Not long after the friendly troops who had been fighting with the Japanese outside Ruichang County withdrew, a large group of Japanese with fierce faces came after them menacingly with bayonets drawn.
Although these Japanese soldiers who appeared in Yang Ling's field of vision were short in stature, they were exceptionally strong and energetic. At first glance, they looked like new troops arriving on the battlefield.
Maruyama Masao's 6th Brigade was also arrogant at first, but in the end they were defeated by Yang Ling and his 74th Army. The victory on the battlefield had weakened the brothers' fear of the Japanese a lot.
The strength of the Chinese army was weak, while the strength of the Japs was strong, especially the ability of individual soldiers of the Japs to fight, so that the Chinese army was completely defeated in the early stage on the battlefield.
The consequence of the continuous failures and heavy casualties was that the Chinese officers and soldiers became disloyal when talking about the Japs, and were subconsciously afraid of the Japs. In addition, the Japs propagandized that the Imperial Japanese Army was invincible.
Therefore, during the operations against the Japanese troops, the Japanese were often not seen yet, and the new recruits who were added to the army were disorganized because of the rumors and fear.
When the Japanese really started to fight, they would be bombarded with artillery fire, and with the sacrifice of a large number of veterans, the Chinese army would be unable to hold on and would be defeated.
Over a long period of time, many Chinese officers and soldiers have been deeply fearful of the Japs. Sometimes hundreds of people were chased by dozens of Japs and fled for their lives in embarrassment without daring to turn back and resist.
Fortunately, as the Chinese army successively achieved some brilliant achievements in various battlefields, breaking the myth that the Japanese were invincible, the fear of the Japanese in the army was finally stopped.
Facing these Japanese soldiers of the 106th Division, the veteran brothers hiding in various positions secretly looked through the gaps without much psychological fluctuation, and waited for orders quietly and calmly.
The recruits that Yang Ling and the others had added before the war had almost been depleted, and all the surviving brothers had become veterans. Naturally, such a group of veterans who had fought bloody battles with the Japanese were not afraid of the Japanese.
The brothers were quietly hiding among the debris, houses and ruins. There were even a few brothers who were wearing disguises and lying in the smelly ditch on the street. If the Japanese didn't get close, they wouldn't be able to find them.
On the other hand, the Japanese 106th Division suffered heavy losses on the Nanxun Line and added a large number of supplementary troops to the army. Although these supplementary troops had undergone a certain degree of military training, they were a little rusty when they first came to the battlefield.
The Japanese 106th Division had no choice but to replenish these troops and bring them to the battlefield without undergoing restorative training, because they had already fallen into the quagmire of the Chinese battlefield, and the loss of soldiers had already made them somewhat exhausted.
After one division of the Chinese army was defeated, it was able to raise another division in a short period of time. The security groups and militia groups in the rear were all organized into regular troops and sent to the front line. Although the quality was not high, the victory was in large numbers.
On the other hand, if the Japanese army loses a soldier on the battlefield, it needs to be replenished from the homeland thousands of miles away. Although every battlefield is victorious, the losses are also staggering. The training cycle of many replacement soldiers has been shortened, and the result is quality.
Severe decline.
The officers and soldiers of the Chinese army who survived the bloody battle have grown up in the flames of war. The government can use them as the backbone to quickly raise ten or twenty divisions...
On the other hand, at the beginning of the war, the group of well-trained elites of the Japanese were killed and wounded, and coupled with the dilution of a large number of supplementary troops, although they still maintained an offensive posture, they had been weakened by the battle and seemed to lack stamina.
Yang Ling believed that as long as the war continued, the Japanese population and resources would be the first to be unable to support the war, and the balance of victory would eventually tilt toward China, but it would just take time.
The Japanese soldiers did not notice Yang Ling and the others hiding in the building complex. They just fired a few shots at random and conducted fire reconnaissance, and then began to approach at a trot.
Because they were chasing a retreating Chinese army and wanted to make achievements, and did not want to waste too much time in this ordinary-looking building.
But this arrogant and careless little devil doesn't know that this inconspicuous building complex hides a group of bloodthirsty veterans, quietly waiting for their prey to take the bait.
The heavy and messy footsteps of the Japanese were getting closer and closer, and the sound of broken bricks and debris on the ground getting louder and louder. Through the gaps in the brick wall, Yang Ling could even see the ugly face of the Japanese who was quickly jumping towards him.
The brothers hiding in various places gently pulled the bolts of their guns, and the bullets were already on fire. Their faces looked ferocious, like dormant poisonous snakes, ready to give the little devil a fatal blow.
"Crash!" A Japanese soldier quickly jumped over a low and damaged broken wall, and a large piece of fluffy bricks crashed to the ground, raising smoke and dust.
These Japanese soldiers were well fed, slept well, had strong bodies, and were neatly dressed. Countless figures were leaping forward among the ruins, hoping to quickly pass through the ruins and catch up with the retreating Chinese army.
"boom!"
The dull sound of gunfire suddenly rang out, and a Japanese soldier who was stepping over the ruins felt as if he had been hit by a hammer. A burst of scarlet blood burst out from his chest, and his body fell backwards under the collision of bullets.
"Crash!" The Japanese soldier who was shot fell heavily into the rubble, causing a large amount of dust to rise;
The Japanese soldiers who were immersed in leaping forward were startled when they heard the sound of gunfire and saw a man lying on the roof shooting at them.
Although most of them are supplementary soldiers who have never fought in a war, their long-term military training has made their combat literacy still higher than that of Chinese officers and soldiers.
"It's the Chinese!" The Japanese officer just shouted, and many of the Japanese soldiers who were leaping forward immediately stopped, raised their weapons and started shooting at the roof.
The bullets flew towards the roof, causing the gray tiles on the roof to shatter and fly everywhere. The brother who fired the gun also rolled over to avoid it.
"Fight!"
Just as the Japs' attention was attracted, Captain Qin Shou, the company commander, suddenly roared and emerged from behind the wall. A bunch of smoking grenades in his hand were already moving towards the vicinity.
The Japs were thrown out.
Countless smoking grenades suddenly flew over from everywhere. Looking at the grenades spinning towards them, the faces of the Japanese soldiers changed immediately.
"There's an ambush, retreat quickly!" Before the Japanese officer's voice could even finish, it was drowned out by the deafening explosion.
The Japanese soldiers who were about to turn around and dodge faced the bomb being dropped at such a close range, but they were knocked over by the blast of air within two steps of running out.
"Boom-boom-"
The explosive power of dozens of grenades was astonishing. They exploded in turn in this small area. The sharp explosive fragments embedded themselves in the Japs' body, causing blood to flow.
In the rumbling explosion, the Japanese's flesh and blood were blown everywhere. They did not expect that they were ambushed. The miserable screams of the Japanese were faintly audible in the billowing smoke.
Before the Japanese could recover from the rumbling explosion, bullets like splashing water swept towards them, creating a large cloud of blood mist.
The Japanese who were not killed by the explosion just stood up unsteadily, and suddenly there were several bloody holes penetrated by bullets in their bodies, and they fell down again unwillingly.