forming one household.
Only the front door and the back door are wooden doors made of wood. When you enter the house, the small doors leading to each bedroom are just hung with broken curtains, in order to save materials for making doors.
At this time, the little Japanese would often just open the curtain, and a bayonet would suddenly stab out from inside.
The Japanese who were caught off guard could not react and were killed on the spot.
This is a way to challenge the curtain.
Later, the little Japs also learned the lesson. After two or three Japs entered the house, they hid on the side of the earthen wall while raising the curtain, and suddenly opened it with sticks.
Outside, two Japs on the left and right were hiding on the side, aiming their guns at the inside of the curtain. If there was someone hiding, they would pull the trigger at any time.
It's a pity that the little devil can't defeat us Eighth Route Army soldiers.
Soldiers have long practiced the ability to fight guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines and use the environment to hide and hide.
There was no one behind the curtain, but the lid of a coffin originally placed in the main room was suddenly kicked open, and a soldier holding a shell gun sat upright inside. He shot three Japanese to death from behind with a few shots. The Japanese never dreamed that a living person would jump out of the coffin.
Similar battles occur from time to time in local houses and alleys.
At the rear, as the number of wounded continued to increase, Nakano Kazuo ordered his men to quickly count them, and felt a chill in his heart.
This time, the people of Xiaoli Village were used as bait to annihilate the main force of the Eighth Route Army.
The total force invested by Kazuo Nakano is two squadrons, plus a squad and two platoons of the Imperial Alliance Army.
The two squadrons have 186 and 196 people respectively.
There are 54 Imperial warriors in the team, plus two Imperial Alliance platoons, and more than 70 Imperial Alliance soldiers.
There are more than 500 combatants in total, which is nearly half of the brigade.
Originally, in Kazuo Nakano's view, such a force was completely sufficient to deal with the Tobali Army, which had backward equipment and scarce ammunition.
At the moment, the situation is gradually beyond the control of Kazuo Nakano.
The two sides started fighting in the village. In less than two hours, the number of wounded Japanese and puppet troops on Nakano Kazuo's side never stopped increasing.
Sometimes two or three were carried out, sometimes four or five were carried out, and sometimes even a dozen seriously injured people were carried out at once.
After the statistics, the Japanese statisticians reported to Kazuo Nakano:
"Sir, there are currently 115 wounded in the Empire and 26 wounded in the Imperial Association Army. Among them, 47 are seriously wounded in urgent need of surgical treatment."
That's it, it's just the statistics of casualties in the direction of Houcun.
The casualties of the troops advancing in Maemura will definitely not be small.
After hearing this, Kazuo Nakano was dazzled for a long time.
How did a good ambush fight end up like this?
"Assholes, these damn Tubalu, give me orders to all the ministries to exit the houses, prepare straw, and think of a way to burn this village for me, as much as you can burn!"
Nakano Kazuo was so anxious that he did everything he could to deal with the Eighth Route Army hiding in the village.
"Hi!"
……
Through the wooden window, I saw the little devil hiding outside the yard, refusing to enter the house, piling up straw outside.
These devils tied up the straw, lit it, and threw it in from outside the yard.
Sun Qingshan's expression changed slightly and he said: "No, the little devil is preparing to set fire to it."
The squad leader said: "Platoon Leader Sun, let's take the back door! Xiaohu, go and see what's going on at the back door."
The back door of the house leads to the backyard.
Xiaohu quickly rushed to the back door and looked out through the crack in the door. There were also three or four Japs blocking the outside, hiding behind the bunker and setting fires.
"Platoon Leader Sun, Squad Leader, the situation is not good, there are Japanese blocking the back door!"
"They're so stupid. There's nothing we can do about these little devils. Platoon Leader Sun, we have no choice but to force our way out!"
Sun Qingshan shook his head and said: "We can't charge hard now, otherwise we will definitely fall into the Japanese's trick.
Our earthen house will not burn down so easily, and the fire will not affect us so quickly.
I remember there was a small wooden window in the back room. I removed the wooden window and we evacuated through the window."
"Yeah, why didn't I think of that?" The monitor slapped his forehead and said with a smile.
...For a time, thick smoke was billowing from everywhere in the entire village area.
The little devil can't burn the house down, but he also wants to use the thick smoke to choke out the Eighth Route Army hiding in the house.
The increasingly thick smoke gradually rose into the sky of Xiaoli Village.
Looking at his masterpiece, Nakano Kazuo showed a cruel smile.
……
But on the other side, the smoke rising from Xiaoli Village into the air is the fastest way to convey information.
Captain Lu, who was coming with the main force, saw the violent smoke from a distance.
"No, the devils are setting fire to the village!"
"Second Battalion Commander, Monk, Duan Peng, you have to hold on for me!"
"The commanders of the first battalion and the third battalion immediately divided their troops into two groups to circle around and attack the Japanese army from the back."
"You have to go fast, I'm afraid the second battalion commander and the others won't be able to hold on for long."
"Yes!"
The soldiers of the 28th Regiment were not slow at all, and they quickly moved towards the left and right sides of the Li family.
Of course, Kazuo Nakano also considered whether more main forces of the Eighth Route Army would arrive when he was destroying these Eighth Route Army troops.
At first, he confidently believed that as long as these people were mobilized to mobilize the Eighth Route Army, once the Eighth Route Army was surrounded in Xiaoli Village and eliminated, it would not take much time at all.
The stubborn resistance of the monks and his entourage exceeded Kazuo Nakano's expectations, and it was delayed for more than two hours.
Soon after, the Japanese guard post spotted the figure of the Eighth Route Army suddenly emerging from the flat terrain.
The soldiers of the 28th Regiment have formed an encirclement.
Kazuo Nakano is holding his command knife and looking at the fire that is gradually igniting in Xiaoli Village with a cold face!
The communications corps suddenly arrived and hurriedly reported to Kazuo Nakano:
"Your Excellency, Squadron Leader, something bad has happened. A large number of Eighth Route Army troops are surrounding us!"
"Nani? How many people are there on Tubal Road?"
"Sir, it looks like this is the main force of the Eighth Route Army, with a strength of five to six hundred people."
Nakano Kazuo's heart skipped a beat. If he hadn't been held back by these gangsters in Xiaoli Village, a large number of casualties would have been caused.
He may not take these reinforcements from the Eighth Route Army to heart.
Just get into position, engage in a positional battle, and use the superior artillery fire to beat these rogues.
Kazuo Nakano was even confident that he could block the attack of a regiment of the Eighth Route Army head-on with the strength of a squadron.
After all, the firepower and equipment levels of both sides are not at the same level.
It’s just that the eight roads in the village haven’t been cleaned up yet!
Outside the window, the main force of the Eighth Route Army was encircling me again, and now we were in trouble.
In desperation, Nakano Kazuo ordered to draw out his troops and deploy fortifications in advance outside the village to resist the encirclement of the main force of the Eighth Route Army.
On the one hand, some troops were deployed to guard against sneak attacks from the back and side of the Eighth Route Army.
"Contact the headquarters immediately. Our department has successfully contained a large number of the main forces of the Eighth Route Army in the Lijiacun area. Please ask the headquarters to send troops for reinforcements immediately."
"Hi!"
"It only takes two hours. As long as we can contain these eight groups in the Lijiacun area, once our army's reinforcements arrive, these eight groups will not be able to escape!"
Kazuo Nakano said confidently to the adjutant beside him.
In his opinion, these roads in the village can last for more than two hours in his hands.
How could I not do it myself?
Outside the village, the confrontation between the Japanese and the soldiers of the 28th Regiment quickly began.
The Japanese artillery fire was indeed ferocious. Even at this moment, the Japanese and puppet troops had suffered more than 1/3 casualties. The remaining troops took advantage of the artillery fire at hand. More than a dozen grenades were lined up in a row, and the light machine gun fortifications built in advance were used to attack with powerful
The firepower directly blocked the entire open space.
They were so stunned that Captain Lu and his party were temporarily unable to advance.
Commander Lu was angry and impatient.
So far, he has not heard the sound of fighting in the village.
The intensity of firepower displayed by these little devils was so astonishing that he was worried that the Second Battalion Commander and the others were already in danger.
As for the 28th Regiment, in the past six months, due to strengthened cooperation with the Independent Regiment in all aspects, the equipment level has improved a lot.
The 28th Regiment expanded too quickly, resulting in too many new recruits, poor equipment, and scarce ammunition.
There are more than 3,000 soldiers in the whole regiment, and only two or three people can use the same gun, and it is still an old gun whose rifling is almost worn out.
The whole regiment only has one old scalper heavy machine gun. It can only take two or three minutes to fight on the battlefield before it cannot fire due to various problems.
There are only two light machine guns in a battalion, and only seven in the entire regiment.
Two grenades were captured, and the corresponding Type 89 grenades were only about ten rounds. There were almost no veterans in the regiment.
Each rifle can dispense less than five bullets.
Every time it is said that it is a regiment of troops with a combat strength of more than 3,000, but only one company can really be drawn out to fight.
Why?
Because only by concentrating the firepower of the entire regiment can a company barely survive an ambush battle.
At the end of each battle, even if the battle is won, although a lot of guns can be seized, the amount of ammunition seized is sometimes not even as much as the consumption.
The Xiaohuangzhuang ambush battle was completed in one battle.
Sun Chuanzhong, the second battalion commander in charge, returned to the regiment headquarters and reported to Commander Lu with a bitter look on his face:
"Captain, we won the battle!"
Captain Lu was stunned. Looking at the second battalion commander's expression which was worse than crying, he wondered: "You should be happy after winning the battle. Why are you still looking so miserable?"
Sun Chuanzhong said helplessly: "Captain, we won the battle and more than 50 guns were seized, but only 2,357 rounds of bullets of various calibers were seized.
But after counting the ammunition we consumed in this battle, we found that it was 3,216 rounds. This resulted in a loss of nearly 1,000 rounds of ammunition.
If this kind of battle continues, sooner or later our soldiers will have to fight the little devil with our bare hands, Commander..."
One sentence explains the difficult situation of the Eighth Route Army soldiers who fought hard and outstandingly behind enemy lines.
In fact, the Eighth Route Army has always had such shortcomings when fighting Japan behind enemy lines:
Except for the fact that in 1940 due to the "mopping up" by the Japanese army, the seizure and loss of guns were beyond their means.
In the remaining three years, the seizures of firearms by various departments of the Eighth Route Army have always been greater than the losses.
The opposite is true for ammunition. Except for 1938, in other years, the seizure of ammunition was far behind the consumption.
Even if an ambush battle is fought, under normal circumstances, the amount of ammunition consumed is even two or three times the amount of ammunition captured. The more you fight, the poorer you get. This is the current situation.
At present, the equipment level of the 28th Regiment has been improved a lot.
Because of doing business with the Independent Regiment, and Kong Jie’s equipment assistance to the 28th Regiment.
The current 28th Regiment has four heavy machine guns.
There were more than a dozen light machine guns. When the commanders of the various regiments in central Hebei heard about this, they were all jealous. Commander Lu almost smiled crookedly.
In addition, Kong Jie also gave ten grenades in the regiment, or the 50 cannons modified and produced by the Independent Regiment Repair Factory, plus 500 rounds of artillery shells.
This is also the reason why the 28th Regiment has become more and more courageous in the tunnel battles in Jizhong during this period, and has even become the most successful regimental combat unit in Jizhong.
With well-equipped equipment, plenty of ammunition, and a strong backbone, you can naturally win the battle!
It’s just that there were many battles, and in many cases the consumption was greater than the amount captured.
The wealth of the 28th Regiment is getting smaller and smaller with each defeat.
At present, Captain Lu is leading the main force of reinforcements.
There are only ten light machine guns on hand, plus eight 50 cannons.
The only mortar in the regiment was too heavy and heavy, and the current situation was urgent, so we did not bring it.
Faced with the powerful artillery counterattack of the Japs.
Commander Lu did not immediately order the artillery fire.
The reason is very simple. I feel sorry for the cannonballs. Every time I fire one, I lose one.
Until the monks in the village heard the fighting outside the village, they realized that Captain Lu was coming with the main reinforcements, and quickly tried to attack from the back of the Japanese army.
Captain Lu heard the fighting in the village and confirmed that the second battalion commander and the others were still alive.
He did not hesitate and immediately issued the order:
"First battalion commander and three battalion commanders, take our 50 cannon and beat that son of a bitch. Now is not the time to feel sorry for the cannonballs."
I was muttering in my heart:
Lao Kong, Lao Kong, I shot down this cannonball to save your tiger general. You, brother, have to admit it. You must replenish it for me later!
Boom——
The 50-year-old cannon modified and produced by the Independent Regiment's Armory Repair Station is better than the Japanese Type 89 grenade in terms of range and power.
Artillery shells exploded on the Japanese defenses.
There were certain casualties on the Japanese side.
Kazuo Nakano, who was commanding from the rear, was also startled. The artillery fire at the hands of these main forces of the Eighth Route Army was really not weak.
He was sure that these in front of him must be the main force of the 28th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.
In the past six months, I don’t know what methods these 28 regiments used, but the equipment level of the regiments has suddenly improved a lot.
The most difficult Eighth Route Army to deal with in central Hebei is the 28th Regiment.
Thinking of this, Nakano Kazuo made up his mind to defend until the reinforcements arrived, and wiped out the main force of the 28th Regiment near Xiaoli Village in one fell swoop.
In the village.
Due to the retreat of the Japanese and puppet troops, Monk and Sun Chuanzhong quickly reunited each group of soldiers and hid in an alleyway away from the area set on fire by the Japanese.
Listening to the increasingly fierce sound of fighting outside the window, Sun Chuanzhong said with great joy:
"It must be our group leader who came here with the main force!"
"Monk, let's fight. Let's force the attack and make it difficult for the Japanese to see each other. We can coordinate the attack from the regiment leader."
The monk thought for a while, listened to the sound of the Japanese Type 89 grenade in his ears, nodded, and said:
"Right now, the Japanese are clinging to the enemy. They are obviously still planning to pin us down in the Xiaoli Village area. I guess the Japanese have already asked for help from the Japanese rear areas."
"The Japanese reinforcements will arrive soon. We must fight quickly here."
"The Japs' grenades are the greatest threat. In this way, Second Battalion Commander and Company Commander Sun, you will lead the soldiers to advance forward. Duan Peng and I will lead the team to knock out the Japs' grenade positions first."
Sun Chuanzhong said: "The Japs' grenades may not be together, and they must be protected by little Japs. I'm afraid it won't be easy for us to take action."
After Sun Chuanzhong said this, he saw the monk and Duan Peng in front of him looked at each other and laughed in tacit understanding.
Duan Peng smiled and said: "Second Battalion Commander, do you still remember the little devil's clothes we asked everyone to collect?"
"Japanese clothes?"
Sun Chuanzhong was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized: "Monk Duan Peng, do you mean to dress up as a little devil and sneak in?"
The monk smiled and nodded.
Duan Peng on the side even said a few words in Japanese with a serious face.
Sun Chuanzhong was stunned, "Isn't this the dog talk of a little devil? Duan Peng, you know this?"
Duan Peng replied: "That's what my instructors said. The more Japanese you master, the more you can master the ability to kill Japanese. In order to practice Japanese well, I spent a lot of time with the Japanese prisoners in the regiment.