Chapter 111: Battle Outside The Plantation
A guerrilla force wearing tattered clothes was fleeing the pursuit of several river warships, with many guerrilla members wounded and killed by naval guns.
“Oh no! Those pursuers are coming again, everyone withdraw quickly, quick, get into the cornfield there!”
“We’ve already gotten in, but the casualties in the rear guard troops are heavy! If this continues, I’m afraid our guerrilla force will soon lose more than one-tenth of its personnel!”
“The deputy captain has been killed in action, those damn pursuers are hateful! Why don’t they go to Shanghai to fight the Japanese troops!”
“Don’t talk anymore, quickly take all the surviving rear guard troops and withdraw into the cornfield, quick!”
“Terrible! These damn pursuers actually sent several airplanes for air strike bombing on us, all brothers quickly take cover for air defense! Quick! Hurry through the cornfield and hide in the nearby woods, quick!”
“Behind, quickly have the troops intercept those insidious pursuer troops coming from behind, they’ve brought a regiment’s worth of forces!”
“Damn it, these damn pursuers, they’re actually conducting a joint sea-land-air pursuit on us just like the Japanese troops, these damn things, run quick!”
With the artillery bombardment from several river warships in the river, batch after batch of guerrilla members’ casualties kept increasing, while at the same time making these guerrilla members discussed heatedly, desperately hiding into the nearby cornfield and woods on one side, while carrying out rear guard counterattack operations on the other.
Unfortunately, their inferior weaponry, even the cold weapons they were holding, had absolutely no way to counter the pursuing pursuers, and the artillery bombardment from the group of naval guns on the river warships, as well as the sweeping fire from the machine gun groups on the warships.
For a moment, across the entire river,
everywhere were sounds of guns and cannons, incessant,
along with bursts of shrill screams of agony, and sounds of being killed in action, and angry cursing, and pursuing shouts, even a series of airplane air strike bombing sounds, and the pursuing commander’s shouts of chase-kill-artillery-bombardment operation sounds.
In short, for a moment, the entire long river, and a large area of cornfield, and woods were all filled with a series of artillery bombardment sounds, and chaotic battle scenes.
Even at the most intense moments of the battle, these river warships also lowered small boats, dispatching a small portion of pursuers to join up with the support infantry troops that had already come from another direction for encirclement and suppression,
preparing to lock down the guerrilla force in the pursuit operation,
and these guerrilla force troops, under the situation of using inferior weaponry to flee and fight, had their casualty numbers continuously increasing,
and facing such ferocious joint sea-land-air pursuit and encirclement and suppression, the guerrilla members also desperately carried out rear guard cover for the main force, conducting transfer and breakout operations.
“What to do! Our rear guard troops probably won’t be able to hold off the pursuers behind much longer, but fortunately now those damn pursuer troops no longer have airplanes and warships pursuing, just that one annoying pursuing troop left!”
“The pursuing infantry troops, we’re not afraid of them, they only have one regiment of pursuing forces at most, we’re good at guerrilla warfare and ambush warfare, they can’t beat us, they’ll even be counter-killed by us in minutes!”
“Not necessarily! Their follow-up main force is also speeding up to catch up in pursuit!”
“Then where do we flee and break out now? Ahead seems to be the plantation of that big Shanghai merchant named Zhou Wenhua, do we go there? Or find other routes to flee and break out?”
“Find other places to break out! Why go there? To be surrounded by those pursuers chasing relentlessly behind?”
“Oh no, the pursuers from behind are coming up!”
“How did they catch up so fast? Where are our rear guard troops? They weren’t all annihilated, were they?”
“Hiss! So many pursuers! What to do?”
When those who had broken out and dodged the aircraft group of the pursuer troops and the artillery bombardment of the river fleet—the guerrilla force main force—had rushed out of the sea-air joint encirclement,
they too became panicked, discussed heatedly,
but unfortunately just as they were discussing most intensely, the pursuing troops from behind had already begun pursuing.
This made these guerrilla force main force even more panicked,
but also under their captain’s command, they prepared to carry out counterattack and breakout operations on the spot.
And at this time, the security team at Zhou Wenhua’s plantation also heard the noisy shouting sounds and guns and cannons sounds from outside, and quickly dispatched an elite troop, along with an artillery unit and heavy machine gun troops, to come out and see what exactly was happening outside.
Soon, these security team saw the battle scene outside that had already turned into a melee.
Both sides had personnel continuously suffering casualties.
It was just that these troops that had started fighting didn’t have many decent heavy machine guns, or mortars, or even a single artillery unit.
