Chapter 580: Battle for the Water Tower (4)
Hao Jinsong arranged for the soldiers to receive several full tanks of water from the water tower water pipe, and cover them with lids, so that they don't have to worry about running out of water to drink in the past few days, it is impossible to take a bath, and it is not allowed in safety, but the drinking water is still enough.
Hao Jinsong thought to himself that if he turned off the valves of the water pipes of the water tower just now, the Japanese would definitely react soon. Sure enough, after just two minutes of rest, I heard Mao Dayou shouting from the water tower: "Squad leader, on the street 800 meters away to the southeast, a large number of Japanese troops have come to us from the left and right sides in two parts, a total of about 200 people."
When Hao Jinsong heard this, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart, the other party came with two hundred people, and there were only fifteen people on his side, which was more than ten times the strength of his side, although it was in a defensive state, but the disparity in strength was too great, once or twice it could be used to repel the Japanese with sufficient ammunition and terrifying firepower, but the ammunition was not wireless, and in the previous few battles, a lot of ammunition had been consumed, and if it continued like this, it was estimated that the ammunition in hand would not last long before it would be exhausted.
But this is not the time to hesitate, the Japanese came quickly, although they were so far away, Hao Jinsong had already felt the footsteps under the ground approaching, and he immediately raised his head and shouted: "Your machine gun will deal with the people on the left, I will deal with the right, and let Xiao Xiao report the effect of my shelling!" ”
"Good!" After Mao Dayou agreed, he asked Xiao Xiao, a soldier next to him, to Hao Jinsong as an observer of the effect of shelling, and then he operated the machine gun himself and aimed the muzzle of the gun at the Japanese soldiers marching from the street 800 meters in front of the left.
The maximum firing range of this heavy machine gun was more than 1,300 meters, but the effective range was only 8 or 900 meters, and the distance of the Japanese troops here at this time was almost within the range of the heavy machine gun.
"Dadada??????" The machine gun operated by Mao Dayou began to shoot tongues of fire continuously. Because of the distance, even more than 100 people were moving quickly on the street. In Mao Dayou's sight, it was almost just a big black spot, so he pulled the trigger and didn't let go. Bullets rained down like a rain of bullets.
The Japanese soldiers who were marching on the street did not think that the Chinese machine gunners who were so far away from the water tower opened fire, and this rain of bullets came, and in just a few seconds, the Japanese soldiers were suddenly knocked down more than a dozen people, and the others reacted and immediately dispersed, and all of them hid under the eaves on both sides of the street.
"Yaga, Yaga!" Onizuka hid behind the pillars under the eaves with his crooked military hat in his arms, looked at the corpses of a dozen soldiers who had been killed on the street, and then looked at the panicked soldiers hiding under the eaves on the side of the street, and suddenly shouted angrily.
The machine gun on the water tower stopped for a moment, and then it rang out again, and the side under the eaves opposite the onizuka was still leaking out of the water tower machine gunner's line of sight. A series of bullets hit the wall, like a fast-moving blade, and the Japanese soldiers hiding under the eaves over there were suddenly thrown to the ground one by one, and Onizuka's eyes were cracked, and he immediately jumped to his feet and shouted: "Yaga, run here, come here!" ”
The Japanese soldiers, who had not yet been swept by the bullets in the rear, reacted immediately when they heard his words, and ran quickly through the street with their rifles to this side under the eaves to hide and wait for the gunfire to stop. No more bullets were fired, and more than 20 Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded under the eaves on the opposite side, this time doubling the casualties caused just now, and 18 were directly killed. The rest are either missing arms or broken legs.
"Yaga, Yaga!" Onizuka was so angry that he pulled out his command knife and slashed at the pillars under the eaves like crazy, and it took dozens of knives in a row to relieve his anger. It's really a disadvantage.
However, at this moment, a scream came from the sky, and Onizuka's face changed when he heard it. When the Chinese army launched an attack on the third line of defense outside the city, he went to support. Later, seeing that nothing could be done, he ordered the last remaining 100 people to withdraw to the city, and he was one of the more than 100 people, he had seen the Chinese army fire the kind of cannonball that could make such a sound in the sky, and this kind of cannon could actually hit the back of the obstacle.
"Boom!" As Onizuka's face changed several times, the shell landed and exploded, but not here, but in the street where another group of soldiers was passing, and after the explosion, there were screams and shouts of horror from the street on that side.
This first shell was just a test firing, and Hao Jinsong didn't know what the effect of the test shot was, so after the explosion, he turned around and raised his head and shouted: "How is the effect?" ”
Xiao Xiao, who was in charge of observing him, shouted on the water tower: "Squad leader, deviate thirty meters to the right and move forward forty meters!" ”
Xiao Xiao is not a professional artillery observer and does not understand professional terms, so he can only use this way to inform Hao Jinsong of the shelling situation, but Hao Jinsong has studied it specially, and he knows how to adjust the shelling of Zhuyuan after listening to Xiao Xiao's words.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Hao Jinsong is still very confident in his firing technique, this time he fired three shells in a row, each shell fell in the middle of the Japanese soldiers, just these three shells, at least 15 lives were taken, and more than a dozen others were injured by shrapnel.
Although the Japanese soldiers suffered a lot of losses, they continued to move forward under the stern orders of Onizuka's deputy, but this time they did not walk on the street anymore, but hid under the eaves of the street. The soldiers brought by Onizuka this time were actually mobile troops, and if it were other Japanese soldiers scattered in various houses, they would not march together so neatly, and they would gather at the designated location from each house point.
I can't see the enemy anymore, Hao Jinsong doesn't want to waste shells and fire indiscriminately, and the machine gunner Mao Dayou on the water tower also stopped shooting, although the water tower is the commanding height of this urban area, but it is not possible to observe any corner of this urban area here, there are still many blind spots.
A few minutes later, the Japanese arrived at the street entrance on the left and right sides, and began to attack this side separately under the command of the officer, and the Japanese soldiers with rifles just appeared when they were spotted by the machine gunner Xiao Mo on the armored car and the machine gunner Hu Laosan in the fortification.
"The Japanese are coming, call me!"
"Dadada??????" This is the sound of Hu Laosan's machine gun.
"Bang", "bang", "bang" These are the shots of rifle fire from two other soldiers in the fortification, and the other is the sound of a soldier in an armored vehicle firing a rifle from a firing hole at a Japanese soldier at the street entrance on the left.
"Tom ??????" Xiao Mo, the machine gunner of the armored car, also fired, and this unique machine gun sound was really moving. The Japanese suffered a lot of losses and were deceived on the previous occasions, but this time they finally learned to be obedient, and no longer rushed in a swarm, but came out five or six soldiers at a time, and after they appeared on the streets on both sides, they quickly looked for cover and continued to shoot while continuing to find cover.
Faced with the situation of the Japanese soldiers, Xiao Mo and Hu Laosan also immediately changed the way of firing, and they began to fire in a burst mode, which can save bullets and improve the hit rate.
"Tom tom!" After another barrage of bullets, one of the eaves pillars was broken by this high-powered bullet, and the tiles on the eaves were so heavy that they crushed one piece of the eaves down, and three Japanese soldiers who were hiding there were buried in it.
After the battle began, it lasted for two hours, in which the Japanese suffered a lot of casualties, but Onizuka obviously did not want to go back and be killed by Terauchi Shouichi, he gritted his teeth and ordered the soldiers to attack with huge casualties, and the houses in these two streets have been riddled with bullets, and many houses have collapsed.
At noon, the Japanese rested for two hours, and continued to attack at two o'clock in the afternoon, and the battle lasted until three o'clock in the afternoon, Hu Laosan on Hao Jinsong's side and the other two soldiers in the ring fortifications were wounded, but the injuries were not very serious, and they could continue to fight after bandaging, Hao Jinsong replaced them and asked them to go to the houses on both sides to guard to prevent the Japanese from coming through the walls.
Onizuka really had no choice, at half past three in the afternoon, he had to send someone to Terauchi Shouichi to ask for tactical guidance, and Terauchi Shouichi thought about it and sent a seven-five mountain cannon and a few artillery to help him.
I don't know how the Japanese pulled this mountain cannon over, in short, Mao Dayou and others on the water tower did not find out, when the Japanese dragged this gun out and aimed the muzzle at the armored car, Xiao Mo let out a cold sweat and immediately aimed the muzzle at the mountain gun and fired.
"Dangdangdang??????" All the bullets hit the bulletproof baffle of the mountain artillery, but there was no damage to the artillery behind.
Xiao Mo was in a hurry and immediately shouted: "Hurry back, hurry back ??????."
The armored car started in time and had just retreated to the side of the house, and Hao Jinsong and five others in the nearby fortifications had just withdrawn from the fortifications, when a shell was fired from the Japanese mountain artillery fire in the corridor under the eaves of the opposite house.
With a loud "boom", the armored car just retreated and was not hit, but the fortifications that were blocked by it were hit, and for a time the masonry was torn apart, and the shell not only destroyed the fortifications, but also blasted a large hole in the walls of the houses in front of it.
"Hide, hide and defend!" Hao Jinsong shouted, then put the rifle behind his back, ran to the back of the mortar to adjust the shelling Zhuyuan, and soon the debugging was completed, he picked up a shell and put it into the muzzle, "tom", a burst of green smoke came out of the muzzle.
Immediately after hearing a "boom" explosion, a soldier stuck out his head under the eaves, and found that the Japanese mountain artillery at the end of the eaves had been blown over, and the Japanese artillery was blown to the ground, and he immediately shouted: "Hit, hit!" ”
Hao Jinsong continued to fire shells while shouting, "The armored car went out and continued to fire, and the others hid behind the armored car and fired at the Japanese at the opposite street entrance!" ”
The fortifications have just been destroyed by the Japanese mountain artillery, and now they can only use armored vehicles as covers, which is also something that cannot be helped. (To be continued......)