It turned out that although Japan's powerful intelligence system had long infiltrated China in all aspects, it had always lacked understanding of the Red Army (the propaganda poster of Zhu Mao wanted by the Japanese army during the Anti-Japanese War was outrageous, let alone now). And although the Red Eighth Army has been brilliant for more than a year, the Japanese, who have always looked down on the Chinese army, also take it for granted that it is not that the Red Eighth Army is too strong, but that the Kuomintang army is too bad. As a result, the Japanese army, which has always been able to take advantage of the "knowing oneself and knowing the enemy" every time it fights with the Chinese army, has really suffered a big loss this time

According to the knowledge he learned at the Army University back then, the most correct choice for Mutaguchi Ryoya now is to build improvised fortifications on the spot and wait for reinforcements, but now he is the captain of the Dazuo Wing, but he knows very well that now Pingjin and its surrounding areas have not been able to draw enough reinforcements to save them in a short period of time, although there are more than 1,000 Japanese troops in Tianjin, but there is a Japanese concession and the headquarters of the "China Garrison Army", and there is no time to take care of himself, and the garrison of the Japanese Concession is not in the establishment of the "China Garrison Army", so he may not be willing to listen to the orders of the headquarters; Although the total number of troops in the Japanese-occupied areas of North China such as Chahar (part), Rehe, and Jidong was several thousand, they were restrained by the two ruthless men Fu Zuoyi and Zhang Zizhong, and it was impossible to draw troops to rescue them, and they also did not belong to the establishment of the "China Garrison Army". And once the Kwantung Army in Manchuria is mobilized, the scale of the war may get out of control, and the superiors may not be willing to risk it for him, not to mention that even if there are really reinforcements, they will come from such a long distance, and when they reach here, Mutaguchi Lian will all starve to death and die of thirst even if they do not die in battle. As for the air force, the nearest airfield under Japanese control is in Lushun, the distance is close to 400 kilometers, which is barely within the combat radius of the Japanese aircraft, but almost 300 kilometers in the meantime is a wide sea, and once they encounter any trouble, they can't even make a forced landing, and the air force there is subordinate to the navy, unless the emperor personally orders it, they will not risk rescuing the army that has always been at odds, but the emperor himself will order to send troops to rescue a brigade and a large sa, which is really wishful thinking. The Jinzhou airfield, which is a little farther away, belongs to the army system, but it is thousands of miles away, which is beyond the combat radius of any kind of active aircraft of the Japanese army

Therefore, Mutaguchi Lian also resolutely decided to break through with all his might, and the direction was naturally Yang Botao's company, which seemed to have the least troops, but he didn't know that although Yang Botao's company looked ordinary at first glance, it was known as the "sixth company of sharpshooters", and even among the cooks, there were special shooters, and they were all equipped with 24-type semi-automatic rifles with a rate of fire several times faster than the Japanese Type 38 rifle, and the shooting accuracy was not inferior, and some of the sharpshooters' favorite guns were also equipped with simple scopes modified with telescopes. made their effective killing distance reach 600 meters, and concentrated their firepower on the Japanese officers one by one, Yang Botao didn't even use the machine gun much, and easily hit the devil's first assault back. Mutaguchi Ryoya glared at the troops that had retreated without a lot of losses, and was about to be furious, but he was stunned to find that there was no longer a single official officer (Note 1) among these routs, and even the military cao (usually the squad leader or deputy squad leader) had only three living left, and then I understood what was going on, although the Japanese army thought that the will to fight was the first, but it also had to rely on the officers to take the lead, and once the officers died, the Japanese soldiers would also lose their fighting spirit

Finding that the enemy's shooting accuracy was not inferior to his own, and the rate of fire was amazingly fast, Mutaguchi Lian couldn't help but gasp, and finally realized the horror of the enemy. After knowing that he couldn't escape, Mutaguchi Lian also gave up his plan to break through and decided to defend to the end, although this is also a dead end, but at least he can kill some more enemy troops, and maybe there will be unexpected opportunities. At this time, he sent a telegram to the headquarters, which explained the elite and good fighting of the enemy's army, but he mistakenly thought that this was already the main force of the Chinese army that captured Fengtai, or at least a very important part of it, and this was basically the same telegram sent to the headquarters by the military police before the "loss" of Fengtai, which led to the Japanese commander Tashiro Wanichiro, who was far away in Tianjin, misjudging the situation and making a fatal wrong decision...,

Hu Lian couldn't help frowning when he saw this, he has always been good at using civil fortifications, and naturally knew that once the Japanese army switched from offensive to defensive, it would definitely be much more difficult to deal with than before, even if the 65th Regiment had a large number of artillery, if it wanted to annihilate the enemy, it would consume a lot of shells, so this battle would not be a complete victory. And now it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy of the 29th Army, if this battle takes too much time, it is likely that there will be variables, and it will be even more undesirable for Hu Lian to see.

Taking advantage of the enemy's loss of artillery, he ordered the Red Army on all sides to approach the enemy, and asked the officers and men in the army to persuade the enemy to surrender without interruption. At present, the Japanese army has a shortage rate of more than 80 percent of officers, and its control over the lower-level officers and soldiers has dropped by a large margin, and Hu Lian has even more immorality in sending people to insult the emperor in Japanese, and the devils who can't help but come out are all named one by one by the sharpshooters of the Red Army. A few hours later, Hu Lian even more cunningly asked people to roast meat in the upper wind, and the hungry Japanese officers and soldiers did not want to fight anymore after smelling the tempting aroma

Finally, a timid soldier couldn't help but say to himself, "They say that prisoners are treated preferentially"

"Yaga!" , Mu Taguchi Lian was also furious, pulled out his saber and was about to cut at that guy, but after seeing that many people began to flicker in their eyes, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and hurriedly put the knife back into its sheath, hiding the fierce light on his face and loudly admonishing all the officers and soldiers, "You died in battle, at least your family can get a pension, if you surrender, what will happen to your family?" ”

Forcing Japanese officers and soldiers to fight to the death with their families has always been the greatest magic weapon of the Japanese militarist regime, and when the Wing Commander poured cold water on it, those Japanese officers and soldiers who had already begun to have two minds suddenly turned to ashes, and many of them sang military songs in despair, determined to fight to the death for their families

Note 1: The Japanese army lacked the awareness of guarding against snipers, and the officers were easy to identify, and the effect of cold guns was very good. However, in history, due to the huge superiority of the Japanese army in air force and artillery fire, even in the most favorable positional warfare for sharpshooters, the sharpshooters of the national army rarely achieved great results, and often were killed by the enemy's artillery fire or planes before a single shot was fired, and the effective firing range of a rifle without a scope was only three or four hundred meters at most