Hirata Hiroshi knew that his whereabouts had been exposed, and he would definitely be besieged by the enemy. Up to now, it was completely impossible to attack the enemy's airport. His only wish was to rush into the village with his team and capture some common people.
Hostage, so as to protect the advancing team and his own life.
The Eighth Route Army unit that was chasing them was a company of the Yangcheng County Security Regiment. The company commander saw the Japanese running toward the village in front and guessed their intentions. He was not nervous, but laughed.
He immediately sent a messenger to report the news and mobilized more troops to surround the village. Then he led the troops and drove the Japanese soldiers into the village in front of him like a duck.
There are more than 100 households in this village. The name of the village is Xiaozhaozhuang. The militia team in the village has 16 militiamen. They have already received notice from their superiors that Japanese troops disguised as the Eighth Route Army are active in this area. They have already done so in advance.
To take precautions, additional sentries were posted at the entrance of the village.
When he saw an Eighth Route Army unit running towards here, and there were people chasing after it, Zhao Sanwa, the captain of the militia team, immediately judged that the group of Eighth Route Army soldiers in front were the Japanese soldiers pretending to be soldiers.
He immediately blew the trumpet to notify the people in the village to seek emergency refuge.
Hirata Hao and the Japanese saw the Eighth Route Army chasing behind them. They were very nervous and worried that there was also an Eighth Route Army in the village. If they were blocked and unable to enter the village, their situation would be too dangerous. Fortunately, they did not encounter any
He resisted and entered the village smoothly.
Hirata Hirata and Nagawa Yuichi finally breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered the Japanese to go from house to house to arrest people.
He knew that the Eighth Route Army cherished the common people. As long as they could control the common people in the village, they would have a chance to negotiate with the enemy and leave the base safely.
The Japs rushed into the courtyards of people's homes with ferocity. There were sounds of banging on doors everywhere, and there was a chaos.
Soon after, the Japanese soldiers came out very frustrated. Except for some poultry that they had no time to take away, there was no one in the village.
Hirata Hao was very puzzled and didn't understand where the people in the village had gone. Suddenly his eyes suddenly opened wide, and he remembered a terrible legend, that is, in the base area of the Eighth Route Army, a large number of tunnels were dug, and the people in the village were
The people must have gone into the tunnel.
He heard that the tunnels in the Mawu Mountain base area could not only hide people, but also have defensive functions. Many Japanese troops had suffered losses because of this.
Hirata Hiroshi now regrets his hasty decision to enter this village, not knowing what kind of blow he will encounter next.
He became anxious and lost his previous calmness. He howled loudly and ordered the Japanese to disperse and quickly find the entrance to the tunnel.
Soon after, there were explosions and gunshots in the village. Soon someone came over and reported to Hirata Hiroshi, saying that the officers and soldiers of the advancing team were attacked by the enemy. They didn’t know where the grenades and bullets came from, and a lot of damage had been caused.
of casualties.
Hirata was very frightened. He stood in the yard and looked around, fearing that a gun would suddenly stick out from somewhere and kill him.
Really afraid of what might happen, he was looking around when he saw a black thing flying in the sky, with white smoke coming from behind.
He yelled: "Grenade, hide quickly." After saying that, he rushed into a room.
With a "boom", the grenade exploded in the yard.
Yuichi Nagawa's reaction was a little slow. He saw Hirata Hiroshi running into the house and followed him. At this time, before his body had fully entered, two shrapnel from the explosion of the grenade hit him on the back.
Snow cave. Fortunately, the shrapnel did not penetrate deeply. Even so, the pain made him scream.
The other Japs who were slow to respond were in bad luck and were directly killed by grenades. What was even worse was that the communications soldier carrying the radio on his back was also killed, and the radio was blown out of use.
The person who threw grenades at Hirata Hiroshi and others was the village militiaman Li Erniu. He saw the embarrassed appearance of the Japanese in the yard from the observation port on the wall and smiled proudly.
He saw that the door of the room where Hirata Hirota and others were hiding was open, so he threw another grenade into it.
Hirata Hirata was helping Nagawa Yuichi bandage his wounds. When he saw the white-smoking grenade thrown in, he hugged Nagawa Yuichi and blocked him in front of him.
With a "boom", the grenade exploded suddenly, Yuichi Nagawa was killed, and Hirata Hirata was hit by the shock wave generated by the explosion and hit the wall.
He fell to the ground, and Yuichi Nagawa's heavy body that was blown to pieces also fell down, pressing on top of him.
He felt something sweet in his throat, spit out a mouthful of fresh snow, and passed out.
The situation of the other Japanese soldiers in the village was equally bad. Those damn hidden enemies kept firing black guns and throwing grenades at them.
Although the officers and soldiers of the advancing team were very brave, they were all frightened when facing the invisible enemy.
A Japanese squad leader ran in looking for Hirata Hirata and Nagawa Yuichi. Seeing the miserable condition of the two men, he thought they had both died in the battle, so he decided to take over the command.
He believed that staying in this village would lead to death, so he decided to rush out of the village before the large enemy troops came to surround the village. Even if he died fighting the enemy in the wild, it would be better than losing his life in a daze here.
Be good.
He shouted loudly, calling on the remaining Japanese soldiers to break out to the west.
When the Japs heard the shouts of the squad leader, it was as if they had grasped a life-saving straw. They immediately ran to the street and followed the Japs squad leader to the west.
When the militiamen in the village saw that the Japanese were about to run away, they would not let go. They emerged from the roofs, fired at the Japanese's backs, and kept throwing grenades.
The Japanese soldiers did not resist. They only had one thought: "Escape quickly. Only by escaping from the village can we avoid these terrible enemies."
The Japanese advance team consisted of 200 people. They ran very fast. The militiamen did not have machine guns. Although they kept shooting and dropping bombs, a large number of Japanese soldiers escaped from the village.
The militiamen were unwilling to let the Japanese go, so they even chased them out.
The militiamen saw the Japanese in such a mess and were chasing after them happily, but found that the Japanese running behind had stopped. They turned around, set up their machine guns, and fired at the militiamen.
Only then did the militiamen realize how powerful the Japs were. The reason why they were able to drive away the Japs was entirely due to their tunnels, and they were no match for them in a field battle.
So they didn't dare to chase anymore, so they stopped where they were and fired at the Japanese.
The Japanese were not interested in fighting, so they fired a burst of machine guns at them, turned around and ran away.
The company commander of the Eighth Route Army led his team to the edge of the village. When he saw the Japanese running away from the village, he led his team to pursue them.
The Japanese squad leader was eager to get rid of the pursuers behind him. He knew very well that if he could not get rid of the pursuers behind him and the two sides kept fighting, the sound of gunfire would soon attract enemy reinforcements.
He made a prompt decision and left a squad of Japanese soldiers behind to block the pursuers. He and the other Japanese soldiers continued to run forward.
The Japanese soldiers had a very tenacious will to fight. The Japanese soldiers who were left behind to block the attack knew that their only outcome would be to die here, but they didn't care and just lay there to block the pursuers behind them.
The pursuing Eighth Route Army was blocked by the enemy and had to stop to deal with the group of Japanese soldiers in front.
The Japanese squad leader led the rest of the Japanese soldiers to escape desperately. Seeing that the pursuers were getting further and further away, just when he wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, another militia team appeared in front.
This team was a squadron of the county brigade. They discovered the escaped Japanese and immediately ran in this direction.
The squad leader had no choice but to leave one more squad of Japanese soldiers to stop the pursuers, and he led the rest of the Japanese soldiers to continue running wildly.
Along the way, the Japanese were desperately trying to escape. Each one of them was so tired that their legs seemed to no longer belong to them. They felt their legs were extremely heavy, their chests were also very tight, and they could hardly breathe.
But they knew that they had a chance to survive only if they left here quickly, so they still ran forward desperately.
While running, the Japanese team leader stopped first, with a look of despair on his face. Because he had already seen many Eighth Route Army and militiamen appearing in front and on the left.
He looked around, seeing the Eighth Route Army everywhere, militiamen in plain clothes and even enemy cavalry. They had no way to escape.
The Japs team leader looked around and saw that there was no terrain to use here. He had to order the Japs to lie down in the fields and use the field ridges as bunkers to prevent the enemy from approaching.
Soon after, they were surrounded.
The officers and soldiers of the encircled Eighth Route Army and the county brigade were not in a hurry to attack. They just kept firing guns to prevent the Japanese from breaking through.
Soon after, more Eighth Route Army and county brigades, as well as nearby militiamen, arrived, and the number of people surrounding them continued to increase, eventually exceeding 5,000 people.
The Eighth Route Army and the militiamen did not launch an attack because they had already received a notice from their superiors, saying that they only needed to surround the Japanese. There was no need to attack them to avoid unnecessary casualties and wait until the main force arrived to deal with it.
them.
When the Japanese squad leader and the soldiers in the advance team saw that the enemy was not attacking, at first they were still holding on to a sense of luck. Maybe the enemy wanted to persuade them to surrender, and they also wanted to take advantage of this to stay up until dark.
The night highlights the encirclement.
Soon after, they were disappointed, not only disappointed, but also very desperate. Because they saw many Eighth Route Army troops coming outside the enemy forces surrounding them, some driving trucks, some riding tall horses, trucks.
There were cannons pulled behind them and behind the horses. It was obvious that the enemy wanted to use artillery to deal with them.
The Japanese squad leader and the soldiers in the advancing team all knew that the terrain they were in had no way to defend themselves against enemy artillery fire. When the enemy set up their artillery and started shelling, there was only a dead end waiting for them.
None of the Japanese soldiers wanted to die like this. They had already determined to die and decided to charge the enemy, and they would die on the way to the charge.
The Japanese squad leader stood up first, brandished his command knife, and shouted loudly: "I'll give you the assault." After saying that, he took the lead and rushed towards the enemy.