Chapter 45: Tragedy (3)
"Concealment, concealment, Japanese artillery bombardment, Japanese artillery bombardment" The shouts of the veterans had just sounded in the position, and the sharp whistling sound of shells cutting through the air had already sounded in the air, and the Japanese had moved the artillery fire that was bombarding the left flank position to the position of the second company. The second company is the unit of the 88th Division, and when repairing the position, Zhou Fu and the men of the 51st Division dug a lot of anti-artillery holes in the trenches, but the current location of Tangcheng seems to be a little far away from the anti-artillery holes, so he had to follow the example of Liu Goat and pull up a Japanese corpse to cover himself, hoping to avoid the shrapnel flying sideways in the trenches.
Rumble! Rumble! Boom ......, the ensuing explosions began to pound the ground violently, and the powerful shock wave of the shells exploded into a furious blast of gas that slammed into everything that stood in their way, and the high-speed rotating shrapnel mixed in these gas langs swept everything in an elusive trajectory. The entire position shook in a strong explosion, as if the entire world was distorted, but the trenches were simply repaired and collapsed more, and the large pieces of falling earth even had a tendency to bury them alive in the trenches.
Cowering under the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, Tang Cheng held his head in his hands and his knees on his chest, and curled up at the bottom of the bloodstained trench in a half-sided, half-lying position. A soldier of the 51st Division hiding in the anti-artillery hole was so unlucky that a piece of high-speed spinning shrapnel flew into the anti-artillery hole where he was hiding, and hit the guy in the neck. The plasma splattered from the wound instantly turned him into a bloody man, and the lifeless corpse was heavily planted out of the anti-artillery hole, and it was only less than 3 meters away from Tang City.
Only 3 meters away, Tang Cheng, who was hiding under the corpse of the Japanese soldier, thought for a moment about hiding in the vacant anti-artillery hole, but in a blink of an eye, he looked at the corpse that was still twitching from time to time, and Tang Cheng felt that it might be safer to hide under this corpse. A melee with the Yamashita squad left even fewer people alive on the already outnumbered right-flank position, and the second company of 15 people now had 9 people left, and Liu Goat and Zhou Fu were still wounded. The platoon of the 51st Division ran 6 and killed 15 in battle, and most of the rest were wounded, and more than 20 people wanted to resist the large number of Japanese troops who would come in a while, which was simply wishful thinking.
Every minute of the Japanese shelling was so long that there was no choice for the people in the trenches. Either hiding in the anti-artillery hole and secretly praying to God and worshiping Buddha, or resigned to fate, the shells fell directly into the trench bunkers, and it was not uncommon for the defending troops to die in the whole squad and platoon, and some lucky old oilers like Liu Goat were able to survive a hundred shellings unscathed.
I don't know how long it took to say that the sound of the landslide and tsunami in Tang Cheng's eyes finally turned from dense to thin, and with a dull roar at the end of the road, the Japanese shelling finally stopped. "The little devil is coming up, ready to fight, and those who can still breathe will put the gun up for Lao Tzu, the little devil will come up, let's not think about any of them." Liu Goat's urging shout sounded as usual after the Japanese bombardment ended, and quickly spread throughout the entire position, Tang Cheng, who was hiding under the corpse of the Japanese army, couldn't help but secretly curse a dirty word, Liu Goat is really a big guy, listening to that voice is not affected by the Japanese artillery at all.
The sculpture-shaped guys in the anti-artillery hole moved one after another, some rushed along the traffic trench to the forward position, and some got up to be their own combat position. Guns, steel helmets, water bottles, and other hard objects rubbed against each other, converging into a unique sound in the trenches, and the tense atmosphere quickly spread. Tang Cheng shook his still somewhat dizzy head and drilled out from under the corpse of the Japanese soldier, and after drilling out, Tang Cheng found that the body of the corpse of the Japanese soldier was covered with shrapnel from artillery shells.
The number of Japanese soldiers rushing over from outside the position was not very large, but it was also quite a lot, compared to the position of the entire second battalion, the number of these Japanese soldiers was small, but compared with the right flank position of more than 20 people left, the number of these Japanese soldiers was a little too much. The attacking Japanese army should still be an infantry squad, after the shelling on the right flank position just now, these Japanese soldiers set off quickly, and when Tang Cheng got up and crouched down on his firing position again, the Japanese troops who rushed to the front were less than 30 meters away from the trench.
Tang Cheng's muzzle was just aimed at one of the Japanese soldiers, and his heart suddenly felt like he had been pricked by a needle for no reason, Tang Cheng just subconsciously turned his head, only to hear the sound of "dang", and a bullet from the Japanese army hit the side of Tang Cheng's steel helmet. The huge kinetic energy attached to the bullet hit Tang Cheng's head straight back, his head drove his neck, his neck drove his body, and Tang Cheng's whole person fell on his back to the trench behind him.
Tang Cheng, who was falling backwards, even heard the crunching sound of his neck, where he could still take care of the rifle that had been taken off, and Tang Cheng, who still had a trace of consciousness in his mind, hurriedly took off his steel helmet and reached out to touch his head. Fortunately, there was no wound, no brain turbulence, and no bloodstains, Tang Cheng, who had settled his mind, suddenly fell to the ground and vomited, this is the second time Tang Cheng faced death after facing the Japanese tank at the entrance of Shanghai Street last time, I didn't expect death to be so close to him, if he hadn't just turned his head, maybe this bullet would have sent him to heaven.
Since he was not injured, he had to continue fighting, everyone on the position was fighting, and Tang Cheng naturally couldn't stay out of it. "Where did you just go?" Tang Cheng shot and put down a Japanese soldier on the opposite side, and suddenly felt a hot breath in his ears, and turned his head to see that it was Jiujin, who had disappeared for a while, was lying beside him. After the team under the mountain began to attack, Tang Cheng didn't see the shadow of Jiujin in the trench, he didn't care about it just now, but now when he saw Jiujin suddenly appear beside him, Tang Cheng couldn't help but shout at the top of his throat.
Jiujin held back a smile on his face, stretched out his hand and pointed behind him, Tang Cheng looked in the direction of Jiujin's finger, and there were many more steel helmets in the trench at some point. "Fire, fire. Almost at the moment when this shout sounded, the long-suppressed gunfire finally erupted in the trench, and the hot bullets slanted out like raindrops, and the yellow tide approaching the trench suddenly slowed down. "The one I called." The sound of nine catties was very small in the deafening gunshots, but Tang Cheng heard it squarely.
Tang Cheng looked at the steel helmets who appeared in the trench with some suspicion, and after looking at it for a long time, he found a person he knew, the steel helmets in the trench were all gray and black, and their big eyes were all a virtue, Tang Cheng could find out the people he knew among them, and that was not ordinary in his eyes. The "grenade" steel helmets threw grenades with the shouting, and the area where the yellow tide appeared outside the trench quickly rose up one after another, and the bullets and shrapnel swept through like a storm, and many Japanese soldiers died before they could let out a wail, while most chose to lie down on the spot.
Three bullets were fired in succession, Tang Cheng shrank back into the trench and gasped for breath, the trench was full of steel helmets who were shouted by Jiujin, Tang Cheng suddenly felt that it was time for him to breathe a sigh of relief. The trenches were filled with a strange smell of gunsmoke and earth, and the pressure on the nasal cavity and lungs far exceeded the bullets fired by the Japanese army, Tang Cheng deliberately slowed down the action of loading bullets, deliberately deaf to the increasingly clear shouts, but the gunshots and explosions on the position were close one after another, all of which made Tang Cheng feel so ethereal.
After loading the bullets, Tang Cheng took a deep breath and was about to get up, when a young steel helmet lying next to Jiujin suddenly fell and sat down, and when he saw the young steel helmet clearly, Tang Cheng froze. The bullets fired by the Japanese not only pierced the young steel helmet's head, but also seemed to have more than one bullet hit him in the face, because Tang Cheng could not see the young steel helmet's appearance at all, and his head had rotted into a rotten persimmon.
Taking a deep breath, taking a deep breath, Tang Cheng kept reminding himself in his heart, and forcibly endured the gastric juice that was about to be vomited, Tang Cheng grabbed the gun and got up. Tang Cheng, who grew up listening to Robert's stories, has always felt that he is not afraid of fighting in his bones, and he can become an excellent soldier like Robert in his story, but the oppression of reality always makes Tang Cheng unconsciously want to choose to retreat.
In the days when he was fighting with the Second Company, Tang Cheng had never thought of retreating, but when he saw the head of the young steel helmet that had been shattered by the bullet just now, Tang Cheng's heart was more timid than disgusting. Whether he admits it or not, Tang Cheng was indeed afraid of cowardice just now, he was not afraid of war, but he was afraid that he would be like that young steel helmet and his head would be broken by the Japanese soldiers, that would be too terrible, he didn't want to be unrecognizable by Robert because of his blurred face after he went to heaven.
"What are you doing stupidly? When the reinforcements came, they had to hurry up and shoot the water dogs, fire, and give Lao Tzu a point of aim, don't take bullets and empty the gun as if they didn't want money. "Reinforcements came, Liu Goat, who was wounded in the shoulder, also felt a lot more relaxed, handed over the light machine gun to the soldiers around him, Liu Goat began to count how many people were left in the second company along the trench, although Tang Cheng's current appearance has been embarrassed to the extreme, but it still made Liu Goat's mood suddenly change very well.
"The silly boy is not bad, his legs and feet are quite fast, I think you will be back for a while." For the smiling nine catties beside Tang Cheng, Liu Goat also praised him without hesitation, and Tang Cheng realized that the nine catties were sent by Liu Goat to the left flank position to move the rescue troops just now. The extra steel helmets in the trenches were the reinforcements sent by Xie Chengrui with great kindness, although it was only a platoon of troops, but for the right flank position, it solved a big problem.