Chapter 321: The War of Public Order (7)
"Fire, fire! Shoot all the shells! During the day, the security forces launched several attacks on the Resistance positions on the hillside, but they were all stubbornly repulsed by the Resistance. The Pen, Fun, and Pavilion www.biquge.info security forces suffered heavy losses during the daytime battle, and hundreds of thousands of casualties made Yamazaki Yuzo's division almost incapacitated. Zhao Mingyu, who was furious, immediately issued a retaliation order: "Keep the shells, do you want to transport them back?!" ”
After retreating from the narrow mountain road to the rear of the battle line, Zhao Mingyu immediately ordered the artillerymen to cover the resistance positions with retaliatory fire.
Under the sunshine gradually sinking in the west, the resistance positions on the slopes of the mountain rose from time to time with continuous fires and dust flying everywhere, which made the officers and soldiers of the security and Ming soldiers who gathered around the fire and eat dinner with relish. This is much more exciting than the movies made by those film companies in Songjiang Province.
Trucks and jeeps started up, turned on their headlights and drove along the rough road towards the rear. Li Ling held the lunch box in his hand and looked at the departing vehicles with some distraction.
The cars were loaded with bones and wounded men who had been killed in the day's fighting. The wounded were taken to the field hospital in the rear for treatment. The Ming officers and soldiers among the remains will be properly placed and sent back to the local cemetery for burial. As for the remains of the Japanese security forces, the ashes can only be cremated and sent back to their respective homes.
"If there are no security forces, how many casualties will we have to attack by ourselves?" Li Ling looked at the security guards who didn't care about eating with some emotion. The gap between people is just too great. These people are unlucky ghosts who don't care about their lives just to be able to eat. In contrast, it is really a very lucky thing to live in the powerful Daming.
"Your Excellency." Oda Masao, who had been following Li Ling all along, thought that he was full when he saw that Li Ling did not continue to eat, so he hurriedly put down the lunch box in his hand, took out a cigarette and handed it over.
"Oh." Li Ling came back to his senses and nodded, took the cigarette, leaned against the lighter, and lit the cigarette, "It's time for your troops to play tomorrow, are you ready?" ”
"Yes! Excellency! Although he saw such heavy casualties among the front-line attacking troops today, Oda Masao's heart was already beating the drum. However, in front of the advisers of the Ming army, he would never say it. "We are fully prepared and ready to serve the Empire!" The words of the scene must be said, and this is also the meaning of the existence of this army.
"Hmm." Li Ling nodded with satisfaction: "Tomorrow I will apply for more artillery and air support for you." Don't worry, Oda-kun. Here's the opportunity to make a difference. ”
As a consultant, in addition to supervision, you also have to cheer up these cannon fodder who are about to die. Wanting to be a qualified consultant is also not an easy task. It always takes some eloquence to send people to death.
Li Ling has already said so, what else can Sada Masao say? He couldn't do anything but nod his head in response. This is the doomed fate of cannon fodder.
The artillery bombardment of the Ming army continued all night. Of course, it was not a rapid fire, the roads were rough and difficult, the supply was inconvenient, they did not have so many shells, and they could not withstand the wear and tear of the barrels. After dinner, there was a single harassing attack, and the Resistance had no long-range artillery that could threaten them anyway. As for the night attack, in the face of the fierce firepower of the Ming army, the resistance army, which was completely light infantry, really had the courage to come to the night attack, and if it came, it would inevitably come and die as many as possible.
The next day it was bright and sunny. More than a dozen Ming Army Airlines fighters, which had arrived from the distant airfield early in the morning, bombarded the resistance positions on the hillside. The artillery of the attacking forces also began to cover with rapid fire, blowing up the small position on the slope of the hill into a crater like the surface of the moon.
Hundreds of topless security officers and soldiers with white stripes wrapped around their foreheads formed death squads. After drinking the send-off wine, he smashed his wine bowl and roared loudly, holding rifles, cluster grenades, and explosives bags and rushed towards the Resistance positions halfway up the hillside. Behind them were dozens of machine guns that constantly spat out long tongues of fire to suppress and cover fire. These machine guns are also the overseers, and anyone who dares to escape will be killed on the spot.
Zhao Mingyu was no longer willing to be blocked in this small unknown valley. He ordered a forced breakthrough no matter what, and the security forces who were forced to be anxious could only choose the meat bullet offensive. This time, however, their meat bullet offensive did not have much effect.
When the screaming security army death squads rushed up the hill, they were surprised to find that they had not encountered any situation. There was no gunfire and no cannonballs. It wasn't until they jumped into the trenches, which had been crumbling under heavy bombardment, that they were surprised to find that there was no one left.
It turned out that Kuribayashi Tadamichi had quietly withdrawn all his troops last night. He won't be able to withdraw if he doesn't withdraw. Under the coverage of the superior firepower of the Ming army, the troops under his command suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and several reserves had been crippled.
Unlike the Ming army, these resistance troops were desperately short of all kinds of medicines. Those wounded on the battlefield basically mean death. The Resistance did not have the medicine to treat them.
Moreover, the Resistance's already valuable heavy weapons were also damaged. The heavy machine guns and mortars were far more important than the soldiers. For them, it's really one less to hit one.
As a result, Kuribayashi Tadamichi quickly took away the troops with heavy losses after dark, leaving only a few scarecrows to cover their faces. It wasn't until the next day that the security forces attacked the position and found that the place had already been empty.
"It's fine." Masao Oda, who secretly breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, patted his chest full of dark chest hair, gasped and sat on the ground and began to smoke to suppress his shock. Who can not be happy if they don't die? Masao Oda, who had just walked around from the front of the Ghost Gate, picked up a bargain. Only a few of the unlucky ones were accidentally injured by stray bullets, and all the others survived.
"Once you've broken through here, it's going to be smooth down there." Zhao Mingyu nodded with satisfaction, turned around and ordered the generals of the security army under his command, "All forward!" Once you've entered the Resistance Zone, you're free to do as you please! ”
The so-called free play means that you can do whatever you want. This is an incomparable attraction for the security forces who gave up everything to work for the Ming Dynasty. Just look at the way they suddenly look at their eyes to see how appealing it is to them.
The Ming occupation area has begun to gradually restore order, and if you want to do something, you will have to pay a price. It is only on this kind of battlefield that you can get this unscrupulous opportunity. And Da Ming obviously doesn't care about this, this is not the land of Da Ming. In other words, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty have not been able to regard this place as their colony for the time being. They don't care what happens on these islands.
After breaking through the valley, the force soon entered the village of Maruyama, which was close to the valley. It was originally a very large village with temples, shrines and even a school. But now it has become a deserted place, with all the people and livestock taken away by the resistance, leaving only a deserted village building.
"Boom!" Suddenly, a loud noise was heard in the village, startling all the people in the vanguard. The sound of pulling the bolt of the gun became a loud one, and many soldiers lay down one after another, looking around nervously.
"What's going on?" Oda Masao's team is the vanguard, and Li Ling naturally follows them for guidance. After the explosion occurred in the village, Li Ling quickly hid behind a large bluestone and raised his gun to probe his brain and shouted loudly.
"Your Excellency!" Soon Oda Masao trotted to Li Ling's side and said respectfully, "It's not the resistance people in the village, they have all withdrawn." However, they set traps in the village. Just now, a soldier accidentally pulled a mine when he pushed the door. Three soldiers were killed and two wounded. ”
Li Ling knew that it wasn't something that was blown up when he accidentally pushed the door. It was these bandits of the security army who wanted to get into the house and make a fortune, so they rushed in and were served a pot. These people have long lost the quality of any soldiers, and the first thing they do is to raid their homes wherever they go. This time it was a lesson for them.
"Order the troops to scout carefully, and report to the command to have them bring in the engineer troops." Although Li Ling didn't care about the life and death of these security forces. But now it's on the battlefield, and the war still needs these cannon fodder.
The inside of the village was empty, and so were the fields outside the village. Only the harvested rice stubble remained in those fields, and the many scattered grains scattered in the fields that they had not had time to pick up show how hurried the people here were. For the Japanese, the food scattered on the ground is more important than life.
After breaking through the valley, tens of thousands of troops marched into the fertile Matsumoto Valley. This army, which was dominated by the security forces, began to wreak havoc everywhere with impunity. Whether there was anyone in the village or not, it was a fire that burned all the buildings. The water conservancy facilities in the wells and fields were completely destroyed, and even explosives were used to blow them up.
The conquest army also sprinkled the fields with special pesticides, which was enough to reduce the grain production of the land for at least a few years. Da Ming doesn't care if food will grow here in the future, and those security forces don't care even more.
A devastating catastrophe of magnitude is unfolding in the region. And the main actors are all locals. (To be continued.) )