This kind of attack requires strict coordination, but the quality of the recruit camp is obvious to all, and it is impossible to organize an orderly attack.
Sure enough, just as Xia Yuan had finished touching the body, a gunshot came from far away in the west. This gunshot tore through the quiet night. The bullets with raindrops were like raindrops of beans, shooting from the depths of the dark and hazy alley.
It shoots out everywhere, breaks the tiles, sinks into the mud, leaves a crater on the wall, and occasionally leaves a string of sparks on the wall.
The crisp echo echoed far, far away.
The sound of pattering footsteps came from far away. Xia Yuan suddenly raised the muzzle of his gun. It was the scholar. When he saw the person coming clearly, he immediately dropped the body in his hands and leaned behind the shooting. Before the scholar could speak, he pulled the gun directly.
The scholar ran away: "Hurry up! The frontal troops have encountered Japanese soldiers!"
Niu Hai was so frightened that he sat down in the mud, holding his gun and trembling: "Brother Xia, Japan, Japanese devils."
"I'm not deaf. Do you want to stay here or follow me to fight the Japanese?" Xia Yuan cautiously stared at the dark streets in the distance. The sound of gunfire covered the streets and alleys. No Japanese troops were seen in their direction.
The sound of gunfire came from the other side of the row.
One row is to their right.
The alley was very deep, so there was nothing the Japanese could do to hide and attack them.
"Why is this happening? The Japs don't sleep at night!?" Xu Liu has never fought against the Japs, but he has also heard about what the Japs did, invading the four northeastern provinces in an attempt to further attack the land of China, and the Battle of Songhu began
While there, he also listened to the company commander talk about the battle situation on the front line.
The Japanese army rested at night and did not attack because their guns could not aim and their aircraft could not fight at night. The Japanese army's combat effectiveness at night would be greatly reduced.
Xu Liu's thinking was still before the war. If the national army's night attack was successful, the Japanese army must be prepared.
In the battle zone between the Japanese army and the Chinese army, the Japanese army dispatched a large number of scouts to conduct reconnaissance and deployment. In the previous night attacks, several Japanese army brigades suffered heavy casualties. It was not until the sun rose in the early morning that the Japanese army
The offense turned around.
After suffering such a heavy loss, the Japanese army became more vigilant at night.
The soldiers in the new barracks had little combat literacy and were unable to take cover when groping forward. One soldier pushed the closed door without preparation. The Japanese soldier hiding among the ruins pulled the trigger and fired a bullet into the place.
Inside the body of a Chinese soldier.
As soon as the gunfire rang out, the originally stable formation suddenly fell into disarray.
Team 3 did not encounter any Japanese attacks. The four of them hid behind the broken wall, staring at each other.
"Speaking, why are you standing there?" Xia Yuan wiped the rain off his face and stuck his head out to observe. Deep in the alley, he saw the shadows of Japanese soldiers moving around. There was about a squad of Japanese soldiers, holding guns and leaning against the wall.
The cat bent forward and groped forward.
These Japanese soldiers tried to surround them from the side.
"Right ahead, there are a dozen Japanese soldiers, squad leader, you decide whether to do it or not." Xia Yuan retracted and asked Xu Liu.
"Do it!" Xu Liu looked at the three of them, gritted his teeth, and decided to fight.
The gunshots over there were mottled and noisy, and there were no rules at all. When the fumbling recruits heard the gunshots, they started to turn around and run. The situation was no longer under the control of the recruit battalion commander. Sometimes, having more people does not mean that they will occupy the area.
Advantages can easily lead to confusion.
What's more, this is a group of new recruits who are greedy for life and afraid of death.
The commander at the rear looked at the town shrouded in darkness with binoculars, and gunshots rang out from the front, "The main force of the Japanese army has not yet entered the battle, so let the new barracks wear out for a while. Go, notify, and order the troops to prepare to enter the town.
fighting!"
"yes!"
The encounter between the recruit camp and the Japanese army was like a warning signal.
Captain Du's Ninth Company was still in order. Even though they were retreating steadily, the order was still not chaotic. Bullets flew out from the depths of the alley and landed among the ruins. The recruits who were hiding were beaten on the head.
Not daring to reveal themselves, some people didn't even see the enemy, so they picked up their guns and fired randomly into the depths of the dark alley.
How long can ten bullets last? Many recruits do not have that awareness. The bullets have been almost consumed before the Japanese devils approach or even see the figure. This leaves a huge hidden danger for the next battle.
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The fighting situation on Platoon Leader Zhao's side was not very good either. There were not many Japanese soldiers and there was only one squad, but their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. The grenade made a crisp sound and landed on the ruins of brick houses and rubble.
In the process, rubble and bricks collapsed everywhere, and groans and screams could be heard among the ruins.
"Spread out! Everyone spread out!" Platoon Leader Zhao yelled, walking among the ruins, and kicked the soldiers lying on the ground holding their heads: "Get up, don't die, Japan
The Japanese are coming, and it’s useless even if you hold your head!”
"The Japs are coming, I saw them!"
"Bullets, I'm out of bullets. We're dead. I'm out of bullets."
Unorganized, unplanned, chaotic, cowardly, cowardly, fearful, desperate, all kinds of emotions breed and spread in the recruit camp. Emotions are contagious. Some soldiers who originally wanted to fight the Japanese devils, after seeing the situation of the soldiers around them,
I also started to be afraid.
The number of people who are afraid of fighting is far greater than the number of people who are looking forward to fighting. If the proportion is not proportional, it will lead to the spread of despair in the army.
The situation of the third squad is the best in the entire company. On the one hand, Xia Yuan has a certain prestige in the squad. On the other hand, Xu Liu has no idea of being an official and bullying ordinary soldiers. What Xia Yuan said
In Xu Liu's opinion, it is very reasonable. Under such circumstances, if Xia Yuan issues an order, the three of them will comply.
"Have you ever been on the battlefield before? You don't look like you have just been on the battlefield. You look more like a veteran."
Xu Liu maintained a certain degree of doubt about Xia Yuan's identity as a recruit. He had no choice but to do so. Xia Yuan didn't look like a recruit at all, but more like an experienced veteran. The scholar was still able to remain calm enough, but he was also frightened.
It was a serious mistake, and Wang Hai didn't even have an adaptation process. He just joined the company this morning and was sent to the battlefield in the evening. The training was only simple bayonet fighting.
"Hey, squad leader, what you said is wrong. I am gifted."
Xia Yuan laughed, held up his gun and said, "There are only a dozen Japanese soldiers in one squad. Let's kill them all. Their weapons and equipment will be ours."
"What to do?" Xu Liu looked at their equipment, four broken guns, three of which were new recruits. Of course, in Xu Liu's view, Xia Yuan's identity was constantly wandering between new recruits and veterans.
"Our guns are not good, so we will definitely not be able to shoot them, so we will pull them closer and use bayonets."
There were not many bayonets issued to them by their superiors, only the deputy squad leaders and squad leaders had them. Ordinary soldiers were not issued bayonets.
"Two people?" Xu Liu took out his bayonet and looked up at Xia Yuan.
"Two people are enough. These two are new recruits. Let them fight with well-trained Japanese soldiers with bayonets? Two people are not enough for the Japanese soldiers to fight alone." Xia Yuan pointed at the scholar and Niu Hai and said.
"Brother Xia, don't look down on people. After all, we have only been training for a month." The scholar felt that he was a little looked down upon. Even though he was extremely afraid, he still said with a stiff neck.
"You have only been training for one month, so you can knock me down. Many Japanese soldiers have started military training since childhood." Xia Yuan said: "Of course, I don't mean to look down on you. It's just that the Japanese soldiers are too strong.
You'd better stay well."
Xu Liu said: "You have admitted that you are not a recruit. When I fought with you on the bayonet for the first time in Jiading, I felt that you are not a recruit. No matter how talented a person is, he is only good at bayonet fighting.
I have practiced it well, but I have been on the battlefield and fought with the enemy."
"I won't talk about the past. My head was damaged before, but it got better later." Xia Yuan said vaguely: "We escaped from the fourth province in the east before."
After the September 18th Incident, the four eastern provinces became Manchukuo and were occupied by the Japanese. This is no longer a rare thing in China. Even many farmers working in the village have heard that this is
National humiliation, coupled with hatred.
Unexpectedly, Xia Yuan escaped from the four eastern provinces occupied by the Japanese army.
"You actually escaped from the four eastern provinces."
Not only Xu Liu was shocked, but even the scholars were shocked. It was somewhat unbelievable for a person to cross half of China and return to Yu.
"Squad leader, the Japanese are here."
Niu Hai poked his head, his voice was trembling, and he was a little unsteady on the gun in his hand.
"What are you afraid of? These little devils scared you and looked at you like a bear. Are you trying to avenge your relatives?" Xia Yuan slapped the boy and turned to look at the alley in the distance.
A detachment of Japanese troops was searching along the broken buildings on both sides of the street, in a standard triangular formation, and they were searching very carefully, seemingly not sparing any corner.
Approaching the half-hidden courtyard, two Japanese soldiers approached both sides of the gate and aimed their guns at the crack of the door. Another Japanese soldier pushed the door open, while the remaining Japanese soldiers were on guard at the door. In addition, the ruins not far away
There were three Japanese soldiers on top, who used the broken wall to build a simple machine gun fire point.
"It's a little tricky."
Xia Yuan cursed secretly, pointing the old sleeve in his hand to hit whatever he wanted. Even if he was a firearms master, he would not be able to hit the target 100 times, and the alley itself was narrow, and there were not many detours in street fighting, which was affected by the terrain.
If you limit yourself, your strength will be greatly reduced.
"Night is a good disguise. Adjust your thinking, change your battle plan, and kill these Japanese devils."
Is it possible to fight guerrillas in alleys? It is possible, but it requires a very detailed grasp of the surrounding terrain. Xia Yuan has night vision and eagle eyes, and he can clearly understand the situation at each intersection along the way. Knowing where to escape is the most important thing
The safest.
The Japanese machine gun firepower in the distance can radiate this street. All you have to do is to get the Japanese gun first.
The accuracy of the old sleeve was only a few hundred meters away, so he was not very sure of hitting the Japanese at a certain point. After all, the bullets fired after the rifling was smoothed would show different distribution points. These distributions
The points appear randomly, not regularly.
If you were alone, shooting would not be a big problem. The key was that among the four of them, Shusheng and Niu Hai were both new recruits. Once the Japanese invaders took advantage of the favorable terrain, they would not be able to share the pressure for themselves.
Street fighting is very different from positional warfare. In positional warfare, you use the weapons and equipment of the US military. All trenches can be detoured. Moreover, the US military attack does not have any tactics, it is just powerful and ferocious fire suppression. The Japanese army knows how to cooperate with the attack.
You may not have a problem, but the other three may not.
After much thought, Xia Yuan decided to adopt a conservative attack.
"The Japanese army is searching the house. The terrain here is not suitable for fighting, and there is a Japanese machine gun in the distance."
Xia Yuan told Xu Liu the basic situation he observed.
When Xu Liu heard this, his eyes widened: "What, there's a machine gun? That won't work, we can't fight here."
The saying that recruits are afraid of bombings and veterans are afraid of machine guns is absolutely correct.
The Japanese artillery will only destroy their fortifications, but the machine guns will take away their lives. The situation on the battlefield is very chaotic, the sound of guns and artillery is noisy, and the sound of machine guns hundreds of meters away cannot be heard at all, often killing people invisible.
middle.
When Xu Liu heard it was a machine gun, he immediately shook his head. When he was suppressing the bandits, the bandits' weapons and equipment were similar to theirs. There were no cannons, but there were machine guns. The lethality of machine guns was far greater than that of cannons, so he was not afraid of cannons, but
Afraid of machine guns, because there are few cannons and many machine guns.
"Our guns are incomparable to those of the Japs, and we don't have grenades. The terrain is restricted, but we are restricted by the terrain, and the Japs are also restricted by the terrain. I saw that there is no house in front. I just entered it, and there are many corpses inside.
, let’s enter the house and disguise ourselves as corpses.”
Xia Yuan took off his bamboo hat and said: "The Japanese will search the house and enter the yard. This is our opportunity to fight with the Japanese with bayonets. As long as we get close to the Japanese, the Japanese will not dare to shoot."
He asked: "Squad leader, can this be done?"
"That brat, who do you look down on? I was picked on by you once, that's enough." Xu Liu cursed, thinking that Xia Yuan looked down on him.
"Okay." Xia Yuan looked at Scholar and Niu Hai again: "Death is not terrible. There is no pain when a bullet hits the body. It's not a big deal. Are there not many people dying these days? Not more than the four of us. Let's kill them.
, you can live, otherwise they will kill us."
When facing vulgar people, you have to use vulgar language, as long as it is easy to understand. They can understand it and understand this truth.
If you don't want to die, you have to kill the Japanese devils. That's what war is like. Either you die or I die.
Xia Yuan didn't want to see them killed by the Japanese in the end, but he didn't even kill a single Japanese.