Chapter 92: Grenade Demonstrates Power
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Seeing the Japanese retreating through the telescope, Wei Jichen restrained the smile on his face, turned around and said: "The Japanese really want to get rid of me as soon as possible. The forces of two regiments are attacking our positions in four directions. There are nearly a thousand people in each direction. This battle is a battle of life and death for our Wei army."
"Brothers, are you afraid?" Wei Jichen looked at the soldiers who were laughing just now on the position and shouted loudly.
"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." The soldiers roared in response with all their strength. For a moment, the momentum was deafening and pierced the sky.
"Report to the adults, Ma Yuming of the Yi army led his troops to help." A sergeant came forward to report.
Since Ma Yuming had fought side by side with Wei Jichen's army at Caohekou, many soldiers knew him.
"Oh, a person's true character is revealed in times of crisis. I didn't expect Ma Jinxu to send people to reinforce us. Let's go and meet them." Wei Jichen said with a smile. He originally had no hope of sending Nie Cairong to ask for help. After all, Feng Sheng'a was the nominal commander. Without Feng Sheng'a's order, Ma Jinxu's private reinforcement would give Feng Sheng'a an excuse to punish him.
Feng Sheng'a, this old man, lost a lot of soldiers and horses in the previous battle. After fleeing to Ximu City, he annexed the garrison in the city. If he finds an opportunity, I believe he will annex his own and Ma Jinxu's army without hesitation.
"Brother Ma, I didn't expect you to come to support me. I am very grateful." Wei Jichen saw Ma Yuming leading several sentries coming from afar, and he couldn't help but take two quick steps and gave him a hug.
"Haha, brother Zijie, you are too enthusiastic." Ma Yuming was not used to Wei Jichen's greeting.
"Sir Wei!" Several sentries behind Ma Yuming also saluted. Wei Jichen returned the salutes one by one. Seeing Zhang Zuolin was also inside, he couldn't help but think that if Zhang Zuolin died here, I wonder if there would be another Northeast King rising in the future.
"Brother Ma, you are timely. I am worried about not having enough manpower." Wei Jichen said as he led Ma Yuming and others.
"Zijie, I will entrust this battalion of troops to you. You can use them like your own troops. I have no objection." Ma Yuming said calmly.
He and Wei Jichen are old acquaintances, and they know each other well.
When Wei Jichen heard Ma Yuming say this, he was not polite and directly sent the Yi Army to the northeast to deal with the attack of the 19th Regiment, the main force of the Japanese.
At 1 pm, the 3rd Regiment of the Japanese Field Artillery also arrived at the battlefield. Katsura Taro did not hesitate at all, and even did not give the field artillery any rest time, and directly ordered the attack.
Boom, boom, accompanied by the artillery, the Japanese launched a fierce attack on Yushubao in four directions.
The main attack direction was the two infantry battalions of the 7th Regiment in the northwest and the two battalions of the 19th Regiment in the northeast.
"The shame of our 5th Brigade will be washed away today. Gentlemen, Wei Jichen must be killed!" Osako Naotoshi drew out his command knife and shouted loudly at the soldiers of the 7th Regiment who were preparing to attack.
"Wei Jichen must be killed!" The Japanese soldiers were so excited that their blood boiled and they screamed. They had never fought with Wei Jichen and had never seen why Wei Jichen was called the god of death. How could the 5th Brigade, which was unstoppable all the way, allow anyone to block it in front.
No matter who it was, as long as they stood in front, they would be smashed to pieces by the soldiers of the empire.
Miyoshi Chengxing looked at Osako Naotoshi seriously, and he was going to lead the troops to attack personally.
"Kill!" Sanhao Chengxing raised his hand, and the flag guard of the regiment pulled the flag and rushed forward bravely. Behind the flag guard were countless Japanese soldiers.
Most of the troops in the front camp commanded by Li Yunfei were defending the northwest. Li Yunfei came out of the air-raid shelter, shook off the dust on his body, and scanned the front position with a pair of eagle eyes. The soldiers around him held their breath and waited for his order to shoot.
One side was shouting loudly and rushing forward recklessly, while the other side was quiet and frighteningly silent.
Wei Jichen stayed on the northeast position. Although he could command in the center now, he had already arranged everything before the war. He trusted his men, and he didn't want to waste his marksmanship.
The northeast was the main attack direction of the Japanese, and Wei Jichen also set up heavy troops here. In addition to the troops in the rear camp, three sentries from Ma Yumen's camp were also sent here, with two heavy machine guns, one in the northwest and one here.
The Japanese here were not as fanatical as those over there in their attack, and were much more cautious.
Katsura Taro dispatched the 3rd Engineer Battalion to assist the 19th Regiment in the attack. Therefore, before the commander of the 19th Regiment, Ken Yamamura, gave the order for the general attack, he only provided cover for the engineers. A squadron of Japanese engineers walked forward cautiously with a long mine detector in his hand.
The mine detector uses the principle of magnetic field induction to detect mines, because most of the mines at that time were made of iron. To put it simply, today's early mine detectors are like magnets. When a mine is detected, the pointer on the mine detector will change.
The soldiers of the engineer squadron dispersed and moved forward. Wei Jichen naturally would not order Wang Shizhen to fire at them, because that would only waste shells, but he could not let them move forward and destroy the mine array that his army had laid with great difficulty.
Fortunately, Wei Jichen still had a sniper team, a sniper team with outstanding marksmanship and a long range.
Wei Jichen called out, and Mengzi led several members of the sniper team to run over quickly.
"Kill them." Wei Jichen said without further ado, pointing directly at the Japanese engineers who were advancing slowly.
Mengzi nodded unequivocally, and soon, several snipers found the best shooting position, and Wei Jichen also held the sniper rifle in his hand tightly.
Aiming at the head of one of the engineers, he pulled the trigger, and with a bang, the northeast line of Yushubao finally started.
After Wei Jichen's gunshot, sporadic gunshots immediately rang out on the Chinese positions on the northeast line. After each gunshot, a Japanese engineer would fall down, which frightened the engineers behind and made them hesitate to move forward.
Katsura Taro, who was watching the battle from behind, turned his head with a serious face and said to Chief of Staff Ogawa Jiro in a deep voice: "Is this the sharpshooter team in Wei Jichen's hands reported by Nozu Michikan? Their marksmanship is indeed not to be underestimated."
Ogawa Jiro frowned and said: "If this continues, I'm afraid my engineering squadron will suffer heavy losses, and the gains will not outweigh the losses in the end."
Engineers are responsible for clearing roads, blasting, building command posts, etc., and are definitely more valuable than ordinary soldiers.
Katsura Taro thought about it, called the messenger beside him, and ordered: "Let Yamamura Ken use military horses to attack the minefield."
"Hi!"
Not long after, Yamamura Ken received Katsura Taro's order and breathed a sigh of relief. Tai was really afraid that Katsura Taro would ask him to order the soldiers to attack, so that before fighting with the Wei army, his army would lose a lot of people.
A moment later, at the front of the northeastern line, Japanese soldiers drove dozens of horses to the minefield. At this time, there was a lot of gunfire in the northwest of Yushubao, and the soldiers of both sides were fighting.
Boom, boom.
Wang Shizhen's artillery team was the first to show its power. Wang Shizhen is now a master of artillery. Under his training, his soldiers are all at a high level.
Countless shells were fired from Yushubao at the Japanese charging troops. The battlefield was instantly shrouded in thick smoke, filled with smoke, and bursts of gunfire. The war broke out completely.
On the northeastern line, Wei Jichen was lying in the trench. When he saw the Japanese driving the horses, he immediately understood.
He had no good way to deal with this. Horses are not like people. People will die thoroughly with one shot. Even if the horse is hit in an important part, it will rush forward until it is exhausted and bloodless.
The Japanese soldiers raised their bayonets and stabbed the horse's buttocks fiercely. The war horse was injured and screamed wildly, and ran towards the minefield madly.
Boom, boom.
Countless mines exploded under the trampling of war horses, raising clouds of dust. What was even more hateful was that the war horses that were blown up did not fall down, but continued to run around more frantically, detonating one mine after another.
Wei Jichen had to comfort himself in his heart that it was still a good deal to exchange mines for war horses. I just wanted to see how many horses you had.
Not long after, those lively war horses finally lay on the ground. Some had their legs blown off, and some died of exhaustion and blood loss.
Seeing this, the commander of the regiment, Ken Yamamura, immediately ordered the two battalions who had been waiting impatiently to press forward.
Both sides had done what they could. Now there was no more tricks. It all depended on who could not hold on first and who collapsed first.
This was a war of wills, the most tragic positional war. The two sides were already deadly enemies. Only war could speak and victory could be achieved with flesh and blood.
"Kill!" the Japanese shouted to encourage themselves and hide their fear.
They had looked down on the engineers before, but now that they were in the situation, they realized that the feeling of death and injury at any time was really scary.
Outside the effective range of the rifle, countless colleagues suddenly stopped shouting, and then fell to the ground, lifeless, and almost all of them were shot in the head.
The sharpshooters on the opposite side were too powerful, and Yamamura Ken looked at the soldiers who kept falling with an angry face.
"The 3rd Battalion, come on." He raised his hand nervously. He originally regarded the 3rd Battalion as a reserve, but instead of slowly wearing out the enemy like this, it is better to use the advantage of numbers and the thunderous momentum to crush the Wei army in one fell swoop. In this way, the role of the sharpshooters in the opponent's team can be weakened to the greatest extent.
Kill! The second wave of Japanese assault teams rushed forward and blew the charge horn again.
"Shoot!" Seeing that the enemy was approaching their position, Wei Jichen, who was running around in the trenches, shouted.
Suddenly, bang, bang.
Countless bullets flew out from the Chinese position, shooting at the Japanese who were bending down and rushing upward.
Although Wei Jichen's side had the advantage of terrain, the Japanese used human lives to fill it. One died, and two rushed forward. The Japanese were like locusts, covering the entire position.
Da da da...
The machine gunner began to show his power, and hundreds of bullets per minute swept into the dense crowd of Japanese soldiers.
The Japanese were caught off guard and fell down in large numbers.
"Scatter, scatter." The Japanese captain shouted at the top of his lungs, commanding the soldiers of the battalion to charge in a scattered formation.
The soldiers of the Wei army were in a commanding position, firing fiercely. If someone was shot and injured, other soldiers would immediately run out of the passage in the second line of defense to carry him down, and then the gunfire would continue.
The Japanese came aggressively and fearlessly, and seemed not to see the countless fallen colleagues. They had only one thought, which was to capture the enemy position.
When Wei Jichen saw that the Japanese were about forty meters away from him, he couldn't help but pick up a grenade and shouted: "Throw the grenade."
The soldiers in the trench quickly took out a grenade from a pile of grenades beside them.
"Pull!" Wei Jichen had already said in previous training that the first wave of grenades must suppress the arrogance of the Japanese, and it is best to throw them together.
As a result, countless soldiers moved in accordance with his orders.
"Throw it!" Wei Jichen paused for a second or two, then stood up and threw it down with all his strength.
Suddenly, like rain, overwhelming grenades pressed into the Japanese soldiers.
"This is?"
"Enemy grenades."
"Why so many."
The Japanese soldiers shouted in panic.
Boom, boom…
There were continuous explosions and screams. Countless Japanese soldiers had their legs or hands blown off. They lay on the ground crying and howling. Those who were more lucky were killed on the spot. Their internal organs, minced meat, and brains were scattered. One place.
The soldiers of the first Japanese brigade were completely frightened. They threw themselves on the ground and did not dare to raise their heads, for fear that the extremely powerful grenade would fall next to them.
Even Yamamura Ken, the Japanese captain who was commanding the charge from behind, became furious when he saw this situation and forgot his command.
Katsura Taro, who was watching the battle from behind, had a completely gloomy face, and said angrily: "What on earth does the Imperial Intelligence Department do? The Qing army is equipped with grenades on a large scale. Didn't they get any information?"
Ogawa Jiro looked at the furious Katsura Taro, and said after careful consideration: "Your Excellency, there is no news that the Qing army used grenades on a large scale. I am certain that Wei Jichen on the opposite side used this tactic for the first time. He used grenades on a large scale in trench warfare. The power is so great, we should report this information to the General Staff Headquarters as soon as possible and attract sufficient attention from the General Staff Headquarters. "
Katsura Taro nodded and said: "Although Wei Jichen uses such a powerful tactic, how many grenades can he have in his hand? Tell Yamamura Ken to break through the defense line of Elm Fort and kill Wei Jichen at any cost."
"Hi Yi!"
The signal troops came down in a hurry.
"This Wei Jichen is really a tactical genius!" Ogawa Jiro had to admire. The grenade that was thrown into the garbage dump of history by various countries will definitely shine after such use.
"So, he must die this time!" Katsura Taro took out his command sword, wiped it carefully, and then said: "Anyone who dares to block the advance of the imperial army will definitely die."