Chapter 114: Bloody Battle (4)
In addition to the onslaught of the main street, about two brigades of soldiers began to climb over the walls and enter the dense houses from the left and right flanks of the street.
Hu Zhenglong, who was directing the defensive operation in front of Lao Jie, was stunned when he heard the roar of the army's field artillery and the sharp whistling sound of the ballistics? It seems that my cannon is too close, right? Could it be that I was beaten stupid? Moved artillery into range of our artillery fire?
Some frightened and lost the calm demeanor of the soldiers, Matsuda Kunizo is enjoying a rare cup of hot tea at the moment, the strict order of His Excellency the Commander of the Itamoto Masaemon Division made Matsuda Kunizo very happy, hiding in the rear and commanding the troops on the phone Although it is very dishonorable, but it feels more safe in comparison, only those who really experience the feeling of struggling on the edge of life and death know the preciousness of life, and anyone's life is a reading power that is never repeated, which Matsuda Kunizo knows very well, The feeling that he could die at any time in the next second made Kunizo Matsuda almost collapse!
Now thinking of Shoichi Imago's white bloodshot brain, Matsuda Kunizo shuddered all over, as if he was shivering naked in the ice and snow.
On the streets of Lao Cai, the infantry began to disperse into a straggler formation after entering the street a hundred meters, Lao Cai was actually only less than seven meters wide and a bluestone road more than a mile long, some slightly curved, on the whole, you can forget the low, the army knew very well that the Chinese soldiers must have dug a good position and waited for them at the other end of the street, and all they had to do was to break through the [***] blockade directly after the artillery fire, only the sooner the breakthrough of the [***] blockade, the smaller the casualties of the troops.
When the soldiers of the Yue army densely filled the streets and entered the 200-meter range, Hu Zhenglong personally picked up a Czech-made light machine gun and began to fire fiercely, and then more than a dozen Maxine machine guns formed a second firepower network and cross-fired at the Yue troops in the old street.
After the officers and soldiers who were shot fell to the ground one after another, a roar broke out in the army, and then the infantry of the army entered the posture of shock attack, and the soldiers of the army with cold and shining bayonets howled under the leadership of the officer and rushed to the position of the Chinese defenders in the face of the rain of bullets, the bullets fired by Maxine's heavy machine gun gave the army a head-on blow like a flying locust, and the offensive formation of the army was broken up in a few seconds, and the soldiers who fell to the ground after being shot were trampled under the feet of the follow-ups, and the soldiers who had just crossed the corpses of their companions were shot again and fell to the ground. The corpses of the soldiers were piled on top of each other like paving the road.
Many of them were surprised to find that there seemed to be something under their feet. Make it difficult for them to be able to stand firm? A lieutenant who fell to the ground touched a handful of beans on the ground, and when he put it in front of him, it turned out to be a handful of beans? Before the lieutenant could understand the purpose of the beans, a bloody hole was punched in his forehead by a flying bullet, and the front of his forehead was only a thumb-sized bullet hole, but the entire back of his head had been blown away by the bullet.
As soon as the feet of the soldiers who stepped on the corpses of their companions hit the ground, they would fall to the ground unprepared in different postures. The wide old street has become a massacre field, and the officers and men of the two brigades are crowded into it and become the best targets.
The hopeless assault began to try to rush into the shops on both sides, but to the great shock of the soldiers, the shops on both sides, whether the doors or windows, were even moving? In desperation, some of the soldiers even used grenades to blow up the doors and windows that were not moving, but the doors and windows were blown open, but they also affected many friendly officers and soldiers in the vicinity.
When the doors and windows of the merchants were blown away, the officers and soldiers were stunned and fell into panic and despair. This is simply the slaughterhouse pre-selected by the Chinese [***], the follow-up army troops are still advancing, the previous vigorous army troops began to retreat one after another, as a result, the attacking flow of people and the retreating collided together, at a distance of 300 meters, more than ten Maxine heavy machine guns and more than 20 Czech light machine guns beat the entangled soldiers in the old street to the flesh and blood.
The shell casings thrown next to Maxine's heavy machine gun emitted green smoke, the deputy shooter stared nervously at the canvas bullet chain, and the recoil generated by each firing of the linkage mechanism drove the shell hook to move repeatedly, the empty shell was thrown, the bullet was loaded, and the bullet fired brought a burst of blood mist in the crowd of soldiers.
The dense sound of heavy machine gun fire in the direction of Lao Cai, and the confusion of the follow-up attacking troops made Ono Nagashima know that the front attack must have been frustrated, and sure enough, the news of the failure of the attack of the 45th Infantry Wing transferred from the brigade headquarters, Ono Nagashima immediately ordered the deputy captain Captain Nomura to organize artillery support, and Ono Nagashima himself was like a hard-working little marmot, desperately continuing to dig his own bunker!
Rumble! Boom! After a burst of intensive artillery bombardment, the positions of the Chinese defenders were filled with smoke, shrapnel flew indiscriminately, and at least two Maxine heavy machine guns were destroyed by the artillery fire. But only the sound of artillery is heard, and you can't see where the firing position is?
Hu Zhenglong took the telescope and under the guidance of the artillery observer, he really discovered the location of the artillery of the Japanese army, and the location of the artillery exposed by the huge heat generated by the artillery shooting in the cold weather and the gunpowder smoke exposed the location of the artillery artillery.
After learning that the artillery positions of the advancing army were actually set up under their own noses? Zhang Tianpeng, who was furious, immediately coordinated two artillery groups to carry out artillery strikes on the depression where the artillery group was located.
Soon, the officers and men of the First Brigade of the Field Artillery Wing of the Sixth Division of the Chinese Army, who were in full swing, also heard a sharp whistling sound over their heads, and the artillerymen knew very well that it was the sound of shells breaking through the air.
Rumble! A 75-millimeter grenade kicked up a puff of dust after the flash of the explosion, and then the shells whistled to the ground like raindrops, and the sound of explosions rose and fell to each other, and in the series of explosions, the artillery was rushing to try to escape, obviously in the face of the wanton flying shrapnel, the escape of the soldiers had no meaning.
In fact, the terrain of the depression gave the army the illusion that the bullets were raining down, and the artillery group under Zhang Tianpeng's command and coordination only carried out a five-round rapid fire, and in Zhang Tianpeng's opinion, such a small depression was stuffed with more than a dozen 75-mm field guns at most, and a burst of shells was enough to smash him!
The cannonballs were as dazzling as fireworks, and the soldiers who were in a dilemma once again brought out the hooligan tactics of guarding their homes, and used corpses to pile up the city walls to resist the fierce projection fire.
Kunizo Matsuda, whose face was dark, was no longer answering the call from the front, and his order to the acting wing commander of the 45th Infantry Wing, Yoshida Nakasa, was to attack, attack, attack! to wash away the shame of the 45th Infantry Wing.
Because in Matsuda Kunizo's opinion, as long as the front of Lao Cai attracts the strength and firepower of the main position of the central [***], the two brigades that attack from the flanks will definitely be able to receive miraculous results!
However, how did I know that the two army brigades that attacked from both flanks of the street were also caught in a fierce battle at this moment!