Chapter 4 The robbery of the Monkey King Village
Although the Japanese army failed in attacking Qingfeng Mountain, they relied on the advantage of aircraft and artillery to occupy the Monkey King Village, which echoed Qingfeng Mountain.
Monkey King Village is built on the top of Monkey King Mountain at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, because the east and west peaks of the top of the mountain look like a giant monkey that looks up to the sky and roars, so it is called Monkey King Mountain, and its village is named after the mountain.
Monkey King Village is the highest point of the inn area at the southern foot of Dahong Mountain, overlooking Jing Zhong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is an important place for soldiers to fight for since ancient times. The Japanese army's occupation of the Monkey King Village is like wedging a nail into the hinterland of Dahong Mountain, which is of great strategic significance for them to break the defense of Dahong Mountain and enter Sichuan through the road, especially for attacking Qingfeng Mountain again and seizing the pass. To this end, they sent heavy troops to guard it, and they also had aircraft to help in the war.
The side of the couch does not allow others to snore! When Xiao Dejun learned of this information, he immediately ordered Luo Hu, the new deputy commander, to lead the reserves of the two battalions to pull out the nail.
Luo Hu seems to be rough on the outside, but he is rough and meticulous in fighting a war, and he always has to make a full plan every time he fights.
On this day, he led the 3rd Battalion, 4th Battalion and other cadres to the surrounding area of Monkey King Village to understand the people's situation and inspect the terrain on the spot. He analyzed: "You see, the Monkey King Village is built by the mountain, the terrain is dangerous, the east and west sides are cliffs, the south is a steep slope full of miscellaneous trees and thorns, the top of the mountain is built with a city wall, only the north slope can reach the top of the mountain, it is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. ”
Wang Kuisheng, the commander of the 3rd battalion, frowned: "The Japanese army set up positions at the foot of the mountain and on the slopes of the mountains at an altitude of about 1,000 meters. ”
Luo Hu took over the conversation dissatisfiedly: "According to this terrain, if you fight according to conventional methods, it will definitely not work, and the troops will not be able to spread, so they can only be connected one by one, which will become a "refueling tactic", which is a taboo for soldiers; Second, during the daytime attack, the enemy occupied the dual advantages of terrain and firepower, and even if there were more attackers, as the commander of the 3rd Battalion feared, they could only become a live target for the enemy, not only suffering heavy casualties, but also having no chance of victory. So if you want to take the Monkey King Village, you can only outwit, not attack! ”
Wang Kuisheng looked confused: "Deputy Commander Luo wants to avoid the front and attack from the flank?" It's just whimsical! ”
Luo Hu said categorically: "Yes! Ge Laozi also has to learn from the Han King, repair the plank road in the open, and Chen Cang in the dark. ”
That night, Luo Hu gave the soldiers of the two battalions a full meal, and then issued a combat order: "The Japanese army is eyeing the fortress of Qingfeng Mountain, Qingfeng Mountain is not protected, and I cannot protect Dahong Mountain!" Now, only by seizing the commanding heights of Monkey King Village can we stabilize the position of Qingfeng Mountain and have a way out for our army! The Japanese army on the Monkey King Village has a large amount of grain and canned beef, as long as it is captured, we will not only have food, but also meat to eat. Tonight we have to climb the cliff, surprise soldiers, no matter how big the cost is to take the Monkey King Village, do you have confidence! ”
"Yes!" The loud voice shook Luo Hu's ears numb!
At twelve o'clock that night, Luo Hu arranged for the 3rd Battalion to launch a feint attack from the front. As the guns rang out, a death squad composed of 4th Battalion Commander Ma Kai and other rock climbers took advantage of the enemy's attention to be attracted to the front, secretly climbed to the top of the mountain from the cliffs on the east and west sides, killed the sentries and a Japanese position guarding the back mountain, and then lowered a large number of ropes, and the follow-up large troops climbed to the top of the mountain one after another from the steep and slippery dense forest in the south.
The troops of the sneak attack were fully equipped at the top of the hill and everything was ready.
"Bomb throwing group, up!" Ma Kai, commander of the 4th Battalion, led 30 daredevils to carry 10 uncovered grenades each and pounced on the enemy halfway up the mountain like a tiger, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of grenades fell on the Japanese positions like hail. "Boom, boom." Exploded the devil's flesh and blood.
Immediately afterwards, the machine gun group, under the leadership of deputy battalion commander Zhang Erjiang, used the machine gun as a submachine gun, full of bullets, ready to fire. As soon as the last grenade exploded, 20 light machine guns opened fire at the same time, like a storm pouring down on the devil's head, and the devil fell to the ground.
"Brethren! Ge Lao Tzu Chong! The rest of the personnel, led by Luo Hu, rushed to the Japanese position with bayonets, sabers, and machetes in hand.
"Yaga! Where did the people of China come from? "The Japanese soldier Shozo Ono, who had just woken up from the shock of the explosion, was very strong, and he drew his command knife and immediately organized the remaining soldiers to launch a counterattack. Despite their excellent armament and heavy firepower, the two sides were already strangled together, infantry guns, mortars, grenadiers, and heavy machine guns were no longer effective, and they had to engage their opponents in hand-to-hand combat.
Japanese soldiers are good at and like white-knuckle combat, despite their short stature, but they are generally stout and stocky, and they are well-trained to fight bayonets, and they are explosive in both thrusts and blocks. In contrast, the Chinese soldiers are at a disadvantage in terms of physical strength and stabbing skills. Fortunately, this time the force is more against less, basically two or three people against a devil, and it is a surprise, so it has a slight advantage. However, even so, there were still many soldiers of the national army who fell under the bayonets of devils. Some soldiers have been stabbed open in the abdomen with devil bayonets, and their intestines have flowed out of their bodies. Some soldiers did not hesitate to stab the devil and die together. Although some soldiers have been pierced through the body by the enemy's bayonets, they still have to use their last breath to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy. Since it was night, from time to time people were thrown out of the trenches and rolled down the cliffs, making miserable screams.
At this time, Luo Hu was holding a big knife, and when he saw the devil, he slashed it, some of his neck was cut off, some of his arms were cut off, some of his carotid artery blood vessels were cut, and some of his body was split with a knife.
At this time, the Japanese soldier Oza Ono came into his sight. This Ono has a strong body, quick movements, and fierce knife skills, and has already cut down several soldiers of the national army around him, and in the face of the siege of three or four people, he is not afraid, and his mouth makes a strange cry of "yaa".
Luo Hu rushed over with a big knife and shouted: "Get out of the way of Lao Tzu!" At this time, he was stopped by Ma Kai, the commander of the 4th battalion: "Tuanzao, you Xieha, let me chop this turtle son." ”
In the narrow trench, Ma Kai faced Ono in a strange posture, holding the knife in both hands, the blade drooping, the back of the knife was 30 degrees to the right of the enemy, but the blade was facing his left leg, as if he was tired of killing and wanted to rest for a while. Ono didn't understand why the opponent posed in such a fighting posture, but he felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and he couldn't give the opponent a chance to breathe, so he unexpectedly "ah" with both hands holding the knife and stabbing it straight to Ma Kai's lower abdomen, Ma Kai's body did not move, the big knife in his hand quickly rose, and the heavy back of the knife knocked away the saber stabbed by the devil, making a metal piercing sound, Xiao Ye was shocked: It's broken, in terms of weight and strength, the Japanese saber can't be hard against China's ghost head big knife at all, and then he felt numb. Before he had time to think about it, Ma Kai's big knife knocked Ono's saber away at the same time, the blade had already reached Ono's eyes, Ma Kai slashed the knife obliquely from right to left, Ono's head and body were separated, and the saber in his hand had already been shocked two meters away.
After all, it was more than enough to win less, and hundreds of grenades had already killed and wounded more than half of the Japanese troops, and the white-knuckle battle ended in less than twenty minutes. The Japanese devils didn't make a fuss until they died, and they understood why there were so many gunshots in the white-knuckle battle? They didn't even understand how so many Chinese troops had descended from the sky, captured the top of the hill and suddenly launched a vertical strike on them.
From the launch of the attack to the end of the battle, in less than three hours, a squadron of Japanese troops on the mountain was completely annihilated. The Japanese troops below the hill suffered heavy casualties from the front and rear, and in order to survive, they launched a suicidal charge against the 3rd Battalion. Wang Kuisheng, the commander of the 3rd battalion, was frightened when he saw this formation, and hurriedly opened an opening on the grounds of preserving strength, causing the remnants of the Japanese army to break through through the gap.
After dawn, the Japanese devils were unwilling to lose this strategic place, and sent four Zero fighters to carry out air strikes on the Monkey King Village.
Luo Hu used light and heavy machine guns at different positions on the top of the mountain to form a dense network of firepower, so that the Japanese planes did not dare to enter the dive position. One of the enemy planes made a bold dive, as a result of which it was hit and crashed into a cliff. The rest of the enemy planes, seeing that the situation was not good, blindly strafed and then returned in disarray.
During the battle, Luo Hu led two battalions to annihilate more than 300 Japanese soldiers at the cost of more than 150 casualties, and recaptured the strategic location of Monkey King Village. For Wang Kuisheng's behavior of not daring to face the enemy and let go of the remnants of the Japanese army, Luo Hu immediately gave a severe reprimand, causing Wang Kuisheng to hold a grudge against Luo Hu. During the post-war review, Luo Hu proposed to remove Wang Kuisheng from the post of commander of the 3rd Battalion, but there was no response to the report. It turned out that this Wang Kuisheng turned out to be the distant nephew of the commander of the group army, or an undercover agent planted by the military commander in the regiment, for his performance in the battle to capture the Monkey King Village, not only did he not receive the punishment he deserved, but he also won a medal of loyalty and bravery, which is really a great irony.