Uncle Ma turned around and looked at Gao Xiaoshan and asked, "Are you going to fight tonight?"
Gao Xiaoshan said resolutely: "Of course we have to fight. Let each team take turns to shoot black guns from different directions. If you can't hit the people on the Jaap's position, then hit the patrols and the outposts outside him. The Japanese army's bonfire cannot burn." Throughout the night, I beat the people who were adding firewood to him, and beat them to death one by one, just to make them have no peace."
That night, the iron barrel defensive position of the Japanese 24th Brigade was effective. Gao Xiaoshan and his several teams took turns to fight, but they only killed and injured a dozen Japanese. The results were incomparable to the hundreds of people killed during the day.
Considering that there were still combat missions the next day, Gao Xiaoshan let the whole team rest in the middle of the night.
It was not until 4 o'clock in the morning, when the Japanese army was sleeping soundly, that the artillery team that had replenished the artillery shells from the No. 3 secret camp arrived. Several deputy gunners, who had not had the habit of firing artillery during the day, faced the Japanese village in the darkness 1 kilometer away. I don’t know how many people were killed and injured after more than a dozen rounds were fired indiscriminately, but just look at these little devils and most of them turned into baby pandas with dark circles after dawn, and you will know that the effect of harassment is obvious.
At dawn the next day, the Japanese army's march deployment exceeded Gao Xiaoshan's expectations.
Hattori Jiro directly ordered the two brigades to march in parallel. After entering the mountainous area, they did not just give way to the road and march close to the woods on both sides of the mountain road. In the middle, the brigade and regiment headquarters, which was 1 kilometer behind, led the troops directly under it to advance. The two brigades marched side by side, which meant that the whole brigade was huddled together, and the two forward brigades each sent a squadron to open a road 500 meters ahead.
This hedgehog-like marching formation was difficult to fight. Gao Xiaoshan and the others could only seize the opportunity to fire a few shots and run away. As long as there was a slight pause, they would be easily outflanked by the Japanese troops on the other side.
Moreover, the little devil directly assembled all the 92 infantry cannons he carried and dragged them with horses. If there was any movement, he could fire within 3 minutes.
At first, the brothers did not expect that the Japanese artillery would respond so quickly. Zuo Mingqing, who was inexperienced, only took two more shots. If Li Hu hadn't seen the opportunity and quickly dragged him away, just a few seconds later, They were hit by at least 10 artillery shells around their sniper position just now.
Of course Gao Xiaoshan knew that the Japanese army's tactics were to bully the small number of the second detachment. When the Japanese army's formation was wide enough, the harassment tactics would become very dangerous. If he was not careful, he would be surrounded by the Japanese army, but he no longer had The better way is to slander the Japanese army without losing face.
The Imperial Japanese Army, which numbered more than 5,000 people, faced dozens of Chinese troops as if they were facing a formidable enemy. They formed a hedgehog formation and sought no merit but no faults. As long as a few were killed by cold shots, it would be a few. Hundreds of people swarmed forward, some charging from the front, and others flanking them, with heavy machine guns and artillery supporting from behind. It was like treating the second detachment of dozens of people as if they were thousands of people, and it scared Gao Xiaoshan to the point where he broke out in a cold sweat.
Of course, although the effect of the sneak attack was greatly reduced and the results of each team were very few, the effect of slowing down the Japanese army's advance was quite good. In just one morning, the Japanese army only advanced 20 miles.
Looking at the slowly advancing Japanese turtle shell battle formation, Gao Xiaoshan was filled with hatred, but for a while he couldn't find a better way.
I have to say that this shameless fighting style of the Japanese army also put our brother Shan Zi in trouble. For safety reasons, he also gathered all the teams together to act together, just for fear that any team would be surrounded by the Japanese army if they were not careful. live.
With the Japanese army frequently attacking with five to six hundred people from several squadrons, those surrounded would have no choice but to die, and there would be no way to save them.
Gao Xiaoshan had no choice but to ask Chen Wanli for advice through the radio. Chen Wanli thought for a long time but could not find a good way. The key was that the number of mercenary groups was too small, and it was difficult to speak in the face of so many Japanese troops who were grouped together. Moreover, the only opponent of these Japanese troops before arriving at Lengkou Pass was the mercenary group, and there was no way to distract them. Moreover, the current situation was not such that it was necessary to decide the outcome with the Japanese troops.
At this time, Gao Xiaoshan couldn't help but think, if the scholar was here, would he be able to break the Japanese army's turtle shell?
At this time, Zhou Wen was lying on a highland that was half snow and half loess, wearing a white cloak, looking through a carefully camouflaged mound, using the 4x scope on his rifle to observe the wilderness in the distance.
He saw dozens of corpses in shit-yellow military uniforms lying on an open ground about 400 meters away directly in front of him.
If you can look down from the air, you will find a depression in the middle of the fields strewn with corpses. It used to be a small pond. After experiencing the drought in summer and autumn, it has become a shallow shoal. Also covered with a thin layer of crushed ice.
In this depression, which is just enough to avoid Zhou Wen's gun line, there are fifty or sixty Japanese soldiers lying densely packed. Half of most of their bodies are trembling and soaked in the shallow but still biting ice water. , there was only a small dry place to the side, crowded with seven or eight injured people with pale faces and purple lips. I don’t know how many of them were able to breathe.
And just down the hillside behind Zhou Wen, Xu Dacheng was wiping the barrel of the artillery gun in his hand, holding a piece of dead grass leisurely in his mouth, and two 6.7-kilogram heavy artillery shells were quietly placed on the ground beside him.
"Awen, these little devils have suffered for a long time. Don't let them all freeze to death by then. Your head will be gone."
Zhou Wen heard the sound and said bitterly: "No, these beasts are very strong. They have only been soaked in ice water for an hour, which is not enough."
"Awen, how come you are so sure that there are no reinforcements around these little devils?"
Zhou Wen didn't take his eyes off the scope, and explained patiently: "Dacheng, think about it, in such a large area of Jehol Province, the Japs only have 2 divisions and 2 mixed brigades, and at most a few temporary formations. The total strength of the garrison brigade shall not exceed 60,000."
"Now that Rehe has been captured, and all the main forces of the Japs are moving towards the Great Wall, how many people will be behind him? I think it should be less than 10,000 people? In the 170,000 square kilometers of land, there are Does he want to station troops in so many counties and strategic locations? Does he want to station troops along the railway lines? How many people will be left?"
Xu Dacheng thought for a while, smacked his lips and said, "That's right. It is estimated that there are only Japanese troops within a few dozen miles around. Doesn't that mean that these little Japanese are in doom now?"
Speaking of this, Xu Dacheng said with emotion: "Awen, to be honest, when we were kidnapped all the way to Henan, who would have thought that we would be so strong today? Just the two of us, we can just take this... More than 100 Japanese soldiers surrounded us."
