The two gunboats of the Shinoda Regiment were all destroyed, and Oka Katsu's forward troops suffered heavy losses. Including Oka Katsu, about a hundred Japanese were killed in the explosion, and there were more than two hundred Japanese struggling in the water at the moment.
Their cries for help and the sound of gunfire together formed the main theme on the river at this moment. Flying
In addition, the captains of the Shinoda Regiment shouted hoarsely from their respective boats: "Ba Ge, drive over! Rescue people quickly!"
"There, I saw it, kill it!"
"Boom!" Another floating raft exploded, and a motorboat was unprepared to be affected by the fireball and water column. The two machine gunners on the bow flew into the sky wailing, and then fell into the water with claws and claws...
As a reminder of the explosion, Shinoda rushed to the telecommunications room, picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted loudly: "Attention everyone, postpone the attack, save people first! Major Nomura, I order you to use machine guns to clear booby traps - what are booby traps?"
Ba Ge, if you see those floating rafts, they are booby traps!"
After being hit by more than a dozen earth mines, the Japs finally woke up and started shooting at the floating rafts, hoping to detonate them. However, what frustrated the Japs was that the explosives on the rafts were not wrapped outside.
What, from a distance of thirty to fifty meters, even if they fired with Type 92 heavy machine guns, they couldn't detonate it.
When the Japanese soldiers discovered the mystery of the rafts and started firing with machine guns, all the guerrillas, including Fox Shisan, tightened their nerves, fearing that their carefully crafted earth and water mines would not be able to withstand such a level of shooting and would detonate.
Minutes later, they found that the rafts were motionless under the dense rain of bullets, and everyone was relieved. Someone said: "I didn't expect that this little quilt could have such an effect."
Using cotton quilts and plastic paper to wrap explosive packets was a joint effort of the Santai guerrilla column to waterproof and enhance the power of the explosion. Now it actually has a bulletproof effect. Hu Shisan thought for a while, crawled over and asked the commander of the Taixing guerrilla brigade.
Captain Rushen: "Are there any quilts left?"
“There are three more beds!”
"Give them to Chang Xin!"
There are three groups that control the pull-type earth mines. Wang Yougen and others are responsible for the area near Jiangxinzhou, while Chang Xinan and others are responsible for the area to the west between the main channels. In the battle just now, Wang Yougen's group paid three
At the cost of casualties to the team members, fourteen mines were successfully detonated, and the results were quite fruitful. Now, the soil mines fired by the Japanese machine guns mainly belonged to the Chang Xinan group. Fox Shisan expected that the little Japs were there.
If using a machine gun to detonate soil mines fails, other methods will definitely be used to limit the effectiveness of these soil mines, so it is decided to use water-soaked quilts to strengthen the defense of Chang Xinan and others, so that they can be as stubborn as nails.
Nailed in the fighting position.
The Type 92 heavy machine gun actually couldn't detonate the explosives on the rafts. Shinoda was extremely angry and a little confused. And just when he was thinking hard about countermeasures, Kawabe Shozo called again and asked why he hadn't done it yet.
Progress was made. In the telegram, the old Japanese asked: "Is our support operation actually going to be destroyed by the Chinese guerrillas?" This may not seem serious, but considering that once the support operation is delayed due to this impact, then
The relevant personnel must be held accountable, and sweat began to pour from Shinoda's forehead.
The little devil scanned for a week and found that there were soldiers swimming towards the surrounding ships in the waters where the explosion had just occurred. He quickly came up with a plan and ordered the formation of the water ghost team, saying that since the machine guns could not detonate those booby traps, then use manpower
Destroy them.
Shinoda's strategy was quite targeted, but it failed to be implemented to the end. Chang Xinan and others soon discovered the little devil's intention, so after detonating two earth and mines, he reported to Fox Thirteen: "Commander
, the little devil sent people into the water to destroy it, let us go into the water to fight against the little devil!"
Among the Santai people who live on the banks of the Yangtze River, seven out of ten are proficient in water-based skills. As soon as he finished speaking, a cry for battle suddenly sounded from the surrounding area.
Fox Thirteen had also noticed this situation, and he had no better way, so he asked Chang Xinan to be the captain and select a group of people with good water properties to deal with these little devils.
It was the end of August, and it was the flood season, so the water in the Yangtze River Delta was still very fast. Chang Xinan and others paid close attention to the earth and mines they controlled, and only found that Japanese soldiers were approaching and wanted to cause damage, but they did not see the previous ones.
Some Japanese were washed away immediately after entering the water, so they did not notice that the Japanese near the mines had a rope tied around their waists.
The guerrillas he picked were all "white stripes in the waves". Unlike the little devils who walked cautiously on thin ice and approached the mines, they felt as if they were in their own fish pond after entering the water. Several deep dives appeared not far from these devils.
Chang Xinan got out of the water and saw a rope tied behind the Japs in front of him. He immediately became happy. He thought to himself: *Little Japs, grandpa can't do anything to you on the boat. When you get here, you can be punished as you please.
You? For the convenience of movement, all of them only wore a pair of underpants. Taking out the dagger in his mouth, he first cut the rope around the devil's waist, then dived down, caught one of the devil's feet and gave it a hard blow.
Pull, immediately, the Japs holding the rope on the boat dozens of meters away felt their hands loosen, and they were wondering what happened. The next moment, the Japs in the circle of searchlights suddenly screamed, and the next moment they submerged under the water, and then disappeared.
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The Japs didn't know what happened, and they were in an uproar. Just as they were speculating about what happened, more Japs were dragged into the water one after another. At this time, some well-informed Japs exclaimed: "It's not good.
, there are ghosts, there are water ghosts!”
The little devils are generally superstitious, and the disappearance of the members of the Water Ghost Team was really strange. This time, the uproar turned into a commotion. The devils who were waiting to go into the water clung to the railing, trembling all over and did not dare to go into the water.
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The situation was reflected to Shinoda. Although Shinoda was doubtful, he still ordered the water ghost team to continue the attack in order to open the channel smoothly. And just when a group of military police threw the devils from the water ghost team into the river with their hands and feet,
The daring Chang Xin'an couldn't bear the loneliness of the water, so he climbed onto the side of a sailboat and dragged a Japanese soldier into the water.
At this time, the sound of gunfire had stopped, so the sound of the Japanese enemy falling into the water and his screams became particularly harsh. The searchlights on several nearby ships flashed over instantly. The Japanese soldiers followed the sound and saw only the remaining remains of the water surface where the accident occurred.
A circle of ripples, even the bravest person could not help but gasp, thinking that he had encountered a ghost.
Now, the first reaction of the ghosts who were thrown into the water was not to approach the target, but to crawl towards the boat using both hands and feet. As they climbed, they shouted in a hissing voice: "Help me, ghost, there is a ghost!" It seemed as if there was a ghost!
It seemed as if there were some monsters pulling him under the water. Now, even the Japanese who stayed safely on the boat couldn't help but become suspicious, and their morale suddenly dropped to the lowest point.