The wife, who was not beautiful but gentle, was lying half-naked by the courtyard door. The once lively and lovely son had a split brain and fell to death in the courtyard!
This was the last scene of home that Cheng Dakui, who had just returned from shopping in town, saw.
He went crazy. He picked up a hoe and wanted to chase the Japanese soldiers who had left the village, but was stopped by the remaining villagers in the village.
The crazy Cheng Dakui sat in the yard and stayed with his deceased wife and children for three days and nights. During those three days, there was no water or rice. He wanted to die and wanted to accompany his wife and children to that cold world. He was afraid that they would be afraid.
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In the end, it was the only remaining uncle in the village who woke him up. The hatred of killing his wife and children was irreconcilable, and not seeking revenge but seeking death was just a coward's choice.
Cheng Dakui buried his wife and children, left his hometown and became a refugee. He wanted to join the army, but because of his thin stature and extremely poor appearance, even the army refused to accept him.
Until he met the Si Xing Regiment and became one of the 500 recruits.
He was thin and not strong enough, but he kept holding his breath. If others stood in a military posture for two hours, he would stand for three hours, and if he threw grenades for an hour, he would throw an extra half hour.
Active training may not have any effect in a short period of time, but all his efforts were not in vain. He became one of the 300 recruits brought to the battlefield.
To be honest, the sudden blazing gunshots and explosions were completely different from the training ground. I don’t know how many recruits were so frightened that they peed their pants at that moment. No matter how the veteran squad leader screamed, at least half of them were lying in the trenches.
Inside, the grenade was thrown out cautiously. The distance was only a dozen meters at most. Not only did it not hit the Japanese, it also blocked the sight of the infantry who were shooting wildly.
Cheng Daquina was frightened for a moment. He was afraid that he would be hit by a shot like a recruit not far from him and rolled in the trench in pain. But when he saw with his own eyes a Japanese soldier was blown up by a grenade, he flew two or three meters high.
, the moment even his legs were blown away, the switch in his brain seemed to be turned on.
In a daze, he saw his son who was thrown to death and his wife who was stabbed to death with a bayonet.
He stood up from the trench like crazy, firmly and powerfully pulled the fuse of the grenade that had unscrewed the cap beside him, and threw it out.
All he had to do was kill two Japs and he would avenge his wife and children, and his service as a soldier would not have been in vain.
The battlefield is like this, the more afraid you are, the faster you may die!
In less than 40 seconds, Cheng Dakui, who was crazy, threw 10 grenades in one go. Almost every grenade exploded 35 meters away.
Of course, the power of grenades cannot be compared with mortar shells, but the damage radius is also up to two or three meters. The reaction of the Japanese infantry was already very fast. After being hit, the Japanese infantry who were not killed or injured quickly left the road and rolled into the ground on both sides of the dirt road.
Most of them were able to avoid the blazing rain of bullets by crawling on the ground in the grass and reducing the impact surface. But in the face of such long-handled grenades that kept falling from the sky, they could only watch helplessly being exploded.
Cheng Dakui saw with his own eyes that the grenade he threw blew up at least five or six Japanese soldiers. Not only did he get back what he lost for his wife and children, he also made money.
"Hui! Tian'er! I've avenged you." Cheng Dakui's tears finally fell down his face.
"Dakui, good job. This box of grenades is yours. Keep throwing grenades for me. I will give you credit after the war!" A hand slapped Cheng Dakui hard on the shoulder.
Cheng Dakui turned his head and saw that it was the usually stern veteran squad leader. Now his face was full of smoke, his eyes were bloodshot, and his voice was almost hoarse.
Before he could nod, a whole box of grenades was carried by two soldiers and placed next to Cheng Dakui. The veteran patted the thin recruit in front of him on the shoulder, bent down and left.
The veteran was very anxious. He had a recruit class of 25 people and allocated nearly 300 grenades. However, in the past minute, less than 60 grenades were thrown, and many of them exploded more than 20 meters away, which had no effect at all.
In summary after the war, he, the squad leader, cannot escape the blame.
Fortunately, he was right about the little recruit who usually trained the hardest. Facing the hail of bullets from the Japanese counterattack, one person threw 10 grenades, and the distance was very far. Not to mention he was the best among 300 recruits, just 100%.
None of the ninety-year-old veterans are as good as him.
If these idiots are all weaklings, they might as well die here!
"Throw them all hard at me. Anyone who dares to cheat on me and show off his strength is not using any Japanese bullets. I will enforce military law for you now!" The furious veteran held the shell gun and stared at the recruits with red eyes. 200
Supervising the battle in Domi's trenches.
Although the new recruits were afraid of the bullets fired by the Japanese troops on the opposite side, they were even more afraid of the veteran squad leader who was usually extremely strict. They knew that this squad leader had always been true to his word. He said that enforcing military law was not as simple as just verbally speaking.
'The lesser of two evils!' This principle is the simplest. The recruits can only grit their teeth to encourage themselves and throw grenades forward.
Of course, courage alone cannot stop bullets, and the casualties of new recruits will also increase.
This is also a process that new soldiers must go through to become veterans. It is not about experiencing the battlefield, but walking on the edge of death!
No matter how much you talk on the training ground, it doesn't matter at this moment.
If you are lucky, you can become a veteran from a new recruit; if you are unlucky, you will always be a new soldier!
This is just an insignificant microcosm of the battlefield, where bravery and cowardice, survival and death are vividly displayed!
If the recruits of the Si Xing Regiment are still struggling between bravery and cowardice, and the grenades they need to throw are far from expected, then the veterans are completely different. They carry out Tang Tuanzuo's orders extremely resolutely.
Before the battle, 7 infantry companies and guard companies were all equipped with continuous firearms, and 300 automatic rifles, 340 submachine guns, and 600 shell guns were fully distributed to each infantryman. The requirement for them was that within 10 minutes,
Drown the Japanese with bullets.
Not counting light and heavy machine guns, the 1,250 infantrymen alone carried nearly 150,000 rounds of ammunition. Normally, this level of ammunition consumption would be enough for an infantry brigade to fight for a whole day, but this time, Tang Tuanzuo's
The order is, give me the answer within an hour at the latest. If you still can't get it done, then do it again.
In order to implement Tang Tuanzuo's intention of covering the fire, the baggage company responsible for staying in front of the Yellow River Bridge made two trips with packhorse carts overnight. It had 400,000 rounds of various types of ammunition, and various types of artillery shells even destroyed the entire family's property.
All emptied.
Tang Tuanzuo was not such a prodigal originally. Perhaps he was irritated by Tu Feiyuan's pursuit. Not to mention taking out the ammunition he had just replenished from the Northeast Army's secret arsenal, he even planned to give it to the 22nd Army and the 129th Army.
All the division's ammunition was used.
Looking at that posture, Chief of Staff Zhuang Da had the illusion that the Tang regiment was going to empty out all the ammunition in one battle, and then the whole regiment could run away lightly.
He was right to think so. Tang Dao did feel that the weight of the Four Lines Regiment was too heavy. If the 14th Division chased it like a mad dog, then the ammunition that they had worked so hard to transport might become the Japanese's.
The members of the Four Corps would also suffer huge losses, so it would be better to put them all on the Japanese.
The battle of the 2nd Infantry Regiment was actually based on this strategic guiding ideology.
Tang Dao's decision didn't matter. The two infantry brigades of the 2nd Infantry Regiment in the encirclement were really in bad luck.
On the 1,500-meter-long front, up to 20,000 rounds of bullets were flying almost every minute. The infantry fired an average of 10 rounds of bullets per minute. What about the nearly 100 light and heavy machine guns in total?
If it is condensed, it means that there will be more than a dozen bullets flying in a one-meter space. Anyone who dares to raise his head may be torn to pieces by the crazy flow of bullets.
In the first ten seconds, the Japanese army suffered at least 500 casualties due to this crazy flow of metal bullets. The remaining Japanese infantrymen lying in the grass did not have much chance to fight back. Most of them were killed.
He was pinned down in the grass and couldn't even lift his head.
The Japanese infantry were completely stunned for at least a minute.
As soldiers of the 14th Division, they were not frightened by being ambushed by the Chinese, but by the terrifying intensity of Chinese firepower.
In fact, such a firepower density, not to mention that they have never experienced it, is extremely rare on the battlefield between Germany and Mao Xiong that is about to break out. In terms of bullets, it is extremely rare at the same scale.
But that's just the initial mentality.
The mood of the Japanese infantry is basically divided into four stages: confusion, waiting, pain, and despair!
The Japanese infantry may not be without luck after they wake up from their confusion. The Chinese should be the legendary Cheng Yaojin's three axes. Looking at the entire Asia, no army can last forever with this kind of firepower consumption. Maybe they have to wait for a while.
They would be unsustainable.
So, they waited, but what they waited for was continuous firepower and countless grenades falling.
Some of those things explode when they hit the ground, some wait for a few seconds before exploding, and some are far away and some are close. There is no pattern at all. No matter where you are, there is a chance of being bombed.
All battlefield evasion tactics are useless in front of this thing.
If you want to live, you can only rely on luck!
An elite Japanese veteran who could have easily killed ten people in a field battle could only watch helplessly as a smoking grenade landed one meter beside him on such a battlefield, then exploded, and then he was killed.
The air wave was blown several meters away!
That feeling of powerlessness is really painful.
It was not that there were no veterans who fought back. There were at least dozens of Japanese veterans who pressed their bodies close to the ground, saw dark blue shadows with only the corner of their eyes, and then fired, hitting the target!
But soon, they will be suppressed by more violent bullets, either being hit by bullets, or losing their lives due to subsequent grenade fragments.
According to statistics, within three minutes of the war, more than half of the more than 1,800 people in the two infantry brigades of the Japanese army were lost in battle. Among the 900 people, about one-third died from bullet penetration wounds, but only 10% died from grenade fragments.
Accounted for two-thirds.
Tang Daoding's fire suppression and grenade killing tactics were more than half successful.
Of course, of these 900 people, only about 500 are actually infantrymen, and the remaining 400 are mostly heavy machine gunners and artillerymen.
Yes, compared with the blows suffered by the two heavy machine gun squadrons, the Japanese infantrymen who relied on luck to survive in the grass were living in paradise.
The two heavy machine gun squadrons are treated very well. They basically have pack horses to help transport heavy machine guns, ammunition and other equipment, so the goals are obvious.
From the moment they entered the battlefield, the grenadiers responsible for besieging the Japanese troops on the dirt road almost all focused on them, or the two machine gun batteries of the 1st and 2nd Battalions.
Yes, two infantry brigades of the Japanese army entered the encirclement, and those responsible for attacking them were also two infantry battalions of the Fourth Line Regiment.
The first battalion is led by deputy commander and battalion commander Lei Xiong. On the left side of the dirt road, it has two infantry companies and a machine gun company. In addition, it is equipped with the 9th company of the third battalion and 150 recruits. The second battalion is led by the battalion commander Guo Shouzhi.
Sit in command, on the right side of the dirt road, with two infantry companies and a machine gun company under your command, as well as a regimental security company, plus 150 recruits;
In addition to the reinforcement of heavy machine guns, the two machine gun batteries also had an increase in mortars. However, they were expanded by transferring backbones from the artillery battery in Pangdahai a month ago. The artillery level was originally not as good as that of the original artillery battery.
Therefore, Tang Dao ordered that unless there were special combat needs, the mortar groups located 500 meters away on both sides of the road should not fire easily.
It's not terrible if you are wrong by more than ten meters, but if you are wrong by thirty or forty meters, your brothers will be blown up.
However, the heavy machine gun squadrons of the Japanese army were the focus of care. Both the chief officers, Lei Xiong and Guo Shouzhi, realized that if the two heavy machine gun squadrons of the Japanese army were allowed to set up crane guns, the casualties would definitely be greater than the number of people who might be accidentally injured.
These two men, one from the 88th Division and the other from the 67th Army, are both tough men who have experienced the battlefield of mountains of corpses and seas of blood. If the lives of ten people were exchanged for the survival of a hundred people, they would never frown.
The machine gun companies of the two battalions were ordered to fire all mortars at the Japanese heavy machine guns on the dirt road.
Of course, in order to prevent accidental damage, all gunners who adjust the range of mortars must be veterans, otherwise they would rather not participate in the battle.
Therefore, when the red signal flares hit the sky, the two machine gun companies had about 10 mortars aimed at the two heavy machine gun squadrons, and the number of grenades bombarding them was as high as 30.
grenade
That intensity of firepower can be imagined with your heels.
If we simply say that within three minutes of the battle, the casualty rate of the two heavy machine gun squadrons exceeded 80%, it may not be enough to explain the intensity of firepower required to take care of them.
According to post-war statistics, all the pack horses of the two heavy machine gun squadrons were frightened and jumped out of the grass, and all of them were killed. At the speed of the frightened horses, the farthest did not reach ten meters in front of the trenches of the Fourth Army Regiment.
The two heavy machine gun squadrons may not have fired more than 200 bullets before the entire army was wiped out.
That should be the first unit to be destroyed by the Japanese infantry brigade, but their colleagues will not last long and will soon be reunited with them at Amaterasu.
By the tenth minute of the siege, the Japanese soldiers' mentality had changed from pain to despair.
Because the imaginary reinforcements were blocked.
Ishiguro Sadzo was not a fool, and the last infantry group that followed his regiment headquarters was not a fool either.
The next second after shouting that the Chinese were crazy, Ishiguro Sadzo issued a military order to reinforce the front line.
The 3rd Infantry Brigade deployed all four infantry squadrons and a heavy machine gun squadron under its command, with nearly a thousand troops.
Of course, they would no longer stupidly stay on the dirt road with obvious targets and advance to the battlefield hundreds of meters away. All four infantry squadrons were scattered in the grass in the wilderness and rushed towards the battlefield at high speed.
Behind them were 4 mountain cannons, 4 infantry cannons and 6 rapid-fire cannons that had already begun setting up artillery.
In just 5 minutes, they advanced more than 400 meters, and they were approaching the battlefield with more than 200 meters to go.
But this 200 meters became an insurmountable distance for the Japanese Third Infantry Battalion.
Because there was an infantry battalion blocking their way.
That's Leng Feng's third camp!
Li Jijin's 7th company was on the left, Luo Xingbang's 8th company was on the right, and Mo Songzi's 3rd machine gun company was 50 meters behind the two infantry companies, with a lateral distance of more than 1,000 meters from the nearly vertical trenches on the dirt road.
If the total length of trenches on both sides of the road is more than 4,000 meters, and there are second-line trenches in some special locations, the trenches dug and camouflaged by the fourth row at night can exceed 6,000 meters.
From the arrival of the Fourth Infantry Regiment to the arrival of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, the interval actually only lasted 7 hours. This was an almost impossible project to complete.
But the Fourth Army Regiment was completed. In addition to the nearly 2,000 people who were risking their lives, the engineer company of the New Eighth Division who volunteered to march with the Fourth Army Regiment was also almost exhausted and vomiting blood.
Sweat more before the battle, and bleed less during the battle.
The two infantry companies lurked in the camouflaged trenches until the observation post fired the first shot with a shell gun. The violent bullets tore up even the waist-deep weeds, in vain of the human body.
Of course the Japanese soldiers were vigilant, and they also bent down when they advanced, even if their faces were scratched by weed blades and almost disfigured, but life is much more important than that, isn't it?
Moreover, the distance between them is wide. The distance between the four infantry squadrons distributed on both wings is at least more than 3 meters!
But even so, at least nearly a hundred people fell under the first wave of attacks.
The reason is very simple, because Leng Feng's third battalion also transferred an infantry company to the first battalion, and they were also responsible for the concurrent task of blocking Japanese reinforcements.
Tang Tuanzuo, who was completely determined to empty out the ammunition, frantically prepared 22 heavy machine guns for Mo Songzi's machine gun battery. They were not Maxims, but Type 92 captured from the Japanese army in previous battles. In addition to the original 6 Maxims, Mo
Songzi has 28 heavy machine guns.
Heavy machine guns are not rifles and can be operated by just anyone. In order to maintain the continuity of the heavy machine gun firepower, Leng Feng almost all the machine gunners from each infantry squadron were transferred to Mo Songzi's machine gun battery.
As for the light machine guns of each squad, naturally they can only be used temporarily by the squad leaders. They can use them if they are comfortable. If not, they should use their own semi-automatic or submachine guns or shell guns!
The former sergeant machine gun shooter may have never commanded so many heavy machine gun volleys. When he roared "Hit me!", the trill of his little tongue made people almost mistakenly think that he was the one who was being beaten.
Even if it is distributed on a defense line of nearly a thousand meters, the firepower intensity of a heavy machine gun sweeping across an average of 30 meters is also terrifying. The firepower intensity of the cliff is not weaker than the firepower intensity of two infantry battalions surrounding the core area of the Japanese army.
At this time, it was not yet bright, and the heavy machine guns that were shooting wildly, not to mention the muzzle flashes of bullets, could clearly see the fiery red ballistics from a distance, like chains extending from the depths of hell.
Who am I? Where am I? How should I fight? The Japanese infantrymen who were blinded by the bright shells felt nothing better than this at that moment...
ps: There was an error in the number of semi-automatic rifles written in the previous chapter. I'm really sorry. Fengyue wrote Mihu himself. It will be corrected after the update.
In addition, I would like to announce that Fengyue’s original figure, "Fengyue of the Han and Tang Dynasties", is about to return to the world. A science fiction book will be released in August. It tells the story of the collision between the real world and the world of mountains and seas. When mechanical civilization and the giant that can move mountains and reclaim the sea
What kind of sparks will happen when a demon meets you? This is a story that Feng Yue carefully prepared for half a year!
However, book friends, don’t worry. The reason why Feng Yue dares to open a double book is that there will be less things in the second half of the year, and Feng Yue will definitely focus on the military. This is Feng Yue’s favorite subject. In addition to occasionally taking leave in January, she writes more than 5,000 words a day.
The update is very stable. I will let you know when the new book comes out.
