my bright sword career

Chapter 71
"Nani?"

Kasahara Koizumi turned pale in shock, stood up and immediately slapped him across the face, "Haga... Didn't you just report that Kenji Tsuchiya was still leading the troops to resist? Why did Qixia Pass fall after only a few minutes passed?" ?”

"Your Excellency, this is the farewell point sent by Lieutenant Commander Tsuchiya Kenji. He said in the telegram that the Chinese had already reached the top of the mountain, and now he and Major Masao Miura, who retreated back, are leading the remaining troops to resist."

"No... Qixia Pass must not be lost. You immediately order Kenji Tsuchiya to defend Qixia Pass at any cost. I will immediately ask Commander Shinozuka Yoshio to send a plane for reinforcements."

Speaking of this, Kasahara Koizumi only felt upset for a while.

The 21st Independent Flying Team was originally stationed at Taiyuan Airport.

This is a powerful team with more than 20 bombers and more than 30 fighters, but this team lost more than ten planes in the bombing of Kenanpo a few days ago.

As a result, the flight team has a lot of opinions on the headquarters. The pilots of the flight team think that the information of the headquarters is wrong and cause them to suffer heavy losses.

The two sides insisted on their own opinions, which made Shinozuka Yoshio and Fujino Shigeharu very embarrassed, but it was difficult to forcefully suppress them with orders.

After all, pilots are different from infantry. From the perspective of high-level personnel, infantry can only be regarded as cannon fodder that can be recruited for five cents.

Pilots are different. A qualified pilot needs at least two to three years of training to graduate, and one to two years of hard work on the battlefield to become mature.

Even officers who don't take human life seriously dare not regard flying as a consumable, and pilots have considerable autonomy. As long as the pilots go to the sky, how to execute orders and how to act is up to them.

This is also the reason why Lu Hang did not participate in this ambush. It's just that the situation is difficult now. Even if Kasahara Koizumi doesn't want to, he can only bite the bullet and send a report to Shinozuka Yoshio...

Just when Kasahara Koizumi finally decided to report to Shinozuka Yoshio, the sky suddenly became overcast and cloudy, and the rain fell without warning, and the large raindrops instantly covered the entire battlefield.

The erratic weather in spring changes at will, and the loose soil of Qixia Pass, which was plowed by shells, is almost instantly turned into a muddy land by rain.

"not good!"

"It's actually raining."

The sudden torrential rain made the commanders on both sides change their faces instantly.

"Whoosh! Boom!"

Accompanied by the sound of a sharp cannonball falling, three Japanese soldiers who were holding their hands and heading towards the center were blasted into the air by the air waves from the 105 howitzer shells.

The Artillery Battalion is using intensive artillery fire to create a barrage of barrages under Qixia Pass, the purpose is to prevent the remaining two brigades of the third regiment from increasing the number of Qixia Pass. The bodies of the Japanese soldiers rushing to Qixia Pass were blown to pieces.

"what……"

Near the Qixia Pass, a machine gunner with an MG42 machine gun in his arms yelled at the Japanese soldiers in front, while strafing with all his might, an open area tens of meters away in front of him was full of people who were shot dead, shot Wounded Japanese soldiers.

At this point in the battle, the soldiers of the third regiment were fully aroused. Facing the machine gun fire, they almost desperately launched a counterattack, completely ignoring their own casualties.

For the first battalion, the most terrible thing was the sudden heavy rain that made the infantry no longer able to receive artillery support.

Since the mortar is fired at a high elevation angle, the barrel is very prone to water ingress during heavy rain.

Therefore, it will also lead to the failure of the primer, the basic cartridge is damp and the bore is dirty, which leads to insufficient falling speed of the projectile and causes the bore to jam.

The fatal thing is that in fierce battles, the gunner often misjudges because he cannot feel the recoil of the artillery, thinking that the shells in the chamber have been fired.When there is a shell retention and no warning from other gunners is received, it is often mistaken that the front shell has been discharged, and the next shell is immediately loaded, causing an explosion accident.

This is the so-called "reloading" phenomenon peculiar to mortar fire.

Once the "reloading" phenomenon occurs, there will often be tragedies of artillery destruction.

So for the sake of safety, Wu Chengfeng had to order all the mortars to stop firing.

"Quick! Quick! Reload!"

After a 250-round ammunition belt was emptied, the machine gunner yelled loudly to the deputy shooter who was shooting beside him. Seeing that the deadly machine gun finally stopped harvesting lives, several Japanese soldiers rushed up immediately, but were caught by the rain Soaking the somewhat sticky land became an obstacle to the Japanese army's running.

"Half a load!"

Hearing the cries of Japanese soldiers almost ringing in his ears, the deputy shooter hastily retrieved an ammunition box, took out the ammunition belt and reloaded it.

"Crack!" With the sound of a clear bullet being loaded, the MG42 that had been at a standstill sprayed out a deadly bullet again. The 7.92mm bullet fired by the machine gun hit the body of a Japanese soldier who was close at hand at the moment of the gunshot, and was shot. The Japanese soldier who was hit by the June [-]th bullet, because the bullet was tumbling in his body at high speed, tore a wound of tens of centimeters on his fragile body, so that a scene similar to "cutting in half" appeared in an instant.

Looking at the Japanese soldier who fell in front of him after being hit, half of his body was knocked off, white bone chips and minced meat were exposed in the turned out flesh and blood, the deputy shooter couldn't help but feel his scalp go numb.

"Grenade!"

At this moment, the deputy shooter with a numb scalp saw a green 97-type grenade thrown in front of his eyes. Looking at the white smoke of the grenade and the sound of the chainsaw-like MG42 light machine gun coming from his ears, the deputy shooter The shooter shouted, although he hesitated, he still rushed forward and pressed the grenade under his body.

"Boom!"

With a somewhat dull grenade explosion, the body of the deputy shooter who was pressing on the grenade was blown off the ground a few centimeters, and then fell to the ground.

"Little devil... I hate your grandma!"

At this time, the Japanese army was approaching, and with a roar, the machine gunner jumped up, grabbed the 98K rifle beside him, and stabbed at the nearest Japanese soldier.

Obviously the Japanese soldier hadn't had time to react, the bayonet in the machine gunner's hand easily pierced the Japanese soldier's neck, but before the machine gunner cheered, another grenade exploded at his feet, the machine gunner Accompanied by a burst of blood spray and stumps, his body fell to the ground.

With the sound of the charging whistle, the soldiers of the first battalion brandished their rifles and started a hand-to-hand battle with the Japanese army.

Under the downpour, there were no flashing bayonets, no inspiring slogans, and on the muddy ground, there were only the most primitive fights.

(End of this chapter)