my bright sword career

Chapter 127 Differences
What is stray bullets? Stray bullets refer to bullets or artillery shells that are fired indiscriminately or for no reason.

Hearing that he was probably hit by a stray bullet, Koizumi Yukio could only admit that he was unlucky. Unfortunately, his injury was not serious, but his thigh was hit by a shrapnel, and it didn't hit a large blood vessel. Usually, it is enough to rest in bed for ten and a half months.

It's just that it doesn't work now. Now that the 41st Division and Gao Hongming's militia are fighting lively, how can Koizumi Xingfu lie in bed and recuperate with peace of mind.

After feeling better, he insisted on getting out of bed and returning to the front line overnight. Chief of Staff Ogiwara Toda tried hard to persuade him, but he still refused to listen. In desperation, Ogiwara Toda could only compromise, but he still sent a doctor and nurse Follow along.

But this time Ogiwara Toda said nothing to let Yukio Koizumi set up the command post in front of Qixia Pass, but moved it back more than 20 kilometers.

Before the command post was set up, Yukio Koizumi summoned the three infantry regiment captains for a meeting.

The 41st Division has three infantry regiments, the 67th Regiment, the 133rd Regiment, and the 134th Regiment.

Yukio Koizumi was the first to ask Ryuji Ota, captain of the 67th Alliance, "Ota-kun, how is your alliance doing today?"

Ryuji Ota had a bitter expression on his face, "Your Excellency, Commander, our regiment fought for most of the day today, but we couldn't even occupy the first line of defense of the Chinese. Please punish me."

"How about your casualties?"

"A total of 456 people were killed today, 523 people were slightly injured, 105 of them were seriously injured." Ryuji Ota, who had already counted the number of people, blurted out the report without thinking.

"That is to say, your wing lost a brigade in one day today." Yukio Koizumi said with a sullen face.

Ota Ryuji didn't dare to say anything, with a bitter look on his face.

"What about tomorrow...Who wants to lead the team to attack Qixia Pass tomorrow?"

Koizumi Yukio's eyes slowly swept over the faces of the three team leaders, and he suddenly realized that he had overestimated and underestimated Gao Hongming on the opposite side.

This is the first day of launching a full-scale attack. Nearly a brigade was killed or injured. How many people are there in the entire 41st Division?According to such a casualty rate, the Kungfu 41 Division will be wiped out in at most half a month.

In the end, Yukio Koizumi looked at Ryota Akimoto, captain of the 134th Regiment.

The 67th Regiment lost too much today and had to rest for a few days. The 133rd Regiment sent a brigade to rescue Pingan County a few days ago, but Gao Hongming made dumplings, and no one escaped. Now the 41st Regiment is the only infantry regiment with a complete organization. The team has only 134 teams.

Seeing Yukio Koizumi's gaze, Ryota Akimoto could only bite the bullet and stand up, "Your Excellency, Commander, please entrust our alliance with the task of attacking tomorrow."

"Yoxi... very good!"

Yukio Koizumi nodded, "Akimoto-kun, do you have any requests?"

"Of course there is."

Now is not the time to be modest, Akimoto Ryota immediately said: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, after a day of observation, I found that the Chinese people are not only equipped with a full set of German light weapons, but also have extremely fierce artillery fire. It can even be said that our field artillery unit The team may not be their opponent, so I think it will be very difficult to take down Qixia Pass without the support of aviation.”

Yukio Koizumi, who was enduring the pain in his thigh, was silent for a while, "Do you really need the support of Lu Hang?"

"Yes."

Ryota Akimoto said, "If we can get the support of the Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, it is also possible to fight without Army Aviation aircraft."

"idiot!"

Koizumi Yukio cursed, Akimoto Ryota's request was obviously beyond his ability.

You must know that although the light weapons of the Japanese army during World War II were shabby, and even submachine guns were pitifully scarce, the artillery was quite capable.

In fact, the Japanese army was also very good at artillery during the Anti-Japanese War. Before the July 77th Incident, Japan had formed five heavy artillery brigades, one of which was deployed in the country, and the remaining four were all deployed to China. The Kwantung Army deployed two, and the remaining two were deployed in the North China Front Army, and the other was assigned to the Central China Front Army.

重炮旅团对于日本人来说已经是属于战略性质的部队了，一支标准的重炮旅团下设有两个重炮联队，其中包括大正七年式150mm口径的重加农炮30-40门，九六式305口径的重型榴弹炮10门，有的重炮旅团还配备有九八式320口径的臼炮3-6门。

Let's put it this way, if you want to mobilize the heavy artillery brigade to participate in the war, let alone Yukio Koizumi, even his superior, the commander of the First Army Yoshio Shinozuka, doesn't have that power. He must have the nod of Hayao Tada, the commander of the North China Dispatch Army. .

Yukio Koizumi snorted softly, "Don't even think about the Heavy Artillery Brigade. Just now, I have sent a report to His Excellency the Commander, asking him to send an aviation unit to assist in the battle. Compared with the call back from His Excellency the Commander..."

"Report……"

As soon as the words fell, the communications staff strode in and handed a telegram to Yukio Koizumi, "Your Excellency, Division Commander, this is your call back from Commander Shinozuka."

Yukio Koizumi took a look at the telegram, and a smile appeared on his originally solemn face: "Yoxi... Your Excellency the Commander said that tomorrow the 21st Flying Team will do its best to help us fight.

The commander ordered us to take down Qixia Pass, and told Gao Hongming and his militia to be wiped out. Are you confident? "

The three captains stood up and said in unison: "Hey...for His Majesty the Emperor, for the Great Japanese Empire, we will die!"

"boom……"

The next day's attack was still so punctual. At 134:[-] in the morning, the [-]th Wing began to launch a full-scale attack, and this time the attack Koizumi Yukio no longer hid it, ordered the scout balloon to be raised, and then ordered The Field Artillery Wing attacked the Qixiaguan position with all its strength.

The militia was not to be outdone, and a total of more than 30 artillery pieces from the No. [-] Battalion and the No. [-] Battalion also launched a carpet bombing against the Japanese army in front of the camp, and shells rained down on the Japanese offensive formation.

A staff officer of the regiment headquarters seemed to have sensed something was wrong, "Sir... the little devil has something wrong today. Two days ago, their artillerymen were like shy little daughter-in-laws, hiding themselves tightly, even if they were shooting artillery They also fought secretly, but why did they fight so hard today, don't they plan to pass it?"

Gao Hongming was also a little puzzled, because he was equipped with Tom Long Legs, the range of the artillery was far beyond that of the Japanese army, so the Japanese army's artillery fire could not be arrogant at all. Why did they put on a desperate posture uncharacteristically today? Aren't they afraid that the artillery position will be destroyed? Even the pot?Or……

Thinking of this, Gao Hongming suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart, and a year suddenly flashed in his mind: "Not good... the plane of the little devil is coming to join the battle, immediately order the artillery battalion to move its position...immediately..."

The staff officer moved quickly, rushed to the walkie-talkie, grabbed the microphone, "Listen, all artillery battalions... stop firing immediately, move positions... take cover immediately... pay attention to air defense!"

Gao Hongming's order was issued very quickly, but only 3 minutes after the order was issued, there was a buzzing sound in the sky, and then a group of black spots appeared in their sight, starting with 36 planes Type [-] heavy explosive machine.

There were 24 Nakajima-[-] fighters on both sides of the bomber. These planes circled twice in the sky, and immediately found the artillery that was being transferred, and immediately fell down, and then one after another, black bombs fell from the sky.

"day……"

A Lancia 3 RO truck was dragging an M2 105 howitzer on a rugged mountain road. Although the driver had stepped on the gas pedal to the bottom, the bad road conditions prevented the car from going fast. Soon it was discovered by a Type [-] heavy bomber in the sky,

Accompanied by a shrill sound of breaking through the air, a [-]kg heavy bomb fell beside the truck.

"boom……"

In a deafening explosion, the three to four-ton truck loaded with ammunition and the M2 artillery behind it were blasted into the sky by a strong shock wave, and it took several seconds before it fell heavily.

The driver in the truck and the ten gunners on the carriage were instantly torn to pieces by the shock wave, and even the artillery behind the truck became parts.

"Retreat quickly... to the jungle behind the mountain!" Geng Changshun, the battalion commander of the No. [-] Pao Battalion, saw this scene, and his eyes were red with anxiety.

The [-]st Pao Battalion only had [-] artillery pieces, and it would be extremely distressing for him to lose any of them. In the retreat just now, the [-]st Pao Battalion had already had two artillery pieces blown up, and with this one, they had already lost Three cannons, which made his heart feel like a knife.

"Where is the air defense battalion... What is the dog day air defense battalion doing?"

In desperation, Geng Changshun cursed.

As if sensing Geng Changshun's curse, the long-lost cannonball finally rang out.

"Boom...boom..."

The nine 88mm anti-aircraft guns arranged at the foot of a mountain finally showed their ferocious faces, and 88mm high-explosive bombs were fired into the sky.

The Type 2 heavy explosive machine that had just blasted the M[-] howitzer into the sky had just raised its nose and was about to take off, when it was hit by a shell that quickly caught up from below and hit the tail of the machine. The powerful high-explosive shell even The rear half of the plane was blown up.

The bomber that lost its tail fell straight to the ground like a heavy weight, and the undropped bombs exploded together with aviation fuel, and the thick smoke that rose into the sky reached hundreds of meters.

Following the speech of the 88mm anti-aircraft gun, more than 20 Bofors single-tube 40mm anti-aircraft guns deployed nearby also roared.

Different from the big noise when the 88mm anti-aircraft gun is fired, the sound of the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun is relatively dull, a bit like the "boom, boom, boom" sound when a large-caliber machine gun is fired, but its power is not the same. language.

"More than 20 Bofors anti-aircraft guns and nine 88 anti-aircraft guns fired at the same time, and immediately formed a dense barrage in the sky. In less than 5 minutes, two [-]-type heavy bombers and one The Nakajima Type [-] fighter was destroyed."

It stands to reason that the Japanese aircraft fleet that suffered a loss should shrink and converge, but today's Japanese aircraft seem to be resolute after eating weights, and continue to attack the transferred artillery battalion.

"Is the little devil crazy, to fight us so desperately regardless of casualties?"

Watching two more cannons being blown up by Japanese planes, Gao Hongming was distressed and also very puzzled. How could he be willing to ruin his expensive plane with such a stingy appearance that he would lick his fingers even if he buckled his chrysanthemum.

Of course, this is not to say that artillery is worthless, but to see what it is compared with.

An M2 howitzer costs only [-] U.S. dollars, but a [-]-type heavy explosive machine costs at least [-] U.S. dollars to start, so the little devil is at a big loss.

"Order the air defense battalion to strengthen its firepower, and we must cover the retreat of the artillery battalion!" Seeing that the Japanese were actually playing their own game to hurt people, Gao Hongming could only issue an order for the artillery battalion to temporarily hide.

"Yoxi... that's it, tell the Field Artillery to blow up the Chinese positions!"

Although his thigh was injured, Koizumi Yukio, who still insisted on directing the battle at the headquarters, was in a particularly comfortable mood. He hurriedly ordered the 133rd Regiment to seize the time to attack. Excited, he even slapped his thigh so hard that his thigh passed There came a sharp pain.

"Oh... Your Excellency General, your wound is bleeding." There was an exclamation from the side, and a delicate, delicate female nurse in a white nurse uniform hurried over and saw Yukio Koizumi's thigh. The blood dripping from his body was so frightened that he hurriedly called out: "Doctor Miyamoto... Come here quickly..."

Accompanied by the cry of the little nurse, a doctor in his thirties hurried over with a medicine box, took a look at Yukio Koizumi's wound, and immediately said, "Miyoko Sugita, take off the trousers of your Excellency General immediately, we He needs to re-bandage his wound!"

"Hi……"

Without the slightest hesitation, the nurse named Miyoko quickly took off Yukio Koizumi's pants, revealing the hideous wound on his thigh that was an inch wide.

"Quick...disinfect the wound immediately..."

"Well……"

A muffled hum soon sounded in the headquarters...

I have to say that the doctor's level is really good, and it took less than 3 minutes to repack Koizumi Yukio's wound.

At this time, Yukio Koizumi, who was sweating profusely from the pain, breathed a sigh of relief, and cursed resentfully: "Haka... Ichiro Miyamoto, your technique is still so rough, no wonder you were criticized by the professors of the University of Tokyo. Rated as the rudest bastards of all the students they've ever taught."

Facing the scolding by the head of the division, Miyamoto Ichiro not only was not afraid, but said lightly: "Saving people is not about appreciating the tea ceremony. You don't need to be so polite. For me, as long as I can save people, it doesn't matter if I am rude or not. Woolen cloth?"

"Yes!"

Yukio Koizumi sighed softly. As a soldier, he certainly understands that time is life on the battlefield, so why is it so difficult to take it easy? This is the difference between a military doctor and an ordinary doctor.

One is to compete with death in a place full of gunfire, and the other is to perform surgery with peace of mind in a comfortable operating room. Can this be the same?

(End of this chapter)