Chapter 497 Street Fighting
Just as the first Japanese shell flew into the county town, the officer guarding the city wall shouted loudly: "The Japanese have started to test the shooting, and everyone will take down."
So the officers and soldiers on the city ran under the city wall, and just a moment later, the Japanese shells flew over, but this time they were blowing on the city wall.
For a moment, brick chips flew straight away, and the exploding smoke and dust could no longer see the situation on the city wall.
A few minutes later, a lookout whistle shouted: "The Japanese are attacking!"
So the soldiers hiding under the city wall ran to the city wall again, and there were soldiers carrying ammunition boxes behind them.
The battle on this day started like this.
However, the Japanese army soon caught a loophole in the defense of Songjiang County, or it was not called a loophole, it was a defect in the terrain, because there was no wall in the northwest corner of Songjiang County.
Soon, the Japanese artillery shells hit directly, and the walls collapsed and the houses collapsed and rubble piled up.
When the shelling stopped, the Japanese army surrounded here like a smelling flies.
Almost at the same time, many Northeast Army officers and soldiers emerged from the depths of the rubble and broken wall. The light machine gun was mounted and the rifle hit the shoulders, but the biggest killer was the Maxim heavy machine gun mounted on both wings in front of the gap.
This time, the main force of the Japanese army has arrived, the 6th Division of the 17 permanent divisions of the Japanese army.
In the current era, only the miscellaneous armies of the Chinese army participating in the Battle of Shanghai will play the human sea tactics. The well-trained Japanese army will never make such mistakes.
Dozens of Japanese soldiers, under the cover of light and heavy machine guns in the rear, were constantly choosing places to hide, and alternately covering them, and rushed towards the gap.
What disappointed the Northeast Army officers and soldiers was that the heavy machine guns had a pre-set shooting range. Seeing that the Japanese army was rushing closer and closer between the bricks and rubble piles but did not gather, two Maxim heavy machine guns finally rang out in "hole holes".
Heavy machine guns are probabilistic. Under the attack of cross fire, although several Japanese troops were beaten into blood mist, the rest of the Japanese troops hid one after another.
The Japanese army's tactical movements were swift and skillful, running, lying down, dodging, and shooting non-stop.
"You can't let the Japanese rush in. They will take root if they rush in!" An officer shouted, so the two Maxim heavy machine guns kept firing.
But at this moment, the officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army heard a sound of "bang" and "bang" in front of them. The sound was not very loud, and naturally it was not a cannon, but it was the small cannon that the Northeast Army usually called, that is, the grenade launcher.
Bullets flew around between the enemy and us. Who would have noticed where the Japanese grenade launcher hit the grenade? With just a few loud bangs, the two Maxim heavy machine guns of the Northeast Army were blown up.
The Japanese troops who were originally hiding behind the broken walls and rubble appeared one after another and rushed back to the gap in the county town.
You should know that they are the elite divisions of the Japanese army, so their combat power is naturally extraordinary.
At this time, the light machine gun rifles of the Northeast Army officers and soldiers sounded again, but this time it was close to street fighting, and the killing effect of both the enemy and us was not obvious.
Ten minutes later, the Japanese attack was repelled, but more than 20 Northeast Army officers and soldiers guarding this gap were killed.
There are high walls as barriers in the rest of the county town. Although the Japanese army was bombarded, the officers and soldiers of the Northeast always retreated in time before the shelling. Although there were casualties, they could not be completely destroyed. When the shelling was over, they returned to the wall.
Therefore, the focus of the Japanese attack is still here
The bullets of the enemy and us intertwined, and the Japanese army continued to attack there. In the end, dozens of Japanese troops rushed into the gap, and the real street fighting began.
The beginning of street fighting means the beginning of a stalemate.
Even if the Japanese army had planes and cannons, it would not be possible to razed the entire Songyuan County town to the ground. They ultimately needed to occupy the ground, so they could only compete for one house at a time.
At this time, the grenades of the Northeast Army and the grenades of the Japanese Army became particularly important to both sides.
I found that there was my own enemy in the opposite room. No matter which side, I would throw grenades or grenades in it, and naturally, neither side could get any better.
A Northeast Army soldier saw the Japanese army rushing over in a broken room. He only fired a shot and saw three Japanese soldiers raising their guns at him at the same time. He retreated back.
If he just retracts, then how can he calculate? Of course he understands that the Japanese grenades will fly up later.
The Japanese grenades, but the 48-flap, were flying shrapnel that would leave no shooting spots in the room.
At this time, the Northeast soldier saw the pot, and the room he was in happened to be the kitchen of this house.
In desperation, he went straight to the stove in the room, put his hand on the edge of the pot and lifted the pot upwards. Then he stepped on the pot and jumped into the stove.
There was dark ashes rising up in his face, but how could he care about it? Just as he curled up into the stove and put the pot down, the "clang" sound of a grenade falling from the ground came from the room.
And the "clang" sound was not just one, it turned out to be three!
This little Japanese devil is really taking advantage of it! He actually used three grenades to blow me up here.
As this thought passed through the soldier's mind, the sound of explosion rang out.
He heard a clanging sound from the side wall of the pot. Needless to think about it, it was a fragment of a grenade explosion hitting the pot. Fortunately, the pot of this house was made of red bricks, so he escaped the disaster.
But his battle has not ended yet.
How big is the stove? He was like a thief who had practiced the magical art of bone shrinkage in ancient times. He struggled to touch out his grenade.
Unscrew the little cap on the handle, then pulled out the rope inside, and then he continued to listen.
When footsteps sounded in the room, he pulled the string of the grenade and paused for a while before throwing the grenade out of the stove pit.
In a moment, the explosion sounded, and he heard the screams of the Japanese army. The Japanese army entering the room never dreamed that grenades could be thrown out in the stove pit!
The soldier came out of the stove and started fighting again with a dark face.
At this time, just outside the 67th Army headquarters, the commander Wu Ke stared at the northwest with a serious expression, like a silent statue.
Just beside him, several officers and soldiers were standing there, vigilantly scanning the front, and Shang Zhen was there too.
Shang Zhen wanted to remind Wu Keyong to be concealed, but he knew that if he dared to say something, he would definitely be the fate of being scolded.
"Where are those half of you?" Wu Keyong spoke. His question was a little sudden, which scared Shang Zhen beside him.
Seeing that the commander asked him, Shang Zhen pointed to the house that was diagonally opposite to the military headquarters, where Wang Laomao and the others were.
"Are you all veterans?" Wu Keyong didn't look at Shang Zhen, but continued to ask.
"Yes, when the Japanese attacked Beidaying, we came out of Beidaying." Shang Zhen replied.
At this time, Shang Zhen was still staring ahead with vigilance. He did not notice that when he mentioned Beidaying, Wu Keyong's mouth twitched.
September 18th, Beidaying, this will become the eternal pain for the entire Northeast Army, and it can also be said to be the eternal scar for the Northeast Army, and it is also the eternal scar for him, Wu Keyong.
Wu Keyong felt that the scar on his body had never healed, and he had only scabs on the surface.
Shang Zhen was still too young after all, and he didn't know how to avoid such topics, so he inadvertently poked Wu Keyong's scar.
Chapter completed!