The Japanese attack was very fierce. Mortars and grenades bombarded the last few courtyards where Yang Ling and the others were defending. The gates collapsed, the windows were broken, and the courtyard walls with one layer cut off were shrouded in gunpowder smoke and loose soil.
There was a mess among them.
Yang Ling and the others had no choice but to fight. Fortunately, the courtyard wall was high and thick. Unless the grenade fell into the yard or shattered the roof and fell into the house, it would not pose much of a threat to Yang Ling and the others.
The walls of several courtyards have been smashed through with hammers and connected to each other. The defenders in each courtyard can support each other in combat. They have turned this high-walled courtyard into a strong fortress. Although more than three hundred Japanese soldiers will
They were tightly surrounded, but they had no way to speak.
In fact, most of Jiangqiao Town has been captured. The remnants of the supplementary regiment that were holding on to a few yards were no longer a big threat to the Japanese. They could be surrounded and trapped to death. However, the Japanese commander, Lieutenant Takahashi, had to order a continuous attack because he had to die.
The captain took revenge to establish his position.
Yang Ling clung to the thick and cold wall, letting the dirt fall all over the brim of his hat and covering his whole body, eventually turning into a disgraceful face.
The Japanese grenades rumbled, the earth was shaking, and the floating soil and gunpowder smoke filled the air wantonly, covering the sky. The sky was as dark as evening.
Yang Ling was very quiet at the moment. He slowly took out the pointed copper-core bullet and pressed it into the chamber of the gun. He pulled the bolt with a clatter and once again stretched out the hole made in the wall.
There was no wave in his dark and deep eyes. He looked through the holes in the wall and through the smoke, and finally landed on a Japanese soldier crawling forward among the rubble without moving again.
boom!
A faint smoke of gunpowder came out from the muzzle. The crawling Japanese soldier raised his head and was shot in the middle of his eyebrow. He lay there forever, blood slowly flowing out. The Japanese soldier's counterattack came immediately, and the area around Yangling was filled with smoke and dust.
splash.
"Damn, what a bad luck!" Li Tiezhu saw that the Japs soldier in the crosshairs tilted his head and stopped moving. He cursed in a low voice the man who had snatched his target. He moved the muzzle of his gun and started looking for the next target.
A light machine gun with a crooked handle was placed at the window and suddenly opened fire. Several Japanese soldiers who tried to take a detour were caught off guard by the sudden rain of bullets and were beaten into bloody gourds. They fell to the ground one after another, frightening the rest.
The Japanese soldier retracted his head again.
"Damn, I think I killed five of them! I made a profit this time." The machine gunner poked his head out and said excitedly.
Another soldier replied: "There seems to be another one moving, make up for it."
Boom!
Two grenades flew out of the cold grenade, mixed with broken rubble, and fell from the roof into the room where the machine gunner was staying.
Along with the bursts of gravel, the house shook violently. The two machine gunners were buried in the rubble. Several people nearby rushed to dig out, but when they came out, the two men were already covered in blood and lifeless.
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Without the suppression of machine guns, the fierce Japanese soldiers immediately rushed across the street corner. With a bang, the door was blown open, and they rushed into the yard with bayonets in hand.
Several defenders behind the gate were blown to pieces and were still squirming on the ground, watching helplessly as the Japanese soldiers rushed over with bayonets in hand.
Pfft! The sound of bayonets penetrating into flesh was heard. The Japanese soldiers decisively killed several injured defenders and continued to attack inside.
"Damn, the yard on the left has been breached by the Japs. Come and block the opening here!" Someone shouted amidst the gunfire, and someone hurried over to help.
A grenade with green smoke crossed the wall and landed among the rubble of a yard, turning like bones. When Old Wangtou heard the noise behind him, he turned his head and saw the grenade close at hand. His mind went blank and his legs kept moving.
I kicked back, trying to stand up and run, but there was a thick wall behind me.
Yang Ling rushed over, picked up the grenade and threw it back along the wall. The grenade exploded on the wall, chipping away two layers of masonry and falling down with a clatter.
"We can't stay here anymore, retreat to the pillar." Yang Ling grabbed Lao Wang's head and ran to the other end of the yard.
Behind them, several grenades came over the wall one after another, causing a rumble of mud and dust, and several holes were blasted on the ground.
A bamboo ladder was leaning against the wall outside the yard. Before the ladder could stop, a Japanese soldier was already climbing up the ladder impatiently.
As soon as the Japanese soldier showed his head, with the sound of a gunshot, he fell down again at a faster speed. Another Japanese soldier threw grenades inside, and another one climbed up...
Surrounding several fortress-like high-walled compounds, several attacks by the Japanese soldiers were repelled by Yang Ling and others. However, Yang Ling and others who were trapped in the courtyard had run out of ammunition, and the situation took a turn for the worse.
Fortunately, the Japanese soldiers' attack also stopped at this moment, because another Japanese lieutenant Yoshino suggested driving tanks into the town to attack, and these Japanese soldiers had to withdraw to clear the obstacles on the road to make way for the tanks.
The Japanese soldiers stopped attacking in the evening, and several signal flares rose in the distant sky, which were the agreed retreat signals.
Seeing the rising signal flare, the regimental deputy Liu Ming, whose face was dark and dark, almost shed tears of excitement. In order to wait for the order to retreat, they fought too hard and too many people died.
"Everyone, prepare, let's break out after nightfall!" Liu Ming was very excited at this moment, and he could finally leave this damn place.
Yang Ling was still frowning. There were at least two to three hundred Japanese soldiers outside. Dozens of their remnant soldiers rushed out like this. They would be wiped out by the opponent within a few minutes.
"Deputy Liu, if we just force a breakout, I'm afraid we won't be able to break out. There are too many Japanese soldiers outside." Yang Ling found Liu Ming and expressed his thoughts.
"There is nothing we can do about it. It is better to break out than to stay here and wait to die. If we can break out one by one, no one will be killed. If we are beaten to death by the Japanese, we can't blame anyone."
Yang Ling hesitated and continued: "I have a way to ensure that most people break out, but..."
When Liu Ming heard that Yang Ling had a solution, his eyes suddenly lit up and he hurriedly grabbed his arm: "Brother Yang, I know you have a lot of ideas, tell me quickly."
"Abandoning the soldiers to save the car, we can break out in two parts. One group will break out first to attract the Japanese firepower, and cover the other group's breakout from the other direction."
Regiment deputy Liu Ming fell silent after hearing what Yang Ling said. Although this method can ensure that most people can successfully break through and survive, the wave of people who attracted the firepower will definitely not escape death.
Although this was a bit cruel, Liu Ming gritted his teeth and decided to adopt Yang Ling's method. After all, this way he could preserve his strength to the maximum extent.
Liu Ming raised his head and looked at Yang Ling and asked, "Brother Yang, who do you think is the right person to attract firepower?"
Yang Ling has also thought about this problem. The person who attracts firepower must be determined to die, be bold and careful, and have a posture of breaking out as the main force. Only in this way can he deceive the Japanese. If ordinary people go there, the effect will not be good. I am afraid he is the only one.