Chapter 24: Encounter with the Japanese Army
Such an offensive method requires close coordination, but the quality of the recruit battalion is obvious to all, and it is simply impossible to organize an orderly attack.
Sure enough, Xia Yuan had just finished touching the corpse when a gunshot rang out from far west, which tore through the quiet night, and the bullets raining down like beans shot out from the depths of the dark and hazy alley, shattering the tiles and sinking into the mud, leaving a crater in the wall and occasionally a string of sparks on the wall.
The crisp echo echoes far, far away.
The sound of footsteps came from far and near, Xia Yuan raised the muzzle of the gun suddenly, it was the scholar, seeing the person clearly, he immediately dropped the corpse in his hand, leaned on the gun, and without waiting for the scholar to speak, he directly pulled the scholar and ran: "Hurry up!" The frontal troops have encountered the Japanese devils! ”
Niu Hai was stupid, sat in the mud with his ass, holding the gun and trembling: "Brother Xia, Japan, Japanese devil." ”
"Lao Tzu is not deaf, do you stay here, or follow me to the Japanese devils!" Xia Yuan cautiously stared at the dark streets in the distance, the sound of gunfire covered the streets and alleys, they didn't see Japanese troops in this direction, and the gunshots floated from the side of the row.
A row is on their right.
The alley is very deep, and there is really no way for the Japanese devils to hide and sneak attack them.
"How so? Japs don't sleep at night!? Xu Yu had never fought with the Japanese devils, but he had also heard of what the Japanese devils had done, invading the four eastern provinces in an attempt to further attack the land of China, and when the Battle of Songhu began, he also heard the company commander talk about the battle situation on the front line.
The Japanese army rested at night and did not attack, because their artillery could not be aimed, the aircraft could not fight at night, and the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army at night would be greatly reduced.
Xu Yu's thinking concept is still stuck before the start of the war, and the night attack of the national army is successful, and the Japanese army must be prepared.
In the area of engagement between the Japanese army and the national army, the Japanese army sent a large number of scouts to reconnoitre, arranged, the previous several night raids, several Japanese brigades suffered heavy casualties, until the sun rose in the early morning, the Japanese attack ushered in a reversal.
After suffering such a big loss, the Japanese army was even more vigilant at night.
The soldiers in the new barracks had little combat quality, and they would not alternate cover when they groped forward, so a soldier pushed the closed door without preparation, and the Japanese soldier hiding in the rubble pulled the trigger and fired a bullet into the Chinese soldier's body.
As soon as the gunshots rang out, the originally stable formation suddenly went into chaos.
The third class was not attacked by the Japanese devils, and the four of them hid behind the broken wall, staring wide-eyed.
"Talking, what are you doing in a daze?" Xia Yuan wiped the rain from his face, poked his head out to observe, and saw the Japanese figures shaking in the alley in the depths, about a squad of Japanese soldiers, holding guns against the wall, groping forward with their waists.
The Japanese soldiers tried to surround them from the flanks.
"Straight ahead, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, squad leader, you decide whether to do it or not." Xia Yuan shrank back and asked Xu Yu.
"!" Xu Yu looked at the three of them, gritted his teeth, and decided to fight.
The gunfire over there was mottled and noisy, there were no rules at all, and the groping recruits began to turn around and run when they heard the gunshots, and the situation was no longer under the control of the commander of the recruit battalion.
What's more, this is a group of recruits who are greedy for life and afraid of death.
The commander in the rear looked at the town under the darkness with a telescope, and the gunshots rang out from the front, "The main force of the Japanese army has not yet entered the battle, let the new barracks be consumed for a while." Go, give notice, and order the troops to prepare to enter the town and fight! ”
"Yes!"
The encounter between the boot camp and the Japanese army was like a warning sign.
The ninth company of the commander of Du Company was quite orderly, even if it was defeated and retreated, but the order was still not chaotic, the bullets flew out from the depths of the alley, crackling and falling between the ruins, the recruits who were hiding were beaten and did not even dare to show their heads, and some people did not even see the enemy, and picked up their guns and shot indiscriminately into the depths of the dark alleys.
How long can ten bullets last, many recruits don't have that awareness, the Japanese devils haven't approached yet, and they haven't even seen the figure, they have already consumed almost all the bullets, which leaves a huge hidden danger for the next battle.
The battle situation on Platoon Commander Zhao's side was not very good, the number of Japanese devils was not large, there was only one squad, but the combat effectiveness of the composition was not to be underestimated, the grenadier made a crisp sound, falling between the ruins of the brick and tile houses, collapsing the gravel and bricks everywhere, and muffled snorts and screams sounded between the ruins.
"Spread out! Spread it all out! Platoon Commander Zhao pulled his throat, wandered among the ruins, and kicked the soldier who was lying on the ground holding his head with his foot: "Get up, don't die, the Japanese devils rushed over, it's useless for you to hold your head!" ”
"The Japanese devils are coming, I see them!"
"Bullets, I'm out of bullets, we're dead, I'm out of bullets."
Disorganized, unplanned, chaotic, timid, cowardly, fearful, desperate, all kinds of emotions breed and spread in the new barracks, emotions are contagious, and some soldiers who originally wanted to fight the Japanese devils also began to be afraid after seeing the situation of the soldiers around them.
Those who fear battle are far greater than those who look forward to fighting, and when they are not proportionate, despair spreads in the army.
The situation of the third squad is the best in the entire company, on the one hand, Xia Yuan has a certain prestige in the class, on the other hand, Xu Yu does not have the idea of being an officer class and bullying ordinary soldiers, what Xia Yuan said is very reasonable in Xu Yu's opinion, in this case, Xia Yuan issued an order, and the three of them will abide by it.
"Have you ever been on the battlefield before, you don't look like you just went to the battlefield, but more like an old fritter."
Xu Yu maintained a certain suspicion of Xia Yuan's identity as a recruit, no way, Xia Yuan didn't look like a recruit at all, but more like an old fritter, the scholar was still able to maintain enough calmness, but he was also scared, Wang Hai didn't even have a process of adaptation, he just joined the company this morning, and was sent to the battlefield in the evening, and the training was just a simple bayonet.
"Hey, squad leader, you're not right, I'm called talented."
Xia Yuan laughed, held the gun and said: "The Japanese devils are only one class, more than a dozen people, let's kill them all, their weapons and equipment are ours." ”
"What are you doing?" Xu Yu looked at their equipment, four broken guns, three of them were recruits, of course, Xia Yuan's identity in Xu Yu's eyes was constantly hovering between recruits and old fritters.
"Our guns are not good, and it will definitely not work to hit them, so we will bring them closer and use bayonets."
There were not many bayonets issued to them by their superiors, and only deputy squad leaders and squad leaders had them, and ordinary soldiers were not issued bayonets.
"Two people?" Xu Yu took out his bayonet and looked up at Xia Yuan.
"Two people are enough, these two are recruit eggs, let them go and fight bayonets with well-trained Japanese devils? Two people are not enough for the Japanese devil to fight alone. Xia Yuan pointed to the scholar and Niu Hai and said.
"Brother Xia, don't look down on people, we are also training for a month." The scholar felt that he was a little looked down upon, even if he was afraid that he couldn't do it, he still said with a stiff neck.
"Just one month of your training, you can pull it down, many Japanese devils have been conducting military training since childhood." Xia Yuan said: "Of course, I don't mean to look down on you, it's that the Japanese devil's individual soldiers are too strong, so you should stay good." ”
Xu Yu said: "You admit that you are not a recruit, when I fought with you for the first time in Jiading, I felt that you were not a recruit, even if a person's talent is good, the bayonet is a talent that can be practiced, I have been on the battlefield and fought with the enemy." ”
"Let's not talk about the past, our head was also broken before, and then it was fine." Xia Yuan said vaguely: "We escaped from the four eastern provinces before. ”
Since the September 18 Incident, the four eastern provinces have become Manchukuo, occupied by the Japanese devils, which is not a rare thing in the country, even many peasants working in the village have heard that this is a national shame and hatred.
Unexpectedly, Xia Yuan escaped from the four eastern provinces occupied by the Japanese army.
"You actually escaped from the four eastern provinces."
Not only Xu Yu was shocked, but even the scholars were shocked, and it was somewhat incredible to say that he had returned to Yudi across most of China alone.
"Squad leader, the Japanese devil is here."
Niu Hai poked his head, his voice trembled a little, and the gun in his hand was a little unsteady.
"What are you afraid of, a few little devils, look at you scared, look at you like a bear, and avenge your relatives?" Xia Yuan slapped the kid and turned his head to look at the alley in the distance.
A detachment of Japanese troops was searching along the broken buildings on both sides of the street, in a standard triangular formation, and the search was very careful, and it seemed that no corner was missed.
Approaching the half-hidden courtyard, two Japanese soldiers approached both sides of the gate and pointed their guns at the crack in the door, another Japanese soldier pushed the door, and the rest of the Japanese soldiers were vigilant at the door.
"It's a little tricky."
Xia Yuan scolded secretly, the old sleeve in his hand pointed at where he didn't fight, even if he had the level of a firearms grandmaster, it was impossible to hit every shot, and the alley itself was narrow, and there were not many places where street battles could be roundabout, and his strength would be greatly reduced due to the restrictions of the terrain.
"Night is a good camouflage, adjust your thinking, change the battle plan, and kill these Japanese devils."
Is it feasible to fight guerrilla in the alley? It is feasible, but it requires a very detailed grasp of the surrounding terrain, and Xia Yuan has night vision and eagle eye, so he can feel the situation at each intersection clearly along the way, and know where to escape is the safest.
The Japanese devil's machine gun fire point in the distance can radiate this street, and all you have to do is to get the devil's gun in your hands first.
However, the accuracy of the old sleeve is not too sure that he will hit a Japanese devil at a point from a distance of one or two hundred meters, after all, the bullets fired after the rifling is smoothed will show different distribution points, and these distribution points are random, not regular.
If it's just themselves, it's not too much of a problem to shoot, the key is that among the four of them, Scholar and Niu Hai are all recruits, and once the Japanese devils take advantage of the favorable terrain to press over, they can't share the pressure for themselves.
Street fighting is very different from positional warfare, positional warfare, using the weapons and equipment of the US army, all the trenches can be detoured, and the US army does not have any tactics for attacking, that is, powerful and ferocious fire suppression, and the Japanese attack knows how to cooperate.
You may not have a problem with yourself, but not necessarily with the other three.
After thinking about it, Xia Yuan decided to adopt a conservative attack.
"The Japanese are searching houses, the terrain here is not suitable for fighting, and there is a Japanese devil's machine gun in the distance."
Xia Yuan told Xu Yu the basic situation he had observed.
When Xu Yu heard this, his eyes widened: "What, there is a machine gun?" That's not going to work, we can't fight here. ”
Recruits are afraid of bombing, veterans are afraid of machine guns, and this saying is not wrong at all.
Japanese artillery would only blow up their fortifications, but machine guns would take their lives. The situation on the battlefield was very chaotic, the guns were noisy, the sound of machine guns from a distance of several hundred meters was not heard at all, and people were often killed invisibly.
When Xu Yu heard that it was a machine gun, he immediately shook his head. When he suppressed the bandits, the mountain bandits' weapons and equipment were similar to theirs, there were no cannons, but there were machine guns, and the lethality of machine guns was far higher than that of cannons, so he was not afraid of artillery, but he was afraid of machine guns, because there were fewer cannons and more machine guns.
"Our guns can't be compared with the Japanese devils, there are no grenades, the terrain is restricted, but we are limited by the terrain, and the Japanese devils will also be restricted by the terrain, seeing that the house in front of us is not, I just went in, there are a lot of corpses in it, let's enter the house and disguise ourselves as corpses."
Xia Yuan took off the hat on his body and said: "The Japanese devils will search the house, they will enter the yard, this is our opportunity, fight with the devil with a bayonet, as long as you get close to the devil, the devil will not dare to shoot." ”
He asked, "Squad leader, can you do it?" ”
"That stinky boy, who do you look down on? Didn't Lao Tzu be picked by you once, enough to make. Xu Yu scolded, he thought that Xia Yuan looked down on him.
"Gotcha." Xia Yuan looked at the scholar and Niu Hai again: "Death is not terrible, there is no pain when a bullet hits the body, it's not a big deal, are there fewer people who die in these years?" No more of the four of us, kill them and you will be alive, or they will kill us. ”
In the face of rough people, you have to speak rudeness, as long as it is easy to understand, they can understand and understand this truth.
If you don't want to die, you have to kill the Japanese devils, war is like this, either you die, or I die.
Xia Yuan didn't want to watch them be killed by Japanese devils in the end, but he didn't even kill a Japanese devil.
(End of chapter)