Chapter 330: The General's Death (Part II)
"Tom tom," a burst of fire rang out in the artillery position not far behind him. With a loud whistling sound, the 12 shells first smashed into the heavy machine gun positions of the Japanese army, which were firing frantically. With the explosion of one shell after another, the 8 heavy machine guns that were still happily spitting flames just now were drowned in the sea of fire in an instant.
The remaining four heavy machine guns, seeing that the situation was not good, stopped firing one after another and prepared to transfer. However, the second round of shells from the artillery company had already been fired. In the new round of explosions, the only four heavy machine guns remained, and in the violent explosion of 12 shells, two were again lost. In the end, the machine gunners next to the two remaining heavy machine guns could no longer care about the heavy heavy machine guns on the ground, and began to flee around. In the end, these two heavy machine guns, in the explosion of the third round of shells of the artillery battery, were all turned into a pile of the most primitive parts.
"All light and heavy machine guns, fire at me right away." Seeing that the enemy's eight heavy machine guns were all drowned in the smoke from the explosion of the shells, they lost their combat effectiveness. Commander Li, who took over the command of the troops, shouted an order to all the light and heavy machine gunners on the position.
"Da-da-da-da." The machine gunners, who had just been pressed by the devil's heavy machine gun and couldn't lift their heads, saw the heavy machine gun position of the Yue army, and disappeared without a trace in an instant after running a few times in their own artillery battery, and they all showed excited looks. Without an opponent, the accuracy of these machine gunners can be described as very accurate. In the shouts of the soldiers, a bullet was accurately shot into the little devil's body.
Although their heavy machine-gun positions were destroyed, their own soldiers were cut to the ground one by one in the face of the enemy's dense fire. However, the captain Nakata Shaosa, who had been pressing at the end of the ranks, had no intention of letting the troops stop charging. Because the captain knows that now he is to finish all the hundreds of imperial soldiers he leads, and he must also attract the firepower of the Eighth Route Army as much as possible, so as to achieve the purpose of covering the breakthrough of His Excellency the General.
"The warriors of the empire, when the time has come to dedicate themselves to the empire, they all kill and kill with me, and the great god will bless his people, kill and give" Seeing the soldiers lying in a pool of blood, the captain gritted his teeth and shouted loudly at the soldiers in front of him, who were already missing more than a hundred people.
"Kill and give. Onboard onboard" in the cheers of the brigade commander. Faced with a barrage of bullets and mortar shells that kept falling in the middle of the formation. These little devils finally revealed their real names, and one by one they raised their bayonets in their hands and began to launch the craziest suicidal charge.
One squad after another, the little devils threw grenades as they charged. Completely ignoring the bullets flying in front of him, the soldiers in front fell, and the little devil in the back did not hesitate, stepped on his corpse, and continued to move forward. Slowly, on the way of the little devil's charge, a whole layer of corpses had been completely pounced.
However, under the intense fire of the soldiers, although these crazy soldiers had already rushed to 50 meters in front of the position. But looking at it, there were still more than 300 little devils just now. Now with the addition of the captain of the army, there is less than a squad of troops left.
And the strength of this squad, under the intensive strafing of the fighters and the explosion of two rounds of shells. Soon, they all collapsed in a pool of blood. It wasn't until the captain of the army stared at a pair of desperate eyes and slowly knelt on the ground that the battle on the south side of the entire ambush circle officially ended. In the end, none of the more than 300 little devils, including the captain of the Yue Army, were spared, and all of them fell on the way to the charge.
"The first company cleaned up the battlefield, and the second company and the third company reinforced the third battalion with me, attacking behind the little devils. Comrades, rush with me" Seeing that the more than 300 little devils in front of him had all been wiped out. Commander Li ordered loudly, took the strength of two companies, crossed the trench, stepped on the corpses of the little devils all over the ground, and rushed towards the battlefield of the third battalion, which had fallen into a fierce battle.
Just when the battle of the first battalion had just begun, the little devils of the three squadrons in front of the third battalion also immediately attacked. However, the style of command of General Bin Sanyuan is obviously different from that of Captain Nakata Shaosa. In the face of the Eighth Route Army, which surpassed him several times in terms of firepower, Bin Sanyuan did not blindly order the soldiers to launch a group charge, and exchanged the soldiers' surnames for their own successful breakthroughs.
"Order the garrison squadron to take small units and take turns to attack the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side, remember, even if the imperial army of the entire garrison squadron is completed, it cannot be stopped. The 1st Squadron of the Military Police, lurking at a distance of 200 meters from the positions of the Eighth Route Army, carried out cover fire. We must use our accurate marksmanship to kill and injure the sound force of the Eighth Route Army as much as possible. The 2nd Squadron of the Military Police, as a reserve, could strike a fatal blow at any time when the Eighth Route Army in front of it suffered heavy losses. Looking at the three squadron leaders in front of him, General Bin Sanyuan ordered Minzhi.
"Hi, Your Excellency Commander," the three squadron leaders replied loudly, turning around and starting to arrange their troops.
Soon, in less than five minutes, the elite little devils of the three squadrons, all of whom were led by the three squadron leaders, all arrived at their own offensive positions. Under the protection of the Second Squadron of the Military Police, the commander, General Bin Sanyuan, lay in a crater only 300 meters away from the position of the Eighth Route Army, carefully observing every move of the Third Battalion's position.
"Order the garrison squadron to attack," General Bin Sanyuan ordered to one of the heralds beside him. With the order of the commander, General Bin Sanyuan, the garrison squadron lying in front of it immediately began to act.
"Kill to give" Soon, I saw a small team, about 50 little devils. Under the cover of several light machine guns, followed by a squad leader wielding a command knife, rushed out of the position.
Seeing that the little devil lined up two skirmishers more than ten meters apart, he quickly pressed towards his position. The commander of the third battalion, who did not find out that it was a trick, did not hesitate and immediately ordered all the firepower on the position to open fire to block the charge of these little devils.
"Da da bang bang" A dense burst of machine-gun fire and rifle fire rang out, followed by a dense rain of bullets from the position of the third battalion. Immediately, dozens of little devils who rushed to the first skirmish line fell more than half of them the moment they opened fire. And the little devil who was lined up in the second skirmish line, seeing that the situation was not good, immediately lay on the ground and fired at the Eighth Route Army opposite.
However, although the fire of the third battalion killed dozens of little devils. However, all their machine-gun positions, at the moment of firing, were also exposed to the little devils of the 1st Squadron of the Gendarmerie. With the firing of various machine guns, the flame of the muzzle of the machine gun well exposed the position of the machine gunner on the position. Of course, these machine gunners also became the first squadron of the gendarmerie, the preferred target of more than a hundred little devils in the first place.
"Bang bang bang" A messy burst of gunfire rang out on the ambush position of the first pair of gendarmes, and the light and heavy machine guns, which had just been constantly spewing tongues of fire, were silent in the sound of rifles. Even if the secondary shooter picked up the machine gun and continued to fire, it often took less than half a minute to open fire and was again knocked to the ground by the bullets flying from the opposite side.
In the face of such tactics of the Yue army, in less than a few minutes, almost all the machine gunners on the positions of the three battalions changed almost two rounds. What's more, a dozen light and heavy machine guns on their own positions fire at most half of their firepower each time.
"Battalion commander, there must be a sharpshooter on the other side. As soon as our machine guns fired, the target was exposed" Just when the battalion commander was worried about this matter, the commander of the guard company who had just come up quickly reminded.
"But what can we do, can we watch the little devils attack, and the light and heavy machine guns don't fire." After listening to the words of the commander of the guard company, the commander of the third battalion thought deeply, but his frowning brows did not stretch at all.
"With artillery, don't we have two artillery batteries behind us. Our use of cannonballs to constantly harass the little devil's sharpshooters will definitely play a big role. In this case, the Heavy will have a much lower number of casualties. After listening to the battalion commander's questioning, the commander of the guard company hurriedly reminded.
"Yes, it's the artillery company, how did I forget the two artillery batteries supported by the commander. Correspondent, immediately inform the artillerymen to carry out indiscriminate shelling of the position 200 meters in front of the position, and quickly" is the so-called phrase to wake up the dreamer. The commander of the third battalion, who reacted, was excited and ordered loudly to the communicator behind him. At the same time, the frowning brows also stretched out at the same time.
The reaction speed of the two artillery batteries can be said to be very fast, and less than half a minute after the order of the commander of the third battalion was issued, the artillery position behind the third battalion resounded with a dull sound of mortar discharge. Then there was a whistling sound above the warriors' heads.
"Boom, boom, boom," a dense burst of explosions sounded over the hidden positions of the Japanese army. The explosion of more than twenty shells, at the moment of the explosion, threw more than a dozen little devils high into the sky, turning them into corpses. However, at this time, the army was scattered on the ground after all, and the lethality of the shells could be said to be very limited. Except for being directly hit, the shrapnel flying on the top of the little devil's head has no lethal effect on the little devil at all.
However, the explosion of the shell played another very important role. The smoke of gunpowder from the explosion of the artillery shells played a good concealment role between the two armies. With the cover of artillery fire, the casualties of the machine gunners who were lying on the position and firing were significantly reduced.
However, the smoke of the explosion of the shells also blocked the view of the soldiers. At the moment when the machine gunners of the third battalion lost more than half of the positions and the firepower weakened, the second squad of the Japanese army as the offensive set off. There were also two loose lines of skirmishers, dodging left and right under the cover of gunpowder smoke from artillery fire. In a few moments, two skirmish lines advanced to less than 150 meters from the position. And a small team of little devils only suffered less than a third of the troops.
"Machine guns, hurry, you must block these little devils" looked at the army that was getting closer and closer. The commander of the third battalion was also very anxious, holding the shell gun in his hand tightly, and directing the battle back and forth in the trench. As he ran, he gave orders back and forth to the machine gunner with a light and heavy machine gun next to him.
However, although the morale of the soldiers was very high, the dense firepower did not cause much damage to the current army. Dozens of little devils, with their skillful tactical movements and ubiquitous craters, are advancing while dodging the rain of bullets. Soon, the second squad again advanced a distance of several tens of meters.
However, after a charge of just nearly 100 meters, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of these troops is. In the dense rain of bullets, there were still blind cats that ran into dead rats, and the squad finally lost most of the army, and was blocked by the soldiers at a distance of 100 meters from the position.
However, the offensive of the Yue army was far from over. Just as the remnants of the second squad were lying on the ground, the third attack squad also set off at the command of the squadron leader. The same tactics, the same troops. However, due to the fact that the distance from the positions of the third battalion was too close at this time. Although the straggler line of the Japanese army was still advancing, their casualties did increase significantly. The strength of a small squad of troops, which advanced closely to a distance of less than 20 meters, suffered most casualties under the accurate fire of the fighters, and lost the ability to continue the attack.
"Yo Xi, the attack of the garrison squadron is very sharp. Nagano-kun, now it's your turn to be the second squadron of the gendarmerie, and I hope you will take your subordinates and rush through the remaining 100 meters in one fell swoop, breaking through the position of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop. "Seeing that the garrison squadron had paid for less than a hundred casualties, it rushed to a distance of more than a hundred meters from the position of the Eighth Route Army. The commander, General Bin Sanyuan, couldn't help but feel excited, and ordered to the leader of the only remaining military police squadron beside him.
"Hey, Your Excellency General, the Military Police Squadron will definitely live up to your expectations, fight a bloody way, eliminate the Eighth Route Army in front of you, and open a breakthrough for Your Excellency General." The second squadron leader of the military police showed a bloodthirsty look in his eyes and said fiercely.
"Yo Xi, Nagano-kun, go and take your squadron, the bayonet in your right hand, and make contributions to the Great Empire," the commander, General Bin Sanyuan, nodded and ordered.
"Hi, Your Excellency. The warriors of the Empire, for the sake of victory, in order to be able to break out of the encirclement of the Eighth Route Army, all kill me, kill me," the squadron leader ordered loudly to the more than a hundred elite Imperial soldiers behind him. He drew his command knife, jumped up from the ground, and took the lead in rushing towards the position of the third battalion a few hundred meters away.
"It's not good, battalion commander, the little devil is going to fight hard." Hearing the shouts of the army in front of his position, the commander of a guard company who followed the commander of the third battalion hurriedly reminded.
"Comrades, victory or defeat is here. Do we want the surname of the little devil, or do the little devils want our surname. The commander of the third battalion nodded, and did not answer the words of the commander of the guard company, but shouted loudly at the remaining hundreds of fighters in the trenches.
"I want the surname of the little devil and kill all the little devils" Hearing the roar of the battalion commander, the soldiers were almost excited and shouted together.
"Okay, they're all a man. Now the little devils are starting to fight hard, and our third battalion and guard company are not bad breeds. When the time comes, I will aim and fire. Also, uncover all the grenades, put them beside you, and give me all the bayonets. If the little devil is too far away, we will shoot with a gun, greet him with a grenade when he is close, and fight with a bayonet with him if he gets closer. In a word, as long as there is one of our three battalions and one of the guard companies alive, we must not let the little devils rush through our positions. Hearing the heartfelt roar of the soldiers, the third battalion commander nodded with satisfaction and commanded loudly to the soldiers in the trenches.
"Don't worry, battalion commander, this time we will definitely let the little devil come and go, we will kill as many as he comes, even if he dies, we will not let the little devil fly past our position." Listening to the battalion commander's order, a machine gunner lying next to the battalion commander replied loudly.
"Well, comrades are all good. The little devils began to charge, take their places, and get ready for battle. The artillery company, 150 meters in front of the position, carried out indiscriminate artillery bombardment, trying to use artillery fire to create a blockade line in front of us. As long as the little devil breaks through the blockade of the artillery company, all light and heavy machine guns don't save me bullets. The battalion commander commanded loudly.
A dull sound of mortar discharging reached the ears of the fighters, and immediately after, 150 miles in front of the position, a sea of fire was plunged. The 24 shells of each round, like a straight line, formed an artillery blockade in front of the position.
However, although dense shells constantly fell on a line. However, after all, the defensive position in front of the third battalion was two hundred meters wide. A squadron of little devils, with less than a fifth of their troops, broke through this artillery blockade.
At the same time, when the gendarmerie squadron launched a charge, the remnants of the garrison squadron lying on the ground also joined the charge. As a result, after the artillery company's artillery blockade, the number of troops in charge of the attack not only did not decrease, but increased a lot.
More than 200 little devils, on a frontal position nearly two hundred meters wide, used the same offensive formation. Two straggler lines ten meters apart were lined up, and under the command of one commander after another, they slowly pressed towards the position of the third battalion.
"Comrades, hit me hard and open fire" With the cover of artillery fire from a distance of 150 meters, the sharpshooters of the little devils basically did no harm to the fighters. Hearing the order of the battalion commander, the fighters showed their heads one after another and shot bullets from their rifles at the oncoming little devils.
(To be continued)