Chapter 20: Encountering the Enemy Li Jiapu (1)
After the arrangement was completed, Tang Cheng and Liu Shishi sat together to wipe their guns, but the remaining members of the guerrilla team sat around Song Tieshan, seeing that his subordinates were unhappy, Song Tieshan knew that they were not convinced by Tang Cheng. Subconsciously turned around and glanced at Tang Cheng, seeing that Tang Cheng was engrossed in wiping the gun, Song Tieshan turned his head to look at the guerrillas under him, "I know that you are not convinced to be commanded by a lot of people who are younger than you, but you forget that you are here to kill devils, since Tang Cheng can take us to kill devils, then we should listen to him, I, the captain, must listen to his command, you rabbit cubs still dare not listen?" ”
Song Tieshan's half-joking and half-strict words made the guerrillas sitting around him lower their heads, and they all said that Song Tieshan was right. Tang Cheng and Song Tieshan are not far away, Song Tieshan's words were all heard by Tang Cheng, who wiped his gun, and the guerrillas were not convinced by themselves, Tang Cheng knew that if it weren't for the few things he wanted, he wouldn't have bothered to come here to play any resistance war with the Japanese army. Now that Song Tieshan had done a good job of pacifying his subordinates, Tang Cheng was not hypocritical, and successively assigned several guerrillas with rifles to ambush him at a position he liked.
The Tang City side was ready to meet the battle with rudimentary weapons and terrain, and the Japanese troops who were attacked at Laojun Temple also set off as a whole group to continue south along the mountain road. Bypassing the foot of the mountain along the mountain road, a large open field appeared in front of the Japanese army, and the dirt road passed through the middle of the field, and the nearest forest to the dirt road was dozens of meters away. There will be no more ambushes in such terrain, Yamamoto, who commanded the team, did not dare to be sloppy, and continued to send sharp soldiers to explore the way, although the attack just now failed to hurt his team, but his own soldiers also suffered more than a dozen casualties, and even a machine gun was blown up.
A Cao Chang led two soldiers out to reconnoitre, and Yamamoto ordered the team to stop and rest for a while, he was not familiar with the terrain here, but there were Shina people around him who were familiar with the terrain here. "Xia San, come here, tell me about the terrain in this area." The troops stopped to rest, Yamamoto opened the map issued by the military headquarters, and called the Shina man who volunteered to lead the way for him, and Yamamoto called Xia Sang was a side disciple of the Xia family in Yangye Town, and it is said that because of his admiration for Japanese culture, he once worked in a Japanese trading company in Shanghai.
Like other traitors, Xia Cheng, who was wearing a short coat, also wore a cloth soft military hat of the Japanese army on his head, and when he heard Yamamoto calling him, he hurriedly trotted to Yamamoto's side, of course, he was not qualified to look at the map in front of the mountain itself. "As long as you follow this trouser and walk forward for another 2 miles, and then turn over a dirt hill is Li's shop, and then continue west along Li's shop to the boundary of Huahu Town." Yamamoto, who listened, just wanted to tell the terrain of this area by himself, and Xia Chengma said everything he knew.
With Xia Cheng's answer, Yamamoto carefully pondered his next plan of action in combination with the map, and the team explained that his task was to ask his team to take control of Huahu Town. Although I don't know why the wing gave such an order, Yamamoto, as a soldier, can only follow the order, in order not to reveal the whereabouts of the team, he has already ordered the slaughter of the village of three China, maybe this Li Jiapu will be the fourth.
The spearhead who came out had already returned the flag of safety, but for some reason, Yamamoto had an ominous premonition in his heart at the moment, and this unwarranted ominous premonition made him feel a little irritated. It was precisely because of this irritability that after the team was on the road again, Yamamoto ordered the mortar team to slow down and walk at the back of the team. If the squad were attacked here, as long as the mortar team was still there, every attack by the China would be shattered by the mortars.
Old Northeast, who was lying in ambush by the stream covered with weeds, was ready to open fire, and it was too far away from the dirt road for Lao Northeast to tell where the Japanese artillery was, so he could only wait, waiting for the most suitable opportunity to shoot. After the ambush at Laojun Temple, the Japanese army seemed to be a little lazy, coupled with the flat terrain here, although the Japanese soldiers on the dirt road were still holding their rifles, they had obviously relaxed their vigilance.
Seeing that the Japanese troops on the dirt road were still grinding and didn't know what they were doing, Lao Dongbei, who was lying in ambush by the stream, took out two grenades from the guerrillas. Lao Dongbei stepped back a few meters from the firing position, gently buried the grenade with the unscrewed back cover into the dirt, and sprinkled some floating soil and gravel to cover the grenade. In the stunned eyes of the ammunition man, Lao Northeast concocted another grenade in the same way, and the ammunition hand who did not know it did not dare to shout, so he could only look at Lao Dongbei "ruining" the grenade in distress.
The muzzle of the gun slowly moved as the Japanese approached, and the closer the Japanese army was, the clearer the sight of the old northeast, and the artillery of Yamamoto's squad fell to the back of the entire team according to the order of the squad leader, and it had also been locked by the muzzle of the old northeast. According to Tang Cheng's original plan, after the guerrillas hiding in the bushes opposite Lao Northeast first shot to attract the attention of the Japanese army, Lao Dongbei who was ambushed by the stream could shoot and kill the Japanese artillery, but seeing that he was already the closest to the Japanese soldiers carrying mortars, Lao Dongbei decided to fire first without waiting for the gunfire on the opposite side.
The barrage that erupted from the side of the stream flew over a distance of 200 meters and plunged into the tail of Yamamoto's squad, and the distance of 200 meters was a blink of an eye for the bullets that burst out of the chamber, and before the Japanese artillery at the end of the line woke up, a burst of blood mist burst out, and the Japanese soldiers carrying mortars immediately lay down several. "Bullets, add bullets to Lao Tzu." Lao Dongbei, who held on to the trigger, shouted at his ammunition man, he was very impatient with this Japanese light machine gun, which was worse than his previous MZ42 machine gun.
The machine guns on the edge of the stream continued to spew a rain of bullets, and the barrage extending forward from the tail of the team forced the soldiers of Yamamoto's team to lie down on the dirt road. Yamamoto was furious by the sudden gunfire, shouting for the team's machine guns and mortars to immediately return fire and suppress the opponent's machine gun fire. Tang Cheng left 100 rounds of ammunition for Lao Dongbei, as long as he used half of the bullets to sneak attack the Japanese army, but Lao Dongbei was a veteran of the war, seeing that the Japanese troops on the dirt road were not ready to fight back, he took advantage of the fact that the Japanese machine gun had not returned fire, and hit the 100 rounds of ammunition that Tang Cheng gave him.
"Go, go, go, the little devil is coming after you." Throwing the machine gun to his ammunition hand, Lao Dongbei lay down by the stream to hang the two grenades that had been planted, and then chased the ammunition man and ran for his life. Although the Japanese light machine gun is not as good as the MZ42 machine gun, it only takes more than ten seconds to fire dozens of bullets, from the time Lao Dongbei shot the artillery of Yamamoto's squad to the time he chased the ammunition and ran away, the whole process was only a short minute, and when the machine guns and grenadiers of Yamamoto's squad began to return fire, Lao Dongbei and the ammunition man had already rushed out of the stream more than 20 meters away.
The sound of the "boom" and "boom" explosions was mixed with the sound of Japanese machine gun fire, but the attackers by the stream died down and did not move, and under the leadership of a Cao Chang, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers opened a straggler line and approached the stream where the gunfire had just burst out. There were no people and no bodies, all that was left by the stream was two piles of smoke-emitting weeds blown up by grenadiers and dozens of shell casings with residual temperature. Cao Chang, who led the team over, took a closer look at the bullet casings, which were all bullet casings of the Imperial Arihan rifle cartridges, which meant that the other party used the Imperial light machine gun to attack them.
Looking at these bullet casings with Han rifle bullets in front of him, Cao Chang, who led the team, only raised his bayonet and roared at the sky, damn the people of China actually attacked the imperial army with weapons produced by the empire, it was really damned. Cao Chang was thinking about how to explain to Yamamoto after he returned, when he heard a soldier report that he had found footprints, and Cao Chang, who was furious, couldn't help but light up his eyes, and the footprints were probably left by the attacker.
The place where the footprints were found was only a few meters away from those bullet casings, and the shallow footprints on the ground obviously had straw rope marks, Cao Chang suddenly remembered that his fellow villagers who had fought with the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi had mentioned to him that they were poorly equipped, mostly wearing shoes woven with straw rope but fighting bravely, could it be that this group of hateful attackers was the Eighth Route Army? Looking at the direction in which the footprints disappeared, Cao Chang seemed to suddenly understand the true intentions of these attackers, this was not the Eighth Route Army, but the guerrillas who left with one shot, and this stream was the route for them to escape.
Just as the commander was about to turn around and return to the team, he noticed that a soldier a few meters away from him suddenly shouted, and then he saw a spark flash from the weeds. Almost at the same time as this spark flashed, Cao Chang, who was already half-turned and turned his back to the flash, immediately fell to the ground, and after the spark flashed, there was a violent explosion, followed by another explosion. Cao Chang, who raised his head again, was almost crazy, compared to the three corpses on the ground, the small wound on his head that was scratched by the rubble was insignificant at all, and he understood that the soldiers under his command had stepped on the mines planted by the Zhongzhi people.
Yamamoto, who got the report, was about to go crazy, his own team was attacked here, not to mention the 5 Imperial soldiers who were killed and injured by the mines laid by the Shina people by the stream, and the machine gun fire of the other side alone caused 8 casualties to his team, and among these 8 people, 6 were artillerymen. Coupled with the first attack, his squad has now lost 17 people, another 7 people are seriously injured, 14 people are slightly injured, and after 14 people are separated to carry the seriously wounded, the remaining combat effectiveness of the team can be imagined.
The losses of his own team can be described as heavy, but until now, they have not even seen the face of the enemy, and Yamamoto seems to have seen the ridicule on the lips of his colleagues after returning to the wing and the cold gaze of wing leader Kato Daisa. "Despicable and shameless Shina people," Isamu Yamamoto scolded the attacker in his heart.