under fire

Chapter 30 Lieutenant Dog
Untie the three autumn leaves and bloom February flowers.Thousand-foot waves across the river, leaning into the bamboo ten thousand poles.

Continued marching, the troops staggered.

People from all directions are on their way to Dongxia Village.

After three o'clock in the afternoon, the first to arrive was the reinforcements of the Devil's Squadron.

The Guizi's headquarters was located in the north. After the reinforcement Guizi arrived at the destination, he couldn't hold on any longer.

Lieutenant Guizi got off his horse and looked around. Looking at the crowd of people around the village, he had some illusions. Could it be that there is a battalion in this village?Put on such a big battle.

Don't care about anything else, go to Maeda to report first.

Maeda was very satisfied with the timely arrival of the reinforcements from the imperial warriors: "Little Dog, thank you for your hard work."

"Hay, God* long live."

Maeda didn't hesitate: "Balu is now surrounded by a group. The security forces have attacked twice in the morning, and they have been repelled by the village Balu. They have not yet entered the village. Tell me, what do you think."

Maeda's main job is to govern the occupied area. Although he is familiar with the marching troops, his idea is very strange, and the warriors should not have too many casualties in the battle.

The lieutenant thought for a moment and suggested: "With artillery shelling, this village is so small, no matter how many people there are in the village, a few rounds of shelling can blow up the whole village."

"However, there are no infantry artillery yet to come up."

"We also have a lot of mortars. With the grenade launcher, we can completely crush the eight roads in the village, suppress the machine gun fire, and then send infantry to attack.

Maeda was a little surprised: "But we learned that the eighth road in this village dug trenches and fired two rounds of mortars with no effect. It is estimated that the eighth road has built anti-artillery holes, and the mortars will not have much effect. The village's eighth road firepower Not weak, with nine machine guns."

"How can Balu have so much firepower?"

"The Eighth Road attacked the cavalry squadron, and all the machine guns were taken away by them."

"Then why are they still here?"

Maeda also didn't care about the lieutenant's questioning method: "This is also something I can't figure out. There is a possibility, there must be other purposes, but so far, I haven't figured it out."

"Bombarding and charging, even if they have a battalion, I think they can easily defeat the Eighth Road in the village. I will lead the attack, please allow me."

"Yoshi, are you sure? Well, prepare to attack immediately." Maeda had lost patience.

"Can we take a break before attacking? We've been marching all night plus most of the day?"

"Okay, let's rest for an hour."

Maeda is also a stinky chess basket. Didn't he bring a squadron?And let this tired soldier attack?

Maybe it's more reassuring to have another squadron around.

In the lens of the telescope, nearly 200 devils came from the west an hour ago. Ten minutes ago, the devils set up large-scale mortars in the north. From time to time, people quickly entered and exited the tent in the north of the devils, which should be to convey orders.

The situation is not good, the devils want to shell.

After observing for a long time, Hu Yi immediately ordered to enter the anti-gun hole, and the village roared one after another.

The anti-artillery hole is actually after the second company dug the trench, and the soldiers of the ninth company dismantled a lot of the door panels of the common people, spread them horizontally on the top, and piled the excavated soil on the door panels to a thickness of two feet.

All the trenches are not straight. There are two ninety-degree bow turns at the position where the door panels are laid. Even if the devil's shell falls in the trench, the fragments will basically not hurt anyone.

The only worry is that the devil's shells can hit the same position twice, and the door panel can't withstand two consecutive explosions.

From time to time, shadows flashed from the courtyards and roofs, leaping lewdly into the trenches, burrowing into those holes like cats and mice.

"The devil infantry in the north is pulling away, and it has formed a skirmish formation! The distance is 180! The width, maybe three teams! About [-] people." The observation post reported.

Little Hongying has entered the anti-gun hole.

Looking around: "What's the matter? Where's Li Xiang, why haven't you come back when you don't worry about it?"

Luo Fugui, who was holding the machine gun nest in the middle of the hole, heard his brows tremble, wrinkled his face with dirty ashes: "Did he not return? Is he trying to kill or something? Boss Hu said that the devils are going to bombard him. What is this for?"

"Mule, hurry up and look for it. He went to the north without worrying about it. He has been thinking about the artillery that wants to hit the devils. Just his [-] small artillery pieces want to hit the devils mortars. Let's see if he can."

"Look for a fart, he is with Boss Hu, what kind of heart are you stealing? Hey, what about your machine gun, you won't give it away again, you prodigal piece of shit!"

At the distance of 200 meters when the devil entered, the machine guns of the eight roads should start firing, but even the occasional cold guns in the village stopped. The lieutenant of the devil didn't care. Maybe the eight roads also saw the mortars preparing to shoot, and they all hid in mouse hole.

There were still a large group of corpses of the security forces lying on the ground in front. The pit should be alive. The lieutenant did not pin his hopes on them, but he did not let him retreat. After a while, the security forces could still play a role in the periphery.

After the devils advanced to 150 meters from the edge of the village, they stopped moving forward. If any cannon was shot crookedly, it would not be worthwhile.

Amidst the tremors of the mortar, the cannonball rushed out of the barrel, sending out a cloud of smoke, which filled the sky above the artillery position. The 90mm caliber artillery shell, carrying a sinful mission, sent a scream and flew into the sky. The village to the south was smashed hard, and the shell hit a house in the village.

Boom, after a flash of light, an explosion of smoke and dust rushed into the air, a violent sound, with shock waves, people in the entire village felt their hearts beating violently, and a gap was blown out of the top of the house, shrapnel With the agitated shards, it flew in all directions, arrogantly tore everything that blocked its path to shreds, or got into the body blocking its path, and flew into the sky until the kinetic energy was exhausted, and it fell to the ground. , crackling sound.

After a test shot.

The cannonballs began to smash into the village continuously. The continuous explosions filled the village with gunpowder smoke again. The strange thing was that there was no wind at this time. The smoke in front was scattered in groups, and the shadow of the shock wave after the explosion of the shell was clearly seen.

From time to time, scattered pieces of bricks, gravels, tiles, soil fell into the trenches from the sky, and the soldiers who had stuffed cotton in their ears could no longer hear any other sound. Several shells that fell into the trenches flew everywhere. It didn't cause any damage, but the mud stirred up after flying to the edge of the anti-gun hole hit a few soldiers, causing some pain, feeling numb and not caring at all.

If it weren't for the constant shouting and reminders of various squad leaders around, many soldiers might have collapsed long ago. What some soldiers thought was to rush out of this anti-gun hole and stay away from the hellish torment.

I don't know how much time has passed, and the shelling of the devils is over. No one knows how long it is for the soldiers. It may be very short, but in everyone's heart, it feels like a lifetime has passed.

The squad leaders resisted the feeling that they wanted to vomit, and immediately ordered all the people to leave the anti-artillery hole and enter the firing position. The soldiers who stayed outside to observe could not return the sound, maybe they could not return the sound again.

After the shelling is over, the devils will launch a charge, and now is the most critical moment of defense.

(End of this chapter)