Episode 98 Night Battle

The surviving dozen scouts sat in two armored vehicles, with their headlights on and machine guns, and "boom boom." Twenty fresh troops behind them followed the armored vehicles and marched forward in small steps. In the distance, the sound of explosions and gunshots in the north of the village was deafening, and the dazzling fire continued to shine over, like Chinese New Year's Eve. Clearly caught in a big war.

The two armored vehicles and more than 30 Ming troops on the east side of the village were eager to immediately increase the accelerator and rush over to reinforce them. But they knew that they had two armored vehicles and more than 30 people, and they were weak, and the Qing army did not know how many people there were in the village, and it was very likely that it was the Eight Banners Division, and what was even more terrifying was that there might be tanks. So they can only widen their eyes and move forward cautiously step by step.

In the two armored vehicles, the platoon leader of the new man sat in the front, and the surviving squad leader sat in the back. This squad leader's name is Tian Jingsheng, and he is a sergeant. Tian Jingsheng sat in the armored car, leaning on the glove rack behind him, listening to the vibration of the engine, and scanning the roofs on both sides while loading the submachine gun magazine.

Several of the brothers around him were visibly exhausted. Although they had only been fighting for more than ten minutes, each of them seemed to be several years old, leaning on the armor plate in a daze, indifferently listening to the vibrations in their ears and the sound of gunfire in the distance. These brothers were still new recruits, and they had been fighting a good battle since the beginning of the war, that is, they had only encountered a tough battle in the past two days, and that was just crouching in the armored car and rushing forward. In a night battle like just now, it was the first time that the ghost gate was so close at hand, and it was the first time that these recruits had been encountered.

But Tian Jingsheng is different. He was a veteran who participated in the street battle in Nanjing, and he also participated in the night battle in the southern suburbs, and in the foggy night, he completely annihilated the Eight Banners and Six Divisions. Night battles are no stranger to Tian Jingsheng. He didn't completely relax because he was in an armored car and was protected by a thin layer of steel around him. He knew that staying in an armored car would certainly be able to dodge some bullets and shrapnel, but this kind of big guy with headlights on and rumbling would definitely be the enemy's primary target.

"Hey, you guys! Cheer up! He elbowed the soldiers on either side and kicked the soldiers on the other side, "Don't be stupid here, stare at the roofs on both sides!" We don't have any armor on top of our heads! ”

He roared twice, and the brothers in the car barely bothered to brace themselves, grabbing their guns and staring at the roofs on either side.

At this time, as if to confirm that his worries were not superfluous, there were several exclamations a few meters ahead, followed by a deafening loud bang, and the heat wave rushed over the armor plate overhead, and the soldiers in the whole car fell to the ground. Tian Jingsheng scolded, stood up with the armor plate, and saw the fire in every direction, the first armored car had become a big fireball, and several soldiers were half-hung on the armor plates on both sides, burning all over the body, and they were already motionless.

"! Get out of the car! ”

Tian Jingsheng only had time to roar, he turned over and jumped out of the car, and then rolled eighteenth and lay on the side of the road. At the same time, another grenade fell into his armored car, followed by a flash of light, and the hot air wave almost lifted Tian Jingsheng off the ground.

After the loud noise, Tian Jingsheng didn't care to look up, he jumped up, saw a chai door beside him, hit it hard with his shoulder, and flashed into the house.

In the dark house, two villagers, a man and a woman, sat on the bed and shivered. Tian Jingsheng didn't care about it, so he picked up the submachine gun and swept it at the roof. In the flash, straw, dust, sawdust, rubble, and blood fell like a blizzard, and finally the roof "hula" collapsed into a big hole, and a man fell like a face pocket, and lay on the ground and rolled twice, not moving.

This is a Qing soldier, beaten like a sieve, and bleeding non-stop.

The two men in the room were stunned. The man desperately hugged his wife, who stared at the corpse, biting the quilt desperately, making a muffled "whine" sound in her throat, and was about to scream.

Tian Jingsheng waved his hand vigorously and shouted in a low voice:

"Don't sit on the bed, lie on the ground! It's easy to get hit while sitting and lie on the ground! Yes, don't get up on your stomach! ”

Seeing that the little couple were lying on the ground, Tian Jingsheng rushed over, squatted down and asked:

"How many Qing troops are there in your village?"

Both of them were stunned, and after asking twice, Tian Jingsheng couldn't wait anymore and was about to leave, except for the surviving brothers. Then the man suddenly said:

"Sir! There are hundreds of officers and soldiers in our village! ”

Tian Jingsheng was about to jump out of the window, but when he heard this, he was startled, turned around and asked:

"Hundreds?! …… Manchurian Han Chinese? ”

The man said in a trembling voice:

"Originally, more than 100 Han soldiers came first and stayed...... Later, another 1,208 banner soldiers came, and they also stayed...... Almost every family has soldiers living there......"

Tian Jingsheng quickly estimated that it was at least a Han Army Company, plus a Eight Banners Company. He asked:

"Are there tanks?"

"What do you call a tank?"

"Frank ......" Tian Jingsheng was on fire for a while, took a deep breath, and said patiently, "It's the kind of big iron guy, booming, can drive like a car, there is a cannon tube above his head, and he can ......turn around in four circles."

The man nodded hurriedly:

"Yes! Yes! ”

"How many are there?"

"I don't know! It's all parked at the north end of the village, I just passed there in the afternoon, and I just saw two cars, and the soldiers kicked me out, and I didn't let me see it! ”

Tian Jingsheng nodded, patted him on the shoulder, and said:

"Lie on your stomach and come out after the battle!"

Carrying a submachine gun, he jumped from the back window to the backyard with a strong walk, and then climbed up the courtyard wall with a pile of firewood, holding on to the wall and looking around. didn't find the Qing army, so he flew out of the courtyard wall.

Grabbing a submachine gun, he pressed against the base of the wall, carefully went around to the front door, and saw a tragic sight:

Both armored vehicles were burning, and on the side panels of each car, the bodies of two or three soldiers were half-hung, motionless, and the back half of their bodies were in the car, almost burned to charcoal. The machine-gun bullets on both cars were still "crackling" and exploding, "Ding! While! "The ground hit the armor plate inside the car.

There was no one around, and behind the second car, there were only a few corpses of Ming soldiers, all of whom were obviously shot and killed.

Tian Jingsheng's heart was a little relieved, after all, most of the twenty brothers who followed on foot behind the car had survived. Just, where are they now?

The kid he just killed was really kind, climbed on the roof of the house to ambush the armored car, threw two grenades in a row, and threw them all into the car...... It seems that this open armored car is quite good in field battles, but in this kind of street fighting, it is a tin coffin.

The village is large, and there are gunshots everywhere near and far, and the north side is the most lively. Tian Jingsheng rummaged through the bodies of the fallen brothers on the ground for a while, collected a few submachine gun magazines, inserted them in his bullet pouches, and threw away the two magazines that he had emptied.

Then, with his submachine gun in hand, he cautiously felt to the north.

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Since he was alone, it was easy to hide, and he encountered two Qing army teams along the way, but they all escaped. The mood of these Qing soldiers was also very frightened, and they were noisy, and some said that they should quickly throw away the tanks and retreat from the north. Some said that they could not give up tanks, because there were already Ming tanks in the north and Ming troops in the east...... Therefore, it is necessary to keep and destroy those Ming tanks in order to fight a way......

Tian Jingsheng listened to a few words, but he didn't provoke them, and quietly continued to advance north through the darkness, wanting to meet the "Ming Army Tank" in the mouth of the Qing soldiers.

Sneaking towards the north of the fire, the closer you go, the more you hear a lot of "detail sounds": the roar of the engine...... Noisy vocals...... And the shouting of loudspeakers......

He wanted to climb onto the roof of a house to see what was going on, so he repeated his trick, stepping on a pile of firewood to climb the fence, and then slowly climbed to the roof of a house half a meter away.

Suddenly, with a stroke of his foot, the whole person fell into the yard, and suddenly there was a sharp pig cry, and then the smell of stinking and coaxing came to his face.

"Damn, pigsty ......"

Tian Jingsheng just scolded, and immediately stretched out a pair of hands next to him to choke his neck. Immediately after that, several more pairs of hands came over, knocked him to the ground in three or two blows, and unloaded his weapon. Then, Tian Jingsheng struggled and was dragged into a small firewood shed.

It was dark and invisible, with several barrels on his head and a dagger resting on his neck. A voice asked:

"The Ming army and the Qing army?"

With just one voice, I couldn't tell if it was southern or northern. However, the Qing army has the advantage in the village, and if it is the Qing army, it should not be so nervous. Tian Jingsheng turned his heart sideways and said:

"Ming Army!"

"Ming Army? Which part? ”

Now Tian Jingsheng heard the accent, it was the Ming army. He breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"The Fifth Armored Division of the People's Guard, the heavy motorized infantry company of the reconnaissance battalion, the squad leader of the second platoon and the third squad, Tian Jingsheng."

"Ah, sir!"

Suddenly, a circle of voices became affectionate, and like a child who wanted to find a home, he quickly let him go, helped him up and sat down. Then, a large circle of young men began to report to him with their voices in their voices.

It turned out that they were following the two squads behind the armored car. They were all from the armored reconnaissance company of the reconnaissance battalion, and just now the armored vehicle was destroyed, and they killed five people on the spot. Then retreat to the north, exchanging fire with a Qing squad along the way. There were many of them, and they had good weapons, so they ate the Qing army squad at once, but they also killed five people themselves. Now there are ten people left.

Now, these ten people are all first-class and second-class privates, and the dragons have no leader, just waiting for a non-commissioned officer to command.

"Okay," Tian Jingsheng waved his hand, "The ten of you are exactly in the same class, and now they are all my brothers, and I am your class leader." From now on, I'll take you with me. ”

This group of recruits suddenly had a backbone, and they were all very happy. On this kind of battlefield, a group of recruits can have a veteran with them, and the chances of survival are greatly increased.

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At the north entrance of the village, three Ming tanks have been scrapped at the intersection. All three were Lightning-3s, and now they were all burning tin cans, thick smoke rising into the sky, and the shells inside exploded from time to time, and balls of fire rushed into the sky, like two kicks.

In the fields outside the village, a dozen large black shadows could be faintly seen in the moonlight, all of which were roaring and moving, but none of them had any lights. This is obviously because the Ming army has transferred the main armored force and is deploying firing positions. But apart from the three tanks just now, not a single tank has rushed into the village.

The current situation is that the superior armored forces of the Ming army have surrounded the village and are shouting inside, demanding that the Qing army disarm and surrender. But inside the village, it is the world of the Qing army. The Ming scouts who advanced to the village first had almost been wiped out, and the scattered gunfire everywhere had already been sparsely dropped. Now the only ones left are Tian Jingsheng's dozen or so people. Since they have been well hidden, the Qing army in the village has not yet found out. They believe that the village is completely under control.

The Qing army in the village arranged various tanks, artillery and machine guns on the passage into the village, and the Ming army tank rushed into it and destroyed one. And this is a residential area, there are still many people in the village, and the Ming army throws rat traps and cannot bombard them with superior firepower.

The Qing army of these two companies has been driven to a dead end. When he found out that the Ming armored division was approaching, he wanted to withdraw, but he was dragged and fought by the Ming reconnaissance battalion and lost the opportunity. Now they were surrounded by regiments, and they did not dare to surrender, so they had to resist desperately, trying to negotiate terms with the Ming army, so that the Ming army would allow them to leave their heavy weapons and let them go. But this is obviously impossible for the Ming army. It is simply impossible to let the enemy forces that have already been surrounded let go.

The Qing army and the Ming army in the village could not reach a simple negotiation, so they planned to hold on and wait for a favorable change in the battle situation. They knew that this was still less than ten kilometers away from the second line of defense of the Central Plains Corps, and that this Ming army was alone in the depths, and it was still possible for the large army from the north to go south to attack its flank. At that time, it is likely that the siege will be solved by itself.

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Now, the large force of the armored division of the Ming army is driving through the outside of the village like a tide, leaving behind a medium tank company and two mechanized infantry companies, a total of 16 Lightning-3 tanks, 24 armored personnel carriers, 12 47mm self-propelled anti-tank guns, and more than 300 soldiers, to carry out the task of encircling the village and annihilating the Qing army.

However, the Ming army was not sure how much strength the Qing army had in the village. In particular, it is not clear how many tanks and how many artillery pieces they have. The Ming army only felt that the Qing army's defense was very good, and no matter which direction it attempted to penetrate the village, it would be met with a strong counterattack. In the darkness, only the crisp sound of metallic guns could be heard, and it must have been a 47mm or 57mm anti-tank gun. However, it is not clear whether the anti-tank gun was mounted on a gun carriage or on a tank turret.

The Ming army constantly organized infantry to try to attack the village, but each time they were fired back by machine guns. The buildings in the village are so complex that it's hard to see where they came from. Every time the Ming army failed to charge, it would shout a round, suggesting a ceasefire between the two sides and letting the civilians in the village withdraw from the battlefield first. But the Qing army in the village knew very well that these civilians were their own talismans, and once the civilians were allowed to withdraw, the Ming army would demolish the village with a round of heavy artillery.