Frightened by the explosion, Xiang Shaomin broke into a cold sweat. When he looked at Xu Mengcai, his eyes suddenly changed. Xu Mengcai saw the doubt in his heart and said lightly: "I just killed a Japanese sniper." Xiang Shaomin just killed a Japanese sniper. Min was startled, and then he couldn't help but feel a little ashamed. His marksmanship was indeed good, but there was still a certain gap between him and an excellent sniper or even a gunner. Apart from anything else, he could not be so sharp and calm on the battlefield. Be like Xu Mengcai,
"Captain Xu, I'm convinced." He said this with sincerity, and Xiang Shaomin's anxious heart completely relaxed. If he was still a little unwilling to join Fox Thirteen at the beginning, now it was because of Xu Meng that he showed it He had no more thoughts about strength. Even one of his subordinates was so powerful. So what kind of heavyweight should Fox Thirteen be? He began to believe that maybe the Santai guerrilla column could really withstand this round of offensive. The mentality was different. His thoughts were completely different. He glanced at the guerrillas on the front line and found that they were still motionless under the Eight Immortals table. He said anxiously: "Why haven't they fired? The Japanese soldiers are not good at shooting. They are too close." It’s not easy to fight.”
Xu Mengcai smiled slightly and said: "Don't worry, they are there." He said it easily, but Xu Mengcai felt uncomfortable in his heart. The Japanese troops were divided into two groups and attacked from the port and Bawu respectively. This made the Santai guerrilla column seem to be stretched thin. , Of course, if Hu Shisan can be determined to abandon some outlying towns, he can also organize superior forces to fight decisive battles with the Japs at certain strategic points. However, Hu Shisan's personality determines that he will never do this. When the senior officials of the Santai Guerrilla Column were discussing how to deal with this war, someone once proposed this idea, but Fox Thirteen blocked this possibility with one sentence: The Commander-in-Chief once said that our student army is the people's army. Soldiers of the people, what are the soldiers of the people? Protect our people like we protect our families...
Based on this idea, in order to ensure that the peripheral people are evacuated to large towns with certain defensive capabilities, it has become indispensable for the Santai guerrilla column to continue to consume the Japanese troops by holding on to some strategically important peripheral towns on the Japanese offensive route. Means, and in the order issued by Hu Shisan to Xu Mengcai, he specifically mentioned that no matter what method Xu Mengcai used or how much sacrifice he made, he could not release the Japanese troops on the western front to Taixing and Taizhou until he had solved the Japanese army in Bawei. near,
In order to complete this task, Xu Mengcai divided the towns and strongholds on the Japanese offensive route on the Western Front into first, second and third levels. The first level must hold for one day, the second level must hold for half a day, and the third level depends on the situation. Among them, the port and wharf It is a first-class defensive location. Here, he has arranged a team of nearly 500 people, of which more than 300 people will arrive one after another. With 500 people against ten thousand and several thousand Japanese and puppet troops, there will be more Holding on for a whole day and night sounds like a fantasy, but Xu Mengcai has no other choice. Based on his understanding of the strength of both the enemy and ourselves, in fact, for the defense battle of the port and wharf, his bottom line is to fight to the last man.
The heavy machine gun in the bunker misfired again. Geng Waliang clenched his teeth and wiped his sweaty right hand on his trouser leg. He still did not issue a fire order. Geng Waliang was the squadron leader of the Languanhe Guerrilla Squadron and had a group of people under his command. There are more than a hundred people, but at this moment there are only about twenty people around him.
"Eighty meters." Beside him, his deputy Geng Warong whispered hoarsely,
When he said these words, Geng Waliang clearly heard the heavy breathing of his brothers beside him. He could understand the nervousness of his brothers. Since joining the Santai Guerrilla Column, they have fought many battles with the Japs, but on such a scale as today But it was definitely the first time. There was still a gap between the local garrison troops and the combat troops of the Japanese army. If nothing else, he could understand that the machine gunners in the bunker had changed twice now.
He was actually very nervous, but he was the leader, and his reason and responsibility allowed him to restrain his nervousness. "What's so scary about little devils? Think about how the commander massacred them in Shanghai. He fired hundreds of practice bullets a week. This This kind of treatment is not given to direct members of the Central Military Army. Brothers, believe in yourselves, we are the strongest guerrillas." He said sonorously and forcefully, his tone gradually filled with pride,
"The strongest guerrillas", this is a sentence that Hu Shisan often talks about. At the beginning, Geng Waliang also had doubts, but as they defeated the Japanese army in Santai several times in a row, For the garrison troops in the area, this concept gradually turned into a huge sense of honor that was blended with blood, making them begin to believe that they were indeed the strongest guerrillas in China.
"Fifty meters." Geng Warong's voice became a little trembling, but Geng Warong didn't let him endure the torture anymore. He pulled the trigger with his right hand and shouted: "Hit."
On the opposite side, the ruins of the wall were getting closer and closer. Yamashita Harukawa seemed to see victory waving to him, and behind him, Sasaki Gosan waved his sword forward and shouted the order "All-Army Attack". More than a thousand Japanese soldiers started to move, and on their left, the Peace Army also began to run in crazily amidst the officers' orders to "charge me." But they had just started, and suddenly there was an empty sandbag behind them. There are about ten quilts. Under the quilts are the shining muzzles of guns. Behind the muzzles are pairs of eyes shining with the desire to win.
The gunshots rang out like explosions. There were more than 20 Wei Qing-style assault rifles and submachine guns, but the bullets they fired were continuous and fan-shaped. The Japanese soldiers who were charging at the front had just stopped. The body wanted to aim and shoot, but after being shot, the body was torn apart by the huge pain and lost all feeling. The Peace Army was much less courageous than the Japanese army. They kept their ears open all the time. Only when the gunfire from the opposite side rang out, they headed Lying on the ground, many fewer people were killed in an instant than the Japanese soldiers.
"Hold on, charging forward will be the end of the China people." Yamashita half-bowed and raised his command sword and shouted. Suddenly, he felt a strong force hitting his chest. His heart hurt and he fell to the ground, dying.
Several tongues of fire suddenly shot out from the west wall of the warehouse that Xu Mengcai and Xiang Shaomin had climbed over just now. Several officers of the Japanese and puppet army fell down in response. Sasaki Gosan saw it from behind and couldn't help shouting in anger: " Artillery, artillery.”
Once the puppet soldiers were lying on the ground, they refused to raise their heads and just raised their guns high and squeezed the triggers. The puppet army officers did urge them to rush forward, but the charge orders issued by them lying on the ground seemed to seriously lack credibility, so the puppet soldiers The offensive position was huge but without any substantial progress.
On the other hand, although the Japanese army fell down, their charge did not stop. Of course, under the continuous blows of Wei Qing-style automatic weapons, their charge was more like sending death. Finally, when more than thirty people died in a row, After injuring more than 20 people, the Japanese soldiers turned around and ran away, not caring whether this would damage the face of the imperial army.