After the Japanese advance troops entered the village, they saw that the village was deserted and reported the situation to the commander of the regiment.
The captain said angrily: "Baga is blocking the road, but these unscrupulous people can run very fast."
The brigade commander of the puppet army knew that he was angry because of the Eighth Route Army's attack all the way, so he comforted him: "Your Excellency, captain, this is actually a good thing. Think about it, if the guerrillas in the mountains did not bring these people with them, they would
It's easy to move around, but it's not easy for us to find them. Besides, the guerrillas have limited supplies, plus there are so many ordinary people with so many mouths to eat, so it's easier for them to be overwhelmed."
The brigade commander of the 7th Puppet Army Brigade was an old man who was good at understanding people's thoughts. The Japanese commander had a good impression of him. Hearing what he said made sense.
He nodded and said: "Xinxi, you are very knowledgeable. Send your men out to find the whereabouts of the guerrillas as soon as possible."
The brigade commander of the puppet army said: "Your Excellency, captain, please rest assured that the guerrillas have brought so many people with them. They cannot run far and their whereabouts will be found soon."
The Japanese commander admired the puppet brigade commander very much and invited him to move the brigade headquarters to the village so that he could discuss anything with him.
The puppet troops received the brigade commander's order and searched in groups in the mountains. Soon they found traces of the guerrillas.
It's no wonder that with so many guerrillas and villagers carrying so much supplies, it's inevitable that there will be traces left on the road. A platoon of puppet soldiers found Mantou Peak based on the clues they found.
Zheng Xirong had already sent out many surveillance posts. When he saw the Japanese and puppet troops climbing up towards Mantou Peak, the sentries knew that they could no longer hide, so they took a preemptive strike and opened fire on the puppet troops.
The guerrillas on the mountain heard the gunshots and quickly entered the defensive position. When they saw the puppet troops on the hillside, they opened fire on them.
Five or six of the puppet soldiers died, and Liang retreated in panic. When they reached the foot of the mountain, the puppet platoon leader sent someone back to Qiligou Village to report the news.
Zheng Xirong knew that the Japanese and puppet troops would soon surround him, so he climbed up the mountain with a surveillance post.
On the way, he saw Li Jinzhu working there with a group of soldiers from the demolition team, and said: "Brother Jinzhu, you have to hurry up, the Japanese and puppet troops will come up soon."
Li Jinzhu said: "I know, I'll be fine soon."
Li Jinzhu and others had already laid a large number of stone mines on the way up the mountain. When he saw a stone weighing hundreds of kilograms on the roadside, he had an idea and led the masons from the demolition team to directly attack this stone.
It took them more than two days to dig a hole in the boulder, and they are now installing explosives.
Zheng Xirong was also looking forward to it, hoping to see the power of this super stone mine when it exploded. He said, "Okay, I'll go up first, and then it'll be up to you."
The puppet soldiers ran back to the village and reported the situation to the brigade commander.
After discussing with the Japanese commander, the brigade commander decided to immediately send troops to surround Mantou Peak, build fortifications to prevent enemy troops from breaking out, and wait until tomorrow to launch an attack on the mountain.
Wang Chengzhu, Wang Xiaohu and Wei Heping stood on the top of the mountain. The view here was extremely wide. Without a telescope, they could see groups of Japanese soldiers and puppet troops climbing up several hills around Mantou Peak.
There were so many of them that there were many people even in the valley and a blockade was set up.
The Japanese and puppet soldiers first occupied the surrounding hills and valleys to form an encirclement, and then came to the two mountain ridges leading to the top of Mantou Peak. They did not dare to get too close and stopped several hundred meters down the mountain.
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Wang Chengzhu was experienced and had already measured the distance of the surrounding terrain. He saw a lot of Japanese and puppet troops on the top of the mountain closest to Mantou Peak, so he decided to give them some color first.
He ordered the soldiers of the artillery team to set up four mortars and fired two rapid-fire rounds at the top of the mountain.
The Japanese and puppet soldiers on the mountain heard the sound of cannons and hurriedly found a place to hide, but the top of the mountain was bare and there was no hiding place at all.
Two mortar shells landed on the mountain, causing rubble to fly. More than 20 Japanese and puppet troops were killed and injured. The remaining Japanese and puppet troops ran down the mountain in panic.
Wang Chengzhu laughed loudly when he saw the corpses of Japanese and puppet soldiers scattered on the top of the mountain. The soldiers were also very happy, pointing and talking there.
The other two hilltops were a bit far away, and one of them could be reached with the Type 92 Infantry Cannon. Wang Chengzhu fired two rounds at the top of the mountain with the Type 92 Infantry Cannon, killing five or six Japanese soldiers.
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On the farthest hill, the artillery team's 75mm mountain cannon could hit it, but it was a pity that it was too bulky, so they didn't bring it to the mountain this time. They found a place and temporarily buried it.
Li Jinzhu had been thinking about those mountain cannon shells for a long time. In order to make the super stone mine, he asked Wang Chengzhu for a few mountain cannon shells and put them into the huge stone.
Wang Chengzhu and others were chatting on the top of the mountain when a soldier from the artillery team shouted: "Deputy Wang, the Japanese are setting up artillery on the mountain."
Wang Chengzhu and others hurried over to take a look, and found that on the hill where they first bombed, a group of Japanese soldiers were setting up a Type 92 infantry cannon. The little Japanese were just like that. As long as they suffered a loss, they would immediately retaliate.
The Japanese soldiers brought up two Type 92 infantry guns and were debugging the guns there.
The reason why the Japs used the Type 92 infantry artillery was because the hilltop they were on was too low and they couldn't reach the top of Mantou Peak with their mortars.
Wang Chengzhu had already opened fire first. His first shell hit right next to a Japanese Type 92 infantry gun. It overturned the gun on the spot, and the artillerymen nearby were also blown over.
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The Japanese soldiers were anxious. They hurriedly loaded shells on another Type 92 infantry gun and fired a shot without taking aim. The shells hit the bottom of the cliff and did not pose any threat to the guerrillas.
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Wang Chengzhu also took aim and fired a shot. This shot was more accurate. The shell directly hit the shield of the Japanese Type 92 infantry gun, and directly blew the Type 92 infantry gun to pieces.
The cannon body flew up and fell to the bottom of the mountain.
The Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to be alive saw this situation and ran to the back of the mountain in panic.
Wang Chengzhu knew that the little devils would definitely not be reconciled and would come to take revenge, so he sat there and waited to see what other tricks the little devils had.
After waiting for about 40 minutes, a puff of white smoke suddenly appeared on the hilltop opposite, followed by the sound of a cannon, and a shell from a Type 92 infantry gun flew over. The shell hit a bit high, grazed the top of the mountain, and flew
passed.
It turned out that the little devils suffered a loss and moved another Type 92 infantry gun. They did not dare to move it to the top of the mountain anymore, so they found a place behind the hillside with only the muzzle exposed and carried out a sneak attack on the top of the mountain.
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It's just that their terrain is very unfavorable. Wang Chengzhu and others can see them at a glance from the top of the mountain, but they can't see clearly what's going on on the top of the mountain. Moreover, their angle is difficult to control. When the cannonballs are fired high, they will fly over the top of the mountain and hit them.
If it is too low, it will easily hit the cliff.
However, this could not stop the little devils from retaliating, and they could not help but fire at the top of the mountain.
Wang Chengzhu saw the location of the Japanese cannon, so he set up a mortar and fired towards that place.
The mortar shell drew an arc and landed behind the mountain. The shell quickly exploded at the place Wang Chengzhu was interested in. Because it was blocked by the top of the mountain, he couldn't see the effect. But from now on, the little devil
We never went to the mountains to shoot guns again.
Wang Chengzhu guessed that there must be a lot of Japanese and puppet troops behind the mountain, so he fired six more mortars towards the back of the mountain.
Sure enough, there were many Japanese and puppet soldiers hiding behind the mountain. They were so bombed that they ran down the mountain crying and howling.
It was getting dark gradually, and the guerrilla sentries also remained vigilant at night, always on guard against sneak attacks by the Japanese and puppet troops.
The night was uneventful.
At 9 o'clock in the morning the next day, the sun was shining brightly, the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant, which was very pleasing to the eye.
However, this beautiful scenery was quickly destroyed by the Japanese and puppet troops at the foot of the mountain.
Under the two mountain ridges on the east and west, large groups of Japanese and puppet troops gathered there, and the attack was about to begin.
On the mountain ridge to the east, the Japanese and puppet troops began to set up artillery. A large number of Japanese and puppet troops gathered on the hillside, waiting for the artillery fire to stop before launching an attack on the top of the mountain.
Of course Wang Chengzhu would not get used to this problem of theirs. He simply bombarded them and the Japanese artillery position was destroyed on the spot.
The person in charge here was a captain of the Japanese army. Seeing this situation, he simply did not follow the prescribed infantry tactics and directly sent a squadron of Japanese soldiers to charge up the mountain.
When the Japanese soldiers reached a place more than 120 meters away from the top of the mountain, the machine guns of the guerrillas on the top of the mountain opened fire, killing seven or eight Japanese soldiers on the spot.
The Japanese soldiers were extremely brave. They set up machine guns for cover, while the rest used skilled individual infantry attack tactics and continued to charge towards the top of the mountain.
When the Japanese soldiers rushed to a distance of seventy or eighty meters, the guerrillas armed with rifles also opened fire.
The Japanese soldiers were constantly shot and fell, but they continued to charge upwards. It must be said that the Japanese soldiers were not only skilled in tactics, but also very accurate in their marksmanship. Even if they shot into the mountains while running, they still caused some guerrilla attacks.
Casualties of team members.
On the top of the mountain, Li Yinzhu was very nervous. He hoped that the Japanese would rush higher because they had set up many stone mines on the hillside, all at a distance of 40m to 60m.
The enemy finally entered the minefield. Li Yinzhu's palms holding the rope were already sweating. He pulled hard, threw away the rope and covered his ears with his hands.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom." Dozens of stone mines exploded together, causing smoke and dust to billow on the hillside and gravel to fly.
When the smoke and dust cleared, the guerrillas saw that the hillside was covered with Japanese soldiers. The few dozen Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to be alive crawled down and fled.
The puppet army captain did not expect that the guerrillas on the mountain would be so difficult to fight, and they lost more than a hundred people in the first charge.
He brought in another infantry squadron and prepared to attack again.
To the west of the mountain ridge, the Japanese and puppet troops were also organizing an attack on the top of the mountain.
The terrain here is better than that in the east. There are many boulders on the hillside. The Japanese soldiers are hiding behind the boulders, setting up artillery, hiding their troops, and preparing to launch an attack. The Japanese captain and a group of officers are hiding behind a big rock.
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Seeing this situation, Li Jinzhu was secretly happy because the Japanese soldiers were hiding near the huge rock.
This place is about 150 meters away from the top of the mountain. Li Jinzhu is quietly lying in a stone gap on the side of the hillside, waiting to detonate the super stone mine.
Seeing more and more Japanese soldiers gathering there, Li Jinzhu spit in the palm of his hand, rubbed it, and yanked the rope sharply.
This tug did not move, but instead caused pain in the palm of his hand.
He took a closer look and found that the rope was stuck in the crack in the stone in front. The position where the rope was stuck was a cliff more than ten meters deep. It was very difficult to pull the rope out of the crack in the stone. If you were not careful,
You might fall off the cliff.
Li Jinzhu had been working hard for several days on this stone thunder, but he was not willing to lose its effect just like that. So he crawled over, grabbing the cracks in the rocks with his hands, and stepping on the protruding parts of the rocks, bit by bit.
Move towards the crack in the stone.
The guerrillas on the top of the mountain saw Li Jinzhu's actions and were all worried about him.
Li Jinzhu finally climbed to the rock crevice where the rope was stuck, took the rope out from there, and then slowly climbed back.
At this moment, gunfire broke out and the Japanese soldiers launched an attack. Seeing this situation, Li Jinzhu stopped looking for a safe place. He grabbed the rock with one hand and pulled the rope hard with the other.
With a loud "boom", the super stone mine was blown to pieces by more than a hundred kilograms of black powder and four mountain artillery shells inside.
In this violent explosion, the Japanese captain and more than 200 Japanese soldiers were knocked to the ground by the strong shock wave and flying gravel. Many of them were directly shocked to death.
The explosion was so violent that the mountains shook as if they had been hit by an earthquake. Because he was too close to the explosion site, Li Jinzhu was also stunned. His eyes darkened, he loosened his grip on the rock, and his body moved towards