Chapter seven hundred and seventy-six the most difficult step
Chapter 776 The most difficult step
Victory or death here, there is no other choice!
The Igarashi brigade gradually showed signs of fatigue.
After all, people are not invulnerable. Attacks one after another and increasing casualties have caused them serious challenges both psychologically and physically.
The blood stimulated their nerves, but the blood also told them a bloody fact:
Death is not far away from them.
The number of people in Igarashi's brigade decreased rapidly there. And the direct death was not the most terrifying thing, the scarier thing was those who were injured...
The painful wails from the wounded greatly stimulated the hearts of the soldiers who were preparing to attack. Every one of them was thinking, would they also suffer such a tragedy?
If you lose your hand, or your leg, or your ability to take care of yourself, what kind of sad end will you face?
If the attack goes well, then all this will be completely covered up, but now...
"Kill it and give it to me!"
"Kill it and give it to me!"
The Japanese officers drew their command swords and issued the order to attack.
A new round of attack has begun...
The soldiers numbly and mechanically picked up the weapons in their hands, and set foot on an unknown road again amidst the sound of artillery... When this attack is over, how many of them will survive? How many of them will survive?
Will they lose a certain part of their body? No one can give them the answer.
On the defensive position of Laohuozicheng, the "Tyrannosaurus Six" light machine gun and the "9th Year of the Republic of China" heavy machine gun simultaneously played a requiem for death. The firepower organized by the light and heavy machine guns, combined with the roar of the mortars, filled the entire battlefield.
It turned into a big melting pot, enough to swallow up all the power that entered this melting pot...
Entire areas of Japanese troops fell under such intensive firepower, and the horrifying scene of piled-up corpses made every attacker feel despair and helplessness.
This is the battlefield, the most real and terrifying battlefield...
Igarashi Takaaki did not make any changes. The only thing he could do was to put more soldiers into this bottomless pit until he no longer had any soldiers in his hands.
"Your Excellency Captain, Koji..."
"What's wrong with Takaji?" When he heard his brother's name, Takaaki Igarashi suddenly became nervous.
"Captain Takaji, you have been loyal to His Majesty the Emperor!"
When he heard the terrible news, Takaaki Igarashi almost fainted.
Takaji is dead? Takaji is dead!
He had brought up Koji by himself. He had liked this younger brother the most since he was a child. He was also very ambitious. He was sent to Manchuria at a young age and later became a squadron leader... But how could Koji die?
Already......
"Captain Takaji behaved very bravely. He led the entire squadron to launch three attacks in a row. During the third attack, the squadron commander stood at the forefront of the team, and a sinister shell hit him.
An explosion broke out around the squadron leader..."
Igarashi Takaaki didn't listen to a word of what was said next. He only knew that his beloved brother was dead...
The body of Igarashi Koji was carried over. At first glance, Igarashi Takaaki couldn't believe that this was his younger brother...
It has been blown up to the point where it is completely unrecognizable from its original appearance, and even a complete human form cannot be seen...
Igarashi Takaki stood there in a daze, tears streaming from his eyes... No one around him dared to persuade, everyone was silent...
"Baga Yalu!" Suddenly, Igarashi Takaaki let out a scream like a slaughtering pig, and suddenly pulled out his command sword: "Go forward, go forward! Occupy the position and kill all the Chinese people!"
Takaaki Igarashi went crazy at this moment!
Once a commander loses his due calmness, the consequences will be very terrible...
Igarashi Takaaki desperately invested all the troops he could invest, and the entire brigade launched the craziest attack on the outer positions of Lao Huozi City in a suicidal manner.
The offensive and defensive battle of Laohuozicheng reached its peak at this moment.
The offensive and defensive sides are competing here. Everyone's eyes are red, their hearts are numb, and their movements are mechanical. They are using the most terrifying method for mankind to engage in the most terrifying contest!
When people forget the horror of death, human life is just the most pitiful thing.
From fighting during the day to night, the sound of gunfire, cannons, and explosions never stopped for a moment.
Takaaki Igarashi used all the power he could use, and Jutaro Onodera, the commander of the Eighth Division, also used all the power he could use.
decisive battle!
It continued to rain at night, but this could not stop Igarashi Takaaki from making up his mind to attack the opponent's position and kill every Chinese.
He ordered his soldiers frantically and continued to launch an attack that was not suitable for launching at night in the rain.
He wants to avenge Takashi, no matter what price he pays, he must avenge Takashi!
"The Japanese are really crazy!" The chief of staff of the 11th ** Brigade shook his head: "It has been raining for two days, the ground is very muddy, and it is at night, so it is not suitable for attacking at all...
"
Liu Xiang smiled slightly and said: "It's good to go crazy, it's good to go crazy. This night, the Japanese troops at the front will definitely suffer heavy losses. This will give us an opportunity for our final defense tomorrow... However,
I'm afraid it will be very difficult for our armored troops to come up..."
Difficulties are the same for both parties, and God is fair...
The whole night, the sound of gunfire never stopped, and in the daytime, Igarashi Takaaki finally stood on the second line of Lao Huozicheng.
In order to get here, what price did the Igarashi Brigade pay? What kind of losses did it suffer? Igarashi Takaaki doesn't know, and he doesn't want to know at all.
"Your Excellency, the battalion captain, the division commander sent a congratulatory message to congratulate our battalion on occupying the China position, and asked our battalion to immediately seize the power of victory, continue to advance, and completely merge with the imperial army who are fighting fiercely in Lao Huozi City!"
"Tell your Excellency, the division commander, that our Igarashi brigade will definitely complete its mission!" Igarashi Takaaki said coldly.
But he ignored, or to be more precise, he didn't want to face a fact:
More than half of the entire brigade suffered casualties, and it was no longer possible to continue the assault!
However, this is not a problem at all for a crazy person. If he is the only one left in the entire team, Igarashi Takaaki will definitely continue to move forward without hesitation!
Now, in Laohuozicheng, the Japanese troops in the city and outside the city are only one step away. If they work harder, they can complete the rendezvous... On the Northeast battlefield, the Eighth Division and the Japanese Railway Garrison Brigade are also
There is only one step away, and if they work harder, they can also complete the rendezvous...
But this is the hardest and most impossible step to take...
"Tell me all the officers and soldiers in the brigade that the moment of the final decisive battle has arrived!" Liu Xiang stood up suddenly, with a solemn expression: "Concentrate all your firepower and launch the most determined resistance against the enemy! Let the artillery throw all the shells at me.
Leave no one behind! Blow up these idiots to death!"
With this order, the day that China calls "the decisive battle of Laohuozicheng" and Japan calls "the most difficult step" has arrived!
Both sides put all possible forces into the battlefield.
Every inch of land has become the focus of competition between the two sides. After the advent of hot weapons, large-scale decisive battles with cold weapons and bayonet duels can be seen almost everywhere. Here, death is the only melody!
Everyone is fighting hard and making their last efforts for their own ideals!
When the battle was at its most difficult, even Liu Xiang's 11th Brigade Headquarters directly engaged the enemy. If it hadn't been for the guard company fighting bravely, and if it hadn't been for Liu Xiang's organization of all non-combatants from the brigade headquarters to the battlefield
, maybe the 11th Brigade Headquarters will become a victim.
As for the Japanese army, officers at all levels were doing their best to drive the soldiers to launch desperate attacks again and again.
The war is raging, mountains of corpses and seas of blood!
This is a terrible day, a bloody day!
There is only one last step left, but the Japanese cannot take it no matter what.
In Laohuozi City, Chinese soldiers who had been engaged in guerrilla warfare also emerged from their hiding places and launched a counterattack against the Japanese troops who had always been entrenched in the county town.
The soldiers' fighting and shouting echoed throughout the sky outside the city.
Liu Xiang kept observing the battlefield motionlessly with his telescope.
Several parts of the final position have been broken through one after another. The Japanese rushed into the position in groups. The Chinese soldiers fought with them risking their lives. The blood flowing out was enough to completely soak the entire position.
Time passes minute by minute. For Chinese soldiers, every minute passes so long; for Japanese soldiers, every minute passes so quickly.
time is life!
10 o'clock in the morning.
The rain suddenly stopped, and the Japanese let out excited and crazy shouts, as if their sunshine god suddenly appeared. But soon, their cheers stopped.
Eight Chinese planes appeared in the sky!
They soared in the sky like eight eagles, and then swooped down fiercely, firing machine gun bullets ruthlessly at the charging Japanese troops.
The Japanese army was in chaos, and the planes arrogantly and ruthlessly destroyed the lives of all enemies. They dived again and again, then pulled up again and again, and then dived down again and again.
But there was a burst of jubilation on the Chinese position: