Chapter 279 First Battle of Thirteen Divisions (5)
"Baoba...baoba..."
A series of crisp sounds sounded, and although his face had been beaten to the point of redness and swollen like a persimmon, Hideo Nagagawa's body was still standing straight and he did not dare to move at all.
Tojo Shino, who arrived hurriedly, beat and scolded: "Haga... so many warriors are dead, why don't you go to have a caesarean section? You still have the face to ask me for tactical guidance. Do you know that the face of the Cavalry Regiment has been thrown away by you?"
After Tojo Shino stopped, Hideo Nagagawa bowed and said, "On the Captain of the United Nations, I know I have slandered the Cavalry Regiment, but I ask you to give me another chance to atone for merit and atone for sins. I hope that even if I have a caesarean section, I will stand at the entrance of the village facing the east to the Emperor's Majesty to apologize. Please give me another chance, please!"
Shino Tojo snorted: "Give you another chance. Do you know that your incompetence has alarmed the division commander. The division commander has now sent a chariot brigade to get closer to this place. If we rely on the help of the chariot brigade to take it down, our cavalry corps will be completely lost. Do you understand?"
As soon as he heard this, Hideo Nagagawa knew the seriousness of the matter. Since the birth of the tank, after decades of development, countries have successively formed their own armored troops, even the most stubborn Japanese were no exception. There have been calls for the cancellation of cavalry as a corpse and vigorously developing armored troops in China. Although it was abandoned due to the strong opposition of conservative forces in Japan, the positions that they could not take could be taken down by armored troops, which was a shame for the cavalry.
Hideo Nagagawa gritted his teeth and bowed 90 degrees: "Governor Captain, please allow me to take the remaining two squadrons to launch a final charge against the Chinese army. Even if I die, I hope to die in battle on the road to charge!"
Shino Tojo took a long breath and then said, "Baga, you idiot, if you can take the village, you won't wait until I come here with the remaining two squadrons. Listen. The chariot brigade will take about half an hour to get here, so we must take that village within half an hour. I brought a mortar squadron. I will let them cover you with all my strength, and I will allocate two more squadrons. If you can't take that village again, you don't have to come to see me, do you understand?"
"Hay... Thank you for your trust in the United Captain, I will definitely live up to your expectations!"
"Bang!"
"boom"
Accompanied by a low sound of cannons and an explosion, a machine gun bunker dozens of meters away from Wu Zhuang was bombed into the sky. Listening to the low sound of cannons, Wu Zhuang knew that it was the sound of the Japanese Type 97 81mm caliber mortar. This kind of mortar was mainly equipped with troops at the Japanese brigade and above, and its power was very good. Although Wu Zhuang had already ordered the troops to retreat into the village, two machine gun groups were still blown up by the Japanese artillery fire because of their slow movement.
A second lieutenant on the side asked, "Company Commander, the Japanese mortars are being fired too accurately. Should we pull out our mortars and give them a few moves?"
"It's useless!" Wu Zhuang shook his head, "Our mortars are too small and are no match for others at all. They rashly fire and turn themselves in. Wait, the Japanese are cavalry units, and they definitely don't have so many shells for them to squander."
Wu Zhuang's words were very accurate. The Japanese mortars stopped in less than five minutes, and then rows of Japanese soldiers rushed towards the village with Type 44 lances.
After hundreds of cavalry casualties, Hideo Nagagawa learned his lesson this time. He ordered all the cavalry to dismount. A brigade of nearly 800 infantry surrounded the village from four directions, and soon bursts of crisp gunfire sounded.
Looking at the Japanese army surrounded from all directions, the second lieutenant gasped: "Hiss... these Japanese devils look down on us too much. Is it only necessary to deal with our company? "
Wu Zhuang withdrew his gaze and turned to the lieutenant beside him and said, "Wang Liang, we probably won't be able to hold on this time. We ordered brothers not to save bullets. It's a matter of how many they can kill!"
The lieutenant named Wang Liang was silent for a moment, nodded and went to prepare...
“Ticticicticicticicticicticictica…”
The rapid machine gun sounded continuously in Xikou Village. After seeing the scale of the Japanese charge, Wu Zhuang knew that this time the Japanese army was determined to destroy their lonely army here no matter what. Since this was the case, he no longer hid and put out the remaining eight mg34 machine guns. In addition, he also lifted the three M2 Browning heavy machine guns that were originally hidden to the position. Three 60 mortars also began to bombard the Japanese army. It can be said that he had revealed all his assets.
As soon as the battle started, Tojo Shino, who was concentrating on observing behind, was startled. The firepower of the Chinese army opposite was too strong, especially the machine gun that made strange sounds was like the sickle of the god of death. The dense metal bullets kept pouring towards the charge of the Japanese army. Although the Japanese machine gunners had already suppressed them desperately, facing the metal bullet rains like metal storms, the pitiful firing rate of the Type 92 heavy machine gun and the 11th light machine gun were like children's toys compared with them, and they could not protect themselves, let alone suppress them.
Seeing Tojo Shino frowning, Nagaji Otani, the captain of the Second Battalion of the Cavalry Regiment, comforted him: "George Captain, please don't worry, the village has only one company at most, and Nagagawa Jun will definitely succeed!"
Shino Tojo sighed, "I'm not worried about this, I'm thinking that over the past year, the 202nd Division in China has become more and more famous, and has even been spread to the local area. I used to be a little disdainful of this, thinking that this is just an excuse found by the defeated cowards. But judging from the current situation, this 202nd Division is indeed different from the ordinary Chinese troops. They are not only equipped with more strong fighting spirit, but also have unforgettable hatred for our Great Japanese Empire. If such an opponent continues to exist, it will be too harmful to our Great Japanese Empire."
"I understand." Xiaotani Changzhi nodded and said, "That's why you ordered the Lord of Changchuan to give a death order. You must have just wiped out all the troops in the village, right?"
"That's natural!" Tojo Shino's eyes turned to the rows of corpses that were stripped of clothes and cut off their heads not far away, and their eyes became cold: "Anyone who offends the majesty of the Great Japanese Imperial Army must be eliminated... no matter how much the price is paid!"
Shino Tojo did not lie. The battle became fierce at the beginning. The Japanese army, which had absolutely superior troops, launched a general attack at the beginning under the command of Hideo Nagagawa. Wu Zhuang and his company were under great pressure. If they hadn't dug several trenches and fortifications at various intersections at the beginning, the position would have fallen long ago, but the casualties in the face of the Japanese army's attacks like a tide were still increasing.
"Bang……"
A crisp gunshot sounded, and a blood flower appeared on the chest of a sergeant who was commanding more than a dozen Japanese troops to advance, and then he fell to the ground with a bang.
More than two hundred meters away, Wu Zhuang put away his Mauser's blocking gun and flexibly entered another bunker. More than twenty minutes have passed since the battle started, and the Japanese army fell under his gun and reached eleven.
Although the battle lasted less than half an hour, both sides suffered heavy casualties. Wu Zhuang's company of nearly 200 men has now been killed by nearly one-third, and the Japanese army has paid hundreds of corpses for this.
Looking back at the increasingly sparse machine gun sounds next to him, Wu Zhuang had the idea of breaking through for the first time, but as soon as this idea arose, he threw it out of the sky. It was a fantasy for a group of infantry to escape in front of the cavalry. It seemed that he could only die here in battle.
At this moment, a dull and rapid sound rang again.
"Boom boom boom..."
A round of shells landed near him, bombing several soldiers who were shooting into the sky.
"These bastards!"
Wu Zhuang spit out the soil in his mouth, and he immediately bent down and ran quickly behind for a short distance, jumped into a crater, and asked loudly at several soldiers fiddling with mortars, "How much ammunition do you have?"
The soldier looked around and said, "Company Commander, there are three boxes of high-explosive bombs."
Wu Zhuang felt a chill. Mortar shells were six rounds per box, and three boxes of shells were eighteen rounds. These shells were not enough for a high-speed artillery such as mortars to launch a round of rapid and rapid fire.
"Don't worry!" Wu Zhuang gritted his teeth and handed his telescope to a sergeant next to him, pointing to the front and said, "You see that there is no hillside in the distance. There is a mortar position of the Japanese army. Your mission is to shoot out all the remaining shells and must blow off the Japanese mortar position!"
The sergeant picked up the telescope and observed: "The company commander, the distance is a bit far, but it is still within the range of our artillery fire. This round of shells will definitely be enough for them to drink a pot."
"Okay, let's start now, stop rushing!" Wu Zhuang patted his shoulder and urged.
The sergeant carefully observed the hillside in the distance, stretched out his thumb and gestured, then adjusted the height and angle of the mortar, and stretched out his hand and said.
"Cast!"
A shell was handed to his hands.
He took the shell and put it in the barrel of the easiest.
“Bang…”
"Castball..."
"Bang...bang...bang..."
In less than a minute, he had all three boxes of shells shots, and then there were also low explosions on the hillside in the distance.
"Okay... it's knocked out..."
Wu Zhuang, who had been observing with a telescope, shouted happily, but as soon as he finished speaking, an explosion rang out on the position. A gm-34 machine gun that was pouring out flames and even the machine gun with the man was injured in the air.
Wu Zhuang, who was surprised, just put down his telescope and turned his head to look. Three Japanese chariots painted in yellow began to appear in front of him...
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Chapter completed!