(74) Strange artillery fire
Weixian, Shandong, China.
"These little Oriental devils are not easy to deal with!"
"Braided handsome" Zhang Xun held a telescope and looked at the Japanese position in the distance, at this time the Japanese position was full of huge columns of smoke rising high.
"The tenacity of the Japanese soldiers is notoriously known, they have suffered two big losses from us in succession, and this time it should be a long memory." The Yanzhou town guard reminded Zhang Wensheng of the scene when Yang Shuoming's Jiangxi army did not arrive, and they fought with the Japanese army and suffered defeats one after another, and said with palpitations, "We can't just point and bombard with artillery, now the shells are a little unhelpful, if we continue to fight like this, once the shells run out, it will be troublesome." ”
"Then we have to knock Weixian down!" Zhang Xun put down the binoculars with some annoyance, looked at Zhang Wensheng and shouted, "The new guy surnamed Fu in the fifth town has beaten Qingzhou!" He, Cao San, a fool, is about to take Zibo! What they can do, why can't we do it in the front army! ”
"I feel that there is something wrong with the arrangement of that Yang Zhen Guard this time." Zhang Wensheng said, "Why did we let the three troops of our old Beiyang attack the fortification, but he and Zhang Xiaozhun's soldiers and horses ran behind us to hide?" ”
"You figured it out! He's not hiding! Zhang Xun's eyes widened at Zhang Wensheng, "Haven't you heard him say it?" He wants to prevent the Japanese from coming out of Qingdao to copy our back road! ”
Seeing that Zhang Xun was angry, Zhang Wensheng stopped talking, but raised the telescope as if in disguise, observing the battle situation ahead.
Since Yang Shuoming rescued Zhang Xun and his Wuwei Qianjun last time, Zhang Xun had a great impression of Yang Shuoming, who was also from Jiangxi, so he instinctively gave Yang Shuoming all his trust.
Like this time, the armies launched a counterattack against the Japanese army without unified command, and as Yang Shuoming's envoy to the town of Ganxi, he actually couldn't command those old Beiyang generals who had followed Yuan Shikai all the way for many years. For example, after the start of the war, Yuan Shikai appointed Duan Qirui's right-hand man, Xu Shuzheng, the deputy commander of the army, as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and unified the command of the armies in each battlefield to fight against Japan, but the shrewd Xiao Xu knew that there would not be many people who listened to him (plus he himself had offended many people before). He was afraid of the infamy of defeat, so he was stunned and did not take office.
Yang Shuoming's qualifications are relatively shallow, and even with his brilliant victory in annihilating the Japanese army in the first battle, it may not be able to say that he can move these future Beiyang warlords. If it weren't for Zhang Xun's single-mindedness to help him as an old man from Beiyang, like this pre-war military meeting, they wouldn't have come at all, let alone listen to your words and take action.
Soon, the shelling of the former army of the Wuwei army stopped, and after a while, a dense burst of gunfire rang out.
At this time, outside the gate of Weixian County, the soldiers of the Wuwei Front Army had advanced very close to the Japanese position under the cover of rocks, soil slopes and bomb craters.
At this moment, the hidden Japanese artillery suddenly rang out, and several shells fell on the ground between the communication trenches abandoned by the Japanese army, splashing countless mud and rubble, and then falling like raindrops on the heads of the officers and soldiers in front of the Wuwei who were advancing.
"Ahh I'm your mother's little Oriental devil ancestor for eighteen generations! ”
The officers and men of the vanguard of the Wuwei front army attacking the city were carefully hiding in the trenches at this time, and one of the battalion commanders was hit with a stone on the head, and he was covering his head and scolding.
The battalion commander took off the general's hat, revealing his braided head. He reached out and rubbed the place where he had been hit by the stone, and found that there was no bleeding.
"It seems that it is still good for the handsome to let us not cut our braids." The battalion deputy said to the battalion commander flatteringly.
"What a fart! On a hot day, suffocate to death! Bury everything! If you let the gun hurt, you have to suppurate! Do you still feel so comfortable? The battalion commander named Na Liangsheng put on his military hat again, put the brim of his hat with the barrel of the revolver in his hand, and carefully poked his probe to observe the situation outside.
"Mother's little Japan, Lao Tzu has to cut off your heads this time!" He touched his waist with some regret, where he wore an elegantly decorated Qing-style waist knife.
"Stop thinking about your big blade, that thing, it's out of fashion now." A platoon commander understood his thoughts, smiled and patted the Mauser rifle with the bayonet in his hand and said, "It's more convenient to use this bayonet,"
The platoon commander named Liu Wu was holding the barrel of the Mauser rifle at this time, leaning on the wall of the trench, and on his face, a long scar crossed the door, making him look very fierce, but at this time, the smile on the corner of his mouth seemed very kind.
"The bayonet is a broken thing, it's almost the same as killing a chicken and slaughtering a pig, but it's far from cutting people, if you want me to say, it's still the big knife, and it's a head when it goes down, it's no different from cutting a watermelon." Na Liangsheng shook his head and said, "This foreign spear is the most suitable to aim at from a distance, and it will not work when it gets close. ”
"If only there was something that was lighter than a heavy machine gun, and could fire in bursts without pulling the bolt." Liu Wu looked at the rifle in his hand and sighed.
"Yes! Thinking about the shotgun and the pole we used at the beginning, it would take a while to clean the barrel, fill the gunpowder surface, and stuff the projectiles after a shot. Later, I got this Mauser tube, which can shoot five rounds in a row without reloading bullets, and everyone thinks it is very easy to use. When there was that heavy machine gun, one or two hundred rounds of ammunition, all of them flew out suddenly and swept a large area, and it was simply impossible to live. Na Liangsheng said, "Who knows if in another ten years, the thing you just said will come out?" ”
"My lord, I heard that the brothers of the Gan army have that thing," said one of the heralds suddenly, "I heard that our factories in China made it themselves." ”
"! How can it be! Na Liangsheng rolled his eyes and said in disbelief.
"It's true, sir." Another soldier of the former army of Wuwei said, "My hometown is from Fengxin County, Jiangxi, and our Zhang Dashuai is a fellow countryman. ”
"Really?" Liu Wu's eyes lit up instantly, "If only I could get one to play!" ”
At this moment, there were several loud noises, interrupting the conversation between the officers and soldiers in front of the Wuwei.
"What's going on?" Na Liangsheng's head was hit by a rock much larger than the previous one, and he grinned in pain.
"It doesn't seem to be the cannon ...... of the Japanese Invaders," Liu Wu looked up at the sky and said with some hesitation.
Just as he finished speaking, a dense and powerful explosion shook the earth like a thunderbolt, and then through the clouds, straight to the sky, and the eardrums of the officers and soldiers in front of the Wuwei were almost shattered. Many people couldn't stand the stimulation of this loud noise, and they all fell to the ground involuntarily.
In the earth-shattering explosion, the earth trembled incessantly, and large and small stones and mud balls flew down like hailstones, falling on the heads of the officers and soldiers in front of the Wuwei, mixed with some broken flesh and bones. When a bloody palm with three broken fingers landed at Na Liangsheng's feet, Na Liangsheng's eyes almost popped out of his sockets.
I don't know how long it took, the explosion gradually subsided, Na Liangsheng waited for a while, did not hear the artillery of the Japanese counterattack like last time, he carefully poked the probe, observing the situation outside.
The hillside, which had just looked green, had now become an uninhabited scorched earth with black smoke. There was a strong smell of gunpowder smoke in the air.
"Brethren! Rush to Lao Tzu!! Kill Little Japan! Na Liangsheng shouted in a hoarse voice, drew his sword, and swung it, but he was not the first to jump out of the trench, and when he heard his shout, the soldiers of the front army of the Wuwei army shouted and shouted and jumped out of their shelters in a hurry, and rushed forward with their rifles loaded with bayonets.
Seeing that the soldiers who rushed in front were not attacked, Na Liangsheng shouted a few more times to boost his morale before jumping out of the trench and rushing forward with the soldiers.
Unlike the shouts of the officers and soldiers in front of Wuwei in order to boost their courage, the Japanese position was surprisingly quiet, and the soldiers of the front army of Wuwei rushed out hundreds of meters with shouts without encountering any enemy.
Na Liangsheng slowed down his pace, he calmed down, let his mood stabilize a little, then he felt a soft thing under his feet, he looked down, only to find that his feet, lying horizontally and vertically, were all covered with charred and mutilated Japanese corpses.
The soldiers of the front army of the Wuwei who charged also noticed the strange scene on the Japanese position, slowed down one by one, gathered together in groups of three or five, and looked around with a shocked gaze.
All around them, there were corpses of Japanese soldiers, as well as broken guns and equipment.
There were bursts of groans and screams from the pile of corpses, and Liu Wu, who was holding a rifle, walked cautiously and immediately saw a small Japanese soldier whose leg had been blown off.
The little Japanese soldier saw Liu Wu approaching, his eyes covered with blood flashed with a dying beast-like hatred, he howled, and stood up with his rifle supporting his body, he just wanted to put the bayonet up, but one leg could not support his body at all, and he fell to the ground again.
Looking at his funny appearance, Liu Wu couldn't help but laugh. But when he saw the vicious look on the other party's face, he somehow felt a little chill in his heart.
Liu Wu saw that the other party still wanted to hold the gun, sneered, stepped forward, raised the rifle with the bayonet, and stabbed the opponent in the chest.
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