Chapter 285: The Darkness Before Dawn III
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"Artillery extended fire! Infantry, kill and cut! ā
With Fukuei Shinpei's howl, the barrage slowly advanced towards the second position, but fortunately, the second position was very narrow, and most of the shells fell on both sides of the position.
"Boom!" Several shells accurately landed on the position, and the surrounding anti-artillery holes collapsed with a bang, and the flesh and soil of the officers and men inside fused together.
The remnants of a large group of more than 400 men advanced slowly but firmly with bayonets, and the words "Snow Shame" were written in blood on the white belts on their heads. In the previous battle, the four infantry squadrons of a large group were all shattered, and the remaining machine gunners, grenadiers, artillerymen, and logistics personnel launched a decisive assault under the leadership of Tanigawa Miyoji.
Behind them were more than 600 soldiers from four squadrons of the Second Brigade, and behind them were fire support from four machine gun squadrons consisting of 16 92 heavy machine guns and 36 grenadiers!
Miyoji Tanigawa, who was at the forefront, stared at the position more than 200 meters away, which had swallowed up his four squadrons, which had been razed to the ground.
Suddenly, he felt someone grabbing his shoulder behind him, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Masao Yuasa. "I may die in battle today, and in a month my daughter's ten-year-old birth! When I die, I ask Tanigawa-kun to write a letter to my wife and son-in-law! ā
Tanigawa Miyoji nodded silently and said sadly: "Don't worry so much about Yuasa-kun, we are dedicated to the emperor and die as we deserve!" If I die, please write a letter to my family! ā
The two of them stopped talking, and at 10,080 meters, the first position of the people of China still did not move, "Kill and cut!" Miyoji Tanigawa howled and took the lead to speed up.
The devil's suppressed artillery fire began to bombard Taierzhuang, the cannonballs exploded in the town, large and small fireballs rose into the air from time to time, tiles, bricks, and stone fragments rose into the sky, and the entire Taierzhuang was trembling violently. However, the power of 70-mm shells was not enough to destroy houses made of large stones.
Ma Debi, who heard the sound of artillery in the distance, was the first to rush out of the anti-artillery hole, and the officers and men rushed to their positions one after another.
"Fire!" Ma Debi, who didn't dare to let the devil rush too close, fired the first shot.
All the firepower was fired together, especially the impermeable firepower network composed of more than 20 submachine guns, 10 light machine guns, and 4 heavy machine guns rolled like a whirlwind towards the devils who were about to rush to the first position.
The devils who were caught off guard fell down screaming in rows like ripe wheat, and the devils behind saw that the situation was not good, and they fell down on the ground.
The scythe-like firepower net in the hands of the Grim Reaper screamed and swept over the heads of these lying devils, and the second wave of devils who were still impacting the front line seemed to hit a bunch of walls, and rows of devils struggled weakly in the firepower network and fell, and the 7.62 mm heavy machine gun bullets screamed and drilled into the bodies of the devils in the front row, leaving a fist-sized blood hole and penetrating through the body and stabbing into the bodies of the devils in the back row.
The entire devil front raised bursts of blood mist. The second wave of nearly 1,000 devils was pressed to death in a narrow space of 50 to 100 meters in front of the second position, and they used 38 rifles and crooked light machine guns to fight back weakly.
The machine-gun squadron and grenadier detachment that the army followed immediately opened fire. Amid the roar of sixteen ninety-two heavy machine guns, sixteen fire whips swept towards the second position, focusing on the four heavy machine gun positions.
The rain of bullets made the heavy firepower of the second company stagnate, and the four machine gunners who were shooting desperately did not snort and all fell crooked in the position, and the four secondary shooters did not hesitate to pull the butt of the gun stained red with blood, and the heavy machine gun roared again, and the yellow cancan bullet casings jumped out endlessly.
Ten Czech light machine guns also joined the duel of heavy machine guns, and thirty tongues of fire made a mistake in the air, and pounced on each other without hesitation, and between each mistake, there were always several machine guns on both sides that were dumb fired, and after a few breaths, these machine guns roared angrily.
The front shooter fell, the secondary shooter took over, the second shooter died, the ammunition man made up for it without hesitation, and the countless shell casings on the machine gun positions on both sides were filled with the corpses of soldiers, and the dark red blood gathered into a small stream and gurgled down. None of the machine gunners who fired at each other flinched, and when they fell, they made up for the fall!
All the machine gunners were desperately trying to hook the bolt to the end with red eyes, and these shooters had only one thought in their minds, to provide powerful fire support to their comrades before they were shot down.
The grenadier detachment of the devils has been deployed, and the well-trained grenadiers have angled the thirty-six grenadiers at the machine gun positions of the second company, and the ammunition men are about to put the grenades into the grenadiers. The four 60-mm mortars that had been hidden in the second company opened fire preemptively, and the twelve shells fell into the grenadier position of the devils in a few tenths of a second.
Screaming in the continuous scarlet fireballs, dozens of devils rose into the air in the firelight, and a rain of blood fell in the sky, and human body fragments and internal organs fell like raindrops. The enraged devil quickly turned the remaining twenty-eight grenadiers, and twenty-eight grenades rained down on the mortar bombs wherever they came.
In the skyrocketing explosion, the tyrannical shock wave destroyed everything around the center of the explosion, and the soldiers of a squad directly turned into piles of blood and scattered around the position.
To the surprise of the commander of the devil grenadier detachment, in another place it was the same triple shot, five grenadiers and a dozen devils returned to the state of parts in a brilliant roar!
It turned out that these mortar gunners had mastered rapid-fire skills under Wang Chongxian's intensive training, and it didn't take two seconds for a triple shot, and they quickly moved their positions after shooting, and the retaliatory bombardment of the devil's grenadier detachment just now did not hurt these four mortars at all.
Ignoring the bombardment of the machine-gun position of the Shina people, the commander of the devil grenadier detachment went crazy and ordered his subordinates to start a chase with the four mortars of the second company.
It was not until half of the grenadiers were lost that the commander of the devil grenadier detachment understood the opponent's tactics and immediately ordered ten grenadiers to stop the chase and stand by, and the other eight grenadiers immediately withdrew after firing a salvo at the firing position in China.
Unsurprisingly, the mortar group appeared in the other direction, and ten grenadiers had been prepared to fire thirty grenades almost simultaneously.
The two groups of grenades staggered through the air, giving the shooters on both sides no time to dodge, and dozens of soldiers on both sides were killed in the shrapnel flying everywhere almost at the same time!
"Commander-in-chief, let the 4th Company fire support!" Yu Wen was roaring loudly in Gao Fei's ear, and the explosions behind the fortifications were one after another, and there was no intention of stopping at all!
2 Even the tragic duel with the devil's heavy firepower Gao Fei saw it in his eyes one by one, why didn't he want to be supported, but reason told him that he couldn't expose his full strength. According to common sense, nearly half of the more than 1,000 devils who attacked were killed and wounded, and the devil commander should have ordered a retreat! can look at this posture, the devil has no intention of retreating at all!
"What the hell does the devil commander want to do?" Gao Fei threw the question to Yu Wenzheng, who was waiting for the order!
Yu Wenzheng, who calmed down, took a breath of cold air, "Could it be that the devil commander uses these devils as bait, thinking"
"Don't retreat!" Fukuei Masa, who had put down the binoculars, stared at Kurosawa Shozo who had repeatedly ordered him to suspend the attack, "Kurosawa-kun, you should understand the cunning of the commander on the other side!" I suspect this commander has a backhand and must force out all his hole cards! Otherwise there will be trouble in the next round of attack! ā
"Hey! Your Excellency, Wing Commander, is clever! ā
Understanding the devil's conspiracy, Yu Wenzheng had to bite his lip and watch the officers and soldiers of the second company fighting alone in the devil's fire!
The infantry on both sides, who were supposed to be the protagonists, had to honestly lie on their stomachs and shoot at each other with a depressed shot under the powerful firepower! In each round of shooting, soldiers on both sides screamed and hung their heads, and without exception, there was a blood hole on their foreheads with a mixture of red and white!
The advantage of the terrain and the shooting accuracy of the devil are no less than that of the devils, so that the soldiers of the second company have a certain advantage in the shooting.
"Where are you going?" Liu Xiangtian lay on the edge of the position, ignoring the bullets that passed over his head from time to time, and the bullets that were fired dozens of centimeters ago did not make his hands tremble, and the crosshair firmly aimed at the forehead of a devil captain sixty meters away, and it was this devil who shot down the two brothers beside him in a row just now.
This was the third time that Liu Xiangtian had aimed at this devil, and the first two times at the moment when he was about to shoot, the devil rolled sideways out of his aim as if he sensed danger.
I don't know which brother fired a shot at the devil, and the bullet was shot in front of the devil's head, and the splashed mud and dust startled the devil, and he involuntarily rolled on his side. The front sight moved with the devil's tumbling, and at the moment when the devil's figure was certain, Liu Xiangtian's finger hooked slightly, and a 7.62 bullet made intimate contact with the devil's head at twice the speed of sound.
Liu Xiangtian didn't know that the devil captain he shot was the deputy captain of the first brigade, Masao Yuasa!
When he moved the muzzle of the gun and was about to find the next target, his left eye turned black, and then the unbearable pain made Liu Xiangtian scream, let go of the rifle, and wanted to caress the left eye sprayed with red pulp, but he couldn't lift his hand, the strength of his whole body seemed to be passing rapidly, his feet were weak, and he fell on his back in the pile of corpses. The sun is so weirdly red and so bright in the smoke of gunpowder!
"Brother!" While shooting desperately with tears in his eyes, his brother, Liu Sihai, who followed his younger brother to join the army, watched Liu Xiangtian stop convulsing! "Come on, little devils! Grandpa fought with you! The machine gun in his hand spilled angry tongues of fire at the enemy group.
Both Yuasa Masao and Tanigawa Miyoji survived the first round of fire from the Second Company, dragging a 38 rifle to him who was crushed to the ground, and with his superior shooting accuracy, he had already killed two Shina soldiers.
Feeling that Yuasa Masa, who was being targeted by the other party, couldn't stop rolling, and this time when he just stopped and was about to aim at the soldier who had been staring at him, the other party's gun first spewed flames!
Rolling! The brain gave the command in time, but the body took a step slower, only to feel a cold forehead, a cold thing rolling in his head, and then all the sensations disappeared.
"Yuasa-kun!" Miyoji Tanigawa, who was lying on the side, watched Masao Yuasa's body gradually stop convulsing, and howled in pain.
Miyoji Tanigawa, whose eyes were glazed, looked around the battlefield, and there were bursting brains, splattered blood, mutilated bodies, charred limbs, and corpses on fire! Of his own brigade of more than 1,000 people, only a hundred people remained, and they were still shooting desperately.
When has the always invincible imperial army ever been so embarrassed!
His eyes fell on the body of Masao Yuasa, who had already stiffened: "Yuasa-kun, I'm sorry!" I can't send you a letter anymore! Miyoji Tanigawa, who knew that he would not be able to escape his abdomen even if he retreated, suddenly yelled at the soldiers around him: "The warriors of the Great Saying! It's time to be loyal to the Emperor! Rush with me! ā
After speaking, he stood up without hesitation, and there was only one consequence of doing this on the battlefield where bullets were flying, "Kill and give!" Miyoji Tanigawa only had time to swing the command knife when dozens of bullets were fired into a hornet's nest and fell to the ground!
"Captain!" Miyoji Tanigawa died tragically in battle, inspiring the blood surnames of the more than 100 remaining soldiers in a large group!
"Kill and give!" A second lieutenant led the devil to launch a decisive rush! The second wave of devils was also stimulated, and they also swarmed up under the command of the battlefield commander.
"Brothers, hit hard!" Ma Debi roared, the machine gun in his hand fired wildly, and the blood gushing out of a thumb-sized blood hole on his shoulder couldn't stop pouring out the white smoke on the barrel of the gun due to the large movement!
In the face of the crazy devils, as long as the officers and soldiers of the second company could still shoot, they increased the rate of fire to the extreme, and the rainstorm of bullets shot at the enemy group, and the devils who charged intensively screamed and fell down in rows, and the devils who were already red-eyed did not look at their fallen companions!
The devils in the back stepped on the wounded soldiers who were still howling and charged desperately, and the 38 rifles and crooked machine guns in their hands also poured the furious rain of bullets on the second position, and the officers and soldiers who were shooting frantically fell down with bloody arrows.
Soldiers on both sides will shoot angry bullets at each other's enemies, and the sound of pulling the bolt of the gun, the sound of gunshots "bang, bang, da", the sound of grenades and the screams of dying are mixed together!
The devils, by virtue of their numerical superiority, finally crossed the first position, which had long been razed to the ground, and the path behind them was covered with the corpses of their companions!
"Throw the bomb!" The same order was shouted from the mouths of both commanders at the same time!
"Whew" "Whew", one large and one small, two groups of bullets covered in opposite directions! "Boom, boom!" Hundreds of grenades exploded almost simultaneously.
In an instant, flesh and blood flew in front of the position, and the air was littered with human fragments and weapon parts! Patches of devils fell like mustard.
Only a small number of grenades fell into the narrow second position, and the relatively enclosed space multiplied the power of the explosion. The entire position rose into fireballs, screaming and flying shrapnel chasing the officers and soldiers who had nowhere to dodge, and countless bloody arrows splashed everywhere in the screams!
A grenade fell into the machine gun position where Ma Debi was, and the white smoke in the "zizi" sound became thicker and thicker, and the soldiers were all stunned, and Ma Debi, who had no time to pick up the grenade, closed his eyes and waited for the last moment to come!
After a dull explosion, Ma Debi opened his eyes and found himself and the soldiers next to him unharmed, with a corpse lying on the ground that was about to explode in two! The soldiers who understood what was going on didn't have time to grieve, so under the command of Ma Debi, they opened fire on the devil who was already more than ten meters away, and the sound of shooting in the entire position was already very sparse!
"Fire!" Gao Fei and Yu Wenzheng each commanded four heavy machine guns and two mortars to provide fire support for the second position, which was in danger.
Four crossed fire whips whipped back and forth on the devil's charging line, and the devils howled miserably where the fire whip passed, and the devils who were suddenly hit by long-distance heavy machine gun fire in the town were in a mess for a while, and six 60 mm bombs that came one after another accurately fell into the devil group, and the devils rose into the air one after another in the explosion, and all became corpses full of holes when they fell.
The morale of the officers and men of the second company, supported by fire, was greatly boosted, and there were automatic weapons firing at full speed, and the rest of the soldiers desperately threw grenades at the devils who had begun to retreat.
The devils under the heavy firepower finally couldn't hold it anymore and retreated one after another.
"Is it worth it?" Looking at the soldiers with heavy casualties in front of them, the commanders on both sides were asking themselves!
The officers and men of the second company of 150 people and a 16-person fire team who could still stand all stood in front of Gao Fei, and they could be counted at a glance!
Slowly swept over the twelve officers and soldiers whose bodies were soaked in blood, and Gao Fei, who somehow expressed it in words, solemnly saluted!
"Brothers, you are good with those who go first!
The twelve officers and soldiers, who did not have a trace of timidity in the battle of life and death, wept wordlessly at this time, tears slowly flowed from the corners of their eyes, leaving two tear stains on their faces full of gunsmoke and blood.
I understand the feelings of these officers and soldiers, who also experienced the pain of losing their comrades twenty-nine days ago! "Is it worth it? An hour and a half! One hundred and fifty-four! Gao Fei seemed to be asking himself, and he seemed to be asking these officers and soldiers!
No one can answer his question, and perhaps this in itself is a question that doesn't need an answer!
Listening to the casualty statistics reported by Shozo Kurosawa, Shinpei Fukuei also asked the same question, "Is it worth it?" "In just one and a half hours, four hundred and twenty warriors were loyal to the emperor, and two hundred and eighty warriors lost their combat effectiveness!
Similarly, Kurosawa Shozo had no way to answer, and he was very surprised by the branch in front of him! During his year and a half in China, he led his troops to fight with a number of Chinese troops, including those with advanced weapons but weak fighting will, those with strong fighting will but poor weapons, and those with poor weapons and weak fighting will.
How many such troops are there in China? Kurosawa is in his heart.
"What does Kurosawa-kun think?"
After a moment of contemplation, Kurosawa Shozo replied in a worried tone, "Judging from the cunning of that commander of the branch before, I'm afraid there is still hidden heavy firepower in Taierzhuang!" I had no choice but to look at the houses that were directly hit by 70 mm shells but were basically not damaged, "Kimura-kun, if you continue to fight like this, it will be difficult for our department to eliminate the people of China!" ā
"Kurosawa-kun doesn't have to worry about troops and ammunition!"
(To be continued)