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

The Japanese attack in the morning was very crazy, with planes, tanks, heavy artillery, various infantry artillery and indirect fire artillery. The assault troops followed the explosion points of the shells. Although it was very dangerous and there would be casualties from accidental bombings, the commander was already crazy. Their task was to break through the third line before noon today and fire the shells into Teng County before dark.

The Sichuan Army fought extremely hard. The Japanese were desperate. Following the explosion of artillery shells, they had no time to fire their guns or throw grenades and just rushed out of the trenches to fight with bayonets. The Sichuan Army suffered heavy casualties, and the Japanese also suffered heavy casualties. There was no rest time at all in the morning. The Japanese attacked in wave after wave, like a tide, pouring towards the Sichuan Army's positions.

The Sichuan Army was not afraid of bayonet fighting. They all used large machetes and specialized in chopping the necks of the Japanese. When it was intense, they bit and pinched with their hands. Even if they were hit by bayonets, they held onto the legs of the Japanese and fired the glorious bullets, causing casualties everywhere.

The commanders of the front-line regiments divided the defensive forces into two parts. One part hid in the trenches and endured the bombing, waiting for the Japanese to come up and fight with bayonets. The other part hid in the trenches at the back. Once the battle on the front line became tense, they would rush forward and drive the Japanese back with the advantage of being well-rested. Then they would take over the trenches and let the previous batch of soldiers return to the trenches to hide.

The Japanese had just retreated a hundred meters when artillery shells came again. The position was filled with smoke. After the shelling was over, the next wave of Japanese were about to arrive.

No one expected that the fighting on the third front would be so brutal. Both sides had reached their limits and it was just a matter of who would give up first. At this time, it was not a competition of courage and strength, but who was calmer and more indifferent in the face of death, who was more ruthless, and who was more desperate.

The morning attack was over, and a large number of corpses of both sides were left on the battlefield. The Japanese had already started eating, and the Sichuan Army ordered some soldiers to eat something to replenish their strength, while the other part of them avoided the Japanese artillery shells and cleaned the trenches and the front line. The Type 38 rifles and melon grenades left behind by the Japanese were the favorites of the Sichuan Army soldiers.

The Japanese continued to charge in the afternoon, but fortunately there were not many planes and they disappeared after just one round of bombing. The artillery fire was also sparser than in the morning. The Sichuan Army changed its strategy. As long as the Japanese did not have planes to bomb, they would fire under the artillery fire. The regiment commander had already given the order not to save ammunition and to fire indefinitely once the Japanese crossed the 300-meter line.

Without the support of aircraft, the Japanese army gradually showed signs of fatigue. They had never encountered such a fierce battle as today. They rushed to the position several times, but were driven down several times. They could not even lose to this group of straw sandal soldiers in bayonet fighting. It was a shame for the Imperial Army. In the afternoon, they charged three times under the artillery fire, but were intercepted by the Sichuan Army at the 50-meter line all the time. No matter how fiercely they charged, a few waves of grenades thrown by the Sichuan Army from above would instantly clear out a large number of Japanese troops.

As the sun set, the Japanese troops stopped their attacks. The Sichuan Army was also rescuing the wounded and clearing the battlefield. Many soldiers died in the fight with the Japanese troops and could not be pulled apart.

The officers and regiment commanders who came down from the division headquarters made a serious analysis. If the Japanese planes came again tomorrow morning, the position would not be able to be held. They made a plan to retreat tonight and asked the division headquarters for instructions. Wang Mingzhang asked Chen Feng to come to the division headquarters and had a serious discussion based on the current situation. Chen Feng put forward some opinions. They could retreat, otherwise they would not be able to retreat at all if they fought to the death with the Japanese army tomorrow. However, they could not retreat in a high-profile manner. They had to create some illusions for the Japanese and lead them to make some wrong judgments.

Wang Mingzhang ordered all the troops to camouflage their positions, and the main force was to withdraw before three in the morning. Each regiment would leave behind a platoon of troops, and after daybreak, they would make confusing moves and then secretly withdraw, leaving the enemy to blow up their positions tomorrow!

After the team retreated, they quickly passed through the north gate's defense line, entered the county town to rest, and then joined Zhang Xuanwu's troops to deploy defenses in the county town.

The commander of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, Lianjie Isogai, was very angry. The frontline attack troops were so unsuccessful, which was like a slap in the face. In the past, there was insufficient air force support, heavy artillery and artillery shells. But now, they could not even beat the beggar-like Sichuan Army in bayonet combat. It was a great shame and humiliation. He gave a death order to all the frontline troops and had contacted Nanyuan Airport to start using aerial bombs to plow the land at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning. If there was no breakthrough, all commanders would not have to leave the front line.

At five o'clock in the morning, all the front-line troops set up false targets, withdrew from the trenches and ditches, leaving behind a platoon of troops, and quietly moved towards Teng County.

At daybreak, the remaining Sichuan troops moved back and forth on the battlefield, looking busy, lighting fires everywhere. After making sure that the Japanese had noticed them, they jumped out of the trenches and used the communication trenches to escape from the battlefield.

At half past seven, the Japanese attack vanguard was ready. The Japanese soldiers with sanitary napkins tied to their heads appeared again. This time there were three whole rows of them with sanitary napkins alone. The captain or squadron leader, who also had sanitary napkins on his head, was making a pre-war mobilization. The Japanese soldiers who had rested for a night were in high spirits. The team made bursts of wind and board-cutting sounds and their morale was high.

At exactly eight o'clock, the planes arrived. There were 150 sorties of planes on the entire third line of defense. The artillery also began to fire. The scream of the dive bombers and the explosion of bombs and artillery shells were deafening, and the Sichuan Army's positions were in chaos.

Before the planes flew away, the assault troops attacked, some holding guns, some holding swords, they marched in neat steps, shouting "Ban Cai", and advanced towards the Sichuan Army's position. The bombing was completed, the planes circled in the sky, completed the mission and flew away, the artillery was still bombarding, the 150mm howitzers, the Type 92 infantry guns, the tank guns, and the indirect fire guns, even if the shells were used up, they had to clear a path for the vanguard troops to charge.

The Japanese advanced to the front line of 100 meters. The artillery fire had not stopped yet and the Japanese had already started to suffer casualties. Looking at the silent trench, the Japanese commander showed a cruel look. He ignored the continuous artillery fire and held his command knife forward. The Japanese with hideous faces began to charge, with a chorus of screams.

When the Japanese artillery saw the troops start to charge, they immediately stopped shelling. When the Japanese rushed into the trenches, a loud explosion was heard. The Japanese in the trenches were killed or wounded. Many of them had their legs broken and were wailing in pain.

The Japanese were all dumbfounded. Landmines? Landmines in the trenches. Where were the Sichuan troops? All of them were blown to death? Even if they were all blown to death, they couldn't be blown to pieces! The commander saw the ground full of broken limbs and arms, but they were just broken limbs and arms stuffed with branches and dead grass. Some of them were burned to ashes, and many were still burning fiercely.

The Japanese soldiers also understood that they were being fooled by the Sichuan Army! They were fooled by monkeys. They clearly still had the strength to resist. How could they abandon the front and retreat? Is it so rude? The Japanese commander had a gloomy face. He held it in for a long time before he said, "Baga, we are in trouble. The troops on the position have all withdrawn without noticing. A dereliction of duty is inevitable."