Chapter 203 Steel Can Be Melted Section 1 Thermite
In one fell swoop, a box of grenades was all thrown in less than five minutes! Zhang Dafu's arms were sore, he couldn't curl up, and the last grenade was thrown close because his arm was weak, and the dirt that was blown up was splashed into the trench.
Hooked another box of grenades to his side with his feet, listened attentively, there was no movement of the big toe shoes stabbing and stabbing anymore, quietly leaned his body and poked his head out to take a look, there were wisps of black smoke fluttering under the cliff, there were no more devils climbing on the slope, and the corpses of the devils in the ravine were stacked horizontally and vertically, some were not dead, and their hands and feet were still moving! A strong smell of blood mixed with the smell of gunpowder wafted up with the wind, choking Zhang Dafu and sneezing!
The power of this grenade made by the Eighth Route Army Arsenal is average, but it is also an explosive filled with gunpowder, and the space that can be maneuvered under the earth cliff is small, and the grenades thrown out by Zhang Dafu basically fell into the ditch, and the prefabricated fragments were blown up to the wall after the explosion, and the devils on the slope were just within the damage radius.
No matter how tough a devil is, he can't stand up to dozens of grenades that continue to explode in a short period of time! The support fire was also fired from the back, and it couldn't hurt Zhang Dafu, who was hiding in the bunker and didn't show his head, but more than a hundred devils actually left dozens of corpses and wounded soldiers and retreated!
As soon as the attack in the middle failed, the attacks on the east and west sides had no stamina, and the devils retreated one after another, only the battle of Tuliangzina on the west side of the road continued, and the devils were supported by heavy artillery fire, desperately at the risk of being injured by their own people, and once rushed up to a small team, after fighting together. was driven off the earth beam. This will still lie in the half-waist ridge and ditch and not walk.
Look at the devils retreating to the hill. Zhang Dafu slowly stood up and looked for his comrades who were still alive on the bombed and devastated position, but unfortunately, there were seven people in a class, and now he was left alone.
Tired and half dead, he moved the bodies of the sacrificial squad leader and his comrades to a stone ridge behind the earthen cliff. Zhang Dafu took two mouthfuls of water and began to look for weapons and ammunition again, three rifles and bayonets were still intact, as well as a box of multiple grenades, three magazines of Czech light machine guns were also found, and rifle bullets pulled more than 200 rounds from the bullet bags of his comrades.
Sticking out his head to see that the devils hadn't come up yet, Zhang Dafu took out a dusty dry biscuit from his satchel, blew the floating soil on the blowing cake, broke off a piece and stuffed it into his mouth, and chewed it vigorously.
When the instructor comes. Only then did he know that Zhang Dafu was alone in the small earth cliff of Lu Dao, but he didn't have a reserve team at hand to send people over. I didn't expect Xiao Tuya to fight so cruelly, and there was only one soldier left in a squad in less than twenty minutes.
The instructor told Zhang Dafu to use his brains more and be clever in fighting, and he went back to transfer a few people to Tuya, and it would take a quarter of an hour at most.
Originally, the county brigade and some militia were reserved reserves to support the whole line at any time, but after the shovel monkey was sacrificed, the big man saw that the defense of Tuliangzi in the west was much more difficult than that of the high platform, so he sent the county brigade there to strengthen the defensive force, and the reconnaissance company, which was divided into three groups of less than 100 people, was a little difficult to defend the defense line more than 500 meters long.
Just as the instructor went to the east to prepare to draw five people out of the group at the top of the slope, the devil's shelling began again! The strange thing is that this time the small-caliber artillery of Xiaoshan Baona did not fire, and the shells flew up from the heavy artillery positions in the valley, unlike ordinary grenades and shrapnels, and the explosion was not so violent after landing.
But the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army on the platform immediately discovered that after the shell exploded, a cloud of white powdery mist spread around the impact point, and in an instant, these mists emitted a dazzling white light! With the scorching waves of white light coming to the face, the air was burning!
This is the thermite arson bomb that the little devil configured for the artillery, which is equivalent to the kind of incendiary bomb airdropped by the aircraft fired from the artillery, and after the thermite is ignited, it will immediately be a high temperature of thousands of degrees! In the area covered by a cannonball, even metal can be melted!
If you are not wrapped in the rapidly expanding flame mist, even if you have a little bit of that mist on your body, it is not easy to extinguish, you have to roll on the spot, and others use loess and wet towels to extinguish it, if it gets on the skin, it will be a rotten pit!
A dozen of these arsonist shells covered almost the entire edge of the high platform! The fire was dazzling in the sun, and the clouds of smoke that rose and rolled and spewed flames were more than ten meters high, and the sand and plants that were swept up were scorched by the flames, and turned into black powder and fell down one after another, like a black snow.
Six or seven hundred meters away, the Japanese troops in the hill of Baona felt the heat wave, and the smell of choking people accompanied by the black ashes went down the wind, making the devils cover their noses and close their eyes.
As soon as the instructor went up to the eastern position, three arsonist shells fell on that side, and he hurriedly lay down on the spot, thinking it was an ordinary grenade, but it was sprinkled with the white powder, and by the time the soldiers found him, his entire back was burned, almost burned through into a shocking hole.
That is, fortunately, our soldiers all know that after the devils are withdrawn, they will come to retaliate with artillery fire, and there are very few surveillance devils left on the position, and most of them have withdrawn to the back of the anti-artillery holes or trenches, if they all stay in the forward position, there will be no one left!
Zhang Dafu's small earthen cliff also received a shell of this kind, at the side and back of his position, very close to the stone ridge where he placed the remains of his sacrificial comrades, as soon as he saw the white powder spit out after the shell landed, he was shocked, and thought it was a devil's poison gas bomb, a guy plunged himself into that more than a foot thick floating soil!
Not to mention that this cup of devil shells blew up the floating soil really saved Zhang Dafu's life! The aerosol that spread out on the ground really deflagrated in the air, and the temperature was very high in an instant, and it was wrapped in the mist and splashed with powder that couldn't run, but it was nothing to get into the water or soil, Zhang Dafu got a face and a nose and a mouthful of soil, and his back was burned by the hot loess, and the person was not bad and nothing.
The stones were instantly formed by this arson bomb at a high temperature, to be roasted, some were crushed, some of the rock layers mixed with quartz particles were baked by the high temperature, the surface formed a layer of crystalline small particles, by the sun, but also colorful, glass balls!
Even the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, who were not injured by the arson bombs, also suffered different degrees of burns on their skin one by one, their throats were also dry, their eyes were red and swollen, their lungs were violently painful as soon as they coughed, and the whole terrace was full of the smell of burning things.
Zhang Dafu came out of the soil and wanted to pour some water out of the kettle to wash his eyes and rinse his mouth, but as soon as he touched the kettle, the devil's small cannon and machine gun went off! The devils are up again! Due to the unexpected sacrifice of the instructor, the group on the east side did not transfer people, and in the middle section, they fought separately, and no one found that there was only one person left in the small earth cliff!
The cruelty of war is something that no one is willing to face, just like no matter how strong a person is, when death comes, there will be fear in his heart, no one is not afraid of death, no one is unwilling to live! Especially a young man like Zhang Dafu, who is only seventeen years old, his life has just begun, but it has started so tragically!
Dropped two grenades, followed by the cover of smoke, leaned out and held the machine gun to shoot two bursts, the machine gun was stuck after a while, it was too late to deal with the jam, dropped the machine gun and picked up the rifle is a burst of five bullets, after the bullets, immediately lie down, and then drop two grenades, one rolls on its side and rolls a few meters away, and the bullets are pressed and fired in five bursts!
For Zhang Dafu, this position of eleven meters wide and five or six meters deep is the position he must hold, as long as he still has a breath, he can't leave here and run for his life! The instructor sacrificed him and he didn't know what to do, and at most one thought would flash in his mind - I had to wait until the instructor sent someone before I could catch my breath! (To be continued......)