The war of resistance against mountains is heavy

Chapter 2237: What is the enemy?

The Japanese army rushed to the high ground that Shang Zhen's company had originally defended, and all they could see were some shell casings left there and an open area about three or four hundred meters in front of them. As for the opposite side, there was still a low hill with trees.

From the time the independent brigade fired the first shot to the time the Japanese army rushed up the hill, it took only five or six minutes. At this moment, the Japanese troops who rushed up the hill were at a loss.

They looked back and saw that many carriages on the road had also overturned and wounded people were rolling on the ground.

They turned back and looked ahead, and saw another lush and green summer scene.

Is this the guerrilla warfare that the Chinese army is fighting? The Japanese army is not stupid. They can still estimate how many Chinese troops ambushed them just now. There must be thousands of them, right?

Using thousands of people to conduct guerrilla warfare? They really have never seen it before! Shouldn't thousands of people fight positional warfare?

But just as these Japanese soldiers who had "reached the summit" were confused, gunshots rang out again from the woods on the opposite side of Anshan.

In this shooting which was much quieter than the previous ones, three more Japanese soldiers who had finally climbed up to the high ground were shot and fell to the ground. As for the more bullets fired from the opposite side, they either flew away or hit the soil on the high ground.

Amid the sound of gunfire, the Japanese soldiers quickly lay down and began shooting at the opposite side.

It is said that the distance of three or four hundred meters is not too far considering the Japanese army's marksmanship, but the problem is that the vegetation on the other side is much better than this side. At this distance, they can't see where the Chinese soldiers are hiding.

"Pah", "Pah", "Pah", the enemy and our side fought in the air.

There were not many Japanese troops climbing up the hill.

They only have one squadron, and after being attacked by the independent brigade, there were fifty or sixty casualties. They also have to take care of other things. So how many of them can rush to the high ground?

However, the Japanese army did not know how many Chinese soldiers were hit during such shooting. What they knew was that their soldiers were constantly being shot and either died from bullets in the head or were seriously injured from bullets in the chest.

It was only at this time that the Japanese army realized that the Chinese army on the opposite side actually had a sharpshooter!

By the time the Japanese army reacted, they had suffered six more casualties!

At this point, the Japanese army's combat effectiveness had been greatly reduced. Not only had the casualties reached one-third, but the number of injured soldiers was far greater than those who "died in battle", and their injuries were extremely serious!

The reason is simple. The soldiers of the independent brigade are generally not good at shooting, and it is much easier to injure someone than to kill him. What's more, the guns of the independent brigade are very broken and old.

An old gun has insufficient penetrating power. Once the bullet flies to a certain place and hits a human body, it will roll inside the human body no matter where it is. When the bullet enters the human body, it only leaves a bullet hole, and when it flies out, the smallest bullet hole will be as big as a walnut!

In addition, several of their horses carrying baggage and supplies were knocked down, and their carriages collapsed, making it difficult for them to transport baggage and wounded soldiers. How could they continue their campaign?

The Japanese commander could only order the messenger to find Commander Wang in front.

The hundreds of puppet soldiers led by Commander Wang were not idle. They first fired at the heights on both sides of the hills. Then, in order to give an explanation to the Japanese, he ordered the puppet soldiers to go around the hills!

As for this stretch of terrain, how long were the highlands on both sides? How could Commander Wang, a local resident, not know? By the time his puppet troops bypassed the highlands, the independent brigade had already disappeared!

The independent brigade ran away, and the puppet soldiers also fired their guns. The puppet officer running in the front whispered to his men, "Fire more shots!"

Why did we fire more shots? On the one hand, of course, we wanted to give the Japanese an explanation, seeing how aggressively we fought against the independent brigade!

The other reason is more complicated.

The ammunition for these puppet troops is now supplied by the Japanese army, not by themselves.

At the beginning, the puppet army had their own ammunition, but the Japanese army found that this was not possible because the puppet army would secretly sell bullets in order to make money.

The puppet army just wants to make money. They don’t care who they sell the bullets to. They will sell them even if the anti-Japanese troops can afford the price!

As time went on, the Japanese naturally discovered this, and simply took back the supply of bullets from the puppet army, and only gave them to the puppet army when there was a battle. They knew how many bullets each puppet soldier had and how many bullets each gun had. This move by the Japanese army really annoyed Commander Wang.

Now that a battle has finally begun, he doesn't even let his men fire a few more shots.

So, isn't there a reason here? If I fired two shots and said I fired five shots, then did I save up three bullets?

When the time comes, we will report the actual losses to the Japanese army. They will only have some bullets left, and we can sell them for money.

Bullets are a necessity in times of war!

The Eighth Route Army was called the Three-gun Tubalu. Wouldn't the Eighth Route Army want to become the Five-gun Tubalu or the Eight-gun Tubalu? But there was no other way, as bullets were too hard to get.

It is also because of this that as long as the puppet army has extra bullets, there will always be people willing to pay a high price to buy them.

So now those puppet soldiers were running away happily. By the time those hundreds of puppet soldiers got the news and returned, even Shang Zhenlian had disappeared!

The wounded always have to be pulled back, right?

If we want to pull the wounded back, we have to send soldiers to protect them. Otherwise, what will the independent brigade do if they attack the wounded again?

At this point, the punitive war launched by the Japanese army could no longer continue.

Under the order of the Japanese commander, the puppet soldiers began to go to the mountains to cut some small trees and make simple stretchers. There was no other way, the horses were knocked down and there were not enough horse-drawn carriages, so the job of carrying the wounded Japanese soldiers naturally fell on the puppet soldiers.

But at this moment, Commander Wang suddenly roared loudly. After all, he was the leader of hundreds of puppet troops, and his voice would definitely not be low.

The Japanese commander was surprised when he heard this, so he naturally asked the translator to ask. The answer he got was that a team of dozens of people under Commander Wang did not return while pursuing the independent brigade!

The Japanese commander was silent when he suddenly heard a burst of gunfire in the distance!

"Let's go and take a look!" Commander Wang was anxious, so the Japanese commander had no choice but to let a sergeant and a dozen Japanese soldiers go over to see what was going on.

By the time the Japanese and puppet troops arrived, the battle had already ended. There was blood on the ground, but not a single corpse of the puppet soldiers.

"It's over, it's over. Most of them were captured alive by the Independent Brigade!" Commander Wang's face turned sad.

What could the Japanese sergeant who followed him say? Why, the Japanese Imperial Army had dozens of casualties among the Independent Brigade, so why couldn't the Imperial Army have casualties?

Faced with the lush mountains and plains, what other options did the Japanese and puppet troops have? They could only withdraw.

But they didn't know at that moment that the "captured" puppet soldiers were walking and talking and laughing with the people from the Independent Brigade with guns in their hands.

"Some people have to die, otherwise so many Japanese would have died, and if none of us died, how would Commander Wang explain to the Japanese?" The puppet army leader was talking to the fat brigade commander.

"Yes, yes, yes, Old Wang is still smart! By the way, we were in a hurry to retreat when we were fighting, so how many Japanese devils did we kill?" The fat brigade commander asked the puppet army officer.

"When I came this way, I looked back and saw that I had to knock down dozens of them!" the puppet army officer replied.

"How are our people?" the fat brigade commander turned around and asked his chief of staff.

His chief of staff didn't even do any statistics, so each company reported its casualties, and the final statistics showed that their independent brigade also suffered more than 40 casualties.

"Hehe." The fat brigade commander laughed like a Buddha again. This deal is a good deal!

Really, not only the fat brigade commander, but many Chinese military officers now have such an idea in their subconscious mind, that the lives of Japanese devils are more valuable than the lives of Chinese soldiers. When the main force of the National Army could not achieve a one-to-one casualty ratio with the Japanese Army, his independent brigade has now achieved it. Of course, the fat brigade commander has reason to be happy.

The fat brigade commander was only happy for a moment, but his expression changed again: "What a pity, it's a pity that we can't clean up the battlefield. If we can clean up the battlefield, then won't we make a fortune again?"