Chapter 776: The Hardest Step
Victory or death here, there is no other choice!
The Igarashi brigade gradually showed fatigue.
After all, people are not iron-clad. The repeated attacks and the increasing casualties have caused them a serious challenge, both psychologically and physically.
Blood stimulates their nerves, but it also tells them a bloody truth:
Death is not far from them.
The number of Igarashi's brigade was rapidly decreasing there. And it is not the most terrible thing to die directly, it is the people who are injured that are terrible......
The cries of pain from the wounded greatly stimulated the hearts of the soldiers who were preparing to attack. Each of them wondered if they would suffer the same tragedy.
If you lose your hand, or lose your leg, or lose your ability to take care of yourself, what kind of sad fate will you face?
If the offensive had gone well, then all this would have been completely covered up, but now ......
"Kill Che haha!"
"Kill Bai haha!"
The Japanese officers drew their command knives and gave the order to attack.
A new round of attacks has begun......
The soldiers numbly and mechanically picked up their weapons and re-embarked on an unknown path under the sound of artillery. How many people will lose a part of their body? No one was able to give them an answer.
On the defensive position of Lao Huozi City, the "Tyrannosaurus Type 6" light machine gun and the "Nine Years of the Republic of China" heavy machine gun played a requiem for death at the same time. The fire of light and heavy machine guns, combined with the roar of mortars, turned the entire battlefield into a melting pot capable of swallowing up all the power that entered this furnace
A whole area of Japanese troops fell under such dense firepower, and the terrifying scene of corpses piling up made every attacker feel desperate and helpless.
This is the battlefield, the most real and terrifying battlefield
Igarashi didn't make any changes, the only thing he could do was to put more soldiers into this bottomless pit until he didn't have a single soldier in his hands.
"Your Excellency the Captain, ...... filial piety"
"What's wrong with Koji?" When he heard his brother's name, Takashi Igarashi suddenly became nervous.
"Squadron Leader Koji, I have been loyal to His Majesty the Emperor!"
When he heard the terrible news of this year, Igarashi almost fainted.
Takaji is dead? Koji is dead!
Xiaoci was brought up by him, he liked this younger brother the most since he was a child, and his younger brother was also very competitive, he was sent to Manchuria at a young age, and then served as a squadron assistant, but how could Xiaoci die......
"Squadron Leader Koji showed great bravery, he led the whole squadron to launch three attacks in a row. During the third attack, the squadron leader was at the forefront of the team, and a vicious shell hit, and a ...... broke out next to the squadron leader."
Takashi Igarashi didn't listen to a word of the rest of the words, he only knew that his beloved brother was dead......
Koji Igarashi's body was carried over, and at first glance, Takashi Igarashi couldn't believe that this was his younger brother......
It's been blown up so that you can't tell the original appearance at all, and you can't even see a complete human form......
Igarashi Takashi stood there in a daze, tears flowing from his eyes, no one on the side dared to persuade him, everyone was silent there......
"Badagaru!" Suddenly, Igarashi Takashi let out a scream like killing a pig, and suddenly pulled out his command knife: "Forward, forward!" Take the position and kill all the men! ”
Takashi Igarashi is crazy at this moment!
Once a commander loses his due composure, the result will be very terrible .........,
Igarashi Takashi desperately invested all the troops he could put in, and the entire brigade launched the craziest attack on the outlying positions of Lao Huozi City in a suicidal way.
The offensive and defensive battle of Lao Huozi City reached its peak at this moment.
The offensive and defensive sides are fighting here, Berry's eyes are red, his heart is numb, people's movements are mechanical, and they use the most terrible way of human beings to carry out the most terrible battle of human beings!
When man forgets the horror of death, human life is nothing but the most pitiful thing.
From the day to the night, the sound of gunfire, artillery, and explosions did not stop for a moment.
Takashi Igarashi used all the power he could use, and the commander of the Eighth Division, Onodera Shigetaro, also used all the power he could use.
Decisive battle!
It continued to rain at night, but all this could not stop Igarashi Takashi from making up his mind to attack the opponent's position and kill every Chinese .......
He frantically ordered his soldiers, braving the rain to continue the attack at night, which was not suitable for launch.
He wants to avenge filial piety, no matter what the price is, he must avenge filial piety!
"The Japanese are really crazy!" The chief of staff of the "Independent" brigade shook his head: "It has been raining for two days, the ground is very muddy, and it is not suitable for an offensive at night......"
Liu Xiang smiled slightly and said, "It's good to go crazy, it's good to go crazy, this night, the front Oriental troops will definitely suffer heavy losses, which will bring us a chance for tomorrow's final defense, but our armored troops are afraid that it will also be very difficult......"
Difficulties are the same for both sides, and God is fair......
For a whole night, the gunfire never stopped, and by daytime, Igarashi Takashi's feet finally stood on the second line of the old Huozi City.
What kind of price did the Igarashi Brigade pay in order to get here? What kind of losses have been suffered? Takashi Igarashi didn't know, and he didn't want to know at all.
"Your Excellency Captain, the division commander sent a congratulatory telegram to congratulate our brigade on occupying the position in China, and asked our brigade to immediately take advantage of the power of victory, continue to advance, and completely converge with the imperial army fighting fiercely in Lao Huozi City!"
"Tell Your Excellency, Division Commander, that my Igarashi Brigade will definitely complete the task!" Igarashi Takashi said coldly.
But he ignored, or more accurately, he didn't want to face a fact at all:
The whole brigade has suffered casualties, and Sejing has not been able to continue to assault forward!
However, this is not a problem at all for a crazy person. If he was the only one left in the whole team now, Takashi Igarashi would definitely continue to move forward without hesitation!
Now, in Lao Huozikeng, the Japanese troops in the city and outside the city are only one step away, and with a little effort, they will be able to complete the convergence in the northeast battlefield, and the Eighth Division and the Japanese Railway Garrison Brigade are only one step away......
But this is the hardest and least likely step to take......
"Tell the officers and men of the whole brigade that the final decisive moment has come!" Liu Xiang stood up suddenly, his expression solemn and serious: "Concentrate all your firepower and launch the most resolute resistance to the enemy!" Let the artillerymen smash all the shells out for me, leaving not a single one left! Blow up these turtle sons! ”
With this order, the day has come when the Chinese side called the "Battle of Lao Huo Zicheng" and the Japanese side called it "the most difficult step"!
Both sides threw all the forces they could into the battlefield. Every inch of land has become the focus of contention between the two sides, and after the advent of hot weapons, large-scale cold weapons battles and bayonet duels can be seen almost everywhere here. Here, death is the only melody! Everyone is fighting hard and doing their last effort for their own ideals! …,
When the battle was at its most difficult, even Liu Xiang's independent ...... brigade headquarters directly engaged the enemy. If it weren't for the brave fighting of the guard company, and if it weren't for Liu Xiang organizing all the non-combatants of the brigade headquarters to be put on the battlefield, perhaps "the brigade headquarters would have become a victim."
On the Japanese side, officers at all levels were also doing their best, driving the soldiers to launch deadly attacks again and again.
The war is raging, and there is a sea of corpses and blood!
It was a terrible day, it was a day full of blood!
One step, only the last step remains, but the Japanese will not be able to take it in any way.
In Lao Huozi City, the Chinese soldiers who had been fighting guerrilla warfare also appeared from their hiding places one after another and launched a counterattack against the Japanese troops who had always been entrenched in the county town.
The fighting and shouting of the soldiers resounded in the sky inside and outside the city.
Liu Xiang kept holding the telescope and observing the battlefield motionlessly.
Several parts of the last position had been broken through one after another, and the Japanese rushed into the position in droves, and the Chinese soldiers fought with them at the cost of their lives, and the blood that flowed was enough to completely soak the entire position.
Time is passing minute by minute, and every minute is so long for Chinese soldiers; And for the Japanese soldiers, every minute was so fast.
Time is life!
Morning. Dot.
The rain suddenly stopped, and the Japanese let out an excited and frantic cry, as if their god of sunshine had suddenly appeared. Soon, however, their cheers stopped.
Eight Chinese planes appeared in the sky!
They soared in the sky like eight eagles, and then swooped down, machine gun rounds mercilessly strafing the charging Japanese troops.
The Japanese army was beaten in chaos, and the planes arrogantly and ruthlessly destroyed the lives of all enemies. They swooped down again and again, then pulled up again and again, and then swooped down again and again.
And on the positions of the Chinese, there was a jubilation:
"Hooray! Air Force, hooray! ”。 )