The sky is filled with white smoke, mixed with the thick fog in the early morning. If you don't look carefully, you won't notice it. But only by visiting it in person can you know that this is actually an invitation from the God of Death.
Many soldiers died on the roadside. Of course they ran away before they died, but it was of no use. As time went by, they could only stop breathing and die...
This is the memoir of a surviving soldier of the 16th Division after the war. In his book "Painful Memories", he restored in detail the horrific battle that destroyed the 16th Division.
Although in the following years, this battle, which General Gao Hongming called "tit for tat", was highly controversial, even at home, some people called them heroes, and some called them devils! Even until now 100 years later, "
The large-scale use of this epoch-making nerve gas during the tit-for-tat campaign remains controversial.
"Bombardment...Concealment!"
Thick gas masks affected the "hearing" of the soldiers. In the past, experienced veterans could always hear whether there was a threat to themselves from the whistle of artillery shells. But at this time, dozens of artillery shells fell into the charging team.
He only reacted after being hit by the bomb and knocking over dozens of soldiers.
Before Gao Hongming could react, he was thrown to the ground by Dabao on the side.
The surrounding soldiers were shouting and looking for a hiding place. For the soldiers, bomb craters were undoubtedly the best choice. Before many soldiers could find a hiding place, artillery shells fell like raindrops again.
Pressing his body tightly against the cold ground, Gao Hongming felt the earth shake. Blood-red fireballs rolled around on the ice sheet, shrapnel of ice and snow flew around, and dense rain of bullets turned the earth into a turbulent ocean. He saw it with his own eyes.
Not far away, some soldiers were swallowed up by a sudden fireball. Their protective clothing and cold-proof clothing burned in the air and fell. The pieces of flesh from their limbs were thrown into the air, and then fell in parabolas on the cold ground.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Gao Hongming felt distressed and prayed in his heart. He would rather be killed by the shell than let the shrapnel break his protective clothing. When he charged just now, the naked corpses were too irritating to him.
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At this moment, Gao Hongming saw a crater about one meter away from him. Without even thinking, he immediately rushed over and rolled into the crater, and then lay down in the crater.
After nearly a year of war experience, he has gained a lot of battlefield experience. Under normal circumstances, artillery shells will never fall into the same crater. This is the most basic common sense.
Of course, if you are still hit by a bomb while hiding in a bomb crater, it only means... you deserve to die!
Soon, Dabao and several guards also jumped into the crater. At a glance, Gao Hongming saw the communications soldier carrying an SCR-300 infantry radio behind him, grabbed the microphone, connected to the artillery camp's channel and roared loudly.
"Geng Changshun, Zhuang Mancai, you two are so stupid, just listen to me. If you can't shut up the little Japanese artillery within ten minutes, I will beat you up when I get back!"
After scolding the two men, Gao Hongming lay in the crater and looked up at the sky. If nothing unexpected happened, his own counterattack would start in a few minutes at most.
He was indeed right. In just three minutes, there was a sharp whistling sound from behind, and then a burst of rapid artillery fire fell seven or eight kilometers ahead on the right, followed by a violent explosion and a sky-high fire.
The dark sky was illuminated red, and it seemed that this round of counterattack fire hit the place where the opponent's ammunition was stacked, causing a fatal explosion.
After a while, the dense rain of bullets stopped instantly, and the battlefield returned to its original silence.
Gao Hongming jumped out first and blew the whistle hanging around his neck.
"Beep..."
As a long sharp whistle sounded, the officers began to lead the soldiers to charge again. Their only order today was to penetrate the 16th Division's position.