Chapter 227: Advance (I)
"Boom ......"
When a missed stray bullet landed near the Nancheng City Government Office Building, the commander of the 101st Division, who was standing on the roof of the city government office building and watching the battle, was reflexively pressed to the ground by the guards. The orange-red flames produced by the shells that fell next to the city hall exploded accompanied by the violent explosion sound that threw steel fragments around, and Hiroki Inagaki, who was protected by two guards, listened to the violent explosion in his ears and the whistling sound of shells or fragments, and at the same time he was surprised and deeply frightened, he knew that this was a heavy artillery shell with a caliber of at least 150 mm or more just by listening to the sound of the shells whistling in the air.
"Buzz...... Buzz ......"
In addition to the explosion, the sound of the explosion was more than the sound of the explosion, this feeling was both familiar and unfamiliar to him, what was familiar was that he had seen the heavy artillery brigade of the empire carry out this kind of shelling of the Chinese army several times, and the strange thing was that in the past he was just watching the excitement, but today he was the one who was shelled, this was the first time in his decades of military career, until now he still can't believe how the Chinese army can have this kind of large-caliber heavy artillery.
When a few people got up, his guard captain hurriedly said to him: "Your Excellency the division commander, let's hurry to the underground command room, it's too dangerous here!" ”
"No......" Hiroki Inagaki shook his head, "Don't worry, it was just an accident, it was a stray bullet that missed." Nanchang is an important town for the Chinese people, and they dare not destroy it with heavy artillery. ”
What Inagaki Yushu said was right, at this time, Bai Hongshan was scolding at a gunner: "Your turtle son is blind, and he can even play such an outrageous distance, but the brigade seat has repeatedly said that you are not allowed to go to the city**, that is our city, and there are many ordinary people in it." If there are too many accidental injuries, we will be responsible, do you understand? ”
The scolded ensign's head almost hung into the crotch of his pants and he didn't dare to say a word, just now he just missed the shell by negligence, and almost didn't cause a big disaster, and finally Bai Hongshan scolded hatefully: "What are you still standing for, hurry up and go to work, if I see you hitting the shell into the city again, Lao Tzu will let you go to the baggage camp as a groom!" ”
"Yes!" The second lieutenant hurried away as if he had been amnestied.
After half an hour of shelling, the thunderous explosion finally stopped. The strong wind blowing from the northeast blew away the thick gunpowder smoke that shrouded the north of the city, and the black smoke that filled the sky over the Japanese positions drifted everywhere with this spring breeze. The sudden earth-shattering silence that suddenly ended made people feel cold, even though it was already spring. But it still makes the living feel a chill in their bodies. The dim Nanchang City was silent at this time, only a lot of still burning firelight was still flickering and flickering, like bright red blood flowing from a seriously injured body.
When the shelling stopped, Yusuke Otake slowly crawled out of a crater, at this time he could not hear anything in his ears except buzzing, and felt as if liquid was flowing out of his ears, so he touched it with his hand, and it was blood...... Yusuke Otake's eardrums were bleeding from the previous bombardment.
Looking at the bright blood, Yusuke Otake couldn't help but curse in a low voice: "Yaga." The heavy artillery of the Chinese people is too hateful, why didn't the imperial artillery fire give a counterattack? And what about the planes of the Empire, are they all dead? ”
"Chief Otake...... Chief Otake......"
Fuzzy Sheng seemed to have someone next to him calling him, and Yusuke Otake turned his head. Seeing a person crawling from the side, he looked at him for a while before he recognized him from the other party's dark face, the person who came was a military captain under his command, Kohata Katsuji, and there were several people behind him.
"It turned out to be Kohata-kun. I'm so good to see you're okay. ”
Yusuke Otake smiled reluctantly and said to him, "Kohata-kun, you go and count the number of people right away." Look at how many people are left in our squad, and immediately order everyone to enter the position, the Chinese will soon attack. ”
"Sir......" Kohata stopped talking about himself.
"What, what's the problem?" Seeing that Katsumi Kohata did not immediately carry out his orders, Yusuke Otake was very displeased and sank his face.
"No, sir!" Katsumi Kohata said with a crying voice, "The rest of our team is here. ”
"Nani?"
Yusuke Otake couldn't believe his ears.
"We ...... That's all there is left of our squad? ”
"Yes, Your Excellency!"
Looking at the six or seven people scattered in front of him, Yusuke Otake was silent for a long time, his team was full of fifty-seven people, and now there was only a fraction left.
"Your Excellency, what should we do?" A private asked.
Yusuke Otake gritted his teeth: "What else can I do, collect weapons immediately, especially to find the Type 92 heavy machine gun, it is not easy to fight without it." ”
Everyone understood what their commander meant, their squad was bombed so badly, and other troops were probably no better, and if there were no more machine guns, they would really be finished.
After everyone dispersed, Yusuke Otake touched his body, the original command knife had long been lost, and after looking for a while next to him, he finally found a Type 38 rifle, he felt out a pack of bullets from a corpse, and found a foxhole that could barely accommodate him and squatted down.
After doing all this, I don't know who shouted next to me: "The people from China have come up." ”
Yusuke Otake hurriedly looked ahead, and found that a group of people and horses were rushing in front of him, and the strange thing that made him arrive was that the military uniforms of this wave of people seemed to be a little strange, some of them were wearing blue uniforms, and some of them were wearing gray-green uniforms, and the equipment of these two groups of people was very different from the appearance. The former was poorly equipped, while the latter was very formal, and the men were stooping and charging forward while firing at their own positions, with bullets flying by from time to time.
Seeing this, Yusuke Otake shouted back, "Hey...... Isn't the machine gun ready yet? ”
After waiting for a while and there was still no sound, Yusuke Otake turned around and was about to curse angrily, only then he saw several soldiers walking over with a Type 92 heavy machine gun, because most of the positions were blown up in the shelling just now, they could only put the machine guns on a slightly flat ground.
"Quick...... Hurry up and drop ...... Shoot now! ”
At the urging of Yusuke Otake, several Japanese soldiers quickly set up their machine guns, and the soldier who served as the machine gunner pulled the trigger, and soon the dull sound of gunfire rang out.
"Dangdangdang......"
As the gunfire rang out, the soldiers who were bending down hundreds of meters away immediately lay down, and soon bullets swept in their direction, and it didn't take long for gunfire to ring out one after another from the position.
Dog baby, now that he has become a company commander, no one calls him this nickname anymore, but has changed back to Wu Zhuang's original name. He and more than a dozen soldiers were lying on a ridge of the field to strafe a Japanese position in front, opposite a Japanese machine gun position, several heavy machine guns were strafing them, and the dense fire was pressing them so that they could not raise their heads.
While the two sides were fighting, a group of men in blue uniforms ran up to them, and an officer with the rank of major asked loudly: "Who is leading here?" ”
The dog baby replied loudly: "Sir, I am!" ”
The major looked at the MG34 machine gun that was strafing at the Japanese position, and then said, "Can you divide a machine gun and follow us up from the slope on the left and blow up that point of fire of the devil?" ”
The dog baby observed the front and shook his head and said, "Sir, don't be so troublesome, just leave this firepower point to us." ”
After speaking, he turned his head, took the walkie-talkie from the hand of the communications soldier next to him, and shouted: "Firepower, firepower, firepower...... Here is the 9th Company of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, and we have a machine-gun position in front of us, which is holding us all down, and we need artillery support. What the...... You want their location? ”
Speaking of this, the dog baby returned the walkie-talkie in his hand to the communication soldier beside him: "Li Zhi, tell them the machine gun position of the devil in front." ”
"Yes!"
The signal soldier took the walkie-talkie and said loudly: "The enemy's position is in Area 3, the direction is 024212, repeat 024212, kill them quickly!" ”
Looking at the dogs, the major said a little sluggishly, "That's it?" ”
"That's it!" The communications soldier replied in the affirmative.
As he spoke, there was a dull whistling sound in the sky, and then several shells fell on the Japanese machine-gun positions in front, and the violent explosion engulfed the several machine guns that were shouting happily.
Looking at the Japanese machine gun position that was quiet in an instant, the major and dozens of soldiers behind him couldn't help but swallow their saliva and muttered: "His grandmother, can this battle still be fought like this?" ”
Although this major has been a soldier for many years, the 29th Army, which has always been accustomed to a hard life, has always relied on carrying explosives and grenades to fill it with human lives when it encounters enemy fortifications and pillboxes when fighting fortified positions.
While the major was still immersed in shock, the dog baby had already rushed forward with more than a dozen brothers of the independent brigade.
"Sir, those people from the Independent Brigade are gone, what should we do?" A soldier asked him timidly.
"What should I do?" The major glared at him: "Of course I went to follow, what are you doing in a daze, give it to Lao Tzu immediately!" ”
With that, the major ran forward with the shell gun in his hand, and the rest of the soldiers followed after seeing it...... (To be continued.) )
PS: It's almost the Spring Festival, I wish you all a happy holiday!