Chapter 548: Fierce Battle (4)
Almost at the same time, the two discovered that a cannonball was "pierced" in the stomach of the puppet soldier, and the warhead drilled out of his back, and there were some broken flesh on it.
At that time, the person was not dead, sitting less than a meter away from the deer haired tiger male and staring at him blankly, his lips squirmed for a long time, but when he opened his mouth, he did not make a sound, only a stream of blood gushed out, and it almost splashed on the body of the deer haired tiger male.
The deer-haired tiger male was frightened and shouted repeatedly:
"Quick! Fast! Get him out of here! Be careful not to touch the fuse of the warhead! ”
The puppet army officer quickly called two soldiers and asked them to carry away the soldier who was still breathing and had the desire to live, but was destined to not be able to continue to live.
Although the two puppet soldiers were afraid, they did not dare to disobey the order.
Because the current situation, although somewhat chaotic, in reality did not cause many casualties in this separate mixed brigade.
Thirty or forty shells came over from Zhou Zuopeng's side, but in the end, only three exploded in the team, and the rest flew overhead.
After calming down from the panic, Lumao Huxiong immediately ordered the mortar to return fire, and the situation was quickly stabilized.
At such a distance, the lethal effect of mortars is naturally much better than that of mountain artillery.
Seeing that more and more shells were falling overhead, Zhou Zuopeng could only order the troops to widen the distance, maintain formation, and retreat slowly.
Lu Mao Huxiong was not in a hurry at this time, Zhou Zuopeng slowly retreated, he followed up without hurry, and continued to cover with mortars, slowly consuming Zhou Zuopeng's troops.
He could see that Zhou Zuopeng was deliberately delaying time and waiting for reinforcements, but he was not worried.
In his opinion, the independent battalion has no ability to support Zhou Zuopeng at all, no matter how Chen Mingyu's new 18th Division has more than 6,000 people, and in the face of a team of only more than 4,000 people, if he can't even drag the other party, there is no need to continue to live.
But in fact, Chen Mingyu really couldn't stop it.
After receiving the news, Liu Cheng immediately ordered the cavalry company and the first company, which had just been repaired for more than two hours, to temporarily replenish 500 people from the machine gun company, and rushed to reinforce Zhou Zuopeng and Song Wen with five mortars.
At the same time, he also asked Duan Jinghe in the tank to inform him and ask him to bring two more tanks to rush over for reinforcements.
After Duan Jinghe received the order, he immediately withdrew from the attack sequence with the two tanks closest to him and rushed straight to the left front.
In order to be able to effectively block the attack of the independent battalion, Chen Mingyu has concentrated the forces on both sides to the center three times in a row, and the defensive forces on both sides are very weak.
In the face of the three menacing tanks, the puppet soldiers in charge of defense saw that they were invincible, so they turned around and fled, and the slow ones were directly crushed into meatloaf.
There is an old Chinese saying that "a skinny camel is bigger than a horse", which can barely be used here to describe this situation;
The tank and the other two tanks driven by Duan Jinghe were all snatched from Lumao Huxiong, although they were light tanks, they were twice as heavy as the original two Renault TF-17s of the independent battalion, and their own weight was about 15 tons.
Of course, a tank of this weight was as fragile as a porcelain doll in front of Maozi's T-34 and the German Tiger.
But in front of flesh and blood, they are still behemoths, and they can be said to be dying and dying.
First, the artillery fire opened the way, followed by the advance and crushing, and the puppet soldiers who were arranged to defend on the left side hated their parents for giving them two legs less and couldn't run faster.
Not to mention the Jin-made wooden-handled grenades, even if it was a little devil's ten-style grenade, they couldn't help those iron guys at all, so they could only watch them rush straight up.
What's more, in addition to the gun, there is also a machine gun on each tank that can suppress the blind spot where strafing fire cannot carry out strikes at any time.
A puppet soldier watched as the tank driven by Duan Jinghe ran over all the way, his legs shaking like chaff, and his pants immediately became wet.
Watching his companions flee one by one, he tried to reach out to them for help, but no one stopped to pull him.
In a louder and louder roar, the tank tracks quickly enlarged in front of his eyes, but he couldn't control his body.
He could only shrink his body as low as he could, trying to fall down in the shallow, narrow trench.
"Uh......"
With a muffled grunt, the tank's tracks ran over the trenches, leaving several deep marks above his head.
On the surface, he doesn't seem to be too badly injured; But if you look closely, his neck is completely gone, and the head seems to be directly attached to his shoulder.
A few seconds later, two streaks of dark red blood slowly flowed from his nostrils, followed by dark red blood from his eyes, ears, and mouth.
His face slowly turned blue, his body temperature gradually dropped, and he said goodbye to his short life in excruciating pain.
Those who were lucky not to be killed or crushed by the tank, and before they had time to rejoice that they had escaped death, they were sent back to their hometown by a series of bullets from the company and the cavalry company that followed.
The whole process went smoothly, so that Hao Dabao and Zhao Dayong were a little surprised, and they came back to their senses after walking a long way.
In fact, there is nothing surprising about this, because the morale of these puppet soldiers has already been sunk, and they only think about escaping for their lives, and they have no desperate courage and desire to fight.
Most of them are Lin Guozhong's soldiers, and their division commanders are all under house arrest and their lives are difficult to protect, so they naturally feel that everyone is in danger.
In addition, the intention of pushing them in front as cannon fodder was too obvious, so that these soldiers didn't want to fight at all, just wanted to find an opportunity to escape.
Duan Jinghe chose to rush over from here, just giving them an excellent opportunity, at least three or five hundred people took advantage of this opportunity to simply throw away their guns, take off their clothes and run into the distance.
The independent battalion did not give them a chance to surrender from the beginning of the battle, so these people did not dare to run over and surrender now, so they simply fled from this battlefield and saved their lives first.
On the other side, Zhou Zuopeng and Song Wen were about to hold on.
Although the widening of the spacing can effectively prevent the mortars of the deer and tiger from causing more casualties to them, and Zhou Zuopeng is still directing the soldiers to return fire with those mountain artillery, but their casualties and speed are still a little not optimistic.
Over the past hour, at least one hundred and fifty people have died under fire.
Just when Lu Mao Huxiong firmly believed that he was about to annihilate Zhou Zuopeng's team and win the first victory for this battle, a shell accurately fell into the position of the independent mixed brigade, taking more than 20 lives in an instant......