Chapter 174: Powerful Defeat!
It wasn't until many years later that Senior Lieutenant Lu Zezhengsheng, then the captain of the First Squadron of the Fifth Engineer Brigade, was reluctant to tell others about the scene of this battle.
It is a miracle that he was one of the very few Japanese soldiers in the 9th Mixed Brigade to survive and to survive for a long time. But his survival corresponds to the tragic experience of the almost total annihilation of the entire brigade. The torture he suffered from inside and outside his life made him miserable.
Countless times in his dreams, he was awakened by that flash of light, and he couldn't sleep at night. Throughout his military career, it was a nightmare that he could never get rid of!
In the early hours of that morning, the light that was about to appear in the east had not yet crossed the mountains to descend on this battlefield. In the faint light, the soldiers of the 1st Engineer Squadron pushed the "earthen tank" towards the dark hillside ahead.
Lu Ze Zhengsheng personally stood behind one of the heaviest chariots, commanding eight sturdy soldiers to squeak and jolt the heavy body through shallow pits.
Finally, they stopped behind the first line of attack, and they really couldn't get by. The wooden wheels of the wide Taiping car are not elastic at all, and if you fall into the pit, you will have to break and fall apart.
Four accurate infantry men jumped onto the car and aimed at the shadowy targets on the hill with their rifles stretched out through the firing holes in the low fortress.
Lu Ze was sweating profusely, but he felt an inexplicable sense of pleasure. Looking around, behind the car with the wrong front and rear feet, the soldiers who had made great efforts had the energy to cheer up. This time, they want to help the infantry soldiers wash away their previous shame!
The lieutenant, who was hiding behind a car on the side, was watching the signal, and the command in the rear had been planning for the attack for several days. Success is in the next moment. They have suffered successive failures. It's understandable to be a little nervous, right?
Finally. A shrill whistle sounded from behind to front. Without thinking, the captain drew his sword, straightened up, slashed forward, and shouted in his throat with all his might: "Assault-!" ”
The soldiers of the two squads rushed out with a scream!
Lu Zezhengsheng's blood was about to burn! He peeked out from above the hull, intending to witness the miracle unfold with his own eyes. Unexpectedly, a flash of fire came at a gallop!
That was exactly what Yang Hao ordered. The recoilless gun, which had been aimed at many times, finally fired!
The stout armor-piercing bullet blasted straight into the front face of the Taiping car, easily tore open the shield with three layers of thick wooden sticks on the arm, cut diagonally through the three layers of quilts and the bottom of the car, and the explosion lifted the whole car upwards from the root more than a meter high.
Countless steel shards tore apart the weak wood under the car's bottom under the impact of the violent force, and shredded the four Japanese soldiers in the fortress on the spot! The surging waves swept away the superimposed sandbags in all directions, and the sand and soil that flew after the rupture were blown up, as if a cannon battle had exploded.
Lu Ze Zhengsheng stood the farthest away, and was thrown backwards and fell two meters away by the air waves, and his bones almost broke.
But fortunately, his head didn't break. When he got up in a panic, he was shocked to find those "dirt tanks" in front of him and on the left and right. One after another was blown to pieces!
One flash after another, suddenly erupted and disappeared from the trenches in front, but there was no familiar dull eruption, suppressed by the shouts of the infantry, there was actually a strange silence!
It's even more terrifying than a direct cannon shot.
In particular, the accuracy of those shells is so good that it is almost uncommon. In a short period of time, all the "earth tanks" that could be directly reached were blown to pieces. The plan to use it as a cover to continuously increase troops and get closer could not be carried out at all.
The soldiers who have rushed out in front of them have no way back!
This sudden change not only caught the commanders and soldiers behind by surprise, but the soldiers in front turned their heads to look at their faces, and they couldn't hide their panic!
That's not what the plan says! Didn't the commanders emphasize again and again that they had completely figured out the enemy's equipment and tactics, and there would be absolutely no problem in attacking? How did it come to be like this!
Incomprehensible, incomprehensible!
In particular, the near-success of the left-flank attack just now convinced the Japanese commanders that their judgment was completely accurate. As long as it is carried out firmly, the next time the battle will be advanced into the enemy trenches.
All the soldiers who participated in the battle were filled with similar beliefs in their hearts, so they advanced extremely resolutely. But just a few steps away, it became like this. So what if the other party just fired first?
Lu Ze Zhengxiong didn't dare to think about it, there was only one thought circling in his head - what advanced weapon did the other party use?
The black light blinds the fire, and it is not clear to see. It's called a helplessness.
But the whole offensive operation could not be stopped. The soldiers who have already rushed out are not far from the target trench, and if they turn around and run away, they will die, and they can only rush up, and only by rushing up can they live!
"Rush! Assault--! Kill it! ”
The shouts and cheers of one after another stirred up the soldiers to move forward bravely. A heinous rain of bullets overwhelmed them in an instant!
The fan-shaped sweeping bullets fired by the two 67-2 heavy machine guns, the tracer bullets mixed in the middle were particularly dazzling, and the muffled sound of grazing over the head and sinking into the human body next to them made people shiver involuntarily. The unlucky guy opened several holes in his chest in a row, fell crookedly to the ground, and the person next to him pulled it, and the upper half of his body was actually torn open!
And not just heavy machine guns. Light machine guns, assault rifles, semi-automatic rifles, piles of automatic firearms, and 12.7mm heavy machine guns that occasionally extend from afar, form a metal storm that rules the entire battlefield!
The soldiers who rushed to the front were the first to be knocked down, and those who followed bravely did not hold out for a few seconds before falling down one after another! Then, not only did the rising flares expose the entire forward theater of people to the guns of the opposing side.
At this time, the Japanese army was horrified to find that the number of heads that emerged from the trench was not the expected number one hundred and ten, but at least three or four hundred!
The number suddenly doubled or tripled, and the density of bullets that came from it skyrocketed, and the two squads charged. It suddenly became a joke about delivering food to others.
Another squadron and reserve with nowhere to hide behind. Charge a little behind. But at this moment, the long-awaited mortar group, the conscienceless artillery, fired at the same time!
Six 60mm mortars fired hundreds of shells one after another with rapid fire. Together with the six recoilless guns in the front line, a wall of fire was launched from a distance of 200 meters, cutting off the connection between the two Japanese forces.
The conscienceless cannon that followed smashed into the crowd with the maximum range. This time. The 10-kilogram medicine bag was stuffed with thousands of steel balls and nails! When it was launched, all the soldiers in the trenches shrank their heads and hid without saying a word - that unreliable thing was too dangerous!
With a direct kill radius of up to 100 meters, steel balls and steel nails that can fly out of four or five hundred meters can cover almost the entire central battlefield! The loud rumbling sound shook the earth, and half of the mountain trembled and shook.
The Japanese troops who were attacking swept down and threw themselves to the ground in pieces, penetrated the bodies of diffused killers, shattered their internal organs to the raging air waves, and were thrown out of the mountains and fell half-crippled...... That's called a miserable.
However, this is not the end of the tragedy. But it was the beginning of the crushing defeat of the Japanese army!
Continuous artillery bombardment, from the front of the strong advance. Not only did the two attacking squadrons be crippled, but the morale that had been gathered with great difficulty also completely collapsed with the explosion of the conscienceless cannon.
Just as they turned to flee, another accident occurred!
Yang Hao jumped out of the trench first, and shouted at the top of his throat: "Beat the little devil completely, rush!" ”
With the automatic weapon power of his guard and reconnaissance platoon, a gust of wind rushed straight into the enemy line!
The surrounding soldiers did not dare to slack off, and jumped out one after another. Shi Jianfei took his hundreds of people and rushed out with him!
Fu Diankui took his people and rushed up with them! In addition to the No. 100 reserve guards, more than 300 mixed soldiers with blood surging up chased the ass of the Japanese army and ran over like a gust of wind!
The automatic fire team pulled a line horizontally, occupying a central front line of more than 100 meters, and continued to shoot out panicked figures one by one.
Light and heavy machine guns were immediately suppressed from the flanks forward, providing enough support fire to extend to a kilometer away. The artillery in the rear kept pouring shells a thousand meters in front, and in the panicked Japanese army, they fiercely blew out gaps one by one!
At this time, the Japanese troops attacking on both flanks noticed the sudden change here, and they were caught off guard for a while, and the offensive that had just arched to the front suddenly stopped.
But they didn't expect that those guys who had been in the trenches for days would suddenly change! Liu Yong with the first company, Huang Lebo with the second company, as the leading force poured out of the trenches, after a grenade bombardment, brazenly sent a fierce counter-charge!
The third-line battlefield broke out together, and thousands of young men with dragons and tigers picked up their guns, shining brightly, and the shouts were earth-shattering, like a storm sweeping the hills!
The Japanese army has finally collapsed completely!
The setbacks of repeated failures in successive battles, and the exhausting torment of long journeys, finally formed a fatal sequelae at this moment. The blow of covering their heads and faces made them breathless, and the counterattack like a landslide and tsunami suddenly pressed in front of them!
Automatic and semi-automatic weapons opened the way, pistols continued to kill and break the formation at close range, and the sharp impact of bayonets swarmed fiercely cut through the formation of Japanese troops on three sides.
The people in the first sequence were driven to the ground and crashed headlong into the second echelon, without even having a chance to stand on their feet, and were swept into a frenzied slaughter!
As soon as the two sides fought, the first large-scale head-to-head close confrontation finally appeared! But as a result, the Japanese army was dumbfounded!
With a strength of 1,500 people, they were all defeated in one face, chasing others like rabbits, and killing them all the way to the location of the former enemy headquarters!
Waiting for Oshima Yoshimasa and them to urgently send a reserve team, they finally stabilized their position, and were stunned to find that the headquarters of the 11th and 21st Wings were cut off, and the flag of the Wing was lost! (To be continued......)
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