Chapter 51: The Wuhu Raid IV
Flares fell from the sky, and the traces of the Japanese troops were nowhere to be seen.
What followed was a mortar attack and artillery shells, and the formation of the Japanese army was instantly shattered.
"Eight squares! Sedation! Sedation! Scattered! Lie down..."Kawazuki screamed wildly, the Japanese army didn't expect to be ambushed here.
It is less than 1 km away from the camp in Jinwan, and from the topography, it is all flat land, which is the worst place for an ambush war.
"Heavy machine guns! Shoot! Shoot ......", a Japanese machine gunner had just set up the gun mount, and his head fell to the ground.
Cao Chang, who was next to him, saw that three soldiers were knocked down one after another, and personally stepped forward to operate, and at this time, the Chinese rewarded him no longer with bullets, but with bullets, the big brother of bullets, artillery shells. With a "boom", part of Cao Chang flew into the sky along with the machine gun parts.
Chuan Yue realized his arm and lay in a small ditch, as the captain of the brigade, he only had such a little treatment. Just now, he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and he commanded with a saber, and a bullet hit him in the forearm. The Chinese top shooter on the opposite side called the Japanese soldiers who were holding command knives, carrying sun flags, and operating machine guns.
"Da Da...", the roar of the Type 24 heavy machine gun sounded from the flank and rear of the Kawatsuki troops, and the formation that the Japanese had just barely formed was once again crushed.
If the attack of the frontal squadron was not fatal, then the heavy machine gun position of the squadron behind the flank completely collapsed the Japanese army. The squadron has formed crossfire, and the remaining devils have been completely suppressed.
"Your Excellency Nakasa Kawazuki, I request an attack!" It was one of his squadron leaders who spoke.
Chuan Yue knew that the current situation was to find death, but to stay here and be beaten was to wait for death.
The leader of the devil squadron gave a military salute to Kawazuki Hohito and shouted, "Satsuma warriors, forward!" Brandishing the command knife, he jumped up, and behind him were the last new force of more than 100 Japanese troops, who were making the last effort under the cover of the only two remaining 92 heavy aircraft.
They were greeted by a blazing net of fire from six heavy machine guns. Chuan Yue watched blankly, the squadron leader had been knocked down, one hand was still holding the command knife, and the rest of the soldiers were like felled logs, one by one, they were put on the ground.
The last soldier rushed to 20 meters of the squadron's heavy machine gun position and was immediately torn apart by the steel air flow created by the 7.92 mm bullets.
A platoon of soldiers had already inserted themselves to the end of the Japanese army, cutting off contact with their barracks.
Xu Ming saw all this in the scissor-shaped mirror and knew that it was time for it to be completely over.
"Give the signal, all troops charge." Xu Ming issued the final order.
With the exception of the machine gunners, all the soldiers loaded with bayonets and, under the cover of light and heavy machine guns, jumped one after another. Qin Lieping, who was behind the Japanese flank, hurriedly handed over the command to the company deputy, then picked up a rifle and took the lead in rushing forward.
"Kill! Come on! "Like angry wild horses, the charging Chinese soldiers let out a shocking shout as they approached the enemy. There were less than 50 devils left on the battlefield, and they also got up one after another, facing the squadron that was more than ten times more than them, and made the last stubborn resistance, and in the fierce bayonet sound, this passionate performance came to an end.
The enemy has suffered numerous casualties! Countless seizures! Himself lost less than 50 people. Xu Ming was so excited that he high-fived Qin Lieping and Xie Jinyuan, this was the first time he led his troops to achieve a big victory. It was a perfect attack! A perfect fight!
Xie Jinyuan looked at Xu Ming's happy face, he could fully understand Xu Ming's feelings, his own victory on the battlefield was the same, a middle-class person, the greatest honor is not to kill his compatriots, but to resist the enemy's foreign insults!
Without doing anything, Xu Ming and Qin Lieping divided into two routes and went to the Japanese camp in Jinwan. There are no more devils in the camp, how can they resist. In the end, the 10 devils hid in a sturdy warehouse and could not get out.
This warehouse is so strong that the infantry guns that have just been captured cannot collapse. As soon as Xu Ming signaled, heavy machine guns and mortars immediately roared again, and under the cover, a group of Chinese soldiers secretly used ladders to go up to the roof.
Then it was easy, the roof was lifted, two large barrels of gasoline were poured in, and one of the soldiers shook his hand one last and the torch was dropped.
There was a scream of Oriental roast rats in the warehouse, and it was better to be burned to death than to be killed, and several devils rushed out with fire all over their bodies, and they were knocked to the ground one after another.
The most crucial first step in the battle has been fully achieved, and now the airfield assault is about to begin.
"What's going on with Liu Junsheng's department and Head Chen?" Xu Ming asked the herald who came in a hurry.
"Report to Xu Tuanzuo, Company Commander Liu has passed through the barbed wire fence and is fighting fiercely with devils outside the oil depot, and there is no movement on Commander Chen's side."
Xu Ming nodded, now that the victory has been decided, it will be up to him to see how big the results are. The most important thing in front of us is not the capture of the airport, but the guarantee of the rescue of more than 1,000 prisoners of war. Xu Ming was very clear about the ferocity of the Japanese army, and once the devil found out that something was wrong, the prisoners of war were very likely to be slaughtered.
Everything depends on Chen Huizhi, and it is his commando team that is responsible for rescuing prisoners of war.
"If you dare to kill our prisoner of war brothers, Lao Tzu will skin all the devils he catches and cramp!" Xu Ming thought viciously.
In the airport, Ruosong Qingge's face is pale, he is from the Qingdao secret service, if it comes to collecting intelligence, abusing prisoners of war, and killing civilians, he Ruosong is definitely a good hand, but this does not include fighting! In this regard, he is far worse than Kawazuki!
What's more, the group of guys under him are not fighting at all, engineers, gendarmes, and communications troops are just infantry who have no proper knowledge.
He is not a fool either, the gunfire near Jinwan just now made him excited for a while, who said that he Ruosong would not fight! Under the wise guidance of his Wakamatsu, the enemy forces at the oil depot at the airport have not been completely stopped! As long as the Chuanyue troops arrive in time, those troublesome soldiers will not be wiped out immediately!
But then his illusions were shattered, and a raging fire actually ignited in the barracks in Jinwan, and he could see it clearly in the airport building.
"Your Excellency Wakamatsu, is Kawazuki-kun finished?" An officer dressed in a Dasa costume said in a panic.
If Matsumoto is annoyed enough, now he is even more depressed, this Osa in front of him is not a serious soldier, his name is Kato Dinghiko, and he is the deputy director of the Department of Aviation of Tokyo Imperial University in Japan.
So how did you come to China and be given the title of a big Zuo? It turned out that in order to improve the bombing effect of Wuhan, China, the Japanese army attached great importance to the Wuhu airport. Tosahiko Kato was hired as an expert to study the climate, hydrology, and meteorology of Central China, and to be in charge of flight tests at Wuhu Airport. In today's terms, Kato Masahiko is not a soldier, but an expert and technical talent.
This brother Kato has never fought a day, and his title of Dazuo is not promoted one by one through the regular way, this is a temporary military rank. Of course, if he is killed by the Chinese, he will also recognize his title of Dazuo.
"Professor Kato, now is not the time to talk about this, please go and hide in the house for a while, with me Wakamatsu here, the airport will be safe!" If there is no way to do it, there is no hope for this wretch in front of him, and he can only cheer him up.
As if to give Wakamatsu a chance to prove himself, the squadron's final general assault on the airport building began.
The airport in Wuhu Bay is very large and has many buildings, but the airport building is the key, which is not only the largest stronghold and command center of the Japanese army, but also the hub connecting the north and south of the airport. Once this area was occupied, the Japanese forces at the airfield were completely divided.
Wakamatsu Kiyoge also gathered all the more than 100 people gathered and put up a stubborn resistance in the airport building, with tongues of fire erupting from the windows, accompanied by the hysterical screams of the Japanese commander.
Under the cover of smoke and bullets, several Chinese soldiers charged with explosive bags on their backs, and before they could get close to the building, they fell one after another.
"!" Xu Ming scolded hatefully, ready to order the fourth charge.
"Captain Xu, wait a minute." Xie Jinyuan stopped Xu Ming, who had fought a successful defensive battle in the Four Elements Warehouse and knew this very well. Xie Jinyuan ordered: "The heavy machine guns concentrate all their fire and suppress the window; Mortars fired at windows; Superior marksman, accurate sniping against rising enemies; Smoke, bullets, ready! ”
The three soldiers rushed over again, this time with a success, and with a loud bang, the building was blown open.
Kato was shivering in his room, he was still very excited when he heard about the "great victory of the imperial army" in the newspapers, and after the fall of Shanghai and Nanjing, he marched in the streets with his students. Chinese, he doesn't care how many Chinese soldiers die, but now that the bullets are coming to him, it's not the case.
"Why did I come to China?"
It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world, although he is not a regular soldier, but since he chose to serve the Japanese invasion, he must pay the price.
While Xu Ming's main force stormed the airport building, Chen Huizhi's assault team also launched a surprise attack on the prisoner of war camp.
Each commando has a flower trap for each person, with a hand and grenade on his body, and a box cannon pinned to his waist. This configuration is extremely conducive to hand-to-hand combat.
Chen Huizhi personally took the lead in rushing and fighting, this kind of raid war is about speed and suddenness, and the Japanese army that blocked it was invincible.
The prisoner of war camp was stationed in a Japanese military police unit of about 50 people.
The gendarmes of any country are responsible for strict discipline and law and order, but Japan is not, and their gendarmes are responsible for intelligence and punishment, and they are the most notorious of all the units of the Japanese army.
Although they were terrible at killing and humiliating prisoners of war and civilians, they were not good at fighting, and in this kind of house-to-house offensive and defensive warfare, they had long since lost their former arrogance and were about to collapse at the slightest touch.
In the prisoner of war camp southwest of the airport, Chen Huizhi looked at everything in front of him angrily.
In order to prevent them from escaping, the Japanese soldiers tied four or five of them together with ropes every night, and it was difficult for them to even take care of themselves at night.
The prisoners of war were sick and smelly, and the Japanese soldiers did not even let them have enough to eat, let alone give them medical medicines. Most of the more than 400 prisoners of war who died were sick and dead.
Chen Huizhi looked at all this, and thought that he didn't advocate saving this place at the beginning, and he was even more ashamed.
"Brethren, I'm Late......"
All the prisoners of war wept silently, hugged with the rescuers, and cheered for this moment of liberation.
At the same time, the storming of the airfield was coming to an end, and the charging Chinese soldiers had already entered the building and begun a white-knuckle battle.
"Your Excellency Daisa Kato, please make a decision as soon as possible." Wakamatsu said.
"Ah," Kato Tosahiko reacted at this time, Wakamatsu was asking him to commit suicide.
"Your Excellency Wakamatsu, I just sent another telegram, as long as we hold on a little longer, reinforcements will ...... soon"
Wakamatsu Kiyoge didn't know that just now Kato Dinghiko sent a telegram that made the Japanese army lose face: "... There are about more than 10,000 troops in front of him, and all the troops in Chuanyue have been shattered, and the airport is in dire danger and needs support urgently!! ”
The Japanese army has a very strange tradition that a request for support should not be called that, but "request for tactical guidance." But Kato Dinghiko is a two-hundred-five, not only greatly exaggerating the number of squadrons, but also using the forbidden language of the Japanese army.
If Kiyoge Wamatsu did not talk nonsense with him, Kato Dinghiko must not fall into the hands of the Chinese. The saber swung violently, and Kato Dinghiko's head landed on the ground.