Chapter 33: Combined Strikes
"Grandma's, finally caught up!"
Huang Yida rode his horse to a stop on the edge of the battlefield, and through the binoculars he could clearly see that the infantry of the Japanese and German armies were fighting in front of the German defense line, while many Chinese civilians were left behind by the Japanese army, and only a small number of Japanese soldiers remained to guard these people.
After sending the vanguard to drive away the Japanese soldiers and rescue the Chinese civilians, Huang Yida led the main force to rush to the back of the Japanese army.
"Bastard! How dare these Chinese ......" Seeing this scene, Miyamoto was almost mad with anger, the Japanese infantry at the front had fallen into the sandwich between the German army and the Chinese army, although the number of Japanese troops there was not at a disadvantage, but after this sudden blow, the Japanese assault force had fallen into chaos.
"What about Murakami's cavalry? Where is it? ”
Without waiting for the staff officers to answer, Miyamoto Shu had already found them through the binoculars. Although the Murakami Cavalry Wing belonged to a regular cavalry unit, with less than 2,000 cavalry, how could he be the opponent of the 4,000 fierce Chinese cavalry who came to intercept him. Before approaching the center of the battlefield, Murakami's cavalry not only could not continue to advance, but was in danger of being surrounded by the opposing cavalry.
"Let Yamamoto's division come up with support!"
"General, Yamamoto Daisa's whereabouts are still unknown!" The staff officer cautiously reminded him.
"There's no way, just find a general to command!" Miyamoto was helpless, except for Yamamoto's division, the reserve only had his own direct troops.
"Yes!"
When the leaderless Yamamoto division moved slowly, Miyamoto Shu regretted that he had sent Yamamoto to persuade the Chinese army to retreat. In other words, a more seasoned general would never send the commander of a unit to do anything else before the battle, and Miyamoto had to pay for his youth.
At this time, in the center of the battlefield, the Chinese army had completely cut off the Japanese charging troops from the rear of the Japanese army, and the Chinese army under the pressure of black pressure had begun to advance. Under the pressure of the German soldiers, the Japanese began to retreat incessantly. Most of the Chinese captured by the Japanese were being evacuated from the battlefield with the help of the Xiangma soldiers, but there were still many unlucky Chinese civilians in the Japanese ranks, so both the German and Chinese armies decided to use hand-to-hand combat, the most primitive way to resolve the battle.
More than 7,000 German soldiers and more than 50,000 Chinese soldiers pressed down on the more than 50,000 Japanese soldiers in the center like two splints, and the momentum seemed to crush all the Japanese into mud.
The fear in the eyes of the Japanese soldiers became stronger and stronger, on the one hand, the German troops whose combat effectiveness was speechless, and on the other hand, the Shandong Han who begged for a living under the knife, the morale of both armies was extremely high because of anger, and the number of one-on-one made the Japanese have no advantage at all. The Japanese kept pulling the bolt and pulling the trigger, and the bullets kept coming out of the ranks of the Japanese soldiers, but the German and Chinese soldiers continued to advance without fear.
The Japanese soldiers began to regret that they had never carried machine guns in their assault units, but now they could not stop the advance of the two righteous armies with rifles in their hands.
"Brothers, kill! Kill the damn little devil! ”
In Huang Yida's thick shout, the Chinese army took the lead in sprinting with all their might, and most of the soldiers in black coarse cloth clothes slapped towards the yellow crowd like a black wave, and the gray shock wave on the other side also joined the sprint.
Two groups of people of different colors, skin tones, and faces rushed into the ranks of the Japanese soldiers, tearing the long line of Japanese soldiers to pieces. Although the power of this kick may not be as heavy as that of the Africans, this kick condenses the hatred of countless Chinese, and many Japanese soldiers were directly kicked to waste, or spit blood unconscious, or curled up on the ground and moved helplessly.
Although the Japanese soldiers were well equipped with rifles and bayonets, Huang Yida's soldiers all explored the most suitable weapons and moves for themselves in the warlord fight, and the machetes in the hands of the big men danced with tigers and tigers, and the brothers with rifles were also unequivocal, after avoiding the Japanese bayonets, they often smashed the bridge of the Japanese nose with a single butt.
The Japanese realized that they had miscalculated again, and that this group of men were clearly bandits with experience in fighting alone, even more terrifying than the violent German African soldiers. It was an eye-opener for the Japanese to see what moves could have been made in hand-to-hand combat, but unfortunately they didn't have the opportunity to recall this experience, because in the case of similar numbers, the Chinese soldiers would always toss these Japanese soldiers to death after finding their opponents.
Of all the Chinese soldiers, the most popular were Huang Yida's two special units. The soldier with the machete and revolver on his back first gave six rounds of pistol ammunition to five or six Japanese soldiers, then thrust the general into his waist and pulled out the machete with a wide and thick back from his back. The rifle bayonet in the hands of the Japanese soldiers was like a burning stick in front of them, and their moves were also very consistent. After hundreds of years, another Chinese army finally showed its might in front of the Japanese army.
One of Huang's special forces was a platoon regiment armed with Mauser rifles, and the soldiers here had an extremely accurate rate of fire, and they did not rush into the Japanese ranks, but hunted down the rows and piles of Japanese soldiers on the periphery. After a volley of shots, dozens of Japanese soldiers basically fell to the ground, and there were basically no accidental shots.
Compared with the imposing Chinese soldiers, the German soldiers seemed to be much more restrained, after all, they had already consumed a lot of physical strength in the previous battles, and many of them had suffered minor injuries of varying degrees. From the air, the gray crowd has basically stopped oppressing the yellow crowd, while the black crowd is frantically rushing and infiltrating. In many areas, the Japanese army has been divided one by one, and more and more German soldiers and Chinese soldiers have joined forces on this wonderful battlefield.
Because of the uniform and extremely obscene expressions of the Japanese soldiers, it was very easy for the soldiers of the German and Chinese armies to distinguish friend from foe, and when unfamiliar faces fought side by side, the soldiers of both armies felt a very natural sense of intimacy.
Everywhere there were scenes of Chinese soldiers and German soldiers helping each other, especially when they saw that the Shandong Han's kick was not hard enough, the African soldiers would often demonstrate it again, and then ask the Shandong Hans to practice again, at which time the Japanese soldier in front of them was basically drooping his head like a chicken that had unfortunately been trampled several times.
Seeing the strange and effective tricks of the Chinese soldiers, many German soldiers would also learn them with great interest. It was often the German soldier who grabbed the Japanese soldier's rifle and punched the Japanese in the face before snatching his rifle away. The following is the performance time of the Chinese soldiers, after repairing the Japanese soldiers with dragon fists, tiger fists, leopard fists, snake fists, crane fists or dragon claw hands, the Chinese soldiers will politely invite German friends to come up and try, after a few strokes, the German soldiers still feel that the fist is more direct, so after a punch to kill the Japanese soldiers, the two went to find their next abusive object.
Although there are always such comical scenes, intentional or unintentional, in war, the cruel nature of war will not change. The soldiers on both sides fought not only for their bodies and weapons, but also for willpower. Watching a companion or opponent who has been stabbed in the abdomen struggle in pain on the ground will have a different feeling in everyone's heart. Although the Japanese soldiers were of extremely poor character, we have to admit that they were also very resolute, and many Japanese soldiers clung to their opponents when they were dying, and a similar situation could be seen in the soldiers of the German and Chinese armies.
The advance and retreat of the two armies was not that one side was retreating, but that the soldiers on both sides were constantly falling, and the more falling side seemed to be retreating step by step. Fortunately, the Chinese and German soldiers were indeed stronger than the Japanese soldiers in individual combat ability, and as time passed, there were fewer and fewer Japanese soldiers standing on the battlefield.
With the general trend of the Japanese army gone, all the Chinese people who were captured were able to get out of the sea of suffering.
While the battle in the center of the battlefield was no longer so exciting, the battle to block the Japanese reinforcements became more and more intense. More than 4,000 Chinese cavalry, including 1,000 cavalry supported by Hu artillery, showed great bravery in the face of the Murakami Cavalry Wing and the subsequent Yamamoto Division.
In the confrontation with the soldiers of the Murakami cavalry wing and the sabers in their hands, this Chinese cavalry unit showed a certain advantage, these people used to be mostly bandits on horseback to beg for a living, even the infantry used long rifles are fast and accurate, and the revolver has a very high hit rate at close range, even in the saber fight, these Chinese soldiers are not left behind. In fact, apart from machine guns and artillery, the Japanese Army had nothing to show contempt for the Chinese army.
However, when more than 10,000 infantry from Yamamoto's division came up, the pressure on these Chinese cavalry was great. As the Japanese infantry marched slowly in a neat line, Japanese machine-gun bullets and field artillery shells also came at the same time. The cavalry was ordered not to attack the starting position of the Japanese, but for this group of Japanese infantry advancing step by step, these Shandong men did not flinch, they waved the weapons in their hands and bravely rushed towards the Japanese infantry, one by one the warriors and their horses fell under the Japanese platoon guns, and the people behind still rushed forward without hesitation.
Although the cavalry responsible for blocking the attack eventually suffered heavy casualties, they held back the Yamamoto division for a full hour, and at this time the battlefield was basically coming to an end, except for some Japanese soldiers who were still stubbornly resisting, most of the Japanese soldiers had lost their combat effectiveness.
"Grandma's, it's so cool!" Huang Yida gently blew the muzzle of his Luge 08, before he also rushed into the crowd of Japanese soldiers under the escort of his personal guards, and then practiced marksmanship with his baby pistol.
"Handsome, handsome! It turns out that you are here, why did you rush to the battlefield in person, it is too dangerous here! Second Lieutenant Hampell, escorted by several Chinese soldiers, rode to Huang Yida's side.
"Oh! It's Mr. Yang! I crawled out of the pile of dead people, and I haven't seen any scenes! You can ask these brothers under me, I didn't rush to the forefront of that battle! This is called 'leading the way' in our Chinese, don't you understand! Hahaha! Huang Yida laughed heartily.
Hampel was a little helpless, he felt that after all, the commander was the brain of the troops, and if the brain had any misfortune in battle, the troops would probably be like a vegetative person with a great reduction in combat effectiveness or even collapse.
"Marshal, our commander is invited, just over there on the defensive line!" Hampel said as he pointed to the German defensive positions not far away.
Huang Yida looked around, and in many places the Chinese and German soldiers had already begun to clean the battlefield and treat the wounded, so he called a few officers and gave instructions, and then went to the German line with Hampel.
Above the German defensive position, Lieutenant Colonel Ahrens was gulping in the air, and after this large-scale hand-to-hand bayonet battle, there was no smoke in the air that usually felt after the battle.
When he saw Hampel leading a few Chinese to the side of the defensive line, Ahrens sorted out his military uniform.
"Lieutenant colonel, this is the commander of the Chinese army, Huang Yida and Huang Dashuai!"
Ahrens arched his fist at Huang Yida, knowing that most Chinese still have this kind of etiquette, and then invited him to sit in the chair next to him.
Huang Yida was a little surprised, and after returning the salute, he sat down calmly.
"Rejoice! Today's battle is really a joy! The most important thing is that not too many villagers were injured, Mr. Yang, I thank you on behalf of these villagers who were captured by the Japanese! ”
Hampel was quick to translate his words to Ahrens.
"Oh! Mr. Handsome, you are so gracious! We should thank you for helping us out! I already know your relationship with our Prince of East Prussia, and I think he will be very happy to know about it! ”
Ahrens carefully observed the entire battle just now, and he found that although the Chinese army was not very well equipped, its combat effectiveness was very amazing. He made a rough estimate that the Japanese soldiers of the four divisions were basically annihilated, the German army suffered about 5,000 casualties, accounting for half of the defenders of this defensive line, and the Chinese army also suffered tens of thousands of casualties, many of which were still hit by Japanese rifle bullets before rushing into the Japanese ranks.
"Where, where! The grace of dripping water, when the spring is reciprocated, this is the tradition of our Chinese! By the way, Mr. Yang, what should we do next? ”
"Fight back!" Ahrens said without thinking. The overall situation of the battlefield here has been decided, so he has nothing to worry about in his heart, as long as he finishes cleaning up the Japanese troops below, the Sino-German coalition forces can directly approach the Japanese starting position and camp to fight a beautiful counterattack. Yesterday, Ahrens couldn't have even imagined this result, but now, he can finally proudly say the word "fight back".
Huang Yida slapped his thigh violently, "Okay! I like this! I want to kill all the Japanese who dare to set foot on Chinese soil! ”
"Yes, we now have the advantage of troops, and we should teach the Japanese army on the outskirts of Qingdao a painful lesson, so that we can not only relieve the siege of Qingdao, but also let the Japanese think about the consequences before the next attack!" Ahrens also looked forward to this beautiful result, as long as the siege of Qingdao was lifted, supplies would continue to come in. It's a pity that Qingdao's military resources are really limited, and now the German soldiers are sacrificing one less one, unlike the Japanese army, 10,000 dead will soon bring 10,000 or even more troops from the country, but if the Japanese are scared at one time, maybe the Japanese army will not dare to fight Qingdao's idea again.
"Grandma's! It's like I'm going to the hometown of the Japanese, to see if they dare to come! ”
Ahrens smiled indifferently, "I hope there is a chance!" Now, according to our intelligence, the Japanese army still has 1 division and 1 brigade, plus some sporadic troops, the number is about 30,000, and our two armies are now less than 50,000 people combined, and most of our artillery is behind the position, I am afraid it will be difficult to help when attacking the Japanese position, so we have to plan some how to attack! ”
"There's a bird! In my opinion, it's better to attack directly! Soldiers are fast, this is the reason of our Chinese! Huang Yida said nonchalantly.
Ahrens looked at his watch, and it was almost 12 noon.
"Let's finish the soldiers after lunch!"
Huang Yida was about to nod, but the report played by the German reconnaissance plane made the soldiers of the two armies have to be hungry for a while:
A division of the Japanese army has broken through the resistance of the Chinese cavalry and is approaching this side of the battlefield! Expect to arrive here in 15 minutes!
After a while, Huang Yida's cavalry also confirmed this situation.
"Great! We can hit them head-on first, and then go straight to their camp! This time there are no Chinese civilians, and our machine guns can finally exert their power! Ahrens suddenly became excited, and he immediately ordered the machine gunners who remained on the line to go down with light and heavy machine guns to join the troops on the battlefield, and then engage in a field battle with the Japanese troops who came to the rescue.
In the forward command of the Japanese army, the atmosphere of defeat became more and more intense.
"General, Chiki Daisa, who temporarily commanded the Yamamoto Division, sent a report that the four divisions of our first attack may not be left, has the Yamamoto Division stopped advancing?" The communications officer reported worriedly, for fear of being scolded by Miyamoto, but by this time Miyamoto seemed to have calmed down a lot.
"No, although most of the soldiers of those four divisions have been loyal, they have greatly depleted the enemy's strength and physical strength, and the enemy is already very weak at this time. Just one more straw can crush them, and the Yamamoto division is the last straw! Order Chiki Daisa not to be depressed, the victory or defeat of this battle is here! ”
In principle, Miyamoto Shu was not wrong in this inference, the soldiers of the German and Chinese armies were already exhausted, especially the countless lightly wounded, and they needed a period of rest and emergency treatment. However, he did not realize that the German machine guns, which had been so powerful in the last battle, had not yet gone berserk today.
"Also, let my brigades reconstruct the fortifications of our starting positions in case anything happens!"
Perhaps, Miyamoto Shu's last order was the most correct of the many orders he gave.