Chapter 22 Fire Bull Array

The cold morning wind drifted past in waves, blowing away the dense fog-like gunpowder smoke.In the front of Jiajia Lane at the North Gate, there are still a few tree stumps emitting choking smoke, and a dozen scorched shrapnel were inserted deeply into the thin branches, marking the death of the previous attack. The harshness and violence of the shelling. "Platoon Leader Yin, look—" On the ground, a Chinese soldier who seemed to have crawled out of the soil said to Platoon Leader Yin Huiren.Platoon Leader Yin, like the soldier, was covered in soot and mud all over his face. He followed the soldier's fingers and found a group of running animals with yellow and black fur rolling towards him on the open ground in front of him. .what?can not see clearly.

"Enter the position and prepare to shoot!" Platoon Leader Yin opened his eyes and stared closely, while waving his hands and ordering loudly. The north gate was originally defended by the 2nd Battalion of the 169th Regiment. During the fierce siege of the northern front by the 116th Division of the Japanese Army, the 2nd Battalion suffered heavy losses. Three-quarters of the soldiers were killed or injured, including the battalion commander Guo Jiazhang. . On the 25th, Division Commander Yu adjusted the deployment of troops, withdrew the 2nd Battalion to the city for reorganization, and transferred the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Battalion of the 171st Regiment, which was relatively complete, to connect to the North Gate City Wall Base.

The company commander of the 3rd company was Ma Baozhen who fell in love with the daughter of the landlord's enlightened gentleman when he was stationed in Hefu.The huge northern city gate required a company of troops to defend, and it was really weak. He had to disperse all the troops and distribute them to the left and right wings and several points in the front to sit in command.Yin Huiren's platoon was sent to the frontal position in Jiajia Lane. Jiajia Lane is a street leading from the northwest suburbs to Beimen Main Street. Along the short embankment outside the street, the engineers of the 57th Division have built a skirmisher trench and two ground bunkers. To be bombarded, so the whole team was ambushed in the trench.Sure enough, after the bombardment by the Japanese army an hour before dawn, not only the two bunkers, but even the hundreds of houses in Jiajia Lane were completely razed to the ground.Just after dawn, dozens of planes patrolled back and forth, bombing and strafing the Jiajia Lane area of ​​the North Gate in turn.After nearly an hour of tossing like this, it gradually calmed down.By convention, it was time for the infantry to charge.Sure enough, the Japanese army started to attack, but it was not people who rushed up.

"A cow, it's a cow!" The brothers exclaimed after seeing clearly. I saw nearly a hundred farm cattle, whose heads were covered with military blankets by the Japanese army, and a torch was tied to each cow's tail. When the fire burned at the buttocks, the cattle ran forward in pain.The cattle are the treasure of the farm family, but now they have become the weapons of the Japanese army's attack. The cattle, which are usually docile and gentle in the fields, are now furious and rushing towards the national army's positions like crazy. The Japanese army attacking the North Gate was the 133rd Regiment of the 116th Division. The commander of the regiment, Kurose, was a typical national chauvinist.As far as the fire bull array he used is not a new thing, it was originally an old Chinese trick two thousand years ago.Tian Dan, the general of the state of Qi who was guarding Mo City, used this method to defeat the infantry of the state of Yan.He painted the cattle with grotesque colors, tied sharp knives to their horns, lined up hundreds of cattle, tied firelighters to their tails, and set them on fire at the same time. Just rush forward.During the Warring States period, chariot formations were often used in battles. The soldiers of Yan State saw colorful monsters rampaging and had no way to resist for a while.

But Kurose's use of the Fire Bull Formation has another meaning.He believes that the Yamato nation is an excellent nation, and the Japanese are very precious. It is a pity to let Japanese soldiers die so easily in the attack, so he used cows instead of people to charge, and exchanged the lives of cows for those of his excellent race. .It stands to reason that this is not in line with the "bushido" spirit that the Japanese have always advocated. In many cases, Japan advocates replacing material weapons with spirit and body, and fighting to the death with the enemy.For example, Hideki Tojo said in his reply to the Budget Committee of the House of Representatives: "War is fought by three elements. The first is people. I think the first element is very important..." When he inspected an air force training facility , Asked the airmen in training: "What do you use to shoot down enemy planes?" One airman replied: "Shoot down with bullets." The tactics of collision also embodies the military thought that human life is superior to material.The so-called "Ye Yin" spirit that the body dies and the spirit lasts forever is very deep-rooted in the hearts of the Japanese.In the end, some Japanese ministers proposed to the emperor to use "a piece of jade" to save the defeat. Therefore, although the Japanese regard themselves as a noble nation, they are not afraid of sacrifice.

But this is only the surface of things, because the "Ye Yin" spirit of the Yamato nation is, in essence, aimed at nations that are stronger than it, or as strong as it, and for those nations that they think are inferior, For a nation inferior to them, the Japanese would not easily trade their lives for their lives.This may be an equivalent or unequal guiding ideology at work. In fact, the Chinese nation also has such a phenomenon. The Chinese not only dared to bayonet the powerful "American devils" and "Soviet revisionists", but also sacrificed their lives to blow up the bunkers, and the heroic stories of blowing up the blasting barrels to kill the enemy with the enemy emerged endlessly. Mao Zedong once did such a thing. Thesis: It is not weapons that determine the outcome of a war, but people.When a person is fighting an opponent who is stronger than himself, he not only manipulates the weapon, but also turns it into a weapon and projects it.But for the hard-mouthed and weak-hearted Vietnamese, the behavior of the Chinese is completely different. In the border counterattack in 1979, in order to reduce the danger of soldiers crossing minefields, a famous veteran general resolutely decided to also use the fire bull formation to charge.In many attacks, in order to keep the casualties of soldiers to a minimum, the commanders usually use all their strength to bombard until the hills are flattened, and they only need to run up to make up a few shots to destroy the remnants of the enemy.At this time, people have become the most precious life wealth.

Looking at it from a distance, it is quite interesting to explore these statements as the psychology of war, but in the actual state of war, the side that is treated with contempt will feel humiliated by this unequal way of fighting, and they will never will accept. "Don't shoot!" Platoon Leader Yin ordered.After he saw clearly that it was indeed a cow, he blushed with anger and cursed: "Little Japanese devil, you don't need to be beaten by a fucking man, use a cow! This cow is still our Chinese cow! Fucking coward!" If he is afraid of death, don’t come to invade!” After he finished cursing, he ordered the brothers: “Everyone spread out, let the cattle rush over, we don’t fight cattle, let alone Chinese cattle, we fight I'm going to hit the little Japanese dog robber, and wait for the people behind him to rush up and beat me hard!"

The cattle rushed up aimlessly, and their eyes were blindfolded and they couldn't see anything. Anyway, they just ran forward and ran to the front of the bunker. Because the trench was shallow and narrow, the running cattle could easily step over. It passed, and the one who didn't step over struggled a few times and got away.Therefore, the fire ox array basically did not play any role. Immediately behind the Fire Bull Formation is the wave-shaped troops of the Japanese army.This wave team has a total of more than 400 people, forming 6 tower-shaped waves, arranged in one, two, and three formations.While the wave was charging, the Japanese army blocked the retreat of the Yin platoon with mortars, making it impossible for them to retreat, and the reinforcements from the rear could not be sent.This time the enemy took out the posture that must be won, and made the most ferocious attack.

Seeing this scene, the platoon leader Yin Huiren was also full of enthusiasm, so he went all out to do it.He ordered all the brothers to unscrew the caps of the grenades and hold them in their hands or hang them on their bodies. When the Japanese army approached very close, almost facing each other, they all jumped out of the trenches. There was no time to pull the trigger, and the grenade in the hands of the soldiers of the national army exploded, sparks opened, and both the enemy and us were turned on their backs, lying on the ground. The Japanese army was divided into 6 waves to fight, and the brothers of the platoon leader Yin also divided into 6 groups and died together with the enemy.After the last wave of the Japanese army entered the position, Yin Huiren led the remaining brothers, including the wounded soldiers, tore up his voice and gave a tiger roar, before throwing grenades and rushing forward.Rushing into the pile of Japanese soldiers, there is no need for hand-to-hand combat at all. I smashed the bullet casings in my hand at the Japanese soldiers' heads hard. When I smashed them, my little finger pulled the fuse, and the roar of explosions disappeared in the smoke and flames. .

The position is quiet.Amidst the chaos, a few dazed cows lingered in the field where corpses were strewn across the field. On average, each soldier of the national army earned at least the lives of nearly ten Japanese soldiers.Yin Huiren is telling Kurose: Chinese lives are not at all cheaper than Japanese lives.