Chapter 1521 The sunset over the lonely city (Part 2)
"Bang!"
A gunshot!
A Japanese sergeant who was walking bent-over among the ruins fell on his back, and a bloody hole suddenly appeared in the center of his brow.
The other dozen or so Japanese soldiers who followed the Japanese sergeant and were heading towards a pile of rubble ahead were so frightened that they hid in the ruins.
Even if some of the gaps were very narrow, the Japanese soldiers holding long guns and grenades on their chests were still squeezing in, fearing that they would not be able to dodge the extremely accurate bullet if they were slow for a second.
No one even checked to see if the sergeant who was shot still had a chance to be rescued.
It was impossible to survive. As long as the Chinese sharpshooter hiding in the ruins fired, no one would survive.
In fact, it would be fine if he died, but if he was not dead, his colleagues in the empire at the rear would not hesitate to shoot him and send him to see Amaterasu.
He will never be allowed to become a bait for the Chinese to take away more imperial warriors.
Because, this kind of drama has been going on continuously in the past three days. The first few people who were shot and survived were all tried one after another by their colleagues in the empire to save them. The final result was that on average, one person would have to hitch a ride on a small boat.
The fate of the unit.
Yes, in these three days, their infantry squadron lost up to a hundred people fighting for this small neighborhood 120 meters away that was almost flattened by artillery fire.
For three whole days, they continued to attack and retreat, causing more and more deaths.
No one could survive under that magic gun. After discovering that the imperial infantry had become decisive and started actively killing wounded soldiers instead of rescuing them, no one was left alive under that gun.
Yes, their opponent has always been only one person.
He was like a ghost, hiding in the ruins, appearing from a corner that they couldn't guard against, shooting a fatal shot, and then escaping.
"Baga! Why is he still alive?" Kazuo Miki, who was hiding in the trench 80 meters away, looked ahead in disbelief.
The former second lieutenant of the Japanese Signal Corps is now the captain of the 6th Infantry Battalion of the 57th Infantry Brigade of the 68th Infantry Division. The reason why he was promoted so quickly was not because of his outstanding military exploits as Second Lieutenant Kazuo Miki, but because he was ordered to rest for half a month to gain replenishment.
The officers of the 6th Infantry Brigade who re-entered the Battle of Hengyang had a combat mortality rate as high as 80%.
He, a second lieutenant of the Signal Corps, was first promoted to lieutenant and served as deputy squadron leader. A week ago, all officers above captain and above were killed in battle, so he, a lieutenant, had no choice but to be directly promoted to captain and take over the position of squadron leader.
The fact is that the current 6th Infantry Group has little to do with the 6th Infantry Group that was the first to arrive on the battlefield three months ago.
Regardless of officers or soldiers, in the current 6th Infantry Battalion, only Captain Miki Kazuo is still an officer of the original 6th Infantry Battalion, and as many as 90% of the soldiers belong to the first round of replenishment or the second round.
, added in the third round.
In other words, it is difficult for Captain Kazuo Miki to find an acquaintance in the 6th Infantry Battalion, which still has hundreds of soldiers.
Second Lieutenant Ono, who once wanted to compete with him in killing his opponents, died long ago in the second battle of the 6th Infantry Battalion, without even seeing the walls of Hengyang City.
Kazuo Miki, who used to like to keep diaries, has not written a word in his diary for two full months.
Because there is really nothing else to write about. Since entering Hengyang, all he can record is death and nothing else.
In order to help him capture this small neighborhood, the brigade specially mobilized an infantry artillery squad and two 75mm mountain guns for him. Those six artillery guns were aimed directly.
And those houses built by Chinese civilians are all made of wood and ordinary bricks, and almost all of them are broken into pieces with one shot. Who can survive under such artillery fire?
Even after conquering several blocks in the front, the brigade used this operation to kill and clear out all the Chinese hiding in dark corners.
But what Miki Kazuo didn't expect was that his infantry squadron encountered a tough situation in the ruins. Only a mysterious gunman blocked the 200th man of his infantry squadron for three days. Not only was he unable to enter this neighborhood,
We also lost nearly a hundred men.
One person actually killed a hundred of his people!
Just 10 minutes before this round of attack, Captain Miki Kazuo, who had been scolded by his immediate superior and turned pale, was finally forced to make a decisive move and sent two small teams to bear the fatal bullets of the Chinese sharpshooter and charge!
Regardless of the loss, it was the impact. He didn't believe that the Chinese sharpshooter could kill all 30 of his imperial infantry with one shot.
What's more, the 30 imperial infantry are nothing more than bait!
Behind the imperial infantry, four 70mm infantry cannons and two 75mm mountain cannons with their muzzles leveled were already waiting for the Chinese gunners to kill the imperial infantry and completely kill them with artillery fire.
Perhaps the artillery was not as accurate as the Chinese sharpshooter who could hit the head with his gun from more than 200 meters away, but the six artillery fires at once destroyed even the god.
If the Chinese don't dare to shoot, that's just right. The 30 infantrymen hid in the ruins, constantly narrowing the distance between them and the man. They were like a fishing net. Sooner or later, the Chinese hiding in the ruins would be caught in the net.
fish.
The Chinese sharpshooter obviously didn't want to be that fish, so he opened fire. In just 10 seconds, he killed 8 people. His marksmanship was amazing.
Although those imperial infantry were almost all new recruits who had just been recruited recently, they were all soldiers who had experienced the battlefield after all. They were not inexperienced, but in front of that man, they were still shot and killed as mercilessly as wooden stakes.
And Captain Miki Kazuo, who has experienced two months of bloody battles on the battlefield, is no longer Wu Xia Amon. He has also learned to be cruel long ago. He just waited for the Chinese sharpshooter to shoot the 8th person and completely determined his approximate location before ruthlessly shooting him.
He waved his hand to signal the artillery to fire.
The six artillery pieces fired for a full 5 minutes, and then stopped after almost flattening several ruins. Not to mention a person, even a small ant would probably be blown to pieces!
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Captain Kazuo Miki, who was hiding in the trench at the rear, was really overwhelmed at that moment. He couldn't understand that this was too unscientific.
If he was given a choice now, he would even rather give the unknown Chinese sharpshooter a large sum of money and beg him to leave.
What kind of bullshit city is there? It's just a garbage dump and a pile of dead people. What's the point of you guys guarding it? I've given you all my military pay and allowances over the years, why don't you just leave?
To be honest, this is really not Captain Miki Kazuo's idea.
Even Lieutenant General Yokoyama Isamu, the commander of the 11th Army, thought so. As early as half a month ago, the 11th Army no longer surrounded Hengyang City like before, but took the initiative to let go of the city that cost tens of thousands of people.
The position in Nanshan District of Hengyang City where human lives were lost.
The core idea of the so-called "Encircling Three Ques One" is to surround three sides and leave one side aside, prepare an ambush, induce the enemy to flee, and annihilate them on the move. This tactic aims to reduce consumption and casualties during the combat process,
Defeat enemies more effectively.
However, the south of the city is a mountainous area. Putting tens of thousands of Chinese here is not about annihilating the enemy in a campaign at all, but simply letting the tiger return to the mountain.
When I think about the tens of thousands of imperial colleagues who died in the mountainous position south of the city, the corpses have not yet been burned. If they had to fight with tens of thousands of Chinese people in such a place again, no imperial officer or soldier would have such courage.
But His Excellency Hengshan Yong did just that. Not only that, he also specially sent people to negotiate with the city. It is said that the negotiation conditions were extremely favorable to China. He even agreed that China would not surrender, but evacuate if it was defeated. The opening of the southern suburbs of Hengyang City was expressed first
Sincerity and willingness to have the commander of the 11th Army, His Excellency Yokoyama Isamu, personally sign the document, the war will not resume until the Hengyang garrison has left the city a hundred miles away.
And what will the Empire gain? Gain a ruin that has been completely destroyed in the war and is littered with corpses.
Even the most ignorant of war recruits would probably say, when faced with this large ruins, "What's the use of chickens?"
This sentence is very heartbreaking, but it is the fact of this war.
On the outskirts of this city, the empire has lost more than 50,000 people. Half a month after entering this ruins, it lost another 30,000 people. The 11th Army is no longer the 11th Army it once was. The veteran consumption exceeds 60%. What is the 116th Division?
, the 68th Division, the 3rd Division, and the 27th Division, whether they are the main force or not, have basically been exhausted in this battle. If they want to restore their previous combat effectiveness, they will not even think about it for a year.
Think about it.
To put it bluntly, the four divisions have been completely destroyed, and the three new divisions are not much better. In just half a month, the three lieutenant general division commanders rushed to Hengshan to supervise the battle at the Hengyang front line.
Yong Na asked for additional troops.
However, where can Isamu Yokoyama, who has already replenished two supplementary divisions, go to replenish them with soldiers? Should he use Chinese to replenish them?
If the Chinese who got the weapons didn't turn around and give them a hard fight, they themselves wouldn't believe it.
A war that cost the lives of 60,000 Imperial soldiers and seriously injured 40,000 Imperial soldiers resulted in this ruin filled with smoke and the smell of death. Do you think it’s funny?
No, the fact is, even this has not been exchanged.
The Chinese refused! They took off the white crotch cloth of an imperial lieutenant who went to negotiate, put it over his head, tied his hands, and then asked the Chinese translator to lead him out of the ruins with a rope.
That scene directly shocked the two armies fighting in the ruins. This operation was really amazing!
The returned 11th Army Chief of Staff, Naonagai Lieutenant Colonel Naonagai, a close confidant under Nagashima Nukitakeharu, told the reason why he was so humiliated. If he did not do this, the commander of the Fourth Army Regiment Tang Dao who was talking to him would kill the 100 captured imperial officers and soldiers.
They were all beheaded and built into a temple on the platform of the Central Bank.
Even if he threatened Tang Dao, he would behead hundreds of Chinese prisoners of war captured in this war in return, but Tang Dao replied: "I am going to die, and there are still so many people there, so you can
Just kill them all. Anyway, I am angry now, so I will do this. I still have a dozen of your Japs pilots in my hands. It just so happens that I also want to fly my own plane. I want to see how this gang will fare without the Zero fighter.
How far can this thing fly in the sky?"
What people are most afraid of is this kind of barefoot man. He is not even afraid of death. What else can threaten him?
For the sake of those pilots and captured imperial officers and soldiers, the Japanese Army Lieutenant Colonel had no choice but to let the Chinese insult him and walked 1,500 meters wearing his own loincloth. This is indeed a bit of perseverance.
He committed suicide on the night of his return.
The 11th Army also completely gave up on negotiating and continued to attack violently in the next half month, and then it became what it is now.
More than 10,000 people died in this large tomb that looked dying, but the sound of gunshots and explosions never stopped.
Yes, this place has been called a grave by the officers and soldiers of the Japanese 11th Army. Even they themselves have become completely numb to death.
Here, only death is the truth!
If this kind of emotion had not existed, Captain Miki Kazuo would not have been able to force the two teams to act as live baits.
But obviously, the bait was in vain. The Chinese gunman who once again killed a Japanese sergeant swallowed a large mouthful of bait, broke free from the fishing line, and backhanded Captain Miki and his half-broken infantry squadron.
fight.
‘Mindless’ was actually very tired, and his eyes could hardly see clearly ahead.
That was not caused by fatigue after only sleeping less than two hours for three days and nights, but a piece of shrapnel scratched across his eyelids.
He was very lucky. The shrapnel was like the most precise scalpel. It only scratched off the eyelids but did not damage the eyeballs.
But this caused everything he saw with his right eye to be blood red, and every time he blinked the incomplete eyelid, it was painful. This was simply the greatest torture for a sniper who needed to use his eyes.
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And this injury, to the already scarred 'No-brainer', was only a minor injury and not worth mentioning at all.
The Japanese army continued to attack him with artillery fire. Although his battlefield intuition developed on the battlefield was perceived in advance and he finally escaped, the terrible artillery fire still left many 'marks' on his body.
At least 10 pieces of shrapnel have been embedded in his body. Every time he moves, it hurts to the bone. What's more terrible is that he lost a lot of blood. If he didn't have a hemostatic bag on him and a hemostatic bag picked up from the remains of his comrades in the ruins,
The blood loss alone would have killed him.
According to the regulations of the Four-Hong Regiment, an injury like "No Brain" is already considered a serious injury and can be temporarily returned to the field hospital for treatment. On the battlefield here, the company can be notified to switch to other groups to deal with the Japanese army.
But 'Brainless' did not report to the superiors, and maintained a calm tone on the walkie-talkie to report that everything was normal.
The reason why he didn't leave was not because his uncle died in the battle here.
Seven years have passed, and "Brainless" is no longer the little soldier who gnawed carrots and killed the Japanese.
He didn't want to be an officer, but his illustrious military exploits were there. This 26-year-old veteran was already the fourth-level sergeant major of the reconnaissance company, and his military salary was the same as that of an army captain.
His uncle "Unhappy" was seriously injured in the battle of Zishan. After recovering from his injury, he returned to the army and served as captain and company commander of the supply camp. A month ago, he finally led his troops to join the battle.
But 10 days ago, Captain Mei died. The Japanese used a Type 97 tank to clear the way. Captain Mei, who led an infantry squad to fight, personally used two incendiary bottles to kill the Type 97 tank, but a Japanese hiding 300 meters away
The sniper shot him in the left chest.
Captain Mei died in the tunnel before his nephew arrived.
In order to get him back, only 6 members of his infantry squad survived until the arrival of "Brainless".
In the next 10 days, 'No Brain' and these 6 people fought off the successive attacks of three infantry squadrons in the ruins until he was the only one left.
But that’s enough!
But, he can’t die yet, he can’t kill a few more people! Otherwise, if he goes to see his uncle underground, his uncle will scold him again!
Holding back the severe pain, No Brain moved his body and hid in the depths of the ruins. Feeling the scorching heat from the shell explosion, he rolled and crawled to the next sniper point. How could Wan Jun take the general's head from it?
'Assassin's style?
If the Japanese soldiers hiding in the cracks of the ruins were like a group of groundhogs, then he was a gray mouse.
Anyway, at this time, the Chinese and Japanese were both more embarrassed and miserable than the other.
"Mei, are you, Te Liang, my soldier? I'll give you one hour. I want to see you standing in front of me. Platoon Leader Shen, who is responsible for supporting your position, has already brought his people over. You, Te Liang, are not my soldiers."
Stop being so rude to me."
When Wu Brain hid in the tunnel again, a buzzer came from the walkie-talkie asking for a call. When Wu Brain opened it, he heard the scolding of Lu Sanjiang, the commander of the reconnaissance company.
"Okay, okay, company commander, just wait. I'll show up on time in an hour. Don't tell me, the stupid Japanese are bombarding me again. I have to move quickly." Brainless nodded repeatedly.
"You idiot, don't lie again..." Lu Sanjiang's face was full of anger. Just as he was cursing, he heard the sound of communication interruption on the walkie-talkie.
Lu Sanjiang, who had already worn the rank badge of major, no longer looked angry, but was filled with bitterness.
By now, his reconnaissance company had only one-third of the manpower it had when it arrived in Hengyang. Those 200 people were either killed in the battle or seriously injured and sent to the field hospital. Even though he never wanted his old comrades to leave, the war was over.
out of his imagination.
The Battle of Hengyang is destined to be a flesh-and-blood mill until now. Both the Chinese and Japanese armies can only invest their officers and soldiers into it almost numbly until they have no more left to throw!
The Japanese army could not retreat because they had already suffered huge losses. If they retreated, their previous investment would be in vain.
The Chinese soldiers are even more unable to retreat. They are already alone. This tomb is their last position. Where should they retreat?
Today, among the various units of the Hengyang garrison, there is only one difference between early death and late death.
But even if he knew this, Lu Sanjiang still hoped that his brothers would live a little longer. He had long heard from the phone call that "No brain" was injured. Even if he had been hiding it and pretending, how could he hide it and stay together day and night for several years?
Where are your brothers?
"Commander Fang, commander of the regiment, when will the reinforcements that the man above mentioned arrive?" Even though Lu Sanjiang's nerves had been tempered for a long time, looking back at the densely packed remains of the Chinese army in the tunnel, he thought about returning
The brothers fighting on the front line finally couldn't help but cry out in sorrow deep in their hearts.
"Military seat, when will the reinforcements arrive?" In the command post of the 10th Division, the Army Lieutenant General with a bandage on his upper body looked at Fang Xianjue who came to see him, with tears streaming down his face, and asked.
The 10th Preliminary Division has been reduced to ten, and even a full infantry battalion cannot be assembled.
PS: I'm really sorry, because I stayed in Chengdu for an extra day and just rushed back to Xiangyang last night. I only have time to update the code today. I will update it in the next few days. The extras will be completed this month. The new military book should be 10
I will meet with you at the end of the month or November.
