Chapter 80: A Classic Night Ambush (3)
Koji Ikeda, who had become a so-called god, naturally did not know that when the grenades in his body were torn into four or five pieces, his artillery was also following in his footsteps. As soon as the sound of the explosion fell, Li Mingrui commanded the troops to rush to the Japanese artillery with the momentum of choosing a thunderbolt.
He had just moved to a new position, and he was desperately firing flares, trying to know what was going on in front of him. While desperately trying to reassure the Japanese artillerymen who were a little frightened by the sudden and violent explosion, they had no time to pay attention to what was happening around them. The Japanese artillery who were in a hurry did not find out until Li Mingrui and his people had already rushed to his side.
A large number of submachine guns and fast and slow machines that Yang Zhen temporarily assigned to Li Mingrui played a great role in this sneak attack battle. The dense submachine guns and the firepower of the fast and slow machines, combined with the suddenness of the tactics, formed a perfect tactical combination to knock down the unsuspecting Japanese artillery in pieces.
It's just that the muzzle of his gun has always deliberately avoided the piles of shells and horses on the devil's artillery position. When he attacked the devil's artillery position, he even sent a squad of soldiers to control the devil's dozens of horses at the first time.
Li Mingrui is too greedy for these artillery. When he was in the Sichuan army, he had enough of the suffering of the Japanese artillery. As soon as he saw these artillery, he remembered his comrades-in-arms and brothers who fell under the fire of the Japanese artillery during the Battle of Xuzhou. During the Battle of Xuzhou, the most he heard Guo Bingxun say was: "If we had even half of the devil's firepower, there would not be so many brothers who died in vain." ”
Guo Bingxun's words, Li Mingrui will never forget for the rest of his life. When he first saw these cannons, he made up his mind to get his hands on them. And the vigilance force on the devil's artillery position is not even a small team, which makes him even more determined to get these artillery pieces in hand.
The devils did not trust the puppet Manchu army, and they could not draw too many troops to guard the artillery positions under the condition of limited troops, so the guard troops on the devils' artillery positions were only about 20 people. And they are all equipped with rifles, that is, they don't even have a light machine gun.
Moreover, the devil's alert force at this time was also the same as the devil's artillery, and the attention was attracted by the explosion in front. It was precisely by looking at the little guard strength on the devil's position that Li Mingrui made up his mind to get these mountain cannons of the devil.
Li Mingrui's sneak attack went very smoothly, and it didn't take much effort to deal with the devil's artillery and the two dozen or so guards. Under the circumstance that Yang Zhen repeatedly ordered not to fight with the devil with a bayonet as a last resort, he only used bullets to speak, but it didn't take too much effort.
In close combat, the two dozen or so Japanese soldiers who saw a large number of so-called bandits suddenly appearing around them, and who prepared for a white-knuckle battle with their bayonets and bullets in accordance with the order, were obviously no opponents in the contest with the tactical combination of submachine guns speeding up and slowing down.
The Japanese soldiers, who had stripped out of the bullets in their chambers, were quickly at a disadvantage in the face of the dense fire of the accelerated and slow machine fire of the submachine guns that were too close to be aim. It didn't even last long, and it was eaten all in an instant.
It was also because of Li Mingrui's extremely fast movements that the devil artillery was killed before he could blow up the artillery. When Yang Zhen's side had just begun to throw grenades at the main force of the devils, Li Mingrui's side had already eaten up all the devil artillery and guard troops, except for the six mountain guns that were intentionally preserved, there was not even a single scum left.
Didn't care about the soldiers who followed the old habit of this army, and the devil soldiers who fell to the ground with a shot or a bayonet. Looking at the six new Type 94 mountain cannons that fell into his hands almost intact, Li Mingrui's excited eyes only lit up. In the words of the company commander who fought with him, "It's like a wolf that has been hungry for a long time and sees a pile of fat that runs through oil." ”
As soon as the battle on Li Mingrui's side, who coveted these mountain cannons, ended, he immediately hurriedly beckoned his brothers to put the six mountain cannons on the gun carts and tow the horses, ready to pull back these unprecedented trophies.
If it weren't for the instructor of the company under his command who was calmer, and remembered that Yang Zhen confessed to himself when he was about to fight, after he finished fighting the devil's artillery, he immediately turned to the task of copying the devil's buttocks, I am afraid that Li Mingrui, who was about to bloom, and the company commander would have forgotten everything.
Hearing the reminder, he remembered that the task assigned by Yang Zhen was not just to destroy the devil's artillery position, Li Mingrui couldn't help but secretly scolded himself in his heart, a little overexcited. Although he is not from a professional class, he has been following Guo Bingxun for several years, and he still knows what a fighter is. If you really miss the fighter because of your slow action, then you will turn your merit into a sin.
can see these intact artillery, let Li Mingrui give up, and he is really a little unwilling. Although he was a little unwilling, Li Mingrui also knew that even if those brothers who were busy with gun carriages and artillery were moving fast, skilled, and able to put these guns on their horses in the shortest possible time, it was impossible for them to go too fast with these artillery pieces that were too cumbersome for their small army.
After hesitating for a moment, although Li Mingrui, who was really unwilling, did not dare to delay time, he still left a platoon to guard and protect these artillery, and he took the rest of his troops to go behind the devil's ass according to Yang Zhen's instructions in advance.
Although a large number of flares are stored on the devil's position, Li Mingrui has only seen this kind of high-tech gadget that Li Mingrui has only seen used by devils, but has never seen a real thing, and Li Mingrui does not know how to use it. He didn't even know what this thing was.
Anxious to recover the time loss caused by his mistake, and also worried that the firepower of the submachine gun in his hand would not distinguish between the enemy and wipe out the two sides in front of him who were likely to fall into a melee, Li Mingrui also didn't care whether the target would be exposed, so he ordered to light a torch and rush to the main battlefield as quickly as possible.
Anyway, the devil's cannon here is dumb, and even a fool will know what's wrong here. It doesn't make much sense to expose the target or not to expose it anymore. For Li Mingrui at the moment, buying time is the most important thing.
It was really thanks to the instructor's timely reminder that Li Mingrui did not make a mistake, let alone let Yang Zhen fall into the white-knuckle battle that he was most unwilling to fight. It was also thanks to the continuous explosions in front of it that the Japanese puppet army fell into chaos. Otherwise, if Li Mingrui did this, in the face of the accurate marksmanship of the devil veteran, he didn't know how many casualties he would cause.
At the same time that Li Mingrui led the team to kill the devil's main force with dense firepower all the way, the battle on Yang Zhen's side was also clear. Yang Zhen first created a series of explosions with a large amount of explosives, and then covered it with dozens of mortar shells with dense firepower.
Finally, there was a dense volley of grenades, which formed a very lethal rain of fragments against the Japanese puppet army who were lying down to avoid mortar shells before they had time to get up.
By the time this series of tricks came down, less than half of the nearly 1,000 Japanese puppet army marching columns could still stand up. Most of the Japanese puppet soldiers didn't even have time to fire their guns, so they were sent back to their hometown by this series of attacks.
Although the devils in pursuit were very vigilant, none of them would have thought that the first attack would actually start behind them and under their feet. In this attack, the Japanese puppet army paid a rather heavy price. Not only did the officers who led the team lose embers, but even the infantry died, and there were not many people left.
Looking at these people who rushed up from all sides wearing standard Japanese military uniforms, and even a considerable number of people were wearing Japanese standard Type 90 steel helmets on their heads, if they didn't wear military ranks, they suddenly looked no different from the soldiers of the Kwantung Army, and they had always been contemptuously called bandits.
In the end, the soldiers of the Kwantung Army, known as the flower of the imperial army, although most of the officers suffered heavy losses in the explosion and shelling just now, the Japanese soldiers in the team did not show the slightest fear. Cleanly removed the bullets from the chamber and prepared for hand-to-hand combat.
And those puppet Manchu military and police officers who narrowly escaped were much worse. Although he also held a rifle with a good bayonet, he seemed to be ready for hand-to-hand combat, but his trembling legs revealed the fear in his heart.
With the torches lit by the troops, Yang Zhen frowned and looked at the more than 100-day puppet army that had been surrounded by himself, and was very dissatisfied. He didn't expect that in his stormy blows, there were still so many people in the Japanese puppet army who still maintained their combat effectiveness. Moreover, the surviving Japanese puppet army was actually mostly Japanese soldiers.
The current situation is the last thing Yang Zhen wants to see. With both sides almost already bayonet to bayonet, all light and heavy fire has lost its meaning. And fighting with the Japanese army with bayonets is the last thing Yang Zhen wants to see. The white-knuckle battle in Harbin, which was also a night battle, made Yang Zhen remember it deeply.
If it is not a last resort, he is really unwilling to let the troops who lack targeted white-knuckle combat training fight with the devil to fight bayonets. If it is said that for fighting, shooting, the operation of various small arms, and even the driving of various vehicles and the use of some artillery, Yang Zhen, who has been professionally trained in later generations, knows a little.
But only the kind of white-knuckle battle that he is facing now, which has been eliminated in the later generations, he doesn't understand it at all. Not to mention that the function of the bayonet in later generations has long been not to conduct white-knuckle warfare, that is, there is a special force that is willing to use almost a single one, and the value of each person is not even lower than that of a pilot to fight with the enemy bayonet?
If you talk about one-on-one, or even one-on-two individual combat with bayonets, I'm afraid that no one can beat Yang Zhen in this era. But if it is said that the bayonet is used to conduct white-knuckle combat, Yang Zhen is more than enough and not enough.
In that white-knuckle battle in that demon cave, Yang Zhen relied entirely on the fighting skills he had cultivated over the years in later generations, plus years of training, and when necessary, he trained in hand-to-hand combat with weapons that could be found with a qiē. And these things that you know are difficult for ordinary people to master without long-term rigorous training.
Yang Zhen knows very well that these tactics of his own are okay for individual combat, but to conduct an organized, large-scale white-knuckle battle like today's is more than enough and not enough. You must know that the Japanese army's white-knuckle combat capability is not only due to the ability of individual soldiers, but also on the combination of tactics that have undergone strict training and the tactical cooperation between them.
Without the various tactical combinations that have been trained for a long time and the tacit cooperation between them, it is basically impossible to win in such a large-scale white-knuckle battle by relying solely on the ability of individual combat.
And the soldiers of the former national army's miscellaneous troops who also rushed out of the concentration camp, judging from the level of white-knuckle warfare they had shown before, Yang Zhen knew that if he killed all the Japanese puppet troops in front of him, he was afraid that his troops would have to fight out. The level of bayonet fighting of these former soldiers of the national army is no better than miserable. Compared to the Japanese army, it is almost a heaven and an underground.
Their ability to fight bayonets is not so much a white-knuckle battle, but rather a way of fighting with a large number of people, and being able to fight a few is a few. The necessary tactical coordination between them cannot be said to be absent at all, but it is not better than nothing. Otherwise, in that night battle, there would not have been such a big price to pay under the situation of absolute superiority in troops.
Perhaps it was because they had never had an advantage in firepower, but the ability of the former Eighteenth Army to fight in close combat and night battles was barely worth mentioning. But compared with the Japanese army, it is also too much worse.
This is also why Yang Zhen knew that it was difficult to replenish ammunition, and he would rather risk running out of ammunition than fighting with the Japanese army with bayonets. At least until the troops gained the ability to fight with the Japanese army on a par with the Japanese army, Yang Zhen was reluctant to engage in a white-knuckle battle with the Japanese army. Because he knew that he didn't have that much capital until he could get enough supplementary troops.
It's just that the situation in front of him almost forced Yang Zhen to a desperate situation. After running out of grenades as ordered, the ambush troops, who had been lying in ambush less than 20 meters from the mountain road, launched a hot-headed attack without receiving an order.
Because the offensive was too fierce and the distance between the two sides could have been said to be close at hand, by the time Yang Zhen rushed over, the distance between the two sides had already reached the point where the tip of the knife touched the tip of the knife. If a bullet is fired, according to the ballistic performance of the Type 38 rifle bullet, I am afraid that when killing and injuring the Japanese puppet army, my own people will also encounter the disaster of pond fish.
According to the distance between the two sides that are now in a standoff, Yang Zhen definitely did not dare to give the order to shoot. They did not have the kind of capital that the 18th Group Army in the Guannai Army had enough money to kill one and earn one by killing two. Fight consumption, in the current situation, he can't fight.
As for the melee combat that Yang Zhen used in that demon concentration camp, he mainly used pistols, with rifles and bayonets, which seemed strange, but the tactics that were very effective against the Japanese army in white-knuckle warfare were now unavailable.
Without him, the somewhat squeamish Southern-style pistols captured in Harbin had been severely insufficient after the wear and tear of several battles, coupled with their own poor maintenance. Moreover, the current troops are much larger than before, and they simply cannot be equipped with as many pistols as last time.
As for the Chinese army's traditional melee sharp weapons submachine guns and various box guns, although there are quite a few of them, they have all been transferred by Yang Zhen to Li Mingrui. Now, except for the submachine gun on Xiaohuzi's body, which was resolutely left behind by Li Mingrui, and the two previously seized two boxes worn by the company commander and instructor, all the weapons on hand are all 38 big covers.
Although the weapons in the hands of both sides are the same, no one will suffer in terms of length. However, a company was transferred by Yang Zhen, commanded by Guo Bingxun, to support the Japanese puppet army on the mountain who heard the explosion and rushed here desperately to reinforce it.
Now that there are only enough troops left at hand, plus the platoon brought back by Guo Bingxun is only a reinforced company, and the ratio of strength is basically one to one, Yang Zhen does not dare to hope that he can destroy these Japanese puppet troops in front of him at a small price, and even dare not guarantee that he can destroy these Japanese puppet troops in front of him.
For a while, he didn't think of any way to eliminate the Japanese puppet army in front of him at the lowest cost, in order to reduce casualties, Yang Zhen could only go out himself. Although he is not trained in white-knuckle combat, he is trained in hand-to-hand combat with various weapons. Know how to get the most out of your weapons.
And I have fought more than once in white-knuckle battles, and I have had some experience. Compared with those soldiers who newly enlisted in the Wudaolingzi Iron Mine, their level is far above them.
Yang Zhen, who knew that Wang Guangyu was struggling to block the Japanese puppet army in the other direction, and didn't know how long he could hold out, had no other choice now. Even if he doesn't want to fight a white-knuckle battle, he can only face reality in order to solve the battle as much as possible.
Thinking of this, Yang Zhen glared at the company commander and instructor of this company who guessed his mind over there, and was a little uneasy there. If it weren't for the fact that these two guys and the two guys who were now taken away by Guo Bingxun were too excited to fight and attack against the order, why would they take this risk. The battle that was originally held steadily, but now it has to pay a lot of price.
Seeing the stalemate situation in front of him, and then looking at Yang Zhen's face under the light of the fire, he pondered a little, and thought about Yang Zhen's repeated explanations before the battle, knowing the price that the two of them impulsively wanted to make the troops pay, the two of them couldn't help but bow their heads in shame and didn't dare to look at Yang Zhen again.
Yang Zhen reached out on the ground and picked up a Type 38 rifle discarded by the Japanese army, and after neatly returning the bullet, he said to the two people standing beside him with a ashamed face: "After a while, you and Huzi will form a support group, and use the two pistols in your hands and his submachine gun to specifically plan and support." Remember, be quick and try to minimize the casualties of your troops. ”
After confessing to the two people, Yang Zhen turned his head to look at the dozens of puppet Manchurian military police who were trying to resist with the devils and said angrily: "Open your dog's eyes and look at the current situation." If you still fucking recognize your ancestors and still want to live, you should all fucking put down your guns and get out of the way. If anyone is determined to sell his life to the devil, Lao Tzu will have to skin him alive for a while. ”
The more than 30 puppet Manchurian military policemen who survived a series of explosions were involuntarily frightened by Yang Zhen's angry shout. A puppet Manchurian officer with the rank of lieutenant on his shoulder hesitated, took the lead in dropping the gun in his hand and said: "Sir, brothers also know that being a traitor is not something that people should do, but we can't help ourselves. If you promise to spare these of my brothers, I will order them to surrender their guns. ”
"As long as you put down your gun, I can spare you. Presumably, you have also heard of the puppet Manchurian military and police in Weihe County, as long as it is not a hardcore traitor who is determined to work for the devil, we will not blame it in the past. In order to reduce unnecessary casualties, Yang Zhen nodded without hesitation and agreed to the request of this puppet Manchurian officer.
Seeing that Yang Zhen had promised to let them go, the puppet Manchu officer sighed and said to the puppet Manchu soldiers beside him: "Brothers, this commander's words are not wrong. In this situation, there is no need for us to sell our lives to the Japanese anymore, listen to the words of this commander, put down the gun in our hands, and let's go. ”
This puppet Manchu officer seems to have some prestige among these puppet Manchu military police. As soon as he gave the order, those puppet Manchu soldiers dropped their guns one after another, and under the cover of Yang Zhen's subordinates, they withdrew from the battlefield.
Watching the puppet Manchurian military police who surrendered their guns withdraw from the battlefield, Yang Zhen raised the rifle in his hand and shouted at the troops surrounding these Japanese puppet troops: "Brothers, kill devils." After that, the first one raised his gun and rushed forward to meet the Japanese soldiers who saw the puppet Manchu army withdraw from the battlefield and knew that things were not good and started first.
Seeing that the supreme commander of this unit personally rushed forward, although he had received only a little training in white-knuckle combat, not a single person in this company flinched, and rushed forward with rifles with bayonets on them.
(I'm sorry, I confused the Japanese army's Type 94 mountain gun with the Type 95 field gun before, and I didn't find it when I revised it, I'm really sorry.) I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. ) high