A few hundred meters away, a gray Panzer IV tank was lying quietly on the ground, the black muzzle seeming to shine with an intimidating cold light.
Everyone held their breath. The sergeant who was originally aggressive and wanted to hit someone seemed to have lost control of his body for a moment. He stood stiffly on the spot, and the original ferocious look on his face instantly turned into panic.
I don't know how long it took before he let out a heartbreaking roar, "Chariots... Chinese chariots... quickly spread out and take cover..."
Just as he was shouting, the No. 4 tank on the opposite side suddenly shook its body, and an orange light erupted from the muzzle. A 75mm high-explosive anti-personnel bomb instantly hit the sergeant at a speed of 385 meters per second.
Less than three meters away.
The huge shock wave carried hundreds of steel balls and scattered them in all directions. The sergeant standing on the roadside was broken into dozens of pieces like a burst watermelon, and fragments of his body were scattered everywhere.
Although the truck a little further away was better, many steel balls still hit the front of the truck. The driver sitting in the cab was not spared. His chest was hit by a steel ball and he fell to the driver's side without saying a word.
On the seat, blood gushed out from the wound.
Not only that, the huge shock wave even cracked the car's glass, and the entire truck was shaken violently by the shock wave. Yes, all the people in the car fell to the ground, and screams and roars were heard for a while.
"Get off the car... get off the car quickly... otherwise we will all die here!"
I don't know who shouted, and the soldiers in the carriage scrambled out of the carriage one after another, leaving only the nurse who was slow to respond. Miyoko Sugita, who fell to the ground in the chaos, was stepped on by someone in the calf, which hurt her.
Tears came out.
Just a few hundred meters away from them, inside the No. 4 tank.
"Tu Xingsun, you damn missed!"
Looking through the commander's observation mirror, Huang Jianhua was so angry that he cursed.
That's right, this No. 4 tank that came out halfway was Huang Jianhua and his team who came hard after falling behind. They hurriedly and slowly arrived at the battlefield, but the development of the battle situation was beyond their expectations.
Seeing a swarm of Japanese troops running towards them in front of them, they stopped, took aim, and fired like a conditioned reflex. However, the first shot missed, and the shell only killed one Japanese soldier.
Seeing such results, Huang Jianhua felt a little distressed while cursing. These shells are not cheap. The price of a tank high-explosive anti-personnel bomb is fifty oceans, which is equal to half a year's military pay. Now he has killed a Japanese soldier.
What a huge loss.
"How do you practice on a daily basis? You can't even hit a target at such a close distance, and you eat all the food in your belly."
Sun Youfu, nicknamed Tu Xingsun, also felt a little hot on his face. He didn't blame Huang Jianhua for scolding him. The shot just now was indeed too bad. It was a few hundred meters away and still in a stationary state. Even this could
Even if he missed the target, he had nothing to say.
Gritting his teeth, Sun Youfu shouted: "Prepare high-explosive bombs!"
The loader on the side opened the gun bolt, pulled out the cartridge case, turned around and took another high-explosive bomb from the ammunition rack behind him and stuffed it into the gun bore, closed the gun bolt, and then shouted: "High-explosive is good."
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Sun Youfu turned the steering gear, aimed the muzzle at the truck and was about to fire, when he heard Huang Jianhua shouting: "Wait a minute, the Japs on the truck are coming down, don't fire yet...the machine gun...hurry up and fire!" Qiu Youcai
…Move the tank…don’t stay where you are…”
Following Huang Jianhua's order, the stationary No. 4 tank moved and slowly moved towards the Japanese army. The telegraph operator and machine gunner also controlled the parallel machine gun and began to fire at the Japanese army.
The MG34 opened fire at a rate of fire of 800 rounds per minute. The dense bullets shuttled wantonly among the Japanese soldiers. From time to time, Japanese soldiers were hit and fell to the ground screaming.
The nurses in the carriage screamed one by one. Although they were nurses with the army, in the past they only treated the wounded at the rear. This was the first time they were directly in the middle of the battlefield like this.
"Get off the bus quickly...get off the bus quickly!"
Miyoko Sugita struggled to stand up despite the pain in her calf.
"Fengzi... why are you still standing there, get out of the car! Mieko... Kawauchi Chiyo, get out of the car right away!"
At the critical moment, Miyoko Sugita endured the pain and dragged the panicked nurses out of the car. She was the last one to get off the car, but when she got out of the car, she couldn't use her left leg and fell again.
Upon seeing this, a nurse quickly supported her.
"Miyoko...what's wrong with you?" Fengzi, who had a cute round face, asked with concern when she saw Miyoko Sugita who was sweating on her forehead in pain.
"Now is not the time to talk about this. Let's find a place to hide. Hurry up!"
At this time, Miyoko Sugita's mind was particularly clear. She knew that staying here would only lead to death. She endured the pain and limped towards a slope on the right with these careless nurses.
In the No. 4 tank, the radio operator who was controlling the machine gun suddenly stopped shooting and shouted: "Head... I found a group of women, they seem to be a group of Japanese female nurses. Do you want to shoot them?"
Huang Jianhua also saw these people through the commander's observation mirror. After hesitating for a moment, she shook her head: "Forget it... let them pass, they are just a group of unarmed women."
The sudden arrival of tanks suddenly blocked the retreating path of the Japanese army. This also made the Japanese army anxious, and actually wanted to block my escape path. This was amazing.
After a brief panic, under the command of a captain, more than a hundred Japanese soldiers rushed towards Huang Jianhua and the others. For a time, dense bullets were fired from all directions, and the bullets made a crackling sound when they hit the armor.
However, these bullets can only scratch the itch of the thick-skinned Panzer IV.
Seeing the Japanese troops rushing towards them crazily, the driver Qiu Youcai quickly put the reverse gear on, while Sun Youfu continued to rotate the turret, firing a shot at densely populated areas from time to time, and the parallel machine guns were also pouring out tongues of fire.
Seeing that the soldiers who were rushing forward fell to the muzzle of the tank one after another, but our own soldiers could not get close to each other, the captain screamed in panic.
Some people may ask why it is necessary to take the road instead of letting the troops disperse and retreat from the surrounding areas.
This involves another issue. Any unit must follow one principle when retreating, which is to try to maintain the integrity of the unit. Retreating without chaos is a principle that every commander should abide by.
If soldiers are allowed to leave the road and flee like headless flies in the wilderness, it is not retreat but an escape.
Once this is done, the troops will be completely disintegrated, and the commander will lose control of the troops. More importantly, in this era, so many people are scattered in the wilderness, without food or water, and they need not be attacked by the enemy.
Most of them starved to death.
"Charge up... we must blow up that China tank!" The captain gathered dozens of soldiers, made a few improvised cluster grenades, and temporarily organized a stand-up team, telling them
Be sure to blow up the tank on the opposite side.
But his wish was doomed to fail. Before he could give the order for the troops to set out, there was a burst of fierce gunfire from behind. His heart immediately sank. About a mile away from him, there were more people.
They were swarming towards his direction.
Judging from the clothes of these people, they should all be our own, but further away, more than a dozen tanks were slowly approaching, and behind the tanks were countless soldiers in gray military uniforms, like chasing ducks
Drive people towards your direction...
"Go quickly..."
More than a dozen soldiers were running desperately along the road with an officer on their backs. This officer was none other than Major Shuzo Murata, the captain of the First Battalion. However, Murata Shuzo looked very embarrassed now.
Due to the rapid retreat, I didn't even know where the command knife had fallen, and my usually white gloves were full of mud.
"Your Majesty, Major, the Chinese are chasing us again!" A guard looked back.
Murata Shuzo didn't say anything. He knew that the team that was ordered to stop the attack must have been crushed to pieces again.
Due to continuous running, many people's physical strength has long been exhausted, but no one dares to stop, because everyone knows that the consequences of stopping will be death.
"Let's go!" Shuzo Murata cheered up the soldiers around him, "I've seen the map. There is a dense forest one kilometer ahead. As long as we can escape into the dense forest, the Chinese tanks will not be able to get in, and we will be saved."
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The soldiers didn't say anything, gritting their teeth and running forward as hard as they could.
"Kakaka..."
After running another few hundred meters, a crisp sound of gunshots reached their ears. When they looked forward, everyone's hearts sank to the bottom. A Panzer IV tank was lying across the middle of the road.
Dozens of Japanese soldiers were constantly attacking the tank, but they were all forced back by the tank's machine guns. It was quite a situation where one man was in control and no one could stop him.
"Amaterasu...are you really not going to give us a way to survive?"
Looking at this tank that appeared out of nowhere, Murata Shuzo's heart suddenly went cold. The existence of this tank was like the door of hell being completely opened to them...
"Left front...left front...fire..."
"boom……"
A shell flew out of the muzzle and exploded on the ground more than a hundred meters away, knocking two Japanese soldiers who tried to sneak over to the ground. But before Sun Youfu could breathe a sigh of relief, Huang Jianhua shouted again: "
At three o'clock on the right, someone came over again, dozens of meters away from us, and the machine gun...the machine gun drove him out!"
Sun Youfu didn't say anything and just gritted his teeth and shook the steering wheel desperately. However, the tank turrets these days all rotate manually with a hand crank, so it couldn't be done in a short time.
In desperation, the loader pushed open the top cover, exposed half of his body at the risk, operated the MG34 machine gun on the turret, pressed the bullet into the magazine, pulled the safety, turned the muzzle and pulled the trigger.
"Kakaka..."
With the roar of MG34, the three Japanese soldiers who were approaching them were instantly turned into blood gourds and fell to the ground.
Before the loader could relax, an Arisaka bullet that flew out of nowhere hit his chest. The loader let out a muffled groan and his whole body slid down.
"Monkey...monkey..."
When Huang Jianhua saw this, he hugged him quickly and saw a bloody hole the size of a little finger on the right chest of the loading hand. Looking at his back, he also saw a hole about the same size.
Seeing this, Huang Jianhua couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, it's a penetrating injury at close range. Tu Xingsun, hurry up and get the medicine box..."
While the No. 4 tank was busy huddled together, the Japanese troops who were attacked from both sides were frantically rushing towards the tank lying in front of them. From a distance, it looked like a group of hyenas rushing towards a lone tiger.
go……
"Rush forward... Only by blowing up this Chinese tank can we survive!"
Murata Shuzo, who returned to the retreating troops, quickly took over the command and directed the remaining Japanese troops to launch a frantic counterattack against the No. 4 tank in front.
Although the tank was still firing desperately, facing the Japanese troops coming from all directions, they seemed so lonely, like a sampan in a storm, which might capsize at any time.
Finally, two Japanese soldiers quietly walked around to the back of the tank. One of the soldiers threw a bundle of cluster grenades into the back of the tank. With a huge explosion, the No. 4 tank erupted into thick smoke.
cigarette.
"good……"
Seeing this, Murata Shuzo was overjoyed. Now that the tank had been eliminated, no one could block their retreat.
Just as he stood up straight and was about to give the order to continue retreating, a roaring artillery shell exploded less than three meters away from him, followed by a burst of rapid gunfire from behind.
A guard behind Murata Shuzo let out a cry, fell heavily, and fell into a puddle on the side. The water in the puddle was instantly dyed red. Standing in front was a sergeant holding a 38-type rifle.
His upper body was torn apart by machine gun bullets, and blood mist mixed with flesh and blood sprayed all over Murata. Even Murata Shuzo, who had been in battle for a long time, was frightened, and he couldn't help but let out a scream to vent his inner fear.
It turned out that in the short time they were stopped, the pursuers behind them had already felt that they were led by two Panzer IV tanks, supplemented by three Lynx reconnaissance tanks, and followed by a large group of soldiers from the new regiment.
Seeing the Japanese soldiers running around like sheep herding all over the mountains and plains, Ding Wei and Battalion Commander Zhou who were following closely behind them could hardly believe their eyes. This was what they remembered as being fierce and cruel and would never surrender even if they fought to the last man.
Japanese army?
"Captain, how could this happen?"
Battalion Commander Zhou's expression was a little confused. The scene in front of him was beyond his expectation. When did the little devil become so afraid of death?
Seeing Battalion Commander Zhou stunned on the spot, Ding Wei kicked him in the butt: "Why are you still standing there stunned? Now is not the time to discuss this. You should immediately lead people to surround and annihilate this group of Japs!"
"Oh..." Battalion Commander Zhou recovered from his kick and quickly led his men to surround and annihilate the Japanese.