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

On January 1, newspapers from major newspapers in the Kuomintang-controlled areas were sold out again. Newsboys standing on the street only needed to shout and people would flock to buy their newspapers.

"Selling newspapers! Selling newspapers! Great victory in Qingdao, Commander Shen Honglie led the New Fourth Division to kill 20,000 Japanese soldiers and captured 30,000. Japanese Lieutenant General Haruki Isayama and Lieutenant General Naoomi Ueno surrendered."

It has been a long time since I saw such a lively scene. The crowds of people came just for a newspaper. It was actually true. The plain text message last night was actually true. Thirty thousand Japanese surrendered. This has never happened in the history of anti-revolution! Thirty thousand people! Oh, and twenty thousand were killed.

The newspaper did not mention the naval artillery and aircraft support of the Yimeng guerrillas, nor did it mention any mysterious landmines. Chen Feng sent a telegram to Shen Honglie, asking him to avoid mentioning anything about the Yimeng guerrillas in the battle report. This was the glory of the New Fourth Division, which became famous in one battle, and it should not be mixed with too many things.

In the Battle of Xiong'er Mountain, the Japanese army fully deployed its formation, and 50,000 troops took turns to participate in the attack. Both sides were furious, and the Japanese army launched a completely suicidal attack, advancing along the explosion points, and even if they were hit by their own artillery shells, they would not give the guard regiment a chance to shoot calmly.

The guard regiment had 5,000 soldiers, 2,000 of whom were new recruits. Facing the repeated attacks of 50,000 Japanese troops, the pressure can be imagined and casualties were inevitable. Every minute, the bodies of soldiers or wounded were carried out of the trenches.

As long as the Japanese army was attacking, five fighter planes would circle every hour. They were not there to dive and attack the trenches, but only to prevent planes from the Yimeng guerrillas' hidden airport from bombing the artillery positions.

The guard battalion suffered heavy casualties, and the Japanese army suffered even worse. Every day, there were groups of trucks carrying corpses, and trucks carrying wounded soldiers were also shuttling between Xuzhou and Lincheng. It seemed that it was a test of willpower.

Fujita Susumu still had nearly 100,000 troops at his disposal, and he did not send them out for a surprise attack from the flanks or other areas. He was well aware of the horror of a hidden gun, and knew that only by protecting the two flanks and the rear of the attack sequence could he have such a smooth offensive.

On January 1th, 6 members of the Guards Regiment were killed, of them were seriously injured and lost their combat capability, and there were more than lightly injured soldiers who persisted on the front line.

As soon as it got dark, the Japanese planes flew away and the Guards Regiment began to retaliate with artillery fire. After a day of bombing, they had to vent their anger. Two heavy howitzers and dozens of field and mountain guns were all set up on the reverse slope for side firing. It was a bit difficult to attack the Japanese artillery positions, but it was enough to attack the military camp behind the artillery positions.

In the middle of the night, the artillery, under the guidance of the forward observation post, bombarded more than a dozen military camps, until the Japanese soldiers participating in the attack could no longer hold on and entered the artillery's reverse slope position. Even though they were huddled in the artillery tent and shivering, they did not want to return to their warm beds.

At two o'clock in the morning, Chen Feng led the special operations battalion of the independent regiment and escorted heavy firepower to the Xiong'er Mountain battlefield, including thirty MG42 anti-aircraft machine guns, thirty American large-caliber heavy machine guns, thirty large-caliber mortars and five hundred AK-47 semi-automatic rifles. The special operations battalion of the independent regiment trained for a whole day and was completely familiar with the magic guns produced by their own arsenal.

The reason why the Guards Regiment suffered such heavy casualties was that they did not use heavy mortars during the day because they were worried that the dense artillery array would be bombed.

Seeing the captain personally leading the team to provide assistance, Lin Chuan's eyes became moist. The brothers had sacrificed too much, and he always felt that it was a problem with his own command.

"Captain, Lin Chuan has failed to live up to the trust placed in him."

"It's none of your business. We've fought well. Take me to the headquarters first! I'm almost freezing to death."

This sentence eased the atmosphere, and Lin Chuan, along with the captain and Li Yunyan, who was carrying a radio, hurried to the command center.

"Withdraw the new recruits before dawn, let the independent regiment's special operations battalion bring the new guys to join the position, and give the Japanese a surprise tomorrow."

Lin Chuan saw the weapons in the special operations battalion and was a little confused but didn't dare to ask. When he heard what they were, he was about to ask what kind of guns they were, but the captain continued:

"Thirty anti-aircraft machine guns and thirty large-caliber heavy machine guns. Half of them will be used for air defense of the mortar positions, and the rest will be added to the front-line positions before dawn."

"Yes"!

They arrived at the command center, a cave on the reverse slope, with a thick quilt blocking the outside. Chen Feng quickly sat down around the stove, wanting to hug it with his hands.

"Keep the mountain artillery and heavy artillery hidden before daybreak, and mobilize all the heavy mortars to attack the Japanese stormtroopers from the reverse slope. Disperse them a little and don't be afraid of the Japs' bombing. With anti-aircraft firepower defense, a few mortars in exchange for an airplane is a very cost-effective deal."

Lin Chuan left the cave and made arrangements, but he couldn't help but feel curious when he looked back.

"Captain, how about the firepower of the new weapon?"

"This weapon was designed to penetrate, penetrate wooden doors, penetrate bushes, penetrate earth walls, and can also penetrate the bodies of the Japanese."

Lin Chuan understood after hearing this. Machine guns were suppressed by artillery. In many cases, submachine guns were the main force in fighting the Japanese. However, the lethality of this thing was too low. It was beyond the range of 200 meters and the firing rate was fast. After a volley of bullets was fired, it was possible that all of them hit two or three Japanese. There was no difference between killing them with one bullet and having holes all over their bodies. If there was a difference, it was the waste of ammunition. Point firing was also troublesome. The Japanese had already rushed within 200 meters, and they had all stepped on the artillery explosion point. With the artillery fire everywhere, they had no time to aim and fire in bursts.

"Report, Captain Yang of the Lunan Detachment is here."

"Lao Yang, come in quickly. I'm warming myself by the fire. I won't go out to greet you."

Yang Qingfeng came in wearing a Japanese officer's woolen windbreaker. His brand new leather shoes looked like they were taken from a Japanese officer. However, the dog-skin hat on his head didn't match his outfit.

"I guessed that you have arrived at this time. I am here to listen to your instructions. Tell me! How do we fight?"

Chen Feng pointed to the stool next to him.

"Let's sit down and warm ourselves by the fire first. It's too cold. My hands are numb from driving all night."

Yang Qingfeng took off his gloves, unbuttoned the hem of his coat, sat on the stool and looked at Lin Chuan.

Lin Chuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He had to ask for a pack of cigarettes every time he came.

Chen Feng took out a box of Japanese cigarettes, lit one and threw it to Yang Qingfeng.

"Lao Yang, try this. There's a picture of a naked Japanese woman on the box. You can keep it and think about it when you can't sleep at night."

Yang Qingfeng glanced at the cigarette box and suddenly felt it was a little hot. This thing violated the discipline! Forget it, I just smoked it and burned it after smoking it. As long as Lao Li didn't see it, it would be fine.

"Captain, give the order! How can we annihilate him? We have been lying in the trenches all day doing nothing, and we are going crazy with idleness."

Chen Feng blew out a smoke ring. Annihilate? More than 100,000 Japanese devils! Not just one or half a division. It would take half a month to pull out more than 100,000 cabbages!

"Old Yang, you're getting too proud! Don't always talk about annihilation and elimination. The Japanese are attacking now and we are on the passive defense."