Chapter 21: Street Fighting (4)
Deadly projectiles continued to fire from rooftops 200 meters away, causing panic among the Japanese soldiers who were subjected to continuous crossfire and grenade attacks on the streets. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć The Japanese soldiers who were still alive lay down on the spot as required by the infantry drills, but after losing the cover of machine gun fire and grenadiers, they could protect themselves from bullets fired from distant rooftops, but they could not protect themselves from deadly projectiles overhead.
The routed soldiers scattered on the rooftops on both sides of the street fought more and more easily, and although they paid some casualties, on the whole, the number of Japanese soldiers killed and wounded far exceeded their own casualties. The battle situation showed a one-sided situation, and the national army, which did not have an advantage in numbers, actually had the upper hand strangely, such a strange battle situation made Niu Dazhuang next to Zhang Cheng and Zhang Sandong, who had just been rescued, grinning and laughing.
"Stop chasing, hurry up and clean up the battlefield, and only take weapons and ammunition." Seeing that the Japanese army was invincible, they immediately retreated, and more than a dozen soldiers of the national army under Zhang Sandong chased after the street with rifles, but were stopped by Zhang Sandong who came down from the roof. The crowd that jumped off the roof was obviously divided into two waves, Zhang Sandong and his national army soldiers, Niu Dazhuang and those routs stood behind Zhang Cheng.
"Company Commander Zhang, I estimate that the Japanese army will come over in a while, and we will beat them hard here, the Japanese army will not be able to swallow this breath, Company Commander Zhang, are you interested in continuing to ambush them here with us?" Hearing Da Niu's shout, Zhang Cheng turned his head to glance at the bag of flour that Da Niu had brought out of the grain store on the street, and then smiled and sent Zhang Sandong an invitation to continue ambushing the Japanese army.
"Brother, let's not make such jokes, although I don't know what the little devil thinks, but I know that you must not ambush twice in the same place in a row. The little devil is not stupid or stupid, what we can think of, others can think of. Zhang Sandong didn't directly say that Zhang Cheng was arrogant, but turned around and persuaded Zhang Cheng to dispel this idea. What you just said is right, the little devil will definitely make a comeback, but let's just have such a few people, if the little devil comes with more people, we can only suffer. ā
"I'm afraid there are too few of them, what about you?" Zhang Cheng didn't get angry because of Zhang Sandong's unusual refusal, but just turned around and looked at Niu Dazhuang and those routs. "There are too many civilians in the city, even if the security zone is open, I'm afraid time is also a problem, now that the Japanese army has entered the city, there are wars everywhere in the city, and those of us who can fight must do something for the people in the city."
didn't think to ask for the opinions of those routs at all, Niu Dazhuang stretched out his hand and patted his chest, and shouted, "Captain Zhang, do what you say, if we only use guns and handles, if we don't say a word, we are not born and raised by our parents." Don't worry, these boys all listen to me, if any of them dare to escape, my bull will kill his dog. Niu Dazhuang's words made those routs shout in unison, saying that following Zhang Cheng to kill devils was the happiest thing in their lives.
"Company Commander Zhang, I won't force this to stay, if you want to leave, it's best to go to Rujiangmen now, you can cross the river before the Japanese army blockade the Xiaguan wharf, you may still have a way to live." Knowing the decision of Niu Dazhuang and his gang, Zhang Cheng no longer entangled with the wavering Zhang Sandong, but just said a word to Zhang Sandong lightly, and commanded half of the rout to dig a pit on the side of the street, and the other half of the rout rushed to the grain store to move flour out.
"Brother, why do we bury all this ocean surface in the pit? Are you afraid that the little devil will snatch it away? "It's not just the bull who is confused about Zhang Cheng's order, in fact, except for Zhang Cheng himself, none of the routs who are busy on the street know why Zhang Cheng did this. Zhang Sandong, who had not yet left, was also very puzzled, not knowing why Zhang Cheng ordered to dig a pit on the side of the street, and then put a good foreign surface into the pit, Zhang Cheng did not explain, but just urged the rout soldiers to speed up.
"Here, the little devil is here, there are at least more than 200 people coming this time, almost the strength of a squadron." The soldiers who were strictly ordered to serve as guards on the roof shouted loudly, Zhang Sandong's heart was shocked, those Japanese soldiers just now were less than a squad of troops, and they were already tired of coping, if this would be a Japanese squadron, then they would all die here, and they would not be able to stop the Japanese attack.
"You guys withdraw first, and I'll be fine right away." Knowing that the Japanese army was coming, Zhang Cheng, who was busy connecting the telephone lines, urged Niu Daxiang to evacuate with the people backwards. "Quick, speed up, watch your step, don't break the phone line for me." Zhang Cheng quickly kicked on the ground, covered the exposed telephone line with floating soil, looked around, and found no omissions, Zhang Cheng grabbed the wire and rolled the cat's waist backwards.
Niu Dazhuang and Zhang Sandong retreated to the corner of the street early with their respective men, and the telephone line in Zhang Cheng's hand was not long enough, so he could only temporarily hide in a shop not far from the corner. "Don't you want to know what I was doing? Don't worry, you'll see the answer in a moment. But I want to warn you first, hold your chin in your hand for a while, and when you see the answer, don't let your chin fall to the ground. ā
Zhang Sandong, who came into the store with Niu Daxiang, didn't care, although he didn't know why Zhang Cheng did that just now, but Zhang Sandong didn't really mean what Zhang Cheng said. When the Japanese army's earthy yellow military uniform appeared at the end of the street, Zhang Chengzheng in the store took out a self-made detonator from Da Niu's backpack, bit the rubber of the telephone wire to expose the copper core, and Zhang Chengyi connected the ends of the two telephone wires to the wire pile of the detonator on the left and right.
As if Ono Ichiro, who had experienced a nightmare, fled from this dead street in a panic with his companions, more than a dozen of them panicked and disrupted the formation of Ono's squadron, and then was grabbed by the collar by the squadron leader Koji Yamada and slapped more than a dozen times. Ichiro Ono, who was beaten to the point of bleeding from his nose and mouth and his eyes with gold stars, suddenly came to his senses, looked at his companions who were wailing beside him, and Ichiro Ono was ashamed and lowered his head and snapped.
After counting the casualties, Onoichiro's eyes turned black for a while, and he almost fell to the ground with his hand on the trunk of a tree next to him. In the short five minutes between the launch of the pursuit and the defeat and retreat, at least dozens of Imperial soldiers were lying on the street just now. There are still 12 people left in the entire team, and his own captain has now become the most prominent person in the team, and even the team leader is broken.
The Yamada squad suffered heavy casualties, which made Yamada Koji very bored, relying on his uncle's power, Yamada Koji got two light armored vehicles from the division's armored wing after breaking through the Guanghua Gate, originally thought that his squadron could be invincible in Nanjing City and made great contributions, but he didn't expect that not long after entering the city, his squadron's Yamado squad had been disabled by the stragglers of the Zhina. Ono's squadron has successfully reduced almost one team, which is absolutely unacceptable to Koji Yamada, and knowing the truth from Ichiro Ono, the commander of the army, Koji Yamada ordered the squadron to rush to the block where the Yamada squad was ambushed, and he wanted to take revenge on those scattered soldiers.
Rounding the corner, Koji Yamada, standing in an armored car, observed the street ahead. The long street is lined with rubble on both sides, except for a few bunkers piled up with sandbags on the corner hundreds of meters away, and a few Chinese soldiers are faintly visible. Rumble! Rumble! Ono's squadron's tentative artillery bombardment hit the bunker, and the group of Chinese soldiers in Koji's sight of Yamada evacuated in a panic. Koji Yamada looked at this scene with a telescope with disdain, and then waved his hand and said, "Report to the Wing Commander, the Ono squadron has defeated the Shina soldiers in front and is pursuing the remnants of the Shina people. ā
The spearhead of Ono's squadron first went up to the rooftops on both sides of the street, and after confirming that there were no ambushes on the rooftops on both sides of the street, Koji Yamada ordered the squadron to enter the street. The Japanese infantry squadron had more than 200 men and three infantry squadrons ranging in strength from 194 to 250 men. Although the Yamada squad was completely lost, Koji Yamada also got two armored vehicles from the armored wing, and the strength was 2 squads more than other infantry squadrons, so the strength of the Ichiro Hakono team still exceeded 200 people at this time.
After being confirmed by the sharp soldiers on the rooftops on both sides of the street, the forward team of Ichiro Ha Onono entered the street first, and because there were two armored vehicles in hand, Koji Yamada did not show too much caution. After a tentative shelling with mortars, more than 200 soldiers of Ichiro Ha's team finally poured into the streets, and the Japanese soldiers searched the houses on both sides of the street while guarding the street intersection on the other side.
Seeing that the Japanese soldiers were getting closer and closer, Zhang Sandong, who pretended to flee from the rout, and his soldiers were ready to shoot at any time, but they did not see the signal sent by Zhang Cheng for a long time. Through the crack in the door of the store, Zhang Cheng, who watched the Japanese army's every move, did not move at all, and the detonator was next to Zhang Cheng, as long as he pressed the handle of the detonator, everything arranged by Zhang Cheng would immediately see the effect.
Success or failure is only between the first line, but Zhang Cheng is a little afraid to explode, the dust explosion is like a fantasy for people in this era. But for Zhang Cheng from later generations, it is not a mysterious matter. Solid matter that is broken into fine particles is called dust, and when the solid matter is crushed into dust, its combustion characteristics change greatly. What turned out to be a non-combustible substance may become a combustible substance, and a non-combustible substance may become a flammable substance, and an explosion may occur under certain conditions.
Dust becomes an "explosive" because it has a large surface area. Compared with bulk substances, dust is more chemically active, has a larger area of contact with air, adsorbs more oxygen molecules, and has a faster oxidative exothermic process. When the conditions are right, if one of these grains of dust is ignited by fire, a chain reaction occurs like an atomic bomb, and an explosion occurs.
The more than 200 soldiers of Ichiro Ha's team marched cautiously to normal speed, and it was not long before they reached the middle of the street, where Zhang Cheng ordered to dig a pit and fill in the flour. Zhang Cheng in the shop immediately handed the detonator next to Niu Daxiang, but he picked up the rifle himself, "After a while, I'll shoot their sharpshooters first, and when you see me finish shooting the second bullet bridge, press the detonator." ā
Niu Dazhuang wanted to nod, but he didn't know that Zhang Cheng didn't give him a chance to nod at all, and as soon as he took over the detonator, Zhang Cheng had already fired the first bullet here. Before the other Japanese soldiers could react, Zhang Cheng's second bullet had already arrived, and the flag soldier with a plaster flag on the "poof" rifle also fell down in the middle of the street.
Niu Dazhuang had already seen Zhang Cheng's marksmanship on the roof, and in the blink of an eye, Zhang Chengcheng had already shot out the five bullets of the first bullet bridge, and seeing Zhang Cheng take the other rifle handed by Da Niu, Niu Dazhuang immediately reached out and held the handle of the detonator, waiting to press the handle down at any time. Niu Dazhuang had seen Zhang Cheng's method of using two rifles to shoot in turn, and he was no longer surprised, but the other routs in their hidden shop were all stared at each other.
Ten shots, Zhang Cheng only fired ten bullets, ten Japanese soldiers had been shot and fell on the street, a distance of 200 meters, for Zhang Cheng, who has automatic gun sights, it is as simple as eating and drinking. The soldiers of Yu Onoichiro's team lowered their bodies and prepared to shoot back, but at this moment, Niu Daxiang, who saw Zhang Cheng emptying the second bullet bridge, had already pressed the handle of the detonator fiercely, and there was a muffled sound of "boom", "boom", "boom", "boom", and a pillar of smoke rose on both sides of the street.
"Hidden, hidden." The officers and veterans of Ono's squadron screamed, and the soldiers scattered and fell to their stomachs. It's just that to the surprise of these Japanese soldiers, the sudden explosions on both sides of the street did not hurt anyone, but with the floating soil rose a large puff of white dust, "Anti-poison, fast anti-poison, damn the people of China actually used biological and chemical weapons." Amid the curses of the angry officers and veterans, the soldiers of Ichiro HaOno's team kept cursing while wearing gas masks.
A Japanese soldier with his head covered in white powder subconsciously reached out and wiped it on his face, and then shouted, "It's flour, these are flour." "Ah, it's all flour, don't the soldiers of China have weapons? Did they expect to throw flour to stop the advance of the Japanese army? More and more soldiers from Ha Ono Ichiro's team found that the white powder on their bodies was flour, so the Japanese soldiers, who had already put on the gas protection area, took off their gas masks and cursed the damned Shina skirmishers again and again.
Zhang Cheng in the shop pressed the handle of another detonator, and several other explosive points arranged on both sides of the street rang out, and the flour bags covered by the explosives exploded, bursting out a large amount of flour again. "Tom" Da Niu Han smiled and stuck the grenadier out of the window of the shop, and fired a cannonball into the middle of the street with the grenadier canister, "booming" a fireball on the dusty street. Immediately after that, the middle of the street where Ichiro Ha Ono's team was located seemed to suddenly stand still, and the dust-filled air contracted violently, and with a loud "boom", the air began to become hot and the earth began to tremble.
There was a loud bang like an earth-shattering bang, and the scorching heat in the dazzling fire swept the mud and sand and tore the entire Japanese soldiers into the air...... The entire street was destroyed by the explosion and disappeared, large chunks of dirt and flames were thrown into the sky for dozens of meters, the dust that covered the sky made people want to cough, and the plugged ears were buzzing, and they could only hear their own heartbeat. The explosion had stopped, but there was still a roar in the ears, for nothing could be seen in the thick dust, and everyone was choking on the scorching air and coughing.
"Boom" "Boom" ,,,, explosion began again, and it was the explosion of the ammunition carried by Onoichiro's team, and the ammunition of the martyrdom covered the area again. The detonation of bullets, grenades, and cannonballs once again brought the survivors of Ichiro Ha's Ono team a gift of death. "Boom! Boom, boom...... The remnants of the Japanese army were all covered in smoke and dust in an instant, and the human body that was blown up in the air and torn into several pieces could be seen in the sudden flash of the explosion......
Rumble...... It seemed that the whole earth trembled, and Koji Yamada, who was supervising the battle in the back, was shaken from the ground by more than a meter by the huge blasting force and the armored car under him, even so, Yamada's nose was bleeding, and he was affected by being so far away, not to mention the other Japanese soldiers who were in the center of the explosion. The shock wave of the explosion intertwined, and the flying debris directly tore some of the hapless Japanese soldiers behind them to shreds. How long did the explosion last? A few minutes or half a century? Koji Yamada didn't know that in the confusion, in the hot pain all over his body, he gradually woke up and knew that the explosion had stopped.
Although he still couldn't hear anything in his buzzing ears, Koji Yamada was still trying to cough loudly, getting louder and louder, because he wanted to hear his own cough, but his ears were still buzzing...... The man lost his balance, and he got up several times and stumbled back down; Then he stood up again, and finally he stood up straight.
Shaking his stunned head vigorously, through the dust that began to become thin, Koji Yamada could not see a person or a corpse, and in front of him was a large staggered pit on the ground, a large pit, and a few beating flames in the pit were alive and well, and it was the ghost fire in the legendary hell...... One, two, three...... More and more bodies were found by him, but not a single living person was found.
The sky is full of smoke and dust, and you can't see anything at all, every foot down. It's all a fluttering sound. This area was already covered with all kinds of debris, and one foot on one intestine almost slid Koji Yamada's head, and the smell of gunpowder smoke and fishy smell made him want to vomit. Everywhere were severed limbs and stumps scattered across the smoking, scorched earth.
Looking back, the two armored vehicles were quietly parked, the flames on the bodies were whirring in the scorching sun, and all the soldiers inside were bleeding black from the corners of their mouths and nostrils. Black blood flowed strangely from the corners of the mouths and nostrils of more soldiers, and their half-open eyes seemed to be able to see people, and there were no wounds on their bodies, but the stiffness on their faces indicated that he was dead.
The streets were as silent as death, and all you could hear was the sound of your own heartbeat and a cough.
The smoke was very choking. In this half-suffocating taste, Koji Yamada, who was trying to stand, had a feeling of drowsiness, and he was tired, as if he was sick, which reminded him of his wife at Nara's house. That time he had a fever, he lay on the bed and was weak and drowsy, and after Reiko gave him medicine, she kept holding his hand until he fell asleep.
"Bang!" A gunshot once again energized the entire battlefield that had become as silent as death, "Erdan, you bastard, you don't have a bayonet, save some bullets" A rough voice reprimanded the soldier who had just shot. Several soldiers wearing gas masks walked up to Yamada, "Help me, help me" Koji Yamada, whose nose and mouth were constantly splattered with blood, stretched out his arms to the visitor. "Hey, there's still a living little devil here, or a middle one. Take him to the sir. The two soldiers roughly grabbed Koji Yamada's arms and dragged them back.
This is the power of the dust explosion, Zhang Cheng, who planned all this, was also stunned, before pressing the detonator handle, Zhang Cheng was still worried that his arrangement would have no effect, it turned out that his worries were superfluous, the power of the dust explosion was too strong.