Chapter 12 Life and Death
Yukiji Okubo was a senior private in the Iizuka National Army Infantry Battalion. This Japanese devil came from a wealthy businessman family in Tokyo. Because his parents had a high level of culture and had a lot of contact with the outside world, he was not as ignorant and fanatical as other Japanese soldiers. He even resisted the war in his heart.
However, at that time, the entire Japan was already controlled by the fanatical militarist trend. From the old devils of Hirohito to every peddler and pawn, almost all of them were clamoring to conquer China and rule the entire Asia. In such a fanatical context, personal choices were very limited. Although Yukiji Okubo was reluctant, he could not go to the battlefield with a gun.
The Sino-Japanese War has only been a year since the outbreak of the entire Sino-Japanese War, and the Japanese army has sufficient resources. Therefore, although Okubo has reached the age of legal service, he has not yet joined the army until June this year. Therefore, he has not caught up with the cruel Battle of Songhu, nor has he caught up with the crazy and bloody Nanjing Massacre.
Until now, Yukiji Okubo is still a recruit.
Unlike others, Yukiji Okubo was actually very afraid of death, so he landed as much as possible at the end of the entire team and fell to the ground from time to time. Even though the team leader would come up and kick him fiercely, Yukiji Okubo was unmoved at all. What's the point of being kicked a few times, saving his life is the most important thing.
Yukiji Okubo could feel that there were many guns aiming at him on the other side, so he would never go straight, and he would fall down every time he walked a few steps forward, but the gunshots that made him fearful and expectant never sounded. Their team had even entered less than two hundred meters away from the frontier positions of the National Army, but the positions of the National Army were still silent.
At one hundred meters, the Japanese soldiers who bent over and rushed forward began to straighten their backs and charge forward.
Yukiji Okubo deliberately tripped on a ridge and fell to the ground, and soon fell behind his comrades. This little trick was taught by a soldier in the village on the eve of the expedition. The guy was said to have escaped several death disasters with this move, but Yukiji Okubo's acting skills were obviously not very good, so the captain could easily see through it.
The squad leader, the lieutenant Inoki rushed over and kicked Okubo in the butt.
"Haga, get up and charge." The second lieutenant from the Ine stared fiercely at Okubo and gestured with a bayonet, as if he would fall down in the next moment.
Yukiji Okubo's teeth trembled. Just as he was about to stand up and charge forward, a sudden gunshot suddenly broke the silence on the position. Due to the close distance, Yukiji Okubo could clearly see that a blood mist suddenly burst out from behind the head on the Ine, and then his whole body fell straight backwards.
The next moment, the gunshots of Maxim, Czech, crooked handles and various rifles sounded, and there might be violent explosions. They were grenades thrown by the national army or grenades thrown by the Japanese army. The Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front were less than fifty meters away from the national army's position and had already entered the throwing distance of grenades or grenades.
Half a meter away, Okubo Yukiji looked at the twitching well in horror. Although the headshot above the well had been blown away and his entire consciousness had long disappeared, his physical function did not stop for a while. In addition to the violent twitching of his limbs, the muscles on his face were also twitching slightly, making his expression look a little ferocious.
Yukiji Okubo was frightened. This was the first time he had witnessed a tragic death from close range.
The gunshots became more and more intense, and stray bullets roared past his head from time to time. Yukiji Okubo covered his head with both hands, and curled up in a ball, crying and trembling violently.
During the fierce battle, another Japanese soldier fell in front of Yukiji Okubo, and his face was facing Okubo's face. The eyes that had no focus were staring straight at Yukiji Okubo, as if they were sending a call to death to Okubo. Okubo only felt the heat in his crotch and he was incontinent at the same time.
The tentative attack of the team above the Well was quickly defeated by the 19th Brigade. Most of the more than 40 Japanese soldiers were shot dead, and only a dozen Japanese soldiers fled back.
As soon as the Japanese retreated, Zhang Youquan stood up from the trenches and shouted: "Machine gun platoon, transfer."
The only two Czech light machine guns in the second company's machine gun platoon were quickly transferred, and the two Maxim heavy machine guns in the heavy machine gun platoon directly under the brigade were also transferred at the first time.
The offensive routines of the Japanese are basically fixed. They first use the outpost troops to feint the attack, find out the firepower position of the National Army, then use infantry artillery to clear the target, and then put into the large army to launch a general attack. Starting from the Qiqi Lugou Bridge, it has not changed since more than a year since the offensive routines of the Japanese have not changed, but this does not mean that this offensive routine is not easy to use.
In fact, this offensive routine is still very powerful, because the Japanese have an excellent 92 infantry cannon. The 92 infantry cannon is lighter in weight and can cross mountains and ridges by carrying it. Unlike mountain cannons and field cannons, it has extremely high requirements for roads. In actual combat, the Chinese army's machine gun firepower is basically destroyed by the Japanese 92 infantry cannons.
The Kuomintang and the Japanese army fought for a year and were already very familiar with each other, so of course they would not be unprepared.
But being prepared is one thing, and whether it can be prevented is another thing. Because of its lightweight machine guns, the only two light machine guns in the Second Company can be quickly transferred when picked up. However, the two Maxim heavy machine guns directly under the heavy machine gun platoon of the 19th Brigade were slow. Before the transfer was made, the 92 infantry cannon of the Japanese had already been fired.
The 10th Little Japan's Little Japanese Regiment participated in the Battle of Shanghai and the Battle of Nanjing. Although there were heavy casualties and repeated replenishment, the artillery basically suffered no losses. Therefore, its quality was extremely strong. In addition, it was direct close to within 500 meters. The two machine gun positions of the heavy machine gun platoon of the 19th Brigade were instantly covered by artillery fire.
However, Zhang Youquan no longer cares about feeling distressed about the two heavy machine guns, and he has more important things to do now.
"Cover, I will go on, and take the time to collect medicine before the Japanese troops came up." Zhang Youquan shouted loudly, and the man jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards the Japanese corpse that fell to the position. Due to the shortage of materials in the National Army, collecting the materials left over from the dead Japanese army has become an important supplementary method.
"Follow me" Lu Erdan, who had already acted as a platoon leader, roared and jumped out of the trench.
More than 30 veterans followed them out of the trenches and took advantage of the war to collect supplies from the Japanese corpses. Whether it was cigarettes, towels, cakes, cans or ammunition, the Kuomintang army needed everything, especially the medicines in the Japanese shoulder bags, and the pills that specialize in the treatment of malaria were even more life-saving treasures.
More than 30 Japanese soldiers who died in front of the company's position were soon searched for Yu Jing. Lu Erdan searched two Japanese corpses in a row. When he raised his eyes, he suddenly saw three Japanese corpses dozens of meters away in front of him. He handed the bag in his hand to someone else, and then ran towards the three corpses in two steps.
Zhang Youquan looked up and saw it, yelled: "Erdan, it's almost done, the Japanese army is coming."
"It's not far ahead, I'll be here just by raising my feet." Lu Erdan kept rushing to the three Japanese soldiers' corpses. What surprised him was that there was a Japanese lieutenant inside. Without thinking, Lu Erdan reached out to the saber pressing on the corpse of the Japanese lieutenant. The little Japanese saber was a treasure.
As soon as he broke the sabre from the Japanese lieutenant, the sound of pulling a gun suddenly came from behind him. Lu Erdan suddenly became excited and froze there. At such a close distance, he knew what it meant. At this time, he would do any tactics and avoid movements, and the little Japanese could hit him with his eyes closed.
However, there was no gunshot behind him. Lu Erdan turned around a little stiffly and found that a Japanese soldier who had just fallen to the ground had come alive. He was aiming at him with a 38-large cover, but he could not pull it on the trigger with his right index finger, but he could not pull it. It turned out that he was still a new recruit, and he forgot to open the insurance when he was nervous.
Lu Erdan smiled and was about to take a saber to kill this little Japanese, but the little Japanese suddenly threw away his rifle and knelt down at him, crying and begging, saying that he was still speaking Chinese. Although it sounds very stiff, the general meaning of Lu Erdan can still understand it, just telling Lu Erdan not to kill him.
If it were Zhang Youquan and Gao Shenxing, the veterans who had experienced the Nanjing Defense War, would never be lenient at this moment. Even if the little Japanese in front of him had never been to Nanjing, even if the little Japanese in front of him was just a new recruit, he would not hesitate to kill them, because the little Japanese in front of him was a murderer when he came to China. If you let him go today, he will kill your compatriots tomorrow.
But Du Erdan was essentially a recruit, and he really couldn't do anything to the little Japanese who had already put down his weapons. He just let his heart down and stabbed him. The little Japanese was stabbed with a blood trough by Du Erdan's left rib, and blood splattered out. The little Japanese collapsed to the ground, screaming and looking at Du Erdan with a pleading look.
Du Erdan couldn't stab it out with the second knife, and life and death changed at this moment.
After a moment of stiffness, Lu Erdan simply ignored the Japanese soldier and bent down to plunder the Japanese lieutenant's bag. After plundering the Japanese lieutenant, he then plundered another Japanese soldier who had fallen to the ground. After he searched for the supplies from the two Japanese lieutenants, he was about to return to the position, but his back suddenly felt a sharp pain.
Du Erdan roared and suddenly turned around. He found that the little Japanese who was just lying in a pool of blood and moaning had already climbed up at some point. He was still holding a bayonet in his hand, and there was still blood on the bayonet. Needless to say, it must have been this little Japanese who stabbed him in the back just now while he was not prepared.
Seeing that Lu Erdan was stabbed on the back and did not die, the little Japanese screamed and turned around and ran away.
Chapter completed!