There was someone in the house at the entrance of the village looking warily into the distance. They were the sentries arranged by Shang Zhen.
A bunch of scattered green smoke has already risen in the village. When you get closer, you will see a big pot in the yard of a house. Naturally, there is firewood burning under the big pot.
However, a few soldiers were extremely busy. They used their wet clothes to fan the green smoke produced by the burning.
As a result, the green smoke became messy and no longer a bunch, and it no longer produced the effect of "straight smoke in the desert".
This was Mr. Wang’s idea.
After marching in the rain for a long time and experiencing a battle, everyone was already hungry.
They found rice in the cellars of the village's wealthy households, and no one wanted to eat uncooked rice.
Then the problem comes, lighting a fire to cook can easily expose the target.
Wang Laomao said that it turned out that when he was a beard and was surrounded and suppressed by the army, he wanted to have a hot meal.
I can make a kind of outdoor camp stove. The method is to dig a big pit in the ground, put the pot on the pit, and light a fire in the pit.
Dig a few more small ditches around the pit and cover them with branches so that the smoke produced during combustion will be diluted during the emission process.
If the mountain breeze blows, the smoke will disperse, and you won't be able to see the bunches of green smoke rising in the distance.
But now it is impossible for Shang Zhen and the others to just dig that big hole.
So Mr. Wang came up with this idea. The people below used firewood to cook, and a few people nearby used clothes to disperse the smoke.
By this time, Shang Zhen and the others were no longer in a hurry to go to Songjiang County. There were two reasons. One was that He Xiangcai told them that they were only more than four miles away from Songjiang County. Shang Zhen and the others had gone the wrong way in the rain after all. direction.
Another reason is naturally that Shang Zhen heard that Songjiang County was guarded by a security brigade. He did not want to enter the position battle too early. He wanted to wait and see what the news was.
Amid everyone's expectations, the large pot of rice was finally cooked. The pot was 12 yen, which was enough to feed the thirty or so of them.
After eating, Shang Zhen and the others asked He Xiang, Cai, Fan, Qiao Xiong and why the three of them were here?
It turned out that these three people were defeated. During the pursuit of the Japanese army, by chance, the three people formed a team with several other Chinese soldiers. As a result, they were chased by the Japanese army all the way here.
In the end, all their companions were killed, and the three of them were blocked in this small building. Shang Zhen and the others arrived at the critical moment.
At this time, Shang Zhen asked He Xiangcai and others to talk about their own troops. They knew too little about other miscellaneous troops.
The so-called Hunan Army refers to those from Hunan.
The Hunan Army has combat effectiveness, which also has historical traditions. In the Qing Dynasty, Zeng Guofan's army was the Hunan Army when he fought against the Taiping Army. It is known for its bravery and toughness.
In this battle of Songhu, the Hunan Army was the first miscellaneous army to enter the battlefield.
The number of Hunan Army participants in the battle exceeded 80,000, making it the largest number of participants among the various miscellaneous units. They also performed extremely well in the battle, but the losses were equally heavy.
There are soldiers from Hunan in various factions in the south, so there is a saying that there is no army without Hunan.
During the Anti-Japanese War that followed shortly after, an extremely loud saying that was highly praised by later generations circulated: "China will perish unless the Hunan people die first!"
After talking about the Hunan Army, Fan Tutun, a member of the Gui Army, started talking about the Gui Army again.
Before someone in Nanjing nominally unified China, China was filled with warlords and endless wars.
The Gui Army is the only local faction among the local warlords that can compete with the Central Army. It can be called a fighter among the miscellaneous armies, and it is also the Guangxi Coyote Soldiers that will be talked about by future generations of military fans.
The Gui Army's performance during the warlord melee period was impressive. It was the only army among the major local powerful factions in China that could compete with the Central Army. It can be called "a fighter among the miscellaneous troops."
When the Gui army entered the war, the Japanese army had already broken through the south bank of Zhongzao Bang, and at that time the Gui army launched a large-scale counterattack against the Japanese army.
They were divided into left and right wings and launched a fierce attack from Tanjiatou and Chenjiaxing.
It's just that this is their first time fighting the Japanese army. The method of fighting is limited by the experience of the past civil war. It cannot be said to be a human wave tactic, but it is also a battalion unit charge.
During the civil war, when the Gui army encountered ordinary warlords, this style of fighting was still very effective. As long as they entered hand-to-hand combat, the Gui army could basically win.
But this time they faced the well-equipped Japanese army with heavy firepower. Although they charged bravely, they only increased casualties and had no effect. After spending a lot of time blocking bullets with their bodies, they occupied the Chenjiaxing and Taoyuanbang positions.
At this time, the Japanese army released smoke bombs as a cover during the attack. The Gui army mistakenly thought it was poison gas, and panicked at that time, and their position was breached by the Japanese army. It was a pity that the only large-scale counterattack on the Songhu battlefield was.
"That man died -" after telling the general story, Fan Tuandu sighed, "I haven't slept for two nights. When I closed my eyes, all I could see was my brother's arms that were blown away by the Japanese devils. Legs."
Regarding Fan Tuantuan's story, Shang Zhen could only remain silent.
What could he say? He instinctively felt that Gui Jun's style of play was wrong.
It is said that killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred to oneself is unreasonable, but with the Gui army's style of play, killing one thousand enemies should not result in five thousand losses!
Shang Zhen didn't know that his guess was both right and wrong.
The right thing is that when the Gui army fought with the Japanese army, the battle loss ratio between the two sides was really 5:1. It's just that this 5:1 battle loss ratio is not the highest in this Songhu Battle. In this Songhu Battle, the battle loss ratio between the enemy and ourselves even reached 10:1!
But this 10:1 is just an average number, which means that when some armies faced the Japanese army, their losses had reached more than ten to one!
Western powers have already entered the era of industrialization + Japan has also entered an era of quasi-industrialization.
Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, China has not kept up with the world, and is still obsessed with its own dream of becoming a great country. When the foreign powers opened the country with strong ships and cannons, although we have the courage to recommend Xuanyuan with my blood, but The price paid is too high!
If you fall behind, you will be beaten. This is the only law in this jungle world where the jungle is strong and the strong eat the weak!
"Everyone has already told me, why don't you tell me about your army?" At this time, Ma Tianfang asked Qiao Xiong, who was playing with a grenade launcher.
"I have nothing to say. We mainly guard roads and bridges." Qiao Xiong, who is short, dark and thin, replied in a low voice.
Then everyone saw him stretch his arms forward, put his thumb up, and gesture toward the distance.
"Are you measuring distance?" Chu Tian asked curiously.
Qiao Xiong nodded without saying a word, then poked the grenade on the ground and held it with his hands, constantly correcting the inclination of the grenade.
"Can you measure distance? Have you ever hit this thing?" Little Dustpan asked curiously.
"I fought him once." Qiao Xiong replied.
"Is the shot accurate?" Several people asked at the same time, including Shang Zhen.
Shang Zhen and the others only knew how to use a grenade and knew that Qiao Xiong's method of putting his thumb up in front of his face was a crude way of measuring distance.
Most of Shang Zhen and the others also knew this method during special training, but they were not proficient in using it. They really had no talent in using grenades.
"It's not bad. I fired a total of 6 shots that time and hit three of them." Qiao Xiong replied.
Qiao Xiong's words made Shang Zhen's eyes light up!
