Chapter 41: Assassination
The Japanese used to equip the crooked light machine guns and crutch light machine guns with bayonets to make it easier for machine gunners to jump up and fight the enemy in close combat. It may sound odd, but it was the real situation at the time.
However, Captain Sato's machine gun squadron did not use those two light machine guns, they used twelve Type 92, that is, the kind of heavy machine guns commonly known as chicken necks! The Type 92 heavy machine gun weighs nearly 60 catties just for the empty gun, and more than 60 catties if you add bullets. To charge with such a big iron bump, I guess you have to have the physique of a sumo wrestler.
Jiro Yamaguchi didn't know how Captain Sato would charge with a heavy machine gun, and in his mind, this was Sato provoking himself to attack in disguise. We are both squadron leaders, although I am a lieutenant and you are a captain, but we both have the same position, why should I listen to you? You let me attack? I don't! Since this person had such an idea in his heart, his face naturally came out.
Captain Sato was annoyed when he saw the faint mocking smile on Lieutenant Yamaguchi's face! You think I'm joking? Okay, I'll show you how the machine gun squadron charges! Captain Sato walked to a high place in a few steps and raised his command knife upward, "The first and second squads are covered by machine guns, and the third and fourth squads, pick up their rifles and prepare to charge!" ”
The machine gun squadron had three machine gun squadrons and one ammunition squadron, and Sato sorted them into one, two, three, four. Twelve heavy machine guns, in fact, two squads can be operated, and the extra squad and ammunition squad can organize a small charge. Of course, the prerequisite is that he has enough rifles.
Whether it is the main and auxiliary machine gun shooters or the main and auxiliary ammunition men, they do not carry guns. Who has ever seen a heavy machine gun shooter carry a heavy machine gun and fire it with a 38 big cover on his back? Therefore, it is easy for Sato to organize people, and if he wants to form a combat power that can charge, he has to come to Jiro Yamaguchi. Lieutenant Yamaguchi has a lot of rifles in his hand.
"Yamaguchi-kun, please support me with some rifles!" Captain Sato has an indescribable awkwardness in his heart, I haven't usually seen this Yamaguchi Jiro so timid, what's wrong today?
"My soldiers each have a rifle, and I don't have any extra. Sato-kun can try having your men rush with machine guns. ”
Jiro Yamaguchi leaned against a tree and said in a lazy tone, but he almost didn't Captain Sato to death! Charging with a Type 92 machine gun? Is that going to war or going to give a heavy machine gun to the opponent? "Yamaguchi-kun! Since you don't plan to lead the troops to charge, why can't you lend the rifles in the hands of your squadron soldiers to my soldiers first? ”
Captain Sato glared angrily at Jiro Yamaguchi, and Lieutenant Yamaguchi stared at him with the same eyes, and the two of them were like two angry roosters, as if they were about to pounce on each other and start biting in the next second.
The gunfire on the battlefield seemed to have been a little quieter, mainly the third squad of the machine-gun squadron stopped firing. The two squads that had been ordered to act as cover also reduced the frequency of their firing because the attacking troops had not yet set out.
Liu Dong on the other side of the battlefield saw that the devil's shooting intensity was about to come down! Could it be that Hu Fei's sniper operation has achieved results? Remove! The favorable situation has finally appeared, so why wait for not to withdraw quickly? Under Liu Dong's organization, the soldiers of the Third Regiment slowly withdrew from the battlefield. The medical team, the confidential section, the baggage team, and the small artillery company have been withdrawn ahead of schedule.
Yamaguchi and Sato were still staring wide-eyed. Sato lifted the knife and put it down, but he didn't lift it after a few attempts. Don't look at Jiro Yamaguchi as a lieutenant, but Captain Sato is not sure that he is better than the other party in kendo at all. Jiro Yamaguchi's hand was also holding the handle of the knife, but he didn't move, and it seemed that he was a little more calm than Sato.
"Yamaguchi-kun......" Captain Sato's head suddenly tilted to the side, followed by a strange transformation, and then the whole person tilted at the same time. One fell to the ground and stretched his leg twice and didn't move.
Jiro Yamaguchi's eyes widened, and he exclaimed, "Sato-kun! He jumped up and ran two steps in the direction of Captain Sato, and immediately squatted down again.
As an experienced battlefield commander, Lieutenant Yamaguchi had seen too many dead people, and even his acquaintances had died in front of him in the double digits. Therefore, Sato was killed, and he was not intimidated. While the two were talking, Sato suddenly died, which must have been a sniper in the opponent. Damn snipers! Jiro Yamaguchi scolded fiercely.
As if hallucinating, Lieutenant Yamaguchi's ears suddenly appeared to be shouting the Japanese army's charging slogan, "Kill the chicken, give it-" and then all kinds of shouts appeared one after another, in short, all of them were the kind of things that Yamaguchi Jiro had heard before, the kind of Japanese officers and soldiers on the battlefield shouting when they were charging.
What's going on? Lieutenant Yamaguchi stood up and looked around with a telescope in hand. He stopped at a certain point, and after a few seconds he slowly turned again. "Shao Zuo is finally here." Jiro Yamaguchi was muttering to himself. Yes, the devil Shaozo finally arrived with his entire brigade.
Hu Fei shot and killed the devil captain and was proud in his heart, when suddenly he heard a strange horn sound and this familiar shout, is it a devil? Hu Fei's heart sank, and he quickly leaned against the tree next to him, picked up the telescope and observed in the direction where the sound came from.
The more I looked at Hu Fei, the heavier my mood became. I saw that in the field of vision, Huang Huhu was full of ghost soldiers! Oh no, the devil's reinforcements are up! Remove! Hu Fei made a decision immediately. He didn't think that he could assassinate the commander of the devil's reinforcements with his own five people. Besides, who knows how big an officer the commander of the devil's reinforcements is? Where is he? What if I kill the wrong one?
Anyway, retreating now is definitely the most correct choice.
"Big bolt, little dragon, you guys follow me, let's withdraw!" Hu Fei waved his hand, four soldiers followed, and the five people quickly left the scene and ran in the direction they came.
However, it is easy to come and difficult to go. Now that the devil's army has come up, how easy is it for Hu Fei and them to successfully retreat? It was only ten minutes after a few people ran out, and they found the search team of the devils head-on. Change direction! As soon as Hu Fei turned around, the five of them changed directions and continued to run. This time it was faster, and it didn't even take ten minutes to meet the devil again.
Hu Fei wanted to change directions again, but the devil had already discovered him, "What are you doing?" Hold it! Behind him, the voice of the devil sounded, and there seemed to be a faint sound of pulling a gun. Hu Fei didn't say a word, just ran away with his head down. Every dozen or so steps, change directions and take a zigzag to prevent being targeted by the devil's rifle.
The gun went off. Although there were constant gunshots around, Hu Fei could still tell that the gunshots were coming from his direction. "Don't stop! Follow me and run! ”