kingnovel Chapter 969 Victory is in sight
Chapter 969 Victory is in sight
It is impossible to hold on to the death. After the fighting during the day, the Tiangu Regiment also lost more than 800 soldiers, so now they have less than 3,000 people. The fighting has just started for an hour, and the entire infantry regiment has lost more than half of its soldiers.
The enemy's infantry has not appeared in front of us yet. Even the tanks in the front are still hundreds of meters away from our nearest infantry. How do you think we should fight this battle?
"Order the entire regiment to die for the Emperor."
In the end, this guy didn't dare to give the order to retreat. After all, they had spent a lot of effort to capture Luodian. If they retreated, it would be of no benefit to him. It would be better for him to kill all his men and find a place to hide.
After receiving the order, the Japanese officers and soldiers who were hiding in the trenches suddenly stood up. This was their Banzai Charge, many of them still carrying explosive packs and grenades. In the extremely unfavorable situation of the battle, the Japanese soldiers were required to have a heroic spirit of sacrifice, sacrificing their own lives and perishing together with the enemy tanks.
This kind of thinking was instilled in them during their recruit training in China, so when their regiment commander gave the order to fight to the death, most of the soldiers grabbed any weapons and equipment nearby without even thinking, and directly stepped out of the trenches to fight to the death with the Pujiang First Brigade in front of them.
When seeing this scene, Guo Shaoqiu's face was only slightly surprised, but he immediately smiled.
"The convoy stops advancing and fires."
You guys are trying your best to rush over, so we might as well stop right here. We have hundreds of machine guns, and see how you can rush over.
After receiving the order, the tank stopped immediately, and the armored vehicle behind it also seized the opportunity to give itself a shooting angle. The infantry in the rear rushed up quickly, using the tanks and armored vehicles as cover, took out their rifles and shot at the Japanese soldiers in the distance.
The artillery in the rear were also busy. If there were fewer flares in the sky, it would have a great impact on our side, so they kept firing flares into the sky, illuminating the entire Luodian position as if it were daytime.
At this moment, the troops participating in the battle in Pujiang and other civilians all had a question: what on earth had happened in Luodian? Normally, it would be dark at this time.
Because of the war, Pujiang's power supply also had problems. The street lights had long been turned off. Only some dignitaries had small generators at home, but it was impossible for them to illuminate the sky so brightly.
Japanese soldiers fell down in large numbers. Some of them were holding explosive packs, and when bullets passed through them, the hot flames directly detonated the explosive packs, and their comrades around them went to see Amaterasu together.
The heavy machine guns on the Japanese positions were still attacking fiercely at the beginning, but when their firepower points were exposed, our armored vehicles and tanks were no longer idle, and they fired shells one after another at these firepower points until the last firepower point was silenced.
The infantrymen charging ahead now had neither artillery nor machine gun cover. They were like pigs, being targeted one by one by our machine guns.
Many Japanese soldiers also felt that it was impossible to break through. According to the existing firepower deployment of the 72nd Army, let alone our more than 2,000 people, even if we added ten times the number of troops, it would be impossible to break through.
The barrels of some soldiers' machine guns had already turned red, but they didn't bother to change the barrels and hurried to unscrew their water bottles.
A pot of water was poured over, and white smoke rose everywhere on the battlefield. Then new bullets were loaded and the guns continued to fire forward.
The Sichuan Army brothers who were transporting bullets below finally realized the benefits of cowhide shoes. If they were still wearing straw sandals, they might have delayed other people's work. Fortunately, they seized a batch of cowhide shoes from the Japanese, which made it very convenient for them to run.
"Damn it! They're getting bullets like they're free. I've made more than ten trips back and forth, and each time there are two boxes with 500 rounds of ammunition. If I'm the only one counted, I've brought over 5,000 rounds of ammunition."
A Sichuan Army brother had just delivered two boxes to the armored vehicle and was leaning against the tracks next to it to catch his breath.
"Hurry and get back. Our mission is to not run out of bullets. Listen to the way we fight. Five thousand rounds of ammunition are nothing. Follow me."
The squad leader grabbed the guy by the collar and dragged him to the back. Many brothers were already exhausted, but after hearing what the squad leader said, they also knew that our mission was not yet completed. As long as the sound of machine guns continued, we had to continue transporting bullets upwards.
"Who's the machine gunner? I'm short of one man."
Just as they were walking back, a brother in an armored vehicle was injured and hit by a grenade from a distance. Fortunately, his neck was only scratched, but he could not continue working.
"I'll do it, Xiao Liuzi, you guys carry this brother to the back."
The Sichuan Army squad leader just now grabbed the handle and got directly onto the armored vehicle. He carefully helped his brothers down and then stood at the machine gun firing position.
"Hit hard, don't save bullets."
The commander said just this, and then went to operate the 40mm cannon, which was the killer on the battlefield.
The Sichuan Army squad leader looked at the Japanese soldiers in the distance, and his hand pulled the trigger unnaturally. The shock brought by the trigger and the heavy machine gun made the Sichuan Army squad leader feel a pain in his shoulders and head. It seems that playing with a machine gun is not so easy. The recoil of this heavy machine gun is not small.
"Lean back with room to spare."
When the tank commander heard the sound of the machine gun, he quickly pulled the squad leader away. If you hadn't killed all the Japanese with the way you just fought, your body would have been in tatters.
Following the commander's instructions, the Sichuan Army squad leader quickly grasped the trick. Only when they started fighting did they realize why their bullets were being used up so quickly. There were so many devils in front of them, each one looking like they were desperate. Some were even carrying explosive packs. How could they possibly charge in? The bullets were fired in a strafing pattern, and they had long forgotten what a little bit of trouble was.
The battle lasted for more than three hours. There were not many Japanese soldiers standing in sight, but there were still many flares in the sky. Guo Shaoqiu ordered the armored troops to advance.
Many infantrymen jumped onto the tanks and continued shooting at the corpses around them. This was also a necessary step. The tank machine guns easily missed some dead bodies due to the shooting angle, and the infantrymen sitting on the tanks just made up for this.