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Bayonet fighting is different from martial arts competitions, where fancy moves like shaking flowers are useless. Many times it's just a matter of charging at each other with rifles equipped with bayonets, and the outcome is decided in an instant, either you take down your opponent or they take you down, the process is bloody and quick.
"Kill, strike the devils!" With the shouting and a burst of gunfire, the late county troops finally arrived. Under the last glow of sunset, more than 200 people rushed up to the highway, relying on their numerical superiority and sudden psychological shock, they fired wildly and charged forward, saving the precarious situation and shattering the desperate counterattack of the devils.
The shouting and gunfire from the north were getting closer and closer. The troops in charge of blocking sent a communication soldier, their defense was about to collapse, and they requested emergency reinforcements. The surrounded Japanese commander had no more troops to send out, and seeing that it was going to be dark soon, he made the most sensible decision at the time, leading the remaining soldiers to break through to the east, escaping into Shili Village, hoping to put up a desperate resistance in the village and hold out until reinforcements arrived.
Night fell, and the gunfire on the battlefield did not stop, but gradually became sparse. The devils' battalion stopped its attack.
Throughout the entire Anti-Japanese War, countless fierce night battles were fought between Chinese and Japanese troops, ranging from massive battles involving tens of thousands of people to small skirmishes involving a dozen or so individuals. As the weaker side, night battles were an effective way for Chinese forces to make up for their lack of firepower and combat strength.
Of course, the Chinese army frequently used night warfare, not because they were skilled at it, but mainly as a necessary measure to undermine the Japanese army's firepower advantage. In fact, Japanese soldiers were also very good at close combat and often outdid the Chinese army in this regard.
However, the Japanese army rarely used this form of combat, mainly hoping to use its strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses. It wasn't until the outbreak of the Pacific War that the Japanese army faced the more powerful American forces and was forced to adopt night raids like those of the Chinese troops. In other words, close-quarters night battles are a type of surprise attack, more suitable for the weaker side to carry out.
Because the devils have airplanes and cannons, their weapons are good, so they usually attack during the day, maximizing their advantages and suppressing the enemy with fierce firepower. As for night battles, the Japanese army is relatively neglectful of this method. Because this way of fighting cannot bring out the existing firepower advantage of the Japanese army, it can also easily cause accidental casualties (in Dong Shilang's memoirs, a soldier in his squad mistakenly killed his own comrade during a night battle). Therefore, the Japanese army mainly defends at night and rarely launches active attacks.
Moreover, the devils made the decision to stop attacking for other reasons. Firstly, through radio communication, they knew that there were still over a hundred soldiers defending the village. With relatively strong combat power, they had switched from attacking to a more advantageous defensive position, and it would not be easy for the enemy to eliminate this force. Secondly, it was the impact caused by Meng Youdao.
The commander of the Kwantung Army was shot and seriously injured. The Japanese army, which had lost its highest commander, had differing opinions on the direction of action. One battalion commander advocated for continuing to attack until the surrounded troops were rescued; another battalion commander believed that night battles would greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army. Not only would they lose their advantageous firepower, but they would also increase unnecessary casualties. They should request air support or reinforcements from higher-ups and launch a massive bombing campaign at dawn the next day to achieve a breakthrough.
The two devils quarreled and could not come to a decision, so in the end they adopted a compromise plan under the mediation of their staff officers. The plan was to prepare for both possibilities. If the enemy launched a night attack on the surrounded friendly forces and the friendly forces found it difficult to resist, then they would immediately launch an attack; if the enemy's attack could be handled by the friendly forces with ease, then they would wait until dawn to launch a thunderbolt strike.
Today's battle did not change the arrogant nature of the devils, and more than 100 devils took a defensive stance in the village. For the Eighth Route Army lacking heavy weapons, it was indeed a hard bone to chew. Even the surrounded devil company commander expressed confidence that they could hold on until dawn tomorrow, sandwiching the enemy from both sides and dealing them a heavy blow. Of course, the devil's confidence is not unreasonable, mainly because of their high combat quality. In actual combat, a small team of Japanese soldiers with a machine gun, relying on favorable terrain, blocked an entire regiment for a whole day.
Of course, this might be the self-esteem of the ghost captain at work, unwilling to seek help like a coward, and even less likely to appear crying and begging "for the sake of something, pull brother one" and so on.
Each army has its own combat characteristics, and according to its equipment situation and personnel quality, it formulates corresponding combat methods. When night falls, the surrounded devils choose to defend themselves firmly. If it is the Eighth Route Army that is surrounded, then they should defend themselves during the day and break through at night.
The Eighth Route Army and the Jizhou Brigade joined forces, and Wang Dashan's battalion suffered heavy casualties and was withdrawn from the battlefield. The troops that took over the position began to dig fortifications to guard against a sudden attack by the enemy. The two temporary regiments formed by the Jizhou Brigade and Wang Dashan's battalion rested for a while before preparing to surround Shili Village and eliminate this stubbornly resisting enemy force.
Meng You Tian and Da Yong, Xiao San slowly descended the mountain, looking around in all directions, everywhere was a scene of chaos. The county's main force had become a stretcher team, carrying down the wounded and the bodies of fallen soldiers. But after walking for half a day, the militia from Shili Village were nowhere to be seen, no one knew where those guys had run off to.
"Good job." A big hand patted the small shoulder from behind, he turned back but didn't recognize this Eighth Route Army.
He pointed at the big ocean horse led by Xiaoxiao, stretched out his thumb and shook it, praising: "This guy is really powerful. It's not easy to snatch it from the devils!"
"Hehe, it's fine, it's really easy." Xiaobei blushed and smiled awkwardly in response to the praise.
"Easy?" The Eighth Route Army looked again in the moonlight, and these three people were all carrying three eight large covers. Xiao He and Da Yong were still wearing Japanese leather boots, and they couldn't help but widen their eyes in surprise.
"He's just talking nonsense, comrade, don't mind him." Meng You Tian pulled Xiao Yi along and the three of them continued to move forward in search of something, until they arrived at a place not far from the village.
"Let's set off some fireworks and gather everyone here!" He took out a wooden stick with a "Heavenly Monkey" attached to it.
"Is that alright?" Meng You Tian hesitated a bit, "Let's send out the signal, it won't cause any disturbance or misunderstanding, will it?"
"It's nothing, our stuff is different from others." Dayong was nonchalant, snatched the incense stick, inserted it into the ground, and lit it with a match.
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