Chapter 453: Counterattack on All Fronts (Part II)
However, the nightmare of the devil soldiers was far from over, and the successive explosions under their feet had not stopped, and the terrifying shelling of conscienceless cannons sounded in vain on the city.
Clusters of explosives fell from the sky, smashing heads and faces, and some of them had been detonated by the explosion on the battlefield before they hit the ground.
Nearly 10,000 devils from the two divisions that entered the trenches outside the city of the Dragon's Tooth Task Force suffered thousands of casualties in just a few minutes.
In fact, any army that falls into such a trap will end up dead or alive, just imagine, thousands of kilograms of explosives, mines, and grenades in the ground exploding at the same time, and extremely powerful "shells" constantly flying down from the air.
The devil soldiers really had no way to enter the heavens and no way to enter the earth, and they were all fallen in the earth-shaking explosion.
While the artillery battalion's shelling continued to trench, Qiao Youhua and Guo Meng took part of the guards to the west gate of the main battlefield and climbed to the top of the city, watching the magnificent explosion scene outside the city while waiting for the time to counterattack.
At the same time, Major General Aoki finally came to his senses, and the whole person fell to the ground as if he was in mourning, and an adjutant hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, but he pushed him away.
"It's over, the imperial army is completely finished this time, no wonder the Zhina army took the initiative to abandon the position outside the city, they didn't run out of ammunition, but set a net for us, there is a trap of death and no life!" Major General Aoki muttered in despair.
The adjutant standing on the side was also a little at a loss, and the continuous and violent explosions in front of him were like a hammer, smashing the hearts of their surviving Japanese officers.
At this moment, they were really desperate, even if they were lucky enough not to die, the military tribunal of the empire would not spare them.
After about half an hour, the explosions in the ground stopped, and only the thunderbolt cannon of the artillery battalion directly under the Dragon's Tooth Task Force was still firing rounds of explosives that made the devils desperate.
After the earth-shaking explosion just now, the various Japanese positions outside the city were full of miserable and wailing devil wounded soldiers, except for a very small number of devils who escaped by luck in the explosion just now, and many more devils were either killed on the spot or seriously injured.
The cannonballs fired by the Dragon's Tooth Task Force's unconscionable cannon have simply become the biggest demon in the eyes of these devils' wounded soldiers, and the relentless "mending knife" shelling killed the devil's wounded soldiers in pieces and sent them to see their Amaterasu.
Really put the common name of no conscience cannon into full play.
As the last flying thunder cannon fired the last cannonball, after being scrapped, Qiao Youhua stood on the head of the west gate of the city and raised his pistol and shouted: "Brothers, the time has come for a counterattack!" The time has come for revenge, and the whole regiment will attack to avenge the hopeful comrades-in-arms! Don't let go of a little devil! Come on! ”
On the city wall of the west gate, on the streets close to the city gate, the roar of thousands of officers and soldiers of the third battalion, the artillery battalion and the guard company suddenly sounded, and the closed city gate was opened.
The officers and soldiers who had been waiting for a long time roared and rushed out, and beside Qiao Youhua, some of the soldiers of the third battalion and the guards of the guard company rushed towards the city, followed by their own soldiers who rushed out of the city gate first.
Qiao Youhua pulled out his three-edged military thorn with his backhand, jumped up directly from the city wall, and landed steadily near a bomb crater a few meters outside the city, leading the dragon's tooth officers and soldiers who had just rushed out of the city and were obviously stunned to rush towards the position outside the city filled with gunsmoke.
At the same time, the situation of the other three guns was also about the same, the soldiers of the first battalion, the second battalion and part of the artillery battalion, the cooking squad of the regimental headquarters, the men, and the horsemen of the former reconnaissance company also held high sabers, kitchen knives and various weapons, and under the leadership of Jiang Haidong, Ma Biao, Liu Yidao and others, launched a counterattack on the Japanese army on the whole line.
Qiao Youhua was the first to rush into the Japanese army position in the west of the city, and his eyes were full of thick smoke and dust, and the rich smell of gunpowder smoke mixed with the smell of blood came to his nose.
Qiao Youhua crossed several trenches one after another, handed over these trenches to the soldiers who were swarming behind him, and came directly to the outermost forward trench, and sure enough, he found that some of the devil wounded soldiers were struggling to crawl out, trying to escape.
Without the slightest mercy, Qiao Youhua raised his Mauser pistol and fired repeatedly, shooting them one by one.
"Kill! Come on! Behind him, thousands of officers and soldiers of the Dragon's Tooth had already surged in waves, re-entering the defensive positions that had been lost less than a morning, and rapidly advancing in the trenches that had been bombed beyond recognition, full of potholes, and filled with gunpowder.
Along the way, the devils encountered, whether dead or alive, either made up for a shot or a bayonet!
Soon reoccupied this devastated position, and under the leadership of Wu Ming and others, they broke out of the trenches and continued to rush towards the brigade headquarters of the 8th Brigade.
In the north of the city, Ma Biao, the commander of the second battalion, and Zhou Dahai, the deputy commander of the second battalion, also led their troops to recover the lost territory, and came to the headquarters of the remnants of the 5th Division encircled at the north gate.
The main force of the Japanese army was completely lost in the explosion and artillery bombardment just now, and some of the remaining remnants of the defeated generals could withstand the dragon's tooth officers and soldiers whose morale was like a rainbow and like a wolf and a tiger.
Ma Biao and Zhou Dahai personally opened the way with a light machine gun, and opened fire fiercely at the devil's headquarters, and the other soldiers swarmed up, shooting, and throwing bombs, and easily solved the remnants of the enemy.
The first battalion also captured the headquarters and sortie position of the 33rd Brigade of the Japanese Army in the east of the city at this moment, and Jiang Haidong and the deputy battalion commander Liu Yidao and other soldiers divided the road and launched a pursuit of the remnants of the devils who had fled.
The commander of the 33rd Brigade, Eijiro Tahata, had turned into a lost dog at the moment, and was running for his life with a small group of guards.
Major General Aoki, the commander of the 8th Brigade on the opposite side, sat calmly in the command center, deaf to the bitter words of the attendant adjutant next to him.
Unbuttoned his military shirt, exposed his chest, picked up the general's knife that had been wiped, raised it high, and then stabbed it violently into his abdomen, poof, the sharp saber instantly pierced into Major General Aoki's abdomen, and under the severe pain, Aoki, who was already determined to die, couldn't help but let out a muffled snort.
However, the old devil's appearance before he died was commendable, after the saber pierced into the abdomen, he did not stop there, but endured the severe pain, and slashed his abdomen horizontally with both hands, and then spit blood in his mouth and fell to the side.
The shouts of the Chinese soldiers outside gradually approached, and the attendant adjutant saw that the matter had come to this point, and he didn't care about collecting the body of Major General Aoki, so he turned around and ran out, and began to flee for his life.