Chapter five hundred and seventieth ambush
This was Zhang Chi's careful arrangement, and the purpose was to make the scattered Japanese troops more densely so that the poisonous gas bombs could work better.
Seeing that the time is almost ripe, Colonel Haraguchi has just finished taking photos. After the officers disbanded, they saluted and said goodbye to Colonel Haraguchi. Colonel Haraguchi also returned the gift to express his gratitude...
Just as Colonel Haraguchi was about to put down his hand, Zhang Chi tried to pull the trigger with force.
"Bang!" With a crisp gunshot, Colonel Aaron was shot in the chest and fell to the ground.
Zhang Chi could have chosen his head, and he was sure to hit Zhongyuan's oral with his marksmanship... But it is obvious that aiming at the chest is much greater than aiming at the head.
On the other hand, there is actually not much difference between hitting the target's head and chest at this time, and it can kill the other party. Not to mention the lethality of the m1 rifle after hitting the chest, even if Colonel Aaron was shot in the chest, he would not be able to escape the next "gas battle".
In an instant, the Japanese officers who were about to disperse were shocked. After being stunned, they immediately shouted: "Sniper! Protect Colonel..."
They thought the enemy was just a sniper, a very lucky sniper, who happened to lurk in this position and found the highest commander when they took photos.
But what happened next quickly made them realize that it was a mistake...
"Tutu..." With a muffled sound, rows of mortar shells flew towards the highway with a roar. As expected, they did not have much accuracy. Most of the explosion points were distributed on both sides of the highway, and only a few hit the highway.
But this did not affect the spread of poison gas... In just a short while, the Japanese soldiers lying on the ground to avoid shells made a sneeze.
The sound of sneeze was originally very ordinary, but the sound of sneeze heard at this time makes people feel terrifying with numbness... because the soldiers couldn't even tell whether it was a sneeze or a crying sound, or it was laughing, as if they were laughing dryly as if they couldn't stop after being lit with a laughing hole.
Zhang Chi's subordinates did not stop, and he quickly pulled the trigger one after another at the moment when the poisonous gas bomb exploded.
With the sound of "bang bang...", the Japanese officers who took a photo with Colonel Haraguchi fell down instantly... Zhang Chi fired eight bullets in one breath and hit seven targets. One of them was lucky, and he slipped on his feet to escape the disaster.
Zhang Chi believes that after these senior officers fell, the 54th Brigade of the Japanese army lost its command backbone. It is probably more difficult for them to escape from this battlefield than climbing to the sky!
"Kill!" As several signal flares rose into the air, the soldiers wearing gas masks jumped up from their hiding place and rushed towards the highway... To be precise, the soldiers were not rushing, but more like jogging. They lay motionless in the snow for several hours. When they stood up, their hands and feet were stiff like robots. They wanted to rush quickly in their heads, but their hands and feet were disobedient.
But this did not prevent the entire battle... The poison gas did not dissipate so quickly, and the Japanese army did not recover their combat effectiveness so quickly, so the soldiers could just walk slowly.
For the Japanese army, it was the originally empty snow that suddenly stood up and there were enemies wearing guns and gas masks... Although they were already snot and tears at this time, they could hardly tell whether they were enemies or friends, but those with a little brain knew that the visitor was not good.
Some Japanese troops forced themselves to lift the rifle and pull the trigger... This is the strength of the Japanese army. The army that emphasizes spiritual victory always has outstanding advantages in will and endurance.
But this was useless. On the one hand, it was because these bullets had no accurate leads at all. On the other hand, two Type 97 tanks on the road suddenly shot out rows of bullets, and then drove at full speed toward the Japanese army lying on the road...
The Japanese army caught off guard was hit by this sudden blow and attacked from the flanks, and immediately became a mess. The only thing left was to crawl around on the ground screaming, or roll around, trying every means to avoid the attack of tanks.
The quick movements avoided, and the slow movements became the flesh mud under the tank tracks. In just a short while, the road was covered with blood and limbs, and the road became a daunting blood path.
The tank was still moving forward, mercilessly rolling the Japanese army in front of them. Even the drivers in the tank looked creepy. They even doubted whether they had come to hell.
The tank driver recalled after the war: "I felt a chill on my back at that time, and I wanted to release the accelerator several times... But when I thought about how these Japanese treated us, when I thought about these Japanese who had driven their cars to our compatriots, I kept stepping on the accelerator to the bottom!"
The tank driver participated in the Nanjing Defense War. He swam past Yang Zijiang and saved his life. Later, he regretted the Japanese doing what they did to the people in Nanjing... The most common saying in his army was: "If I had known that the Japanese would do this, I should have fought with the Japanese at the beginning!"
Until an explosion sounded under the tank, a Japanese army tried its best to ignite the grenade before rolling on the tank... Although there was only one grenade and it was an offensive grenade with little power, the Japanese tank's armor was thin, so it still let the tracks be broken and stopped.
The stopped tanks still spit out flames around and fired bullets at the Japanese army. When they finally stopped, the expeditionary force wearing gas masks had already rushed onto the road.
Needless to say, a large number of Japanese troops with no combat capability were lying on the road like dead fish, and all the soldiers of the Expeditionary Army needed to do was to walk to the front with a rifle, point the pistol at the Japanese army's head, and then pull the trigger...
I don't know when the Japanese army started to kneel on the ground and raised their hands.
In this battle, more than 7,000 Japanese troops in a brigade could escape only a few hundred people... These hundreds were very lucky that at the head and tail of the team, these two parts were less affected by poisonous gas bombs. They saw that the situation was not good and ran away. Our army was numb and moved less quickly because they had been lying in the snow for a long time, so they let them escape.
The rest of the Japanese army were dead, injured, and more than 3,000 surrendered... This changed the practice of being difficult to catch Japanese prisoners on the battlefield.
Zhang Chi was very satisfied with the result of this battle. He defeated a brigade of the Japanese army with only dozens of casualties.
Now, it's time to return to the teacher to give Tadaoyasu Hosokawa a good look.
(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!