Chapter 9 Stalemate
"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" With the help of mortar gas bombs, the Japanese strikers who crossed the river touched the river bank on the Tangcheng side, but when those Japanese soldiers who were ecstatic in their hearts just rushed to the river bank, the originally empty river bank suddenly burst out a series of explosions and fire clusters. "Mines, there are mines." The Japanese soldiers who stepped on the river bank immediately panicked, they did not know that the fire that burst out from the ground was just a trick mine arranged with grenades, and several Japanese soldiers wearing gas masks were even moving to the side, trying to bypass the trick minefield arranged by Yang Laosan on the river bank.
The heavy machine guns that had withdrawn to the rear according to Tang Cheng's order opened fire in time, and all the Japanese soldiers who were trying to bypass the minefield fell on the river bank. The Japanese mortars on the other side of the river immediately returned fire, but the machine guns that were still firing failed to dodge the shells, and a heavy machine gun that was still spitting tongues of fire was drowned in the smoke of the explosion. "Tell the anti-aircraft artillery to fire, and give me the little devil's mortar." The machine gun is one of the few heavy firepower weapons in Tang Cheng's hands, and seeing that a heavy machine gun is being killed by the other party, Tang Cheng will be really anxious.
The 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, which had been hidden after the change of position, opened fire again, and the gunners who operated the anti-aircraft guns did not know where the Japanese mortars were hiding, and just fired at the other side of the river with their own imagination. Tangcheng they were entangled with the Japanese mortars, but they gave great convenience to the Japanese soldiers who crossed the river, and when the few defeated soldiers who remained in the position killed the first batch of Japanese soldiers who landed on the river bank, more than 40 Japanese soldiers on the follow-up wooden platoon had successfully landed on the shore.
A veteran soldier who was carrying the cannonballs, Tang Cheng urn with a cloth towel on his face, shouted angrily, "Sue sรน gunner, don't get entangled with the little devil's mortar, and give me the guy on the wooden platoon into the river." "Tang Cheng only has this 40mm anti-aircraft gun in his hand, and even if he keeps firing, I'm afraid he can't block such a long riverbank. Except for a little panic when the Japanese army was bombarded at first, it has gradually stabilized now. Seeing that two more wooden platoons were approaching the river, the Japanese soldiers on the wooden platoons were jumping from the wooden platoons onto the river bank, and the form seemed to have suddenly become unfavorable to Tang Cheng and them.
The Japanese soldiers who crossed the river, they untied the ropes on their bodies, and desperately laid wooden stakes on the side of the riverbank, preparing to set up ropes, so that the wooden rafts behind them could quickly cross the river. "Tell the men in the position to retreat, and the machine guns open fire for cover." Tang Cheng, who was shouting, threw himself into a machine gun position, and with his shoulder, he carried away the coughing machine gunner and pulled the bolt. The first to fire at the Japanese soldiers who could be seen in the line of sight, the hot bullet casings kept throwing out the bolt, and Tang Cheng's body also shook rhythmically with the machine gun firing. Although the suffocating smoke and the cloth towel on his face hindered the accuracy of the shot, Tang Cheng didn't care, he had bullets now, just shoot as many bullets out as possible.
Seeing that Tang Cheng was coughing, Hou San almost crawled up and put a bloodstained gas mask on Tang Cheng's face, which Hou San peeled off from the heads of the wounded soldiers who had retreated. Tang Cheng wore a gas mask on his face, and his shouting voice was even more muffled. Watching Tang Cheng pick up a carbine, he jumped out of the trench and rushed into the smoke wall in a flash, and the remaining masked soldiers could only rush into the poison gas, and everyone collided with the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the riverbank.
"Kill" Tang Cheng opened the carbine at the Japanese soldiers who came over, pulled the trigger first, and knocked down several Japanese soldiers with a few shots. The routs who rushed up behind were simply a grenade, taking advantage of the unstable defense line of the Japanese army that had just landed, Tangcheng and they forced the Japanese army down the river again. "Withdraw, go back, go back" Tang Cheng stretched out his hand and pulled the rout soldiers who were about to rush down the river to beat the Japanese army, beckoning the guys to retreat. Sure enough, as soon as they jumped into the trench, the Japanese grenadiers came at them, blowing up the blades of grass in the place where they had just fought, and the slag was all over the sky.
"Open the cannon and bombard them with Lao Tzu." Hou San, who commanded the anti-aircraft artillery instead of Tang Cheng, stood on a high place, holding a telescope and looking for the grenadiers of the Japanese troops on the riverbank. "Boom" "Boom" 40mm anti-aircraft guns kept bombarding the Japanese troops on the riverbank, Hou Sanke didn't care how many Japanese soldiers he could kill, he just needed to hold the riverbank now, and just don't let the Japanese cross the river. The fire of the 40-mm anti-aircraft guns forced the Japanese mortars and grenadiers to die down, and Tang Cheng, who was hiding in the trenches, took the opportunity to crawl out of the position with the rout, searching for gas masks and grenades on the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in front of the position.
Yang Laosan took advantage of the fact that the poisonous gas was not dissipated, and led people to plant dozens of mines on the river bank, and Tang Cheng was relieved to retreat to the woods behind the position with the defeated soldiers and a large number of gas masks. Through the faint smoke wall on the other side of the river, Hou San, who was standing on a high place, could already see the shadowy Japanese soldiers, and it was estimated that these Japanese soldiers with 38 rifles still wanted to take advantage of the cover of poison gas to force their way across the river.
Tang Cheng never thought of underestimating the Japanese army, after experiencing the opponent's gas bomb offensive, Tang Cheng had already organized dozens of veterans with captured gas masks, and he was waiting for the Japanese army to attack again with the help of gas bombs. "Sir, the brothers on the other side of the bridge said they could hold it, so you don't have to worry." Tan Fei, who was sent to contact the wooden bridge, rushed back, in fact, the battle on the wooden bridge side was basically a confrontation battle, both sides were fighting with cold guns and cold guns, and the intensity of the battle was not as fierce as that from Tang Cheng's side.
"Damn the Japanese army, they're really betting on our side." The corners of Tang Cheng's mouth were slightly upturned to form an arc, and the Japanese army faced Tang Cheng's strong resistance, but did not change the direction of attack, which was already greatly unexpected by Tang Cheng. But it is precisely because of this that Tang Cheng can't help but secretly rejoice in his heart, firmly stick the Japanese army attacking Leduo here, and then wear down the Japanese army's strength little by little, this is not Tang Cheng's plan.
For some reason, the Japanese troops on the other side suddenly cheered, and then rushed to the wooden rafts by the river like a tide. "Go back, go back to the position" Tang Cheng took the lead and ran back to the trench, and all the routed soldiers who had put on gas masks also retreated into the position in a swarm. The military doctor had already said that this was not a lethal poison gas, but just ordinary tear gas, so the soldiers wore masks with masks, and those without masks tore the cloth on their clothes and wet their mouths and noses with water.
The counterattack of a few people can be ignored, but the counterattack of nearly 100 people is different, and nearly 100 gunfire suddenly burst out of the smoke, which makes the Japanese soldiers in the middle of the river regret it very much, regretting that they are in the middle of the river, there is no cover here at all, only to be beaten. The Japanese soldiers crossing the river twisted their bodies in the gunfire, and the blood splattered from the bullet holes stained the wooden rafts under them and the entire section of the river red. "Boom" "Boom" The grenadiers covered by the Japanese army were catapulting grenades again, and the losses on Tangcheng's side were not small, but he could not order a retreat, once he retreated, there would be no chance to turn back, because the Japanese army's forward had already pressed on the river bank on his side.
"Fire, fire and knock out their grenadiers." Hou San, who put down the binoculars, pointed to the position of the Japanese grenadier and shouted, and the 40-mm anti-aircraft gun immediately turned the muzzle and smashed a string of shells at the position of the Japanese grenadier. "Boom" "Boom" At the same time that the shells fired by the anti-aircraft guns broke off the Japanese grenadiers, the two Japanese mortars that had been hidden all this time finally opened fire, and the cunning Japanese troops attracted the attention of the 40-mm anti-aircraft guns with their grenadiers, but took the opportunity to hit the anti-aircraft guns with mortars. One of the two mortar shells accurately hit the anti-aircraft gun, knocking out all the gunners and bombardiers, and almost turning Hou San into one of those corpses.
For a long time, the 40-mm anti-aircraft gun, which was never valued by the British army, was the killer weapon of Tangcheng to defeat the enemy, but now, the anti-aircraft artillery was destroyed by the Japanese mortars, and the secretly distressed Tangcheng could only regret that the anti-aircraft artillery should not be arranged so close to the riverbank. Finding that the anti-aircraft artillery had been destroyed, the Japanese troops crossing the river shouted again and accelerated their crossing speed under the cover of mortars.
Suppressed by the Japanese mortars and machine guns, they could only hide in the dilapidated trenches, watching the Japanese soldiers on the wooden platoon jump onto the river bank. "Hidden, hidden, put them closer, waiting for my orders." Tang Cheng has always known the gap between the Japanese army and the national army soldiers in terms of combat quality, and at such a close distance, even the recruits in the Japanese army can accurately hit the defeated soldiers under their command.
As the battle continued and the number of people on the river bank increased, the fog that had been plaguing Tang Cheng finally dissipated a lot, and Tang Cheng could clearly see the Japanese soldiers landing on the shore from the gaps in the trench wall. Probably because they were afraid of stepping on a mine, the Japanese soldiers who landed on the shore did not immediately rush forward, but began to drive wooden stakes and bolt ropes on the bank of the river, just like last time, trying to help the Japanese soldiers who crossed the river in the future.
"Pap" "Pap" was forced by Tang Cheng to stay in the woods behind the dice and rock dragon finally fired, although they only had two guns, but according to the powerful lethality of sniper rifles, these Japanese soldiers who were only less than 300 meters away became the target of their shooting. Tangcheng they have been hiding in the trenches, the Japanese mortars could not find the target and stopped firing, just now there was still a shout of killing on the bank of the river only two monotonous gunshots, only the dice and the rock dragon two monotonous gunshots, after each gunshot, there will always be a person down among the Japanese soldiers who have landed on the shore.