Chapter 15 According to the Village
Baekaboo fighting is different from martial arts competitions. You can’t use any beautiful moves such as shaking guns and flowers. Many times, they just hold bayonets to hedge each other, and they can solve the other party in a moment, or they can be solved by the other party themselves, and the process is bloody and fast.
"Kill, fight the Japanese." With the shouts and a burst of gunfire, the late county brigade finally came up. Under the last ray of sunset, more than 200 people rushed to the avenue panting. Relying on the large crowds and sudden psychological shock, they fired all the guns and rushed up, saving the precarious situation and smashing the powerful attack of the Japanese who broke through.
The shouts of killing and gunfire in the north were getting closer and closer. The troops serving as the blocking force sent a communications force. Their defense was about to collapse and requested emergency reinforcements. The surrounded Japanese commander had no soldiers to send. Seeing that it was late, he had to make the wisest decision at the moment, leading the remaining soldiers to assault eastward and flee into Shili Village, hoping to seize the village and resist and stand for assistance.
As night fell, gunfire was still on the battlefield, but gradually became sparse, and the Japanese brigade stopped attacking.
During the entire War of Resistance Against Japan, the two Chinese and Japanese armies fought countless fierce night battles, ranging from a large battle of tens of thousands to more than ten people. As the weaker side, night battles were an effective way of combat for the Chinese team, greatly making up for the shortcomings of firepower and combat power.
Of course, the frequent use of night battles by the Chinese team is not to say how good it is at night battles, but mainly to destroy the Japanese army's firepower advantage. In fact, Japanese soldiers are also very good at fighting for stings, and in close combat, they often have to beat the Chinese team.
However, the Japanese army rarely used this type of combat, mainly hoping to use their own strengths to attack the enemy's shortcomings. Until the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army faced the Americans with more powerful firepower. They were also forced to use the same night attack as the Chinese team. In other words, night combat melee combat is a surprise attack, which is more suitable for the weaker side to complete.
Because the Japanese have planes, cannons and weapons, they usually attack during the day, exerting their advantages to the greatest extent and suppressing the enemy with fierce firepower. The Japanese army is more neglected by the way of night war. Because of this way of combat, the Japanese army cannot exert the existing firepower advantages of the Japanese army, and it is easy to cause accidental casualties (in Higashiro's memoirs, in his squad, a soldier in his squad accidentally killed his comrades in the night war). Therefore, the Japanese army mainly defended at night, and rarely took the initiative to attack.
Moreover, there were other factors in the decision to stop the attack. First, during the radio contact, they knew that there were more than 100 troops defending the village. They also had strong combat power, and then moved from attack to more favorable defense. It might not be easy for the enemy to eat this unit. Second, that is, the impact caused by Meng Youtian.
The Japanese captain was shot by a black gun and was seriously injured and sent. The Japanese army, who had lost the supreme commander, had a disagreement in the direction of action. One squadron leader advocated continuing the attack until the surrounded troops were rescued; the other squadron leader believed that night combat would greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army. Not only did it lose the advantage of favorable firepower, it would also increase unnecessary casualties. The upper peak should request to dispatch planes or increase troops. Under bombing tomorrow morning, a breakthrough could be achieved with one blow.
The two Japanese squadron leaders were quarreling, and finally, under the mediation of the staff, a compromise plan was formulated, which was to prepare for both. If the enemy attacked the besieged friendly forces at night and the friendly forces felt it was difficult to resist, they would immediately attack; if the enemy's attack and the friendly forces could handle it, they would wait until dawn to launch another thunder attack.
Today's battle did not change the arrogant nature of the Japanese, and more than 100 Japanese devils took a defensive attitude in the village, which was indeed a difficult bone for the Eighth Route Army, which lacked heavy weapons. Even the surrounded Japanese squadron leader said confidently that he could persist until dawn tomorrow, attack forward and backward, and deal a heavy blow to the enemy. Of course, the Japanese's confidence is not unreasonable. They mainly relied on their superb combat quality. In actual combat, there was a small team of Japanese soldiers plus a machine gun to block a regiment for one day based on favorable terrain.
Of course, this may be due to the self-esteem of the Japanese squadron leader, and he refused to ask for help as if he was scared, and it was even less likely that he would cry and "for the sake of something, he would like to win a brother" and other beggings.
Each army has its own combat characteristics, and formulates corresponding combat methods based on its own equipment and personnel quality. The night is shrouded in the surrounding Japanese, and the surrounding Japanese choose to defend. If the Eighth Route Army is surrounded, it should be that they will hold on during the day and break through at night.
The Eighth Route Army and the Hebei Detachment met together. Wang Dashan's battalion suffered too much casualties and was replaced from the position. The troops taking over the position began to excavate fortifications to guard against the sudden attack of the Japanese. The Hebei Detachment and Wang Dashan Battalion temporarily replenished the two companies organized to rest for a while and prepared to besiege Shili Village to solve this enemy who was struggling to resist.
Meng Youtian, Dayong, Xiao Quan and the other two slowly went down the mountain, looking east and west, and there was a chaotic scene everywhere. The county brigade became a stretcher team, carrying the bodies of the wounded and soldiers down. But after walking for a long time, the militia in Shili Village did not see them. I don’t know where these guys had gone.
"Good." A big hand patted Xiaoquan's shoulder from behind, but he turned around but didn't recognize the Eighth Route Army.
The Eighth Route Army pointed at the ocean horse that Xiao Quan was holding, stretched out his thumb and shook it, and praised: "This guy is so exciting. It's not easy to snatch it from the Japanese!"
"Hehe, it's pretty, it's easy." Xiaoquan's face was so popular that he had a fever on his face and replied with a wry smile.
"Easy?" The Eighth Route Army looked at it again in the moonlight. The three of them were carrying 38 covers, and Xiao Quan and Dayong were still wearing Japanese leather boots, and they couldn't help but widen their surprised eyes.
"He is talking nonsense, comrade, don't care." Meng Youtian pulled Xiao Quan and the three of them continued to search forward and came to a place not far from the village.
"Let me go and let our people gather here!" Xiao Quan said as he took out a "Tiantian Monkey" with a wooden stick.
"Not good?" Meng Youtian hesitated a little, "Let's send a signal, it won't cause any riots or misunderstandings?"
"It's okay, our things are different from others." Dayong didn't care, snatched the flower, put it on the ground, and a match was lit.
Chapter completed!