Kong Jie broke out with a fierce attack that was not tentative at all.
The Japanese commander of the mechanized reinforced squadron that was suddenly attacked, the captain, immediately realized that something was not right.
The opponent's firepower is really too fierce.
I don't know when the artillery shells locked on the grenade position of his imperial squadron. They fell with a loud bang and accurately knocked out the artillery that his entire squadron relied on for support.
Immediately afterwards, the roaring sound of the artillery had almost not completely dissipated.
The members of the brigade were wearing standard military uniforms, even steel helmets, and field boots. The Japanese Captain recognized that the attire of the Eighth Route Army was completely different from that of the Eighth Route Army troops in northern Shanxi.
The soldiers were like agile cheetahs, roaring and fighting their way out.
What shocked the Japanese captain the most was not that the opponent's firepower was unusually ferocious. It was far superior to what he knew about the Eighth Route Army's backward equipment in northern Shanxi.
It was the offensive tactics adopted by this sudden Eighth Route Army unit.
The captain saw that the other party was not launching a tentative attack like the regular Eighth Route Army troops.
Or a death-defying attack launched amidst the sound of the charge.
It was something he almost didn't know how to describe.
In the end, he could only replace it with a scene that came to his mind that surprised him:
It was a group of wild wolves that had found their target - the weak sheep. Then the wild wolves spread out and surrounded them, completely surrounding the entire sheep group with an absolutely overwhelming momentum!
Yes.
Now the captain could be sure that this sudden appearance of the Eighth Route Army troops showed exactly this kind of momentum.
The opponent didn't seem to regard them as imperial elites with powerful combat capabilities and well-equipped equipment.
They are not even regarded as opponents of the same level.
Just like a group of sheep in the eyes of wild wolves like them.
Therefore, the opponent's attack is not a harassment, a test, or a desperate effort.
It's more like hunting, killing the target slowly and quickly.
Like a one-sided massacre.
Nothing fancy.
In addition, the opponent's tactical attack and the coordination of infantry and artillery were completely beyond the understanding of the Japanese captain in front of him.
If we say that the Japanese troops often cooperated with infantry and artillery in combat, that is, after the artillery bombarded the infantry, they charged, and after the infantry charged, the artillery bombarded them.
The infantry and artillery of the Eighth Route Army troops that suddenly came out in front of them had truly reached the tactical level of coordination.
After the concentrated artillery bombardment, when the opponent's Eighth Route Army charged forward, the opponent's rear artillery was still firing, and each time it accurately landed dozens of meters in front of the attacking Eighth Route Army team.
Accurately attack the Japanese machine gun fire and grenade fire, and cover the charge of your own infantry.
Not only conventional artillery shells, but also follow-up smoke bombs, firing Xu Jin's barrage to cover the charge of one's own infantry.
This is long-range artillery fire.
Closer, there are some 50's small artillery and 60's mortars.
Including some soldiers who were almost about to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, they even picked up the repeating grenade launcher in their hands and directly launched rifle grenades towards the little Japs within a hundred meters.
The intensity of squad and platoon-level support firepower displayed by this Eighth Route Army unit has completely crushed the Japanese army.
At this time, almost every Japanese soldier could not concentrate on confronting the opponent's Eighth Route Army infantry.
It was obviously a battle between infantry from both sides, but the damn Eighth Route Army that came over were using, who knows what kind of damn, guns that seemed to be able to fire continuously without the need to pause at all.
The military quality of the soldiers on the other side was even more astonishing, and their marksmanship was quite accurate. They kept pulling the trigger, and bullets shot out one after another. The little devil couldn't find a suitable bunker for a while, and he was shot from all directions. The bullets kept killing.
In the current confrontation, the Garand semi-automatic rifle showed its absolute crushing on the bolt-action and backward Type 38 rifle.
Even so, the Eighth Route Army followed up with 50 small artillery and 60 mortars, including some rifle grenades.
It was also accompanied by completely crushing firepower from submachine guns in the narrow alley.
This battle between infantry and infantry was destined to be unfair from the beginning.
Since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, with better military quality, sophisticated equipment, and a larger number of aircraft and artillery.
The little devil who never talks about fairness with the Chinese army.
At this moment, he tasted the frustration and despair of being unilaterally slaughtered by the Eighth Route Army troops with an absolutely unfair firepower advantage.
A flock of sheep completely surrounded by wild wolves, is there any hope of escape?
The battle between the two sides directly entered a fever pitch at the moment of contact.
In the fierce and tragic confrontation that followed, nearly two hundred Japanese troops who first entered Xiaonanzhuang were slaughtered for more than ten minutes.
The entire army was wiped out in Xiaonanzhuang.
Until the end of the battle in Zhuang Nei, not a single kid could break out of the encirclement formed by the Eighth Route Army soldiers.
Outside the village.
Listening to the increasingly fierce sound of gunfire coming from the village.
At first, the Japanese squad leader who stayed behind to guard the dozens of military vehicles subconsciously thought that the squadron leader was leading the imperial troops to massacre those weak Tubalu.
But as the sound of gunfire intensified, the Japanese second lieutenant gradually realized that something was wrong.
On the one hand, he realized that many of the various types of gunfire sounds that came out were unfamiliar to him, and they were the sounds of gunfire and gunfire that he had never heard in the imperial troops.
On the other hand, the sounds of fighting coming from Xiaonanzhuang seemed to be gradually approaching the entrance of the village.
what does that mean?
This means that the squadron leader and the others are retreating in a hurry.
So, the sound of gunfire coming from now is not that the squadron leader is leading the attack, but that it is being pursued and beaten by the Eighth Route Army troops!
Realizing this, the Japanese second lieutenant quickly sent a small team of scouts to the village in advance to respond and investigate the situation.
Before leaving, he specially asked:
"If the situation is urgent and nothing can be done, shoot in time as a signal. I will lead the remaining troops in the transport truck to quickly join the main reinforcements, and then drive the main force to come for reinforcements!"
"Hi!"
So not long after the Japanese team entered the village, several gunshots agreed upon by both parties were heard.
The second lieutenant in charge of staying behind did not dare to delay, and quickly ordered the drivers to jump back into the car, start the car, retreat quickly, join the main reinforcements, and then find a way to reinforce the squadron.
pity.
This is not a place where little devils can come and leave whenever they want.
This also applies to Japanese cars, even if they have four wheels.
When the Japs squad leader took the remaining twenty or thirty Japs, he hurriedly drove a dozen military vehicles back along the road in a hurry.
A dozen cars had just driven less than three to five hundred meters.
The Japanese team leader observed with a look of horror that there were seven or eight heavily armed armored vehicles in the distance, forming an encirclement formation of skirmishers and pulling a net towards them.
The Japanese captain could tell at a glance that it was a chariot belonging to the empire.
If it weren't for the opponent's posture, it wouldn't look like they were here to assist in the battle. The machine gunners exposed on the top of the armored vehicles were wearing the standard uniforms of the Eighth Route Army.
The Japanese squad leader even mistakenly thought that the armored vehicle troops sent by the commander of the company were reinforcements.
"Baga, how come these damn Tubal Roads have imperial armored vehicles on their hands?"
But he couldn't care about any of this at the moment.
Since most of the terrain in this area is plain and open, the enemy's armored vehicles completely opened up their encirclement formation and immediately blocked all the escape routes for the dozen or so Japanese vehicles.
It's useless to withdraw now. Over at Xiaonanzhuang, the squadron leader and the others are probably in danger.
"Trap, this is Eighth Route's trap!"
The Japanese second lieutenant also realized this, but unfortunately it was too late to say anything now.
Facing the eight armored vehicles approaching each other and closing the distance, the Japanese second lieutenant knew only too well how strong the armor was.
It is simply impossible to stop the opponent's armored vehicle attack with the guns in the hands of their remaining soldiers.
To escape is to die.
At this moment, more than a dozen Japanese cars were completely surrounded by eight armored vehicles.
Compared to armored vehicles, they are almost like bastard shells, with no flaws in their armor defense.
The Japs are just military vehicles used to transport troops quickly, which is much worse.
Especially those pilots who are exposed to the enemy's sight can easily be killed by the enemy.
In the end, seeing a near-death situation, the Japanese second lieutenant turned out to be very manly and showed a rare fighting will.
Just listen to him roaring loudly:
"The holy war must be won, for His Majesty the Emperor!"
He roared with all his strength, took the lead, stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and with the car at full speed, the whole car slammed into an armored vehicle that was also coming from the opposite direction without any dodge.
The platoon leader who was investigating the situation through the observation port of the armored vehicle could not help but curse:
"This little devil is like a mad dog!"
"Hit me, we have to let the little devils know that here, they just want to commit suicide, but we still have to see whether we agree or not?
Kill the driver! "
Da da da da da——
Intensive firepower poured in. Even though the Japanese second lieutenant who was driving the car himself expressed his determination to die, he was still beaten into pieces in the next moment when faced with the oncoming firepower.
With the rapid passage of life, the right foot of the Japanese lieutenant who stepped on the accelerator was also weakly bounced up. The speed of the car immediately dropped. Since no one continued to steer the car, the direction of the car also deviated. It was dangerous and dangerous. Side by side with the oncoming armored vehicle.
The platoon leader commanding in the armored vehicle also sweated: "Damn, I almost asked the little devil to change it for us!"
If armored vehicles and military vehicles hit each other at full speed, even armored vehicles with strong armor can survive unharmed.
Under the fierce collision, the soldiers inside were probably either killed or injured.
This Japanese second lieutenant is really ruthless right now.
Perhaps it was driven by the madness of the Japanese second lieutenant who was not afraid of death and died with the Eighth Route Army. Then three or five Japanese drivers also imitated the Japanese second lieutenant, stepped on the accelerator, drove the car, and with the final madness, In an attempt to die together with the enemy's Eighth Route Army armored vehicles.
But not all are brave under heavy pressure.
Except for these three or five little Japs, the remaining Japs drivers naturally did not have the courage to watch the Eighth Route Army's armored vehicles advance.
They drove cars, retreated, or looked for openings, trying to break out and survive.
Unfortunately, when the weak sheep lose their unity and begin to gradually disperse, that is the perfect time for the wolves to start slaughtering.
Eight armored vehicles rushed back and forth driven by the soldiers, focusing the attack on the Japanese driver in the driving position.
As long as the driver is killed, the Japanese car will naturally lose power.
However, two Japanese vehicles broke out of the blockade of armored vehicles in an attempt to escape.
The soldiers opened fire directly, blowing out all the wheels on the flanks. As they advanced at high speed, the vehicle body suddenly became unstable. A Japanese transport vehicle even overturned on the spot after hitting a rock along the way.
When the battle in Xiaonanzhuang came to an end, the soldiers rushed out of Xiaonanzhuang and saw eight armored vehicles of their own, completely blocking a dozen of the Japanese's cars that were about to escape.
This is the first time that soldiers of the Northwest Military Region have witnessed combat between mechanized combat vehicles.
Watching eight armored vehicles belonging to our own side rushing back and forth.
The machine guns and artillery mounted on the armored vehicles fired in unison, making the whole thing like a mobile bunker, completely destroying the Japanese car convoy in a short period of time.
After the shock on their faces, the soldiers were filled with fascination.
The first battalion commander who led the team even murmured subconsciously: "Awesome! This is the armored force of the Iron Triangle. I don't know when our 358th Brigade will also have such a team."
Some are happy and some are sad.
the other side.
Under the orders of the old Japanese Suzuki, the Japanese's brigade communications department, led by the infantry brigade, plus the reinforced artillery squadron, was rapidly advancing towards Xiaonanzhuang. It soon received the last communication from the mechanized reinforced squadron that was destroyed in Xiaonanzhuang.
"Communications were completely interrupted?" The Japanese Shaozuo was a little dazed.
The communication soldier nodded: "Yes, sir, no more response!"
Just about ten minutes ago, in the last communication, the Japanese captain stated his intention to die:
I would rather break all my jade to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor.
Then there was no communication message.
Realizing that the situation was not good, Jaap Shaozuo did not dare to delay, and quickly commanded the infantry brigade to advance rapidly with the artillery unit.
Considering the urgency of the war situation, the mechanized combat squadron is likely to have been in danger, and the follow-up artillery unit is slow, delaying the pace of the entire brigade.
Although Shao Zuo, the Japanese soldier, was worried that by placing his artillery and baggage behind him, he would be vulnerable to a detour and sneak attack by the Eighth Route Army troops.
But the situation was urgent, and he couldn't care less.
After leaving a squadron as a guard, he led the rest of the infantry to march lightly and quickly towards Xiaonanzhuang.
At the same time, the Shao Zuoling Communications Department conveyed the news to the Guzhen Regiment Headquarters that the mechanized reinforcement squadron was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army in Xiaonanzhuang...
