Chapter Forty-Six: Blocking the Pass

The excitement of the Japanese captain did not last long, and soon, his mouth opened into an "O" shape, and a duck egg could be stuffed inside!

This road is a winding mountain road, along the mountain beam, the ravine circling to the north, every time you encounter a mountain beam, a deep ditch, it must be from the mountain beam half slope obliquely downward, to the village at the bottom of the ditch, and then along the opposite side of the mountain beam obliquely upward, over the mountain mouth, continue to the next circle.

That is, around one bend after another, all of which are curves.

This area is the western foot of Taihang Mountain, with undulating hills and ravines, and this big road winds between the hills and ravines, and can only be built like this. Because this is a rocky mountain, there is no need for explosives to build roads, and ordinary people's iron picks and shovels can be excavated to build roads. If you build a road along the Xiushui River at the foot of the mountain, you have to build a bridge and use explosives to blow up the stone mountain to open the road, which is not feasible for the barren Taihang mountain people.

One day, the country road winding through the mountain beam, although it is a bit narrow, can only pass an ox cart or a horse-drawn cart, donkey cart, but it communicates the traffic from the old street to the Nanlou area of Yuxian County, and the mountain people for generations have passed through this mountain road to Yuxian Xia Old Street, exchanging the special products and prey in the mountains for the necessities of life.

Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, coal mines have been discovered here, and it has become an important coal-producing area at the junction of Yuxian County and Pingding and Shouyang, and this road has become busy. Before the Japanese army invaded Shanxi, the creaking sound of donkey carts echoed in the mountains every day on this road, and a truckload of coal was transported to the Shishi Railway Station in the Jiujie area, and transported to all directions through the Zhengtai Railway.

The little devil is coming, the tranquility of the deep mountains is broken, and this road can no longer carry the donkey cart pulling coal, and the corpse of the little devil is going to be paved!

When the road leads to the mouth of the mountain beam, it is dug down from the mountain beam and a pass is formed.

The inside of the pass, that is, close to the main body of the mountain beam, forms a smooth cliff face, and there is a row of caves in the middle of the cliff face, which is the place where the mountain people who built the road at the beginning eat and live.

On the outside of the pass, that is, on the side facing the Xiushui River Valley, there is a huge boulder, and there are two or three small holes behind the boulder, which are the places where the mountaineers who built the road at the beginning sheltered from the wind and rain.

Due to the boulder, this pass is very narrow, allowing only one ox cart, horse-drawn cart, or donkey cart to pass through.

At this moment, the second company and third platoon of the independent battalion of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army were hiding in the small hole behind the boulder and in the cave on the cliff, and their eyes were looking at the little devil who rushed up stupidly.

The mutation happened in the eyes of the Japanese captain in Nianzigou Village!

Peng Qun, the third platoon leader, was a native of Hunan and was originally a squad leader of the second battalion of the 685th Regiment; Ma Enzhu, the deputy platoon commander of the third platoon, was a native of Jiangxi and turned out to be a deputy squad leader of the first battalion of the 685th Regiment. Both of them were the first wounded to participate in the battle at the Tibetan Mountain Temple. At a time, the two of them had already recovered from their injuries and were alive and well.

Platoon commander Peng Qun took the first and third shifts to hide in the cave in the middle of the cliff face, and deputy platoon commander Ma Enzhu took the second squad to hide in the small hole behind the big rock.

Just when the Japanese army entered the Shanzui Pass, Peng Qun, who was hidden in the cave on the cliff face, roared "hit", and the shell gun in his hand swept towards the little devil below.

In an instant, the three Type 96 light machine guns in the third platoon and all the 38 big covers all opened fire, and the devil squad that entered the pass was shrouded in a rain of bullets.

The little devils have become frightened birds, and they can't be more careful, but they never thought that this was all entering the pass, and they saw that they were under control of the mountain mouth, but they were hiding in the cave on the cliff, in the low and low hole behind the big rock, and opened fire on them!

The bullets were flying, flying towards the heads, chests, and backs of the soldiers of the Little Devil Tip Squad.

Under the crossfire of three Type 96 light machine guns made by the Great Japanese Empire, and under the blows of dozens of 38 large covers and Arizaka bullets made by the Great Japanese Empire, this unfortunate squad of spearheads was instantly annihilated and lay down on the mountain road.

The mountain road is crooked, and it just happens to become the corpse field of the little devil!

The battle to eliminate the devil's spearhead squad was not even five minutes, and this was because the soldiers were afraid that the little devil would die uncleanly, so they shot the devil's corpse again!

After killing the Devil Spear Squad, the main force of the Devil Squadron following the Spear Squad has already pounced. Peng Qun commanded the first and third squads hidden in the cave in the middle of the cliff face to turn their guns to them, and the grenade was also thrown down from the cave, and the rumbling explosion sounded, and the flesh and blood of the little devils were flying, and the road was also dusty.

Just when Peng Qun and the others were cleaning up the main force of the devil infantry squadron that followed, Ma Enzhu, who was hidden in the small hole behind the big stone, led the second squad to kill, and the soldiers picked up three Type 96 light machine guns of the devil infantry squad, plus their original Type 96 light machine gun, a total of four light machine guns, all of which were set up on the big stone and fired at the devil infantry squadron that followed!

Cluck, cluck, the Type 96 light machine gun is singing, and the bullets are splashing towards the main force of the devil infantry squadron!

The devils who followed behind the spearhead squad were too anxious, they ran too fast, and the blow came so suddenly, they couldn't hold their feet at all, and under the blow of machine gun bullets, small melon grenades, and rifle bullets, they could only fall to the ground like dumplings!

The squadron leader of this devil squadron was transferred from the follow-up unit when the Japanese army was facing the unit on the opposite mountain just now, and he had just been the squadron leader for a while, and before he could write a letter to his wife and children at home to report the good news, he was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army.

At the moment of life and death, the blood on the leader of the devil squadron burst out, and the spirit of bushido also exploded!

The leader of the devil squadron led the squadron headquarters to walk at the back of the team, and there was a chance to escape, as long as he lay down on the ground or rolled down the hillside on the outer edge of the main road, or hid in the eaves on the inside of the main road, he was probably lucky to die.

But at this time, the leader of the devil squadron was so enthusiastic that he neither ran away nor hidden, on the contrary, what he shouted in his mouth was the Japanese that ordered the troops to shoot!

That's not all, the devil squadron leader pounced on a machine gun group, pointed the command knife in his hand obliquely at the Eighth Route Army's blocking position at the pass in front, and loudly ordered the machine gun team to shoot and grenadier shelling, dreaming of repelling the Eighth Route Army that blocked them!

If you don't die, you won't die!

The mountain road is so narrow, and the machine gun fire of the Eighth Route Army is so dense, the devil squadron leader is obviously dying!

The cave and big stone in the middle of the cliff face have become the best cover for the Eighth Route Army's blocking troops, and they occupy a condescending advantage.

The machine guns of the second company and the third platoon were singing, and the machine guns and 38 big covers of the devil squad led by the captain of the little devil squadron were also screaming, and for a while, the gunfire on the mountain road was intertwined, and the ears were full of gurgling, gurgling 96 light machine guns!

Since the independent battalion completely captured all the baggage of the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 118th Brigade of the 136th Brigade of the 109th Division of the Japanese Army in Yuxian City, it has not been short of ammunition. The three platoons held the main pass blocking position, carrying enough ammunition to use. In addition, after killing the devil's spearhead squad just now, the devil's three light machine guns and ammunition all fell into the hands of the second squad, and the soldiers could aim at the devil and fight hard, and there was no need to consider saving ammunition for the time being.

Deputy platoon commander Ma Enzhu's barge gun had already been inserted back into the wooden box, and at this moment, he was holding a newly captured Type 96 light machine gun, crawling behind the big rock, and was clucking, clucking!

After a shuttle was fired, when the magazine was replaced, through the smoke and dust of the grenade explosion, Ma Enzhu vaguely saw that about 500 meters away from him, there was a devil's machine gun firing wildly, and the bullet hit the outside of the big stone, chirping strangely. A devil officer, holding a command knife in his hand and a telescope on his chest, is directing machine-gun fire!

Ma Enzhu opened his mouth and scolded "** Mao Ash", quickly returned the magazine, put the butt of the gun firmly against the shoulder socket, and aimed at the devil officer and the machine gun team and pulled the trigger.

Gurgle, cluck, a shuttle of thirty bullets spat out from the muzzle of Ma Enzhu's machine gun, swept towards the devil squadron leader and the machine gun team he commanded, only to hear a few pops, the devil squadron leader appeared a few blood holes, his head tilted, and fell to the side of the devil machine gunner beside him.

The old devils who were lucky not to die on the mountain road have long been beaten stupid, just because the devil squadron leader took the squadron headquarters to supervise the battle behind the buttocks, these old devils in their thirties with wives and children at home did not dare to retreat, for fear that they would not die under the guns of the Eighth Route Army but under the machine guns commanded by the captain of the devil squadron.

As soon as the leader of the devil squadron died, those old devils who were accustomed to robbery and rape could no longer hold on, and they also lost the courage to continue to resist and began to retreat.

The smarter devil, bent over, slowly slipped back along the cliff root on the inner side of the road, and when he felt that he ran out of the range of the machine gun and rifle of the Eighth Route Army, he immediately turned around and ran quickly, only hating his grandmother for having two legs, for fear that he would be caught up by the bullets of the Eighth Route Army if he ran slowly, and with a loud hook, he took them to the shrine to report!

There are also little devils lying on the side of the road, and they are not afraid of rolling down whether they will fall to death, so they just roll down the hillside, and some guys don't even want a rifle, so they just throw away the rifle and roll down with their heads in their hands.

The little devil who compares doesn't want anything, just knows that the fart rolls backwards, turns around and runs wildly.

It is clear that stupid people are always the fastest to die. The two legs of the little devil can't outrun the bullets anyway!

Seeing that the devil began to flee, the machine guns and rifles in the third row fought more happily and urgently, gurgling, horning and hooking, and bullets flew to the back of the devil, constantly harvesting the life of the little devil.

The roads and hillsides are full of devil corpses and pools of blood!