Chapter 47 Answering the Guerrillas
Before the Japanese soldiers with rifles on the slope rushed to the place where the generator roared, a series of explosions sounded on the bank of the Shitan River, which shook the Japanese troops standing on both sides of the riverbank, and Zhao Zhi and others, who were running wildly in the trenches, also staggered and almost could not stand on their feet. In order to ambush the 225th Wing and destroy their heavy weapons formation, all the large-caliber shells left by Zhao Zhi's last ambush were buried on the tidal flats, the scale was far greater than the number of the last time, and the power of the explosion was naturally much greater than the last time.
"Go, go, don't stop, go quickly" Zhao Zhi used a flashlight to shine on the road ahead, the flashlight flashed in the dark trench, and Ye Kong and a few guys even quickened their pace under Zhao Zhi's urging. Zhao Zhi and they only ran out of a distance of 100 meters, and the location of the hidden generator at the end of the trench was discovered by the Japanese troops on the slope, but when Zhao Zhi evacuated, he set up a stool on the stake on the top of the generator, and the Japanese soldiers who were eager to capture the attackers were blown over several by the scheming mines, and the other Japanese soldiers who rushed to hear the news disregarded the danger, lifted the corpses and jumped into the trench to chase them.
Zhao Zhi, who had long expected that the Japanese army would jump into the trench in pursuit, threw a grenade behind him, but a few seconds later, a "boom" explosion sounded, and a puff of smoke suddenly jumped up on the slope, and the middle of the trench was opened by the gas of the grenade explosion, and the Japanese army chasing behind Zhao Zhi and them was sealed in the trench by the collapsed soil layer. Zhao Zhi, who was busy running desperately, didn't know the tragic situation on the riverbank and tidal flats, if Zhao Zhi and they could drill out of the ground layer and take a look at the riverbank, they would definitely laugh and be happy.
The electric current running down the power line across the river bank instantly detonated the explosion points, and the flames and smoke that burst out from under the soil layer in turn instantly engulfed the heavy weapons formation of the 225th Wing. Different from the last time they planted the explosive point, when Zhao Zhi and the others buried the shells this time, they also specially covered the shells with a coarse cloth bag, which was filled with pieces of broken iron, which was determined that after ambushing the Japanese army at Stone Beach, Yu Dazhi specially found a blacksmith to make a killing weapon. Once the angular pieces of iron are splashed with the gas of the shell's explosion, the number of shrapnel after the shell explosion will more than triple.
The continuous explosion of dozens of large-caliber shells made the tidal flats on the other side of the rocky beach a real dead place, and the Japanese soldiers and junior officers of the brigade had no time to dodge and hide before they were engulfed in flames bursting from under the formation, and those Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough not to be torn to pieces by the air could not escape the shrapnel in the sky. Even though the Japanese were lucky enough to escape the first round of explosions, the flames that erupted from the ground detonated the shells carried by the heavy weapons formations, and the detonated shells dragged the surviving Japanese troops on the tidal flats into the abyss of death again.
The explosion that Zhao Zhi made only lasted for a few minutes before it died down, and the rumbling explosion made the Japanese soldiers on both sides of the river bank collectively lose their speech and deafness, and the deafness was shocked, and the aphasia was that they were all stunned by the scene that had just happened in front of them. The heavy weapons formation of the 225th Wing is not a small unit, and when the wing commander Takeda Dingzo left Yuncheng, he fully considered the possibility of an ambush on the way, and specially arranged for a brigade with the strongest combat strength under his command to walk in front of the heavy weapon formation, once a situation occurs, this infantry brigade will immediately return to the heavy weapon formation, but the big explosion just now not only completely destroyed his heavy weapons, but also caused heavy losses to the infantry brigade he relied on.
"Protect Osa, protect Osa" Several loyal officers ignored the anger of the wing commander Takeda Dingzo, pounced on him, dragged him to a safe place with all hands and feet, and temporarily gathered a small group of Japanese soldiers to protect Takeda Dingzo among them. Although the explosion on the tidal flat on the river bank has stopped, the tidal flat is still full of gunsmoke, and it is impossible to see the situation clearly.
Because there are too many enthusiastic officers in the 225th Wing, the wing leader Takeda Dingsan was protected by them and the soldiers, and he was not given a chance to clean up the mess and gather the soldiers. The smoke of gunpowder did not disperse, and the Japanese troops on both sides of the river bank were separated into two parts by the smoke of gunpowder in the sky, and the flag-waving language was not visible at all, and if they wanted to contact the Japanese troops on the other bank, they basically had to rely on people shouting.
"Don't look at it, let's go" Zhao Zhi, who finally came out of the trench, kicked Tang Lei, and the latter, who was lying at the exit of the trench and watching the opposite bank, had to put away the binoculars stupidly, and ran along the planned route with Zhao Zhiyi. Zhao Zhi's trench is more than 500 meters long, and after the explosion occurred in the middle section, the Japanese troops on the slope were still rummaging through the generators, but Zhao Zhi and the others had already rushed along the trench to the exit, that is, the grave that had been faked early in the morning. Follow the cemetery all the way to the west, and you can run up to the hill where Yu Dazhi and the others are hiding, and after crossing the mountain, there will be mercenaries who have been waiting at the bottom of the mountain for a long time to lead the horses to meet them.
"Hey, it's them" Zhao Zhi, who ran past a grave, habitually looked back, and just saw more than a dozen very embarrassed guys who were chased by the Japanese army, looking at the grass branches on their bodies and the grass circles on their heads, it was not difficult for Zhao Zhi to guess that this group of people was the group of guerrillas who almost broke down before. It's just that the direction in which they fled happened to be in the same direction as Zhao Zhi and them, could it be that this group of guerrillas discovered Zhao Zhi's traces and wanted to come over and cooperate to eliminate the dozen or so Japanese soldiers who were pursuing.
"Ye Zi, help them, we still have time anyway" Zhao Zhi gave an order, and took Ye Kong and a few of them to hide in the cemetery, Ye Kong, who was the fastest, had already put the Japanese soldier who was chasing the most fiercely into his sniper scope. Zhao Zhicao looked through the binoculars, the situation of the guerrillas was not very good, they had been knocked down several times in a row by the pursuing Japanese troops, and as the gunfire intensified, more and more Japanese troops came over on the slope, if they could not get rid of the dozen or so Japanese soldiers who were chasing like dogskin plasters, this group of guerrillas would have to explain here today.
"Bang" Ye Kong's gun was the first to fire, the distance of more than 200 meters is nothing for a sniper rifle, the Japanese soldier he put into the sniper scope twisted his body and fell down the slope, and his neck, which was torn out of a bullet hole by the bullet, was still splashing blood. "Bang" was another gunshot, and another Japanese soldier fell, the guerrillas running in front of the Japanese army were not fools, after Ye Kong killed the third Japanese soldier, he also knew that someone was helping him, and the already low mood suddenly improved, especially the woman who was in the lead, and even used two shell guns to open bows left and right to cover the retreat of others to Zhao Zhi's side.
Zhao Zhi's gunfire not only attracted the alert Japanese troops on the slope, but also attracted the attention of Takeda Dingzo on the riverbank, who could be the captain of the wing, was not a fool, and immediately ordered a Japanese soldier next to him to catch up with nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers who had crossed the stone bridge, vowing to catch up with this group of people who attacked them. Ye Kong's bullets had already blocked the speed of the Japanese army's pursuit, but when the guerrillas saw that the battle situation was beginning to favor them, they turned around and killed the remaining Japanese soldiers, not realizing the impending danger at all.
"Run, the Japanese army is surrounding" Seeing that the situation was not good, the anxious Tang Lei stood on a grave bag and shouted at the top of his voice, but the guerrillas had already been mixed up with the Japanese army, and they couldn't pull it out at all for a while. With a crisp sound of "dang", Tang Lei, who was standing on the grave, carried down an upside-down green onion from the grave, and the German-style steel helmet on his head rolled out of the grave with a gurgling grunt. Eugene pounced on Tang Lei and dragged him back, and carefully rubbed it on his body, only to find that Tang Lei was only shot away by a rifle bullet from a long distance, and his body was not shot at all.
"I'm fine, I'm fine" Tang Lei, who endured vertigo, snatched back the steel helmet from Eugene's hand and buckled it on his head, and was about to climb up to the grave to shout, but was kicked over by Zhao Zhi. There is no need for Tang Lei to shout, the guerrillas after the tragic victory have already run over here, but their number is less than three, looking at the three rifles carried by the two guerrillas running at the back, Zhao Zhiqi's head hurts. Even if the guerrillas are short of guns and ammunition, they still have to see when they clean up the battlefield, and they can't even lose their lives for a few rifles.
"Let's go, let's go" Seeing that the woman with the shell gun had stepped into the cemetery, Zhao Zhi took Ye Kong and they got up and ran, and he could already see a large number of Japanese soldiers chasing over in his binoculars, and a large Japanese-style steel helmet in Wuyang, not to mention 7 or 8 hundred people. With their little bit of people, even if they brought more than a dozen machine guns to Zhao Zhi, they still couldn't beat it, and the only thing they could do now was to retreat as soon as possible.
"Hey, are you troops of the national army?" The woman who had just fled into the cemetery looked at Zhao Zhi and they got up and left, and couldn't help shouting, but Zhao Zhi and none of them turned back, let alone talked. Zhao Zhi and the others were well-equipped and wore German steel helmets of the national army standard on their heads, and the guerrillas who had just escaped naturally regarded them as national troops. "Isn't it better than us with weapons? What are you proud of? The woman who was ignored muttered dissatisfied, and angrily urged her team members to speed up and chase Zhao Zhi and them to the west to prepare to go up the mountain.
At first, when they came to Stone Beach to reconnoitre, they thought about attacking a few Japanese soldiers on the slope and getting a few rifles and ammunition to go back, but they didn't expect to find that there were a lot of Japanese troops gathered on the bank of the Stone Beach River. Just as they lurked down to observe the Japanese army, there was a sudden explosion on the opposite bank, followed by a sudden explosion on the slope that attracted more Japanese soldiers, and they hid in the bushes and became the target of the Japanese army's pursuit.