Kong Jie used the real fire this time, and the Eighth Mixed Brigade crashed into the gun's hole.

After the mountain artillery company, under the command of howitzers, was completely overpowered towards the area of the intersection of Xicun and the northwestern mountain road, a Japanese squadron in the area, plus more than 100 wounded devils, and nearly two regiments of the 8th Mixed Brigade deployed on the fortifications, were tragically bombarded by artillery fire.

The Japanese puppet army under the coverage of artillery fire will not be completely annihilated, after all, the density of this artillery landing point is limited.

However, the Japanese puppet army in the shelled area was completely unavoidable under the full firepower of no way to fight back, and in less than five minutes, the Japanese puppet army suffered quite tragic casualties.

The casualties of the Japanese puppet army covered by fire exceeded seventy percent, and the number of casualties was simply too large to count.

According to rough estimates, the strength of the two regiments of the Eighth Mixed Brigade of the puppet army deployed is about 2,000 people, plus a squadron of the Japanese army and more than 100 seriously wounded.

The final casualty toll was around 1,500.

Among them, the number of casualties accounted for about 40% of the casualties, that is, about 600 people.

In less than five minutes, more than 1,500 casualties were inflicted on the Japanese puppet army, which is shocking enough.

It was really a sudden bombardment by the mountain artillery company, and it was just right for Kong Jie.

However, this devil squadron walked to the intersection area with the seriously wounded, and met the forces of the two regiments of the 8th Mixed Brigade.

At that time, no one thought that the temporary retreat of the soldiers of the West Village Independent Regiment was just for the follow-up artillery strike.

This round of artillery fire smashed down, which completely frightened the courage of Yan Sanfu, the commander of the Eighth Mixed Brigade of the puppet army.

Yan Sanfu never dreamed that the Eighth Route Army, which had always been backward in equipment and scarce in ammunition, would be completely different when it came to the Independent Regiment?

Good guys, with the intensity of this artillery bombardment, there are definitely not a few artillery pieces in the hands of this independent regiment.

The artillery strength of a wing of the Japanese army is nothing more than that, right?

This round of shelling also dashed the hope of the commander of the 4th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, Yamaguchi, to break through from the west to the small mountain road.

Hiding in the rear of the village, the Japanese puppet army who was crying for their father and mother under the full firepower, Zhao Dazhong, the platoon commander of the 17th Company, and other comrades, secretly staggered, and all of them gave a thumbs up in the direction of Niukou Village with strange expressions.

"This is our leader, one word, cow!"

"This battle was fought too happily, and the regiment commander avenged the blood revenge of our sacrificed comrades."

After the soldiers cheered, Zhao Dazhong, the leader of the platoon, ordered: "Comrades, the opportunity to beat the water dogs is coming soon, after the artillery bombardment is over, let's make up for it immediately, and take advantage of the fact that the ranks of the devil puppet army are mostly wounded soldiers, and beat this group of dogs fiercely." ”

"Yes!"

…… Mountain Artillery Company, Near the fifth minute, Kong Jie's order to cease fire was conveyed.

After nearly five minutes of continuous shelling, although the fighting was hearty, but seeing that the shells were constantly being delivered, the howitzer's heart was also distressed and was about to drip blood, and as soon as Kong Jie's order arrived, he hurriedly issued an order for a ceasefire.

"Stop shelling, stop shelling, grandma's, I'm so distressed, just for a while, we're afraid we're going to shoot nearly two hundred shells, right?"

The commander of the third platoon quickly counted the ammunition consumption and reported: "Report to the company commander, the total consumption of artillery shells of various calibers is 175 rounds. ”

The howitzer cried bitterly: "This short-sighted Eighth Mixed Brigade of the puppet army, what do you say they are provoking our regiment commander?" Our head is angry, and most of our family is directly gone, who should I talk to? ”

The third platoon commander looked at the intersection area covered by artillery fire, and said with a smile: "Hehe, company commander, our nearly 200 shells can not be fought in vain, and there are definitely no fewer devil puppet troops destroyed, besides, are you miscalculated?" According to the family background of our company, these shells are only about 30%. ”

The howitzer glared and scolded: "I said can you kid be less?" Don't you understand the truth of making a fortune in a muffled voice? ”

"No matter when, as long as someone asks, how many mountain artillery does our mountain artillery company have? You said just one or two, how many shells? You tell him that there are only a few dozen rounds, and don't say anything more. ”

"Yes!" The leader of the third platoon answered.

The howitzer said: "Okay, our work is done, the order of the regiment commander, in order to guard against the bombing of the devil's bombers, hurry up and pull the artillery to the bomb shelter and hide and stand by." ”

"Yes!"

The howitzers led the team and pulled more than a dozen artillery pieces towards the air-raid shelter in the nearest area, and on the way, the hand-cranked anti-aircraft sirens in the village suddenly sounded loudly.

In the war against Japan, the independent regiment could seize the weapons and even artillery of the devils, and could also use its own repair station to repair them, and even transform some new weapons.

But one thing that is absolutely impossible to achieve is to have its own aviation and to compete with the aviation of the Japanese army.

This is simply a fantasy given the existing industrial base of the Eighth Route Army and the complex environment against the enemy.

In Kong Jie's view, at this stage, instead of making thankless efforts to develop one's own air forces, it is better to devote some effort to studying air defense and air forces.

Kong Jie knew what kind of fate would happen to the base area once the Japanese bombers attacked.

Therefore, since the construction of Niukou Village and the surrounding base areas, Kong Jie has attached great importance to air defense construction.

Each village had to prepare at least two or three strong bomb shelters.

These air-raid shelters were dug and built by the soldiers of the Independent Regiment for nearly half a year with the help of the already quite strong mountain.

Even if there are dozens of planes, bombing in turn, and shells keep falling on the same point, don't want to easily blow up such a strong bomb shelter.

With bomb shelters to evade bombing by devil bombers, it is natural to be equipped with corresponding air defense warning facilities.

In response, Kong Jie ordered the construction of wooden lookouts at the head of each village and on the surrounding heights.

These anti-aircraft lookouts, each nearly six meters high, are guarded 24 hours a day by soldiers in shifts, and are equipped with hand-cranked sirens and reconnaissance binoculars.

Loud sirens sound from the top of the lookout and can be quickly transmitted in all directions.

In addition, the siren can sound a total of two sounds, one is an aviation alarm and the other is an enemy attack alarm.

These common senses have been popularized by the propaganda cadres to the villagers, and the villagers are very clear about the specific corresponding situation.

Once the alarm sounds, whether to immediately move to the bomb shelter to take refuge, or to move according to the evacuation drill, the villagers can quickly make a judgment.

The wonderful use of the siren outside the lookout station not only prevents the sneak attack of the devil's plane, but also plays a role in the safety of the village.

Very practical.

Hearing the movement at this moment, the howitzer's face changed, and he hurriedly urged: "Quick, hurry up, immediately send all the artillery into the bomb shelter!" ”

The warriors rushed into action.

Sure enough, after the soldiers spent a while transporting all the artillery and shells to the nearest bomb shelter, it didn't take long for the roar of devil fighters to be heard in the sky.

It took less than twenty minutes for Yamaguchi to call for air support.

The shells soon exploded in the area at the end of the village.

"Grandma's, this devil's bomber is obviously coming at our artillery company!" Gu Buzzard

The howitzer, hiding in a bomb shelter, cursed loudly.

"Luckily, we dodged in time."

More than a dozen bombers of the devil circled back and forth over Nishimura three times, and the target was indeed aimed at the mountain artillery company at the tail of Nishimura.

As for the nodes outside the West Village, the devils didn't plan to provoke them, the lessons of the last time are still vivid, and the MG15 aviation machine guns in the hands of the soldiers stationed at the nodes are not easy to mess with.

The area at the intersection of the West Village and the Northwest Trail.

The Japanese puppet army was cleaning up the mess in a wail, preparing to take advantage of the temporary suppression of the artillery of the Eighth Route Army by bombers and evacuate from the intersection area.

The 8th Mixed Brigade of the puppet army was blown up in pieces, and the commander of the 5th Regiment was killed directly in the shelling.

Two regiments were shelled so that only two battalions remained.

The puppet soldiers with a confused face can't find a place to cry if they want to.

The squadron of devils who originally came over was only fifty or sixty people left at the moment, and most of them were wounded, and as for the more than 100 seriously wounded people who were transported over, they were affected by the shelling, and less than half of them remained.

Now it's okay, everyone is injured, who carries the stretcher and who lies on the stretcher is still a problem!

As far as the eye could see, it was withering, and just when the surviving Japanese soldiers and puppet troops, in their hearts, were quickly looking for the wounded soldiers who were still alive on the battlefield, and were about to evacuate the battlefield with the wounded soldiers, the sudden firepower suddenly came.

Zhao Dazhong, the platoon commander of the 17th Company of the Independent Regiment, led the county brigade and militia comrades to kill.

During the shelling, two more platoons rushed over from the direction of Niukou Village to support Platoon Commander Zhao and his party.

A group of nearly 200 fighters killed a horse pistol.

"The devil puppet army listens well, surrender the gun and don't kill it, and the Eighth Route Army treats the prisoners preferentially!"

At the same time as Platoon Commander Zhao roared angrily, more than a dozen light machine guns brought by the soldiers quickly leaned on the low walls of various houses in the village and were constructed.

A number of 50 small cannons are also lined up in the rear area, as long as the devils and puppet troops on the position refuse to surrender, they will immediately tilt their firepower over.

The sudden pressure, looking at the machine gun muzzles that emerged from the cracks in the house, they were already blown up by the shells, and some of the puppet soldiers who had not been able to come back to their senses were restless, and subconsciously wanted to throw away their guns and raise their hands to surrender, anyway, it was a common thing for their puppet army to surrender to the Eighth Route Army.

The dozens of devils screamed strangely, and then raised their guns to shoot back.

Platoon Commander Zhao frowned, and directly shouted: "Open the gun!" ”

The devil's resistance was expected by Platoon Commander Zhao a long time ago, and the little devil has never had the habit of surrendering, which is diametrically opposed to the puppet army.

The fifty-zero cannons lined up have long locked the area where the remnants of the devils are located.

All of a sudden, only the sound of a cannonball slicing through the chamber was heard.

Immediately afterward, the shells exploded in the area where the remaining fifty or sixty devils gathered, and the fierce artillery fire swallowed the counterattacking devils in an instant.

More than a dozen light machine guns under the command of Zhao Dazhong fired at the devils in unison.

The smoke from the explosion quickly dissipated as the cold wind blew it.

The surrounding puppet soldiers looked towards the area where the Japanese army was originally located, where were there still standing devils?

All that remained was a corpse that had fallen permanently on the cold ground.

All the devils who resisted, including those who fought back, were all killed.

This is probably the end of refusing to surrender and being the enemy of the Eighth Route Army.

The puppet soldiers who witnessed all this shivered in unison, and the roar immediately came from the direction of Platoon Commander Zhao: "The Chinese do not fight the Chinese, the puppet army on the opposite side listens well, surrenders the gun and does not kill, and our Eighth Route Army treats prisoners preferentially." ”

I don't care what preferential treatment the prisoners and puppet soldiers are.

Chinese do not fight Chinese? The puppet soldiers scoffed even more, if they really didn't fight, what was the previous bombardment?

At this moment, the action of throwing away their guns and raising their hands to surrender was just frightened by the previous artillery fire and the violent means of the soldiers of the Independent Regiment in front of them to quickly kill the Japanese army.

"Eighth Route Chief, don't shoot, surrender, we surrender!"

I don't know who was the first to shout such a voice because of the great fear in my heart, and took the lead in throwing away the guns, and under the chain effect, the other puppet soldiers hurriedly threw the guns in hand on the ground like a hot potato, and then raised their hands above their heads.

At this moment, there are not many puppet troops still on the position, and those puppet troops who were lucky enough to survive under the bombardment before, after receiving Yan Sanfu's order, as long as their legs are intact, they have already retreated from the northwest to the mountain road.

It is a tradition of the puppet army that the officers abandon the soldiers and run away.

"You, you, take the wounded and keep up with the retreating team!"

Therefore, at this moment, the more than 200 puppet soldiers who were quickly captured by the platoon commander Zhao Dazhong and others, plus more than 300 wounded soldiers, were left behind by Yan Sanfu, who hurriedly retreated.

Under the bombardment of the mountain artillery company of the Independent Regiment, the retreat of the 8th Mixed Brigade of the puppet army was more like a rout, and it retreated in a panic from the northwest of the road to the direction of the mountain road.

Yan Sanfu still has the courage to continue to deal with the independent regiment at this moment, he can't wait to give birth to two more legs, as for his mixed brigade, he can run as much as he can.

Yan Sanfu was afraid that the artillery of the Independent Regiment would turn around and bombard him northwest towards the mountain road.

In addition, Platoon Commander Zhao also led the soldiers to capture more than a dozen devils who were seriously wounded.

Although this devil has an amazing sense of combat and will not surrender easily, but the seriously wounded are an exception, maybe he can't even move his fingers, how can he resist?

In addition, the weapons worn by the soldiers carrying stretchers must be carefully guarded, and grenades and grenades must not be worn on their waists to prevent them from being seized by the seriously wounded devils."

These are all lessons learned from blood, and Zhao Platoon arranged everything in detail.

As time continued to drain, when more than a dozen planes of the devils roared away from the sky over Xicun, a platoon leader Zhao Dazhong and his party reoccupied the fortifications in the area of the intersection of the northwest mountain road and the west village.

Platoon Commander Zhao sent sentries to continue to guard the northwest mountain road, and the remaining team of the Eighth Mixed Brigade had withdrawn in a panic at this time.

"The puppet army that surrendered has listened well, our Eighth Route Army treats prisoners preferentially, since you choose to surrender, you are all Chinese, and naturally you will be given the opportunity to reform yourself."

Help me for now, carry your wounded soldiers, and when we get to the regiment, we will treat them. ”

Platoon Commander Zhao finished shouting, and the wounded soldiers of the puppet army showed hope one by one.

The uninjured puppet soldiers who chose to surrender were relieved, since they would treat the wounded soldiers with their hearts, it can be seen that the Eighth Route Army did treat the prisoners preferentially.

A group of puppet soldiers who surrendered were even more honest.

Platoon Commander Zhao sent a squad of soldiers to command more than 200 uninjured puppet soldiers, and along with the transport of more than 300 wounded puppet soldiers, plus more than a dozen seriously wounded devils, rushed in the direction of Niukou Village......

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