Veterans know that street fighting can be brutal.
They fought hand-to-hand in alleys, courtyards and houses, and even engaged in face-to-face gunfights and bayonet fights.
Moreover, due to the complex terrain of the houses and courtyards, the offensive and defensive lines of the enemy and ourselves will be mixed.
The method of using troops is to encircle it if it is ten, to attack it if it is five, to divide it if it is doubled, to fight the enemy if it is small, to flee instead of to avoid it.
In the age of cold weapons, siege tactics can only be used when the enemy's strength is ten times greater.
Many Japanese commanders have studied Sun Tzu's Art of War, but they don't take it seriously. These old-fashioned tactics are not applicable because the opponent is too weak!
So, twice
The field of vision is limited, and the attacker and defender have no idea where or when the enemy will appear. Village street battles are full of weirdness, and the results are unpredictable.
Juanzi Village is close to the canal and is relatively prosperous, with many high-rise buildings and courtyards.
In the eyes of the Japanese, a palm-sized village does not have the elements for street fighting. A few rounds of fire bombs and a few smoke bombs or chemical bombs will be used to smoke out the resistance elements in the village.
Having raided countless villages, Captain Xiong Ertian has rich experience in this kind of village siege.
He had a fairly deep understanding of these self-governing troops who were greedy for life and fearful of death. He set a time limit of half an hour for the end of the battle.
In the village.
Even if the enemy coming is not a squadron, but a brigade.
It's the devils, not the puppet troops!
Captain Zhao is still not pessimistic about the current situation.
Fighting the enemy is the mission of a soldier.
Being surrounded by enemies in the dark is not scary.
The reason is very simple. The soldiers in the village can assemble at any time. The concentrated strength can form a local strength advantage against any enemy outside the village. Breaking through is not difficult at all.
In a siege battle, if the enemy does not have five times the strength or completely crushes the weapons and equipment, there is really no need to worry.
The most important thing for the Eighth Route Army to survive in the difficult environment behind enemy lines is not to confront the enemy head-on.
The enemy comes and we run. The Japanese seem to be occupying the city, but they have to send troops to guard the county. The Eighth Route Army is hidden in the countryside and mountainous areas and can run away at any time. Simply put, it is barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes.
The dark night is a double sword, which is beneficial to both sides, but at the same time it also narrows the gap in firepower between the two sides.
The Japanese took advantage of the darkness to surround the village, and it was not difficult for the Eighth Route Army to kill the enemy or move away.
The most important thing now is to take advantage of the enemy's covert situation to deal a cruel blow to the little devil.
Through the observation hole at the base of the wall, I saw that the scattered Japanese soldiers had passed the 100-meter line.
Logically speaking, for night attacks, darkness is the best cover.
But this time the little devil didn't follow the script and turned on the searchlight to attack brazenly.
Obviously he wanted to use the searchlight to resolve the defensive side's advantage in the dark.
Everyone knows that without heavy firepower, the price paid by the attacking party is much higher.
Following the captain's order, the Japanese squadron leader ordered his three small groups of Japanese soldiers to disperse and approach the village directly.
Each squad is divided into four sub-units, each with more than ten people. They do not need any command at all and are automatically divided into four three-person basic combat units.
This time the Japanese did not use their trump card: frontal attack and breakthrough from both wings.
There is no need to use such advanced tactics for low-level people like the Autonomous Army.
The main reason for bending down was that they were afraid of being shot by the autonomous army, and the skirmishing line flowed to the north of the village.
Not long after, the leading Japanese soldiers were more than fifty meters closer to the village.
Finally, we could see clearly what the tall and thick courtyard wall outside the village not far away looked like.
It took four shells and it didn't collapse, all because the wall was so thick that it was scary.
The leading soldiers and Japanese soldiers lay down on the ground one after another to be on guard. The leading sergeant waved to the back, indicating that he would quickly press forward.
The sergeant held up Cao's long mirror and suddenly noticed that on the wall directly opposite, there seemed to be a row of holes with big black heads at about half a person's height.
The sergeant was a little puzzled. The holes in the wall didn't seem to be decoration.
Suddenly my heart tightened, I opened my mouth and shouted: "There is an ambush!"
"Fight..." A voice came from behind the wall.
Da da da...
The flash and the sound of the light machine gun rang out almost simultaneously.
Bang bang bang...
There are searchlights to the north, and the attacking Japanese figures are clearly visible.
If it weren't for their crazy thinking, no one would have used searchlights to expose the attacking team's formation to the opponent's sight when they were attacking.
Captain Zhao quickly understood the Japs' intention, which was to let the people in the village see clearly that they were coming with arrogant Japs.
On the plains, over a hundred Japs were almost invincible.
A Japanese squadron with one against ten can launch an attack on a regiment of Chinese troops.
In the eyes of the Japanese, whether it is the national army or the autonomous army, which is even more vulnerable.
They are all targets of being crushed.
The soldiers who were hiding behind the shooting holes at the base of the wall and were anxious about waiting heard the loud shouts from the orderlies beside the regiment leader.
They immediately turned on the Japanese who had been targeting them for a long time.
Bang...bang...bang...
The sound of scattered shots came and went.
The attacking Japanese immediately fell to the ground.
Part of it was getting shot, and part of it was subconsciously lying on the spot for cover to reduce the chance of being shot.
When attacking from the north, the Japs taking the middle route received the most shots.
The Japs lay on the ground and then fired back with their guns. The casualties were ominous for the time being.
After being beaten, the observers mixed in with the attacking Japanese crowd shouted at the top of their lungs for machine gun suppression as required by tactical regulations.
The two light machine guns immediately started howling, and the machine gun trajectories with light bullets occasionally streaked across the night sky and slammed into the northern wall of the village.
The Japanese grenade lying on the ground still did not fire.
Having raided countless walled villages like this, the grenade shooting at this time, apart from scaring the rebels in the village, did not have much effect.
The lying Japanese soldiers fired five bullets into a bridge and found that every shooting position on the wall not far away had only fired one shot and then there was no movement.
The rebels are short of ammunition!
It didn't seem that much different from those previous sweeps.
The Japanese squad leaders and sergeants immediately ordered the Japanese on the ground to continue to crawl closer.
Each three-person team alternately shoots and covers each other and attacks forward.
Bullets hit the wall, sending up clouds of dust.
Seeing that the distance to the village wall is getting closer and closer, it is about to approach the distance of the pitcher's mine.
Some Japanese soldiers had begun to pick up grenades in preparation for bombing.
The voice of the messenger sounded again from behind the wall: "Be careful to show weakness to the enemy. You heard me clearly. Prepare for the second round of shooting. Fire a shot at the enemy lying on the ground regardless of life or death..."
The order seemed a bit confusing, but the soldiers behind the wall understood it all.
This means that regardless of whether the target lying on the ground is moving or not, a shot will be fired.
It's just that the first sentence asked to show weakness to the enemy, but now the enemy is right under your nose.
How to show weakness to an enemy is a difficult problem...
The soldiers have gradually become excited and are looking for targets.
When the main force fights the Japanese, it has good guns and plenty of bullets. It is not at all like the guerrilla detachment's strategy of ambushing the enemy three times and then charging.
...
The sounds of dozens of rifles suddenly became dense again.
After firing the first bullet, the soldiers quickly raised their guns to aim at the next target.
The Japanese figure was as big as a millstone, and he could be knocked to the ground with almost no need to aim.
From time to time, a Japanese man fell to the ground and screamed strangely after being shot.
"There is an ambush in the village!" The Japanese observer suddenly realized that something was not quite right.
The Japanese infantry were accustomed to this kind of situation, and they immediately lay down on the ground to get out of the way of fire, so as to facilitate the suppression of fire.
The Japanese cooperated tacitly, and the suppressive heavy machine gun that moved forward opened fire first.
Mortars and grenades were fired, and artillery shells and grenades flew over the walls and smashed into the village.
The besieged seemed to have no more thoughts at all. The enemy was always an enemy, and a dead enemy was a good enemy.
Some people died, but not completely...
