Chapter Forty-Eight: Fighting Again
"The Japanese army is coming up again" Jiujin's eyes are good, and he saw the earthy yellow wave Lang in front of the position from a distance, Liu Goat woke up at the right time, maybe it was Jiujin's shouting that woke up Liu Goat, who had been unconscious. The Japanese army began a new round of attack, about a large group of Japanese troops pulled a skirmish line to the position, Xie Chengrui had no extra words, since Liu Goat had woken up, Xie Chengrui just left a platoon of reinforcements he brought, turned around and returned to his left flank position.
All the troops on the entire position did not exceed 300 people, could it be that Xie Chengrui wanted to use this force of less than 300 people to carry the Japanese army's brigade-level offensive troops? Tang Cheng, who was lying in the trench waiting for the order to fire, had a gloomy face, and his heart sank suddenly, Xie Chengrui This is a fight to the death, does he have to fight everyone here to finish?
The successive attacks were defeated by the defenders, which made it very difficult for the upper and lower ranks of the 36th Infantry Wing to accept, and after a long artillery bombardment, they planned to make another attack, hoping that this time they would completely defeat the defenders of China in their positions. It was so close to the position of the defenders of China that the soldiers on the forward line could even see the corpses in the collapsed trenches, but they did not see the defenders return fire; Gave up? Or are the defenders all dead? The Japanese soldiers in the charging formation couldn't help but clench the 38 rifles in their hands.
It's not that the defenders on the position don't want to shoot, but because they don't have many heavy weapons, and if the Japanese army does not provide fire support for such a large-scale attack, it will be difficult for the British army to block the Japanese attack, so Xie Chengrui ordered the Japanese army to get closer and then fight, and only if the Japanese army is hurt, they will retreat. But once the distance is shortened, it will be fatal to the right flank position where the second company is located, because there is only one light machine gun on the entire right flank position, and no one else can find a grenade on them.
The Japanese officers on the forward line drew their command knives and howled, and the Japanese soldiers under his command shouted Banzai and rushed over the field that had been bombarded by artillery fire. "Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Without warning, a large number of grenades flew out of the trenches and threw them at the Japanese troops, "Fire, fire." I don't know when Xie Chengrui, who had already moved to the main position in front with two light machine guns, shouted loudly, and the light machine guns in the trenches opened fire at the same time, and the barrage that flew out of the ground instantly rushed into the departure formation of the Japanese army.
More than 100 soldiers in tattered uniforms rushed out of the trenches, like demons coming from hell and scuffled with the Japanese troops on the front line. At first, Tang Cheng didn't know what the troops of the Nationalist Army were doing and always liked to fight hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army in front of the position, but later Liu Goat solved his confusion, and the Japanese attacking troops fought hand-to-hand combat one was to frustrate their spirit, and the other was to guard against the Japanese surprise attack.
Kill! Every soldier of the Nationalist army who rushed out of the trench completely ignored himself, slashed at the Japanese soldier with a large blade, completely ignored the opponent's spurt, and did not dodge or dodge too much at all. "Kill!" Every time the knife was slashed on the head and face of the Japanese soldiers, the splashed blood, the flesh that bloomed, and the bones that collapsed were no longer terrifying in the eyes of the Chinese soldiers, they only felt happy, and that kind of happiness was for themselves and for the robes that died in battle along the way.
The death squad's stormy attack instantly lowered a large chunk of the Japanese offensive formation, turning the original horizontal offensive formation into a crescent moon shape. "Withdraw, withdraw." The Japanese soldiers were killed all over the place with only one attack, and these soldiers, who were full of hatred and death, turned around and ran back to the trench like a gust of wind, and if there were no Japanese corpses in front of the position, no one would want to believe that the defenders on the position had just taken the initiative to attack.
Could it be that this abandonment of positions was a conspiracy of the defenders of China? The Japanese troops, who had already launched an attack at the forefront, were visibly dizzy, and although they calmly formed a defensive formation on the spot, they were obviously stunned and did not know whether to attack or retreat. The Japanese troops who were in the position of the two flanks and were originally rushing to the positions on the left and right flanks quickly rolled back to the main position in the middle, and they wanted to use large forces to attack the main position by virtue of their superiority in strength. The Japanese soldiers, who were ready to give it a go, came to a place less than 100 meters away from the trench, but the defenders' positions returned to the eerie silence they had before.
"Pap", "Pap" "Pap" "Pap" The sound of gunfire rang out on the position, and the sound of rifle firing gradually rang out one after another, and the Japanese troops in the attack were not ambiguous, and directly lay down on the spot and fired at close range with the defenders. The two sides began to shoot at each other in the process of approaching, and the bullets flew by "whizzing" around them, splashing blood mist on their comrades, and stirring up smoke and dust on the ground, and from time to time someone screamed and rolled on the ground and struggled until they stopped moving. Tang Cheng kept pulling the bolt to shoot at the Japanese soldiers, he didn't know how accurate his bad marksmanship could be, he only knew that as long as he still had bullets, he must shoot them.
The sound of bullets falling into the flesh and the sound of bullets hitting the flesh was constantly sounding, and every time it sounded, it meant that there was one less brother who could return to the city. But Tang Cheng didn't look at it, he didn't look at who was shot, he was afraid that it was someone he knew, he was afraid that it was a mill or one of Jiujin and Liu Goat, because he didn't want to see someone he knew die in front of him. The melee gave Xie Chengrui the opportunity and time to adjust the deployment of troops, and the death squad that had just withdrawn to the trench to rest was once again mobilized by Xie Chengrui, this time their sortie position was on the left flank.
Xie Chengrui's return to the main position in the center caused a brief confusion in the left flank position when it exchanged fire with the Japanese army, and the left flank position with the largest number of troops was actually confused by a Japanese squad of dozens of people, which made it difficult for Xie Chengrui to accept, so he transferred the death squad, intending to repeat the old tricks against the Japanese army and hit them by surprise frontal assault. The frontal assault relied on blood, relying on bravery, and before everyone died, the task of the death squad was to fight hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army.
The floating soil on the position was carried by the wind and rolled in the air, and while the Japanese troops on the left flank of the attacking position were successfully suppressed by the flank and rear fire of the position, the death squad carrying large blades finally crashed into the Japanese battle cluster and began a fierce hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army. The Japanese squad, which had already been mixed with the death squad, saw that the defenders in front of them did not seem to want to flank themselves, and immediately began to withdraw the bullets in the chamber with great relief, preparing for a real stabbing duel with the death squad.
On one side were the shiny bayonets in the hands of the Japanese troops, and on the other side were almost the same number of Nationalist troops carrying broadswords, and both forces were rapidly closing in on each other, and murderous aura was piling up between the two sides. The roar of heavy machine guns sounded almost simultaneously, and dozens of daredevils who had jumped out of the trenches on the left flank lay on the ground in unison, while on the left flank behind them, a Maxim heavy machine gun and two Czech light machine guns had already been fired.
The Japanese army was stunned again, and the momentum of the Japanese army with bayonets in the whole line was suffocated, and then several of them were cut down by the barrage in an instant like wheat harvested in autumn, which was not a close combat at all, but a massacre. Rushing, rushing over, retreating, retreating and not coming back, more than half of the dozens of Japanese soldiers on the charging arrow fell in the blink of an eye. "I fucking knew that his surname Xie still had a back hand, but I didn't expect it to be a big knife company." Looking at the changes on the left flank position, Liu Goat in the trench muttered vigorously, and his tone inevitably showed a trace of envy.
After being attacked by the defenders' light and heavy machine guns, the Japanese troops attacking the left flank did not completely lose their will to fight, so after the light and heavy machine guns and a magazine were emptied, the death squad that jumped out of the trench swung their knives forward and collided with the remaining Japanese soldiers. In the melee with bayonets, there were no officers, no brothers, only ordinary soldiers who were bent on survival, "Ka! The moment the bodies staggered, the blades slashed hard in the face of a Japanese soldier, and the wielding could hear the sound of the enemy's bones cracking, and before the owner of the broadsword could draw his knife and rush towards the next target, a bayonet from the Japanese army had already pierced his body.
"Boom!" A grenade exploded nearby, and the shock wave brought vertigo and ear drums. "I don't know whose bayonet got into whose body," click! "Someone's head was cut off. The sound of all kinds of fighting on the battlefield was endless, almost everyone had only red in their eyes, and the air was full of splatters of blood. The thick blood poured into the nose filled the lungs with a fishy smell, the cold bayonet blade pressed against the flesh, the scorching shrapnel rubble scratched the face and body leaving deep scars and pain, the two sides of the melee had forgotten everything, and all the actions were only for one purpose, to kill the opponent in front of them.
The death squad attacking from the left flank position was fighting hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, and the pressure on the main position in the middle under the personal command of Xie Chengrui seemed to be more, because the Japanese troops in the attack only divided a small team to attack the left flank position, and the other Japanese troops regarded the main position in the middle as the main target.
Like the last Japanese attack, when the left flank position and the main position in the center were hot, the right flank position where the second company was located was delayed by the Japanese army, and the steel helmets lying in the trenches could only fire at the Japanese troops attacking the main position in the center like Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng used the Japanese army's 38 rifle this time, and compared with his original Mauser rifle, it seems that the Japanese 38 rifle recoil is smaller, which makes Tang Cheng, who was sore all over, feel a lot better when shooting.