Chapter 23 Entering the Base Area

Several Japanese-speaking scouts shouted in unison at the scattered Japanese soldiers, and the Jewish soldiers who had received the ceasefire order also stopped firing, and the shouts of the scouts wafted over the smoky Majiawa. The defeated Japanese soldiers who had long lost their will to fight confronted each other, they were all guys who grew up eating, and naturally they were all people who were afraid of death, the gunfire and shouts of killing stopped, and the Japanese army also stopped resisting, and a few minutes later, the first Japanese soldier who laid down his arms appeared, followed by the second and third.

Fear is contagious, originally Tang Lei never believed what his husband had said, but today he can be regarded as opening his eyes, more and more Japanese soldiers laid down their arms, until the hundreds of Japanese troops who were surrounded all laid down their weapons and sat on the ground, Tang Lei believed that the Japanese troops below had really surrendered. "Brothers, go down to receive the prisoners" Tang Lei personally picked up a machine gun beside him, pointed the muzzle at the Japanese soldiers sitting on the ground, and beckoned his scouts to take the Jewish soldiers who were ambushed on the left and right to go down to receive the prisoners.

Behind the scouts of the former Jewish soldiers, hundreds of Jewish soldiers scattered around the Japanese army formed a sharp formation and rushed towards the Japanese soldiers who had surrendered and sat on the ground. "All weapons and ammunition are gathered together, and everyone must hand over their belongings, including your personal belongings, immediately" Dozens of scouts with submachine guns lined up with Jewish soldiers, looking at the hundreds of Japanese soldiers sitting opposite them with uncertain expressions. In the face of the scouts' almost arrogant shouts, some of the short-tempered Japanese soldiers who were not very willing to surrender began to shout and curse and wanted to get up and resist, but looking at the machine guns on top of the surroundings, the people next to them still held them down.

Firearms, ammunition, bayonets and even belts were all gathered together, and the personal belongings in the pockets of the Japanese soldiers were also ordered to be taught. "Fire" All the objects on the surrendered Japanese soldiers have been hollowed out, Tang Lei's eyes flashed a trace of coldness, and he waved his arm downward, and the scouts with submachine guns on their shoulders pulled the trigger in unison, and more than a dozen tongues of fire blew like a wind towards the Japanese prisoners of war who ordered the formation in the north.

Raindrops of bullets poured into the ranks of Japanese prisoners of war, and dozens of Japanese soldiers fell in an instant, and the battalion commander of the Jewish army who "fired" saw that the scouts were all firing and immediately shouted loudly. The soldiers of the Jewish battalion were ordered to shoot the bullets in their guns, and suddenly the Japanese prisoners of war who were surrounded in the open space were swept away by the rain of bullets in their faces. There were hundreds of Japanese soldiers who laid down their arms and chose to surrender, but the scouts and Jewish soldiers who surrounded them were almost all armed with automatic fire such as submachine guns, and in just a few minutes, many of them had empty two magazines, and there were no more Japanese prisoners of war who could still stand in the open space.

"Clean up the battlefield, don't let go of a Japanese soldier" Tang Lei gave the order and took care of himself and a few Jewish officers to check the personal belongings taught by the Japanese prisoners of war, Tang Lei said to clean up the battlefield is to say that those Japanese soldiers who were wounded and not dead, the first rule of the thunder code is not to leave prisoners, especially the Japanese. This time they were on a long-distance attack, and after ambushing the Japanese convoy, they were about to withdraw somewhere else, and even if these prisoners of war would be as obedient as sheep, they would not be able to retreat with them.

The scouts, who were slightly excited with a look on their faces, withdrew their submachine guns and drew their short knives from their waists, killing prisoners of this scale was simply an unforgivable crime in the eyes of those Jewish soldiers, and the scouts were followed to clean up the battlefield with short knives only a few dozen Jewish soldiers who had already been subdued by the mercenaries. "Write down their names, report to Mr. when you go back, and find a way to transfer to our mercenary detachment, if you can't do reconnaissance, it's okay to follow a fire cover" Killing prisoners is just a test for Zhao Zhi's Jewish army, only Jewish soldiers who have abandoned their morals and ethics have the opportunity to join the mercenary force, Zhao Zhi doesn't want his mercenary unit to be full of a group of guys like God all day long.

Tang Lei's scouts actually played a leading role, those Jewish soldiers carrying 38 rifles with bayonets were not much slower than them, the sound of the blade piercing into the flesh and the blood splashed out of the Japanese army's body after the bayonet was pulled out, so that many Jewish soldiers who were responsible for collecting firearms vomited, hundreds of corpses were mended one by one It was a very laborious project, a full ten minutes, dozens of knife men completed the project, Tang Lei with a cold face stood on the small post and watched, Many Jewish soldiers who vomited in the dark didn't even dare to look at Tang Lei, they really couldn't imagine how these emaciated looking Orientals could be so indifferent to death.

Soon, the entire Xiangtangpu battlefield fell into a quiet, the ammunition and materials on the battlefield were carried away, and even the personal belongings of the Japanese prisoners of war who were forced to hand over were loaded into the trucks that rushed to meet them and transported them to Xiangtangpu. As for the corpses of the Japanese soldiers all over the ground in Majiawa, it is not in the scope of Tang Lei's consideration, there are many snakes, insects, rats, ants and large and small mountain beasts in the mountains and forests, and after a few rains and the rise in temperature, these corpses will rot and become nutrients for the earth, maybe in a few years, the soil in this place will become extremely fertile.

"How? Were the casualties of the soldiers large? The truck transporting the loot and the wounded returned to Xiangtangpu first, and Zhao Zhi, who had been waiting anxiously, opened his mouth to ask the soldiers about the casualties, the loot was too much, it was impossible to take it away at one time, and Zhao Zhi was most concerned about the casualties of his Jewish soldiers now. This trip only brought 4,000 Jewish soldiers, and it was also the first time that Zhao Zhi led Jewish soldiers to fight against the Japanese army, if the casualties were too large, the Jewish troops were likely to be war-weary and war-avoiding, after all, this was in China, and these were not Jewish wars.

"The 1st Company fought well in Majiawa, and the heavy machine gun we transferred over was also timely, the company commander of the 1st Company, Allen, was a bit of a mercenary unit, this kid actually arranged a scorn array in front of their defensive trench" Speaking of Allen's unaccomplished spook mine, Tang Lei wanted to laugh for no reason, and the grenade thrown by the Japanese army when they attacked only detonated part of the mine, and when the Kawada Brigade was pursued, the 1st Company in the trench was blocked by the remaining mine array, An angry Alan yelled in the trenches that the men in charge of laying mines were heartless things.

"The rules of our mercenary unit, those Jewish soldiers still can't accept it, but when I mended the corpse just now, there were dozens of guys in the 1st battalion who looked okay, I want to transfer them to the scout detachment to observe for a while and take a look" Tang Lei said as he handed over the list of loot that he had hastily sorted out to Zhao Zhi. The 1st Company of the Kawada Brigade and Allen fought for a long time, and the Japanese-style mortar grenadiers were blown to pieces, but the light and heavy machine guns that had been suppressed by Browning were captured a lot, and counting those intact rifles, the capture of Majiawa in the First Battle was also quite expensive.

"Say casualties, show me this, what?" Zhao Zhi threw the loot list on the ground, Tang Lei said for a long time, he didn't say anything he wanted to hear, and Zhao Zhi, who was already anxious, was about to go crazy. Tang Lei has been leading the troops for a long time, and he has been a little slippery with Yu Dazhi, and he has learned to report good news and not bad news.

"The casualties of the 1st Company are all generated by the Japanese army, there are many wounded and few killed, I have a rough look, there are more than 130 in Moyo, and the 1st Battalion also died a few when pursuing the Kawada brigade" Tang Lei's voice paused slightly, looked up at Zhao Zhi's face, and then continued, "A few of the heavy machine guns sent over were destroyed by the shells of the Japanese soldiers, and a few machine guns were scrapped by firing continuously without replacing the barrels, I counted them, a total of 12"

Tang Lei's words made Zhao Zhi gasp, among the weapons and materials aided by the U.S. military in advance, there were only 340 large-caliber Browning heavy machine guns, for this long-distance attack, Zhao Zhi brought nearly one-third of the heavy machine guns at one time, and lost one-tenth of the heavy machine guns in just one blocking battle, which made Zhao Zhi's heart a little bitter, but fortunately, he also captured a lot of Japanese-style 92 heavy machine guns, which can be regarded as making up for some of them.

Looking at the sky that had slowly darkened, Zhao Zhi said to the officers next to him, "It's time to end, it's been a day of fighting, everyone's physical strength is almost consumed, and they are ready to retreat according to the original plan" The Jewish companies that received the order retreated covertly, except for the scouts who were left behind and were busy using Japanese-style grenades to arrange tricks and bluffs, all the soldiers took advantage of the night to slowly leave the battlefield of Xiangtangpu after a day of fighting. All the heavy weapons and the wounded were taken to the intended location, Thunder did not have the habit of leaving his companions, and those who died were burned into ashes and taken away in a lunch box.

Because the troops carried a large amount of supplies at this time, and there were more heavy weapons and light and serious wounded in the troops, the marching speed of the troops was very slow, only less than 200 miles away, Zhao Zhi and his team walked for four days, and finally, the troops slowly entered the Pingding area, and the scouts who came out had already contacted the CCP guerrillas who came to respond. The further you go, the more and more militia members serve as patrols, and from time to time you can see the people greeting the troops, it seems that the construction of the base area has made great achievements, Zhao Zhi couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Due to the advance contact of the radio station, Guan Xiangying, secretary of the Military and Political Committee of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, who stayed in the base area, knew that the Thunder Force had won an unprecedented victory after the battle. After learning that Thunder's troops had entered the base area, he came overnight with a cadre of the party, government, and military cadres in the base area, accompanied by Zuo Quan, deputy chief of general staff sent by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army.