Chapter 146: Beacon Nanxun (31)
A heavy machine gun spewed tongues of fire.
In the semi-underground bunker, a machine gun shooter with a light shield knelt on the ground, his hands clenched on the handle, and fired the world's most famous killer machine gun.
"Refill the magazine!" The class leader next to him yelled loudly.
The ammunition hand holds the 250-round canvas bullet chain, loads the front part of the cartridge belt into the ammunition machine, and the other ammunition soldier pushes and pulls the pusher handle twice in a row to form a burst state.
"Target left front, 800 meters, sweep!" The squad leader stretched out two fingers, pointed ahead, and gave a short command to shoot. Once again, the heavy machine gun rained down bullets, and the yellow bullet casings were already covering the ground.
The Japanese army who was fired from the flank suffered heavy casualties, and the Japanese army had just organized three waves of demolition teams in a row, all of which were flanked by heavy machine guns, and the personnel of the Kuwabara squadron attacking this area had plummeted from 180 people before departure to 70 people, and the squadron leader Kuwabara Naokuan was lying in a crater, looking at the sparse straggler lines around him, and he did not dare to launch the fourth attack.
"Your Excellency Squadron Leader, Nishimura Shaozo is here with his troops!" A herald crawled up to him.
Kuwabara looked back, and sure enough, a group of Japanese troops behind him, like rats, rushed to the location of his squadron under the cover of smoke.
On the opposite hill, there was another fire, and the unique "da-da-da" sound of the Type 24 heavy machine gun, as well as the "all-through" sound of the Type 81 mortar, obviously, the Nishimura squadron had been discovered by the squadron.
"Kuwabara-kun, I've finally found you, this trip is not easy!" Shozaburo Nishimura finally crawled over out of breath.
Kuwabara Naohiro looked at this colleague of the brigade, who was also a friend of his school, his face was covered with dust and scratches, and the steel helmet didn't know where to go, revealing messy hair.
"Nishimura-kun, I've been staring at you with wide eyes, is it okay on your face?"
"It didn't go well, 14 soldiers were killed on the road, and more than 30 were wounded. How's your troop doing? It doesn't seem to be going well! Nishimura wiped the mixture of sweat and dirt and blood from his face, saw the sparse remnants of Kuwabara's squadron, and asked.
"There are only 77 people left, and in less than half a day, it will be like this, and the second Lushunkou will be born!"
"You can't talk nonsense, it's terrible that the captain of the Kijima Wing heard it."
"Is this nonsense? The soldiers, the officers, and even the 'Izumi' told me this before he died. As he said this, Kuwabara's eyes saw the image of a war horse, the war horse fell to the ground, twitching constantly, looking at him with deep nostalgia in his eyes, it was his mount 'Izumi'.
"Kuwabara-kun, let's not talk about anything else, let's talk about the battle, where is the heavy machine gun fire point of the Chinese people?"
"Here," Kuwabara pointed to the hillside about 400 meters ahead, the side of the hill close to the Japanese had been cut into a hanging wall, and there was a small half-exposed heavy machine gun bunker on the mountainside, the camouflage on which had been knocked out by the mountain guns, revealing a surface like a flat pot lid. "There are at least 2 heavy machine guns in here, which can fire in both directions, but they won't shoot us, and the heavy machine guns of the Chinese are all sympathetic."
Kuwabara pointed to the left again, there was a slightly smaller dirt bag, covered with weeds, if Kuwabara hadn't pointed it out, Nishimura wouldn't have known that it was a heavy machine gun fire point, "The heavy machine gun here is responsible for shooting us, as soon as we attack, it will clatter and scream, and our losses are very large." ”
"Also, Nishimura-kun, next to the heavy machine gun fire point of the Shina people, there are many small bunkers, dug into a cave like a lobster, and the Shina soldiers are hiding inside, as long as we rush to the front of the bunker, the bastards in the cave will shoot wildly, this can't help but attract attention!"
Kuwabara then moved on to the third point, "All the firepower points of the Shina people are intersecting and cooperating with each other, there will never be a single one, and if there is, it must be a trap!" Just now, my team wanted to sneak around the back of the mountain, and suddenly fell into the trap, more than 40 people, in less than 2 minutes, it was all over. Saying this painful lesson, Kuwabara lowered his head slightly, and his voice looked very sad.
Nishimura raised his head and re-examined the scene in front of him, a hill more than 100 meters high and less than 300 meters in circumference, surrounded by several dirt bags and a paddy field filled with water. It's a very ordinary Chinese terrain, but now, in the eyes of Nishimura and Kuwabara, it has become a terrifying monster that has devoured countless Imperial soldiers.
After consultation, the two squadron leaders took the lead attack and decided to organize a death squad to first knock out the heavy machine gun position on the left side, and at the same time, the Kuwabara squadron served as the secondary attack to contain the heavy machine gun position on the front of the squadron.
The signal flare was immediately fired, and then the Japanese mountain artillery unit began to cover the shooting, and after the artillery fire stopped, the Nishimura squadron was divided into three parts, one of which was covered by smoke bombs, and launched a frontal charge; Another squad was on the left, advancing along the flooded rice paddies, attempting to go around to the left of the squadron's flank machine guns; The main force of the squadron concentrated 2 heavy machine guns and 7 light machine guns for support. Kuwabara's squadron was also divided into two parts, one for frontal attack and one for cover firing.
The heavy machine gun on the opposite side rang out again, and the two or four heavy machines aimed at the troops charging in the West Village, and carried out fierce strafing, although the Japanese army was constantly killed and wounded, but the leader of the devil squad did not stop, and the cat ran wildly, hoping to use speed to pass the time of the distance of the road to death as soon as possible.
** The heavy machine gun position on the right flank also erupted a tongue of fire, but not against Nishimura's troops who were charging head-on, but against Kuwabara's squadron on the flank, and the 792 mm machine gun bullets formed a rain of bullets, and the Japanese soldiers in the rain of bullets flew flesh and blood.
"Onboard!" Nishimura Shozaburo pulled out his saber and rushed out shouting, and Kuwabara on the right also held his command knife high and led the rest of the troops to assault with all his might.
300 meters! 200 meters! 100 meters! 50 meters!
After paying half of the casualties, the Nishimura commando finally approached the heavy machine gun position of the squadron and reached a dead end of machine gun shooting, because the fire point of the squadron was too heavy on anti-artillery, which greatly affected the firing range of the heavy machine.
The leader of the squad made a gesture, and a devil with a white cloth wrapped around his head rushed up with a **bag, and without taking five steps, he fell to the ground, and in the skirmish hole next to the ** heavy machine gun, the hidden infantry fire opened fire one after another.
The main team of the Nishimura squadron immediately began to suppress with grenadiers and heavy machine guns, and the Japanese squad leader made another gesture, and another Japanese death squad held another ** bag and jumped out of the dead end.
The squadron's defense system is not without weaknesses, in order to effectively protect the Japanese army's heavy artillery, the ** bunkers are purely underground or semi-underground, and the part that exposes the ground is very narrow, which makes the squadron's firing range have a big problem.
At medium and long distances, the crossfire can bring extremely heavy casualties to the Japanese army, but once the Japanese army approaches the firepower point of the squadron, it is not easy to play the heavy machine, and the two squadron leaders of Nishimura and Kuwabara realized this weakness, so they concentrated their forces and invested all their main forces for a surprise attack.
The squadron naturally knew where its weaknesses were, and the soldiers jumped out of the trenches and foxholes one after another, and the heavy machine gun bunker, in addition to a shooter and ammunition man to cover, the squad leader took the lead and led the observation soldiers to rush out of the bunker.
Bayonet to bayonet, butt smashed with the wind, sapper shovel with whirlwind, the troops on both sides engaged in a brutal white-knuckle battle, and one soldier after another fell, screaming in despair before dying.
The Japanese army, with its good physical condition and strict stabbing training, gradually gained the upper hand, and every time a Japanese soldier fell, two or three Chinese soldiers were often assassinated.
Just when the defenders were overwhelmed, a sudden shout came, "Brothers, fight!" Our reinforcements are coming! The platoon commander with the sapper shovel had just shoveled off the head of a devil and shouted wildly.
Inside the traffic trench leading to the rear, soldiers in gray clothes jumped out, 1 2 ... Squadron reinforcements arrived.
The shooters and ammunition men in the bunker wrapped their heavy machine guns in a military uniform and rushed out of the bunker.
Can't let the little devils run away!
"Your Excellency Commander Gangcun, today's offensive of our army has suffered a complete setback! ”
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