After receiving Wu Chengfeng's order, the artillery platoon at the rear immediately fired the illumination bombs that had been prepared into the sky.
The 80mm caliber flare emitted light like a small sun in the sky, illuminating the entire Xiaosha River as if it were daytime. Under the illumination of the flare, Wu Chengfeng could clearly see the densely packed Japanese troops floating on the river. They were lying down.
We walked towards the other side of the river on horseback.
Seeing this situation, Wu Chengfeng shouted without hesitation: "Hit!"
In an instant, dense rain of bullets like a violent storm swept across the river at the same time, and Wu Chengfeng suddenly pulled the trigger of the submachine gun in his hand.
The muzzle of the submachine gun in his hand faithfully flashed with clusters of flames, and the muzzle shot out clusters of fire. As the submachine gun shook violently, the hard and bright warhead found its end point, on the bodies of the two Japanese soldiers who were standing next to each other.
It burst open suddenly. The hard warhead tore apart the thin and fragile flesh of the Japanese soldiers mercilessly. The warhead rolled and cut rapidly in the unfamiliar body, and the body knocked down by the huge kinetic energy fell helplessly into the river.
The wings of death have completely enveloped this small river. A squadron of 180 Japanese soldiers who were swimming howled in pain in the dense rain of bullets. They let out the highest screams that humans can make.
Completely dispel the silence of the night.
The dense rain of bullets and the screams from the Japanese soldiers did not last long. Five minutes... In less than five minutes, one hundred and eighty Japanese soldiers and their horses disappeared on the river. They might
Either they were washed away by the river that was not fast, or they lay motionless on the river.
The gunfire from the opposite side suddenly stopped, the firing of flares also stopped, the river fell into darkness for an instant, and the night sky fell into silence again, as if everything just happened was just a nightmare.
But Major Amagi Kanshichiro was stunned, his body was shaking as if shaking, and his eyes were staring blankly ahead. There was still darkness and silence, but in the eyes of Major Amagi Kanshichiro, the dark night sky
It was like a man-eating monster looking at him mockingly from the other side.
I don't know how long it took, but Major Amagi Kanshichiro recovered from his sluggishness and returned to his normal thinking. He pulled out his command sword and shouted to the people around him: "Come here, everyone is here, all weapons."
Shoot them all immediately! Kill them all!"
"Da da da……"
"Eight gourds..."
Whether it was the Type 11 light machine gun, the Type 44 lance, or even the grenade launcher, they all tilted the Japanese army's fury towards the other side.
To be fair, the Japanese army during this period was far superior to the general national army in this period, both in terms of individual soldier quality and the weapons they were equipped with. Generally speaking, very few national army units could defeat the well-equipped Japanese army in terms of shooting.
However, Major Amagi Kanshichiro had an eye-opener today. The national army on the opposite side did not show any weakness and immediately began to fight back with more ferocity. Even the mortars that originally fired illumination bombs were diverted from more than half of their firepower and replaced with high-definition weapons.
Explosive bombs began to bombard the Japanese troops. Eighty-millimeter-caliber mortar shells roared across the narrow river and continued to fall on the Qijun Cavalry Brigade. The splashing shrapnel caused the surrounding Japanese troops to fly with flesh and blood...
Seeing the casualties increasing, Major Amagi Kanshichiro also felt something bad, and his feverish mind began to sober up. He knew that if this continued, all these crowded cavalry would definitely fall in this deserted area.
On the sheltered river beach.
He quickly turned around and yelled: "Back up, back up! Back to a safe distance."
Under the command of Major Amagi Kanshichiro, the cavalrymen who were originally crowded on the river beach quickly rolled and crawled back.
When they retreated to a safe distance, Major Amagi Kanshichiro counted the number of people and found that nearly half of his more than 700 cavalrymen had been killed or injured in the firefight just now, and only more than 400 people were left at this moment.
"How could this happen?" Major Amagi Kanshichiro was shocked and frightened. The violent firepower on the other side of the river made him feel sincerely shocked. In his memory, the troops that could fire such intensive firepower meant that there must be at least five troops on the other side of the river.
There are more than a thousand troops, otherwise they would not have 80-caliber mortars. What on earth are they going to do?
"Your Excellency, Captain, what should we do?" This was the question asked by the three remaining squadron leaders under his command.
Seeing the fearful expressions on the faces of the three squadron leaders, Major Amagi Kanshichiro felt agitated. Although he was usually called a young officer by his colleagues, this did not mean that his IQ was so low that he would knowingly risk his death.
To the point where he would rush forward without hesitation.
If you still rush forward in this situation, that's not called bravery, that's called stupidity. But if you don't do something, the division commander will definitely not be able to spare him when he comes tomorrow. After thinking about it in the end, the desire to survive still prevailed.
Feng and Amagi Kanshichiro ordered the entire army to dismount and wait for reinforcements to arrive.
Just when Amagi Kanshichiro made his decision, Wu Chengfeng also ordered the soldiers to stop shooting. For a while, the entire land fell into a strange calm, as if the gunfire just now was just people's illusion.
"Camp Commander Wu...Camp Commander Wu..."
At this time, Ge Sanshun walked along the trench again and found Wu Chengfeng.
Seeing this guy, Wu Chengfeng couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I said, if you are not there to command your troops, why are you coming to our position?"
When Ge Sanshun heard this, he immediately felt a little unhappy. He glared at Wu Chengfeng and said, "Well, Wu Chengfeng, I came to you for business. Do you think I am happy to see your stinky face?"
"Hey... I'm going to look bad in your eyes now."
Wu Chengfeng said, somewhat dumbfounded: "Okay, okay, tell me, what do you want to do?"
Ge Sanshun glanced left and right, put his mouth to Wu Chengfeng's ear and said: "Battle Commander Wu, I estimate that the Japanese troops on the other side of the river are no more than a brigade of cavalry. We just killed more than 200 of them. What do you think?
What do you think, let's send two companies each to cross the river and dig out their hearts with a black tiger, and take out all the Japanese's trashy dog treasures?"
"Is this... okay?"
Wu Chengfeng pondered. If they sent two companies on each side to attack, there would only be two companies and more than 400 people left on the other side of the river. If something goes wrong, Xiaosha River will be difficult to defend.
Living.
Thinking of this, Wu Chengfeng shook his head: "No, our mission is to guard the Xiaosha River and prevent the Japanese from taking a step forward. If we attack without authorization and are entangled by the Japanese on the other side of the river, we will be in big trouble. And our life and death are small matters.
If Xiaoshahe is lost because of disobedience to the commander's order, then our sin will be great."
Ge Sanshun thought for a while and realized that what Wu Chengfeng said made sense, so he stopped insisting.
The two sides began to confront each other across a small river. One side was unwilling to attack, while the other side did not dare to come out. This lasted until dawn.
When it got daylight, Wu Chengfeng saw at least a few corpses of Japanese soldiers and war horses floating on the river.
"Alright, it's getting light. Everyone, hurry up and put the guard post three miles away, and monitor these Japanese troops closely to see if they make any movements."
The light rain was still falling continuously, and the continuous drizzle was very annoying. Wu Chengfeng dispersed a company of soldiers around. The Xiaosha River was long. Although he only blocked a few sections where the water flow was slow and shallow,
Wu Chengfeng was still afraid that the Japanese army would cross the river from another place.
Ge Sanshun, on the other hand, let out a long sigh of relief. He finally got through the night, but the next battle would be the most difficult.
As expected by Ge Sanshun, a buzzing sound came from the sky as soon as it got dark.
"No, that's a Japanese plane."
Wu Chengfeng's heart sank, and he quickly ran to the trench and shouted to the soldiers, "Quickly... everyone hides, hide quickly! Don't get together, don't get together! Machine guns... Hurry up and add up the machine guns for air defense!"
Seeing several recruits leaning against a rope and shaking in fear, Wu Chengfeng ran over on the spot, kicked them open and ordered them to spread out and take cover.
Just when Wu Chengfeng was busy, four Type 98 light bombers painted in grass green camouflage came over them. In the sky, they quickly spotted the Nationalist troops by the river.
In the conversation just now with Major Amagi Kanshichiro on the ground, they learned that it was the Chinese army below that had stopped their cavalry all night. The four low-flying Japanese planes in the sky even discovered that they were commanding from the ground.
The troops were hiding Wu Chengfeng, so the commander of the four Japanese planes decided to give this stubborn Chinese a final trial.
"Zero 23, the Chinese man on the ground who is commanding is probably their commander. You should immediately lower your altitude and eliminate him!"
"Hai!"
The raindrops near the propeller were pushed and pulled by the rapidly rotating airflow, forming a huge white wing. A Japanese soldier quickly dived towards the ground. Wu Chengfeng immediately felt an air exuding the smell of death and decay in his body.
His nose was pulsing rapidly.
As soon as Wu Chengfeng raised his head, he found that a plane was roaring towards him. He hurriedly ran along the trench. The water under his feet was splashed by his efforts. He began to try to avoid the wall of fire that would burst out at any time.
The slippery leather shoes stepped rapidly into the ocher-yellow mud. Every time he pulled the shoes out of the sticky mud, he spent a lot of energy, and the gastrocnemius muscles on his calves were twitching.
In a panic, Wu Chengfeng stepped into a deep pit in the trench. His left foot stumbled heavily, and he immediately lost his center of gravity and fell into the mud with a muffled sound.
Wu Chengfeng raised his neck from the muddy water in panic and began to cough loudly. He knew that there must be water in his lungs.
When Wu Chengfeng dragged his submachine gun full of mud, turned his back to the ground and struggled backwards, the wings of death had completely enveloped him. Lying on the ground, Wu Chengfeng could only watch the huge shadow envelope him...
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