No matter what the situation is in Ningyuan City, Shang Zhen and his men must retreat.
These people know very well what they are capable of. We can borrow a saying from Hou Kanshan here: "Take advantage when you can, otherwise you're a bastard!" And if you take advantage of something and don't run away, isn't that stupid?
The horse-drawn carriage that Shang Zhen and his companions were riding in belonged to the village. When Shang Zhen came up with the plan to launch a surprise attack on the Japanese artillery, they forcibly kept the villager's carriage.
As I said, they are from the Northeast and are members of the Northeast Army, not soldiers from other provinces. They speak politely to the common people, but that is just politeness. If the family does not leave the carriage behind, they don't mind taking it away.
However, since there was only one horse-drawn carriage and the number of people it could carry was limited, they were afraid of being discovered by the Japanese army, so they only got eight people on board.
Shang Zhen pretended to be forced by the Japanese army to drive a horse-drawn carriage. The reason why Shang Zhen had to do this was because he was thin, and seeing Shang Zhen would not arouse any associations in the Japanese army.
In addition to Shang Zhen, there were three people pretending to be Japanese soldiers.
The reason why there were three people was because they only had four sets of Japanese soldiers' clothes. When they killed the five Japanese soldiers, one of them was stabbed to death with a bayonet and turned into a bloody gourd!
That person has become a blood gourd, he can't wear those clothes, if he puts them on he will definitely be exposed!
Three of the four sets of clothes were used by them to disguise themselves as Japanese soldiers, and the fourth set of clothes naturally belonged to the dead Japanese sergeant.
During the entire raid, the Japanese sergeant was undoubtedly the most outstanding figure.
The Japanese sergeant was dead, but how could he sit in the carriage? The answer was that the fool who was leaning back against the Japanese sergeant was holding on to him tightly.
And along the way, Shang Zhen kept reminding Erhanzi that he must correct his mistakes!
As for the remaining three people, they were covered by the grass.
Shang Zhen and his men certainly knew that there were not many people in the Japanese artillery positions, so they dared to launch a surprise attack. They wanted to mobilize all their personnel, but the carriage was only that big.
Fortunately, they had a lot of automatic weapons such as machine guns and semi-automatic weapons such as box guns, so everyone got one.
How to command in a battle? What is the quality of the soldiers? When all these are already certain, the power of the firearms is the real factor.
For Yu Shangzhen and the others, as long as this is a war, they just need to do their current job well. As for what will happen in the future, how can they know?
"Boom", "Boom", Shang Zhen and his men retreated with two explosions. In addition to the carriage, they brought back three mules.
The three mules were used by the Japanese army to transport the 92mm infantry gun.
A Japanese 92mm infantry gun weighed only about four or five hundred pounds. It could be towed by a horse-drawn carriage, or it could be disassembled and then pulled to a location and reassembled.
Although the Japanese artillery was very powerful, it was naturally impossible for them to take the Japanese artillery away.
If they couldn't take it away, they had to destroy it. However, the cannon was made of iron, and they couldn't think of any other way to destroy it. So they threw two Japanese grenades into the barrel. As for what the Japanese cannon would look like, only God knew.
Of course, there will still be artillery shells on the Japanese artillery positions.
However, Shang Zhen and his men only saw more than 20 Japanese artillery shells. As for how to deal with these shells, not only Shang Zhen, but even veterans like Lao Huotou had no good idea.
It was impossible to take these shells away, but what if they exploded? They didn't know how they exploded!
It was impossible for them to throw a grenade from a short distance to detonate the box of shells. They didn't know whether a grenade could detonate the shells. Moreover, if it really exploded, what if the shells hit them again?
There is nothing to laugh at. This is the quality of the Northeast Army at the moment. They have nowhere to find a fuse. As for shooting from a distance and blowing up the shells with guns, they think it is unlikely and can only give up!
Just as Shang Zhen and his men were retreating, Japanese troops were already coming towards them from the front. However, looking at the distance, Shang Zhen and his men knew that it was impossible for the Japanese troops to catch up with them.
There were still chaotic gunshots coming from the direction of Ningyuan County, and Shang Zhen and his men even heard the "dong dong" sound of heavy machine guns.
Shang Zhen and his men guessed that it must be the regiment guarding Ningyuan City that was breaking out.
They had no idea whether the direction the regiment was breaking out was the same as theirs, and it didn't sound like it.
In fact, Shang Zhen and the others only guessed half right.
What they guessed was that Liu Cheng's regiment had already rushed out of Ningyuan City and was breaking out.
What they didn't guess was that Liu Cheng's regiment had suffered heavy losses.
Shang Zhen and his men used a sheep as bait to lure the Japanese soldiers into the village, and then pretended to be Japanese soldiers and attacked the Japanese artillery positions. This was a chain of tricks, and they were undoubtedly successful.
But Liu Cheng, the commander of the Northeast Army, had no idea that the Japanese shelling of Ningyuan City was actually a feint, a bluff to scare the enemy.
After Liu Cheng and his regiment rushed out of the county town, they immediately engaged in a battle with the Japanese troops who were blocking them.
The so-called breakout is nothing more than rushing out while shooting. Even the machine gunners in the front don’t care whether they hit the enemy or not, they just hold the machine gun and fire forward.
But just as Shang Zhen and the others heard, no matter how fiercely Liu Cheng's regiment broke through, the Japanese army used heavy machine guns.
Two heavy machine guns of the Japanese army were firing crosswise. In an open area outside the county town, hundreds of Northeast Army soldiers had been knocked to the ground, some of them with broken limbs and heads and separated flesh and bones.
Because the open area was a slope with one side higher than the other, the blood water at the bottom of the slope had gathered into a stream.
At this point, Liu Chengcai, whose eyes had turned blood red, realized how stupid it was for him to lead his troops to break out. The Japanese were just waiting for him to fall into the ambush!
"Back off!" Liu Cheng shouted.
They had no choice but to retreat. If they didn't, none of his men would be able to penetrate the Japanese army's fire blockade. Now they could only hold on to Ningyuan City and wait for reinforcements.
They charged forward, leaving corpses everywhere, and then retreated. During the retreat, soldiers were knocked down by the Japanese army in twos and threes.
When Liu Cheng led his men back to Ningyuan City, he discovered that he only had about 200 men left.
Everyone fell silent, just because they didn't want to talk. However, the scene was filled with the sound of heavy breathing, and some soldiers even sat and lay on the ground.
They rushed out quickly and came back even faster, but more than half of them could no longer come back.
Liu Cheng looked at the faces of his men again and suddenly had the urge to slap himself in the face!