Chapter 119: Street Fighting (Part II)
After Guan Hong left, Liu Cheng left the courtyard and disappeared into the night again.
As time passed, the sky grew brighter.
For Ono Taro, this is a good thing.
He immediately ordered all the civilians to be driven near the gendarmerie, and the street fighting began in earnest.
In his opinion, in the daytime when the light was full, the fighters of the partisans simply could not be an opponent for the Japanese soldiers.
Indeed, there are many disadvantages after dawn, the first is that it is not conducive to concealment, and the second is that the commanding heights such as roofs are no longer suitable for hiding, otherwise they will become a living target for the enemy.
However, there are disadvantages and advantages, and the absence of the constraints of the common people is a relief for every fighter of the guerrillas.
After daylight, the gunfire in Huadian City began to gradually intensify, and there were certain casualties on both sides.
Zhang Guanyi once again drew more than 200 people from various teams into the city to support, and was bound to win the final victory in this battle.
Liu Cheng had just turned the corner of a room when he suddenly heard a sound above his head, and was about to raise his head, but someone patted him on the shoulder.
He subconsciously stabbed back with his hand, but unexpectedly, it was empty.
turned his head, but saw Yuan Desheng, who was wearing a Japanese military uniform, standing there looking at him with a smile.
The last time he broke through in Hongshi Mountain, Liu Chengcheng knew that Yuan Desheng's skills were good, and he really scared him just now.
Yuan Desheng approached Liu Cheng and whispered:
"You must be careful, the devil has withdrawn all the people, and it is estimated that he is going to come with us for real."
Liu Cheng nodded calmly and said:
"When did they come on vacation?"
As he was talking, several Japanese soldiers suddenly flashed at the entrance of the alley in front of him.
Liu Cheng pulled Yuan Desheng, who was facing away from the alley, and raised his hand to shoot two shots, hitting the devil in front, and then the two immediately left the place and turned into another alley.
The biggest difference between street fighting and positional warfare is that there is no long-term advantage.
Even if you have a temporary advantage in numbers or terrain and effectively hit the enemy, you must leave the place in a short time, otherwise the nearby enemy will quickly rush to reinforce after hearing the gunshots, and once surrounded, there will be no advantage.
At this time, although Ono Taro seemed to be calm and relaxed on the surface, he was actually extremely worried in his heart.
He didn't know how many of the people he sent out to send orders to the garrisons in various places to support him would be able to successfully leave.
Except for the guerrillas' combat effectiveness, the others who surrounded Huadian could barely see it.
But even so, once all those people entered the city, even if there were no guns, just relying on the crowd could exhaust his squadron.
But in this case, he had no other choice, no fortifications that he could hold onto, and no possibility of breaking through and succeeding.
As for those people, they can't always use them to contain each other.
After all, there are a lot of ordinary people, if they are still used as meat shields, when can these people be relieved, and then the two sides are so close, once the people collectively resist, then he will die unjustly.
Although there were no corpses everywhere in this battle, the casualties were indeed not small.
The reinforcements that Zhang Guanyi sent into the city after dawn were mainly to carry the wounded.
After Liu Cheng and Yuan Desheng quickly crossed a main street, they were confronted by more than a dozen members of the mountain forest team who had come to reinforce them.
They found a wounded Japanese soldier, who was so badly wounded that he was kneeling on the ground, unable to even hold a gun beside him.
Those people also saw that the Japanese soldier had lost the ability to resist, so instead of shooting, they went straight to the front and wanted to taunt and play.
When Liu Cheng saw them, those people were just about to surround the Japanese soldier.
In a hurry, Liu Cheng immediately shouted:
"Don't go over! Spread out! ”
But he was still a step too late, and after a violent explosion, the dozen or so people fell to the ground in a wail.
Before he died, the Japanese soldier not only pulled four people on his back, but the remaining seven or eight people were also injured by shrapnel to varying degrees.
One of them, whose eyes were wounded by shrapnel, was covered in blood and howled and got up from the ground, but hit the wall and fell again.
Yuan Desheng glanced at Liu Cheng, his face full of incredulity.
Liu Cheng stretched out his hand to help a young man with minor injuries, and while treating his wounds, he said to Yuan Desheng in a deep voice:
"Devils will not be taken prisoner easily, their belief is extremely strong, as long as there is a slight chance, they will die with us, so don't try to capture them, otherwise this is the end!"
Yuan Desheng watched the seriously injured man on the ground gradually lose his breath, and nodded silently.
Of the dozen or so people, only two of the slightly injured survived who were still able to walk.
Liu Cheng and Yuan Desheng simply didn't have enough time to bandage everyone's wounds, because soon the devils who heard the sound rushed here.
Those who were seriously injured and had difficulty moving could only watch the devil's bayonet stab into their bodies, feeling the gradual dissolution of life.
Regret is of no use, and their death can only serve as a warning lesson to the living, to make these people aware of the horrors of the Japanese army.
The reason why Liu Cheng shouted at the first time to let those people retreat and hide was because he had personally experienced this scene.
In his previous life, he fought with the Japanese for more than ten years, and only once did he capture a prisoner.
At that time, because those devils had run out of ammunition, the team was surrounded for four days and ran out of the last bullet.
But even so, they stubbornly stood up and fought with the fighters who entered the position with bayonets.
At that time, Liu Chenggang had just become the battalion commander, and when he saw this scene, he did not let people shoot, but ordered them to be captured alive.
Those devils were barely captured by them when everyone was wounded, but at the last moment, there was still a devil who left a grenade.
At that time, if his orderly hadn't rushed over and suppressed the devil and the grenade in his hand that was about to explode, Liu Cheng would have died long ago.
It is precisely because of this that he took matters into his own hands, executed the remaining two dozen people, and was also brought back from the battalion commander to the platoon commander.
Although he didn't know the members of these mountain and forest teams, after all, they were all anti-Japanese teams, even if they were bandits before, Liu Cheng didn't feel very comfortable.
Jilin City, Nomura Headquarters.
When Toshio Nomura wanted to contact Ono Taro in the morning, the phone didn't go through.
It made him wonder if something was wrong.
A few days ago, Ono Taro reported to him on the phone the news of Fan Hua's death and the annihilation of the 35th Regiment, and he dropped the phone in a fit of rage, but he didn't expect that he couldn't get through when he called again.
Nomura Toshio immediately asked someone about Huadian's daily report in the past few days, and found that Huadian had not reported the daily situation to the headquarters for two days, so he immediately ordered someone to ride to Huadian to check.