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Chapter 663: Bloody Battle at Nantianmen
“Bang bang bang bang bang bang…”

The shells from the Japanese army's first round of artillery fire basically missed.

No, it cannot be said that they failed. Perhaps the Japanese army allowed their infantry to retreat calmly and deliberately attacked in front of our position in order to avoid our army chasing down the mountain.

The result was that more than a dozen shallow pits of varying depths were blown up in front of the position, and the flying earth and rocks covered the surrounding morning sky.

Less than half a minute after the explosion, the Japanese army's second round of artillery fire came again.

This time the fleeing soldiers were not so lucky. Nearly half of the Japanese artillery shells fell on our positions. Seven or eight were killed on the spot, and at least a dozen were injured.

"veterinary!"

Then comes the third round!
However, facing the Japanese artillery bombardment, our army could only take the beating and had no room to fight back.

"Damn it, this battle is so frustrating."

Wang Zhong hid on a hillside, listening to the sound of cannons, and his figure had already moved towards the woods on the side.

After all, they had been fighting the Japanese for several days. Wang Zhong couldn't distinguish the other artillery bodies, so how could he not hear the grenade launcher?

The range of the Japanese grenade launchers is only 300 meters. As long as they are shot down, they will only face the Japanese infantry. With the help of their high positions, the Japanese advantage will only have sufficient ammunition and supplies left.

However, this is only temporary. The Japanese artillery far exceeds that of the National Army in terms of quantity and types. Grenade launchers are only basic equipment for infantry squads. Once the Japanese artillery arrives, Nantianmen will be undefendable.

But for now, we can hold on for as long as we can.

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, but Wang Zhong's movements were not affected at all. He hid in the mountains and forests, and with the cover of the dense forest, he flew around in a large circle like a ghost and reached the rear flank of the Japanese army.

At this time, the second charge of the Japanese army had already begun. Countless Japanese infantrymen rushed towards Nantianmen, but they did not rush forward like they did at the beginning. Instead, they took advantage of the terrain and moved in groups of three or five, cautiously groping towards the National Army positions on the mountain.

Even when the grenade launchers were still bombarding the Kuomintang positions, the Japanese commander had already reorganized his men and launched a second charge.

As the artillery fire ceased, the Japanese vanguard was only forty or fifty meters away from the front of the National Army's position.

This distance gave the Japanese army an advantage over the Nationalist Army, because the Japanese infantry were superior to the Nationalist Army's soldiers in terms of both military literacy and marksmanship.

What's more, most of the defeated soldiers following Long Wenjian were new recruits who had never been on the battlefield. There might be a few of them who were gifted and had accurate marksmanship, but most of them were just ordinary people. They only received twenty days of pre-war training like Wang Zhong and others before entering Burma, and fought for a few days with Long Wenjian and Wang Zhong after entering Burma.

Compared with the battle-hardened Japanese army, they are far inferior in military proficiency.

However, the Japanese army did not open fire, but continued to grope forward. Although the Japanese army's military literacy was generally higher than that of the fleeing soldiers on the battlefield, not all of them were sharpshooters. Moreover, the fleeing soldiers still had the battlefield as a cover.

As the situation changed, the Japanese army's advantage disappeared, and instead the defeated soldiers who were protected by their positions gained the upper hand.

The Japanese army could only shorten the distance between themselves and the positions as much as possible, and then rush into the positions under the firepower of the fleeing soldiers, tear a hole in the fleeing soldiers' defense line, and then use that hole as a stronghold to continuously expand their advantage and completely erode the fleeing soldiers' positions.

The so-called siege battles are all like this. For example, last time outside the airport, Wang Zhong and others caught the Japanese army off guard and attacked them from behind. The Japanese army was caught in a situation of being attacked from both sides, so they panicked and lost their position.

The defeated soldiers led by Long Wenjian had already made sufficient preparations and were just waiting for the Japanese army to arrive.

Although the Japanese army's grenade launchers caused considerable damage to the fleeing soldiers, they could not stop them from wanting to return home.

If you want to go home, you must repel the Japanese. Otherwise, you will become their sitting duck.

The defeated soldiers were not fools, so how could they not know this? It's just that most of them had a mentality of taking chances, thinking that with so many people, the enemy's bullets might not hit them.

However, this kind of nonsense can only deceive themselves, but it cannot fool the Japanese bullets.

"beat!"

Long Wenjian shouted loudly and fired a shot at the Japanese soldier more than 20 meters away.

In an instant, dense gunfire rang out again on the battlefield. The attacking Japanese troops quickly occupied the advantageous terrain, used cover, set up machine guns, and fought back.

The two sides engaged in close combat, with bullets raining down on both sides.

Occupying the position, the defeated soldiers on the defensive side still had the advantage of the terrain, with a commanding position and a broad field of vision. On the other hand, the attacking Japanese army had to attack from below, not to mention their limited vision and their inability to reach the fastest speed, so even if they wanted to evacuate it was not easy.

"We have limited bullets, so use them sparingly!" Long Wenjian shot down another Japanese soldier with one shot and shouted loudly to the fleeing soldiers beside him.

However, the sound of gunfire was as dense as a downpour, and Long Wenjian's voice could not be heard very far. Fortunately, he had a messenger, Meng Fanle, who had a limp, walking between the trenches with a gun in his hand, loudly reminding the defeated soldiers to save bullets and wait until the Japanese showed up before fighting.

Finally, he lay down next to Milong.

"Why are you running to me instead of staying next to Si La Si La!" Milong took the magazine from Doubing, replaced it with ease, and threw the empty magazine to Doubing, who quickly took out the bullets and put them into the magazine one by one.

"You're dead, you're dead. I told you to take it easy. We have limited bullets. Don't kill them all at once."

"Damn it, take it easy? Why should I take it easy? The Japs are coming up right now, if I don't kill them, should I wait for them to come up and attack us?" Milong complained, cursing.

"It's not that I'm not letting you fight! It's that I'm asking you to control yourself a little and save your bullets."

"When you run out of bullets and the Japs come up, why are you swinging a machine gun against them?" Meng Fanle lay on the edge of the trench, quietly showing a pair of eyes, observing the movements of the Japanese troops below.

Behind a rock more than 30 meters away, he saw a head popping out from time to time and looking towards the mountain. He immediately raised his gun, pulled the bolt, put the butt of the gun on his shoulder, and lowered his head to aim.

This glance lasted for more than ten seconds.

There was a loud "bang" and a flash of fire appeared from the muzzle of the gun. The next moment, the bullet pierced through the helmet that had just protruded from behind the stone and went into the head wrapped in the helmet. The splattered blood was scattered on the stone, making it a scarlet color.

"Please control yourself and don't use up all your bullets at once."

"Don't worry!" After saying that, Fanla picked up his gun, bent his body, and limped away along the trench.

"I know what's going on!" Milong shouted back at Fanla's departing figure. "What are you looking at? Reload your gun!" Glancing at Doubing next to him, Milong cursed at him as he saw him looking at Fanla's back.

"Hehehe! Brother Milong! Brother Fanla's shooting skills are really accurate!"

Doubing smiled and looked silly, but his hands did not stop moving and continued to press bullets into the magazine one by one.

Milong didn't say anything else because Milong's attention had already been on the Japanese soldiers in front of the position.

Seeing the Japanese soldiers retreating again, Milong's eyes shrank and he subconsciously looked up at the sky.

The reason why the Japanese infantry is so powerful, apart from their extremely high military quality, is their infantry and artillery coordinated tactics that they relied on to defeat most of China.

The Japanese's artillery was far superior to ours in both scale and quantity. Even the bald man's Central Army, which was equipped with German equipment, was still slightly inferior to the Japanese.

The inferior part lies in the artillery.

This does not even include the Japanese air force.

As soon as Milong raised his eyes, he saw more than a dozen shells shooting into the sky from the woods above and below.

"Avoid the cannon!"

Milong grabbed the bean cake that was loading bullets, pressed it under his body, and stuck close to the trench.

A shell landed about six or seven meters behind them with a bang. The blast wave swept up countless dirt and rocks and flew in all directions. Fortunately, there were trenches. Although the trenches were not deep, they were not shallow either, which was enough for the cannon fodder to hide in.

But some of the flying dirt and rocks inevitably fell on the two of them.

The second and third shots followed.

Milong pressed Doubing tightly, and both of them curled up as close as possible.

But after the third shell fell, the sound of artillery stopped abruptly.

A few seconds later, a loud bang suddenly came from behind the forest hundreds of meters away at the foot of the mountain. Flames shot up into the sky and could be seen clearly even in the daytime.

The defeated soldiers who heard the explosions poked their heads out of the trenches one after another and looked in the direction where the violent and continuous explosions came from below the mountain.

Not to mention the defeated soldiers, even Long Wenjian himself was stunned. He looked at Meng Fanle beside him and asked in confusion, "What's going on?"

"Could it be that the Japanese grenade launcher exploded? And caused a chain reaction?"

While everyone was shocked, they couldn't help but have all kinds of speculations in their minds.

Two minutes ago, Wang Zhong took advantage of the second charge by the Japanese infantry to quietly reach the rear of the Japanese army. Looking at the dozen grenade launchers on the open space in front and the dozens of Japanese soldiers next to the grenade launchers, Wang Zhong's mind moved and a bunch of grenades appeared in his hands.

Three or five bundles were tied into one bundle, and there were three bundles in total. The Japanese army's attention was basically on the position in the front, and basically no one paid attention to the rear. Taking advantage of the cover of the shrubs on the reverse slope, Wang Zhong quietly moved forward another ten meters. The Japanese grenade launcher position was only more than thirty meters away from him.

Without any hesitation, Wang Zhong pulled out the fuse immediately, and then threw out three bundles of grenades with different forces at lightning speed.

The first bundle of grenades landed first and hit next to the Japanese ammunition box. It rolled on the ground for a few times and hit the Japanese ammunition box. It made a noise and then stopped rolling. However, this noise and the smoke produced by the burning fuse of the grenade instantly attracted the attention of the Japanese army. However, when the Japanese army saw the smoking grenade lying on the ground, the fuse had almost burned out.

"Grenade!"

The first Japanese soldier who discovered the situation just let out a loud shout and was about to lie down forward when there was a loud "bang" and the bundles of grenades exploded instantly. The huge impact force generated by the explosion of the grenades instantly shattered the wooden boxes containing the ammunition and hit the ammunition inside the boxes.

Under the huge impact force, the gunpowder inside the wooden box exploded the moment the ammunition was pushed out.

Three bundles of grenades exploded one after another within a short period of time.

Before the Japanese army could react, Wang Zhong, holding a light machine gun, had already stood up and fired wildly at the Japanese soldiers who were fleeing in panic around them.

Wang Zhong is not Mi Long. With his inhuman distance, he does not have to worry about the muzzle flying upwards due to the reaction force even if it is a machine gun firing continuously.

The successive explosions caught the Japanese army off guard. They had no idea that there would be enemies infiltrating their rear, and moreover, they were so bold as to openly attack their grenade launcher positions in front of so many of them.

The surrounding Japanese troops heard the sound and quickly moved towards this side to provide support. The Japanese infantry, who were just about to launch a second wave of charge, also quickly turned their guns and moved towards the rear.

But after firing a box of bullets, Wang Zhong had no intention of stopping. He dodged and hid on the reverse slope with his machine gun in hand. Then he ran into the woods at full speed without waiting for the Japanese soldiers on both sides to approach.

It was not that Wang Zhong did not want to seize those grenade launchers, but the Japanese troops in front and behind were too close. With his speed and stealth skills, Wang Zhong could only sneak over and destroy the Japanese grenade launcher positions quietly. If he stayed any longer, he would put himself in danger.

Wang Zhong has always been cautious, and all the previous things he did were nothing more than his courage due to his great skills.

The dense gunfire from all directions sent Wang Zhong into the forest. Wang Zhong did not dare to stay for a moment. He drove at full speed all the way. Even in the forest, it was as if he was walking on flat ground.

When the Japanese army arrived, Wang Zhong was nowhere to be seen.

"idiot!"

"Damn Chinese!"

"Search for me!"

"We must find him!"

The commander of the Japanese army, Minglihua Qixiong, was extremely angry. He had originally regarded Nantianmen as a sure thing, but he did not expect that his plan of taking Nantianmen in one battle, crossing the Nujiang River and directly occupying Zenda was just his fantasy after all. With only one Nantianmen and more than a thousand defeated soldiers, they blocked the enemy in front of Nantianmen. This "prodigy" from a Japanese aristocratic family encountered the first setback in his life at Nantianmen.

At Tachibana Kio's command, a large number of Japanese soldiers returned to the house with their swords in hand, and rushed into the jungle with guns in hand, launching a large-scale search in the direction where Wang Zhong left.

At this moment, the defeated soldiers on the mountain were still wondering why the Japanese artillery suddenly went silent while firing.

At the same time, the gunshots coming from the bottom of the mountain also attracted the attention of the fleeing soldiers.