The Japanese army was repulsed. The first thing the Japanese army did was to send down the soldiers who were killed or injured and could no longer fight. Between the living and the dead, it was natural to respect the living first and crawl back into the trenches.
After that, Tang Cheng, who was exhausted, kept squatting in the bunker. In fact, no one in the second company asked him to help carry the corpses and wounded. Tang Cheng, the smallest in the company, dared to follow the counterattack and fight with the oncoming Japanese troops. This was already
To everyone's surprise, no one thought of bothering the already pale Tang Cheng.
Subconsciously taking out the two empty magazines that had been drained of bullets, Tang Cheng gathered the pistol bullets that had fallen in the trench together and began to fill his own magazines with bullets. He wiped and maintained the weapons to ensure spare magazines.
There are bullets in the gun chamber at all times. This is something Tang Cheng must do when he is free, and it has become a routine in Tang Cheng. It took Tang Cheng a lot of time to replace the magazine with three rounds of bullets.
Fill all five of your magazines with bullets and put them back into the cowhide ammunition pouch.
When Liu Yangyang took over the first battalion, there were only more than 150 soldiers left in the entire battalion. After repelling the Japanese attack, the already small battalion became even more difficult because there were no more soldiers who could continue to fight.
There will be more than 110 people. Just to blow up the Japanese tank, the first battalion lost at least 5 soldiers and a heavy machine gun. In order to kill as many Japanese troops as possible during the counterattack, Liu Yangyang even did not hesitate to send out equipment.
The second company of the aircraft participated in the battle, and the second company also lost three veterans.
The Japanese attack was repulsed with difficulty, but it was just the beginning of the nightmare for all the soldiers in the first battalion position. Only after the Japanese corpses in the position were cleaned up, a large group of black spots appeared in the sky to the northeast of the position, and the defense line
The officers and veterans shouted one after another, calling on their men and the soldiers around them to prepare for air strikes. The troops actually guarding the city gate were better. At least they had two anti-aircraft guns, but the soldiers of the first battalion could only rely on
The few light and heavy machine guns provided them with crude anti-aircraft firepower.
The black spots in the sky quickly approached the first battalion's defense line, and the dull buzzing sound from the plane made people feel uneasy from the bottom of their hearts. The corpse collection team had just carried away Niu Wazi's body, and Tang Cheng didn't even get to see Niu Wazi's final moments.
At a glance, Tang Cheng, who was feeling dull, was sitting in the bunker. Suddenly he raised his head and saw those dark Japanese planes swooping in from an altitude of hundreds of meters. These damn Japanese fighter planes were just a bunch of people coming to prey on corpses.
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"Hidden! Hidden!" A deafening roar rang in his ears. Before Tang Cheng could react, his arm was pulled hard, and his weak body suddenly fell to the ground helplessly.
He immediately lay down in the bunker. He turned around and saw that Zhou Fuzheng, who had disappeared just now, glared at him angrily, then crawled past him, shouting to other soldiers of the second company to take cover.
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Tang Cheng was still about to turn over and get up, but suddenly he heard a strange scream coming from outside the trench. Because of his leaning posture, his eyes naturally turned to the sky. He saw a Japanese fighter plane roaring past the bunker.
And just a few seconds later, multiple Japanese fighter planes roared past the defense line one after another. At such a low altitude, not only the plaster ball logo and wheels under the wings were clearly visible, but even the rivets on the fuselage could be vaguely distinguished.
, and the pylons on their belly and under the wings that previously held bombs were now empty.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Explosions of landslides and ground cracks continued to shake the earth. There was an almost continuous sound of explosions. The smoke was even stronger than the Japanese artillery attack just now. Not to mention the Japanese soldiers on the defense line.
He kept standing, even when he was lying down, he was almost knocked off the ground. The continuous and fierce impact made Tang Cheng feel like his internal organs were about to burst. He covered his ears tightly with both hands and opened his mouth desperately, but his eardrums still remained.
He was shaken by the explosion and was in pain.
The dust and sand splashed up by the explosion obscured Tang Cheng's sight. They flew high into the sky one after another. Under the influence of gravity, they returned to the ground with strong kinetic energy and hit Tang Cheng's helmet.
You can imagine the pain that fell directly on your body. The landslide and tsunami-like explosion lasted for three to five minutes. There were already more than ten Japanese fighter planes flying over the trenches.
Anti-aircraft guns roared non-stop, but had no obvious effect.
No one could be seen walking in the trench. In fact, Tang Cheng kept his eyes closed most of the time. Only during the brief intervals when the intensity of the explosion weakened slightly did he raise his head with difficulty to look at the surrounding situation. Wherever he could see, large sections of
The trenches have collapsed, and the soldiers wearing German-style helmets with large ear rims are lying down or lying down, or they are curled up like hedgehogs and hiding in the bunkers like Tangcheng.
Just like this, he persisted tenaciously. When the earthquake on the ground gradually weakened, Tang Cheng's ears were deafened. Apart from the continuous buzzing, he could no longer hear any other sounds. Looking along the trench, his head and body were covered with blood.
The soldiers who were covered with soil were getting up one by one. Resisting the strong pain in his body, Tang Cheng stood up with difficulty and looked for his weapons in the floating soil beside him. In order to cope with the air raid, Tang Cheng's weapon
Mauser rifles and rifles were covered under floating soil.
Tang Cheng was muttering almost unconsciously. It took him a full minute to find his rifle and pistol from the floating soil. The ringing in his ears seemed to have weakened a bit, but his hearing was still not very good, but
When he poked his helmeted head out of the trench, he was immediately shocked by the sight before him. Tang Cheng's scalp was numb when he saw the dense bullet holes around the position. The winding trench was divided due to multiple collapses.
Come on, someone must have been buried below, because Tang Cheng saw more than one person struggling to use the tools in their hands to dig the collapsed trench in an attempt to rescue the people below.
But now it seems that there is no time left for those people to clean up and rescue, because in the open area opposite the position, hundreds of Japanese soldiers are pouring in like a colony of ants. Looking from a distance, the khaki colors of the Japanese soldiers are
The military uniform was like a raging yellow storm. Looking at the attacking Japanese troops, Tang Cheng's heart was completely empty. Not only him, there were many soldiers in the trenches who also stared blankly.
The Japanese soldiers who rushed over did not know what to say.
"Get ready to fight, the Japanese army is coming, the Japanese army is coming." Hoarse shouts spread across the battlefield at an alarming speed, but many soldiers like Tang Cheng who were temporarily deafened by the bombing were indifferent. If the soldiers next to him hadn't pushed
After giving himself a try, Tang Cheng might not have noticed that the Japanese fighter planes had circled back and were preparing to straf along the trenches. A dozen Japanese fighter planes swooped in at high speed from an altitude of several hundred meters, and their graceful movements were as if they were soaring in the sky.
The nine-sky eagles spread their wings, and the weak firepower rising from the ground could no longer stop them from swooping and strafing.
Tang Cheng had experienced the power of aircraft strafing more than once on his way to Nanjing from Shanghai. Those refugees who were treated as live targets by Japanese pilots had their faces torn to pieces by Japanese machine cannons, and those panicked mules
Horses were also beaten to bloody gourds by the cannons of Japanese fighter planes, especially the children who were taken by their families to flee. They also died under such cannons. Tang Cheng, with anger in his heart, could only stare blankly at the sky.
The rifle and gun in his hand were not enough to deal with the swooping down Japanese fighter planes, so the most he could do now was to vent his hatred with words.
The swooping Japanese fighter planes blew past the first battalion's position like wind. The wings of these Japanese fighter planes soon appeared with leaping gun flames, and dense bullets formed a barrage and rushed towards the entire position, like a huge thunderstorm.
For a moment, Tang Cheng felt that he would be doomed, but he still subconsciously held his rifle and shrank to the root of the trench wall. When countless bullets plopped into the soil or human bodies, Tang Cheng, who closed his eyes tightly, felt
He was like a dead leaf shivering in the wind, yet he miraculously survived without any damage.
The trembling Tang Cheng regained his hearing unknowingly. When a soldier moving along the trench died in front of him, Tang Cheng gave up the idea of getting up to observe the enemy's situation. The battle continued, and the machine guns on the battlefield also
The sound was still ringing, and Tang Cheng was still huddled in the corner of the trench holding his rifle. The body that had been torn into two pieces by the machine gun bullets fell at Tang Cheng's feet.
For people in war, death can sometimes be a relief, but the living still have to fight for survival. After turning the defensive position of the first battalion into ruins, the satisfied Japanese fighter planes finally left.
While the officers and veterans were rushing around, heads wearing German helmets began to appear one after another in the camp of the battalion that had managed to escape. Most of the soldiers were nervous and frightened, but they had to pretend to be indifferent and raise their guns.
Aiming at the approaching Japanese troops.
"Get up, the kid's plane has already left. Are you hiding here waiting to be captured by the Japanese?" Zhou Fu, who appeared again, vigorously pulled Tang Cheng out of the corner of the trench, and then took Tang Cheng away.
He picked up the fallen rifle and returned it to Tang Cheng. Seeing that Tang Cheng didn't seem to be injured, Zhou Fu felt relieved and took out two rifle cartridge bridges and threw them to Tang Cheng, "Check the chamber of your rifle and load it."
Fire as soon as the bullets are ready, and save your life, too many of us have died in the second company."
After being dragged around by Zhou Fulian, Tang Cheng, who had been dumbfounded, regained some energy. He looked at Zhou Fu's leaving figure, and tried his best to sit up against the trench and pick up the rifle and rifle at his feet.
Danqiao. "God bless!" This was the first time that Tang Cheng sincerely praised God. He recited it silently in his heart. Tang Cheng crossed the corpse on the ground and leaned on the trench to raise his Mauser rifle.
Aiming at the Japanese troops in front of the position.