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

The one defending Miaonan Valley was the Third Company of the First Battalion of the Guards Regiment. Although it was a company, it had more than 300 soldiers. There was not a single ordinary rifle on the position. There were five anti-aircraft machine guns, five large-caliber heavy machine guns, twenty Type 60 mortars behind the hillside, twenty rocket launchers in the trenches, more than a hundred submachine guns, and more than a hundred sniper rifles.

The machine gun positions were protected and camouflaged. A small hill more than 100 meters long from east to west, together with the east and west sides, was only more than 200 meters in length. There were two trenches and the firepower configuration was completely at the top level of the Yimeng Guerrillas.

The Japanese army began to attack, but the team members were still huddled in the anti-artillery holes in the trenches. There was only an observation post every thirty meters keeping an eye on the distance to the Japanese army.

The Japanese assault team had just reached 300 meters when the indirect fire artillery behind them suddenly opened fire. Sixty mortars fired 20 rounds at a rapid speed, and the defensive positions were instantly surrounded by explosions. In just one minute, the shelling stopped and the Japanese army began a group charge.

A battalion of troops attacked a small hill, but the soldiers could not deploy. However, with more troops, they could act recklessly. More than a thousand Japanese soldiers rushed up the hillside in layers, and their shouts shook the sky.

Fearing that the Japanese army would continue their shelling, the members of the defense line remained lying in the anti-artillery holes in the trenches. They waited until the Japanese army reached a position of 120 meters, slowing down due to the increasing slope of the hillside, and then the signal gun was fired.

Phew~!

The team members came out of the trenches one after another and all firepower was opened.

The submachine gun emptied its magazine in more than ten seconds, and the anti-aircraft machine gun and large-caliber heavy machine gun opened fire at the legs of the frontmost Japanese soldier, hitting the legs in the front, the waist in the middle, and the head and neck in the back.

Susumu Fujita lay on the Pingshan Mountain and observed with a telescope. After firing for only ten seconds, he realized that the hilltop could not be attacked. All the firepower was coming from the cave entrance, which meant that the trenches were well protected. It would be difficult to succeed in attacking such a front line even with the help of mortar firepower.

One hundred meters became the death line for the Japanese army. The machine gun's harvesting power was too strong. Just as the Japanese army was thinking about lying down and fighting back, more than twenty white smoke trails came down.

boom! Boom boom boom!

After one round of explosions, the Japanese soldiers in the front were almost wiped out. The Japanese soldiers at the back saw that there was no hope, so they turned around and fled down the slope. It was just a test attack, and there was no need to risk their lives.

The submachine gun fired two bursts and stopped, but the two types of machine guns and sniper rifles did not stop until the Japanese ran about 400 meters away and then stopped firing and hid in the anti-artillery cave.

Isayama Haruki ordered his troops to stop the attack. A glimpse of the situation showed that the defense of a small hill fully explained the situation. They could either attack from a detour or attack head-on. It was impossible to take a detour. The cold gun was best at encirclement and double-teaming. They absolutely could not leave any troops behind, so they had to attack head-on.

When fighting against the Yimeng guerrillas, a group charge would mean giving away lives, and with fewer troops, they would not be able to charge forward. The best way was to coordinate infantry and artillery, and advance along the explosion points. This was cruel to the enemy and to yourself, and there was no other way.

The Japanese army did not launch another attack. Night was about to fall. Tonight they had to switch from defense to offense on all fronts. Artillery positions, barracks, and the military supplies that were transported in had to be defended as the main focus.

Seeing that the Japanese army had stopped attacking, the company commander directed his team members to transport the wounded and the bodies of the soldiers backwards. The Japanese army's repeated artillery bombardment and a round of exploratory attacks just now also caused certain casualties to the third company. Six soldiers were killed, four were seriously injured, and seven were slightly injured.

After the bodies and seriously wounded were transported away, the company commander ordered the kitchen team behind the mountain to cook canned cabbage stew. The canned boxes were to be brought to the front and thrown at the front of the position for alert.

The Japanese army retreated, relying on Pingshan and Chaishan. Although they could not dig trenches, they also set up some circular fortifications with stones. The night was the world of the Guards Regiment. Many previous attack sequences were slaughtered in the dark, so it was never too careful.

While Lin Chuan of the Guard Regiment was still considering the attack plan, the New Fourth Division outside Qingdao City was already training on the laying of mines. As night fell, the Japanese army increased its patrols.

The heavy artillery will arrive tomorrow morning. A heavy artillery regiment has 18 heavy artillery pieces, plus 36 75-caliber field guns. Once such firepower opens fire, Isayama Haruki is confident that he can capture Qingdao within one day.

After attacking Qingdao, at least half of the troops were ordered to go into the residential areas, burn, kill and plunder, use the civilians as shields, and gradually take over the major defense nodes of Qingdao. Isn't the cold gun a show with civilians? I can do it myself, and it is even more cruel than the cold gun.

Isayama Haruki showed a cruel look under the light. Cold gun, Shen Honglie, are you ready? Will you shoot at the people? If you dare to attack Qingdao City, you will pay the price of fear for your whole life.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the Special Operations Battalion of the 23rd Regiment, which was responsible for laying mines, began to act. They did not dare to get too close to the Japanese army camp and laid mines away from the sight of the outer patrol posts. Twenty thousand Type 66 anti-infantry mines plus more than two thousand old mines previously seized by the New Fourth Division were enough to block the northwest sides of the Japanese army camp.

The soldiers of the New Fourth Division who were planting mines were very surprised. They had never seen such arc-shaped mines before. The ones they had seen before were either round, oval or flat. They felt that this type of mine was strange in shape. The arc-shaped design had four words written on the front of the arc, "facing the enemy head on". The instructor repeatedly emphasized that the side with the words should face the direction of the military camp. This was something the Yimeng guerrillas had researched, and they didn't know how powerful it was.

Isayama Haruki felt a rare sense of relief. He knew that the New Fourth Division would definitely cut off their retreat, but that didn't matter. He planned to send 10,000 infantrymen to support them tomorrow morning, along with a hundred indirect fire guns.

Just like when they came, the support team should be on alert and prepared. As long as the mortar shells of the New Fourth Division do not fall on the advancing army, any resistance will be useless. If a bloody fight really comes, Isayama Haruki will be happier. If they exchange two for one, the New Fourth Division will not have enough replacements.

On the outskirts of Xiong'er Mountain, the Guards Regiment launched an artillery attack under the cover of night, still using the old tactics. Mountain artillery, field artillery, howitzers and heavy artillery could not reach the reverse slope positions, so only mortars could be used. They still attacked on horseback, finding the right position from the side and firing.

The Japanese army was very well prepared. No matter where they opened fire, the shells would fly over within three to five minutes. Fujita Susumu was very cunning. He built defenses on both sides of the artillery positions three kilometers away, so the opposite side's shells only hit the infantry positions.

At two o'clock in the morning, Lin Chuan ordered to stop the artillery attack. Although it could destroy some infantry and possibly hit some scattered mortar positions, such an artillery attack was of little significance.

At the top of Mount Meng, Chen Feng was suddenly awakened by a nightmare at three o'clock in the morning. He had just dreamed that more than 20,000 soldiers of the New Fourth Division were surrounded by a mine array and were being attacked by Japanese aircraft and naval guns. After waking up, he hesitated for a while. Did he think too much during the day? He didn't know how the mine array blockade of the New Fourth Division was arranged.