Chapter nine hundred and sixty-eight abandoned officers and soldiers
Rumble!
In the war-torn Gaoyou City, the sound of artillery rumbled, the ground trembled under the bombardment of field artillery, and the smoke and dust shrouded Gaoyou in darkness.
Under the cover of artillery fire, a large number of little Japanese in cotton-padded clothes rushed forward like a tide toward the various gaps in Gaoyou City. The bullets hit the bricks and rocks everywhere.
"Bang bang bang..."
In the streets and alleys that were almost reduced to rubble in the city, rifles and machine guns fired at the Japanese from time to time. The bullets penetrated the bodies and spattered blood. The little Japanese rushing in front kept falling down.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
The Japanese's grenade launched into the ruins immediately. Amidst the rising clouds of black smoke, one or two screams were heard from time to time. This was when the resisting Sulu guerrilla officers and soldiers were blown to the ground.
"Kill Gaigai!" the Japanese squad leader roared ferociously, and the disgraced Japanese soldiers rushed towards the ruins shrouded in gunpowder smoke from several directions.
"Huh! Huh!"
"ah!"
In the dark ruins shrouded in gunpowder smoke, there were soon the sounds of officers and soldiers from both sides colliding with each other and shouting for kill, the sound of gun butts smashing bones, and the two sides strangled together and killing each other inextricably.
"Boom!"
As the smoke of the explosion rose, the soldiers from both sides who were struggling were quickly separated by the explosion, and then they fell heavily into the ruins, leaving their bodies bloody and bloody.
The ruins after the explosion became silent again. Several surviving Chinese officers and soldiers leaned against the corpses, breathing heavily while wiping the blood from their foreheads.
They couldn't remember how many times they had repelled the Japs' attacks. For a whole day, they fought against the Japs in the ruins of Gaoyou, fighting from house to house and alley to lane.
The Japs had been unable to move forward since they broke through the city at dawn. The officers and soldiers of the Sano detachment formed by supplementary troops soon encountered a head-on attack.
After the city was broken, many Japanese soldiers standing on the city wall, holding flags and rifles high and cheering for long live, were shrouded in a hail of bullets. They were all beaten into sieves and then fell from the city wall. Commander Sano Taro could see all this clearly.
Chu.
The angry Sano detachment immediately sent hundreds of fresh troops to reinforce them. However, after fighting for a whole morning, not only was it difficult to advance, but they suffered heavy losses.
Taro Sano ordered the artillery to bombard Gaoyou City indiscriminately. The intensive artillery fire almost turned the entire Gaoyou into ruins. Many houses were left with only empty frames, and then there were rubbles all over the ground.
However, Taro Sano's bombardment did not eliminate the resistance forces in the city. Instead, the ruins formed by the bombing became the best bunker to resist the officers and soldiers.
These resistance officers and soldiers of the Sulu guerrillas attacked elusively in the ruins, leaving the entire city in danger. Fighting started in every corner of the city, but the ruins obscured the sight of the Japanese soldiers, allowing them to be constantly bombarded with grenades and attacked with cold guns.
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Sometimes when they just occupied a block and moved forward, the block behind them was once again occupied by guerrilla officers and soldiers who appeared from nowhere and attacked their backs.
Although these Japanese reinforcements have good marksmanship and high military literacy, their fighting will is not as good as that of those battle-hardened veterans. They strained their nerves and fought in the ruins for a whole morning before they could hold on. Taro Sano couldn't help it.
Don't go up with new troops.
However, the new troops would encounter the same dilemma after entering the city. The constant attacks made it difficult for them to move forward. The guerrilla troops actually relied on Gaoyou to fight the Japanese in a stalemate.
Gaoyou became a tough nut to crack, and Taro Sano, who was ambitious and wanted to fight a good fight in Gaoyou, was getting worse and worse.
What Sano Taro didn't know was that the troops who stayed in Gaoyou City and fought with them all day were not the main force of the guerrillas, but just a blocking force left behind.
After such a long period of fierce fighting, less than a hundred people of this blocking force, which included an organized battalion, were scattered among the ruins, waiting for the next Japanese attack.
Li Changjiang, the deputy commander of the Sulu Guerrilla Corps, had no intention of sticking to Gaoyou and fighting the Japs, so in the morning, he quietly retreated from the north of the city with his main force.
In order to prevent them from being bitten by the Japs, deputy commander Li Changjiang still left a battalion of troops to fight the Japs in the city and delay the Japs' actions.
Of course, all the officers and soldiers of this battalion did not know that while they were fighting bloody battles with the Japs in the ruins, there was no one behind them.
In many battles, if you want to successfully escape from the hands of the Japanese, you must leave a force behind to fight the Japanese to the death. The remaining troops have almost no hope of survival.
Therefore, all the troops who were left behind were unaware of the situation, because once they knew it, no one would be willing to stay and block the attack. Blocking the rear would be a fatal battle.
Many times, the rear troops who were left behind thought that they were just a part of the entire battle, and that there were brothers fighting in many invisible places, but in fact, they were the only ones fighting.
"Damn, the Japanese finally retreated."
A brother with a face full of dust kept his gun pointed at the street entrance in the distance. He kept aiming for five or six minutes but did not see the little Japs coming, so he leaned against the rotten wall and gasped.
He unscrewed his kettle and raised his head to drink water, but not a drop of water fell from the kettle. He had been tensing his nerves to fight the Japanese, and then he remembered that he had drank all the water a long time ago.
"There's no more water, and there's smoke coming out of my throat." He turned to look at a brother next to him who was lying in the ruins and looking into the distance, and asked in a low voice.
"I have some down here, do you want to drink it?" The brother grinned teasingly, his chapped lips covered with blood.
"You bitch, are you looking for a beating?" The brother who was ridiculed suddenly opened his eyes and waved his fist threateningly.
At this moment, there was the sound of rubble being stepped on. The two people looked at each other and raised their guns to aim in the direction of the sound.
Two men covered in blood appeared in the crosshairs. They were not Japanese soldiers, but their commander, Acting Battalion Elder Du.
Their battalion had been fighting the Japs for a day in the ruins. They were able to beat the Japs to the point where they could not move forward, but they themselves also suffered heavy losses.
One battalion was beaten to the point where only a hundred brothers were left, and all the battalion commanders and company commanders were killed. The current acting battalion elder, Du, turned out to be just a platoon leader and had to take over the command and continue fighting.
"Can you still hold on?"
Acting battalion elder Du took a brother to inspect various positions. When he saw that there were only two brothers left here, his nose felt a little sore.
"I can hold on, but I don't have anything to eat or drink, so I don't have the strength." The brother leaning against the wall pointed at his empty stomach.
Acting battalion elder Du also sat down along the wall, took out a box of crumpled cigarettes from his arms, shook out two cigarettes and handed them to the two brothers: "Hold on, I have sent people to the back to find Li
Sir, food and drink should be brought to you soon."
"Lao Du, no new brothers have been brought in for a while. Do you think Chief Li and his men have already withdrawn? It's unusual to be quiet here." The veteran put a cigarette into his mouth.
Click on it and talk to yourself.
After hearing what the veteran said, acting battalion elder Du also jumped in the eyelids: "It's impossible..."
Acting Battalion Elder Du was just a platoon leader before. All his superiors were killed in battle, so he took the top position now. He had been busy commanding to resist the Japanese and had no time to think about other things. Now after being reminded like this, cold sweat broke out on his back.
If this is the case, then they will have no way to survive.
At this moment, a brother came flying from a distance and rushed behind the bunker. Without even taking a breath, he said to the acting battalion commander: "Batalion Commander, Battalion Commander, the Japanese are coming from the north!"
Acting battalion elder Du grabbed the brother's collar and asked anxiously: "Aren't there Chief Li and his friends over there? Where are they?!"
"Run away, you damn long ago ran away. I went to get supplies and didn't even see the shadow of the ghost. I saw the enemy coming from that way!" This brother cursed with a cry in his voice.
"Okay, we have been fighting for a long time, and our feelings have been used as cannon fodder for the man named Li." The veteran threw away the cigarette in his mouth, as if he had long been accustomed to this kind of thing.
"Mom, hurry up and tell the brothers to come and gather, let's break out!" The acting battalion commander also had a face full of anger, the anger of being abandoned, and waved his hand, preparing to evacuate with the surviving brothers.