Heroes of the Anti-Japanese War

Chapter 253 Balshagar Heights II
Rolling sand dunes gradually appeared in front of the eyes of the three of them.This is the line of defense that the 23rd Division relies on.

The tallest and largest of them is the Balshagar position.

Suddenly there was a rustling sound in the sky.

"Get down!" Yokoi Tadamichi couldn't help shouting.Qian Xiaobao and Ogasawara were by his side, so he didn't need to make such a loud noise.But he still couldn't help howling.

All three fell to the ground in an instant.

The earth trembled, and huge flowers seemed to bloom on the sand dunes.

Shells from howitzers, cannons, and mortars rained down, and there were explosions one after another.

Some shells exploded over the dunes not far from the three men.

Yokoi Tadamichi regained his composure, he raised his head and stared at the top of Balshagal's position.

Qian Xiaobao felt as if he was lying in a cooking ladle, his body was shaking constantly.

Gradually, the sound of explosions became thinner, and slowly stopped again.

"Five and a half minutes, at least 550 rounds were dropped in the main position!" Yokoi Tadamichi said as if he was reporting to the chief.

Then he jumped up and ran while shouting: "Go and save people!"

There was a panic on the main front of Balshagal.All the people were digging the sand with engineering shovels.

There are also people who are dug out under the sand.Some are still alive, some are dead.

The three men who ran to the ground also joined in the digging.

Qian Xiaobao dug out a thigh of a soldier.He and Ogasawara grabbed the thigh and pulled the soldier out of the sand.

Xiaoli originally cleaned the soldier's mouth and nose, then pressed his hands on the soldier's chest and kept pressing.

Qian Xiaobao continued to dig the sand.

It was not until half an hour later that the digging operations stopped.Of the more than 400 people buried below, only more than 100 were revived.The rest were smothered below.

The sun gradually fell to the end of the grassland.It's going to be dark soon.

During the day, the Soviet army attacked, and at night they often took defensive positions to prevent the Japanese army from attacking at night.

A Japanese soldier covered in sand sat down beside Qian Xiaobao and asked, "Cigarettes, do you have any?"

Qian Xiaobao took out a cigarette from the jacket pocket of his military uniform and handed it to him.

The Japanese soldier took the cigarette, lit it with a match, and smoked it impatiently.

Looking at the sun that was about to disappear, the Japanese soldier said in a hoarse voice, "I can live another night!"

The sound seemed to come from hell, and Qian Xiaobao was terrified to hear it.

In August, the Northeast is already bright at three o'clock in the morning.

The Soviet army launched an offensive after five o'clock.

First, the entire position was covered with shells, and then hundreds of soldiers rushed towards the Balshagar position under the leadership of a dozen T-28s.

Qian Xiaobao first led Ogasawara to jump from one bomb crater to another.Then I watched the t-28 tank rushing towards the position.

After losing a large number of tanks, Lieutenant General An Gang has withdrawn with the remaining tanks.

Neither the Kwantung Army nor the entire Japanese Army can just watch the tank troops of the Empire of Japan being consumed here.

However, there are still a few scrapped Type 28 tanks lying in front of the position.In front of the T-[-] tank, the Type [-] tank is like a matchbox.

However, the Soviet tanks rushed to about 80 meters in front of the position and stopped rushing forward.

They are not afraid of the tanks of the Japanese army, but they are afraid of people, and they are afraid of Japanese soldiers rushing over with Molotov cocktails and explosives.

These soldiers are simply crazy.

The fighting also lasted until the evening.

"One more night to live," said a soldier.

Qian Xiaobao turned his head to look at the Japanese soldier, and found that this person was not the Japanese soldier he saw yesterday.

When Qian Xiaobao heard someone say this sentence for the third and fourth time, he was already numb.

At night, Qian Xiaobao leveled the sand with an engineering shovel to look like the bottom of a pot.Then he carefully inserted the lunch box in the middle of the bottom of the pot and spread the raincoat on top of the bottom of the pot.

In this way, the moisture at night will condense a little water on both sides of the raincoat.

The water below flowed into the lunch box, and the water above Qian Xiaobao licked dry with his tongue.

The Japanese army's logistics base was bombed by Soviet planes.Resupply is getting more and more difficult now.

"Qian Xiaobao, led by Ogasawara tonight, the two of you will go to the Soviet army to investigate." Tadmichi Yokoi ordered.

Although Yokoi Tadao said that Ogasawara would lead him, he listened to him as giving orders to Qian Xiaobao.

There is no way, Ogasawara is a second lieutenant and a Japanese, and Qian Xiaobao is Cao Chang or a Manchurian.

Even if he knew that Qian Xiaobao was better at this task, he still had to say that.This is the face of the Kwantung Army of the Great Japanese Empire.

Passing through several barbed wire fences and facing tens of thousands of landmines laid by the Soviet army, I don't know how many Japanese soldiers who went out to investigate never returned.

"Second Lieutenant Ogasawara, follow me." Qian Xiaobao said.

Now is not the time to be polite, if Ogasawara exposed himself, he would not be able to live.

On the flat prairie, no one can survive the searchlights, machine guns and mortars.

When Ogasawara was in the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy, he was excellent in subjects such as homework on pictures and pens, but he may be much worse in physical training and other aspects.

So now he is willing to follow behind Qian Xiaobao.

The two slowly climbed down from the side of Balshagal's position.

There are two Soviet infantry regiments on the front of the position, and behind the infantry regiments there is an artillery regiment and a regiment's reserve.

The task of Qian Xiaobao and Ogasawara was to go around to the rear of the Soviet army from the side to investigate.

Carefully cutting open the barbed wire with pliers, Qian Xiaobao crawled with a bayonet in hand while carefully observing the sand and weeds in front of him.

He has bypassed several suspected landmines.Ogasawara marked the route he had just climbed from behind.

Here you can already vaguely see several piles of bonfires in the Soviet positions.

Both of them hid behind the weeds as much as possible and raised their binoculars to look into the distance.

"There is the reflection of the helmet!" Ogasawara said in a low voice.

"What's on the back? Is it a gas mask?" Qian Xiaobao asked holding up his binoculars.

The faces of both of them became serious.

"Climb forward another few tens of meters." Qian Xiaobao said.

With just a few tens of meters, the two slowly crawled forward for more than an hour.

"See, there are a lot of cans on the ground." Ogasawara said holding up the binoculars.

"I see, the Soviet army has extra meals." Qian Xiaobao replied.

"Retreat," Qian Xiaobao said in a low voice.

The two slowly retreated along the original route.

The Soviet army tonight was uncharacteristically.Instead of caps, they wore steel helmets and gas masks.

The silver tin cans all over the floor indicate that the Soviet army has started to add meals.

After all, Ogasawara graduated from the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer Academy, and he understands what it means better than Qian Xiaobao.

The Soviet counteroffensive is about to begin.

"What date is it today?" Ogasawara asked.

"August NO.19, right?" My head was almost confused by shells. "Qian Xiaobao replied.

(End of this chapter)