Chapter 19: Ploughing the Court and Sweeping the Holes
The Chinese attack came unusually suddenly and fiercely, almost instantaneously, countless criss-crossing ballistic tracers had filled the entire sky, and I was so stunned by this breathtakingly magnificent night scene that I forgot that it was on the battlefield, not in the Imperial Palace Square in Tokyo from Totaro's diary
Totaro, the old man who knelt in front of the monument to the anti-Japanese martyrs and shed tears of repentance seventy years later, is still a young man in his prime at the moment, and he is also a Japanese soldier who has been completely brainwashed by militarist ideology. 【Reading.com】
The news of the loss of the headquarters has been confirmed, and all the personnel of the artillery brigade directly under the Tachibana Wing have been woken up and mobilized, and the captain of the brigade, Jiro Kameda, has organized the remaining more than 200 personnel of the artillery brigade into three echelons, one echelon is responsible for guarding the outer defense line, one echelon is guarding the core position, and the remaining echelon is used as a reserve.
Totaro and his entire squad were unlucky enough to be placed in the first echelon.
Due to the lack of guns, the quartermaster only gave Totaro five bullets, and as for the rifle, he could only get the gun from the dead comrades when his comrades died, and in this way, Totaro only held five bullets in his hands and followed the thirty or so comrades of the entire squad out of the outer trenches.
Totaro poked his head out of the trench and looked out, and it was pitch black all around.
Only when the searchlight above the watchtower sweeps by, can you see clearly for a short time.
There are faint lights shining in the direction of Wuxi City in the distance, and there is no need to think about it, it must be that the main force of the wing stationed in the city must have learned that the headquarters was attacked, and urgently went out of the city to reinforce it.
It's a pity that the timing is a little late.
Inexplicably, Totaro's hairs suddenly stood up.
The next moment, the sentry on the watchtower also seemed to sense something, and hurriedly turned the searchlight, however, the searchlight had just turned, and suddenly a gunshot sounded under the night sky, and the searchlight was extinguished, but before it was extinguished, the light of the searchlight still briefly illuminated the direction of eleven o'clock in front.
At eleven o'clock, Totaro saw a crowd of black pressure rushing towards him.
"Chinese, Chinese, Chinese, Chinese are coming, Chinese are coming"
The sentry screamed violently in an instant, followed by a gunshot from the horn, and the sentry's screams stopped abruptly, and then the whole person fell upside down from the watchtower, and fell to the ground like a piece of wood, making a muffled sound, Toshiro looked at this scene in a daze, feeling the cruelty of the battlefield for the first time, and feeling that death was so close to him for the first time.
"Kill and change, kill and change, kill and change" The team leader drew his saber and howled hoarsely.
Toshiro turned his head blankly, and saw that his comrades with guns in their hands straightened up from the trenches, continuously pulled the bolt and shot ahead, the sound of ping-pong gunfire was endless, and the scorching bullets rotated and flew at high speed, pulling out dazzling streamers in the dark night, and disappeared quickly.
In the next moment, the Chinese in front also opened fire.
At least ten or more machine guns fired at the same time and fiercely, crisscrossing the ballistics, the colorful ballistic tracer, in an instant, filled the entire night sky, Totaro and the entire squad of comrades were all stunned, they had never seen such ferocious firepower, as if the machine guns of the whole world were concentrated in the here and now.
The Japanese army's offensive routine was extremely strict, even rigid.
First the artillery bombardment, then the infantry attack, and each time the troops were never more than a squad.
When an infantry squad attacks, its supporting firepower is usually only three light machine guns plus two grenadiers, and at most a Type 92 heavy machine gun for long-range fire suppression.
Therefore, Totaro looked stupid, because the Chinese firepower was too fierce
The scorching bullets rained down like a raging storm, sending smoke and dust to the outlying positions of the Japanese army.
Totaro curled up, huddled in the trench, didn't even dare to raise his head, one of his comrades-in-arms just showed his head slightly, and was immediately beaten into a blood sieve by the dense rain of bullets, and his comrade-in-arms fell straight down, and fell in front of Totaro, with the tracer of the trajectory, Totaro could even see the hideous expression on the face of his comrade.
The furious fire lasted for about half a minute, followed by hail grenades.
With the tracer of the ballistics, Totaro could clearly see rows of grenades being thrown at them, and then falling like hail on their positions.
This was followed by a continuous stream of violent explosions.
At this moment, the earth is moving, the mountains are shaking, and the sky is trembling.
Totaro was also stunned by the air wave generated by the explosion of a grenade, but he didn't expect to escape by accident.
Dividing line
The offensive of the provisional 79th Division can only be described by one idiom, that is, ploughing the court and sweeping the holes
It was really a plough and a hole, and in the face of the violent and perverted firepower of the provisional 79th Division, there were only dozens of devil artillery with three or eight big covers at all.
As a traverser, no one knows the advantages and disadvantages of the Japanese army better than Xu Rui, the advantages of the Japanese army are strict discipline, with a tenacious will to fight, grassroots officers are well trained in military affairs, and the ability to execute tactics is extremely strong, but at the same time, the Japanese army also has a very obvious shortcoming, that is, a serious lack of automatic firepower.
The Japanese army is an island nation and has always pursued the doctrine of a great navy.
Therefore, for the army, the Japanese government is able to save the province.
While the armies of the German, American, British, and other European and American powers were generally equipped with automatic rifles, the Japanese Army still insisted on being equipped with Type 38 rifles that required pulling the bolt to shoot a shot, which greatly limited the firepower output of the Japanese army's grassroots units, and the Japanese army suffered a great loss in the face of the enemy army equipped with a large amount of automatic firepower.
Yang Dashu took twenty machine gunners, carried the machine gun to his chest, and charged fiercely while firing.
I have to say that the remnants of the provisional 79th Division are really wide now, and the bullets are open to supply, which can be made vigorously
In the face of the ferocious and perverted machine-gun fire of the machine gun team, the devils on the periphery of the artillery position could not even raise their heads, let alone shoot back.
Half a minute, in less than half a minute, the machine-gun team approached within thirty meters.
At the cost, one remnant soldier was seriously wounded, and two others were slightly wounded, almost negligible.
Immediately afterwards, the grenade team followed, and threw out three hundred grenades in less than ten seconds, and the entire three hundred melon grenades exploded in an area of less than three hundred square meters, and the lethality can be imagined, and in the blink of an eye, the devil's seemingly complete ring fortification was blown open with a ten-meter-wide gap.
Without waiting for the smoke to disperse, Xu Rui was the first to rush into the gap with the Wang Ba box in his left hand and the 38-style bayonet in his right hand.
Xu Rui jumped over the three-meter-wide trench with one jump, and fired two shots in the air, killing the two little devils in the trench who tried to resist, and then wiped the neck of a devil lieutenant who pounced on him with a backhand, and the devil lieutenant didn't even have time to snort, and fell into the trench.
Then, Xu Rui turned around and smiled at the more than 100 remnants of soldiers who were surging behind him, and shouted: "Brothers, listen to Lao Tzu, kill them all, and leave no one behind."
"Kill them all, leave not one behind"
"Kill them all, leave not one behind"
"Kill them all, leave not one behind"
More than 100 remnants of the soldiers roared like a tsunami in an instant, and then one by one, with a fierce light in their eyes, holding bayonets, followed Xu Rui into the devil's artillery position.
Xu Rui's courage and skill in fighting greatly boosted the morale and fighting spirit of the remnants of the provisional 79th Division.
As the saying goes, the general is not afraid of death, the soldier does not hesitate to die, an army, if the lord can not be afraid of death, then this army will definitely become an elite division, and if the main general of this army is not afraid of death and brave and good at fighting, then this army must be a roaring tiger and wolf division
Due to the appearance of Xu Rui, the remnants of the provisional 79th Division have undergone radical changes.
At this time, the provisional 79th Division may not be considered a tiger and wolf division, but it is definitely an elite division
"Kill them all, leave not one behind"
"Kill them all, leave not one behind"
"Kill them all, leave not one behind"
More than a hundred remnants of the soldiers screamed, and the fierce tiger rushed into the artillery position of the devil like a mountain.
"Kill" a remnant soldier roared, and a bayonet pierced a devil's abdomen.
"Give me death" A remnant soldier roared in the sky, and the turn of the 38 big cover was a slam smash, and the steel helmet of the devil in front of him was smashed flat in an instant, and under the wrapping of the steel helmet, the skull of the ghost soldier was also shattered in an instant, and the red blood and white brain pulp were dripping down in an instant.
"Uhh
But before he died, the remnant soldier roared, tried his whole strength, opened his mouth and bit the devil's neck viciously, this mouth directly bit off the devil's common carotid artery, the devil screamed, and the blood of the red soup shot out of the wound like a sharp arrow, and then the whole person fell to the ground.
Xu Rui, who rushed to the front, was like a tiger entering a flock, and there was no one under him
"Whoosh." Xu Rui slid past a devil Shaozuo with a sliding step, the devil's saber stabbed in the air, and was about to turn around and stab back, the bone-eroding cold spread from the throat, and it spread all over the body in an instant, and the next moment, the devil Shaozuo felt that his whole body was out of control, and looked down with some difficulty, and the devil lieutenant only saw that streams of blood arrows were shooting out from his throat.
Xu Rui slashed the neck of the devil Shaozuo with a bayonet with his backhand, looked around, there was no longer a living devil in front of him, and looked up again, only to see that under the night, more than ten artillery pieces were swinging out, and the barrel of the cannon pointed straight at the night sky. The Chinese attack came unusually suddenly and fiercely, almost instantaneously, countless criss-crossing ballistic tracers had filled the entire sky, and I was so stunned by this breathtakingly magnificent night scene that I forgot that it was on the battlefield, not in the Imperial Palace Square in Tokyo from Totaro's diary
Totaro, the old man who knelt in front of the monument to the anti-Japanese martyrs and shed tears of repentance seventy years later, is still a young man in his prime at the moment, and he is also a Japanese soldier who has been completely brainwashed by militarist ideology.
The news of the loss of the headquarters has been confirmed, and all the personnel of the artillery brigade directly under the Tachibana Wing have been woken up and mobilized, and the captain of the brigade, Jiro Kameda, has organized the remaining more than 200 personnel of the artillery brigade into three echelons, one echelon is responsible for guarding the outer defense line, one echelon is guarding the core position, and the remaining echelon is used as a reserve.
Totaro and his entire squad were unlucky enough to be placed in the first echelon.
Due to the lack of guns, the quartermaster only gave Totaro five bullets, and as for the rifle, he could only get the gun from the dead comrades when his comrades died, and in this way, Totaro only held five bullets in his hands and followed the thirty or so comrades of the entire squad out of the outer trenches.
Totaro poked his head out of the trench and looked out, and it was pitch black all around.
Only when the searchlight above the watchtower sweeps by, can you see clearly for a short time.
There are faint lights shining in the direction of Wuxi City in the distance, and there is no need to think about it, it must be that the main force of the wing stationed in the city must have learned that the headquarters was attacked, and urgently went out of the city to reinforce it.
It's a pity that the timing is a little late.
Inexplicably, Totaro's hairs suddenly stood up.
The next moment, the sentry on the watchtower also seemed to sense something, and hurriedly turned the searchlight, however, the searchlight had just turned, and suddenly a gunshot sounded under the night sky, and the searchlight was extinguished, but before it was extinguished, the light of the searchlight still briefly illuminated the direction of eleven o'clock in front.
At eleven o'clock, Totaro saw a crowd of black pressure rushing towards him.
"Chinese, Chinese, Chinese, Chinese are coming, Chinese are coming"
The sentry screamed violently in an instant, followed by a gunshot from the horn, and the sentry's screams stopped abruptly, and then the whole person fell upside down from the watchtower, and fell to the ground like a piece of wood, making a muffled sound, Toshiro looked at this scene in a daze, feeling the cruelty of the battlefield for the first time, and feeling that death was so close to him for the first time.
"Kill and change, kill and change, kill and change" The team leader drew his saber and howled hoarsely.
Toshiro turned his head blankly, and saw that his comrades with guns in their hands straightened up from the trenches, continuously pulled the bolt and shot ahead, the sound of ping-pong gunfire was endless, and the scorching bullets rotated and flew at high speed, pulling out dazzling streamers in the dark night, and disappeared quickly.
In the next moment, the Chinese in front also opened fire.
At least ten or more machine guns fired at the same time and fiercely, crisscrossing the ballistics, the colorful ballistic tracer, in an instant, filled the entire night sky, Totaro and the entire squad of comrades were all stunned, they had never seen such ferocious firepower, as if the machine guns of the whole world were concentrated in the here and now.
The Japanese army's offensive routine was extremely strict, even rigid.
First the artillery bombardment, then the infantry attack, and each time the troops were never more than a squad.
When an infantry squad attacks, its supporting firepower is usually only three light machine guns plus two grenadiers, and at most a Type 92 heavy machine gun for long-range fire suppression.
Therefore, Totaro looked stupid, because the Chinese firepower was too fierce
The scorching bullets rained down like a raging storm, sending smoke and dust to the outlying positions of the Japanese army.
Totaro curled up, huddled in the trench, didn't even dare to raise his head, one of his comrades-in-arms just showed his head slightly, and was immediately beaten into a blood sieve by the dense rain of bullets, and his comrade-in-arms fell straight down, and fell in front of Totaro, with the tracer of the trajectory, Totaro could even see the hideous expression on the face of his comrade.
The furious fire lasted for about half a minute, followed by hail grenades.
With the tracer of the ballistics, Totaro could clearly see rows of grenades being thrown at them, and then falling like hail on their positions.
This was followed by a continuous stream of violent explosions.
At this moment, the earth is moving, the mountains are shaking, and the sky is trembling.
Totaro was also stunned by the air wave generated by the explosion of a grenade, but he didn't expect to escape by accident.
Dividing line
The offensive of the provisional 79th Division can only be described by one idiom, that is, ploughing the court and sweeping the holes
It was really a plough and a hole, and in the face of the violent and perverted firepower of the provisional 79th Division, there were only dozens of devil artillery with three or eight big covers at all.
As a traverser, no one knows the advantages and disadvantages of the Japanese army better than Xu Rui, the advantages of the Japanese army are strict discipline, with a tenacious will to fight, grassroots officers are well trained in military affairs, and the ability to execute tactics is extremely strong, but at the same time, the Japanese army also has a very obvious shortcoming, that is, a serious lack of automatic firepower.
The Japanese army is an island nation and has always pursued the doctrine of a great navy.
Therefore, for the army, the Japanese government is able to save the province.
While the armies of the German, American, British, and other European and American powers were generally equipped with automatic rifles, the Japanese Army still insisted on being equipped with Type 38 rifles that required pulling the bolt to shoot a shot, which greatly limited the firepower output of the Japanese army's grassroots units, and the Japanese army suffered a great loss in the face of the enemy army equipped with a large amount of automatic firepower.
Yang Dashu took twenty machine gunners, carried the machine gun to his chest, and charged fiercely while firing.
I have to say that the remnants of the provisional 79th Division are really wide now, and the bullets are open to supply, which can be made vigorously
In the face of the ferocious and perverted machine-gun fire of the machine gun team, the devils on the periphery of the artillery position could not even raise their heads, let alone shoot back.
Half a minute, in less than half a minute, the machine-gun team approached within thirty meters.
At the cost, one remnant soldier was seriously wounded, and two others were slightly wounded, almost negligible.
Immediately afterwards, the grenade team followed, and threw out three hundred grenades in less than ten seconds, and the entire three hundred melon grenades exploded in an area of less than three hundred square meters, and the lethality can be imagined, and in the blink of an eye, the devil's seemingly complete ring fortification was blown open with a ten-meter-wide gap.
Without waiting for the smoke to disperse, Xu Rui was the first to rush into the gap with the Wang Ba box in his left hand and the 38-style bayonet in his right hand.
Xu Rui jumped over the three-meter-wide trench with one jump, and fired two shots in the air, killing the two little devils in the trench who tried to resist, and then wiped the neck of a devil lieutenant who pounced on him with a backhand, and the devil lieutenant didn't even have time to snort, and fell into the trench.
Then, Xu Rui turned around and smiled at the more than 100 remnants of soldiers who were surging behind him, and shouted: "Brothers, listen to Lao Tzu, kill them all, and leave no one behind."
"Kill them all, leave not one behind"
"Kill them all, leave not one behind"
"Kill them all, leave not one behind"
More than 100 remnants of the soldiers roared like a tsunami in an instant, and then one by one, with a fierce light in their eyes, holding bayonets, followed Xu Rui into the devil's artillery position.
Xu Rui's courage and skill in fighting greatly boosted the morale and fighting spirit of the remnants of the provisional 79th Division.
As the saying goes, the general is not afraid of death, the soldier does not hesitate to die, an army, if the lord can not be afraid of death, then this army will definitely become an elite division, and if the main general of this army is not afraid of death and brave and good at fighting, then this army must be a roaring tiger and wolf division
Due to the appearance of Xu Rui, the remnants of the provisional 79th Division have undergone radical changes.
At this time, the provisional 79th Division may not be considered a tiger and wolf division, but it is definitely an elite division
"Kill them all, leave not one behind"
"Kill them all, leave not one behind"
"Kill them all, leave not one behind"
More than a hundred remnants of the soldiers screamed, and the fierce tiger rushed into the artillery position of the devil like a mountain.
"Kill" a remnant soldier roared, and a bayonet pierced a devil's abdomen.
"Give me death" A remnant soldier roared in the sky, and the turn of the 38 big cover was a slam smash, and the steel helmet of the devil in front of him was smashed flat in an instant, and under the wrapping of the steel helmet, the skull of the ghost soldier was also shattered in an instant, and the red blood and white brain pulp were dripping down in an instant.
"Uhh
But before he died, the remnant soldier roared, tried his whole strength, opened his mouth and bit the devil's neck viciously, this mouth directly bit off the devil's common carotid artery, the devil screamed, and the blood of the red soup shot out of the wound like a sharp arrow, and then the whole person fell to the ground.
Xu Rui, who rushed to the front, was like a tiger entering a flock, and there was no one under him
"Whoosh." Xu Rui slid past a devil Shaozuo with a sliding step, the devil's saber stabbed in the air, and was about to turn around and stab back, the bone-eroding cold spread from the throat, and it spread all over the body in an instant, and the next moment, the devil Shaozuo felt that his whole body was out of control, and looked down with some difficulty, and the devil lieutenant only saw that streams of blood arrows were shooting out from his throat.
Xu Rui slashed the neck of the devil Shaozuo with a bayonet with his backhand, looked around, there was no longer a living devil in front of him, and looked up again, only to see that under the night, more than ten artillery pieces were swinging out, and the barrel of the cannon pointed straight at the night sky