Chapter Eighty-Nine: Blowing Up the Iron Bridge, The Battle of Yangjialing (4)
The Yangliujin Railway Bridge spans the Yangliujin River, a tributary of the Xiu River, and is about 5 miles away from Yangjialing Station. On both sides of the river is an alluvial plain with willow trees planted on both sides.
Xiao Xiong led a force of about 500 people to attack along both sides of the railway in the direction of the Yangliujin Railway Bridge. At this time, the enemy, who was defending the railway bridge, was also reinforced by a brigade of devils from the direction of Tujiabu. The number of devils guarding the bridge suddenly increased to more than 200 people.
The Einsatzgruppen first bypassed the two pillboxes of the devils near the iron bridge, leaving some of the team members to encircle and attack the two enemies. The rest of the men attacked the enemy guarding the bridge.
The battle was fought incredibly hard. Relying on the strong bridgehead and railroad, the devils condescended to carry out a frantic strafing attack on the attacking Einsatzgruppen. The Einsatzgruppen had to take cover from the earthen embankment that stretched out to the bridge, and gradually approached the enemy. The battle proceeded very slowly.
Xiao Xiong was very anxious. At this time, Xiong Qiang carefully observed the scene in front of him, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he said to Xiao Xiong excitedly:
"Commander, we have a way!"
"What's the solution?"
"You see, the railway from Yangjialing Station to the bridge is a downhill slope. Let's transfer a few iron wagons from the direction of the station and slide down the railway, won't we be able to approach the enemy and destroy them? ”
"Is that okay?" Xiao Xiong asked suspiciously.
"Don't you know? This is often done in railway freight yards, where the railroad workers first pry the car with an iron rod, and when it can slide, it will slide faster and faster, especially downhill. When you get to the place, close the gate valve on the carriage and the car will stop. Absolutely. ”
"Okay, you immediately notify the station and transfer a few iron cars over. Others are ready to get on the bus and fight. ”
"Okay." Xiong Qiang ordered his subordinates to immediately notify Gao Qixing, who was at the station, to urgently dispatch three iron carriages over.
Yangjialing Station is located on a hilly area, and the Yangliujin Railway Bridge is located on a low riverbed, so the section of railway from the station to the iron bridge is a slightly curved slope.
After a while, I saw three iron cars sliding down the railway from the direction of Yangjialing Station, and there were two rail cars behind the carriages, and there were more than 10 team members sitting on the rail cars, they were desperately pressing the pry bar up and down, and the rail cars pushed the carriages in front of it to slide faster and faster.
The team members who were waiting next to the railway saw the carriage arrive in front of them, and one by one, like agile monkeys, quickly jumped onto the carriage.
When the rail car came closer, Xiao Xiong and the others found that on the rail car, which was originally empty, the team members had now stacked a few sleepers on the front and both sides of the car to make a cover that was half a person high, and the team members on the car not only set up machine guns in three directions, but also set up a mortar on the car.
In the carriage in front, the team members who boarded the train set up guns at the door and window of the carriage, aiming at the bunkers of the devils on both sides of the railway.
In the blink of an eye, three carriages and two rail cars approached the pillbox. The devils in the bunker had already noticed that a few carriages were speeding along the railway. They opened fire on the carriage. However, when the bullet hit the iron sheet of the carriage, it only made a clanging sound and splashed a string of sparks, which could not help the rangers hiding in the carriage. The carriage did not stop, but rushed all the way in the direction of the bridge.
The members of the team on the rail car behind the carriage stopped the car in front of the bunker. They used machine guns to block the devil's bunker and catch the eye. A team member maneuvers a mortar and shoots at the bunker. After a few shells exploded on the top of the devil's bunker, taking advantage of the smoke, several team members who were lying in ambush on the railway ditch and the rail car rushed up with explosive bags. Despite the sacrifice of several team members, the bunker was blown up in several explosions. The rest of the team immediately rushed forward and wiped out all the devils who didn't get killed.
The three carriages rushed to the bridgehead. The devil set up a barrier at the bridgehead, and the carriage stopped at the bridgehead. Due to the proximity of the distance, the fighting between the two sides was extremely fierce. The devils shot wildly at the carriage and threw grenades. The members of the team in the carriage also fired at the blockhouses and the devils blocking the bridgehead.
The team members in the back carriage suddenly opened the door on the right, and everyone threw grenades at the devil's bunker. Taking advantage of the smoke, several team members jumped out of the carriage and rolled to the front of the bunker. They slipped grenades into the eye-catching of the frantically firing bunkers. With an explosion, all the devils in the bunker on the right were killed.
At this time, the rangers on the rail car that had completed the mission also drove towards the bridgehead. The machine guns and mortars on the car fired at the Devil's Bunker to the left of the bridgehead. With intensive fire support, the team members who got off the car from the right slowly climbed from the bottom of the car to the left side of the car, and rushed out of the bottom of the car and rushed to the pillbox at the moment when the devil's firepower weakened slightly. When the devils at the head of the bridge found out, they shot at them desperately. The more than 10 members of the team who had just rushed out all fell in front of the bunker.
The sight of the members of the rail car was blocked by the carriage, and they could not see the devils at the bridgehead. So, several members of the team moved the mortar from the car on the right. They erected their gun mounts and fired continuously at the bridgehead. After a few shots, the firepower of the bridgehead devil suddenly weakened. The team members hidden under the carriage seized this moment, rushed out, and quickly leaned the explosive bag against the pillbox.
After a loud bang, the devil's bunker was blown up, and everyone rushed over to occupy the bunker.
At this time, the Einsatzgruppen occupying the pillboxes on both sides concentrated their fire on the devils at the bridgehead, while the members of the carriage climbed onto the roof of the carriage and set up machine guns to shoot at the enemy. The devils at the bridgehead were killed and wounded under the concentrated fire from three sides, so they had to withdraw to the middle of the bridgehead.
The team members hurriedly removed the sleepers across the rails and cleared the obstacles on the rails. The people used iron rods to pry the carriage and drove forward. The carriage, pushed by everyone, got faster and faster, and rushed towards the bridge. The devil who was in the middle of the railway saw the carriage rushing towards him, so he had to dodge on both sides, and he was directly knocked down the bridge more than 10 meters high by the carriage and fell into the water under the bridge. Some devils couldn't dodge, so they had to jump off the bridge by themselves.
The team members in the carriage opened fire on the devils on the sidewalk next to the railroad tracks of the bridge as they walked, and none of the devils on both sides escaped the net, and they were all killed and fell off the bridge.
The carriage stopped at the south bridgehead. At this time, there were more and more devils on the south side of the bridge, and they all rushed towards the Einsatzgruppen desperately, trying to recapture the bridge.
The members of the Einsatzgruppen used the carriage to stubbornly resist the enemy's attack, and the team members on the roof of the car sacrificed one, and the team members below did not hesitate to go forward. Dense machine-gun fire temporarily stopped the devils' attack.
Xiao Xiong ordered the rest of the team to quickly install explosives on the piers and bridges and lay fuses.
As soon as the team had set up the explosives, the situation at the bridgehead had changed. The devil dispatched an ironclad train from Xinqizhou Station in the south, and rushed towards the bridgehead while firing the cannon.
Xiao Xiong hurriedly ordered the fuse to be lit immediately, and all the team members immediately retreated to the north of the bridge.
However, the fast-moving devil's ironclad train had already hit the three carriages, and the carriages began to move in the direction of the north of the bridge, and faster and faster.
The team members on the roof of the carriage jumped onto the devil's armored train and tried to open its roof, but the devils who followed at the bridgehead shot at them, and they fell down one by one. Some team members desperately turned the gate valve at the junction of the carriage to stop the train. However, the car still drove towards the middle of the bridge.
Suddenly, one of the team members jumped off the train and jumped along the handrail onto the bridge pier. He raised his gun and opened fire on the explosives bag tied to the bridge.
A flash of fire flashed, followed by a series of loud explosions, and all the explosives installed on the bridge exploded.
The bridge was broken into several sections by a loud explosion, and the three carriages on the bridge, the devil's ironclad car, and all the personnel on both sides of the bridge fell into the Yangliujin River with the bridge. Three piers in the middle of the river were blown in half, and the bridge across the Yangliujin River was completely blown up.
Xiao Xiong stared blankly at the wreckage of the bridge, only to see the clear river flowing quietly to the east.
The bridge was finally blown up, and Xiao Xiong's goal was achieved. Xiao Xiong led everyone to immediately evacuate quickly to Yangjialing Station.
When I came to the station, I saw that there were only a few dozen wounded people left in the station. They reported to Xiao Xiong that the Hunters had gone to Ai for reinforcements.
Xiao Xiong looked at his watch, it was almost 12 o'clock.
"It's not good, the time has long passed, why haven't Ouyang Cunfeng, Ma Changyong and Liming taken down any of them?" His heart couldn't help but tighten.
He immediately ordered Xiong Qiang to send people to contact Liming in the direction of Junshan, and asked him to lead the team that acted as a blocker to retreat in the direction of Aicheng. He led a large army to rush to the direction of Aicheng urgently, and quickly reinforced Ouyang Cunfeng and Ma Changyong.
It turned out that when Xiao Xiong was fighting with the devils at the bridgehead, the second and fifth squadrons that blocked the enemy at Snake Head Ridge had repelled more than 10 attacks by the devils, and most of the team suffered casualties. Ouyang Cunfeng and Ma Changyong were also seriously injured. However, they still led the remaining 100 or so team members to desperately block the enemy. Because, they all knew that although the stipulated time had passed for three hours, Commander Xiao had not yet informed them of the retreat. They only had to sacrifice all the team members to ensure Xiao Xiong's safety.
At this time, the last two remaining tanks of the devils rushed towards the top of the slope while firing their guns, followed by a large group of devils under the pressure of the black. The Einsatzgruppen was running out of ammunition left, and their bullets only clanged on the tanks, and they couldn't help these iron guys.
Seeing that the devil's tank has come to the side of the original bombed tanks, it is about to rush to the top of the slope. The two rangers each grabbed a bundle of grenades and rushed downhill. Before they could rush to the devil's tank, they were shot by the tank's machine gun and fell.
Ouyang Cunfeng suddenly shouted across the road:
"Brother Ma, I'm going to blow up the devil's tank!"
With that, he strapped the grenade to his body, pulled out the fuse, and rolled down the hill. The machine gun on the Devil Tank strafed as he rolled, and the bullets swept up a puff of smoke and dust on the ground. Ouyang Cunfeng finally rolled in front of the tank. He pulled the grenade on his body and slammed into the tank.
The grenade exploded, Ouyang Cunfeng died, and the devil's tank ignited a raging fire. The devil inside opened the lid on the roof of the car and fled in a hurry.
"Avenge Captain Ouyang! Kill the devil! ”
The team members on the mountain shot at the devils like crazy, and all the devils who escaped inside were killed in a moment.
At the same time that Ouyang Cunfeng rolled down the hillside, Ma Changyong also grabbed a bundle of grenades and rolled down the hillside. He rolled all the way to a short distance from the tank, but was hit again by the tank's machine gun. With all his strength, he rolled over to the tank and pulled the grenade. The devil's last tank was finally blown up by him.
Li Minghua led more than 100 members of the Hunters to the position, and they witnessed the feat of the two heroes.
Li Minghua couldn't help but burst into tears, and he shouted loudly like crazy:
"Brothers, kill! Kill all these Japanese devils! ”