Chapter Ninety-One: Dark Night Assault

"Are you saying that they are running low on ammunition, and we take the opportunity to make a counter-charge?" Liu Goat's face turned darker under the cover of the night, and after figuring out the reason why Tang Cheng wanted to risk running back, Liu Goat couldn't help but ask the bold Tang Cheng. In fact, Tang Cheng didn't know what a counter-charge was, he just didn't want to miss this opportunity after learning that the Japanese army was short of ammunition. The Japanese reinforcements have arrived, and perhaps more Japanese troops will emerge behind them, and now is a good opportunity, whether they fight or withdraw, the Japanese army who lacks ammunition has no way to take them.

"I'm not talking about counter-charge, you think that if the Japanese army on the opposite side is really short of ammunition, then we can take the opportunity to retreat, or even go directly to the Rujiang Gate, by dawn, maybe we have already crossed the river" The watch left by Robert has long been lost by Tang Cheng, so Tang Cheng can only roughly estimate the time now, and it should not be more than 2 hours before dawn, although the time is a little less, but it is enough for them to safely withdraw from the battle and leave here.

"We can't retreat, we are not far from Zhongshan Road here, if the Zhongshan Road is cut off by the Japanese army, all the troops who retreat to Rujiangmen will be cut off, we have to stay here and wait for the 88th Division to retreat, so we have to fight a countercharge." After a day's fighting, Liu Goat still had about 170 people under his command, and the Japanese army on the opposite side was estimated to be no more than 100 people.

Tang Cheng had no objection to defending or retreating, he just didn't want to lose this opportunity in front of him, since the Japanese army lacked ammunition, whether it was retreating or attacking, it was very beneficial to his side. Liu Goat is a person who thinks of doing it, and immediately summoned the reserve team arranged in the back, Liu Goat's reserve team has 60 people, all of them are fresh troops who have rested for three hours, each of them has a rifle and 40 rounds of ammunition, they are Liu Goat's dependence.

Several soldiers with the strongest arm strength were singled out, and after the only light machine gun on the position moved forward, the soldiers selected by Liu Goat threw the masonry and rubble in their hands forward. The movement of the bricks and stones falling on the ground aroused the vigilance of the Japanese troops on the opposite side, and the Japanese army swept a shuttle with a machine gun first, but unfortunately the soldiers on Liu Goat's side had already hidden behind the bunker, and let the bricks and rubble hit by the bullets fired by the Japanese army splash, but the soldiers of the national army hiding behind were unscathed.

"Da Da Da" Liu Goat's machine gunner fired a point at the gun flame on the Japanese side, and the Japanese army on the opposite side snapped and replied with a burst of gunfire. The night shrouded the open space between the warring sides, and although it was not dark and nothing could be seen, the Japanese army and the national army were also afraid of being attacked by the other side at night, so they also became very sensitive. The soldiers arranged by Liu Goat kept making noises for a while, and every time a sound came out, it would always attract gunfire from the Japanese army, and of course Liu Goat's people would join in the melee, but the purpose of their shooting was not to kill and injure the enemy, but to consume the opponent's ammunition.

Ten minutes passed, the Japanese gunfire was much weaker, and half an hour later, the Japanese gunfire was even weaker, their machine guns no longer fired, and only a few 38 rifles were responded, and the gunfire had become much more sparse. The ruins between Liu Goat and Jiujin were no longer under the control of the Japanese gunfire, food and drinking water had also been sent over, and the agreed steps had also been conveyed, and Liu Goat even sent 20 more people to strengthen the firepower of Jiujin on their side, all for the last attack.

Estimating that the time was almost up, Liu Goat personally went into battle and quietly sneaked towards the Japanese army with more than a dozen agile soldiers. The Japanese soldiers, who had already become frightened birds, probably sensed the defenders' intention to consume their ammunition, and there was another noise in the clearing, and the Japanese threw stones and bricks instead of shooting. On this night of roaring war, the two warring sides seemed to return to the Stone Age, abandoning their hot weapons in favor of stones as their attacking weapons.

"Shoot, shoot, draw the attention of the Japanese with the sound of gunfire." Exhausted, Tang Cheng was left in his position by Liu Goat, and after learning that the Japanese troops on the opposite side were using stones as throwing weapons, Tang Cheng called several riflemen to open fire. The lethality of stones is not as good as that of thermal weapons, but after all, they are harder than human bones, and being hit by such a thing will definitely hurt the body, in order to reduce the casualties of Liu Goat, Tang Cheng decided to shoot to distract the attention of the Japanese army.

The gunfire diverted the attention of the Japanese troops on the opposite side, and also kept Liu Goat and them from the threat of stones, and the chaotic shooting continued, while Liu Goat in the night was getting closer and closer to the Japanese army. Taketama never thought of himself as a person of good luck, even though he had only been in the army for 2 years and had become a second lieutenant squad leader, he still didn't feel that he had so-called good luck, he always thought that his promotion to second lieutenant was achieved by his own efforts.

But today's Takeda Ma wants to say that he is a lucky person, the moment the brigade broke through the Zhonghua Gate, the team commanded by Takeda was still outside the city, and he didn't know how to rush inside, his team entered the city of Nanjing, and when the other troops of the wing were desperately pushed out of the city by the defenders of the branch, the team commanded by Takeda and the Yeshan team unexpectedly stayed in the city. With only two infantry squads, they could not destroy the entire city fortifications of Nanjing, but they successfully contacted the infiltration troops who entered Nanjing in advance.

After learning that Rujiangmen was the retreat channel for the defenders of China, Takeda planned to take a gamble, betting that he and the Yeshan team could block the only way for the defenders of China to retreat - Zhongshan Road. They don't have to hold on here for days, maybe only a day or half a day, and the Imperial army outside the city will be able to break through the fortifications of Nanjing, and at that time, he will become a hero of the empire after cutting off the retreat of the defenders of China, and may even be received and honored by His Majesty the Emperor.

For the glory of the Takeda family, Takeda staked everything he had, no matter how tired and hungry his soldiers were, and how scarce ammunition and materials were, Takeda just urged the special high school intelligence officer who led the way to speed up. Under the influence of Takedama, the Chinese army was completely vulnerable, and his squad chased all the way from Shanghai, and countless Chinese troops were routed by them. Takeda even fantasized that as long as his team could occupy one of the main passages or junctions of the Zhongshan Road, the Shina defenders who wanted to withdraw from the Rujiang Gate would obediently disarm and surrender.

Takedama, who was sitting by the campfire, had already understood the meaning of this Chinese idiom, and his good fortune seemed to have lost its effect after breakfast this day, because he was blocked by a group of defenders. After a whole day of fierce fighting, the defenders of Shina who were fighting against him seemed to fight more and more, and his soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and if it wasn't for the timely arrival of the Noyama team, maybe the soldiers in his team would have run out of bullets.

"You can't retreat, even if there's only one person left." Noyama and the people of the special high school tried to persuade him to retreat, but Takeda did not agree to the retreat of the troops. The two squads together have lost more than half of their soldiers here, and it is still night, even with the help of the special high division intelligence officers and infiltration troops, they will not be able to escape without ammunition, and Takeda is not willing to face his defeat at all, as long as he does not retreat, his defeat will naturally not exist.

Takedama's persistence contributed to their confrontation with Liu Goat, but as the ammunition continued to decrease, Takedama, who had always insisted on staying, also began to waver. "Damn the Shina man" added a few pieces of wood to the campfire, and Takeda cursed in a low voice. There are a lot of dangers hidden in the night, the dark night is like a monster with a wide open mouth, which makes Takedama, who is sitting by the bonfire, feel cold, and the sound of gunshots from time to time breaks the silence, making Takeda feel a little better.

The hour hand of the watch is already pointing to four o'clock in the morning, and the sky will be bright in just over an hour, and the remaining 60 Imperial warriors will regain the upper hand, as long as the troops outside the city can break through the city defenses, this is a great achievement. The monotonous gunfire made everyone tend to let it go, and all the Japanese soldiers, including Takeda himself, thought that this was just a bluff of the soldiers on the other side, but they never imagined that Liu Goat and his people were only a dozen meters away from them.

It was so close that they could almost hear the breathing of those Japanese soldiers, and Liu Goat stopped advancing, crawling and they couldn't see the robes around them clearly, and could only rely on the movements of the people in front and behind them to make judgments. Liu Goat took out a grenade and gently touched the body of his companions, passing the signal one by one, and soon they were all holding a grenade in their hands that had taken out the fire ring.

"Grenade" Liu Goat took a deep breath and suddenly got up from the ground, and then threw the grenade in his hand out with a loud shout, and the explosion of the "boom" "boom" and "boom" grenade sounded continuously, and the Japanese soldiers who were not on guard were drowned in shrapnel and rubble, and the fire that bloomed in the night instantly illuminated everything, especially the light machine gun of the Japanese army was even more conspicuous.

"Grenades" With Liu Goat shouting, another round of grenades was vigorously thrown into the area occupied by the Japanese army, more than 50 grenades plowed the entire area controlled by the Japanese army, and the power of the continuous explosion was enough to tear all the living creatures to pieces. But Liu Goat knew that there would always be some lucky guys who would avoid death, and after two rounds of grenade throwing, Liu Goat took his men and began to charge in a surprise charge.