Chapter 69: Su Wan Brigade (2)

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Kurai Minoru chased after him hungry for a long time, and finally saw the shadow of Shina in the telescope, there were only 5 or 6 people, dressed in colorful clothes, 1 light machine gun, 2 very long submachine guns, and 1 strange-looking weapon that he had never seen before, and not a single rifle, they were guarding a sluice gate on the embankment by the lake.

Kurai Minoru looked at the surrounding terrain with some regret: the other party only left himself a chance to attack---- the river, both sides of the river are full of reeds, and he can't deploy his troops, and he has to attack against the current, and the most annoying thing is that once the people open the sluice, they don't know how much water they can rush down.

Minoru Kurai reminds himself: Calm down, calm down! The river is 40 meters wide, the water depth is 0.3-0.5 meters, the attack distance is 600 meters, the surrounding reeds can provide some cover, and the wooden bridge where it is now can be used as a fire point, the situation in front is not understood, but the back is the road that has been walked, there is a road leading to the lake at 500 meters, and it takes 20 minutes to detour about 1500----1800 meters...... That's right, the front is contained, the side is roundabout, and the new weapons of the Shina people must be captured, and it is better to catch another high-ranking official of the Shina people!

The devils set up 2 machine-gun positions on both sides of the bridge and carried out frontal fire suppression, 1 squad approached the position of the people in two columns with the help of the cover of reeds on both sides of the riverbank, 1 squad detoured from the left side, and 1 squad was a reserve.

The machine gun position of the Wumu guerrillas could only be fixed in one position because of the limitation of the angle of fire, so it was reinforced, and the bunkers were set up with thick wooden stakes, revealing only three shooting holes less than one foot square, and the strange light submachine guns on both sides were also set up, and the grenade machine gun bunkers that could be fired curved did not even leave shooting holes, and only relied on the gaps in the wooden stakes as observation holes.

The devil entered a distance of 400 meters, and the light machine gun with an optical sight began to fire at a distance, ignoring the fire suppression of the devil, anyway, the devil's grenadier canister cannot be used in the water, and it cannot be reached on the shore, so it will not be useful!

The devil entered a distance of 300 meters, and the Qiguang submachine gun also began to fire.

When the devils entered the distance of 200 meters, the 41 devils who participated in the attack had already suffered about 10 casualties, but the devils also learned to be obedient and advanced in the shallow reeds, which greatly reduced the hit rate of Wu Mujun.

Kurai Minoru began to feel relaxed, as long as the forward team attacked within 50 meters of the Shina people, they could use the reeds to stalemate with the Shina people, and he sent another squad to attack along the riverbed, although the losses were larger, after all, the victory was in hand.

Sure enough, there were more than 20 devils who attacked a distance of 50----100 meters, but it was extremely inconvenient to shoot and throw bombs in the reeds.

Kurai Minoru sent the second echelon in a timely manner. The new weapons of the Chinese people finally opened fire, and the grenade machine guns with a rate of 30 rounds per minute blocked almost the entire river, and with the light machine guns, the devils lost more than 20 people.

The devil was also anxious, and the grenadier soldiers also rushed up, relying on the back and backpack of the deputy shooter to fire, and the 6 grenadiers fired together, quickly knocking out Wu Mujun's grenade machine gun and light machine gun.

Kurai Minoru was overjoyed, although the opponent had few people, but the firepower was strong and the terrain was superior, he suffered heavy losses but finally won a miserable victory, and the new weapons of the people were captured, which also meant a bit of an iron-blooded soldier! Also, I finally figured out that the new weapon of the Shina people is actually a grenadier that can fire continuously!

Minoru Kurai was overjoyed too soon. Wu Mujun rolled down two large wooden barrels from the river embankment, tied to them with smoking grenades and lit fuses, and the large wooden barrels exploded in the river, and the river was suddenly enveloped in flames.

The barrel was filled with tung oil, and the flames spread everywhere, sticking to the devil's body and burning. The devil is also smart, and when he sticks to the fire, he squats or lies down in the water to extinguish the fire, but the flames are one after another, which makes the devil overwhelmed.

Wu Mujun's light machine gun rang out again, the grenade machine gun also resumed fire, and the reeds burned. The devil couldn't hold it anymore and began to flee in an orderly manner, and Kurai Minoru couldn't hold it down, so he had to be coerced by the rout and retreated.

Wu Mujun sacrificed two grenade machine gunners, 1 light machine gunner was killed, 1 was seriously wounded, and only two squad leaders and submachine gunners remained.

Wang Yilang's three-sided fight is just across the lake. His headquarters were located in the small hilly area on the western shore of the lake, where they could be attacked and defended, while other troops were scattered in the eastern plains and surrounding hills. He was very satisfied with the telescope when he saw that his troops were resisting the devils and a squadron without falling behind, and he still sent a platoon to cross the lake for reinforcements for insurance.

The reinforced platoon commander saw that the two people in front of him were chasing and killing so many devils, so he hurriedly sent a squad to follow and support, one squad to clean up the battlefield, and one squad to guard the position.

In fact, there were more than 20 people in Kurai Minoru, 2 machine guns, and they were chased and killed by the two squad leaders of Wu Mujun, running all the way and having no fighting spirit.

After fleeing for more than ten miles, he was wiped out more than a dozen of his subordinates, and Kurai Minoru couldn't run, forcing him to decide to give it a go. When he looked back and saw that there were only two people chasing him, he couldn't help but feel dizzy - shame, a group of Japanese Imperial Army was chased by two people and fled for more than ten miles, and they were killed I don't know how many, it's so outrageous! No, you must kill these two people, otherwise you won't be able to explain to the emperor, and you won't have the face to enter the Yasukuni Shrine!

Although the two squad leaders of Wu Mujun were red-eyed, they were sober in their tactical awareness, and when they saw that the devil stopped, they also hurriedly hid into a small forest.

Kurai Minoru and the others had already run out of strength, and they could no longer muster up the courage to attack. Once the two of Wu Mujun stopped, they lost their strength, and the two sides were at a stalemate.

Wu Mujun's two people are named Li Tiedan and Wang Youcai. At this time, the two calmed down and saw that there were more than a dozen devils, and they no longer dared to attack rashly, the two hid under a ridge, first took a few anti-Japanese strength pills to restore their strength, and then used a bayonet to cut the bark of the tree, moistened their throats with tree sap, and after a simple rest, the two were unwilling to monitor the devil.

Kurai Minoru doesn't know if it's hard or incompetent, every time this clean-up operation comes out, the terrain is unfavorable, and now he is trapped in a big sand pit with no way out, and more than a dozen people are stared at by two Shina people in this damn Jedi.

Actually, Kurai Minoru was scared. He had 2 light machine guns, enough to suppress two of Wu Mu's troops, while the others could outflank them in the grove and drive them out or annihilate them on the spot.

Suddenly, heavy gunfire was heard in the distance, giving hope to both sides. Kurai Minoru knew that there was a roundabout squad of his own, and Li and Wang heard the sound of grenade machine guns and Qiguang submachine guns.

Sure enough, after a while, more than a dozen devils fled in defeat, and Wu Mujun chased after him.

The two veteran oils took advantage of the meeting of the two devils, blocked the machine-gun firing range that monitored them, quickly rushed up, forced the devils into the big sand pit with a burst of strafing, and then threw 4 grenades into the big sand pit, and then strafed the big sand pit again, and the battle was over.

The two veterans looked at the reinforcements that had caught up, one group was the eight riflemen in their squad who were protecting the flanks, and the other was a squad sent by Wang Yilang, and they suddenly collapsed to the ground as soon as they relaxed.

Li and Wang lay on a stretcher and listened to the reports of their riflemen and reinforcement squad leaders:

Li Tiedan had long been prepared for the sneak attack on the flank of the devils, and sent 8 riflemen to put up a bamboo stick mine array on the way to the devil's sneak attack, but the bamboo stick was changed to a sharpened reed pole, and the fire grenade was tied to the reed pole with a thin silk thread to make a mine, and there were not enough grenades, so the thin silk thread was hung indiscriminately, although the time was pressing, the bamboo stick mine array was arranged so-so, or it greatly delayed the sneak attack of the devil, plus 8 people used the ditch to continuously attack with cold guns, and also killed more than a dozen devils.

It wasn't until the devils on the front were defeated, and the sneak attacking devils retreated when they saw it, and they couldn't catch up with Kurai Minoru who fled with their lives in front of them and Li and Wang, who were chasing with their lives. Those who retreat are not as fast as they flee!

After the reinforcements and 8 riflemen rendezvous, they knocked out all the light machine guns and grenadiers of the devil, and chased them all the way, but in the end they were picked up by Li and Wang.

The two squadrons of the devil were completely wiped out by Wang Yilang's two platoons, which shows that Wang Yilang's guerrilla warfare won the true inheritance of the Wumu army.

The devils in Wuhu learned from the radio that the two squadrons were all wiped out, and that a well-equipped Chinese army appeared in the "Wu, Tong, and Xuan" material replenishment area, so they informed the devils in Tongling and Xuancheng that under the command of the commander of the Anqing devil garrison, a larger-scale encirclement and suppression began.

Wang Yilang received a report that the devils in Wuhu, Tongling, and Xuancheng had all moved, and it was estimated that there was a great possibility of retaliation against Wu Mujun. Wang Yilang, as a highly educated officer, had a strong macro awareness, and he immediately reported the situation to He Laifu, informing him that he would switch to Dangtu, and at the same time informing General Shangguan Yun's 32nd Group Army and the Third Detachment of the New Fourth Army that the 32nd Group Army could choose an opportunity to attack Tongling, and the Third Detachment of the New Fourth Army could choose an opportunity to attack Xuancheng, and at the same time, in order to facilitate mobile operations, more than 50 devil prisoners were handed over to the Third Detachment of the New Fourth Army for management.

Wang Yilang's department has three battalions and one directly subordinate company, with a total of more than 1,500 people in 10 companies, and has also established more than 1,200 militia organizations in more than 30 villages, of which more than 400 capable militiamen are armed with one gun. Wang Yilang trained the militia to be responsible for organizing the transfer of the people and protecting the safety of the people, and tried not to fight with the devils, but he also taught the militia the detailed use of tactics such as sweat medicine, soul-breaking incense, poisonous mushrooms, bamboo sticks, mine arrays, rivers, sluices, grass and wood fire attacks, sneak attacks on the devils' logistics troops, and attracting and transferring the devil's troops.

Wang Yilang gathered his troops and marched towards Wuhu, preparing to attack Wuhu first.

Halfway through, Wang Yilang received a report that a brigade of Wuhu devils was advancing in a semi-encircled form in the direction of fighting on three sides. Wang Yilang immediately ordered the troops to march in the direction of Xuancheng with great fanfare, in order to pull and destroy the devil's formation, waiting for an opportunity to bite the devil.

The devils in Xuancheng also moved when they heard the wind and sent 1 cavalry squadron to intercept it. The devils of Xuancheng are responsible for supporting Wuhu and Tongling, so a cavalry brigade with strong mobility is stationed, with 2 cavalry squadrons, 1 machine gun squadron, and more than 400 war horses. The cavalry squadron has three cavalry squads of 30 people, one cavalry light machine gun squad, a total of more than 130 people, 130 horses, 4 carts, 3 light machine guns, 3 grenadiers, and 112 cavalry rifles.

Although Japan's industrial level is the first in Asia, it is much worse than the mechanization level of European and American countries, and the number of automobiles, tanks, and armored vehicles is limited, and the use of cavalry to deal with China's backward army that lacks automatic weapons such as light and heavy machine guns is still not very powerful. However, the firepower and equipment of the Chinese army encountered by the devil cavalry this time were far beyond the imagination of the devil!

The devil cavalry also got the information that the Chinese army had a burst of grenadiers, but they thought that it was impossible to equip a large number of them, so they didn't care at all, so they rushed directly towards Wang Yilang's vanguard company.

Wang Yilang's vanguard company was deployed on the spot, and 9 light machine guns, 9 grenade machine guns, and 26 Qiguang submachine guns were fired one after another. At 400 meters, the light machine gun fired, the submachine gun fired at 300 meters, the grenade machine gun opened fire at 200 meters, and the firepower of the Wu Mu army at 100 meters hit a barrage, and the devil cavalry was really beaten, and one person turned over on his horse, and 90 devils were all wiped out, and only the captain of the devil's cavalry squadron led the light machine gun squad of the cavalry to retreat in a hurry.

Wang Yilang mostly ignored the devil's cavalry, bypassed the battlefield and went straight to the east, and was blocked by a devil's stronghold.

The stronghold of the devil is very exquisitely repaired, it is located in a river bay like a bow's back, the front is like a bowstring avenue, the other side of the avenue is a large muddy pond, 3 pillboxes are surrounded by a compound, the road is on the back of the water, the shooting boundary is open, and the traffic on all sides is blocked.

Wang Yilang was well aware of the surrounding terrain, and the troops who had been prepared for a long time immediately set up two captured mortars to bombard the pillbox in the northwest corner of the stronghold. 1 company of infantry was divided into three columns to attack, the troops on both sides used steel pots as mobile bunkers to resist the fire of the other two sides of the pillbox, and the middle road was desperately close to the frontal pillbox, after more than 50 casualties, 9 grenade machine gunners successfully approached within 50 meters of the pillbox, and fired more than 50 high-explosive shells into the pillbox in a row, blowing up the pillbox; At this point, the mortars shifted their targets and blew up the walls of the stronghold section by section.

Wang Yilang looked at the battle situation in front of him, the two heavy machine guns of the devils were so crushed in the other two pillboxes that the attacking troops could not raise their heads, and the other devils also desperately resisted with the courtyard walls or ruins. The commander of the first battalion in charge of the command sent two other companies to disperse the fire of the devils, and the battle fell into a stalemate.

The development of the situation is even worse than Wang Yilang imagined! Xuancheng's devil cavalry followed and chased again: this time the devil no longer underestimated the enemy, 6 heavy machine guns in the heavy machine gun squadron, 12 light machine guns in two light machine gun squads, 12 grenadiers, and echelon fire configuration to cover the devil cavalry to storm the guard battalion.

Wang Yilang's department had no heavy weapons, and the only two mortars were useless because of the red barrels, and they could only be passively beaten at the range of 4,500 meters of the devil's heavy machine gun, although the heavy machine gun was only more than 800 meters away from Wu Mujun! Now Wang Yilang knows why he can't resist the devil army! Wang Yilang gritted his teeth and fought hard!

Wang Yilang immediately organized all dozens of steel pots, each of which covered a bombardier and a submachine gunner, and desperately rushed into the stronghold!

The commander of the first battalion personally led the team, more than 20 steel pots, and more than 40 brave men, and they really rushed into the stronghold with an offensive that would rather die than retreat, and the grenade machine guns of the team also began to bombard the other two pillboxes.

After a bloody battle, Wang Yilang's troops took the stronghold at the cost of more than 230 casualties, annihilated a squadron of devils, and obtained a powerful fire support point.

At this time, the rear guard battalion had also suffered more than 100 casualties, and after receiving Wang Yilang's order to retreat, the commander of the rear guard battalion did not dare to retreat, because once he left the fortifications that had been built, he would become a live target for the devil's heavy machine gun.

Wang Yilang was rewarded and immediately sent the mortars that had cooled down to reinforce the guard battalion with only 16 shells.

The New Fourth Army received a report from Wang Yilang and strengthened its reconnaissance of Xuancheng, and learned that the devils had dispatched a cavalry squadron to intercept the Wumu guerrillas, and immediately sent Tan Zhenlin to lead a team to harass the devils in Xuancheng and contain their threat to the Wumu guerrillas.

Tan Zhenlin did not lead many troops, only a battalion of more than 300 people, but in order to increase the authenticity of the siege, he brought two infantry guns attached to the third detachment.

When Tan Zhenlin led his troops to Xuancheng, most of the devil cavalry had already gone out of the city to pursue the Wumu guerrillas. Tan Zhenlin decisively changed direction, and while sending someone to inform Commander Zhang Yunyi, the troops directly followed the devil cavalry brigade.

The Devil's Guard Force found the New Fourth Army trailing and sent an infantry squad to reinforce Tan Zhenlin's troops.

Tan Zhenlin's equipment was far inferior to that of the devils, with only more than 200 rifles, 3 crooked handles, and insufficient ammunition, most of the soldiers had only fought guerrilla warfare, not positional fortifications, so the attack was extremely unsmooth.

After the failure of the two attacks, Tan Zhenlin adjusted his tactics, gave full play to the advantages of the guerrillas' ability in mountain warfare, dispersed his troops, expanded the attack area, and at the same time used infantry artillery to hit the devil's machine guns and machine guns to attack the devil's grenadiers.

The artillery of the New Fourth Army lacked training, and it was the first time to participate in actual combat, and more than a dozen artillery pieces failed to hit the devil's machine gun, which angered the devil. Seeing that the New Fourth Army had extremely threatening infantry artillery, the leader of the devil's squad decided to go all out to get rid of this threat, and he concentrated the fire cover of three light machine guns and three grenadier canisters, and rushed out of a squad from the front, in an attempt to seize the artillery position of the New Fourth Army in one fell swoop.

The devils made a fatal mistake, the devils who rushed out and the New Fourth Army got mixed together, and the surrounding positions were broken through by the New Fourth Army, which had the advantage in numbers, due to the weakening of firepower, forming a melee situation, and the New Fourth Army, which had lost the threat of firepower, gained the upper hand, and the broadswords, spears, grenades, and pistols highlighted their superiority in close combat, and soon completely annihilated the devil's blocking troops.

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