Volume 1 Deserter's Bloodbath Chapter 56: The sound of a fart cannon!
When the first naval gun shell landed in Luodian, the remnants of the Death Squadron were digging shelters with their buttocks sticking out. The fast ones were able to dig out enough space to hide their bodies, while the slow ones could only dig out a space barely enough to squat.
"Heavy artillery!"
The noise of the shells hitting the ground and exploding made the Kuomintang brothers in Luodian roar wildly. In fact, even they themselves could not hear their roars. This was the power of the warship's main gun.
“Boom!”
The third blast sent rubble leaping over the roof. The remaining walls, whether rammed earth or bricks, were instantly torn apart within the blast range, and dust and rubble flowed down the walls like a waterfall...
In the dense dust, the soldier who was knocked down by the shock wave shouted and tried to support his body with his hands to stand up again, but was knocked to the ground by another huge earthquake. The dust on the ground had no chance to fall, and was constantly swept into the air by the shock wave, floating and lingering, forming all kinds of weird patterns...
"Boom, boom, boom..."
The Japanese ship's guns kept firing shells, as if dumping excess load. The land of Luodian was wailing, covered by flying dust. In the morning light, it became hazy again. The soldiers on all fours could not hear any sound. They felt the shock of soul-stirring time and time again, and prayed to God in the endless explosions...
The Death Squadron built a shelter on the open ground beside the Qilian River, avoiding the core area of the explosion and luckily escaping from the center of the storm. They were separated from the Japanese by only a river, and the Japanese artillery fire could not accurately control the landing point of the shells. They got on all fours, lying on a half-built ladder, allowing their thin uniforms to be swept away by the shock wave.
"ah!"
Finally, one of the brothers was hit by the brick and stone fragments raised by the explosion. After being thrown into the sky, these bricks and stones kept flying to the outside . After adding powerful kinetic energy, they turned into a rain of bricks and stones, mercilessly smashing on the bodies of the brothers of the Death Squad.
The steel helmet on Feng E's head kept making clinking sounds. He was lying on all fours in the bunker. His back and arms had been hit countless times. He had no time to cry out in pain and kept cheering himself up in his mind.
"Don't lie down, don't lie down, don't move..."
This is heavy artillery. If you lie down and a shell falls nearby, your internal organs will be injured or shattered. At this time, you can only rely on luck to withstand it.
"Boom, boom..."
The explosion in Luodian Town continued. The Japanese's high-powered naval guns were firing shells indiscriminately. The Kuomintang brothers, who were trembling under the explosion, opened their mouths wide. There was no other sound except the buzzing sound in their ears. All they could see was smoke and dust.
I don’t know how long it took, the shelling ended, but the smoke and dust were still spreading over Luodian. The whole Luodian was filled with screams, but no one heard them!
To the north of Luodian, at the Lujia Village position, the 31st Brigade was also in a bad situation. They were suffering from bombing by Japanese planes. The 11th Division was afraid of losing Luodian again, allowing the Chinese to turn the tide of the Battle of Songhu and drag the war into the quagmire of positional warfare. They were eager to carry out the task of infiltration, division, encirclement and annihilation of the defenders in the Shanghai area.
"Choo Choo Choo……"
“Boom…”
The Japanese planes circled low over Lujia Village, and aerial bombs fell one by one on the defenders' positions.
The position was engulfed in flames and smoke, the ground was shaking, the field fortifications that were being repaired at night were groaning weakly, and the defenders in the fortifications were turned into fragments. In the shock wave of the aerial bombs, they flew into the air and then fell heavily, and a blood rain fell on the position.
The position could not withstand the attack, but the brothers inside did not dare to run around. In this kind of bombing, those who left the fortifications would die faster. The flying shrapnel and the terrifying shock wave would sweep away all life on the horizon.
The fortifications were razed to the ground piece by piece in the violent explosion, the intact positions were blown into scattered gullies by the shells, and the earth and rocks raised by the explosion flew everywhere.
The soldiers lying in the trenches not only have to endure the buzzing sound in their ears, but also the constant splashing of fragments and mud. The pain from their bodies can no longer make them scream. As long as the parts are intact, no one cares about the bruises on their bodies. The shrill screams are destined not to be transmitted in the explosion. No matter what the sound is, it will be drowned out by the explosion.
“Boom boom boom…”
The planes carried limited aerial bombs, but they also had onboard machine guns. The Japanese planes flew over the positions in a ostentatious manner, strafing the dilapidated positions with their onboard machine guns until their ammunition ran out.
“Cough cough cough…”
Luodian and Lujia Village were in ruins. The remaining brothers in the smoke and dust were all coughing. A large amount of smoke mixed with dust rushed into their lungs. The broken bodies were scattered around the craters of various sizes. The bloody and horrible state made it impossible to tell whose bodies they were.
"Yoshi! Order the First Battalion to prepare to cross the river and annihilate the Chinese army on the opposite side!"
"Kill him!"
Almost at the same time, the commanders of the two directions of the Japanese issued the order to attack. Through their telescopes, the defenders' positions had become ruins. Now they only needed the brave Japanese Yellow Army to rush up and eliminate the remaining wounded soldiers to occupy the entire Luodian.
“Boom, boom…”
The Japanese artillery on the other side of the Qilian River began to bombard the area near the river bank, but the Japanese regiment was only equipped with 75mm field guns and mountain guns, and most of them were 70mm infantry guns; the noise of the shells falling to the ground was a world apart from the bombardment of the naval guns just now!
"Pooh!"
The explosion on the ground sounded like small firecrackers in Feng E's ears, because his ears had not yet reacted to the heavy bombing just now.
"If you want to live, run away with me now, and don't look back!"
Feng E yelled, then used his hands and feet to crawl backwards. It was not that he didn't want to stand up and run, but he felt so dizzy that he couldn't stand up at all.
“Run!”
The criminal soldiers vaguely heard Feng E's shouting. The shadow crawling backwards on all fours in the smoke and dust pointed them in the direction. One by one, they imitated Feng E and began to crawl backwards with effort.
At this time, other troops of the 11th Division in Luodian had not yet reacted. Officers and soldiers alike were still waiting for the bombing to end.
Relying on the river bank, Feng E and the remnants of the Death Squadron escaped the bombing of the naval guns, but they would be the first to bear the brunt of the next attack by the Japanese crossing the river; Feng E didn't know how many brothers were still alive on the defense line along the river, but if he stayed in the open area on the river beach, he would definitely become the primary target of the Japanese crossing the river.
With only thirty people, no heavy firepower, and even no trenches, they would be instantly wiped out on the river beach by the enemy's machine gun bullets.
"That's it. Don't run back! Hurry up and build fortifications! Hurry!"
Feng E roared and crawled back more than a hundred meters before stopping. The house that stood on the river bank before the bombing had disappeared. The horrible shock wave directly made the rammed earth house disappear in the bombing.
