Chapter 21 The bayonet is red
"Get on the bayonet!"
"Kala"
The front row of the expeditionary force erected a cold sword wall, and rushed headlong into the panicked Japanese defense line with the momentum of the charge, and the Japanese troops in other parts of the defense line hurriedly rushed over with bayonets, trying to plug the gap opened by the expeditionary force, but this led to the weakening of the firepower of the entire defense line. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info several Japanese soldiers shouted loudly, wanting to intercept the Japanese troops rushing to the gap, but it was too late.
More and more places were broken through until the entire line of defense collapsed. The soldiers of the expeditionary force and the Japanese army became entangled together, and the Japanese artillery fire gradually stopped, and the two sides fell into a melee.
According to the Japanese infantry drill code, rifle bullets must be withdrawn during bayonet warfare to prevent the Type 38 rifle bullets that are too penetrating from accidentally injuring friendly soldiers. The Chinese soldiers were different in that they initially did not have formal training in bayonet warfare, and in the long-term struggle with the Japanese army, they summed up a set of effective bayonet tactics against the Japanese army at the cost of blood and life.
"Grenades!"
"Boom" "Boom"
A volley of grenades was thrown at the rear of the Japanese army, and the scattered shrapnel exerted the maximum lethal effect in the dense crowd of the Japanese army, and successfully interrupted the subsequent Japanese offensive.
"Poof"
The Japanese soldiers in the front row were invincible with four fists with both hands, and fell under the bayonets of the soldiers of the expeditionary force.
"Smack" "Smack"
The Japanese soldiers did not dare to shoot if they had scruples, but the soldiers of the expeditionary force did not have any regulations, they put the body of the gun diagonally and hit the legs of the Japanese soldiers, so that they did not have to worry about accidentally injuring friendly soldiers who were mixed together.
"Ahh
One by one, the Japanese soldiers fell to the ground with their legs in their arms, and then they were poked with bayonets and covered in holes. Despite the fierce offensive of the soldiers of the expeditionary force, the Japanese army crowd in front did not decrease in the slightest. The attack momentum of the expeditionary force gradually stopped, and it was divided and surrounded by the Japanese army. The soldiers of the Japanese army and the expeditionary force were not lacking in blood and bravery, and this was destined to be a tragic battle.
"Battalion commander, we can't stop, the Japanese troops behind will immediately surround us, and if we can't rush out, it's all over!" I stabbed a Japanese soldier with a bayonet and said to Battalion Commander Zhang, who was covered in blood.
"There are too many Japanese troops, and it seems that we have to give an account here today. Kill one is enough, kill two to earn one, fight to the death! Battalion Commander Zhang carried a broadsword to meet the Japanese troops who rushed up again.
It can't go on like this! I looked around looking for a solution, and the soldiers of the expeditionary force, who had not had enough to eat for a long time, could not hold out for long. My eyes lit up and I saw a Japanese Type 96 light machine gun pressed under a pile of corpses. I pushed the body away and pulled the machine gun out.
The Type 96 gun machine gun, also known as the "crutch", is actually a "hybrid" produced by the combination of the "crooked handle" and the Czech ZB-26 light machine gun. I laboriously pulled out the muzzle bayonet so as not to interfere with the shooting, and it was only the strange thinking of the little devil that I thought of putting a bayonet on the machine gun.
"Get down for me!!" "Get down!"
I pulled the bolt of the gun and shouted for the soldiers in the front row to lie down, there were definitely expeditionary soldiers in the crowd who couldn't hear it, and I couldn't care so much, there was only this way to get out!
"Da Da Da" "Da Da Da" "Lie down !!"
I opened fire on the crowd in front of me with my machine gun, and at my reminder, most of the soldiers of the expeditionary force fell down, and a few unresponsive people unfortunately died, but fortunately my position was relatively high, and there were not many friendly troops in front. The bullets made a flesh and blood passage in the crowd of Japanese soldiers, and the magazine of 30 rounds quickly bottomed out, and the people who had been pierced began to close, seeing that the gap that had been opened with great difficulty was about to fall short.
"Bang", "Bang", "Dada", "Dadada"
The soldiers of the expeditionary force, who still had bullets, saw that the doorway opened fire one after another, and the Japanese troops who were closed were once again knocked down.
"Concentrate your fire! Let's rush out! ”
I dropped my gun, picked up a notched broadknife, and took the lead in pounce. The broadsword was more suitable for slashing than the slender bayonet, and my attack was undisciplined, and the heavy blade of the broadsword slashed at the neck and chest of the Japanese soldier, spraying my face with warm blood and staining my uniform red.
With the powerful attack of automatic firearms, the crowd of Japanese soldiers was cut through, and countless soldiers of the expeditionary force rushed to the Japanese army with bayonets, widening the gap for their follow-up comrades. Courage is also contagious, and those newcomers were infected by the desperate efforts of the soldiers of the expeditionary force, and they rushed to the Japanese army with a howl of fearless death. A newcomer was stabbed by a bayonet, blood dripping down the blood groove, he looked down at the bayonet in his abdomen, and grabbed the rifle that stabbed him with his hand, the Japanese soldier tried to pull the bayonet out, but he didn't pull it out several times.
"Die!"
I was so stunned that I picked up my knife and slashed off the Japanese soldier's head. The newcomer lost his support and fell, and I carefully caught him and laid him flat on the ground. He was spitting blood, his mouth opening and trying to say something, and I quickly leaned down and leaned my ear over.
"Rush ..... Rush out ..... Rush"
There is no time for sadness on the battlefield, I closed his eyes, picked up the knife and rushed to the Japanese army, brother all the way!
More and more soldiers of the expeditionary force rushed out of the encirclement through the gap, and the Japanese troops in the rear also pressed over, and a small semi-expeditionary force soldiers were completely surrounded inside. Listening to the gunshots and screams behind me, I endured it without looking back, leaving here, and going back alive so that they would not be sacrificed in vain.
The Japanese army divided part of its forces to pursue the soldiers of the expeditionary force who broke through the siege, and we were scattered under the onslaught of the Japanese army, and scattered into small groups into the jungle to escape. I lost contact with my platoon, and I didn't see Wang Li and Xiaoshi.
In late May, it was the rainy season in Myanmar, and the heavy rain fell from morning to night, and my body had not been dry for many days, and my hands and feet were soaked white. These days, I and the more than 20 soldiers of the expeditionary force who escaped together have not had a serious meal, and the dry food was eaten long before the siege. Yesterday I caught a big python, and one person divided a large piece of snake meat and ate it in the rain, which is similar to what Bei Ye said, chicken flavor, if you can grill it, it would be good.
In order to avoid the pursuing Japanese troops, we fled all the way north. For a month, we slept in the open, not daring to approach any villages and towns.
One day at the end of June, we came to a small river and met five soldiers who had fallen behind. An old soldier in tattered clothes with a face like a knife was leading them to fish in the river.
Everyone called this old soldier Lao Chang, who was a hunter before he became a soldier, and relied on the wild fruits he collected to keep the remaining four soldiers alive. Lao Chang was very familiar with this terrain, so we asked him to take us back to China, and the original road into Myanmar had been cut off, so Lao Chang took us to the north to detour.
"What's wrong, Chang?" Lao Chang, who led the way, suddenly stopped, his eyes a little frightened.
"Look ahead," he said, pointing to the mountains and forests in the distance.
"It's nothing", I looked at it and didn't find anything unusual, and there was still a mountain in sight.
"Do you know what that place is?"
"I don't know, what's the problem?" I was afraid to wipe the rain off my face.
"It's nothing, it's called Savage Mountain!" Lao Chang's face was very bitter.
What I didn't know was that Savage Mountain is one of the most complex terrain and the most treacherous environments in the world. With an area of five or six hundred kilometers, there are lofty mountains and mountains everywhere, mountains overlap, river networks are dense, and primeval forests cover the sky and the sun. The mosquitoes, poisonous snakes, and miasma of the Savage Mountain are overwhelming, and every blow is a fatal wound. The rainy season not only makes the gnats and leeches in the forest extremely active, but also causes the rapid spread of various forest diseases: relapsing fever, malaria, tetanus, sepsis, etc. Ignorant and fearless, I plunged headlong into the Savage Mountains, and the treacherous natural environment soon taught me what hell is.
"Smack"
I took my hand off my leg and killed a mosquito the size of a chopstick's head. Today the rain stopped, and mosquitoes of all sizes came out, which made it difficult to prevent it. The big mosquitoes are fine, but the most troublesome thing is the bloodsucking insects the size of pinheads, which are swollen and itchy when you bite them, and you want to cut off the flesh.
"Iron Head!"
There was confusion ahead, and I hurriedly separated the crowd and walked over, and the soldier named Iron Head fell to the ground with a black face and trembling. He used to carry a snake that was still curling up with a bayonet, this is a viper, the pattern on its body is very similar to that of fallen leaves, and it accidentally stepped on it.
I took a look at the iron head's eyes, and the pupils began to dilate, and there was no help. This is the third soldier to die in the mouth of a poisonous snake since entering Savage Mountain. We put the iron head on the side of the road, covered it with fallen leaves, and when we had time to be sad, we might as well go find the food for tonight.
It was getting dark, and he found a place to camp, and the soldiers began to clear the weeds and fallen leaves, and to pick up some dry wood to make a fire, which had been done many times, and everyone knew what they had to do. Our dinner consisted of the snake that bit the iron head and the wild fruits picked up on the road, and each person was given a piece of snake meat and a few wild fruits that were so sour that they lost their teeth.
"Bang"
"Bang" "Bang"
In the middle of the night I was awakened by the sound of gunfire, the soldiers fired indiscriminately in all directions, I looked closely, and found no enemy.
"Bang Bang" "Ceasefire!" "Ceasefire!"
The soldiers gradually calmed down, and the gunfire stopped, leaving only the faint screams of soldiers. I took out a burning stick, looked at it by the light of the fire, and found that two were dead and one was wounded, and the wound was relatively serious in the thigh, and there was only one way to wait for death in the absence of medical treatment.
"It's all gone!"
I don't want the soldiers to see too much, despair is contagious. I don't feel sorry for the soldier who committed suicide, he didn't die this time after a nervous breakdown, and he might cause a bigger basket next time. I bandaged the wounded soldier and stopped the bleeding, and he didn't say anything and didn't scream anymore.
The next morning, we set up the two dead soldiers, gave the wounded man a grenade, and we had no strength left to take him away. The group walked in silence and slowly, as if they were waiting for something and fearing something......
"Boom"
The muffled sound behind the sound made our heads lower, and the speed of the line slowly increased, we still had a long way to go.