Chapter 193: Mercy

(...I was afraid of implicating them and didn't dare to go to them. In order to let the enemy relax internal alert, they spread my promise to Quanjiao everywhere; this is brother!... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

Xing Long and the others are back! Li Tianhao received the news in the middle of the night and hurried out to greet him. He felt relieved. He knew that it was impossible for Xing Long, the contingent team, to set out eastward, to find Cao Xiaomin. Cao Xiaomin was in Chu County, and the news had already reached Quanjiao.

"You are back just in time, and a big war is about to be fought!" Li Tianhao saw that everyone was alone, and a big rock in his heart immediately fell: "I was just trying to find a way to contact you, Chief Cao is in Chu County..."

No one interrupted, and they were waiting for Li Tianhao to finish his speech - Cao Xiaomin is in Chu County, isn't there an enemy-occupied area? Is it... to fight a big battle, is it going to attack Chu County? This is incredible... Everyone's heart is turbulent.

After Li Tianhao explained the situation clearly, everyone understood what was going on: Li Tianhao planned to send a message to the outside world that Cao Xiaomin had returned to Quanjiao!

There is no way to accept him. He has a way to hide among the Japanese, so he can relieve pressure from him and make the Japanese not pay attention to his internal affairs. This is the best way that Li Tianhao can think of and the greatest help he can do for his brothers.

OK! Just do it! No one hesitated, and everyone agreed with this method of using themselves to attract the attention of the Japanese. Of course, this is likely to be the best of Quanjiao to fight again... Even though he knew that this was bringing disaster, everyone was not sure to defend it when the Japanese attacked heavily, but everyone supported this approach. Only by doing this would they feel at ease and feel that they were worthy of their brothers!

"By the way, I got some good things and took them out quickly..." Xing Long said, and everyone immediately took out those "good things" - everyone actually hid several toads in their backpacks that were still hibernating!

Li Tianhao laughed at this: "It's really a good thing. Now Quanjiao can't even find a little toad..."

Because many soldiers had frostbite, and many people began to grow blisters or even ulcers. This made Li Tianhao very nervous. There were even more officers and soldiers who lost their combat effectiveness because of frostbite than fighting! Fortunately, an old Chinese doctor came to him at this time and prescribed him a recipe: find a toad that hibernates, peel off the toad skin, roast it and grind it into powder and apply it to the affected area, then wash it with the skinned tomatoes for two hours, and then cook porridge with rice to eat it. This recipe actually cured the soldiers who had already started to have frostbite skin and flesh necrosis in three or four days! (Haha, I didn’t have the chance to test it, but this was what a Guangxi veteran who was fighting in Anhui at that time said. It only takes three or four days, and all the very serious frostbite were cured... I don’t recommend book friends to try it, toads seem to be very poisonous!)

Just this recipe was tossed. The stone bricks and tiles on the riverside ditches were almost turned over. The land was directly overturned in many places. The hibernating toad was almost captured by everyone! During the day of the truce, when the Japanese thought that the *** would collapse without a fight, this magical lonely army not only discharged a large number of injured people (mainly frostbite). The morale was greatly increased, but also had time to sort out the entire Quanjiao defense fortifications, and its defense ability was greatly enhanced!

He did it as he said, and the Quanjiao Command was busy all night, and the kitchen team spent a lot of money to hold a "wealthy night banquet" by dropping the precious Yunnan ham from the plane. Soon people in the county knew that an important figure had arrived in Quanjiao. The vendors who risked their lives to travel back and forth between the Japanese *** lines were deliberately revealed an important news: the national hero Cao Xiaomin came back after killing a large number of Japanese officers in Chu County!

Cao Xiaomin is in Quanjiao! News spread wildly. Although there are never many people among the people who are brave enough to sacrifice their lives for the country and the people, there are also many people who are willing to be traitors for the rewards of the naturalized ***. Soon even the devils in Nanjing knew that Cao Xiaomin is in Quanjiao.

When a hero is not as simple as shouting a slogan, the consequence of slapping the sword for brothers is not necessarily as simple as slapping the sword... Near noon, the Japanese began to attack Quanjiao on the entire line. To the north is a reinforced brigade of the 101st Division, plus a mountain artillery brigade and a chariot squadron; to the south are two brigades of the 11th Division, both mountain artillery and chariot squadrons... But this time the Japanese's offensive focus is on the east: the offensive troops in the east are actually an infantry gang, a cavalry gang (armored troops), and a field artillery gang!

No division of the Japanese 3rd Division will attack at the first time. They are still gathering and are preparing to wait until the north and south are in full swing before they will make a sudden breakthrough, and strive to break through Quanjiao with one blow!

The offensive trilogy of the Japanese at the north and south ends of Quanjiao was staged almost at the same time. If the bomber was insufficient, the Japanese would use fighter jets, and if the transport planes were reconnaissance planes were on the top, they would blow up the county town if they could not accurately blow up the combat fortifications... Shortly after the air strike began, the entire Quanjiao County town was wrapped in smoke and churning flames.

"Woo Ang~" When a Japanese fighter plane rushed down, he felt that it was too close to the smoke group and pulled it up urgently, so he put the bomb down at will. However, with the "boom" from the ground, he saw a black cloud sinking like a black cloud and suddenly emitted a bright flame. A stream of black smoke tumbling up and broke through the original smoke group... It was an important storage area for the Chinese people to fight! Three planes hovering over immediately rushed towards this place that had not been blown before...

There were many bombing spots like this that were suddenly discovered by the Japanese in surprise. From time to time, strange smoke and flames would appear in places where they had not been bombarded or air strikes. Li Tianhao used the tricks that Cao Xiaomin had used in Wangting. The mixture of coal powder and gasoline kept luring the Japanese bombs to throw them into places with no combat meaning!

The smoke of gunpowder became thicker and thicker, and it continued to spread into the sky. The thick smoke that covered the sky completely made the Japanese plane unable to aim at the target. They hurriedly threw away the bombs and flew onto the line of fire. At this time, the line of fire was covered with artillery fire, and the dust was high for half a day. The plane could not determine the target of the attack and could only continue to hover and standby.

There was black smoke outside the tunnel. The soldiers hiding inside, whether they were new or veterans, were accompanied by every nearby explosion vibration. If they were hit directly by heavy artillery or bombs, they would be unsure whether the entrance of the tunnel dug into the mountain wall would collapse! Every shell that exploded near the tunnel would shine thick smoke, which looked like lightning mixed in thunder and rainstorms, which made people frightened, but the officers and soldiers in the tunnel could not see all of this. The entrance of their tunnel had mud walls for protection, and there were also wooden doors with cotton coats as linings inside the tunnel, which were used for anti-toxic gas.

If you can't see any terrifying scenes, you don't have fear. Just the air that makes people's ears bulge and the light in the tunnel that is filled with dust and dim and invisible, it makes people feel extremely nervous, as if they are in the end of the world...

Not everyone has the luck to hide in the tunnel. Those contact soldiers, observation posts and machine gunners in the fighting tunnel that must be warned at any time will suffer from glaring explosions flashing from time to time in the dark. Sometimes they will see their brothers shouting again, but everyone's ears are buzzing and unable to hear clearly, so they can only express it with gestures. The orderly defensive division seems to be chaotic.

From time to time, machine gun bullets will hit the Japanese group that are gathering to prepare for the attack through black smoke, declaring the existence of the defenders, and various special mobilizations in the thick smoke are also being carried out frequently... "Report to the company commander, the Japanese infantry did not enter the attack fortification this time and directly pressed to the edge of the artillery belt..." "Report to the company commander, the entrance of the No. 9 tunnel was blown up and was not buried. The entrance of the big hole was dug. The Ninth Squad cannot be dispatched immediately within fifteen minutes..." "Report to the company commander, the Japanese in the District 4 were sneaking into the No. 6 ravine..." The desperate correspondents and observation posts could only continue to exchange their lives for the situation report in the artillery fire. All the company commanders were worried and kept making mobilizations, constantly filling people in the observation posts and traffic trenches with casualties. Talk and laugh at the yard and walk in the pretentious performance of the generals who were not on the front line. On the front line of blood and fire, even if you are a general, you can only be as embarrassed as a hungry dog!

As the flag-speaking soldiers waved the flag, a group of grenade launchers suddenly rushed from the hidden backscene to the thick smoke. The artillery fire that had just been transferred from the Japanese was hand and foot in the traffic trench and rolled to the designated location... The dust and dust covered all the original ground marks. Everyone didn't even have time to breathe, so they began to use small shovels and steel helmets to turn the ground to find the white stones to look for numbers and direction marks... The last thing came was their commander with the complete signal of the flag-speaking soldiers.

The soldiers obtained by the department arranged the shooting parameters as soon as they arrived... After the back slope of their departure, the two mortars had also completed the shooting preparations. Then, suddenly, under the unexpected situation of the Japanese, more than a dozen grenade launchers and two mortar shells fell on the heads of the Japanese frontier troops who were about to charge when the artillery fire stopped. The shells were almost all empty. The shock wave formed a violent rush. It covered the shrapnel with shrapnel and blew the entire Japanese infantry lying on the ground, causing corpses to spread all over the field...

The Japanese front-line commanders who were commanding behind couldn't help but breathe when they saw this scene: These Chinese people were still able to use light artillery counterattacks so efficiently when they were under shelling? Is this really the Chinese army?

***The strikes of these light gun groups were all completed with rapid fire. Even if there was not such strong smoke, the Japanese army was not sure to catch them even with a good field of vision. After the planned ammunition was fired, the hot gun barrel was wrapped in a cotton coat, and the gun groups immediately began to transfer. Although the gunmen were watching, the criterion and the speed of fire were not as good as the opponent, in this case, after pre-measurement and even when the direction marks were engraved on the ground, their performance in the thick smoke was shocking: every artillery attack could accurately hit the heads of the Japanese group that was gathered and ready to fight. Each bombardment could kill a group of Japanese soldiers on the ground, causing the attacked Japanese troops to lose the power of the group charge!

If *** could have more mortars, more grenade launchers, more ammunition... Unfortunately, they only have these equipment. In order to take care of more strike points, they had to run back desperately and immediately let the physically energetic brothers take over the weapon and advance to the next attack target; after three to four rounds of rapid fire, they had to let the weapon rest; after firing the planned ammunition, they could only stand by and watch... Whenever these gun groups were damaged in the enemy's artillery fire and their weapons were lost, the firepower of the next attack became weaker; although weak, ***'s light artillery attack clusters have always existed after the Japanese infantry were pressed over, and have been using amazing damage to the Japanese front-line troops, making it difficult for them to attack fiercely after the artillery fire stopped!

The Japanese artillery fire began to extend. The shells that crossed the mountain hit the foot of the mountain in the distance. The dust that exploded could spread to the top of the mountain in less than two minutes. The shells that fell directly to the backscene surface exploded and burst into flames to stir up heat waves, which made the troops mobilized behind the backscene surface frightened... Every bloody battle between the Chinese team and the Japanese had no rear, and they fought in the cracks of artillery fire!

As the Japanese heavy artillery field artillery fire extended, the sound of mortar group began to strike. The Japanese who had been measured by live-fire shooting the day before also began to show their level. Almost all the mortar shells covering the forward trenches can ensure a high hit rate directly into the trenches. In an instant, shrapnel flew across the trenches, and the shrapnel rebounded from the trenches formed a second and third time to kill the objects in the trenches!... However, the trenches were empty!

When the Japanese were attacking heavy artillery, the fire lines of counterattacking machine guns in the frontier trenches had already given the Japanese an impression on the frontier. When the Japanese increased their attacks on the machine gun group and began to use machine guns, these machine gun groups had been moved and retreated one after another. They left the Japanese a death trench full of stings on the back wall!

After the experience of the last time, the poisonous stings were prepared more fully, and a deep mark was carved on the spikes. More poisons could be left when the poison was tempered. The length was completely set according to the post-war autopsy results. It was thicker and shorter than the original spikes, which was enough to ensure that they could pierce the Japanese thin cotton jacket!

In order to facilitate tactical movements and tolerate the high temperature in the trenches, the Japanese all wore thin cotton coats when charging, and some people even exaggeratedly wore shirtless in snow. The original length was redundant and not conducive to concealment. (In the previous chapter, a book friend questioned the temperature of the poison, but these vicious methods were not produced by yy. Although they were not promoted throughout the army, they were only used within a small part of the army (Gui Army), but they were all used in actual combat in winter. I thought there was no reason at that time but I couldn't find a reason. Later, I woke up suddenly and probably because the temperature of the artillery fire guaranteed the effect of the poison in the human body. Don't always say that our ancestors were stupid. In fact, many poisonous tricks were not needed. Everyone had used them a long time ago. The novel only expanded the scale of use...)

"How many people have come back!" Almost all the chief officers who were blocking the defense line at the entrance of the traffic trench braved artillery fire to greet the last dead soldiers. The soldiers who rushed out and stinged the poisonous stings at the moment when the Japanese heavy artillery fire extended... The sound of counting always makes people feel sad. There was about one platoon in each front line, but there was no one squad in each front line. These dead soldiers did not rush towards the enemy, nor died on the way to charge. Many of them would be cut into shrapnel under the blow of the mortar group and then stomped into meat sauce in the next tug-of-war between the two sides... But they did not regret that they were just transformed into a piece of this land, just like when they were alive!

Slowly, in the distance of the extended artillery fire, the harsh explosion of the mortar suddenly broke. At this time, the soldiers with swollen ears had the illusion of being deaf. But soon, the sound waves from afar, like a rising tide began to pour in again: the roar of the tank's motor, the sound of the leather boots that could not be heard clearly, but mixed together would make people feel nervous... From far to near, it became louder and louder...

"Brothers!..." Warriors in the tunnels hidden everywhere finally rushed out of the tunnel after suffering dizziness and chest tightness, maintaining the height indicated by the commander's rifle in the traffic trench, hugging the gun quickly without being noticed outside. Although many combat positions in the trench have been blown out of recognition by heavy artillery, with their familiarity with the position, these soldiers can find their positions almost by running distance!

Soldiers rushing in the trenches could feel the murderous intent brought by the bullets flying over their heads. Gunshots had long been heard on the positions. The civil-24 machine guns that had been hidden and had not been fired, and all the light machine guns that had been transferred to their positions, as well as the Type 92 heavy machine guns arranged in the combat tunnels have all fired...

Witnessing the frontline, the group of soldiers who were hit hard by light artillery attacks, the Japanese commanders behind them all understood that if they did not want to waste this artillery fire, they could only continue to send troops to the top. They had to risk the large amount of machine gun firepower that existed, and began a wave-like charge, trying to use the spirit of Bushido to snatch down the defense line!

It's great! The firepower on the position is firing wildly. Due to the lateral direction, the Japanese tanks are not easy to find them. The machine gun teams, both light and heavy machine guns, are already familiar with the tactic of changing positions after a round, and it is even more difficult to be eliminated by the Japanese. The bullets are always suddenly hit in different directions, and the Japanese formations that rushed up hurriedly are torn open from time to time, and the people who fill it up immediately... After the charge group passed, there was a corpse on the position where the Japanese rushed over - this was just a matter of war! The situation surprised the Japanese commanders behind them. They really didn't expect that Quanjiao would meet such a good Chinese team!

The top of his head was filled with smoke and dust, and his back was leaning against the trench wall, waiting for the command of the commander. Every soldier who grabbed the robbers was the same nervous. Whether it was new and old soldiers, if they said that fighting was like playing, they would be the ones who deceived the rookies who had never been on the battlefield. They could die for the country as soon as they emerged! The tide-like footsteps of the Japanese were clearly heard, this was a large army, a wave-like charge! Every veteran knew that although they had not seen the enemy yet...

"Kill me!" The sound of shouting suddenly sounded like an angry wave... "Prepare for battle!..." The trenches echoed the order, and the sound of "Kalele" pushing bullets was filled with sounds, and countless rifles quietly stretched out the trenches to aim under the cover of the front cover of the earthblock...

(Author: The ruthless tricks in the article, most of the earth-shaking remedies come from the Gui army. Perhaps it is because these children from poor mountains and rivers have their unique viciousness and cleverness and many folk recipes to survive in the mountains and wilds, so they can not let the Japanese in stale environments like the Dabie Mountains and not let the Japanese indomitable land... I heard from the veterans that there were many incredible ways. Who could say that the Chinese people at that time had done their best in the confrontation...)
Chapter completed!