After the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance, the Kuomintang and the Communists put aside their struggle and began to resist the Japanese aggression. The guerrillas in the south were reorganized into the New Fourth Army, and under the leadership of the Communists, they fought against the Japanese army one after another and achieved good results. There is a legendary veteran of the New Fourth Army who once set a record for killing three Japanese troops with one shot.
He was Zhou Xiong, a soldier of the New Fourth Army from Hubei. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhou Xiong added anti-Japanese guerrillas to Macheng. After a brief training, he took part in the battle against Japan, and the first task of the unit was to eliminate the Japanese troops in the local strongholds.
The Japanese army had only one squad, about twenty people, but the firepower was strong, and a heavy machine gun gave the anti-Japanese team a headache. Fortunately, there are many people in the team, and they are familiar with the terrain, so it is still a bit certain to take down this stronghold.
After the battle order was issued, the soldiers were ready for battle, and according to the previous deployment, everyone entered the position. However, since it was the first time to fight with the enemy, some fighters exposed the target, and the experienced Japanese troops on the battlefield quickly adjusted their heavy machine guns and fired from time to time. He had planned to charge with more people, but now he could only lie on the ground.
Seeing this, Zhou Xiong leaned over to the captain's side and suggested that two fighters should be taken around from one side, as long as they could get close to the heavy machine guns of the Japanese army, and blow him up with grenades. The captain agreed.
Zhou Xiong led the people to roll and lie down, and went around in a large circle, approaching the heavy machine gun fire point of the Japanese army. Seeing that the enemy was frantically suppressing the troops in front of him, he did not notice himself. Zhou Xiong knew that the opportunity was rare, he let the two warriors take cover, pulled out the grenade himself, and was about to throw it, but hesitated, he was distressed about the heavy machine gun, if he could hand it over.
Thinking of this, he pulled out the shell gun and planned to fight for his life to seize the heavy machine gun. The Japanese heavy machine gun has a characteristic, its bullets are intermittent supply, after a shuttle, someone next to the supply. Hearing that the heavy machine gun was no longer barking, Zhou You looked up and saw that the Japanese army was loading bullets, and coincidentally, the 3 Japanese heads were just on a line, like a string of sugar gourds, he raised his hand to shoot, and the heads of the 3 Japanese soldiers were crooked, all dead.
Zhou Xiong hurried forward to grab the machine gun, and just as the troops behind him came up, everyone was angry and eliminated the more than twenty invaders. In this battle, the anti-Japanese guerrillas not only eliminated the Japanese army, but also surrendered a heavy machine gun, which greatly enhanced the enthusiasm for resisting Japan. The legend of Zhou Xiong's shooting down three devils was talked about by everyone.