As the tanks approached, Japanese troops jumped out from behind the bunkers and rushed toward the tanks, but most of them were knocked to the ground by the machine guns on the tanks and the surrounding infantry before they even got close.
"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, please retreat quickly. I will immediately send a small team to cover your departure!" Seeing that the Chinese tanks were about to rush into the position, a staff officer of the Ninth Brigade became anxious and rushed to Suzuki Shigeyasu to urge him.
leave.
When the incident came to an end, Suzuki Shigeyasu calmed down. He pointed at the tank in front and shouted angrily: "You idiot... How can I leave at this time? Or do you think you can outrun the Chinese tank?"
If you still admit that you are a subject of His Majesty the Emperor and a samurai of the Japanese Empire, then take up arms and fight the Chinese until the last moment!"
The staff officer stopped talking, turned his back to the tank, and still escaped on two legs. There was no stupider decision than this. Feeling ashamed, he picked up the Type 38 rifle next to a corpse on the ground and shot it along the trench.
Run to where the gunfire is the loudest.
The staff officer had just ran more than ten meters away when he saw a group of Chinese soldiers in front of him approaching in his direction. One of the soldiers was only more than ten meters away from him. He quickly picked up the Type 38 rifle in his hand and pointed at it.
The Chinese soldier pulled the trigger, and the Chinese soldier who was caught off guard fell to the ground.
The sound of gunfire also alerted the Chinese soldiers on the opposite side. Before the staff officer who had just knocked down the Chinese soldier in front could take cover again, he saw a black hole of the muzzle pointed at him, and then a flame flashed from the gun muzzle. The staff officer
He fell heavily to the ground.
The moment the staff officer fell, he heard the sound of intensive machine guns, submachine guns, and the roars of Chinese soldiers, mixed with desperate howls and screams in Japanese. The command headquarters was breached... This is
The staff officer's last bit of consciousness.
After reprimanding his staff, Suzuki Shigeyasu hunkered down and evacuated the front trenches, and came to a large bomb crater. He was lying in the muddy water without boots, and his whole body became cold and numb because he was soaked.
He looked left and right and found that there was not even a single guard around. At this time, he heard someone shouting in pain. Looking towards the crater, he saw a wounded soldier feebly crawling towards him, and he kept walking behind him.
There were shouts of Chinese soldiers and intensive gunfire.
Seeing that the soldier was still alive, Suzuki Shigeyasu dragged the wounded soldier into the large crater next to him.
After checking, it was discovered that his left waist was broken by a bullet, blood spurted out from the fist-sized wound, and even the white intestines could be seen through the wound.
Seeing this, Suzuki Shigeyasu knew that the wounded soldier would not live long. Soon the wounded soldier began to turn pale, lost too much blood and began to twitch all over, and then collapsed at his feet.
Suzuki Shigeyasu cautiously exposed his head and glanced left, right and forward. At this time, the surroundings had become sparse. He felt sad in his heart. He estimated that he had become the last person alive on the battlefield.
Soon, fifty meters away in front, several Chinese soldiers in gray military uniforms were walking cautiously towards this side. Whenever they passed a corpse, they raised their rifles and got ready, while the other two pointed at the corpse with submachine guns.
Shoot the dead or wounded on the ground.
Seeing the Chinese soldiers getting closer and closer, Suzuki Shigeyasu quickly took out the Nanbu Type 94 semi-automatic pistol from his waist. Suzuki Shigeyasu knew that it would be his turn soon.
"boom!"
At this time, an artillery shell fell next to the crater where Suzuki Shigeyasu was hiding, blowing up a pine tree. A large section of the pine tree covered most of the crater and blocked his sight.
At this time, a strong desire to live arose in his mind. He really didn't want to die. He really wanted to return to his homeland and see his wife and two children.
Shigeyasu Suzuki huddled in the crater, covering himself with the bodies of dead wounded soldiers. At this moment, he just wanted to survive.
I don't know how much time passed, but Suzuki Shigeyasu felt that the surroundings had become silent. He carefully looked at the nearby enemies for the first time through the gap between the pine trees. Some of these people were holding German 98K rifles, and some were holding submachine guns. They were cautiously
Advance alternately to form complementary firepower.
Seeing this, Suzuki Shigeyasu was very unwilling.
Why do the soldiers of the empire hold Type 38 rifles that can only fire one round and pull one round? When the two sides are fighting in close combat, the imperial army only has one chance to shoot, but these people can shoot continuously.
Just when Suzuki Shigeyasu felt unwilling, the Chinese soldiers had already walked in. The leading soldier holding an MP40 submachine gun saw that the muddy water in the crater covered by broken branches was red, and the branches were still pressing half of the body. He
Almost without thinking, he took out a grenade and threw it into the crater.
With a loud bang, thick smoke billowed from the crater, and half of the tree trunk was blown three meters away...
Just as Suzuki Shigeyasu did not expect that his dignified major general brigade commander would die in a bomb crater in such a wretched manner, Gao Hongming, Brigadier Chen and Tang Huaiyuan who took the initiative to initiate this battle also did not expect that it was just a battle.
The battle of cooperation and tacit understanding will evolve into such a fierce and high-intensity attack.
Brigadier Chen led the New 1st Regiment and the 685th, and Li Shilong led the 7th Division of the Third Army to launch a head-on attack with reinforcements from the two Japanese regiments, in order to buy time for the Liantai militia to attack the last Japanese position. There were tens of thousands of troops on both sides.
Fighting to the death on less than fifty square kilometers of land.
As the Japanese third line of defense gradually fell, the resistance of the Japanese 100th Regiment became more and more frenzied. Regiment Commander Nakano Yoshizoo personally came to the large semi-underground bunker in the center to take personal command.
Xiao Zhankui punched the simple parapet hard. This morning, 97 soldiers of the Second Battalion had died and 115 were injured. However, this last line of defense had been attacked three times but failed to be taken down. During the third attack, it was clear that
They had already entered the central bunker with the help of smoke bombs, but the last few Japanese soldiers rushed out of the bunker, pulled the explosive bags tied to their bodies, and forced the soldiers of the second battalion to rush out.
"Sir, regimental phone number!" A communications soldier carrying an SCR-300 wireless walkie-talkie handed the microphone to him, and then a familiar voice reached his ears.
"Xiao Zhankui, it's already 11:03 in the morning. How is the situation there?"
"Tuanzuo, we have attacked three times, and our battalion has suffered casualties..."
"I don't want to listen to the casualty figures. I just ask you if you can take down the Japanese's third line of defense before twelve o'clock at noon. If you can't tell early, I will send a battalion to take your place!"
Xiao Zhankui took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "Don't worry, everyone, I promise to complete the mission!"