The most cattle cottage in the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 394 Like an Ostrich

Although the militiamen in Fortress Village usually receive military training, they have never actually fought a battle. Seeing so many devils, they suddenly became a little flustered.

On the 67th mountain, the special forces member who came to convey the order was named Zhang Hongnian. He originally followed Shi Jianlong and defected to Gao Jiu's puppet security army. After many battles, he has grown into an excellent peach blossom now. Mountain guerrilla.

Seeing the panic of the militiamen in Gaojiazhuang on the top of the mountain, he shouted: "Folks! Don't be afraid, these devils were driven out from Peach Blossom Mountain by Master Jiu. Master Jiu is leading a brigade towards here. We must stop these devils and avenge the deaths of the villagers in the village."

When revenge was mentioned, the villagers immediately turned red-eyed, and when they heard that reinforcements would be coming soon, everyone made up their minds and prepared for battle.

The militiamen of Xiwangzhuang on the opposite hill No. 66 are in a similar situation and are also ready to fight.

Soon the devils came over. Although the militiamen on the mountain had been mobilized, they were still very nervous. Their hands holding the guns trembled a little, and their palms were covered with sweat.

With a "bang" gunshot, Zhang Hongnian opened fire, and a devil officer who was running in front of the team fell down with the gunshot.

Immediately afterwards, the two light machine guns on the left and right sides also fired, and seven or eight Japanese soldiers were shot and fell down.

"The devil is dead." Seeing that the devils in the valley could also be killed, the militiamen on the mountain became more courageous and began to shoot at the devils down the mountain.They didn't have much time to train, and their marksmanship was not accurate, but with so many guns, many devils were still shot and fell down.

When the militiamen saw that they were able to kill the devils, the tension in their hearts basically disappeared, and they happily fired guns down the mountain.

The devils of the 18th Regiment of the Japanese Army were really strong in combat. They did not panic after encountering the attack, and immediately searched for hidden objects on the spot and fought back towards the mountain.

The devil officers briefly judged the enemy's situation, and then began to organize troops to charge the enemy troops on the mountains on both sides.

The counterattack of the Japanese army immediately caused casualties to the militiamen on the mountain. Several militiamen were shot, and some died on the spot. The wounded people screamed in pain, and the militiamen began to panic again.

Zhang Hongnian knew that the situation was critical. If he couldn't stabilize everyone's emotions, these militiamen would probably collapse and run away.

He shouted: "Don't be afraid, how can anyone not die in a war? You have also seen that the devils die a lot more than us. Our relatives were killed by the devils, we have to avenge them."

The words of the special forces team played a certain role. Everyone also thought that they were guarding the top of the mountain, and it would not be easy for the devils to rush up, so their emotions eased a little.

Seeing the devils rushing up the mountain, Zhang Hongnian shouted loudly: "Everyone, don't panic! Don't shoot, get your grenades ready, everyone listen to my password, and fire together!"

At this moment, the militias must not be allowed to fight on their own, and must exert their collective strength, otherwise, the militias are likely to collapse.

The devils climbed up the mountain, and when they reached a distance of 80-[-] meters, Zhang Hongnian shouted: "Everyone aim at a target, listen to my password, and fire together."

He waited for half a minute, and when he saw that the team members were aiming down the mountain with their guns, he shouted loudly, "Get ready, fire."

The platoon of militiamen shot past, and immediately six or seven Japanese soldiers were beaten and rolled down the mountain, and the rest of the Japanese soldiers hurriedly lay down on the hillside.

Seeing that this approach worked, the mood of the militiamen became more stable.When the devils got up and continued to charge upwards, the second row of guns fired again, followed by the third row and the fourth row. The rhythm of the militiamen's shooting became faster and faster. of Japanese soldiers were hit.

When the Japanese army rushed to a place more than 50 meters away from the top of the mountain, Zhang Hongnian shouted loudly: "Get ready for the grenade, listen to my password, get ready! Throw it."

Following Zhang Hongnian's command, dozens of grenades flew down from the top of the mountain. Due to the nervousness of the militiamen, several of them forgot to pull the strings and threw the grenades down.

Even so, dozens of grenades exploded on the hillside, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army.

Seeing the Japanese army being blown up and down amidst the explosion, the militiamen became more courageous.Zhang Hongnian directed the militiamen to throw four grenades each. The devils on the hillside suffered heavy casualties and were forced to retreat.

Seeing that the devils were repulsed, the militiamen cheered, and their mood became more stable.

However, Zhang Hongnian's mood became even more anxious at this time. He set up a pergola and looked out of the mountain, hoping to see the reinforcements as soon as possible, but unfortunately, there was no one in sight for a while.

He knew that the devils were about to fire artillery. If these militiamen were bombarded by the devils' artillery, there was a great possibility that they would collapse.

He shouted loudly: "Everyone lie a little far away from each other. The devils may fire cannons in a while. Don't be afraid, everyone, find a place to hide. The devils don't have many shells, and they have to stop after a while." Come down, and then send people to charge up. At that time, we will beat them down again. Don’t be afraid, spread out and hide.”

In order to prevent the militiamen from collapsing due to shelling, Zhang Hongnian shouted loudly: "When the devils are shelling later, everyone must not run around. Shells are the same as hand grenades. They use shrapnel to kill and wound people. You just need to lie down Don't run around on the ground, you won't be easily killed. If you run around, it will be dangerous.

Remember remember!When the devils bombard you, cover your ears with your hands, close your eyes, lie on the ground with your head down, the lower your head, the better, don't run around! "

This trick was taught by Gao Jiu. When encountering enemy shelling, let the recruits lie on the ground like ostriches. As long as they don't see the tragic situation of others being bombed to death, their panic will be reduced a lot.

Sure enough, the Japanese army started their old tactics again, setting up mortars at the foot of the mountain, and began to bomb the hills on both sides.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom." The explosion of shells rang out continuously on the top of the mountain, smoke and dust billowed, and shrapnel flew across.

The method adopted by Zhang Hongnian was still effective. As the distance had been dispersed in advance, the casualties of the militiamen were greatly reduced.Those militiamen were very scared, but they were tricked by Zhang Hongnian into closing their eyes and covering their ears, so they couldn't hear the screams of other team members, and couldn't see the tragic scene of others being bombed to death, so the fear in their hearts was reduced. a lot.

After a round of shelling, seven or eight militiamen were killed and injured.Regardless, the militiamen persevered.

Seeing that the devils stopped shelling, Zhang Hongnian knew that the devils were about to attack again. He shouted vigorously: "The devils are not firing! Everyone return to their original positions and prepare to fight the devils again."

Under Zhang Hongnian's calm command, the militiamen persisted.

At this moment, Jiang Xiaomei and others had already arrived outside the mountain. Hearing the sound of gunfire and explosions ahead, they hurriedly led the troops and ran forward desperately.

The devil's follow-up large force drove over. Nakajima Hyungo realized that the situation was critical, and immediately invested a large number of troops to attack the two hills.

When the militiamen on the mountain saw so many devils, they panicked again.They felt that their dozens of guns would not be able to fight at all.

The militia captain in Gaojiazhuang was afraid of being surrounded by devils, so he said: "Brother Zhang, there are too many devils, we can't beat them! If not, let's retreat first."

The militiamen were already flustered, and when they heard what the militia captain said, they became even more frightened. Some militiamen had already stood up and were ready to escape.

Zhang Hongnian was helpless, he knew that these militiamen could not be forced, maybe they would shoot him in a hurry.Holding a glimmer of hope, he shouted vigorously: "Folks! Hold on for a while, and the reinforcements will arrive soon."

Unfortunately, this trick didn't work either.It was the first time Zhang Hongnian said that the reinforcements would arrive soon, and more than half an hour had passed by now, and there was no sign of the reinforcements.

The captain of the militia saw that nearly 20 of his militiamen had died, and felt that he could not explain to the villagers when he went back, and he was already very scared.He turned his head and glanced down the mountain. Seeing so many devils, they were about to climb up. He immediately made up his mind and shouted: "Folks! There are too many devils, let's evacuate quickly."

Zhang Hongnian felt very helpless, and said in his heart: "Master Jiu, I'm really sorry, I really tried my best." Thinking of this, he closed his eyes for a while, then opened them suddenly, hoping to see a miracle.

This time he was really not disappointed. He saw the figure of the Independence Battalion, and Jiang Xiaomei, who was at the front in red, lit up his eyes like a flame of hope.

Jiang Xiaomei is now a regular member of the Eighth Route Army, and she usually wears military uniforms.Because of the reputation of the female general in red, the soldiers of the independent battalion all hoped that she would wear a red dress when fighting. When her figure appeared, it would not only boost morale, but also scare the enemy.Therefore, when Jiang Xiaomei was fighting, she specially put on a red coat.Sure enough, Zhang Hongnian saw her right away.

Zhang Hongnian desperately shouted: "Folks! The reinforcements are really here. Look over there, look at the man in red. The girl in red is coming, and Master Jiu is coming soon."

The militiamen looked in the direction of his finger, and they saw the brigade of people rushing over.This time, the courage of the militiamen grew stronger again, so they all ran back and lay down on their original positions.

Jiang Xiaomei and others rushed to the battlefield in time, and used two companies to block the enemy head-on, while the other company went to support the militiamen on the mountain.

Hongo Nakajima sent troops to attack the tops of the mountains on both sides, and at the same time commanded other troops to rush out of the mountain through the valley forcibly, but was hit head-on by the independent battalion who rushed over.

The soldiers of the Independence Battalion are now considered to be experienced in many battles, and they are well-equipped, and they beat the very tired devils to the ground with just one encounter.

Hōgo Nakajima saw that it was difficult to rush over for a while, and the troops were flanked by fire from the hillsides on both sides, so he had no choice but to withdraw the troops.

Soon after, the soldiers of the Independence Battalion occupied the 66th and 67th hills, and at the same time sent some troops to occupy the 65th and 68th hills nearby, and set up blocking positions on the front of the valley, blocking the northern exit of the Japanese army. .

Nakajima Hōgo really began to worry about the fate of the 18th Regiment this time. He summoned several captains to study countermeasures and decided to launch a strong attack immediately to break through the enemy's blocking position and escape from Taohua Mountain as soon as possible.

After the discussion, several captains of the Japanese army immediately organized troops to attack the Independence Battalion, and Nakajima Hōgo once again sent a telegram to Hamada Yoshiichi.

Jiang Xiaomei, Yang Jiong and others were very happy to see that the Japanese army was blocked, and immediately sent a telegram to Gao Jiu, reporting the situation here to him.

Soon, Gao Jiu sent back a telegram, telling them the good news, telling them to stand firm and wait for help. The cavalry battalion led by Wang Zhankui would be able to rush to support them soon.

It turned out that Gao Jiu had received a telegram from Zhang Quan, saying that the devils had broken through to the north.He immediately sent Wang Zhankui to lead the cavalry battalion to the north to cut off the retreat of the Japanese army. At this moment, they were not far from the No. 67 mountain.

Gao Jiu also sent a telegram to Guan Lie and others, ordering the 24th Regiment and the Independent Regiment to encircle the area around Mount No. 67 immediately.

Zhang Quan and the others were not idle either. After they saw the devils retreating, Du Shengxi led a squadron of special forces members to follow the Japanese army to harass them.

Last night, Hamada Yoshihiro couldn't sleep well. He thought carefully about his experience dealing with Gao Jiu, and he decided that he would never use similar tactics against Taohuashan again.He believes that Gao Jiu and others have already established a solid foundation in this area, and it will not be effective at all to rely on troops to encircle and suppress.

He believes that the only way to break through Taohuashan is to blockade the entire Taohuashan area after the various armies participating in the Wuhan Battle return to Shandong in the future, just like the anti-Japanese coalition forces in the northeast. He used his son's method to remove all the people around Taohua Mountain, and then besieged Taohua Mountain with heavy troops, cut off their personnel and supplies, and forced them to jump out of Taohua Mountain to fight the main force of the Japanese army.

After thinking about this, his mood improved a lot.

At this time, he received a telegram from Nakajima Hōgo, and his mood just improved a little, but he suddenly became depressed again.However, he still felt a little lucky, thanks to his cleverness, he was not surrounded in Peach Blossom Mountain with that stupid guy Nakajima Hyogo.

He knew that he had to bear a lot of responsibility this time, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and send a telegram to General Matsuda.

Jinan, Japanese Gendarmerie Command.

General Matsuda was in a very bad mood, and now he felt very headache when he heard the words "Peach Blossom Mountain".He is a very calm person, but when he heard Gao Jiu's name, he couldn't help being a little irritable.However, he is a person with a strong sense of responsibility and a person who has the courage to take responsibility.He calmed down and reported to the headquarters of the 12th Army.

"Ba Ge, what the hell are these bastards from the army doing?" the commander of the Japanese Air Force's Third Air Force said dissatisfied.

Yesterday, the original air force had received a request from the army and sent four bombers to bomb Taohuashan this morning.More than two hours ago, they received a notice that the army had withdrawn from Taohuashan, and canceled the bombing mission.Now, they have applied again, asking the Air Force to send bombers to Taohuashan to support the 18th Wing of the Japanese Army there.Of course, the Air Force is very dissatisfied with the army's fuss.

Dissatisfied with dissatisfaction, the Japanese Third Air Force still sent four bombers to the direction of Taohuashan.

Taoyuan Town.

Guo Hengming and others escorted a large amount of supplies and followed the 187th Division to Taoyuan Town.

Gao Jiu had already received a telegram from Jiang Xiaomei, saying that the Japanese army had been blocked near Mount No. 67. Gao Jiu asked Guo Hengming to leave some people to take care of the supplies, and the rest followed him by car to the area around Mount No. 67.

Among the supplies brought back by Guo Hengming and others were the two French Hotchkiss 1930 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine guns given to Lin Yanni by his father Lin Wenhan.

Gao Jiu liked the feel of shooting anti-aircraft machine guns very much, so he didn't let them unload the car, and took the two anti-aircraft machine guns to Mount No. 67 together.

Ouyang Xue had already agreed to get a batch of anti-aircraft machine guns for Gao Jiu, but unfortunately, Gao Jiu left too hastily this time, so Ouyang Xue could only ask Ouyang Xue to help him transport it to Zhiyuan County, and then transport it back to Peach Blossom Mountain .

Seeing that the number of enemy troops blocking the road was increasing, Nakajima was impatient, and immediately deployed two brigades. One brigade launched an attack on the No. 66 and No. 67 mountains on both sides of the valley. A brigade of troops launched a fierce attack directly from the valley to the blocking position of the independent battalion blocking the exit of the valley.

In Taniguchi, the first and third companies of the independent battalion were in charge of the frontal attack, with a total of 240 soldiers, and the mortar platoon of the independent battalion.After they arrived here, they repelled the charge of the devil's vanguard, and then seized the time to build simple fortifications, preparing to repel the large-scale Japanese attack.

The devil was impatient this time, and a whole brigade of devils rushed over directly.Regarding this situation, Jiang Xiaomei and the others became happy instead.

The devils had their own offensive tactics in their attack. If they followed their routine and bombarded first, the soldiers of the independent battalion did not have strong fortifications and would easily suffer heavy casualties.Then the Japanese army sent a small group of troops to crawl forward and throw grenades, and it was difficult for the soldiers of the independent battalion to kill a large number of enemies.

The Japanese army was impatient this time, and rushed up in a swarm, but it was even easier to deal with.The Japanese army has always been very particular about offensive tactics, and now they have no choice.

One is because of time constraints, they hope to quickly break through the enemy's position with a large number of people.Another important reason is that their artillery basically has no shells in their hands, and they can't do it anymore if they want to use the original offensive tactics.

The independent battalion is now well-equipped. Each infantry squad has a light machine gun, and each company has a special machine gun squad. The whole company adds up to 16 light machine guns, and the two companies add up to 32 light machine guns.With so many machine guns blocking a valley only tens of meters wide, it was a breeze.

Due to the difficulty in supplying ammunition to ordinary Eighth Route Army troops, each soldier usually only had a few rounds of ammunition. They usually fired three shots, and then rushed up to fight the Japanese army hand-to-hand.The independent battalion is different, with Gao Jiu's support behind it, there is no need to save bullets at all.Seeing the Japanese army rushing over, the soldiers of the Independence Battalion just pulled the trigger vigorously and fired bullets like a torrential rain.

In previous combat operations, the Japanese troops of the 18th Regiment conducted operations under the condition that their own weapons had an advantage.Since they came to Peach Blossom Mountain, they realized that the situation had completely changed.

The enemy's firepower was really too strong. They had never fought such a battle before, and they were caught off guard immediately, and then fell into disarray.

After losing more than 200 soldiers, the Japanese army reluctantly gave up their attempt to rush through Taniguchi.

The experience of the Japanese troops attacking No. 66 and No. 67 was similar. After losing more than 100 soldiers, they also looked at the mountains and sighed.

Nakajima Hōgo really realized the danger this time. He was about to go into battle in person and lead the main force to fight to the death, trying to break through the enemy's blocking position. A worse news came again.

The Japanese army reported earlier that the enemy's reinforcements had increased again. Naturally, Wang Zhankui's cavalry battalion had arrived.

Seeing this situation, Nakajima knew that it would not be long before a large number of reinforcements from the enemy would come from all directions.

Nakajima Hyogo would like to lead the 18th Wing to find other ways out, but the 18th Wing is not familiar with the terrain here, and can no longer blindly scurry around, otherwise the entire army may be wiped out.

After all, Nakajima Fengwu is a warrior with rich combat experience, and he immediately decided to stand by and wait for help.So, he immediately ordered the three infantry brigades to fully deploy to seize the three surrounding hills.

Du Shengxi led a squadron of special forces members to track and harass the Japanese army all the way, making the Japanese army miserable.The team members were having a good time fighting, when suddenly, a large number of devils turned around and fought back. They hurriedly climbed up a surrounding hill, and then beat down the Japanese soldiers who rushed up.

Even so, Hōgo Nakajima occupied two adjacent hills, No. 43 and No. 44.After a short time, it was completely surrounded by anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians swarming in.

Standing on the top of Mount No. 43, Hyogo Nakajima, holding a telescope, can clearly see that there are a large number of anti-Japanese troops on all the surrounding hills, and there are also many anti-Japanese armed forces with guns in the valley below. , they have been completely surrounded.

Nakajima ordered the troops to rush to repair the fortifications, preparing to repel the enemy's attack, and at the same time sent another telegram for help.

At 11:25 in the morning, Gao Jiu and others arrived at the foot of No. 43 mountain.

"Brother Jiu." Jiang Xiaomei and the others greeted Gao Jiu in surprise.

Jiang Xiaomei misses Gao Jiu every day. After being separated for so long, she misses him more and more day by day.After seeing Gao Jiu, she couldn't help but pounce on him, and threw herself directly into Gao Jiu's arms.

At this moment, it seemed that only she and Gao Jiu were left in the world. She completely forgot that there were at least hundreds of people watching there.

"Sister." Gao Jiu generously hugged her in his arms, and stretched out his palm to gently caress her slightly trembling body.

Yang Jiong, Wang Zhankui and others understood Jiang Xiaomei's mood very well, and everyone was smiling, looking at the warm scene in front of them.

Not long after, Jiang Xiaomei left Gao Jiu's arms. She saw the soldiers around her looking at her, she wiped away her tears embarrassingly, and felt a little blushed.

After Gao Jiu greeted everyone, he briefly asked about the situation, and then he and Jiang Xiaomei, Yang Jiong, Wang Zhankui, Guo Hengming and others went up to No. 43 mountain adjacent to No. 66 mountain to observe the besieged The situation of the Japanese army.

Suddenly, the roar of the plane came from the sky, and everyone looked up, and saw four Japanese bombers appearing from the clouds in the north.

(End of this chapter)