"Baga, what's going on? How did you become the captain of the engineer squad?" Looking at the groaning engineer soldier lying on the ground not far away from him, Ono Jiro asked loudly to the sergeant beside him.
"Hi, your Excellency, squadron leader, the Chinese use stone mines, and our mine detectors have no effect at all." After inspecting the wounds of the completed soldiers, Engineer Commander Cao hurriedly reported.
"Baga, the despicable Chinese. Order the troops to pass through the farmland on both sides of the road. I don't believe that the Chinese have so many landmines..." Jiro Ono cursed loudly.
"Your Excellency, squadron leader, there are rivers on both sides of the road. We can only return to the county town by the road." At this time, a squad leader who heard Ono Jiro's order reported.
"Baga! How could this happen?" Ono Jiro glared at the squad leader who had just answered him with an angry face. Ono Jiro looked at the watch in his hand. At this time, one month had passed since he launched an attack on the Eighth Route Army position.
Needless to say, the Eighth Route Army laid mines here with only one purpose, which was to surround themselves and then annihilate them all to avenge Xiaoli Zhuang.
"Baga, order the troops to cross the river, quickly..." Thinking that his troops would be surrounded by the Eighth Route Army at any time, Ono Jiro quickly ordered. At the same time, he quickly dismounted and began to take off his clothes...
Although Onojiro failed in this battle, his analysis was still very correct. At this time, a battalion sent by the regiment for reinforcements had merged with the troops stationed in Zhuangquan Village and was chasing Onojiro at full speed. And the cavalry battalion
After getting the news that Onojiro wanted to escape, he quickly crossed to Onojiro's retreat route. At this time, he was already quietly ambush in a forest about 8 miles away from the county seat, waiting for Onojiro to walk into the ambush circle.
In this way, with Ono Jiro personally taking the lead, the soldiers began to cross the river. However, the soldiers also knew that if they did not leave now, they would never be able to leave again, so the speed of crossing the river was invisibly accelerated.
In a few minutes, all the soldiers crossed the cold river. Under Ono Jiro's urging, they shiveringly put on their military uniforms and continued on their way to their hometowns.
"Yoshi,..." Ono Jiro breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the remaining troops of his squadron, under his command, slowly left the so-called base area of the Eighth Route Army and entered the area controlled by the Imperial Army. The order was prepared.
The soldiers who were almost numb from walking rested and had some solid food.
However, the soldiers behind him shouted long live, lit several bonfires on the ground, and gathered around them to eat dry food and roast their frozen bodies, when they were resting less than 500 meters away.
Suddenly there was a huge roar in the woods. Slowly, the roar got closer and closer, and the earth began to tremble amidst the roar.
Finally, a fast-moving black line appeared on the edge of the woods, getting closer and closer. Wherever the black line moved, there was dust everywhere. Ono Jiro felt the trembling earth, and quickly raised his hand with trembling hands.
He picked up the telescope and looked towards the black line.
"Baga is the cavalry unit of the Eighth Route Army. Hurry, organize a defense..." Ono Jiro said with surprise, because in his telescope, he could clearly see hundreds of Eighth Route Army cavalry, holding up their sabers.
Two attack formations were lined up, screaming and rushing towards him.
Hearing the squadron leader's order, more than two small groups of Japanese soldiers suddenly panicked. They had just escaped from the wolf's den, and now they ran into the tiger's mouth so quickly. The originally neat formation was temporarily
There was a slight confusion. The commander could not find the soldiers, and the soldiers could not find the commander.
"Bang..." Ono Jiro took out his pistol and fired a shot into the sky, "Baga, you bastard, calm down, don't run around, machine gun, quickly organize a defense," Ono Jiro cursed loudly.
However, his gunshots played a big role at this time. The originally chaotic formation immediately became quiet after hearing the gunfire. The machine gunners quickly set up under the command of the commander,
The grenadier quickly raised the grenade and was ready to fire.
"Kill..." Finally, the little devil lying on the ground could clearly hear the soldiers' shouts of killing and see their faces clearly.
"Kill..." Ono Jiro lay down in front of the position, raised the command knife in his hand, and swung it in the direction of the cavalry battalion's charge.
"Da da da..." The Japs' machine guns opened fire, and the relatively dense firepower composed of eight light machine guns rushed towards the charging cavalry team. Suddenly, several gaps appeared in the middle of the charging formation.
"Boom..." Immediately afterwards, the little devil's grenades began to explode around the soldiers. The huge air waves generated by the explosion overturned the fast-running horses. The soldiers on the horses also fell to the ground.
In an instant, he was smashed into a pulp.
"Comrades, stay in formation and charge..." the cavalry battalion commander tried his best to press his body against the horse and shouted loudly. After hearing the order, the soldiers quickly filled the gap just broken by the little devil.
, the entire formation lined up in a straight line, with the battalion commander as the center, formed a sharp cone, and quickly penetrated into the middle of the Japanese defensive position.
"Baga, hurry up, shoot..." Looking at the cavalry getting closer and closer, Ono Jiro panicked and kept urging the machine gunners in the front row to shoot. However, in just ten seconds,
How many bullets can eight machine gunners fire?
"Kill..." Finally, the soldiers of the cavalry battalion rushed to the edge of the Japanese army's position. Facing the Japanese machine gunners in the first row, the battalion commander at the front of the charge formation tightly held the reins of the horse in his hand, and
When the war horse jumped up in front of the little devil, he raised the knife and dropped it. A bunch of blood spurted onto his face, and his round head fell to the ground...
"Ah...Baga..." The machine gunner next to him looked at the bloody heads rolling on the ground, and looked at the saber dripping with blood in the battalion commander's hand, and was suddenly shocked. (You know, in the Japanese army's belief,
If your head is chopped off, then you will not be adopted by the god Amaterasu you believe in after your death. In the end, you can only become a lonely ghost.) The Japanese soldier shouted, dropped the machine gun in his hand, and ran towards
Run to the rear of the position.
However, even if he was fast, he could not be faster than the horses of the cavalry battalion. The fleeing Japanese soldiers were overtaken by the soldiers and felled to the ground. Slowly, no more shots were heard in the entire position.
There was only the sound of the hooves of galloping war horses, the wailing of Japanese soldiers, and the hissing of swords cutting into the body...
In less than ten minutes, the battlefield finally became quiet. The Japanese squadron leader who was lucky to survive hiding in a patch of grass looked at everything in front of him blankly. At this time, the battlefield was full of round heads, one
A bloody figure with a pair of big, unblinking eyes seemed to be telling Ono Jiro about his command failure.
As for the cavalry battalion on the battlefield, as the commander of the cavalry battalion, when he learned that his cavalry battalion had lost nearly fifty men under the firepower of the Japanese army just now, the battalion commander couldn't help but became angry and immediately ordered the soldiers to
They left no one alive, and in order to give the Japanese army a warning, they ordered the soldiers to cut off all the heads of the Japanese soldiers. At this time, the soldiers were resolutely executing the battalion commander's orders on the battlefield, carefully searching for survivors on the battlefield.
Japanese army.
When Onojiro saw soldiers hiding in the woods and grass being searched out by Chinese cavalry and beheaded alive one by one, Onojiro, as the commander, finally couldn't help it. He fiercely pulled out his
Commanding his sword, he jumped up from the grass where he was hiding and ran towards the cavalryman closest to him.
"Kill..." Just when Ono Jiro approached the soldier, he shouted loudly, and the command sword in his hand also slashed towards a soldier riding on the horse. He looked at the distance between his command sword and the cavalryman.
The neck of Onojiro was getting closer and closer, and the cavalryman looked at him coldly, with panic in his eyes, and a smile appeared on the corner of Ono Jiro's mouth. In his opinion, his sword was the most serious blow since he joined the army.
The most outstanding sword strike against the enemy.
"Bang..." A gunshot broke through the quiet battlefield. The powerful penetrating power of the rifle bullet passed directly through Ono Jiro's chest. A bunch of blood poured out from the bullet point in his chest, and the bullet
The powerful impact force suddenly restrained his forward slashing action, and the command knife that was about to cut the enemy's neck slowly moved back, farther and farther, and finally, his body fell backwards and fell to the ground.
"Baga, cunning Chinese..." These were the last words Ono Jiro said before he died. After saying that, he closed his eyes. It turned out that when Ono Jiro pulled out his command sword and rushed out of the hiding place,
At that time, a battalion commander who was observing the battlefield discovered him, so one rifle followed Ono Jiro's pace. Just when Ono Jiro thought he had succeeded, the battalion commander pulled the trigger.
"Report to the battalion commander that all the little devils have been eliminated and the battlefield has been cleaned." At this time, a company commander rode up on his horse and came to the battalion commander to report.
"Okay, order the troops, take the loot and retreat immediately. There is such a big movement here, the little devils in the county will definitely come for reinforcements, retreat immediately," the battalion commander ordered decisively.
"Yes, battalion commander..." After saying that, the company commander went to assemble the troops. Soon, the soldiers got on their war horses and quickly left the battlefield with the captured trophies. And half an hour later, the little devil started from the county seat.
As expected, a large group of reinforcements arrived. However, all that was left for them was mutilated corpses all over the ground.
"Commander, commander, good news, the cavalry battalion won a great victory..." The excited voice of the chief of staff suddenly sounded in the quiet headquarters.
"Haha, Chief of Staff, give me and the political commissar a quick thought. You know, the cavalry regiment has been setting out for two days. If there is no news, I will go crazy.
"Yes, Commander, Political Commissar. According to a call from Commander Sun of the First Military Division, this morning a reinforced squadron of the Japanese army equipped with mortars and heavy machine guns was preparing to sweep Zhuangquan Village, but was discovered by a company garrisoned in Zhuangquan Village. So,
After sending out a signal for help, Zhuangquan Village used a garrison company to hold off the Japanese for half an hour, and laid mines on the Japanese's retreat route, successfully holding back the reinforced Japanese squadron that wanted to withdraw to the county. A battalion of the cavalry regiment
After arriving, the Japanese troops were successfully wiped out, and no one escaped. "Chief of Staff Li Qing excitedly read out the telegram in his hand.
"Okay, good fight. Tell Commander Wang of the Cavalry Regiment and the commanders of each military division to let them fight like this. As long as the Japanese dare to leave the county, they will not be allowed to go back alive." Liu Hua ordered excitedly.
"Yes, Commander, I'm going to draft the message right now," the chief of staff replied. He turned around and walked toward the telegraph room.
"Commander, I didn't expect that a strengthened squadron was killed like this. Just like this, the elimination of a few more Japanese squadrons will be equal to the total number of Japanese troops eliminated in our last counter-encirclement and suppression campaign. Haha." Political Commissar Guan Xiang
Ying said with a smile, obviously very happy with this good news.
"Political Commissar, this is the guerrilla warfare of our Eighth Route Army. The little devils haven't learned it yet. Haha, by the way, in the base areas of the three military divisions recently, especially the first military division, have entire villages surrendered to the enemy?"
Liu Hua asked.
"Commander, if you don't ask me, I almost forgot to tell you that since you issued the order to the three military divisions, the three commanders have formed a total of dozens of small teams. They went deep into the enemy-occupied areas, and we
In the guerrilla zone, the traitors were eliminated and the Japanese's transportation was disrupted. Three days have passed. According to the latest statistics from the Intelligence Department, during these three days, various teams have eliminated a total of 122 notorious traitors.
Among them, they ambushed the Japanese convoy 6 times, killing more than 100 Japanese troops, and achieved fruitful results." The political commissar took a sip of tea, saw Liu Hua listening to him with a smile, and continued.
"Since these traitors were eliminated, the shock to the Japanese army has been huge. I heard from the intelligence office that it has spread in enemy-occupied areas. As long as there is a notorious traitor who opposes the Eighth Route Army, he will definitely be killed the next day.
...In the past few days, not only have no villages surrendered to the enemy again, but many villages, after seeing our team, actively asked to return to our arms. More importantly..." The political commissar looked at the focused Liu Hua.
, deliberately meditating...
"What else is there? Don't stop. Speak quickly. I'm so worried..." Liu Hua urged when he saw the political commissar showing off in front of him.
"What's even more gratifying is that the small team sent out not only eliminated more than a hundred traitors, they also brought us back a huge amount of military expenses. According to the statistics of Director Wang of the Logistics Department, in the homes of these traitors
, the comrades of the squad collected a total of 356 gold bars, which exceeded 500,000 yuan. This greatly eased the financial pressure on our base area." The political commissar said with a smile.
"Haha, I didn't expect that one thing would have such great benefits. In this case, not only can we not relax on the matter of forming small teams, but we must also strengthen them. Let them go deep into enemy-occupied areas and into the countryside to develop our local party.
Organize and form guerrillas to do mass work. At the same time, it can also send excellent soldiers to our base areas. More importantly, it will make prerequisite preparations for our independent division to liberate these areas in the future." Liu Hua answered.
"Yes, what the commander said is very correct. I agree. By the way, commander, we have seized so much finance this time. Should we keep all of it or hand it over to the headquarters? After all, the headquarters is more difficult than us!
asked the political commissar.
"Haha, political commissar, I didn't expect you to... Haha, with so many things, it's definitely not good for us to keep them all. Besides, we will seize them again in the future. In this way, all the silver coins will be kept, and all the seized gold will be handed over to the headquarters. From now on,
The headquarters sent a guard company of soldiers to escort them with radios. Also, didn't we capture a lot of mortars in our hands? We will send some to Mr. Peng at the headquarters. The equipment of the headquarters guard group is too poor. If we encounter a small
The Japs will definitely suffer." Liu Hua thought of the future death of Zuo Quan's chief of staff and quickly added.
"Okay, Commander, let me arrange this matter. Send them more heavy weapons and ammunition. Let a baggage company escort them and a guard company protect them along the way." The political commissar nodded in agreement.
"Okay, let's do it this way, then leave this matter to the political commissar. Don't let Mr. Peng and Mr. Zhu see us and say we are stingy..." Liu Hua joked with a smile.
In this way, each military division, with the assistance of the headquarters guard regiment, wiped out five squadrons of the Japanese army. As a result, the Japanese army in Shanxi no longer dared to send squadron-sized troops to carry out what they called guerrilla warfare. Peace was restored on the edge of the base area, and the Japanese army
A certain degree of stability was temporarily maintained with the Eighth Route Army.
At the same time, with the efforts of each squad, the base area quickly returned to the pre-war situation. At the same time, a large number of squads went deep into the enemy's rear, established guerrillas, and attacked the enemy's logistics line, which disturbed the Japanese army all night long.
Various guerrilla groups led by independent divisions have sprung up on the land of Shanxi.
"Baga..." Seeing that his first combat plan since taking office not only failed to achieve the desired results, but also caused the entire Shanxi Zhutun Army to lose nearly 1,500 troops again, the Japanese commander couldn't help but cursed.
Not a sound could be heard from the headquarters, and all the staff members stood motionless, fearing that the commander in front of them would burn the anger in their hearts onto themselves.
"Baga, the Eighth Route Army is really cunning and cunning. It has ordered all counties and strongholds to prohibit troops below the size of a squadron from going to the countryside for raids unless there are special circumstances. In the near future, the main task of our Shanxi garrison is to strengthen the security forces in the counties where they are stationed.
Public security. At the same time, accumulate strength, wait until our strength reaches a certain level, and then launch a destructive raid on the Jinyi base area." The commander calmed down his thoughts and ordered to the officers in front of him.