Chapter 261 Street Fighting
After entering the city, the Second Battalion extended along the main road to the city. The large army had just run halfway, and suddenly saw that the road ahead was chiseled out of a broken opening about two meters wide. There was no big obstacle to the breaking. The recess was less than half a meter, and the soldiers could still cross it. However, the scout noticed that there was a lot of filling in the recess of the broken opening, and the thick smell of kerosene came to the nose.
"Wait, wait." The leading soldier immediately squatted down and waved his hand to signal the soldiers behind to stop advancing.
"What's going on?" Lian Wenlong, deputy battalion commander of the Second Battalion, ran over and asked.
"Sir, this is a trap. We just step in and can ignite the break if we shoot a bullet from anywhere." The vanguard quickly reported.
Lian Wenlong looked at the two ends of the broken entrance, and one end was directly drilled into a room next to the street, and the other end reached an alley intersection. At this time, he suddenly found a figure swaying in front of the window of the room, and immediately realized that something was wrong. The Second Battalion was still stubbornly resisted when attacking the East City Wall, but when they entered the city, all the Gui soldiers who fled from the East City Wall disappeared. They had not encountered any resistance so far, and it can be seen that there had been ambush in the city.
"Be careful, there is an ambush in the house." He shouted immediately and hurriedly looked for cover with his people.
At this moment, gunfire sounded when the suspicious house was heard. The shadow of enemies appeared on other houses on both sides of the street, launching fierce attacks on the Guangdong soldiers who were still in the middle of the avenue. The Second Battalion fought too smoothly at the beginning, and the morale of the army was in an inflated state. Now it was suddenly ambushed. Before many soldiers could react, they were immediately beaten in a hurry. There were enemies on both sides of the buildings, and the Guangdong soldiers did not even have the place to look for cover. There was obvious trap in front of them, leaving them with only back.
Lian Wenlong was very angry and shouted: "Blow me one by one with grenades! Quick!"
While shouting, he took out a wooden grenade, pulled it and waited for two seconds, and then stuffed it into a window above his head. A "boom" sounded, and a burst of smoke rushed out of the window with countless debris.
"What the hell are you still standing there? rush in!" Lian Wenlong cursed at a soldier squatting on the ground beside him.
The soldier did not dare to shrink back, stood up and ran to the door of the house that had just been blown by a grenade, kicked open the wooden door, and rushed in with a Winchester shotgun. There was only a muffled sound of "bang", and the shotgun beat a wounded Gui soldier who was falling to the ground into a hornet's nest. He quickly loaded it again, and then searched one by one in one room. When he entered the room where the deputy battalion commander had just thrown the grenade, he was immediately frightened by the scene in front of him. He saw two bloody corpses on the messy ground, one was a woman and the other was a child.
It turns out that there are not only ambushing in the houses, but also ordinary people who have not had time to escape!
At this time, Lian Wenlong dragged an injured soldier back into the house to hide. Two Guangdong soldiers followed in and leaned against the window and shot at the opposite room. Lian Wenlong shouted into the house: "Sanshui, Sanshui, have the room checked?"
Sanshui hesitated for a while, not knowing how to answer.
Lian Wenlong came over, and when he saw the body of the mother and son, his face suddenly turned pale.
"Sir, just now... the grenade... exploded them to death..." Sanshui said with some trembling.
Lian Wenlong was silent for a long time, finally sighed, took out a serious face and said, "Don't fucking mother-in-law and mother, this is war, war will kill people. Hurry up and go out with me to continue fighting!"
Sanshui had no choice but to nod, turn around and leave.
Most of the soldiers of the Guangdong Army are still too young. Although they have experienced some battles, there are still many scenes that have never been seen on the battlefield. As the first generation of Guangdong Army, they can only survive step by step on iron and blood to become real soldiers.
The Second Battalion was strongly blocked at the fault, and the kerosene in the fault was also ignited by stray bullets. The fire instantly formed a fire, and the two-meter-wide gully suddenly turned into a fire dragon entrenched in the middle of the street. The flame was almost two meters high. Because the span was too long, it was impossible for the Guangdong soldiers to rush over. Both sides occupied the eaves and the alleys fought, and they fell into a stalemate. As the Gui army hidden in the city gradually gathered, the Guangdong army was even surrounded.
The battalion commander Lin Guangli gathered a team at the East City Gate and prepared to enter the city to support the second battalion. Shortly after setting off, he encountered a communications soldier sent by the second battalion to contact. The communications soldier reported the situation of the second battalion and asked the first battalion to quickly detour behind the enemy and broke the ambush circle, otherwise the two battalions would have to be dragged alive to the broken entrance.
Lin Guangli pondered for a moment and decided to transfer a heavy machine gun from the Second Company into the city, seize a commanding height, suppress the enemies who were ambushing in the houses, and at the same time, he personally led the team to avoid the main road and steadily clear the enemies in the city from other directions.
The heavy machine gun was quickly clamped up in a favorable position, and the vitality of the Guangdong Army suddenly increased to a higher level.
The Second Battalion received firepower assistance and the situation improved suddenly. It quickly stabilized its formation. Under the cover of heavy machine guns, the Second Battalion began to conduct appropriate assaults, taking advantage of the characteristics of the Gui army scattered ambush in the city to slowly advance the offensive and pull out the enemy's strongholds one by one. The heavy machine guns moved along the second battalion, and the infantry and machine guns took care of each other, gradually grasping the situation. The main force gave up the attack on the main road and moved forward by detouring the residential area, but a platoon of people remained behind to defend the cutter and waited for the kerosene at the cutter to burn out.
When Lin Guangli's troops entered the city, they did not follow the footsteps of the Second Battalion and directly chose to leave the main road and attack from the surrounding small intersections. The Gui army had long set up ambush in various areas with dense residential buildings in the city, so the first battalion was very slow. When they finally reached a small intersection, the window of a two-story building opposite suddenly opened, and a Tsarist Russian M1905 heavy machine gun poked out the muzzle, and the flames were spewed out.
Several Guangdong soldiers rushing in front fell to the ground. If the guards had not pounced on Lin Guangli without hesitation, he would have been the first senior officer to be killed in this battle. Lin Guangli quickly crawled to a corner on the side, and shouted to the soldiers behind: "Hurry up and hide, there are heavy machine guns! Find a place to hide, hurry!"
When the Guangdong soldiers heard the sound of heavy machine guns, their first reaction was to seek cover. A heavy machine gun in the Gui army blocked the intersection and quickly blocked the entire intersection. The soldiers who were originally densely connected to the alley were swept away in a blink of an eye, rushing to hide in the nearest house one by one, avoiding the exposure of the heavy machine guns.
The Gui Jun heavy machine gun ceased, but the machine gunner was vigilantly observing the intersections behind the bulletproof guard. As long as he found someone exposed a little of his body, he immediately sent more than a dozen bullets crazy.
A Guangdong soldier complained: "Our heavy machine gun was transferred to the Second Battalion for use. Now, hundreds of people were blocked by a heavy machine gun here."
Lin Guangli reached out to suck the soldier and cursed: "Idiot, even if we have heavy machine guns now, it's useless. Before you can get the heavy machine gun up, the other party has already sent the man and gun directly to heaven with one round. Idiot."
The soldier said aggrievedly: "Sir, then, what should I do now?"
Chapter completed!