The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 637 Japanese Attack

Therefore, it was best to stop shooting at the moment and wait for the Japanese bombardment to pass. Unfortunately, the fourth company commander did not calm down.

As the Japanese flat-firing artillery fired, a huge shock wave exploded in the front with a bang. Xia Yuan raised his head slightly and saw another machine gun point of the Fourth Company disappearing under the Japanese flat-firing artillery.

Immediately afterwards, the Japanese machine guns were like two red-hot chains, firing wildly at the Nationalist position from the other side. The long whip was swung on the Fourth Company position, and the large pieces of soil were hit with puff puffs, like floating particles. Like poplar catkins, they are flying in the air.

"Brother Yuan!" The scholar was dodged everywhere by the Japanese shells. He didn't even bother to support the grenade. He huddled up and trembled behind the bunker.

"Hold on! Just wait until the Japanese invaders cross the river!" Xia Yuan shouted. He could hear the scholar's words clearly, but the scholar couldn't hear what he was saying.

The sound of the cannons was booming, and the sound of the gunfire was louder than the New Year firecrackers. The scholar's body could not stop shaking, just like when he went to the battlefield for the first time, his whole body was trembling.

A platoon leader touched the scholar and said, "Don't be afraid. Just listen carefully to the sound of the shells falling. If the sound is loud, it means it is close to you. If the sound is small, it means it is far away from you."

"What, what's big, what's small."

The scholar couldn't hear clearly and had a confused look on his face. His face was hit by Japanese artillery fire with a look of horror. The platoon leader pulled him into a corner of the ruins. The rumbling sound became louder at this point. Dull.

The platoon leader repeated what he had just said, and then said: "You brat, machine guns are much more powerful than cannons. You will understand when you charge."

On the other side, the Japanese machine guns were rampant and smoke was flying everywhere. Xia Yuan could not see clearly. The eagle eye could only barely see the general outline, so he raised his gun and fired. The first shot missed. The Japanese machine guns The bullets swept over, and he had no choice but to shrink back. Hearing the sound of the bullets hitting the bunker, he couldn't help but frown.

The roar of the artillery gradually subsided, and the figure of the Japanese appeared on the river. There was only one detachment of the attacking Japanese army, but the firepower from the rear of the Japanese was extremely fierce. After the fourth company withstood a round of shelling, it suffered heavy casualties. A platoon It was nearly destroyed by the bombing. There were seven or eight mutilated corpses lying at the spot where the machine gun fire was. Some of the corpses were beyond recognition.

Xia Yuan raised his head and took a look. As soon as the artillery stopped, as the morning wind blew, the smoke dispersed a lot. With his eagle eye, he could clearly see the Japanese machine gun fire. He took aim and pulled the trigger, knocking out a Japanese machine gun fire. After that, he moved quickly with a gun in his hand.

With a rumble, the bunker behind him came under Japanese artillery fire.

"The little Japs' artillery reacted too quickly, and their observers on the other side of the river were very good."

Xia Yuan squinted his eyes, looking for the location of the Japanese artillery observer behind a pile of rocks. He had to find that guy first. If he didn't find him, the Japanese artillery would always be able to land on the Chinese army very accurately. On the battlefield.

Even scholars may be in danger.

The scholar had no experience in dodging artillery shells. This was his first time being bombarded. He huddled up in a ball, his forehead and body trembling with fear. He even forgot what Xia Yuan had told him.

After the Japanese bombardment ended, the Japanese began to cross the river. Because the river was too narrow, the national army on the other side could clearly see the situation here, so the Japanese did not build a ship and sent a detachment of Japanese troops to forcibly cross the river. In addition, there is a small group of Japanese troops in the rear, shooting at the resisting fourth company position, suppressing fire, and even using grenade bombs.

The Japanese army's flat-fire artillery was aimed at the other side, clearing the national army's machine gun fire positions as much as possible.

The battle intensified. Xia Yuan aimed at the Japanese firepower and kept pulling the trigger. As a result, he was continuously bombarded by the Japanese, and he could only keep changing positions.

"The Japanese almost put their cannons in front of our homes, bullying us for not having cannons, right?"

Listening to the rumbling sound of artillery and the sound of artillery shells flying through the sky after being smoothed, Xia Yuan could tell that the Japanese gun mount was not far away from them.

He held down the bullet and thought, wait until tonight, and steal the Japanese positions. Not to mention the captured supplies, the Japanese supplies are just mediocre and cannot be compared with the US military. The US military is so rich that they can manage it for a long time once they steal it. , the Japanese devils are not good, they are also very poor, but the national army is even poorer. It is not the government of the national army that is poor, but the soldiers are poor. The government of the national army is not poor. They have a lot of greedy money, but unfortunately they are not used in the right way.

He did not use machine gun fire to attack the Japanese. Machine gun fire can only produce a suppressive effect, and shooting the Japanese machine gun fire will even lead to artillery fire. The gain outweighs the loss. The ultimate goal of the Japanese is to cross the river, and he only needs to prevent the Japanese from crossing. That's it. No matter how many machine guns they have, the machine guns will never be able to cross the river. What crosses the river is just the bullets sprayed from the machine guns.

The platoon of the Fourth Company suffered heavy casualties. After suffering a round of Japanese artillery fire, the machine gun fire points were knocked out by Japanese flat-fire artillery. All the defenses built by ordinary soldiers were destroyed, and the ground was almost flattened. The surviving soldiers just lay down in the pits and shot at the Japanese troops, always being alert to the bullets that kept flying over their heads.

In such a difficult situation, it is difficult for a row of surviving soldiers to pose a serious obstacle to the Japanese army's forcible crossing of the river. The Japanese army on the river has reached the middle position. Although the Japanese soldiers are short in stature, they charge without hesitation at all. They rushed forward desperately, holding their guns high and shooting without any aim.

"The Japs are coming, call the second platoon for support!" The fourth company commander's hat was blown away by the air waves generated by the shells, fell to the ground, and was covered with soil. He raised his head and saw the attacking Japanese troops. Pupils are constricted.

The resistance of the national army had little effect. The second echelon of the Japanese army had already launched. There were more than 20 Japanese troops in the two echelons, spreading out to attack the national army positions.After experiencing the Luodian battle, the Fourth Company arrived here with less than [-] troops. Only one platoon was still full. However, it suffered a round of artillery fire from the Japanese army and suppression of firepower by the Japanese army. After the horizontal artillery fire, the platoon lost two men. The strength of the squad was completely insufficient to resist the Japanese attack.

The fourth company commander wants to transfer the second platoon over for defense.

"Company Commander, the second platoon is gone."

"what!"

The news returned by the scouts shocked the fourth company commander. After the battle in Luodian, more than half of the second platoon had been killed or injured, and there was still one squad of troops left. Why did they suddenly say no and then disappear.

"They all died, under Japanese gunfire."

A cannonball fell, exploded in front of them with a bang, and the air wave caused the scout's helmet to tilt. He hurriedly held on, roaring loudly, and a bullet pierced through the scout's head. , blood spattered on the dark cheeks of the fourth company commander.

He was stunned, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Is there any survivors, call the third row."

Xia Yuan quickly pulled the bolt and knocked out an oncoming Japanese soldier. He rushed out of the ruins and quickly approached the fourth company's forward position. The fourth company's position was more than 100 meters away from them. Coupled with the width of the river, with his strength, Not being able to throw the grenade that far yet, he needed to get closer.

He was keen and heard the voice of the fourth company commander. He looked sideways and saw that the position of the fourth company was severely destroyed by Japanese artillery shells. One row was basically dead and injured. Many of the people lying on the ground were missing arms and legs. He did not notice it. The figure of the health worker from the Fourth Company was probably dead.The wounded were covered by the soil rolled up by the subsequent artillery shells. When the soldiers around him pulled him out of the soil, there was not much breath left.

Those who were alive were mostly injured, lying in the trench less than half a person's height. The blood on their bodies had stained their clothes and was stained with dark brown soil.

Xia Yuan fired quickly and emptied the four bullets in the magazine. Without changing the bullets, the Japanese artillery fell. Xia Yuan used the sound to identify the direction of the falling Japanese artillery shells and kicked his feet hard of soil, making tactical rolls in the soft soil overturned by the shells, and rolled into a crater.

"Captain Zhou, reinforcements from the Third Company will be here soon, please hold on."

Xia Yuan climbed out of the crater, rolled into the simple bunker, held the gun, took a breath, and shouted loudly.

"What? What reinforcements?" The fourth company commander was unable to lift his head under the weight of the Japanese bullets. He squatted on the ground holding his gun, hooked his head in the trench, and shouted loudly.

"The reinforcements from the Third Company will be here soon." Xia Yuan spat out the dirt in his mouth and groped in the bullet clip on his body. The bullets were scattered everywhere. The clip had run out of bullets, so he had to open the bolt and take out the bullets one by one. Press in.

The big cover of the [-] is a rotating rear-pull bolt. The magazine supplies ammunition. You can put five bullets directly in the magazine, fire one round, pull the bolt to exit the cartridge case, and continue shooting with one bullet on top. There is a bullet clip. Five bullets could be pushed in by placing them directly on the magazine, but his bullet clips were all used up and he could only insert them one by one.

This will increase the trouble of changing bullets.

Despite this, he still changed the bullet very quickly. He loaded the bullet and turned around to aim at the Japanese soldiers in the water. A Japanese sergeant fell down with the sound of gunshots.

The fourth company commander stared at the Japanese soldiers in the water and stared: "I heard that guy Lu Jingguang said that he picked up a good treasure on the battlefield and made him the deputy company commander. Are you deputy company commander Xia? "

"Yes."

Xia Yuan responded, pulled the bolt to eject the cartridge case, loaded a bullet, and pulled the trigger. The bullet came out of the chamber and hit another Japanese soldier with a plaster flag hanging on the muzzle.

"Beautiful." The fourth company commander shouted: "Can you shoot down the machine gun?"

"No, shoot out the machine gun, the Japanese artillery shells will come over."

A cannonball landed not far away from them, and the earth clanked against the helmet. Xia Yuan squatted down, took out a grenade, shouted, pulled the cord, and threw it out.

boom.

The grenade did not fall into the water, but exploded in mid-air. Broken shrapnel splashed everywhere, pierced into the water, or penetrated the body of the Japanese soldier. One grenade killed three Japanese soldiers, and the fourth company Long's eyes widened, dumbfounded.

When the Japanese army attacked, they had already thrown a round of grenades, but few soldiers pinched the air to explode the mines. The power of homemade grenades was limited. After falling into the water, the power was greatly reduced. It was difficult to kill people. They could only kill people by shooting. They came to eliminate as many Japanese troops as possible, but they themselves were suppressed by the firepower of the Japanese army. Especially after suffering heavy casualties after a round of Japanese artillery bombardment, they were basically unable to withstand the Japanese attack.

But Xia Yuan's appearance allowed him to see a frontline sacrifice, killing three Japanese soldiers with a single grenade.

The fourth company commander shouted: "Grenade, get all the grenades quickly!"

He is a smart man. Xia Yuan can pinch the air to explode thunder, and he can drop bombs very accurately. There are only more than 20 attacking Japanese troops. With a few more grenades, all the Japanese soldiers can be wiped out.

He yelled and looked at the position. There were corpses, severed limbs and mutilated corpses of soldiers from the fourth company and rows everywhere. The Japanese army used large-caliber howitzers to bombard the [-]th Brigade positions along the river. , among which there is the position of the fourth company.

He stared blankly, then crawled to touch the body of a soldier, pulled off the grenade from his body and threw it to Xia Yuan.

There were not many grenades left in Xia Yuan's body. After throwing out three, the Japanese army was almost crippled by the explosion. The grenades on his body were all used up. The grenades thrown by the fourth company commander were too timely.

He first used the [-]-style move to kill several Japanese soldiers who were still alive in the front team of the Japanese. Soon, the corpses of the Japanese were floating on the rolling river that had been blown up by grenades.

The enemy also noticed a sudden increase in the casualties of the leading troops. After some observation, they soon noticed that a guy with very accurate bombing and shooting appeared on the national army's position. on the dirt in front of me.

The fourth company commander grabbed the corpses of a row of soldiers and piled them on their bunker to reinforce the bunker. There was soft soil everywhere, and it was already difficult to build a position. This was a last resort.

"Hide here!"

The fourth company commander yelled and pulled Xia Yuan over. The two squatted on the ground, a series of bullets fired over their heads, and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke and blood floated in the air.

"attack!"

Xia Yuan heard the sound of the Japanese attacking again. He grabbed his gun and shouted: "Leave it to me, commander of the fourth company. You take the wounded and withdraw first. The support of the third company should be coming soon. I can hold it."

"Hold on, the Japanese machine guns and artillery are staring at you. If you show up, their artillery will come." The fourth company commander said in an almost hoarse voice, looking around, lying down in the trench and moving forward. Touch, dragging the light machine gun half buried in the soil, and shouted: "Go over, I will attract firepower for you, and you will wipe out all the remaining Japanese devils."

"I can!"

"No, it's too dangerous. You are a baby, nothing will happen to you, otherwise Lao Lu will not be able to spare me."

(End of this chapter)