Chapter 202: Song Jiawa fights fiercely
The commander of the Japanese army, Kenkichi Ueda, was attacked by the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army at night, and sent a small unit with strong combat effectiveness to sneak attack, causing some casualties.
Before dawn, the 24th Brigade suddenly launched a breakthrough attack on the east end of the temple and Mai's house through the morning fog, and Yang Bufei's headquarters of our 264th Brigade resisted bravely, and finally because of the fierce Japanese offensive, it launched an extremely tragic battle with the enemy at the front of the position.
Due to the indiscriminate bombardment of our army's forward positions by Japanese artillery fire in the early morning, the fortifications that were urgently repaired were destroyed many times, the casualties were heavy, and the situation was precarious.
The forward position of the 262nd Brigade was supported by the artillery fire of Wang Feng's sneak attack to occupy the position of the Japanese artillery squadron, but the sudden increase in the main force of the Japanese Ninth Division made the battlefield pressure on the Miaohang front line more prominent.
According to Jiang Guangding's commander-in-chief, Wang Feng ordered to use the captured Japanese artillery positions to support our tense positions with the most intense artillery fire, but the Japanese launched a frantic attack, causing great pressure on the defenders.
While ordering the soldiers around him to strike at the attacking Japanese army with the heaviest firepower according to the range of fire provided by our forward troops and the coordinates provided, he paid close attention to Cui Minghao, the commander of the 186th Regiment, and led a battalion to rescue the villagers of Songjiawa.
In order to give full play to the power of the captured Japanese artillery, mortars, and grenadiers, he contacted the head of Cui Minghao in time and asked about the situation of rescuing Songjiawan.
Cui Minghao led a battalion to cross the line of fire at the fastest speed and appeared in Songjiawa, approaching the southern entrance of Songjiawa, and the troops received an order to stop advancing.
The cautious regimental commander Cui sent four squads with strong combat effectiveness, each team of 15 people, led by a platoon commander, to touch into Songjiawa to investigate, once encountering the enemy, lead the enemy to an ambush circle set up outside the village, and never fall in love with the battle.
The four squads that entered the village saw the villagers jumping from the streets and alleys when they saw the village being ravaged by the Japanese army, and suddenly came out of the alleys of the streets, like being chased by hungry wolves, howling and not knowing where to flee.
The devils of less than one squadron of the Japanese army, in order to retaliate against Wang Feng, destroyed the front command post of the Fujiwara Wing by artillery fire, resulting in all the commanders being killed, and took extremely cruel revenge on Song Jiawa, rushed into the house and drove the people out of the house, and concentrated on the Japanese Fujiwara front command post that was destroyed into ruins by artillery fire.
The villagers who were driven out resisted a little and waited for an opportunity to escape, but they were either shot and killed by the pursuing Japanese soldiers, or they were caught and stabbed to death by a few little devils.
The soldiers of the 186th Regiment, who discovered the atrocities of the Japanese army, saw that the Japanese army treated the people so cruelly, and they couldn't bear it, so they used the courtyard of Songjiawa's house as a cover to start a fierce battle between the Japanese soldiers who appeared.
The Japanese squadron leader suddenly heard fierce gunfire in the village, and ordered a squad to escort the captured villagers to the ruins to prepare for concentrated shooting, and ordered the other two squads to immediately reinforce the compound where the gunshots were heard.
The four squads of the 186th Regiment, which had engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese army, were sent to the village to reconnoitre, and they engaged the Japanese in the village, only making a short fire counterattack, and immediately feigned defeat, retreating to the south of the village while counterattacking.
The Japanese squadron leader erroneously believed that in the rear of the large Japanese army, there was a sneak attack by a small group of the Chinese army, especially during the day, and there would never be a large army in ambush outside the village, and ordered two small groups of Japanese troops to increase their firepower in pursuit.
The head of Cui Minghao, who was lying in ambush outside the village, heard fierce gunfire in many places in the village, and they got closer and closer to the south of the village, and ordered the companies in ambush to prepare for battle, and once the Japanese pursuers entered the ambush circle, block the retreat route, and wipe them all out with the most fierce firepower.
Four squads lured the Japanese army to pursue, led the enemy's two squads to the south of the village, and the seemingly invincible panic fled southward, and the leader of the devil squadron led the Japanese army to chase more than ten meters south of the village, and ordered to stop the pursuit and return to the village immediately, killing all the captured villagers.
The four small units of the Zhina who continued to flee south after 'breaking out' out of the village found that the pursuing Japanese troops had stopped at the entrance of the village and had not caught up, so they turned around and were about to retreat to the village, and under the order of the deputy battalion commander who led the team, they pounced on the entrance of the village as fast as possible and shot the Japanese soldiers who were about to retreat to the village.
The Japanese squadron leader saw that the desperate Shina sneak attack on the small unit, and sent it to the door himself, and roared angrily: "Stop retreating to the village, and destroy this Zhina unit that does not know whether it is alive or dead as quickly as possible." ”
The deputy battalion commander led the four small units that gathered together to draw out the Japanese troops who were about to retreat to the village again, and blocked the two Japanese squads that were pursuing them with the most intense firepower, but they were outnumbered due to insufficient firepower and retreated while fighting.
After fighting and retreating, the two Japanese squads were led out of the village for more than 50 meters, and most of the Japanese troops had already entered the ambush circle led by Commander Cui Minghao and a battalion.
The Japanese squadron leader saw that the small Chinese troops who had stopped and retreated, were completely enraged, brandished his command knife and was about to give the order to pursue with all his might, when he suddenly realized that there seemed to be an ambush nearby, so frightened that he brandished his command knife and pointed at Song Jiawa and shouted: "Retreat, quickly retreat to the village." ”
The Japanese squadron had already been lured out of Songjiawa 50 meters and into the ambush circle of a battalion of the 186th Regiment
Regiment Commander Cui Minghao first fired the first shot to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army, and more than 200 soldiers poured the firepower of their weapons into the Japanese army that broke into the ambush circle.
The Japanese squadron leader's premonition was very accurate, and he recognized the danger and ordered the troops to retreat quickly, but it was too late
In the fierce gunfight of more than 10 minutes, no matter how strong the Japanese troops were in combat capability, when they were outnumbered, especially if they fell into the encirclement that had been laid in ambush long ago, they could not easily break through the encirclement and escape back to the village smoothly
In the battle of life and death, the soldiers who fought with the enemy had forgotten their attachment to life, forgot the children who were waiting to be fed at home, forgot the gray-haired parents and the elderly, and forgot the wife who worked in the fields and in the stove for him.
In their eyes, the villagers of Song Jiawa are the closest people, and as long as they live, they will kill this group of Japanese army devils who brutalize their relatives.
At this time, every soldier regarded the devil trapped in the ambush circle as a trapped beast, fighting with the enemy with a gun, and was ready to die with the enemy at the last moment of his life.
After more than half an hour of fierce fighting, the two Japanese squads that were lured to the outside of the village desperately escaped a dozen of them, and the rest were all wiped out.
Commander Cui Minghao waved the gun in his hand and shouted: "Rush into the village to rescue the villagers who were captured by the little devils, rush——。 ”
The devils, who were left in the village with less than a Japanese squad, were wantonly arresting and killing villagers in the village with great ferocity, and when they heard the fierce gunfire from outside the village, they thought that the small unit that was being pursued would soon be wiped out under the powerful fire of the Imperial Japanese Army, so they did not care and became even more arrogant.