Chapter 259: Charge to the Death!
"A general?"
Yang Hao's heart moved, he took the war knife and took a closer look, and saw the chrysanthemum badge printed with the Japanese imperial symbol. Although he didn't know much about it, he knew that it must not be something that ordinary people could have.
Huang Lebo's back molars were about to be exposed: "Insurance is right!" You'll see his body out later. â
Where could Yang Hao wait for him to get someone out, he rushed in a few steps, and saw that the temple hall that had been destroyed by the shells was full of the corpses of Japanese officers. Huang Lebo's soldiers are hurrying to collect the loot and harvest the heads.
In the middle of a crowd of people, a mutilated corpse was twisted and slanted to the ground, and the bloody head looked as if a piece had been cut off by a cannonball, and the brain was bleeding out.
Judging from his beard and figure, he is not young, and the gold star shining on the most conspicuous military uniform is clearly a general.
Yang Hao couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, clenched his fist and waved it hard: "Well done!" This can be regarded as the highest-ranking commander of the Japanese army killed in the battle so far, I don't know how much shock it can bring to the little devil! Someone, drag his body back, and I want the whole world to know about your exploits!" â
"Okay!" Huang Lebo and a group of soldiers screamed excitedly, dismantled the bed board with all their hands and feet, threw the corpse on it and tied it up, and then immediately escorted it to the rear with a platoon of troops.
Yang Hao guessed that this person was most likely Nogi Noshinori, the commander of the First Brigade of the Japanese Army, and only such a madman would let the Japanese army in this era indiscriminately attack the machine gun artillery position regardless of casualties. Knowing that the place was already threatened with shelling, he still insisted on not retreating. It's no wonder that he will be killed by his own raid.
Looking around the inside of the shattered hall, all kinds of utensils were scattered all over the ground by the explosion. Among the officers of at least twenty or so, there is at least the rank of captain. Apparently the entire brigade headquarters was served in one pot.
This is that the Japanese army has no concept of artillery fire beyond the times, they think that it is far away, hidden under the wrapping of multiple buildings, and can easily avoid the blow. But I don't know that large-caliber mortars can attack the top from a high place and a large angle, and the explosive power is by no means comparable to the army's black fire-gun cannon.
"I believe that after this war, there will be a sharp upgrade of military equipment around the world."
Yang Hao knew that although his automatic weapons did not flow out, he couldn't hide it from others in the battle. The great powers must have been able to obtain all kinds of information from the Japanese army. At that time, according to the map, the research equipment of rapid-fire guns and machine guns will be greatly accelerated. The revival of grenades will become inevitable, and it is only a matter of time before mortars come out.
As expected, in the next big war, there will inevitably be scenes of barbed wire, trenches, machine guns, grenades, mines, mortars. This is almost the rhythm of the First World War in advance.
The soldiers stepped up to clean up the battlefield and took away all the materials, including the cipher code books that the Japanese had not had time to burn. Coming out of the ruins, you can see from a distance that from the east and south directions, there are countless Japanese troops rushing towards this side frantically!
Yang Hao sneered: "The brigade headquarters is ended, and the Japanese army will definitely fight back wildly." But it's too late to get reinforcements now! â
The shelling for several days scattered the Japanese troops. The Fifteenth Wing avoided camping nearly ten kilometres to the east; The remnants of the 1st Wing were scattered around, and they had just been scattered and routed by counterattacks, making it difficult to form an effective synthetic blockade. This led to a brief period of isolation and helplessness at the brigade headquarters.
A distance of five kilometers. It took twenty minutes for the exhausted Japanese soldiers to run over with all their strength, which was enough for Yang Hao to clean up the surroundings and bring people back calmly.
Take it when you see it. It's a wise thing to do. The whole battalion did not hesitate to withdraw and retreat, at dawn. Shun lĂŹ returned to the position.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the other two raiding troops returned one after another. Yang Hao rushed over to inspect the situation. It was found that the casualties of our side were extremely minor, but the results achieved were quite small!
The first time Shi Jianfei led the army to attack, and it was also the first time that he really used the skills he learned in actual combat. Although it was only a small test, a battalion led by him still sharply cut through the rear of the Japanese army, completely defeated the enemy of a mutilated wing, and killed two Shaozuo.
Seeing Yang Hao coming, he took off his hot helmet and said with excitement on his face: "It's really happy!" If there are three regiments in full formation today, we can completely annihilate more than 20,000 Japanese troops in one fell swoop! â
Yang Hao said with a smile: "The coming day is long, and there is no hurry." We first laid a solid foundation, and then we spread the flames of war to the Japanese mainland, and some of them fought big battles. Now let's plan how to deal with the Japanese counterattack. The damage we did this time was not small! â
Shi Jianfei nodded cautiously: "Kill a major general, and the Japanese army will definitely go crazy." But with their current ability, at most, they will break him up in one breath, and they will collapse immediately. â
"So for the next period of time, don't let up. In particular, the Qing army did not have strict training, and once the negligence was seized by the Japanese army, there would be big problems. â
Yang Hao knew very well that most of their actions were just temporary recruits, how much will you expect them to fight? It is fortunate to fight with the wind and not add to the chaos. Now I'm afraid that as soon as I see the results of the battle, I will be relieved, and I will start to plan the way back.
But the results of the battle cannot be hidden. When Xu Bangdao and Lian Shun suddenly heard that Yang Hao actually led people to counterattack, killing a major general who commanded 10,000 people, several captains who commanded 1,000 people, dozens of adjutants and lieutenants such as staff officers, and killed and wounded at least 2,000 Japanese soldiers. Such a huge result frightened the two of them!
Rather than being shocked by the combat effectiveness of the new army, their first reaction was the conventional rule in the army since ancient times -- lying and exaggerating.
Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the anti-Japanese war can kill ten real Japanese at a time, and they dare to report great achievements, which are mixed with hundreds of fake Japanese to fill the number. If you can kill thousands at once, such as when you fight Tartars, it can be called a great achievement, and a bunch of people up and down will benefit.
Naturally, the Qing army also followed this "fine tradition", and it made it even more unbearable.
They witnessed with their own eyes the strong combat effectiveness of the new army. But it was made with trenches and artillery. Fighting back and destroying this kind of thing, just scare and scare people. Are you embarrassed to say that you have such a big battle?
But when they saw Nogi Noshinori's corpse, piles of heads and sabers. Listening to the hysterical wails of the Japanese soldiers on the battlefield in the distance, I couldn't help but believe it.
"Great work! Great credit wow! Commander Yang, fight bravely and do a good job! â
The two adults scurried all over the ground excitedly, their eyes lit up and they wondered how much it would do them.
I can't help but be excited, I have suffered defeats from all walks of life before, and I can't hold my position if I lose my troops. Replaced by them, they relied on the strong force of the new army to win successive battles, which was so top-notch. It will inevitably shake the government and the opposition. Even if the two of them are not young and they are martial arts, there is limited room for upward mobility, but after all, it is a unique victory!
Yang Hao didn't mind them sharing the profits, but first reminded: "The two adults must not be happy too early." According to the custom of the Japanese army, when the generals are killed, their soldiers must desperately take revenge, otherwise they can only cut themselves. Therefore, there will be an extremely crazy counterattack next, and we have to guard against it! â
Xu Bangdao and the two suddenly woke up. Nodding again and again: "Yes, yes, yes!" There is a point in that! We must beware of undoing our efforts...... I'm going to go forward to supervise the battle, and I can't be negligent! â
The credit that has already been earned must not be let go again. The two did not hesitate to rush to the front line with their own soldiers, Xu Bangdao sat in the middle of the road, and Lian Shun kept an eye on the left side. Put on a desperate posture and keep all the soldiers on one by one without letting go.
The counterattack of the 1st Wing of the Japanese Army came very quickly!
Wing Commander Oki Shigetsu Nakasa packed up the remnants of the army and rushed to the brigade headquarters. It was too late to find out, and the brigade commander was nowhere to be found. Quite a few officers had their heads cut off. Looking at the looted appearance, something must have happened to you.
Oki Shigetsu wrapped his head in a white cloth. With bloodshot eyes, he shouted to several captains who arrived one after another: "The attack on the brigade headquarters and the accident that happened to Your Excellency the Major General are all caused by our unfavorable operations. Therefore, the captain of this wing is determined to redeem himself with his life and avenge His Excellency the Major General! â
"Revenge! Revenge is required! â
The first captain of the first brigade, Yasutaro Takenaka, the second captain of the second brigade, the captain of the second brigade, Sakuriya Gan Shaosa, and the third captain Imamura Nobuyi Shaosa, took off their military hats and white cloth to wrap their heads, and swore a blood oath with their sabers!
Since ancient times, Japanese samurai have a tradition of killing and avenging their Lord, and those who do so are taken for granted, no matter how many ridiculous and bizarre things they do as a result.
The indignant statements of the officers inspired the remnants of his subordinates to be full of blood, and their tired bodies seemed to regain infinite strength. A terrible cry, a complete howl, spread through the rear of the position. Soon after, they sang a ballad with a strange tune and a high and low voice, and more than 1,000 people lined up in formation, and actually formed a straggler line formation with multiple columns in front and back, and pressed forward with their bayonets raised and their heads held high.
The smoke was blown away by the wind, and what appeared in front of the defenders was a high-spirited army that disregarded life and death. The shining blade reflected the cold light, and the overwhelming wave formation surged with a heart-pounding invisible momentum, forcing people to come!
At first, the Qing army didn't take it seriously. However, as the Japanese advanced from 1,000 meters to 500 meters, the heavy machine guns in the rear opened fire and strafed, and people continued to be shot and fell, but they still pressed forward in the same formation.
There was a slight commotion among the Qing army.
The so-called hard ones are afraid of the horizontal, and the horizontal ones are afraid of the dead. The Japanese army in the past had a tactical move or something, but now it is clear that they don't take their lives seriously, and they are a few hundred meters away, and they are so scared that the Qing army's hair stands on end!
Fortunately, Yang Hao and the others had already prepared, and the officers shouted at the top of their voices: "What are you afraid of?!" If they dare to die, you will not dare to fulfill him? All of them are for Lao Tzu to pick up the gun and aim, this is all the credit sent to the door! I can't touch the second time in my life, calm down, and hold steady! â
Four hundred meters! Three hundred meters! Two hundred meters!
Light machine guns joined in strafing, and from time to time the unconscionable cannon smashed heavy medicine packets into the array, and the ferocious explosion swept a circle with a radius of more than ten meters, leaving nothing in an area the size of a basketball court.
But the Japanese army remained unmoved and continued to move forward!
The Qing army, which had finally trained some confidence, panicked again, crackling and gunshots erupted, and ninety percent of the chaotic bullets were not aimed at all, and one percent were aimed crookedly, and the hit rate was not even one in a thousand.
Yang Hao shook his head when he saw it: "It's still useless." Fortunately, all the troops did not withdraw, otherwise they would have been breached. â
The soldiers of the New Army, who only had a brief rest, were unmoved, and after the Japanese army entered the 100 meters, all kinds of firepower were opened! Accurate shooting and short point fire sweeps, grenades that burst out from time to time and 60 mortars that cut off the head and tail together, knocked down the Japanese troops in the chaotic position one by one!
Walking in the last array, he saw the troops in front of him fall down as if they were cutting wheat, the corners of his eyes cracked and bleeding, he raised his saber high, and hissed: "Revenge for Your Excellency Major General!" Sticking to the black card board! Assault--! â
"Bang!"
A bullet lifted off his celestial spirit cover, and the exuberant shouting came to an abrupt end. His two eyes protruded unwillingly, his body shook three times, and he fell forward.
The fierce gunfire continued for nearly ten minutes, and when the sparse pulling stopped, the corpses in forward postures were scattered all over the mountains, forming a terrifying and strange picture.
The victorious soldiers couldn't shout excitedly, their hearts were just cold, as if they were standing naked in the field for thirty-nine days, shivering with cold.
Xu Bangdao and Lian Shun's faces were sallow, and they looked at each other and found that they were all frightened. How could they win without the new army, such a crazy enemy? (To be continued......)
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