Chapter 54 Bombing
The floating bridge on Sijing has finally been built, and the Japanese army has launched a general attack!
Xu Shijiu's judgment was extremely accurate. There was indeed a brigade of the Japanese army responsible for attacking Dingjiaxiang. The captain's name was Masao Oshima. This guy had never been to Lu Shi and had never been to Lu Da. He fought the Democratic Anti-Japanese Allied Forces in the Northeast and had slaughtered the baby in his hand. He was a vicious old Japanese devil.
As early as the engineers were building bridges, the old Japanese devils of Oshima sent troops to capture more than a dozen employees and their families from the hydropower company. As soon as the shelling was over, they sent two squads of Japanese soldiers to drive dozens of hostages to force them to Dingjia Lane. Seeing this, the officers and soldiers of the 19th Brigade's new recruit company opposite were stunned.
"Blade team, can you fight?" Ergua pressed against the button of Maxim's heavy machine gun, but could not press it anyway.
Scar's face was also pale, but soon his face returned to normal. He told Gao Shenxing, Ergua and several veterans a few instructions, and then walked out of the cover with his hands.
Seeing Scar come out with his hands raised, the Japanese army rushed over from the opposite side did not fire rashly.
Time passed quietly in a suffocating waiting. Scar finally walked in front of the dozens of hostages. A Japanese soldier came forward with a grin, swung the butt and smashed Scar on his head. Scar dodged another man and threw him to the ground, and then shouted: "Let's go down, the villagers, lie down, lie down..."
Dozens of human beings fell to the ground instinctively. The twenty Japanese soldiers hiding behind them did not understand Chinese and did not react at once. In an instant, Ergua's Maxim's light and heavy machine gun had already fired, and the scorching bullets were poured over like water. More than twenty Japanese soldiers were caught off guard and fell to the ground. Those who were not shot quickly fell down.
"Run, fellow villagers!" The gunshot paused, and Scar roared and got up and ran away.
Dozens of hostages stood up in panic and rushed back towards the national military position. The Japanese army opposite reacted and fired violently. The people fleeing back in panic fell one after another. Finally, the scar fell down and fell less than ten meters away from his own bunker. At least four bullets shot him at the same time, one of which passed through his heart.
"Blade Team!" Ergua howled, rushed out of the bunker and dragged Scar back.
When Ergua was dragged back to the bunker, Scar was still awake, but he could no longer speak. The red blood overflowed from his wound like a fountain, and blood foam also gushed out of the corners of his mouth. Platoon leader Ding of the Police Corps sighed: "What's the trouble? Just to save a few hostages, why is it?"
Scar squeezed a smile that was even worse than crying, and then pointed at Gao Shenxing with difficulty, then pointed at Ergua, but his eyes were staring at Gao Shenxing. Gao Shenxing tightly clenched his sword and said with a calm face: "Sword Team, I understand, you will die, I will die, I will die, and Ergua will die, and other veterans will come again until the last soldier!"
Scar relaxed when he heard this and took his last breath.
Scar just died, and the four Type 92 infantry cannons of the Japanese army on the other side began another round of artillery preparation. Rows of high-explosive bombs and sulfur bombs blew the entire Dingjia Lane to collapse. The fire was raging. The officers and soldiers hiding in the houses were seriously injured. At least a dozen people were directly killed, and more officers and soldiers were injured.
The only thing to thank is that the two machine gun bunkers were unscathed.
One is a brick kiln in the east of the village, which is stronger than a gun tower, and the other is a cypress tree in the west of the village. This old cypress tree is as thick as a pair of four people, and has a huge hole at the root, which can accommodate a machine gun. The two bunkers are horns each other, and the crossfire formed can lock the Japanese pontoon bridge.
The Japanese army poured hundreds of shells into Dingjiaxiang, and then started a second wave of offensive. About a small team of Japanese soldiers rushed across the pontoon bridge in silence, and then spread a wavy straggling line under the cover of heavy machine gun fire on the north bank and rushed towards Dingjiaxiang.
At this time, the distance between the Japanese army was almost kilometer away, and only heavy machine guns could effectively kill targets.
Ergua held the grip of the Maxim heavy machine gun and fired wildly at the front. The 7.92mm caliber machine gun bullets were fan-shaped and like water, pouring one Japanese soldier after another to the ground. Seeing that the 333 rounds of ammunition chains were about to be seen, the ammunition hand was not sure where he died, and he couldn't help but screamed in a hurry: "Ammunition hand, ammunition hand..."
Before he finished speaking, someone came to Ergua and refuted another bullet link with great disgust. He said to Ergua: "Ergua, heavy machine guns cannot be fired like this. It costs too much bullets. If you hit two bullet links, you have to change the water tank. If you can't find water, you have to stop. At critical moments, you will be killed."
Ergua was furious when she heard this and cursed: "You new recruit, you need to teach me... Huh?!"
Before he finished speaking, Ergua suddenly turned her head and shouted in great surprise: "Captain, is it you?!"
At that time, at Jiangwan Field Hospital, Xu Shijiu took the truck of the teaching corps first. Ergua took the car left by Zhu Xia and chased after him, but he chased him until the temporary base of the 19th Brigade in Zhoujiaxiang and did not catch up. Ergua was worried that Xu Shijiu would be bombed by Japanese bombers halfway and injured by the bomb. Now he is relieved.
Xu Shijiu smiled and touched Ergua's head, then said, "You have to learn to kill the enemy with two or three shorts, and release it immediately after pressing the button. Yes, that's it. Remember that light machine guns should do this too. Not only can they save bullets, but they can also make the enemy unable to understand your magazine margin. At critical moments, they can not only save your life, but also cause the enemy to suffer a secret loss."
Ergua has a high understanding and soon learned to be shorter after trying a few times.
At five hundred meters, the Czech light machine gun under the cypress tree in the west of the village also fired, and instantly intertwined with Ergua's Maxim heavy machine gun, forming a tight cross-fire power. The casualties of the Japanese army suddenly increased sharply. Within nearly two hundred meters, a small team of Japanese soldiers had already suffered more than a dozen casualties, and the remaining Japanese soldiers quickly retreated.
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The Japanese attack was set back again, and the old Japanese devils screamed in anger.
Deputy Captain Xiaonu Shiro said: "Captain, the Chinese army has built a solid heavy machine gun fortification on the south bank of Sijing. Our army's armored cars cannot pass through the pontoon bridge. Continuing to attack the infantry will probably only increase casualties in vain. Now, why not ask for tactical guidance of the naval aviation again?"
Unless it is approaching direct fire, the 92 infantry artillery of the direct artillery squadron will be difficult to destroy the machine gun nest of the National Army. Although the 3rd Division has landed from Zhang Huabin, the detection balloons of the detection team have been unable to take off for a long time, so the field artillery gang cannot provide artillery support to the Japanese army on various battlefields. The Dadao Brigade can only ask for the Navy's aviation support again.
The old devil from the Big Island said hatefully: "Little Dog Lord, I really don't want to be ridiculed by those idiots in the Navy."
Xiaotu Shiro persuaded: "The captain is certainly unacceptable to being ridiculed by his colleagues in the navy, but if he cannot break through the Sijing defense line of the China Army, it will be embarrassing and will affect the entire Songhu decisive battle."
The old Japanese devil of Oshima changed slightly when he heard this, and he said helplessly: "Okay."
Shiro Koto turned around and ordered the communications officer: "Ono, contact the 3rd Fleet immediately and request emergency tactical guidance from the Kitakatsu Air Force."
"Hayi." The communication soldier Ono suddenly lowered his head and took the order.
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While the old Japanese devils of the island were busy asking for support from the Navy, the 19th Brigade was busy repairing the fortifications.
The fire caused by the Japanese sulfur bomb was not only not extinguished, but it even became more and more intense. There was no one left in the house. The 19th Brigade had to repair fortifications outside the village. Fortunately, Shu Tongwen was quite capable of doing things. The first batch of organized militias had already come up, so Xu Shijiu asked them to help dig trenches.
The soil in Dingjia Lane is soft and it is easy to dig the soil. However, everything has its advantages and disadvantages. Because it is close to the Huangpu River, the groundwater level is relatively high. If you dig it, water will rise up after less than half a meter. In the end, the entire trench almost became a ditch, and the officers and soldiers could only soak in the water, which was extremely miserable.
Even so, Japan still has to make trouble.
Half the main trench was dug, two Japanese planes emerged from the clouds. Xu Shijiu looked up and changed his face when he saw it. He jumped up and waved to Ergua in the brick kiln: "Run, run quickly..."
Ergua, who was staying in the brick kiln, saw Xu Shijiu wave to him, but couldn't hear what he was calling, so she ran out of the brick kiln in confusion, trying to get closer and hear clearly, but after not far away, a Japanese plane had already swooped down, and then two aviation bombs fell down with a sharp roar.
Ergua was shocked and a sudden plunge into the stinky ditch next to it.
The next moment, the brick kiln behind Ergua collapsed in a violent explosion, and countless broken brick fragments bloomed like fireworks, which was spectacular. Then another bomber also swooped down. With the huge explosion, the old cypress tree in the west of the village was uprooted by the shock wave generated by the explosion!
The pilots of the Kikakatsu Air Team are really not bragging.
Xu Shijiu smiled bitterly and shook his head. These two machine gun bunkers and the machine guns inside were definitely finished.
Chapter completed!