Chapter 9: Behind Enemy Lines (37)

The confrontation between the two armies on the chessboard has become very ridiculous. Except for a few observers, the others in the trenches were huddled in the trenches smoking and chatting, and some people cut back some pine branches from a distance and built a pergola on the trench to borrow a little coolness. The Japanese puppet army on the slope outside sat on the ground, and some of them actually lay down, fell asleep, walked for a long time, and fought for a while, and the dog day was tired. There was a peaceful scene on the battlefield, and it was completely unrecognizable that there had been a fierce attack not long ago, in which both sides had been killed and wounded. At first, there were a few occasional gunshots, but then there was a tacit understanding, and the gunfire stopped, and then later, birds came and stopped on the new soil that had been blown up by the cannonballs to look for insects, perhaps because of a good harvest, and made a cheerful chirping, attracting more birds.

Peng Wu patted the dirt on his body that had been splashed by the plane's bombs, slammed his hat on his knees twice, and sent out a puff of smoke and dust, walked out of the shelter made of logs, and looked at the sun in the middle of the sky. Two days ago, it has passed the July 14th Midyear Festival, this season is the turn of autumn, summer and autumn, the fire in July, the scorching sun will turn over the newly turned land out of a faint earthy fragrance, very good, Peng Wu took two deep breaths, his nose told him that the soil of this place is more fertile than Guangxi, and the soil fragrance is more leaching a greasy smell.

The villagers sent a few loads of white porridge up, which could quench hunger and thirst, Peng Wu drank a bowl, and his stomach was much more comfortable. With fellow villagers in the background, it is much easier to fight, the dead are dealt with, the wounded are taken care of, and there are people who are hungry and thirsty to worry about. Listening to the tone of the fellow countryman, this is all the good fate of the 526 regiment here, the commander of the 526 regiment is extremely strict with the troops, and it is strictly forbidden to disturb the people to any extent, after he came back from Hengshan, he put Ye Jianying's military and civilian fish and water theory on his lips all the time, and often warned his subordinates that the army and the people are the relationship between fish and water, the army is the fish, the people are the water, and the fish cannot survive without water. Soon, the people of the six counties in the west of Anqing also knew the rules of Modi, and also established a good relationship with the 526 regiment.

The villagers didn't know that Peng Wubu didn't belong to the 526 Regiment, and they treated them like the 526 Regiment. In the previous war, Peng Wubu was not afraid of death under the indiscriminate bombardment of the plane, and his behavior of not taking a step back completely won the recognition of the fellow villagers and completely regarded him as his own son. Listening to the villagers who delivered the porridge repeatedly said that the village had slaughtered pigs and sheep, waiting to celebrate the brothers.

"I don't know if the ambush over there has started!" Peng Wu looked at the far southeast and muttered to himself.

"I don't know if it's started, but it's definitely not going to work out yet." The commander of a company beside him took over the conversation, he was slightly injured during the bombing of the plane, his head was wrapped in gauze, and he wore a hat on the outside of the gauze, revealing a white circle, and he judged: "If there is a result, the Japanese puppet army opposite us should take action." ”

"That's right! If their reinforcements repel the ambush, they will actively prepare for battle and attack us. If reinforcements are repulsed, they smear the soles of their feet with oil and immediately retreat. Peng Wu completely agreed with the opinion of the first company commander, and said with a smile: "It's just that they never dreamed that Chief of Staff Hou was already waiting on their way to retreat!" ”

The commander of the first company couldn't help laughing, playing chess to see three moves, the move of the thin monkey is not only three moves, it is the back hand of the back hand, and it can be laid out like this, which shows the depth of the wisdom of the 526 regiment.

"Camp, I found that our battle this time felt particularly smooth." The commander of the first company said: "Although we were also bombed by planes and shelled by hand, there were also dead and wounded, but I always felt very refreshed, especially when Chief of Staff Hou came to tell us that they were ready to lie down again and again, I think it was worth how much suffering we had suffered before!" ”

"Commander Mo fights, unlike our Commander Wei, when our two regiments formed the 526 Brigade before, I paid attention to Deputy Brigade Commander Mo's way of fighting, he may be the commander of our 176th Division or even the 48th Army who is the most proficient at fighting, he fights tricks, and never does things that he knows he can't do. He did not fight hard with the enemy, and in Shipai, he cooperated with the Sichuan army to block the three detachments of the Japanese army, which was a miracle. I know that he really fought hard with the enemy only once, that was the Battle of Huangmei, in that battle, his chief of staff Liu Bolong died, and the whole regiment was killed and wounded as much as one-third, for this, he was so angry that he vomited blood. Our brigade came to the six western counties of Anqing to fight behind enemy lines, and Commander Mo single-handedly fought the six western counties into a relatively stable situation. I still remember Hao Wenbo who played Anqing with us, when Chief Mo ignored him, he was cornered, and Chief Mo made a move, and he turned out to be a character on the stone side. I heard that his 9th guerrilla brigade has almost grown to a regiment! The division headquarters sent Commander Wei to take our battalion into Qianshan to cooperate with the 526 Regiment to fight, I am very willing, stay in Yuexi, although it is safe, but it is very boring, it is better to come here to fight the devils, although there is a danger of sacrifice, but it is also more meaningful. ”

The first company commander did not speak, staring at the distance and the enemy, and saw that someone was running, in a mess, someone was shouting, too far away to hear clearly. After a while, the Japanese puppet soldiers all stood up, and except for the soldiers who were on alert, everyone else returned to the headquarters, packed up their things, and seemed to be preparing to retreat. The Japanese puppet army also suffered a lot of casualties this time, carrying the corpses and supporting the wounded soldiers, and it was really a retreat. Peng Wu nodded and said, "It seems that the ambush of the horse temple turned out to be our victory!" ”

Immediately ordered the third company to make a detour according to the original plan, the second company was on standby, and the first company was ready to hunt ducks.

The commander of a company is very good at arranging, he told the soldiers, don't worry, you have to wait for the Japanese puppet army to retreat for most of the time before chasing, if you retreat in this way, you will definitely arrange for the rear army to cover, this group of people is an outcast, but also a dead soldier, if you recklessly chase after you, you will definitely fall into the net of the rear army, and suffer a big loss. Observers were asked to keep an eye on them and wait until the broken men had retreated before they set out to chase them.

Sure enough, the Japanese puppet army left about a platoon of puppet soldiers, lying in the improvised fortifications, and the others retreated in a hurry, because they carried the corpses to support the wounded, walking fast and slow, stretching the marching line very long.

"This can't be done, it's not very far from the ambush of Chief of Staff Hou here, let them retreat like this, and retreat to the ambush point will definitely be sparse." Peng Wu said: "Bring up the captured hand cannons, run out as many shells as possible, and kill the enemy's broken rear troops." ”

The first company commander replied: "Yes!" ”

Turned around and ran to the front of the position, so that all the soldiers shouted in unison: "The devil has run, the enemy has retreated, kill and chase!" But no one chased after them, only a few crooked handles rang out, and the bullets fell in front of the positions of the enemy troops behind the severed rear, crushing the enemy troops in the bunkers.

Hearing the sound of gunfire and shouting killing, the retreating Japanese puppet army obviously increased the speed of retreat, and the broken enemy army also looked back at the distant team from time to time, and the order they received was very simple, as long as the large force withdrew for a kilometer, they could leave, and the visual inspection should be almost a mile!

The enemy's broken rear positions were, strictly speaking, just a few large foxholes, and the defensive capabilities of the hastily formed positions can be imagined, and the so-called bunkers were nothing more than a few sacks filled with dirt and pressed against the side facing the chessboard. Under the suppression of the machine guns, the men in the foxhole could not even lift their heads, and one of the soldiers picked a hat with a bayonet and went out and shook it, and was immediately hit by several bullets, knocking the hat far away. Seeing such a situation, the enemy after the break could only shrink and shrink their own bodies, and did not let the machine gun hit them.

If the machine gun can't hit, it doesn't mean that the hand cannon can't hit it, a few hand cannon shells drew a perfect curve, a phantom passed through the air, and accurately fell into the foxhole of the enemy army after the break, and several puppet troops were blown up in the air on the spot. Because of the machine gun suppression, the hand artillery team has moved to a place less than 200 meters away from the enemy behind the break, which is the best firing range position of the hand gun, and it can basically be accurate at a time.

After firing four hand cannon shells, one of the broken enemy soldiers with poor psychological endurance could no longer withstand this inhuman torture, let out a shout, threw the gun in his hand, jumped out of the bunker, and quickly chased the large army in the distance. With the first, there was the second, and soon, the enemy troops who could run out of the broken rear positions all rushed out of the broken rear positions. The commander of a company asked the sharp knife squad to rush to the front of the broken back bunker, and under the cover of the machine gun, one person threw it in, blowing up the skirmishers into the air, and there was no movement, and the company commander knew that there were really no living people in the foxhole, and immediately ordered his subordinates to shout and rush in the direction of retreat.

The purpose of this kind of pursuit is to allow the slower-moving enemy to rush forward quickly, and there is no need to kill or wound the enemy in motion, so shouting is more useful than gunfire, and of course, the occasional bullet fired occasionally enters the body of the rout, which is more deterrent.

Hearing the shouts coming from behind him, the lagging defenders of the enemy army could no longer control the fear from the bottom of their hearts, threw down the corpses on the stretcher, left the wounded, threw away the baggage, and even threw away the seven or eight pounds of three or eight big covers, only hating his parents for giving him two legs less, and using the strength of milk to move forward.

The pursuit lasted about a kilometer, bringing together the enemy forces that had been scattered, and fully achieving the strategic goal, the pursuing troops picked up the baggage that had been thrown all the way, picked up the wounded soldiers who raised their hands on the side of the road, and returned to the chessboard, as for the corpses, we will talk about it after the battle. Peng Wu looked at the enemy army from afar, put down the binoculars in his hand, found a place to sit down, and the next thing didn't have much to do with him.

The Japanese puppet soldiers, who were cramped in their legs, heard the shouts and gunfire behind them gradually disappearing, and breathed a sigh of relief, and were about to find a place to rest, but they did not expect a dense burst of gunfire to suddenly sound in front of them.