Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

Chapter 118 Where are there any civilians in this village?

Going back half an hour, when Team Leader Li just took the stage, Huang Yourong had quietly led his Second Battalion to ambush in the cornfield outside Wang Village.

 Summer corn basically begins to reach its peak growth period after entering July. This green gauze tent provides natural cover for the soldiers of the 772nd Regiment.

 In this era, unlike later generations, we do not have the conditions to be covered by artillery fire in case of trouble. For enemy-occupied villages in important strategic locations like Wangcun, the Eighth Route Army needs to send infantry deep into them to clean them up.

This process is quite tricky, and commanders need to master corresponding infantry tactics to make village clearing operations safer and more efficient.

 Cheng Xiazi, as a leader of the main force with both good character and academics, has received professional training in this aspect. Before the operation began, he formulated a detailed combat plan for the Second Battalion based on the actual combat environment in Wangcun.

This village was built along a dirt road. A main road ran through the center of the village, with buildings on both sides of the main road.

Due to Wang Taizhong, an old and immortal man, the area of ​​​​the village has expanded rapidly in recent years. To make it easier for villagers to travel, a auxiliary road was built, which made the cleanup task more difficult.

 According to Cheng Xiazi's arrangement, this battle needs to divide the troops into four parts. Considering the width of the battlefield, the number of people who can attack and clear the village at the same time is only one company of soldiers.

  The first part is the ambush group, which is mainly responsible for cutting off the Japanese's retreat route through firepower, and at the same time preventing the enemy from establishing firepower points on favorable terrain outside the village.

 Originally, the size of the ambush group should not be too large. Usually a platoon of soldiers is enough.

However, considering that when the battle started, additional troops might be sent to the strongholds and artillery towers near Wangcun, Cheng Xiazi simply asked the Second Company of the Second Battalion to ambush there.

 The second part is the fire team, which is the core of the tactics for implementing fire blockade.

These soldiers are intended to make each house isolated and unable to support each other, and also to make it difficult for the Japs to maneuver quickly in the village.

 After the fire team takes control of the overall situation, infantry is dispatched to clear these buildings one by one.

Since the task of this group is relatively heavy, Cheng Xiazi arranged a platoon of soldiers. In addition to the basic MAS-36, ten light machine guns and fifteen precision shooters were allocated to ensure firepower.

 The third part is the assault team, who need to undertake the dangerous work of entering the building to clean up the Japanese.

 Originally, in this kind of close combat situation, the most suitable equipment is a submachine gun. It's a pity that the 772nd Regiment does not have this kind of equipment, so it can only use a shell gun instead.

 Because Wangcun is relatively large, this group was assigned two platoons of soldiers.

The fourth part is the headquarters. Before the battle begins, the blind man tells Huang Yourong that he must keep a company of soldiers as a reserve team, ready to go into battle when necessary.

 "General reserve team! Don't move!"

 According to the plan, the command headquarters should follow the fire team during combat and cover the sides and rear of the fire team.

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When Huang Yourong saw the Japanese patrolling outside the village retreating to the makeshift sentry post, he knew that Captain Li was about to start his final performance.

The battalion commander first gathered the company and platoon commanders around him. He repeated the battle plan for tonight, and then the various units began to take action.

 First, the second company commander leads the ambush group to advance in a concealed manner, occupying a favorable terrain opposite to the attack direction and waiting in hiding.

Since the Japs arrived in a hurry, and they did not expect that anyone would attack Wangcun on the first day, there were no searchlights on the randomly built sentry posts.

 The soldiers of the second company took advantage of the cover of the cornfield and arrived at the ambush location selected in advance very safely.

 After arriving at the location, they even built some simple bunkers. While ensuring that the firing position was concealed enough and could cover the enemy's retreat route, the comrades also cleared the firing perimeter.

 The next step is to wait. When Huang Yourong heard the explosion in Wangcun, it meant that tonight's operation officially began.

After a rapid round of mortar fire, Guan Weimin led the fire team and rushed towards the Japanese's outer position. I have to say that this group of devils does have some skills. The people originally responsible for maintaining law and order should be the subordinate units of the D Class Division. But under the training of Katsuhisa Muramoto, Category C combat effectiveness broke out in these small days.

 After being baptized by the first wave of shells, the surviving Japanese immediately fired illumination bombs. Under the illumination of white light, the Type 92 on the machine gun position made a shooting sound like a woodpecker.

Coupled with two crooked handles and a small number of Sanba Gai, this offensive temporarily delayed Guan Weimin and their attack.

But the number of Japanese soldiers who could fight was too small. Muramoto Katsuhisa spent most of his childhood listening to the opera, resulting in only a scattered group of more than 20 people on the battlefield.

There were not many defenders to begin with, but less than ten people were left after being bombed by mortars. The first moment the Japs opened fire, the precision shooters of the fire team focused on the enemy.

This peripheral defensive position, which took an entire afternoon to build, only blocked the Eighth Route Army outside the village for five minutes, but these Japanese soldiers bought precious time for their companions in the village with their lives.

Although the little ones who were farther away were not seriously injured, they were still beaten to pieces by the detonator. They took a brief breather, heard the sound of mortars and guns, and immediately ran to the barracks to get weapons.

Now the Japanese have hated their lieutenants in their hearts. If the Eighth Route Army hadn't started attacking, they would have pieced together the corpses first and then whipped them. What a show!

With the current state of these people, they will definitely be in trouble against the Eighth Route Army, which has been planning for a long time. But it is not their character to sit still and wait for death. Everyone is ready for a desperate fight.

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 The Japs who had obtained the weapons were preparing to attack under the leadership of a squadron leader. Although the situation is very unfavorable for them, they are confident in their fighting ability these days.

 But reality slapped them hard, and the fire team had already occupied a favorable position. As soon as the Japs appeared, they were pushed back by the firepower network composed of FM-24/29 and MAS-36, and they were forced to get into the house next to them.

At this time, the assault team will begin to clear the building. With the cover of the fire team, the Japs are no different from lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

 Hurry to fight, most of the people only brought rifles and lacked grenades and light machine guns. Their resistance was weak.

  When the soldiers of the assault team were clearing the building, they were divided into two groups: the support team and the assault team.

The soldiers of the assault team worked in groups of four. After the first soldier opened the door, the second soldier immediately threw an offensive grenade in.

The reason why you need to use force is to allow the grenade to bounce back and forth in the room to prevent it from being easily thrown back by the enemy.

 You can enter the door after the grenade explodes. Indoor combat determines that the soldiers do not have time to discuss tactics after entering the door. At this time, everyone's tacit understanding will be tested.

But the good news is that basically a grenade can solve all problems.

 The support team stayed outside the building to further block the building while providing necessary fire support to the assault group. If there is any little day where you can't think of anything and want to jump over the wall, then these people will definitely die under the shell gun.

The main road in the center of Wangcun is not a straight avenue, and coupled with the mutual blocking of buildings, the fire team can often only cover a limited area at one location.

 Cheng Xiazi has already considered this. After all, Huang Yourong and Guan Weimin came here to inspect it personally. When discussing tactics, the foresighted leader arranged multiple firepower points.

 Therefore, during the clearing process of Wangcun, the firepower team kept moving forward to new favorable terrain to set up guns. The two groups cooperated with each other and continued to advance in this way, steadily eliminating house after house of Japanese.

 At this time, the small life has almost collapsed. The enemies of outsiders are not only numerous in number, but also have very clear tactics. They are like turtles in a urn, their fate has long been doomed.

They couldn't fight or fight, couldn't run, and surrender was even more impossible. They could only stay in the room and wait to die. Only a few lucky people could escape to another exit of the village under a hail of bullets before the assault team arrived.

 The fate that awaits them is naturally the word death, but there is a whole company of fresh troops ambushed there.

 Half an hour later, the battle ended successfully. The Second Battalion of the 772nd Regiment wiped out all the Japanese in Wangcun at the cost of 27 soldiers being slightly injured and two soldiers dying.

 As for civilians? Don't be kidding, there are no civilians in this village. What's more, anyone who doesn't evacuate honestly before the battle can be regarded as an enemy, and traitors will suffer the consequences of traitors.

  It’s been a while since I’ve posted in the morning

 (End of this chapter)