The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 168 Difficult battle

Since the Japanese army has more than 300 troops, it is difficult for the guerrillas to quickly defeat them in a short period of time, and the Japanese army has the ability to organize a counterattack. Therefore, this battle will be a difficult one.

In Gao Jiu's special forces team, there are only 15 real old players. Although the new players have undergone intensive training, they have not been trained in actual combat, so they will not be able to play much role.Not to mention the members of the county brigade, there were no more than 30 of them with real combat effectiveness, and only three of them had good marksmanship, including Tian Chuan.

Among the people brought by Li Chengwu, Shi Jianlong, and Liang Shihu, there were only seven or eight people who were really capable of fighting.Among them, only Liang Shihu and other three people have good marksmanship.

In other words, in the entire battle, there are only a few dozen people who can really play an important role, and the others are all made up of numbers.

The Japanese army was in charge of escorting a field squadron of nearly 200 people, and more than 120 Japanese army soldiers and car drivers and co-drivers.Even the logistical soldiers and car drivers of the Japanese army, their combat effectiveness is at least stronger than that of most of the members of the county brigade.Just as the Japanese army believed, if the two sides really opened up their battles, Gao Jiu's army would definitely not be an opponent of the Japanese army.

When the enemy is strong and we are weak, the most important thing in this battle is to rely on reasonable tactics to win.

The strength of the Japanese army's combat power includes several aspects.On the one hand, the individual soldiers of the Japanese army are of high quality, have a tenacious fighting will, and have high technical and tactical levels.

Then there is their powerful firepower. In battle, their mortars, machine guns and grenades can form powerful support firepower.

Another point is that their officers have high quality and strong command ability, and they can optimize the configuration of troops and firepower at any time on the battlefield.

Under such circumstances, in order to quickly defeat the Japanese army, we must first destroy its command system and their supporting firepower. The Japanese army that lost its command and fire support, although its combat effectiveness is still strong, is much easier to deal with.

Gao Jiu arranged 12 team members, including Tian Chuan and Liang Shilong, who were good at marksmanship, and asked them to form a team of two to ambush within 120 meters of the road, specifically to attack the Japanese commander and support firepower.Then use machine guns and mortars to eliminate the gathered Japanese troops.As for the other team members, they lay down behind the bunker and shot, which played a role in attracting the attention of the Japanese army.

The ambush position this time uses a pocket formation.This section of the Pingtai Highway runs from east to west. The main force of the county brigade is lying in ambush on the north side of the road. On the south side is Gao Jiu’s special forces team. .To the west is Li Chengwu's unit, which has strengthened 20 members of the county brigade and also carried three machine guns.

These four ambush positions are all connected to telephone lines to facilitate timely contact.

At 3:55, the battle officially started.

Liang Shihu didn't expect that in such an important battle, Master Jiu would entrust him with the task of firing the first shot.

Japanese military vehicles drove over, with three motorcycles at the front.In the cross pocket of the first motorcycle sat a Japanese officer, who was the executive officer of the Japanese field squadron.

Liang Shihu aimed his gun at the Japanese executive officer. In order to ensure a hit, he did not pull the trigger until he entered a distance of 80 meters.

There was only a "bang" gunshot, and a bullet was hitting the Japanese officer's chest.

The sound of gunfire was an order, and the guerrillas in ambushes on the east, west, and north sides of the highway simultaneously spewed fierce tongues of flame at the Japanese army.

Since the Japanese troops were all on the trucks, the members of the county brigade were inaccurate in shooting, and there were two vehicles on the east and west sides to cover them, so the Japanese casualties were not large.

The Japanese army was well-trained, and they quickly jumped out of the car under the organization of commanders at all levels before the squadron leader gave orders.While firing back fire, they retreated to the south of the convoy, using cars as cover, organized troops, and prepared to launch a counterattack.

At this time, the first real blow came.

The squadron leader of the Japanese army summoned several officers and is urgently arranging tasks to organize troops to fight back.

At this time, the soldiers of the Japanese army were organizing the team under the organization of junior officers, waiting for the order of the squadron leader.

At this time, it is an excellent opportunity to surprise the Japanese army. In the previous ambush, Gao Jiu and others have used this tactic twice, and no one was left alive in the two ambush battles. The Japanese army still does not know that the guerrillas Such tactics will be adopted.

Looking at the dense formation of the Japanese army that was gathering, Gao Jiu did not issue an attack order immediately.He was carefully observing the officers of the Japanese army.When he saw clearly that among the Japanese officers who were assigning tasks, there was a Japanese major. From the respectful attitude of the other officers towards the Japanese major, he was sure that he was the supreme commander of this unit.

Gao Jiu fired two shots in a row. The first shot killed the Japanese squadron leader, and the second shot killed another Japanese officer beside him.

With Gao Jiu's gunshots, the Type [-] heavy machine guns and six crooked machine guns on the southern ambush position, as well as the rifles in the hands of other special forces members, violently spewed out tongues of flame.

The Japanese soldiers with their backs to the south were hit by a sudden blow, and sixty or seventy of them were killed in an instant.

The Japanese troops who had lost their command scattered and fled in all directions, each looking for hidden objects.The fierce firepower of the special forces continued to chase and reap their lives.

Gao Jiu watched the group of Japanese soldiers and kept shooting, killing the Japanese officers one by one.

The Japanese army was extremely tenacious. After many soldiers found the concealment, they began to fight back against the special forces.Those Japanese soldiers who did not find the concealment lay on the ground and began to fight back against the special forces.

The main officers of the Japanese army died, but those low-level officers and Cao Chang also began to gather the soldiers around them and launched an organized counterattack.

A Japanese lieutenant lying under the car saw the squadron leader and other commanders killed in action, so he took over the command.He issued a series of orders, and the Japanese army began to act in an organized manner.

The Japanese lieutenant was lying behind the rear wheel of the car. Gao Jiu couldn't see him, so he had nothing to do with him for a while.Under the command of this officer, the Japanese army gradually began an organized counterattack.The Japanese army first used firepower to fight back against the guerrillas on all sides, preventing them from approaching the convoy.Then organized about [-] people and launched an attack in the direction of the special forces. The Japanese army attempted to destroy the guerrilla forces on the one hand to avoid being attacked by the enemy, and then concentrated their forces to defeat them one by one.

The Japanese officers and soldiers soon discovered that they had chosen the wrong target.Their frontal machine gun fire was so intense that they couldn't hold their heads up.

There are sharpshooters on the opposite side, constantly destroying their commanders, mortars and machine gunners, they simply cannot organize an effective attack.This Japanese army quickly lost a dozen soldiers and turned to the defense.

A Japanese grenade gunner hiding in the car stretched the grenade out of the car window and fired a grenade at the position of the Special Forces Type [-] heavy machine gun.This grenade was shot very accurately, and it hit the side of the Type [-] heavy machine gunner. The machine gunner was killed immediately, and the deputy shooter was also blown off his left hand.

This is the first time that Taohuashan has been killed or seriously injured since the establishment of the cottage.Gao Jiu was trembling with distress. He tried his best to find the Japanese soldier who fired the grenadier. He followed the general direction of the stray bullet just now, and soon saw the gun protruding from the compartment of a car diagonally opposite. Gao Jiu shot the grenadier, killing the grenadier.However, the grenadier still fired a grenade before dying.

The grenade continued to fly towards the machine gun position of the special forces, and it was very likely that it would cause casualties to the special forces again.

The flying speed of the grenade fired by the grenade was not fast. Seeing the grenade flying over, Gao Jiu shot it in the air at a distance of 50 meters.

To the north, the large number of the county brigade attracted the main force of the Japanese army, and they fought back fiercely towards the county brigade.At this time, the sharpshooters of the guerrillas who were ambushing nearby took advantage of the chaos to attack the Japanese army.They first killed the commanders or machine gunners and grenadiers who could see the Japanese army.

Several Japanese soldiers unloaded their mortars from their vehicles, and they were shot dead one by one by Tagawa before the gun mounts were set up.

If the sharpshooters cannot see such a target for a while, they will hit all the Japanese troops they can see.

The number of Japanese troops decreased little by little.

The Japanese lieutenant has now roughly judged the situation on the battlefield.He found that the number of enemy troops was large, and the number of soldiers he could command was less than 100.Since the radio soldier had been killed, he could not ask for help, and it was all luck that the Japanese soldiers passing by would help him.Moreover, with such a large number of enemy troops, even if a small group of Japanese troops passed by, it would not have much effect.He felt that staying on the road was not an option. After analyzing and judging, he believed that the number of enemy troops in the north was large, and the terrain was condescending. The existing Japanese troops were not strong enough to break through the enemy's positions.The enemy's firepower in the south is too strong, and it is difficult to break through.He decided to organize his troops to break through to the west.

(End of this chapter)