Volume 1: The Battle of Songhu Chapter 56 Persistence
Seeing that Xu Shijiu was only concerned about asking, Liao Erwa couldn't help but remind: "Sir, the gunfire here just now must have attracted Xiao Ri's attention, in a few moments, other search teams should come over, should we move?" ”
"Transfer? Yes should be transferred, but not now! Xu 19 waved his hand and said, "If you transfer now, the goal of collective action is too big, and if you move separately, the troops will disperse, I see that the terrain here is good, it is better to simply stay here, let go of your hands and feet and fight with Xiao Ri Ben, so that Xiao Ri Ben knows, Nanjing ...... There is also the national army insisting on the war of resistance! ”
Liao Erwa's military rank is three levels worse than Xu 19, but she has no intention of challenging Xu 19's command, not to mention where to fight is not to fight, where to die is not death? Left and right is a death, it is indeed impossible to hide in Tibet, and immediately took the initiative to say to Xu Shijiu: "Sir, give orders, we will all listen to you." ”
Xu Jiu didn't mean to be polite, and asked, "Company Commander Liao, how many personnel and equipment do you have left?" ”
Liao Erwa reported: "In terms of personnel, there are still forty-six people left who can breathe, six of them have been seriously injured, and in terms of weapons and equipment, there are mainly one Makqin heavy machine gun, two Czech light machine guns, and two crooked light machine guns and two grenadiers that have just been captured, by the way, there is also a tank, but the main gun is broken, and only the machine gun can still be used." ”
Xu 19's eyes turned to the T62 tank parked on the side of the street, and the tank soldier who was sitting on the tank body smoking against the turret stood up lazily and saluted Xu 19 casually, Xu 19 didn't care much, most of the tank soldiers were cadets of the Whampoa Military Academy, and they couldn't change the habit of coaxing the cow vice anywhere.
Liao Erwa then reported: "But sir, there are not many impeachment drugs. ”
Xu Shijiu thought for a while and said: "Company Commander Liao, you first collect all the impeachment pills, let's first see how many base numbers of impeachment pills are left, and then decide how to fight the next battle." ’
"Yes." Liao Erwa agreed, and took someone to collect impeachment medicine.
Xu 19 asked Guo Weiquan's guards to rest in place, and then took Gao Shenxing around to inspect the terrain, street fighting, the most important thing is the terrain, Xu 19 must know the surrounding terrain in his mind, in order to decide how this battle should be fought, otherwise it will be a blind fight, and he can only waste troops and impeachment medicine in vain.
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At this time, although the Japanese army had already controlled the various gates of Nanjing, there were not many troops entering the city to sweep the city, except for the Hasegawa Wing of the 6th Division, only Nakajima Imago's 16th Division sent two infantry wings to the city, namely Noda Kengo's 33rd Infantry Wing and Sukegawa Shizuzo's 38th Infantry Wing.
The search team ambushed by Liao Erwa was the Zhuchuan United, but the search team was not completely annihilated, at that time, there was a Japanese soldier who stayed in the small alley to tie his shoelaces because he ran away from his shoelaces, and when he tied his shoelaces and was ready to keep up with the team, he found that his companion had stepped into the trap set by the Chinese army.
The squad leader did not act rashly, and reported the news to the squadron leader.
When Sukegawa Shizuzo learned the news, he was searching for the national army at the Jinling Women's Liberal Arts College, which is one of the 25 refugee camps set up by the International Committee, and is specially used to house women and children.
Wei Tling, an American teacher at Jinling Women's Liberal Arts College, tried her best to stop her, but she was slapped by Sukegawa Jingsanyi.
If it weren't for Sukegawa Jingzo to stop it, the Japanese soldiers who swarmed in might have even been arrested and escorted away, and at this time, the little Japanese soldiers, because of the continuous success of the adventure, were all crazy to the limit, and the day after the capture of Nanjing, the American and British warships anchored on the Yangtze River were bombed and shelled by the Japanese army.
Knowing that there was still a Chinese army resisting stubbornly in the block he was in charge of, Sukegawa Shizuzo was immediately furious, and at that time he divided a team to escort the women who were arrested from the Jinling Women's College of Arts and Sciences to the barracks, and then took the remaining squadron and the other two squads straight to the block where the search team was attacked.
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Xu Shijiu has already inspected the terrain, the terrain chosen by Liao Erwa is not bad, at least within two hundred meters of the vicinity, there is no more favorable terrain for street battles than this one, especially the tall and pointed tower of the Western church in the center of the block, which is the absolute commanding height of the entire block, which can be described as an excellent lookout post and sniper position.
Gao Shenxing had managed to climb the tower, and was now hanging his modified rifle from it with a long rope.
Liao Erwa has also collected all the remaining impeachment drugs, and there are still two bases of impeachment drugs in total, in addition to a small amount of seized Japanese weapons and impeachment drugs.
Combined with the terrain, Xu 19 redistributed his troops, and the machine gun fire points were also adjusted.
Everything was ready to stop, and Gao Shenxing on the tower reported to Xu 19 in sign language: A large group of Japanese troops had been found on the street in the east, with a strength of about 300 people, including two light armored vehicles, three Type 92 heavy machine guns, nine crooked light machine guns, 12 grenadiers, and no tanks or artillery.
After reporting the Japanese intelligence to Xu 19, Gao Shenxing locked on the Vickers armored car slowly driving on the opposite street through the scope on the modified rifle, and stopped when it was still more than 800 meters away from the block controlled by the national army, and then a second lieutenant officer ran up and opened the door, and then a large officer jumped out of the car.
The cross engraved on the scope has been aimed at the head of the Japanese army, if there is no wind speed, Gao Shenxing only needs to lightly hook the index finger of his right hand to explode the head of the old devil, but it is very regrettable that the wind outside the tower is very strong, which is bound to seriously affect the flight trajectory of the bullet, Gao Shenxing is not completely sure that he can hit the target.
It took a lot of effort for Gao Shenxing to finally suppress the urge to pull the trigger
Sukegawa Shizo didn't know that there was a national army sniper eight hundred meters away who had locked him in, and the old devil was observing the opposite block through a telescope, and in addition to the wolf-ridden streets, there were only broken walls and ruins in his field of vision, and the whole block seemed to be as silent as death, although it was daytime, it felt eerie.
There was not a single national army in sight, and if it weren't for the hidden outpost hiding nearby reporting that the national army was still in the neighborhood, Sukegawa Shizuzo would almost suspect that the other party had fled.
Sukegawa Shizuzo held the binoculars and observed for a full ten minutes, then asked his squadron leader, "Watanabe-san, did you find anything?" ”
Squadron Leader Watanabe shook his head depressedly, he didn't notice anything.
Sukegawa Shizuzo smiled smugly and said to Watanabe, "Watanabe-san, I don't know if you noticed the dozen or so steel helmets and wide-brimmed military hats on the opposite street?" The steel helmet was a German armorer, and the wide-brimmed military hat was supposed to be a gendarmerie, so it can be seen that the opposite branch army was not a formed army, but just a group of stragglers who were temporarily assembled. ”
Squadron Leader Watanabe was extremely impressed when he heard this, and he really couldn't learn this ability to observe the details.
"Also, the Chinese army did not build barricades at various street intersections, but hid its troops among the broken walls, so it can be seen that the strength of the Chinese army will not be too much." Sukegawa Shizuzo deliberately paused when he said this, and then said firmly, "I dare to assert that the strength of the Shina Army will definitely not exceed a hundred. ”
"Less than a hundred?" Squadron Leader Watanabe sneered, "With such a small number of troops, one attack is enough to solve it." ”
"Yo Si." Sukegawa Shizuzo said happily, "Watanabe-san, the frontal attack will be handed over to your Watanabe squadron, I will let the chariot detachment cooperate with you, and the Shimai team and the Otake team will also feint from the flank." ”
"Hello." Squadron Leader Watanabe bowed heavily and turned to go.
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Xu Shijiu was hiding on the rooftop of a two-story bungalow, holding a telescope to monitor the movements of the Japanese army.
Seeing that the Japanese army on the opposite side was suddenly divided into three groups, more than 100 Japanese troops were deployed on the spot in teams, and under the guidance of two armored vehicles, they ran over along the front street to this side, while the other two Japanese troops went around to the left and right flanks, Xu Shijiu sighed lightly in his heart, and the Japanese commander on the opposite side seemed to be a ruthless character.
As soon as Xiao Ri came up, he dispatched almost all the troops, and it seems that he is planning to play horizontally.
"Sir, Xiao Ri Ben, Xiao Ri Ben has been killed." The timid voice sounded from his ears, Xu Shijiu turned around and saw the little soldier, the little guy was obviously a little nervous, not only did his breathing become a little heavy, but even his thin body was trembling slightly, and the bullet chain hanging on his body followed the "clanging" sound.
Xu Shijiu touched Xiao Bing's head and asked, "What's your name?" ”
Xiao Bing met Xu Shijiu's gaze and said in a low voice, "I, my name is Xiao Bing."
"Creeps? Good name. Xu Jiu smiled and said, "Are you afraid?" ”
"I'm afraid...... I'm not afraid! The little soldier suddenly puffed up his chest and said loudly, "I want to fight devils, I want to avenge Grandpa, Abba, Grandma and Sister, sir, when this battle is over, will you take me?" ”
"Okay, when this battle is over, I'll take you away." Xu Jiu didn't know if he would still be alive to see the sun tomorrow, and he was even more unsure that he could take Xiao Bing out of Nanjing City alive, but at this moment, he didn't want to tell Xiao Bing these cruel facts, he had to give him and give himself a little hope, and only with hope could he persevere.
As he spoke, two Japanese armored vehicles were already approaching the "obstacle zone".
This obstacle area was laid down by Xu Shijiu, a large number of rubble, broken bricks, broken telephone poles and collapsed walls cut off most of the streets, these obstacles could not stop the infantry, but they were enough to block the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles, and the Japanese armored vehicles could only pass through the gap next to the high wall on the left.
Xiao Ri didn't try to clear the obstacle, the armored car in front of him drove directly into the narrow gap, and at this moment, Gao Shenxing, who was hiding in the church tower, opened fire, and the scorching bullet spun at high speed and flew more than a hundred meters away, accurately hitting a bundle of grenades buried under the wall in advance.
The grenade directly hit by the quilt exploded immediately, and the shock wave generated by the explosion detonated more than 20 grenades bundled together, and more than 20 grenades exploded almost simultaneously, and the huge shock wave blew up the high wall at once, and the high wall collapsed outward, directly burying Xiao Rijiben's armored car alive.
This explosion was the order to fire, and in the next moment, the remnants of the national army hidden in the ruins came up one after another, firing fiercely at the Japanese army, Xu Shijiu personally acted as the heavy machine gun, held the grip of the Makqin heavy machine gun, and pressed the button fiercely, and the hot bullets splashed out like water in an instant.
The battle entered the white-hot from the beginning, Xiao Ri Ben obviously did not intend to spend too long here, they launched a fierce attack with all their forces from the beginning, so that the disadvantage of the lack of strength of the national army was exposed, although the national army occupied the terrain advantage, but was still hit by Xiao Ri Ben little by little.
Xu 19's heavy machine gun almost never stopped firing, after a bullet chain was played, the water in the water tank had already begun to be hot, Xu 19 hurriedly asked the soldier to put down the chain to replace the cooling water tank, the cooling water tank was replaced, but the machine gun was jammed, this short interruption of fire gave Xiao Ri this opportunity, and the two Japanese soldiers stood up from behind the ruins and quickly rushed up.
Xu Shijiu froze, pulled up the little soldier and ran into the staircase passage, saying that it was too late, and the two Japanese soldiers had already thrown two grenades towards the rooftop, and the grenades exploded in the air, and the air wave generated by the explosion knocked the heavy Makqin heavy machine gun to the ground at once, and the cooling sleeve was also pierced through several small holes by fragments.
"Stay here in Biedong!" Xu 19 told the little soldier, and then pulled out the bayonet with his backhand and went down the stairs, at the corner of the middle of the stairs, Xu 19 and the two Japanese soldiers met head-on, and the Japanese soldier in front of him raised his knife and stabbed Xu 19 to dodge, and Xu 19 cut his neck artery with a backhand.
The crimson blood splattered from the severed neck of the soldier, and a poignant and dazzling blood flower was painted on the snow-white wall around the corner, and the soldiers hiding at the staircase of the rooftop were stupid.
When he pulled the bolt and prepared to push the bullet to load, Xu 19 had already pounced with a bayonet, and the Japanese soldier didn't have time to push the bullet to load, so he simply threw the 38 cover and grabbed Xu 19's wrist with the knife, and began to use his strength.
Xu Nineteen quickly rode the Japanese soldier under him, and then held the knife in both hands, and then pressed it against his shoulder, stabbing it little by little according to the heart of the Japanese soldier, and the Japanese soldier was not strong, so he could only watch the sharp bayonet stab his left chest little by little.
The bayonet finally stabbed into Xiao Ri's heart, and Xiao Ri's hands that were clenching the bayonet suddenly let go, and his eyes quickly became distracted.