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. In addition to one and a half of 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. 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 powerful these people are. 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. In fact, these people really can't be mentioned on the battlefield. Originally, these people were placed at the connection between the first and second courtyards and at the second courtyard.
They could just build a fence around the yard and let them just shoot out when necessary. But it turned out that it was difficult for these guys 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, they often not only
It cannot be a help, but is often a delay.
On the battlefield, not only fanaticism and dedication can solve everything. 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 can't resist the effects of bullets and grenades. The 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 they ran away as far as they could. It had become the first choice for many people when they were 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 Erdao Yard.
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 in strength and cannot be easily 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 deal with the troops if they are spread out, 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 forces that had penetrated into his heart. Otherwise, all his forces would have to be restrained here. As long as the northeastern part of the county was preserved, the Anti-Japanese 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 determined opponent, Li He, who personally led the team to fight, had more headaches. In the previous battle, although the Japanese army was squeezed out of the alley in front of him, the lack of troops still failed despite his best efforts.
Only one-third of the courtyard could be captured. 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 of the houses, using sandbags to temporarily repair the fortifications, and condescending crossfire and grenade launchers. 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, he used the high rate of fire of the automatic rifles in his hands to try to suppress the Japanese machine gun firepower. However, in the face of 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 grenade launchers used the ridge of the house as cover, which made it 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.
When using 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, trying to use long-distance and precise throwing to blow up the two machine gun fortifications with a grenade imitating the Soviet F. But 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. 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 sent 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. Under the tight firepower of the Japanese army
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 already been used up long ago. The only large-caliber machine gun he had was knocked out by a Japanese grenade when it left the selected fire point. Without direct fire, he simply
There was no way to deal with these two firepower points, which were only more than fifty meters away from him.
Relying on automatic rifles alone, 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 the depth of the Japanese army's positions. It will also pose a threat to the troops in the hospital 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 points, he didn't expect that someone actually helped him solve one of them. Although the power of the two wooden handle grenades was not too strong, they only blew up half of the ridge of the house where the firepower point was located.
.But the fact that one of the machine guns was knocked out was enough to make him feel surprised.
What surprised him even more was that something that even a great pitcher couldn't do was solved by a yellow-haired girl 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 woman who was a bit of a blockbuster if she didn't take 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 fired from the Japanese positions 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 fell, she saw that the place where she had just been was blown up and the bricks and tiles had been blown up, making it a mess. This girl who was a little late to the next thing looked at her in horror as she was struggling just now.
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 did not explain that she just heard from Li He.
I took two more grenades there. I tied the two grenades on both ends of my leggings, pulled out the match rope, connected it to the rope and pulled it to my hand, then returned it to its original position.
She carefully stretched her head out of the half-human-high low wall in front of her, and used her eyes to roughly glance at the distance of another Japanese machine gun fortification. She squatted on the ground and shook the leggings with grenades tied in her hands on 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 Japanese machine gun fortification sandbags on the opposite ridge. The grenades that were already on fire did not give the Japanese army any time to react. They 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 is 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.