The last of the devils could no longer rush, and the remnants of the defeated army would be besieged in a small depression.

Raindrops fell from the sky in dense numbers, gunshots and explosions continued, and all the devils knew that death was just around the corner.

Both the intact soldiers and the wounded sat or lay in the muddy water, tired and desperate.

The moaning is very harsh, and people with weak nerves will go crazy. In fact, many of the devil's wounded are already insane and talking nonsense.

Several mortar shells passed through the rain curtain and fell head-on, and explosions were heard one after another.

But the devils seem to have become numb, and most of them don't even have the action to dodge, and still maintain their original posture.

Elsewhere there was still gunfire, and although there were still sporadic soldiers fighting stubbornly, the devil commander was desperate.

There are too many enemies around, not to mention a breakthrough, even to rendezvous with sporadic troops, it is impossible now.

Moreover, the rendezvous was only a larger number of people, and it lasted longer, but it was still surrounded by the enemy.

But just sitting and waiting to die is obviously not the character and style of this guy.

This stubborn and murderous fellow, with a strong fighting spirit, stood up and made a dying speech.

Roughly speaking, the last moment has come, and everyone who can move will charge. Weapons, what is picked. As for the wounded who can't move, I'm sorry, so I have to let the living officers guide the wounded soldiers to the underworld.

Most of the devils rushed up, and they were all clamoring to charge. However, there are dozens of people who lack arms and legs, and who are seriously injured and unable to move.

They make all kinds of pain, sadness, misery, and indifference expressions, reflecting the most basic human desire to survive.

A few junior officers obeyed the order, and the rest of the matter was simple. A bloody massacre began, and the scene was horrific and disgusting.

The inhuman officer pointed his pistol at him and killed the wounded soldiers one by one. Some of the wounded soldiers rolled around and fired several shots. The guns rang out in a dull manner, with only occasional magazine changes.

The rain curtain was dark, as if a shroud had been placed on the earth. The fighting continues, but it has been targeted killings, crushing groups of aggressors to powder.

Suddenly, in the midst of a frantic "squad cut", the devil commander began the final charge with the remaining devils.

The Japanese devils who committed suicide charged fell into madness and did not want to die at all, some were knocked down by bullets, but the rest continued to charge.

Among the fallen devils, the wounded and undead crawled forward with difficulty, as if they could enter their heavenly kingdom if they could advance forward. The piercing howls were mixed with the sound of gunfire, and it was extremely poignant.

This desperate charge was unexpected, and the devil actually relied on his life to rush out a few hundred meters.

But soon, the adjusted firepower made it difficult for the devil to advance.

Mortars, grenades, and light and heavy machine guns fired at the charging devils, beating the Japanese devils to the ground.

And behind the Japanese combat units, there were the ranks of wounded soldiers.

Some of them were holding broken guns, some were hanging bandages, and in addition to those who lacked arms and legs, some were blinded; Some of the wounded soldiers supported each other in pairs, and some hugged each other in threes and fives; Some had guns but no bullets, some had only a bayonet, some had a grenade, and some wounded soldiers didn't take anything at all.

They walked slowly, jumping, cowering, squirming, howling, crying, laughing. They also knew in their hearts that they couldn't kill a few enemies at all, just a disguised "collective seppuku".

Under the rain of bullets, the Grim Reaper unceremoniously took away those wounded Japanese soldiers, no matter what thoughts, virtues, beliefs, loves, and sins they had before they were alive.

The evil life of the devil commander has also come to an end.

A string of machine-gun bullets hit him in the chest, and without any stirring motion, not even a short rhetoric, he fell into the mud with dirty blood, like a dead dog.

The gunfire gradually thinned out, but the rain did not stop, and the remnants of the devils were still resisting, but they were only two or three shares, and each was no more than a few dozen people in their dying struggles.

Brigade Commander Chen walked on the battlefield of flesh and blood, picked up a blood-stained cloth wrapped around the head of the devil's corpse, and looked at the words "Serve the country with iron and blood, crush the enemy" on it, and surprisingly did not have a mocking expression.

The suicidal charge of the Japanese devils did not cause much damage, and it was not much greater than the price paid for hard gnawing, or even much less. Now everything is simple, even the wounded soldiers are dying cleanly.

Looking at this tragic battlefield, Brigade Commander Chen shook his head slightly.

The Japanese devils are really an unreasonable people. But it is better to die on the way to charge than to be killed, isn't this spirit worth learning for soldiers?

Of course, the strength of both sides in any battle is made up of many factors: troops, firearms, logistics, commanders, morale, training, surprise attacks, and fortuitous ......

Only a similar strength can be called a battle, and a disparity in strength can only be called suicide for the weaker side.

Not far away, a clay man-like devil suddenly jumped up, howled frantically and pulled the grenade on his body, and in the flames of the explosion, several fighters fell.

"The large force gradually withdrew from the battlefield, leaving only a small number of soldiers to search for the remnants of the enemy in a skirmish line." Brigade Commander Chen frowned and gave the order.

The small group of devils doesn't seem to be very terrible now, but the terrible thing is the madman who lies in the mud and pretends to be dead, and suddenly pops out.

"Yes!" The herald saluted and left.

The rain fell densely and the visibility was poor, which created the conditions for the suicide attacks of the devils.

Brigade Commander Chen and the guards around him didn't notice that a few dozen meters away, a devil who had been stunned by a shell in the mud woke up and was moving slowly.

This devil was covered in mud and water, and he couldn't see a human form anymore, only those crazy eyes still showed a little human characteristics.

The grenade was clenched in his hand, and the devil crawled forward, approaching.

Although Brigade Commander Chen was wearing a raincoat without any military rank mark, the protective posture of the guards around him, the arrangement of the guards as if facing the enemy, and the salute of the herald just now, still betrayed his identity.

The devil didn't know who it was, but he was sure it was a big official, and he finally approached within thirty meters with difficulty and insidiousness, jumped up violently, howled and raised his arms.

Smack! A gunshot rang out, the devil was like an electric shock, his body paused, and the grenade also lost its strength, and he barely threw it out for about ten meters.

The guards kept on guard, but they didn't expect a devil to be in the mud not far away.

But he was stunned for less than a second, and several guards opened fire while surrounding the commander tightly.

Smack! Another gunshot rang out, and the devil jerked backwards and fell.

In the distance, Chu Jiao and Zhang Chengfu pulled the bolt, loaded the bullet, maintained a shoulder-firing posture, cooperated with each other, guarded the movement on the battlefield, and slowly walked over.

"It's Gillian and Chengfu." Brigade Commander Chen laughed, stretched out his hand to pull out the guards, and beckoned to the two people who walked over.

Chu Jiao and Zhang Chengfu, in double sniper mode, have already made a name for themselves in the Dabie Mountain base area.

It is not the base area of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, but the border area of the Anti-Japanese War behind the enemy lines of the National * Army.

That's right, it was not only the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and other miscellaneous armed forces that fought behind enemy lines, but also the formed national * army.

At the beginning of the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance, the GM Party only attached importance to the frontal battlefield, "emphasizing the regular army, and there were only a few self-defense army volunteers in various regions, similar to guerrilla organizations".

However, with the loss of large areas of land such as Pingjin, Shanxi, Hebei, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, and the rapid defeat of the regular troops of the GM Party, many people of insight deeply felt that China "with inferior equipment, it will certainly not get very good results if it fights with the enemy on a single line at one point."

As a result, the arguments of "all-out war" and "all-out war" became the most popular terms at that time.

The Nationalist Government is also aware of this. In order to adapt to the new situation, the Military Commission formulated a new plan on December 13, 1937, pointing out that "the purpose of the Kuomintang * Army to ensure the core of Wuhan, protracted war of resistance, and strive for the final victory should use all theaters as corridors to launch a vast guerrilla war."

On January 8, 1938, Chiang Zs convened an important military conference in Hankou to discuss tactics against the enemy.

At this meeting, Bai Chongxi proposed: In terms of tactics, "guerrilla warfare should be coordinated with regular warfare, guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines should be strengthened, the occupation of areas should be expanded, the people in the occupied areas should be won over, the enemy should be harassed, and the enemy should be confined to the occupation of points and lines."

At the same time, the crackdown on pseudo-organizations has developed from military warfare to political warfare and economic warfare, and then gradually to all-out warfare and overall warfare, so as to achieve the effect of "accumulating small victories into big victories and exchanging space for time."

Bai Chongxi's suggestion was adopted by Chiang Zs, and he immediately ordered all theaters to intensify guerrilla warfare.

Of course, there was another reason why Chiang ZS gradually attached importance to guerrilla warfare.

After the fall of North China, almost all the GM Party forces, especially the descendants of the army, retreated. The Eighth Route Army penetrated deep behind enemy lines and quickly developed and established large base areas.

It was the lessons of North China that made Jiang Zs alert, and after the loss of Shanghai and Nanjing, he deliberately left Han Deqin's troops of about 100,000 soldiers and horses in northern Jiangsu, and Liao Lei's 70,000 troops in northern Anhui.

The convening of the Hankow Conference marked the initial formation of the GM Party's guerrilla tactical thinking behind enemy lines, but what did not match it was the lack of guerrilla theory.

Of course, through the experience of "encircling and suppressing" the Red Army five times, the party learned and became familiar with guerrilla tactics, and some of them were studied and applied.

After that, the Kuomintang army established a number of guerrilla headquarters, as well as guerrilla units organized from the regular army.

For example, in northern Jiangsu, there is Li Mingyang's guerrilla headquarters in the Lusu-Anhui border area; Chen Taiyun Northern Jiangsu Advance Team; Luxi (west of Weishan Lake) has the base camp of the anti-Japanese war forces behind enemy lines in Shandong, with regular troops and many guerrilla forces cooperating; In northern Anhui, there was the Huaibei People's Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Army of Zhang Yichun, the commander-in-chief of the Anhui guerrillas; In eastern Henan, there is the general guerrilla headquarters of Sun Tongxuan and He Zhuguo in the Henan-Anhui border region, which consists of the guerrilla headquarters in eastern Henan and the guerrilla headquarters in the Henan-Lu border region, with dozens of columns and more than 10 detachments.

In addition, there were Liao Lei's 21st Group Army in Dabie Mountain, Xu Yuanquan's 26th Group Army, Zhang Yichun's Anhui Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Army, Wang Maogong's Jiangsu Advance Army, Zhang Zhen's Yudong Advance Army, Eastern Hubei Guerrilla Column, Dabie Mountain Guerrilla Column, and so on.

However, during the eight years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party devoted themselves to building anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines, but the results were very different.

By about 1943, the anti-Japanese base areas of the GM Party had basically been lost. Nearly one million guerrilla forces behind enemy lines were almost completely lost by 1945.

On the contrary, the anti-Japanese base area of the GC* Party rapidly expanded from a corner of northern Shaanxi to more than 10 provinces. The armed forces behind enemy lines have also grown from tens of thousands at the beginning to nearly one million at the time of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

Why are the outcomes of the two so different when they are carrying out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines and operating anti-Japanese base areas behind enemy lines?

First of all: the battlefield behind the enemy line of the GM Party repeatedly cooperated with the frontal battlefield, attracting the Japanese army to sweep frantically.

Unlike the CPC's ability to uphold "independence and self-determination" in guerrilla warfare, although Chiang ZS put forward the slogan that "guerrilla warfare is higher than regular warfare," the main purpose of the activities of the anti-Japanese units in the various guerrilla areas of the GM Party is still to serve the regular warfare on the frontal battlefield, and the degree of freedom of combat is actually not high.

This kind of "serving regular warfare" is divided into long-term and short-term. As far as the long-term role is concerned, since the GM Party High Command made the decision on guerrilla warfare and advocated guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, the GM Party has invested more than 1 million troops behind enemy lines at its peak.

The short-term role is to cooperate with the frontal battlefield and assist in the main campaign.

For example, during the Battle of Xuzhou, in order to prevent the Japanese army from reinforcing the army, the guerrilla troops of the Second Theater made an all-out attack to attack the enemy and harass the enemy; Another example is that during the three battles of Changsha, the guerrilla forces of the Ninth Theater launched a large-scale attack and assisted the field army in destroying all the highways north and south of the Miluo River, making it impossible for the enemy's heavy vehicles to pass.

All this prompted the Japanese army to continuously intensify its sweeping efforts against the GM Party base areas and guerrilla units behind enemy lines. In particular, every time after cooperating with the regular battle on the frontal battlefield, it will provoke a brutal sweep by the Japanese army in retaliation.

The more you interact with the frontal battlefield, the more sweeps you will incur. Each time it cooperates, it means a reduction in the base area. This phenomenon did not only happen to the GM Party - after the GC* Party forces launched the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, it also incurred the same result.

Second, the guerrilla tactics of the Kuomintang are incorrect, and to put it bluntly, they are actually fighting guerrilla warfare by the method of fighting regular warfare.

Because of the excessive emphasis on coordination with the frontal battlefield, the Kuomintang army has on many occasions unconsciously changed guerrilla warfare into corps warfare.

When the Japanese army swept the base areas, it was often like a frontal battlefield where every inch of land was contested. As a result, losses are often enormous.

For example, Wei Lihuang's Zhongtiao Mountain base area, with high ditches and deep fortifications, has actually lost the advantage of being mobile and flexible in guerrilla warfare.

The consequence of the guerrilla warfare turning into positional warfare was that the fortifications were breached by the Japanese army, the troops in the base area suffered serious losses, and the Nakajo Mountain base area was completely lost.

In contrast, the tactics of the GC* party forces behind enemy lines were much more flexible.

They often resorted to the methods of clearing the wilderness and shifting their strategy to avoid the advance of the Japanese army, and rarely adopted the practice of holding on to their base areas.

The guiding ideology of its operations is to preserve the strength of its troops as much as possible, not to preserve its territory.

In other words, it means strictly implementing the so-called "16-character" principle: "When the enemy advances, we retreat, when the enemy is stationed, we disturb, when the enemy is tired, we fight, and when the enemy retreats, we pursue."

Obviously, the Japanese army did not have many ways to deal with this strategy, because the Japanese sweep was obviously temporary and could not last, and it was even more impossible for the Japanese army to establish a solid ruling order in remote rural areas.

It was precisely because of the minimization of troop losses that whenever the Japanese retreated, the guerrilla units of the GC* party always had enough strength to make a comeback.