After receiving the order to attack, the troops began to advance against the attack location on the map. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

The first to fight was the troops led by the deputy regiment commander, and the barracks were in Taiping Town, the eastern suburb of the city, 5 kilometers away from the place where the troops were resting.

It takes 20 minutes for artillery to prepare for shelling, and 20 minutes for shelling, according to the calculation of 10 shells per minute, each gun has to fire 200 shells, and 12 guns have to fire 2,400 shells.

The 1st and 2nd battalions, led by the deputy regiment commander, advanced in the direction of Taiping Town. It takes 50 minutes for the troops to march 5 kilometers urgently. So after the shelling stopped, the troops did not need to stop and could immediately go into battle.

The Japanese barracks, high in the east and low in the west, the gate is located in the west, 300 meters wide from east to west, 500 meters long from north to south, the south of the barracks is the training ground, and the north is the living area; A wall was built around the barracks, and a 5-meter-wide trench was dug outside the wall, which was filled with water and with sharpened wooden sticks stuck at the bottom, so that the barracks could only be accessed through a drawbridge; The trench had been cleared within 1,000 meters, and there was not a single tree; Watchtowers were set up at the gate of the barracks and at the four corners, on which there were Japanese soldiers on duty, and there was also a heavy machine gun on each watchtower; The entire barracks can be said to be heavily guarded, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

At half past two in the afternoon, the Japanese soldiers were doing daily training in the barracks, and no one could have imagined that an army would attack their barracks.

Suddenly, a number of shells fell from the sky with a whistling sound and landed on the training ground and living quarters, "boom", "boom", "boom", and deafening explosions, dozens of people were killed on the spot, and hundreds were injured, especially on the training ground, which was densely populated with heavy casualties.

It is clear that this is the enemy is testing fire.

The captain of the training team, a veteran officer who had participated in the Russo-Japanese War, knew that the enemy was about to launch a large-scale artillery bombardment, and immediately shouted, "All lie down, all lie down!" ”

The Japanese soldiers had a very strong sense of superiority and superiority, and absolutely obeyed the command and obeyed the order, and after hearing the shouts of the captain, thousands of them immediately fell to the ground.

Sure enough, shortly after the Japanese soldiers lay down, an overwhelming number of shells flew and landed exactly in the barracks.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom"

The explosion of artillery shells came and went, and it was estimated that the explosions could be heard more than ten miles away.

The smoke screen of the artillery shell explosion in the barracks is like a mushroom after the rain, rising layer by layer, connecting into a piece, and the gunpowder smoke fills the sight, only to hear the continuous cannonballs whistling, and the continuous explosion sound in the barracks, the ground shakes, the flesh and blood fly, and the whole world is engulfed in artillery fire, as if the end of the world has come.

The shelling lasted more than 20 minutes, like a century.

When the shelling stopped, the smoke cleared, and the entire barracks was in ruins, the courtyard walls were blown down, the watchtowers were blown away, the dormitories, kitchens, warehouses, etc. were burned by shells, and the ammunition depots were also blown up. The Wing Captain and several other captains are in the midst of the fire, and their lives and deaths are unknown.

The training ground was like hell, full of flesh and blood stumps, some were wounded or killed by shrapnel, limbs were severed, or shrapnel passed through the chest, or the head was cut off by shrapnel; Those who were close to the explosion point were directly turned into pieces of flesh and blood, and were shocked by the shock wave and fell around; The ground was littered with craters, and there were many blown up weapon parts scattered around.

The whole barracks was only the crackling sound of the fire burning, and the moaning of the wounded officers and soldiers.

The 65mm mountain grenade weighs 4.4 kg and has an effective kill radius of 30m (opposing infantry) / 15m (opposing infantry) when exploding.

More than 2,000 shells fell in the barracks, which was equivalent to plowing the barracks several times, and was not directly killed.

At this time, all the Japanese veterans guessed that the enemy was about to attack, and they must immediately organize a counterattack, and the living people, as long as they could move, stood up, and there were less than 300 people left, and the highest rank was the first squadron leader, who could only take on the responsibility of organization, and ordered everyone to quickly find weapons, and those who found weapons followed themselves to guard the gate of the barracks.

The explosion of the shells deafened everyone's ears, but there was no deafness, and now there was only the sound of Weng Weng in their ears, and they couldn't hear any other sounds at all, but instinctively looked for weapons and followed the squadron leader to guard the gate of the barracks.

Xia Yu set up his headquarters behind a small mound 1 kilometer away from the Japanese barracks, and after the shelling stopped, he ordered the first battalion to surround the Japanese barracks from the north, west, and east, each company was responsible for one direction, and each company sent one platoon to test the attack. The deputy commander of the 2nd Battalion led 2 companies to the east side of the Japanese barracks, preparing to block the Japanese army and prevent the Japanese from escaping into the eastern mountains; The remainder served as reserves, ready to attack from the main entrance.

The 1st Battalion, 1st Company, and 1st Platoon were responsible for the tentative attack from the west.

Xia Yu ordered all mortars to be ready and ready to fire shells to support the attacking soldiers.

After the companies in the north, west, and south directions moved to the designated positions, they first set up crane guns and M2 mortars to support the attacking soldiers at any time. The attacking platoon left the mortars behind, and the other soldiers slowly advanced in a skirmish formation.

There were no blockades in the north and south directions. When the platoon attacking from the west advanced 200 meters, the Japanese troops guarding the west gate began to shoot, and immediately 5 soldiers were hit, 2 were killed and 3 were wounded, and the rest of the soldiers immediately lay down, and the 6 M1 and 18 M2 mortars prepared in the back began to fire shells, each gun fired 3 shells, 54 shells plowed the west gate several times, and the few Japanese casualties were half.

Xia Yu ordered 4 heavy machine guns to shoot at the Japanese positions to cover the attack of the 1st platoon, and when attacking, the 3 light machine guns of the 1st platoon also began to fire at the position of the Japanese army, and the bullets hit the ruins of the West Gate, making a sound of "poof", "poof", "poof", "poof", and the Japanese soldiers who hit did not dare to show their heads at all. As soon as there was a place to shoot, several mortar shells flew over at once.

Xia Yu did not hear the sound of the other three directions of firefighting, and estimated that there was no Japanese army blocking in those three directions, so he sent heralds, changed the north, west and south directions to a feint, and placed the official attack in the east, and at the same time sent the 2nd battalion commander to lead the troops directly under the battalion headquarters and the 3rd company to support the 1st and 2nd companies to attack.

Hearing that there were so many continuous explosions in the Japanese barracks, the frightened residents of Taiping Town quickly closed their doors and hid in their homes. After the explosion stopped, there was a continuous sound of gunfire, which was obviously a battle, but the rebels who didn't know where they were calling, and most of them still chose the strategy of hanging up on their own business. There are only a few bachelors, and all the family members can't find a way because the Japanese are dead and want to join the rebels. They gathered together and quietly approached the barracks.

When everyone saw these people who were fighting with the Japanese devils, they were shocked, and the entire Japanese military camp had now been bombed into ruins, and these Japanese devils seemed to be doomed. So someone had the audacity to go forward to ask about the situation, and the soldiers on guard didn't talk to him, so they directly brought him to Xia Yu.

After listening to the soldier's explanation, Xia Yu hurriedly said to the villagers: "We are attacking the Japanese barracks, it is not safe here, please go home and hide." “

When the villagers saw that although these people did not have long braids, they all spoke Chinese, and their appearance was also that of Han people, so they must be Han people, so they hurriedly said: "We are here to help you fight devils, and the chief can give orders if there is anything." ”

Xia Yu was thinking about how to cross the moat, and now that these villagers came, they immediately remembered that the villagers should have bamboo ladders in their homes, so they asked, "Then do you have a long bamboo ladder at home?" “

"That thing is available in every household here, and the chief wants as many as he wants."

"Okay, then I have a very important task now, I need you to complete, collect some more bamboo ladders and door panels, and transport them over, the sooner the better, whether you can set up a pontoon bridge and attack the devil's barracks depends on you."

"Yes, sir, we'll bring the ladder and door panel in a moment!"

Half an hour later, the villagers brought in more than a dozen bamboo ladders and a large number of door panels that had just been removed from the door frames.

Xia Yu didn't care about everyone, so he hurriedly selected the longest 6 ladders and 20 door panels, and ordered the guards to lead the villagers to quietly send them to the east of the Japanese military camp and hand them over to the 2nd battalion for use.

Fifteen minutes later, the 2nd Battalion used the ladders and door panels sent by the villagers to build 3 improvised bridges over the trenches, and the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion quietly entered the Japanese barracks and killed the Japanese soldiers behind their backs.

Although the Japanese officers and soldiers put up a stubborn resistance, but the weapons were not as good as the soldiers of the Lanfang Kingdom, and there was no superiority in numbers, under the light and heavy machine gun strikes, all resistance was in vain, and soon more than 100 Japanese soldiers were all killed, and none of them surrendered.

At this time, the suspension bridge had already been shattered in the shelling, and Xia Yu had to arrange for the villagers to build two improvised bridges before entering the Japanese barracks.

The soldiers began to clean up the battlefield and stab the seriously wounded soldiers a few more times, and some of the brave villagers also joined the ranks, killing the Japanese with the Japanese knives found in the ruins, crying and crying as they killed,

"Revenge!"

"Dad, mother, I have avenged you!"

"Hack you brute!"

"Hack you Jap!"

Xia Yu did not stop the actions of these villagers, but just asked the soldiers to follow behind the villagers to prevent the Japanese soldiers from rising out and killing people. “

After cleaning up the Japanese in the barracks, Xia Yu ordered the soldiers to start extinguishing the fire and clearing the treasury and booty; and sent a reconnaissance squad of the 1st Battalion to Taipei to report the situation to Zhang Wei and others.

Villagers also went to help the soldiers clean up the booty from the living quarters. Fortunately, the ammunition depot was not destroyed, the grain warehouse next to it was not ignited, and there was nothing else of value in the entire camp, and the wing flag, the wing commander and several captains were all burned in the fire.

Xia Yu saw that the blind dates were so active in helping, and if it weren't for the arrival of these villagers, he wouldn't have thought of how to cross the trench. In order to show these amiable and respectable villagers, Xia Yu announced that those who had killed the Japanese with bayonets or sabers just now could use this knife as a trophy and souvenir, and the troops would not take it back; The villagers who arrived today received 100 catties of grain each; Those who donate door panels and ladders will receive 100 catties of food for each ladder and 200 catties of grain for each door panel.

This made the villagers very grateful for Xia Yu, and many villagers immediately knelt down and shouted: "Thank you, sir!" “

It is still the end of the Qing Dynasty, and people's knees are still bent, and when they meet people in the government or leading soldiers, they are still used to kneeling.

Xia Yu hurriedly came and went to everyone, saying: "We are also Chinese, we are here to fight devils, we are here to rescue everyone, this is what we should do, but we are not used to kneeling, who wants to get up, I will be angry." “

A few young students just knelt on the ground and couldn't get up, Xia Yu walked over and said, "Get up quickly, why are you children disobedient." “

"Sir, we are going to join the rebel army to fight devils."

The old village chief came up and explained: "Their family members were killed by devils, and they grew up eating hundreds of family meals, so the chief took pity on them, so take them." “

Xia Yu thought for a while and said, "I'll write you a note, and you take my note to Taichung City to find the government in one month, and they will arrange for you." “

Xia Yu thought to himself, it is estimated that they will be arranged to enter the garrison at that time. (To be continued.) )