Chapter 288: The Longest Night II
readx; "Hey!" The officer who received the order quickly blew the assembly whistle, "Toot! In the midst of the terrible whistle, the officers and men who were chatting and laughing around the bonfire quickly took action. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The roar of the engine, the neighing of the war horse, and the urging of the officers suddenly resounded.
"Futian-kun, the troops are about to leave, hurry up!" In the low bushes more than 50 meters away from the main road, a soldier Cao shouted hurriedly while pulling his pants.
In the crackling sound, a disgusting stench wafted with the wind, Jun Cao frowned in disgust, and was about to tie the belt, a piece of long grass behind him stood up without warning, Jun Cao, who heard the movement, instinctively turned his head, and a dagger flashing with dazzling cold light quickly enlarged in his pupils, before he could react, while his mouth was covered, his throat was cold, and then he heard the "zizi" sound of his blood spraying from the broken place, and the soft strength of his whole body seemed to be passing rapidly with the blood!
Although he still wanted to struggle to warn, his tightly covered mouth did not make any sound at all, and Jun Cao, who had his throat cut, angrily looked at the [***] person in front of him who was staring at him with cold eyes.
"I've got a bad stomach!" In the bushes on the other side, a sergeant with a pouting ass shouted anxiously: "Hirano-kun, you wait for me!" ”
The last image he saw as he took his last breath was a pile of grass silently moving towards his unsuspecting companion.
Thunder slowly lowered the body and quickly peeled off his uniform.
Seeing that Jun Cao didn't reply, the soldier muttered and hurriedly took out a paper to wipe it, but felt a chill in his lower back, and then lost consciousness.
A soldier stripped off his uniform as he endured the stench.
"Where's your captain?" The squadron leader on the horse was dissatisfied and asked a bunch of soldiers who were looking around.
"Report to the captain, Captain Fukuda, and Deputy Captain Hirano, it's convenient for them to go!"
A sharp-eyed soldier spotted two figures running over quickly, and hurriedly said excitedly: "Captain, they're here!" ”
"Do what you want!" Lei Ting, who was dressed as a military cao, saw that the army was setting off, so he hurriedly slowed down his pace and whispered.
"Yes!" The soldier dressed as a corporal looked nervous.
"Yaga!" The squadron leader waved his horsewhip angrily, turned his head to look at the troops in the distance, and said to the eight soldiers who were standing solemnly: "Your squad serves as a rear guard!" ”
"Hello!"
After seeing the squadron leader and his entourage go away, a corporal arranged for a soldier to stay and wait, and then took the rest of the soldiers to turn over and get on their horses, scatter and move forward slowly.
Seeing that there was only one soldier waiting in place with three war horses, the two of them quickened their pace again.
Through the bonfire, I found that the person who came was wearing a military uniform, and the soldier with a gun on guard lowered the muzzle of his gun, and greeted the two who were coming quickly with their heads down, "Captain Fukuda, Deputy Captain Hirano!" ”
Thunder, who couldn't understand the words at all, suppressed his voice and let out a heavy "um".
The soldiers of the Yue Army, who had not yet realized that death was coming, although they were a little strange why the captain and deputy captain kept looking down at the ground, still handed the reins in their hands to the two people who approached in front of them.
The thunderbolt, whose heart was almost hanging in his throat, deliberately stumbled into the soldiers.
"Be careful!" The soldier reflexively stretched out his hand to help, only to see the thunder dancing in the air in the right hand turned into a fist, and suddenly hit the soldier's temple, and the fierce force actually hit the soldier so that his eyes turned white and he fell straight to the ground and did not move.
Thunder, who had won the blow, got on his horse and waved his hand at one of the cavalrymen who was looking back.
A soldier of the special service company who was lying in the shadows immediately rushed over to change into a military uniform, "Deputy company commander, Xiao Wu and the three of them have joined Battalion Commander Qu!" ”
"Find a chance to kill the other seven little devils!" Thunder rushed out first with the horse's belly.
Looking at the soldier on the ground with black blood on his mouth and nose, the two spies couldn't help but take a breath of cold air for the soldiers, and at the same time urged the war horse to chase after him.
Behind them, the other seven officers and men of the special service company fought desperately along the side of the road.
The disappearance of the gunfire in front surprised the two company commanders of the 2nd Battalion of Firepower, could it be that the 3rd Battalion was finished? A bad feeling came to the minds of the two company commanders at the same time.
Suddenly, dozens of meteors streaked across the sky, and then a dense explosion rumbled, "The artillery fired!" The officers and men who knew that there was an artillery battalion in the Reading Army shouted excitedly.
The second company commander, who was a little relieved, put down the small wooden stool in his hand and stood up to take a look, and a wall of fire with rolling flames in the distance looked so gorgeous in the night.
Against the backdrop of the skyrocketing fire, the shadowy figure was rushing into the trench in front of him, "Little devil! With a roar, the commander of the second company set up a Czech light machine gun and opened fire violently.
"Da Da Da!" Twenty rounds of 7.92 mm bullets were fanned out in a fan-shape towards the dense formation of the Yue army, and the caught off guard fell several people on the spot, but the Yue army who rushed to the front began to jump off the anti-tank trench.
"Shoot!" The commander of the second company shouted in despair, and after mounting the light and heavy machine guns on the trench wall, the shooters found that the firing angle was almost none.
"Get on the ground!" The blood-red second company commander was the first to climb out of the anti-tank trenches, and what the consequences of being exposed to the battlefield were, all officers and soldiers knew.
Everything in front of them was caused by their own private actions, and the officers and soldiers who had no choice all climbed to the ground.
Sixty light and heavy machine guns spat out tongues of fire, like fire scythes in the hands of the Grim Reaper, and swung towards the ranks of the Japanese army who were rushing towards the anti-tank trenches at full speed.
The dense bullets roared into the columns of the army, as if hitting an invisible steel wall, and the entire shape of the army was blocked alive, and the officers and soldiers in the ballistic area were cut down one by one like ripe wheat.
"Don't stop!" At the back of the line, Song Yuan Zhongzuo waved his command knife desperately, he knew very well that Chinese reinforcements were coming in a steady stream, and as long as they stopped, all the previous casualties would be in vain.
The officers and men who obeyed their orders tried to cross the bullet wall composed of 60 tongues of fire like moths throwing fire, and the result was self-evident, as soon as the tide of people rushed up into the barrage, they were ruthlessly swept down, and the follow-up officers and soldiers still rushed up desperately and were strangled alive.
"Isn't the little devil crazy!" The commander of the third company shook his head as he changed magazines, and there were three empty magazines thrown beside him.
"Yaga!" Seeing his officers and soldiers struggling in the rain of bullets, Songyuan Nakasa began to despair, and the expected artillery support did not appear.
Following the Songyuan Brigade and turning to the forward, the Takahashi Brigade was able to lie down and hide in a witty way.
In fact, the field artillery of the army and the Type 92 infantry artillery were looking for fire support points for the Chinese defenders.
The artillery observation post, which had not found the firing positions of the Chinese defenders' mortars, was attracted by the volcanic eruption in the telescope.
The artillery group that had obtained the firing position quickly adjusted the muzzle of the gun, first an orange scarlet tongue of fire, the whistling tongue of fire left the muzzle, then another, and finally dozens of dark red bullet marks with a piercing scream smashed in the direction of the second and third companies of the fire exposed to the ground.
"Chirp!" With a terrible scream, the first 75-millimeter grenade landed on the position, and a Maxim heavy machine gun at the center of the explosion, along with the main and auxiliary marksman, was lifted into the air.
"Company commander, retreat!" A second lieutenant, who was the second company commander's co-shooter, screamed at the bullet marks in the air.
"Kill and give!" Seeing that the supporting artillery fire had finally arrived, Songyuan Zhongzuo excitedly held a command knife and personally led the last more than 200 officers and soldiers to charge.
The Takahashi Brigade also got up in time to keep up.
The dense crowd of troops reflected in the firelight made the commander of the second company, who originally wanted to retreat into the anti-tank trenches and close combat of the army, give the final order, "Brothers, hold on until the last moment!" ”
The commander of the third company also found that if he retreated at this time, so many Chinese troops would break through the anti-tank trenches, and the later Japanese troops might still catch up, and the entire front would collapse by then.
Indeed, as the commander of the third company thought, the commander of the 63rd Wing, Furong Zhenping, was rushing to the battlefield at full speed with the 63rd Wing, which had been reassembled with sappers and logistics soldiers.
"Boom!" 75-mm grenades exploded one after another on the position, orange fireballs rose one after another, and various machine gun parts flew everywhere in the air in a bloody package.
"Bang!" After raising his hand and killing a lieutenant who wanted to retreat, the commander of the third company stared at the red eyes and shouted, "Don't retreat!" "Knowing that the artillery fire of the other side is being prepared, the commander of the third company decided to delay the pace of the army even if he sacrificed everything.
The officers and soldiers who were fluctuating in their hearts let go when they knew that they would die, and the explosion that was close at hand did not make the shooter blink his eyes, and the index finger in his hand kept hooking the board machine, and pounced on the frenzied assaulting army like bullets of revenge, until he was swept into the air by the tyrannical explosion wave.
"Brethren, quick!" In the anti-tank trenches, Yu Wenzheng, commander of the 3rd Battalion, was desperately urging the officers and soldiers who were out of breath with blood-red eyes.
The officers and men of the 3rd Battalion, who knew that the brothers on the ground were buying their precious time with their lives, rushed wildly with tears in their eyes.
The first company of the second fire battalion, which was rushing over after the fifth battalion, stopped, and the commander of the first company was about to order the whole company to go to the ground, when the commander of the second fire battalion ran over, "Keep moving!" ”
The "battalion commander" company commander anxiously pointed to the ground where the sound of machine guns was getting weaker and weaker.
"Forward!" The face of Tie Qing, the commander of the second firepower battalion, trembled violently.
He stomped his foot heavily, and a company of chiefs roared, "Go!" He rushed to the trench in front of which the gunfire was raging.
Songyuan Zhongzuo, who personally led the charge of the direct team, looked depressedly at the machine gun position of the Chinese defenders who were still spitting a string of flames in the artillery fire, and almost less than half of the more than 200 teams could break into the trenches alive.
"Magazine!" The bloody second company commander skillfully dismantled the empty magazine, but no one sent the magazine up, and turned his head angrily to see that the second lieutenant who had persuaded him to retreat was lying quietly in a pool of blood, and a shrapnel almost cut his neck.
"Huh!" In the midst of the miserable laughter, the commander of the second company looked around the battlefield where the corpses were strewn all over the field, and there was no longer a single machine gun still firing.
I touched a magazine and just loaded it, "Chirp!" A 75mm grenade exploded three meters away with a scream, "Boom! In the loud bang, the commander of the second company who had just pressed his index finger was blown into the sky by the violent shock wave, "Da da! The Czech light gun stubbornly spat out two bullets.
At the moment when his body was cut by sharp shrapnel, countless meteors reflected in the eye sockets of the second company commander.
The firepower of the Chinese defenders was finally wiped out, and the last squad led by Songyuan Nakasa rushed through the death zone unscathed.
The more than 600 officers and men of the Takahashi Brigade were stunned by the bullet marks that swept straight through the sky, and in the midst of the frightened howls, some officers and men quickened their pace and wanted to rush to the trenches dozens of meters away, while some officers and men chose to retreat, and for a time the entire Takahashi Brigade was in a mess
Taking advantage of the cover of night, Thunder led the detachment to successfully attack and kill the rear squad of the 1st Brigade of the 6th Cavalry Wing.
The ten-man detachment disguised as cavalry of the Yue Army and the large army of the Yue Army always maintained a distance of nearly 100 meters.
Half an hour later, when the small lake mentioned by Qu Lidong in the telegram appeared, Thunder sent a gathering signal.
In the roaring procession, Matsushita Nakasa and Murakami Shosa, who rode side by side, let out a smug laugh from time to time.
Yu Zhenhai finally heard the crisp sound of horses' hooves, and sure enough, as expected, the outpost cavalry of the Yue army bypassed the camouflaged position, "Boom!" In the roar of the engine, mud rained down, and Yu Zhenhai, whose face was getting paler and paler, estimated the distance, and his right hand trembling violently grabbed the detonation rope.
The officers of the guard battalion crouched in the distance nervously observed the serpent-like army ranks. "Why hasn't Yu Zhenhai detonated yet?" An ensign growled uneasily
"Boom, boom!" In the midst of three thunderclap-like explosions, a ten-wheeled truck full of ammunition rose into the air, and in the continuous violence, the entire truck was torn into pieces, and more than a dozen cavalry companies and horses in the surrounding area were swept down by the bullets and shrapnel fired from it.
The bottom of a Type 95 ultralight tank traveling above the buried bomb was easily shredded by a cluster grenade, and the powerful shock wave detonated the ammunition in the vehicle, and the larger shock wave lifted the turret into the air from the inside out. Another Type 95 ultralight tank was lucky enough to be about half a meter away from the explosion point, but one of its tracks was broken by a powerful shock wave.
The frightened war horse neighed and stood up, and nearly half of the cavalry of the army who were caught off guard were taken off their horses, and before Murakami Shaoza could stand up, there were three earth-shattering explosions.
In the astonished eyes of the officers and men, the three Type 95 ultralight tanks became three piles of torches in the explosion of ammunition
Without caring about treating their comrades who were moaning in a pool of blood, more than 200 cavalry members quickly dispersed, and the team led by Thunder also pretended to search behind.
The convoy quickly retreated, and the frightened Murakami and several officers carefully examined the huge crater.
The cavalry that had gone out to reconnoiter also came back to report the discovery of a huge wide ditch ahead.
"Despicable China!" Murakami Shaosa roared angrily, but Matsushita Nakasa calmly ordered, and the cavalry searched and advanced along the side of the road twenty meters.
In order to prevent the bombs planted by the [***] team, Matsushita Nakasa ordered the cavalry of the two squads to form a phalanx to open the way in front.
After advancing two kilometers, the convoy stopped again, and Matsushita Nakasa and Murakami Shaosa looked at the large trench that crossed the entire road in front of them, dumbfounded, and looked up, the road opposite the trench was full of large and small stones.
What made the two men even more mad was that the cavalry who had gone out to explore the road reported that there was an identical trench ahead.
"You go and check the ground on both sides!" Murakami Shaosa, with a gloomy face, ordered two ensigns.
"Hello!"
Two ensigns quickly rushed to the side of the road with a squad of engineers assigned to the 2nd Squadron of the Light Tank Brigade.
"Murakami-kun, the people of China want to use this method to delay our speed!" Matsushita Nakasa came over after setting up the guard and said, "Maybe the Shina people are secretly spying on us!" ”
Hearing this, Murakami Shaoza, who shrank behind the tank again, looked around uneasily, and the only bit of moonlight made it impossible to see anything from twenty meters away.
A few minutes later, a second lieutenant first hurried back to report: "Report, the terrain on the left is very high, and the tank can't drive through!" The other lieutenant returned with the same report in frustration.
"It seems that the people here are carefully selected!" Matsushita Nakasa, who knew that this would be the result, sighed.
"Order the sappers to pave the road immediately!" Having no choice, Murakami shouted at the dejected officers.
"Hello!"
The sapper squad was quickly deployed, and the cavalry brigade also drew a squadron to assist, and in order to speed up the progress, three bonfires were also lit
The Thunder detachment was still on guard with guns a hundred meters behind, and no one cared about this squad until now, except for a captain who had to inspect it once from afar.
"Company commander, come on!" Seeing that more than 100 officers and men were in full swing to fill the trench, a soldier of the special service company was about to draw a submachine gun.
Holding down the impulsive soldier, Thunder said in a deep voice: "Not now! ”
The soldier was about to ask, "When will it work?" A crisp gunshot echoed in the air, and the whole head of a soldier who was digging in the mud like a campfire burst with a "poof", and the corpse of the red and white mixture fell straight into the trench with a weak convulsion.
Before the officers and men could react, two more gunshots rang out, and the two sappers fell in response.
"Sniper!" Amid the howls of terror, there were no more officers and soldiers standing on the ground, and even the officers and soldiers on guard on their horses bowed down.
Liu Sihai, who was lying on a small hill more than 300 meters away, and a sniper quickly moved their positions
"The people of China are over there!" Matsushita Nakasa pointed to the left side of the main road according to the sound of the gun.
Carefully raised the binoculars to look, the black whirring saw nothing, Murakami Shaozo was so angry that he smashed a punch on the ground, "Matsushita-kun, you must destroy the people of China, otherwise you won't be able to do soil work at all!" ”
The order was quickly conveyed, and the cavalry of the two squadrons quickly outflanked the possible hiding place of the Chinese snipers, and for a moment the sound of horses' hooves resounded in the night sky.
The mortar shells with a terrifying scream accurately smashed in the direction of the Takahashi Brigade's assault, and the flames and spinning shrapnel formed a death zone, and dozens of officers and soldiers who desperately rushed to the anti-tank trenches were torn to pieces without even screaming!
(To be continued)