Chapter 40: Victory
Kawamura, who commanded his soldiers to seize the trenches, was already aware of his current embarrassing situation at this time, and with the full fire from the forward position of the second regiment, the soldiers of the Kawamura squadron immediately realized that they could not withstand it, and often they would be targeted by two or three soldiers of the opposing side when they only fired one bullet. There is no place to hide in such a close-range shooting, not to mention that the opponent still occupies the advantage of the trenches, and the Kawamura squadron is now in a situation where they are simply being beaten.
Guo Tianbao and his few people from the reconnaissance company of the 51st Division, Haihuasi did not believe that these wounded soldiers were all pretended to be Japanese soldiers, and even the soldiers belonging to the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Regiment on the forward position were mostly reflexively firing with the 2nd Company, but when they saw that the wounded soldiers of the 51st Division were actually counterattacking them, these guys who still had a little doubt in their hearts immediately decided that Liu Goat was telling the truth. The wounded who looked like they were going to die at first were as agile as monkeys, and their battle formation was no different from that of the Japanese soldiers.
The soldiers of the Kawamura squadron wanted to seize the outer trenches of the forward position, and the people of the second battalion naturally would not allow it, but they wanted to use continuous fire to kill these Japanese soldiers wearing the uniforms of the national army, and the light machine guns and grenadiers of the Kawamura squadron would not allow it. Both the Chinese and Japanese soldiers understood that if they could not destroy each other, they would be the ones who would die. There is no need for anyone to urge and exaggerate, there is no pathos, war is so cruel, it is so simple to be killed or killed.
At this time, the soldiers of the Hechuan squadron, who used the corpses of their companions as cover, finally discovered a hole in the opponent's defensive line, so they shifted their firepower and intensified their attacks on the trench where Tang Cheng was hiding. Tang Cheng's hiding place was a corner of the trench fortifications of the lurking defensive line, where there were only Tang Cheng's two shell guns and the Mauser rifles of the other two soldiers of the second battalion.
Tang Cheng was not a trained regular soldier after all, most of his experience with the Japanese army belonged to the kind of encounter that was fought by mistake, and Tang Cheng had only experienced a positional battle like this a few days ago, so when it came to fighting, Tang Cheng was still a little apprehensive in his heart. The 8 shell gun pistol magazines full of bullets are 160 bullets, but Tang Cheng's two shell guns have been adjusted to a state of continuous firing, and with such a button on his fingers, "da-da-da" is a shuttle of 20 bullets all out of the box, and when there are still the last two magazines left, Tang Cheng can't help but start panicking.
Relying on the large number of people, under the cover of light machine gun fire, after paying nearly 20 casualties, the three Japanese soldiers finally rushed into the trench where they were hiding in Tangcheng, "Withdraw, withdraw." The two guys in the second battalion wanted to have a hand-to-hand stab with the three Japanese soldiers who rushed into the trenches, but when Tang Cheng was shouting loudly in the trenches with a grenade, the soldiers of the second battalion who came to his senses hurriedly raised their legs and retreated.
The grenade in Tang Cheng's hand came from the two Japanese corpses in the trench, and Tang Cheng, who had only the last two magazines, needed more powerful weapons, so he rubbed them on the Japanese corpses next to him, and fortunately he found two Japanese-style oval grenades. Tang Cheng is no stranger to this kind of Japanese-style grenade, and Tang Cheng used this round Japanese-style grenade when he was fighting with the Japanese army with the miscellaneous company in Shanghai.
Knocking the grenade that had pulled off the fire ring on his steel helmet, Tang Cheng threw the grenade in his hand into the trench behind him, where the three Japanese soldiers who had rushed into the trench just now. The Japanese oval grenade has extremely terrifying lethality at close range, and the range covered by the shrapnel after the explosion is much higher than that of the wooden handle grenade equipped by the national army, and the compound wound caused by the shrapnel of the oval grenade will make it difficult for the wounded to heal.
The moment the grenade exploded in the trench, time seemed to stop in front of Tang Cheng's eyes, and in the dazzling flames and rising smoke, Tang Cheng even saw broken rifles and human stumps and severed arms mixed in the smoke and fire. "Get out of the way, don't get out of the way." Several soldiers from the teaching team rushed to the trench that had just been fried by Tang Cheng to organize defense, Tang Cheng, who was said to be the one who stood in the way, could only smile bitterly and walk towards the trench where the second company was located, it would be more comfortable to stay with his own people, and he needed bullets now.
Under the command of Liu Goat, more than a dozen people of the second company finally ran out of grenades after killing and wounding dozens of Japanese soldiers, and as the Japanese army continued to press, the personnel on both sides began to become dense, and in the narrow trenches, the soldiers of the second company were shooting almost with the muzzle of the other soldier's chest. The brutal fighting of flesh and blood neutralized the Japanese army's elite individual skills and qualities, and the red-eyed soldiers on both sides burst out with all their passion.
"Wan Zai" The Japanese dead soldier who held the grenade in two fingers shouted Banzai and rushed into the trench, "boom" and "boom" two explosions, and the Japanese soldiers who killed the smoke poured into the trench of the forward defense line like dumplings, and after the Kawamura squadron paid almost one-third of the casualties, it finally broke through a trench of less than 20 meters. Kawamura, who commanded the battle, shouted for an attack, and as the follow-up attack unfolded, more and more Japanese soldiers entered this section of trench, and the pride of the teaching team did not allow the soldiers of the second battalion to let the Japanese break through their own positions, so more and more soldiers of the second battalion also flocked here.
At the entrance of the main passage, where the fighting was most intense, soldiers on both sides were huddled together in a trench less than two meters wide, the Chinese soldiers were desperately advancing, and the Japanese were stubbornly fighting to the death. Time seemed to stop at this moment, the soldiers in front were shot and fell, and those behind immediately rushed to the top, and the sound of gunfire, shouts, curses, and screams and moans mixed with the smell of blood formed a concerto of death, and in such a dense close-range melee, almost no one was spared.
"Get out of the way." A second lieutenant officer in the forward position of the 2nd Battalion rushed over with a Czech light machine gun and shouted out to the Nationalist soldiers who were crowded here, and the second lieutenant pulled the trigger on the Japanese soldier who was hurriedly pulling the bolt in the trench. The rapid gunfire of "Da Da" crashed back and forth in the trenches, and the Japanese soldiers who were huddled together were hit by the rain of bullets in the frenzied gunfire, and a 30-round magazine was gone, and there were not many Japanese soldiers in the trenches still alive, and several soldiers from the second battalion pounced on them with bayonets, and they wanted to replenish the knives for these Japanese soldiers.
At the end, a Japanese second lieutenant covered in blood leaned on the wall of the trench and stared at the national soldier who stabbed him, and he still tried his best to raise his gun and shoot the national soldier in front of him despite being stabbed several times. The owner of the "poof" rifle pulled out the bayonet with all his vigor and strength, and the gun in the hand of the Japanese second lieutenant fell to the ground, and then fell heavily on the corpse of his companion.
At this moment, Kawamura was already stunned by the spirit of the Chinese soldiers who were not afraid of death, and he shuddered to resist such a stubborn and even crazy attack. Watching his soldiers being killed in the other party's trenches one after another, Kawamura's heart suddenly felt like his heart was being torn apart. "Retreat" The retreat order issued by Kawamura made the faces of several soldiers beside him relax, they were already preparing to die here, but they didn't expect the squadron leader to come down and retreat and leave here.
After a short but fierce resistance, the Kawamura squadron fled the battlefield under the cover of a smoke screen formed by a dozen wounded soldiers collectively detonating grenades, but they still shed more than 100 corpses in front of the forward position. When Xie Chengrui, who learned the news, rushed over, there were only more than 100 corpses of different shapes left in front of the forward position full of gunsmoke, the crater of the grenade was still emitting green smoke, and the smell of blood in the air reminded Xie Chengrui that he had just experienced a battle here.
In the most fierce battle, the corpses of the soldiers of the Chinese and Japanese armies covered the entire trench, the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dispersed, and the blood that had just been boiling had penetrated deeply into the ground at this moment, leaving only the black marks. All the fallen Chinese soldiers fell in one direction, that is, not a single one of them retreated at the time of the battle! When the brave meets, the brave wins, but no one cares about the price the brave pays for victory.
"See, these are Japanese soldiers pretending to be their own people, and it is not a loss to shoot them." The remaining dozens of people in the Kawamura squadron fled the battlefield, and the people of the second company did not pursue, they only had 15 people, whether they could catch up or not, in case they were fired back by the Japanese army, maybe the remaining 15 people would be wiped out. Cleaning the battlefield is the forte of the second company, when Xie Chengrui rushed over when he heard the news, Zhou Fuzheng took nine catties and a few of them to pick up things that could be used on the corpses, weapons and ammunition were the first choice, and then there were some dead people's bits and pieces.
Xie Chengrui was a little impatient with the behavior of these people picking up things from the dead people, so he simply turned his head and endured not to look at Zhou Fu and them, but asked Liu Goat directly, "How did you find out that these are your own people pretended to be by the Japanese army?" Aren't you afraid of killing the wrong person? Xie Chengrui's tone was quite kind, which made Liu Goat, who lowered his head and smoked, feel a little proud in his heart.
Stretching out his hand and pointing to Tang Cheng, who was crawling out of the trenches, Liu Goat said triumphantly, "That's our second company's baby bump, that kid may speak Japanese, and he can also recognize Japanese characters." He just used Japanese to deceive him, and the other party couldn't hold back and showed his stuffing. Tang Cheng, who had climbed out of the trench, didn't go to the corpse with Zhou Fu to rummage for things, but just sat down silently in a crater blown up by a grenade, and the temporary comfort made Tang Cheng forget the pain on his back.