Chapter Ninety-Five: The Siege
"Baga, the soldiers of China dare to attack the walnut orchard. The 2nd Squadron was ordered to defend resolutely, and the cavalry squadron was ready to make a counter-charge against the Shina soldiers. After listening to the second lieutenant's enemy report, Nakaharu Ichiro Shaozo scolded loudly, and at the same time, there were two more palm prints on the second lieutenant's face.
Under the cover of heavy machine guns and mountain artillery, the second battalion and the second battalion launched tentative attacks respectively, and under the suppression of heavy firepower, the devils on the city wall were killed from time to time. "Boom" a shell fell on the side of the squadron leader of the devil lieutenant, and the lieutenant was thrown into the sky along with a Type 92 heavy machine gun beside him.
However, as a squadron defending the city, the army also paid the death of more than 100 soldiers, including the squadron leader.
Seeing the battalion with the remains of more than a dozen soldiers, the political commissar did not criticize, and then ordered: "The artillery company does not save shells, today each cannon is allowed to fire 10 shells, a battalion commander, take your battalion and continue to charge, your task is not to take the walnut orchard, your task is to kill and injure the enemy's living force with fire as much as possible, so that the enemy can ask for help from Banqiao." “
Then, a battalion began to charge company by company, and as soon as it came into contact with the devil, it retreated, and then replaced the next company to continue the charge.
In this way, the commander of the walnut orchard, Nakaharu Ichiro Shaozo, could no longer bear the hour's casualty data in his hands. In just an hour, one lieutenant and two ensigns had already been killed, nearly two hundred Imperial soldiers had been killed, only two heavy machine guns were left under heavy artillery fire, and less than ten light machine guns remained.
"Yaga, give me Yamada Nakasa, who picks up Itabashi." Shao Zuo finally began to ask for help.
"Report to Your Excellency Yamada, about two regiments of troops in China are carrying mountain artillery mortars and are storming the walnut orchard, our unit has suffered heavy casualties, I hope Your Excellency will come to the rescue soon." Shao Zuo whispered.
"Baga, where is the courage of your empire, how can the warriors of the empire be afraid of the timid soldiers of the Zhina, I order you to hold on and wait for help, this time we must annihilate all the soldiers of the Zhina outside the walnut orchard, and avenge the 300 imperial soldiers who broke the jade a few days ago." After listening to Shaozuo's report for help, Yamada said angrily.
"Hey, for the sake of the Imperial Bushido spirit, I will lead my subordinates to resolutely defend the walnut orchard until they are fully loyal to His Majesty the Emperor." After listening to Yamada's words, Shaozo replied immediately.
"Yo Xi, the samurai of your empire, I will definitely report to Kawa Sanada Kuniwei Daisa, and the reinforcements of the two squadrons will arrive in four hours."
"Hey!" Shaozo put down the phone.
Soon the last squadron of Walnut Grove was also caught up with the city walls.
Liu Hua's temporary headquarters, Liu Hua and the chief of staff were sitting on the grenade box studying the map, and a telegram reached Liu Hua's hands. It turned out that the soldiers of the cavalry battalion hiding near Banqiao saw the devil leaving the city and hurriedly sent the devil's troops and equipment over the radio.
"Chief of Staff, the devil has dispatched two squadrons, a heavy machine gun squad and a mountain artillery squadron, a total of more than 500 people," Liu Hua said and handed over the telegram.
"Brigade Commander, this time it's the real elite of the devil, but it's a hard bone!" The chief of staff sighed when he saw the military equipment on the telegram.
"Yes, but even if it's a hard bone, I'm going to gnaw him off today......"
At this time, Yamada Nakasa was riding on a war horse, and after receiving a telegram from the players of Walnut Garden, Yamada thought about what kind of military merit would be to exterminate this group of soldiers, and then gathered the soldiers of two squadrons non-stop, with a machine gun squad and a cannon squad out of the temporary bridge, and rushed to Walnut Garden.
The reason why he only brought two squadrons was that Yamada believed that with the two reinforced squadrons in his hands, plus two squadrons in Walnut Orchard and one cavalry squadron, the strength of more than one brigade would definitely be able to defeat the two regiments of the Shina soldiers. (You know, in history, a brigade of the army [***] was a division that collapsed.) At this time, Yamada was full of confidence in the upcoming battle. The troops were constantly urged to speed up their march.
"Brigade commander, the cavalry battalion reported that the leader of the team was a devil Zhongzuo." The chief of staff said with a smile.
"Hehe, Chief of Staff, it seems that the devil takes good care of us, he just killed a Shaozuo two days ago, and today another Zhongzuo came, telling Luo Zhi of the sniper company, just say what I said, you must kill the devil's Zhongzuo in the first time." Liu Hua said solemnly.
"Tell the troops to be ready for battle."
Soon, two hours passed, and Yamada was already very tired from the two-hour war horse, but at the thought of the results of the defeat of the two regiments of China, he gritted his teeth and continued to order the troops to advance. Suddenly, an ensign ran up to Yamada's horse and saluted.
"Report to Your Excellency, the front is the place where the 300 imperial soldiers broke the jade a few days ago, do you order the troops to rest and recuperate, and then march after the reconnaissance team returns." The lieutenant said loudly.
"Baga, are the people of China so stupid, will they set up ambushes in the same place twice in a row? You stupid pig, said a slap in the face. ”
"Hey!" The second lieutenant endured the burning pain on his face and turned to run towards his own squad at the front of the group. The suspended ranks began their march again.
Liu Hua stood at the lookout of the headquarters, looked at the performance of the army with a smile with a binocular, and said with a smile: "See if you can be proud for a few minutes, wait for the bullet to eat for a while!" In a word, the tense atmosphere of the command broke down, and many people pursed their lips and laughed.
Troops were ordered to pay attention to concealment. Liu Hua turned the smiling face just now and said seriously.
Soon, more than 500 devils slowly walked into the ambush circle of the Reading Brigade, and through the telescope, the faces of the devil soldiers at the foot of the mountain could be seen clearly.
"Bang" A bullet hit Yamada's head, and the red blood and white brain stained the whole head miserably. Yamada Nakasa fell down the war horse with wide eyes and disbelief.
Just when Luo Zhi, the commander of the sniper company, fired the first shot, all the light and heavy machine guns, rifles, and submachine guns of the entire Reading Brigade opened fire almost at the same time, and dozens of mortars were also sent to the devil's marching column.
In addition to the confusion at the first moment of the attack, the marching devils immediately went into their places and lay down to find cover, knowing that they were surrounded. But is it so easy to deal with the Reading Force? After the lessons of the first ambush battle, the soldiers of the Reading Brigade cleared all the obstacles that blocked the view, anyway, after an ambush battle here, the enemy would not have any suspicion of transforming the terrain.
Now the devil is lying on the side of the road at the foot of the mountain, and the hillside has completely become the target of the soldiers, although the devil's accurate marksmanship has brought great casualties to the soldiers, but the soldiers still continue to aim and shoot fearlessly, and those machine gun shooters focus on taking care of the light machine gun shooters of the devil "Heavy machine gun shooters are almost all pressed and beaten by the soldiers of the sniper company"
The devil's light machine gun just fired a few bullets, and was soon stared at by several light and heavy machine guns, so all the light machine guns on the devil's position could only fire intermittently, and it didn't have much impact on the soldiers hiding in the trenches at all.
At this moment, the devils on the battlefield began to move, and those who were alive began to drag the corpses on the ground to concentrate under the cover of some people. "Could it be that the devil knows that he is going to fail and wants to cremate the dead soldiers under the bullets." Liu Hua thought incredibly.
Soon, the mystery was solved, and it turned out that the devil had slowly gathered the corpses, almost enclosing them into a simple bulletproof fortification.
"Not good, brigade commander, the devil is going to pile up fortifications with corpses." While the chief of staff was speaking, two simple bunkers had already formed two light machine gun mounts on the bunkers and began to shoot frantically covering them, and soon, several light machine guns on the positions of the first battalion of the second regiment were silent.