The gunfire exchanges in the dilapidated village gradually subsided. The ferocious Japanese troops searched for the remaining assault company soldiers in small groups in the village. Anyone who encountered an injured person would kill them with a bayonet without hesitation.
The corpses of the National Revolutionary Army soldiers, covered with blood and dust, were dragged from the ruins to the entrance of the village by the Japanese army. Looking at the dozens of mutilated corpses, the Japanese captain's face was full of indifference.
They were chased by these Chinese troops all night and were in a state of embarrassment. Although they had surrounded and annihilated this small group of Chinese troops that had rushed forward, he still couldn't calm down the anger in his heart. When had their Imperial Japanese soldiers ever fought such a cowardly battle?
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"Hang them up!"
The Japanese captain gave the order with a ferocious look on his face, saying that he would retaliate in this way and warn those Chinese troops who attacked them last night, that this would be their fate.
These red-eyed Japanese soldiers were like beasts with fangs bared at this moment. They started to strangle the fallen Chinese soldiers with ropes around their necks and hung them all on the tree trunks at the entrance of the village.
Soon the group of Japanese soldiers who pursued Deputy Company Commander Shunzi and his companions also returned. They tied up and dragged back five injured and captured Chinese soldiers.
For these living Chinese soldiers, the Japanese army followed the same method and strangled their necks with ropes and hung them at the entrance of the village. These injured soldiers struggled and wailed in pain, and they felt that life was worse than death.
The Japanese soldiers who were watching saw these Chinese soldiers struggling to survive. They pointed and their twisted faces were full of scary smiles. This was their revenge.
Soon, these Chinese soldiers who were hung by ropes at the entrance of the village all suffocated to death and became corpses shaking in the wind. When the Japanese captain saw his masterpiece, he smiled with satisfaction, and then led the team to continue to retreat.
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The Japanese 14th Division crossed the Yellow River alone, captured Heze, and then went straight into the Lanfeng area in an attempt to cut off the Longhai Railway. However, the attack of more than 100,000 Chinese troops around them forced them to retreat and defend, waiting for reinforcements to counter the encirclement.
The more than fifty remaining soldiers of the assault company led by assault company commander Wang Meng were ambushed by Japanese troops in the village. Most of them died. Deputy company commander Shunzi narrowly escaped with his life because he blocked the other end of the village on the periphery.
After a night of fierce fighting, the assault company of nearly two hundred brothers suffered heavy losses. Those who fell behind, those who died, and those who were ambushed by the Japanese in the village suffered heavy losses. After deputy company commander Shunzi escaped from the Japanese pursuit, he looked at the only eight soldiers in uniform around him.
The broken brother was depressed and miserable.
Now not only the brothers in the company have been lost, but even the company commander Wang Meng has also been abandoned in the village. Looking at the brothers with low morale, Shunzi, although he is a veteran, does not know how to explain to the deputy commander Yang Ling for a while.
, this loss is too great.
"Company Commander, what should we do now?" Looking at Deputy Company Commander Shunzi who was holding his head and keeping silent, a veteran covered in blood came over and asked.
Hearing the veteran's question, Deputy Company Commander Shunzi came back to his senses from his grief. Seeing the eight brothers looking at him helplessly, he suddenly felt a heavy weight on his shoulders. He was now a commander.
, he needs to cheer up.
Shunzi took a deep breath, grabbed the 79 rifle that had been drained of ammunition, stood up, stretched out his dirty sleeves to wipe the tears flashing from his eyes, and said in a low voice with red eyes: "Brothers! We
Go find Deputy Commander Yang and others! Avenge your dead brothers!"
The Japanese army in the village was powerful. Although they did not have many heavy weapons, they at least had the strength of a squadron. Their few remaining brothers would die if they went there, so Shunzi decided to go along the way to find Yang Ling and the others, hoping to bring them with him.
They were able to annihilate this Japanese army and avenge their dead brothers!
Deputy company commander Shunzi led the few remaining brothers to endure their grief and looked back along the way to find the troops that had dispersed during the night. Two hours later, they encountered Yang Ling and his friends who had gathered their troops and were catching up from behind.
Yang Ling and the others did not dare to act rashly after dawn. After all, they could attack the Japanese army randomly at night, but when the Japanese army had artillery fire and aircraft support during the day, they would suffer losses if they continued to attack randomly.
In order to prevent the Japanese army from counterattack, Yang Ling sent out a reconnaissance force to investigate the situation of the Japanese army, and gathered up the stragglers and scattered brothers in the regiment along the way, and then slowly rushed over.
The assault company led by Wang Meng moved very quickly. Yang Ling and the others rushed slowly and hurriedly, but in the end they failed to catch up. However, at noon, they met the deputy company commander Shunzi and the others.
Yang Ling and the others were shocked to see Deputy Company Commander Shunzi and the others with their uniforms in tatters and the smell of blood all over their bodies, and their embarrassed appearance.
"Shunzi, where are Captain Wang and his men?" After seeing Shunzi, Yang Ling immediately asked about the situation of their assault company.
But it was okay for Yang Ling not to ask. When he asked, the originally tough-minded veteran's eyes turned red, and he stood there and burst into tears, unable to hold back his tears.
Seeing the embarrassment of Shunzi and the others, and seeing the grief-stricken expressions, Yang Ling's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly asked: "What's going on?!"
Hearing Yang Ling's tone become serious, Shunzi recounted the story of the incident while wiping away tears and choking with sobs. After hearing this, the brothers around him were filled with indignation and rage.
These are brothers who get along day and night. On the battlefield, they can take bullets for each other. Now when they heard that Captain Wang Meng, the company commander, was blocked by the Japanese in the village and almost died, the brothers' eyes were red and they shouted loudly.
To take revenge.
Yang Ling never thought that the Japanese army would be so arrogant. They were beaten so badly last night that they still dared to stay and lay an ambush. This was simply not taking them seriously.
"Shunzi, lead the way!" Although Yang Ling was angry in his heart, his face remained calm. He ordered Shunzi to lead the way, and then ordered the gathered troops: "Advance in battle formation!"
When Yang Ling's order was issued, Captain Liu Yidao, the captain and company commander, immediately distanced himself from the main force of his company and battalion and moved forward on the flanks, while Yang Ling and the others followed Shunzi and others and rushed straight into the village where they encountered an ambush.
Although the brothers fought all night, they heard that there were Japanese troops ahead and ambushed their brothers, so they all held back anger in their hearts and moved very fast, and the effects of previous training were also highlighted.
Soon Yang Ling led the Third Battalion to the village where Shunzi and his assault company were ambushed.
In view of Shunzi's experience of encountering an ambush, Yang Ling did not want to make the same mistake again, so this time he was careful and did not go directly. Instead, he sent people to carefully investigate the surrounding situation to prevent more Japanese ambushes.
"Sir! No Japanese have been found for miles around!" Soon the reconnaissance platoon leader rushed back and reported the situation.
After hearing that the surrounding situation was safe, Yang Ling sent people into the village. When they saw the brothers who were hung up at the entrance of the village, all the brothers were furious and yelled at the little devils!
"Huzi, take people into the village to find out the situation!"
With a heavy heart, Yang Ling asked Wang Huzi to lead people into the village to investigate the situation. He stood there, his eyes passing over the bodies of the brothers who were hung up. His heart felt as if he was being pricked by needles, but as a leader, he could not show it.
Feeling sad will affect morale.
Yang Ling stood there in silence for a long time, while those who were close to the brothers who died in the battle had their eyes red and shed tears.
"These little devils are bastards!" Liu Yidao was loudly attacking and cursing the little devil's ancestors, while more people were clenching their fists tightly, furious, wishing they could kill all the little devils now.
"Boom!" Just as the brothers were trying to untie the ropes with red eyes, hoping to lower the brothers who had been hung up by the Japanese, a violent explosion suddenly occurred. It turned out that the Japanese had tampered with the corpses.
"Ah! My hand! My hand!" The brother who went to untie the rope had his arm bruised with blood and was writhing on the ground in pain, wailing.
"Don't move, stay back!" Seeing this, Yang Ling hurriedly put away his sadness and scolded the brothers who were close to the corpse!
The sudden change scared the other brothers who were about to untie the rope and retreated. The health soldiers in the camp rushed over to treat the injured brother.