Volume 1 Deserter's Bloodbath Chapter 11 Panic!
The platoon leader, baring his yellow teeth, leaned forward, pulled the trigger hard, and fired continuously, trying to drive the Japanese back.
"Puff puff……"
The Japanese machine gun and rifle bullets hit him in succession. His body was shaking due to the powerful kinetic energy of the bullets, and blood foamed from his mouth. Under the locust-like impact of bullets, blood splattered all over his body, and he finally fell down unwillingly.
"A platoon leader is dead! What should we do?"
One brother hid his head behind the rubble, and there was panic in his voice. He didn't dare to stick his head out to shoot. The platoon leader just now was a vivid example.
"The second platoon leader is also dead!"
"The third platoon leader was shot, and we don't know if he's dead or not!"
"Are there any officers? What should we do?"
…
The ruins were filled with the voices of terrified brothers. Without the command of an officer, these remnants did not know how to face the situation. Even if they wanted to abandon their positions and become deserters, they lacked a leader.
"Fight to the death. As long as the sound of gunfire continues in Luodian, it means we have not lost the city. Let's fight on our own and rely on our own abilities!"
Finally, a squad leader made a decision. In this kind of battle in the ruins, the squad leader who had just taken office for a few days had no idea what to do. He was also a soldier before. The only option was to fight to the death!
"Damn it, I'll retreat first. I'll only die in Luodian!"
An old soldier crawled out from the ruins, took out a few bullets from the body of his fallen brother and put them in his pocket.
The sound of gunfire suddenly became sparse in the ruins where there had just been fierce gunfire. The miserable remaining soldiers moved around in the ruins, not wanting to fire a single shot unless they were sure.
Luodian, with thousands of households, is actually not small. At least for the Japanese soldiers with only one squadron, it is not easy to search it all. The key is to guard against cold guns in the ruins!
“Bang, bang… bang…”
"there!"
“Bang, bang, bang…”
The price of a cold shot was that several Japanese soldiers fired at the same time in the direction of the gunshot, but the brother who fired the cold shot did not even look at whether he hit the target after firing. He just retracted his head and began to roll among the ruins and bullet craters.
The occasional cold gunshots always made the Japanese pay a price. In just a few minutes, the Japs who advanced to the central square of Luodian suffered nearly ten casualties. This was much faster than the casualties in their previous head-on battle with the defenders!
A remnant soldier hid in a half-collapsed house, watching three Japanese soldiers approaching from a distance. He could no longer run away, as both his legs were shot and now it was difficult for him to even move. He just waited for the Japanese soldiers to come over, and it would be considered a profit if he could take a few of them with him before leaving!
"Little devil, let me teach you a lesson about hand grenades!"
The back cover of the only grenade in his hand was unscrewed, the pull rope was put on his finger, and he looked at the approaching Japanese with a smile on his face!
“Bang, bang…”
The Japs were not fools. The moment they saw the remnant soldier, they started shooting. The bullets splashed blood on the remnant soldier's chest, and blood began to ooze from the corners of the soldier's mouth, who was frowning but smiling.
"idiot!"
“Puff, puff…”
Several Japanese soldiers were obviously angered by the weird smile and stabbed the remaining soldier's chest with three bayonets in a row!
"Zilla!"
As the remaining soldier's hands drooped to the ground, sizzling eyes appeared beside him.
"idiot!"
“Boom!”
As the grenade exploded, three Japanese soldiers were thrown out of the half-collapsed house by the shock wave!
The occasional explosions and sniper fire made the searching Japs pay a heavy price. They only had an understaffed squadron, and their casualties were more than those in combat. Only less than a hundred Japs were still searching, and the rest either became corpses on the ground or lay groaning in the cotton fields north of Luodian.
"Xiao Lin, the Chinese in Luodian have gone into hiding. We are short of manpower. If we continue to search and clear them out, I'm afraid..."
"There are too many cold shots!"
The two officers next to Major Kobayashi frowned and said that they wanted to suggest stopping the search, but they didn't know how to say it. After all, for the Japanese who had just invaded China, their style did not allow them to retreat.
"Order the soldiers to build fortifications at the main intersection and wait for support from the battalion headquarters. How long will it take for the battalion's reinforcements to arrive?"
Xiao Lin also knew that this was not the time to be willful, as there were still plenty of military merits waiting for him. If he used up all his veterans here, the next battle would probably have little to do with him!
"We passed Chuansha half an hour ago. At the speed of the rapid march, we should arrive in less than half an hour!" the signalman reported.
"Yoshi! When the reinforcements from the battalion arrive, all the Chinese in this area will be dead!"
Kobayashi screamed, sparks coming out of his eyes. These damn Chinese people suddenly stopped playing positional warfare with him and started shooting him from behind. He couldn't get used to it all of a sudden!
The Japanese stopped searching, which made the remaining soldiers hiding in the ruins and bomb craters in the south of Luodian breathe a sigh of relief. They really couldn't fight anymore. The lucky brothers still had a few bullets, but the gun chambers were empty due to the fierce firing. As for grenades, basically no one could find even one!
On August 23, a skirmish in Luodian has been going on until now, presenting a strange scene. More than 60 Japanese soldiers occupied the northern part of Luodian and were intensively building fortifications; while the remaining Kuomintang brothers hid in the ruins in the southern part of Luodian, praying for reinforcements to arrive as soon as possible. If the Japanese reinforcements arrived faster than their own, then none of them would survive.
Two kilometers south of Luodian, Han Yingbin and his team were still running wildly. The gunfire in Luodian was becoming less and less frequent, which indicated that the battle was coming to an end. When the gunfire stopped, the remaining soldiers fought with bayonets , and Luodian was lost.
"Hurry up, speed up, throw everything you can! Just bring guns and ammunition, throw them for me!"
Han Yingbin shouted loudly, and then started throwing things on his own initiative. Following the actions of his brothers, the road was filled with all kinds of personal belongings, dry food bags with multi-grain cakes, iron kettles, bedding, etc. Everything was thrown on the roadside.
With Luodian as the center, a strange scene presented itself: the two squadrons of the Japanese army and Han Yingbin's Death Battalion, both teams were running towards Luodian at the same time. If nothing unexpected happened, they would arrive at Luodian at the same time.
“Buzz buzz buzz…”
At this time, Feng E, who was in the core area of the Japanese occupation area, was still unconscious, with a buzzing sound in his head. The continuous explosions and gunshots in his coma made it impossible for him to wake up, and even moving became a problem. Fortunately, there were too many corpses around and on him. Many of these corpses did not even have complete bodies, but were completely broken into parts, making the Japanese lose interest in checking again. This was also directly related to the fact that the Japanese had not completely occupied Luodian. If the Japanese had completely occupied Luodian, he would probably become a real corpse when cleaning up the bodies.
