Chapter Eighty-Three: Charge to the Death
At the time of the violent explosion on the mountain, Zhang Chong's large army had already completely walked out of the mountain forest, preparing to launch a large-scale attack on the Japanese army in front. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Just when they were only a mile away from the Japanese army, Zhang Chong ordered the troops to stop, but transferred a field artillery battalion and began to lock on more than a dozen fortresses aimed at the Japanese army!
"Open fire"!
For a time, at the Japanese fortress in front, the explosion roared, the flames soared into the sky, and a fortress was directly hit by a cannonball, and a huge hole was blown open in an instant.
However, this was just the beginning, and the shells of more than two dozen field guns followed one after another, and the explosions were heard one after another, and all the Japanese fortresses suffered devastating blows.
After about a few minutes, the Japanese fortress was completely reduced to ruins, and it was at this point that Zhang Chong gave the order to charge.
The soldiers in the field shouted one after another, and launched a fierce charge in the fierce gunfire, and the Japanese troops who were caught off guard were unable to raise their heads at this time by the fierce artillery fire, while in front of them was a torrent of thousands of people rolling towards them.
The sound of gunfire rang out on the east side of the entire Wuyang, and when the captain of the Japanese army stationed here picked up the phone and shouted for support, Wang Kaiyu's regiment had already broken through the dilapidated defense line of the Japanese army.
The turret where the Japanese captain was located was also reduced to rubble by the two heavy guns that followed.
The 184th Division took advantage of the chaos of the Japanese army's deployment and forcibly broke out in one go, and the Japanese brigade stationed here also lost more than half of it and retreated in panic.
When he rushed out of more than ten miles, Zhang Chong ordered: "Use heavy artillery to bombard Vortex Yang City"!
"But we have retreated in time now, the terrain here is flat, and it is daytime, what should we do if the Japanese planes come"? Xue Zizheng was puzzled.
"What does the absence of reinforcements for the Japanese army say"? Zhang Chong asked suddenly.
"There is at least one brigade besieging them, they only have 300 people, and if we don't open fire to attract the attention of the Japanese army, they won't be able to come back"! Zhang Chong said again.
"Open fire"!
With Zhang Chong's order, the 184th Division, which rushed out of the blockade line, set up heavy artillery to bombard the entire Voryang City.
"Boom"!
"Boom"!
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With a series of loud noises, the pillars of smoke in Vortex Yang City rose into the air, and the flames were rolling, and the Japanese troops stationed in the city learned that their eastern defense line had been breached, and the troops who broke through their defense line were not in a hurry to leave, and put on a posture of attacking Voryang City.
So the troops who originally surrounded and annihilated Lu Hai were evacuated from a large group to return to Wuyang City, but because it was not clear how many troops they surrounded and annihilated, the Japanese army also left a hand, and still one of their brigades that pursued Lu Hai before stayed.
The battle on Zhang Chong's side has ended, but the fierce battle is raging on Lu Hai's side, although the Japanese army has withdrawn a brigade, but the strength is still completely superior to Lu Hai.
Lu Hai's three battalions had suffered more than 100 casualties after a fierce battle, and now there were only more than 200 people left, and they still had more than 800 Japanese troops in front of them, which was completely four times their number.
When they heard the sound of artillery, everyone knew that Zhang Chong had begun to break through, and he should have succeeded in breaking through even if he counted the time, Lu Hai shouted to Hai Zhizhi: "Do we still have explosives"?
"A little more, but not much"! Kaijiji shouted as he opened fire.
"You take a platoon to the back and set up a minefield, and we block it." Lu Hai shouted.
Kaiji turned around and shouted at the soldiers, "Bring explosives and follow me!"
"Sun Yang, you take the mortar to the position of one mile and wait for us, and in ten minutes you will bombard this position on time"!
"Good"!
More than a dozen soldiers, no one picked up an explosive bag, followed Haizhizhi and hurriedly ran towards the back. Sun Yang's artillery also quickly withdrew with mortars.
"Brothers, hit me hard"!
Machine guns are firing accurately, rifles are being rapidly designed, and with grenades constantly being thrown, the ravines at the front are already densely packed with corpses, and the frenzied Japanese are still charging. Lu Hai's side also continued to fall, but the Japanese firepower was not covered, mortars, light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers and hundreds of rifles rained down on them frantically.
People are constantly falling, but if they are not stopped now, Sun Yang and Hai Zhizhi will not be able to delay the Japanese army without preparation time, and they will be bitten to the death by that time.
This hard battle lasted for ten minutes, and in ten minutes, dozens of casualties were killed, Lu Hai threw a grenade towards the three-person Japanese army, and then glanced at his watch and said: "Retreat"!
The crowd turned over and retreated under a burst of fierce strafing fire at the Japanese troops, and just as they ran out of four or five units, a mortar shell had already fallen into the crowd of Japanese soldiers.
In the deafening roar, one by one the Japanese troops were directly overturned by the violent explosion, and Lu Hai and Yu Wei, who were almost stepping on the artillery fire, retreated.
A few minutes later, Lu Hai ran to the place where Hai Zhizhi had hidden the explosives before he spoke: "Withdraw quickly after the explosion, we will meet you in front"!
"Don't worry"! Haijiji said with a smile.
Just a few minutes after Lu Hai and the others ran out, the Japanese pursuing force really rushed over, and just as they rushed into the minefield, Hai Zhizhi violently pressed the detonator.
More than a dozen loud noises suddenly sounded in the woods, and the terrifying shock wave blew off the thigh-thick pine trees and fell, and the dozens of Japanese soldiers who had just rushed in were instantly submerged in a sea of fire.
As soon as Sun Yang saw a violent explosion in the woods, he immediately said: "Change the coordinates and bombard the place of the explosion"!
With the sound of rolling artillery, the troops that the Japanese had just pursued were again bombarded by mortars, and they had to slow down their attacks with heavy casualties.
Lu Hai and the others took the opportunity to flee quickly to the east, and the Japanese army behind also pursued all the way, but now the distance has indeed been widened, although the Japanese army behind is chasing fiercely, but it is barely beyond the range of the Japanese army.
All that's left is better than who's physical strength!
When they chased out, the pursuing Japanese troops were a little dumbfounded, they always thought that they were attacking a main regiment of the Chinese army, but when they came out of the jungle, they found that they were only pursuing a company of more than 100 people. In addition, the total number of people killed before is that there is not a battalion.
But this battalion has already caused almost half of their casualties, and the same battalion does not have more firepower than them, basically a squad is a machine gun, and once they charge, they will be completely caught in a dense rain of bullets. It is no exaggeration to say that the firepower of this battalion is, to a certain extent, stronger than that of a regiment of the Eighth Route Army.
Once Lu Hai and they are bitten by the Japanese army again, it will be the end of the whole army, and the Japanese army is also very angry at this battalion that killed them heavily, if they are not annihilated, where should they put their Japanese faces?
After running for half an hour, Lu Hai and the others came to the east side, which is now basically a mess, and Zhang Chong has stopped after a heavy artillery bombardment to prevent the Japanese air raid, but Zhang Chong still sent a company of troops to meet them.
After running to the east side of the defense line, Lu Hai was also a little dumbfounded, the defense line that was broken by Zhang Chong and them just now hurriedly formed a defense line at this time, and when he saw them coming, he opened fire.
In front is the Japanese blockade line, behind are hundreds of pursuing Japanese troops, and the surrounding terrain is open, there is no way to hide at all, you can only rush, rush over is life, if you can't rush through, you will die!
"Sun Yang, set up mortars, everyone on bayonets"! Lu Hai shouted.
Everyone put their bayonets on and immediately charged forward, and at this moment, Sun Yang, who had set up the mortar, also opened fire fiercely.
Shells bombarded the Japanese defense line that was almost in ruins, and Lu Hai and the others also picked up all the light machine guns and fired at them, and the dense firepower was frantically fired towards the newly formed Japanese defense line for a while.
"Get up! Get up! Those who do not want to be slaves have cast our flesh and blood into our new Great Wall, and the Chinese nation has reached the most dangerous time..."
The majestic March of the Volunteers was sung again, and all the soldiers sang along, braving the fire and charging towards death!
Yunnan is a multi-ethnic province, generations of living in this ethnic group can sing and dance, they always like to sing mountain songs, and here they sing not mountain songs, but the majestic march of the volunteers, to a certain extent in line with their habits, can also be used to inspire determination.
In the dense rain of bullets, people kept falling, but the singing was still not heard, the deafening sound of guns and cannons could not suppress the majestic singing, and the whistling bullets could not stop the soldiers' courage to die.
They are charging, risking death to charge, fighting for their country without complaint or regret!
Just as they rushed to the front of the Japanese army, Sun Yang said: "Brothers, we can't go, let's cover them!"
The artillerymen in the field all nodded, no one objected, Sun Yang looked at these soldiers and smiled: "If there is a next life, we are still brothers born and died"!
"Turn the muzzle"!
With Sun Yang's order, the heavy duty turned the mortar back and opened heavy fire on the pursuing Japanese troops.
In the rumbling cannonball, a large part of the Japanese front army was blown away, and Sun Yang was no longer preparing to escape at this time, and there was no saving use of the shells, so they shot out all the shells that were already small.
The Japanese troops who were chasing were immediately blocked, and when the last round of shells was finished, Sun Yang ordered: "Use grenades to blow up these mortars to Lao Tzu, and everyone will be bayoneted"!
"Brethren, they sang the March of the Volunteers, and we sang the military song of the Sixty Army, and I began: We come from the great place of the Yunnan Uprising...
"We come from the great place of the Yunnan uprising, and we have walked through the mountains and mountains to the battlefield of resistance to the enemy, brothers, fight for the liberation of the nation with flesh and blood...
"Boom"!
More than a dozen mortars flew into the air with violent explosions, and these artillerymen who operated the mortars, holding bayonets and singing military songs, launched a charge towards the hundreds of Japanese troops on the opposite side...