Chapter 128: Collapse (16)

"The Chinese army occupied Panjin?" Japan was also shocked when it received the news. Like the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, the Japanese army was mentally prepared to engage the other side sooner or later, but it did not plan to fight the other side in the short term.

After a brief discussion, the Japanese army made a decision that he would regret in the future, "Send a force to test it." ”

"The Japanese came with a wing?" Mu Husan was quite skeptical about the authenticity of this information. If Mu Husan was not an officer of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, I am afraid that he would still feel that this decision was correct. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army emphasized all day long that "if you fight yours, I will fight mine." "If it's Mu Husan, he will either send a small force or a heavy force to annihilate the war. Now he really can't do the trick of getting thousands of people to do the trick of temptation.

The attitude of the staff was exactly the same as that of the commander, "How to annihilate this enemy army?" "A Japanese wing is equivalent to a Chinese regiment. After the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army's military system was changed to the three-three system, the strength of a regiment was lower than that of a Japanese wing, and the strength of a division was higher than that of a wing.

"As long as the Japanese army enters the plain area, use the strength of two divisions to annihilate them in a field battle." Mu Husan quickly gave his own thoughts.

"Do you want to surround the point and send reinforcements?" The chief of staff hoped to expand the results of the battle even more.

"No, we have already been to Panjin, even if we come again next time, we are familiar with it. There is no need to pursue greater operational results. It's only October, and it's already cold. How to survive this winter is no joke. "As a southerner, Mu Husan is extremely sensitive to the weather in the north. And there is also a introduction in the military academy that in cold areas, sometimes a small wound can kill a person.

"I'm going to fight the Japanese!" The troops were excited about this sudden situation. As China's army, to defend the country is to fight foreigners. Although the fact that the reactionaries were also Chinese did not have any adverse effect on the mood and will to fight of the troops, the excitement of the troops was indescribable.

However, the early stage of the battle was lackluster, and the two divisions of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army tried to flank the left and right by means of rapid marching, and the Japanese advanced normally. The sentinels on both sides first spotted each other's sentinels, then engaged briefly before judging the enemy's position from the direction of the enemy's retreat. Without air force reconnaissance, it took both sides a whole day to reach a combat critical state.

Captured Japanese prisoners were brought from the array, Japanese black uniforms, barrel caps. It opened the eyes of those revolutionary soldiers who had never seen Japanese soldiers. Color pictures are always a little out of shape, and the photos don't show real colors. Tomorrow we will have to fight against the enemy wearing such a uniform, so that the comrades feel that they have some confidence in their hearts.

"How the hell is this battle fought?" This is the question that the soldiers in the unit ask the most.

"Don't think about it so much, just beat them to death. If you can kill, you won't be injured. If you can kill it, you won't take it prisoner. Commanders at almost all levels said this to the soldiers. If this had been a battle with other armies in the country, the commander would never have given such a brutal order. It is not that these commanders are full of militaristic ideas, still less do they have the tendency of commanders to incite nationalism and revenge. Rather, it is genuinely felt that if the domestic reactionaries are the enemy, the foreign aggressors are even more enemies. In addition, they don't understand how to deal with these people at all, so they can only rely more on the weapons in their hands and the combat skills they practice every day.

With nearly four times the strength of the enemy, the battle naturally began in the mode of encirclement and annihilation. After a night of movement, the troops began to march after dawn.

As the defending side, the Japanese army naturally had its advantages. What came into the field of view of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was a very standard field position. You can't see the enemy from the position, but you can see the trenches. The Japanese army was much stronger than Beiyang in this regard. However, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not pay much attention to this.

Compared with Beiyang, the Japanese army was more calm, and even if it was surrounded, the Japanese army also sent cavalry to send a cry for help to the large army in Shenyang. As long as the Japanese army can hold on for a day, the rescue troops will be able to arrive. The Japanese army quietly waited for the numerical superiority of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to launch an attack in the form of a conventional wave shock, or even a group shock. Until such an offensive is launched, any shooting is pointless.

However, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army sent small units closer to the Japanese army. These warriors, dressed in strange colored uniforms, made the most of the terrain and approached forward. They also did not shoot, but silently shortened the distance with the Japanese troops.

The wing commander's originally calm expression began to become anxious, if the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army on the opposite side was allowed to approach so non-stop in the form of small troops, it would not be long before the front line of the two sides would allow the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to have an advantage in strength.

"Hit!" The wing commander finally gave the order.

The Japanese firing somewhat disrupted the way the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army attacked, and the advance that had been flowing like a cloud of peers was temporarily interrupted. However, it was not the infantry that returned fire, but the artillery in the rear, and 50 mountain guns and large-caliber mortars began to fire at the Japanese firing point. After several test firings, a large number of casualties were inflicted on the Japanese positions.

"Artillery returns fire!" The co-captain yelled. Even if he knew that his artillery was inferior in terms of number and caliber, the wing commander could not come up with any other way.

After the artillery battle began, the attention of the wing commander was more concentrated, and at this time, it was precisely the most important thing to guard against the charge of the infantry of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, which was already extremely close to the Japanese front, braving artillery fire.

Such a bad situation did not happen, and the troops of the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants were still moving forward. But there was never a large number of soldiers charging. However, it was not long before a dozen fire dragons suddenly flew from the rear of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and some strange things sprayed flames and smoke at their tails, and collided with the Japanese position.

The ground began to shake with a violent explosion, and the Japanese Wing Commander didn't even understand what was going on, and he didn't even know what that never-before-seen weapon was. Is it the heavy artillery of the People's Party, or God knows what the hell! He felt only a strong impact, a huge wave of sound and air, and a column of smoke rising high. Behind the scattered dust and smoke, when the shouts of the charge sounded, the Japanese wing commander did not even immediately understand in his somewhat dazed mind that the infantry of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army had finally begun to charge.

Under the cover of light machine guns, the fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not charge on all fronts, but followed the pattern of column attack in accordance with the planned route observed before the rocket artillery fired. Tearing through the enemy's lines and controlling the breakthrough with light machine guns, the troops continued to rush inside. This tactic, which was only completed by the Germans at the end of World War I, showed extremely high combat efficiency in the face of the Japanese trench defense system.

Since the trenches were dug straight through, the light machine gunners could effectively strike at the enemy within a few tens of meters without even aiming at the stars, and directly using the earth walls on both sides of the trenches as a reference. Most of the Japanese who were killed did not have time to fight back with their weapons. They are like rats in a dead end, when the comrades in front are not killed, the possibility of shooting by the Japanese soldiers behind them is blocked, and the Japanese troops behind cannot see what is happening in front at all. The comrades in front of them were killed and fell, and they were exposed to the whizzing light machine gun bullets in a daze.

Soldier Cao Yokoji Keiji and his squad were in charge of a heavy machine-gun position, which was located in the third trench, and the terrain was well positioned to overlook the direction of the attack of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. However, when Cao of the Second Army of Hengji Kei came to his senses from the impact of the rocket artillery and could see the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army more clearly, he found that the enemy had crossed the three trenches in front and was attacking the fourth trench. The strange colored military uniform matched the smoke and dust of the position. Keiji Yokoji found himself unable to count the number of enemies who were either crawling forward or running with their heads bowed.

However, at this time, there was no enemy in the front of the second army of Yokoji Kei, and he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to turn the muzzle of the machine gun with shouting. The machine guns were assumed to be on the edge of the trenches, and if they wanted to move, they had to straighten up, and after a few moments, the Japanese troops who were trying to carry them became the target of the light machine guns, and at least three light machine guns of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army began to fire at this firing point. Five or six soldiers were dropped to the ground in the blink of an eye.

Perhaps it was the amulet that Yokoji Keiji always wore on his body that worked, and he was unscathed in such a shot. It didn't matter so much, Keiji Yokoji pulled the trigger of the heavy machine gun that had already turned around. The position was not fully adjusted, so the machine guns began to beat wildly like uncontrolled inferior horses, and God knows how many Chinese troops were hit. The violent vibration soon made Yokoji Keiji's arm feel great pain, and when a shuttle of bullets was finished, Yokoji Keiji's Cao felt that his hands had become numb, and he couldn't even effectively let go of the machine gun in his hand.

In this short gap, Yokoji Kei's second army Cao saw several things flying over, some of which smashed outside the trench and bounced in other directions. However, one of them landed straight under the crotch of Yokoji Juncao. Then he was stuck by the corpse of a Japanese soldier.

There was no pain in the initial feeling of the impact, and Keiji Yokoji involuntarily leaned back under the strong impact. At this moment, he saw the blue sky. Although it is polluted by the smoke of gunpowder, behind the smoke is a vast blue sky with a clear blue color as if it can suck people in.

The various firing points of the Japanese army were the key targets of the machine gunners of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and if the machine guns could not be destroyed, grenades were used. If you can't solve it with grenades, then use machine guns and grenades together. Destroy the enemy's most powerful fire support no matter what. The soldiers who rushed into the battlefield fought in this huge and brutal environment, relying entirely on the habits of daily training.

The Japanese positions were split in two in a short time, and then in four in a short time, and the trenches in each area became a death alley, and the Japanese troops who were blocked at both ends were killed like rats under the fire of machine guns and rifles. Some Japanese troops managed to hold the entrance to the trenches. The fighters of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army threw grenades into the densely populated Japanese trenches.

Some Japanese soldiers, frightened by this hellish sight, could not help but crawl out of the trenches with their hands and feet, and these Japanese troops were killed one after another by the various firing points placed in the positions already controlled by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and the stragglers, whose chain of command no longer existed, might be able to kill and wound one or two soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army by their own bravery and luck. Then they were retaliated by tenfold or even dozens of times the firepower, and a moment later they died.

From the beginning of the official offensive of the infantry of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, the situation of fighting between the two sides turned into a one-sided massacre, which took just over an hour. Even from the beginning of the positional movement, the battle developed to this stage in less than five hours.

It took the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army six or seven hours to completely destroy the enemy's resistance, annihilate the remnants of the enemy, and clean up the battlefield.

During the battle, from the commander to the soldiers, they all adhered to the attitude of "can be killed but not wounded, and can be killed but not captured". Of the more than 3,000 people in this wing of the Japanese army, more than 1,000 were killed and more than 1,000 wounded. Of the more than 1,000 wounded, more than half of them have no need for treatment. When the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army attacked the headquarters, the Japanese wing commander came with a guard staff officer or something to make a onboard charge. The soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, who had never encountered such a fierce enemy, fired first with a burst of machine guns, rifles, and pistols, and then, almost instinctively, rushed forward to replenish these fierce enemies with bayonets and bullets.

What chivalry, what respect for brave enemies, that's all moths that can only be imagined by guys who are far away from the battlefield. On the battlefield, a completely dead enemy is what everyone really needs.

The language of China and Japan is incomprehensible, and whatever the Japanese army shouts in Japanese sounds like a meaningless "bird call" to the soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Even if the Japanese army shouted for surrender, it only attracted the attention of the officers and men of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolution. On the battlefield, there is nothing worse than getting the attention of the enemy.

After the battle, the fighters finally confirmed their victory. In addition to cheering, many of the problems that I didn't have time to think about in the battle are now finally available. The warriors overcame death and eliminated the enemy. Looking at the corpses in black uniforms all over the ground, many people felt afraid. The Japanese were a very combative army, and at least once during the battle they tried to solve the problem with bayonets. However, the firepower advantage brought by the superiority of troops made these brave Japanese troops beaten into a sieve. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army attached great importance to bayonet warfare, and many fighters were speculating about what the battle would look like if there really was a bayonet battle.

The commanders thought more, and many commanders felt quite strange that if the combat effectiveness of this Japanese army was taken as the average level of Japan, such an army could actually capture Shenyang in one day. To what extent does the Northeast Army have to be wasted? It took two days for the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to conquer the city of Jinzhou.

But the political commissars are certainly not so simple, "Comrades, the reactionary army is like this. Hit foreigners, they may not dare. But when it comes to killing Chinese, they may not be as timid as mice. We must not be under any illusions about them. When a dog bites a person, it is also very ferocious. ”

The Japanese troops wiped out by this Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army were units of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army in Korea, and they immediately sent people to ask for help from the 20th Division in Mukden after they were surrounded. Naturally, the 20th Division immediately set up troops to rescue. Later, this decision was called an extremely wrong decision in the history of the Japanese military.