Taihang Mountains, on a not-so-flat mountain road.
Kuroshima Jiro was leading more than a hundred cavalrymen forward like a whirlwind.
For the past month, Kuroshima Jiro has been locked up in the Huting stronghold and has been feeling suffocated. Now that he is finally able to get out today, he should let loose and run wild for once, right?
I ran more than 20 kilometers in one breath.
Kuroshima Jiro finally pulled the reins and stopped.
The hundreds of riders following behind him also followed.
The baggage train captain Onoda Jushi also came this time.
"Kuroshima-kun." Onoda Shichiju rode up to him and asked, "Are we really going to Yang Village?"
"Why, Onoda-kun, are you scared?" Kuroshima Jiro said coldly, "If you are scared, you can go back, and no one will laugh at you."
"I'm not afraid."
"Ever since the War Office summoned me with a postcard, I have given up hope of living."
Onoda Shichiju shook his head and said, "I just feel that our chances of success in attacking a main regiment of the Eighth Route Army with only a few hundred cavalrymen are slim."
“No regiment has so many.”
Kuroshima Jiro sneered and said, "According to intelligence, Yang Village is just a small village with dozens of households. It is impossible to station too many troops there, so at most there will be the headquarters of the independent regiment and the guard troops."
"No." Onoda Shichiju shook his head and said, "Even if they are stationed separately, their main forces will not be too far apart."
"That's for sure," said Kuroshima Jiro, "but as long as our offensive is fierce enough and fast enough, we have a chance to destroy his headquarters before the main force of the independent regiment arrives."
"Kuroshima-kun." Onoda Shichiju's face changed drastically and he said, "This is just an extreme assumption."
Suddenly, Kuroshima Jiro's expression relaxed and he burst into laughter, leaving Onoda Shijuku confused.
After a long while, Kuroshima Jiro finally straightened his face and said, "Onoda-kun, you worry too much. I am not so arrogant as to attack a main regiment of the Eighth Route Army with only a hundred or so cavalrymen."
"That's not called fighting, that's called committing suicide!"
Onoda Shijuku breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.
Fortunately, this guy Kuroshima Jiro is not that stupid.
Another cavalry captain asked, "Kuroshima-kun, where are we going now?"
"Where are we going? You will know in a moment." Kuroshima Jiro said, "Aren't the Eighth Route Army always cunning and cunning, and often ambush the Imperial Army along the way?"
"This time, let them also have a taste of what it's like to be ambushed by the Imperial Army."
"Ambush?" Onoda Shiqi asked in astonishment, "We are going to ambush the Eighth Route Army?"
"That's right, we are going to ambush the Eighth Route Army." Kuroshima Jiro smiled coldly, and then said, "But now, let's massacre a village first and let the imperial soldiers have some fun!"
Hearing this, the hundreds of cavalrymen behind him shouted excitedly: "Board! Board!"
Killing is addictive. After killing once, you will think about doing it a second time, a third time... Once the beastly nature in the depths of the soul is released, it can never be taken back.
Kuroshima Jiro chose a direction and galloped on his horse.
After running for more than ten miles on the mountain road, I saw smoke rising from the valley ahead.
Seeing the smoke from cooking, the Japanese cavalry following behind Kuroshima Jiro immediately became excited. Where there is smoke, there are people living there. There is a village in the valley ahead!
"Toji Kaitoku!"
Kuroshima Jiro immediately raised his saber.
The hundred or so cavalrymen behind him followed, shouting and yelling.
…
The village in the valley ahead is called Xiaoyi Village.
Just as Wang Ye expected, the Japanese devils were vindictive.
Because the Independent Regiment caused the Japanese to suffer losses, the Japanese did not dare to seek revenge on the Independent Regiment, so they vented their anger on the people of Xiaoyi Village who had a relationship with the Independent Regiment.
The people of Xiaoyi Village were completely unaware of this.
After a whole year of hard work, New Year's Eve finally arrived. When the villagers were about to sit down to eat dumplings, the hunting dogs in the village suddenly started barking wildly.
Liang Tiedan rushed out of the house immediately.
When I looked up, I saw a large group of Japanese cavalry swarming towards me.
"Devils!" Liang Tiedan yelled at the top of his lungs, "Run!"
Xiaoyi Village was originally the base of an independent regiment. It had a strong mass base and even formed a militia.
The whole village was thrown into chaos. The villagers rushed out of their homes in a panic and prepared to run to the mountains, but after a few steps they turned back and wanted to take away the chickens, ducks and livestock at home.
"Don't worry about the animals, just run!"
While Liang Tiedan told the villagers to run quickly, he yelled to his dozen militiamen: "Brothers, follow me to the village entrance to stop the Japanese and cover the villagers' evacuation!"
A dozen militiamen were so frightened that their faces turned pale and their legs were trembling.
But he still gritted his teeth and followed Liang Tiedan to the small bridge at the entrance of the village.
It’s nothing else, just because they have their parents, wives and children whom they care about most behind them.
For the sake of parents, wife and children, I can even sacrifice my life. What does fear mean to me?
A dozen militiamen followed Liang Tiedan and quickly came to the village entrance, and set up two muskets and an old rifle that were allocated to them by the county brigade.
Others can only grab a hatchet.
Liang Tiedan also buried a heavy stone mine at the bridge head, preparing to blow up the wooden bridge.
Amid the sound of horse hooves, the Japanese cavalry soon arrived. The militia opened fire in panic. In the firelight, the iron sand usually used for shooting birds flew towards the Japanese.
…
The militia guerrillas in the Taihang base also figured out many deadly moves in the battle with the Japanese devils, one of which was cowhide sand!
The so-called cowhide sand,
It is to cut the cowhide into small pieces, then fry and knead it into small grains.
Then load the cowhide sand into the hunting musket, mix it with iron sand and fire it, spraying a lot of it!
This kind of cowhide sand is not lethal, but it is very troublesome. One reason is that there is a lot of it, making it difficult to clean up. Another reason is that the cowhide will expand after being soaked in blood, causing the injured Japanese to suffer unbearable pain.
Therefore, once hit by cowhide sand, the enemy will basically lose its combat effectiveness.
"Boom! Boom!" The two muskets fired at the same time, spraying hundreds of cowhide sand grains at the Japs.
The two Japanese cavalrymen in the front were the first to be hit. They screamed and fell off their horses. One of the unlucky ones broke his neck and died on the spot.
Another Japanese cavalryman also rolled on the ground.
The two war horses were jumping and running around on the bridge like crazy.
This blocked the small bridge, and the Japanese cavalry behind could not get across.
But Liang Tiedan detonated the mine immediately and blew up the wooden bridge.
But Liang Tiedan overlooked one thing. It was the middle of winter and the small river at the entrance of the village had long dried up. There was no water in the riverbed at all!
So the Japanese cavalry did not have to cross the bridge.
Soon, a group of the Japanese cavalry split off and went down to the riverbed from the flat area.
"Fuck!" Liang Tiedan was dumbfounded. There was no way to stop it now.
"Captain, what should we do now?" The militiamen in Xiaoyi Village were dumbfounded.
"You ask me? Who the hell should I ask?" Liang Tiedan was also dumbfounded.
The militia of Xiaoyi Village has never fought a war since its establishment.
To be honest, it was already good enough that we did not collapse on the spot in the face of so many Japanese cavalry.
Only the militiaman holding the only old-style rifle in the entire militia squad calmly pushed the bullet into the chamber, aimed the gun and pulled the trigger.
Then there was the sound of a hook!
Liang Tiedan and a dozen militiamen looked closely.
Across the stream, a Japanese cavalryman fell off his horse.
"Beautiful!" Liang Tiedan couldn't help but exclaimed, "Erdan, another shot!"
"Just watch this." Liang Erdan shook his greasy long hair, pushed the bullet into the chamber again and took aim.
Unfortunately, before Liang Erdan could complete his aiming, two dazzling tongues of fire swept over. It turned out to be the Japanese cavalry setting up machine guns on the other side of the river.
The stone mill at the entrance of the village was instantly hit and sparks flew everywhere.
Liang Erdan, who was lying on the millstone, also fell down.
When Liang Tiedan rushed over to help Erdan up, he found that his brother's crotch was completely wet.
Liang Tiedan thought that Erdan was beaten to death by the Japanese, which was why he became incontinent, and he burst into tears immediately.
Before she had cried twice, Erdan's voice suddenly rang in her ears: "Brother, why are you crying? I'm not dead."
"Huh?" Liang Tiedan was stunned for a moment, then said with great joy, "You little bastard, you scared me to death. If anything happens to you, I will skin you alive."
Liang Erdan asked again: "Brother, what should we do now?"
In just a short while, more than twenty Japanese cavalrymen had already reached the riverbed and were circling forward along the flat part of the riverbed, apparently intending to cut off their retreat.
"Damn it, let's fight this bastard."
Liang Tiedan took out a hatchet from his waist.
Although it was a hatchet, it was sharpened to an extremely sharp edge.
In addition to the two militiamen who were still loading gunpowder into the muskets,
Other militiamen also took out their axes.
There is no way to escape, so we can only fight the Japanese.
Two militiamen rushed out before Liang Tiedan gave the order.
As a result, they had just rushed out of their hiding place when they were shot to pieces by the Japanese machine guns on the other side of the river.
The small river at the entrance of Xiaoyi Village is only fifty meters wide at most. This distance is a gift to the Japanese. Whether it is a machine gun or a rifle, they can basically use it with just a wave of their hand.
"Don't move, don't move!"
Liang Tiedan hurriedly stopped them: "Wait until the Japanese cavalry gets closer before charging!"
Liang Tiedan didn't know that when the Japanese cavalry got closer, he would be protected from the Japanese machine gun fire, but the Japanese cavalry's sabers were more powerful than machine guns.
Just these dozen militiamen,
It was not enough for the Japanese cavalry to chop down in a moment.
In less than a moment, more than 20 Japanese cavalrymen found the gentle slope and reached the main road at the entrance of the village from the riverbed.
Although the villagers had not yet left, and there were even women and children among them, the Japanese did not rush to kill the civilians. Instead, they turned around and killed the militia blocking the entrance to the village.
Amid the sound of horse hooves, the Japanese cavalry approached rapidly.
In the blink of an eye, the Japs were within twenty meters.
Liang Tiedan gritted his teeth and was about to jump up when something strange happened.
"Swish, swish, swish!" The whistling sound of bullets suddenly sounded, and then two dazzling tongues of fire poured down violently from a ridge on the right side of the village.
The Japanese cavalry were caught off guard and were shot and fell off their horses one after another.
In the blink of an eye, half of the Japanese cavalry were knocked down.
The remaining Japanese soldiers quickly rushed into a small courtyard at the entrance of the village.
Liang Tiedan stood there in a daze. Was it the county brigade coming to provide reinforcements?
This shouldn't happen. How did the county brigade know that Xiaoyi Village would be attacked? And the county brigade didn't seem to have machine guns. Only regular troops had machine guns.
Could it be that the regular army has arrived?
Liang Erdan and a dozen other militiamen looked at each other, wondering what had happened.
Looking around, they found that the Japanese seemed to have forgotten them. Neither the main force of the Japanese cavalry who remained on the other side of the creek nor the dozen or so Japanese who fled into the small courtyard at the entrance of the village cared about them anymore.
The Japanese firepower had been attracted by the machine guns on the right ridge.
…
Kuroshima Jiro's nose was almost crooked with anger.
Half of the cavalry squad had crossed the creek and were about to kill the militiamen on the other side and then launch a brutal bloodbath on the villagers. But at this moment, the Eighth Route Army appeared.
"These damn Tubalu troops showed up just in time!"
Onoda Shichika said with a dark face: "Kuroshima-kun, why don't we retreat?"
"Retreat?" Kuroshima Jiro said, "It's easy for us to retreat, but what about Sato-kun and the others?"
Onoda Shijuku was speechless. If they retreated, Sato's squad would definitely be surrounded by the Eighth Route Army, and the final result would be predictable.
"Besides, there are only a few Eighth Route Army soldiers on the other side. What are you afraid of?"
"Haven't you suffered enough recently? Do you have to suffer again today?"
After saying that, Kuroshima Jiro turned around and yelled, "Set up all the machine guns and kill the chickens!"
For this attack, Kuroshima Jiro had planned it in advance and made sufficient preparations, even bringing six light machine guns!
Jiro Kuroshima's original intention was to use these six light machine guns to ambush the Eighth Route Army, but he did not expect that it would turn into an encounter battle in this small village.
Since an ambush is no longer possible, there is no need to hide anymore.
Let these damn Eighth Route Army members experience the firepower of the Imperial Japanese Army!
At the command, the Japanese cavalry set up all six light machine guns.
The next moment, six tongues of fire violently splashed towards the ridge on the right.
The pile of rocks on the right ridge was instantly smashed into pieces and sparks flew everywhere.
…
Needless to say, the ones appearing on the right ridge must be the Wolf Warrior Squad.
To be more precise, it is the Coyote Group of the Wolf Warrior Squad, consisting of Liang Dongtang, Liu Dazhui and Wu Ming.
The reason why the Wolf Warriors took the route to Xiaoyi Village was not because they were aiming for the best and catching the best mouse, but was the conclusion Wang Ye came to after careful logical reasoning.
Facts have proved that Wang Ye's judgment was correct.
It's just a little late in time. It would have been perfect if it was half an hour earlier.
After discovering the Japanese cavalry, Wang Ye decisively left the Black Wolf Group and the Coyote Group to cover the transfer of the villagers in Xiaoyi Village. He and Wei Dayong led the White Wolf Group and the Wild Wolf Group to bypass the Japanese.
At the critical moment just now, the Coyote Team decisively opened fire and rescued the militiamen in Xiaoyi Village.
However, as soon as the Coyote Group opened fire, they exposed their position and immediately attracted the Japanese's counterattack fire.
Faced with the Japanese's firepower retaliation of 6 Type 96 light machine guns, the Coyote Group's 2 Czech-style light machine guns were no match at all and their firepower was completely suppressed.
Fortunately , there are still snipers from the Black Wolf Group.
Liang Dongtang hid behind a rock and shouted loudly: "Black Wolf Group, what the hell are you doing?"
Wang Xikui snorted coldly from a few dozen meters away: "Colonel Group, why are you in such a hurry? Watch out for me!"
As the words were spoken, there was a burst of crisp gunfire. Three hundred meters away, two of the six Japanese machine guns that had just been spewing fire fiercely were put out of action.
“Well done!”
Liang Dongtang couldn't help but cheer.
Two of the six machine guns were destroyed, and the firepower was greatly weakened.
However, when the Black Wolf Group wanted to set up the machine guns again, the Japanese machine gun firepower on the other side quickly recovered to 6 guns and continued to suppress them with firepower.
The Japanese deputy gunner came up.
The Black Wolf Group had no choice but to retreat again.
But when he poked his head out just now, Liang Dongtang still saw it.
While the Japanese were suppressing them with firepower, they also sent out two teams of cavalry, each with about twenty riders. It seemed that they were planning to go around and get behind them from the left and right wings.
Liang Dongtang sneered at this and made a detour with both wings?
Don’t you even look at the terrain?
This is not a fool.
…
Wang Ye and Wei Dayong led the Wild Wolf Group and the White Wolf Group and quickly returned to the village entrance and took control of the highest hill at the entrance of Xiaoyi Village.
This hill is the highest point nearby.
The field of vision is wide and you can overlook the entire battlefield.
Therefore, the Japanese troop movements could be seen clearly. Wang Ye couldn't help but laugh when he saw the Japanese split their troops and tried to bypass the Black Wolf and Coyote groups from the left and right wings.
The Japanese are really stubborn.
We still have to take a detour in such terrain?
By the time you get around, the cucumber dish will be cold.
This is in the hinterland of Taihang Mountains, not on the plains!
It would be difficult for infantry to maneuver in such terrain, let alone cavalry.
Wang Ye immediately turned around and told Li Sigen, "Wild Wolf No. 1, quickly notify Deputy Commander Kong and have him lead the 1st Battalion to meet us at Xiaoyi Village."
"Yes!" Li Sigen jumped on the horse and galloped away.
Wei Dayong, who was lying next to him, suddenly asked, "Northwest Wolf, can you open fire?"
"Why are you firing? Don't fire." Wang Ye shook his head, "Don't scare the Japanese soldiers below. If you scare them away, we won't be able to make dumplings."
Several war wolves looked at each other in surprise.
What's going on? Don't scare the devils?
Can just a dozen of them scare the Japanese?
Wei Dayong was unhappy and cursed: "Fuck, why don't you let me shoot?"
"For more than a month, I have been focusing on horseback riding and have not touched a gun for a long time."
"Besides, in the past month or so, not only has my horsemanship improved greatly, but my marksmanship has also improved greatly. I can shoot at targets within 300 meters without even aiming."
Wang Ye's heart suddenly moved after hearing this.
Could it be that the elite sniping was effective?
But then again, if there is any effect, it should be almost there by now.
Wang Ye immediately handed his Type 38 rifle with a silencer to Wei Dayong and said, "Use my rifle to shoot the Japanese in the yard at the entrance of the village."
The twenty or so Japanese soldiers who just crossed the river,
More than a dozen were killed by the sudden fire attack of the Coyotes.
The remaining seven or eight Japanese soldiers, along with their horses, hid in a small courtyard at the entrance of the village.
At this moment, after settling their horses, these Japanese soldiers were sneaking up to the roof.
"Are you talking about the Japanese at the entrance of the village? They are quite far away, about 400 meters or so?" Wei Dayong took the rifle and fired a shot without even aiming.