Chapter 125: Guarding the Passage of Life (2)
Zhou Yi thought again, taking advantage of the fact that the devil's foothold was not stable, and he was not familiar with the situation in Lujiashan, it was still night, and it was not a way to counterattack the enemy. If it were daytime, the Japanese army would have gained a firm foothold and seen the situation in Lujiashan clearly, and the enemy would have been outnumbered, perhaps it would have been too late. Thinking of this, Zhou Yizhong immediately ordered the correspondent: "Call all three battalion commanders and have a meeting immediately." ”
When the three battalion commanders arrived, Zhou Yizhong said to them: "The little devils attacked a battalion and a company in Xinwuxia Village, and also used poison gas, causing all the officers and men of the company to die except for more than 10 people who ran out. I want to take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold, and besides, they are not familiar with the situation of the Lujiashan position, let's form a death squad to attack them, how about you take a look? ”
The commander of the first battalion was very angry and said angrily: "We must avenge our company, or else, or we can't explain it to the brothers." ”
The second battalion commander also echoed and said: "Let's fight, anyway, it's dead or alive, it's like this sooner or later." ”
Su Qu, the commander of the third battalion, said: "I think it's better to be cautious." Lujiashan was an important position, which was related to the retreat of the 2nd Army. We don't have many troops, and then we will take out some of them to attack the enemy, not to mention how we win or lose, but if we lose Lujiashan, then it will be a big trouble. ”
Zhou Yizhong said to Su Qu, the commander of the third battalion: "Do you think that with these people of ours, Lujiashan can really be defended." ”
"Whether you can keep it or not, you have to keep it. If Lujiashan is lost, where will the 2nd Army retreat. ”
Zhou Yizhong said to the commander of the third battalion: "We also call advancing as retreat and disrupting the enemy, and only by disrupting the enemy can we hold the position on Lujiashan." In case there were really fewer soldiers and it was difficult to defend, the troops left behind would ask for support from the Southern Expeditionary Army. ”
When Su Qu, the commander of the third battalion, heard Zhou Yizhong's explanation, it was not unreasonable, so he had to nod and reluctantly agree.
In this way, Zhou Yizhong transferred a 200-person death squad from three battalions, and personally led it to attack the devils in Xinwuxia Village, and of course, the remaining 10 soldiers of a battalion and a company. The rest were led by Su Qu, the commander of the third battalion, guarding the position of Lujiashan.
The night in the mountains is full of vitality in the silence and mystery in the darkness. Zhou Yizhong led the death squad of the 339th Regiment and quietly approached Xinwuxia Village.
If there is no war, the night in the mountain village is quiet, lying quietly next to the mountain, like a baby sleeping in the arms of its mother, with a sense of security. The village that was tired during the day, overnight, slowly stretched the tiredness. When the night is quiet, the whole mountain village settles down, like an ancient well.
At night in the mountain village, the air is filled with the fragrance of rice, the chewing sound of cattle and sheep, the sound of "squeaking and squeaking", the sound of the village women and village aunts, and the smell of dry tobacco and cow and sheep dung of the old farmers, which constitute the unique charm of this mountain village at night.
It was late at night, and the stars in the sky were hurrying in, and they were so close to the mountains that they seemed to be a couple who were together and whispering.
But this is a war, and the war has changed everything, and the people of the village have long since withdrawn at the call of the government to avoid unnecessary massacres and revenge.
As a result, the village has become a ghost town.
Slowly approached Xinwuxia Village, fortunately, the devil did not set up a sentry post. With a wave of Zhou Yizhong's hand, the commander of the first battalion, led by more than 10 soldiers who were familiar with the terrain in the first company, quietly touched the village. Zhou Yizhong followed closely, leading the 2nd battalion, and also quietly touched the village from behind.
The first battalion commander checked the devils in one courtyard and one courtyard after another, and touched the entire village, but still did not find a single devil, so he had to come back and report: "Report to Camp Commander Zhou, not a single devil has been found." ”
"It's really strange," Zhou Yi scolded heavily, "I don't want them, they're coming." Come to them, they don't know where they have gone, where have these little devils gone? ”
It turned out that after the 4th Squadron of the Baibang Brigade occupied Xinwuxia Village, it did not leave any troops to garrison and continued to advance deep into Lujiashan. But at this time, the night was very dark, and the terrain of Lujia Mountain was even more complicated, and the Japanese army could not see the direction and unknowingly lost their way in the mountains.
Just when Zhou Yizhong was puzzled, suddenly the sentry came to report: "Report to the battalion commander, a unit of the Japanese army has been found in front and is walking towards this village." ”
Zhou Yizhong said with a smile: "I was looking for them, but they came, and immediately occupied the commanding heights and houses on both sides of the street, and beat the little devils in an ambush." ”
So, the 339th Regiment quickly occupied the houses on both sides of the street, preparing to take the little devil by surprise and hit the little devil in an ambush.
The little devil who came at this time was the brigade headquarters led by the 1st Brigade Captain Shirahama Katsukai Shaozo who followed behind the 4th Squadron, and he originally thought that the 4th Squadron had broken through the Chinese army on the opposite side, so he was not on guard at all. There were 30 people in the brigade headquarters, that is, hygienists, orderlies, commanders, communicators, etc., who did not expect to fight, and did not prepare for war.
When the brigade headquarters led by Shirahama Shenghai Shaozo slowly walked into Xinwuxia Village, Shirahama Shenghai was still a little puzzled, it was too quiet, too quiet, there were no ordinary people, no responding troops, and there was not even a dog barking. Yes, the 4th squadron said hello, they are going to break through to the depth of the Chinese army, I am afraid they have already broken through a large distance.
Bai Bang Shenghai is not afraid, and those subordinates don't have to worry, anyway, when the sky falls, there are tall people on top, and their chief is in charge!
The night sky of the mountain village has a layer of bitter water vapor, and the faint moonlight brushes the clouds that have fallen tears, silently,...... In the night, there is a faint sorrow, looming, occasionally looking back, it seems that the air is filled with a touch of indescribable suffering......
Suddenly, the sound of gunfire, the shouting of light machine guns, the sound of medium rifles, and the explosion of grenades disrupted the quiet night.
Before the Hakuhama Brigade could figure out what was going on, they immediately collapsed. When the orderlies saw it, they formed a circle, defended Shirahama Shenghai Shaozo, and dragged him out of the village under the new house, so that he escaped with his life.
After Shirahama Katsukai escaped with his life, he immediately called the messenger to send a red signal flare to the troops on the front line. The flare meant "This is dangerous," telling them to prepare early. Looking at his own brigade headquarters, there are only 10 of the 30 people left, and there are 2 seriously injured and 3 lightly injured, so they really can't fight, so they have to retreat to the rear.
Immediately behind the Shirahama Brigade Headquarters was the 2nd Squadron, which had been used as a reserve for the Shirahama Brigade, and when they heard the fierce gunfire in front of them, they knew that they had encountered the Chinese army and hurried to join the battle.
Due to the darkness of the night, they did not see Shirahama's brigade headquarters, so they rushed to the front, and at this time they were catching up with the death squad of the 339th Regiment who came to pursue. Lieutenant Kaneo Takeshita, the leader of the 2nd Squadron, yelled, "Duck give--rabbit give-" and led the 2nd Squadron to rush up.
It's really a needle to Mai Mang, the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and Zhou Yizhong's death squad is thinking that the team headquarters that beat Bai Bang just now is not enjoyable, and at this moment he is catching a mouthful of fat and biting to death. In addition, it was dark again, and it was vague to see people, and I could only distinguish friend from foe by the color of my military uniform.
When the national army in green uniforms saw the devil in yellow uniform, they poked it with a bayonet and hit it with a gun. The devil in the yellow uniform saw that the national army in the green uniform was also poked with bayonets and hit with guns, and the two sides were scuffled.
The commander of the first battalion rushed to the front, and he brandished a shell gun and kept shooting at the devils. Suddenly, he noticed Kaneo Takeshita wielding a command knife in his hand, and decided that this must be a devil officer, so he came at him.
In the hazy night, Kaneo Takeshita also spotted this Chinese soldier wielding a shell gun, and decided that this was also the commander of the Chinese army, so he also came to the battalion commander.
The commander of the first battalion shot at him, "Da Da Da", but unfortunately the gun hit a little more urgently, and if he didn't shoot, Kaneo Takeshita rushed to him.
Kaneo Takeshita slashed down with a knife towards the first battalion commander, and the battalion commander dodged the knife with a flash, and then Takeshita Kaneo's second knife came down again.
The commander of the first battalion pulled the trigger with his finger again before Kaneo Takeshita had not yet chopped the knife, but the gun did not go off. It's not good, this is the box of bullets in the gun has run out, and there is no time to replace this box of bullets. The commander of the first battalion flashed and dodged Kaneo Takeshita's second sword.
Since Fan mixed up to the position of battalion commander, it was also fought in the rain of bullets, and the first battalion commander is also an old soldier, and he is not afraid of the command knife of the little devil at all. After flashing a few knives from the little devil one after another, he thought that the barge gun at this time was useless, and the pistol without bullets was not as good as a burning stick.
Seeing the opportunity, the commander of the first battalion smashed the shell gun at Kaneo Takeshita.
Because of the darkness of the night, this shot really hit, and it hurt so much that Kaneo Takeshita suddenly covered his face that was hit, and it hurt so much that he screamed!
The commander of the first battalion saw that he was not on at this time, what were he waiting for, he pounced, and immediately stopped Kaneo Takeshita by the waist and hugged him, and threw him to the ground with all his strength.
Kaneo Takeshita also endured the pain and fought desperately with the commander of the first battalion, and the two of them rolled over on the ground, and for a while, you rode on me, and for a while, I pressed on you. I grabbed you by the neck, you picked at my eyes, it was really inseparable.
The commander of the first battalion saw that Kaneo Takeshita was still carrying two melon grenades on his body. During the scuffle, the safety pin of a melon grenade was pulled off. But this kind of grenade does not matter if the safety pin is removed, and the safety cap must be slammed to ignite the delayed gunpowder.
Kaneo Takeshita also felt that the grenade safety pin on his body had been pulled off, and he was already in a very dangerous situation, so he also concentrated his spirit a hundred times and worked harder to fight the commander of the first battalion, in order to get out of danger as much as possible.
When the first battalion commander was fighting, he picked up a small stone and smashed the grenade safety cap of Kaneo Takeshita when he saw the opportunity. Of course, Kaneo Takeshita also felt it, how could he let the first battalion commander smash his safety hat, smashed his safety hat, and his life was about to be confessed, so he desperately entangled the two hands of the first battalion commander.