Volume 1 Deserter's Bloodbath Chapter 83 A bombing like a storm!
In Luodian, the arrival of night did not prompt the Japanese and the national army to launch an attack. They were both waiting for the other side to be exhausted and relax their vigilance. Luodian, which had been bustling all day, suddenly fell into an eerie silence.
Feng E and his men had already crawled into the yard where the ammunition was stored. The half-collapsed yard had been completely unrecognizable. There were no Japanese soldiers, but the remaining small space was gone, having been blown down by the Japanese soldiers!
"Feng E, we can't get in. It's all collapsed. With just a few of us, we don't know if we can dig it out even if we dig until dawn!"
Big Min came back with a dejected look on his face. They had stored a lot of ammunition, more than two hundred rounds of pointed bullets for the regular rifle alone, not to mention the ammunition captured from the Japanese!
"How much ammunition does everyone have?"
Feng E asked with a frown. He originally wanted to come back here to replenish some ammunition, but he was disappointed.
"We have more than a hundred bullets and no wooden-handled grenades left, but we still have five of these devil's things!"
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The brothers were in a similar . In the previous battles, they did not consume many bullets, but they had run out of wooden-handled grenades. They were replenished with melon grenades, which they were not very familiar with.
"Haha, the melon grenade is better than our wooden-handled grenade. It's light and has a strong explosive power. Pull this one open, then find a hard object, hit it like this, and then throw it out!"
Feng E briefly introduced how to use the Japanese melon grenade. There was nothing else they could do now, so they could only use whatever they had. Fortunately, the Chinese soldiers were accustomed to using weapons made in various countries, and had no idea whether they were convenient to use or not.
"What should we do now?"
Big Min asked in a low voice. It was impossible to dig the ruins, but the night outside was quiet and they didn't know what Feng E's plan was.
"Rest here and wait for our brothers to attack. Then we can take advantage of the chaos to get out and go back to find our own troops!"
Feng E spoke softly and found a flat place to lie down. He was now sore all over and just wanted to lie down and have a good rest.
"Choo Choo Choo……"
In the end, the Japs, who had the advantage in artillery fire, could not stand the loneliness and launched an artillery attack under the dark clouds.
“Boom, boom, boom…”
Large numbers of shells fell among the ruins of Luodian, and the exploding shells kept rising like fireworks. In the firelight, one could vaguely see the broken limbs of the Chinese defenders among the rubble and debris rolled up by the shells.
"ah!"
Scary screams continued to ring out. Behind the ruins, behind a simple line of defense, the brothers of the 11th Division were being tortured.
" Don't move, get down!"
The officer calmed the turbulent crowd and told his brothers not to panic .
“Boom, boom, boom…”
The violent roar was deafening, and the huge mushroom cloud was like blooming fireworks, very obvious in the dark night. The rising smoke and dust enveloped the entire position, and the overwhelming air waves swept everything. The soldiers who tried to run away were violently swept to the ground, and their wailing was drowned in the rumbling of artillery fire.
The position was shaking violently, the sky was full of mud and fog, sharp shrapnel flew wantonly in the darkness, and then embedded itself fiercely into every object it hit, including the scattered and disordered ruins.
The crude command post at the front had been hit by a shell. The wooden boards were torn into pieces and flew into the air, then fell heavily to the ground. The crude walls creaked and collapsed without being able to withstand the vibrations.
"The forward command post has been centralized, and everyone inside is finished!"
An officer cried and reported the latest situation to the regimental commanders in the trenches. Fortunately, neither of the two regimental commanders stayed in the trenches, otherwise, the Japanese would have made a lot of money from the artillery bombardment.
"Damn it, it's a 150mm heavy artillery, get all the brothers to squat, don't crawl!"
Hu Lian's voice echoed in the adjutant's ears. Under such bombardment, only by shouting into the ear could others understand what he meant!
"Get up! Crouch!"
The officers who received the order began to pat their brothers on the shoulders one by one, asking them to squat down to avoid having their internal organs shattered by the Japanese artillery shells!
The Japanese were well prepared for tonight's attack. The first wave of shelling used 150mm heavy artillery. The 11th Division's crude positions were wailing, but fortunately, they were already in ruins. As long as the brothers' hiding places were not directly hit by the Japanese's artillery shells, the casualties were acceptable.
Compared with the wailing of the 11th Division's position, the 67th Division in the small hall felt much more comfortable. It was very quiet in front of their position, and the Japanese did not launch any attack on them at all.
In the eyes of the Japanese, the 67th Division, which was like a remnant of a defeated army, was not worth taking seriously at all. Their main target was still the elite 11th Division of the Chinese defenders.
It was not the first time that the 11th Division faced the Japanese bombing. Except for the crazy soldiers, most of the soldiers were silently enduring the bombardment, and praying to the gods and Buddhas in the sky so that the shells would not hit them!
“Boom, boom, boom…”
Artillery shells kept exploding on the positions. Not only were the soldiers' bodies trembling, but even the officers with stronger nerves were shaking. The place covered by the Japanese heavy artillery was simply not a place for humans to stay. Once anything was concentrated on it, it would be ruthlessly torn to pieces.
When the first Japanese artillery shell exploded, Feng E and all his brothers had already squatted down. They had really developed a conditioned reflex due to the explosion of the Japanese heavy artillery.
"The Japs' heavy artillery, go!"
Feng E reacted, waving his arms, getting on all fours, and slowly crawling out, heading back the way they came.
"Feng E, we are heading in the wrong direction, that's the 11th Division!"
Big Min quickly crawled a few steps and reminded Feng E who was crawling backwards. He was afraid that Feng E’s head would be knocked unconscious by the explosion!
"I know there's a heavy machine gun position ahead of us. Let's blow it up before we leave!"
Feng E said to Big Min in his ear,
“Boom, boom, boom…”
The Japanese heavy artillery was still bombarding, and during this bombardment, the sound of the grenade explosion would automatically cause the Japanese to block.
"Yoshi! Yoshi!"
At the heavy machine gun position fifty meters outside the yard, five Japanese soldiers stood up and admired the power of the artillery. The smiles on their faces had never stopped since the beginning. They were envious of the warriors who were about to launch an attack. Under this kind of artillery bombardment, it would be extremely easy to capture the positions of the Chinese defenders.
"one two three……"
Feng E also took out a melon grenade, gestured with his hand, and then smashed it hard on his helmet!
“Dang, dang, dang…”
“Boom, boom, boom…”
Seven grenades flew into the Japanese heavy machine gun fortifications, but the noise of the grenade explosions did not alert anyone under the cover of heavy artillery!
"What? Why is there a fire there again?"
The Japanese soldiers behind pointed in the direction of the heavy machine gun fortifications in confusion, without realizing that they were being bombed!
