9.140 The Miracle of Dushan Town

Also because of the Great War in the Central Plains, the people are not able to make a living, and it is inevitable that some people will take risks and enter the green forest to become bandits, and there are many bandit armies active in Dushan Town. In the past ten years www.biquge.info the police, militias, and bandits have fought each other, and they have blood debts and grievances with each other, but since the Nanjing incident, the national contradiction has risen to the main contradiction, and the domestic class contradiction has been reduced to a secondary contradiction. Under the pressure of a strong enemy, the anti-Japanese sentiment was extremely high.

After the 6th Division occupied Sumatsu, Okamura Ninji transferred the cavalry brigade directly under the 101st Division to the western Anhui area, and ordered the captain of the 101st Cavalry Brigade, Oshima Tsunakasa, to occupy Dushan Town under the pretext of "sweeping away bandits".

On September 1, the captain of the brigade led 230 cavalrymen from Jinzhou, stayed overnight in Zhoulaowu Village, and arrived at Dushan Town at noon on the 2nd. When Oshima Yuzhong Nakasa reached the village of Lichong, east of the town of Dushan Town, he stopped his advance, ordered the interpreter to enter the city, and asked the mayor of Dushan Town to bring people to meet him. The mayor of Dushan Town scolded the traitor translator on the spot, and Oshima was furious when he got the news, and rushed into the town with his cavalry, set up the brigade headquarters in the mayor's house, and the rest of the people lived in the town office, and put the mayor, gentry, and merchant representatives under house arrest. On the evening of the 2nd, Oshima called a meeting of the mayor of the town, the head of the chamber of commerce, and the local gentry, and asked them to organize a maintenance meeting to maintain the "law and order" in Dushan Town. That night, the 101st Cavalry Brigade sent 66 soldiers from Sumatsu to monitor the grain delivery led by Captain Matsuo; There were also 58 soldiers of the cavalry squad led by Captain Ishino, who served as a guard, and they were all camped in Dushan Town.

When the news of the Japanese occupation of Dushan Town reached the nearby villages, the broad masses of the people were very angry and demanded resistance to Japan. The head of the Dushan Township People's League convened an emergency meeting overnight to discuss countermeasures. It was decided that some people would go to the town to eliminate the devils and rescue the mayor and gentry. Zhang Fengtai, chief of the Dushan Town Police Department, did not go to meet the Japanese army on the 2nd, but returned to his hometown to mobilize armed forces and prepare to attack the enemy in the town. When the people of the nearby villages heard that they were going to fight the Japanese army, they all enthusiastically participated, took up arms one after another, and rushed to Dushan Town.

On the evening of the 2nd, some members of the militia infiltrated the town and secretly contacted the town mayor, telling him that the militia wanted to enter the town to fight devils and rescue the county magistrate and the gentry. In the second half of the night, the group gathered outside the prison walls, firing guns and shouting for the prison to be released, and finally the town police released the mayor and the squire. By the time the Japanese army came to suppress it, the militias and the masses had already evacuated.

The Dushan Town Militia was bent on fighting devils, so they carried weapons to the west mountain outside the town, chose favorable terrain, and prepared to ambush the Japanese army. The people from the villages who came later also went to the surrounding mountains outside the town one after another to surround the town! They occupy all the main roads and checkpoints within a mile radius of the town, and the number is growing!

Oshima owes Tadashi Nakasa to finally feel that the situation around him is very unfavorable for him! Due to the special geographical location of Dushan Town and the fact that it is surrounded by mountains, the radio station carried by the Japanese army is useless. Oshima sent out several times to try to return to Sumatsu to bring reinforcements, but all of them were ambushed by the militia, and none of them were able to break out of the encirclement. In this way, Oshima and his subordinates were surrounded by thousands of local people in the town of Dushan! The connection with the 6th Division was completely cut off!

At this point, Oshima had to come to a pessimistic conclusion: "If this situation is ignored, the brigade will be even more encircled, and according to observations, it will eventually be taken care of by the Shina people!" ”

Originally, according to this situation, Oshima should have led his troops to defend Dushan Town, because after all, he still had more than 300 Japanese officers and soldiers in his hands. What Oshima did not expect was that the people of Dushan Town had already hidden all their food in the mountains in order to prevent being plundered by the Japanese army! The Japanese army searched Dushan Town and failed to find a grain of grain! If they really want to hold on, then they can only kill the war horses to satisfy their hunger!

But Japan is a resource-poor country, and every war horse is precious! The Emperor's knights did not agree to do so! Therefore, in order to get out of the predicament, Oshima had no choice but to make a desperate bet and decided to "take an offensive and strike first" to strike at the anti-Japanese masses around Dushan Town to show the might of the imperial army.

Oshima Otadashi Nakasa ordered Captain Matsuo to lead a grain delivery monitoring team and set off at 2 a.m. on the 4th to return to Sumatsu to receive ammunition supplies; Lieutenant Murakami was left behind, leading a small team of cavalry to guard the brigade headquarters. He personally led the main force of nearly 200 cavalry and a cavalry squad of 58 soldiers led by Captain Ishino, armed with light and heavy machine guns, to set out from the west gate of Dushan Town before the afternoon of 4 April to carry out a "sweep" of villages in the west area of Dushan Town.

This is just the heart of the militia commander! What they are most worried about is that the devils rely on the town to defend it, although the number of militia groups is very large, but after all, they are all ordinary people, if they fight a tough battle, they will definitely not be able to fight with a large number of casualties! Well, now Oshima owes Zhongzhong Nakasa to take the initiative to help the militia solve this big trouble!

When the Japanese troops reached the vicinity of Shangpozi, they were suddenly attacked by the militia group. Oshima Otadashi Nakasa immediately decided: he himself and Captain Yamada led the cavalry Noguchi squad, the kinmari squad, the Nakahara squad, and the machine gun squad under the command of Captain Hoshino to attack the upper slope; Ordered the Ishino squad to attack the Nishiyama Heights. On the battlefield of Shangpozi, Koga ordered "Captain Yamada to lead the Noguchi squad to deploy on the right; The pro-park team is deployed on the left; The machine-gun team commanded by Captain Hoshino was deployed in the center; The Central Plains squad began to fight back as a direct "subordinate."

Although the Japanese army was well-armed and had combat experience, it was still powerless when it came to the militia group, which had an absolute advantage in numbers! Nearly 10,000 militia warriors occupied the favorable terrain and fired a dense barrage of bullets at the Japanese army! Although they were not armed with heavy weapons and mostly used old rifles, the power of the salvo was just as impressive! The enemy soldiers will be beaten on their backs and scurrying around!

The militia adopted a mobile and flexible tactic, and when the Japanese attacked the right, they counterattacked from the left; The Japanese attacked the left, and they counterattacked from the right! The Japanese army could not move forward.

The Ishino team, which was attacking on the heights of the western mountain, was attacked from three sides by the militia on the mountain, and was in a very disadvantageous position. Many of the main personnel who fought against the Japanese army in Xishan were green forest heroes, and these people had excellent marksmanship! Most of them are sharpshooters with a hundred shots. They are brave and good at fighting, their fire is getting more and more intense, they use the terrain skillfully, and they only shoot when they get close to the enemy! There are also about 1,000 militia warriors who hold the West Mountain with them. In the face of such a huge defensive force, a small squad of Japanese troops really couldn't make any waves!

The battle lasted until the morning of the 5th, and the two sides engaged in fierce battles on the mountains where the barrats were clustered. In order to surround the Japanese army, a group of green forest heroes passed through Longwang Mountain, appeared from behind the Japanese army, and surrounded the Ishino team on three sides. In the scuffle, a bullet pierced Lieutenant Ishino's left chest, and Ishino was killed instantly! The Japanese army was then defeated and retreated.

The cavalry and infantry under the command of Oshima were defeated by the heroic people of Dushan Town, and when they were in a dilemma, they suddenly received a report from a sentry: "One or two thousand Chinese soldiers are attacking Dushan Town in a roundabout way. When Oshima Otadashi Nakasa heard the news, he was very alarmed, and he hurriedly ordered Captain Yamada to command the two cavalry squads of Kinpo and Nakahara, and to gather the remnants of the Ishino squad to retreat at the Nishiyama Society, while he led the Noguchi squad and the Hoshino machine gun team to gallop along the road to Dushan Town.

Caiyuanzi is a small village with more than one mile outside the west gate of Dushan Town, and the road in the middle of the village is the only way to return to the west gate of the county seat from the Longwang Temple. At the east end of Caiyuanzi Village, more than 30 meters on the north side of the road, the militia built an earthen artillery tower to guard the road, and the terrain was very dangerous. Soon after Oshima led his men out of the city, the militia occupied the turret and the vegetable garden. Condescending, ready to stop Oshima and his cavalry.

Oshima Otadashi Nakasa and the cavalry just walked to the bottom of the Lubei turret, and Liu Guochen and others raised their guns and aimed at the turret, and suddenly opened fire. Rifle bullets and gunpowder and sand rained down on the Japanese soldiers. A bullet hit Oshima in front of the team, and the bullet passed through Oshima's left shoulder through his right rib abdomen, and Oshima was seriously injured and fell under his horse.

His adjutant Kuroi Shaosa immediately dismounted and carried him on his back; However, the fire on the turret was very fierce, and the Japanese troops were hit and fell off their horses. Kuroi Shaosa didn't go far with Oshima Otashi Nakasa on his back, and he was also shot in the waist and fell. The Japanese found that the turret in front of them had become a huge obstacle to their continued advance, so they concentrated their fire on destroying the turret. Captain Hoshino, the captain of the machine gun, set up a machine-gun position on the south side of the road and directed the shooters to shoot wildly at the upper part of the turret. The militia in the turret showed no weakness, and they used the firing holes to resist stubbornly. Oshima was seriously injured and died on the afternoon of the 5th. The remnants of the Japanese army carried the body of Oshima to Nakasa, and fled into the town of Dushan in disarray.

At this time, the militia that attacked the Japanese brigade headquarters could not destroy it because it had no heavy weapons and rushed into the courtyard, so it had to surround the Japanese regiments, and the battle fell into a stalemate. The militia was forced to withdraw from Dushan Town.

At this point, there were only enough Japanese troops left in Dushan Town, because of the weak troops, they had to defend the headquarters of the brigade and not be able to retreat. But at this time, the clever Chinese militia warriors had learned to use grenades and machine guns collected from the corpses of Japanese soldiers, and had a certain ability to attack fortifications! In the end, under the repeated attacks of more than 7,000 militia warriors, the Japanese army was completely annihilated!

The grain delivery monitoring team led by Captain Matsuo did not escape the fate of annihilation, and when they reached the east end of Dujiatun, thirty miles east of the town, they stopped to rest because of hunger. As a result, the local people notified the vigilante group. The battle lasted for two hours, and the militia and the people gathered more and more, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became! Seeing that they could not escape, the Japanese burned all the documents and banknotes. Then the final duel attack was launched. In the end, they all fell under the broadsword and spear!

On the evening of September 6, the battle in Dushan Town was over! More than 300 Japanese troops have not missed the net (to be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )