Chapter 11: Wild Supplement (55)

Jin Tongxuan not only thought of a way to go to the top, but also took a two-pronged approach, allowing Zhao Shengan to tell Hao Wenbo tactfully that it was estimated that only one garrison regiment and assault company would not be able to complete the heavy task of resisting the enemy, and he had to apply for reinforcements from the Eleventh Tour Headquarters. Hao Wenbo looked at Zhao Shengan with a little incomprehension, there was just a Japanese squadron and a company of the founding army on the other side of the dive, and on his side was an army of more than 1,000 people, so there should be no need to find reinforcements! There is an unspoken sentence that he did not say, Wu Wannian's Wangjiang Garrison Regiment he knew, lax discipline, disturbing the people and harming the people, doing all kinds of evil, in the Wangjiang area, created a good reputation of "rather be a slave to the country than eleven tours". The area around Huayang in Wangjiang has always been occupied by the Japanese army, and Wu Wannian is not at fault for harassing this place, robbing the enemy army to strengthen himself, which is the motto left by Mo Di to Wu Wannian, and Wu Wannian is implementing it to the letter. It's just that sometimes it's a little expanded, and some merchants and landlords who are connected with Japanese businessmen are also included in the ranks of being harassed, Wu Wannian's nest, in the area of Xuqiao, Taihu County, Taihu Lake, in addition to him, there are 526 regiments, so he will never dare to act rashly against Taihu Lake, but Wangjiang is different, it is his vegetable field, he can go if he wants, and pick it if he wants.

"Commander Hao, I think that as soon as the attack on the camp tonight is over, the next will definitely stimulate the escalation of the battle, the Japanese army will definitely increase the number of troops in Shipai, maybe one more Japanese squadron, maybe two, at that time, they can divide their troops and detour, part of them will be dragged on the opposite side, and some of them will dive upstream or downstream, and flank the Shipai, if we don't have enough manpower, we will fall into passivity." Zhao Sheng'an's words easily persuaded Hao Wenbo that the lesser of two evils should be three points stronger than the Japanese, even if Wu Wannian's troops were hateful.

Hao Wenbo promised to immediately ask for help from the 11th Tour Headquarters, and as for tonight's attack on the camp, he was at home waiting for good news.

Li Shengzong, who stayed in Xuqiao, had a very unhappy past few days, looking at the lawless Wu Wannian, he was a little angry, and he had the heart to rectify it, but he was powerless. There is no money, no rice, only the title of commander of the eleventh tour, and in this time of chaos, he is useless. As boring as Li Shengzong in Xuqiao, there are Xu Weiyi, the magistrate of Wangjiang County, and Tao Taiping, the little follower of the county magistrate and director of the county civil affairs bureau. After the Japanese army occupied Wangjiang, the county government moved to Changlingpu, because it was too close to Wangjiang, and was often harassed by the Japanese puppet army and moved to Quantang Temple. No matter where you move, it is better to follow Wu Wanlai to feel at ease, so there is a phenomenon that Wangjiang County officials have lived in Taihu Lake for a long time. After Li Shengzong came to Xuqiao, Xu Weiyi was very excited, and after entertaining him for a few meals, he tactfully proposed to Li Shengzong that he did not approve of Wu Wannian's practice of making a living by robbery, and thought that it was no different from bandits. Li Shengzong asked County Magistrate Xu, what way to support himself if he didn't rob? We are the county garrison brigade, the only legal army in Wangjiang under the Nationalist Government, and we are collecting supplies from the people. Now how to mess around and twist it up, it seems that the Japanese puppet army on Huayang Street has become orthodox, and we have become a bandit army instead. Li Shengzong laughed and said that as long as there was a way to feed the troops, he would be responsible for the rectification work.

If you want to rectify Wu Wannian's department, you must meet two conditions, the first is to break it into parts and complete one to one, and the second is to transfer Wu Wannian out of his old nest, which has a certain degree of difficulty. Shipai's telegram for help had been received, and Li Shengzong wanted to divide Wu Wannian's regiment into two and let Wu Wannian lead his troops to reinforce him, but as a garrison regiment, the other party had enough reasons to refuse his order. However, at night, a telegram from the Anhui Guerrilla General Headquarters solved this problem in one fell swoop, and Li Pinxian ordered the 2nd Regiment of the 11th Guerrilla Column to immediately send troops to reinforce Hao Wenbo's 3rd Regiment of Shipai, so as not to let Shipai fail.

Holding the sword above, Li Shengzong walked briskly towards Wu Wannian's headquarters.

It was dark, Zhao Shengan and Wang Xinguo took the troops to the west bank of Shangshipai diving, on the east side of diving, there was a gentle valley road, leading from the river to Chengjiazui, on the west bank of diving, you can faintly see the lights of the Japanese military camp in Chengjiazui. After the artillery squad fired back the Japanese curved guns in the afternoon, they set up positions in this place. The position was set up behind the embankment, which became a natural bunker, the ground was trimmed, rammed very flat and solid, two curved guns were placed on it, and the quadrangular gun carriages, fixed with long ground nails, were very stable. At dawn, the artillery squad calculated the distance and elevation angle here, and was busy until it was dark, and the straight-line distance from here to the Japanese camp was about 1,400 meters, and the relative height difference was about 20 meters. A shell box was placed next to it, and eight shells were wiped and wiped, and tonight's job was to send these eight shells into the Japanese camp.

Wang Xinguo took his battalion and company to cover and ambush on the east bank of the dive, and the main tasks were two, one was to take care of the ships on the river, and the second was to make a decisive attack if the assault company was chased by the Japanese army, and knock out the tail.

As for the rest of the work, it was all handed over to Zhao Sheng'an's assault company. The first platoon and the third platoon, under the leadership of deputy company commander Zhang Chongshan, carried out the second ambush at a distance of about 300 meters from Wang Xinguo, and from here to the Japanese barracks, there was only a distance of less than 800 meters, and the main work was handed over to the second platoon led by Zhao Sheng'an himself.

The second platoon walked hard in the valley, there was no road in the valley, only a small stream of water flowed from Chengjiazui, as long as you walked along this small stream, you could walk to the Japanese barracks. The reason why the Japanese army camped here was also because of this stream of water, which could solve the problem of drinking water and washing in the camp. The distance of three hundred meters took ten minutes, which was too difficult to walk, and this was still the effect of cutting a road in the afternoon, and if there was no previous survey work, there would be almost nowhere to stay when walking here at night.

This is the closest woods to the enemy camp, and if you go up, there is no cover from the woods, and the Japanese have flares, and if there is no cover, they will expose the men and horses to the light of the flares, so you must be cautious. The distance from the enemy camp was only about 400 meters.

The second platoon commander stopped the troops and said to Zhao Sheng'an: "Company commander, go up here again, you may encounter the secret sentry of the Japanese army at any time, it is easy to expose the number of people, you take people to guard in the woods, I will take one person, go forward another two hundred meters, shoot two grenadiers and pop them out, and see the alert situation of the Japanese army." ”

Zhao Sheng'an nodded, two hundred meters from here, I have walked during the day today, the road is in better condition, there are some dwarf trees on the side of the water, which can give people good cover, from the situation during the day, the Japanese army's bright and dark sentry patrol posts are basically a hundred meters around the camp, two hundred meters, it should still be a safe distance.

"You must be careful, don't stumble, if there is any situation, take self-protection as the best." Zhao Shengan said.

The commander of the second platoon answered, moved the shell gun on his waist behind him, and took two special grenadiers* from the hands of the fighters behind him and hung them on his chest. Carrying the Taisho 10 grenadier on your back, this grenadier has a caliber of 50 mm, a length of only 400 mm, a barrel length of 254 mm, and a weight of only 2.6 kg, which is very easy to carry. There are two kinds of grenadier canisters in the tenth year of Taisho *, one is special*, because the breath-holding is good, the shooting distance is farther, and it can reach 250 meters, if you use the ordinary ninety-one type * plus * bowl, the breath-holding is not good, and the distance is only about 175 meters. This time, all of them were exclusive*. The Japanese army has two kinds of grenadiers, one is the Taisho ten-year system, and the other is the eight-nine type, with the same caliber, the same firing method, and the same shells, but the firing distance is very different. The Eighty-Nine Type is an upgraded version of the Taisho 10-Year Style, with very different precision, manufacturing processes and materials, and can eject special projectiles to a maximum distance of 600 meters, which is the favorite of the Japanese infantry. The 116th Division, as a garrison division, is not qualified to be equipped with high-quality 87 types, but can only be equipped with backward Taisho 10 types, so it is this kind of weak goods that fall into the hands of assault companies.

Continuing upwards along the current, it soon came to the spot identified during the day. Right here, it is this stone, the water flows down from the stone, forming a small waterfall, under the waterfall, there is a small pool, the pool is not deep, it is also very small, but it is the only pool of this small stream, and when you get here, the distance from the enemy camp is only about two hundred meters.

Pulling open the belt under the grenadier and loading a * into it, the second platoon leader walked down the pool, came to the stone on the side of the waterfall, fixed the grenadier on the stone, calibrated the firing angle, gently pulled the belt, and the fired * made a muffled sound and flew towards the Japanese barracks. Almost at the same time, the grenadier in the hand of another fighter was fired.

The two of them pressed their bodies tightly to the edge of the stone, eager to squeeze their bodies into the stone.

In the Japanese barracks, after two explosions, it suddenly became lively, and the sound of people, horses, and gunfire was intertwined, and one by one the flares were shot into the sky like a cost. Under the light of the flares, the second platoon commander clearly looked at the fighters in front of him, and couldn't help but be a little surprised, this kind of flare is really useful. Sticking out his head to take a look, the Japanese soldiers were running around in and out of the camp, but they didn't come in their own direction. After thinking about it, he said: "Let's beat out the other * in our hand, and immediately retreat to the woods below, let them chase after them, if they don't chase them, our several heavy ambushes will not be arranged in vain!" ”

Anyway, load up*, and aim it at the brightest spot in the camp.

It wasn't until they ran into the woods that the Japanese reacted, and all the machine guns turned in this direction, and the flares lit up one by one in this direction.

"It's back! Good! Ordered the curved artillery to fire. Seeing the two leaders of the second platoon returning to the woods, Zhao Shengan said to the operator. Then he turned to the second platoon commander and said: "I'm worried about accidentally injuring the two of you, so I don't dare to let the curved gun fire, see that you are okay, great, and then let the devil taste our shells." ”

At this time, I saw two curved artillery shells dragging red light and shadow, flying overhead from the stone plaque, and accurately landing in the Japanese camp. The 81 mm caliber curved artillery shell is by no means the same as the 50 mm caliber grenadier *, the killing radius of the grenadier * is only 5 to 8 meters, * the shrapnel is limited, the weight of the curved artillery shell is six times that of the grenadier *, but the lethality is far more than six times, and the effect is better when two shells fall in a densely populated barracks.

The second two, the third two, until the fourth two shells were fired, the Shangshipai River was quiet again, and the artillery squad quickly left and shifted its position because it was afraid of retaliation from the Japanese artillery, no matter how hot the barrel was.

The sudden shelling completely subverted the memory of the Japanese army in China, and they were the only ones who shelled and were so hated by the Chinese army once upon a time. Eight curved shells, all fell in the barracks, there was no choice, where to fall, the shells ignited the fire, the Japanese puppet army was even more chaotic, the puppet army was cunning, after the first cannon sounded, they ran out of the camp, most of them escaped with their lives, and after the sound of the artillery stopped, they returned to the barracks to see that their tents had all burned down.

The puppet army is not the worst, the most miserable is the Japanese army Matsumoto squadron leader, the first shell, actually made a ghost to fall in his tent, after the loud noise, the whole tent flew into the sky, the Matsumoto squadron leader in the tent was blown out of the way, fell to the ground to see, the whole body was full of shrapnel, seven holes bleeding, dead can no longer die.

Zhao Shengan did not know that the squadron leader Matsumoto was killed, and the Japanese army did not have a commander-in-chief, so they could not organize an attack, and they were still waiting for the Japanese army to attack in the valley. The left can't wait, the right can't wait, see that the moon has set in the west, and order to retreat.