Chapter 130: Collapse (18)
On the slope with a small slope, the cyan uniforms of the Northeast Army were very conspicuous among the corpses of Japanese soldiers in black uniforms and the camouflage of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.
"Hurry up! Bring a few Japanese out here! It's in the way! The soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, who were in charge of monitoring the labor of the Northeast Army, shouted.
In normal times, these Northeast troops would have thought about escaping for a long time, but the sight of Japanese corpses all over the ground really frightened them. Some of the timid were too frightened to speak, while others were whispering to their companions while carrying the corpses of Japanese soldiers and the seriously wounded.
"My God, how many Japanese did the People's Party kill?"
"It has to be tens of thousands, right?"
Both the questioner and the speaker kept their voices low.
"Are these people Japanese?" Some people also asked. As soon as they finished speaking, the intermittent shouting and cursing of the wounded Japanese soldiers in Japanese could be heard around them.
The guy who asked this stupid question was met with the eyes of his companions, "When you get to this pimple, there are Japanese speakers everywhere, do you think they are Japanese soldiers?" ”
"Then when the People's Party beat us, it really showed mercy. Look, there are dead bodies all over the ground, and we've only killed a few of them. There are also Northeast Army who said with great rejoicing.
Indeed, on the main battlefield of the annihilation of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army, the black pressure was covered with the corpses of the Japanese army. When the Japanese were attacked suddenly, they performed quite well. Taking full advantage of the terrain, the headquarters of the 20th Division established its headquarters on the high ground, and the forward troops immediately launched an attack on the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.
In particular, in an open field, there were piles of corpses of Japanese soldiers. That was the main direction of several Japanese charges. Before the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's rapid excavation of individual bunkers and machine-gun bunkers, the Japanese army first knocked down more than 300 people. And with a fierce spirit, the remnants of the Japanese army still rushed to the position of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army with bayonets. However, these Japanese soldiers were soon killed by pistols and other weapons. Except for the fear that they would not die, the infantry stabbed them several times with bayonets, but the bloodiness of the battle was more than enough, and the cruelty was not too high.
These Northeast Army who collected the corpses were captured in Panjin, and Mu Husan didn't think that he had spare time to raise these guys, and there was no need to let them go easily. In the end, the political commissar came up with a way, and all these Northeast Army troops who were willing to clean up the battlefield could be released after cleaning the battlefield. This is really an indescribable thing for the Northeast Army.
Generally speaking, the cleaners of the battlefield can search for valuable objects on the corpses, especially if they are Japanese corpses. I want to have more things that are worth my money. However, the Northeast Army absolutely did not believe that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army could defeat the Japanese so quickly. Not to mention that the Northeast Army in Panjin captured more than 2,000 people this time, how big a battlefield can it take more than 2,000 people to clean up?
Many of the Northeast Army were worried that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was playing some tricks, and some were timid enough to suspect that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was going to kill prisoners, so they resolutely refused to participate in such a conspiracy-filled affair.
As a last resort, the troops forced these guys to the vicinity of the battlefield with bayonets, and when they saw the corpses of Japanese soldiers spread all over the plain, these Northeast Army believed that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was not joking. Even so, during the cleaning, there were soldiers of the Northeast Army who kept asking the soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army around them, "This boss, after cleaning the battlefield, will he really let us go?" ”
However, not all Northeast Army officers are like this, and a very small number of officers of the Northeast Army are observing the battlefield and guessing the course of the battle. For example, a battalion commander in the Panjin garrison stood up from time to time to look at the surrounding corpse divisions and the craters blown up by various shells. His brow furrowed, and there was a look of incomprehension on his face.
The battlefield was not the kind of skirmishers on both sides, and the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army attacked Panjin with only 20,000 troops, but the Japanese casualties were in all directions. He looked at the top of the nearby slope, where the headquarters of the Japanese army was probably located, and if you looked closely, it was probably so. Of course, the Japanese would not be stupid enough to set up their headquarters at the top of the slope, as evidenced by the fact that there were many scraps of paper from the position at the top of the slope a little downward. And around this, there are also traces of fierce hand-to-hand combat. Many of the corpses of Japanese soldiers on the ground were disemboweled, and the amount of blood stains was several times that of other areas.
The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did engage in a fierce bayonet battle with the Japanese in this area. After relying on light machine guns and grenades to continuously eliminate the Japanese charges, the Japanese temporarily took a defensive position. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army immediately completely surrounded the Japanese army and continued to compress and encroach on the Japanese positions.
After occupying the favorable terrain, a dozen rockets first disrupted the deployment of the Japanese army, and then the assault troops launched a fierce centripetal offensive in the north and south directions.
There were three wings in the 20th division of the Japanese army. Despite the loss of one wing, more than 7,000 troops were involved in the battle. The charge lasted only ten minutes, and the forces of the two brigades, which were not yet in disarray, rushed forward with bayonets against the two attacking units of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. After the machine gun rifle ran out of bullets, the most reliable thing was the bayonet. The soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not hesitate to fight the Japanese army with bayonets.
This battle was later written into the history of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army as the first large-scale bayonet battle in the true sense of the word. Although the final result was not satisfactory, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army still won the final victory. Chen Ke didn't understand bayonet warfare, and knew a few basic terms such as three-person cover. However, the People's Party itself has a scientific attitude, and the Red Gun Society captured from Shandong, the swordsmen invited from Cangzhou, the warrior monks captured by the Shaolin Temple, and the Taoist priests invited from Wudang Mountain, together with the doctors of the Military Medical College, have conducted scientific research on killing people for several years.
From the human body to the combination of various traditional martial arts in bayonet warfare, coupled with the training of the troops, especially in recent years, the troops have sufficient food, especially the supply of meat and fat, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army is not left behind in the bayonet battle, and the pistols of the squad and platoon leaders are even more sharp weapons at close range.
The Japanese army has always believed that bayonet warfare can easily crush the Chinese army as it used to deal with the Chinese army. Not only were the two largest and still organized units sent by the Japanese divisional headquarters determined, but the other Japanese stragglers almost instinctively got on their bayonets and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Sharp bayonets pierce the body, cut off blood vessels, cut off limbs. Frantic shouts and hysterical shouts became the dominant voices on the battlefield in an instant.
As a result, the more scientific killing techniques of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army won the victory, and this decisive way of fighting led to the defeat of the Japanese army. All their forces were sent out, and once they were destroyed. The Japanese divisional headquarters were completely exposed to the offensive line of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.
It was already very cold in October in the Northeast, and the battalion commander of the Northeast Army couldn't help but shudder when he looked at the large patches of blood stains and the tragic and terrible corpses of the Japanese soldiers who died in the bloodstains. Without seeing such a situation with his own eyes, he would never believe that there could be an army in China that was better at fighting than the Japanese army, more courageous, and brave enough to engage in large-scale hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army. And everything in front of him proved that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was an army capable of defeating the Japanese army, and the battalion commander felt that his legs were a little weak.
Looking at the battlefield again, the Northeast Army cleaning the battlefield tried hard to dig out the pockets of the Japanese war dead when the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was not paying attention, and some people untied the belts of the Japanese and strangled them around their waists, and quickly covered the belts with their jackets. Some simply took off their Japanese military boots and replaced them with their own rag shoes. And the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not pursue it too much. Except for a few guys who went too far, such as one guy with seven or eight belts on his waist, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army told him to keep only one belt, and handed over everything else. There were also a few guys with pockets that were about to burst, and after being reprimanded, they were only asked to hand over most of the things they had collected.
And the Japanese will never be so tolerant of the Northeast Army, the Northeast Army usually dares to touch the Japanese army for the slightest thing, that is to use their own lives as a repayment.
The battalion commander of the Northeast Army suddenly put down his work, and he ran to a commander of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army who was cleaning the battlefield with the soldiers and prisoners of war of the Northeast Army, and shouted: "Sir, I want to join our People's Party." ”
The commander was stunned, and all the prisoners of the Northeast Army around him were also stunned. Seeing the puzzled look of the commander of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, the battalion commander continued to shout: "Sir, I hate the Japanese too!" I am willing to work for the BJP! I...... I'm a local, and you always need locals. ”
Of course, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army needs locals, especially the Northeast Army. The commander quickly understood what the tall prisoner of war of the Northeast Army in front of him meant, and he hurriedly said: "This comrade, it's good that you are willing to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, but we are here to clean up the battlefield now, how about we clean up the battlefield together first?" ”
The next day, Mu Husan received information that after cleaning up the battlefield, more than 200 officers and soldiers in Northeast China made it clear that they were willing to join the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. However, the mood of the officers and men in the northeast, who were originally in shock after being captured, was noticeably stabilized.
Some chose to leave, while others returned to the POW camps, saying "think again".
Originally, letting the Northeast Army participate in this clean-up of the battlefield originally meant to be powerful, and even if these people were willing to leave, it would not be a loss to the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. As "volunteer propagandists", they can propagate the fighting power of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army along the way. After all, it is impossible for the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to organize the people of Northeast China to visit these battlefields, and it is easier for the locals in the Northeast to be trusted by the locals in the Northeast when they speak. Moreover, in order to have a big influence, Mu Husan burned the corpses of the Japanese war dead, and he was ready to hire the local people of Panjin to complete it.
With these defectors of the local army in Northeast China, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army has many more reliable sources of information. The political commissar was ordered to hurry up and do his best to screen and transform these surrendered soldiers. Mu Husan's remaining work is to gouge out Japan's eyes and ears in the Northeast.