"Order, the two artillery companies immediately set up positions and must destroy the heavy weapons on the city wall at the first moment." Seeing the mortars one after another, the political commissar ordered.
"Everything..." There was no test firing or early warning. After receiving the order, the artillery company immediately smashed a total of 24 rounds of various artillery shells into the city wall. Although the accuracy was not that good, the dense artillery shells still had
Nearly 10 rounds landed on the city wall.
"Boom, boom, boom..." The city wall was immediately exploded into a sea of flames by ten mortar shells. Except for those who were killed by the shells, the Japanese spies who gathered around and chatted all dropped their guns and cried.
They were running around, not looking like soldiers at all. However, the Japanese soldiers hiding behind the battlements on the city wall did not panic at all. They took up the light machine guns in their hands and fired a burst of fire at the place where the sound of artillery was heard outside the city.
"Boom, boom, boom..." The mortars that had been fired did not give the Japanese any time to react, and fired 24 shells again. This time, it was much better than the previous time. Nearly 20 shells fell again.
On the narrow city wall, nearly 100 meters near both ends of the city gate were once again baptized by artillery fire.
In an instant, the machine gun that had been shouting happily just now went silent. The machine gunner and the heavy heavy machine gun were thrown off the city wall by the air wave of the shell explosion.
"Baga, where is your special agent team? Quickly, order your special agent team to go to the city wall immediately to assist the imperial army in defending the city..." Looking at the special agent team leader who returned in embarrassment, the Japanese squadron leader who was left to defend the city couldn't help but feel
Annoyed, "Bah, bang, bang..." I was slapped in the face.
"I am reporting to you, the squadron leader, that my special agent team is gone. A burst of artillery fire from the Communist Army came down. My special agent team has all dispersed. All the brothers have fled. Now there are only dozens of close associates around..." The commander of the usually flamboyant special agent squadron
The captain, facing the Japanese slap in the face, could only endure the burning pain on his face and lowered his head to answer.
"Baga...how could this happen? Come on, take the rest of your people and go up to the city wall immediately. Team 1, hurry up and go up to the city wall. We must block the Eighth Route Army's attack." After hearing what the captain of the special agent team said, the squadron leader was also frightened.
, the special agent team with hundreds of people and guns, in the blink of an eye, only a few dozen people were left. The originally sufficient strength was now at the point where there were no troops to send.
Seeing the departing squadron leader of the special agent squadron, the Japanese squadron leader hurried to the telegraph room.
"Quickly, send a message to the squadron leader." The squadron leader ordered to the telegraph operator in front of him.
"Your Excellency, Captain, half an hour ago, the county town was violently attacked by Eighth Route Army people, who carried a large number of mortars. Now, all the special agents have lost their combat effectiveness, and the Japanese troops left in the city have also lost their ability in just half an hour.
Half the team has been lost, and all heavy weapons have been lost. I request you, the captain, to send troops for rescue quickly, otherwise, Fuping County will not be protected..."
"Baga, how could this happen? Why is the special agent team so fragile? It only took half an hour for them to collapse." The captain almost tore the telegram in his hand to pieces and shouted loudly.
"Your Excellency Captain, it's good that those Eighth Route agents have persisted until now. After all, they are Eighth Route civilians who have never been on the battlefield. What should we do now?" the deputy captain next to him comforted.
"What can we do? Order the troops to return immediately for reinforcements. The county seat must not be lost. Otherwise, we will have a disembowelment to apologize to His Majesty the Emperor. Order a reinforced squadron to take a car and reinforce the county seat in the shortest possible time. I will lead
The remaining troops will follow up. If the Eighth Route Army cannot be eliminated here, then we will move the battlefield to the outside of Fuping County," the captain said.
"Hi, Captain, what should we do with the people who are imprisoned in the village?" the chief of staff asked.
"Those common people have been bewitched by the Eighth Route Army, and there are many Eighth Route Army soldiers among them. Kill them all without leaving any future trouble." The captain thought for a while and said.
"Hey" the chief of staff turned around and accepted the order. He didn't think there was anything wrong with this order. Because in their eyes, killing these common people who were bewitched by the Eighth Route Army was a matter of course.
Soon, just when the captain and his troops had just walked out of the village, it turned out that the Japanese army occupied the store and remembered bursts of machine gunfire and the cries of the villagers...
"Brigadier, Brigadier... Something happened..." A soldier who went out for reconnaissance ran back and cried.
"What's wrong? What happened? Don't cry..." the brigade commander asked anxiously. At the same time, he had a vague premonition of the gunfire just now.
"The Japs massacred the village. They killed all the people before leaving. It was so tragic. Hundreds of people were all killed by the Japs' machine guns." The investigator answered with tears.
Sure enough, what I thought of happened. After hearing the investigator's report, every soldier around him clenched his fists and had angry expressions on his face.
"Brigadier, give me the order. We want revenge. So many of our fellow villagers must not die in vain..." the soldier next to him encouraged.
"Yes, brigade commander, please give the order. We want revenge, for the dead villagers..." The soldiers next to him immediately agreed.
After listening to the soldiers' words, Wang Nanhu slowly became excited. At this moment, the chief of staff spoke. "Comrades, I know that everyone is eager for revenge, but now our fifth regiment is still attacking the county town, attracting
The main force of the Japanese army returned to support. The Japanese returned so quickly. It is obvious that they want to eliminate our Fifth Regiment under the county town. Brigadier, we must intercept the Japanese troops along the way and cannot let them quickly surround the county town. Otherwise, the Fifth Regiment will
will be..."
After listening to the chief of staff's words, Liu Hua slowly calmed down.
"Order, go into the village to collect the bodies of the villagers. The remaining troops follow me to block the Japanese retreat. We cannot let them return to the county so easily. The blood debt must be repaid with blood." Wang Nanhu ordered loudly.
Therefore, the revengeful soldiers worked hard this time and arrived in front of the Japanese marching group in less than two hours.
"The second company, occupy the hilltop in front, hold for 20 minutes and then retreat. The third battalion, when the Japanese attack, attack them from behind. The third company runs forward, falls down a hilltop to build defenses, and then retreats.
Second Company." Looking at a hilltop on the roadside in front of him, brigade commander Wang Nanhu immediately ordered.
Because the Japanese army was very eager to return reinforcements, they did not first occupy the commanding heights on the roadside and then pass through the highway as they did during previous marches. Instead, they passed directly through the highway, regardless of whether there were enemies at the high points.
The second company commander and his soldiers used the rocks on the mountain as cover and lay quietly on the ground, looking at the Japanese troops on the road. They saw that the Japanese troops did not capture the high ground they occupied, but wanted to march quickly.
Pass the road in front of you.
"Damn it, it's not that easy to leave. Comrades, beat the Japanese marching group hard..." The second company commander gave the order to attack. Immediately, the sound of violent gunfire was heard on the top of the mountain.
, those Japanese soldiers who were marching in a hurry were suddenly caught off guard. Dozens of Japanese soldiers were swept to the ground by the sudden and dense bullets.
"Baga, get down, quickly, fight back..." The Japanese squadron under attack couldn't help but feel heartbroken when seeing the dozens of soldiers it had lost, and ordered loudly. Soon, the Japanese army used various powerful terrains to
Lying on the ground, he started shooting at the second company on the top of the mountain. At the same time, a series of light and heavy machine guns were set up, and a grenade launcher began to adjust the shooting range...
"Da da da..." The Japanese's light and heavy machine guns rang. Without the cover of the trenches, the soldiers immediately suffered casualties. Fortunately, the terrain was very favorable to the soldiers. All the grenades launched by the Japanese fell in front of the position and did not pose a threat to the soldiers.
What a threat.
"Kill..." Seeing that the Chinese army on the top of the mountain was completely overwhelmed by its own heavy firepower, the squadron leader immediately seized the time and sent a small team to launch a charge.
Due to the intensive firepower of the Japanese, the soldiers could only watch the attacking Japanese troops getting closer and closer, but there was nothing they could do. Finally, the Japanese rushed to 50 meters in front of the position and entered the grenade throwing range of the soldiers.
"Comrades, grenades..." the company commander shouted loudly. As soon as he finished speaking, nearly a hundred grenades flew out from the top of the mountain and landed in front of the Japanese charging formation. With the explosion of the grenades, the Japanese appeared in front.
created a web of fire consisting of exploding grenades.
"Quickly, retreat..." When the soldiers finished throwing the second round of grenades, the company commander saw that nearly half of the charging Japanese troops had been wiped out by him, and then he saw that the time to block the attack had come. So he immediately ordered the troops
retreat.
After receiving the order to retreat, the soldiers used the cover of grenade explosions to carry out the wounded and the bodies of their comrades and successfully evacuated the position, leaving an empty mountaintop to the Japanese.
Faced with the sudden appearance of dozens of casualties, although the captain wanted to take revenge, when he thought of the county seat in danger, he immediately ordered the troops to hurry up and rush back to the county seat as soon as possible. So, the troops stopped for dozens of minutes because of the second company's blockade.
The Japanese marching brigade accelerated its pace again.
However, just as the Japanese army continued to speed up its pace, the entire third battalion was slowly approaching the Japanese army's follow-up baggage troops. Finally, the Japanese army slowly approached the ambush position of the third company.