Chapter 15: The Shepherds

"Devil...... The devil is in! ”

The shrill shouts, when the artillery fire stopped, were like nine ghosts from hell crying. The shrill sound pierced everyone's eardrums, even though the ears still had a strong tinnitus from the explosion.

"The devil rushed in......?"

The thick-eyed recruit tried his best to support his body, but he felt something pressing on his body.

By the light of the explosions that flickered from time to time, he could see that it was his old squad leader. His eyes stared at him with dead eyes, as if he doubted whether he was a qualified soldier who knew how to fight on the battlefield and protect himself.

"Old squad leader...... Old squad leader...... I will avenge you, wait for me, I will avenge you! ”

There were no tears in the blood-red eyes, and the recruits who had never tasted such pain were staring. Yes, the old squad leader is a fierce man, and he is also a person who often plays tricks on recruits. However, it is undoubtedly certain that without his talent on the battlefield, he might have contributed his tobacco leaves on the first day.

Look up at the top of the city, there are flames burning everywhere. In the background of the flames, black shadows bent down from there to the top of the city, and quickly spread out at the head of the city.

The "quack" of the Taisho 11 machine gun, accompanied by the trajectory formed by tracer bullets, was firing wildly into the city.

"Little devil, *** grandma......"

The thick-eyed and big-eyed recruit squeezed out these two words from his clenched teeth, pulled out the big knife on his back and handed it to his left hand. The other hand turned the satchel in a convenient place and pulled out the terracotta grenade from it.

Bending down from the bomb-blown city wall, the slope formed by the void earth, quietly approached the direction of the city's head. He was not alone in doing this, many of the surviving soldiers carried their broadswords. Needless to say, the other hand is holding a grenade.

According to the experience of several days of combat, grenades are better than guns at night. Silent, breathless, and can be used for face killing.

There were not many dead, and most of the survivors fainted from the explosion of the shells, just like him. At this time, they were sober, and almost all of them made the same choice.

The feet are slipping on the empty soil, and the cloth shoes with very submersible uppers that the Chinese army is mainly equipped with often have a rather poor performance at this time. They slipped off the heels, or the poor quality stitches, and cracked.

As a result, one by one, the cloth shoes left the soldiers' feet. They had no choice but to approach the city barefoot, on the slope full of empty dirt, rubble, and corpses.

"Peng!"

With a slight sound, the devil's flare lit up red in the sky.

"Get down!"

The thick-eyed and big-eyed recruit was already shouting to remind others at the beginning of the sound, and at the same time fell to the ground. With a sideways face and a frightened look at the city, he guessed that there might soon be fire.

Sure enough, before anyone who heard his shout could understand, fire was already raining down on the city.

One by one, under the light of the dark red flares in the sky, they greeted the flying bullets with their chests without shelter. They held up for a moment, then fell down the slope with a lift of their hands. Behind them, more soldiers began to shout and attack the devil soldiers who had occupied the city.

The back attack was almost always at a tactical disadvantage, lacking support for the Chinese soldiers, and was slaughtered by the devil soldiers on the slopes.

It's a pity that Taierzhuang is not equipped with "Gazi Cannon", the reason is that they who occupy the city wall do not need that kind of weapon. As long as the city walls are still there, then the "Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers" can stop any attack outside the city.

But what if the walls are gone? What about the soldiers on the city wall and the devil soldiers behind enemy lines?

Of course, most of the recruits here are extremely lacking in formal training, and the tactical awareness of the original veterans comes from the battlefield, and they have never received real tactical training, and the casualties are inevitable.

The soldiers wielding broadswords fell almost in droves under the gunfire of the devils on the city. Machine guns, rifles, grenadiers, wreaking havoc in the crowd waving shards of the metal. The reckless body surged up like a tide under such an attack, and then retreated like a tide.

The thick-eyed and big-eyed recruit pulled the grenade in his hand, and with the skills he had cultivated at home herding sheep, he threw it on the city at once.

"Boom ......"

In the sound of the explosion, the devil's machine gun was temporarily muted, and the retreating soldiers got some safety.

"No, if you don't suppress the fire, you won't have a chance to climb the city wall at all!"

After thinking about the skills taught to him by the veteran squad leader, he turned around and climbed off the slope.

Machine guns and infantry jets swept past him, and grenadiers landed in front of and behind him from time to time.

Agile, he ran as fast as he could, and in a blink of an eye he came to the position of the Guangxi soldiers wearing French helmets, which had been almost completely destroyed by artillery fire.

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Beside the thick-eyed recruits, there are comrades lying in limbo. Like him, they did not know how to attack the enemy at the head of the city.

"Whoever has let go of the sheep should come to me."

A thick-eyed and big-eyed recruit who folded his head into the gun emplacements of the Guangxi soldiers asked loudly as soon as he stood up.

On the battlefield, this is really a strange question, what does war have to do with herding sheep?

However, someone came out to take the lead, and it was really the only option for them, a soldier who had lost his formation.

In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen crawled between the artillery fire and the bullets. All of their faces were blackened by black gunsmoke, and there was a trace of panic on their faces in the face of the enemy's bullets.

"It will definitely take a while for reinforcements, you can throw the stones!"

The former shepherds looked at each other, and few of them did not use stones to manage the sheep. The exception is for the very industrious, and most of the young people simply use a stone to warn the sheep that are out of the herd and let them return to the herd.

"Big brother, what do you say we should do!"

The thick-eyed recruit glanced at the shepherds in front of him, and he smiled ugly on his face.

"I weigh that our grenades and stones weigh about the same, and each of you will carry a bag of scattered flowers from the Heavenly Maiden, and listen to my command to throw them at the top of the city."

"What about us?"

There were actually a few platoon commanders and company commanders who came. Originally, they wondered which colleague was so bold that he was now taking over the responsibility of command. Therefore, they also ran over, and when they heard the words of the thick-eyed and big-eyed recruits, they were taken aback one by one.

Of course, some of them have gone to military schools, but few have herded sheep. When I heard that the idea of this guy in front of me was quite agile, it was a good idea to let the shepherd use the "Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers" to teach the devil soldiers at the head of the city.

"Sir, look at the brothers, who still has weapons, the good target is the archer, the others have grenades on their backs and big knives, and when the devils in the city are hit by a few rounds of heavenly maiden scattered flowers, we will rush up and fight hard!"

"Hey, this kid has a good arrangement, so let's do it."

Just as the officers looked at each other a little suspiciously, not understanding whether they should listen to this recruit. One of them had a company commander who answered, indicating that he should not talk too much about his rank on the battlefield. Whoever has a good idea, everyone does it. As long as you can beat the devil and save your life, it is the most cost-effective.

"Since this is the position of the Guangxi soldiers, those cannons should still be there, look for them and maybe you can find a few!"

After a brief discussion, everyone looked at each other and nodded. Or just now the company commander came and arranged other affairs.

"The assault team approached quietly under the cover of the shepherd artillery team, and when there were flares, they lay on the ground, and no one was interested in moving Lao Tzu. When the flares were extinguished, the shepherd artillery team continued to suppress the city, and the rest continued to approach. When you get down the slope, fire the red flare, and we'll all go up and cut him down. Mother. Target! ”

"Okay, that's it! Boy, you are the head of the shepherd artillery team, and you will bombard them fiercely. But be careful, the little devil's grenadier can hit accurately! ”

On the battlefield at night, a battalion at the head of the city was attacked by enemy artillery fire, and the remaining 200 people were led by the remaining officers, preparing to retake their positions.

This was unthinkable in previous battles with the Japanese army. In this case, most people prefer to stay in a safe place and wait for reinforcements to arrive. But not today, their morale has risen to a certain extent under the successive victories, and they are far from being defeated.

More than a dozen shepherds of the shepherd artillery team all stayed in a relatively safe place, which was where the Guangxi soldiers fired artillery fire. As an indirect aiming curved artillery, it does not need a wide field of view, and the gun emplacement is also a relatively safe pit.

Although the entire position was bombed by heavy artillery, there were still remnants of the gun position, and more were scattered "hail personnel anti-personnel shells".

The shepherds came down in the gun emplacement, dragging the rings of the "hail personnel kill shells" in their hands to pull the fuse. According to what I just said, as soon as the thick-eyed recruits shouted, they should start attacking continuously. As long as they are not suppressed by the other party, they keep throwing "hail personnel kill bombs" at the head of the city.

Don't say it, the shepherds of the past have really chosen the right thing to do. They may not have thrown far, but they did it relatively accurately.

The head of the city was only about 30 meters away from where they were hiding. Almost all soldiers can be thrown in place, but most are not relatively accurate at their target.

The bombs of the Chinese army are more often about distance. As mentioned earlier, the Chinese army at this time liked grenades, and that was because of the lack of artillery, and it was a useful supplement to the over-numbered artillery.

Now it's actual combat, and what is needed now is bomb accuracy.

"Cast!"

With the shouts of the thick-eyed recruits, the shepherds threw their "hail personnel anti-personnel bombs" at the head of the city.

We knew that this thing could have been shot with a rifle, but it was a pity that it had more of an advantage to shoot silently at the head of the city.

On the dark battlefield, a group of "hail personnel personnel bombs" that were difficult to find a throwing point even under the flares flew towards the city.

The shepherds who had thrown the thunder, according to the previous explanation, were all squatting in the deep pit at this time. They all had their ears propped up, and the next grenade would be thrown only when the previous wave of grenades exploded. Because at that time, the attack force of the city head had reached its weakest!