As of 25 July, the 129th Division had launched one attack after another against the 4th Brigade of the Japanese Cavalry that was encircled in the Jiangwu area, gradually narrowing the encirclement, and by the afternoon of 25 July, the Devils' position was only a square area about three kilometers long and two kilometers wide. But by this time, the encircled devils showed their last madness!

At this time, there were less than 1,300 people left under Junichi Takada, and this amount of strength seemed to be a dish for the main force of the 129th Division, which was dozens of times his size. But things are not so simple, first of all, the resistance of the devils is quite tenacious and even crazy, they will resist at all costs, and even die with the Eighth Route Army. Secondly, a sudden rainstorm also interrupted the good momentum of the 129th Division. As mentioned earlier, this area is a yellow flood area, and the ground becomes very muddy after heavy rain, not to mention that it does not reach the leg stomach when you step on it, the sticky and wet yellow mud can still suck people's legs, and it is difficult to pull them out, which caused great trouble to the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in the attack.

According to the diary of the devil's battle: "On July 24, it rained heavily on the position, and our troops fought in the muddy trenches and achieved great results. On the 25th and 26th, the enemy attacked day and night, but the officers and men remained in their positions. ”

However, the truth was not as optimistic as the Japanese described, because at about 4 o'clock in the morning of the 26th, the 771st Regiment took advantage of the darkness and heavy rain to launch a surprise attack. The sound of heavy rain falling on the ground at that time drowned out the sound of troop movements. The Japanese troops, on the other hand, relaxed their vigilance because of the darkness, heavy rain, and fatigue from days of fighting, and did not rush to the battle until the 771st Regiment Sharp Knife Company attacked 50 meters in front of the position, and was beaten to the point that they could not parry. The fierce battle lasted until about 6 o'clock, and the remnants of the Japanese invaders fled backwards. After the investigation, a total of 80 devils were killed.

Of course, the 771st Regiment also suffered relatively large losses, and most of the commanders, including company commanders, platoon commanders, and instructors, died heroically or were seriously wounded and had to withdraw from the battle.

On this morning, not only the 771st Regiment launched a sneak attack, but also the special battalion and several independent regiments attacked the Japanese positions to the west and south, forcing the Japanese to draw reinforcements from other directions.

At this time, after a series of fierce battles, the 129th Division had already suffered more than 1,000 casualties in the battle against the 4th Cavalry Brigade. This vast plain was littered with corpses from both sides of the world. As long as the planes came to bomb or shell, you could see a cloud of blood mist rising everywhere, and sometimes you could see the arms and thighs of dead people flying into the sky with this cloud of blood mist.

Because the temperature was too high, the corpse inevitably began to rot and stink, giving birth to maggots with white flowers, crawling all over the bunkers. The officers and men of the Eighth Route Army could only slowly advance while sending the remains of the sacrificed comrades and the dead devils down in the way of carrying them on their shoulders. It was a terrible scene.

After several days of fierce fighting, the front-line soldiers fought in the corpses every day, rolling in the pile of dead people, their arms, heels, and the skin on their bodies were stained black by the corpse water, and the smell of corpses was difficult to dissipate for a long time.

The sky blackened by the flames of war roared, and purple lightning struck almost overhead, followed by a series of dense drumbeats of thunder, and the wind wrapped in a downpour of rain poured down like a waterfall. The rain shrouded in black clouds was also like ink, like a vast black curtain, enveloping the heavens and the earth. This terrible black rain relentlessly whipped the corpses on the ground, the broken bones, and the tattered uniforms......

This sudden rainstorm created considerable difficulties for the Eighth Route Army, the roads were muddy, the traffic was cut off, and the people, mules and horses could not travel. The front-line troops lost their logistical support, and the morale of the troops was shaken for a while.

For the officers and men of the 129th Division, who had an absolute advantage in numbers, the five-day torrential rain caused them too much trouble, and as a last resort, Liu Shuai could only order the suspension of the offensive, and there was no way to fight under such a torrential rain.

Taking advantage of the time of recuperation, the Eighth Route Army began to hold meetings in teams and teams, mainly to discuss the gains and losses of the previous battle and the lessons learned, so as to prepare for the next stage of attack. And this is the biggest difference between the Eighth Route Army and the Scraping Army, this kind of team-level democratic meeting is almost unimaginable in the Scraping Army. In the scraping army, it is the commander who orders to fight how to fight, and ordinary soldiers are completely unqualified to say anything. The Zhuge Liang Association of the Eighth Route Army greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of the soldiers, allowing them to join in to improve their skills and tactics, which was naturally to improve their skills and tactics in a battle. And the scraping army is basically standing still, and under the elimination of one and the other, it is natural that the offense and defense are different.

When the rainstorm finally stopped, the 129th Division immediately resumed its offensive. At dawn on July 28, the battle began. Wang Cheng led the whole company of soldiers to the Japanese position, and on that day he saw a surprising scene:

"We rushed to the front of the enemy's position, killed the devils who tried to resist, and when we were about to enter the trench, we saw a Japanese battalion girl jumping out of the trench, wearing nothing, picking up a grenade and throwing it at me. Probably because of the force, the hand bounced off the hand, and the person fell to the ground......"

There are few records of the actions of the Japanese comfort women. Because the Japanese army burned a large number of relevant documents before the defeat, they also kept silent about it after the war. However, it is useless to resist by tricks, there is no written record, and there are quite a lot of witnesses. And the captured soldiers of the Japanese army also gave an account of this.

The 4th Brigade of the Japanese Cavalry took the comfort women on the road together, and after being besieged in the martial arts, these comfort women were naturally surrounded together. In the Japanese language, in the early days of the fighting, the comfort women cooked and delivered to the trenches, and later took over as the health corps to care for the wounded. The Japanese soldiers who were captured in this battle later sighed: "They also fought side by side with us. ”

The comfort women carried by the 4th Brigade of the Japanese Cavalry were all from North Korea, and TASS correspondent Alexander wrote after interviewing these poor women: "These women are pitiful, but there is also a stupid side. ”

According to Alexander's records, the comfort women "lived like the Japanese soldiers, with two packets of rice balls or one packet of biscuits a day." They put on steel helmets and help the soldiers carry ammunition." Some extremists "even took pistols and shot at the Eighth Route Army." Alexander called these women a group of "poor worms" who had been humiliated and persecuted by the Japanese army, and when they entered the camp after being captured, and learned that the Japanese army had been wiped out, "the attitude of the Korean comfort women, who had become close to the Japanese soldiers, immediately changed...... He began to express strong anger at the Japanese soldiers who had put them in a miserable situation of violence, forced women, and artillery fire. ”

Obviously, what these poor women had done for the Japanese army before was nothing more than a disobedient act to survive. When the Japanese soldiers forced them to commit suicide, the women finally came to their senses. As Alexander later said, "The Japanese soldiers could not understand the true thoughts of the Korean comfort women." ”

However, in later generations, some Japanese right-wing literati tried to change the nature of "comfort women", and Umemoto Kuzo vividly described a comfort woman named Suga Akiko, who wanted to marry a Japanese military commander named Toyama who was blind in battle in order to "draw an end charm" for the history of his comfort women. And her original intention of marrying someone in the line of fire was just because Toyama looked down on comfort women before, saying that they were just tools, and now she wants to "influence" him with practical actions. Later, Suga Akiko acted as Toyama's eye, commanding him to drop bombs in the trenches, and in the end, both of them died "heroically". With this, the right-winger shouted: "At this moment she is no longer a comfort woman, but the wife of an imperial soldier, a sister, an older sister, and a mother to all of Japan." ”

This story is an important plot in Umemoto's book, but what is more interesting is that in the battle he described, all the devils were shattered, where did he know these so-called details? To put it mildly, it's just wishful thinking and brain-made up stories, covering up and whitewashing the atrocities of militarism!

Even if the devil forced the comfort women to fight, they still couldn't change their fate of being wiped out. As more and more of the Eighth Route Army broke through the Japanese defense line, the devil presented a scene of collapse.

According to the recollection of the Japanese army's senior soldier Shigeta Mori: On the 28th, Inada Juncao stood up in the trench and threw a bomb on the Eighth Route Army, but was instantly hit in the chest by a machine gun. Shimoda Mori desperately ran over to pick him up, only to see his lips squirm, and he died after saying something, and then the detachment leader Matsumoto was also killed by the mortar of the Eighth Route Army.

In the afternoon of the same day, because the pressure was too great and the position could not be held at all, the brigade Junichi Takada ordered Shigeda Mori's detachment to retreat. The squad leader of the military flag guard team, An Heneichi, took advantage of the gap when the Eighth Route Army stopped shooting, and shouted loudly: "Rush with me!" Then he rushed out of the trench with the living men.

At this time, the 122-mm howitzer shells of the Eighth Route Army suddenly flew over, and landed near An and Neiyi, and after a thunderstorm, An and Neiyi were directly swept away by the shock wave and planted heavily on the ground. The living Japanese soldiers desperately raised their guns to return fire, but from a distance of 200 meters, the Eighth Route Army fiercely returned fire with heavy machine guns and mortars. Two or three unlucky ghosts were killed in an instant. At this time, Maotian Sen was smarter, and he didn't blindly fight back, but crawled in the direction of An and Nei to try to rescue, and when he got closer, he found that An and Nei had been blown into two pieces, and the lower half of his body was a blur of flesh and blood, but he didn't get angry, and he opened his mouth to try to say something to Mao Tian Sen.

After being repatriated to Japan after the war, Mota Mori described it this way in order to cater to the Japanese right-wing: "Yasuwa-kun is shouting, 'Long live His Majesty the Emperor!'" ”

It's just that Mori Shigeta's lies were quickly exposed, Private Masao Murakami was a cousin of Yasuwa Neichi, and the two had a very close relationship, and Masao Murakami also participated in that retreat at that time, and according to his recollection, the situation was completely different.

"This coward is not there to rescue An Hejun at all, he is simply running away. The direction in which An Hejun was blown down was the only way to retreat, and the only way to escape was to go there. A few cowards led by Mori Motian saw that the situation was not good, and they didn't care about Ota Juncao's orders at all, but turned around and ran away......"

As for what Ann and Neichi said when he was dying, Masao Murakami completely overturned Mori Shigeda's conclusion: "An Wa-kun was indeed seriously injured, but he did not die on the spot. After Shigeda Mori escaped, An Kazu-kun crawled to my side with difficulty, and I tried to stop the bleeding for him, but to no avail, he lost too much blood and went into shock, and soon died. As for chanting 'Long live His Majesty the Emperor'? How is this possible? How can a person in shock shout Long live His Majesty the Emperor? Even if there is no shock, a person is quite painful before he dies, how can he shout such words? On the contrary, when he was awake for the last time before the temporary, An Hejun shouted 'Mom' the most! ”

Whether the Japanese soldiers shouted long live the emperor or their mothers before they died, which is a frequently mentioned passage in the "war notes" written by Japanese soldiers, which shows that this issue was deeply entangled in the hearts of Japanese soldiers at that time. It also makes future generations feel ridiculous and sad, but this shows the deep harm that militarist education has done to the human nature of Japanese soldiers. I don't even have the right to shout my mother before I die, what kind of country is this and what kind of nation is this? It's just a bunch of beasts!

Of course, Shigeda's escape also illustrates the fact that the devils are not as durable as they advertise. When you are desperate, you will collapse, you will run away, and in the end, you will still be flesh and blood, and you are not invincible.

On the side of the Eighth Route Army, the more they fight, the more courageous they are, and the morale is getting higher and higher!

Ma Wang's family is from Handan, and he has just enlisted in the army, and he is still an out-and-out recruit at this time. He still remembers the battle: it rained heavily in those days, and it was not easy to wait until the sky was clear, early in the morning, he wore straw sandals and carried a submachine gun to charge with the platoon commander, it was one foot high and one foot low, only a few steps The straw shoes disappeared, the silt was so thick that he couldn't walk at all in the back, he could only climb. Crawling all the way with a gun, he really rolled like a clay man, with only a little white eyes on his body.

When approaching the Japanese position, there was already a sea of fire and bullets around him, Ma Wang's face was pale, and his hands trembled involuntarily, the platoon commander was a Long March veteran, a native of Sichuan, and found that Ma Wang's family was a little nervous, so he kicked him involuntarily: "Wait for the turtle son to follow me, don't run around!" ”

Signal flares rose in the sky, and the artillery of the Eighth Route Army began to fire hard to clear the obstacles for the top soldiers. As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the platoon commander suddenly jumped up and shouted: "Follow me!" ”

Ma Wangjia stood up with his submachine gun in his hand and followed the platoon commander to the Japanese position. The bare ground was covered with yellow mud soaked red with blood, except for puddles of water. The devil hid in a deep trench and shot wildly, and Ma Wang's family fell to the ground one by one, and when he looked up, the comrades in front of him had already fallen. The platoon commander lay in the mud puddle not far in front and scolded: Turtle son!

Bullets whizzed over the head, and the platoon commander ordered everyone to throw grenades, and after a burst of explosions, they got up and rushed forward for a while, and then lay down to throw bombs...... Gradually, Ma Wang's family felt very close to the devil, because more than ten meters in front of him were ugly faces staring at him, constantly shooting at him. The platoon commander picked up a military shovel and shouted: "Get on the bayonet!" Then he jumped up and rushed to the Japanese trenches. Ma Wang's family didn't have time to think about it, so they picked up their submachine guns and rushed into the devil's trench, and as soon as they landed, they felt soft under their feet, and it turned out that they had stepped on a devil's corpse.

Just when Ma Wang's house was a little stunned, a short devil stabbed him viciously with a rifle with a cold shining bayonet, he quickly dodged, who would have thought that his feet would slip, and he would roll with the devil.

The little devil didn't look like a dwarf winter melon, but he was really energetic, turned over and rode on Ma Wang's house, and choked his neck desperately. Ma Wangjia was really a little scared at first, but at this time, looking at the ugly face in front of him, he was not afraid, he grabbed two handfuls of mud on the ground with both hands, and without saying a word, he confused the devil with one head and one face, and the devil tried his best to dodge, but finally couldn't help but free up one hand to wipe his eyes, Ma Wangjia turned over and pressed the devil down, grabbed his neck with one hand, and picked up the big fist at the mouth of the bowl with the other hand to greet the devil's face...... Once, twice, three times, and when the platoon commander came over to pull him back, the little devil's face was already bloody and blurry, and even his brain was deeply driven into the mud......

Then Ma Wang's family was really not afraid, and after following the platoon commander to hold the position and repel the devil's two counter-charges, in the afternoon of the same day, their platoon rushed to the front again, and once again broke through one of the devils' defense lines, and in the battle, he killed three devils, one of whom knocked out the devil's half-pulled brain melon with a grenade face to face.

There are still many fighters like the Mawang family, and the new fighters have burst out with vigorous combat effectiveness after surviving the initial discomfort. Especially after they found out that the devil was far less terrifying, this combat power broke through the sky. The devils can no longer stop them, and this also means that the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army has changed qualitatively!

On the night of July 28, when Junichi Takada's command post was blown open, the brigade commander was found to have committed suicide. His death meant that the 4th Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army was basically wiped out as an organization. The brigade, which numbered more than 4,700 people, was killed more than 2,800 and captured more than 300, with the rest missing.

Of course, missing does not mean escaping, this group of missing devils are basically poor worms who were bombed into scum and can't even find their corpses in the battle, and their broken bones also indicate the future of Japan, and the future of Japan will inevitably be this ending.

Looking back at Okamura Ningji, on July 26, he finally arrived at Anyang with the main force, but it was not good news waiting for him at this time, the Fourth Cavalry Brigade had no news, and Tanaka Kuichi's troops also suffered heavy losses under the fierce attack for several days, and more importantly, they failed to move forward! (To be continued.) )