Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1442: Lucky Soldier (Part )

The sudden burst of artillery fire was the bombardment launched by the infantry battalion of the 33rd Regiment on the Japanese high ground.

However, this unit did not inform other units of this secret military operation. Even Commander Tang did not know about it. Naturally, the Japanese army could not be prepared, which made it so sudden.

But this attack caused great suffering to the three Chinese soldiers who were standing in a daze under the Japanese trench. The two soldiers in the guard squad turned their eyes to Shi Dakuan. Although Shi Dakuan was younger than them, his rank of sergeant, who had just been promoted, was higher than theirs, and he was the leader of the attack on the Japanese army on New Year's Eve.

Shi Dakuan was also a little confused. The intense artillery bombardment could cover up the sound of the gunfire, but it also awakened the sleeping Japanese soldiers. The difficulty was several times greater than before.

  However, the bloody battle a few days ago had sharpened the soldier's will and courage like a whetstone. After only a second or two, Shi Dakuan quickly calmed down, his eyes full of murderous intent. He took the lead in making tactical moves, holding a Mauser pistol in one hand and climbing to the front of the trench with the other, and rolled into the Japanese trench!

"Bang, bang, bang!" The sound of submachine gun fire rang out continuously.

A Japanese soldier who was awakened by the sound of artillery fire and was rushing towards this side with a gun was knocked down by Shi Dakuan who took the initiative with a volley of bullets.

Although the fierce artillery fire only 1300 meters away alarmed the Japanese troops in this area, thanks to the flames rising into the sky, the visibility in the trenches could even reach thirty or forty meters at a certain moment, which gave Shi Dakuan, who was well prepared and took the initiative, enough conditions to kill the Japanese troops.

Cao Yingchong and Pang Zilong, who were observing all this from afar, saw that the three soldiers, led by one of them, hesitated for only a few seconds before choosing to continue the attack, and their eyes were filled with admiration.

Because if they were in their place, they would make the same choice.

This is not a question of bravery or cowardice, but the most correct tactical choice at the moment!

The first choice of the Japanese army startled by the sound of artillery would be to rush to the trenches to observe the front of their positions. Some would even fire flares. Whether you choose to continue to lurk or evacuate quickly, there will be great risks. The probability of being killed by Japanese infantry is as high as 90%.

The best tactical option at this time is to immediately charge into the enemy's trenches and use submachine guns and Mauser pistols, which are extremely useful for close combat and have strong firepower, to attack the Japanese army. Even if the enemy is more numerous and powerful, we must try to muddy the waters before considering retreating.

Of course, if you want to die, that’s another matter.

"Enemy attack!" The already nervous Japanese army was even more shocked when they heard the crisp sound of Mauser guns. The heart-wrenching shouts could even be heard 200 meters away.

"Pa Gou'er!" The Japanese army started shooting with their Type 38 rifles.

"Da da da!" The MP11 machine guns equipped in the 28th Army also began to counter-suppress.

"Is there a fighting going on there? Are the Japanese coming?" The colonel of the 31st Army Regiment, who had just drunk two taels of wine and had just laid down for less than an hour, was awakened by the sound of artillery fire. Within a few seconds, he was startled by the sound of gunfire not far away.

When he listened carefully, he actually heard the sound of a familiar machine gun, and instinctively thought it was a night attack by the Japanese.

"Commander, it's not a night attack by the Japanese, but a fighting broke out on the 3119 high ground occupied by the Japanese." A second lieutenant staff officer ran over from the other side of the trench to report, panting.

"Take me to the lookout post and see who is going to cause trouble for the Japanese on New Year's Eve!" The army colonel was also a smart man. He immediately thought that it might be his subordinates who were carrying out the "cold gun and cold cannon" operation ordered by Tang Dao to earn rewards.

You want to say I'm angry? Not really, I'm mostly worried.

He also supported Tang Dao's "cold gun and cold cannon" strategy, and even sent out 10 elite teams to attack and kill the Japanese army in the past two days.

However, compared with several other groups, its strength is much smaller. The reason is that the 31st Group is small and weak and cannot afford the losses.

Now, there are only 31 people in his 700st Regiment who can still fight. The infantry regiment with a full strength of 2500 has suffered over % casualties. Even if there is new reinforcement, it will take at least half a year to reach the pre-war combat effectiveness. Now, let alone losing a company or platoon, even one or two would make him tremble with pain.

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"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Three flares were fired from the top of Hill 3119 and the heights occupied by the Japanese on both sides.

The three flares were like three slowly falling meteors, illuminating the small hilltop and hillside brightly.

Three dark blue figures with dry grass and branches stuck on their backs and heads came into the sight of the Japanese army, and also into the field of vision of the army colonel's telescope who happened to have arrived at the front-line lookout post.

"I'm a good person! Shi Dakuan, you son of a bitch!" The army colonel cursed angrily.

Who else could that small figure holding a Mauser pistol and leaning against the corner of the trench wall shooting at the Japanese army be except Shi Dakuan?

This bastard, no wonder he told me he wanted to go to sleep after eating the dumplings, it turns out he was secretly attacking the Japanese army without telling me.

That's good! If the sneak attack fails, we can use the strong attack.

At this time, the Japanese troops on both sides of the hill, which were only 300 meters apart, were ready to move. The army colonel gritted his teeth and said, "Heavy machine guns, block the mountains on both sides of Hill 3119 and don't let any Japanese soldiers get through. Mortar squad, keep a close eye on the hill. If there are too many Japanese soldiers, blast them to death. Be careful not to hit your own people. Also, send two squads from the guard platoon to pick up those three bastards."

"Commander, didn't you say that we shouldn't attack unless necessary? We don't have many shells left, and the replenishment promised by the division headquarters hasn't arrived yet." A combat staff officer asked stutteringly.

"If it's not necessary now, then when will it be necessary? Tell the mortar squad, I don't want any economy, just accuracy, and follow orders!" The army colonel had a cold face, staring at the three soldiers under his command who occasionally appeared in his field of vision under the glow of flares and artillery fire.

No one could guess his current mood, but everyone could hear from his tone that he cared for these three foolish and brave soldiers.

Three heavy machine guns and six light machine guns began to roar, and the flying bullets left several red bullet marks in the dark night.

"The commander has ordered fire cover! Gangzi, Erleng, kill those bastards, we still need three more." Shi Dakuan was even more courageous as he looked at the clearly visible bullet marks that cut through the night sky not far away.

The Japanese army was very cunning. They used the corners of the trenches and the Chinese soldiers with absolute superior firepower to fight against the Japanese. Although the power of the Type 38 rifle was greatly weakened in this narrow trench, the Japanese army still had melon grenades. This defensive grenade produced a lot of fragments and was extremely lethal in this semi-enclosed space. In a short period of time, they actually blocked the rain of bullets from three Chinese soldiers.

However, they also paid a price, and the bodies of two Japanese soldiers lying in the trench were clearly visible.

However, the night is long and troublesome. Once they are tied down here, the Japanese troops from above will come to support them, and there may be as many as a dozen of them. It would be a lie to say that Shi Dakuan is not nervous or anxious.

But the key point is that the Japanese army fired flares, and the three men did not dare to climb up the trench easily and give the devil a fatal blow from the hillside. The guns of the Japanese above were not vegetarian.

What's even more terrible is that they didn't dare to leave the trench easily, but the Japanese could. One of the three of them had to be responsible for defense, always on guard against someone throwing grenades at them from above.

"Bang!" A gunshot rang out.

The three soldiers in the trench could not hear the noise of gunfire and grenade explosions. Only the Japanese soldier who risked climbing up the trench and kept bending over and moving towards the trench area where the three Chinese soldiers were was looking at the huge wound on his ribs in horror.

He was shot.

  The person who shot him came from the bushes more than 230 meters away!

The top five snipers in the Fourth Regiment did not even continue to look at the prey he had shot, but moved the scope elsewhere.

Although the position he aimed at was not a vital part such as the heart and the head that could kill with one blow, the specially modified bullet would break the ribs and then quickly flip over to form a huge cavity in the prey's body. Prey with severe damage to the liver and kidneys would basically lose the ability to move instantly and eventually die from excessive blood loss.

Under the light of the flares fired by the Japanese army, any human body exposed outside the trench would become his target.

"The Chinese have sneaked into the first-line trenches. Send reinforcements quickly." A Japanese sergeant in the first-line trench on the top of the mountain gave the order with a grim look on his face.

Aoi Daio is not an ordinary sergeant, as he was appointed as the commander of a high ground by the captain himself. He is a model and elite soldier in the entire 231st Regiment.

Although Sergeant Aoi Daio has only been in the army for three years, he has extremely high talents in shooting and bayoneting. In last year's Zaoyi Battle, he had a record of killing a Chinese soldier from 3 meters away. After entering China, Sergeant Aoi Daio has a total of four hand-to-hand combat records, and has an impressive record of bayoneting 400 Chinese soldiers on the spot.

This is one of the reasons why Sergeant Aoi Daio was promoted from a private to a non-commissioned officer in just three years. After the Battle of Shipai, he had already secured the rank of warrant officer or even second lieutenant. But now, the dream of this farmer's son has been shattered. From Yamada Masayoshi to the lowest private, everyone in the 231st Infantry Regiment knows that they can basically not return to their hometown. If they want to survive, they may have to surrender.

But they also knew that unless the superiors were crazy, there would be no chance of another military order. If they dared to surrender without permission, their families still on the island would be implicated, and it would be better for them to die bravely in battle.

However, there is a difference between dying early and dying late. The later you die, the more likely you are to have a turnaround. There is no absolute hopelessness in this world.

This is what Sergeant Aoi Daio thought, so he was extremely cautious these days, especially at night, when the 15-man team was divided into three shifts to spend the long night, but the Chinese eventually set their sights on his small position.

Although his eyes were full of bitterness, Sergeant Aoi Daio made a quick decision to immediately reinforce the first-line trench, leaving two infantrymen, a machine gunner and a grenade thrower to guard the second-line trench. Aoi Daio held a rifle and personally led five soldiers through the communication trench to the first-line trench.

Under the light of flares, Sergeant Aoi Daio's eyes flashed coldly and murderous intent. He not only wanted to drive out the Chinese who invaded the front-line trenches, but also kill them and hang the Chinese bodies on the position to intimidate the Chinese on the opposite side who surrounded them.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Cao Yingchong opened fire.

After seeing the figures of Japanese soldiers on the top of the mountain begin to flash in the bushes, he fired all ten bullets from the semi-automatic rifle in his hand without hesitation.

The Japanese army had communication trenches for concealment. Although they were shallow, they were enough to conceal most of the bodies. This meant that Cao Yingchong, as a fire supporter, could not snipe as accurately as Pang Zilong. He could only rely on firepower to make up for the lack of shooting angle.

The abundant firepower of the semi-automatic rifle finally paid off. A Japanese soldier who was hit in the thigh by a ricochet bullet rolled down with a scream.

Even though it was a ricochet, its destructive power on the body was even greater than that of a direct bullet. A blood hole the size of a cup was clearly visible on the thigh. The pain was close to level 10, but what was really fatal was the artery severed by the bullet fragments. In less than three minutes, the horrific blood loss would take his life.

"There are enemy shooters, machine gunners, and grenade throwers on the opposite side. Kill them!" Sergeant Aoi Daio reacted very quickly, crouched lower in the communication trench, and shouted desperately.

"Boom!" A flare was fired into the sky again, illuminating the slope more than 300 meters in front of the high ground in white.

"Da da da!" The Japanese army's Type 96 machine gun kept firing in the general direction of Cao Yingchong, with the bullets landing less than 20 meters away from Cao Yingchong's hiding place.

Two grenades exploded on the hillside one after the other, raising two clouds of smoke.

Cao Yingchong hid in the bushes without moving. He knew that the Japanese could only determine his direction based on the point where his bullet had just hit, but had no idea about the distance. The machine gun and grenade launcher were just exploratory attacks.

But this also meant that he could no longer attack the Japanese troops supporting the second-line trenches before the light from the flares faded. Otherwise, within three seconds, the Japanese machine gunners and grenade throwers who had been closely monitoring the area would actually determine his position, and then it would be his turn to escape for his life.

Pang Zilong, who was hiding on the other side, had already aimed his gun at the Japanese machine gunner, but the bushes blocked the flames from the Type 96 machine gun, and he was unable to determine the specific location of the shooting hole.

Because the Japanese machine gunners did not set up their machine guns on the edge of the trench to shoot, a few sandbags were piled up to reveal a shooting hole only the size of a blue brick, and there were some bushes blocking the shooting hole in front.

From top to bottom, it does not block the Japanese shooter's view very much, but from bottom to top, it is difficult to see where the shooting hole is.

It can be seen that Sergeant Aoi Daio has also put in a lot of effort in defense. He has also accepted the experience that soldiers from various units of the brigade have been shot and killed by the Chinese side's hidden sharpshooters in recent days.

The two Japanese infantrymen also quietly pointed their guns at the bushes on the opposite side. With their accurate marksmanship, once they found the target, their lethality was no less than that of machine guns and grenade launchers.

Relying on these 30 seconds of suppressing the opponent, Sergeant Aoi Daio finally led the remaining four soldiers into the second-line trench.

But he was obviously a little late because of the roar of his own light and heavy machine guns. Shi Dakuan, who was full of courage again, crawled more than ten meters in the trench under the cover of three grenades and a submachine gun fire. He held the pulled grenade in his hand for four seconds before throwing it at two Japanese soldiers who were defending the corner of the trench.

Although the two Japanese soldiers were more than 5 meters apart, the fragmentation killing power of the anti-Germanic wooden-handled grenade was as high as nearly 10 meters. The two Japanese soldiers were blown to pieces, and were also shot by Shi Dakuan, who rushed over with a bent over in the smoke, causing blood to spurt out.

The last Japanese soldier had to retreat with his gun in hand. His little face was as pale as the falling flare.

This was the scene that Sergeant Aoi Daio saw when he arrived.

"Baga! Throw grenades and kill the Chinese!" Aoi Daio was furious. He pushed the Japanese infantry who was retreating in panic hard, and used him as a shield to throw two grenades forward in succession.

The Japanese troops behind followed suit and threw bombs forward.

The grenades kept exploding, forcing Shi Dakuan to retreat. If he had been a little slower, he would have been blown into a sieve.

"The Japanese are coming, what should we do!" A Chinese soldier who also threw a grenade to stop the Japanese army's advance showed fear in his eyes.

  He is not afraid of 3VS5, but there are more than ten people coming down, which is three times as many as them. How can they fight?

"We can't retreat! We can only fight." Shi Dakuan shook his head.

He knew that the Japanese army wanted to force them out of the trenches. Without the protection of the trenches, they would be completely exposed to the Japanese firepower, and that would be their death.

If you want to survive, you can only fight the Japanese in this trench.

"Report the number of grenades and bullets!" Shi Dakuan shouted with determination.

"I still have 2 more here, 3 magazines!"

"I have one here, and two magazines!"

The two soldiers reported one after another, and Shi Dakuan touched his waist and found two 2-round magazines and two grenades.

140 bullets and 5 grenades are enough to fight the Japanese here for a few minutes. I just don’t know if the regiment commander who sees the battlefield here will get support.

But regardless of whether there is support or not, this attack led by him must be fought. Shi Dakuan has already begun to make the decisions of a grassroots commander.

At least, his decision was extremely correct.

Hundreds of meters away, two infantry squads were crouching and running towards this side under the cover of night, but they could not be too fast because they had to guard against the Japanese machine guns and grenade launchers on two other heights a few hundred meters away.

But the soldier who was forced into a desperate situation did not know that his reinforcements had arrived.

On the high ground, a Japanese infantryman lying on the edge of the second-line trench was looking intently ahead, trying his best to find a suspicious target in the grass.

He was so focused that he didn't notice that in the darkness of the trench behind him, a black figure was quietly approaching him.

Eyes suddenly widened!

The sudden fear was so intense that it almost overflowed from his eyes.

Because a big hand covered his mouth.

Just like a song in the future sings very tenderly: "You quietly cover my little mouth

ask me to guess who you are

  From Mary to Sunny and Ivory

Just don’t let me open my mouth.”

(End of this chapter)