Chapter 698: Hengling Pass (2)
When Kuroda Shoujiang raised his head from the crater and looked over, he happened to see many dense figures in yellow military uniforms rushing in front of him, and he saw a rifle next to a soldier who was killed not far from him, so Kuroda Shoujiang hurriedly crawled over from the crater, picked up the blood-stained rifle from the pool of blood, and the ground fortifications that had been blown up had no cover, Kuroda Shoujiang saw through the smoke that there were some figures in the front position approaching him, Kuroda Shoujiang, who was lying on the ground without even thinking about it, pulled the trigger at the figure with his rifle. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Bang!"
The crisp sound characteristic of the 38 style sounded, and a Chinese soldier who was rushing towards the position fell to the ground.
"Click!"
He tugged on the bolt, and the hot shell flew out of the shell window on the side of the receiver, and another bullet was fed back into the chamber. Just as Kuroda was about to aim ahead again and prepare to shoot, several black objects flew in his direction from the front out of the corner of his eye.
"Run!"
Kuroda Shoue only had time to say this before he jumped from this crater to another crater not far away.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
A series of two grenades exploded in the crater he had just been in, enveloping the soldiers who had been hiding in the same crater as him.
"Smack...... Bang bang ......"
Bullets whizzed over Kuroda Shoue's head, so hard that he could barely lift his head.
"You bastards, shoot ...... Shoot now! ”
Seeing that the Huaxia people on the other side were about to rush up and mix with them, Kuroda Shoujiang was very anxious. He knew very well that if Huaxia was allowed to rush up to the position, with the few people on the position, he was afraid that the position would be lost in a few minutes.
Just when Kuroda Shoujiang was in despair, there was a rapid and short sound overhead, and then a violent explosion sounded around him, and more than a dozen figures in front of him who had rushed to the position were instantly engulfed by artillery fire.
"These bastards even did indiscriminate shelling!"
Luo Xianda, Wang Yuanzhi and others, who were watching the battle, couldn't help but curse when they saw this scene, and the Japanese army's shelling just now brutally knocked out the impending victory.
"We still underestimate the 213 United, and we can actually play a strong man with a broken wrist at a critical moment. It seems that this time the 31st regiment is going to suffer. ”
Hu Lian's judgment is not wrong, and Kawahara Youbing is also a person with a decisive temperament. In the heavy artillery regiment just now covered the entire Japanese Hengling Pass several lines of defense have been destroyed, and now the Japanese army of the second and third lines of defense is seizing the time to repair the fortifications, if the first line of defense is broken like this, the Chinese people will inevitably continue to launch a continuous attack on the second and third lines of defense while the iron is hot, and then the entire Hengling Pass will be in danger of being breached, so Heyuan Right C immediately ordered the mountain artillery wing to carry out indiscriminate artillery bombardment of the first line of defense, although this is likely to accidentally injure their own soldiers, But in the eyes of Kawahara Youbing, as long as he can hold the position, all the sacrifices are worth it.
At this time, the officers of the 11th Division felt very aggrieved, and everyone did not expect the Japanese army to use such a trick. Moreover, this kind of trick can be used by themselves in the future, but they can't use it, because the number of national troops on Hengling Pass is far more than that of the Japanese army, and if they also come to cover such artillery fire, the number of dead national troops will definitely be more than that of the Japanese army.
Seeing that the attack of the troops was blocked, Yin Zhongyue, the commander of the 31st Regiment commanding at the front, was so anxious that he asked the signal corps to contact the division headquarters, hoping that the heavy artillery regiment could counterattack the Japanese artillery positions, but he was told that because it was not yet dark, the observation post had no way to observe the position of the Japanese artillery group.
"Bastard!" Yin Zhongyue couldn't help but burst into a foul mouth anymore, "He immediately instructed the communication soldiers: "You immediately notify the first battalion to withdraw and let the second battalion go up, and I will give him another half an hour, and he must take down the position!" ”
As time passed, the battle became more and more intense, and the Japanese mountain artillery wing desperately poured shells into the position of the first brigade, and the remnants of the Japanese army of the first brigade also fought back desperately under the leadership of the officers and the cover of artillery fire, and the position was full of gunfire and the roars of the soldiers.
When the night slowly receded and the first rays of sunlight shone on the earth, an hour passed, and the time for the attack of the 31st regiment finally came, and under Hu Lian's strict order, Yin Zhongyue, who was red-eyed, had to order to withdraw from Hengling Pass.
When the 31st Regiment withdrew and counted the number of people, Yin Zhongyue's eyes were red, and the 31st Regiment lost more than 600 people in just one hour, which was almost one-fifth of the strength of the entire regiment.
After the 31st Regiment withdrew, the heavy artillery regiment, which had finally let go of its hands and feet, began to shell Hengling Pass again.
Heavy artillery smashed the Japanese positions, which also caught the Japanese soldiers who had not yet woken up from the excitement of defeating the Nationalist army.
"Not good! Immediately order the first brigade to get ready, the people of China are likely to start attacking again! ”
At the wing command post a few miles away from the first line of defense, Kawahara shouted out of his voice.
Sure enough, in the rumbling sound of artillery, another group of soldiers of the National Army rushed towards the defense line of the first brigade, and the sky had begun to brighten at this time, and as the light brightened, the accuracy of the heavy artillery regiment's shelling became more accurate.
"Mountain artillery wing, hurry up and cover the position of the first brigade!" Looking at the position of the Japanese army rapidly approaching under the cover of heavy artillery, Kawahara wanted to repeat the old trick, but just as the mountain artillery wing was preparing to shell Hengling Pass, a slight roar sounded in the sky, and an L-4 "grasshopper" observation plane appeared in the sky.
This is a two-seater, high-wing, cockpit tandem layout, with fixed landing gear, a large area of the cockpit glass reconnaissance aircraft, although its speed is only 137 kilometers per hour, and its weight is only 331 kilograms, but this does not prevent it from becoming an excellent artillery positioning and front-line liaison aircraft.
With the arrival of the "Grasshopper" reconnaissance plane, the commander of the Japanese Mountain Artillery Wing, Fu Jiazhengnan, immediately realized a huge crisis out of the sensitivity of a soldier, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly shouted an order: "All units immediately retreat...... Retreat now! ”
His deputy, a Shao Zuo, said in astonishment: "Wing Commander, Kawahara Dazuo has just sent a telegram, and he asked us to immediately continue to cover and shoot at Hengling Pass!" ”
"Smack!"
A crisp voice sounded, and the Fu family masacist shouted to Shao Zuo, who was covering his face: "Baga, didn't you hear my words? Execute the order now! ”
Looking at the Fu family politician who had a murderous look in his eyes and had already held the handle of the command knife in his right hand, Shao Zuo suddenly shuddered in his heart, and hurriedly conveyed the order without saying a word.
The Japanese artillery was still well-trained, and in less than five minutes after the order was transmitted, all the artillery was ready to change from the combat state to the marching state, but it was still a step too slow, and the artillery wing had just begun to retreat, and there was a whistling sound in the sky like a pant......
"Bell bell bell ......"
"Moses Moses, this is the headquarters of the 33rd Division! What the? The people of China have occupied most of the Hengling Pass, and now the remnants of Heyuan Youbing Dazuo are leading the remnants to resist hard in the third line of defense? How is this possible? Tanaka Tetsujiro was shocked, a wing's position was lost in just three hours, which also caught Sakurai Shozo very unprepared, and the frightened and angry Sakurai Shozo hurriedly ordered the 214th Wing stationed in Sangchi to step up to aid Hengling Pass as planned, and ordered Kawahara Youcing not to take a step back......
At this time, Hengling Pass had already become a mess, and with the loss of the first and second lines of defense, the wounded of the 213th Wing also retreated to a dense mountain forest less than a mile away from the third line of defense.
Due to the large number of wounded, the nurses and doctors of the 213th Wing, who had no less than ten people, were simply overwhelmed, and the wounded were hastily carried over, and the soldiers put the wounded on the ground and hurried away, and countless wounded were arranged in a long line, which stretched deep into the woods.
Hayakawa Yuiko watched more and more wounded, and her uneasiness became deeper and deeper, and every time a wounded person arrived, she would go over to identify them one by one, for fear of seeing her boyfriend's face among the wounded who were transported.
"Kuroda-kun doesn't know what's going on, you don't have to do anything!" Looking at the blazing front, Yumiko Hayakawa had a worried look on her face.
"Yukiko, what are you still doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and come over to help!" Just when Mitsuko Hayakawa was a little distracted, the doctor's voice sounded not far away.
"Here ......
Yumiko Hayakawa quickly answered and trotted all the way over.
"Hurry up, there's a seriously injured man here who needs to be stopped, you can come over right now and help prepare the equipment." A doctor wearing a mask shouted.
"Hay!"
Yumiko Hayakawa hurriedly stepped forward to take out a set of surgical instruments from a medical box next to her, and just as she took out the instruments, she was stunned when she saw the wounded person lying on the stretcher.
"Yukiko, what are you still doing in a daze!" A loud cry rang in her ears.
"Dr. Yoshio, he'...... He ......" Yumiko Hayakawa pointed to the wounded on the operating table and was speechless for a while, it turned out that she had already recognized the wounded man lying on the operating table with a sallow face without a trace of blood, and the dying wounded person turned out to be a fellow villager in her village, and also her boyfriend's friend Koike Sheng.
"Smack!" and a loud slap in the face, only to see Doctor Yoshio pointing at her and shouting, "Yaga...... If you look at him again, he's going to die! Don't hurry up and get the surgical instruments out! ”
"Hay!"
Yumiko Hayakawa, who had been slapped in the face, no longer dared to be distracted, and began to prepare with the grief in her heart.
After an hour, the operation was finally completed, and the unconscious Koike Sao was also carried down.
Exhausted, Yumiko Hayakawa endured her tired body and just stepped off the operating table, and before she could take off her blood-covered mask, an officer hurriedly walked in, followed by more than a dozen heavily armed soldiers.
I saw this young man walk among the wounded, bow to everyone, and say loudly: "Gentlemen, I'm really sorry, due to the defeat in the battle ahead, our wing is going to move towards Z County, and the wounded who can still move among the gentlemen will go with me, but what makes me very regretful is that I have to leave my comrades who can't walk, and I ask you to sacrifice your life with honor like the Japanese soldiers!" ”
There was silence all around, and the seriously injured who had difficulty moving knew that today was probably their last day on earth.
At this time, the soldiers who came with this young man began to distribute grenades to the wounded, about one for every 1o wounded.
Hayakawa Yuiko looked at the wounded around her, most of them had a look of despair in their eyes, many of these wounded people she had taken care of, and she had taken care of them until now, but now they were going to kill themselves here.
Do you want to go yourself? But what if she leaves, what about her boyfriend? You must know that Yumiko Hayakawa came to China in order to find a boyfriend.
At this time, the young man walked up to Hayakawa Yuiko and said in a deep voice: "You are Miss Yukiko, now please pack up and follow the troops immediately." ”
Hayakawa Yuiko turned her head to look at Koike Sheng, who had just been carried aside and was still unconscious, and after hesitating for a moment, she said, "Your Excellency Shaozuo, do you really want to leave all the seriously injured behind?" You must know that he was rescued by the doctors! ”
"Yes, now the troops have no extra manpower to take care of these seriously wounded, even if there is a lightly wounded person who can't keep up with the team, we can only abandon him!"
"But...... But my boyfriend is still on the ground! Mitsuko Hayakawa's voice choked.
"Miss Yukiko, this is an order, please carry it out!" Shaozo's voice became stern.
Hayakawa Yumiko could only shut up helplessly after seeing Shaoza's undoubted stern eyes.
At this time, more than a dozen seriously wounded soldiers slowly came to Hayakawa Yuiko's side and surrounded her, everyone had a good impression of the nurse who had taken care of them for a while, and now that they knew that they were going to die here, these people wanted to ask her to tell her about their situation to their families, and Hayakawa Yuiko also kept saying that she had the opportunity to return to Hichimoto and had already told their families about their situation.
It wasn't until everyone explained the situation in their home that Mitsuko Hayakawa wrote them down one by one, that a young officer covered in blood called out to her. (To be continued.) )