While Kato Shoji was busy organizing the support team, gray steel monsters appeared in front of them.
"Crawling forward and stuffing the explosive packets under their tracks! Destroy the Chinese tanks! Pull the fuse when you get the chance! Understand! Please! For the Emperor!"
Kato Shoji held the explosive pack in both hands and bowed to the young soldier in front of him.
The young soldier mechanically stretched out his hand to pick it up, but almost dropped the explosive bag on the ground as if he had touched a red-hot iron.
Upon seeing this, Kato Shoji suddenly stepped forward and slapped him twice. Then he tied the explosive-packed strap tightly to the soldier's back.
"Like a samurai! Do you understand?"
"Grand...His Excellency Colonel...I..."
The young soldier covered his face as if he was arguing something, but when he saw Kato Shoji's fierce eyes, he swallowed his words.
The dozen or so soldiers selected all understood that they had no way out.
"Remember?! You can only crawl forward... you must hide your body in the grass and use the crater to approach!"
"Go! Like a true samurai!"
Kato Shoji pointed towards the tank approaching him in front.
"Don't delay! Hurry!..."
"I'm ready, Colonel, I'll be right away..."
The young private swallowed his saliva, glanced in the direction of Japan, sighed, then touched the explosive pack behind him and climbed out of the bunker.
As he was crawling, he suddenly raised his body and seemed to have forgotten something. When he turned around, he seemed to want to explain something more, but he only saw the expectant eyes of Kato Shoji and others.
The private, crawling in the scorched earth and grass, crawled toward the dense craters ahead.
From time to time, he hid his body in the craters created by artillery shells to avoid the shrapnel flying on his scalp. At this time, he had crawled about ten meters away.
From time to time, he twisted his thin body and crawled forward on the land that was made into craters by bombs.
"God bless you!"
Kato Shoji watched as several members of the approaching Meat Bomb Team crawled toward the tanks amid the smoke produced when the shells fired by the Chinese tanks exploded.
The machine gunners on the Chinese tanks and the infantrymen in the rear who were being suppressed by machine guns had not yet discovered the meat bomb teams they had sent.
They crawled slowly between the craters and the grass, disappearing into the craters from time to time. Their heads were tied with white cloth strips, and they appeared and disappeared in the smoke.
At this time, the distance between them and the tanks that were spitting out green smoke had been significantly shortened.
"Climb into the smoke! Just go in..."
Watching the Jinjin team members getting closer and closer to the Chinese tanks, the hope in Kato Shoji's heart became stronger and stronger.
"Boom boom..."
At this time, the commander of the 1st Armored Battalion, Li Changan, who was directing the tanks to advance, heard several violent explosions in front of him. At the same time, several emergency reports came from the headset: "Report to the camp, we have a No. 4 tank that has been attacked by the Japanese army."
The kamikaze damaged the track and another one was blown up."
"Damn it!" Li Changan didn't expect to lose two tanks just after launching a counterattack.
"Everyone immediately conduct cross-fire cover. We must snatch out the brothers inside the tanks. Build a wall between the tanks to protect the brothers inside. Rescue armored vehicles, drive up immediately!" Li Changan ordered the troops while cursing loudly.
Rescue the wounded.
In the creed of the Liantai Militia, people always come first. This is an iron rule that Gao Hongming has instilled in all officers and soldiers from the beginning of the formation of the Militia.
If the tanks are gone, you can buy them again, and if the planes are gone, you can cash them in, but if the people are gone, you can't bring them back to life.
Therefore, as the Liantai Militia became larger and more complete, Gao Hongming began to try to equip the two armored battalions with a certain number of ambulance armored vehicles.
Each ambulance armored vehicle is equipped with doctors and medics. These doctors and medics, like soldiers, also shuttle through the hail of bullets.
At the beginning, it was met with confusion and opposition from some officers. The opponents believed that this move would affect the morale of the troops.
But the fact is just the opposite. When the soldiers knew that they were followed by medical soldiers, their morale not only did not drop, but actually increased.
Kato Shoji saw the Chinese tanks in front lined up in a row. Those tanks stretched out tongues of flame from the round holes in the turrets, blocking the Japanese meat bombers from the barrage.
, Occasionally, an unbeliever rushed over, but he also ended up with the person and the explosives being blown to pieces.
"Baga, you damn Chinese!"
Kato Shoji's eyes turned red as he looked at the gradually dwindling number of soldiers around him. He became worried and lowered his body to carry the only remaining pack of explosives on his back.
"Your Majesty Colonel, let's do it!"
At this time, the only sergeant commander left in the team stretched out his hand, snatched the explosive bag, and carried it on his body twice. He smiled miserably and said to Kato Shoji: "Gentlemen, see you at the Yasukuni Shrine!"
After saying that, he rushed forward.
"Baga, how could you steal my explosives!" Kato Shoji muttered, took out his command knife and waved it forward, "For His Majesty the Emperor, onboard!"
The colonel rushed forward with the last two hundred or so soldiers of the 91st Wing...
"Your Excellency, the division commander, we have contacted the 91st Wing."
A loud voice sounded at the 47th Division headquarters.
"Tell me, what's the situation with the 91st Regiment?" the commander of the 47th Division, Otsuo Tosada, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, asked hurriedly.
"The 91st Regiment was attacked by a Chinese tank force and suffered heavy losses. Colonel Kato Shoji requested tactical guidance."
"Order the 105th Regiment to speed up reinforcements. I have a bad feeling that the situation of the 91st Regiment must be very dangerous." Lieutenant General Osako Tsusada spoke very slowly, almost every word.
"Hi!"
"Immediately send a report to Commander Gangcun that our unit was counterattacked by the Chinese army at 8 o'clock this morning.
The intensity of China's artillery fire was almost unprecedented. They even dispatched hundreds of tanks. Our troops were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses.
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Speaking of this, Osako Tosada hesitated for a moment, "We also request tactical guidance and air support from the headquarters. Otherwise, this counterattack is likely to fail..."
After finishing speaking, Osako Tosada lowered his head in shame.
As a proud imperial general, it is really a great shame to pursue the Chinese army this morning and yet have to ask for reinforcements before noon.
Just as the 386th Brigade launched a counterattack under the guidance of two armored battalions, the Japanese Sixth Division was also launching a fierce attack on the New 1st Brigade.
The Sixth Division mobilized more than 20 artillery pieces, including 75mm mountain guns and 105mm field guns, to violently bombard the positions of the New 1st Brigade, while its infantry continued to launch fierce attacks under the cover of artillery fire.
Wang Chunsheng, commander of the third battalion of the New Sixth Regiment, was marching hard in the trenches.
As a veteran division, the Sixth Division was suppressed by the Liantai Militia some time ago.
But that was because Gao Hongming used heavy artillery and aircraft to suppress it, and its own advantages could not be brought into play at all.
But when they took advantage of the strength and artillery superiority, the advantages of the Sixth Division's high individual soldiers, long range and high accuracy of the Type 38 rifles were immediately reflected.
"Batalion Commander, this can't continue like this. Our battalion won't be able to withstand it for much longer if this continues. The Japs' firepower is too fierce." Tang Dali, the commander of the Ninth Company who was following Wang Chunsheng, shouted anxiously.
"Of course I know, what's the use of just beeping here? Hurry up and contact the aviation corps to see when they can spare time to help us.
Tell them that our place is also very important, don't just help the 386th Brigade."
Wang Chunsheng cursed loudly. From this morning to now, the Sixth Division has launched six charges against their position.
A thick layer of loose soil has accumulated on the battlefield. Due to breathing in a lot of dust, I only feel that my chest is burning, my breathing is not smooth, and my anger is getting stronger.
"Eagle...Eagle, this is Mantis 3...I am Mantis 3, requesting air support, requesting air support!" Soon, the call of the correspondent rang from the side.
"Da da da...."
"ah...."
A string of bullets flew past Wang Chunsheng and hit the correspondent who was calling not far away. The correspondent screamed and lay on the ground and never moved again.
Wang Chunsheng took off the walkie-talkie from the correspondent, pulled Tang Dali beside him and rolled down a crater beside him.
Taking another deep breath, Wang Chunsheng pulled the walkie-talkie over, found a hidden place to squat, adjusted the channel, and started calling.
"Mantis No. 3 is calling the eagle. Mantis No. 3 is calling the eagle. If you hear it, please answer. If you hear it, please answer!"
Except for a rustling sound on the walkie-talkie, no one answered.
"Damn..."
Wang Chunsheng cursed and was about to take off the headset when suddenly a deep voice came from the headset, "Eagle got it, Mantis Three, please speak."
"Damn it, I finally got you!" Wang Chunsheng breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed the microphone and shouted.
"We are in urgent need of air support. A Japanese brigade is attacking our position. We want a heavy bomb. The bigger the better!" Wang Chunsheng roared loudly.
Then he seemed to hear a chuckle, "Understood, please take cover! Don't leave your position, squat down and take cover! Also, please cover your ears and open your mouth wide."
After hearing this nonsense, Wang Chunsheng was a little dissatisfied and said, "What the hell, just ask me to squat down and cover my ears." Even so, Wang Chunsheng still gestured to Tang Dali, who
Quickly order the troops to stop shooting and take cover.
When Wang Chunsheng led the whole battalion into the bunker and covered their ears, a Stuka rushed out from the clouds in the sky. It circled twice around the bunker group and then swooped down at an angle of more than 80 degrees.
The siren on the fuselage sounded a shrill siren. When the plane flew to a height of more than 100 meters above the ground, a dark bomb fell from the belly of the fuselage and quickly fell towards the front of the position.
Immediately afterwards, Wang Chunsheng and others did not notice the explosion of the shell, as if nothing happened.
Just when they were disappointed, there was a violent shaking on the ground, and then a violent explosion reached their ears.
The violent shaking shook the soldiers hiding in the trenches, and several sections of the trenches even collapsed due to huge shock waves and vibrations.
The loud noise of the explosion was so strong that Wang Chunsheng and others felt as if hundreds of giant drums were beating around them. Not only did their eardrums buzz, but they were all shaken dizzy.
Almost.
The black smoke that rose into the sky after the explosion covered the entire front edge of the position, and it was not until seven or eight minutes passed that the black smoke gradually dissipated.
Wang Chunsheng stood up unsteadily. When he poked his head out of the trench, he saw that the Japanese army that had been attacking them just now suddenly disappeared.
The front edge of the position was covered like a field plowed by a group of hard-working farmers. There was even a large pit about tens of meters wide and nearly seven or eight meters deep more than 300 meters away.
"My dear, what kind of large bomb is this? Isn't this too powerful?" Tang Dali on the side looked at the Stuka's 'masterpiece' in front of him in stunned silence.
Well...he was stunned by this scene.
"Those bastards from Liantai Militia didn't even say a word when they threw the 'road opener'. What a fucking bastard." Wang Chun, who was stunned for a while and seemed to remember something, jumped up in anger and cursed in the sky.
The bomb dropped by the Stuka just now was a super-heavy bomb weighing 1.5 tons, nicknamed the road opener. It was originally prepared to destroy bunker groups and tank groups, and it was very powerful.
Logically speaking, Wang Chunsheng should not know about this thing, but a few days ago when he was chatting with an officer of the Liantai Militia, he heard the company commander mention it. Originally, he had forgotten it, but he just saw the bomb.
After the power, the originally dusty memories were immediately recalled.
But do you think the Stuka dropped this opener bomb and that's it?
No... Immediately afterwards, more than ten Stukas rushed towards the rear of the Japanese army. After a while, bursts of explosions were heard, and soon the Japanese artillery fire became sparse. It turned out that those Stukas were
Ka was going to bomb the Japanese artillery positions.
As a veteran of the Red Army, Wang Chunsheng certainly would not miss this opportunity. He jumped out of the trench first and raised his shell gun and shouted.
"Comrades... charge!"
"Tick-tick-tick-tick..."
As the loud charge horn sounded, one after another Eighth Route Army soldiers jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards the Japanese army.
The Japanese troops, who had not yet recovered from the bombing, retreated hastily, leaving corpses on the ground.
When the soldiers of the third battalion arrived at the large pit blown up by the road machine, everyone was stunned.
The Japanese troops within 200 meters of this huge crater were either blown into a cloud of mist, or their organs were shattered and lay quietly on the ground. The corpses died in all kinds of strange ways.