The mountains of Sa Yue Valley are not very steep, and in the opinion of Shen Laoliu, who is extremely experienced in combat, it is not the most suitable place for an ambush.
The Japanese army was very cautious and kept the distance between individual soldiers very wide. If the Japanese army's column, which was connected end to end for more than 600 meters, reacted and occupied the high ground, even the terrain advantage would no longer exist.
Therefore, after observing the terrain, Shen Laoliu was the first to propose retreating to a mountain pass one mile away. Although the terrain there was harsh and it was impossible for all 400 people to spread out, as long as they held there, the Japanese could pass.
Not coming.
Even if human lives were sacrificed, the Japanese army could be held back for more than an hour and a half even with a minimum of words.
This is Shen Laoliu's typical thinking of fighting a tough battle, and it is also a choice he has to make based on the difference in strength between the enemy and ourselves!
Shen Laoliu even made calculations in his mind. With only grenade launchers and heavy machine guns as fire support, the Japanese army wanted to break through a mountain pass defended by 400 people, even if the firepower equipment of both sides were not at the same level.
, they would have to pay at least 100 casualties.
Of course, most of this would be due to the existence of his semi-automatic rifle and Zhang San'er's MG34 machine gun, unless they were unlucky enough to be hit by a Japanese grenade.
A battle loss ratio of 1:4 was already a battle loss ratio that Shen Laoliu was very satisfied with.
This hour and a half was enough for all the old, weak, women and children in Yeyue Village to escape into the mountains, and it was also enough for the Jiuli boy who went to deliver the message to find Lao Lu and the others.
"You don't have to go anywhere else, just get them in Sa Yue Valley!" Long Yan pointed forward with a proud voice.
Before the two of them could speak, Shen Laoliu added with great confidence: "I know you want to ask why you chose where instead of Duantouya Pass. I have two reasons. First, because of you
When he came here, he was sleeping soundly and was carried here by us."
Shen Laoliu...
When this guy is serious, he is quite a character, but when he is funny, he goes straight after Li Jiujin! This is a pre-war meeting, you can't help poking people's hearts? I passed that valley without knowing anything, but
Does this have something to do with whether the valley is suitable for ambush?
"Second, because sometimes we do business without capital! You know the risks of doing business, creditors will always come after you..."
Long Ying rolled his eyes and glanced at his brother, "That means you should stop talking nonsense and say quickly, haven't you seen that a certain elder brother's bull's-eyes are starting to bulge?"
"I'm serious. The creditors haven't even come to the door, and they were scared away here." Long Yan looked at his friends with confidence. "Do you think so?"
"That's for sure, Brother Yan is the best!" 'Pimple', whose face was covered with acne, looked at his elder brother with admiration.
The nickname Yeyue Village is taken literally!
Obviously, this kind of personality cult that unites words and deeds was definitely not formed in a day or two. It took at least ten years of cultivation.
But yes, Long Yan is the son of the leader of the village, he has a handsome body, and he is also good at playing games. To use the adjective of the future, he is: born in the second generation of officials, he is still an elite! Only when a group of younger brothers are not convinced can they meet him.
Ghost.
The ideas of young people are one-sided, and Shen Laoliu feels that they are not very reliable, so he can only turn his attention to Long Ying and the only sixty-year-old man.
"I agree with my brother's choice!" Long Ying nodded without hesitation and voted in favor.
"Ayan is my best disciple. What he said is right." The old man trusted his disciple very much.
Good guy! This is either his younger brother or his apprentice. As expected, one family does not speak the same language. Shen Laoliu felt helpless deep in his heart, but he could only accept this reality.
Now that you have decided, don’t hesitate any more!
Sanyue Valley is a long and slender mountain road, the entire length of which is 1,700 meters, and it is winding. The Japanese army could only enter the valley entrance, and it would take 20 minutes to get out of the entire valley.
However, could they maneuver behind the mountains on both sides in such a short period of time and set up an ambush at the location Long Yan said?
As the two siblings Long Ying and Long Yan called for five more people to arrange them one by one, the young men carrying blunderbuss and long knives shuttled between the forest rocks like dexterous apes.
This really opened the eyes of Shen Laoliu and the others.
No wonder even the steady Long Ying said confidently that there would be no problem.
Previously, they had only seen these guys with long breaths and extremely fast maneuvering speeds on the mountain roads. It was not until they were in this mountain forest with complex geographical structures that ordinary people could not climb that the two soldiers realized more deeply that when it comes to trekking through mountains and rivers, really, this real
There are professionals.
Even though the Japanese army had a way to go, in terms of speed, they might not be able to outrun the Jiuli villagers who were jumping among the dense forests and rocks behind the mountain.
Even Shen Laoliu and Zhang San'er, two elite scouts of the Si Xing Regiment who took the fully armed five-kilometer cross-country training as their daily training, felt that they were not as good as them.
This is not to say that the two scouts are weak. Their endurance and speed in fully equipped cross-country running of five kilometers within 20 minutes will be outstanding even in the future.
But they feel that they may never be as agile and elegant as the Jiuli villagers in this life, or they can be said to be on the wrong side of the sword.
Especially when I see many people carrying iron shells weighing five kilograms on their backs, shuttling through mountain forests with almost no roads. Many times they are about to fall, but they continue to jump forward with the help of tree vines.
Shen Laoliu's heart was in his throat, that was a cannonball, a home-made cannonball that might explode upon strong impact.
But it turned out that he was overly worried!
A race can survive and thrive in such a large mountain without being eliminated by nature. The tenacity and vitality comparable to Xiaoqiang is only one of the reasons. Choosing to learn from nature, adapt to and integrate with the cruel nature is the way for biological survival.
Those who try to conquer and transform nature will eventually suffer bitter consequences due to nature’s vicious backlash!
Captain Chuntian Youmono, who had already entered the mouth of Sanyue Valley and was looking at the surrounding mountains and forests with vigilance, of course had no idea that a group of Chinese "natives" were racing against him across the mountain.
When Shen Laoliu arrived at the back of the winding Sa Yue Valley, he realized why the man with thick eyebrows and big eyes said with certainty that "creditors rarely come to your door."
Originally, the section of road before Sanyue Valley was not very steep, and even considered gentle, but here, the mountain suddenly became sharp.
Between the two mountains is a 500-meter-long mountain road, plus a mountain stream that is only one meter wide and follows the mountain road. Although the mountains on both sides are not ninety-degree cliffs, they have a large slope, and the shrubs and shrubs on the mountain are
All kinds of trees are so dense that climbing from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, which is only two or three hundred meters away, is not only difficult, but your military uniform will probably have to be changed into a beggar's uniform when you climb up.
This may be the only section of the Moonlight Valley where all the moonlight is not shining!
To put it bluntly, in such a location, if the roads on both sides are blocked, people on the mountain road will almost become turtles in a jar, with no place to run if they want to.
But the premise is that you must have enough strength to block both ends, and have enough firepower to suppress it on the mountain road and prevent eager opponents from climbing up the mountain.
Shen Laoliu quickly assigned the mob to their respective combat positions. All the gunmen were divided into two groups. One group of 40 people was led by him and Zhang Saner and hid along the 500-meter mountain and hid on the left side of the mountain road about 150 meters high.
On the mountainside, use rocks, shrubs, and trees as shelter.
This is mainly because the shooting range of bird cannons is too short and has almost no lethality beyond 150 meters. In fact, the purpose of these 40 bird cannons is not to kill the Japanese troops on the mountain road.
Their greater role was to attract the firepower of the Japanese army or to block the Japanese army trying to climb the mountain. The truly lethal ones were Shen Laoliu's semi-automatic rifle and Zhang San'er's MG34 machine gun located about 200 meters away.
Nearly 100 villagers carrying long knives hid on the top of the mountain as a reserve team, preparing for the Japanese army to rush up and engage in hand-to-hand combat, or rush down the mountainside to pick up the bird muskets left by the dead bird musket soldiers and continue to use them as consumption.
Taste.
It's cruel, but this is the battlefield!
Most of the soldiers and lives are just consumables, consuming the opponent's ammunition storage. If they can be exchanged for one with the opponent, it is already a good deal.
The Long Ying siblings personally brought 80 blunderbuss, a dozen rifles, 6 box cannons and 140 long knives and hid them on the right side of the mountain road.
Their ambush height was lower than that on the left side, and the bird gun closest to the mountain road was only 120 meters away.
In the same way, almost all the cannons were consumed, attracting the firepower of the Japanese army, and then the truly lethal rifles and box guns were used to attack the Japanese army.
Shen Laoliu had already explained this tactical arrangement to his two siblings, Long Ying and Long Yan. Not only did the two siblings have no objections, but not even one of the 120 gun soldiers flinched.
Although there is no discipline, when it comes to being brave and not afraid of death, and even risking their lives for no reason, this group of Jiuli people actually surpasses the Si Xing group.
This may be the so-called power of faith! It’s just that the Four Elements Group believes in their family and country, and what they believe in is their homeland. The difference between big and small is just that!
The old man named Longzhao led 20 people to carry the stone mortar and cannonballs up a hill more than 400 meters away.
The top of the mountain is slightly higher than the mountains on both sides of Sanyue Valley by dozens of meters. It is just condescending, but it does take a lot of effort to accurately blast the iron-shelled shells onto the not-so-wide mountain road with that ancient artillery.
High level of control.
Shen Laoliu actually had some resistance to this stone mortar cannon. In fact, in Shen Laoliu's opinion, the old artillery was actually the same as the oil barrel used by the engineering company of the Fourth Army Regiment as a "thunder".
so similar.
It's okay to be able to drop a five kilogram iron shell containing a large amount of iron sand on the head of the Japanese. If it is dropped on the head of our own people with an error of tens of meters, the iron sand exploded will not have any ability to identify friend or foe.
But Long Yan was more confident than his master. He patted his chest and assured that his master had been the top gunner in the village for more than 30 years and there would never be any problems.
This is because Shen Laoliu didn't ask carefully how many cannons the No. 1 artilleryman of Yeyue Village had fired, otherwise he would definitely have a strained calf.
Yeyue Village has had several crises over the years. For example, some merchants in Lincheng County did not want to pay tolls and hired hundreds of armed guards to fight against Yeyue Village. Another example was that several surrounding counties invited garrisons to come.
To suppress bandits, there were even bandits from the surrounding areas who felt that Yeyue Village was a big piece of fat and wanted to come together to take a bite...
As a result, Yeyue Village's long knives and blunderbuss rifles showed them what ferocity is, and the stone mortar also gave them a taste of what it means to cover fire!
But the old man has fired less than 100 artillery shells in total in the past thirty years, an average of only three rounds a year. At this actual combat level, not to mention the artillerymen of the Sixings Regiment, they are even compared with the "Beggars Army" during the Anti-Japanese War.
'The Sichuan Army, those mortar operators who have only fired less than 10 guns are incomparable!
And there is a very fatal flaw. Artillery requires communication, otherwise the gunner will not know where to shoot the shells. This section is 500 meters long, and Xia Jiba will definitely not be able to attack it.
At a distance of 400 meters, it was impossible to run with one's feet, nor could one rely on shouting. So Shen Laoliu adopted a joint operation with his own artillery.
The entire mountain road is divided into five areas, which are 100-meter sections, from Area 1 to Area 5. As for when to bombard that location, the old man will look here with one of the few telescopes in the village.
To see if there are any family members on the top of the mountain, it is determined by the number of villagers jumping on the top of the mountain.
That is to say, if you see one jumping villager, then bombard Area 1. If you see 3 jumping figures, then bombard Area 3. If there are 5 people, then it is Naturally Area 5.
The reason for jumping is for the safety of the villagers. Otherwise, if you stand upright, you will become a living target for the Japanese soldiers who are only two or three hundred meters away at the bottom of the valley! The Japanese are not stupid.
When everything was ready, the top Japanese soldiers also arrived.
The Japanese Army Captain never relaxed his vigilance. A 15-man elite squad was always 500 meters in front of the main Japanese army.
However, the dense bushes and thorns not only kept the Japanese soldiers at bay, but they could only search up to thirty meters up the mountain wall, and also blocked their gaze from constantly patrolling the hillsides on both sides.
The two soldiers were hiding in the gaps in the bushes with hundreds of villagers, watching the main force of the Japanese army coming this way.
Seeing a fully armed army at a close distance is completely different from seeing it from a distance. The soldiers who were still marching in neat rows had bayonets on their long rifles flashing with a cold light, row after row jumping among the children, stabbing.
No one dared to look at it.
But that's not the scariest thing. The most terrifying thing is the light machine gun carried by the Japanese soldiers in the queue and the heavy machine gun carried by four Japanese soldiers!
Before entering Sa Yue Valley, Chun Youwu ordered the heavy machine gun to be taken off the pack horse and carried by soldiers, so that it could be put into shooting mode at any time. The infantry team carrying the heavy machine gun was naturally led by Captain Zhutou.
Who made him so brave and wise? Anyway, that’s what Spring Youwu thinks.
Looking at the Japanese troops marching under their noses, even the most stupid villagers could not help but hold their breath.
Although they have an absolute geographical advantage, that so-called advantage has been completely lost in the face of the enemy's superior troops and superior equipment.
They are not soldiers, they are the most ordinary people. Even if the cruel nature has taken hundreds of years to build enough tenacity, the courage to still stand firm when seeing the Japanese attacking the enemy is worthy of praise.
Shen Laoliu not only observed the Japanese troops through the scope, but also instinctively looked at the friendly troops on the opposite mountain.
The state of your own people before the battle can also determine the outcome of this ambush battle.
Long Ying, who was holding two box cannons, looked calm enough, which was expected by Shen Laoliu. After all, he was once the sergeant and deputy squad leader of the 29th Army.
But the extremely calm behavior of the man with thick eyebrows and big eyes holding a rifle as he placed brass bullets on the grass next to him was somewhat beyond Shen Laoliu's expectations.
This is a very small detail, but inside it is the embodiment of extreme calmness. Shen Laoliu has only seen this kind of person who becomes calmer the more he fights, only in his deputy company commander Niu Er.
He can't do it himself, he will be nervous. For example, he is chewing leaves picked from around him in his mouth, and the slightly bitter juice reminds him to be calm and awake all the time.
This was Shen Laoliu's unknown target that Long Yan was aiming at at this time. The sight of the old Hanyang-made rifle was locked firmly on a man walking in the middle of the queue 250 meters away.
Sun flag on the chest of the Japanese army.
The Japanese soldiers who can tie the sun flag on their bayonets are actually non-commissioned officers, who are considered the backbone of the Japanese army at the grassroots level. Tying the sun flag on their bayonets does not represent glory, but is more conducive to command.
On the dark battlefield, with such a small flag as a guide, ordinary soldiers can quickly gather and find the direction of the attack again. Precisely because of the existence of these non-commissioned officers called Cao Chang, the Japanese army can recover quickly even if it suffers heavy losses.
reasons for combat effectiveness.
In other words, in the rank and file of the Japanese army, a commander is even more important than a squad leader. They are the cornerstone of the powerful Japanese army.
Moreover, there was a Japanese soldier carrying a grenade next to the Japanese commander Cao. That was the second target Long Yan planned to shoot. The two were not far apart and he could find this person as quickly as possible.
The man with thick eyebrows and big eyes who had never had any contact with the Japanese army chose to kill the Japanese Army Commander Tso and the grenadier, both of whom were the most important figures in the basic sequence of the Japanese Army.
It can only be said that this is his talent, his innate sense of danger.
Shen Laoliu will soon have a new understanding of this little brother who stunned him.
"Bang!" accompanied by a gunshot.
The Japanese commander Cao, who was locked by Long Yan, fell to the ground clutching his chest in pain.
"Bang bang bang!" A burst of gunfire rang out from the mountain road on the right. At least four Japanese soldiers fell to the ground. The remaining Japanese soldiers hurriedly found bunkers on the spot to take shelter, and quickly fired at the area where gunshots were heard and smoke rose.
None of the cannon soldiers fired. At such a distance, the lethality of the cannons was really limited. Only when the Japanese troops climbed tens of meters up and fired a round of volleys could they maximize their power.
Even according to the pre-war plan, the left wing where Shen Laoliu and Zhang San'er were located did not fire. If the Japanese troops who reacted could form the illusion that the right wing was hostile, then their two guns would make them pay a heavier price.
Even though he didn't have many cards in his hand, Shen Laoliu, who had learned a lot from Tang Tuanzuo, did not rush to play all his cards.
Besides, besides hot weapons, are there also cold weapons?
It doesn't mean "cold blade", the so-called "cold" refers to an unpopular one!
Don't forget, this is the home of Yeyue Village, but the Jiuli people have worked hard to survive in this mountain for more than 200 years. At that time, the regular army didn't have any guns, let alone the mountain people.
But in the mountains, there is no shortage of wood and stones, let alone wisdom!
