The Iiao team was hurrying to support their colleagues, but unexpectedly, the Tajima team had been wiped out at this time, and even Fukuda Juncao, who had left the team and wanted to come back to report the news, was not spared in the end, so that the Iio team was unprepared and ran into the SS striker who was attacking with all his might.

At the moment when the two armies encountered, the soldiers on both sides were stunned, the distance between them was so close that they could clearly see the beads of sweat on each other's faces. Narrow roads meet, short battles, and fights happen in an instant. No one could say which side made the first move, but the evidence afterwards mostly suggested that it was the Germans.

At the forefront were the three infantry squads of the first company and the second platoon of the guard brigade, which marched along the road in a standard V-shaped battle formation in small groups, and the remaining rifle squad of the second platoon set up machine gun fire points on the hillside behind them to provide fire cover for the advance of their comrades in the platoon. When the Japanese soldiers were found on the top of the road slope, the soldiers on both sides were already very close, and the machine gunners in the rear did not open fire for fear of accidentally injuring their own people.

However, the machine gunners in the two advance infantry squads did not have such concerns, and the SS machine gunners, who reacted from their surprise, did not hesitate to pull the trigger in their hands, and a tongue of fire swept across the ranks of the Iio squad, and the Japanese officers and men standing in the front row were immediately knocked down on their backs. In an instant, a bloody and brutal close-range melee broke out, the Japanese and German soldiers each held their weapons and fired at each other at a distance of five or six meters, and then the soldiers who survived the first round of shooting did not have time to re-pull the bolt and reload, and directly held their rifles with bayonets and charged at the enemy, and the two fierce infantry units were strangled face to face.

One of the machine gunners in the front of the Japanese squad was able to quickly shoot at the Germans with a crooked handle after being attacked, knocking down several SS soldiers in an instant, but before he could make a bigger difference. The eleven-year-old machine gun jammed without warning.

The Eleven-Year Machine Gun was not originally a weapon suitable for shooting in motion because of the strange design of the ammunition feeding mechanism, although the Japanese army equipped the machine gun with a cowhide sheath on the heat sink for easy holding, which was only to facilitate the machine gunner to move with the machine gun after a long period of fire, and to protect his hands from being burned by the hot heat sink, not for the machine gunner to hold the strafing fire.

This machine gun has been fired for a long time before. Hundreds of rounds were fired one after another, and it stands to reason that the bolt should be cleaned immediately, but the battle was in full swing before, and there was no condition or time to do so. The machine gunner had taken great care of this, and did not fill the strange nest with bullets, but only filled two five-round magazines, ready to wait until he reached the firing position to fill it, and only six or seven rounds were fired, and the cartridge case got stuck in the chamber and could not be withdrawn.

"How can it be repaired!" The Heavy judged from previous experience that it was a shell failure. This is not a problem that can be eliminated in a moment. Moreover, he did not have time to be distracted for a moment on the battlefield, and immediately an SS soldier who had been eyeing him for a long time rushed forward with a bayonet and met him with a ferocious thrust. The Japanese machine gunner had no choice but to hold the heavy crooked machine gun and desperately dial left and right, but it was a pity that this piece of scrap iron was really incompetent at this time, and finally the defense was not as good as the opponent's stab in the ribs, and immediately covered the wound and fell to the side of the road.

The Japanese army's stabbing skills are the best in Asia, and they claim that they will not be inferior even in hand-to-hand combat with European powerhouses. The Japanese Army referred to the bayonet technique as the art of the sword. The earliest bayonet technique originated in the French Army, when French Sergeant Jack Rowe, who was hired by the Japanese army as a military gymnastics instructor, taught the French army's modern bayonet skills to the Japanese Army. Subsequently, on this basis, the Japanese army brought together some of its own domestic martial arts, such as the Treasure Temple, which is famous for its marksmanship, and finally developed the Japanese army's own bayonet combat method.

The Japanese army incorporated it into the army's swordsmanship curriculum, and it became a combat technique that all Japanese infantry must be proficient in, and was highly respected by the Japanese military leadership. Based on the consideration of saving war materials. The bayonet became the most commonly used combat weapon in the Japanese army, used to attack some enemy forces who were not very determined to fight, and at the same time used to break through and occupy enemy positions. 】

On the Chinese battlefield, some poorly trained Chinese troops were extremely afraid of the Japanese bayonet charge, because many of those soldiers had no training in stabbing and fighting. Most of them are just ordinary people who have just learned to shoot. Only a part of the local Chinese army that has undergone strict cold weapon training can use broadswords and spears to engage the Japanese in close combat, the problem is that when encountering such a poorly equipped enemy, the Japanese army will instead give full play to its firepower and artillery advantages, so that the opponent holding the broadsword can not get close at all, and in the end often pay dozens of times the price, in exchange for the life of a Japanese soldier.

However, today, the Japanese army met an opponent as strong as them, the German Army also highly respected individual combat skills, the most popular in the German army in addition to shooting is fencing and bayonet tutorials, young soldiers are very fond of this intuitive head-on confrontation, and even in private cold weapon duels have become a fashion fashion, with the scars of duel on the body, regarded as a kind of manly proof, but because it involves military regulations, this behavior was eventually strictly forbidden.

German soldiers who loved sports and athletics were born with a talent for hand-to-hand combat, their ancestors once relied on crude weapons to roam the Black Forest, and the brave Teutonic knights were never afraid to confront the enemy. Although the 98K rifles suffered a bit in length, the Germans played to their own advantages, and their physical fitness was stronger than those of the Japanese in all aspects, and the powerful thrusts and dials made the movements of those short opponents almost impossible to resist, and they could be pierced in the chest if they were not careful.

Some SS soldiers who killed red-eyed soldiers even threw away the rifles in their hands, took out the individual combat axes specially equipped by the guard brigade from their waists, and got close to the Japanese bayonets to engage in hand-to-hand combat; under the axe blades made of high-strength steel, the Japanese army's Type 38 rifles would even be cut in two on the spot, and in the hands of some strong SS soldiers, even the steel helmets worn by Japanese soldiers could be split in half.

This single-edged hand axe, which was originally used by soldiers to cut a path in the jungle, is said to have come from a sketch drawn by the Führer himself, and then the sketch was collected by Himmler and made by a special person, in order to test the effect of use in the mountain jungle, so it was distributed to the Tomahawk Brigade that was about to go to Southeast Asia, and became the basic equipment of the infantry in the team, but it also unexpectedly made the nickname of this brigade deserved. In the end, the SS soldiers found that this weapon was not only fierce in appearance, but also had an extraordinary effect in actual use, not only could it cut vines and branches, but also could be used as an infantry shovel when combined with a specially issued axe set, which was loved and welcomed by the grassroots infantry in the guard brigade.

In addition to this terrible hand-to-hand weapon, the SS soldiers, like the Army, carried self-purchased weapons for self-defense, and the squad leaders and deputy squad leaders were equipped with submachine guns. Gunfire continued to ring out throughout the hand-to-hand battlefield, and the squad leader's submachine gun firing barely stopped from the beginning of the battle. By the time the follow-up units of the Guard Brigade arrived at the scene, the brutal hand-to-hand combat had already come to an end.

When the battle broke out, there were still thirty-nine officers and soldiers left in the Iiao squad since the squad leader, and all of them died on this road in just two minutes, which shows how bloody and tragic the battle was at that time, from beginning to end there was not a single Japanese soldier who abandoned his comrades and escaped, and at the same time they also caused quite serious casualties to a company and a platoon, and only four soldiers in the three infantry squads were not wounded, eleven officers and soldiers died on the spot, and most of the remaining wounded had various puncture wounds, and seven were seriously injured, If you don't get the rescue in time, you probably won't see the sunrise the next day.

Second Lieutenant Iiao was knocked over by the machine gun at the first time, but he became the last Japanese soldier in the squad to lose his breath, when the machine gun bullet shattered the second lieutenant's spine squarely, and immediately lost all sensation from the neck down, Iiao could only lie there in despair and watch his soldiers fall one after another, but could not make any movements and commands. Eventually, an SS soldier inspecting the battlefield spotted the Japanese officer, who could still blink his eyes, and without saying a word, raised his rifle and ended the second lieutenant's life with a bayonet, and also took the squad leader's saber with his hand.

The Japanese side did special research afterwards, Iiao was sent to Germany for two years after graduating from Lu Shi, and he knew the German army very well, and he should have easily recognized the identity of his opponent at that time, but unfortunately because his throat was wounded, he couldn't even say a syllable until he died, otherwise the young officer would definitely use his proud fluent German to communicate with the other party, maybe he could save his life, but unfortunately Second Lieutenant Iiao was unlucky, and finally only got a tragic ending of defeat and death.

After this bloody melee battle, although the second platoon of the first company won the final victory, it also suffered serious losses. As the core company of the assault, the 1st Company had lost the ability to continue the assault, so the 2nd Infantry Company at the rear of the 1st Company took the forward position, took over the position of the core company of the 1st Company, and continued to attack in the direction of Tongdeng.

At this moment, the German squad at the forefront could clearly see the Japanese troops assembling on the side of the road, which were the remnants of the Ninth Brigade and the direct team of the Morimoto Brigade.

"That's supposed to be the enemy's command organ!" The squad leader shouted excitedly, but before he could give the next order, the bullets fired from the Japanese position had already fallen at his feet. The squad leader hurriedly led his men off the road to find concealment, and while arranging for the machine gun team in the squad to return fire, he reported the enemy situation to the company commander through the walkie-talkie and asked for fire cover.

Asking for a monthly pass, the ranking fell, I had a headache, I didn't pay attention to the cooling last night, and I caught a cold again, I hope tomorrow will be fine.

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