Just when the ** battalion machine gun platoon was designing an inverted triangle ambush array, Chiaki Shigeto also arrived in the western suburbs of Nantong. 【Reading.com】

Oda Nobuyoshi, the commander of the 2nd Infantry Wing of Taiwan, who arrived first and had already set up a sortie position in the western suburbs of Nantong, trotted in front of Chiaki Shigeto, and saluted: "Your Excellency, Commander." ”

Chiaki Shigeto returned the salute, turned over and dismounted again: "Oda-san, how is the situation?"

Oda Nobuyoshi replied: "Your Excellency, in accordance with your order, the Second Wing did not rashly launch an attack, but only ordered the artillery team to build a position outside the city with great fanfare, and at the same time ordered all infantry brigades to enter the sortie position and put on a large-scale offensive posture, but judging by the reaction of the Shina Army, it seems that it does not intend to abandon the city and leave." ”

"It seems that the Chinese army is not stupid, knowing that we want to force them out of the urban area and then annihilate them in the open area, so they simply stay in the urban area of Nantong and don't leave." Chiaki Shigeto frowned, and then took a few combat staff officers and orderly soldiers to board a small earthen bag not far away, and then raised the binoculars and began to observe.

From the field of view of the telescope, you can vaguely see that many Chinese soldiers are haunting the ruins, looking at the appearance of their shoulders and hands, it is obvious that they are rushing to repair the fortifications.

Seeing this, Shigedo Chiaki's face became more and more gloomy.

If the remnants of the provisional 79th Division really fought in the streets, it would undoubtedly be bad news for the Shigeto detachment.

Oda Nobuyoshi also followed the small dirt bag, and said to Chiaki Shigeto: "Your Excellency Commander, there is a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not."

Chiaki Shigedo adjusted the focal length of the telescope, aimed her field of view farther away, and said, "Say." ”

Oda Nobuyoshi said: "Your Excellency Commander, according to the report of the forward observation post, the strength of the China Army in Nantong is very small, at best the strength of one battalion, so I think that there is no need for the main force of the main team to stay here at all, it is a waste of time, we leave an infantry brigade is enough to solve the problem, at most one more cavalry team"

Chiaki Shigedo put down the binoculars, looked at Oda Nobuyoshi coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Oda-san, you mean that we should openly disobey the military orders of the Front Command."

"Hello." Oda Nobuyoshi bowed heavily and said humbly, "It's a shame to be humble." ”

However, in his heart, Oda Nobuyoshi was full of slander: Shanshan Mototo is still in China, and he doesn't know the situation on the Chinese battlefield at all

In other words, this is simply a knife used to kill chickens

I have never seen a more absurd military order

Chiaki Shigedo glanced at Nobuyoshi Oda coldly, he could completely understand Nobuyoshi Oda's mood at the moment.

Because every time the Shigeto detachment stayed in Nantong, it would be farther away from the supreme glory of capturing Nanjing, and according to the current speed of the Japanese army's advance, as long as they stayed in Nantong for more than three days, the battle to capture Nanjing would have nothing to do with them, and they would miss the greatest ceremony in the history of the empire.

You know, since the time of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the capture of the Chinese capital has been the ultimate dream of every samurai in the empire

How many generations of imperial warriors have fought for it all their lives, and how many generations of imperial warriors have sacrificed their lives and shed their last drop of blood for it Now, history has finally opened its doors to the empire, and how many feats that have not been completed by the ancestors and ancient warriors have finally had the opportunity to be completed in the hands of their generation of warriors, and they can not be in a hurry

Who would miss such an opportunity to leave a name in history

It's Chiaki Shigedo himself, and he is also very reluctant to miss such an eternal feat.

However, Chiaki Shigeto also knew that smashing the remnants of the Provisional 79th Division was by no means a trivial matter, because it was about the face of the empire and the imperial army, and it was also about the glory of the imperial family.

Therefore, no matter how unhappy he is in his heart, he must also come to Nantong

However, Chiaki Shigeto was not ready to talk about this to Oda Nobuyoshi, because he knew very well that Oda Nobuyoshi was thinking about the glory of capturing Nanjing at the moment, and everything he said was in vain, not to mention, he didn't need to talk about this to Oda Nobuyoshi, as the wing commander of the Second Infantry Wing, he just had to obey the order.

At that moment, Chiaki Shigeto said, "Oda-san, start attacking." ”

"Hello." Oda Nobuyoshi bowed heavily, turned around and hurriedly got off the small dirt bag.

Within a moment, 12 75-caliber mountain guns of the mountain artillery brigade directly under the Shigeto detachment began to fire one after another, hitting rows and rows of 75-caliber high-explosive shells and sulfur shells on the ruins of Nantong urban area.

Dividing line

Before the shelling of the little devils began, the officers and men of the ** battalion withdrew into the bomb shelter.

The outside of the bomb shelter had been blown into a sea of flames, but the inside of the bomb shelter was silent.

The veteran squinted slightly, silently calculating the time of the devil's shelling in his heart.

Five minutes later, the veteran's slightly narrowed eyes suddenly opened, and then he picked up the 38 big cover that was resting at his feet and rushed out, and everyone arrived at the entrance of the air-raid shelter, only then did he hear a cold and faint shout: "Go to the position"

According to the devil's routine, the artillery will soon be followed by the infantry to attack.

Of course, the first wave of the devil's attack must be a feint, and its purpose is nothing more than to find out the deployment of the ** squadron, as well as the firepower configuration, after the deployment of the ** troops and the configuration of firepower, the devil's artillery will carry out a second round of shelling, and then the devil will invest more troops and launch a real offensive.

More than 200 remnants of the soldiers stood up one after another and followed the veterans out of the bomb shelter.

The veteran was the first to go up to the outer position, and at this time the devil's shelling had just stopped, and the smoke and gunpowder that filled the position had not yet dispersed, and when he looked up, he could hardly see the scene ten meters away.

Half a minute later, the smoke and dust that hung over the defensive positions gradually dissipated and faded.

When the veteran raised his binoculars again, about a small group of devils was rushing towards him.

The devil's tactical literacy is really not bad, even if it is far away, and he knows that the squadron has no long-range firepower, but the devil still launched a wavy skirmish line early, and the distance between the skirmishers and the skirmishers is at least ten meters.

Although he is very reluctant to accept it, the veteran must admit that whether it is equipment, logistics, training or literacy, he is at a disadvantage compared to the little devils.

However, so what, their ** battalion is not an ordinary ** army

Now, let's let the little devil understand what a real sniper is.

A real sniper, with the help of the right terrain, one person can easily repel an infantry squad

The veteran put down the binoculars, then gave his right thumb up, observed the distance, the distance was about one thousand meters, more than the effective range of the 38 big cover, and then grabbed a handful of fine sand and raised it into the air, from the offset of the fine sand, it can be basically known that the wind speed is about two meters per second, and the breeze has almost no effect on the trajectory of the bullet.

Then, the veteran lifted the 38 lid and turned the ruler up.

After a little search on the battlefield, the veteran chose a devil officer who was walking on the right side of the skirmisher line.

Due to the distance, the veteran couldn't see the rank of the devil officer clearly, but the tweed military uniform on his body was enough to prove that he was at least a second lieutenant.

Die, little devil

The veteran grinned, his right index finger had already lightly touched the trigger, and then the muzzle of the gun was slowly pressed down.

When the one-meter scale on the ruler of the door, the front sight, and the devil officer in front of him were connected in a line, the veteran gently pulled the trigger, accompanied by a crisp sound of the "horn", and a shot of 6. The 5-caliber pointed copper-core bullet had already whistled out, and after about a second or so, the devil officer in the field of vision in front of him fell to the ground.

"Hit" Heipi, who was lying next to the veteran, immediately shouted, "Deputy battalion seat, good marksmanship"

More than a dozen remnants of soldiers nearby were also excited, Ni Mei's, the battalion deputy's marksmanship is really not covered, a thousand meters away, it can still hit, it's amazing

This marksmanship is not inferior to the camp.

I don't know if the devil officer was killed

The veteran pulled the bolt with an expressionless face, pushed the bullet to load, and then aimed at another devil, although the devil did not wear a tweed military uniform, but the bayonet in his hand was carrying a plaster flag, obviously, this little devil is the standard-bearer of this squad, sniping target: the first commander, the second standard-bearer

Dividing line

A thousand meters ahead.

That hapless devil lieutenant was already lying in a pool of blood, screaming a

"Medic, Medic" A ghost soldier Cao stepped forward to pick up the squad leader, and found that the squad leader had been shot in the abdomen, and his intestines had already flowed out.

The medic hurriedly ran over, but let the devil lieutenant push him away, and he didn't need it

The devil second lieutenant once participated in the 128th Shanghai Anti-Japanese War five years ago, and he is also a veteran of a hundred battles, knowing that he is no longer saved, he grabbed the shirt of the devil soldier Cao at the moment, gritted his teeth and said: "Yamamoto-san, you have the best marksmanship, please be sure to kill that branch soldier, please"

"Hello." Yamamoto bowed heavily.

"Be careful, that soldier has excellent marksmanship, you must be careful." The devil lieutenant struggled to sit up, patted Yamamoto on the shoulder, and then fell to the ground with his head tilted, dead.

Yamamoto reached out and gently stroked the face of the devil lieutenant, and the devil's angry eyes finally closed.

The next moment, Yamamoto raised his right hand and pressed it forward, and the fifty or so devils lying on both sides got up one after another, one by one, rushing forward.

Yamamoto fell behind the line and calmly observed.

The skirmish line advanced about two hundred meters, and the gunfire rang out again.

Another little devil fell to the ground, but this time it was the standard-bearer who was shot.

However, this devil flag bearer was luckier than the devil lieutenant just now, the devil second lieutenant was shot in the abdomen, and it took a while of pain before he finally breathed, but the devil flag bearer was directly hit in the head and killed on the spot

The more than fifty devils who advanced forward fell down again, trembling with gall