Volume 1 Deserter's Bloodbath Chapter 84 The storm is coming!
The Japanese heavy troops had arrived outside Luodian after a day of transportation, but in order to increase the suddenness of the attack, they refrained from opening fire during the day. At night, the sudden artillery bombardment made the brothers of the 11th Division in the ruins suffer terribly.
The Japanese heavy artillery bombardment was very powerful and effective, but it did not last long, less than twenty minutes. However, to the soldiers on the position, these twenty minutes seemed as long as half a lifetime, and to the brothers who died, it was a lifetime.
“Boom, boom…”
Amid the prayers of the surviving soldiers, the shaking of the earth finally stopped, and the rumbling sound slowly disappeared from their ears. The ruins filled with smoke were plowed again by heavy artillery, and the fluffy new soil mixed with broken limbs and shrapnel became new ruins.
"Those who are still alive, prepare to fight; the devils are coming!"
The officer's shouts rang out in the ruins. In front of him, countless helmets were reflecting dim light in the darkness, and they were bending over and approaching two hundred meters from the defense line.
"Install bayonets, prepare grenades, and machine gun fire!"
"Da da da……"
Above the ruins, the sound of a Czech light machine gun rang out, and the surviving machine gunner pulled the trigger.
"Puff puff……"
The Japanese soldiers who were moving forward with their backs bent fell into the ruins amid the whistling of machine gun bullets. The remaining Japanese soldiers lay down habitually, pointing their guns at the machine guns that were spewing flames in the darkness.
“Bang, bang, bang…”
"Puff puff……"
Less than two hundred meters away, the Japs' precise shooting skills paid off and the roar of the Czech machine guns stopped.
"Take the machine gun and keep shooting!"
The officer stared at the machine gunner lying in the ruins, and did not feel sad about the machine gunner's death. He continued to give orders coldly.
" Da da da……"
“Bang, bang, bang…”
When the Czech machine guns roared again, the Japanese Type 99 light machine guns also began to fire. To suppress the roaring Czech machine guns, the Japanese infantry began to crawl on the ground. As long as they were allowed to crawl over a hundred meters, they would bend down and stand up to launch a charge. More than ten seconds would be enough for them to rush to the ruins. At that time, the defenders' machine guns would become useless.
"Captain, why don't you fight? The Japs are about to charge!"
A company commander asked his battalion commander anxiously. In his opinion, the rifles with bayonets should have been fired long ago, which could at least help the machine gunners share the pressure and slow down the advance of the Japanese.
"Follow orders, the commander is here?" The battalion commander frowned. He still didn't know what his superior meant. Was he still thinking about counterattacking at this time?
"Kill him!"
The Japanese officers roared and ordered the Japanese to charge. Groups of Japanese stood up, bent over and charged under the risk of machine gun bullets.
"Grenade!"
Finally, a new order came down. The nervous brothers directly pulled the fuse of the grenade, and the grenade flew out of the ruins with white smoke...
“Boom, boom, boom…”
Hand grenades exploded in the ruins, and shrapnel, mud, sand and gravel were equally common to both sides. The Japanese were hit and also wailed in the ruins .
“Go!”
Officers waved their pistols and shouted orders to charge. Hand-to-hand combat has always been the most effective means of destroying the enemy for the Chinese army, which lacks firepower.
"Kill him!"
The Japanese who had just been bombarded with grenades did not retreat, but roared and charged forward...
“Puff, puff…”
The moment the soldiers from both sides came into contact, the sound of bayonets piercing human bodies, the sound of blood spurting, roars, and screams began to spread across the ruins...
“Wuwuwu…”
“Clatter…”
Suddenly, there was a howling sound of strong wind in the air. In the howling, raindrops as big as beans fell from the sky. In an instant, a rain curtain formed between the sky and the earth, and the sounds of fighting and roaring were completely covered up.
“Boom, boom…”
The sounds of human bodies falling into the rubble and heavy objects colliding could be heard occasionally in the rain. The attacking devils and the soldiers in the rubble were waving their rifles desperately, still fighting selflessly.
The moment the wind started, Feng E began to take off his pants, took out the rain pants from his backpack, put them on, tied the wound on his thigh up and down with a legging, then tied up his trouser legs and put on his original tattered military pants.
"Now, go!"
In the storm, Feng E waved his arms and shouted loudly, asking all the brothers to follow him. Now is a good time. If they don’t leave tonight, they will probably stay here forever.
"Remember, if you run into the devils, use this to deal with them."
Feng E carried a rifle on his back and gestured with the bayonet in his hand to remind his brothers that in such heavy rain, only face to face would they be able to tell whether it was the National Army or the Japanese. At that time, a bayonet would be more useful than a rifle.
The brothers nodded, no longer bending down, and walked through the ruins in the direction of the Zhennan 11th Division.
Marching in the ruins filled with rain and fog was difficult, but it was much better than crawling in the hail of bullets. No one, including Feng E, was curious about the flickering lights in the rain along the way. It was safer to quickly pass through the enemy-occupied area and return to the main force.
“Kill!”
"ah!"
Shouts and screams could be heard faintly in the rain. Ahead was the hand-to-hand combat area between the Japanese and the national army. In the rain, the Japanese, like the brothers of the 11th Division, had to face the enemy while fighting against the terrible ruins, not to mention the heavy rain overhead. Their physical strength was rapidly depleting.
"ah!"
Now most of the people were not standing, they were holding the little Japanese soldiers and wrestling them in the rain. At this time, the bayonet technique was not important. What was important was the street gangster-like moves, such as crotch grabbing, eye digging, ear pulling, nose biting, etc., not to mention using helmets to hit the enemy's head. The most brutal thing was that some brothers directly hit the enemy's face with their heads...
"stop!"
Feng E raised his hand and pressed it down, signaling the brothers to stop. The brothers gathered around him one by one, wanting to hear what Feng E was going to say.
"Be careful. The Japs must have a lot of machine guns in this area. Don't get shot! Pay attention to my movements!"
Feng E reminded everyone, and the brothers nodded, frowning one by one. They didn’t want to join the battlefield ahead where they didn’t know who was the enemy or us.
“Beep, beep, beep…”
The shrill sound of a copper whistle rang out, piercing through the heavy rain and echoing across the battlefield.
“Retreat, retreat, retreat …”
The Japanese officer screamed. It turned out that the Japanese couldn't stand this kind of entanglement and retreated on their own initiative...
The short and stocky Japanese soldier kicked away his fighting brothers and retreated with his teeth bared.
“Go!”
Feng E waved his hands, bent over and started running in the rain. They had just detoured more than two hundred meters to the side to avoid the battlefield.
"Chase and kill him!"
The Kuomintang officer roared and ordered his brothers to start chasing. The storm was originally a signal for a counterattack, and there would not be too many casualties if they chased the Japanese at this time.
“Boom boom boom…”
As the Japanese retreated on a large scale, their heavy machine guns opened fire, with the muzzle slightly raised to carry out blocking shots.
"Puff puff……"
The brothers, exhausted from all their strength, had just gotten up from the ground and found their rifles when the Japs had already disappeared in the rain. What followed was a barrage of bullets from their heavy machine guns. More than a dozen brothers fell powerlessly on the ruins, and the blood had just flowed out of their bodies when it was washed away by the heavy rain.
