The standard Japanese squadron usually consists of 180 people.
There are nineteen people in the squadron: squadron leader, executive officer (also called assistant), three sergeants, and four health workers.
Plus officers and orderlies, buglers, and eight correspondents.
The squadron has three combat squads, each with a standard squad of fifty-four people.
Each squad has three fourteen-man infantry squads. The infantry squad is also called a detachment. Each squad has thirteen people. The squad leader plus four machine gun crews and eight other riflemen.
In combat mode, the squad leader will allocate an additional two-person grenade team to the squad that needs reinforcement based on the actual situation.
The county garrison is a garrison brigade, and not all of the garrison is stationed in the county.
Most of them were stationed in various townships, towns and even gun towers.
There is an armory in the county, and there is actually only a little more than one squadron left in the county. The squadron has been strengthened with two mortars and a heavy machine gun team.
The remaining squadron leader was killed in action, and the squad leader was immediately replaced.
The commander's command ability is not much worse than that of the squadron leader.
After a series of orders, the Japanese grenadiers who retreated into the barracks finally fired their first grenade, with the priority target being the military camp gate!
There are two light machine guns behind the simple fortifications outside the gate, which is too threatening.
Most of the dead Japs in Camp City were killed by these two machine guns and must be killed.
The second target was the roof of the county office next door, because there was a light machine gun there previously.
Mortars are a bit useless, as their trajectory is parabolic. You have to fire to get out of the barracks, otherwise you will have to smash the roof first.
Boom boom
A grenade exploded at the gate of the military camp.
Fortunately, sacks were piled at the gate in advance, otherwise Luo Fugui would have been seriously injured this time.
After thanking the Supreme Lord in his heart, Luo Fugui held the machine gun and retreated while shouting: "Half an ear, your grandma is still alive, get out of here quickly."
"Hey, I asked the Jade Emperor to bless him and make sure everything is okay." The half-ear on the other side of the door shook the dust off his military cap.
"Correspondent, tell Mancang to move faster."
"Yes! Well, they are coming." The correspondent was about to run towards the east city gate when he suddenly stopped.
Luo Fugui leaned against the wall and shouted: "Are the sandbags and carts ready? Where did Li Xiang die?"
The Japanese second lieutenant finally climbed up from the barracks to the roof.
He immediately looked around with his telescope, and suddenly discovered that there were vague figures everywhere on the tower not far away, and he couldn't help but be shocked.
Then I came back to my senses and looked carefully. It seemed that a few of them were warriors of the Imperial Army!
The others are the Imperial Alliance Army!
He immediately turned around and thought: From the moment the gunshots were fired at the entrance of the military camp, and the lieutenant couldn't get through the phone, it can be concluded that the Imperial Army and the Imperial Alliance Army stationed on the tower had not received the order to return to defense!
Then the attack on the military camp should have nothing to do with the Imperial Alliance Army defending the city.
The defending troops did not enter the city to return reinforcements. One of the possibilities is that there are siege troops outside the city, but just now I saw them looking into the city. This possibility is ruled out!
Possibility two: The troops guarding the city gate did not move because they did not receive an order to reinforce the military camp!
Judging from the current situation, the troops besieging the military camp are not large, and their weapons only include three light machine guns!
Just relying on a few sharpshooters, they completely caught the imperial army by surprise!
The second lieutenant's experience is not bad, and his judgment is very accurate!
Thinking of this, I immediately shouted to the bugler below the barracks: "Set the signal flare, set off the signal flare to rally back to defense."
The Japanese guarding the signal gun heard the order and quickly climbed onto the roof.
He took out his flare gun and fired three shots into the sky.
The roof of the county office is higher than the sentry posts on the walls of the military camp.
At this time, no Japanese dared to go up to the higher points of the sentry towers surrounding the military camp.
The Japanese who came out of the back door to outflank, led by the sergeant, pressed against the back wall and trotted all the way to the county office to guard and advance.
The sergeant held a southern pistol in one hand and waved it with the other hand, signaling the Japanese to keep quiet.
The leading soldier running with his rifle at an angle saw a figure lying on the ground in the corner of the front wall: the shiny black thing in front of him was a light machine gun.
The fire flashed fiercely.
Da da da.
The Czech light machine gun suddenly started howling, and the Japanese running in front were seen to be more than 20 meters away.
The machine gun crew hidden around the corner opened fire without hesitation.
Bullets shuttled through the crowd of Japs.
Puffs of blood mist filled the alleys one after another. There was no need to consider the target at all. The narrow alleys became the tombs of the Japanese.
It's not over yet.
Seven or eight smoking grenades fell from the roof nearby.
There were two clanging sounds, and the heads of the two Japanese soldiers who were lying on the ground preparing to fight back were hit so hard under their helmets that they became dizzy.
The Japanese soldier under the wall had just pulled out the safety pin of the grenade.
Boom boom boom.
The grenade exploded after the delay ended.
Shrapnel and gunpowder smoke pushed the blood mist upwards, overflowing the walls of the military camp and continuing to billow into the sky.
The body of the Japanese crouched on the ground and pressed against the wall shook involuntarily.
A dense barrage of rifle bullets followed the impact.
Until each body was penetrated by bullets.
The Japanese soldier Cao was hit by several bullets and was thrown face up in the gutter of the back alley.
Looking at the sky filled with blood-red smoke and gray eyes, I felt a little scared: I didn’t die on the battlefield, but died in the gutter.
He may not have known it when he set foot on this land.
Every inch of land is a battlefield.
There's an ambush in the backyard!
The Japanese who were walking behind the team quickly turned around and went back through the back door of the barracks.
In the county seat.
In the courtyard where the underground organization hides.
More than a dozen armed workers dressed in ragged civilian attire crowded behind the gate and looked out through the cracks in the gate.
I saw Li Xiang pass through a platoon of puppet troops on West Street, ambush and defeat the leader of the third platoon of puppet troops.
Everyone stared nervously and whispered, the puppet soldiers started fighting on their own?
But now, the fighting in the Japs camp was even more intense, and the sound of gunshots and explosions made the ears ring.
Is the county town about to change?
For a while, I couldn't figure out what happened.
"Squad leader, our team is attacking the railway, they shouldn't be our people."
Another team member asked: "Could it be that the puppet troops rebelled?"
Withdrawing his head from the crack of the door, the squad leader frowned and shook his head: "Impossible, don't you know what the virtues of the puppet army are?"
"This is so strange. There is no team of ours nearby. Even if the superiors want to attack the county town, they will at least notify us first to prepare for the response?"
The team asked the observing team members on the roof: "Xiao Liuzi went to inquire about the news. Why haven't you come back yet?"
"Shots were fired everywhere on West Main Street. He might have to take a detour."
A middle-aged voice came from the room: "Captain Xiao and his six sons are back from the back door!"
Captain Xiao quickly left the courtyard gate, ran to the door of the room, and looked at the half-grown child who came in from the back door: "What's going on?
Xiao Liuzi was out of breath: "The shopkeeper Guo in the east of the city said that two Japanese devils led more than a hundred puppet troops and escorted many people into the city from the east gate. They followed the puppet troops to seize the east gate and followed the troops into the city. On the East Street Kill the deputy captain of the detective team who was drinking in Liuxiang House, and then part of the team marched into the county office, and part of them attacked the Japanese barracks."
The middle-aged man in the room immediately shouted: "Squad captain, no matter who they are, we just take this opportunity to rescue our brothers who are locked up in the gendarmerie and police prisons!"
Captain Xiao's mind was racing. However, the situation was too complicated and there was no source of intelligence. He could only make guesses: "I think they are probably Li Youhua's men. The Japanese killed their brigade commander and forcibly reorganized them into the first brigade. I heard that Cheng Haibo had A battalion escaped and then pretended to be puppet troops to seek revenge."
"If it is really Captain Cheng, then this would be great. I suggest you send someone over to make contact now?" The middle-aged man was overjoyed.
"That's right, even if it's not Captain Cheng and the others, as long as they fight the Japanese, they are the ones we need to unite with! If we explain the situation, they shouldn't make things difficult for us."
A team member gritted his teeth: "You guys wait here, I'll take Xiao Liuzi there."
"The enemy and we are unknown now. Both sides are wearing puppet army uniforms. I am familiar with the situation, so I should go." After speaking, the middle-aged man turned around and prepared to take Xiao Liuzi out from behind.
Captain Xiao waved his hand to stop him, with a serious look on his face: "Don't panic. According to what Xiao Liuzi said, and based on what we have learned previously, a battalion or so of puppet troops can easily capture the county town, which means that the enemy in the city is indeed a paper tiger!"
