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

The bombers went back and forth looking for opportunities. After several tentative dives, they finally found a gap in the northwest direction where anti-aircraft fire was sparse. Five echelons dived and bombed, blowing up a row of "artillery positions". Although five bombers were lost, the set goal was achieved.

The bombers flew away and the artillerymen hurriedly set up their positions. The positions were full of potholes from the bombing, but fortunately the rest of the ground was frozen hard as iron, so they could just clear a piece of snow to set up the artillery.

As soon as the bomber flew away, the Japanese army in front of the position began shelling. After only half an hour of bombing, dense groups of Japanese soldiers came up again under the cover of mortars. The number of attacks this time was obviously increased a lot. The three attack lines became five. The Japanese soldiers on the front two attack lines tied sanitary napkins. Although they did not take off their clothes and charged with bare chests, their momentum was there.

The commanders at the frontlines decisively changed their tactics. The Japanese opened fire as soon as they entered a distance of 600 meters. The large-caliber heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and heavy mortars behind the hillside made the advancing Japanese troops no longer as organized as before. The rhythm was disrupted, and the commanders had no choice but to raise their command knives and launch a charge.

"idiot"!

Fujita Jin cursed inwardly and put down the telescope. He started to charge more than 500 meters. Would he still have the strength to run to the front of the position? Fujita Jin cursed inwardly, but he did not signal the soldiers to withdraw. The other side fired at the mortar fire, and there was no other good way.

When the Japanese army advanced 400 meters, the Aka Battalion also opened fire. This time they did not shoot with their hands raised. At a distance of more than 300 meters, with the recoil of the Aka, they might not be able to hit a single Japanese soldier by raising their hands and firing a volley of bullets.

At a distance of 47 meters, the team members holding the AK- did not fire in a sweeping manner, but fired a series of long bursts. The Japanese were constantly being consumed. Compared with the extremely short range of submachine guns and the deadly firing rate of rifles, the advantages of the AK- were fully demonstrated. At a distance of meters, the rocket soldiers fired a round of rockets. The remaining Japanese were exhausted and retreated in twos and threes without waiting for the order to retreat.

Fujita Susumu put down the telescope again. Sure enough, he did not disappoint himself!

The Japanese army stopped the attack again. Fujita Susumu ordered the front-line positions to be on guard, and he and the wounded soldiers returned to the temporary command post in the Zhongxing Mining Area.

"General, is the attack still not going well?"

"Mr. Zhongshan, we can't go on like this, we must change our attack plan."

In Niumudong, Chen Feng saw that the Japanese army had stopped the attack and took Yang Qingfeng back to the command post behind the mountain.

"Captain Yang, eat something and then go back to prepare. The Japanese army is likely to change its attack plan, so you need to defend to the west."

"Flanking attack? What about the east? Should we defend it at the same time?"

"Don't worry about the east. We have two special operations battalions on guard there. The Japanese launched a surprise attack once and were defeated by them. This time they will most likely make a detour from the west."

Yang Qingfeng didn't even bother to eat. He said goodbye to Chen Feng, got on his horse and rode away. The positions were all set up to the south and southwest, and they had to go back and expand them to the northwest. It was very difficult to expand the positions in the ice and snow.

The Japanese army did not continue the attack. In the afternoon, except for a few fighter planes on alert, no other planes came and the shelling stopped. The battlefield became unusually quiet. The countless corpses of Japanese soldiers melted with ice water in front of the positions proved the fierceness of the previous battle.

Chen Feng deduced the next move of the Japanese army. There should be no fighting today, and if nothing unexpected happens, there will be no night attack. The Japanese army will most likely launch a large-scale feint attack tomorrow morning to cover the detour team into the mountains.

On January 1, the Japanese army, which had been unable to capture the city for a long time, finally split up its forces.

At 7:30 in the morning, there was still an hour-long artillery bombardment, and then the skirmish line launched an attack. The Guards Regiment still used the defensive tactics of yesterday. This time the Japanese did not launch a sudden charge, but lay down and fired at a distance of 350 meters. When the Japanese lay down, the soldiers of the Guards Regiment in the trenches had to lower the muzzles of their guns. As the muzzles were lowered, their upper bodies involuntarily stuck out of the trenches, which gave the Japanese mortars and firing opportunities.

Seeing that the casualties were heavy, the commanders of the front lines decisively changed their tactics. Shooting? Not afraid, don't forget to put down the submachine guns and Aka, you still have sniper rifles in your hands.

Chen Feng and Lin Chuan, who were checking the battle situation in Niumu Cave, smiled at each other. Sure enough, the Japanese army changed its attack plan.

At 9:30 in the morning, a group of Japanese troops left Jiagu Mountain and began to advance towards Zhaishan, due northwest. The guard posts of the Lunan Detachment and the Guard Battalion discovered this group of Japanese troops at the same time. There were about 8,000 troops, no heavy firepower, but more than a hundred mortars. The mortars were completely dispersed into the squadron organization, leaving no chance for the attackers.

The Japanese army advanced three kilometers without encountering any obstruction. Major General Chuanbei, who was leading the team, couldn't help feeling proud. If they advanced another two kilometers and turned around to attack from behind, then the position of the guard regiment would become a joke.

At the frontline of the Lunan Detachment, the soldiers had been climbing on ice and lying in the snow for several days. They dared not smoke during the day and dared not light a fire at night. The food was delivered from the rear, and it was almost cold when it arrived. Some soldiers of the Lunan Detachment complained, "Can't the guard regiment in front withdraw to rest? Give them a chance."

At 11 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army finally arrived at its destination. At a command from Chuanbei Gangshan, the team quickly advanced eastward. As long as they advanced five kilometers, they would have blocked the guard regiment's retreat. They didn't have to worry about anything else and just set up machine guns to block the guard regiment's retreat.

Major General Chuanbei was secretly happy. He was not worried about an ambush. The reconnaissance plane had been circling in these mountains for four or five days. In the icy and snowy weather, any ambush would have been exposed long ago.

Little did he know that the Lunan Detachment had arrived earlier and built trenches overnight. They huddled under white cloth to endure the cold during the day and continued digging trenches at night. Their lives were even harder than those of the laborers.

Seeing that the Japanese army had not done any reconnaissance, Yang Qingfeng smiled bitterly. What a big appetite! In order not to expose the target, the most basic firepower reconnaissance was not done.

The Japanese army's marching troops were huge. The nearest trench to the Lunan Detachment was only a hundred meters away. The valley was quiet except for the sound of gunfire coming from the south. It sounded very far away, but in fact it was only about five kilometers away at most.

Phew~!

A flare was launched into the air, and densely packed heads emerged from the trench that was more than three kilometers long.

The mortars of the Lunan Detachment, the rocket launchers supported by the Yimeng Guerrillas, large-caliber heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and countless Japanese-style Type 92 heavy machine guns and Type 99 light machine guns.

It was too sudden and unexpected. How could there be an army here? Judging from the size and the sound of gunfire, there must be at least two or three regiments. When did they get transferred here? How many days have they been here?

The Japanese army launched a counterattack in a hurry. The mortars were scattered, the artillery were setting up guns in a panic, and the machine guns were also building positions. As a unit that had been with the Yimeng guerrillas for several years, the Lunan Detachment learned the real skills, and mortars and machine guns were the main targets of attack.