The trenches looked a little damp because of the accumulated water, which somewhat gave the Second Company soldiers who had just experienced the test of life and death a sense of decadence. But this was a battlefield, and any negligence would cause casualties. The physically and mentally exhausted Tang Cheng had to do it over and over again.
Walking through the trenches, he often warned the soldiers of the Second Company to be ready for battle. After encountering the night attack, Tang Cheng was thinking about the Japanese armored units he saw on the way. He did not know that the Japanese army was trying to get
A large number of tanks and aircraft had been organized at Xiaojie Ridge, but what he saw was only a part of them.
"Plane, the plane is coming." When groups of Japanese fighter planes flew in, everyone looked up at the sky as if nothing had happened. It was almost impossible to see a look of fear on anyone's face. Those who had already experienced a Japanese fighter plane raid
The Second Company was somewhat dismissive of the Japanese fighter planes that appeared above the position. Moreover, the position where the Second Company was stationed was the outermost edge of the entire flank position, and the Japanese would not regard this as the focus of their raid.
"Hide, hide." Niu Laogui, who was squatting on the ammunition box, shouted in hiss. The men of the second company picked up the branches or shrubs that had been prepared and placed them on the top of the trench. The soil piled up beside the trench had already been covered by the second company.
The people of the company were covered with weeds or camouflage. Even if the Japanese pilots opened their eyes wide, it would be difficult to find traces of the trenches. The seemingly timid behavior of the second company made the people of the 30th Army dismissive and retreat.
In the Tangcheng trenches, they were desperately digging anti-gun holes. Only by obtaining enough anti-gun holes could the Second Company's casualties be minimized when the Japanese attacked.
Before the Japanese fighter planes began to drop bombs, the rumbling sound of artillery had already sounded, and the smoke caused by the explosion of large-caliber artillery shells continued to rise on the defenders' position. The 30 officers and soldiers who had just laughed at the second company for being a coward were also at this moment
Hidden in the trenches. The pattern of high-altitude bombing drops by fighter planes from various countries in the world is very different. A dozen Japanese fighter jets roared in at a height only slightly higher than the treetops, attacking the defenders on the ground with small aerial bombs or aircraft cannons.
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Single-wing, single-engine light bombers and attack planes immediately flew in at basically the same altitude, attacking the defenders' villages and positions with ordinary aerial bombs and cannons. In just a few minutes, tons of bombs fell on the 30th Army's
The defensive position shook the ground and the soldiers in the position with an all-devouring momentum. The bunker where they were sitting in Tangcheng was directly hit by a black bomb. The huge wooden and stone structure was instantly destroyed by the violent explosion.
It collapsed, and stones and sawdust from the roof and walls were scattered into the distance with the explosion. Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the 30th Army huddled in the trenches had no choice but to pray for blessings from gods. They were now beginning to be a little envious of being sent to the outer edge of the position.
The second company.
As the Japanese fighter planes continued to drop bombs, the lightning-like fireballs and explosions almost merged into one piece on the position. When the explosion was the most intense, like the other soldiers of the Second Company in the trenches, they squatted in the anti-gun holes.
Tang Cheng stuffed his ears tightly with his hands and opened his mouth as wide as possible to reduce the burden on his eardrums. After enduring many shellings and bombings in succession, he had clearly felt that his hearing had suffered a serious decline. It was still unclear whether he could fully recover in the future.
It is unknown, but one thing that is basically certain is that if this continues, the hearing damage is likely to become permanent.
The sound of dense explosions of bombs overwhelmed everything. From the time the Japanese aircraft departed to the end of the bombing, until the returning Japanese bombers gradually left the range of the Japanese positions, not a single Japanese aircraft was seen in the sky during the whole process. Every aircraft
The army has a relatively fixed battle pattern, and the Japanese army is no exception. Not long after the plane bombing, the Japanese artillery shells came again with the same scream, and the position of the 30th Army naturally became concentrated.
The area of attack.
Tang Cheng, who had been concentrating on the failure of Japanese fighter planes to appear, took the risk to get out of the artillery hole, lying on the edge of the trench and looking forward with binoculars. In Tang Cheng's memory, the Japanese army usually used artillery attacks and infantry charges. But this
A Japanese attack was somewhat unexpected. After planes dropped bombs on the defenders' positions, they did not send out ground troops. Instead, they continued to use artillery to bombard the defenders' positions. Could it be that the Japanese army wanted to use artillery fire to directly destroy the defenders' positions?
Tang Cheng did not see the Japanese infantry appear through the telescope. He could not even find the Japanese artillery position. The range of such large-caliber field artillery had already far exceeded the sight of the telescope in Tang Cheng's hand. I don't know what the purpose was.
How was the 30th Army on the other side of the position? Tang Cheng subconsciously turned the telescope to look at the middle of the position. A large area in the middle of the position was filled with explosions of flames and smoke, and no one could be seen. Before the Japanese bombardment, there was still no sign of a human being.
Large sections of the well-organized trenches were collapsing, and the bunkers built with stone slabs and logs were also in ruins under the bombardment of the Japanese army. The military flag planted by the 30th Army on the position could no longer be found in Tangcheng.
As Tang Cheng had speculated in advance, the Japanese army did not waste their bombs and artillery shells in the position defended by the second company. Almost all the bombs and artillery shells went to the main position. Looking at the main position filled with smoke and no one could be seen, Tang Cheng
Cheng's expression was a little gloomy. All the men of the Second Company huddled in the temporarily dug anti-gun holes. Apart from Tang Cheng, there were only two or three observation posts in the trenches. Stepping on the water that reached the top of his feet, Tang Cheng held up his binoculars.
Moved more than ten meters towards the main position.
The Japanese artillery bombardment lasted for nearly half an hour before it ended. According to the Japanese army's usual tactics, the moment the artillery bombardment ended, it should be the time for the Japanese infantry to attack. However, the Japanese infantry never appeared in Tangcheng's telescope.
Figure. The shelling ended, but the Japanese infantry did not appear. The shouts of the officers began to ring out from the defenders' position. One after another, the defenders emerged from the collapsed soil. Under the command of the officers, they could find with their hands
Tools repair and fortify their positions.
Something was wrong. The Japanese army invested so much artillery fire at one time, and it was definitely not just to destroy the defenders' positions. Tang Cheng knew that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong. The answer was finally revealed.
The moment it opened, only half a moment after the Japanese artillery attack ended, a second lieutenant officer with half his face covered in blood ran over from the main position along the trench.
"The Japanese army has mobilized a large number of armored troops to try to attack our defense line. If the 2nd company is good at field combat, it can detour to the flank of the Japanese army and cooperate with the combat artillery battery to block the Japanese armored forces." What the second lieutenant officer brought was an order from the 30th Army Headquarters.
, but this order made Tang Cheng a little bit at a loss. The war was imminent, and the Second Company would be sent to the flanks of the Japanese army to look for opportunities to fight. Isn't that just treating the Second Company as cannon fodder? The Second Company, which had just over 40 people, even if it was at full strength
How many casualties can the fire cause to the Japanese troops?
"When the brothers came, the commander specifically asked me to bring 3 gold bars to the brothers of the 2nd Company. Although the money was not much, it was a little thought from our 30th Army. I also asked Company Commander Tang and the brothers to accept it.
"The lieutenant officer took out the gold bars from his pocket and handed them to Tang Cheng one after another, but Tang Cheng didn't feel the slightest bit happy in his heart. There is only one situation when giving out money on the battlefield, and that is that the 30th Army has regarded the Second Company as a death squad.
In terms of treatment, the only ones who can get rewards on the battlefield are death squads who narrowly escape death.
Tang Cheng was just about to throw the gold bars in his hand back in exchange, but was stopped by Niu Laogui who came over at some point. He followed Niu Laogui's line of sight and looked behind the second lieutenant officer. The light and heavy machine guns on the main position were unknown.
Shi had already turned the muzzle of his gun, and more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns were pointing at the Second Company. Tang Cheng, holding the gold bar in his hand, smiled, very arrogantly. Before the Japanese army launched an attack, his own people were killed first.
It was a life-and-death struggle. If it hadn't been for the destruction of the Second Company's radio station, he would never have agreed to the Second Company temporarily resting in the 30th Army's position.
"Go back and tell your military commander that the Second Company has agreed, but we still need ammunition, especially grenades and explosives. Send the ammunition and we will set off immediately." Niu Laogui pinched Tang Cheng secretly and spoke.
Asking for ammunition replenishment. He knew that the 30th Army would not let the Second Company attack alone, but it was always good to ask for more ammunition, lest the Second Company would be in dire straits due to insufficient ammunition replenishment. The Second Company had already experienced this.
deficit.
"Bring a few of your men and follow me." The second lieutenant officer only pondered for a moment before agreeing to Niu Laogui's request to replenish ammunition. Things were already like this, and there was no possibility of reversing the situation with Niu Laogui.
Tang Cheng, who looked at each other at Lao Gui, casually called a few soldiers from the Second Company, and followed the second lieutenant officer towards the main position. Tang Cheng and the others walked north along the trench for a distance, and then they saw an awkward place.
An officer wearing a cloth military cap was standing there handing out ammunition to passing soldiers.
Seeing whether the soldier is carrying a rifle or a submachine gun, he will take out the bullets wrapped in brown paper from two different boxes, but instead of giving them one by one, he will open them and distribute some to each person. Behind him there are also
There was another wooden box, which contained imitation German long-handled grenades. The submachine gunners were given two grenades each. Some riflemen were given one, and some were not given at all. Only when they got closer did Tang Cheng notice the quartermaster.
He was sitting on a wooden ammunition box, and one of his legs was gone.
The second lieutenant officer who had brought Tang Cheng and the others over walked forward alone. The officer who distributed the ammunition originally just grabbed a handful of bullets and prepared to give them to him, but the second lieutenant officer came up to him and whispered something to him. Nothing.
The officer who had lost one leg turned and stared at Tang Cheng for three or four seconds. Then he reluctantly asked a few soldiers to bring a few boxes and handed them to the second lieutenant officer, "That's all, you are all
Those who are not masters do not know how valuable things are. So many brothers need ammunition. If I don’t act more urgently, our 30th Army may have to sell off the iron and get rid of the old foundation.”