Chapter Ninety-Three: The Japanese Army Retreats

Also shocked was Kazuo Kawada, who was the commander of the brigade, after his mortar position was engulfed by the enemy's artillery fire, the sudden barrage on the position made Kazuo Kawada dumbfounded, he would never have thought that the other party would have such strong firepower. The roaring large-caliber heavy machine guns, the incredible self-aiming rockets, the chaotic mortar shells, the strafing light machine guns like splashes, these weapons combined to form a strange impression that he himself could not describe--- could these guys on the other side be the elite troops of the Chinese army?

"Big ...... Osa! What's going on! When did the people of China have such strong firepower? The adjutant next to him looked panicked, and Kazuo Kawada didn't know how to answer at the moment, the key was that at this time, he had no time to think about such a question. The two squads that went out to reconnoiter the opponent's firepower have been killed and wounded, and the troops that were sent up were also scattered by the opponent's gunfire, and then the suppressed could not move, Kazuo Kawada still has more than 800 people left in his hands, do you want to send all these soldiers?

Kazuo Kawada grew up listening to the war stories of his fathers, and in Kazuo Kawada's family, there are no less than dozens of family members who died on the battlefield alone. Although Kazuo Kawada himself had the new tactics he had learned from military academies with the indoctrination of several generations of his family, he still had in mind the tactics and tactics inherent to the Japanese army, and always believed that as long as the soldiers pointed at him, with the invincibility of the soldiers of the imperial army, the Chinese army that was his enemy would collapse one after another.

Kazuo Kawada didn't know that Mike's tactics were all from the three-dimensional combat tactics of the new concept of the U.S. military, and if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't call in aircraft support, maybe Mike would have ordered a counterattack after the heavy machine guns fired. At that time, there will be large-caliber heavy machine guns and ground artillery fire in front of the road, infantry charging behind, and bombs and strafing from aircraft in the air as fire support.

Under the cover of rising smoke, the Japanese troops who stayed on the attack line could barely see the battle situation in front of them, but Mike, who occupied a high position, could see the movement of the Japanese army. After seeing a group of officer-like guys standing behind a large pile of floating earth through the binoculars, Mike ordered two other M2 heavy machine guns that had not been firing to fire at the pile of floating earth in the Japanese position. The distance between the two sides was a kilometer, although this distance was still within the range of the M2 heavy machine gun, but Mike did not expect to be able to kill the Japanese officers, but he had prepared enough heavy machine gun ammunition.

The two machine gunners, who had been forced by Mike not to fire at will, had been waiting a little impatiently, and when the order to fire finally came, the two machine gunners couldn't wait to pull the trigger. Xu is a trait common to war veterans, and just as Mike ordered the remaining two heavy machine guns to fire at Kazuo Kawada's side, "Dazuo, be careful. Kazuo Kawada's lieutenant suddenly pulled Kazuo Kawada, who was looking forward to the telescope.

Before Kazuo Kawada, who was suddenly thrown to the ground, could open his mouth to reprimand his lieutenant, he suddenly saw countless dark red flashes flying over his head. The floating mounds that were supposed to provide cover didn't seem to do much for the dark reds, and the finger-thick heavy machine gun bullets flew over the battlefield about 2 miles in Moyo, and then penetrated the mounds and into the bodies of Kazuo Kawada's guards and officers.

The tragic scene on the battlefield ahead was staged again, but this time it was performed live in front of Kazuo Kawada's eyes, which was a hundred times bloodier than what Kazuo Kawada had just seen in the telescope. The first to be shot were a few guards around Kazuo Kawada, these guards were pierced by heavy machine gun bullets, and three of the guards who were sprayed with blood mist were killed on the spot, and the other one fell to the ground with his head down, and his neck was only a little flesh and skin that was cut by the bullet.

The officers who were still around Kazuo Kawada just now were even more miserable, and without expectation and precautions, there was not one officer above the rank of lieutenant in the Kawada Brigade. Some of the young officers who were most trusted by Kazuo Kawada were lying next to Kazuo Kawada at the moment, convulsing their bodies, and the blood flowing out of their bodies was slowly gathering into puddles of blood.

The captain was knocked over by the enemy's gunfire, and the Japanese soldiers around him were stunned, and they did not expect that the heavy machine gun they were dealing with was so powerful at such a distance. There are always people who are not afraid of death, and some Japanese soldiers dared to rush over to rescue Kazuo Kawada in the face of a barrage, but they were knocked down by bullets in a row. Everyone was stimulated by the bloody scene in front of them, and the timid simply called "Mother", and fainted directly with a roll of their eyes.

Kazuo Kawada, who was dragged out of the pile of dead bodies by his soldiers with the audacity, even has the heart to cry to death at this moment, when did the Shina army become so powerful? Somehow, Kazuo Kawada always felt that something was not quite right, but he couldn't say what was going on. The continuous changes on the battlefield made his head bigger, and the bloody and fire battles and rumbling explosions in front of him only made his head blank.

There was no need to remind him at all, the adjutant who was also lucky to survive saw that Kazuo Kawada looked confused at the moment, so he immediately ordered the troops to retreat, and if he continued to confront the other party like this, he would only cause more casualties among the soldiers in his brigade. When the Japanese retreated, Mike was overjoyed, and immediately ordered more than 100 soldiers from his direct company to rush out of the position, trying to strike another autumn blow when the Japanese army retreated.

If it comes to the ability to fight a favorable battle, the U.S. military can not compare with the veterans of the national army, after Mike ordered to storm the enemy formation, the machine gunners have already carried the general-purpose machine gun to the trench, quickly arranged an arc-shaped offensive line, condescendingly suppressed the enemy, and provided fire support for the robes who attacked the enemy formation.

The infantry who rushed out of the defensive line took advantage of the cover of light and heavy machine guns, raised their spears and swept out. First, he stabbed the dizzy and half-dead wounded Japanese soldiers on the battlefield to death, and then shot and pursued in the direction of the Japanese retreat. On the battlefield, the sound of bean-bursting gunfire was repeated, followed by explosions, and the rain of machine gun bullets that suppressed strafing flooded the Japanese positions. In the blink of an eye, the lively battlefield that was still fighting just now was wiped out by them. The figures that flexibly advanced made the Japanese soldiers who were retreating in a hurry stunned, is this still the defeated Chinese army that was killed by them?

Mike didn't ignore the people, and he didn't order the troops to keep chasing them, but he drove the Japanese out about 2 miles away, and Mike ordered the troops to be collected and returned to the camp, after all, his own soldiers also suffered casualties. Tang Cheng, who has been cruising on the periphery of the Japanese army, of course, will not let go of such a good opportunity to beat the water dogs, when Mike ordered the M2 heavy machine gun to fire, Tang Cheng and others have quietly moved to the rear line of the Japanese army, watching the sappers bury all the mines sent by Mike, Tang Cheng ordered to retreat a mile back and wait for the Japanese army.

No one complained, and everyone, including Tang Cheng himself, was wielding sapper shovels and digging bunkers with all their might. There were too many intertwined shrubs in the position chosen by Tang Cheng, and when digging bunkers, everyone could only find space in the gaps, and the shovels went down to the ground, and basically did not encounter much dirt. The soil layer of the laterite slope is not thick, and the shallow soil layer on the surface is dug up, and the bottom is gravel. But even so, everyone was still digging with all their might, trying to dig a trench that could provide cover for themselves before the Japanese army hit mines.

Tang Cheng was not so arrogant that he was ready to intercept the Japanese army with only a dozen men, and the position he chose was backed by a small gentle slope, and behind the gentle slope was a river that had long since dried up. The trenches they dug in Tangcheng would lead all the way to the flank of the gentle slope, and as long as they retreated along the trenches, they would be able to cross the river before the Japanese could break through their defenses. As long as they crossed the river and leaned on the pebble bank, Tang Cheng would have one more chance to ambush the Japanese army, which is why Tang Cheng would put his position here.

The rumbling explosions sounded continuously, and the people hidden in the trenches were full of joy, and this series of explosions did not think that the Japanese army had triggered those mines. Although the British army's mines don't look very good, they are quite powerful, at least much stronger than the trick mines set up by Tang Cheng with grenades. When the angry Japanese army appeared within 500 meters of the trench, the dice and the snipers around them opened fire in unison, and among the dozen or so people around Tang Cheng, they were the only ones who could fire at any time.

A succession of soldiers were shot and fell, making the Japanese realize that someone was intercepting them in front of them, and a moment later, the Japanese grenadiers began to fire grenades or grenades at Tangcheng. The grenadiers of the Kawada Brigade were also issued with 89-type grenadiers, so the distance of 500 meters was nothing to them, but after the grenadiers in Tangcheng and the mortars around them shot, the Japanese grenadiers had a hard time.

Relying on the trenches dug out by almost exhausting the body, Tang Cheng and the others cut off another layer of the originally thin Japanese army like peeling a potato skin, and when the Japanese army was forced to evacuate in a hurry, the more than 700 people who had been evacuated with great difficulty were about 100 people less. "Don't chase it, it's not interesting to catch up, there is still a battle to be fought, and there is no hurry for this meeting." Seeing that the Japanese army turned around and withdrew, the dice wanted to lead people to chase after him, but he was stopped by Tang Cheng.

Although there were still more than 600 Japanese troops, there was no artillery fire, and light and heavy machine guns were discarded, and in Tang Cheng's opinion, these Japanese troops did not have much combat power. Instead of chasing them into the forest to fight for the body, it is better to wait for the Japanese army to come again, if you can defeat them once, there will be a second time, and you can't chase them into the forest to make yourself disgraced.