The defeated officers and soldiers fought for more than an hour outside the city with the suddenly attacking Japs. They wanted to defeat the Japs before retreating, but they couldn't retreat at all while they were at war.
But the firepower of the Japs was too strong. Each infantry unit had a light machine gun, grenade launchers, and mortars that kept firing at their heads.
The fortifications of the Chinese officers and soldiers faced indiscriminate bombing, and countless of them collapsed and were blown to pieces. The debris flying everywhere was even more devastating.
The Japs were very generous with their attacks. Not only were their bullets dense, but they also covered a large area with illumination bombs. The positions of the Chinese officers and soldiers were illuminated brightly, and the Chinese officers and soldiers on the positions directly became live targets.
But the Japs were hiding in the darkness. It was difficult for the Chinese officers and soldiers to aim in the dark, so they could only fight at places with gunfire.
But the little devils are as smart as monkeys. Not to mention the machine gun crews, even the riflemen are just shooting one shot at a time.
Therefore, when the Chinese officers and soldiers fired their bullets, they often failed. Faced with the constant assaults of the Japanese, they could not stop them at all.
As the defenders' light and heavy machine guns were knocked out by the Japs' grenade launchers, the defenders found it even more difficult to suppress the Japs with only their weak rifle firepower.
The final result was a serious attrition of troops, loss of primary defense positions, and loss of secondary defense positions.
When the two battalions of Chinese officers and soldiers retreated to the last line of defense and prepared to fight, fighting broke out again in the city.
It was so dark that they didn't know what was going on inside the city. The Chinese officers and soldiers outside the city thought that the Japanese were entering the city from their direction, and were afraid of being surrounded, so they had to retreat.
But the night was too chaotic. As soon as the Chinese officers and soldiers withdrew, the Japs immediately attacked. Since the regiment commander had already withdrawn, and without command, neither battalion wanted to break up the rear and scrambled to retreat. The Japs
After another pursuit, the retreat turned into a rout.
The Chinese officers and soldiers, covered in blood, withdrew one after another, while a large number of Japs were biting behind them.
"Bang bang bang..."
"Da da da......"
The Japanese machine guns and rifles rang out loudly, and the slow-running Chinese officers and soldiers were quickly knocked to the ground by the bullets coming from behind.
Those wolf-like Japanese soldiers held bayonets and stepped on the dripping blood and scattered corpses in a frantic pursuit.
"Annihilate the Chongqing Army! Enter the city to snatch the flower girls!"
The Japanese commander even arrogantly clamored to annihilate all Zhijiang squadrons. The Japanese soldiers were as if they had been given a shot of blood, and their morale was high.
Seeing groups of Chinese officers and soldiers retreating in embarrassment along the street and being beaten so miserably, Yang Ling and his brothers who had occupied the buildings on both sides of the street felt quite bad. After all, their own brothers had been beaten.
"Brothers, prepare to fight!"
The Japanese were getting closer and closer, and mortar shells had already fallen into the city. The rumbling explosions illuminated the streets, and many houses were on fire, burning fiercely.
The brothers who had set up temporary defense lines on both sides of the street were clutching their weapons tightly and looking with red eyes at the little Japs charging towards them with sharp bayonets.
These little devils were really arrogant. Before they could completely defeat the Chinese army, quite a few of them had already started smashing open the houses on both sides of the street with their rifle butts and started a looting spree.
The brothers of the Flame Special Operations Brigade loaded their bullets and began to aim at the little Japs who appeared in the field of vision. The security company and the gathered policemen had tense faces and were extremely nervous.
After all, the troops of the two battalions did not stop the Japs. It is still unknown whether they can stop the Japs now.
"Brother, why don't we retreat? The little devil looks very powerful."
The commander of the guard company felt a little weak when he saw those little Japs rushing towards him with great force.
It would be fine if they had to deal with more than ten or twenty little devils. Unfortunately, there were hundreds of them now, and he always felt unsure.
"Don't worry, there are only a hundred or so little devils. Even if we can't wipe them all out, we can still repel them." Yang Ling seemed confident.
The two most elite squadrons of the Lieyan Special Warfare Brigade are now here. Although these little Japs are elites who have fought a hundred battles and are much stronger than the Japs guarding the Sulu Theater, Yang Ling also doesn't take them seriously.
If they can't even deal with the little Japs from these regular troops, how can they deal with the more powerful Japs?
Perhaps Yang Ling's calmness and confidence infected the company commander of the guard company. In the end, he gritted his teeth, did not back down, and was ready to give it a try.
The little devils quickly followed the defeated Chinese officers and soldiers and rushed to the middle of the street. Because it was dark, they were busy grabbing things and chasing the defeated Chinese officers and soldiers, and they did not even notice the ambush on both sides of the street.
It cannot be said that the Japs were careless, but that they had fought too many victorious battles, and now that it was dark, it provided Yang Ling and the others with excellent cover. If it had been in broad daylight, the Japs would have definitely noticed that something was wrong from a long distance away.
"shooting!"
Seeing that the Japanese had entered the shooting range, Yang Ling gave the order to shoot without hesitation.
"boom!"
While giving the shooting order, Yang Ling pulled the trigger of the 79 rifle in his hand. As his shoulders shook, the whistling bullets flew from the second floor to the street. The head of a Japanese man who was running happily burst into a ball of blood.
He staggered and fell to the ground.
"There are Chongqing troops in the room!"
Suddenly bullets were fired from a building next to the street. The chasing Japanese also reacted quickly, and a sergeant immediately shouted.
The Japanese soldiers who were chasing the defeated troops of the Chinese Army looked up and aimed at the houses on both sides of the street, but as soon as they raised their guns, bullets rained down on them.
"Puff puff!"
"Ah!"
A hail of bullets swept towards the street from two directions. The dense bullets were streaking on the street, making the Japanese howl like ghosts and wolves. Before they could even shoot, they were hit by several bullets at the same time.
"Da da da--"
The light machine gun also sprayed out tongues of flame, and the bullets cut into the group of Japanese soldiers, immediately plowing a path of blood, with blood and flesh flying everywhere where the bullets passed.
"Hidden! Hidden!"
Faced with the ambush of the officers and soldiers of the Lieyan Special Operations Brigade, as well as the security company and the police, these Japanese who underestimated the enemy immediately suffered a bitter blow.
They tried to find cover to hide, but unfortunately, the bullets were flying wildly from two directions. In the face of such strangulation, any cover was useless.
Some Japanese soldiers broke open the door next to the street and tried to break into the house to engage in close combat with the Chinese officers and soldiers who were ambushing upstairs.
But as soon as the Japs rushed into the house, smoking grenades fell at their feet. With the violent rumbling red light, many Japs were blown up and their flesh and blood flew everywhere, and they screamed in agony.
"Da da da......"
The Japanese's machine gun team set up their machine guns on sandbags in the street and fired upwards. A row of windows were punctured and sawdust flew.
"Kill the enemy's machine gun!"
Rolling to avoid Japanese machine gun fire, the first squadron leader Grizzly shouted to the sniper team lying on the roof.