A Japanese engineer carefully peeled away the soft soil and finally saw a "steel needle."
There is a serrated steel ring around the steel needle. Doesn't this thing look like a landmine?
"What is this?" The Japanese engineer lowered his head in confusion and looked carefully. Unexpectedly, the jagged steel ring bounced up and clamped his nose. This time, the clamp was hard enough, and the Japanese soldier was immediately pinched.
The engineer's nose bone was crushed, and the Japanese soldier immediately covered his face with his hands and howled like a slaughtering pig.
Almost at the same time, the other two Japanese engineers also started wailing miserably.
When the two Japanese soldiers withdrew their hands from the ground, they suddenly had mousetraps on their fingers. Needless to say, the fingers of these two Japanese soldiers were definitely disabled, and they would probably have to return home after recovering from their injuries.
, but in the long run, this is a good thing, at least the lives of the two Japs were saved.
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The headquarters of the Japanese independent mixed 8th Brigade.
Without warning, the armored command vehicle that was moving slowly stopped again.
Segawa Shiro raised his wrist and looked at his watch. It was almost ten o'clock in the morning, but the troops had only moved forward less than twenty miles. At this speed, they probably wouldn't be able to reach Qinghe County before dark!
"Bagagaru." Yoshida Minetaro stood up and was about to get out of the car.
"Yoshida-kun, please be patient." Segawa Shiro waved his hand and said, "The light is enough."
Yoshida Minetaro sat down angrily, and immediately the car door opened. A staff officer, Major, ran out of the car. He suddenly put his feet back and stood at attention and said: "General, the forward troops encountered a minefield, and the engineering team is doing demining operations, but the Chinese are very cunning.
It is expected to take at least two hours to complete the demining!”
"Well, I understand." Shiro Segawa said calmly, "Order the troops to rest where they are."
Minetaro Yoshida warned again: "The flanking troops should be on alert."
"Hai." The major staff officer suddenly lowered his head and immediately took the order and left.
Watching the figure of the major staff officer go away, Minetaro Yoshida said angrily: "These despicable Chinese people have never dared to duel with the imperial army in an upright manner, but only do some sneaky things!"
Segawa Shiro said calmly: "This is a consistent trick of the Chinese on the battlefield behind enemy lines. However, no matter how hard they try, they cannot cause too much damage to the Imperial Japanese Army. The only thing they can gain is to delay it for a while.
That’s all, relying on these means can never change the trend and outcome of the war.”
"Hai." Yoshida Minetaro suddenly lowered his head and said, "I was reckless."
The two of them said nothing more and waited silently in the armored vehicle.
They waited for more than two hours. At noon, the troops finally set off on the journey again.
But two hours later, the troops stopped again, and this time even Segawa Shiro became a little impatient.
Soon, the communications staff officer came running and stood at attention outside the car window: "General, Major Hechuan reported that a large number of Chinese armed forces were found in Chuiyang Town, with at least one regiment of troops!"
"A group?" Shiro Segawa nodded lightly.
Yoshida Minetaro said: "Order all the brigade to prepare for battle!"
"Hai." The communications staff member suddenly lowered his head and immediately took the order.
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Chuiyang Town, western suburbs.
The position of the 1st Battalion and 1st Company of the 1st Independent Regiment of Baoshan Brigade.
The commander of the 1st company, "Lao La", a veteran Sichuan soldier with six years of military service, was half-lying in the trench smoking dry cigarettes, while more than 150 officers and soldiers in the company were nervously digging trenches and repairing fortifications.
While Lao La was puffing away his smoke, the police sentry suddenly shouted in horror: "The devils are coming, the devils are coming..."
Immediately, the hundreds of recruits who were busy digging trenches and repairing fortifications threw away their engineering shovels or hoes, turned around and picked up rifles, broadswords or spears, and then rushed to the communication trenches in a chaotic manner, while more than twenty veterans
Taking his time, he patted the last shovelful of soil tightly to reinforce it, and then slowly entered the position.
The leader of the 1st company, La Geng, was still half-lying in the trench and did not get up.
The veteran guard was also a new recruit and said in panic: "Company commander, the little devil is here!"
"Why are you panicking?" Laolaba took a puff of thick smoke and said angrily, "I haven't finished smoking yet."
Lao La was calm and composed, but his guards were so nervous that their hearts were about to pop out of their chests. He lay down on the trench and looked out, only to see that the dark Japanese soldiers were pressing up from the front, and they were 1 company away.
When the position was still about seven or eight hundred meters away, the Japanese soldiers suddenly fell to the ground again.
The two armies suddenly became extremely silent, breathtaking silence!
Laolai, who was half lying in the trench smoking a dry cigarette, suddenly jumped up and shouted at the top of his lungs: "The artillery fire is about to begin. The little devil is about to fire the artillery fire. Everyone, hide in the anti-artillery hole, quickly!"
Without waiting for Lao La's reminder, the twenty or so veterans had already instigated themselves into the shell-proof hole.
However, the hundred or so new civilians were obviously in a daze because they were overly nervous. When they heard the company commander's order, they didn't react immediately. Only a few of them were smart enough to hide in the anti-gun holes. One
The idiot didn't hear clearly because he was far away, so he stupidly stood up from the foxhole.
"Whoosh whoosh..." A shrill scream flew through the air.
"Boom, boom, boom..." In the deafening explosion, more than a dozen huge clouds of smoke and dust suddenly rose into the sky.
The idiot who had just stood up from the foxhole was torn into two pieces by the air wave generated by the explosion. The half below the waist spun and flew more than ten meters away, and landed in front of the veteran guard with a clatter.
The guard's eyes suddenly widened, and then he screamed loudly in terror, then straightened up and turned around and ran away.
"Get down, get down quickly!" Lao La's eyes were splitting with anger, "You pig!"
The guard turned a deaf ear, still held his head in his hands, and ran back.
Another shrill scream came through the air, and Lao La's expression suddenly changed. He quickly jumped into the water and threw the guard to the ground. Almost at the same time as Lao La threw the guard down, a grenade had already landed a few meters away, and then exploded.
Explosion, the huge explosion suddenly rolled up the sky with mud and sand, and instantly covered Lao La and the guards with a thick layer.
When the guard struggled to get up, he found that the company commander on top of him had run out of breath.
"Company Commander!" The guard was immediately horrified. When he looked closely, he found that Lao La's back and neck had been cut with several huge blood grooves by shrapnel. The wound on his neck was particularly fatal, almost killing Lao La's body.
The neck was completely severed, and the head was already hanging limply.
"The company commander is dead, the company commander is dead!"
The guard sat down on the ground with a look of horror on his face, and immediately kicked his feet back quickly.
Soon, the guards' shrill screams spread throughout the entire position, and the recruits, who were almost suffocating with nervousness, suddenly exploded: "The company commander was killed, and this battle can't be fought!"
Brothers, run quickly, don't hold on for dear life." "Mom, I want to go home, I don't want to be a soldier anymore..."
Now, the two dozen veterans couldn't sit still.
"Don't panic, don't fucking panic!"
"Get down, get down for me..."
"Don't run away, I'll shoot you if you run away again!"
The company deputy and several veteran platoon leaders yelled in an attempt to stop the decline.
However, everything was irreversible. The more than a hundred new recruits were so frightened that they turned around and ran away one by one, holding their heads in their hands. No matter how hard the veterans shouted at them behind them, they could no longer stop themselves.
After the shelling stopped, the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side of the position launched an attack.
During the shelling just now, the Japanese infantry had already approached within two hundred meters. In less than half a minute, at least one squadron of Japanese soldiers had already rushed to the 1st company position.
The remaining twenty or so veterans quickly fixed their bayonets and jumped out of the trench.
The defeated troops of No. 100 rolled and crawled to the position of the 2nd Company, and then stopped under the threat of machine guns. When they turned around, they saw that more than twenty veterans of the 1st Company had followed the No.100 who rushed to the position.
The Japanese soldiers launched a fierce hand-to-hand battle. Although the veterans were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers, they were not inferior in terms of momentum!
"Little devil, my eighteenth generation ancestor, go to hell!"
A seriously injured veteran fired the grenade without hesitation, and then jumped towards a Japanese soldier.
With a loud bang, the veteran and the Japanese soldier were immediately lifted into the air. When they fell back down, both of them were covered in flesh and blood, and their faces were unrecognizable.
In the 2nd company position, many defeated soldiers suddenly trembled with excitement.
A few of the defeated soldiers who were still a little bloody clenched their steel teeth in an instant, their originally frightened eyes suddenly became firm, and the expressions on their faces were no longer so panicked.
In less than a moment, there was only one veteran left on the 1st company position.
A dozen Japanese soldiers came up from all around with bayonets in hand, grinning ferociously.
A Jaap second lieutenant took two steps forward and stabbed with his sword. A cold light flashed, and the sharp saber had already pierced the abdomen of the last veteran. The veteran suddenly opened his mouth and screamed in agony, and the bright red blood suddenly flowed from it.
His mouth was overflowing with gurgling, but the next moment, the veteran rushed forward with great ferocity and bit down on the Japanese Second Lieutenant's neck.
"Ah..." The Japanese second lieutenant was immediately bitten, and immediately started wailing like a pig.
More than a dozen Japanese soldiers stabbed him randomly with their knives, and the veteran's vest was immediately ripped into a sieve.
However, the veteran's eyes widened, and he bit the Japanese second lieutenant's neck tightly without letting go. The Japanese second lieutenant wailed miserably for more than ten seconds, and then his head tilted and he died.
When the bodies were separated, it was discovered that half of the Japanese second lieutenant's neck had been bitten off by a veteran of the national army.
In the 2nd company position, the mouth corners of many defeated soldiers suddenly began to twitch violently.
The performance of the veterans greatly shocked the defeated soldiers. It turned out that these veterans were not bragging. They were really not afraid of death!
"Have you seen it? Have you seen it all?" The 2nd company commander's eyes were red, he glared murderously at the fleeing soldiers, and roared with great anger, "Soldiers! Don't forget that you are soldiers, Chinese soldiers! You guys
If you want to be worthy of wearing this military uniform and being a man, don’t pretend to be a coward for me!”