I fought guerrilla warfare in the Yimeng Mountains during the Anti-Japanese War

On Mount Mengshan, the wounded gradually recovered. They could not wait any longer and waited anxiously for Liu Caiyun to release them every day. They heard from their brothers that the fighting was so exciting, with machine guns sweeping and artillery shells bombing. The Japanese had no way to resist and lined up to be slaughtered.

More than a hundred lightly wounded soldiers had already participated in the training. If Liu Caiyun had not strictly prohibited it, some seriously wounded soldiers would have removed their own bandages.

The morale of the team was very good, and tunnel construction and training were not delayed. People who had passed layers of assessment joined in one after another, all of them were aiming for the Cold Gun and Lone Wolf Commando. Chen Feng eliminated some half-grown children who were not very knowledgeable and only kept the elites who could fight the Japanese.

The guard platoon is about to become a guard company, and Chen Feng will still lead the training personally. During training, they will occasionally go to Menglianggu to take a look at the construction there.

Shen Honglie was very ambitious, with a large number of soldiers and generals, and cement was transported from Yishui in a steady stream. He completely copied the tunnel model of Guimengding, and the construction was very rapid.

The people on the mountain announced that they were the Luzhong Guerrillas, and they went to the countryside to buy food every day. The name of the Luzhong Guerrillas gradually spread.

The Japanese army seemed to have forgotten that there was a mortal enemy on Mount Meng. The devils in Pingmeng and Mengshan were hiding in the county town and had been captured many times by the Yimeng guerrillas. Now they would not even let out a spy.

The two squadron leaders knew very well that there were spies everywhere in the city and any slight movement could result in a fatal blow. Now they could only hope that the Yimeng guerrillas had no intentions of attacking them, otherwise, with only one squadron, they would not be able to defend the county.

The purpose of Chen Feng's invention of the coded telegram was to attract the Japanese army to attack, but he didn't expect that they would ignore it and the plan failed. Everyone was disappointed. The valley below the waterfall was seventy or eighty meters deep. Every time a corpse was laid out, the cliff would be blown up. When it just reached a height of five or six meters, there was no movement. Chen Feng felt it was a pity every time he passed by the valley.

Unable to bear it any longer, Chen Feng decided to take action and asked Shen Honglie to attack the county town together. However, Brother Shen was not interested at all and just kept tinkering with the tunnels.

On September 9, Chen Feng decided to deal with the Pingyi defenders first. He only dispatched one company and a guard platoon, a team of nearly two hundred people, and marched into Pingyi City in a swagger. The Japanese army was hiding in the barracks and warehouses, unaware of the arrival of the Yimeng guerrillas. The guerrillas were well aware of the Japanese layout, and when the encirclement was over, the guerrillas opened fire at vital points. Twelve mortars were arranged in two teams, carrying out a saturation attack on the Japanese barracks and warehouses.

Hundreds of Japanese soldiers trembled in fear amid the explosions. The devil had come. It was over. It was all over! The Japanese squadron leader organized two counterattacks, but before he could set up his machine gun, he was targeted by a guerrilla sniper. The bombardment continued, but no Japanese soldier dared to show his head.

After the shelling ended, the guerrillas began to advance step by step, using grenades to clear the way. They blew up all the blind spots and suspicious locations. When all the Japanese troops retreated to the barracks, the guerrillas set up light and heavy machine guns on high ground, and the sound of the machine guns sounded the clarion call for slaughter.

The Japanese army knew that guerrillas generally did not want prisoners of war. No one surrendered and few people resisted. Ever since the destruction of the Iwai Tiger Brigade, they had been thinking of this day. The more than 100 Japanese soldiers who survived the bombardment seemed to have completely lost their souls. Their squadron leader had committed disembowelment after the bombardment ended, and before he died, he sent a farewell telegram to Mengyin and the Expeditionary Force Headquarters.

After the machine gun fire, there was another wave of grenades, which blew up all the houses in the barracks. There were seven or eight grenades in each of the more than ten rooms. The explosions stopped and there was no movement in the rooms of the barracks.

All that was left was to clean up the battlefield. There was nothing valuable, so the food in the warehouses was directly distributed to the nearby residents. Those weapons and ammunition that could be taken back were taken back, and those that could not be taken were just left there. There would always be someone who needed them.

Captain Ningbo felt that it was not easy to capture a county town, and he wanted to stay in Pingyi City for a few days:

"Captain, how many people do you think should be kept?"

"What people should be kept? Who said we should keep people?"

There are still some people in Ningbo who refuse to give up their positions and think that they will die if they fail to succeed:

"Captain, this is a county town! Are we going to throw it to Japan right after we capture it? Isn't that a pity?"

"Captain Ning, don't be so stingy. It's just a county town. The purpose of establishing a guerrilla force is to consume the Japanese army's manpower and tie down its manpower, not to occupy the city and actively defend it. Go back and think carefully about the gains and losses of occupying the county town, and make a written report and give it to me before dinner tomorrow."

Ningbo wanted to slap himself in the face. Whenever the captain asked someone to report, it meant that this person had problems with his ideological awareness.

The last person to submit a report was Ren Feiliu from the third platoon of the second company. As he was reluctant to attack the wounded Japanese soldiers, Chen Feng found many soldiers whose families or comrades had been harmed by the Japanese army. A group of people took turns giving Ren Feiliu ideological lessons. The soldiers talked for a whole day, and Ren Feiliu cried for a whole day. A grown man wrote an ideological report with tears and snot all night long. He reviewed it in front of everyone the next morning, and if he had any inappropriate thoughts again, he would chop himself off first.

The team had packed up and was preparing to go on to capture Mengyin City, when Pingyi's spy suddenly reported:

"Captain, there is an urgent telegram from Mengyin that all the garrison soldiers of a squadron in Mengyin City have evacuated, taking only weapons and ammunition, and heading from the west of the county town towards Xintai."

Well, there is no need to make another trip. The Japanese army here must have sent a telegram over there. If I had known earlier, the two counties would have attacked together. Chen Feng was somewhat bored and waved to Ningbo Company 1 and the guard platoon:

"Deal with the Japanese soldiers' bodies and withdraw along the original route"!

The Japanese army gave up two county towns, knowing that if they had too few people, they would be like sending food, and if they had too many people, they would not be able to move around. Bin Shanyuan now only wanted the Battle of Wuhan to end quickly so that he could free up his hands to deal with the Yimeng guerrillas.

The guerrillas resumed their surreptitious life, and their spies were already spread throughout nearby cities, so there was no need to worry about sneak attacks by the Japanese.

Only one company was required to be stationed on the mountain, and the rest of the troops were rotated out to steal chickens. They went south to Linyi, west to Teng County, north to Zibo, and east to Zhucheng. The Yimeng guerrillas' influence was getting wider and wider. Even so, the Japanese army did not respond.

On the top of Mount Mengshan, the guerrillas were holding a combat meeting to discuss the next strategy. The more the Japanese troops didn't want to come, the more they had to find ways to force them to come.

"Second Captain, please report on the situation of the Jinpu Railway."

Wu Tianxiang stands at attention:

"Captain, after a week of continuous reconnaissance, my company has basically become familiar with the railway conditions from Zou County to Teng County, and has fully grasped the patrol time of the Japanese army and the distribution of troops in each stronghold. From Zou County to Teng County, there are 36 Japanese strongholds of varying sizes, with varying troop strengths. The largest stronghold has two squads of Japanese troops and one company of puppet troops stationed there. The smallest stronghold has only one squad of Japanese troops and one squad of puppet troops. This report is complete!"

"Okay! The guard platoon and the wounded soldiers will stay at home, and the three companies will be ready to set off in the evening. They will only carry conventional weapons and grenade launchers, and enter the north of Teng County to launch an attack in the early morning. I want to pull out these thirty-six front teeth first."