My Head of the Huaxia Expeditionary Force

Chapter 439 The Counterattack Begins

One morning after five days, just after dawn, the Japanese army leader was distributing buckets of food to the positions of the troops.

The little devils lined up one by one with their lunch boxes. Each person had a bowl of thin rice soup and a plate of pickles. This was the whole content of their breakfast.

Now the national strength of the Japanese army has begun to decline, especially in terms of logistical supplies, the amount of food distributed has become less and less, which is a world of difference from the beginning of the war.

Under such circumstances, the base camp had to give priority to providing the few supplies to the navy. There was even a saying in the army: "The navy is full of fish and meat, but the army is getting thinner day by day."

"Sick people only eat, and now they are given to us." Looking at the clear rice soup in the bowl, Mitarai Ryota, a Japanese soldier, felt uncomfortable.

The Japanese are very particular about eating rice. They think that most of the rice they eat is dry rice, and they basically don’t eat porridge. Moreover, they think that eating porridge and porridge is easy to get sick, and they only eat it when they are weak. porridge.

"Liangtai, it's good to have something to eat. I heard that the First Division in the Pacific Ocean can only eat banana bark on the island." The veteran in the class said casually, as if he had become accustomed to this .

"Senior, you shouldn't be like this when you first came to Myanmar?" Mrs. Liang asked curiously.

Originally, he was just a rural hunter in the southwestern part of Hyogo Prefecture. He was conscripted into the army by the country because of the huge losses of the army in successive years of fighting. It has only been a few months since he joined the army.

"Before? Humph... I can't go back to that time, don't think about it!" The veteran gulped down the rice soup angrily, and said indistinctly.

At the beginning of the war, the food rations for Japanese soldiers were quite good, especially after they invaded the large granary in Southeast Asia, they could get three taels of polished rice, four taels of refined wheat, four taels of meat, two taels of vegetables, and sugar, salt and soy sauce every day. Wait, sometimes there are fruits, wine and tea, etc., and the small life is quite good.

Compared with the Chinese soldiers who only ate two meals a day, the Japanese soldiers are really treated like heaven, and now...

Perhaps as he said, compared to those compatriots in the Pacific Islands who had been besieged for a long time and could only survive by eating bark and grass roots, they were already very happy to have three meals a day.

Japan is now caught in the quagmire of the China War and the Pacific War, the domestic supplies are very scarce, and the finances are starting to make ends meet.Unable to gain an advantage in a continuous war, the militaristic high-level can only find a way from the domestic people.

In order to maintain this war, the cabinet began to ask the people to start saving money, concentrate all domestic resources on the military, and increase the plunder of the domestic people, even the rations of Japanese nationals were expropriated.

People in the city can no longer eat snow-white rice, and even those with better conditions can only eat some brown rice mixed with coarse grains.

And the peasants in the countryside are even more miserable. Basically all the food they have worked so hard to grow must be handed over to the state, and they can only eat coarse grains and wild vegetables.When winter comes, many Japanese farmers who have no food or drink can't survive the cold winter.Therefore, people starve to death in many places in rural Japan every year.

Coupled with the endless bombing of the Japanese mainland by the Americans, a large number of houses and farmland were bombed, and the people lived without a fixed place. Many people could only live in dirty and smelly sewers and stay with rats. The life of the Japanese at that time One can imagine.

But all this is self-inflicted by this despicable nation, and their pain and suffering are not worthy of any sympathy.

Before coming here, Ryota once had fantasies, because many people said that the conditions in the army were very good, and they could eat polished rice and meat, which was much better than ordinary people suffering from hunger, but the reality was not satisfactory.

Now every morning and evening, there is rice and porridge with pickles and pickles. Only at noon, there is some dry rice, vegetables and miso soup. Meat has not been seen for a long time.

Before I became a soldier, although my life was poor, I was still able to go to the mountains to hunt some wild game and make tooth sacrifices. But here, apart from not being able to eat three meals a day, I still have to worry about being hit by bullets flying around. Death, I really don't know what's the point of such a day.

"もういい, don't make such an expression, think about how to survive on the battlefield, but the captain said, if you want to fight like last time, you will be shot."

What the old soldier said made Liangtai tremble in his heart. He was not timid and afraid of fighting, but he had an elderly father and two younger sisters at home, and he was the only son. If he really died on the battlefield, how would they live? In any case, you can't die easily.

Unlike those lunatics who were brainwashed by Bushido spirit and corruption, peasants like Ryota who joined the army in the later period were more rational in their minds.

"Have you heard, this Chinese army is full of evil spirits." The veteran seemed to have opened up the conversation box, with a little panic on his expression, he continued to talk endlessly:
"They actually want to cut off the captive's head and turn it into a human head Jingguan! So you must not be caught, and you would rather fight to the death than be captured."

It was the first time for Liangtai to hear such remarks, and she couldn't help being a little unbelievable. Just as she was about to continue asking questions, there was a loud and clear sound in the distance, and a signal flare took off from the woods into the air.

"あれはですか?"

"what?"

Many Japanese soldiers leaned out and looked at the red dot curiously, discussing in whispers, and only one major squadron leader on the battlefield became vigilant.

"Be alert! It's a Chinese!"

call out…

As soon as his words fell, the familiar and terrifying scream sounded again in the sky. Without the commander's order, the soldiers put down the bowls and chopsticks in their hands, and immediately hid in the bunker for cover.

Flames were everywhere, and shells rained down on the top of the head one after another, and the blasted sand even flew into the air at a height of more than ten meters.

The little devils were horrified to find that this wave of shelling was much more violent than ever before. Not only was the density higher, but the terrifying power could directly blow up a trench, and no one inside survived.

"It's a 150mm heavy gun! Everyone retreat to the reverse slope, don't stay where you are, hurry up!"

The squadron leader shouted hoarsely to the soldiers to retreat. He knew very well that these simple fortifications would not be effective in the face of large-caliber heavy artillery.

After receiving the order, the terrified little devil hurriedly ran to the back of the hillside, but the shelling by the Chinese people was too intensive, and many unlucky ones were blown to pieces on the way back, causing more than 40 kilograms of grenades to be shot at close range. The only hit is to turn into a mess of rotten meat.

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At the same time, the artillery positions of the Honorable Third Division were in full swing, with 24 155mm M114 howitzers, 48 ​​105mm M101 howitzers, and 36 Krupp 105mm howitzers, plus three regiment artillery battalions. Nearly two hundred artillery pieces on the northern line let out a thundering roar at the same time, opening the curtain of attack.

"My dear, I really didn't expect that we can be so rich, even if the heavy artillery firepower of an army group is no more than that..."

The gunpowder smoke billowed ahead, and Long Wenwen, who was standing at the entrance of the observation fortification, couldn't help but let out a sigh. Every defense line of the Japanese army was baptized by artillery fire.

"Is it cool? There are several tons of shells in one minute... Can you be unhappy..." Looking at the countless impact points that fell, Li Liansheng felt a pain in his heart.

As the saying goes, once the cannon is fired, it is worth ten thousand taels of gold, and the fight is enjoyable, and the consumption of ammunition is also an astronomical figure.

"Hey, didn't Junzuo say that if the problem can be solved with firepower, then it's not a problem, and it's time for the little devil to try the taste of cannonism." Long Wenwen didn't take it seriously. Isn't the cannonball made for bombardment? human?

It's good to be a local rich man. You don't have to search and search like before, and you have to spend your life to fill in the bunkers that can't be broken.Now that he encounters obstacles, he will be directly covered by firepower, so let him be beaten up at 21.

Although the artillery regiment arrived late, it brought the most powerful fire support. Nearly 50 tons of artillery shells were transported to the front line. The firepower network stretching for tens of kilometers almost covered the defense areas of the two divisions of the Japanese army.

In addition to artillery, the air force was not idle either. Twenty or so Allied fighter planes, led by Jamie and Andre, dive-bombed the forts and firepower points below one by one.

As long as the devils get together, they will appear there, and the aerial bombs will be thrown on the heads of the Japanese soldiers like a shadow. No one can stop the killing of these eagles in the sky.

"Li Wula, although your artillery is powerful, you still have to watch the end of our infantry. Look!"

Long Wenwen hooked Li Liansheng's neck and smiled slyly, then picked up the walkie-talkie, his original cynical expression instantly became extremely serious: "Notify all troops to launch an attack as planned!"

(End of this chapter)