Chapter 62: The Battle of Madang (9)
Coincidentally, when Nakajima and Ye Zhao were calculating each other, they naturally didn't expect that they would choose to give each other a ruthless blow on the same night. Nakajima suddenly thought of pulling out another brigade from the already meager army to attack Yanlie Mountain, and all he wanted was to turn the tide of the battle and completely change the situation of the Hukou battle from point to point. Ye Zhao was simple, because the idea of a sneak attack on Jiujiang was conceived by Ouyang Yun, of course, because Feng Xuehai, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion of the 12th Division, had led people to operate in the Jiujiang area early, so they could always know all kinds of changes in the Japanese army at the first time, and from this point of view, before the two sides had fought each other, Ye Zhao had already taken the advantage. On the side of the 106th Division, the leader of the team was the brigade commander of Major General Haneda Miyata, and on the side of the 12th Division, Ye Zhao personally led the team.
It was a cloudy night, with clouds drifting by, leaving the moon with little chance to show its face. At about nine o'clock, in Matou Bay, five miles northeast of Xingzi County, several figures appeared on the hillside behind a row of wooden houses.
It was Feng Xuehai and the fighters of several reconnaissance battalions of the Twelfth Division led by him. Feng Xuehai lay under a boulder overgrown with weeds and asked Xiao Yuan who was lying behind him softly, "Are you sure there is only one squadron?" ”
Yu Yuan said softly: "Yes." Camp, what to do? Do you want to wait for the other squads to come and do it? ”
"It's too late, the division has changed the time, they went down to the lake at seven o'clock, if everything goes well, they will appear in the field of vision of the little devil's reconnaissance post in half an hour at most."
Guo Hanmiao, who was lying three meters away on his right hand, said: "Yingza, then it's done." There were six of us, and it was enough. ”
"Han Miao, you go to the guard, everyone else is closer!" Feng Xuehai said, taking out a pocket flashlight from his body.
Others moved over. Feng Xuehai turned on the flashlight, shone it on one of the boulders, and then took out a two-color pencil from his briefcase, handed it to Yu Yuan and said, "You draw the detailed distribution of devils." ”
"It's good," Yu Yuan took the pencil, and drew a map of the distribution of devils on the stone with a few strokes.
Feng Xuehai looked at it for a while, then called back Guo Hanmiao, and then began to assign tasks.
Because Matouwan is facing Panyang Lake, the Japanese army arranged a squadron here to be responsible for guarding. In the past few days, there have been frequent battles in the area around Hukou, and although it is 30 kilometers away from Hukou, you can still hear the rumbling of gunfire. The Japanese troops in Xingzi County were stationed here after entering Jiujiang, so they did not know about the battle on the 2nd. Therefore, compared with some trembling soldiers of the 106th Division Headquarters in Jiujiang, the devils here still maintain the self-confidence and might of the imperial army one by one, and do not take the student soldiers on the other side of the river into account. At noon today, Nakajima sent a telegram to the commander of the Japanese army in Xingzi County, Yoshikiyo Nakasa, urging him to step up combat preparations to prevent a sneak attack by the Shina people. Although Zuo Shang Yunqing didn't think so, he didn't dare to slack off in action, so he called the Japanese troops stationed outside Matouwan and other places, asking them to increase patrols on the basis of the original warning measures, responsible for patrolling the surrounding areas, and discover the enemy situation in time and not to be attacked by the Zhina.
Jiro Inada, the leader of the Japanese squadron in Matouwan, faithfully carried out this order, and he arranged his three squads into three shifts, each of which was responsible for six hours of vigilance. Among them, in addition to leaving two people to guard the station, the others should form a patrol team to patrol the shores of Panyang Lake around the station.
At nine o'clock, the devils of the other two teams had already fallen asleep, and in that row of wooden houses, except for the one in the middle, the lights were on, and the other rooms were pitch black, and snoring was heard in several of them.
Feng Xuehai said it easily, but he actually had no bottom in his heart. A squadron of the Japanese army had 180 people, and even a small squadron had more than 50 people. There are six of them in total, not to mention against the previous squadron, even against the previous squadron, there is actually not much chance of winning. Of course, because it was necessary to kill and wound the enemy as much as possible before the 36th Brigade landed and reduce the resistance to the landing, even if he was defeated, he could only do his best.
"We also have an advantage. The Japanese are in the open, we are in the dark, and we can wait until the patrol is far away from the station. The division will soon arrive with the 36th Brigade, so as long as we hold on for a certain amount of time, at that time, it will be us who has the advantage in terms of troops! "Challenging a Japanese squadron of 180 people with six people, even if the soldiers were not afraid, Feng Xuehai still did some ideological work.
They first spent about twenty minutes setting up the battlefield, planting a grenade modified mine on the path that the little devils must pursue, and then, the others lurked, Feng Xuehai and Guo Hanmiao felt the two sentry posts standing at the gate of the Japanese garrison.
The two devils didn't know that the Grim Reaper had squatted down on their heads, and they were still talking in a whisper.
Feng Xuehai and Guo Hanmiao quietly approached the two devils under the cover of trees and night. They approached the wooden fence outside the Japanese garrison and clinged to the two devils. The Japanese army had a gasoline generator, and an incandescent lamp was installed at the door using the electricity provided by the generator. The roar of the gasoline engine somewhat drowned out the slight footsteps. The two devils didn't know what they were talking about, and they were elated, completely oblivious to the fact that a dark shadow was approaching behind each other.
When he was about five meters away from the two devils, Feng Xuehai made a gesture towards Guo Hanmiao. Guo Hanmiao was nervously looking for his figure while touching in, and at a distance of about twelve meters, he could just see his figure clearly from the faint light at the door. Seeing his gesture, Guo Hanmiao made an OK gesture. The next moment, the two of them suddenly accelerated and rushed towards their respective targets.
As soon as they launched, the two devils immediately realized. They saw the dark shadow behind each other almost at the same time, and exclaimed at the same time: "Watch behind you!" Then the two men instinctively turned around and pulled the bolt to pull the trigger. But it was too late, as soon as they moved, Feng Xuehai and Guo Hanmiao stole the daggers in their hands. Feng Xuehai's dagger hit the neck of the devil opposite, and the devil couldn't scream miserably, and fell headlong. The other devil was hit in the center of the mouth, and with a miserable howl, he pulled the trigger at the same time.
"Horn!" Shots rang out, and soon a house was lit up behind the wooden fence.
actually failed to kill the devil in silence like the battalion commander, Guo Hanmiao was very dissatisfied with himself, and he scolded with hatred: "Shame on him!" The next moment, a cat waist, took off the grenade hanger from the waist of the devil he killed and hung it on his waist, and then put the gun in his hand and stood side by side with Feng Xuehai at the gate of the courtyard.
The Japanese reacted faster, and before they rushed into the courtyard, a few devils rushed out of one room. And what greeted them was naturally the dense rain of bullets fired by the Wei Qing-style assault step and submachine gun in the hands of Feng Guo and the others. In the first wave of three devils, the one who rushed to the front found that the enemy's figure was beaten into a hornet's nest in the chest and abdomen. The two who followed him, one because of curiosity, exposed the left shoulder of the devil in front of him, and was hit by a bullet, and when he landed it became a broken watermelon; Another saw the opportunity and immediately shrank back, so he did not eat the bullet. He hid behind the door, watched his two colleagues fall in front of him, and shouted in fright: "Enemy attack, enemy attack!" ”
More devils rushed out of the dormitory, Feng Xuehai and Guo Hanmiao shot calmly with their guns, and after emptying the magazines in the guns, they each threw a grenade, and then withdrew from the room.
"What's going on?" Squadron leader Jiro Inada rushed out, saw the fallen corpse in the house, and was so angry that he was more than "eight grids", and then waved his pistol and shouted: "It's a small unit of the Chinese people, pursue!" ”
"Hay!" The devils responded repeatedly, and dozens of devils chased out first under the leadership of a team leader.
Behind a big tree about 30 meters away from the gate of the Japanese army's courtyard, Feng Xuehai and Guo Hanmiao stood around the station, and they carried Wei Qing's style strafing shots that had just been replaced with new magazines, and after knocking down a few devils, they immediately disappeared into the night.
As soon as they opened fire, flashlights immediately caught up with the Japanese army. The light of the flashlight chased them into the bushes, and the devils chased after them, shooting fiercely at the same time. The "popping" gunshots came and went, causing the trees around Feng Guo and the others to make a "creaking" breaking sound from time to time.
Chase out a squad of devils, and the other devils are left at the station by the rice fields. He was worried that this was a strategy of the Zhina's voice, so while leaving people to defend, he sent someone to find another squad leader who led the patrol and asked him to pay attention to the scene in the lake. At this time, he finally believed the call from Yoshiki Zuo at noon. At first, he thought that the captain was just talking casually, but now, he was a little worried that the people of China were really plotting.
And after the team chasing out Lu was ambushed and lost more than a dozen people at the beginning of the battle, he became more and more convinced of this idea, and hurriedly went to shake the phone to report to Zuo Shang Yunqing.
Feng Xuehai had already cut the little devil's phone line when they were preparing for the war. Naturally, the phone could only be a blind tone, but at this moment, the rice field was really panicked. If the people of China really chose Matouwan as the location for the sneak attack, then they could only kill from Changchong or Wuxingli on the other side. Thinking that there was a brigade of the Xuebing Army in Duchang on the opposite bank, he was worried that once Matouwan was broken through, the main force in Xingzi County would be in danger of being surrounded and annihilated, so he did not dare to be careless, so he immediately sent a few more capable soldiers to the county to report the news, asking them to send the information no matter what, so that the captain of the left brigade could be prepared.
Feng Xuehai and their side, there were already casualties at this time. The gap in strength is too big, Rao is stained with the light of the night, and he hit the little devil by surprise, but after all, there are dozens of enemies, as long as one of them is accidentally targeted, the end will be very miserable. Fortunately, about twenty minutes after the battle, gunshots finally rang out on the edge of Panyang Lake - Ye Zhao led the 36th Brigade to finally kill!