♂?，，

  Flares occasionally rose from the village, illuminating the surrounding scenery. Machine guns mounted in high places also fired short bursts at suspicious targets from time to time, which was a kind of deterrence, warning enemies outside the village not to make rash moves, and the defenders in the village did not relax their vigilance.

  Meng You-tian took advantage of the muzzle flash to aim at his target. The Type 92 machine gun, due to its long bipod and high firing line, was extremely disadvantageous for shooting at low angles, requiring the shooter to expose their upper body in order to form a sightline. This weakness made it difficult for Japanese machine gunners to survive on the battlefield, giving Meng You-tian an opportunity to snipe them.

  Time was passing minute by minute, second by second, and under the night sky, a strong murderous intent was brewing. Gunfire and explosions suddenly rang out in the village, like thunder, breaking through the unbearable gloom.

  The Eighth Route Army sneaked into the troops from three tunnels and launched a swift attack, catching the devils off guard as they focused on the outside of the village.

  Figures are running, shouting and shooting in the ruins of the village, streets and alleys. Explosions flash everywhere on the ground, houses and trees, gunfire mixed with shouts and curses, bullets flying randomly in the air.

  The devils hadn't had time to organize resistance, the Eighth Route Army's surprise troops had already charged over with great courage. They didn't make a sound, charging horizontally and vertically, shooting fiercely with long and short guns, throwing hand grenades continuously, the devils dodged in panic, blindly counterattacking.

  The signal flare for the attack flew into the air, and the sound of gunfire and shouts of killing rose almost simultaneously in the south and north of the village. The enemy was attacked from both inside and outside, with the main attack and feint combined, forcing the devils to be restrained everywhere and unable to use their forces freely.

  The flare burst into the air again, and the enemy's machine gun went crazy, sweeping across the approaching enemy towards the village. The Eighth Route Army's suppressive fire also erupted, covering the troops as they charged into the village.

  "Bang." Meng You Tian pulled the trigger, and the enemy's machine gun that was firing suddenly stopped, the muzzle flash extinguished. Meng You Tian lost his target, and had to turn towards another machine gun spitting fire.

  Inside the village, fierce street fighting was underway. The Eighth Route Army troops, organized by squad, infiltrated into various parts of the village and engaged in a house-to-house, courtyard-to-courtyard battle with the Japanese devils. They advanced towards the Li Family Compound. On the streets leading to the Li Family Compound, two squads of the Eighth Route Army clashed head-on with the Japanese devils' guard troops.

  More than thirty devils, under the command of a devil officer, launched a fierce counterattack. The devil officer twisted his face and bellowed loudly. The devil soldiers also contorted their faces, letting out ferocious shouts.

  The clash of bayonets, the wails of the dying, the shots fired, all blended into one. The narrow battlefield was filled with desperate fighting, blood and severed limbs scattered everywhere. The sound of gunfire and the heart-wrenching cries of the wounded violently shook every person's brain!

  The enemy has rushed into the village, and at the critical moment of life and death, the Japanese devils who were hastily welcomed to fight back crazily, shouting slogans such as "Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" The fierce and fearless ones charged forward with rifles, and even those who fell wounded would detonate the hand grenades on their bodies to commit suicide!

  After suffering heavy casualties, the Eighth Route Army's offensive was temporarily halted and slowly retreated from the alley. When the devils regrouped and counterattacked, more Eighth Route Army troops arrived to reinforce the attack. First, a barrage of intense hand grenades rained down on them, causing widespread destruction. The explosion shook the alley, sending limbs and blood flying everywhere. Before the smoke had cleared, soldiers with short guns and bayonets charged forward again, and both sides clashed fiercely once more.

  "Boom, boom, boom..." Continuous dull explosions erupted from all directions. In the blind spots of the Japanese army's firepower, or in places where the enemy did not notice, one by one, holes were blasted open, and several groups of Eighth Route Army troops avoided the enemy's blockade, connecting previously inaccessible courtyards and houses. The counterattacking devils, having suffered attacks from the front, sides, and rear, although desperately resisting, were already exhausted and began to retreat step by step.

  Under the internal and external impact, the devils' defense, which was disturbed and attacked, began to become disordered. The north of the village was finally broken through, and the Eighth Route Army and the Jidong troops rushed into the village, unfolding and cooperating with the infiltrated troops to divide the devils' defense, fighting house by house and yard by yard against the stubbornly resistant devils, constantly compressing the devils' living space.

  Under the starry sky, as far as the eye can see, the whole village is almost everywhere in battle, but the scale of victory has already tilted towards the central team, and the battle is gradually advancing from north to south.

  Can't see the target anymore. Meng You Tian's gun hadn't fired for a long time, wanting to snipe again, but the only way was to enter the village, however, the two Eighth Route Army soldiers beside him refused without any room for negotiation.

  The surprise attack played a decisive role, and the Japanese troops stationed in various places found it difficult to react in time when they were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, and fell into chaos. The machine gun firepower specifically designed to block the village roads and enemy attacks could not be brought into play, and within an extremely short period of time, the Eighth Route Army soldiers had already broken through to the Japanese troops' surroundings, at which point the Japanese troops could only be forced to engage in close combat.

  The surprise attack troops, who were well-prepared, not only had many close combat weapons - pistols, but each soldier also carried two hand grenades. On a night with poor visibility, the explosion of hand grenades caused widespread damage, far more effective than single shots from rifles. The devils in the village tasted the unprecedented density of hand grenade use, throwing them at each other across walls, and even using unconventional tactics such as picking up unexploded grenades and throwing them back.

  The battle was cruel and intense, with such a fierce hand-to-hand combat at night and in close quarters, the casualties on both sides would not be much different. Even if our side had an absolute advantage in terms of troop strength, the number of soldiers lost would not be less than that of the enemy. In other words, to wipe out more than 100 devils, the Eighth Route Army would also have to sacrifice more than 100 men.

  "How could this be?" The Japanese lieutenant's face was gloomy, the sudden change in situation made him hard to understand. He didn't know where he went wrong, why he would suddenly suffer an unexpected and fierce blow when he had set up a good defensive position and felt fine. Why did the Chinese tactics make him, a military academy graduate, feel so confused?

  "If they were to engage in a fair fight with the Imperial Army, these Chinese troops wouldn't be their match even if they had a four-to-one advantage." The Japanese platoon leader thought to himself, growing increasingly perplexed - but where did the enemy come from, and how did they suddenly disrupt his deployment?

  Complete works txt download, full text free, e-book, remember 77 reading books