Chapter 44: Encounters
Xiao Mubai didn't know that the company commander had thought of something crooked, and said: "I ask the commander to order the brothers of the whole company to set off with weapons and ammunition, now Shanghai is a combat area, I am not sure that I will not encounter Japanese troops on the way there, if I encounter Japanese troops, I can also resist one or two." ”
Xiao Mubai spoke in a loud voice, and everyone present heard it. The soldiers were expressionless and did not seem to pay attention to the matter.
The company commander glanced at Xiao Mubai in surprise, thought for a moment, and then agreed, and gave an order.
"Now the order is given that more than 160 soldiers of the whole company, carrying weapons and sufficient ammunition, rush to the library to put out the fire."
At the sound of the order, the soldiers took their weapons and ammunition and began to move in the direction of the library.
Xiao Mubai was walking silently with a gun and bullets in his pocket.
There was the sound of machine guns firing in his ears, as well as the roar of bombs exploding, accompanied by the frightened Shanghai citizens, Xiao Mubai followed the team forward.
Although the road ahead is bumpy, although he is still dying, Xiao Mubai is fearless, and everything that should be prepared is ready, if it fails, it is the will of God.
Since you have chosen the front, you will only care about the wind and rain.
Xiao Mubai also hesitated whether to directly tell Company Commander Zhang that there would be Japanese troops there at this time. But then I thought about how to explain the source of the news at that time, and this military intelligence is not something that can be known casually, and I thought of this and gave up this idea.
Xiao Mubai walked with a gun on his shoulder, walking in the team. After walking through a street, I turned another street corner, and I was very close to the place where the last incident happened.
The sound of footsteps on the ground, the pounding of his heart, Xiao Mubai's eyes stared ahead.
500 meters, 400 meters, 300 meters, 200 meters, 100 meters......
Xiao Mubai's heart beat more and more.
Xiao Mubai was at the forefront, because he knew when and where the Japanese army would appear, and he could react as quickly as possible, and then give an early warning to the soldiers of the whole company.
That's it, turn this corner, and you will meet the Japanese army.
Xiao Mubai's heart rose to his throat at this moment, closer, closer, and further, it was a wide street, and he would see the oncoming Japanese army.
His line of sight widened, and Xiao Mubai's bullet was loaded, ready to make an early warning.
As soon as he turned the corner, Xiao Mubai saw the oncoming Japanese army, with dark blue navy sailor suits, black steel helmets, and sun flags under the muzzle.
"Bang!"
With the sound of a gunshot, Xiao Mubai grabbed the beard that walked over and shouted at the top of his voice: "Enemy attack!" Then hide behind the wall.
Xiao Mubai did not notify in advance, and asked the soldiers of the whole company to hide and wait for the Japanese army to come over and raid. Because this is not reliable, the Japanese army will come soon, and the street is not narrow and cannot be well hidden. Once that happens, the Japanese forces will deploy, and when the armored vehicles come, the whole company will have only a dead end.
Shooting early warning is the best choice, and it was chosen by Xiao Mubai after careful consideration.
The sound of this gunshot brought time to a halt for a moment, and after a moment of silence, the scene became chaotic.
Xiao Mubai just fired a random shot, without aiming, and the bullet didn't know where it flew. At this time, Xiao Mubai was already aiming with a gun, and someone next to him was asking what the situation was, Xiao Mubai didn't have time to answer, pulled the trigger and fired a shot, and a Japanese soldier fell down in response.
Xiao Mubai turned his head and saw the squad leader squatting aside with a black face, it turned out to be him.
At this time, the soldiers on both sides reacted, looked for cover under the leadership of the commander, and counterattacked one after another.
Because the soldiers were marching in a queue and the troops were scattered, Xiao Mubai was at the front, and the distribution of the Japanese troops could be clearly seen.
The Japanese army will come over soon, accompanied by three armored vehicles, Xiao Mubai knows that the situation is very critical, and at this time, Company Commander Zhang came over.
Company Commander Zhang came over and saw at a glance that on the wide street, several corpses of Japanese soldiers were left there. There was a dense Japanese army, estimated at several hundred troops, and there were also armored vehicles.
There was a huge disparity in strength and firepower, and he knew that he could not do anything, so Company Commander Zhang decisively ordered a retreat and sent a messenger to summon the message. After the front row becomes the rear row to block and break, the rear row becomes the front row and retreats, covering the retreat of friendly troops and waiting for the opportunity to annihilate the enemy.
Xiao Mubai's group, as the vanguard, was the last to retreat.
The Japanese were caught off guard, lost a few soldiers, and then sent a team of soldiers to test it, and the armored vehicles roared behind them.
Xiao Mubai picked up the gun and pulled the bolt, aimed at the Japanese soldier with a crooked light machine gun, put the crosshair on his head, and then pulled the trigger and fired.
"Poof!"
A bloody hole appeared in the forehead of the Japanese soldier and he fell to the ground.
After several battles in the war world, Xiao Mubai's marksmanship is good, and the gun is bloody within 100 meters, and the maximum error is within 20 centimeters.
The bullets hit the wall, splashing dirt and stone debris, and Xiao Mubai hid behind the wall and ate a nose of ash.
"Squad leader! The little devil armored car is coming! The bearded man shouted, if Xiao Mubai hadn't pulled him just now, he would have rushed out, and he would have been beaten into a sieve.
The bearded man was a machine gunner, holding a light machine gun made in his hand that was made in an unknown country, and the muzzle of the gun spewed out tongues of fire and shot into the body of the Japanese soldier, and the bullet casing fell to the ground with a crisp and pleasant sound.
"Smack!"
Xiao Mubai was about to aim, when he suddenly felt a little moist on his face, and after touching his face, he found that it was blood. Xiao Mubai looked sideways and found that a soldier was lying on the ground, his chest was constantly bleeding out, and he was panting rapidly, already out of breath and in.
Suddenly, the bullet hit the wall above his head, Xiao Mubai was startled, and quickly lowered his head, only then did he notice that he had already laid down four or five soldiers.
War is not only about the enemy, but also about one's own side. I don't know when, the next person to die will be his turn, there are no victorious generals on the battlefield, there are no undefeated myths, there are just cruel sacrifices.
The squad leader stared at the armored car that was rumbling over with a dark face, and his face became even more gloomy.
The armored car was like a steel monster, like a monster, crushing all the way through the street, and the earth was trembling.
The whole body was wrapped in armor, and the bullets hit it and sparked, and then they were ejected, leaving only one bullet mark.
It's the same with a grenade, if you throw it on it, it will fall, and there will be no reaction when it explodes next to it. Even if the bomb was delayed by a second or two, it would not penetrate the armor and stop the Japanese vehicle-mounted machine guns from firing.
Crushed like a steel behemoth, bullets and grenades are useless and cause no casualties. On the contrary, under the intensive machine-gun fire of the Japanese army, the 19th Route Army suffered heavy losses.
The only way to achieve this is to have an effect by exploding a cluster bomb in the weakest part of the armor, the chassis or the tires.
More than 40 guns were scattered on the street, delaying the attack of more than 100 Japanese soldiers.
A platoon, after more than ten hours of fighting, the battle damage reached a third, and more than forty people remained, and this was the entire strength of a platoon.
It takes a person to rush out with a cluster bomb, blow up the chassis of the armored vehicle, block the intersection, and prevent the armored vehicles behind from coming, so as to leave enough time to retreat.
We can't wait, or we'll all die. It's just that who goes up, the squad leader doesn't know with a black face. He glanced at everyone's faces, but all he saw was evasive glances.
If you go up, you will die for a lifetime, and it is still unknown whether you can blow up the armored car.
Suddenly, a report alarmed everyone present.
"Squad leader, I'll go."
(To be continued)
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