Fourth Quarter: Warriors and Heroes

More than an hour later, Qing Shui informed the captain of the brigade commanding in front to hold his position and stop the attack.

The two squadrons that were engaged in the battle this time lost more than half of the troops on both fronts and flanks, and in the face of the Eighth Route of Layers of Defense and stubborn resistance, the Japanese artillery and machine guns looked like they were about to lose to bayonets and broadswords.

Shimizu Daisa's order to stop the attack was because he had been paying attention to the battle situation on the entire front in the telescope, and he made a decision, he found that the attacking troops often carried out very fierce fire preparations, and could not completely destroy the position of the eight roads in front of them.

If it continues to be consumed like this, Zuihou suffers from his Shimizu Daisa, and the Eighth Route is to fight more with less, using close combat and white-knuckle combat to consume and consume the Japanese army's strength and ammunition, and when the Japanese army loses so many soldiers that it can no longer launch a full-scale attack, this offensive war cannot be maintained.

The telegrams he had just received from Beiping and Mancheng reminded him of the air force reconnaissance and ground reconnaissance, and they had all discovered that a large force of the Eighth Route Army was making a detour to his rear and flanks, and that the troops of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade had already arrived in Mancheng and were rushing here, and they would not arrive until the day after tomorrow at the earliest.

If he still uses such a hand-to-hand combat method that does not cost the lives of soldiers, or it will not get dark, the battle loss rate of his troops will have to reach more than half, let alone attack, and it will be difficult to withdraw! With hundreds of wounded soldiers, how to get rid of the siege of the Eighth Road?

So Shimizu decided to use Zuihou's trick, and when the transport plane airdropped supplies in the morning, there was a package of goods marked for Shimizu Daisa. Soldiers in charge of collecting airdrops on the ground. I thought it was just some high-end food for Shimizu Daisa. This situation is very common, and it is normal for high-ranking officials to enjoy some special rations of food.

Actually, there was really nothing to eat in that package, it was some personal belongings that Qing Shui left at the teacher's house when he passed through Beiping to visit his teacher, the chief of staff of the North China Front, when he was transferred from the Kwantung Army to Guannai. In case of a burst of death, it is better to leave something for your new wife and family.

All of them are the gold, jewelry and other things he has accumulated over the years of leading troops and fighting in the Northeast, and some of them are Chinese calligraphy, paintings and antiques, some of which were captured by the Anti-Japanese Federation, some of which were obtained from the generals of the Northeast Army, and some of them were simply robbed and presented to him by his soldiers.

Qing Shui thought that he died in battle, and with these valuable things, his family and wife were enough to spend this life, relying on the army's pension. It's not enough to stuff your teeth!

This was a very common phenomenon at the time, and every time the Japanese soldiers captured the next Chinese city, they would do something. Why are the soldiers looting, but also to let the soldiers make some war money to stimulate their enthusiasm for fighting, so our China is not only the fall of the country, but all the things in your land, the little devils have to snatch and occupy them!

Qing Shui, this is still a small amount of fish! Those high-ranking generals, which one is not pulling ships and cars to their homes in Japan! You see, after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, all the commanders of the troops who commanded the Japanese army on the battlefield in China, did not have a windfall in their families, and opened companies and banks!

Last night, Qing Shui thought about what to do if the soldiers under his command had no fighting spirit, and it would be very dangerous if their morale fell to the extreme.

Therefore, when he was on the phone with the chief of staff, when he asked for support from the Air Force, he mentioned that he would deposit something with the teacher, take out a part of it, and use it as military expenses, and when necessary, use the method of having brave men under heavy rewards to motivate the soldiers to fight!

There were dozens of gold bars in this box, Japanese yen and US dollars exchanged for Chinese silver dollars, and some pounds sterling, military stamps and other things to deceive the Chinese people, and Qing Shui only recognized hard currency.

He summoned the soldiers who remained here in the clearing, and opened the box in front of everyone, and the gold bars shone blindingly in the sun, and the eyes of the soldiers lit up with the colorful bills!

"Soldiers! I thank you very much for crossing the ocean and coming to this land of ignorance and barbarism to be loyal to Emperor Bixia, and now, the barbaric Chinese are not willing to accept the gift of Emperor Bixia, and are still resisting in vain, and I have soldiers, your fellow brothers, are fighting bloody battles in front! ”

Qing Shui took a breath, pointed to the box on the ground with his hand and said, "In order to defeat these stupid Chinese, I am willing to give out my savings as a reward for your loyalty to the emperor and fighting hard to kill the enemy!" Every soldier who participates in the battle is guaranteed to receive a reward, and those who are willing to participate in the death squad can receive gold bars! ”

"I assure you that the soldiers who survived the battle will not be rewarded with a penny, and I guarantee with my personality that the families of the soldiers who died in the battle will receive the additional reward that I personally sent! Now the number of people and names will be counted by the commander of each team, and those who want to participate in the death squad to receive gold come to me to sign up! ”

There must be a brave man under the heavy reward! The little devils rely on military salaries and looting and looting, how can there be such a temptation to put gold and banknotes in front of them, especially when the chief said that even if he dies in battle, he can send it to his family, so why hesitate!

More than 100 people rushed forward to sign up for the death squad, and Shimizu entered the selection, and selected the soldiers who were strong and had a relatively long military experience, a total of 60 people formed the death squad, and the team members all took off their military coats and upper body uniforms, and tied their heads with white cloth strips with the words "allegiance to the emperor" written on their heads.

The soldiers were each with a rifle, four grenades, hunting knives and daggers tied to their legs, and every ten people were organized into a group, equipped with a machine gun. The rest of the soldiers who were not selected for the death squad also cheered up under the stimulus of this money, and prepared to follow the death squad and rush into the cottage.

This brave man who came out under the heavy reward is still a little bit different from the warrior, the reason why he is called a brave man, how much he still shouts a little contempt, you don't pay for it, you don't play with your life, you see the money, that is a "husband" who has no discipline, a pawn and other grass people.

A warrior, on the other hand, ignores life for the sake of an ideal, or for a certain faith, which can be a king, or the ground under his feet, or his clan, or a goal.

Compared with money, faith is an intangible thing, but it is more attractive than tangible money, and people with faith are more difficult to conquer, harder to be bought by money, and more admired and recited in life and after death.

At least in the anti-Japanese era, the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and the National Army that could fight against the devils, as well as thousands of ordinary people, could all be regarded as warriors who gave up their lives for a common belief - to drive out the Japanese invaders!

Is there a uniform standard for marking the price in money compared to life? You say, if you sacrifice to fight devils, how much money can you give to get this life back? How good it is to be a traitor for the sake of money, with a lot of money! Therefore, what saved the Chinese nation and drove away little Japan was not the amount of money, but the blood of countless warriors who did not use money!

Qing Mizu, the devil, used a box of gold and silver treasures to stimulate the fighting spirit of the devils, and formed a group of death squads, Yang Bangzi was not idle, he saw that the devils stopped attacking again, and in order to deal with the next battle, he also held a small meeting in a broken courtyard near the yard.

A few people attended the meeting, and they did not call the representatives of Zhuang Ding, nor did they call the leaders of the militia, but the big man, Lao Wuzi and a few other leaders of the Eighth Route Army.

Yang stick came up and didn't talk nonsense, he said, the battle has come to this, the big guys have seen it, it's time for our Eighth Route Army to go up in the most difficult time, the devil must be preparing to launch a zuihou attack, we have to prepare something special for them!

In fact, after more than half a day of fighting, the casualties on the side of the cottage are not small, the more than 100-meter distance that the devil advanced, every step is with the defenders of the cottage, the six groups on the front line together are less than a third left, just now in order to withstand the two wings of the attack of the devil, Yang Bangzi also transferred the two groups behind.

He also understood that the devil had carried all the artillery to the mountain, and if he continued to fight like this, at most until it was dark, and the soldiers at hand would have to be exhausted, and the information he received was that the brother troops who surrounded him from all walks of life would not be able to reach the periphery until dawn tomorrow at the earliest, and he had to hold out for fifteen hours!

So how to beat the morale of the devils to the lowest point in one battle, so that they can't break through the second platform, has become the most critical point in the defense battle of Guojiabaozi! (To be continued......)