That sudden burst of artillery fire was the artillery attack launched by the infantry battalion of the 33rd Regiment on the high ground of the Japanese army.
It's just that this secret military operation was not notified to other ministries. Even Tang Tuanzuo was not aware of it. Naturally, the Japanese army was even less likely to be prepared. This was why it was so sudden.
But this attack harmed the three Chinese soldiers who were in a daze under the Japanese trenches. Both guardsmen turned their attention to Shi Dakuan. Even though Shi Dakuan was younger than them, the newly promoted sergeant had a higher rank than them, and he was
He was the leader of the Japanese attack on New Year's Eve.
Shi Dakuan was also a little confused. The violent artillery knockdown could cover up the sound of gunfire, but the sleeping Japanese army was also awakened. The difficulty was several times greater than before.
However, the bloody battle a few days ago had like a whetstone polished the soldier's will and courage to a different level than before. After only staying for a second or two, Shi Dakuan quickly calmed down, his eyes full of murderous intent, and he took the lead
Tactical action: holding a shell gun in one hand, climbing to the edge of the trench with the other hand, and rolling into the Japanese trench!
"Bang bang bang!" Gunshots rang out repeatedly.
A Japanese soldier who was awakened by the sound of shelling and was rushing towards us with a gun was knocked down by Shi Dakuan, who struck first.
Although the blazing artillery fire from a distance of only 1,300 meters alarmed the Japanese troops in this area, thanks to the sky-high flames, the visibility in the trenches could even reach 30 or 40 meters away at a certain moment, which also gave them the opportunity to be prepared and strike preemptively.
Shi Dakuan's conditions were sufficient to kill the Japanese army.
Cao Yingchong and Pang Zilong, who were observing all this from a distance, watched the three soldiers led by one of them hesitate for a few seconds before choosing to continue the attack, with admiration in their eyes.
Because, if it were them, they would make the same choice.
This is not a question of bravery and cowardice, but the most correct tactical choice at the moment!
The first choice of the Japanese troops who are alerted by the sound of artillery will be to rush into the trenches to observe the front lines of their positions, and some will even fire flares. Whether you choose to continue to lurk or evacuate quickly, there will be a great risk of being killed by the Japanese infantry.
The probability of killing is as high as 90%.
The best tactical choice at this time is to immediately rush into the opponent's trenches and use the submachine guns and shell guns in hand to attack the Japanese army, which are extremely conducive to close combat and have powerful firepower output. Even if the opponent has a large number of people, they must try to muddy the water.
, and then consider retreating.
Of course, if you want to die, that's another matter.
"Enemy attack!" When the already nervous Japanese soldiers heard the crisp sound of gunfire, they immediately exploded into their nests. The heart-rending shouts even reached 200 meters away.
"Bangou'er!" The Japanese Type 38 rifle started shooting.
"Da da da!" The MP28 flower mechanism equipped in the 11th Army also began to counter-suppress.
"Is there a fight over there? Are the Japanese coming?" The Army Colonel of the 31st Regiment, who had just undressed and lay down after drinking two ounces of wine, was awakened by the sound of artillery for a few seconds, and was shocked by the sound of gunfire not far away.
Alarmed.
After listening carefully, he heard the sound of a submachine gun that he was very familiar with, and he instinctively thought it was a night attack by Japanese soldiers.
"Captain, it's not a night attack by the Japanese, but a fight on high ground 3119 occupied by the Japanese." A second lieutenant staff officer panted and ran over from the other side of the trench to report.
"Take me to the lookout post to see who is going to look for trouble with the Japanese on New Year's Eve!" The Army Colonel is also a smart man. As soon as he thought about it, he thought that it might be all the people under his command who were carrying out Tang Dao's orders.
I went to earn rewards through the "cold gun and cold gun" operation.
You have to be angry! It’s not that big of a deal, the main thing is you’re worried.
He also supported Tang Dao's "cold gun and cold attack". In the past two days, he even sent out 10 elite teams to attack and kill the Japanese army.
However, compared with several other groups, the intensity is much smaller. In fact, his 31 group family is now small and weak and cannot afford losses.
Now the only 700 people in his 31st regiment who can still fight are the 2,500-strong infantry regiment with a battle loss of over 70%. Even if the troops are replenished, they will not be able to reach the pre-war combat effectiveness in less than half a year.
Now let alone losing a company, even one or two platoons would make him tremble with distress.
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"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Three illumination bombs were fired from the top of Hill 3119 and the highlands occupied by Japanese troops on both sides.
The three flares were like three slowly falling meteors, illuminating the small hills and slopes brightly.
Three dark blue figures with dead grass branches stuck on their backs and heads fell into the sight of the Japanese army, and also fell into the field of view of the telescope of the army colonel who had just arrived at the frontline lookout post.
"I'll marry you! Shi Dakuan, you bitch!" the Army Colonel cursed angrily.
Who else could that other than Shi Dakuan be that little figure leaning against the corner of the trench wall with a shell gun and shooting at the Japanese soldiers?
This bastard, no wonder he told himself that he wanted to go to sleep after eating the dumplings, but he secretly went to attack the Japanese army secretly.
Now it's better! If a sneak attack fails, it will become a force attack.
At this moment, the Japanese troops, who were only more than 300 meters apart on both sides of the hilltop, saw that they were ready to make a move. The army colonel gritted his teeth and said: "Heavy machine guns, block the mountains on both sides of the 3119 hill for me to prevent any little Japanese from passing by; mortar attack
Artillery squad, keep an eye on the high ground for me. If there are too many Japs, give them a nasty shot. Be careful not to hit your own family. In addition, the security platoon will send two squads to me to pick up the three.
Come back, bastard."
"Commander, didn't you say that we should not attack unless necessary? We don't have many artillery shells left, and the replenishment promised by the division headquarters has not yet been delivered." A combat staff officer asked stammering.
"When is it unnecessary now? Tell the mortar squad that I don't want to save anything. I just want to be precise and execute orders!" The Army Colonel's face was cold, and he stared at his subordinates who occasionally appeared in the field of vision under the illumination of flares and artillery fire.
Three soldiers.
No one can guess the current mood of this man, but everyone can hear his care for these three silly and bold soldiers from his tone.
Three heavy machine guns and six light machine guns began to roar, and the flying bullets made several red bullet marks in the dark night.
"The regiment leader ordered fire cover! Gangzi, Erleng, there are still three more to kill." Shi Dakuan looked at the clearly visible bullet marks not far away that cut through the night sky, and he felt even more courageous.
The Japanese army was very cunning and used the corners of trenches to fight against the Chinese soldiers who had absolutely superior firepower. In this narrow trench, although the power of the 38-gun was greatly weakened, the Japanese army also had melon grenades, which were defensive grenades.
There were so many fragments, and the damage in this semi-confined space was extremely high. In a short period of time, it actually withstood the bullet rain from three Chinese soldiers.
However, they also paid a price. The bodies of two Japanese soldiers lying in the trench were clearly visible.
However, the night was long and the dream was many. Once they were pinned down here and the Japanese troops above came to support them, there would be as many as a dozen people. To say that Shi Dakuan was not nervous or anxious would be a lie.
But the key point is that the Japanese army fired flares, and the three of them did not dare to climb up the trench easily and give the Japanese a fatal blow from the hillside. The Japanese guns above were not insignificant.
What's even worse is that they don't dare to leave the trenches easily, but the Japanese can. One of the three of them must be responsible for defense and always be on guard against someone dropping grenades on them from above.
"Bang!" A gunshot rang out.
The three soldiers in the trench could not hear the noise of gunshots and grenade explosions. Only the Japanese soldier who ventured up the trench and kept bending towards the trench area where the three Chinese soldiers were, looked at his ribs in horror.
huge wounds.
He was shot.
The person who shot him came from the bushes more than 230 meters away!
The top five snipers in the four-line group did not continue to look at the prey they shot, but moved their sights elsewhere.
Although the location he aimed at was not the heart or head, which is a one-shot kill, the specially modified bullet would break the ribs and then quickly flip over to form a huge cavity in the prey's body, which would basically damage the liver and kidneys of the prey.
They will instantly lose the ability to move and eventually die from excessive blood loss.
Under the light of the illumination bombs launched by the Japanese army, any human body exposed outside the trenches would become his hunting target.
"The Chinese have entered the front line trenches, hurry up and reinforce." A Japanese sergeant in the front line trenches on the top of the mountain ordered with an ugly face.
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To be personally appointed as the commander of a highland by the captain, Daio Aoi is not an ordinary sergeant. He is a model and elite soldier in the entire 231st Regiment.
Although Sergeant Aoi has only been in the army for 3 years, he is extremely talented in shooting and stabbing. In last year's Zaoyi battle, he had the record of killing Chinese soldiers from 400 meters away, and he also entered China
Sergeant Go Aoi Daio had a record of 4 hand-to-hand combats, but he had an impressive record of assassinating 17 Chinese soldiers on the spot.
This is one of the reasons why Sergeant Aoi was promoted from a private to a noncommissioned officer in just three years. After the Battle of Shipai, he was already a warrant officer and even a second lieutenant.
But now, this farmer's boy's dream is shattered. From Yamada Masakichi to the lowest private, everyone in the 231st Infantry Regiment knows that they basically can't return to their hometown, and the only way to survive is to surrender.
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But they knew better that unless the boss had a bad head, there would be no chance of another military order, and if they dared to surrender without authorization, their family members who were still on the island would be implicated, and it would be better to die heroically.
However, there is a difference between dying early and dying late. The later you die, the more likely you are to wait for a chance to turn around. There is never an absolute hopeless situation in this world.
That's what Sergeant Aoi thought, so he was extremely cautious in the past few days, especially at night. A small team of 15 people was divided into three shifts to spend the long night, but the Chinese still stared at him after all.
Got into this small position of his.
Although his eyes were full of bitterness, Sergeant Aoi made a quick decision to immediately reinforce the first-line trenches, leaving two infantrymen, four machine gunners and grenadiers to guard the second-line trenches. Aoi held his rifle.
, personally led 5 soldiers through the traffic trenches to the front-line trenches.
Under the light of the flares, Sergeant Aoi's eyes flashed with murderous intent. Not only did he want to drive out the Chinese who invaded the front-line trenches, he also wanted to kill them and hang the Chinese corpses on the battlefield to intimidate the other side.
The Chinese surrounded them.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Cao Yingchong opened fire.
After seeing the figures of the Japanese soldiers on the top of the mountain starting to flash in the bushes, the semi-automatic rifle in his hand fired ten bullets without hesitation.
The Japanese army had communication trenches for concealment. Although it was very shallow, it was enough to cover most of their bodies. This meant that Cao Yingchong, who was a fire supporter, could not snipe as accurately as Pang Zilong. He could only rely on firepower to make up for the lack of shooting angle.
The abundant firepower of the semi-automatic rifle finally paid off. A Japanese soldier who was hit in the thigh by a ricochet screamed and rolled down.
Even though it was a ricochet, the destructive power to the body was even greater than that of a direct bullet. The blood hole as big as the mouth of a cup was clearly visible on the thigh. The pain was close to level 10, but the real fatal thing was the bullet fragments.
With the severed artery, the horrific blood loss would kill him in less than three minutes.
"There are enemy shooters, machine gunners, and grenade launchers on the other side, kill him!" Sergeant Aoi reacted very quickly, lowering his body lower in the traffic trench and shouting at the top of his lungs.
"Boom!" A flare shot high into the sky again, illuminating the slopes more than 300 meters in front of the highland in white.
"Click, click, click!" The Japanese Type 96 machine gun kept firing in the general direction of Cao Yingchong. The nearest location of the fluttering bullets was less than 20 meters away from Cao Yingchong's hiding place.
Two grenades also exploded on the hillside one after another, sending up two plumes of smoke.
Cao Yingchong hid in the bushes and did not move. He knew that the Japanese army could only judge his direction through the impact point of his bullet, but they knew nothing about the distance. The machine guns and grenade launchers were only probing attacks.
But this also means that before the light of the flares dissipates, he can no longer attack the Japanese supporting the second-line trenches. Otherwise, in less than three seconds, the Japanese machine gunners and grenade launchers who have been closely monitoring this area will be
If his location is really determined, it will be his turn to run away with his life.
Pang Zilong, who was hiding on the other side, had already aimed his gun at the Japanese machine gunner. However, the bushes blocked the flames ejected from the Type 96 machine gun, and he could not determine the specific location of the shooting hole.
Because the Japanese machine gunners did not just place their machine guns on the edge of the trench to shoot, the fortifications piled up with several sandbags revealed a shooting hole that was only the size of a green brick, and there were some shrubs blocking the shooting hole in front.
From top to bottom, it does not block the sight of the Japanese shooters, but from bottom to top, it is difficult to see where the shooting hole is.
It can be seen that Sergeant Aoi has worked hard on defense. He has also accepted the experience of soldiers in various units of the brigade being shot and killed by precision shooters hidden by the Chinese in the past few days.
The two Japanese infantrymen also quietly aimed their guns at the bushes opposite. With their precise marksmanship, once the target was found, it was no less lethal than machine guns and grenade launchers.
Just by suppressing his opponent for 30 seconds, Sergeant Aoi finally led the remaining four soldiers into the second-line trench.
But he obviously arrived a little late. Because of the roar of his own light and heavy machine guns, Shi Dakuan, who was regained his courage, actually crawled for more than ten meters in the trench under the cover of three grenades and a submachine gun, and fired the grenade.
He held it in his hand for four seconds before throwing it towards the corner of the trench where two Japanese soldiers stood guard.
Although the distance between the two Japanese soldiers was more than 5 meters, the fragmentation lethality of the German-style wooden handle grenade was as high as nearly 10 meters. The two Japanese soldiers were blown up until they were howling like ghosts.
The shuttle was beaten with blood.
The last Japanese soldier had to step back with his gun in hand. His little face was as pale as a falling flare.
This was what Sergeant Aoi, who had just arrived, saw such a scene.
"Baga! Throw a grenade and kill the Chinese!" Aoi was furious. He pushed the Japanese infantry who was retreating hastily and used him as a shield to throw two grenades forward.
The Japanese troops behind followed suit and dropped bombs one after another.
The grenades continued to explode, forcing Shi Dakuan to retreat. If he was a little slower, he would be blown into a sieve.
"The Japanese are coming down, what should we do?" A Chinese soldier who also threw a grenade to stop the Japanese army's advance showed fear in his eyes.
He is not afraid of 3VS5, but there are about ten people coming down, three times as many as them. How can he fight this?
"We can't retreat! We can only fight." Shi Dakuan shook his head.
He knew that the Japanese army just wanted to force them out of the trenches. Without the protection of the trenches, they would be completely exposed to Japanese firepower, and they would really be doomed.
If you want to survive, you can only fight the Japanese in this trench.
"Report the number of grenades and bullets!" Shi Dakuan made up his mind and shouted.
"I still have 2 more and 3 magazines here!"
"I have 1 bullet and 2 magazines here!"
The two soldiers reported one after another. Shi Dakuan touched his waist and found two 20-round magazines and two grenades.
140 rounds of ammunition and 5 grenades are enough to fight the Japanese here for a few minutes. I just don't know if the regiment commander who sees the battlefield here will have support.
But regardless of whether there is support or not, this attack war led by him must be fought. Shi Dakuan has already begun to have the decision-making ability of a grassroots commander.
At least, his decision was absolutely correct.
A few hundred meters away, two infantry squads were running towards this side under the cover of darkness, but they couldn't go too fast. What they had to guard against were machine guns and grenades from the Japanese troops on two other highlands a few hundred meters away.
cylinder.
But the soldier who was forced into a desperate situation did not know that his reinforcements had already arrived.
On the high ground, a Japanese infantryman lying on the edge of the second-line trench was looking intently ahead, trying his best to find suspicious targets in the grass.
He was so focused that he didn't realize that in the darkness of the trench behind him, a black figure was quietly approaching him.
Eyes suddenly widened!
The panic that suddenly arose was so intense that it almost overflowed from his eyes.
Because, a big hand covered his mouth.
Just like a song from the future sings very tenderly: "You cover my little mouth quietly
