Chapter 61: Recovering the City
The Japanese positions were quickly broken through, and the fighters of the Independent Brigade broke through the Japanese ambush positions with a devastating magnificence. The desperate devils howled and picked up their bayonet rifles and rushed towards our soldiers, and our soldiers also roared, holding bayonets and waving broadswords, and bravely pounced on the devils in front of them! Hand-to-hand combat broke out in an instant.
The devils have all received formal bayonet training, and they can basically achieve standardized movements and fierce assassination on the battlefield, plus the 38 rifle with bayonets is so long as the Zhongzheng rifle, the Chinese and Japanese armies are hand-to-hand combat, and many times our soldiers cannot have the upper hand. But now the devil is facing this unit is different from most of the national army units at that time, this army has shown experience and sophistication in hand-to-hand combat, which makes the veterans of the Japanese army who have been trained for a long time feel terrified!
Brigade commander Liu Qi held a thick-backed stainless steel broadsword, the blade was nearly one meter long, the blade was sixty centimeters long, and there were two bloodletting grooves on the blade. Liu Qi originally had kung fu in his body, and after joining the anti-Japanese war team, Gao Quan specially organized many knife trainings, and Brigade Commander Liu and the guards and soldiers around him were all skilled in swordsmanship, and they were swordsmany, and they had slashed the Japanese on the battlefield many times.
This time is certainly no exception. Seeing Liu Qi raise his knife, he rushed into the enemy's position with a loud roar, and the big knife was horizontally rounded, "click" twice, and immediately the rifles in the hands of the two devils became half of the burning sticks. Returning to the knife and slashing it in reverse, with a miserable scream, the head of a devil on the opposite side flew out, and a stream of blood spurted out of the cavity, and Brigade Commander Liu raised his leg and kicked down the corpse to continue to kill the next devil!
The premature death of the commander Kinoshita Shaoza greatly reduced the morale of the devils on the battlefield and made the people's hearts unstable, and our army's morale rose greatly due to the brigade commander Liu Qi's personal participation in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, and the number of people was far more than the enemy's, and our independent brigade occupied an absolute advantage at the beginning of the battle. The organic spirit devil saw the danger at hand, and ran away while people were not paying attention!
There is one run, there are two runs, and all those who have active brains have taken the time to run, and those who have not run are also looking for opportunities. Of course, there are many who were killed when they fled, after all, there are thousands of people in the independent brigade, and everyone can't be a big knife, right? The soldiers still have guns, and when they see the devil turn around and run away, it's not difficult to give him a shot.
The rest are stupid devils who are brainless and tendoned, and they know that they want to live and die with the position. To deal with this kind of devil, there is nothing to say, you can use a gun to hit with a gun, and if you can't use a gun, you can go up and surround three or four people from all sides, and the big guy uses a big knife with a bayonet, and he exerts force from several sides, and the devil can't take care of the front and back, and he can't take care of his head, and after fighting twice, he was immediately pierced with several eyes on his body, and then the blood flashed, and his head was gone.
Thousands of men and horses of the Independent Brigade attacked hundreds of devils, or they came up to kill the devil commander, there is no suspense in this battle, the only thing to pay attention to is the speed of victory, Liu Qi knows that the troops are in a hurry to go to the river now, he has no time to drag down with the devils here!
"Kombat! End the battle as soon as possible! Liu Qi yelled loudly at the warriors who were following him.
At the urging of the brigade commander, the soldiers immediately accelerated the pace of the battle. Those who can be stabbed with a gun will never use a broadsword, and those who can be stabbed to death with one stab will never be stabbed a second time. If a few thousand people really exert their strength, it will be impossible for the devil to parry. The commander was killed, morale dropped, a large number of deserters appeared on the position, and several unfavorable phenomena came together, and this small ambush detachment brought by Kinoshita Shaosa quickly perished under the blows of our army's independent brigade.
"Let's go, follow the military seat into the city!" Liu Qi wiped the blood on the big knife and handed it to the guard next to him, this is everything learned from Gao Quan, even the guard who always carries a knife around him has learned a lot, which can be regarded as a thorough implementation of the traditional Chinese phrase "if there is something good at the top, it must be very good".
Gao Quan entered the city, but he followed him out of the city again, and he didn't even stay for a moment, and he didn't even do the materials that he loved to do when he was fighting in the past. Since there are hundreds of devils stationed in Tongcheng County, of course there are devils' arsenals, material depots, and even vaults in the city, according to Gao Quan's previous habits, since the devils have been killed, he will naturally accept these things. But not today, Gao Quan doesn't have this time, he wants to lead this army to Daorenji on the edge of the Yangtze River as soon as possible, the devil's fleet and that Nakajima Jinchao will not allow him to delay for a moment!
Commander Gao only left a few people to post a few notices in the city, saying that the 500 troops had visited this county seat, and then led the troops through the city! It is not an exaggeration to say that autumn has not committed any crimes!
The people in the city just heard the battle outside the city, and hurried home to close the doors and windows, not to mention going out, they didn't even dare to open the windows, and the bold looked out through the cracks in the windows, and the timid simply hid on the bed and covered their heads with quilts, and the whole family collectively chanted the "Three Character Classic" to ask the Jade Emperor for the protection of the lower realm.
I've been waiting for more than an hour, and there is no movement at the door, and I have the courage to open the door and look out, hey, it's quiet on the street, there is no one, not only no one, not even a stream of Lang dogs and cats, people are gone? The bold one squeezed out of the crack in the door and walked along the street, but there was no one left. As I walked, I saw a notice on the old locust tree at the largest intersection in the center of the county, which looked like it was newly written, and the paste on the notice was still wet.
This man had been reading for a few days, and most of the words on the notice were recognizable. Anyone who knows a few words likes to read articles and proclamations in public, showing that he can also read and hyphenate words, and he can be regarded as a cultural person. That's what this one is. Although there is no one else around except him, this is Cross Street, which is the most lively place in the county, and no one is considered a public place. So, this literati scholar who was less than half a bottle began to shake his head and read it here:
"Proclamation: I tell you all the fathers and elders of Tongcheng that the 500th Army of the National Revolutionary Army will recover the land and annihilate the day today. Restore the city. From now on, Tongcheng County will return to the Republic of China, and the central government will appoint government officials to exercise government functions and powers at a later date. During this period, the people of Wangcheng are in peace and do not need to panic or go to the streets to celebrate. The 500th Army of the National Revolutionary Army. May 28, 32nd year of the Republic of China. ”
The pit man read the proclamation from beginning to end, and although there were a few words that he couldn't recognize, the basic meaning could be smoothed down. Republic of China! It turned out that the Japanese devil was beaten away! Tongcheng has become Chinese again!
"Folks, Tongcheng has been restored! The devil was beaten away! We are Chinese again! This jumper, crushing at his throat, and tears welled up in his face as he shouted. The residents who heard the shouts slowly walked out, and there were more and more people, everyone with surprise and disbelief on their faces, and many of them shed tears of excitement on the spot.
The land has been regained, and the city has been liberated! The people were excited, but Gao Quan had already led his troops to the distance quickly, to the battlefield in the distance.