We must know that the Japanese army in the entire Tongliao City has relatively complete squadrons. Even if engineers and baggage troops are included, there are only seven. Among them, there are only five regular infantry squadrons. Except for one and a half at the division and regiment headquarters, the remaining In an important position, there is only one infantry squadron.
As for the seventy or eighty armed foreigners who were temporarily supplemented, this man did not treat them as soldiers at all. The young and middle-aged Japanese immigrants in Tongliao City had already been used up on the front line of Kongjiawo Fort, and the remaining people were old There are old ones, small ones, and even a half-year-old child with a height of 38-inch without a bayonet.
I'm afraid only God knows how much fighting power these people have. The vast majority of them who can't even fire a gun can't even make up the numbers. And although the Japanese are not merciless in killing Chinese, but let them He was really hesitant to rush these old people and children who had not received any military training from his country to the battlefield.
It's not that he has a better heart than Kawanami and can't bear to let these people go to the battlefield. It's really that these people can't be picked up on the battlefield. They were originally placed at the junction of the first and second courtyards and at the second courtyard. They could just build a wall on the courtyard wall and let them just shoot out when necessary, but it turned out that these guys found it difficult to complete even this apparently super easy task.
These people are not local soldiers who were once members of the imperial army and have received strict military training. Although their determination to serve the empire is no worse than that of soldiers, and their thoughts of dedicating themselves to the holy war are just as fanatical, but without military training, in many cases they are not only It cannot be a help, but is often a delay.
On the battlefield, not only fanaticism and dedication can solve everything, but one-third of the courtyard was lost because these expats not only failed to play a role when the Anti-Japanese Alliance invaded, but they themselves made chaos first. , when he retreated in a panic, he also destroyed one of his second lines of defense.
In fact, for these people who have no combat experience and have not received any military training, no matter how fanatical their thoughts are, they are still unable to withstand the effects of bullets and grenades. Their previous heroic vow to fight the enemy to the end has not yet cooled down. After their compatriots were knocked down or blown up by grenades, the previous enthusiasm was replaced by a rapidly rising terror.
So running away as far as possible has become the first choice for many people when they are obviously over-frightened. As a result, not only did they fail to hold their position, but they also disrupted the regular army garrison area in the Erdao Courtyard. If the commanding squadron leader had not ordered the firing without hesitation, regardless of accidentally injuring these armed foreigners, I am afraid that even the second courtyard would have been lost.
The expatriates are not resistant, and the regular troops are limited and cannot be dispersed and used unless absolutely necessary. Therefore, he has always been very cautious in the use of troops. Although the 14th Division began to garrison Tongliao at the beginning of this year, but for these The maze-like alley is also a headache for the Fourteenth Division. It is easy to disperse the troops, but it is another matter if they want to gather them again.
After hesitating for a long time, he decided to first deal with the enemy force that had penetrated into his heart. Otherwise, all his forces could only be restrained here. As long as he kept the northeastern part of the county seat, the resistance alliance could advance deeper into the city. To develop, we cannot go all out.
And as long as we hold on to this area, we can cooperate with the Tongliao Police Station guarding the central area of Tongliao, the core area of Tongliao County Government, and the two important supporting points of Yuantong Temple in the south of the city and Tailong in the west and east of the city to buy as much time as possible for reinforcements to arrive.
Compared with his opponent who had already made up his mind, Li He, who personally led the team to fight, had a bigger headache. Although the Japanese army was squeezed out of the alley in front of him in the previous battle, the lack of troops still made it difficult for him to fight with all his strength.
Only one-third of the courtyard could be captured, but the remaining two courtyards were still firmly in the hands of the Japanese army.
The interconnecting passages between the three large courtyards were blocked by Japanese machine guns using several places within their control on the ridges, sandbags used for temporary repairs, condescending crossfire and grenades, especially
Not only could it hit the troops inside the hospital, but it also posed a considerable threat to the troops on the streets outside the hospital. The grenades gave him a huge headache.
Although he organized several veterans with good marksmanship and used the high rate of fire of the automatic rifles in his hands to try to suppress the Japanese machine gun firepower, he faced the Japanese army's simple fortifications using sandbags as cover and the firepower from the flanks, especially the grenade launchers.
Under the pressure of heavy firepower, there was nothing they could do.
Although several Japanese machine gunners were knocked out, it was obviously difficult to completely suppress them. The grenadier used the ridge of the house as cover, which was even more difficult to knock out. The limited troops on hand had to block the Japanese troops inside and outside the compound.
Even with constant counterattacks, superior firepower cannot be formed to suppress it.
Use grenades to attack. The grenades thrown either rolled down the slopes on both sides of the ridge to the bottom of the house, or were thrown over the line under the force of Japanese machine gun fire. The grenades wasted a lot, but they couldn't be exploded.
These two men were less than fifty meters away from me, but they were overlooking the Japanese machine gun fire points within their entire control area.
Li He organized several soldiers who could throw grenades the farthest and with the highest accuracy. They tried to use long-distance and precise throwing to blow up the two machine gun fortifications with a grenade imitating the Soviet F. However, the Japanese army had obviously taken precautions against this.
Not only were the positions of these two fortifications extremely tricky, but they were also covered by riflemen.
Perhaps due to their superiority in military strength, the Japanese army did not care whether the lights were bright or not. In the darkness of the street lights and surrounding residential buildings, the electric lights in this yard actually illuminated the entire yard brightly. And since the battle for this yard
At the beginning of the war, the Japanese army never skimped on the use of flares.
The generosity of the Japanese army ensured that the courtyard controlled by Li He was always under sufficient light. As long as the thrower left the cover and tried to throw the grenade in his hand, the rifleman over there would immediately shoot. Within a few minutes
Several good pitchers came in, two were sacrificed and one was seriously injured.
In the end, Li He, who simply refused to do anything, gathered everyone to carry explosives and wanted to send people to even carry a pot of the house. However, these two firepower points of the Japanese army were behind the Japanese army's position in the yard, and the Japanese army's firepower was tight.
Under the blockade, the troops could only stare blankly if they couldn't break through.
Looking at the extremely tricky position on the ridge of the house opposite, the firing range covered all the Japanese machine gun fire points in the control area in the yard, as well as the light machine guns and grenade launchers that used chimneys and ridges as cover. Almost all methods were used.
Li He, who had tried his best but still couldn't solve it, just stared helplessly.
The few rockets he had on hand had been used up long ago, and the only large-caliber machine gun was knocked out by a Japanese grenade when it left the selected fire point. Without direct fire, he just There was no way to deal with these two firepower points, which were only more than fifty meters away from him.
Relying solely on automatic rifles, it is difficult to form suppressive firepower due to insufficient troops. If these two firepower points are not knocked out, it will not only pose a considerable threat to its own development into the Japanese army's positions, but also a threat to the troops in the courtyard who are blocking the Japanese army's continuous counterattacks. It's also quite big.
Just when Li He was worried about the two Japanese firepower, he didn't expect someone to help him solve one of them. Although the power of the two wooden handle grenades was not too strong, it only blew up half of the ridge where the firepower point was located. , but it knocked out one of the machine guns, which was enough to make him feel surprised.
What surprised him even more was that something that even the great pitcher couldn't do was solved by a girl with yellow hair in his eyes. The weapon used was a pair of leggings taken from the corpse of a dead Japanese soldier, plus his own Two grenades were handed to him.
When Li He turned his head and wanted to see how this woman solved the problem in his eyes, this lady who was a blockbuster even if she didn't take any action was using the bayonet on the rifle of a Japanese soldier killed in battle. Struggling with another legging.
Seeing Li He turn around and look at her in surprise, this very proud girl reached out her hand to ask for a grenade from him without any timidity. The only two grenades she had had been used just now, and she wanted Naturally, I need to get it from Li He again.
But before she stretched out her hand in front of Li He, she didn't expect that the guy in front of her grabbed her, turned around and ran towards a corner on the left. She couldn't break free of Li He's big iron-like hand several times. The girl looked at Li He angrily after being pulled to the place.
But before she could open her mouth, Li He pushed her to the ground again. Just when she thought this guy had some evil intentions, several grenade launchers from the Japanese army's position landed where they were. If Li He hadn't taken such a quick step, I'm afraid this lady who had just shown off her skills would have gone straight to the west at this moment.
When the explosion sound fell and she saw that the place where she had just been was bombed with bricks and tiles flying in all directions, and it was a mess. The girl who was a bit late to the next thing looked at the person she had just struggled with with a horrified look on her face. Li He's hands were scratched several times and were a little bloody.
Li He didn't have any intention to explain anything to her. After she calmed down, the first thing he said was to ask her how she did it. The girl heard the urgency in Li He's tone and didn't explain. She just heard from Li He. He took two more grenades there, tied them to both ends of the leggings, pulled out the match rope, attached the rope to his hand, and then returned to the original position.
She carefully stretched her head out of the low wall half a person's height in front of her, glanced roughly at the distance of another Japanese machine gun fortification, then squatted on the ground with the leggings tied with grenades in her hands and shook her head a few times with all her strength. , followed the force and threw the leggings in his hand towards the ridge of the house where the Japanese machine gun fortification was located. The moment the leggings flew out, the match rope was already pulled out at the same time.
After the leggings with two grenades tied to them flew over the ridge of the house, they were accurately hung on the sandbags of the Japanese machine gun fortifications on the opposite ridge of the house. The grenades that were already on fire did not give the Japanese army any time to react, and almost hit the The sandbags exploded in an instant, and along with these two grenades, they almost exploded in the Japanese machine gun fortifications. The Japanese machine guns were silenced at that time.
Looking at the scene that happened in front of him, Li He couldn't help but be a little stunned. This was actually a way of bundling cluster grenades. He understood the truth, but he didn't expect that cluster grenades could be used in this way. In Li He's impression, cluster grenades They are always used in bundles.
He was not unfamiliar with the method of tying one at each end, but in the Anti-Japanese Alliance, this method had always been used as a trip mine. This method was usually used for ambushes and trippers. , this is the first time he has seen the method of throwing it out directly like a cluster grenade.