Chapter 21, Loss
Honda Shaozo stared closely at the slowly approaching tank, mentally calculating their distance.
"Shaozuo, the Shina chariot is only 100 meters away from our forward position." A Japanese soldier whispered to Honda Shaozo.
"Yo Xi!" Honda Shaozo answered, raised his hand slightly, and then waved it down violently. A Japanese soldier behind him pressed the detonator.
"Boom, boom, boom!!" A series of explosions sounded at the feet of the attacking troops, and the not too thick ground of 59 was directly torn apart, and the flames invaded unscrupulously, killing all the crew, and being shocked to death if they were not killed. As for the infantry, they were thrown directly into the sky like rag dolls, with stumps and broken arms, bright red blood, and internal organs, scattered everywhere.
"Lie down! Lie down! A company commander shouted loudly, but who listened to him in this panicked situation, the explosion drowned out his voice, and an explosion point sounded at his feet, instantly throwing his broken body away......
In a short period of time, half of the entire regiment was scrapped, the tanks were burning with raging fires, stumps and broken arms were scattered everywhere, and the hellish scene frightened these recruits, and the training ground was a training ground, which could never be compared with the battlefield.
"Yo Xi, kill it!" Seeing that the results of this series of explosions were very good, Honda Shaoza also scared the other party stupid, and immediately pulled out his command knife and waved it, so that the death squad that had been prepared rushed out. The Japanese army also had some understanding of the combat methods of the 41st Group Army, and what could be solved with bullets was never close to the stab, and it was not a little worse than their Japanese army in fighting bayonets. In terms of shooting, the other side is no worse than them.
"Half load!" As if the floodgates were opened, hundreds of shirtless men with bayonets. The Japanese soldiers with their aunts tied to their heads rushed out of the Japanese positions with murderous spirits.
It's now halfway through December, and the weather is unusually cold. No matter who the 41st Army was, they wore cotton clothes, but this group of Japanese soldiers was shirtless. His face was frozen blue, but his eyes didn't blink, and he rushed forward with a firm step.
"Quick, fight, the devils are rushing over." The junior officer, who was still alive, hurriedly shouted.
However, these stunned recruits did not hear it at all, their minds were blank, their pupils were out of focus, and they did not notice the Japanese army at all.
The first to react was the tank, because they were in the tank. The narrow view allowed them to see the brutal scene outside, although they knew that there was an explosion outside, and the damage could be no small.
......The commander of the tank immediately picked up the coaxial machine gun, pulled the trigger, and the muzzle of the gun shot a tongue of fire, and the bullet swept towards the Japanese army.
"Kill, give!" A Japanese soldier wielding a command knife shouted loudly. Because he has no coat. I can't tell what rank he is, but since he has a command knife, he is at least a second lieutenant.
"Ahh~~" The Japanese soldier roared, not caring about the life or death of his companions. Bullets flying in the sky, burying your head and rushing desperately, as long as you rush over. And they won.
The sound of machine guns filled the ears, and the shouts of Japanese soldiers. These stunned recruits were finally awakened, but they had already let these Japanese soldiers rush over.
"Boom!" A Japanese soldier rushed forward and pulled out an explosives bag. Blowing the fuse, knocking down the tank, and dying with the tank were not uncommon, because almost every Japanese soldier carried an explosive bag with them.
"Whew!" The sound of a bayonet stabbing into the flesh saw a soldier who had finally come to his senses saw a hideous face, and before he could pull the trigger with his gun, the Japanese soldier sent the bayonet into his chest.
"Hit, Cao Nima, what are you in a daze, you want to die." A platoon commander with a troll shouted, seeing that there was a recruit beside him with blank eyes and still in a daze, he couldn't help but say, kicked him over and kicked him to the ground, which was not only to wake him up, but also to protect him, after all, a living person standing there was too conspicuous.
Sitting in the rear, Lu Qiang found that something was wrong at the front line, but he couldn't see it clearly in the telescope, "You immediately sent a telegram to ask what's going on in front?" After the order, I picked up the binoculars and continued to look, the more I looked at the frowns, the deeper the frowns, the troops in front, the losses seemed to be not light.
Soon, the man came back and reported the situation to Lu Qiang, because of the tight time, what he said was very vague and unclear when he asked, and Lu Qiang heard the person who came back relay, and he also guessed something.
"Smack!" The pistol rang out, and a Japanese soldier had an extra bullet hole in the back of his heart, and then fell unwillingly. After the shotgun was finished, it was too late to reload, so he pulled out his pistol and fired.
The Japanese soldiers, who didn't wear these clothes, were very crazy, and they were completely in a posture of not wanting to die, exchanging injuries for injuries, exchanging lives for lives, and even those veterans were terrified, let alone those recruits.
A recruit looked at the murderous appearance of the Japanese army, his body trembled like a sieve, and he stepped back step by step, and suddenly he threw away his gun, turned around and ran.
"Smack!" Before he could run a few steps, a bullet hit him and killed him, "If anyone dares to be a deserter, no devils will be used, and labor and management will kill you first." ”
It was a company commander who fired the shot, these are the company commanders, platoon commanders, and battalion commanders turned over by veterans, in addition to leading the team, their other task is to supervise the war in wartime, and when they see who is a deserter, they don't have to show mercy to their subordinates, and they are directly killed.
Originally, a few people who were about to turn around and run, saw the fate of this deserter, their hearts jumped, and they suppressed this thought.
"Do you have burning sticks in your hands? You only have two ways, one is to kill the devil and you survive, and the other is for you to be killed and enjoy the treatment of martyrs. Therefore, those who don't want to be martyrs pick up guns and do it with devils, and those who become deserters are killed by me, and instead of being a martyr, his affairs must be reported to the whole village and spurned. "The company commander continued to do wartime mobilization, even at this most critical time.
The words of the company commander had a good effect, at least so that these recruits did not dare to retreat, but he was also taken care of by the Japanese army, and several Japanese soldiers with menstrual belts tied to their heads raised their guns and stabbed him.
"Papapa~~" The May Fourth in his hand rang six times in a row, and one of the six Japanese soldiers hit the chest with one shot, and the company commander's marksmanship was not bad.
However, there was another Japanese soldier who missed, and the Japanese soldier's bayonet also stabbed him, but fortunately he was narrowly avoided by the company commander.
"Day!" The company commander scolded in a low voice, and at this time it was too late to reload the magazine, so he took out the sapper shovel from behind and slapped it at the head of the Japanese soldier.
The Japanese soldier didn't expect him to react so quickly, and as soon as the bayonet he stabbed out was withdrawn, the opponent's sapper shovel also fanned over, and with a click, it almost fanned his brain. This Japanese soldier was slammed out like this, his eyes were squeezed out, and blood flowed from the other six holes except for his mouth, which shows the strength of this time. Even if this Japanese army does not die, it is inevitable that they will become fools.
After killing the Japanese soldier, the company commander replaced the pistol with an ammunition clip and killed the Japanese soldiers.
Bright red blood was sprinkled all over the place, and the recruits who staggered back and forth fought fiercely with the Japanese army, and if it were not for the advantage of weapons, these recruits were no match for the Japanese army at all.
"How's it up ahead?" This is the third time Lu Qiang has asked, and the second time he asked before, and he got the recruits and the Japanese army in a stalemate.
"The devil's death squad was killed."
"And what about our losses?"
"It's not clear, but it's certain that more than half of the casualties were lost, and a number of tanks were lost."
"yes, I see." Lu Qiang knew that the real resistance of the Japanese army had just begun, and it could be seen from this that the previous three were just small fights, but why did the Japanese army set up those three lines of defense that were vulnerable to them in one more move? I really can't figure it out.
"Call them back, pause the attack." Lu Qiang said that now that the three regiments have lost more than half of their personnel, fighting again will only increase unnecessary casualties, and they don't have much morale. In the afternoon, let the four regiments and the five regiments go together, but they will attack in different directions, but before that, let the Japanese have a meal of shells.
Labor and management can afford you so they let you "help" in training, and you dare to set up an ambush to bomb the labor and management soldiers, and labor and management will also blow you up...... This was Lu Qiang's mental activity at that time.
The 59 tanks, which were still intact, protected the recruits of the third regiment and slowly retreated, and some of the tank armor was covered with blood, and I didn't know whether it was the third regiment or the Japanese army. Many of the soldiers of the three regiments who were protected in it had numb expressions and were covered in blood, as if they were swimming in a pool of blood, and the sapper shovels they held in their hands were all deformed, and there were unknown pieces of minced meat sticking to their sawtooth teeth.
After fighting with these Japanese death squads, the empty guns didn't have time to reload, so they picked up the sapper shovel and fought with the devils. Although the sapper shovel is shorter than the 38 large cover equipped with a bayonet, it is more flexible, and it is enough to hold it in one hand, and it can cut and sharpen. Compared to the thorn, the slash is more powerful.
The tank reversed and retreated, and the tank guns fired several shots at the Japanese position, mainly to suppress the Japanese army, not to injure the enemy.
Lu Qiang looked at the bloodied soldiers from a distance, and his heart was not good, he was full of blood when he went, and when he came back, a large number of people became corpses, and life was so fragile. But those who survived, they were transforming into veterans.
"The losses of the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Armored Regiment of the 254th Division have been counted, and in this battle, only 236 people were still alive, 573 were killed, 122 were seriously wounded, including the disabled, unconscious, and dying, and 352 were lightly wounded. 59 tanks were destroyed in 41 tanks, of which the crews of 8 tanks survived, and the crews of the remaining 33 tanks did not escape. In addition, a lot of other weapons were also lost on the battlefield, and 8 percent of the soldiers who came back alive lost their weapons and needed to be replenished, that's all, and the more detailed ones will not be counted until the afternoon. Wu Lingjie, the commander of the 254th Division, took the statistics sheet and read it through.
Wu Lingjie is also an old group of people who follow Lu Qiang, now 32 years old, when he was upright and high-spirited, he read some books when he was a child, and he still has some brains.
"Got it, put it on the table." Lu Qiang said casually, he also listened to Wu Lingjie just now, the loss in this battle is really not small. (To be continued.) )
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