Chapter 8: The First Battle of the Jewish Army (1)
"Ono-kun, why do we have to go back and forth to help Laiyuan? Isn't there any food on the Lu Liang side to supply the soldiers of our empire? One of Ono's soldiers looked at the empty Hibiki River, and looked at the commander Koji Ono who was holding a telescope to observe the terrain with a bit of puzzlement. From receiving the report to the soldiers to the Xiangshui River, it only took one hour for these Japanese puppet army mixed troops from Guanyao Town, according to the agents, the national army occupying Laiyuan County is currently only one company of troops, and the Japanese soldier Cao is not worried about whether he can get back Laiyuan County, he just questioned the problem of lack of food in Luliang.
Ono sighed heavily, looked left and right at no one else, and then said in a low voice, "Lu Liang was not short of food, and their gang hoarded food is still surplus, I told a fellow villager in the Taiyuan military department that some time ago, the mainland was attacked by the Chinese people, the port was damaged a lot, not to mention, the hateful Chinese people also burned a lot of grain that we shipped back to China, and now the situation in the country is very bad, the army in the occupied area was ordered to collect the grain and send it back to China, Lu Liang's grain has already been transported to Shanghai to be loaded back to China."
"These damn Chinese people" Bing Cao cursed secretly, but at this time he forgot that the place where he was standing belonged to China, and their identity was the invading army. If China really had to rely on transporting grain from China to help the emergency, the situation would not be optimistic, and the families of the dispatched troops would be in Japan, and if the attacks of the Chinese were really aimed at ordinary civilians, it would be really a big problem.
"Don't worry, I heard that the attack of the Shina people has been controlled, as long as the grain we collected from the Shina people is transported back in time, the country will be stabilized" In fact, Ono's words were only half said, and his fellow villagers in the military headquarters told him in more detail than this, and the losses in the country were far more serious than he said. The speed at which grain was mobilized in various parts of Japan was far from keeping up with the speed of consumption by the refugees, and the ships transporting grain had been continuously attacked by the Chinese in Shanghai, and the grain could not be transported out at all; if it were not for the fact that the Japanese army still controlled the ports of Qingdao and Guangzhou, and with the material support of Taiwan, the country might have been in chaos long ago.
"Send a squad of soldiers to cross the river" Ono looked through his binoculars for a long time, but did not find anything unusual on the other side of the Xiangshui River, so he first sent a squad of soldiers to cross the river to investigate the enemy's situation according to their usual practice. If it were for Ono to block the troops who came back to reinforce Laiyuan, he would definitely choose to build a blocking position here in the Xiangshui River, which is why he would stop on the bank of the river, because he was afraid that the Zhina army that had captured Laiyuan County would set up an ambush here and wait for him to take the bait.
The sharp soldier squad who quickly crossed the river searched along the river bank for a long distance, but did not find any trace of the Zhina army, and did not even find any trace of anyone stopping here. "Nani?" Ono who got the reward was quite puzzled, in his memory, although the Chinese army said that its combat effectiveness was low, but such a good opportunity to ambush, the Chinese army should not let it go, could it be that the Chinese army that captured Laiyuan County really only had one company? The reason why the Chinese army did not stop them here on the river bank was because of the lack of strength of the Chinese army?
After thinking about it for a while, Ono waved his hand to signal the troops to cross the river, since the top soldiers who crossed the river had searched the other side, there would never be an ambush by the Zhina army, for the sake of the food in Laiyuan County, Ono decided to press all the troops in one go. The Japanese puppet army of the brigade crossed the river along the big stone bridge on the Xiangshui River, and marched towards Laiyuan County, for the sake of prudence, Ono not only arranged the sharp soldiers in front of the troops, but also arranged the sharp soldiers who kept cruising on the two wings of the troops, as long as there was a branch of the army that dared to ambush them, they would definitely be discovered by the sharp soldiers.
Xiao Ye, who was in a hurry to rush to Laiyuan County, did not expect that he had always been cautious at this time and had stepped into the trap set by Willis, and the scouts under Willis had been cruising a few hundred meters away from Xiao Ye's troops, and the telescopes in their hands could clearly see Xiao Ye's every move. The Naxun battalion, which was ordered to go forward, had built fortifications and trenches on Lao Ye Ling early, and machine guns and mortars had also been erected early.
"Use walkie-talkies to contact our snipers and take out their strikers first" There are also snipers among the Jewish soldiers under Willis, although they are not as good as the mercenary snipers, but after the new magazine feed sniper rifles are issued, the Jewish snipers are also invincible within 300 meters. Unaware of the danger, the Japanese vanguard entered the range of the Jewish snipers, and after a burst of gunfire, an entire squad of Japanese soldiers fell in a pool of blood, and the Japanese bolt-action rifles were the opponents of semi-automatic magazine-feeding rifles.
When the follow-up Japanese puppet army such as "Yaga" rushed over listening to the gunfire, the Jewish snipers who ambushed the vanguard had long disappeared without a trace, and they could not even find a bullet casing in the grass nest they had hidden, let alone find the traces left by their retreat. Looking at his subordinates lying in a pool of blood, the Japanese second lieutenant who led the forward team waved his knife in annoyance and chopped the thatch around him, the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire were not afraid to fight the enemy, but it was too embarrassing to die without even seeing the face of the attacker.
"Pap" "Pap" "Pap" More than a dozen bullets were fired from a distance, and the Japanese second lieutenant who was wielding a knife and chopping grass was the first to be shot and fell to the ground, and even the Japanese soldiers standing beside him were also hit several times. "Concealment, concealment" was suddenly attacked, and the good military qualities of the Japanese soldiers showed results at this time, and after lying on the ground, under the leadership of a soldier, the machine guns attached to the Japanese forward squad began to shoot back in the direction where the bullets came, and the 50-mm Japanese grenadiers also fired grenades into the air from time to time, blowing up a large cloud of gunpowder smoke in the direction from which the bullets came.
The shrill whistling machine-gun bullets and flying grenade shrapnel swept the grass in front of the Japanese advance squad to a large area, but unfortunately their movements were still slow, and there was nothing in the grass that had been flattened by bullets and shrapnel, and the machine gun bullets and grenade grenades they fired did not hit the attackers at all. Although the Jewish snipers who were taught by the mercenary snipers were still a little immature in their marksmanship and experience, this did not prevent them from implementing the mercenary's dip-and-go tactics well.
The sporadic gunfire continued to ring, judging by the sound of gunfire, the number of attackers hiding in the grass was not very large, but their marksmanship was extremely accurate, and after almost every shot, a Japanese soldier fell in the forward squad. In this way, the Jewish snipers beat the fire of the Japanese forward squad, looking at the swarm of forward squads that bravely chased forward, Ono had to order the follow-up troops to speed up and keep up, his troops were not very sufficient, if he lost the forward squad, then his troops would be even more stretched.
"Captain Nathan, the Japanese soldiers are coming, our snipers have spread out to both flanks" The 1st Battalion ambushed on Lao Ye Ling finally received a contact message from the snipers, and the 1st Battalion soldiers, who had been waiting a little impatiently, immediately picked up their weapons and waited for the pursuing Japanese soldiers to enter the range and shoot.
"Don't worry, put them closer and then fight" Naxun, who was lying in the trench, observed the situation under the mountain with a telescope, the number of these mixed units of the Japanese puppet army that returned to Laiyuan to help Laiyuan was not very large, about 300 people, their 1st battalion was three times their number, not to mention, it was superior to the other party in terms of weapon configuration, such an ambush war, if he didn't fight well, then his experience of serving in the German army for several years was really blind.
As the Japanese puppet army got closer and closer to Lao Ye Ling, the mortar company in the Naxun battalion adjusted the muzzle height of the mortar from time to time, and the various positions under the mountain had already been calibrated by the artillerymen, and the artillerymen did not have to bother to determine the position of the shelling, as long as the muzzle height was adjusted according to the corresponding scale they had calibrate. At 300 meters, 200 meters, and 100 meters, the soldiers of the Japanese forward squad who suddenly lost the target of pursuit were not slow, and they were already close to a distance of 100 meters from the first line of defense of the Naxon battalion.
The Jewish soldiers lying in the first line of defense could already clearly see the eyebrows of the Japanese striker, and Nathan ordered his soldiers to shoot. At a distance of less than 70 meters, the bullets fired by hundreds of Garand rifles at the same time could tear everything that could be torn to shreds, and the Japanese soldiers were no exception. Many Jewish soldiers shot out all the 8 bullets in the magazine in one go, and hundreds of Garand fired at the same time, which was the bullet that came forward, such a dense rain of bullets was something that the Japanese army had never encountered, and the Japanese army's forward squad was instantly blinded, and the remaining 30 or so Japanese soldiers immediately became a pile of minced meat with blood mist.
"There is an ambush, there is an ambush in the Chinese army" At the same time as the gunfire rang out, Ono on horseback jumped off his red horse first. As usual, as the gunfire rang out as densely as the beans, the Imperial Allied Army, who had been cowering all the way, became shorter and rushed to the grass on the side of the road in a panic, leaving the high-spirited Japanese soldiers on the road. Although the Japanese soldiers who reacted quickly were already lying on the spot, they were on the avenue, and there was no concealment at all, and they were completely exposed to the range of Naxun's battalion.