Chapter 44: Fire!
6.44 Fire!
Li Youhong was so frightened that he was sweating with the bayonet that grazed his body, obediently, did he pay it back two inches inside?
After escaping the fate of being stabbed, Li Youhong hurriedly rolled into the trench, but the little devil who came out of the fog behind him didn't know that there was a trench in front of him, and as a result, a few devils who rushed to the front were planted directly, and were stabbed into a blood gourd by the officers and soldiers of the 3rd company with bayonets, Li Youhong bowed down and hid under these stabbed devils, he felt something ticking on the back of his neck, Li Youhong reached out to touch it and it turned out to be a bloody hand, he hurriedly turned his head to see, As a result, what caught his eye was a dead man's head, and the dead devil in front of Li Youhong grinned with his teeth, looking extremely vicious. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Damn! You're the little devil who just wanted my life? Now you're the one who dies first! ”
Li Youhong cursed a few words, then crawled out from under the dead body of the devil, and then bent down to pick up the rifle he threw into the trench.
At this time, there was a fierce exchange of fire above the trench, and the devils who fell into the trenches of the 3rd company warned their companions before they died, Matsushita Hiroshi immediately shouted to make his squad stop advancing, these devils lay on the ground and groped forward, and when they touched the edge of the trench, they began to shoot indiscriminately, and the officers and soldiers of the 3rd company also immediately launched a counterattack, but this hit rate, both sides did not have a concept, because they had no idea where the bullets were fired, This kind of shooting without seeing the target is mainly to put pressure on the other side mentally, and no one expects to bring much damage to the other side.
Matsushita Hiroshi maintained his usual calm in such a fierce firefight, which is also one of the important reasons why Matsushita Hiroshi was able to survive on the battlefield.
Matsushita Hiroshi took off a grenade from the belt, took off the safety and threw it on the ground to the place where the gunfire was dense on the opposite side, but how could the smart man on this battlefield be only Matsushita Hiroshi alone, the 3rd company also threw out a few grenades under the reminder of the company commander Li Tiezhu, these white smoke iron bumps once they fell into the fog and there was no trace, after a while, the ground shook, and the shock wave of the explosion forced away some of the fog, For the first time, the devils of Matsushita Hiroshi's squad and the officers and soldiers of the 3rd Company saw their opponents clearly!
It was too late to say that the men and horses on both sides would fight in one place, and the soldiers on both sides of the Chinese and Japanese sides invariably chose to shout, which was the easiest way to identify whether the opponent was their own in the melee.
For a while, all kinds of dialects appeared in the trenches, and the officers and soldiers of the 3rd Company came from all over the world.
Just when the 3rd Company was fighting with the devils, the fog gradually began to dissipate, and the forecast of the Japanese meteorological department was obviously wrong, as a round of red sun gradually climbed out of the horizon, the fog in the air began to become thinner and thinner.
This is not good news for Matsushita Hiroshi, after all, his subordinates only have a few dozen people, if the Chinese troops on the position find out that they are only a small Japanese army in front of them, they must not be surrounded immediately?
When the fog completely disappears, it will be the end of Matsushita's Hiroshi team!
You have to retreat quickly while the visibility is not high, otherwise Ono Kamefu's poisonous plan will succeed!
So Matsushita Hiroshi began to shout loudly to his subordinates to fight and retreat, because the fog was still very strong at this time, the commander of the 3rd Company, Li Tiezhu, was afraid that if he pursued, he would be ambushed by the devils, for the sake of safety, the 3rd Company just used guns and bullets to send off these devils who came from the fog and returned to the fog, and did not leave the trench one step.
More than half of the Matsushita Hiroshi squad finally escaped the fate of annihilation.
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After discovering that the fog was dissipating much faster than the meteorological department expected, Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadao, commander of the 18th Division, immediately informed the 12th Field Artillery Wing, an artillery unit directly under the division, to advance the time of the shelling, and the chief of staff, Meiga Koto, also immediately requested air support from Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, commander of the 10th Army, and Commander Yanagawa Heisuke agreed to the request of the 18th Division, and the bombers of the two flying squadrons carried out the highest intensity air attack on the positions of the Nanjing garrison. Originally, these planes were intended to be used by Yanagawa Heisuke to help Tani Toshio's 6th Division break through the Moling Pass, but Ushijima Sadao's 18th Division launched an attack first, and in order to reward the brave spirit of the 18th Division, Commander Yanagawa Heisuke changed his original plan!
Sadao Ushijima and Megumi Koto, who were praised by Yanagawa Heisuke and helped by the Air Force, were overjoyed, they once again dug the corner of Gu Shoufu, without the Air Force, the 6th Division would definitely spend more time in Moling Pass, which really hit the 18th Division's heart!
Some people are happy, some people are depressed, contrary to the elation of the 18th Division, watching the fog dissipate little by little, Wang Shankui's mood is very bad!
Originally thought that relying on God could get half a day's precious rest time, Wang Shankui even gave the order to the front-line troops to take turns to rest, but now that the fog has cleared, everything is in vain!
Wang Shankui's telegram to Huang Haoran was echoed, and Huang Haoran told Wang Shankui that he did not plan to transfer troops to Jiangning, and several other divisions of the Japanese army had entered the warning positions in Nanjing, and a full-scale exchange of fire was on the horizon today.
This 18th Division will really pick the time, the Nanjing Garrison is in need of time to rest after the first battle of Lishui, Wang Shankui's 139th Division is no exception, and now it is so troubled by Sadao Ushijima, the 139th Division is going to ride a horse again!
No way! Fuck it!
Wang Shankui gritted his teeth and made up his mind!
Artillery positions of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army.
The commander of the 12th Wing of the Field Artillery, Asano Sueyoshi Nakasa, walked to a 75 mm field gun and kicked over an ammunitionman, and when this ammunition man turned around and saw that it was the captain of Asano Sueyoshi, he quickly bowed his head and admitted his mistake, but Asano Sueyoshi Nakasa still did not let him go, and he rewarded this ammunitionman with more than ten slaps!
The ammunition handman, who was beaten to the point of bleeding from the corner of his mouth, could only say vigorously: "Thank you, Your Excellency, Wing Commander!" I know it's wrong! "If he doesn't, Captain Suekichi Asano will fight even harder!
"Bastard! Do you know what you're doing wrong? "The amman's submissiveness did not extinguish the anger of Captain Asano Sueyoshi, and it seems that this ammo hand did not pass so easily today.
The artillery commander on the side hurriedly ran over, and he nodded and explained to Captain Asano Sueyoshi: "Your Excellency, Captain! I'll teach him well! Please forgive him! ”
"He didn't even know why he was beaten! What can you teach him? Ensign Shenmu! You've disappointed me so much! Are all your soldiers like this? ”
Captain Asano Suekichi didn't give any face to the artillery commander of Second Lieutenant Kamiki, he said as he kicked the shell box on the ground, and Second Lieutenant Kamiki followed Captain Asano's actions and found that the lid of the shell box was open, and the linen cloth used to protect the shells was also removed!
It seems that this is the reason why the ammunition men were beaten!
Second Lieutenant Shenmu jumped in front of the ammunition hand and shouted, "Bastard! How can you expose a cannonball to humid air so much! Have you learned all the artillery drills in vain? Thank you, Your Excellency, Wing Commander! The slap in the face is all the teaching of His Excellency the Wing Captain to you! Do you understand? ”
After saying that, Second Lieutenant Shenmu also slapped this ammunition man twice, but the strength of Second Lieutenant Shenmu's attack was much smaller than that of Captain Asano Suekishi, and the ammunition man also heard that Lieutenant Shenmu was helping him, if Second Lieutenant Shenmu didn't do it, Captain Asano Suekishi would do it himself! Even your teeth may be broken!
The ammunition man glanced at Lieutenant Shenmu gratefully and loudly expressed his gratitude to Captain Asano Sueyoshi, who had had enough of his anger, and finally let go of the poor ammunitionman, in fact, he was just looking for fault.
How could Captain Asano Sueyoshi have such a big fire? It all started with the order given by the division commander, Lieutenant General Sadao Ushijima, to Captain Asano Sueyoshi.
Captain Asano Sueyoshi, who was sitting in the fog today and waiting for the fog to dissipate, was in a very good mood, and his field artillery 12th wing finally got a rare opportunity to rest.
Since the landing, Asano Sueyoshi's artillery wing has been advancing with the infantry wing non-stop, you must know that artillery is not a toy, transporting these bulky guys is a very difficult thing, and the officers and men of each artillery wing are tired and sweating, so Captain Asano Sueyoshi thinks that his field artillery 12th wing is the hardest unit in the 18th Division.
It's all to blame on those damned infantry commanders, as long as the infantry wing encounters the fire resistance of the Chinese army, it will immediately ask for artillery fire support, Asano Sueyoshi's subordinates had to disregard their fatigue to untie the heavy artillery from behind the mules and horses to participate in the battle, according to the Japanese artillery regulations, the first thing the artillery does before every fire is to build artillery positions, Japan is a resource-poor country, so heavy weapons such as artillery are very important, and the artillerymen understand the preciousness of artillery, So they always follow the rules meticulously!
But it was these regulations that put the artillerymen in a great predicament!
The 18th Division encountered the Chinese army many times, but the real scorching battle was rare, and often these Chinese troops would lose their improvised positions after dozens of minutes of fighting, and the time when the Chinese army abandoned their positions was also the time when Asano Sueyoshi's artillery completed their civil work and prepared to open fire.
So along the way, the 12th Wing of the field artillery did not know how many times they repeated the process of picking up the artillery, building positions, and re-tying mules and horses to the artillery, but the dedication of the artillerymen was not exchanged for praise, because the artillery often began to shell after the Chinese army left, the infantry commanders of the 18th Division gave Asano Sueyoshi a nickname called "Asano Sueyoshi who is always late", which was an insult to him in Asano's eyes!
Just now, the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Sadao Ushijima, gave the artillery an order to prepare for the artillery bombardment in advance, which was originally a good thing, and Wing Commander Asano Sueyoshi has been looking forward to the day when his artillery wing will raise his eyebrows, but what Wing Commander Asano Suekichi did not expect was that the division commander, Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadao, added a sentence at the end of the order: "This time you must be on time, Asano Suekishi, who is always late."
It was this sentence that drove Captain Sueyoshi Asano into madness!
Someone actually spread this nickname that slandered himself to the ears of His Excellency, the commander of the division! Isn't this ruining his future for Sueyoshi Asano!?
So the poor ammunition man became the unluckiest man of the 12th Wing of the field artillery!
Captain Sueyoshi Asano, who had regained his senses, drew the command knife on his waist and walked back and forth on the artillery position, he must do a beautiful job to reverse his image in the eyes of the division commander!
Boxes of shells were opened, the ammunition men carefully wiped the shells and checked the primer, the gunners used tools to clean the chambers over and over again, their wing commander was ridiculed by the infantry commander they had all heard of it, and these artillerymen were also holding back their strength to give their wing commander a "snow shame"!
Looking at the high motivation of his subordinates, Captain Suekichi Asano was very satisfied!
Now waiting for the reconnaissance force to bring back the firepower deployment of the Chinese army, about an hour ago, Wing Commander Asano Suekichi heard a burst of gunfire in the distance, it should be the masterpiece of the reconnaissance force!
Since the Chinese fired the guns, the matter would be easy to handle, as long as the reconnaissance troops marked these Chinese fire points on the map and brought them back, Captain Asano Sueyoshi was confident that these weapons threatening the imperial army would be turned into a pile of scrap metal before the infantry charged!
Those infantry commanders will run over and lick their toes! To know! Artillery is the god of war!
Captain Asano Sueyoshi was looking forward to the reconnaissance unit of Matsushita Hiroshi's team, Matsushita Hiroshi, who escaped death, discerned the wrong direction and ran to another position of the 139th Division when retreating, and as a result, he was shot again, and when he fled back to the Japanese position, his squad had been reduced to 12 people, that is, he left 80% of his subordinates on the road.
Seeing Matsushita Hiroshi's embarrassed appearance, Wing Commander Saburo Fujiyama Nakasa understood that there would be no gain from this reconnaissance, but when he reported to the brigade commander, Major General Ono Kamefu, he actually got instructions to let Matsushita Hiroshi guide the artillery to shoot at the target, and the commander of the Ono Kamefu Brigade did not ask half a word about the reconnaissance effect on the phone, he directly kicked Matsushita Hiroshi to the artillery, but let Matsushita Hiroshi, who had nothing to say, to the artillery commander? The commander of the Ono Kameifu Brigade is clearly wearing small shoes for Matsushita Hiroshi, and his wishful thinking is to make Matsushita Hiroshi anger the artillery commander, and then let the artillery wing captain solve Matsushita Hiroshi for him, this is simply a simple matter, as long as the artillery commander picks up the phone and tells the division commander Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadao that the scouts have nothing to say, then Matsushita Hiroshi will soon die!
The commander of the Ono Kameifu Brigade made the 56th Wing Captain Saburo Fujiyama Nakasa feel unbearable, and he vaguely reminded Matsushita Hiroshi that it was best not to go to the artillery wing alone, so Second Lieutenant Matsushita Hiroshi took the remaining soldiers of his squad on the road.
Getting the answer that Hiroshi Matsushita found nothing, the commander of the artillery wing, Suekichi Asano, finally broke out! He felt that the infantry was playing tricks on him!
There is no target coordinates, even the gods can't hit! You don't need to explain this to the infantry commanders, do you!?
Captain Asano Sueyoshi watched Matsushita Hiroshi's eyes turn from black to red, it seems that he is really going to kill!
"Captain Sueyoshi Asano, I was also victimized! What kind of information can I get about this kind of hell weather? I know that Wing Captain Asano Sueyoshi has been slandered by others in the division, and you are lucky, because you are a wing commander, and I am just a little second lieutenant who is ignored by them, even if you execute me, no one will feel sorry for me! In addition to my girlfriend in my country......"
Hiroshi Matsushita's tone of voice was so sad, so impatient, he felt that his death was coming, so he closed his eyes and waited for the sword of Captain Asano Sueyoshi to fall!
Hiroshi Matsushita waited for a full minute, his head still on his neck, and when he opened his eyes in disbelief, he saw a smiling artillery wing commander Suekichi Asano!
Asano Sueyoshi walked up to the puzzled Matsushita Hiroshi and patted him on the shoulder, and then said to Matsushita Hiroshi very politely:
"The more people try to frame you, the better you will get! Panasonic-kun! Try to recall the situation of some Chinese positions, and it is a big deal to spend more shells and search and clean up the places that can be cleaned! After this battle, I will ask His Excellency the Division Commander to transfer you to my artillery wing!" You're a smart guy and you shouldn't be around those stupid infantrymen! ”
Of course, it is impossible for Matsushita Hiroshi to know that Asano Suekishi's sudden change in attitude towards him is because of the same disease, and he finally reacted that this artillery wing commander would not kill him, this result really made Matsushita Hiroshi feel overjoyed! He tried his best to recall that in addition to some details he saw, in fact, a large part of it was observed by him before dark yesterday, and he didn't know if the Chinese would have shifted those fire points, but Matsushita Hiroshi couldn't take care of it, he wanted to give Captain Asano Suekichi more in return!
After half an hour of piecing together, Wing Captain Sueyoshi Asano finally got a striking coordinate that looked like that, and he couldn't wait any longer, only to fire the cannon first and slowly adjust the impact point, so that those infantry wing captains couldn't say anything!
To do so is to have some too wasteful shells.
Captain Sueyoshi Asano let all his artillery enter the position, and he looked at the watch on his wrist to start the countdown, and in five minutes, it was time for the first salvo!
Hiroshi Matsushita, who was standing behind the captain of Asano's Sueyoshi Wing, felt that the five minutes were as long as five hours......
"Boom!" A 75-mm field gun fired the first shot of the 12th Wing of the field gun, and the huge recoil was that the cannon paused backwards sharply, and the ammunition man immediately opened the bolt after the air dissipated, withdrew the shell case and reloaded, and when he pushed the shell into the chamber, the field gun on his side also began to sound!
Clusters of red fireballs bloomed at the muzzle, and the 12th Field Artillery Wing used all their strength this time, and the dense shells blew up the forward positions of the 139th Division into a sea of fire!
The officers and men of the 139th Division, who had just emerged from the fog, were once again enveloped in artillery fire......
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