I really came here to fight against Japan

Chapter 712: The Militia Division’s Artillery Came to Help

Dense artillery shells were flying over, but they were not targeting the baggage camp.

Those shells had already flown to the river bank and hit those little Japanese soldiers.

"Hahaha, good fight, good fight! Minister Fu, those are our brothers from the artillery regiment, they are here to support us."

These shells were indeed fired by the militia division's artillery regiment.

They were quite far away from the new ferry crossing on the shore, and the coordinates reported by the baggage camp were rather vague.

This caused the artillerymen of the First Militia Division to fire a few minutes late.

After a burst of intensive heavy artillery fire, the Japanese soldiers who were lined up at the ferry were blown into the sky in groups.

The Japanese artillery battalion, after completing the test firing, was ready to destroy the Nationalist troops in the woods.

But things on the battlefield changed rapidly, and the artillery battalion was still a step slow.

As soon as they turned their guns, they were discovered by people from the Ninth War Zone through their telescopes.

The bayonets of the Chinese troops in the Ninth War Zone were almost touching the Japanese's chins.

The Japanese artillery did not fight desperately with the National Army soldiers, but were anxious to turn their guns around.

Then the place where the Japanese want to attack must be an important target of the Chinese army.

Now that we have discovered it, how can we let the Japanese succeed?

All the mortars in the front of the Ninth War Zone were aimed at the Japanese artillery positions.

So the Japanese only fired three shots, and their artillery positions were destroyed by the artillery brigade of the 9th War Zone.

The destruction of the Japanese artillery battalion meant that the position of the supply battalion was preserved, thus cutting off the retreat route of Mishima, Takahashi and others.

When the Japanese saw that the new ferry had been exposed, they all ran towards the pontoon bridge.

More and more Japanese soldiers ran onto the floating bridge, and more and more Japanese soldiers gathered two hundred meters away.

They piled up the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, and in this way, they could finally set up the Japanese heavy machine gun.

The Japanese heavy machine guns finally began to fire wildly at the river bank.

The firepower of Minister Fu and his men was suppressed in an instant.

Minister Fu and his men were so angry that they yelled, "Where are our mortars? Quickly shoot down the Japanese heavy machine guns."

The soldiers of the supply battalion were sweating profusely, having just installed the fuse of the mortar.

There is no other way. As the saying goes, everyone has his or her own expertise.

After all, they were not professional mortar gunners, and even installing a fuse was a hindrance.

They finally set up the mortar and placed the mortar shells at the muzzle, and the rest was easy.

As soon as they loosened their hands, the shell had already entered the barrel and was fired out at a high speed.

At this time, the Gansu Army's well-trained nature was directly revealed.

They started by firing twenty rounds at a rapid pace in one minute, and finally stopped the Japanese heavy machine guns from firing.

The four mortars of their supply battalion were so damn accurate.

The explosion points of eighty mortar shells created a semicircle in front of the Japanese soldiers who were preparing to charge.

The artillery fire was still fierce, but none of the Japanese soldiers in the semicircle were killed.

The reason why the Japanese heavy machine guns stopped firing was simply because they were frightened by the National Army's artillery fire.

You said the National Army didn't want to kill the Japanese, so the attack was just those eighty or ten artillery shells.

For both of them, this is definitely a fight that is full of blood feud.

You said that the National Army's artillery was serious, but they didn't kill a single Japanese soldier. It's just a little too scary.

Minister Fu was so angry that he yelled in front of them: "What are you doing? Didn't you say you could use mortars?

I gave you this cannon, and you beat it into this mess?"

The temporary gunners from the logistics battalion were speechless when they saw the effects of their own artillery fire.

They really felt ashamed! They simply said nothing and lowered their heads to continue installing the fuse on the mortar shell.

This was originally a mistake made by the soldiers in the logistics battalion, but it ended up causing harm to the Japanese.

Your Chinese troops attacked us in circles, but no one was hurt.

What do you mean? You Chinese soldiers think we are all trash?

You want to scare us so that we surrender without a fight? You look down on us!

All Japanese troops felt that the militia division's behavior was not very harmful, but extremely insulting.

Minister Fu here was also not idle, taking advantage of the Japanese devils' daze.

He ordered all the light and heavy weapons in the logistics battalion to fire at the Japanese together, and knocked down a large number of them who had just stood up.

Minister Fu looked at the Japanese soldiers on the other side of the river, who were desperately running towards the pontoon bridge.

He immediately ordered: "Where are the rocket launchers? Use the rocket launchers quickly to blow up the Japanese pontoon bridge."

The people of the First Militia Division are very familiar with this rocket launcher.

This rocket launcher is not like a mortar, it is a kind of artillery that can be aimed directly.

Their logistics personnel would usually take out rocket launchers and practice firing with the support of Minister Fu.

This time they were very accurate. They aimed at the stones connecting the pontoon bridge and fired the rocket launcher.

Eight rockets were fired from the RPG-7 launcher and flew straight towards the big rocks.

"Boom boom..."

When the smoke from the rocket explosion cleared, the large rocks had disappeared.

The ropes securing the four pontoon bridges had already broken into several sections.

The originally very straight floating bridge was washed back to the west bank of the Miluo River by the turbulent river water.

The Japanese soldiers on the floating bridge could not stand steadily, and except for some lucky ones, they immediately lay down and held on to the bamboo raft.

The remaining Japanese soldiers all fell into the Miluo River with a splash.

They just persisted and drank a few gulps of cold water, then all of them started to cramp in their hands and feet and sank to the bottom of the river.

When Takahashi saw that the roads in front and behind were blocked, he had no choice but to order the more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers who had already arrived to attack the grove opposite.

Fortunately, the two companies of the logistics battalion also rushed back to the grove.

With more than 500 automatic weapons from the First Division against more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers who could only charge forward in water, victory was not going to be easy.

Minister Fu and the Japanese soldiers on the other side of the river were just looking at each other across the river, and neither could do anything to the other.

The commanders of their two divisions stayed at the broken pontoon bridge.

Those Japanese soldiers who had lost their command no longer competed with Minister Fu and his men.

Under the "farewell" of the logistics battalion's mortars, the troops began to disperse in all directions.

They just hoped that they could find a gap in the encirclement and escape back to Hankou.

But it was too late for the Japanese. The Ninth War Zone and Wen Yibai's First Division both sounded the charge.

Both sides had started at the same time, launching the final stranglehold on the Japanese 3rd and 4th Divisions.

The Chief of Staff Yamashita Fengzi from the 3rd Division is quite a man.

In his final moments, he did not give up on himself just because he was abandoned.

Instead, he led an infantry battalion of the 3rd Division and launched a boarded charge in the direction of the 1st Militia Division.

Wen Yibai looked in the direction of Fengzi at the foot of the mountain and silently said thank you in his heart.

Thanks to the Japanese onboard charge, the soldiers of the First Division saved themselves a lot of trouble.

In response to this meaningless charge on the plain, the 1st Division's light and heavy weapons opened fire together.

They only launched one wave, and Yamashita Fengzi walked into the arms of death along with the infantry battalion.