Chapter 318: It's just a little bit
"There's me here!" Lu Chuanxiao raised his bandaged right hand and shouted loudly, "If the little devil wants to pass through here, he must first step over my corpse." ”
The remaining men and horses of the 16th Division of the Devil came up, and the eight 75 field guns they brought began to bombard the vanguard position, and a piece of shrapnel hit Yang Guanchen's head who was in front.
Yang Guanchen fell again. Feng Liu only led a squadron and still stuck in the gate to block the harassing attacks of the devils, and the rest of the people were sent here. The command here fell on the shoulders of Lu Chuanxiao.
"Keep rushing!" The corners of Katayama's mouth twitched slightly. Unexpectedly, in such a small place as the Shanhaiguan Railway Station, on the defensive line piled up by all kinds of vehicles and debris, a few hundred people of the vanguard army actually withstood the continuous attack of two or three thousand people of the 16th Wing. The corpses and wounded of the devils carried down have exceeded a thousand. And even worse news is that reinforcements from the vanguard army are coming.
"Artillery bombards me!" At this point, he didn't care about the new weapon. If reinforcements from the vanguard army come, they will not get the same. I can only take advantage of the fact that the reinforcements of the vanguard army have not arrived, capture the Shanhaiguan station, and get the wreckage of that weapon in time to analyze something.
"Die!" Mu Xuanzhu directly shook the sapper shovel and slashed into the head of a devil who pounced, and the force was too great, and the blood on his arm oozed out. The sapper shovel got stuck in the devil's head, and he couldn't pull it off. Seeing this, Huang Wenhua next to him pulled the handle of the sapper shovel and kicked down the devil.
"The planes for the supply haven't arrived yet?" Lu Chuanxiao anxiously looked at the sky in the distance, and the supplies here only relied on four Junkers to transport them.
ME323D giant birds were all transferred to the battlefield on the Beiping side, and the focus of this operation was over there.
But Aunt Juncker's speed was too slow, so she made up for one trip, and before the second trip came, the ammunition was almost used first. The Pioneers' habit of using ammunition made them not aware of economy at first, and the subsequent shortage of ammunition made weapons such as Suomi and Machine Gun with huge ammunition consumption quickly become a fixture. The weakening of the firepower also made the devils rush up, and sometimes they ran out of bullets, so they needed to fight in close quarters.
There were still a few clouds in the distance, and there was no shadow of the three-headed bird plane. Even when they came, the four planes sent by the devils were still circling. Without escort aircraft, they could not get close.
A devil rushed in front of the trench, and Lu Chuanxiao's Bai Langning directly buckled it with his left hand, and the blood bursting from the devil's head splashed his face. He wiped it with his left sleeve, lay on the wall of the trench and looked out, and another black devil rushed up.
The machine gun didn't roar early as usual, and had to wait until the devil got close before attacking, but this made the devil closer.
Zhu Tingwen held a Type 38 rifle and fired eight bullets, but he still didn't hit a single devil. Shooting a gun is not as easy as he thought, after two shots, his eyes were dazzled, the sweat on his forehead dripped into his eyes, and the figure of the devil in the distance became even more blurred. He wanted to straighten up, just like the bodyguard who had served as a soldier in the Beida Battalion just now, but the bullets flying in his ears made him weak.
"Don't be a coward, don't be a coward!" He kept cheering himself up, but when he finally mustered up his courage, a bullet pierced the eye socket of the bodyguard next to him, and blood splattered half of his frightened face. He didn't care about erasing the blood, he just sat there in a daze.
The popular reserves, who had come to war with their blood, had already entered the battle, but they were inexperienced and soon more than twenty people died.
"Ah, I'm not fighting, I'm going back!" A young man can't stand this game of teasing death, and when he gets up, he has to run back.
"Stop, you're going to be a deserter?" Li Hanwen next to him shouted loudly.
"I'm not a soldier, I'm just a flat-headed commoner, the devil is here, I'm just a commoner!" The young man threw his gun on the ground and walked back angrily.
"Phew!" As soon as a gunshot rang out, Li Hanwen's eyes were red and he raised the muzzle of Bai Langning's smoking black hole to his forehead, and shouted: "Since you are standing here, you are a soldier who protects your home and defends the country when you pick up the gun." Whoever wants the fuck to run back is a deserter! ”
He looked at the militiamen who were avoiding his eyes, and shouted in a deep voice: "In the rain of bullets, I am afraid of a dead ball." If you want to die, I will die first, and it will be your turn after the devil steps on my corpse! ”
"I'll die with you!" Zhu Tingwen, who was awakened by the pistol, stood up, walked to Li Hanwen's side firmly, raised the 38 rifle and shouted in a tearing voice: "If you want to fight, fight to the end!" ”
"Then let's die here, die in front of the first level in the world, and it will not be in vain to be a soldier!" Lu Chuanxiao, who vaguely heard the shouts over there, said in his heart. He dragged the 38 style of the devil just now, aimed at a cat and rushed to the front of the devil and pulled the trigger. The devil's 38 style is used as a sniper rifle, but the devil's attack method of surging over in bursts is best suppressed with a machine gun.
Machine gunner Bao Chongming glanced at the remaining less than 100 rounds of ammunition, which was usually not enough for half a minute to strafe himself, but now he had to wait for the best time to shoot. He also felt a little pity in his heart, this MG-42 is good, but it can only be fired in bursts, and as soon as the trigger is pulled, the bullets will be shot out in a string. The rate of fire is also very fast, making the ammunition depleted extremely fast.
The paratroopers' ammunition was already insufficient, and such shooting made the ammunition even more scarce.
"You can only attack twice!" Bao Chongming quickly glanced up at the waiting room, after his steel helmet was pierced by a devil, he no longer stared at the target as before. The devil's bullet hit accurately, and he had a bullet mark on his cheek, and his deputy fell to the ground early.
Because of the narrow terrain in the waiting room, the devils who scattered the attack had to concentrate their charge when they arrived there, which allowed the effect of the machine gun to be maximized.
"It's coming!" Niu Erqian, the third shooter next to him, observed and reminded him two or three meters away.
Bao Chongming stiffened forward and pulled the trigger there.
He counted silently in his heart, and after seeing the devil under him fall to the ground and crawl, he immediately stopped pulling the trigger. It's a pity, the machine gun was originally a weapon to suppress the surname, but the lack of ammunition made the machine gun only use it this way.
"Da Da Da!" The machine-gun fire did not stop, but it was not the sound of a ripper, but the large-caliber M2 that he was familiar with. A hellcat swept through the sky, and the six fire snakes continued to crush the devils rushing on the battlefield.
And in the sky, two of the four devil's planes have been shot down by the six Hellcats that suddenly killed, and the remaining two are also struggling to hold on.
"Boom" In the distance, there were continuous explosions near the artillery positions of the devils. From time to time, a fearless figure was pulled up, and then it swooped down.
"Our reinforcements have arrived!" There was cheering from the positions of the vanguard army. The arrival of the plane gave them the greatest conviction that they have not yet been forgotten.
"Do your best to rescue the first battalion of the parachute regiment in Shanhaiguan first." When Meng Xiang heard that the first battalion was still holding on to the Shanhai Pass, he was silent for a moment before directing directly.
The Battle of Shanhaiguan exposed many deficiencies of the paratroopers, from equipment to logistical supplies. The paratroopers' first battle was imperfect, the trained clones were only brave soldiers, but not logistics experts, and the logistics of the vanguard army had repeatedly made mistakes, which had a lot to do with Meng Xiang's military novices. Meng Xiang continued to grope and grow in various battles, but the combat method of the paratroopers was the first time he came into contact.
Even though the plan was relatively perfect, the accident on the railway caused the devil army to arrive quickly, and the plane rescue arranged on the Canglong was also in trouble.
In order to settle the sub-base, the landing personnel chose Luanhe, and the time was delayed. The reconnaissance planes of the Kwantung Army also discovered the Soryu, and more than 60 planes rushed over to attack. The planes on the Canglong were busy protecting the fleet, and they didn't care about the Shanhaiguan side.
Although the Canglong was still escorting the landing ship towards Shanhaiguan, the speed of the landing ship and the cargo ship was about the same as that of Shanhaiguan. The two gunboats of the devils who stayed in the port of Qinhuangdao also rushed to disturb them.
The devil was knocked out of twenty-three planes, but he was still entangled until the plane's fuel and ammunition were almost exhausted, and then he flew back. The Vanguard lost five Hellcats, and the ships suffered almost no casualties.
At this time, Meng Xiang's urging arrived.
Twelve Hellcats hovering in the air with remaining fuel did not even land, and flew directly to Shanhaiguan, accompanied by nine SBD-5 dreadnought dive bombers, and the rest of the aircraft continued to escort the fleet.
The arrival of the plane quickly suppressed the offensive of the devils. The four Type 92s in the artillery position were blown up, which greatly reduced the offensive momentum of the devils. The remaining three ZIS-3 cannons on the vanguard side began to wield, and the shells brought over were enough, but they had been suppressed by the devil's four cannon heavy guns, and five of them had been blown up.
The only 105 howitzer transported by the vanguard army, after the remaining two devil planes in the sky were also beaten down, also lost all threats, and frequently bombarded the devil's position.
A few minutes later, the sound of the stumbling footsteps of Aunt Junker, who Lu Chuanxiao was looking forward to, finally came from the sky. The four Hellcats accompanying the escort also participated in the attack after the plane landed.
The ripping machine, which had been replenished with ammunition, began to carnival again, even if it was not as generous as the previous 1,000 bullets that killed a devil, but the bullets were splashed like water on the attacking devils.
Under the pressure of the open machine gun and Suomy, the devil began to retreat step by step, and the bullet seemed to cut a golden dazzling forbidden area, so that the devil could not step further.
When three C-47s landed on the airstrip with more than 80 soldiers a few minutes later, everything was reversed.
"Almost, just a little!" After evading the strafing of the large-caliber machine gun in the sky, Taro Katayama ignored the military hat that fell to the ground, and looked up to the sky and hated.
The vanguard army was already at the point of running out of ammunition and food just now, and when they saw that they were broken in a single attack, they all turned the tables in one fell swoop.
"Retreat!" He finally gave the order to evacuate. At this time, the sky was already controlled by the aircraft of the Pioneer Army, and the artillery of the artillery brigade was now bombed by the bombers of the Pioneer Army, and they could only be beaten passively if they did not carry anti-aircraft weapons. At this time, his heart was full of remorse, he knew that this was the case, he should have attacked with artillery fire at the beginning, and quickly captured them, but now the wing suffered more than half of the casualties, but nothing was gained.
The planes of the vanguard army did not dare to catch up more, and their ammunition and fuel were not much, so they did not know when the planes of the devils would come. Several planes flew directly back to the Soryu, and the one with less fuel stopped directly on the airstrip, and two Avenger torpedo planes flew over the Soryu, bringing not torpedoes, but fuel and ammunition.
Lu Chuanxiao also seized the time to rescue the wounded and renovate the position. No one knows if the devil will come again, so he can only hurry up and prepare.
At this time, only 112 of the 368 vanguard soldiers who participated in the defense of Shanhaiguan Station were alive, and even the officers and soldiers who were alive were all wounded, and some were even seriously injured and endangered.
The first battalion of paratroopers was disabled, but the paratroopers in Peiping were very smooth. There are not many devils in the city, and most of the people encountered are puppet armies and militia organizations organized by the expatriate. Such a team quickly collapsed under the strafing of Suomi submachine guns, and even if there were some people in the diaspora who fought to the death, they could not stop the bullets close to Yu Yong.
The machine guns of the MG-42 were erected on the streets, and the gates of the key points were also blocked by machine guns.
The sky was full of the roar of airplanes, and the figures of Junkers and C-47 kept passing by, and groups of soldiers jumped off the planes and went straight to Beiping City by truck from Nanyuan Airport. Even, Hu Wen, the newly appointed staff officer of the Air Force Major, directly mobilized a ME323D giant plane, stuffed more than 120 fully armed soldiers, and flew over directly, which made Meng Xiang, who heard it, break out in a cold sweat.
If there is an accident, it will be more than 100 people!
But the process was quite smooth, more than 20 planes flying from Shijiazhuang devils were intercepted halfway, and the ME323D big bird landed smoothly on Nanyuan Airport.
More than 100 Junkers and C-47s took off and landed at various airports in the SAR, and in just three hours, more than 3,000 elite soldiers and their equipment were transported. When these heavily armed soldiers rushed into Beiping, the balance of victory in the Beiping area had already tilted in favor of the vanguard army.