At this time, Captain Ono was indeed very troubled. He had just been criticized by the commander and had not put out the fire yet. He was once again attacked by intensive artillery fire from the Eighth Route Army, causing heavy losses to his subordinates. Even he, if it were not for his own guards,
If a soldier is too conscientious in his duties, he will die in the fire just now.
Finally, the annoying artillery fire stopped. Captain Ono raised his head from a hidden corner. What he saw was a tragic battlefield. The originally bare city walls now had countless large craters and broken lines.
Corpses were densely distributed on the several hundred meters long city wall. Looking around, apart from some burning ruins, there was almost no sign of life on the entire city wall.
"Baga, is there anyone else? Get ready for battle immediately..." Captain Ono shouted loudly towards the empty city wall.
After a while, dozens of Japanese soldiers began to emerge from their respective hiding spots. Looking at the dozens of Japanese soldiers in front of him, Captain Ono wanted to die. Because according to his own statistics, his squadron had gone from
The full squadron before the bombardment has now become a remnant army with less than a squadron. What is even more annoying is that among the less than fifty soldiers, most of them are injured. Watching
Looking at the weapons of the soldiers, except for one rifle per man, Captain Ono sadly discovered that his squadron now only has three light machine guns.
"Bageya Road, the cunning Eighth Route Army. Order, enter the position immediately...the puppet army...Why didn't you see the puppet army? Are they all dead..." Seeing the miserable scene in front of him, Captain Ono cursed loudly. However,
Suddenly, he thought of the puppet troops who were cooperating with him, so he shouted loudly.
"Reporting to the squadron leader, when our army was under shelling just now, all the puppet troops had already fled. I guess these puppet troops should be hiding in the county now..." At this time, a squad leader with an injured arm stood up and said.
"Baga, yours, return to the headquarters immediately and ask the Commander to send troops for reinforcements. The others will guard the city with me. Quick, check the weapons and ammunition..." Captain Ono ordered angrily. Next to the body of a soldier, he picked up
He took out a rifle, took out a bullet box, and quickly ran to the city wall to take cover.
Captain Ono quietly poked his head out of the crenellations of the city wall, wanting to know the current battle situation outside the city. However, just when he had just poked out less than half of his head, the sound of a burst of bullets hitting the brick wall was heard.
In his ears, two bullets even grazed his scalp directly, and a burning pain came from the wound.
"Baga...the Eighth Route Army is cunning..." Captain Ono touched the wound on his head that started to bleed and cursed loudly. However, the two wounds on his head did not stop him from continuing to observe the enemy's situation. Because his current mission is to carry
The rest of his men held on to the city wall until reinforcements arrived.
But this time, Captain Ono had obviously become a lot smarter. He picked up a head badge that had fallen on the ground, put it on the rifle in his hand, and quietly stretched it out from a crenel next to him, just as the bullets of the Eighth Route Army were flying.
When the head badge pinged, Captain Ono quickly stuck his head out from another crenel and finally got a clear view of the scene outside the city wall.
Seeing the battle situation outside the city, Captain Ono did not relax, but broke out in cold sweat. Because when he poked his head out, he clearly saw that on the flat ground outside the city wall, about a company of the Eighth Route Army was holding rifles.
, carrying ladders and holding explosives, they formed a skirmish formation and slowly approached the city wall. But they were now less than a hundred meters away from the city wall.
"Baga, when did the outstanding imperial soldiers get beaten like this by the Eighth Route Army... Baga, machine gun cover, everyone is covered, prepare grenades..." Captain Ono cursed loudly, pointing at the machine guns of the only three machine guns around him.
the gunman ordered.
"Hi..." The three machine gunners replied reluctantly and quietly popped their heads.
"Bang bang bang..." A machine gunner whose head had just popped out was shot in the head and fell in a pool of blood. The remaining two machine gunners quickly retracted their heads and began to feel lucky that they had not rashly stretched out their heads just now.
His head was used as a target for the Eighth Route Army outside the city.
"Baga, you are not soldiers of the empire. Shoot immediately, otherwise you will die... Bagaya Road, shoot immediately..." Looking at the machine gunners with panic-stricken faces in front of them, Captain Ono pulled out his command knife and put it on the
A machine gunner cursed loudly on his neck.
"Hi..." At this time, the machine gunner was already thinking about killing Ono, but when he saw the cool command knife on his neck, he could only reply in a low voice. But this time he was smarter and did not ask the machine gunner just now.
That way, he stuck his head out directly. Instead, he stretched out the muzzle of the light machine gun directly from the crenellation of the city wall. Based on his own experience, he took aim and pulled the trigger.
"Da da da..." A series of bullet shells fell on the city wall. At the same time, a series of screams were also remembered under the city wall.
"Quick, grenade..." Xiaoye felt that the Eighth Route Army outside the city had advanced to the corner of the city wall, and quickly threw out the grenade with the safety removed. Immediately afterwards, dozens of grenades were dropped one after another onto the city wall.
"Boom boom boom... ah ah ah..." The explosion of grenades mixed with the screams of the Eighth Route Army soldiers under the city wall reached Captain Ono's ears.
"Yoshi, don't stop, keep dropping bombs, machine gunners, keep shooting..." Hearing the screams of the Eighth Route Army, Captain Ono not only felt proud of his decision, but also ordered loudly. Then, dozens of people squatting in the corner of the city wall
After receiving the order, the little devils began to throw grenades one after another, and the city wall was completely enveloped by the explosion of grenades. Finally, there was no more wailing sound under the city wall.
Captain Ono used the smoke from the grenade explosion to pop out his head. Through the thick smoke, Captain Ono could clearly see the situation on the battlefield. Under the attack of the imperial grenade, an Eighth Route Army regiment that attacked him had already
He threw down the ladder, carried dozens of wounded soldiers, and the bodies of martyrs... and retreated to his position in embarrassment.
"Yo Xi, go and collect grenades from the dead soldiers immediately, quickly..." Seeing that his tactics successfully repelled the Eighth Route Army's attack, Captain Ono couldn't help but feel excited and quickly ordered.
While the soldiers were rummaging for ammunition among the bodies of the fallen soldiers, there were bursts of footsteps under the city wall. Then, they saw their captain, Major Nakamura, leading about a squadron of Japanese troops and
A battalion of puppet troops walked onto the city wall. More importantly, Xiu also saw the heavy weapons such as light and heavy machine guns and mortars that he urgently needed.
"Captain Ono, what's going on now..." I heard the voice of my captain, Major Nakamura, from a distance.
"Hi, report to the captain, I have led my men to successfully repulse the first attack of the Eighth Route Army. The attacking troops of the Eighth Route Army suffered heavy casualties..." Seeing the captain, Captain Ono hurried over to answer.
"Yo Xi, you are a real soldier. With less than a small team, you actually repelled the Eighth Route Army's attack. I will definitely ask for credit from the Commander. Hurry, let your subordinates replenish ammunition as a preparation.
The rest of the defense will be left to the Second Squadron and the puppet troops who came to take over the defense..." Major Nakamura patted Captain Ono's shoulder and said with appreciation.
"Hi, thank you Captain for your kindness. Ono will definitely live up to your love..." Captain Ono replied excitedly.
"Woooooooo..." Just when Captain Ono turned around and prepared to gather his men to retreat, the roar of artillery shells across the sky suddenly reached everyone's ears.
"Baga... take cover quickly, the Chinese army has started shelling, hurry up..." Captain Ono, who was very familiar with the sound of the Eighth Route Army's shelling, was the first to react and shouted loudly to the hundreds of soldiers gathered on the city wall. At the same time,
He threw his body directly at the captain behind him, pressing him firmly against the corner of the city wall.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Sure enough, the moment Major Nakamura fell, the entire city wall exploded violently. The huge explosion, mixed with the screams of the soldiers, immediately reached the ears of Captain Ono. He was hit by a shell
The torn limbs and broken arms of the soldiers kept falling on his back.
"Baga, get down quickly and take cover..." Seeing that the captain was safe and sound, Captain Ono quickly took advantage of the gap in the shelling to stand up and shouted to the soldiers who were in chaos. "Bump..." Two panicked men
The puppet soldiers fell under their own guns. This was the fifth member of the army that Captain Ono killed today.
"Bagya Road, take cover immediately. In this chaos, everyone is dead..." Under the threat of Captain Ono's pistol, after experiencing the first attack of the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire, less than one squad of soldiers from the First Squadron survived.
Under the bayonet, the chaotic puppet troops quickly calmed down, and under the command of their respective commanders, they scattered and hid near the base of the city wall.
The gap between the shells was very short. Just when the soldiers on the city wall had just restored their order, another roar reached everyone's ears. Without any reason, Captain Ono was the first to lie down in the corner. Likewise, as a
The well-trained Japanese troops also took cover immediately, and once again only the puppet troops who were at a loss or lying directly on the wall shivering were left on the city wall.
"Boom, boom, boom..." This time the shelling was not particularly long. It only fired five rounds of shells before it stopped. As the sound of the artillery stopped, there were hundreds more stumps on the surface of the entire city wall again.
Broken arms, but among these corpses, the only thing that makes Captain Ono and Major Nakamura feel gratified is that less than one of the corpses of the squad is from the Imperial Japanese Army. In other words, the Japanese troops standing on the city wall now, plus
The remnants of the first squad still have the strength of a squadron, and there are still more than a hundred puppet troops.
"Tick tick tick..." A loud charge sounded from the Eighth Route Army's position outside the city, followed immediately by the loud shouts of the Eighth Route Army soldiers, and the sound of heavy machine gun fire. The dense bullets hit the crenellations of the city wall.
fly.
"Baga, enter the position immediately and prepare to fire...machine gun, cover fire, grenade launcher, fire..." Major Nakamura was not frightened by the bullets flying in front of him, and began to arrange the tasks in an orderly manner. "Captain Ono, it seems that you
My subordinates cannot retreat, so you should join me in attacking the Eighth Route Army first..." Major Nakamura looked at Captain Ono who had just saved his life and replied sheepishly.
"Hi, Major Major, it is my duty to guard the city wall. Please don't be polite, captain. First Squadron, prepare grenades..." Captain Ono stood next to Nakamura and shouted loudly to his less than 50 troops.
"Everything..." Several dull sounds of artillery being ejected were heard. A mortar team and grenadier brought by the second squadron lined up the mortar grenades in their hands in a straight line and began to suppress it.
A dozen artillery shells and grenades drew a perfect arc in the sky and fell into the Eighth Route Army's charge formation less than 300 meters away from the city wall.
"Boom, boom, boom..." The sudden artillery attack caught the unprepared soldiers off guard. More than a dozen soldiers died on the way to the reunion before the enemy opened fire.
"Quick, disperse the formation immediately, don't stop, and continue charging. Xiao Wang, immediately return to the position and ask the commander for artillery cover..." This time the Eighth Route Army dispatched the Seventh Company of the Independent Regiment, and with the addition of two companies of local troops, the entire
The strength of a battalion.
"Yes, company commander..." A soldier, after receiving the order, immediately turned around and ran towards his position. However, the rate of fire of the Japanese mortars was several times that of the mountain artillery. Before the Eighth Route Army's formation dispersed, another
More than a dozen artillery shells fell into the charging formation, harvesting the lives of the Eighth Route Army soldiers...
Finally, a minute later, just as the Japanese fired the sixth round of artillery shells, the sound of "all-in-one..." mortars rang out from the Eighth Route Army position far behind. The Independence Regiment mortar company had a total of 12 various types of mortars.
Type mortars fired 12 shells at the city wall at the same time. The 12 shells drew beautiful arcs from the heads of the soldiers and flew towards the city wall heavily guarded by the Japanese army.
towards their artillery positions.
"Ah, Baga, the Chinese army's artillery fire, quickly cover up, move immediately...boom boom boom..." Just when the Japanese artillery squad leader raised his command knife and was about to order his artillery to fire again, there were bursts of whistling in the sky.
It caught his attention. When Tai looked up, he saw 12 shells hitting him at a very fast speed. The artillery squad leader didn't think much. When he gave the order, he was already lying on the ground quickly.
On the ground, he rolled continuously and hid at the only safe place on the city wall, at the base of the city wall.
A huge explosion sounded on the city wall, which affected not only the artillery without any fortifications, but the infantry hiding by the city wall also suffered unknown losses.
However, the shelling did not stop, and shells continued to explode on the city wall. From time to time, a corpse of a Japanese soldier would be lifted out of the city wall by violent air waves. At this time, nearly 100,000 people had been lost in the Japanese bombardment just now.
Under the cover of artillery fire, a company of attacking troops slowly got up, bent down, and ran an S-shaped attack route, slowly approaching the city wall.
"Baga, hurry up, fire, machine gun fire..." Seeing the Chinese army getting closer and closer, Major Nakamura no longer cared about the artillerymen behind him who were struggling on the verge of death, and immediately ordered the machine gunners hidden in various fortifications around him to fire.
"Da da da..." Immediately, a dozen dense tongues of fire suddenly spurted out from the city wall less than a few hundred meters long. The dozens of soldiers charging at the front all fell to the ground in the blink of an eye.
In a pool of blood.
"Quickly, get down and start fighting back immediately...Machine gunners, cover and retreat..." the offensive company commander loudly ordered. Several machine gunners carrying powerful machine guns quickly set up under the cover of various obstacles.
They fired light machine guns and began to suppress fire. At the same time, dozens of various machine guns guarding the position also opened fire one after another. The few sharpshooters of the independent regiment also lay in the trenches, killing the Japanese machine gunners one by one.
.Eliminate their vitality.
However, the Japanese army seemed to be really driven crazy at this time. Regardless of the shells exploding behind them and the bullets flying in front of them, the machine gunner in front was killed, and the deputy shooter immediately replaced him. The deputy shooter was killed, and the rifleman next to him used his gun.
The puppet troops continued to make up for the heads of the puppet troops around them. When the puppet troops were killed, they continued to make up for themselves. In short, the Japanese army's dozen light and heavy machine guns fired wildly at the Eighth Route Army, but they did not stop firing.
Of course, the Japanese army's desperate move caused heavy losses, but the worst thing was the Eighth Route Army, which was less than a battalion hidden between the trenches and the Japanese city wall. Facing the dense bullets of the Japanese army, the Eighth Route Army soldiers lying on the open ground could not move forward.
No, there is no way to retreat. We can only fight a few times under the Japanese army's madness and slowly lose our troops.
Looking at the soldiers around him, being killed by the Japanese one after another and lying in a pool of blood, the company commander who was the commander-in-chief of the offensive force was anxious. If he rashly ordered the soldiers to retreat, then there would be less than 200 soldiers left.
They will become a target for the Japanese army. In the end, there is no telling how many people will be left alive who will be able to return alive. If this stalemate persists, the entire army of their own army will eventually be destroyed.
"Comrades, prepare to retreat with grenade cover. I shout one, two, three, and everyone throws grenades directly in front of us. Quick, prepare grenades..." the company commander shouted loudly to the soldiers behind him. At the same time, the grenade from his waist
He took out a grenade from his bag, pulled out the safety cover, and pinched out the tab inside.
"One, two, three...drop the bomb..." the company commander shouted loudly and threw the grenade in his hand. Immediately, more than a hundred grenades passed over the company commander's head and landed 10 to 40 meters in front of Daqian.
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"Boom, boom, boom..." The grenades that landed on the ground began to explode one after another. Immediately, there was a sea of fire in front of everyone. At the same time, the thick smoke generated by the explosion of the grenades also rose quickly, blocking the Japanese army's view.
"Comrades, retreat immediately. Hurry..." The company commander seized the moment and shouted loudly to the bewildered soldiers behind him. So, under the cover of the smoke generated by the grenade explosion, the soldiers quickly withdrew from the scene just now.
Position. Although on the way to retreat, a dozen soldiers were left behind by the bullets flying by the Japanese army, but this result was much better than the entire army was wiped out.