Chapter 542: Blood Mist
Not long after the friendly troops who exchanged fire with the devils outside Ruichang County withdrew, a large group of devils with fierce faces chased after them with bayonets.
Although these ghost soldiers who appeared in Yang Ling's field of vision were short in stature, they were exceptionally stocky and powerful, and their energetic appearance looked like a new force that had just arrived on the battlefield.
Maruyama Masao's 6th Brigade was also arrogant at the beginning, but in the end it was still defeated by Yang Ling's 74th Army, and the victory on the battlefield had weakened the brothers' fear of devils a lot.
The strength of the Chinese army is weak, the strength of the devils is strong, especially the devils' individual combat ability is strong, so that the Chinese army was completely defeated in the early stage on the battlefield.
The consequence of successive defeats and heavy casualties was that the Chinese officers and soldiers talked about the devils, and their subconscious was full of fear of the devils, and the Great Japanese Imperial Army was invincible as propagated by the devils.
Therefore, in the operation of fighting the devil troops, the devils are often not seen, and those new recruits who have newly added to the army are afraid because of rumors and chaos in their own positions.
When the devils really started fighting, there was a heavy artillery bombardment, and with the sacrifice of a large number of veterans, the Chinese army would be defeated if it could not bear it.
For a long time, many Chinese officers and soldiers had been soaking in their bones the fear of devils, and sometimes hundreds of people were chased by devils and dozens of people fled for their lives in embarrassment and did not dare to turn back and resist.
Fortunately, as the Chinese army has successively achieved some brilliant achievements on various battlefields, breaking the myth of the invincibility of devils, the fear of devils in the army has stopped.
In the face of these devil soldiers of the 106th Division, the veteran brothers who were hiding in various parts of the position secretly looked through the gaps, without much psychological fluctuations, and waited for the order quietly and calmly.
Yang Ling's recruits before the war have almost been lost, and all the brothers who survived have also become veterans, so such a group of veterans who have fought with devils are naturally not afraid of devils.
The brothers hid quietly in the debris, houses and ruins, and even a few brothers were lying in camouflage in the stinking ditches on the side of the street, and if the devil did not approach, they would not have been able to find it.
On the other hand, the 106th Division of the Devils has added a large number of supplementary troops to the troops because of its heavy losses on the Nanxun Line.
It was also a last resort for the 106th Division of the Devils to add these supplementary troops to the battlefield without restorative training, because they had already fallen into the quagmire of the Chinese battlefield, and the attrition of soldiers had already made them a little struggling.
When the Chinese army was defeated by a division, it was immediately able to pull up another division in a short period of time, and the security regiments and militia regiments in the rear were all reorganized into regular troops and sent to the front line.
On the other hand, the troops of the devil soldiers need to be replenished from thousands of miles away from the mainland when they lose a soldier on the battlefield, and although they are winning on all battlefields, the loss is also amazing, and the training cycle of many supplementary soldiers has been shortened, resulting in a serious decline in quality.
The officers and men of the Chinese army who survived the bloody battle have grown up in the flames of war, and the government has been able to use them as the backbone to quickly pull up ten or twenty divisions......
On the other hand, in the early days of the war, the group of well-trained elites of the devils died and were wounded, coupled with the dilution of a large number of supplementary troops, although they still maintained an offensive posture, they had been weakened in battle, and they appeared to lack stamina.
Yang Ling believes that as long as the war continues, the population and resources of the little devils will definitely be the first to be unable to support it, and the balance of victory will eventually favor the Chinese side, but it will take time.
The devil soldiers didn't find Yang Ling and them hidden in the complex, they just randomly fired a few shots in this direction for fire reconnaissance, and then began to trot and approach.
Because they were chasing a losing Chinese army, they wanted to make a difference, and they didn't want to spend too much time in this seemingly ordinary building.
But this arrogant little devil will not know that it is this inconspicuous complex that hides a group of bloodthirsty veterans, quietly waiting for the prey to take the bait.
The heavy and chaotic footsteps of the devil were getting closer and closer, and the sound of broken bricks and debris on the ground was also getting louder and louder, and through the cracks in the brick wall, Yang Ling could even see the ugly face of the devil who was jumping into it quickly.
The brethren who were hidden everywhere gently pulled the bolts of their guns, and the bullets were already on fire, and their faces were hideous, like dormant poisonous snakes, ready to deal a fatal blow to the little devil.
"Whoa!" A devil quickly crossed a low, ruined wall, and a large piece of fluffy masonry rolled to the ground, sending smoke and dust.
These devil soldiers ate well, slept well, were sturdy, neatly dressed, and countless figures leaped through the ruins, trying to quickly pass through this ruin and catch up with the defeated Chinese army.
"Bang!"
The dull sound of gunfire suddenly rang out, and the body of a ghost soldier who was stepping over the ruins seemed to have been hammered, and a stream of scarlet blood burst out of his chest, and his body fell backwards under the impact of the bullet.
"Whoa!" The devil who was shot fell heavily into a piece of rubble, kicking up a large cloud of dust;
The ghost soldiers, who were jumping forward with their heads buried in their heads, were also startled when they heard the gunshots, and saw a person on the roof of the house lying on his stomach shooting at them.
Although most of them were supplementary soldiers who had never fought in a war, their combat qualities were still higher than those of Chinese officers and soldiers after a long period of military training.
"It's a Shina man!" As soon as the devil officer shouted, many of the devil soldiers who were leaping forward immediately stopped, raised their hands and began to shoot at the roof.
The whizzing bullets flew towards the roof, shattering the roof and scattering the ashes, and the brother who fired the shot rolled over to dodge.
"Hit!"
Just as the attention of the devils was attracted to it, the captain company commander Qin Shou suddenly roared, his body had already emerged from behind the wall, and the string of green smoke grenades in his hand had been thrown towards the nearby devils with all his might.
Countless smoking grenades suddenly flew from everywhere, and looking at the grenades that flew over in a whirlwind, the faces of the ghost soldiers immediately changed.
"There is an ambush, retreat!" Before the voice of the devil officer fell, it was drowned out by the deafening explosion.
Those devil soldiers who were about to turn around and dodge were faced with such a close range of bombs, and they dodged there, and they were overturned by the explosion of air within two steps of running.
"Boom-boom-"
The explosion of dozens of grenades was amazing, and they exploded in turn in this small area, and the sharp explosives were embedded in the devil's body, and the blood flowed like a torrent.
In the rumbling explosion, the devil's flesh and blood were blown up, they didn't expect to be ambushed, and the devil's terrible screams could be faintly heard in the tumbling smoke.
Before the devil could recover from the rumbling explosion, a splash of bullets swept towards them, raising a large cloud of blood mist.
Those devils who were not killed by the explosion just staggered to their feet, and their bodies suddenly had a few more blood holes penetrated by bullets, and they fell down unwillingly.