I fought guerrilla warfare in the Yimeng Mountains during the Anti-Japanese War

The Japanese troops on the eastern Longhai Line had no intention of attacking Linyi City. They headed straight for Nishan after leaving the Longhai Line. They wanted to cross Nishan to attack Pingyi. The 3rd Regiment and the Lunan Detachment set up blocking positions in Liangqiu Town south of Nishan based on the Japanese army's marching route.

The Japanese troops on the Jinpu Line left the railway line and headed straight for Pingyi City. They wanted to meet up with the Japanese troops on the southern line in Pingyi City, and then attack Huanglong and assault Mengshan.

To the north of Dongguo Town, Teng County is the Lianqing Mountain Range, which acts like a barrier and forms the boundary between Tengzhou and Zoucheng.

Not far to the east of Lianqing Mountain Range, there is a mountain pass named Wujingkou, which probably means that both north and south roads can be reached after passing the pass.

Yamaguchi was the only way for the Japanese army to march. The Guards Regiment and the First Regiment set up various positions, waiting for the arrival of the devils.

At 9:30 in the morning, the vanguard of the Japanese army arrived. An infantry battalion was the first to rush to Wujingkou. To the north was the position of a regiment, and to the south was the position of a guard regiment. Neither side planned to hide, and they could not hide in broad daylight.

Seeing that the Japanese army had reached the mountain pass and was about to search everywhere, the heights on both sides opened fire at the same time, with mortars, rockets, anti-aircraft machine guns, light and heavy machine guns, and snipers everywhere.

The Japanese battalion had never seen such powerful firepower. Neither machine guns nor mortars were set up. They were completely suppressed. In just five minutes, a Japanese infantry battalion disappeared.

Two kilometers away, Lieutenant General Keiichi Kumagai, commander of the 15th Division of the Japanese Army, put down his telescope.

"Yo, the cold gun team's firepower is indeed strong, but the lack of heavy artillery is their biggest disadvantage. Notify the artillery regiment to start shelling in ten minutes and flatten the mountain pass in front of me."

At the Wujingkou Pass, members of the 1st Regiment and the Guard Regiment had already evacuated along the trenches. The first round of shelling would take at least half an hour. Although there were anti-artillery holes, they could not stop the Japanese army's bombardment. It didn't matter if the position was lost. The focus now was to delay time.

Five minutes later, there was no one on the positions on both sides of the mountain pass. The Japanese army did not notice it. The artillery was still nervously setting up positions. Five minutes later, the test firing began. After a round of shooting, the scale was adjusted, and countless artillery shells hit the mountain pass. A Japanese artillery regiment had four artillery battalions, and each battalion had twelve 75 field guns. The strike effect can be imagined.

boom! Boom boom boom!

The violent explosion caused rocks to fly all over the mountain pass. Not only the mountain pass, but also the artillery positions that had just fired were bombed. The Japanese bombing lasted for half an hour before gradually stopping.

The Japanese infantry began to attack. A battalion advanced in neat steps. Soldiers from the 1st Regiment and the Guards Regiment began to enter the trenches. Many places were blown down. The team members were worried that the Japanese would discover that it was an empty city plan, so they could only crawl over the collapsed trenches. This time, no heavy machine guns came up. The focus was still on using rocket launchers and light machine guns for defense, because they had to run after the battle.

Keiichi Kumagai didn't notice the little move of the Yamaguchi defenders. The defenders were almost blown up in the previous round of bombardment! Through the telescope, I saw dust rising from the Yamaguchi position. It was quite sparse. It seemed that the trench was blown down and was repaired!

The Japanese army was very arrogant. They marched up the mountain pass in orderly steps and divided into two groups to advance to both sides.

"beat"!

More than 40 Type 99 light machine guns on both sides opened fire, and more than 300 submachine guns also opened fire at the same time. More than 30 mortars in the back fired ten rounds at a rapid speed. More than 300 mortar shells penetrated the Japanese army in 40 seconds, and explosions occurred inside the mountain pass.

After the light machine guns and submachine guns had fired a volley of bullets, the Japanese brigade suffered heavy losses. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers carried the lightly wounded and fled frantically. Some were fleeing there, some were fleeing here, some were holding Type 99 light machine guns, some were holding submachine guns, they lowered their heads and fled quickly through the newly dug trenches.

boom! Boom boom boom!

Before the entire team could escape, the Japanese army began shelling again. This time there was no need to set up positions or aim, they just loaded and fired directly. Members of the 1st Regiment and the Guard Regiment began to suffer casualties.

In just two minutes, the Japanese artillery calculated the artillery position that had just fired. The mountain artillery was divided into two and fired at the calculated artillery position.

Kumagai Keiichi silently assessed the situation. More than a hundred people escaped from the charge just now. The key point was that there was no sound of heavy machine guns on the opposite side. Were they all blown up? Or were all the heavy machine gunners killed in the explosion? Very good. Kumagai Keiichi was not worried about the casualties. General Tada Shun had already told him that it was best to fight a positional war with the Yimeng guerrillas. One for one, one for two, or even one for three were all acceptable.

The shelling became sparse, and the soldiers of the 1st Regiment and the Guards Regiment continued to rush into the trenches despite the danger of explosion. This was the last time, and they would have to abandon their positions after this battle. After all the soldiers entered the trenches, the Japanese army finally moved out. This time there were only two infantry companies, and the number of more than 400 people looked much sparser.

After the soldiers entered the trenches, stretcher bearers also came in, carrying the bodies and the wounded and ran away. The main force had already begun to evacuate, and the artillery and submachine guns also had to run away after finishing this round.

Two minutes later, two squadrons came up, one on each side, and began to charge with bayonets in hand. Submachine guns and artillery fire started at the same time. The artillery only had time for five rapid shots. This was the third artillery position, and they had to run after firing five rapid shots.

The theoretical time for an MP38 submachine gun to fire a magazine of bullets is ten seconds, but in reality it takes about fifteen seconds. One hundred members came up on each side, and they finished a magazine of bullets in fifteen seconds. They had no time to check the results of the battle, and turned around and ran along the trenches.

Suffering a double blow from mortars and submachine guns, the two Japanese squadrons were left with only a few men left. They turned around and evacuated down the mountain, very humanely taking the lightly and seriously wounded with them. It was thanks to these remaining soldiers and the wounded that the shelling would have hindered the evacuation of the guerrillas. After they withdrew from the sight of the Japanese army west of the mountain pass, the two hundred members began to run wildly.

After just over a minute, the shelling started again. A violent explosion was right behind us. If we had run out twenty seconds later, there would have been heavy casualties.

Keiichi Kumagai had a headache. Although the opponent no longer had light or heavy machine guns, this submachine gun was too disgusting, so he had to change his tactics.

After ten minutes of artillery bombardment, two battalions came up and set up sixteen Type 92 heavy machine guns more than 300 meters away from the mountain pass. The sixteen heavy machine guns fired at the positions on both sides. The two battalions of Japanese troops swarmed forward under cover. The imagined counterattack was gone, and when they rushed into the trenches, there was no sign of any living people, and most importantly, there were no bodies either!

The two battalions of Japanese troops were at a loss. The battalion commander ordered a flag signal to the mountain foot, and the position was successfully occupied and safe.

Keiichi Kumagai waved his hand triumphantly, and the troops began to advance, with the artillery busy clearing up their positions.

Ten minutes later, Keiichi Kumagai reached the top of the mountain pass. Looking at his men's dejected faces, his heart skipped a beat. What went wrong?