Chapter 298 The first battle
The clear light of the moon spreads coldly to the earth, and the vast land frozen in the cold moonlight. More than ten kilometers away from the coast, in order to prevent the enemy from attacking, the Japanese army, who built a defensive position, dug trenches and squatted in the trenches to guard the trenches. There was no barbed wire in front of the thin trenches. For them, this hastily constructed line of defense is the only place to block the attack of the Chinese army.\,qΒ5,/
"The Chinese Navy sunks dozens of our merchant ships at sea, and there will be no reinforcements or supplies!"
Although bad news comes from time to time, for these soldiers, they have no right to complain. The only thing they can do is to obey orders. This is the only thing soldiers need to do. As for thinking, it is the power that only officers have. As for soldiers, they do not think or need to think.
The night was getting deeper, and at some point it started. The Japanese soldiers who had been desperately digging the trenches all night felt hungry. Wild dogs barked in the distance of the darkness. They listened to the wind and the barking of dogs, waiting for the enemy. But they did not appear until the east turned white.
This night was so long!
When the sun was about to rise again, the stone in Ishihara Kan'er's heart finally fell to the ground and sighed deeply. Although the weather was not cold, he was walking around the sea and didn't have a meal last night, but he felt that the breath he exhaled seemed to be frozen to ice. It felt really bad to feel hungry in his stomach. From yesterday to now, he had almost never eaten a bite of food.
Just when he felt hungry, he saw Captain Oda set off with his soldiers. This was the grain collection team sent. Yesterday, they checked several villages in the defense line. The people of those villages had left. In the empty village, there was nothing except the vacant houses!
"I hope they can collect food!"
Ishihara Kanir, who was so hungry that he couldn't hold on, thought in his heart that in order to get food, Oda team would go deep into the hinterland of China to find villages and collect food.
What would they use to collect food? Will there be money to buy it? Ishihara Kanir thought so, but then he shook his head in his heart. It is impossible to use money. Not to mention that the army now has no money, even if it has not been attacked, he may not use money.
Moreover, when leaving, Ishihara Kanir also received a notice to post after arriving in China. The notice was very simple, with five items in total: 1. Those who hinder all actions of the Japanese army were executed; 2. Those who cut off the power supply or lose the damage were executed; 3. Those who detain or indicate the informant were rewarded with great reward; 4. Those who knew that the crime was not carried out, and those who harbored bandits, the neighbors and towns were punished with serious punishment; 5. If there was a person in the village who hindered the Japanese army, the people of the village would be executed.
The Xiaotian Squadron will definitely not do it if they spend money to buy grain. The current decline will inevitably lead to the inability to force Chinese officials to pay grain like the Sun and Dew War. There is only one way, that is, to collect grain with bayonets.
When the sun shines on the sky from the horizon again, the villagers are still sleeping soundly. At hundreds of meters away, Xiaotian picked up his telescope and looked at the village carefully. This village seemed to be no different from those near the coast. Suddenly, several native dogs came out of the village, and a cow could be seen in the cowshed!
Someone!
A smile appeared on Oda's face and he waved his hand immediately.
The team behind him drove towards the village. There was a forest in the village. At this time, the forest, house and people seemed to be immersed in sleep. After blocking the retreat with a small team, Oda led the soldiers into the village. As the local dogs barked, the soldiers broke open the door. The villagers panicked, and they looked at the Eastern soldiers who were rushing into their homes in horror.
Captain Oda gave the order.
"Search away all the food and take away all the animals!"
At dawn, gunfire suddenly sounded, and the night seemed to be awakened, and the forest and the village were in panic. Japanese soldiers holding bayonets began to sweep from house to house, robbing whatever they saw, food, iron pots, cows, donkeys, sheep, and chickens.
In the small ditch beside the village, hundreds of people who were driven here were frightened and trembled like sieve. They all lay their faces on the ground and trembled all over for the disaster, as if they saw a terrifying hell. Now they are even beginning to regret it. Why not hide from the soldiers? If they hide from the soldiers, they will not suffer from this disaster at all.
For thousands of years, Chinese farmers have sweated and worked day and night, but in the end they have been tying up their backs and have been unable to stand up. The farmers have lived such hopeless poverty for generations. Now, these farmers, facing the loess and facing the sky, have to go through this war again.
A young man's body was lying there by the dry ditch. This was a rebellious boy. An old woman held the corpse and leaned her head against the corpse and cried loudly. The young man's bloodless face was placed on the old lady's knees and hung down weakly. The old lady's wrinkled hands were stained with blood. She gently stroked the boy's face with this hand, staring at the boy's expressionless face in a daze, and burst into tears.
After driving the whole village into the small ditch, soldiers immediately aimed the gun at them, and a sergeant suddenly stopped him.
"They are all people. If they are innocent, if they hand over their food, they will give them a life!"
These civilians are innocent and have no reason to shoot these kind people.
"The Chinese have killed so many of us, and we have to kill a few of them no matter what!"
Another Cao Chang said with some resentment that there were still several older farmers who were brought over. They knelt on the ground and asked for forgiveness. But no one paid attention to their prayers. He heard a "ah" sound, and the soldier's bayonet stabbed at one of them. The man fell to the ground. The others were even more panicked and shouted instinctively:
"Sir! Sir!" He kept kowtowing while holding his fists.
The stabbed person struggled in pain, grabbed his fingers everywhere on the ground, and after a while, he was stabbed again, and he was stabbed twice.
Then he died. Only the shouts of "Ah!" echoed in the air, and a moan came from the ground. After that, all the six people pulled out were killed, all of them were bare-handed civilians.
The sound of vomiting blood, angry moans and the shouts made during the murder disappeared, leaving only the cricket's corpse and blood shining in the morning sun. They were not Chinese soldiers, but kind old men. Just because they failed to leave their hometown, and because the kind of invaders were killed and injured by the guards on the battlefield and had nowhere to vent, they were hit by the catastrophe.
They were a group of innocent and kind farmers who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. Faced with such a group of people, some people could not raise the bayonet, but some soldiers slashed without any scruples.
The infantry squadron responsible for guarding the entrance of the village raised rifles and guns to target the farmers who fled everywhere. They fired guns with "bang, bang, bang". Dozens of villagers who wanted to escape were knocked over to the ground by bullets. Most of the ones killed by the Japanese were elderly, weak and unable to escape.
After a while, a red sun rose from the distant horizon. The brilliant rising sun shone in the woods. A few wisps of smoke rose from the villages in the distance and the nearby woods. The smoke rose in the sun. This was to make breakfast!
The dogs in the village stopped barking, the gunshots stopped, the women cried, the groans and curses of death disappeared, and the early morning came. The Japanese soldiers who had plundered the food carried the food onto the stolen truck, and then divided some of them to send the food to the main force and still advanced inland. They only got enough food for the troops to eat for two days in that village.
"Asshole's china plane, if not for them..."
While marching with a rifle, Shigeru Tano cursed the Chinese plane and of course the Chinese navy. It was their bombing and shelling that forced his brigade to collect grain, a risky road.
If it were in the past, this might be nothing, but now, the only heavy weapon of the entire brigade is three heavy machine guns. Apart from that, there is nothing left, the troops lost most of the heavy equipment in bombing and artillery attacks, and what does this mean? Even if he is not an officer, he knows that this means that the Chinese Army may launch an attack at any time, and then they only need to bombard the cannon to end the battle.
The sun is still radiating light like a burning fireball. The vast earth extends to the horizon, with the earth in front, back, left and right, flat, without shade, like the earth in the green ocean. The sky is blue and blue, without a piece of white clouds, and the flame-like sunlight shines from the sky, and there is not even a trace of wind in the air.
In the vast fields, the Fifth Brigade, which crossed the river, marched quickly on dirt roads and field paths. Continuous combat troops appeared in the wheat fields and disappeared into the smoke and hail in the distance. Several cars loaded with shells raised waves of dust and ran wildly, and horses neighed in the dust.
Six horses were dragging field cannons and marching in the flying dust. The baggage soldiers with naked bodies were following behind the large army like bandits carrying a box of ammunition. Among them, the cart was led forward by horses, cows and donkeys. On the cart, the soldiers sitting on it overlapped like luggage.
More soldiers marched among the fields, and the soft fields only made them more tired. Although it was the end of October, they still felt that the weather was too hot, their throats were smoked, and they didn't even sweat. Some people wanted to sit down, but immediately kicked and ran away amid the officers' screams and scolded them. The soldiers carrying rifles complained, but they could only accept their fate and march forward.
From getting up at 2 a.m. and walking until now, marching and forcing the force, accompanied by hunger. When hunger is still there, the soldiers just grab a handful of "marching rice" from the dry food bag, drink a sip of water, and then continue to march.
Wu Peifu, who was riding on the horse, looked at the map. At this time, his face was covered with dust, but there was a smile on his face. Now it was time to beat the dog in the water.
"Tell brothers, hurry up, nine o'clock, nine o'clock, I want the Japanese to taste our shells!"
Sixty-eight-five!
This is the location where the main force of the brigade starts from the coast, and the military command only gave him six hours in total, which means that every hour, the troops have to walk ten miles before they can reach the reserve position within the scheduled time and encircle the Japanese army on the coast.
After giving the order, Wu Peifu grabbed a handful of "marching rice" from the dry food bag. When he chewed the rice, he made a crisp sound in his mouth. Marine rice was not the way to eat it, but now he can only eat it like this.
The march rice was developed by the parade office to ensure military supplies during the New Army Conference in the late Qing Dynasty. It is very simple to make. It is washed with high-quality rice and soaked in water for 50 minutes. After drying and wet, steaming it in steamer and then drying in a steamer. When needed, it can be eaten after soaking in water for 20 minutes. It is called "convenient rice", but soldiers prefer to call it "march rice".
The marching rice of the Jiangsu Army is different from the marching rice that Wu Peifu has come into contact with. This marching rice has some salty and spicy flavor, and it also has dried onion leaves and even diced dried meat. It tastes very good to soak it in boiling water. However, now there is no time to soak the rice. When you are hungry, you will grab it and stuff it directly into your mouth.
"Where is the tenth regiment?"
Thinking of it, he turned around and a soldier wearing Jiangsu Army uniform on the side was carrying a radio station. If he hadn't come to Jiangsu, he had no idea that the communication between troops was so simple here. Only such a radio station was needed, and the commander could grasp the situation of any troops.
"Catch the 10th regiment immediately!"
On the back slope of the nameless hillside, Zhou Shaobai looked into the distance with a telescope. More than ten minutes ago, he received a report from the search platoon that a Japanese army of about a thousand people were collecting grains everywhere and killing a large number of villagers during the process of collecting grains.
"You can't let them go no matter what!"
Zhou Shaobai whispered in his heart.
"Sir, the brigade commander's phone number!"
After receiving the phone call and hearing the brigade commander's inquiry, Zhou Shaobai immediately reported to the brigade commander, and then reported his thoughts of ambushing. Then the radio station was silent for a moment.
"Sir, the Eastern Army is here!"
The screams came from around him, causing Zhou Shaobai to quickly pick up the telescope. No, the Japanese soldiers were marching in a marching line on the dirt road.
"Sir, the Japanese army is here..."
Zhou Shaobai asked softly at the radio microphone.
"Well, you need to fight quickly. If you are too late to meet, don't wait for me to give orders. Just swallow your gun!"
"yes!"
"What's going on? Now they're there!"
Handing the microphone to the correspondent soldier sent by the Jiangsu Army, Zhou Shaobai asked at the chief of staff beside him, and while saying that, he held the telescope tightly to observe.
"Then! We walked towards us from that gap, and it is impossible to determine whether it is an enemy or a friend."
"It must be that the Japanese don't have our friendly troops here!"
"But this is too majestic! It's a four-row column."
"Wait until they get closer. Everyone should pay attention to concealment. Light machine guns, put on bullets! Call heavy machine guns."
Zhou Shaobai's voice was very harsh, and the soldiers were very nervous. The mortars had already set up mortars, and even the four mountain cannons in the regiment were set up.
This time it wasn't someone else's war, the fire had already burned to their own bodies! The heavy machine guns were installed, and all the battalions and companies were ready to concentrate their firepower and fire, waiting for the enemy to approach.
In sight, this very calm four columns marched on the dirt road bravely, and did not notice a unit waiting for it to enter the ambush circle.
"Dog god!"
Zhou Shaobai, who was gritting his teeth, was trembling with excitement as he spoke.
"Sir, are you shooting now?"
"No, wait a little longer. Get closer, wait until they come to the front, shoot together, inform the battalions and companies, and start fighting in a while, and fight hard, rush hard, chase hard, and chase hard, in short, don't let one go!"
Unable to curb the excitement in his heart, Zhou Shaobai said loudly.
Obviously, the Japanese army was marching and did not know that there was an ambush and was still strideing forward. Perhaps the grain collection was so smooth that they forgot that they were in the "enemy area".
On the back slope of the slope, the soldiers lay tightly on the ground, holding the guns firmly, and staring at the enemy who was gradually approaching in an extremely tense atmosphere.
The enemy troops gradually grew larger in their sight, with distances ranging from one thousand meters to eight hundred meters, five hundred meters, four hundred meters, three hundred meters, two hundred meters, and one hundred meters.
"beat!"
Zhou Shaobai ordered sternly. As soon as the sound fell, a storm-like salvo burst out instantly, and bullets shot towards the enemy like a sea of bullets, and at the same time the mortars and mountain cannons behind them sounded at the same time.
In the volley of guns and cannons, the marching team was suddenly in shock, terror, chaos, and screaming. Under the strait of dozens of light and heavy machine guns, the enemy fell down, and the orderly column fell. When the Japanese army tried to organize resistance, the surrounding bullets still refused to stop chasing them.
The machine guns were shooting uninterruptedly, and the machine guns roared like a god of death sickle. The dense mortar shells instantly flipped the ground under their feet. In the flying shrapnel, the Japanese troops trying to organize resistance had no power to fight back. Most of the Japanese troops just hid in chaos, shocked, roared, clamored, screamed wildly, and ran back and forth on the battlefield like a madman. Both people and machinery were trembling because of this fierce and enthusiastic scene.
More than ten minutes later, the first battalion of the tenth regiment reserve team launched a charge. The soldiers carried rifles in one hand and grenades in the other. When they were still dozens of meters away from the enemy, they first threw grenades, which caused another round of tides to calm down. They were holding rifles and bayonets, rushing towards the remaining enemies.
For this Japanese army that suffered a raid, everything was over. The soldiers of the First Battalion rushed forward, and four or five people formed a team and used bayonets to fight with the remaining troops in hand-to-hand combat, but more soldiers used submachine guns and light machine guns to defeat the remaining enemies.
"No living!"
Under this order, the soldiers stabbed all the Japanese wounded soldiers who fell to the ground with bayonets. For a moment, the enemy's corpses were everywhere, and blood stained the ground red.
After the short battle, Zhou Shaobai, who rode a war horse again, glanced at the corpse on the ground, with contempt on his face. Since he learned that they killed the common people, he had never thought of keeping them alive. Killing is not a sin, it is loyalty to the motherland. In his opinion, he and his brothers came here with such loyal hearts to kill the enemy and serve the country!
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