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

On October 1938, 10, August 7 in the lunar calendar, Chen Feng and Shen Honglie formulated the task of attacking the county town. Tomorrow was the Mid-Autumn Festival, and regardless of whether the Japanese had a festival or not, they planned to send them back to their hometown.

The Yimeng guerrillas sent out two battalions and an artillery battalion, and the New Fourth Division sent out two regiments with eight infantry guns and thirty-two indirect fire guns. They marched towards the two counties of Pingyi and Mengyin separately. The first battalion of Ningbo and the cavalry regiment of Shen Honglie attacked Pingyi, and the second battalion of Wang Hanqiang and an infantry regiment of Shen Honglie attacked Mengyin.

The team arrived at the two county towns at ten o'clock in the evening. The Japanese army had retreated to defense. The defense of the city gates was silently eliminated in advance by the special forces who had infiltrated earlier. The artillery set up a position eight hundred meters away from the military camp. The Japanese army was still kept in the dark. The special forces eliminated the outer sentries. The Mengshan guerrillas and the troops of the New Fourth Division took the opportunity to surround the Japanese military camp and warehouses. All snipers were in place. Their task was to keep the Japanese light and heavy machine guns silent.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, the artillery opened fire.

boom! boom! boom!

Pass! Pass! Pass! Pass! Pass!

Four infantry guns and sixteen indirect-fire guns aimed at the area where the Japanese troops were and launched artillery fire. The violent explosions woke up all the Japanese troops:

"Enemy attack"!

"Anti-artillery"!

Yiwu Shinozuka hurriedly put on his pants and commanded the battle. The Japanese army opened fire in the face of the artillery fire. As soon as the light and heavy machine guns started to fire, they were silenced by the snipers who were lying in ambush. Two snipers aimed at the same shooting hole, and whoever went up would die.

The artillery had no intention of taking back the shells they brought out. After firing twenty rounds at high speed, another twenty rounds followed. When the infantry gun fired ten shells, each indirect-fire gun had already fired nearly fifty shells.

The infantry artillery fired at the Japanese army's heavy firepower positions. After several rounds of shelling, those heavy firepower points on high places were basically cleared out, and they continued to turn the artillery tower to bombard the military camp. All the special forces members had climbed onto the roof of the warehouse while clearing the heavy firepower. Their mission was to prevent the Japanese army from destroying the supplies in the warehouse.

Yiwu Xiaozuka and Lieutenant Colonel Sangye of Mengyin City were already ordering the signalmen to send a farewell telegram. There was no hope. All the heavy firepower had been destroyed, and the soldiers had suffered heavy casualties. They could not organize an effective attack at all, and could not even get out of the military camp gate. They would be sniped and killed if they showed their heads. They had thought that the Yimeng guerrillas would be quiet for a while after they had captured the stronghold last night, but they could not wait any longer. After sending the telegram, they ordered the signalmen to destroy the radio station and the secret telegram files. Yiwu Xiaozuka and Sangye then remembered to blow up the supplies, but there was no chance. No matter how many soldiers were sent to the warehouse, they would be ruthlessly killed by the prepared snipers.

The two Japanese commanders did not want to be destroyed in such a cowardly way, so they organized the remaining troops and started to break out under the artillery fire. They didn't know how many Chinese troops were surrounding them outside, but if there were few, there was still a glimmer of hope for a breakout. When hundreds of remaining soldiers rushed out of the barracks, the machine guns they had been waiting for sounded. Two Type 92 heavy machine guns and more than ten Type 99 light machine guns, and the bullets formed a dense blockade line, madly harvesting the Japanese troops who were breaking out. The last remaining troops were all shot to death. The Japanese commanders felt that there was no hope, and resigned themselves to their fate and ordered their men to be loyal to the emperor.

The artillery fired for fifteen minutes and all the shells were used up, but there were still countless explosions in the Japanese barracks. This group of Japanese soldiers was very crazy. No matter whether they were wounded or remaining soldiers, they gathered in groups of two or three, pulled out their grenades and surrounded the enemy together. Except for a few who were really afraid of death, the rest blew themselves into meat balls.

"Search forward, clear the battlefield, shoot in advance, and be careful of the Japanese who are pretending to be dead."

There was no shortage of bullets, so there was no need to save them. When they encountered a Japanese soldier lying down, they would shoot him a few times regardless of whether he was alive or dead. There were cowards who wanted to surrender timidly. Neither unit had the habit of taking prisoners, so they would kill them all with one shot.

It was not yet midnight and there was basically no gunfire. The team began to clean up the bodies and count the spoils. The spoils from Pingyi City went to the New Fourth Division, and the spoils from Mengyin City went to Mengshan. This was something the two chief officers had already discussed. Pingyi City had more small-caliber artillery, so Chen Feng was taking care of the New Fourth Division.

At two o'clock in the morning, the bodies had been dealt with and the spoils had been counted. Apart from the spoils of the New Fourth Division in Pingyi City, the spoils of the Yimeng Guerrillas in Mengyin City were also considerable.

Three intact Type 92 infantry guns and 200 rounds of ammunition.

There were eight intact indirect-fire guns and 350 shells.

Three Type 92 heavy machine guns.

Five Type 99 light machine guns.

Nine hundred Type 38 rifles.

Five hundred melon grenades.

There are about 60,000 bullets of various types.

50,000 kilograms of grain and 5,000 boxes of canned beef.

Eight intact trucks and thirty barrels of gasoline.

From then on, the newly arrived regiment was considered destroyed. Chen Feng and Shen Honglie unanimously decided that unless the Japanese army came to garrison in a size larger than a regiment, the two counties of Pingyi and Mengyin would never allow the Japanese to get involved, and they would wipe out as many as they could.

Shen Honglie went back happily to report the results of the battle. Lin Chuan and his platoon also participated in the battle of Mengyin City. When they came back, they wanted to send a message to Chongqing. They asked Chen Feng for permission somewhat embarrassedly. Chen Feng waved his hand generously:

"Say whatever you want. There is nothing in Mengshan that needs to be kept secret from the government. Remind them to keep it secret. The fewer people who know about what's happening here, the better."

Lin Chuan and others went to send a telegram at dawn. They contacted the high-level attendant room and reported in detail how the cold gun was used on them, the raid the night before, and the siege of the county town last night.

After the head of the attendant room and other senior officials got up, they reported the telegram immediately. The senior officials were very satisfied. Since Leng Qiang dared to arrange a platoon of Lin Chuan into the guard battalion and let Lin Chuan be the battalion commander, it can at least be seen that he is very friendly to him and the government. It seems that the news brought back by Fenghuangniao from the Statistics Bureau is true, but Leng Qiang likes beautiful women. How can he please him? Fenghuangniao is very suitable, but the senior officials don’t want such a woman to stay with Leng Qiang for a long time. After thinking carefully for a long time, the reminder from his wife at breakfast made him suddenly realize, yes! How could he forget Li Yunyan! But how to convince Li Zongren, the old stubborn, still needs some opportunities.

Chen Feng had no idea that someone was plotting against him. After he captured two counties, his team began to expand rapidly. There was no problem with the source of soldiers. Even with the picky nature of the Yimeng guerrillas, it was no problem. It was too easy to gather a thousand or eight hundred experts and good talents in the area of ​​two counties.

At the headquarters of the Japanese North China Expeditionary Army, Bin Shanyuan was furious after receiving two farewell telegrams in the early morning. Leng Qiang, can't we develop peacefully? Do we have to fight to the death? You guard your Mengshan, and I guard my county town. What a good scene! It's necessary to make a mess. Bin Shanyuan was a little helpless after being angry. This Leng Qiang must have guessed his plan and will deal with him after the Battle of Wuhan. The key is that the Battle of Wuhan is not going well now!

After the Nationalist army surrounded and annihilated the 106th Division, morale was boosted. The Nationalist government's ragtag army became an ace army after fighting. There were more and more special forces, and there were all kinds of harassment and ambushes. There were raids every night, which made the front-line attack troops restless.

The National Army took advantage of the special geographical environment and strategic depth, and applied the three-three system tactics and reverse slope artillery tactics to perfection. The Chinese and Japanese sides rarely fought to a stalemate outside Wuhan. The ace spy sent a secret report that the previous strengthening of the defense of Anqing City and the replacement of personnel in Ma'an Fortress were all due to the shadow of the sniper.

When Bin Shanyuan thought of this, he felt so angry that his teeth itched. It was all because of this bastard, otherwise the Imperial Japanese Army would have occupied Wuhan long ago!