Chapter 72: The Suhu Brigade (2)

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As Shunroku Hata was about to leave office and return to China, he didn't want his successor, Toshizo Nishio, to see a joke, so he ordered his men to wipe out the troops he called the "Soviet Eastern China Army". At the same time, he made representations to Wu Mujun, accusing him of sabotaging the "peace agreement". On Tuesday, the dog ridiculed each other: Wu Mu Jun never took the initiative to attack the Japanese army, but only cultivated in Tuntian, a non-Japanese occupied area in rural China, and it was the Japanese army who took the initiative to invade Wu Mu Army's territory to plunder materials, and Wu Mu Army was just self-defense, hoping that both sides would restrain their subordinates and maintain a peaceful situation.

The devil's hesitation gave Wan Zixiong a chance to breathe, and the liaison and cooperation plans of the various units were completed, and the officers of each department were already well aware; The recruits have mastered the basic tactical movements, can basically understand the various combat orders of the troops, and their sense of discipline has also been strengthened; they have fired thousands of arrows with hard crossbows, more than 20 rifle shots, and 5 bombs, and have initially formed combat effectiveness; they have been divided into 10 supplementary companies of more than 200 people by Wan Zixiong under the framework of the officers and veterans of the cooking classes of each company, and they have been assigned to each company and stronghold to train and train while stationing.

Hata Shunroku mobilized one brigade each in Changshu, Kunshan, and Taicang, and two brigades in Suzhou and Wuxi to form a total of seven brigades to form the Changsheng Detachment, which was under the unified command of Major General Changsheng Wunan to carry out a purge of Wanzixiong's troops.

Wan Zixiong was not in a hurry when he received the information, and sat on the fishing boat in Yangcheng Lake with confidence to bask in the sun. The intelligence stations along the lake reported the battle situation by telephone, and six motorboats modified by Shi Jilun patrolled the lake area.

Changsheng Wunan planned a "noose tactic", that is, all troops marched together to clean up the outer branch of Yangcheng Lake, gradually tighten the encirclement, and then take the Yangcheng Lake area in one fell swoop.

The two brigades of the first-line devils in Wuxi did not go through any battles, and they advanced easily, and they had to control the speed to synchronize with other troops.

One of the two brigades in Suzhou attacked Wu Mu's army in the eastern suburbs, and the other brigade approached the south bank of Yangcheng Lake.

The commander of the eastern suburbs of the Wumu army was Li Jiakui, a veteran who broke through the siege of Nanjing. This guy was a dead-eyed, taciturn, disciplined, brave and tactical man, and Wan Zixiong disliked him very much and sent him to Lunan (south of the railway), far from him. When the devil came to attack, he ordered all strongholds to be defended if they could be defended according to Wan Zixiong's pre-deployment order, and if they could not hold on, they would withdraw, and the firepower of the strongholds would be light before and heavy at the rear.

It makes sense for Wan Zixiong to order the troops to occupy the devil's stronghold. The location of the devil's stronghold is carefully planned, and they all occupy powerful strategic points, and the fortifications are reasonably constructed and the shooting range is good, so it is a pity not to make full use of them.

The devils launched an attack on the first stronghold in the eastern suburbs. First, there was an artillery bombardment, and more than a dozen shells blew up most of the turret, but the soldiers of the Wumu Army hid in the anti-artillery hole behind the courtyard wall unharmed.

The devils began to shell the courtyard wall again, and at the same time dispatched infantry. It wasn't until the devils rushed 150 meters that the soldiers of the Wumu Army braved the artillery fire to enter the position. The light machine gun hits the devil light machine gun, the strange light strikes the devil grenadier and the commander, the grenade machine gun hits the devil soldiers behind the potholes and bunkers, and the rifle snips freely. The front-line strongholds were not intended to be held to the death, and heavy firepower such as heavy machine guns and mortars was not arranged at all.

The recruits have veterans as role models, and at the same time, the strong courtyard walls and fortifications make them feel safe and play a fairly stable role. Each stronghold has a regular squad of 14 people and a supplementary squad of more than 20 people, a total of more than 40 people, 1 light machine gun, 1 grenade machine gun, 2 Qiguang type, more than 30 rifles, to block the attack of the devil team, although the devil's firepower and number of people have the upper hand, but the Wumu army has the advantage of the terrain, it seems much calmer.

The devil retreated after more than a dozen people were killed or wounded, and Wu Mujun also had 3 minor injuries.

After the devil artillery adjusted its shooting to shoot at Zhu Yuan, it shelled the area around the courtyard wall again, and the devil infantry also attacked again.

At this time, the soldiers of the Wumu Army had already hid in the dilapidated artillery tower, and they did not suffer losses, and they condescendingly saw the devils outflanked in the direction of the main gate of the stronghold. In order to prevent the devils from shelling the artillery tower again, Wu Mujun put the devils next to the trench outside the courtyard wall, and then began to counterattack: light machine guns hit the follow-up devil light machine guns, strange light strike grenadiers, riflemen threw grenades to blow up the devil infantry next to the trench, and then blew up the hole in the other courtyard wall, withdrew from the stronghold, opened the way with grenades and machine guns, and counterattacked the devil sneak attack troops who thought they had a plan.

A team of devils detoured back to the direction of the main entrance of the stronghold, quietly approached under the drawbridge, and was about to solve the drawbridge problem, but was attacked by the opponent who turned around at the corner of the wall, killing and wounding more than a dozen people, and was also knocked out by grenade machine guns 2 grenadiers and 1 light machine gun, and was forced to retreat dozens of meters.

Taking advantage of the situation, the Wu Mu army rushed out of the stronghold and retreated into a forest, suffering only 6 casualties. After a brief rest in the woods, seeing that the devils did not pursue, they calmly moved to several hidden fortifications by the nearby river.

After suffering 5 or 60 casualties, the devils occupied the stronghold, and the devil troops took a short break and left a squad of devils to garrison the dilapidated stronghold, while the large army continued to advance.

The second stronghold is a bunker under two large earthen bunkers on the side of the road. The structure of this stronghold is very creative: a large circular house in the stone barrier, with steel rails as beams, rough wood as the roof, and six half-person-high stone arch passages extending in six directions as individual shelters, and there is also a layer of shooting holes at the height of the main house, and the outside is covered with a large amount of earth, piled up into a mountain of earth, with dormitories on the top of the hill and pillboxes below. Wu Mujun also suffered a big loss when he took this stronghold, and finally used dozens of stunned bombs to subdue the devils inside.

Each bunker is equipped with 1 heavy machine gun, 2 light machine guns, a regular reinforcement squad of 14 people, and 2 supplementary squads stationed in the village 500 meters away, totaling more than 80 people.

The devil also knew that this stronghold was difficult to fight, so he made a detour, preparing to take other strongholds and turn it into a lone army and find a way to solve it.

Wu Mujun in the stronghold didn't know each other, so he was transferred to a supplementary class, and let the recruits practice their guns and courage with distant devils on the rockery. The devils had no choice but to counterattack from a distance with 2 heavy machine guns to cover the rapid passage of the large army.

The devil arrives at the third stronghold with the shame of escaping, ready to vent his anger. So he set up infantry artillery and bombarded it from a distance, and then launched an infantry attack.

This stronghold was unguarded, and I didn't know where to withdraw to it for a long time, only 3 snipers were left on the periphery, and they took advantage of the chaos of the devil's attack to kill 1 squad leader, 3 military Cao, and Cao Chang and then slipped away.

Looking at the empty stronghold, the devil did not feel the slightest sense of victory, but was as disgusting as eating a fly. A squad had to be left to defend it, and the large army continued to advance after lunch.

In the afternoon, the devil soldiers divided into three routes and launched simultaneous attacks on three strongholds. As a result, after paying a certain number of casualties, they all took the stronghold according to the predetermined plan, only 78 wounded soldiers and 41 corpses were added, and the infantry artillery shells ran out, so they had to spend the night in the occupied stronghold.

Kazuo Nakata, the leader of the devil brigade, ordered the transport squadron to return the wounded overnight and then bring back ammunition. Who knows that the transport squadron will never return, and there will be no return.

The transport squadron used more than 30 carts to pull the wounded back, and unexpectedly, the Wu Mu troops who had withdrawn from the four strongholds followed.

While passing through the bunker stronghold, the transport squadron came under volley. The recruits in the bunker stronghold didn't have a good time with the devils, and they didn't enjoy it, and immediately set up an ambush on the road after receiving a notification from other strongholds.

As soon as the gunshots rang out, the devil transporters immediately extinguished their torches and defended themselves according to their guns. These devils are very methodical, no matter how Wu Mujun teases, they take advantage of the night and don't fire a shot. The recruits of the Wu Mu Army had no recruitment, and the veteran squad leaders did not dare to use any difficult tactics because these recruits were too vegetable, so they just blindly stalemate and confront.

"My own people, who will come and take me over?" shouted in the confrontation between the enemy and me in the dark night, and the people of Wu Mujun were so bold.

The veteran squad leader did not hesitate to pick up the people, who were liaison soldiers from other strongholds, and informed them not to throw grenades and shoot, and his own people had already touched them.

The veteran squad leader couldn't help but be ashamed, why didn't he think of using a grenade? The recruits also couldn't help but wonder: touch the past? What do you mean?

There are 5 or 60 veterans in the 4 "big classes" (1 regular class and 1 supplementary class) behind the devils, and they have discussed it and decided to sneak into the devil's team and win in the chaos.

They selected 6 people, patiently blended into the devil team one by one, identified their targets without saying a word, quietly prepared two grenades, and waited for the signal.

"Yaga!" The darkness shouted and scolded, which was the code of Wu Mujun's action.

Almost at the same time, six people burst out of the devil's team and threw grenades into the devil's pile. A series of explosions broke the deadlock, and the devils didn't know the details of Wu Mujun, so they could only run desperately with the car, and 6 people mixed in among the devils, and the Wu Mujun behind also ran wildly and chased after them.

The six men took advantage of the chaos and began to stab the speaker with bayonets, and the devil found that a person in the team had mixed in, but he did not dare to speak, for fear of becoming a target for killing.

"Yaga!" The squad leader of Wu Mujun, who fell at the back of the team, gave the order to retreat, and he quickly rolled to the side of the road. The other five threw grenades and jumped out of the devil queue after 10 seconds.

Soon, all 6 people quit the devil queue and gathered together, waiting for the troops behind.

The troops behind left a group of people to turn on their flashlights to clean up the battlefield, captured 11 carts, and killed more than 40 old and old wounded soldiers. The others followed the 6 people in hot pursuit, and then followed the devil's convoy unhurriedly.

At dawn, the convoy of devils, panicked like lost dogs, finally arrived at the first stronghold occupied during the day. At this time, they knew that the people who had infiltrated had escaped, and they shouted at ease to open the door inside the stronghold.

After a while, the gate of the stronghold opened, and the devils rushed in ecstatically, and they were greeted by a batch of smoking grenades.

Each stronghold has been repaired by Wu Mujun, and it is very convenient to withdraw and kill in. This stronghold has long been taken back by Wu Mujun, and the devils who stayed behind can only be Wu Mujun's dishes, but I didn't expect the devils to be so polite, and they also added food and vegetables!

After the Wu Mujun in the back contacted the stronghold, he quickly entered the stronghold, and regardless of the corpses all over the ground, he fell asleep.

On the second day, Wu Mujun woke up and first helped the brothers in the stronghold to take care of the field: the cart and the injured horse were dealt with alone; Dead horses were washed with water from the trenches and cooked; The corpse of the devil was let the recruits do it, rip off the equipment and clothes, cut off the "second child", and threw it on the side of the road with a crotch cloth.

More than 20 dead horses unloaded thousands of catties of horse meat, everyone set up three large pots of stewed horse meat in the yard, and also set up a few fires, and skewered large pieces of horse meat on wooden sticks to cook.

When all the horse meat was cooked, everyone had eaten all the ditches and flattened the trenches, and each person carried more than a dozen catties on their backs---- not all of them ate by themselves, and there were many people fleeing on the road! The rest of the horses and bones are left to the brothers who stay in the stronghold to deal with, anyway, the people of the Wumu Army will not spoil things!

Wu Mujun, who stayed in the stronghold, would also be relieved, and divided the horses into water and horse bones into several piles, and notified the people in the surrounding villages to get rid of them. The smell of horse meat wafts from many villages.

Let's say that the soldiers of the Wumu Army gathered together, one of them was a platoon commander, who was the largest officer in this group, and he decided to follow the devil brigade all the way to regain the stronghold, but each stronghold only left a squad of veterans with recruits, the squad leader was equipped with 1 Qiguang type, the others were only equipped with rifles and grenades, and the rest followed the devil brigade to wait for the opportunity to fight. Everyone was unanimous in favor.

The more the devil brigade went forward, the more difficult it was to fight, and the three strongholds attacked behind were all equipped with heavy machine guns and infantry guns, and their own infantry guns had no shells, and heavy machine gun bullets had to be calculated, and 12 heavy machine guns were killed by 7 mortars and infantry guns of the Zhi Na people, as well as more than 100 wounded soldiers and more than 100 corpses. Kazuo Nakata, the captain of the devil brigade, has no fighting spirit, and is thinking about how to end the game: one is to ask for reinforcements to continue to advance, and the other is to return the same way. Changsheng Wunan's reply was: There are no reinforcements, keep going!

Kazuo Nakata had no choice but to bite the bullet. The infantry artillery was useless, and they were left in a larger stronghold with the wounded, and the rest of the more than 600 devils could only continue to attack and advance.

The devil walked on the front foot, and the Wu Mu army recaptured the stronghold, and naturally a massacre was inevitable, the wounded soldiers were assassinated by the recruits, and the corpses were disposed of by the recruits, so that they could become veterans as soon as possible.

These two strongholds have infantry guns, and two infantry guns of the devil were captured, a total of 4 infantry guns, plus more than 300 soldiers from other strongholds, the commander of this stronghold decided to copy the devil's back road, he is a company commander, and temporarily appointed an artillery platoon commander, a heavy machine gun platoon commander, and 4 infantry platoon commanders, and then chased and pressed towards the devil.

The devils were fighting fiercely at a stronghold, and three heavy machine guns were set up at a distance of 2,000 meters, and two were set up under a large tree at a distance of 1,500 meters to avoid the infantry guns with a range of 2,780 meters.

The outflanked Wu Mujun easily took down the 3 heavy machine guns behind the devil, and then condescendingly swept the devil's brigade, squadron headquarters and 2 other heavy machine guns. The devils whose command system was destroyed blew up the battalion, some continued to attack the strongholds, some turned and counterattacked, some retreated and defended, and some scattered and fled, but the Wu Mu army was not in a hurry to charge, and only cleared the devils on the edge of the battlefield with 5 heavy machine guns with optical sights at the commanding heights, and bombarded them with infantry artillery in the middle area.

Li Jiakui got the news of the collapse of the devil's brigade, so he had to send troops to participate in the liquidation of the remnants of the enemy, and secretly cursed in his heart, which bastard thing has ruined Lao Tzu's good deeds! Originally, he planned to lure the enemy into the depths, so that the recruits of all the troops had the opportunity to fight, and while training the troops, he exhausted the devils, and did not want to annihilate the war into a rout; But fortunately, a group of junior officers can seize the fighter plane to fight independently, and 300 people, mainly recruits, defeated the regular troops of more than 600 devils, bringing strong self-confidence and fighting to the troops, which is still remarkable!

The unexpected gain was that the local people also actively participated in the purging of the remnants of the enemy, and followed Wu Mujun to beat the water dogs, radiating anti-Japanese enthusiasm. The common people understand a truth, if you don't dare to provoke the devil, the devil will bully you, burn your house, rob your food, rape your mother, if you dare to kill the devil, you can slaughter his horse and eat, and strip his clothes and clothes!

Li Jiakui struck while the iron was hot and established a militia organization in his own jurisdiction, claiming that only militia with excellent performance could officially join the Wumu army.

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