Chapter five hundred and seventieth round battle (two)
The battlefield has been bombed to the point of being as soft and charred as rotten tofu. Shocking craters are densely scattered and messy, and the bottom of the craters is filled with puddles of dark red liquid.
The wooden piles holding the barbed wire fence were also burnt black, and many were hot and smoking. The barbed wire exploded into twisted and twisted sections, with broken bodies and blasted guns leaning crookedly on it.
The two sides fought repeatedly on the battlefield. Fierce battles took place at every position on the crisscrossed battlefield. The corpses that fell in various postures were cold and stiff.
But there were only broken corpses of Japanese soldiers on the ground. Most of the corpses of Chinese officers and soldiers who died in battle were taken away by their retreating companions.
Deputy battalion commander Qin Shou personally led a company of troops to carefully step over the stinky corpses of Japanese soldiers on the ground, and headed towards a garrison position, preparing to take over the defence.
Yang Ling learned from the 66th Army guarding the position that there were not many Japanese troops on the opposite side of his position, so he boldly prepared to let each battalion in the regiment take turns to fight the Japanese in order to achieve the purpose of actual combat training.
Their regiment suffered heavy losses in the battle at Minshan. Although the more than 2,000 new recruits had undergone nearly a week of pre-war emergency training, the gap between the two sides was still huge when faced with the well-trained Japanese combat troops.
Directly adding these new recruits with almost no actual combat experience into the army and heading to the battlefield to fight the Japanese is no different from being cannon fodder, and there will definitely be heavy casualties.
However, the elite of the Chinese army had already been exhausted in the previous fierce battles, and the strength of each unit was stretched thin. It was helpless to force these new recruits recruited from the rear to directly go into battle.
The well-trained Japanese divisions are still attacking sharply. In order to buy time for the transfer of civilians in the rear and the training and recruitment of new recruits, the frontline troops are fighting bloody battles with the Japanese every day.
"Woo-wow-"
Some recruits accidentally stepped on a highly decomposed corpse of a Japanese soldier. A large number of snow-white wriggling maggots were exposed from the tattered military uniform. The sight made him feel sick and nauseated. He couldn't help turning his head and vomited heavily.
The leading deputy battalion commander Qin Shou looked back and saw the pale brothers who had stopped and then looked at the highly decomposed body of the Japanese. He frowned and whispered: "Keep going."
The footsteps of each brother were extremely heavy, and the tragic conditions of the battlefield were clearly visible. They walked through the lingering smoke, waded through muddy puddles, and stepped over the bombed-out debris blocking the road...
From time to time, taunting gunshots came from the hazy smoke in front. The gunfire was like lightning in the dark, dazzling. Every time the dull gunfire sounded, the corners of the brothers' mouths twitched.
The battlefield was covered by thick smoke, and gunshots rang out from time to time nearby. If the veterans had not led the way, the disoriented recruits would not have been able to tell the direction clearly on this battlefield filled with cratered corpses and barbed wire fences.
"Sir Qin, our position is over there."
A liaison soldier, who was covered in black and looked like charcoal, crouched and hid behind half a piece of wood, pointed at an eerily quiet position in front of him and said.
Qin Shou followed the direction pointed by the liaison soldier of the 66th Army. There were sandbags and trenches built in the dim light. There were no gunshots and no signs of human activity. He frowned and asked, "I won't give it to the Japanese anymore."
Is it captured?"
If they were occupied by the Japs and they went over so recklessly, it wouldn't be a matter of just a few people dying when they ran into the Japs' arms. Maybe their entire company would be wiped out before they even fought.
The liaison soldier from the 66th Army said uncertainly: "There was a platoon of brothers guarding me when I left. It shouldn't be that fast..."
Qin Shou glanced at the position over there a few more times, then turned to the company commander Su Er, who was squatting behind him and raising his gun on guard, and waved: "Send two brothers to touch it and have a look."
The captain and company commander were already familiar with doing this kind of thing. He immediately nodded knowingly and looked at the two veteran brothers standing guard with guns beside him. They crouched to the left and the right and quietly touched it.
The rest of the brothers in the company were all lying down or squatting, on guard with guns, ready to cover the retreat of the two veterans if there was an emergency.
Soon the veteran who went out to investigate made a safety gesture in the distance. Qin Shou waved his hand, and the brothers stood up and continued to move forward with their guns in hand.
The trenches had been destroyed by Japanese artillery fire. Qin Shou and the others searched for surviving brothers along the waist of the traffic trench. Looking around, they saw piles of corpses everywhere, and the trenches were stained red with blood.
"Lower your body, we are being targeted by the Japanese sharpshooters." The veterans of each squad and platoon looked at the recruits who were looking around, and the voices of reminders kept coming and going.
These new recruits went to the battlefield for the first time. Some of them were so scared that their faces were tense, while others were scared and a little excited at the same time. Finally, they could fight the Japs face to face.
Under the reminders of the veterans, the recruits followed the example of the veterans and bent down even lower. Bullets flew from a distance from time to time.
The bang hit the upper edge of the trench wall, and the soil splashed, making the recruits realize that this was a life-and-death battlefield, and everyone's heart was in their throats.
Qin Shou and the others searched the entire position and found more than twenty living people. They were lying in the crater covered in blood, and from time to time they shot at the Japanese who appeared on the opposite side.
"I thought the main force had withdrawn and we were abandoned."
Seeing Qin Shou and others coming up, a brother who was guarding a shooting position alone seemed to have been drained of strength and slumped in the shooting position. However, Qin Shou saw that his face covered with gunpowder smoke and dirt showed the signs of the aftermath of the disaster.
smile.
Qin Shou stepped forward and helped this brother up, unscrewed the kettle and gave him a drink of water. He had also been guarding the position alone.
He knew that the brothers around him were sacrificed one by one, and he was suffering from not getting any news about friendly forces, so he sincerely admired this brother. He was the only one beside him who continued to fight. His enemies were not only the Japanese, but also the enemy.
There is also endless loneliness.
"Leave the position to us, you can feel free to withdraw."
Qin Shou made his voice as soft as possible and waved his hand behind him. Two brothers came over with a stretcher and put the weak brother on the stretcher and carried him off.
Yang Ling and his battalion took over the position that the regiment of the 66th Army had held for several days and nights. Under the whispered orders of the veterans of each squad and platoon, the new recruits placed their rifles in their respective shooting positions in a prone position.
In the trenches.
The new recruits are nervous and excited. What makes them nervous is that this is a cruel battlefield and they may die at any time. But what makes them excited is that they can finally use their own abilities to kill the Japanese and defend their country with practical actions.
"Lie down a little lower, or the devil will knock your head off if you do this."
"Lower the muzzle, don't be nervous."
"Unscrew the bottom cover of the grenade and put it in a convenient place."
"Change the position. Didn't you see that the shot in front was blocked?"
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The veterans of each squad and platoon were running back and forth in the trenches, correcting the movements of each recruit. The recruits went to the battlefield for the first time and did not understand many things, and many things were fatal.
Fortunately, they didn't have many Japanese troops in front of them, so they could teach these new recruits how to fight calmly. If they had to fight head-on with the Japanese right from the start, I'm afraid all these new recruits would be wiped out.
The veterans became the backbone of the new recruits. After running back and forth in the trenches for a few times, they were already sweating profusely, and the new recruits finally looked decent.