Chapter 719: The Third Company Evacuated
The fierce fighting was still going on, and the machine gun company of the guard battalion suffered heavy casualties, but they still continued to fight.
THE SIX 82MM MORTARS OF THE ARTILLERY COMPANY OF THE GUARD BATTALION WERE SET UP IN DIFFERENT POSITIONS, AND AS SOON AS THEY SPOTTED THE PRESENCE OF A GROUP OF DEVIL SOLDIERS, THEY IMMEDIATELY FIRED SHELLS.
The officers and men of the artillery company and the machine gun company did not complain about the battle, even though they knew that with the large number of devil soldiers entering Guanshan Town, even though they knew that their lives were likely to be saved, they did not say any complaints, nor did they show any desire to evacuate.
The third brigade of the 62nd Wing of the Japanese army also began to enter Guanshan Town, and an infantry artillery squadron belonging to the 62nd Wing also followed the troops into the town, and three infantry brigades, one infantry artillery squadron, and nearly 3,000 devil soldiers began to pour into Guanshan Town to fight.
The pressure on the defenders began to increase in an instant, everyone had a different expression on their faces, and the casualties of the troops of the 5th and 6th battalions were increasing.
Originally, they were local troops of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and they still had great deficiencies in such positional defensive warfare.
The casualties were getting bigger and bigger, the corpses of their comrades were lying on the ground, and the living officers and soldiers had strange thoughts in their hearts.
Sun Weiguo is a strong general, a fierce general, and a brave general in the Second Theater, and all the officers and soldiers of the Second Theater have great admiration for Sun Weiguo, and many troops want to fight under Sun Weiguo's command, and the officers and men of the Fifth and Sixth Battalions also have such ideas.
Following the independent regiment to join the establishment of the new 2nd Brigade, these officers and men were very happy, they were given weapons and equipment even by the regular troops of the military region, they were officers and soldiers of the new 2nd Brigade, and they felt that they had won the highest honor.
But when they fought to the death against the Japanese troops in Guanshan Town, their inner thoughts gradually changed.
They believed that such operations were of no value, and even many officers and men felt that Sun Weiguo was deliberately depleting their troops in this way.
The smell of blood filled the air, and the smell of gunpowder smoke gradually mixed with the smell of blood, and many people felt disgusted when they inhaled these smells.
The bodies of the fallen officers and soldiers lay quietly on the ground, some of them had lost some body parts, they were not the same as they were, and the expressions on their faces were even different.
The sound of guns and cannons continued to sound, and people died every second, and the devil soldiers in yellow uniforms were fiercely attacking every position in Guanshan Town.
The crazy devil soldiers launched a fierce attack regardless of casualties, and they had hideous expressions on their faces, as if they were demons in hell.
"Company commander, don't fight, I beg you, don't fight, there are seven people left in our platoon, if we continue to fight, the platoon will be wiped out, let's withdraw, there are a lot of little devils, we are not their opponents at all."
A platoon commander with a whole body of paint came to the commander of the third company of the fifth battalion, looked at his company commander, and the platoon commander said pleadingly.
The commander of the third company looked at his subordinates, who were holding a shell gun in his right hand, and had a complicated expression on his face.
"Retreat!" The commander of the third company of the fifth battalion immediately gave the order to retreat.
The remaining eighty or so people of the third company began to abandon their position fortifications, and they quickly withdrew to the rear.
As they withdrew, the attacking devil soldiers immediately pressed over, and the devil soldiers held rifles and fired quickly at the evacuated officers and soldiers.
One bullet after another became the sickle of death, and the officers and soldiers of the third company who exposed their backs to the devil soldiers fell to the ground one after another.
AN 82MM MORTAR OF THE ARTILLERY COMPANY OF THE GUARD BATTALION HAD ALREADY BEGUN TO SHOOT, AND ONE SHELL AFTER ANOTHER WAS FIRED RAPIDLY, AND THE SHELLS FELL AROUND THE DEVIL SOLDIERS.
As the shells began to explode, the devil soldiers began to stop firing, and they took cover.
The remaining fifty men of the third company took the opportunity to quickly evacuate, and this mortar also lost the cover of the infantry.
"Squad leader, the rabbit cubs of the third company have withdrawn, we have no infantry cover, and the little devil infantry can rush over directly."
An ammunition man looked at the officers and men of the 3rd Company of the 5th Battalion who had evacuated, and he said with anger on his face.
"I and the gunner are responsible for shooting, the rest of the people are ready for battle, we can't shoot with rifles, we try to suppress the attack distance of the devil soldiers with shells, and strive to use all the shells, the third company retreated, but we can't retreat, they are not the soldiers of our new second brigade from the moment of retreat, and our new second brigade does not have such a bad seed."
The expression on the squad leader's face was very calm, he looked at the ghost soldiers in front of him, and said in a flat tone.
THE FOUR PERSONNEL TOOK OUT THEIR PISTOLS AND RIFLES FOR SELF-DEFENSE, AND THEY TOOK REFUGE IN THE SURROUNDING AREA, WHILE THE SQUAD LEADER AND GUNNER CONTINUED TO CONTROL THE 82MM MORTAR TO FIRE.
One after another, the shells hit the devil soldiers, and the devil soldiers who wanted to rush here were injured and killed by the exploding shells, and more than a dozen ghost soldiers lay on the ground.
A Japanese squad leader immediately ordered the troops to start to disperse, two light machine guns and two grenadiers also moved quickly to the front, they were looking for a suitable place to shoot, and more than 20 devil soldiers with rifles advanced, they quickly advanced towards the mortars.
With a "boom", a shell was fired, and a Japanese light machine gun with a crooked handle was hit by a shell as soon as it was erected.
The crooked light machine gun was blown to scrap metal and killed along with four ghost soldiers.
But the mortars, which had lost infantry cover, were soon suppressed by the Japanese intensively, and the Japanese riflemen began to shoot.
The squad leader was carrying the shells, and just as he was about to stuff the shells into the barrel of the mortar, a Japanese light machine gun began to fire.
Seven or eight bullets hit the squad leader's body, and the squad leader's body fell to the ground limply, and a large mouthful of blood began to spit out of his mouth.
One of the loaders immediately ran towards the squad leader, who quickly picked up the shells on the ground and placed them directly into the barrel.
The gunner quickly fired the shell, which landed on the road, killing all four of the advancing devil soldiers.
With a "boom", a miniature grenade was fired from the Japanese Army's Type 89 grenadier canister, and the miniature grenade landed on the mortar's side.
Before the gunner could dodge, he collapsed in a pool of blood.
The Japanese riflemen were advancing rapidly, and the few remaining fighters hurried back to the mortars, who fought back with mortars covered in blood.
But they didn't have any cover, the Japanese troops soon came here, when the four devil soldiers came to the mortar with rifles, the remaining ammunition man pulled the grenade on his body, he chose to blow up the 82MM mortar, and at the same time he chose to die with the devil soldiers.