Independence Corps

Chapter 25 Bloody Battle (1)
The good show of beating the Japanese invaders was staged for three consecutive days, and the situation changed.Early in the morning of the fourth day, when the sun was just setting in, a larger Japanese attack began.

Sasaki put on a posture, as if to swallow Shen Mengzi and the others in one gulp.

Originally, Fang Jinwen, the commander of the Fourth Battalion, fought well two days ago. Not only did they repel Sasaki's six attacks in a row, but they also took advantage of the enemy's sleep at night. The Fourth, Fifth, and Seventh Battalions each sent two companies to attack by surprise The attack on the task force's camp was launched from three directions, and the battle was really amazing.Not long after the tired little devil fell asleep, except for a battalion of vigilance left outside, the other devils were all asleep.The secret service team rushing to the front strangled more than 20 little devils without anyone noticing. If Xiaomi Tang, a soldier from the Fifth Battalion, was not too impatient and rang the submachine gun in his hand, the secret service team could have killed at least 20 little devils. indivual.It's a pity that Xiaomi Tang's gunshots woke up the devils, and the devil soldiers who were sleeping with guns immediately counterattacked, and the two sides exchanged fire at close range.

With hand-to-hand combat and bloody battles, the two sides fought a battle in the Japanese camp.The six companies sent out were bloody men, taking advantage of the little devil's sleepy eyes and blindfolded eyes before he fully woke up, they killed hundreds of meters in one go.The dead bodies of devils were everywhere, and the soldiers of the 72nd regiment also suffered casualties, but overall, this was a sneak attack that relieved hatred.It was not until three o'clock in the morning that the soldiers of the six companies returned victoriously.

This sneak attack completely angered Sasaki. Since entering the Chinese territory three years ago, Sasaki and his task force have never suffered such humiliation. It can be said that he has been triumphant all the way, with frequent success reports.In Sasaki's view, all the Chinese troops were vulnerable, especially the regular army. The only thing that made him feel scared was the Communist Party's guerrillas.They fought indiscriminately, and were often elusive.But Shen Mengzi is not a guerrilla, and the 72nd Regiment deployed in Luanshigangzi is still a garbage team, so Sasaki can sleep peacefully.But when he woke up, Sasaki heard that his camp had been attacked by "Chinese people". He pushed the two geisha in his arms away, and called out as if being stabbed: "Shen Mengzi, you are dead!" Understand!"

Sasaki's counterattack this time was fatal. The 72nd Regiment was still immersed in the joy of the sneak attack, when they heard the roar of the air, followed by dense shells hitting the rocky hillock.Sasaki mobilized all the mountain cannons of the task force, plus two gravity cannons, aimed at Fang Jinwen and the others and blasted wildly.

In just 5 minutes, the forward position was bombed beyond recognition. At first, the brothers could hide with the help of a bunker, but soon, the bunker was overturned.The machine gunner lying in front had an arm blown off, and Sanwazi next to Fang Jinwen had two legs blown off.

"Cannon, cannon, cannon, shoot back!" Fang Jinwen didn't expect Sasaki's counterattack to be so fast, and while directing the artillery behind the grove to fight back, he shouted for his brothers to hold back.But the firepower of the mortars of the fourth battalion was too small, and they were child's play in front of Sasaki's mountain artillery and heavy artillery.It took less than 5 minutes to fight back, the small forest and the flat ground behind where the artillery was deployed were blown up by the devil's artillery fire, the trees were uprooted, the mortars flew into the sky, and the artillerymen scattered with their heads in their arms.

"Battalion Commander, I can't stand it anymore, retreat quickly." The clever Xiaomi Tang ran over and shouted at Fang Jinwen.

"The leader hasn't spoken yet, whoever dares to withdraw, I'll kill him!"

"Battalion Commander, if you don't withdraw, you will die!" Just as Xiaomitang finished speaking, a shell fell less than three meters away from him.The little guy's body is really dexterous, and he jumped more than one meter in a single diving jump. Fang Jinwen also jumped up at the same time, and when he landed, he firmly protected Xiaomi Tang with his body.It was also God's blessing that the place where they fell happened to be a bomb crater, and the two of them only saved their lives.When he climbed up from the mud again, he saw two more corpses of his brothers where he had just stood.

"Battalion Commander... let's get out." Xiaomi Tang almost begged.

Fang Jinwen was still hesitating, but at this moment, Shen Mengzi ran over with a cannon fodder on his head.

"Why don't you withdraw?"

"Without an order, the Fourth Battalion dare not withdraw." Fang Jinwen replied truthfully.

"At this time, you are still waiting for orders, wood, are you?" Shen Mengzi glared at Fang Jinwen angrily. It was also hit by heavy artillery.Now the fifth battalion and the seventh battalion have been safely evacuated. Except for the injury of two soldiers, there is no major loss.He didn't expect Fang Jinwen, the commander of the Fourth Battalion, to be so stupid. He obviously couldn't stand it.
"What are you still doing in a daze, withdraw immediately!"

With Shen Mengzi's order, the brothers of the fourth battalion and several companies withdrew from the second line of defense and retreated to the third line of defense where the artillery fire could not reach.

Before he could catch his breath, the enemy's onslaught began. Sasaki's contingent dispatched almost all of its troops, and rushed towards Luanshigangzi in three directions.Shen Mengzi signaled everyone to take it easy and wait for the enemy to get closer before fighting.With artillery fire, the devils had a complete advantage. The 72nd regiment was no match for the devils, but the little devils were obviously a bit weaker in positional warfare.Shen Mengzi quickly adjusted his line of defense before the devil touched the space in front of him.He led two companies of the Fourth Battalion to stand on the front. Battalion Commander Fang Jinwen led the two companies to the left. The line of defense advanced 500 meters, more than 100 meters away from the place where the artillery fire hit just now.The battalion deputy led the rest of the people to the right flank to deal with the enemy attacking from the pass.As soon as the new line of defense was laid, the enemy arrived at the second line of defense just now.Shen Mengzi shouted: "Hit me hard!" Gunshots rang out from three directions at the same time.

The rapid change of formation worked. As soon as the machine guns fired from three directions, the devils fell into chaos. The infantry walking in front fired while looking for a place to hide.Shen Mengzi saw the timing, snatched the machine gun from the machine gunner, aimed at the devils and swept them wildly, and the devils in front fell down in response.When the little devil's machine gunner found a good position to fight back, Fang Jinwen's firepower from the left came up again.After Fang Jinwen knocked out the three machine gunners of the devils in a row, he jumped behind a boulder, and under the cover of the boulder, he punched the second wave of devils who rushed up.

The devil soldiers were also crazy. They were unwilling to be beaten again and again, and they were even more unwilling to retreat again and again. Besides, Sasaki behind did not allow them to retreat, and the battle soon became intense.

Shen Mengzi gathered several machine gunners around him to form a powerful line of firepower, tightly sealed the passage in front of him, and forced the little devils to the two sides, so that the firepower on both sides could easily deal with them.The Japanese devils were also unambiguous, and set up two heavy machine guns on a small hill on one side of the mountain ridge, desperately suppressing Shen Mengzi's firepower, so as to cover the Japanese army on the hillside rushing up.

The two sides shot at each other, and each other's shouts and roars rang out.More than a dozen soldiers from the fourth battalion fell down. A machine gunner was shot through the head, his eyeballs did not move, and the machine gun in his hand was still spraying roaring bullets.Xiaomi Tang, who had never touched a machine gun, ran over and took over the position of the machine gunner.But he fiddled with it for a long time and it still didn't start, he shouted anxiously: "Commander, why doesn't it listen to you!" After sweeping down more than a dozen devils who rushed in front of him, he himself was shot, his head tilted, and he fell into the trench.

Seeing that the opponent's firepower was about to overwhelm the Fourth Battalion, Shen Mengzi yelled at the Fifth Company Commander beside him: "Take a few people to touch it and kill those two machine guns for me."

Company Commander Zhong flew out of the trench in response, and Xiaomi Tang also jumped out of the trench. This kid was very active, and he had no fear of the artillery fire. He was carrying a long gun, and Mao'er followed Company Commander Zhong at his waist.

"Millet soup, come back!" Shen Mengzi felt sorry for this little guy, he was only 16 years old, and he was picked up by Shen Mengzi halfway before the 72 regiment was incorporated.

"Regimental Commander, don't worry, I will definitely kill that Guokui." Xiaomitang was talking, and he had already jumped in front of Company Commander Zhong.

"Fire cover!" Shen Mengzi shouted, jumped out of the trench, and opened fire on the devils who rushed more than 50 meters away from him.

Millet Soup is just Millet Soup. Don’t think he’s been in the army for a short time, and he hasn’t been through any major battlefields, but this kid is naturally bold, with a careful heart and a more dexterous body. With the cover of trees and grass on the mountain, he can jump three times and two times. , and jumped to the right of the small soil bag.He carefully climbed up the dirt bag.Seeing that the devil in the helmet was concentrating on it, Xiaomitang thought for a while, no, he rushed forward, and as soon as the little devil dropped his gun, he would become a meatloaf.So I slid down again and made a circle. The back of the dirt bag happened to be a blind spot, and there were no devils.Xiaomi soup touched the soil bag calmly, and said "hey" to the devil's machine gunner. As soon as the devil, whom he called the big pot helmet, turned his head, the gun in his hand went off.Another devil wanted to turn his gun when he heard the sound, and Company Commander Zhong who touched him ended him with a single shot.Company Commander Zhong had lifted the heavy machine gun from the devil's hand, and was about to lay down the earth bag. Xiaomi Tang said "hey" again: "Company Commander, it's better to fight here!"

One sentence reminded Company Commander Zhong, he quickly lay down, re-armed the machine gun, aimed at the devils under the dirt bag, and started sweeping.Strange to say, Xiaomi Tang took a look at Company Commander Zhong's movements, imitated a strike, and fired the machine gun.

"Haha, the devil's stuff is just so useful!" he shouted excitedly.

The devil under the soil bag was rushing up with all his strength, but he didn't expect to be shot in the back, and for some reason, he fell down again.Company Commander Zhong didn't dare to fight violently, so he took advantage of the time when the devil was retreating, pulled Xiaomi Tang over, and retreated while fighting.Shen Mengzi had already rushed out of the trench to cover them.Under the frantic strafing of several machine guns, the devil's attack was repulsed again.

Taking advantage of the devil's adjustment, Shen Mengzi ordered the artillery to deploy the artillery again.Although there are only a few guns left, they can still come in handy.You can't let the little devil blow up and retreat steadily, and if you retreat again, Luanshigangzi will be lost.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the Sixth Battalion who stayed at Huajialing suddenly sent a messenger: "Regimental Commander, it's not good, there are thousands of devils found in Hongshuigou."

"What?" Shen Mengzi was shocked, how could there be ghosts in the Red Shuigou?

Hongshuigou did find devils!

When Shen Mengzi rushed there, Lao Luan and the Sixth Battalion had already set up defenses at the foot of Qi Nu Peak.The old nonsense said that the devil was discovered by the four eyes.At 312:312 in the morning, Lao Luan received an urgent telegram from the 12th Brigade, saying that in the Battle of Baishuihe, the 312th Brigade wiped out more than 312 enemies, destroyed two enemy tanks and 72 mountain artillery pieces, and dealt a powerful blow to the invading enemy.Now the [-] brigade is still fighting a bloody battle with the Izawa three-day brigade.Another small group of enemies broke through the defense line of the [-]th Brigade and invaded the Miliang mountainous area. The [-]nd Regiment was required to monitor closely.

Shen Mengzi didn't say a word after listening, he turned his head and looked into his four eyes: "How many devils came from the Baishui River?"

"Reporting to the leader, it is the second unit under Izawa Sanka, and the leader of the unit is called Benzida." Four eyes straightened his legs and said.

"A coalition?" Shen Mengzi was a little disbelieving, and stared at Lao Luan suspiciously at the same time.

"A complete alliance." Lao Luan answered.

Shen Mengzi understood that the 312 brigade had lied.Either, they didn't fight the little devil at all; or, they just lost the battle.Otherwise, how could a coalition completely turn around from Baishui River and run to Miliang Mountain?His heart suddenly became heavier.It seemed that the devil had really set his sights on Miliangshan, a land of good geomantic omen, so the frontal attack didn't count, and he stabbed in from the side.And he believed that Benzida's Second Wing was just an advance force, just like Sasaki, behind it, it was likely to be the 56th Division of the Japanese Army!

Shen Mengzi took the binoculars from Lao Luan, and looked at the northern part of Hongshuigou.Hongshuigou meanders endlessly, like a long snake, zigzags through the heart of Miliang Mountain, and goes to Baishui River.This ditch was originally very mysterious, and even the locals seldom used it, but the Japanese army moved towards it. It seems that Commander Miyata is very familiar with the terrain in this area.For some reason, he suddenly thought of someone, it was him, it must be him!Masao Kurano!Only he can provide such a secret passage to Miyata!
Bai Jianjiang, you will have a good show this time!Shen Mengzi thought so, stepped on a rock in front of him, and looked towards the chaotic rocks at the bottom of the ditch.No one knows that there is an extremely secret story between Bai Jianjiang, the deputy head of the regiment, and Masao Kurano, the Japanese translator.

In the shadows, Shen Mengzi saw figures swaying at the bottom of the ditch. Based on his feeling, he judged that there were more than 3000 enemies.It is difficult to deal with more than 3000 devils with one battalion!Moreover, the equipment of the 56th Division is notorious. In addition to heavy artillery and tanks, each wing is equipped with a heavy machine gun team and three artillery platoons.Even if the tanks can't drive, the heavy machine guns and artillery platoon are enough for them.Shen Mengzi didn't dare to say these things, for fear of affecting the emotions of his brothers, but he still couldn't help saying to Lao Luan: "This battle is not easy to fight."

Lao Luan seemed to be more confident than him. Seeing him worrying, he chuckled and said, "Don't be afraid, with this terrain, the little devil will never be able to take advantage of it. Besides, the little devil is not only facing us, there are people waiting."

"What do you mean?" Shen Mengzi put away his binoculars and stared at Lao Luan in confusion.

The old gangster smiled wickedly: "Master, look over there."

Following the direction that Lao Luan pointed, Shen Mengzi looked towards the west of the ditch, and his eyes lit up immediately.On the west side of the ditch facing them, among the rocky cliffs, a bright red bloomed brightly.His heart was beating wildly, he didn't need to look closely, the blush must be her.Shen Mengzi still couldn't help raising the binoculars, it was her, it really was her!His heart was pounding, his cheeks were hot, his throat was itchy, and he wished he could yell beautifully in that direction.But he held back, holding the binoculars in both hands, and staring at it foolishly.

Lao Luan's smile became more and more treacherous, and the four eyes standing on the side also grinned maliciously. He knew Shen Mengzi's thoughts that when he met Liu Mi'er in Shennv Peak, it was because he accidentally lost his way that caused him to lose his way. That dramatic meeting.As for the matchmaker, he is the matchmaker.Xiaomi soup stared at them blankly, not understanding what they were winking at.After a long time, he also saw the blush, and suddenly understood in his heart, and smiled ghostly at Shen Mengzi: "Head, you and her..."

"Shut your mouth!" Shen Mengzi suddenly put down his binoculars, and gave Xiaomi Tang a vicious look.So Shen Mengzi was worried about bringing millet soup.This kid, he doesn't care about life or death when fighting, and he will go where there is a gap. If he doesn't do it well, he won't know when his life will be lost.Other people's lives can be lost, but Xiaomi Tang's life cannot be lost.Shen Mengzi promised him that when Little Japan was driven out of China, he would take him to his hometown to find his mother.

Xiaomi Tang stuck out her tongue and ran away.Then Shen Mengzi withdrew his thoughts from the blush, and said to Lao Luan: "It's getting late, brothers, hurry up and eat something. In an hour, the little devil will be at the bottom of the cliff. By then, his eyes will be bright." .”

Lao Luan ordered to rest on the spot and deploy defenses in half an hour.

The cold water was dry food, chewed a few mouthfuls, Lao Luan couldn't stand it anymore, and asked tentatively: "Hey, boss, how do you think she knew the little devil was coming?"

"Nonsense, the cannons moved the mountains, can't she hear it?"

Lao Luan chuckled: "I'm talking about those bastards in Hongshuigou."

"You have four eyes, so doesn't she have ears?"

"The head of the family, I can make it clear, and she can't take credit from me when the time comes."

"There is nothing to say, nothing to say, eat your dry food with peace of mind!" After Shen Mengzi finished choking, he couldn't help looking at the ditch again.Strangely, the red was gone.He stood up abruptly, raised the binoculars, and scanned for a long time, but he couldn't find the red shadow dancing in his heart.It was still there just now, in the blink of an eye, where did it go?
Later he found out that Liu Mi'er had gone to Yingzuizi with her red powder ball.Yingzuizi is where he and Liu Mier met.On that sunny day in the twelfth lunar month, Shen Mengzi burrowed into a cave. He thought it was one of the eighteen caves of Qinvfeng, but he walked in the dark for an hour. .Later, he realized that he had been fooled by the mountain. The cave looked mysterious, but it was a dead cave.If the Eighteen Caves could be found so easily for him, it wouldn't be called the Eighteen Caves of Qi Nu Peak.When he came to his senses and wanted to get out of the cave, he realized that the cave was somewhat famous, it was easy to get in and difficult to get out.Shen Mengzi called the name of Four Eyes while touching outside. The more he touched, the more he felt that it was different from when he came in. When he came in, the hole was not so cold and there was not so much humidity, but when he went out, the humidity made him shiver. , the body couldn't help curling up together.After less than thirty steps, Shen Mengzi slipped and fell into a trap.The trap was more than ten meters deep. Shen Mengzi thought he would fall to his death, but after falling for a long time, he found that he was still alive. Under the trap was a pile of wet vegetation and rotten grass. His leg hit a sharp stone, and he almost died. broken.He struggled in the trap for a long time, and unexpectedly found an exit.Following that exit, he crawled for more than half an hour, and finally saw a bright star.Shen Mengzi thought to himself that there was hope, the bright spot was the exit, his energy was greatly boosted, and he climbed up another ten meters in one go.Sure enough, I saw an exit the size of a rabbit hole.Shen Mengzi took out the bayonet he was carrying, and dug it knife by knife, and finally dug the hole enough for a person to get out.Unexpectedly, when he got out excitedly, a pair of shiny riding boots lay in front of his eyes. Looking up along the riding boots, Shen Mengzi first saw two women's legs, and then he said "Mom".

Wearing riding boots and a neat Kuomintang military uniform, she turned out to be a pretty woman.

Just as he was amazed, a woman's voice came.Holding a riding whip in her hand, the woman said condescendingly, "The head of the dignified 72nd regiment actually got out of the hole like a mouse. I thought there was a wild boar in the hole."

Shen Mengzi stood up, feeling his body shaking, but he held on with difficulty: "Who are you talking about?"

"Who else is there? If I guess correctly, you are the head of Huajialing University." The woman's voice was both arrogant and domineering, and Shen Mengzi was very uncomfortable hearing it.

"Then who are you?" he asked back.

(End of this chapter)