Chapter 290: The Longest Night Four
readx; "For the sake of the Holy War, kill and give!" The deputy squadron leader, who automatically took over the command, gave the order to continue the charge at the back of the ranks. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info The fear of death was replaced by the fanatical spirit of bushido, and the officers and soldiers braved the rain of bullets and stepped on the desperate onslaught of their comrades who were still groaning.
The officers and soldiers in the back row quickly took out their grenades and slammed them into the butt of their guns, "Puff puff!" The bullets that passed through the shape of the army knocked down more than a dozen officers and soldiers who were throwing grenades, and many more grenades flew towards the trenches that were frantically spewing tongues of fire.
The drawbacks of the trenches were evident, most of the grenades landed accurately into the trenches, and the flames of the explosion rose up inside and outside the trenches at the same time, and more than half of the tongues of fire stopped.
The machine gun squadron and grenadier detachment of the Takahashi Brigade also began to suppress the firing, and the firepower composed of twelve Type 92 heavy machine guns and fifty-four grenadiers was devastating.
Amid the explosion of 54 grenades, the burst of shock waves and shrapnel threw five Czech light machine guns and more than a dozen officers and men into the air, and then smashed heavily inside and outside the trenches.
Qin Xiang, whose white bones were exposed at the broken legs, fell on the pile of dead people, and a deadly shrapnel pierced his heart, and strangely enough, not a drop of blood came out.
After receiving the signal, the gunners who quickly adjusted the muzzle of the gun checked the angle again, and in Zhou Anli's stern order, the eighteen gunners finally pulled the gun rope.
"Knock knock!" With the dull sound of grenades popping out, the eighteen grenades turned into eighteen meteors and flew into the night sky, reaching their highest point before turning around and pounced on their respective targets.
Qin Xiang, who still had a trace of sanity, could already hear the heavy footsteps of the officers and soldiers, and Qin Xiang, who could only move his fingers with all his strength, finally saw the long-awaited bullet marks sweeping through the trench from the rear.
Eighteen grenades accurately smashed into the positions of the army's heavy machine guns and grenadiers in the exposed positions, and the Type 92 heavy machine guns, a throwing canister and their users rose into the air in the center of the explosion, and sharp shrapnel fired in all directions randomly harvested blood and lives.
Although Takahashi Nakasa lacked the ferocity of other officers who neglected his own lives, he had a wealth of battlefield experience, and he quickly ordered a ceasefire, "Forward!" ”
The powerful shock wave was transmitted along the ground to the trench, and in the beating of the ground, Qin Xiang on the pile of corpses was shaken up by several centimeters, and in the stinging pain of the cone, blood gushed from the shrapnel inserted in the heart.
"Knock knock!" The sound of officers and soldiers jumping into the trench made Qin Xiang, whose consciousness passed rapidly with the blood, and the confused Qin Xiang once again stubbornly broke open his eyes.
Tears, tears of despair slowly flowed down the snow-white cheeks, is this the result of the sacrifice of so many brothers?
"Yaga!" Murakami Shaosa, the leader of the 2nd Squadron of the Light Tank Brigade of the Army, looked at the trench in front of him and roared angrily.
However, the captain of the 6th Brigade of the 1st Cavalry Wing, Matsushita Nakasa, gave orders continuously. The cavalry of the two squadrons quickly deployed, and the engineering detachment, with the help of more than a hundred cavalrymen, began to work on the earth again.
Murakami, who had calmed down, asked the muzzles of the eight Type 94 ultralight tanks to form a circle towards the periphery.
The two cavalry squads on guard on the perimeter watched in horror the shadows that might be hiding the Chinese snipers, and from time to time turned their heads with envy to look at their companions in the tank circle.
"Ahem!" The sudden coughing sound did not attract the attention of the other officers and soldiers, and the team members who received the thunder code took out their automatic weapons one after another.
Three hundred meters from the main road, a second lieutenant rushed up the small dirt slope, "Battalion commander, brothers are ready!" ”
After asking the second lieutenant to return to the grove below, Liu Sihai waited for a few more minutes. After feeling that the other two teams were also ready, Liu Sihai motioned for the sniper to shoot.
The sniper who had been digging in the dirt by the campfire and did not aim at the head of a military engineer lightly hooked the machine, and "bang", a bullet dragged a hot wave of air out of the chamber.
The engineer who had been hit in the head fell into the trench, and the officers and men who had been mentally prepared for a long time quickly fell down.
No matter how fast the movement of the people was, they could not be faster than the speed of the bullets, and two more gunshots rang out, and the two military engineers who had just bent down also fell to the ground in response.
The cavalry of the two squadrons, which had been prepared, pounced on the place where the guns rang out, but at a very slow pace.
Murakami Shaozuo, who was lying behind the tank, pouted disdainfully and said, "Matsushita-kun, I bet that the people of China have escaped again!" Matsushita Nakasa on the side did not answer, he knew that in such a night, it was difficult for the cavalry to find snipers hiding in the shadows.
Seeing that the cavalry of the brigade had not yet gone away, Lei Ting did not immediately give the order to attack.
In fact, the three snipers quickly searched for other targets after firing the first bullet.
The more than a dozen sappers in the trenches may not be able to stand the pungent smell of blood, or they may also think like Murakami Shaoza, who thinks that Chinese snipers will flee immediately after a single blow, and even want to climb to the ground when they stand up.
The three snipers, who were worried that they could not find their target, immediately opened fire, and after three crisp shots, three more corpses with broken heads were found in the trench.
Unexpectedly, the more than 100 cavalry of the Chinese snipers who were still in place sped up their speed and rushed to one place after being led by two squadrons.
"Bang bang bang!" In the continuous sound of gunfire, the four war horses close to the campfire fell to the ground with a grief.
The squadron leader who was scattered and guarded quickly discovered the location of the third Chinese sniper, and in annoyance, he turned over and pulled out his sword and pointed at it, "Kill and cut!" ”
Thunder, who was about to give the order for a decisive assault, discovered the actions of the squadron leader, and ordered the squad to also get on the horses and attack with the cavalry of the army first.
Matsushita Nakasa, who always felt that something was wrong, stood up and was about to stop it, and a bullet flew over his head.
The sniper who barely fired the bullet didn't know that he almost hit a military lieutenant, and if it weren't for the fact that Matsushita was far away from the campfire and affected by the light, the sniper wouldn't have taken aim.
Looking at Matsushita Nakasa, who was so frightened that he quickly fell down again, Murakami Shaoza said confidently, "Matsushita-kun, don't worry, even if you really have an ambush, you are not the opponent of the invincible tank of the empire!" ”
Thinking about what Murakami Shaosa said, goodbye cavalry is gone, Matsushita Nakasa will give up.
The squad that received the thunder order controlled the speed of the war horse and soon fell behind.
Unexpectedly, even the vigilant cavalry of the Yue Army was attracted to Liu Sihai, who immediately excitedly ordered the snipers to shoot at will.
Suddenly, the gunshots rang out, and even the war horses that were neighing in a pool of blood were shot a few times, and the snipers even fired a few shots at the cavalry of the Yue Army who were speeding in the dark, of course, it was impossible to hit.
"These three snipers want to fight hard!" Matsushita Nakasa only shook his head, "It seems that the people in front of China have not set up this kind of trench again!" ”
Not to be outdone, Murakami Shaoza analyzed, "There are only three snipers in China, otherwise they would not have adopted this suicidal attack!" ”
Unexpectedly, Matsushita Nakasa was shocked when he heard this, and now he understands the reason for his uneasiness, it is impossible to dig such a large interception trench with only three snipers. Then now the [***] team has only one purpose in doing this, that is, to lure the cavalry to take the bait, and there must be a large number of ambushes waiting in secret.
Frightened into a cold sweat, Matsushita Nakasa, despite Murakami's confusion, ordered the signal corps to immediately send a signal flare to order the cavalry to retreat.
Seeing that the snipers actually shot at themselves, the three squadron leaders of the Chinese army were even more convinced that the three Chinese snipers had no way to escape.
"Bang bang bang!" The frequency of the fire was faster, and dark red bullet marks whizzed through the ranks of the cavalry, and it seemed that the Chinese snipers had also recognized the bad situation.
The three squadron leaders who had already spotted the flames of the muzzle fire took the lead in jumping up the gentle dirt slope, not even noticing that dozens of pairs of eyes were staring at them in the grove on the edge of the dirt slope.
Two green and one red signal flares suddenly crossed the dark night sky, instinctively pulled the reins, and amid the neighing of war horses, the three cavalry teams of the Yue Army stopped at the foot of the slope.
Although I don't know why the retreat was ordered, the long-term training has made the army develop the habit of obeying orders from top to bottom. "Withdraw!" Under the orders of the three squadron commanders, the cavalry began to turn around.
The stopped cavalry was a live target, and more than 100 officers and men who had long been hidden in three small woods had already moved to the edge of the forest when the cavalry rushed down the slope.
"Hit!" Amid the roar, 20 MP38 submachine guns from more than 30 officers and men lined up in each of the three places simultaneously spewed dazzling flames, and the MP38 submachine guns, which had a rate of fire of 500 rounds per minute, poured more than 600 rounds of ammunition into the more than 50 unsuspecting cavalrymen in front of them in four seconds.
The screams of fear, the screams of being shot, the neighing of war horses, and the firing of submachine guns intertwined to play a song of death, and the cavalry of the Yue army, shrouded in a dense rain of bullets, fell like a large number of men and horses like cutting rice.
The 32-round magazine could only last more than four seconds of fire, and the moment the 20 MP38 submachine guns stopped roaring, the other dozen or so MP38 submachine guns in each platoon that did not shoot began to rain bullets on the surviving cavalry that was still in disarray.
More than four seconds of firepower was enough for the other 20 officers and men to change their magazines, and the cavalry of the Yue Army, who were huddled together under the continuous firepower, had no possibility of escaping at all.
When all the officers and men of the guard battalion had exhausted the two magazines, there were no more standing horses at the foot of the three slopes, and the blood river flowing like a small river was full of cavalry and war horses that had been beaten into a hornet's nest, and only a few dying war horses were neighing weakly.
After firing the signal flare of retreat, Matsushita Nakasa didn't care about Murakami Shaosa, who kept answering questions, and looked into the distance impatiently.
A storm of gunfire suddenly rang out from a distance, and Matsushita Nakasa lowered his head in pain, and then Murakami finally understood why he ordered a retreat.
The only hope now is for as many cavalry as possible to escape from the ambush of the [***] team. It seemed like a long time, but in fact, it was only a few minutes of waiting, and finally the sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the darkness
The moment his consciousness sank into the place of eternal sleep, the earth-shattering roar, the strafing sound of machine guns, and the explosion of grenades made Qin Xiang's increasingly dim eyes light up, and he closed them peacefully.
The brethren who rushed in to reinforce opened the way with five crooked guns, and the tongues of fire spewed out, and a storm of bullets sealed off all the space.
The officers and men who jumped down like dumplings had not yet gained a firm foothold among the corpses, and were knocked down by the dense net of fire before they could even raise their guns.
The shooters who had run out of magazines stepped back, and the four crooked guns of the second platoon rushed forward, and the more than 100 officers and men who jumped into the trenches with continuous fire were suppressed.
The follow-up infantry of the Takahashi Brigade still poured up like a tide under the strict orders of the deputy squadron leader, and in the trenches, the officers and men of a platoon behind the assault force also quickly deployed to occupy a firing position under the order of Ma Debi, the commander of the sixth battalion.
The officers and men who were still alive lying on the pile of flesh and blood desperately returned fire with their Type 38 rifles, not aiming at all, and the 6.5 millimeters that came out of their disembowels shot down the Chinese officers and soldiers who were lined up in dense queues in pieces.
"Grenades!"
Amid the roar, the Chinese officers and soldiers in the back row rained grenades at the officers and soldiers who were still desperately pulling the bolts.
In the sound of explosions, the trenches occupied by the officers and men were shrouded in tumbling flames and sharp shrapnel, and whether they were alive or dead long ago, they all turned into mass pieces of flesh flying in the air in this dense explosion.
The first to launch an interception shot was the crooked light gun in Ma Debi's hand, and the lethality of the tongue of fire that hit the side at 40 degrees was extremely amazing, and where the bullet marks passed, the officers and men who rushed to the front fell one piece.
As other officers and men opened fire, the stormtrooping formation of the Yue army became thinner and thinner, but none of the officers and men of the Yue army flinched, and the ferocity of the officers and men who had been influenced by militarism for a long time also broke out completely.
"Warriors, forward!" Seeing that the interception fire in the trenches was not too dense, the deputy squadron leader of the Yue Army gave another order.
“ばんざい!” The army shouted the slogan of a desperate long live charge, facing the blood splattered in the air, passing over the comrades who were screaming and falling to the ground, and these more than 100 officers and men who had already existed to die stared at the blood-red eyes and rushed forward one after another to the trenches where the fire was becoming fiercer.
As the Chinese soldiers unfolded their firepower, the last infantry of Takahashi's brigade all fell in a pool of blood, and not a single one was shot in the back.
"Retreat!" Finding that the Chinese reinforcements had come up, Takahashi Nakasa wisely gave the order to retreat, and the last machine gun squadron and grenadier detachment of the Takahashi Brigade evacuated the battlefield full of dead corpses under the cover of night.
In case there was a follow-up attack by the Chinese army, Ma Debi commanded the officers and soldiers to quickly build a firepower point in the trenches full of officers and soldiers who had died in the Chinese war.
The 63rd Wing, which was rushing to the battlefield at full speed, stopped after meeting the retreating Yue troops, and the officers and men in front of them silently looked at the more than 300 light and heavy machine gunners and grenadiers in front of them. In less than ten minutes of battle, there were only so many people left in the two brigades and nearly 2,000 officers and men, and a fear that had never been felt before flashed across the faces of these officers and men who had experienced a hundred battles
Ten horsemen rushed from the darkness like the wind, and it was the Thunder team.
Thinking that it was just that, the cavalry fled from the ambush of the [***] team, and the captain of the 1st Brigade of the 6th Cavalry Wing, Matsushita Nakasa, walked up with a group of officers from the brigade headquarters who were also pale.
The galloping war horse did not seem to slow down, and Matsushita Nakasa, who was about to scold, suddenly found that what these cavalrymen were holding in their hands suddenly flashed with fire, and ten tongues of fire swept towards the officers of the 1st Brigade of the 6th Cavalry Wing.
The unsuspecting officers of the Japanese army all collapsed in a net of fire made up of hundreds of bullets, and when Matsushita Nakasa, who was beaten into a hornet's nest, swallowed his last breath, he finally remembered the name of this weapon, "MP38 submachine gun!" This is his last memory in the world.
Murakami Shaosa, the leader of the 2nd Squadron of the Light Tank Brigade who stayed in the tank protection circle, was stunned by this sudden change, and he and a group of tank soldiers of the Japanese army watched the ten cavalry rush towards the trench in a frenzy.
During the high-speed movement, the Thunder Ten people, who had completed the magazine change, smashed out the grenade, pulled out the safety bolt, knocked it heavily on the barrel, and threw it into the trench 10 meters away.
More than 100 sappers and cavalrymen who honestly stayed in the trench first heard the dense gunfire coming from nowhere, and soon a series of gunfire rang out nearby, thinking that the [***] team was coming, and was about to stand up to see what was going on.
Before the officers and soldiers could stand firm, they heard the thunderous sound of horses' hooves rushing straight over, and a black shadow immediately fell.
"Grenade!" Several sharp-eyed officers and soldiers could see clearly what was spinning and falling, and they couldn't help but scream in horror.
The officers and soldiers who were in a mess rushed to the wall of the trench, "Boom, boom! "In the sound of explosions, flesh and blood flew in the trenches.
Before the surviving officers and soldiers could climb up, the Thunder Ten Cavalry in a column rushed to the edge of the trench, and the four soldiers of the special service company at the front hooked their index fingers, and the four chains of fire swept past both sides of the trench, and the officers and men who were huddled together and desperately climbed up screamed and fell to the bottom of the trench.
Four seconds later, the four soldiers of the special service company in the back opened fire again, and the officers and men who were scurrying everywhere fell one after another in the dense rain of bullets.
Thunder and another soldier of the special service company who were behind knocked down the officers and soldiers who had escaped the fire from the front one by one.
The Thunder detachment that had completed the sneak attack disappeared into the darkness like a fly, leaving only a faint moan in the trench swept by the fire.
After the tank crew, who finally reacted, shook the turret towards the trench, the cavalry that launched the sneak attack had long since disappeared
All the officers and soldiers who were able to stand in the night battle were in front of him, and although Goofy was mentally prepared, he was still shocked by what he saw.
The 1st Battalion, the 2nd Battalion, the 2nd Battalion of the 186th Regiment, and the 1st Firepower Battalion now stood in front of them with less than 400 officers and men, many of whom were suffering various minor injuries.
Venus under the firelight looked even more dazzling, but Goofy's heart was like a knife at this time, and those familiar faces were not in the queue.
Taking a long breath, Goofy yelled, "Mortar company out of line!" ”
"Huh!" In the sound of neat steps, all the officers and soldiers took a step, and only one soldier did not move.
"Mortar company out of line!"
The soldier who could no longer control his tears finally took a step forward by himself and gave a standard military salute: "Mortar company ammunition man Jiang Haisheng reports to the commander-in-chief!" ”
Looking at Jiang Haisheng, who was in tears, Gao Fei asked in a slightly trembling voice, "What about your company commander?" ”
Before Jiang Haisheng could answer, the 2nd battalion commander Ma Debi said hoarsely: "Company Commander Wang was stunned and has been sent to the treatment center!" ”
Gao Fei, who was obviously relieved, looked at Ma Debi expectantly.
Ma Debi, who knew what Gao Fei was looking forward to, his face darkened, and he shook his head silently!
(To be continued)