binnovel Chapter 182 Attack (4)
Chapter 182 Attack (4)
Colonel Fukuei Shinpei's wish could not be realized after all. The second wave of support troops he sent out encountered exactly the same fate as the previous wave of reinforcements. Moreover, the second wave of reinforcements were composed entirely of the original baggage soldiers. After being ambushed by the officers and soldiers of the 811th Regiment, they did not have any decent defense at all. Some soldiers even stubbornly rushed towards the ambushing officers and soldiers of the 811th Regiment with guns in hand.
This made the ambush of the 811th Regiment extremely successful. After destroying this wave of Japanese reinforcements, the regiment commander Xu Fusheng cleaned up the battlefield and found that this time his troops had only suffered more than casualties.
Zhang Wenwu once again received battle news from the suicide squad. He calculated in his mind that the 100 Japanese soldiers sent from the main position of the Japanese army had been killed by his own th Brigade. Now there were probably more than Japanese soldiers on the Japanese artillery position. If all the Japanese soldiers on the artillery position were eliminated, then the number of Japanese soldiers on the main position of the Japanese army should be only eight or nine hundred.
He asked the 811th Regiment to leave behind a battalion of officers and soldiers to continue guarding the ambush site, and all the others came to reinforce the battle on the artillery position. Now, he could use all his strength to capture the Japanese artillery position. As for the Japanese main position, they would certainly not send any more reinforcements. His tactics of encircling the point and attacking the reinforcements had already achieved considerable results. The Japanese commander must have discovered the problem and would not send any more reinforcements to reinforce the artillery position, unless the Japanese army no longer wanted the main position.
The 811th Regiment left a battalion of officers and soldiers to be on guard at the ambush site. The remaining troops, led by the regiment commander Xu Fusheng and the suicide squad, quickly rushed to the Japanese artillery position and joined the battle. This greatly increased the intensity of Zhang Wenwu's attack.
Captain Jiro Aso was extremely anxious now. He felt that the reinforcements sent by the regiment commander could only come to collect the bodies of his men. The Chinese army had suddenly increased the intensity of their attack and the number of people had obviously increased. This made him realize that the reinforcements of the Chinese army had arrived.
Jiro Aso counted the number of people on the position. Including the artillery, there were only 105 people in total, and 63 of them were from the artillery unit. He now had to consider whether he should send people to destroy the two howitzers on the rear artillery position. If the Chinese army obtained these two howitzers, Colonel Fukuei Shinpei, who was guarding the main position, would probably cut his body into pieces and feed it to the dogs.
Seeing that the Chinese army was constantly advancing in the trenches and the number of soldiers on his side was constantly decreasing, Captain Jiro Aso made up his mind. He pulled out ten Japanese soldiers from the original garrison and asked them to take explosives to destroy the howitzers. He absolutely could not let the Chinese army get these two howitzers.
Ten Japanese soldiers, holding several boxes of explosives, rushed back along the trench with determined looks on their faces. They knew they would not survive this time, but they had to complete the last order given to them by the squadron leader and blow up the cannon.
Zhang Wenwu did not let the officers and soldiers of the suicide squad participate in the frontal battle at the artillery position. He ordered them to go around the rear of the Japanese army and attack them from the rear. This would force the Japanese army to disperse their forces to defend, and Zhang Wenwu would be able to break through the Japanese army's frontal defense line as soon as possible.
After making a big circle along the Japanese artillery position, the officers and soldiers of the suicide squad arrived at the rear of the Japanese artillery position. There were only ten Japanese soldiers on this side on guard and defense. Jiro Aso really did not have any extra troops to defend the rear of his position. He planned to wait until the howitzer was destroyed, and then withdraw the ten soldiers defending in the rear and the ten soldiers who went to blow up the artillery. Everyone would defend the trenches of this section of the command headquarters and try to delay the time for the Chinese army to occupy the artillery position as much as possible. As for being rescued alive, he no longer had any hope.
The officers and soldiers of the suicide squad approached the Japanese trench stealthily. They didn't know that there were only ten Japanese soldiers defending such a large trench. It would be more appropriate to call these Japanese soldiers sentinels rather than garrison troops. Moreover, these ten soldiers were all former artillerymen.
Moreover, now all ten soldiers ran to the howitzer position, because they all went to stop the ten Japanese soldiers who had just arrived from destroying the cannon.
"What are you doing? Don't you know how precious this howitzer is to our Great Japanese Empire?" Artillery Sergeant Yamauchi Ze Ren led his artillerymen, holding rifles and shouting at the ten soldiers who were installing explosives.
As artillerymen, they were asked by the officers on the first day of joining the artillery unit to protect and cherish the cannons they operated. These were the precious assets of the Imperial Japanese Army, and they were required to protect these cannons with their own lives. But now they found that these newly arrived soldiers were actually carrying explosives and wanted to blow up these two precious howitzers. This was something they could not tolerate.
"Baga, this is the order from Captain Jiro Aso of the garrison. Do you want to disobey the military order?" A sergeant who was originally from the infantry garrison was so angry when he saw these artillerymen threatening him with guns.
When Yamauchi Zeren heard that the sergeant of the infantry garrison dared to scold him, he was so angry. I am also a sergeant, what right do you have to scold me? Besides, if it weren’t for the incompetence of your infantry garrison, how could my precious howitzer be facing such a dangerous situation now? How dare you scold me?
"No matter whose order it is, the commander of our howitzer regiment ordered us to protect these two howitzers. You have no right to blow up these two howitzers. Unless our commander gives the order, we will not let you destroy the cannons." Yamauchi Zeren thought to himself, you brought out the squadron leader of the infantry garrison to pressure me, okay, then I will bring out our commander of the regiment to pressure you, isn't it just a matter of who brings out a higher rank, come on.
When the sergeant of the infantry garrison heard what Yamauchi Zeren said, he immediately became furious. Are the brains of these artillerymen guarding the back useless? They are now discussing who has a higher rank than the person behind them. Is this the time to argue about this? What idiotic artillerymen.
The sergeant of the garrison did not intend to continue the meaningless argument with the artillery sergeant whose head had been kicked by a donkey. He had to quickly complete the order given to him by the squadron captain and then rush back to the front position to reinforce the squadron captain's defense. So he asked his soldiers to continue installing explosives without paying attention to other people's obstruction.
Sergeant Yamauchi Zeren saw that the other party ignored him, which was a naked contempt for him, so he led his soldiers to the soldier who was setting up the explosives, kicked the soldier to the ground, and said viciously to all the infantrymen of the garrison: "Baga, no one is allowed to move. If you dare to get close to the cannon again, I will not be polite."
The sergeant of the infantry garrison was extremely anxious. Seeing the artillery's attitude was so domineering, he stepped forward and pushed away Sergeant Yamauchi Zeren who was standing in front of the artillery position. Then he pointed his gun at the artillery and said, "Whoever dares to obstruct us from executing orders again, I will shoot him."
Yamauchi Ze Ren also became furious and pointed his gun at the infantrymen on the artillery positions. His meaning was very clear: you want to be tough, right? Come on, let's hurt each other.
The officers and soldiers of the 100th Brigade's Suicide Squad easily sneaked into the deserted garrison trenches. All of them had incredible expressions on their faces. The Japanese army did not even leave a single defensive soldier behind, not even a sentry to pretend to be there. How crazy were the Japanese army?
Less than two minutes after the suicide squad officers and soldiers advanced along the trench, the scouts who were exploring the way ahead discovered twenty Japanese soldiers next to a cannon. However, the behavior of these Japanese soldiers was incomprehensible to them.
The twenty Japanese soldiers first pointed their guns at each other, then talked loudly for a while, and then suddenly started fighting with each other in confusion. This confused Li Zhengying, the captain of the suicide squad who had just arrived here after receiving the notice, but he knew that this was a godsend opportunity, so he ordered the officers and soldiers of the suicide squad to quickly surround the twenty Japanese soldiers and wait for his order. Everyone opened fire at the same time to quickly eliminate this small group of Japanese troops.
Sergeant Yamauchi Ze Ren has now started wrestling with the sergeant of the infantry. They are attacking each other fiercely with their fists as big as sandbags. The two are really fighting with real anger, and their fists are hitting each other in the face with all their might.
Just when the two were fighting fiercely, a burst of gunfire rang out beside them. Sergeant Yamauchi Zeren was hit by seven or eight bullets and fell on the gun position. Before he died, his only reaction was: Damn, the infantry garrison has no martial ethics and actually dared to shoot.
The members of the suicide squad saw that all the Japanese soldiers fell down in their round of shooting, so they rushed to the side of the gun position from the trench more than ten meters away. Looking at the bodies of Japanese soldiers on the ground, all the members of the suicide squad didn't understand why the Japanese soldiers started fighting each other. This was purely to give themselves military merits, which was almost the same as shooting in training.
Li Zhengying came to the gun position with a submachine gun and checked it. He found that all the Japanese soldiers had been shot into sieves. So he walked to the cannon and touched the heavy artillery in front of him. He sighed in his heart, the muzzle of this gun is really big. This kind of cannon is really a good thing.
"Report to the captain, we have found two cannons in total, and we have found some explosives at the muzzles and underneath the cannons." An officer from the suicide squad walked up to Li Zhengying and reported his findings.
Li Zhengying blinked a few times. He seemed to have guessed why the Japanese soldiers were fighting among themselves. It was probably because one wanted to blow up the artillery and the other wanted to stop it. Haha, the little Japanese are so cute. If all the Japanese soldiers were so cute, it would be much easier for him to kill them.
"Send someone to guard the cannon and collect all the explosives for me. Send another person to look for it. There should be more Japanese trucks nearby, otherwise they won't be able to pull the cannon over here. The rest of the people, follow me and continue to attack forward." Li Zhengying ordered the officer. He needed to quickly take his men to poke the Japanese army's ass from behind. Who knows, there might be an unexpected surprise.