Chapter 32: Retreat

Xu Zhiqing's artillery company did not start as scheduled, and the soldiers of the first battalion, which had been suppressed by the Japanese shelling, could not organize effective firepower at all, and with the advance of the Japanese army, the brutal battle was staged as scheduled. Heavy machine guns, light machine guns, rifles, grenades, explosive packs, and Molotov cocktails, all of which could be used, were put into the fight against the Japanese attack.

However, the disparity in strength between the two sides was huge, and the defenders were unable to prevent the Japanese from breaking through their first trench despite the sacrifice of the Japanese advance soldiers. Seeing that the Japanese army had rushed in front of them, many soldiers of the first battalion simply inserted bayonets and climbed out of the trenches, preparing to use their own flesh and blood to resist the enemy's attack desperately.

For the operation of annihilating the Japanese army's roundabout troops, Xie Chengrui chose to leave the first battalion commanded by Liu Shanyang in the frontal position, and at the same time asked the second and third battalions to draw out an infantry company as a reserve.

The strength of the Japanese army, which exceeded a squadron, was already faintly visible, and the sound of artillery charging on the positions of the battalion in front was already deafening. Turning his head to look at Xu Zhiqing, who was fidgeting beside him, Xie Chengrui put down the binoculars in his hand and said lightly, "This Japanese army has just attacked, wait, wait for them to get closer, and wait for our mountain artillery to take off their artillery positions before starting." ”

In order to carry out Xie Chengrui's plan, Liu Shanyang ordered the scope of fire only to include the main position in front, and there were only sporadic gun flames on the two flanks of the first battalion position. Fifty meters away from the flank position of the first battalion, the light machine guns on the flanks began to fire, and the Japanese attacking troops quickly lay on the ground to avoid the oncoming bullets.

The four guns of the "Boom" "Boom" and "Boom" artillery company finally fired, and the shells accurately fell in front of the main frontal position of the first battalion, and the Japanese troops lying on the ground were drowned in smoke and firelight, and the scene of flesh and blood flying made Tang Cheng look a little cruel, but at this time, Chu Tangcheng was no longer the one he had when he first entered the battlefield in Shanghai. "Shoot, shoot, don't ceasefire." Ignoring the flying shrapnel and the scattered rubble, Liu Shanyang shouted loudly on the position with his throat in his voice, if the main position could not take advantage of this opportunity to shoot a large number of Japanese troops, once the Japanese counterattacked, it would only be a matter of time before the main position fell.

Xie Chengrui, who had moved forward from the command post, saw it clearly, and immediately shouted loudly, "Gao Chuang, immediately blow the trumpet, and order the first battalion to charge with bayonets on all after the artillery fire has stopped." When the terrible trumpet sounded behind the position of the first battalion, Tang Cheng obviously saw Liu Goat in the trench trembling, and then saw Liu Goat turn around and look at the rear of the position in disbelief. It is not so much that Liu Goat is shocked, but it is better to say that Liu Goat is sad and angry, there are only more than 100 people left in the first battalion, and there is at least one squadron of the Japanese army that came to attack, and more than 100 people are fighting with 200 Japanese soldiers, and it is also a loss for Xie Chengrui to think of it.

But a military order is a military order, and the tragic Liu Goat could only shout at Tang Cheng and let Tang Cheng stay in the position, and then turned out of the trench with a rifle. Xu Zhiqing's artillery fire stopped as soon as he said it, and the order to fight the first battalion had not yet been conveyed, Xu Zhiqing's artillery company had already stopped the artillery fire, and saw that the defenders had already stood on the position with rifles, and there was a sense of close-quarters fighting, and the Japanese soldiers who were lying in front of the first battalion position to avoid cannon fodder were not ambiguous, and they got up one after another and raised their rifles.

The Japanese soldiers, who were prepared for close combat, quickly withdrew their bullets as usual, and prepared for hand-to-hand combat back-to-back. Liu Goat took the lead in rushing first, and he was targeting a burly Japanese soldier, the two of them almost simultaneously stepped forward and stabbed, the sharp bayonets collided together, and before the Japanese soldier turned around and stabbed back, Liu Goat had already hit someone with a gun directly...... A hundred men of the first battalion were quickly entangled with the Japanese army. The machine guns in the position stopped firing, and the Chinese and Japanese armies in the melee only had the most primitive way of fighting, and no advanced weapons could provide support at this time.

Tang Cheng didn't want to play any hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army from the beginning, he just lay down in the trench and secretly used bullets to support Liu Goat and them, thirty rifle bullets were shot out, and Tang Cheng was also shocked by the recoil of the rifle. The companions around him had already climbed out of the trench and engaged in white-knuckle combat, and when Lynn was about to climb up with his two shell guns, a Japanese soldier suddenly jumped down from it with a "ahhhh

The two of them fell to the bottom of the trench together, their bodies almost pressed together, and despite the intense pain, Tang Cheng's mind was still very clear at this time. He pulled out and rolled to the side, the shell gun in his right hand had been raised diagonally, Tang Cheng and the Japanese soldier were only less than a meter and a half apart, he didn't need to aim at all, the other party had just put on an attack frame, Tang Cheng's fingers had already pulled the trigger of the shell gun. Face to face on the battlefield, either you die or I die, Tang Cheng does not allow himself to have the slightest weakness in front of the enemy, otherwise it is likely that he will die here.

The "pop" gun rang out, and the Japanese soldier's chest suddenly splattered with blood, and Tang Cheng, who was almost attached to the Japanese soldier, inevitably had a face of blood, and the blood that fell on his lips made Tang Cheng feel extremely disgusting. Seeing that the Soviet soldier was staring wide-eyed and fell down unwillingly, Tang Cheng almost instinctively got up and turned out to the front of the position, the white-knuckle battle outside the position had become white-hot, Liu Goat was covered in blood red, and he didn't know if it was his own blood or was sprayed on him by the blood of the Japanese army.

"Pap" "Pap" "Pap" Tang Cheng, who was carrying two guns, rushed into the battle group, and the two shell guns in his hands never stopped shooting, and Tang Cheng, who was dizzy, kept pulling the trigger on the earthy yellow that appeared in his eyes, and the Japanese soldiers who were fighting with Liu Goat and them were fighting less and less. At the same time that Liu Goat's pressure was greatly reduced, Tang Cheng, who was holding a gun in both hands, was also noticed by the Japanese army in the melee, and a knife-faced military Cao rushed towards Tang Cheng with a rifle, and the murderous Japanese soldier Cao in his eyes hated to pierce Tang Cheng out at once.

Tang Cheng is not the original recruit, and it is dangerous to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, don't look at the two shell guns in Tang Cheng's hand that keep ringing, but he has always paid attention to his side, as long as the Japanese army is close to him, Tang Cheng will definitely retreat in time to distance himself from the Japanese army. Before the military Cao rushed to Tang Cheng's side, Tang Cheng, who was on guard, had already been watched by Tang Cheng, who was on guard, and fired two shots, "pop" and "pop", and the fierce Japanese soldier Cao overturned on his back.

Seeing the lively fighting on Tang Cheng's side, Liu Goat, who was a little weak, also knocked away the Japanese soldiers around him with his shoulder, pulled out his shell gun and snapped a few shots, and first scattered the Japanese soldiers around him. As more and more shell guns were put into close combat in the second company, the Japanese army gradually became weak, but they were still resisting stubbornly, Liu Goat frequently looked back at Xie Chengrui's temporary command post, I don't know what it was for, after the first battalion and the Japanese army were in close combat, the reinforcements that should have appeared were delayed.

Finally, the Japanese began to retreat. The remnants of the Japanese army, which were less than a hundred men, began to withdraw in loose formation from contact with the 1st battalion. Liu Goat naturally would not give up this opportunity, but the first battalion itself suffered a lot of casualties, and the maximum number of soldiers who could participate in the pursuit was no more than 40, so Liu Goat could only order to suspend the pursuit of the Japanese army. After more than half an hour of melee, the more than 200 Japanese troops who made a detour, except for 100 who escaped, were all annihilated in front of the position of the first battalion. When Yuta Kobayashi learned that half of the more than 200 people under his subordinates had been annihilated, his whole body trembled with anger and shouted that he would use special ammunition to attack.

When the Japanese artillery shells came, Tang Cheng was still lying in the bunker to avoid the possible shrapnel attack, but the wave of "shells" from the Japanese army did not explode, but emitted smoke. Tang Cheng was choked by those smoke-soaked tears and snot uncontrollably, and he was dizzy to see Liu Goat's face covered with blood mist, jumping down from the trench with a rifle in his hand, and he was still yelling something. Although Tang Cheng's hearing was basically restored, he still couldn't understand a word, but looking at the other party's gesture, he should be beckoning him to move to the reserve position in the rear.

Without time to think about it, Tang Cheng thrust his shell gun into his belt, and with his Mauser rifle, he ran towards the place where the horizontal trench on the right and the longitudinal trench communicated. Under Liu Goat's greeting and drive, several other people from the second company also joined in. Tang Cheng lowered his head, bowed his waist, and ran behind Liu Goat closely, Tang Cheng didn't dare to stop, Liu Goat kept shouting that all the national troops on the position were retreating, Tang Cheng was afraid that if he slowed down, he might only be left alone on the position.

The long communication trenches were mostly destroyed by Japanese shells and bombs, and Tang Cheng didn't care about it so much, so they crawled over it directly with their hands and feet, and stumbled and ran for more than ten minutes, and the group finally arrived at the reserve position in the rear. At this time, the reserve position was also a battalion of soldiers who had just been withdrawn from the front, and they were sparse at a glance, and they were all as embarrassed as Tang Cheng and them.

Seeing that Liu Goat stopped, Tang Cheng, who was dizzy, stopped his steps and returned to the position that originally belonged to the first battalion, where the Japanese army wearing a gas mask on his head had completely occupied it, and the Japanese army's khaki military uniform was very conspicuous on the charred black position. Liu Goat got a few pots of water from the reserve position, and poured cold water on the faces of the people of the second company one by one, but fortunately, the Japanese army did not use the most powerful poison gas bombs, otherwise none of these people in the first battalion would want to leave the position alive.