Chapter Ninety-Six: The Night Battle in the Village
Less than half an hour before dawn, the Japanese troops suddenly appeared outside the village, and Su Datong slept like a dead pig at the guard post outside the village, and when the battle began, the national army in the village found out that it was too late, and the Japanese army had already surrounded the village. The bright red ballistics were very conspicuous in the night, and he hastily gathered his soldiers, Su Datong tried to control the entrance of the village, but was hit back by a rain of bullets from the Japanese army.
"Lie down" Tang Cheng just ran to the entrance of the village with a Mauser rifle, and was thrown to the ground by a figure that emerged from behind him, and a string of gray pillars splashed where Tang Cheng was standing just now. "Bang" didn't have time to thank the person who threw him down, Tang Cheng lay on the ground and piled up the gun flame on the opposite side and fired a shot, and several soldiers around him also followed Tang Cheng to fire at the gun flame, although the sky was not accurate, but it couldn't stand the many shots, and the Japanese machine gun that had been spitting gun flames finally muted fire.
"Withdraw and retreat." The machine gun on the opposite side was dumbfounded, and Tang Cheng, who got up from the ground, hurriedly shouted and beckoned the surrounding soldiers to retreat into the village. Niu Laogui, who had just arrived, lit a few more piles of grass at the entrance of the village, and the Japanese troops outside the village dispelled the idea of rushing into the village, "Company Commander Su, take your people to guard the back road of the village, arrange for those people to withdraw first, me and my people to guard the entrance of the village, you had better move faster, I'm afraid we won't be able to stop for a long time." ”
There was already a panic in the village, and those people who had been allowed to stay here and had not yet withdrawn from Macheng panicked, and some even ran to the entrance of the village controlled by the second company. "Go back, go back, run to the back of the village." Niu Laogui led people to stop the people who came to the entrance of the village and drove them back, and Lao Dongbei had already brought people to the house to set up the machine guns. Tang Cheng carried a gun against a low wall and looked out of the village, in the afternoon, the large army in the village had just left, and the Japanese army would come, which was really unfavorable.
"Boom", "boom", "boom" smoke mixed with fire exploded in the village, several soldiers of the second company were blown to limbs on the spot, the old northeast with the MZ42 machine gun was also shaken off the wall, and the black man who was smoking at the door of the house was hit by shrapnel and fell to the house with blood arrows spraying wildly. "Drag in, drag in." The soldiers of the second company in the courtyard rushed over and dragged the wounded Kuroko into the wing. Lao Dongbei wiped the blood spots on his face, raised his legs and stepped on the ladder to go up the wall again.
"Hidden, hidden." Tang Cheng shouted at the top of his voice in the dark night, and as soon as the shouting started, a sharp and piercing whistling sound had already cut through the air. "Boom! Rumble! Rumble! The ensuing explosions began to hammer the ground violently, and the powerful impact of the explosion set off a furious Qi Lang, and the shrapnel caught in the Qi Lang rotated at high speed one by one, sweeping everything in an elusive trajectory. The entire entrance of the village seemed to be shaking strongly, and Tang Cheng, who had retracted into the courtyard, held his head in his hands and knees on his chest, curled up in the corner of the wall in a half-sided, half-lying position.
"Ready to fight, ready to fight." The old northeast on the wall was condescending and naturally had a wide line of sight, and the urging shouts of the old northeast sounded as usual after the Japanese shelling ended, and quickly spread throughout the courtyards of the village. The soldiers who had previously been hiding from the Japanese shelling like sculptures moved one after another, some were changing their hiding positions along the courtyard wall, and some were getting up to be their own combat positions, and various hard objects such as guns, steel helmets, and water bottles rubbed and bumped against each other, converging into a unique sound in the night, and the tense atmosphere quickly spread in the village.
Under the night sky, the haystacks that Niu Laogui lit at the head of the village dyed the earth with strange colors. Scattered or strings of bullets are dark red and orange, and they come from the village at great speed. Outside the entrance of the village, there is a relatively open flat land, and further on, there is a stream more than two meters wide, and there are groves and bushes on the opposite bank, where the Japanese troops besieging the village are hiding. Vaguely saw the figure outside the village, Tang Cheng, who was guarding the hospital door, raised his arm high, "Da Da" At the same time as Tang Cheng waved his arm, the old northeast on the wall pulled the trigger, and the Japanese soldiers in the night were suddenly shot and fell down.
Taking advantage of the fact that the other party was in trouble with advancing and retreating, Lao Northeast on the wall held the MZ42 machine gun and changed the position of the machine gun at any time, which has almost become a combat practice for the machine gunners of the second company. Tang Cheng, who had refilled the magazine with five rounds, dodged out of the courtyard gate, and at a distance of slightly less than 100 meters, the bullets of the Mauser rifle seemed to have eyes. One shot rang out here, one fell there, and in a relatively relaxed state of mind, Tang Cheng fired five shots in succession, knocking down three Japanese soldiers who appeared near the fire at the entrance of the village.
Five bullets were gone, Tang Cheng had at least three more souls in his hand, and under the deterrence of two MZ42 machine guns, the Japanese soldiers who tried to kill the village finally retreated in panic. By the time Tang Cheng reloaded the rifles in his hands, they had basically turned around and ran out of 100 meters, although there was still a certain chance of hitting the shot at this time, but for the purpose of saving ammunition, and also holding the mentality of accepting it when it was good, Tang Cheng did not fire again.
The machine gun stopped, and Tang Cheng, who was returning to the courtyard, exhaled a long breath, and when he turned his head to look at Lao Dongbei on the wall, he found that he was looking at himself, and then gave a thumbs up to his right hand. The first attack of the Japanese army was successfully forced back, but it did not mean that their guns would stop firing, from outside the village, there were bullets from the woods on the other side of the news, listening to the "poof" sound made by the bullets drilling into the courtyard wall, Tang Cheng subconsciously shrank his neck and figure.
Soon, Niu Laogui's high-pitched voice sounded in the distance, and he and a few veterans came to the village entrance with the remaining soldiers of the second company to support Tangcheng and them. The movement of dozens of people running is not small, and the Japanese troops outside the village are hit by a burst of gunfire, and the Japanese army shoots, and the second company in the village naturally can't relent, and the two sides go back and forth to fight fiercely.
The gunfire at the entrance of the village crackled, and the MG34/42 on the roof, which had already been injured, screamed with great joy. Amid the pleasant sound of shooting, the Japanese soldiers who appeared outside the entrance of the village were repulsed again. But this time, the Japanese soldiers did not turn their heads and run away, nor did they stop shooting, but lay on the ground and continued to move forward in a prostrate position. The enemy's target was small, and the bullets fired by the second company were inaccurate, and under the continued bombardment of the Japanese mortars, the Japanese army had already touched a place less than 50 meters away from the entrance of the village.
After firing the first shot, Tang Cheng pressed down his head and body, and just pushed the bolt back into place, he suddenly felt a bullet flying over his head, and even one of them grazed the top of the steel helmet. The sound of a spoon scraping a porcelain plate made his whole body tighten, and his back also increased sharply. , Taking a breath, Tang Cheng got rid of distracting thoughts, raised his head and got up, picked up his rifle so that it was shoulder level, and quickly aimed at a Japanese soldier who was exposed by the firelight.
Bowing his head, bending his body, he quickly pulled the bolt to push the bullet to load, then took a deep breath, got up, aimed, and shot, and the figure in front of the crosshair shook and fell crookedly. Just as Tang Cheng, who was squatting behind the low wall, was about to get up and shoot again, a shuttle of bullets "chirped" on the edge of the low wall, and the stirred up mud splashed on Tang Cheng's steel helmet and face. Tang Cheng, who was shocked into a cold sweat, wiped his face with his free right hand, fortunately it was just some mud, and his face was not injured, listening to the soldiers around him still shooting with a snap, Tang Cheng held his rifle and changed places.
The reason why the Japanese machine guns hit so accurately must have locked Tang Cheng into a sharpshooter, and if Tang Cheng insisted on staying where he was, he would only become a live target for the Japanese machine guns. There was no compassion in his heart, Tang Cheng felt that he had become a cold-blooded killing machine, Tang Cheng, who had changed his shooting position, quickly got up and snapped a shot, and saw the Japanese soldier who was being targeted by him fall crookedly, Tang Cheng squatted down and shrank back.
Tang Cheng, who was carefully hidden, skillfully pulled the bolt and loaded. But at this moment, Tang Cheng suddenly heard the shouts of the old northeast in his ears, and was wondering, when he suddenly saw something smoking falling under his feet. Tang Cheng realized that the shout that Lao Dongbei had just made was talking about the word grenade, holding his rifle, Tang Cheng ran towards the courtyard next to him with an arrow, only to hear a "boom", and Tang Cheng was almost flying up with the huge force from behind.
Tang Cheng, who was knocked into the courtyard by Qi Lang, was lying face down, coughing a few times in succession, and Tang Cheng, who was engulfed in smoke, dragged the rifle that he was reluctant to let go of with his hands and feet and crawled to the corner of the courtyard. Walking in front of the Death Throne again, Tang Cheng, who escaped death, had mixed feelings in his heart at this time, but the sound of guns and cannons from far and near reminded him that he was still on the battlefield. His humble life could be swallowed up by the battlefield at any moment.
Sitting down with his back against the courtyard wall, Tang Cheng quickly rubbed his body and checked it, fortunately he was not injured. With a long sigh of relief, Tang Cheng put on his steel helmet again, then picked up the rifle on the front side, bowed his head, bowed down, pulled the bolt, withdrew the cartridge case, reset, took two deep breaths in a row, and raised the gun again and stretched the muzzle out of the courtyard door. "Pap" "Pap" "Pap" "Pap" Tang Cheng didn't even change the place, so he shot all the four bullets in the magazine in one go, and after running out of bullets in the magazine, Tang Cheng shrank his body back.
The gunfire at the entrance of the village rang out, and the two MZ42 machine guns that they put on the roof by the old northeast became the target of the Japanese army's key attack, and Niu Laogui and they were also pressed by the bullets from the Japanese army and couldn't raise their heads, and the battle at the entrance of the village was seriously unfavorable to the Tangcheng side. The order to retreat came to his lips several times, and was swallowed back by Tang Cheng, and the people in the village had not yet withdrawn, if the second company retreated this time, those ordinary people would be exposed to the guns of the Japanese army.