It was Li Jiujin's seventh company that was the first to break through the defense line!

Because he was anxious to know the situation of his brothers in his company, Chief Li Da arrived at the front line and followed the third platoon with a submachine gun. He knew that the third platoon commander, who was responsible, would not dare to stop his company commander even if he had a hard time, and could only arrange for the 4th squad of Tu Yunsheng, who had the strongest combat power under his command.

Tu Yunsheng dared to be negligent and arranged two three-person teams to block Li Jiujin. If there was any remaining Japanese machine gun fire, the six men would use their bodies to block the bullets fired at their own company commander.

But they all underestimated their company commander too much.

Although Li Jiujin has been the company commander for a long time, he is also a big-headed soldier, and he has been in the army for ten years and has not even scratched a few pieces of oily skin. Others may not be able to do it, and his ability to save his life is almost engraved into his bones.

"I still need you to protect you? I can rush as much as I should. The Japanese who can kill me has not yet been born." Li Jiujin, who was about to enter the charge, cursed and roared: "Corpist, charge! The whole company follows me and kills the Japanese!"

"Did it!" The crisp sound of charge resounded throughout the battlefield.

At that time, Zhaozhuang was the last small courtyard protected by Chinese soldiers, and a cloud of gunpowder also rose.

In Zhaojiazhuang, Lin Muqingyuan, who was still in a dull state, suddenly turned around and looked into the distance, with uncontrollable fear in his eyes.

He has heard of the charge horn unique to the Chinese army many times. Most of the time, those Chinese soldiers fell in front of the Imperial Army's machine guns in groups like moths flying into fire. But this time, he, a veteran who has been through the battlefield, shivered all over when he heard the sound of the horn again.

But that is the line of defense deployed by more than a thousand infantrymen. What kind of determination did the Chinese dare to charge against this line of defense that would definitely be full of death!

After the crazy ravages of more than 800 shells, less than a hundred Japanese infantry on the 1,000 defense line in front of the 7th Company survived.

When they were dizzy and pulled out of the anti-cannon hole by commanders at all levels, they were frightened to find that the Chinese who were rushing forward were less than 80 meters away from the trench.

"Shoot! Shoot!" With the shouts of only a few sergeants and squad leader, the Japanese infantry began to fight back.

Several Chinese soldiers who were advancing fell!

"Look down! Fire cover!" Li Jiujin rushed over and issued an order at the same time!

A communication soldier who was following him shot a signal flare!

Behind the 7th Company is a fire support cluster composed of 16 MG42 machine guns, 6 12.7mm machine guns and 2 20mm machine guns.

In order to break the Japanese defense line in the shortest time, the Tang regiment also gave the greatest support to the 7th Company, and even brought the heavy Suluotong 20mm machine gun.

For these machine guns, 6 pack horses were exhausted!

All efforts are worth it. If the MG42 sprinkles bullets on the Japanese defense line like raindrops, the 20mm machine gun and the 12.7mm heavy machine gun are like hail falling from the sky. The sandbags or mounds piled up in front of the trenches were all broken with one blow.

For example, the Japanese army had a semi-sinking machine gun fortification built with logs and sandbags. They luckily avoided the destruction of artillery fire. Two Type 96 light machine guns located there roared wildly at the officers and soldiers of the 7th Company who were still crawling forward.

The flames ejected from the muzzle are clearly visible!

So, the fortification was targeted by two 12.7mm heavy machine guns and a 20mm machine gun.

Adong, who is located in the machine gun fortification recently, has witnessed the brutality of his heavy firearm with his own eyes.

It was originally no problem to block the ordinary heavy machine gun from firing, but it still seemed too fragile in front of the 20mm machine gun.

The sandbag fortifications hit by a cigar-thick warhead first exploded with dust. The thick sandbag fortifications were actually flattened by more than 40 20mm caliber shells. The wood fortifications exposed later were fragile under the crazy firing of two 12.7mm machine guns, which were as fragile as the underwear of a nightclub.

A strong fortification was torn to pieces by a crazy large-caliber bullet!

Under such a crazy rain of bullets, how could the Japanese infantry be qualified to show their heads? The appearance is almost a prelude to death.

The splashing rain of bullets lasted for at least 2 minutes. The Japanese army hiding in the trenches could only wait helplessly for the Chinese to end as if the endless rain of bullets was over.

But for this Japanese army, the biggest nightmare was obviously not the machine gun cluster more than 400 meters away from them, but the 280 Chinese soldiers crawling forward.

"Drop bomb!" Li Jiujin, who was close to the Japanese trench, screamed!

Countless figures bounced up from the ground and threw long-handled grenades forward and then fell down, then bounced up and dropped bombs again!

In two rounds of bombs, there were more than 400!

Get up in front of and in the trenches to make smoke!

There were so many ghosts and wolves howling in the Japanese trenches!

"Follow me!" Li Jiujin took big steps forward.

"Kill!" The roars sounded on the battlefield even suppressed the rumbling cannons not far away.

The distance of 50 meters is actually not short. In peacetime, it takes six to seven seconds for a young man with professional running shoes to wear a flat track. This is a battlefield, a farmland baptized by shells and craters everywhere, and the speed is obviously at least half slower.

But here, there is no loss or victory or defeat, only life and death!

The 7th Company's usual rigorous training effect was finally revealed at this moment. Even with a rifle weighing several kilograms or just wearing cloth shoes, they were like tigers falling down the mountain, jumping through the bullet craters and passing through the smoke of gunpowder...

They were already very fast. A Dong, who was carrying Tu Yunsheng, never felt that he had run so fast. What he passed by his ears was no longer a whizzing bullet mark, but a wind!

But even so, someone will fall down every second!

However, at such a moment, no one cares about it, even if his comrades who are as close as brothers, they can only strive forward at this moment.

It is not only for himself, but also for the injured brothers. If this round of charge fails, once retreats, the death rate of wounded soldiers who are unable to move in such close to the Japanese trench positions will be as high as 90%.

Whether for victory or alive, they can only move forward without hesitation.

Thanks to the complete suppressive firepower advantage in the early stage, the 7th Company finally rushed to the Japanese trenches after paying the cost of more than 10 casualties.

After discovering that the Japanese army in the trench was unable to stop it, they also climbed out of the trench and prepared for hand-to-hand combat.

The 10th Division is worthy of being a Class A Division, with only 70 remaining people. Faced with more than 200 Chinese soldiers with murderous intent, they still did not retreat.

Hand-to-hand combat is one of the most skilled infantry tactics of the Japanese infantry, and it is also the tactic that best demonstrates its bravery.

The Japanese army roaring and roaring believe that they can make the Chinese who are only more than ten meters away from them pay a heavy price enough.

Unfortunately, the Four-Road Regiment is not an ordinary infantry regiment, and they are worth fighting with each other in hand, but there is no need at this time.

The infantry of the infantry squad has all been replaced with semi-automatic rifles, and there are also 4 submachine guns. With such abundant continuous firepower, they have no need to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese.

On the 1,000-meter defense line, firing fiercely and firing in a crazily distanced line, shooting dozens of Japanese soldiers who were already half-squatting and holding a flat rifle to be launched into sieves.

The blood splashed out from the Japanese army even splattered on Adong's face, but the simple mountain village youth in the past was not afraid at all. Instead, he chopped off a Japanese man's neck who had not yet died of anger and stared at him with fierce eyes.

"If you don't want to die, don't stare at me. Grandpa will give you a ride!" A Dong said disdainfully.

"Brother, don't worry about the spoils. Those brothers behind will be responsible for cleaning up. Follow the company commander!" Tu Yunsheng patted Adong's shoulder and stared at the front.

Zhaojiazhuang, a thousand meters away, was so quiet that Tu Yunsheng knew that the battle there was over.

With the qualities of his 7th company brothers, there is only one possibility!

Although the back of the company commander Jiujin who crossed the Japanese trenches was still firm, Tu Yunsheng knew that the company commander must have felt extremely painful inside.

Li Jiujin, who is usually the most cynical, has nothing to say except for issuing military orders. This is extremely rare after Li Jiujin served as the company commander in the Four Corps.

The death and injury of the six people were placed in such a battlefield where both sides invested more than thousands of people in total, which was actually negligible. However, because of the overly victorious anti-sweeping over the past few months, the six soldiers who had the opportunity to survive until after the war collectively suffered this. Perhaps Li Jiujin's greatest guilt!

"Tell the entire company to kill all the remaining enemies in one minute, and arrive 400 meters in front of Zhaojiazhuang in five minutes! Take my brothers from the 7th Company home!" Li Jiujin's hoarse voice rang.

"Yes!" Tu Yunsheng rubbed his red eyes.

"Reconnaissance Company, the guard company encircles the two wings along the torn opening of the 7th Company. Gu Xishui, take your mountain infantry company to cooperate with the 7th Company to attack Zhaojiazhuang, and tell the entire army on my behalf that I will kill anyone who kills my brothers!" Tang Dao put down his telescope and ordered coldly.

The cold voice made the gray-clothed soldier standing on one side tremble all over. He wanted to persuade him but did not dare to speak.

Tang Dao's murderous intent was solid. How could he, a veteran who had been in the army for nearly ten years, not be able to sense it? However, this was somewhat inconsistent with the instructions issued by the division headquarters.

"Deputy Battalion Commander Zhou, I am the highest military commander in southern Hebei. Some military orders may conflict with some policies of your army, but this is the battlefield, and my orders are above everything else.

Since the Japanese have formulated the "Three Lights Policy", they should bear all the consequences. Those who raise the butcher's knife to the civilians have lost the qualification to become prisoners of war." Tang Dao did not turn back at all and said lightly.

"Any kindness to the enemy is cruelty to my 40 million Chinese compatriots!"

"Yes, resolutely implement the command of the chief!" The gray-clothed soldier trembled hard and stood up to answer.

Tang Dao is now not only the deputy commissioner of the Southern Hebei Administration, but also the heroic leader of the direct regiment of the war zone. Faced with such a tough Tang Dao, who dares to disrespect his military orders?

"Your headquarters is responsible for cooperating with the two companies of our regiment to compress the living space of the remaining enemies outside the village. As long as the Japanese are compressed here, I will remember your great achievements in the Lincheng District!" Tang Dao drew a circle on the simple combat map.

"As long as the Japanese invaders don't run away, I promise to complete this task." The gray-clothed soldier replied confidently.

The place drawn by Tang Dao is a hill, where the Japanese army also built a position, which is the most difficult part of the Japanese army's circular defense line. If the gray-clothed soldiers lead their troops to conquer it, it may require a lot of casualties. However, if the Japanese army is driven over like a sheep, the gray-clothed soldiers are still confident enough.

Of course, the premise is that the Japanese do not escape into the wilderness, so it will be difficult to chase them.

"Don't worry, the Japanese are well prepared this time, just waiting for the main force of our army to come. How could they easily admit their failure? Their commander will definitely issue military orders to defend this position and Zhaojiazhuang." Tang Dao's eyes were leaping with flames.

"But Yoshio Shinozuka didn't expect that I, Tang Dao, would come here to wait for him! In my eyes, the little bait he took out was nothing."

An hour later, the gray-clad military uniforms knew why Tang Dao said that the nearly 600 Japanese soldiers hiding in the hilly positions were nothing.

Indeed, under the 12-door 150-caliber heavy-duty bombardment, except for the reinforced concrete permanent fortifications, any other trench and anti-aircraft holes were a joke.

The entire hilly area, with a radius of only 20,000 square meters, was plowed back and forth more than five times by 12 150 heavy and 80 mm howitzers.

It seems that the whole land is burning!

Not to mention what the Japanese army located in it felt like, even Deputy Battalion Commander Zhou, who was bystander, felt his heart trembling and his heartache corners twitched.

Of course, that's not because I feel sorry for the Japanese, but because I feel sorry for the shells. This is too much of a loser, right?

The main force of the Japanese army has not arrived yet, and at least 1,500 of these shells have been fired. It is not worth it to be a few hundred Japanese soldiers!

"There is nothing worthy of it. If they kill our people, they will have to pay their lives! The regiment commander said that they will die, and none of them will survive." A communications soldier in charge of being a liaison officer said.

Before launching the final attack on this hill, the battle in Zhaojiazhuang was over.

The two infantry companies did not intend to play street battles with the more than 400 Japanese troops under Lin Muqingyuan who were waiting for battle in the village. Six howitzers were scattered in an area less than 500 meters outside the village and leveled the muzzle.
To be continued...