Chapter 54: Two Days and One Night (2)
The cessation of the Japanese artillery bombardment was a signal to prepare for battle, and the officers of the teaching team had many battles with the Japanese army, and the officers of the teaching team had long been aware of this. Xie Chengrui and Liu Goat put down the binoculars almost at the same time, but Xie Chengrui was in his temporary command post, and Liu Goat was lying on the city wall with Tang Cheng, the condescending Liu Goat gasped, he estimated that this Japanese devil had at least 500 people, and the defenders on the city wall did not have an advantage in terms of strength and firepower.
Xie Chengrui, who had already moved the command post to the position, was also frowning, and after the melee in the peripheral positions of his teaching the second regiment a few days ago, the troops that could be mobilized were less than half of what they were on weekdays, and if the Japanese troops outside the city had used such a scale of troops to attack at the beginning, I am afraid that Guanghuamen would not even be able to defend it tonight and would be broken by the Japanese army.
The order to open fire was never given, and the hands of the soldiers who were lying in the position began to sweat with their guns, and the fingers that pulled the trigger were no longer their own. This is Xie Chengrui testing his troops, in the face of excellent personal tactical quality and skills, savage and crazy Japanese infantry, the defenders who are not superior in strength can only put the Japanese troops into a distance of 50 meters before firing, only in this way can the defenders give the Japanese a large proportion of casualties. Xie Chengrui only knew that if the Japanese army broke through the Guanghua Gate he was guarding today, he would not have to wait for a military tribunal, and the captain would be able to kill him.
"Boom'" "Boom" With a few loud bangs, billowing black smoke and flames rose from the formation of the Japanese attacking troops almost at the same time, and in the falling stumps and broken arms, several Japanese soldiers covered in blood fell to the ground and rolled and screamed. The sudden explosion was caused by the Japanese attacking soldiers stepping on the mines planted by the sappers of the teaching team, although this kind of British infantry mine could not deal with the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles, but it was more than enough to add some trouble to the Japanese infantry.
"Fire, fire" The detonation of the mine was the order to open fire, the shouts of the officers resounded on the silent city wall, and the Guanghua Gate, which was shrouded in smoke, was suddenly like a dragon resurrected in an instant, spitting an impenetrable rain of bullets at the Japanese army in the lightning and thunder. The veterans in Xie Chengrui's unit began to show their talents, and this was the best opportunity for them to really incorporate what they had learned into actual combat, and the wide field of view made the condescending Mauser sniper rifle have almost terrifying accuracy at a distance of 100 meters. Although they could not kill with guns, the soldiers and sabers in the Japanese army became the best targets for the veterans.
Suddenly blocked by a dense barrage of barrage from the defenders, and the junior officers were enthusiastically cared for by the opposing shooters, the Japanese attacking team fell into confusion, but the experienced and well-trained Japanese soon discovered that almost most of the bullets came from the north side of the defenders' positions, and those Japanese troops who had lost their command began to assemble in groups of three or five on their own, and even the Japanese troops were already using grenadiers and light mortars to start firing back.
In the dust kicked up by the grenade explosion, Xie Chengrui's troops began to suffer casualties, and the Japanese Army's Type 38 Tomosaka rifle could not shoot the Mauser rifle of the teaching team. At the beginning of the fire, the defenders' light and heavy machine guns gave the Japanese troops greater damage, but when the Japanese retreated to a distance of 100 meters, the accuracy of the defenders' shooting decreased significantly, and the power of the Japanese soldiers' individual shooting accuracy was gradually reflected.
The Japanese army's accurate shooting caused the casualties of the defenders to continue to increase, and only now did Tang Cheng know the reason why Liu Goat did not let the second company next to the machine gun position, because from the beginning of the Japanese army's return fire, the defenders' machine gunners were the most casualties, and even the defending troops next to the machine gun position were also bombarded by the Japanese light mortars. Tang Cheng, who pulled the bolt, sighed softly. Xie Bo's notes were correct that without the effective support of artillery and aircraft, the Japanese were able to bombard the positions of the Nationalist army with impunity.
The battle continued, and under the cover of artillery fire, the whole group of Japanese soldiers launched a more frantic charge. In just one hour, the Japanese army launched no less than six attacks on Guanghua Gate. There were corpses everywhere in front of the position, the corpses in front of the position belonged to the Japanese army, and the corpses on the position belonged to the defenders, and the uniforms of the dead soldiers on both sides were stained red with blood, and it was difficult to distinguish the camp they belonged to by the color of the uniforms alone.
The seventh time, Tang Cheng loaded a bullet bridge into the magazine of the progressive gun, this was already the seventh time that the Japanese army had repulsed, but looking at the soldiers around him, from their increasingly frightened faces, Tang Cheng really couldn't see how long they could hold out. The officers began to roar again in hoarse voices, and the Japanese troops came up again, densely packed like ants that had found food. The familiar sound of gunfire resounded on the battlefield, and people on and outside the position continued to be shot and fell, and the latecomers would not hesitate to take their place, or step on their corpses to continue forward, all of which had long been familiar and numb.
No matter how cowardly people come here, they will completely forget the fear of death, because they are facing death all the time. When your gun shoots down an enemy, you never guess if you will be the next one to be shot down, this is the law of war. The muzzle of the machine gun was bouncing, and the machine gunners of the training team were completely mechanical, as if all they had to do was to get the last bullet out of the magazine as quickly as possible.
A soldier raised his arm and tried to throw the grenade out of the box, but he was able to expose himself to cover and was quickly knocked to the ground by a Japanese bullet, and then the grenade exploded next to him, and he, along with one of his companions, was blown down under his own grenade.
A Japanese soldier was directing the charge, but he didn't notice that there was already a black muzzle on the wall aimed at him. The gun rang off, hitting the head of the military officer, and in an instant, the brain and blood flowed out. No one would have mercy on him, including the enemy and his own, and the soldiers behind quickly stepped over his corpse and continued to charge forward in despair. No one is his name, no one cares about this issue, the only thing the soldiers care about is how to complete this charge mission as soon as possible, how to survive, that's all.
The attacking Japanese troops retreated again, but not a single cheer could be heard from the positions of Gwanghwamen. It was quiet, so quiet that it was frightening, mixed with sounds, only the sound of vomiting, vomiting in big gulps, wishing that I could vomit out of my liver together. Tang Cheng was also vomiting, a corpse of Tianling Gai was lifted by bullets and fell beside him, Tang Cheng, who was all in excitement just now, was busy shooting the Japanese soldiers outside the city, and when the Japanese army was repulsed again, Tang Cheng found himself lying on his stomach with a corpse for more than several minutes.
"Ready to fight, the Japanese army is coming up, ready to fight." The 36th Wing outside the city uncharacteristically launched an almost non-stop attack on Guanghua Gate, and Tang Cheng just wanted to change his position, when the Japanese army outside the city attacked again, and this time the number of people seemed to be even larger. Heaven and earth were instantly dyed red with blood again, and it was clear that the sound of guns and cannons was constantly roaring, but for the soldiers on both sides, they couldn't hear any sound in their ears at all.
The machine gun positions on the city wall roared frantically, and the heavy machine guns had always been the focus of the Japanese army, and under the fire of the Japanese army, the defenders had changed the number of heavy machine gunners in the road. Another heavy machine gun was shot and fell, and his companions didn't look at it, but just pulled up his corpse and put it to the side casually, and then he picked up the machine gun left by his companion, and the heavy machine gun regained its vitality in his hands, and continued to let out a terrifying roar that made the Japanese soldiers fear.
Crazy, both the offensive and the defending sides are crazy, and everyone has completely lost their minds. In their eyes, there is only killing and being killed, and those who die have no complaints, and those who are lucky enough to survive do not feel that there is anything worthy of their own joy. The viscous plasma slowly gathered together on the city wall, slowly gathering large and small puddles of blood, and the corpses of the fallen soldiers had no time to move down, so they could only be temporarily piled up on the city wall and become part of the puddles of blood.
As the Japanese continued to attack, the defenders' ammunition was drastically depleted, grenades and bullets were emptied in boxes, and the entire body of the machine gunner was completely stiffened by the non-stop fire. The officers commanding the battle could no longer roar, and from their throats could only be hoarse and incomprehensible. In fact, the battle has reached this point and there is no longer a need for the commanders to command, because the soldiers of the national army on the city wall, each of them is trying to survive.
Tang Cheng, who was lying behind the sandbag, could no longer remember how many bullets he had fired, and his shoulder had cracked open with the same sharp pain, but he continued to shoot at the Japanese soldiers outside the city, because the soldiers around him were also shooting non-stop. The Japanese light machine gun of the mill has long run out of bullets, and the lucky mill has not been injured until now, but the cautious nine catties were hit in the shoulder by the bullets fired by the Japanese army, although it was not a serious bruise, but it had already made the nine catties realize the danger of war.
The heavy smell of blood on the tip of his nose and the sharp pain in his shoulder made Tang Cheng never look forward to the early end of the battle as he did now, but unfortunately he couldn't be the master of those Japanese soldiers, and looking at the current situation, the Japanese troops outside the city didn't seem to want to stop. Finally, someone couldn't stand the cruelty of the battlefield, and a soldier who looked not much bigger than Tang Cheng threw away the rifle in his hand and wanted to flee the battlefield, but unfortunately he forgot that there were officers on the city wall, and after a gunshot, the soldier who wanted to escape fell into a puddle of blood.
"Escapees, kill." The shouts of the officers who fired the guns were a good interpretation of the cruelty of military law, and in the face of the bloody facts, the soldiers who also had the intention of escaping could only hope that the battle would end as soon as possible, just like Tang Cheng.