Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Gates of the City Are Lost
Although Suzuki Shaosa was very dissatisfied with the artillery killing dozens of Imperial warriors, because of the shelling, the side of the Shina Army was already shrouded in thick smoke. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The heavy machine gun, which posed the greatest threat to him, was temporarily unable to work, and taking advantage of this opportunity, Suzuki Shaosa retreated with the remnants of the devil soldiers.
Although the machine guns on the castle tower were still ringing, as Suzuki thought, the thick smoke obscured the view of the machine gunners, and they were now shooting completely by feeling. Only a dozen or so unlucky devils were hit, and the others followed Suzuki Shaosa back to their positions safely.
Like his predecessors, Suzuki Shosa also received more than a dozen slaps from Yoshio Nagano, and his two faces were full of finger marks.
Despite this, Yoshio Nagano's face was still gloomy and about to come out of the water, if his eyes could kill, Yoshio Nagano would not hesitate to kill Li Han with his eyes at the first time.
At the time of departure, there were two squadrons of more than 400 soldiers, and in the blink of an eye, there were only 100 soldiers left, and even a squadron of people could not be gathered.
In less than a day, since yesterday afternoon, he has suffered more than 700 casualties, of which 90 percent have been killed, and it can be said that the Second Infantry Brigade has basically been abandoned.
The war had just begun, and the troops had lost a third of their combat effectiveness, which was more uncomfortable for the arrogant Yoshio Nagano than killing him.
However, despite the heavy casualties of his troops, Yoshio Nagano still did not intend to give his opponent a chance to breathe, because he could not accept that the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire would be deflated at the hands of the Shina army.
"Order the artillery, if they can't destroy the heavy machine-gun positions of the Chinese army, all the officers will be disemboweled!" Yoshio Nagano roared.
The commander of the artillery squadron knew that the wing commander was angry, and his own life was at stake, and the squadron leader had to deal with it carefully.
The wing captain threatened him to disembowel, so he asked the squad leader to disembowel, and the squad leader was not to be outdone, threatening the detachment leader to disembowel, so that the entire artillery squadron knew that if the army did not die, it would die by itself.
Therefore, the artillery at the lowest level did not care whether the barrel was already smoking, whether it would explode or not, and desperately fired shells at the city wall.
"The devils are shelling!"
Li Han no longer knew that this was the first time the devil had shelled it, and Jianping City was only seven or eight meters high in total, and it had been continuously shelled by the devil and the puppet army in the past two days, and several places that were the main positions had been cut down a few meters by artillery fire, and they could collapse at any time.
The women's walls in many places have been blown up, and many soldiers who rely on the women's walls to shoot at the devils have been directly blown up to the city along with the people's walls. In the face of the constant attack of the devils, the soldiers were only able to build some simple fortifications out of sandbags.
These improvised fortifications can block the bullets of the devils, but they are so powerless in the face of shelling, and when a cannonball comes down, it is often the soldiers and sandbags that are blown away.
This scene made Li Han and Gao Jian feel distressed and dripping blood, but they couldn't retreat, because the devil's infantry was charging again under the cover of artillery fire.
One side is desperately defending the city, the other side is desperately taking the city, there is no technology to speak of in the battle, both sides are fighting for consumption and endurance in Chiguoguo. Even Gao Jian personally held a machine gun and was shooting at the devil, and the soldiers in front of the position kept shooting at the devil with the same 38-style rifle in his hand.
The artillery company of the fourth battalion was also divided into three parts, and each platoon commander was responsible for three mortars to strike at the devils on three positions. Xu Hu also had no way to do this, as long as they opened fire, no more than three minutes, the devil's shells would fall on the position.
Dividing the artillery company into three groups is not only conducive to transfer, but also to strike at the enemy at any time, but also to avoid the artillery company being wiped out by the devils, after all, although the devil's artillery is powerful, it is impossible to lock on to three artillery positions at once in a short period of time.
The heavy machine guns did not stop firing for a moment, and now the interior of each machine gun fortress was filled with a white mist of water that was formed when the heavy machine guns were cooled down with cold water, and the bullet casings had retreated into a small hill, and the barrels were replaced one after another.
In the end, even the machine guns were replaced, and Li Han directly transferred four Makqin heavy machine guns from Wang Wei to reinforce Gao Jian. The number of high-construction heavy machine guns doubled at once, and the firepower was greatly increased. The devils launched seven or eight attacks in a row, but they were all beaten back by Gao Jian.
However, the devil also seemed to be determined to take the county seat, and after a hurried lunch, a new round of attack began immediately.
It was not for nothing that the Sixth Division was later called the Beast Army, not only in its cruel treatment of the enemy, but also in its own people.
From yesterday to today, the total number of casualties has been close to 1,000, and they have not even touched the corner of Jianping County, which has caused the officers and men of the Sixth Division, who have always regarded themselves as the flowers of the imperial army, to lose face.
In view of the fact that it was difficult to break through the defense line of the Shina Army in the previous attack of one squadron or two squadrons, Yoshio Nagano made a move this time, and it was the size of a brigade, which was already two-thirds of the existing strength of the 13th Wing, which seemed to be a bit desperate.
The devil's cannon is also very accurate, if it weren't for the power of the cannonball is not strong enough, it is estimated that the entire city wall will be collapsed by the devil's artillery fire.
The devils who rushed up, fell a batch, and immediately made up for it later, stepping on the corpses of the people in front of them, and continued to attack forward, constantly shortening the distance between the two armies. Every time the devil takes a step forward, he needs to pay a lot of price.
Of course, the casualties of the defenders were also very large, since the devils launched an attack, they have not stopped shelling, the city tower has been bombed beyond recognition, and the four Type 92 heavy machine guns that were regarded as treasures by Gao Jian were all blown into parts by the devils not long after they were moved out of the fortress.
Even the Makqin machine guns hidden in the fortress were also struggling, although the devils could not directly destroy these heavy machine guns, but their artillery fire did not stop patronizing here for a moment, and the thick dust caused by the explosion of the shells seriously hindered the vision of the machine gun shooters.
Even later, the devil's artillery fire had injured many of his own people by mistake and did not stop, because Nagano Yoshio knew that if the heavy machine guns of the Shina Army were not suppressed, the third brigade would not be able to break through the interception of the heavy machine guns, and the casualties would only be greater, and they would eventually end in failure.
The decision to exchange the lives of some of the Imperial warriors for victory in this battle was somewhat cruel, but none of the Japanese officers present raised objections.
Under the attack of the Japanese army with strong firepower and regardless of the cost of casualties, although the soldiers of the volunteer battalion were also stubbornly resisting, after all, the resistance was flesh and blood could not block the enemy's steel artillery, and at about one o'clock in the afternoon, most of the third infantry brigade was killed under the city gate, and began to engage in a tragic and bloody fierce battle with the defenders who controlled the city gate.
Li Han once again led all the fighters of the battalion headquarters guard platoon, reconnaissance platoon and Ho Chi 2nd Company to reinforce the front line.
At the same time, he ordered Wang Wei, Lin Youzhi, Xu Hu, Shan Hu and Zhao Gang to quickly lead the troops into the preset positions in the city, and once the city gate was not held, they were immediately ready to fight with the devils.
The soldiers on the front line had already started hand-to-hand combat with the devils, and as the devils continued to pour into the position, when Li Han and his people arrived, Gao Jian and them were being pressed by the superior enemy step by step.
The devils had broken through the blocking positions built with sandbags, and the personnel of both sides fought fiercely around the area less than 100 meters from the city gate.
The soldiers of the volunteer battalion are helpless against the little devils who form a formation, often they will be blocked by one of the little devils when they go down, and the other two devils will take the opportunity to launch a fatal blow. As a result, the casualty ratio of our army and the devil's stab reached four to one.
Seeing that his own people were at a disadvantage, Li Han didn't say a word, and led the reinforcements directly into the battlefield.
When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!
Li Han can't take care of so much at this time, he is his own brother before and after, whether it is a soldier or an official on the battlefield, life and death are the same, life and death are in peace, what Li Han can do is to kill as many devils as possible.
With a loud roar, the knife in his right hand pulled a flower, jumped forward, and arrived in front of the devils, and then raised his knife and slashed!
Two devils with rifles rushed out of the group of devils, raising bayonets together to parry, Li Han's knife was framed by two bayonets, slid to the side, followed the blade turn, from right to left, and slashed the neck of the devil on the right.
There was almost no special barrier, and the sharp blade slashed through the little devil's neck, and with a "click", it slashed into the shoulder of another little devil.
was slashed in the shoulder by Li Han, and this little devil suddenly became dead, and immediately gritted his teeth and retreated. He was more careful, and among the big Han groups in the Northeast Army, he specially picked Li Han, who was relatively small and easy to bully. Unexpectedly, the result was: let go of the little ghost and provoked the king of Hades.
Li Han's knife skills were specially trained when he was in Yuguan, and these days he has been fighting with devils a lot, and now his knife skills can also be ranked in the fourth battalion.
Seeing that the devil wanted to run, of course Li Han was not happy, if the prey in his hand let him run away, how embarrassing it would be. In particular, this prey is still a devil, in Li Han's eyes, the Japanese soldiers in this period are all scourges, killing one less is regarded as eliminating harm for the people.
Li Han held the hilt of the knife in his right hand and turned it, and a beautiful roundabout kill was cut out, and the injured devil followed his head in a different place.
As Li Han led the soldiers of the most elite reconnaissance platoon and guard platoon of the battalion to keep slashing in the crowd of devils, the devils couldn't stand it for a while, and soon Li Han joined Gao Jian and them.
With more than 200 people brought by Li Han, the soldiers defending the city barely stood still, but the devils were still pouring in from afar, and there were only two roads in front of Li Han, the first was to die here, and the second was to retreat to the city and continue to fight with the devils.
Of course, Li Han will not let hundreds of brothers be wiped out by the devils like this, every soldier here has fought a bloody battle with the devils, although they have put their lives and deaths on the line, but as their boss, Li Han has the responsibility and must do his best to lead them to live.
MacArthur once said: Only those who are not afraid of death are worthy of life!
Although Li Han didn't like this arrogant American nose very much, he still agreed with MacArthur's words.
If these soldiers can survive until the outbreak of the large-scale anti-Japanese war in the future, they will become the spark of revenge against the devils, and if they are scattered everywhere, they will surely set off a fire of resistance against Japan.