Chapter 147: Flee without a fight
The soldiers were running at a speed of almost 100 meters, and the Japanese could even feel the rough breath coming from the noses of the Chinese soldiers.
The three infantry companies of the 217th Regiment had actually unloaded all their loads, grain bags, and unloaded before they charged; Bullet belts, unloaded; The rifle, after firing a bullet, was thrown on the ground.
What they have is a large blade in their hands and two grenades that are standard for each person, all of which are weighted and will not exceed 10 catties, which can also make them run at a speed of nearly 14 seconds at 100 meters. The faster they ran, the more chances they had to enter the Japanese position, and when the main force that began to assemble behind arrived, the Japanese defense line would be broken.
They were running so fast that at least a dozen or so people tripped under their feet without being hit by bullets.
The soldier, who was lucky enough not to fall to the bone, rolled on the ground continuously, perhaps bruised and swollen from the fall, but still stood up again and continued to charge after his comrades.
If you are unlucky, you may faint at this moment, and even break your legs and arms directly, what a heartache! But no one let out a terrible cry of pain, although the adrenaline rush will make people feel less pain, but they will never feel it like their arms and legs are broken, they just don't want to distract their comrades.
And the bullets were also flying in the air, and from time to time there were soldiers running and running and falling into the grass with a muffled grunt and not getting up again.
In six or seven seconds, they had already rushed nearly 50 meters, but although the distance was short, the three infantry companies had lost at least 30 people, but this was far lower than the expectations of the commanders on both sides.
In the distance, Lao Wang, who had already pulled out his big sword and was standing in front of a full infantry battalion, flashed with joy in his eyes. The three infantry companies have 450 troops, and before rushing into the Japanese trenches, even if they lose 100 people, there are still more than 350 people, and they may not be able to defeat the Japanese army who are still resisting, but it is absolutely no problem to entangle the Japanese army.
When he led this infantry battalion as a follow-up force, it would be inevitable that the Japanese troops on the front-line position would be annihilated, and the battle would be won.
"Brethren! Put your guns on your backs, pull out your knives, and prepare to follow Lao Tzu to chop off the little devil's skull! Wang Changhai threw his military hat on the ground, revealing a big bald head with a temporary shine.
He was waiting, the moment the three infantry companies rushed into the trench, that is, when he personally led 500 officers and men to advance, not only them, but the other five infantry companies would advance from both flanks and suppress the Japanese troops in the rear with light firepower.
Lao Wang is definitely a shrewd person in this regard.
In an instant, three infantry companies had rushed to about 50 meters.
The Japanese troops in the trenches were still in a state of confusion, some were desperately shooting in an attempt to stop the Chinese soldiers who had already made great strides and charged at full speed, some were still running into the trenches from the anti-artillery holes in a disgraced manner, and some were looking at the opposite side that was about to pounce on the knife forest, and they were full of cowardice.
This may be the first time that the Japanese troops of the 17th Infantry Wing fought against the Chinese soldiers without heavy machine guns and light machine guns.
However, the Chinese soldiers slowed down and did not continue to charge at full speed. It's not that they're timid, it's not that the Japanese counterattack is terrible.
Instead, they took out a grenade that hung on their waists, and the grenade with a long unscrewed back cover only needed to pull the rope, and then, with all their strength, threw it out.
There is no precision, no accuracy, just throw it out like that, even if there is no explosion, it doesn't matter, then it should be a stone!
Those who fall on the front of the position can create gunsmoke, so that the Japanese infantry cannot aim, and those who are thrown in the trenches are naturally stunned, and it doesn't matter if they are thrown behind the trenches, it is also good to scare people.
In the first wave of grenades, at least 300 grenades were thrown, and according to probability, at most one-tenth of them could fall into the trenches, but more than 30 grenades exploded in the trenches, which was enough.
At least dozens of Japanese soldiers have been blown away by the falling grenades, and then rolled in the trenches with a miserable scream.
And, unfortunately, among them is Lieutenant Yamada, the commander of the 2nd Infantry Squadron, whose once handsome and straight nose was completely shaved off by shrapnel, and his whole face became a flat plate, and his eyeballs, which had lost his eyelids, stared at the sky, as if complaining, it was nothing to cut off his nose, but he lost all his eyelids, which made people unable to close their eyes when they died!
The Japanese army, which was already afraid, finally collapsed at this moment.
A yellow jumped out of the trench and ran back desperately, and the result of one person running led several people to run, one, four or five, and then a dozen, and by this time, it was already irreversible.
The situation changed so quickly that Nao Yanagawa who did not have the troops to set up the overseer team was dumbfounded, he may have imagined defeat, but he never imagined that the battle had not even begun, why those heroic warriors of the Great Japanese Empire under his command were so cowardly as rats, and fled like this.
This is even more humiliating than defeat.
"Yaga!" Yanagawa Nao's ashamed roar still swirls on his lips.
He saw that he didn't know how many shit yellow jumped up from the ground, and without taking the 38 big cover that they had once led to life, they just ran backwards with their bare hands, unscrupulously exposing their backs in front of the Chinese soldiers who were holding the big snow blades and planning to fight to the death.
Struck dumb!
Not to mention the heartache of Yanagawa Nao's dumbfounded state, the Chinese soldiers are the same. Especially some veterans who participated in the night attack on Xifengkou, they imagined many endings, and even thought about how to die with the strong Japanese army, this is the tactic of those comrades-in-arms who have died in battle a few days ago, they are dead, the Japanese army is also dead, they are alive.
Well now, they intend to do the same, and then the recruits can survive, and then the recruits become veteransγγγγγγ
Then they didn't expect that the Japanese army would flee without a fight.
Isn't this damn thing always awesome? It turns out that they are also afraid! They also have the cowardice to run away without a fight!
"Brothers, keep rushing and enter the devil's trench!" The leading lieutenant company commander naturally would not let go of this opportunity.
If you don't die, who wants to die! Their mission was to attack the trenches and entangle the Japanese army and wait for backups, and now, being able to occupy the front-line positions of the Japanese army has greatly exceeded the expected value.
And as for saying that the Japanese army ran away, then let them run! Without this trench, they had completely lost the depth of their defenses. Moreover, they don't have so many trenches for them to hide, and if they want to fight again, they can only lie on the ground.
If you smash another round of shells down, what are you doing lying on the ground? Lying on the ground and being bombed? Nature is welcome.
"Hit the flares, the whole army, forward!" Lao Wang is not stupid, after a short period of surprise, he immediately gave an order, and at the same time, did not forget to tell the messenger, "Inform Liu Lang that the shelling will start in ten minutes, the coordinates, you must give Lao Tzu the standard, tell Liu Lang that the whole regiment of Lao Tzu 217 is in the occupied Japanese trenches, don't send Lao Tzu back to his grandmother's house, it doesn't matter if Lao Tzu is dead, what he promised him before can only let him go to Lord Yama to ask for it." β
This should be regarded as an extremely humiliating moment in the history of the Japanese army, Ming Yu wrote in her war diary: On March 20, the battle to encircle and annihilate the 4th Infantry Brigade broke out, and the defenders of nearly three infantry squadrons in the forward position of the Japanese army fled without a fight, and it took only 30 seconds for the position to change hands!
As soon as this report came out, the "Asahi Shimbun," the main news media on the Japanese island, naturally retorted in a categorical manner that the Chinese side was shameless and even used fake news to cover up the defeat on the front line. A few days later, when the Chinese presented the loot captured from the front at a press conference of the Northern Military Council, the Japanese island was silent.
It is no longer important to flee without a fight, the important thing is that the Fourth Infantry Brigade of the Eighth Division was defeated, and even the command knife of the Dazuo Zhongsa Shaozo class can be posed in the shape of a chrysanthemum for the world to see.
Of course, that is what Mingyu doesn't know now, and Suzuki Mitsu, who got the 17th Infantry Wing to lose the position in the front line, was planted on the ground.
Otherwise, she would have added a line to the telegram sent to the newspaper office at the scene, and the commander of the Fourth Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Invaders, Major General, died on the spot.