Chapter 288: The Offensive Begins
At 8 o'clock in the morning of October 1, the 26th year of the Republic of China, the battle officially began on the position of the Fourth Artillery Division, Wang Qinglong looked at the 24 new 130-millimeter rocket launchers that had just been named "Heavy Rain" in front of him, and he also felt a little nervous in his heart.
"Report to the chief, the rocket artillery regiment is all ready, you can send shè, please instruct!" The newly appointed head of the rocket artillery regiment strode over and reported.
"Order the troops, start sending shè!"
"Yes!"
"Whoosh"
With an order, the 24 rocket launchers lined up in a row began to roar, and the tail of the hair tubes of more than 20 multi-barrel rocket engines with Dodge trucks as the chassis suddenly burst into flames, and in less than 30 seconds, all the rocket launches were completed, and the entire position was filled with pieces of gunsmoke.
On the position of the 25th Division of the Japanese Army, Private Dakong Wing was leaning on a one-meter-and-a-half-meter-high trench chōu with inferior cigarettes, and the meager salary that a senior soldier like him could receive in a month could not support his good cigarettes. What's more, he has to send most of his military salary home every month for his two younger sisters to study, and Dakong Yi has had an ideal from Xiǎo, "that is, to let both sisters live a good life, and avoid being sold by their parents to be sold into brothels to work as nv like other NV children in the village."
Many NV children in the village were sold, and after that, they said goodbye to their families for the rest of their lives, "never seeing their relatives again." Dakong Yi didn't want his two sisters to suffer such a fate, so he joined the army and came to Manchuria, where he heard that many soldiers had made a fortune in China after retiring from the army.
In the past two years or so in Manchuria, Dakong Yi, like other Japanese soldiers, regarded the camp holiday as a good opportunity to make a fortune, and they went out to rob the property of the people near the station.
"Ah, there are two months left, and I will retire" I believe that the golden Buddha that I snatched from the rich man's house a few days ago can make the family and my two younger sisters live a good life. Dakong Tsubasa thought as he thought to himself as he held a xiǎo golden Buddha in his arms.
Seeing that the sky was about to brighten, Da Kongyi, who yawned for a long time, covered his mouth with a Type 38 rifle on his back and was about to walk to the rear. When he looked up at the sky, his yawning mouth was wide open, but he could no longer close it, and from far away there flew a stream of bright light, and from the direction they flew was his own position.
"Yinmu Cannon Abundant ............"
A terrible shout rang out from the position, but it was then drowned out by the sound of whistling rockets. The 14th Wing was on the first line of defense of the 25th Division, and their position was covered by 720 rounds of 130 mm rockets in just 30 seconds, although it was only 130 mm in name, but the power of the rockets was not comparable to that of ordinary artillery shells, and in terms of power, "he was greater than the average 155 caliber howitzer."
In the bursts of fire, the positions of the 14th Wing, whether they were bright forts, dark forts, or machine gun positions, were all wiped out in the fierce explosions.
"Moxi Moxi, I'm the division and regimental headquarters" Fourteenth Wing, Fourteenth Wing! Forty Wing, Forty Wing, heard? The anxious voice of the operational staff officer of the 40th Wing kept sounding in the command headquarters.
"Report to Your Excellency General, our contact with the 14th Wing and the 40th Wing has been cut off, and it is estimated that the telephone line has been blown up" requested that a communications corpsman be sent out to inspect the line. The voice of the combat staff officer woke up Michitake Yamaoka, who was still pondering.
Michimu Yamaoka held his command sword, and sat aside with a calm face, "He didn't immediately answer the words of the combat staff officer. "The shelling of the Chinese people has been almost a month, but there is no sign of stopping, do they want to blow up the 25th Division with artillery fire? Now he is sitting in the command headquarters "looking at the gunsmoke and loud noises rising from the position outside" and the vibration that kept coming, Lieutenant General Michitake Yamaoka couldn't help but feel a wave of regret in his heart, "Why can't he dig trenches like Kajiro Muraaka, and pour cement in the headquarters by the way, this can make himself and his subordinates have a better chance of survival."
, can't go on like this" must take the initiative in his own hands, but Yamaoka Michitake, who advocates the hope of attacking in his bones, is unwilling in his heart, so Yamaoka Michitake stood up with a sigh and shouted to the combat staff officer: "Order the 70th Wing" and wait for the enemy shelling to stop and immediately reinforce the 14th Wing. ”
"Hey!"
Looking at the cannonballs that kept flying over his head and shining with light, "Lieutenant General Michitake Yamaoka couldn't help but think sadly in his heart, Amaterasu Okami, "Who made this devil?"
Wang Qinglong's time was pinched very accurately, and after a full xiǎo hour, the sound of the cannon stopped abruptly. For a while, the deafening howitzer sound and the shells that made a sharp whistling sound on the Japanese position quickly disappeared, and the commander of the 14th Wing of the Japanese Army, Ken Nakai, crawled out of the ruins of the remaining wing headquarters, looking at the position that seemed to have been cultivated by 10,000 bison at the same time, Ken Nakai opened his throat that was almost on fire and shouted hoarsely: "Is there anyone else?" There are still alive and not! Come out quickly, the people of China are going to attack! With the shouting of Ken Nakai, several ragged figures came out of the surroundings, and they came to Ken Nakai's side to gather in a leisurely manner. Ken Nakai wept while leading the remaining soldiers to search for survivors on the battlefield: "They used hand planing and shoveling, but unfortunately, most of what they found on the battlefield were stumps and broken arms, and it took more than ten minutes to find more than 300 surviving soldiers.
Kendai Nakai stared blankly ahead, his jīng god was on the verge of collapse.
At this time, a voice that seemed to float from the sky came into his ears, "Your Excellency Dazuo, Your Excellency Dazuo, please cheer up, the 14th Wing can't do without you." Please cheer up! Ken Nakai turned his head with difficulty, and it turned out to be the only surviving captain of his subordinates, Ichiro Ueda.
Ken Nakai reluctantly smiled "Ueda-kun" Now that our wing has lost ninety percent of its combat effectiveness, it seems that it is difficult to keep the position. You immediately took the wing flag jiāo to the division commander, "Please ask him to rebuild our 14th wing, please!" ”
After speaking, Ken Nakai took out the wing flag that he had just found with great difficulty from the ruins of the flag protection squadron, and Jiāo gave it to Ueda Ichiro Shaosa and bowed deeply to him.
"Your Excellency, no, I'll stay here, and you go with the military flag." , Ichiro Ueda took the military flag and fell to the ground crying.
"Bagayalu, this is an order, you must do it immediately! Besides, when have you ever seen a wing captain fleeing without a fight! Ken Nakai slapped Ichiro Ueda in the face.
"Hurry up, otherwise it will be too late for you to leave when the chariot of the people of China comes!" Ken Nakai kicked Ichiro Ueda, "Yaga, let's go!" At this time, the roar of tanks was already faintly heard in the front," Ichiro Ueda ran in the direction of the division headquarters crying like a howl.
Looking at Ichiro Ueda, who had already run away, "Ken Nakai took a deep look at the soldiers in front of him," he shouted in a hoarse voice: "Gentlemen, the chariot of the people of China is about to drive over, our anti-chariot weapons have been destroyed, now please remember the concept of General Nogi Noshinori Seven Lives to serve the country, if the steel bullet is not enough, use the ròu bomb to hit!" Now please put all the fried yào buns in front of me. ”
After a while, more than a dozen fried yào bags had been piled up in front of Kendasa.
Ken Nakai personally selected a dozen soldiers and tied them with white ribbons on their heads to form a ròu bomb team, which was personally led by a military cao to carry out a ròu bomb attack on the chariots of the Shina army.
"Crawl forward and stuff the fried yào bag under their tracks! Destroy the chariot of the Chinese people! Pull the fuse at every opportunity! Do you understand! Please! For the emperor! Nakai Kendasa, holding the fried yào bag in both hands, bowed to the young soldier in front of him.
The young soldier mechanically reached out to pick it up. It's like touching a red-hot soldering iron. Almost, the fried yào bag was thrown on the ground. Kendai Nakai saw that this warrior was a little daring. Suddenly stepped forward and "snapped" is two slaps. Then he tied the fried yào bag strap to the soldier's back.
"Like a samurai! Do you understand? "Great, Your Excellency. I" The young soldier covered his face as if arguing something. But I saw Kendai Nakai's fierce eyes. I swallowed the words back. A dozen soldiers who were selected understood. There is no way back for me.
"Remember?! You can only crawl forward. Crawling forward, hiding in the grass, borrowing the crater bī near! ”
"Go ahead! Like today's Imperial Samurai! Nakai Kendaisa waved his hand in front of the blasted wall.
"Don't delay! Fast! ””
"I'm ready! I'll say right away......"
The young underground soldier swallowed, glanced in the direction of the day, sighed, and then blew up the yào bag behind him, and then climbed up the xiōng wall, his leather boots dragging over the scorched earth that had been blown up not long ago. He crawled and crawled, suddenly rising, as if he had forgotten what had happened, and when he looked back, he seemed to want to stay for some more, but he only saw the expectant eyes of Ken Nakai and the others.
Creeping in the scorched earth and grass, the inferior crawled towards the craters in front of them. From time to time, he hid himself in the crater from which the shell exploded to avoid the shrapnel flying on his scalp, and by this time he had crawled more than ten meters away. From time to time, he writhed his somewhat thin body and crawled forward between the bare xiǎo trees that had been cut in half by shrapnel.
"Great God Estimate!"
Kendai Nakai looked at the members of the Ròu Shell Team who were close to him, and the smoke from the explosion of the shells of the Shina chariot obscured the attacking tanks. The machine gunners on the Chinese chariots and the infantry in the rear who were being suppressed by the machine guns were still showing their own ròu ammunition team. They crawled between the craters and the grass, disappearing from time to time among the craters, and they appeared and disappeared with strips of white cloth on their heads.
By this time, the distance between them and the smoke-spewing tanks had been significantly shortened.
"Climb into the smoke! It's good to get in......"
Looking at the distance getting closer and closer, the hope in Nakai Kendasa's heart is getting more and more walled. He crouched on the bombed-out Xiōng wall, jumping in a hurry, calculating how far the Ròu bomb team was from the tank.
"Yaga! What are they bothering about? Run! Rush over! Ring the fuse"
When he noticed that several members of the Ròu bomb team were lying in the crater and never jumped out again, one of the soldiers next to him scolded loudly that if he could, he would cut off the heads of those guts with a single sword. , Seeing this scene, Ken Nakai's eyes also showed a murderous indignation, "This group of gallant ghosts!" When he saw the tank getting closer and closer, Nakai Kendai's frown jumped, and next to Nakai Kendasa, a private's short and fat body was lying on the xiōng wall, his thick neck like a pig's neck was all shrunk into the collar, and if you didn't pay attention, it was difficult to see that he still had a neck.
The private slammed out of the xiōng wall. Spit a pair of piercing eyes xiǎo eyes became yīn gloomy and strange, and glanced at Osa beside him.
"Your Excellency, you still order me to go! It's the same for me anyway. I'm not afraid of death! No worries...... I promise to blow up a tank! ”
But his voice was completely caught in the rumbling explosion, seeing that the commander ignored his private, he did not hesitate to pick up a bomb bag and then jumped out of the trench violently.
At this time, Nakai Kendasa didn't hear anything, and he was intently observing the chariots that were getting closer and closer to the open area. The roar of the diesel engine of the Shina tank was no longer a rumbling sound at this time, but some kind of regular mechanical operation, and Yamaguchi even noticed that the barrel of the Shina tank had begun to move slowly. Planing, when Kendasa Nakai picked up his rifle and was about to use his rifle to meet the "battle" with the tank, "on the battlefield full of craters, several plaster bodies like writhing xiǎo worms crawled more and more slowly, and then lay on a crater about ten meters away from the tank and did not move.
"They didn't stop!"
Although it was not clear what the soldiers of the Ròu bomb team were doing there, Kendai Nakai had already understood that they were not guts and ghosts.
"Nani! It was Ken Nakai who saw a cat-hedged figure on the battlefield rushing towards the bī tank, and it was just a matter of breathing, he had already run to a crater just a few meters away from the tank, and then jumped up violently, rushing towards the tank in front of him, everyone saw that the fuse was emitting white smoke from the ground behind him.
"Yes......", just as the figure was about to approach the tank, several short strings of fire flew out from behind the tank ground, and the firelight flashed obliquely, blocking the figure running forward. This time, the shadow staggered, and his head tilted back sharply, "The mouth of the xiōng seemed to be pressed against the shining firelight, and then it disappeared and merged with the ground." Immediately, a violent explosion blew the body to pieces, and Nakai Ken Daisa even saw a large tuǐ of the brave soldier being blown up only a few meters away from him.
"Yaga!" , Nakai Ken Dasa broke his mouth and scolded: "Suddenly, a human body like a xiǎo worm jumped out of the crater of the black dòngdòng, then rushed a few meters, and then lay on the scorched earth, arching himself and shrinking into a ball." It was too late, and then it was too late, only to see a behemoth swaying in the smoke and rushing towards it.
"Boom!"
Then there was a sinking explosion, and the chariot shook violently, leaping backwards, and a fountain of black smoke rose from the tank. After seeing the tank destroyed by the ròu shells, the trenches frantically shouted "Banya! ”
In the midst of their shouts, several more ròu, who had been hiding in the crater, bounced out of the crater and rushed towards the nearest tank......
At this time, Du Jingtao, who was directing the tanks to advance, heard several violent explosions in front, and at the same time, several urgent reports came from the headset, "Report the barracks" Three tanks of our army were injured by the Japanese death squad, and one was blown up. ”
"Damn it!" Du Jingtao did not expect that four tanks were destroyed or injured just before they drove to the Japanese position.
"Everyone immediately carried out fire jiāo fork cover, and we must snatch out the ground brothers inside the tank," and build a wall between the tanks to protect the brothers inside. Ambulance armored car, drive up immediately! Du Jingtao cursed loudly while ordering the troops to rescue the wounded.
In the creed of the Chahar army, people always come first, which is an iron law that Su Tong has instilled in officers and even soldiers since the beginning of the Duolun militia.
If the tank is gone, it can be rebuilt, "the plane can be bought again if it is gone, but if the person is gone, it cannot be revived." Therefore, in the tank unit and even the infantry division, as long as there are conditions, Su Tong equips them with ambulance armored vehicles. The doctors and NV nurses in the armoured vehicles were just as pierced as the soldiers, and at first, the few newly enlisted Jewish soldiers marveled at their noble feelings, "affectionately call them angels of the battlefield", and then the title slowly spread.
After Kenosa Nakai saw the people in front of him line up the chariots to form a wall, the chariots on the chariots protruded dozens of tongues of fire from the round holes in the turret, blocking the Japanese ròu bombardment team members from the barrage, and occasionally an unbelieving person rushed over, "It was also the end of a person who was blown to pieces with a bomb."
"Yaga, the evil ear of the Chinese people!" Ken Nakai's eyes were red at this time, he looked at the soldiers around him who were gradually becoming sparse, and his heart was horizontal, and he lowered his body to carry the only remaining bag of fried yào on his body.
"Your Excellency Osa" Let's do it! At this time, the only remaining commander of the team stretched out his hand, snatched the fried yào bag, and carried it on his back in two strokes. With a miserable smile, he said to Ken Nakai Daisa: "Gentlemen, see you ****!" After speaking, he rushed forward.
"Baga, how can you rob my fried yào!" Ken Nakai muttered as he took out his command knife and swung it forward, "For His Majesty the Emperor, onboard!" This Dazuo rushed forward with the last two hundred or so soldiers of the Fourteenth Wing.