The gunfire in the town gradually became more intense, and various guerrilla groups hiding in the dark began to contain fire to cover Yang Ling's actions.
Jiangqiao Town was like a cage, trapping the supplementary regiment. Not only was there a military order from the division headquarters, but a squadron of Japanese soldiers outside the town were surrounded as big as an iron barrel, and the retreat had been blocked.
There is also a squadron of Japanese soldiers in the town. Although the supplementary regiment used the uneven building complex to play hide-and-seek with the Japanese, as the Japanese soldiers changed their strategies and started a net-like clearing from South Street, their living space was continuously compressed.
The situation has taken a turn for the worse.
If Yang Ling is confident enough to kill the Japs when fighting guerrilla warfare in a city, Jiangqiao is only a slightly larger town. Although there is a foundation for guerrilla warfare, there is not much room for maneuver. The Japs are now dragging the net.
They are like fish in a pond, sooner or later they will be caught in a net.
It is obviously not a wise move to concentrate the troops to confront the Japs head-on. The Japs soldiers inside and outside the town total two squadrons, equipped with powerful firepower. If you fight head-on, you will only die, so you can only use tricks to clear up and kill the Japs while they are still on South Street.
Their chain of command has broken this situation.
The Japs come from the east, and the artillery is also from the east. In order to facilitate command, the Japs' command system should also be in the east. This is Yang Ling's judgment. Of course, another possibility is that the Japs' command system is in South Street and moves with the attacking team.
, but Yang Ling decided to go to the east first.
No one in Yang Ling's guerrilla group has been killed so far, but everyone has been more or less injured by the explosion, but it does not affect the operation.
There are still four people left in Liu Yidao's guerrilla group, and they are also acting together with Yang Ling and others. In total, they have eleven people.
When there are more people, the target becomes larger, and the actions are not so agile. However, Yang Ling did not split up. Who knows how many people there are in the Japs headquarters. If there are many Japs left behind, they will not be powerful if they have more people.
As for being unable to eat.
The courtyards and heights of the town are scattered unevenly, and the fierce fighting caused a lot of damage to the houses in the town. The walls collapsed, the green tiles were shattered, and it was a mess as far as the eye could see.
Among the ruins, Yang Ling and the others took turns to cover themselves and sneak through the alleys and houses towards the east. Although they tried their best not to make any noise, they were not a well-trained team after all, and some people still made some noise from time to time.
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A Type 96 light machine gun was mounted on the roof of a two-story house. This was a Japanese machine gun team. Four Japanese soldiers, including the main and auxiliary shooters, and the ammunition hand were very vigilantly observing the surrounding situation.
They are in a commanding position here, and a light machine gun can block a street intersection. As long as the defenders' guerrilla group hiding in the dark shows up, it will definitely be unfavorable.
The commanders of the Japanese soldiers were very shrewd and knew that their firepower would not be able to exert their advantage in street fighting, so they directly sent people to occupy the commanding heights in an attempt to divide the town into scattered areas by controlling each commanding heights, and then wipe them out one by one with a net.
Although this method requires a lot of time, it is reliable enough and can minimize casualties compared to their previous direct attack.
A Japanese soldier heard a noise coming from the yard in front. He immediately made a silence gesture to the other three Japanese soldiers and pointed the muzzle of his machine gun at the street corner next to the yard.
A man wearing a gray military cap carefully stretched out from behind the corner of the street. After a quick glance around, he leaned out half of his body and was about to jump across the corner. A sinister smile flashed across the face of the Japanese soldier, decisively.
The trigger was pulled.
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-a short, short shot, the half of the defender's body that was stretched out was directly torn apart by the ferocious bullets, blood and flesh splattered, and the earth-colored wall was dyed red.
The defender staggered, fell to the ground, struggled twice and died.
Lao Wang, who followed the soldier, braked suddenly and sat among the rubble. He watched helplessly as the bullets flying down from the blind area of his vision hit the comrades in front of him with blood and flesh splattering. He was trembling with fear. If he went any faster,
Even if he takes a step forward, he will not be able to escape the fate of being beaten to pieces.
Other soldiers who were hunched forward were frightened by the sudden sound of machine gunfire and shrank back. They clung to the cold wall and looked at the beaten corpse lying two meters away.
redness.
Yang Ling was also shocked by the sudden attack. He did not expect that the Japanese machine gun team would also blockade this place.
"Turn around and go around to the left." This road is blocked, so Yang Ling and the others can only turn back.
Lao Wang pulled Yang Ling who was about to turn around and pointed at the battered body of his friendly soldier: "What should we do with him? Can't we just let him stay here?"
"The person is already dead. There's no need to risk your life trying to get a body back. Let's go."
Yang Ling whispered to the soldiers to change their route, and Lao Wangtou stood up from the rubble. Looking at the beaten corpse, he felt bad, his life was lost like this.
War is cruel and human life is like a piece of grass.
The Japanese soldiers occupied many commanding heights in the town and blocked some streets and alleys, which hindered Yang Ling's movement. They could only climb over the walls and collapse the courtyards. The originally ten-minute journey took twenty minutes to reach the town.
Dongtou.
In twenty minutes, the Japanese soldiers' suppression squadron had completely cleared South Street. Several guerrilla groups hiding inside suffered disaster. They could not escape or defeat them, and were eventually massacred by the Japanese soldiers.
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The Japs commander, Captain Uenomurao, was very arrogant and underestimated the enemy. He sent out all the Japs soldiers and tanks from the two squadrons in his possession. One squadron was responsible for encircling the town, and the other squadron was responsible for entering the town to clear it out.
There were only two fifteen-man artillery squads and a few executive officers and communications soldiers around him. He never thought that the remnants of the defenders in the town would pay attention to him. After all, they were the attacking party, and the defenders could
It would be good to keep it.
"Sir Ueno, Captain Yoshino has cleared South Street and killed thirty-one members of the China Army." A communications soldier hurried to Captain Ueno Murao to report the latest battle situation in the town.
Captain Uenomurao nodded and ordered: "Tell Yoshino-kun to speed up and end the battle before noon!"
"Hai!" The signal soldier received the order and hurriedly turned back to the town.
An executive officer took a step forward and suggested: "Sir, should we remind the Takahashi Squadron to strengthen peripheral vigilance to prevent the China Army from risking their lives to break through."
Captain Uenomurao thought it was reasonable, and ordered a signal soldier on standby behind him: "Go and inform Mr. Takahashi, be sure to strengthen your vigilance and not let anyone escape, and be sure to annihilate the entire China Army."
The signal troops were ordered to immediately split up and convey the order to the headquarters of Takahashi Squadron, which was ambushing in other directions of the town.
The captain looked at Jiangqiao Town where black smoke was rising and gunshots were ringing. He looked relaxed. In his eyes, the remnants of the Chinese army in the town were no longer able to make any big waves. What they needed to do now was to clear out the remnants and carry out mopping up work.
Behind a mottled broken wall, Lao Wangtou wiped his eyes hard and observed the busy Japanese soldiers, but the Japanese soldiers were all dressed in the same uniform, and it was difficult for him to distinguish which one was the commander of the Japanese soldiers.
At the beginning of the Battle of Songhu, the commanders of the Japanese soldiers had obvious signs, either holding command swords or wearing Nizi windbreakers. However, as the sharpshooters of the defenders specialized in attacking Japanese officers, now the Japanese officers have become smarter and dressed more
He became like an ordinary soldier and could not be seen at all among the crowd.
"Damn, which one is the Japanese official?" Old Wangtou was furious, but he couldn't tell.
Yang Ling's eyes also wandered among the Japanese soldiers, and finally pointed to the left: "Did you see it? The Japanese soldier in the middle standing on the slope, he should be the commander of the Japanese soldiers."
"But what if I'm wrong?" Liu Yidao rubbed his eyes and asked.
"I think several of the Japs took action after following the orders of the Japs in the middle. I can't be wrong."