The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 250 A successful campaign plan

The Japanese and puppet troops surrounded Majia'ao Village.

Gao Jiu once warned Li Guishan, the captain of the security army, not to allow the security army to harm the people, and let them protect the safety of the people as much as possible.

Li Guishan said to Yamaguchi, the captain of the Japanese army: "Taijun Yamaguchi, the lives of the soldiers of the Yellow Army are precious, let the humble officials send people into the village to investigate, in case there are bandits ambushing inside, it is also possible to avoid casualties of the soldiers of the Yellow Army."

Li Shan took the initiative to send people into the village to investigate, to see if he could remind the people in the village, especially the women, to hide and avoid being harmed by the devils before the devils entered the village.

Captain Yamaguchi of the devil expressed satisfaction with Li Guilin's initiative to send someone to take the risky investigation. He said, "Yo Xi! Captain Li, you are very loyal to Huang Jun."

Shankou asked Li Guishan to send a squad to investigate, but he did not trust the security forces, so he sent two Japanese soldiers to follow the security forces into the village to investigate.

Li Guishan was helpless, so he could only silently pray for the people in the village.

After the Japanese and puppet troops in charge of the investigation entered the village, they saw that there was no one in the village, so they sent a signal to Captain Yamaguchi outside.Shankou and Li Guishan led a large group of people into the village.

There were too many devil soldiers, and every house, including the courtyard, was full of devil soldiers.

It was already noon, and the devils began to cook. One devil soldier saw a pile of corn stalks piled up in the corner of the yard in order to start a fire, so he walked over and picked up a bundle.

At this time, he heard movement inside, and found the young woman holding the child.

The woman and child were quickly brought before Yamaguchi, who interrogated the woman and asked where the rest of the village had gone.The woman really didn't know where the people in the village had gone, so Yamaguchi naturally couldn't find any results.

At this time, Yamaguchi saw that the young woman was still somewhat beautiful, and he became ill.He motioned for the ghost soldier to take the child away from the woman's arms, and the woman struggled and shouted desperately, trying to get her child back.

Yamaguchi was very angry, took out the bastard box, and directly beat the child who was under three years old to death.Seeing this, the woman screamed and passed out.

Seeing this tragic scene, Li Guishan and the officers and soldiers of the public security army were filled with anger, but they dared not speak out, and could only turn their heads to one side.

Yamaguchi picked up the woman and entered the house. After venting his animal desires, with a satisfied grin on his face, he pierced the woman's abdomen with a command knife, then walked out of the house as if nothing had happened, took the food delivered by the orderly, and started to enjoy it. .

Suddenly, gunshots came from outside the village, and a few bullets flew from nowhere, killing the three devils standing guard outside the village.

The devils came prepared this time. They had already learned about the guerrilla tactics of the Taohuashan guerrillas from Yoshito Hamada, and they had come up with a countermeasure.

After entering the village, the Japanese army set up fire teams in all directions of the village. Machine guns, grenades and mortars had already been set up. After being attacked, they immediately returned fiercely in the direction of the gunshots. The attackers suppressed the blockade and then attacked the attackers with mortars and grenades.

The one who attacked the Japanese army outside the village was a six-member special operations team from Zhang Quan’s No. 200 Special Operations Squadron. Each of them had a sniper rifle, and the attack on the Japanese army was carried out more than [-] meters away. Their own safety is usually a problem. not big.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese army's reaction was so fast, and the torrential rain of bullets hit them, and they could only hide on the spot.

At this time, the grenadiers and mortars of the Japanese army came over, killing a special soldier on the spot. The other special soldiers saw that this was no way to go on, so they had to take a risk and escape, but another special soldier The soldiers were shot and died.

The special operations teams that attacked the Japanese army in other directions around the village also suffered varying degrees of casualties.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Quan felt a little guilty. He knew that he had underestimated the fighting power of the Japanese army, but he quickly figured out a tactic to deal with the devils.

Yamaguchi was satisfied to see that the attackers had been repulsed.It's a pity that he quickly learned how powerful the Taohuashan guerrillas are!

Not long after the last attack, mortar shells suddenly flew from all directions, causing heavy casualties to the densely populated Japanese army. When the Japanese firepower team started to counterattack, they could only see the enemy in the distance He had already mounted his horse and fled away.At such a long distance, machine guns and rifles are out of reach, and mortars can only be used to fight back.

Next, every once in a while, mortar shells will fly over from different places. These attackers are too abominable. They only fire two shells at a time. When the Japanese army finds them, it is too late to adjust the shooting. Run away far away.

Yamaguchi saw that going on like this was not an option, so he ordered the village to be the center, and sent half a team in each direction to attack forward and expand the defensive circle.

Zhang Quan has changed his tactics. Each combat team only assigns two members to operate the mortar, and the others choose their own sniper positions.The devils broke away from the village to fight in the field, and the special forces members hit their arms and knocked down the advancing devils one by one.Each sniper only fired two shots before fleeing quickly, without giving the devils a chance to fight back.After these special forces members escaped, they continued to lurk in another place, looking for opportunities to snipe and kill the enemy.

Due to the large number of special forces members and their scattered in different positions, they formed a crossfire, and the devils were hard to defend against.The commanders, machine gunners, and grenade launchers of the Japanese army were the targets of special attention. After the devils came out, they were basically beaten and suffered heavy losses.

The task assigned by Captain Yamaguchi to the two devil teams was to charge forward 300 meters from the center of the village.As a result, none of the squads were able to complete the mission.After coming out less than 100 meters, 1/3 was killed.Except for a small number of devils who used terrain and features to hide in place, the rest of the devils who were still alive retreated back to the village.

As a result, the situation on the battlefield returned to the previous situation. The mortarmen of the special forces team kept changing places to bomb the devils.

Captain Yamaguchi used to be a squadron leader. He had been a squadron leader for four years, and this time he finally had the opportunity to become a squadron leader.

He was originally full of ambitions. Although most of the recruits he brought were recruits, these recruits had been trained in China for more than a year on average. Although they lacked actual combat experience, their own tactical skills were very high.When the brigade was re-established, a group of combat backbones were also transferred, and the combat effectiveness was still very strong.

He is confident that he can easily deal with a small guerrilla army.Hamada Yoshito introduced the characteristics of Taohuashan guerrilla operations. The previous time the predecessor of this brigade suffered a failure, mainly because at night, the Huang Army could not figure out the enemy's situation and was not familiar with the terrain and features.Encountered the explosives planted by the enemy and the enemy's ambush, this was the failure.

It is broad daylight now, it is impossible to encounter an ambush by the enemy, and it is completely possible to face-to-face with the enemy.

In previous frontal battles, even if the Huang army had only half the strength of the enemy, it was usually able to quickly defeat the enemy.

Yamaguchi never expected such an embarrassing situation.

Captain Yamaguchi decided to get rid of this passive situation quickly, and he ordered the two squadrons to launch a fierce attack towards the west and south.

Under the cover of machine guns and mortars, the devils rushed out like a tide.This tactic really worked. Those special forces members who were in the direction of the Japanese attack had to withdraw in a hurry in order to avoid being surrounded by the Japanese army.

Captain Yamaguchi was relieved to see that this tactic worked.After the attack of these two squadrons, the defensive circle was greatly expanded, and the casualties caused by the attackers' mortars could be reduced.

However, he soon lost his joy. He saw through the binoculars the soldiers of the yellow army who were charging, and they kept falling down.It turned out that the enemy snipers who were ambushing in other directions were constantly harvesting the lives of the soldiers of the Yellow Army.

But now, Yamaguchi has no choice but to reluctantly sacrifice some soldiers to expand the defense range.

The attack of the two infantry squadrons finally played a role, pushing the defensive position forward by nearly 300 meters, and the battlefield was temporarily stabilized.

When Captain Yamaguchi received the report of the battle damage, he almost cried.Just for this 300 meters, more than 110 officers and soldiers under him have lost more than 270 people. In addition to the losses caused by the mortar attack in front, the loss of the entire brigade has reached more than 30 people, which is basically close to [-]% of the entire force. .

According to the battle damage standard of the Western army, if the battle damage reaches 30%, this army must retreat for repairs.The Japanese army was extremely strong, and they could fight to the last man. Therefore, the loss of so many officers and soldiers did not affect the fighting will of Yamaguchi and his Japanese officers and soldiers.

In any case, the situation on the battlefield has improved a lot.Yamaguchi breathed a sigh of relief, thinking about the next step in combat.At this time, those nasty attackers appeared again.In the two directions to the southwest, the Japanese army expanded the defensive area, but in the north and east, those nasty mortarers kept firing shells.Casualties continued to mount, and soon the total number exceeded 300.

Only then did Captain Yamaguchi realize that there was basically nothing he could do about these attackers who rode horses and came and went like the wind.If the battle continues like this, the infantry brigade will be consumed little by little.

Captain Yamaguchi thought for a long time, and finally came up with a solution.He called the third squadron leader and asked him to spread out the entire third squadron in groups of three, crawl forward from the entrance of the village, each looking for a safe and hidden position, and slowly pushed forward. Give the enemy snipers a chance to get close.

This tactic really worked. The number of snipers was not many after all. There were sporadic devils everywhere outside the village, and the snipers were attacked by devils from time to time.Some devils even pretended to be dead on the ground, and when the snipers of the special operations team approached, they suddenly attacked, causing casualties to the special operations team members.

Over time, there were scattered ghosts everywhere in the area ahead, and the special forces members could no longer approach the village to ambush, they could only retreat to the distance.

In this way, the Yamaguchi Battalion finally controlled the defense area of ​​about 500 meters centered on the village. The Japanese army was scattered within such a large range, and it was difficult for the enemy's mortars to exert their power.

Zhang Quan saw that the devils had adopted such a tactic, and even if they used mortars now, two shells might not be able to kill a devil.He was reluctant to waste the precious mortar shells. He retreated the special forces to a further place, still looking for opportunities to kill the enemy in all directions.

After a period of time, the Japanese troops on the periphery either found favorable shelters or dug their own bunkers, and the threats posed to them by the snipers gradually decreased, but they did not dare to leave their positions, so the two sides formed a confrontation.

But what is very strange is that the current battlefield situation is that six or seven hundred Japanese soldiers are surrounded by Zhang Quan's special forces team of dozens of people.

This is not too outrageous. During the Vietnam War, there was a very typical example. Two thousand US troops were suppressed by a Vietnamese sniper on a hillside for ten hours.The U.S. military fired hundreds of shells and sent planes to bomb. Even so, they waited until dark to get rid of this embarrassing situation.

Captain Yamaguchi didn't feel very worried about this situation, but secretly delighted in his heart.Because he has successfully completed the task assigned to him by the captain of Kotaro Mikba.

It turned out that this operation of the Yamaguchi Brigade was part of the Japanese army's entire campaign plan.

The main target of the combat plan put forward by Yoshito Hamada this time is Wang Jindong's 187th Division in Zhiyuan County.

In order to achieve the suddenness of the campaign, the Japanese army sent the 115th Wing, claiming to retaliate against the Taohuashan guerrillas in order to attract the attention of the Taohuashan guerrillas.

They deliberately stayed in Pingyue County for a few days, but did not say anything.It put tremendous pressure on the Taohuashan guerrillas.At the same time, allow time for the Taohuashan guerrillas to strengthen their defenses and mobilize Wang Jindong to send reinforcements.

During this period, the 128th Brigade of the Japanese Army went to Tai'an, and at the same time deliberately released the news that the 114th Division was about to go south to join the battle in Wuhan, which paralyzed Wang Jindong and others even more.The Yamaguchi Brigade headed towards Taohua Mountain, which completely attracted the attention of all the anti-Japanese armed forces in Southwest Shandong.

That evening, the Japanese army really launched an offensive campaign against Wang Jindongliang's 187th Division.

At this time, Gao Jiu was waiting for the arrival of Wang Zhankui and others in Taoyuan Town, and the main force of the Taohuashan guerrillas was strengthening the fortifications near Taohuadong.

Jiang Xiaomei's independent battalion stared at the remaining Japanese troops in Pingyue County, waiting for Gao Jiu's arrival to cooperate in the battle.

Wang Jindong and others continued to sing and dance in Zhizhi County.

At the same time, the 128th Brigade of the Japanese Army passed through Tai'an, but they did not go to Zaozhuang. Instead, they got off at a small station along the way, and then passed a county-level road south of the Pingtai Highway to attack Zhiyuan County at night. .

At the same time, the two main brigades of the 115th Wing staying in Pingyue County, as well as the reinforced engineering squadron, also moved towards Taohuashan.

The scouts from Jiang Xiaomei's independent battalion quietly followed the two Japanese brigades. When they found out that the two Japanese brigades were heading for Taohua Mountain, they sent a cavalry messenger back to Shangzhuangzi to report to Jiang Xiaomei.

Another investigator continued to follow the Japanese army, and the investigator was very careful. He followed the Japanese army from a distance and marched slowly.

Suddenly, several Japanese soldiers flashed out from the side of the road. Without firing a shot, they rushed forward and stabbed the investigator of the Independence Battalion to death with bayonets.

After receiving the report, Chiba Kotaro immediately led the main force of the Japanese army, turned around and marched, and soon set foot on the road, and then started a rapid march in the direction of Zhiyuan County.

After Jiang Xiaomei received the report, she notified Gao Jiu of the information that the main force of the 115th Company of the Japanese Army was going to Taohua Mountain.

Gao Jiu telegraphed Guo Hengming and others who stayed in Taohuashan to prepare for the siege of the Japanese army.He joined Wang Zhankui's cavalry battalion and headed towards Majia'ao Village together.

Jiang Xiaomei's independent battalion was notified by Gao Jiu to let them also go to the direction of Majia'ao Village, preparing for a night battle with the main force of the Japanese 115th Regiment.

This campaign by the Japanese army successfully deceived the Jinan Station of the Military Command, Gao Jiu, Jiang Xiaomei and Wang Jindong!

The new 187th Division is at stake.

(End of this chapter)