Chapter 102 Nineteen Hours of Life and Death (1) [For Elway 1/5]
The next battle came much faster than Hu Biao expected, and the scale and intensity exceeded his imagination.
Moreover, the last battle ended not long ago, and the next battle began soon.
In short, from 8 o'clock in the morning to 3 o'clock in the morning of the next day, almost nineteen hours, everything Hu Biao and the others experienced was something that even they did not dare to recall afterwards.
Time: 8:12 a.m. on August 28, in the cellar of the salient position.
There are currently 87 combatants in the replenishment battalion, including officers and men. Many of them are staying here, waiting hard for the time when they can go out.
What! As early as 10 minutes ago, the Japanese artillery fire came over again.
That earth-shattering posture has the potential to completely wipe out such a small protruding position from the planet.
Seeing this, Hu Biao could only take everyone with him and move to a place that had gone through a test and seemed to be relatively reliable to avoid the bombardment.
Suddenly, two completely different scenes appeared.
The remaining personnel in the replenishment camp were either squatting on the ground with their eyes closed and concentrating, or they were ignoring the already bad air in the cellar and smoking heavily.
Looking at it from a distance, it looks like a group of people playing together.
What's amazing is that when the newly joined comrades' backs were about to lean against the wall, these lazy-looking guys would step forward and slap them on the back of the head.
He cursed: "You don't want to live, kid? Be careful that the shock from the shelling will shatter all your internal organs."
They squat like we do, just to survive, so there is no shame in doing so."
After the newly joined personnel squatted down like the veterans, most of their faces were full of fear; mainly because they had never encountered such a violent bombardment in the battles they had experienced before.
In previous domestic melees between warlords, both sides usually fired three or five rounds with small-caliber mountain cannons before charging, which was already a big scene.
It can be said that it was the great battle of Songhu that changed the domestic soldiers' attitude towards modern warfare at that time.
Therefore, the newly joined soldiers seemed to have been worried that by chance, a large-caliber artillery shell would land just above the cellar and take them to the sky with it.
Then, more than 80 people will be buried inside together, and they will be dug out after who knows how many years.
Or maybe there will never be a chance to be dug out...
As for the different reactions of his men, Hu Tuanzuo didn't take it seriously before blocking the exit; people's courage is all frightened, it would be better to experience it a few more times without being scared out of their wits.
Under the current situation, as long as no one can't bear the pressure and tries to run out and die.
Even, based on his determination not to smoke second-hand smoke, he also lit a stick of sand and made some adjustments to the current replenishment camp while taking advantage of the gap between the huge explosions outside:
"Listen to me. Now I will divide the specific ownership and responsibilities of all personnel. You will know who to follow later. You can do whatever he asks you to do?
Fake foreign devil, Fei Falcon, stand up! You see clearly, these two guys are the chief and deputy commanders of the first company. The first company now has a total of 16 people under its command, divided into two combat groups. If you hear the name, go and stand with him.
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Zhu Changgui, Li Pingan, Zhou Zhouwa, Ma Erfu..."
Holding a list of additional personnel sent with the letter of appointment, under the constant orders from Hu Biao's mouth, familiar or unfamiliar faces appeared with pale and confused expressions.
Just like the allocated pork, waiting to be arranged one by one.
Specifically, Hu Biao divided the personnel into three combat companies and one fire assault company. Each combat company was led by two veterans. In addition to being divided into two combat groups, he also placed no more than two or three veterans in it.
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The Fire Assault Company among them was Xu Feng's previous Fire Assault Team, just with a different name.
In addition, regarding the issue that one of his company commanders has two company commanders and two company commanders, and there are only 18 people in each company, Hu Biao believes that this point is not that important, as long as everyone knows who will take command in a fight.
As for the remaining personnel, there are no major changes in the personnel of the original mortar, heartless cannon, and heavy machine gun teams.
Not to mention! After such an arrangement, the newly joined staff gathered in front of their respective superiors, and their minds became somewhat calmer.
Everyone squatted on the ground quietly, smoking a greeting gift handed out by the superiors directly under them, silently waiting for all this to pass...
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About 35 minutes later, that is, around 8:50 in the morning.
The battle on the Luodian salient position has officially begun.
Several consecutive offensive failures obviously caused great psychological pressure on the Japanese 11th Division who was responsible for the attack on the opposite side.
Anyway, after they launched the attack again, there was a big difference in terms of artillery preparations, the size of the troops, and even the frequency and determination of the attacks.
After a bombing that lasted for almost half an hour, Hu Biao and others broke out of the cellar.
When you were eating, you could see on the dusty battlefield, a large group of shirtless Japs with "Bojuan" headbands tied on their heads, holding rifles, trotting across the line towards the Luodian area.
But faster than them were the Japanese armored troops who had almost watched the entire battle.
There were twenty or thirty of these vehicles in total. With thick black smoke rising from the buttocks of the vehicles, they drove all the way towards Luodian. The number was more than double that of yesterday.
Apparently, in order to capture Luodian, the Japanese side mobilized a considerable part of the armor force at hand, which was a huge investment.
Fortunately, the increased armor strength of the Japs are all thinner and more fragile than the Type 95 light tanks that cannot withstand even a single shot of the DIY Iron Fist.
For example:
Some of them are not even equipped with artillery. The body only has a few machine guns as firepower and is driven by wheels. This is an antique model that can defend against light firepower.
Such as Type 90 armored fighting vehicle, Vickers M25 armored fighting vehicle, Type 93 armored fighting vehicle, etc.
Of course, such armored weapons also depend on what kind of opponents they encounter. On other battlefields, these things may be just living coffins.
But on the Songhu battlefield where the machine gun firepower at hand was unable to kill them, these machine gun armored vehicles were some terrifying firepower hedgehogs, some powerful killing machines.
These Japanese armored combat vehicles rushed towards the position with the driver pressing the accelerator to the bottom.
Because the speed was too fast, after the Japanese infantry following them started to run, they couldn't keep up with the speed, and it felt like they had to start last, first come.
I don’t know if I thought too highly of Hu Biao and the others, but out of a total of 30 tanks and armored vehicles, there was actually a detachment of 8 vehicles, heading towards the salient position.
The abundant anti-armor strength in the hands of Hu Biao and others became somewhat stretched.
The above armored troops and ground troops were still not all part of this Japanese attack. This time, six Japanese planes actually appeared in the sky.
Such simultaneous attacks by mechanized troops in the sky and on the ground are really mind-numbing to watch.
Fortunately, at such a moment, above the heads of Hu Biao and others, four aircraft with blue sky and white sun badges appeared, namely one Hawker III and three Hawker II.
They ignored the numerical gap between the two sides and rushed forward.
It also made Hu Biao and the others light the fire and pause for a while.
After all, there was too much smoke after lighting those things, and it felt like fighting with a gas mask on. It was really terrible.
So Hu Biao thought that it would not be too late to ignite the fire again after the air force overhead gradually lost ground.
However, what Hu Biao never expected was that after the ground troops from both sides engaged in battle, for a long period of time, they would not even have time to look up at the sky.
Just to withstand the Japanese ground attack would exhaust all their means and energy.