Chapter 1442 Lucky Soldier (Part 2)
The 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 didn't know about 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 rank of sergeant who had just been promoted was higher 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 polished the soldier's will and courage like a whetstone to a different level than before. After just a second or two, Shi Dakuan quickly calmed down, his eyes full of murderous intent, and he took the lead in making a move. Tactical action, holding the shell gun in one hand, climbing to the front of the trench with the other hand, rolling over 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 this side 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 soaring 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 first 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 attacked 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.
"Bagou'er!" The Japanese Army's 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 machine 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, it's a fight on the 3119 heights 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 running to trouble the Japanese on New Year's Eve!" The army colonel is also a smart man. As soon as his mind turned around, 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 for the "cold gun and cold gun" operation.
You have to be angry! Not really, the main thing is worrying.
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. It is true that now his 31 group family is small and weak and cannot afford losses.
Now the only 700 people in his 31st Regiment that can still fight are the 2,500-man infantry regiment, which suffered over 70% battle losses. Even if the troops are replenished, it won't take more than half a year to reach the pre-war combat effectiveness. Now let alone losing a company or platoon, even one or two would make him tremble with distress.
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"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Three flares were fired from the top of Highland 3119 and from 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 just arrived at the frontline lookout post.
"I'm your wife! 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 bed after eating the dumplings, but he secretly went to attack the Japanese army secretly.
It’s okay now! A sneak attack failed and turned into 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 Highland for me, and prevent any little Japs from passing by; mortar attack The artillery squad, keep an eye on the high ground for me. If there are too many Japs, give them a bloody blast. Be careful not to hit your own family. In addition, the security platoon will send two squads to me to pick up the three. The bastard is back."
"Captain, didn't you say that we shouldn't attack unless necessary? We don't have many shells left, and the shells promised by the division have not been delivered yet." A combat staff officer asked stutteringly.
"If it's not necessary now, when will it be necessary? Tell the mortar squad, I don't want any economy, just accuracy, follow orders!" The army colonel's face was cold, staring at the three soldiers under his command who occasionally appeared in his field of vision under the illumination of flares and artillery fire.
No one could guess his current mood, but everyone could hear his care for these three foolish and bold soldiers from his tone.
3 heavy machine guns and 6 light machine guns began to roar, and the flying bullets left several red bullet marks in the dark night.
"The commander ordered fire cover! Gangzi, Erleng, fuck the bastards, there are still three left." Shi Dakuan looked at the clear bullet marks that broke through the night sky not far away, and he was even more courageous.
The Japanese were very cunning. They used the corners of the trenches to fight against the Chinese soldiers with absolute superior firepower. Although the power of the Type 38 rifle was greatly weakened in this narrow trench, the Japanese also had melon grenades. This defensive grenade had a lot of fragments and caused great damage in this semi-enclosed space. In a short period of time, they actually resisted the rain of bullets from three Chinese soldiers.
However, they also paid a price. The bodies of two Japanese soldiers lying in the trenches were clearly visible.
However, the night was long and dreams were many. Once they were pinned down here, the Japanese troops above would support them, and there would be as many as a dozen people. It would be a lie to say that Shi Dakuan was not nervous or anxious.
But the key point was that the Japanese fired flares, and the three of them did not dare to climb up the trench easily and give the devils a fatal blow from the hillside. The guns of the Japanese above were not vegetarian.
What's more terrible is that they dare not leave the trench easily, but the Japanese can. One of the three of them must be responsible for defense, always on guard against someone throwing grenades at them from above.
"Bang!" A gunshot.
The three soldiers in the trench could not hear the gunshots and grenade explosions because of the noise. Only the Japanese soldier who ventured up the trench and kept bending over and moving towards the trench area where the three Chinese soldiers were, looked at the huge wound under his ribs in horror.
He was shot.
The person who shot him came from the bushes more than 230 meters away!
The sniper who could be ranked in the top five of the Fourth Regiment did not continue to look at the prey he had shot, but moved the scope to another place.
Although the position he aimed at was not the heart and head, which were the vital parts that would kill with one shot, the specially modified bullet would break the ribs and quickly flip over to form a huge cavity in the prey's body. The prey with severe liver and kidney damage would basically lose the ability to move instantly and eventually die from excessive blood loss.
Under the light of the flares fired by the Japanese army, any human body exposed outside the trench would become his target.
"The Chinese have sneaked into the front-line trenches, and quickly reinforce them." A Japanese sergeant in the front-line trench on the top of the mountain ordered with an ugly face.
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Aoi Dainan was appointed as the commander of a highland by the captain himself, and he was not an ordinary sergeant. He was a model and elite soldier in the entire 231st Infantry Regiment.
Although Sergeant Aoi Dainan had only been in the army for 3 years, he had a very high talent in shooting and stabbing. In the Zaoyi Battle last year, he had a record of killing Chinese soldiers at a distance of 400 meters. After entering China, Sergeant Aoi Dainan had a total of 4 hand-to-hand combat records, and had an impressive record of assassinating 17 Chinese soldiers on the spot.
This is also one of the reasons why Sergeant Aoi Dainan was promoted from a private to a non-commissioned officer in just three years. After the Battle of Shipai, the warrant officer and even the second lieutenant were already firmly in hand.
But now, the dream of this farmer's son is shattered. From Yamada Masayoshi to the lowest private, everyone in the 231st Infantry Regiment knows that they can basically not return to their hometown. If they want to survive, they may have to surrender.
But they knew that unless the superiors were crazy, there would be no chance of another military order. If they dared to surrender without authorization, their families on the main island would be implicated, so it would be better to die bravely.
However, there is a difference between dying early and dying late. The later you die, the more likely you are to wait for a turnaround. There is no absolute desperate situation in this world.
Sergeant Aoi Da-nan thought so, so he was extremely cautious in the past few days, especially at night, when the 15-man squad was divided into three shifts to spend the long night, but the Chinese still set their sights on his small position.
Although his eyes were full of bitterness, Sergeant Aoi Da-nan made a quick decision to immediately reinforce the first-line trenches, leaving two infantrymen, machine gunners and grenade launchers to stay in the second-line trenches. Aoi Da-nan held a rifle and personally led five soldiers through the communication trenches to move to the first-line trenches.
Under the light of the flares, Sergeant Aoi Ohno's eyes flashed with coldness and murderous intent. He not only wanted to drive out the Chinese who invaded the front-line trenches, but also kill them and hang the Chinese bodies on the battlefield to deter the Chinese who surrounded them.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Cao Yingchong opened fire.
After seeing the Japanese figures on the top of the mountain begin to flash in the bushes, he fired ten bullets from the semi-automatic rifle in his hand without hesitation.
The Japanese army had a communication trench for concealment. Although it was shallow, it was enough to cover most of the body. This meant that Cao Yingchong, as a fire support, could not snipe as accurately as Pang Zilong. He could only rely on firepower to make up for the lack of shooting angle.
The semi-automatic rifle's abundant firepower finally paid off. A Japanese soldier who was hit in the thigh by a ricocheting bullet screamed and rolled down.
Although it was a ricochet, the destructive power to the body was even greater than that of a direct bullet. The blood hole the size of a cup mouth was clearly visible on the thigh. The pain was close to level 10, but the real fatal thing was the artery cut off by the bullet fragments. In less than three minutes, the terrible blood loss would cost him his life.
"There are enemy shooters, machine gunners, and grenade launchers on the opposite side. Kill him!" Sergeant Aoi Dainan reacted very quickly, crouched lower in the communication trench, and shouted desperately.
"Boom!" A flare was fired back into the sky, illuminating the slope of more than 300 meters in front of the high ground.
"Da da da!" The Japanese 96-type machine gun kept firing in the general direction of Cao Yingchong, and the closest position of the bullets fell less than 20 meters from Cao Yingchong's hiding place.
Two grenades also exploded on the hillside one after another, and two clouds of gunpowder rose.
Cao Yingchong hid in the bushes without moving. He knew that the Japanese could only determine his direction by the point where his bullet had just hit, but they knew nothing about the distance. The machine gun and grenade launcher were just exploratory attacks.
But this also meant that before the light of the flares faded, he could no longer attack the devils supporting the second-line trenches. Otherwise, in less than three seconds, the Japanese machine gunners and grenade launchers who had been closely monitoring this area would really determine his position, and then it would be his turn to escape for his life.
Pang Zilong, who was hiding on the other side, had already aimed his gun at the Japanese machine gunner, but the bushes blocked the flames of the 96-type machine gun, and he could not determine the specific location of the shooting hole.
Because the Japanese machine gunner did not set the machine gun on the edge of the trench to shoot, the fortifications made of several sandbags revealed a shooting hole only the size of a blue brick, and there were some bushes blocking the front of the shooting hole.
From top to bottom, it doesn't block the sight of the Japanese shooters, but from bottom to top, it's hard to see where the shooting hole is.
It can be seen that Sergeant Aoi Dainan has also done a lot of work on defense. He has also accepted the experience that soldiers from all parts of the brigade have been shot and killed by the Chinese hidden precision shooters in the past few days.
The two Japanese infantrymen also quietly pointed their guns at the bushes on the opposite side. With their accurate shooting skills, once they find the target, their lethality is no less than that of machine guns and grenade launchers.
Relying on the 30 seconds of suppressing the opponent, Sergeant Aoi Dainan finally led the remaining 4 soldiers into the second-line trench.
But he was obviously a little late, because of the roar of his own light and heavy machine guns, Shi Dakuan, who was full of courage again, crawled more than ten meters in the trench under the cover of 3 grenades and a submachine gun, and held the grenade with the string pulled in his hand for a full four seconds before throwing it to the two Japanese soldiers defending the corner of the trench.
Although the two Japanese soldiers were more than 5 meters apart, the fragmentation lethality of the anti-German wooden-handled grenade was nearly 10 meters. The two Japanese soldiers were blown up and screamed, and Shi Dakuan, who rushed over with a bent waist in the smoke, shot them with a burst of bullets, causing blood to spurt out.
The last Japanese soldier had to retreat with his gun in hand, and his little face was as pale as the flare that was about to fall.
This was what the newly arrived Sergeant Aoi Daon saw.
"Baga! Throw grenades and blow up the Chinese!" Aoi Daon was furious, and pushed the Japanese infantry who retreated in panic, and used him as a shield to throw two grenades forward in succession.
The Japanese soldiers behind followed suit and threw grenades forward one after another.
The grenades kept exploding, forcing Shi Dakuan to choose to retreat. If he was a little slower, he would have been blown into a sieve.
"The Japanese are coming down, what should we do!" A Chinese soldier who also threw grenades to stop the Japanese army from advancing showed fear in his eyes.
He was not afraid of 3VS5, but there were more than ten of them, three times as many as them. How could they fight?
"We can't retreat! We can only fight." Shi Dakuan shook his head.
He knew that the Japanese wanted to force them out of the trenches. Without the protection of the trenches, they would be completely exposed to the Japanese firepower, and that would be a sure death.
If they wanted to live, they could only fight the Japanese in this trench.
"Report the number of grenades and bullets!" Shi Dakuan was determined and shouted.
"I still have 2 here, 3 magazines!"
"I have 1 here, 2 magazines!"
The two soldiers reported one after another, and Shi Dakuan touched his waist, and there were still 2 20-round magazines and two grenades.
140 bullets and 5 grenades were enough to fight the Japanese here for a few minutes, but I didn't know if the regiment commander who saw the battlefield here would have support.
But whether there was support or not, this assault war led by him had to be fought, and Shi Dakuan had already made the initial decision of a grassroots commander.
At least, his decision was extremely correct.
Hundreds of meters away, two infantry squads were crouching and running towards this side under the cover of night, but they couldn't run too fast because they had to defend against the machine guns and grenade launchers of the Japanese army on the other two high grounds a few hundred meters away.
But the soldier who was forced into a desperate situation didn't know that his reinforcements had arrived.
On the high ground, a Japanese infantryman lying on the upper edge of the second-line trench was concentrating on looking ahead, trying his best to find a suspicious target in the grass.
With his highly concentrated attention, he didn't notice that in the dark of the trench behind him, a black figure was quietly approaching him.
His eyes suddenly widened!
The sudden fear was so strong that it almost overflowed from his eyes.
Because a big hand covered his mouth.
Just like a song in the future sings so tenderly: "You cover my mouth quietly
Ask me to guess who you are
From Mary to Sunny and Ivory
Just don't let me open my mouth"