Rise From Eight Hundred Chapter 1179

Chapter 1179 Cruel Silhouette!

“Hit me, hit me hard!” Wang Xiaoqiang held a telescope and looked at the raging fire in front of him, suppressing his excitement.

Captain Wang couldn't help but be excited. Siege battles were certainly nothing new for a veteran with nine years of military service, but fighting such a rich battle must be the first time in Commander Wang's life.

The feeling of firing a salvo of eight 75mm mountain cannons is really not that wonderful. Shell flowers bloomed on the top of the city wall and on the Japanese defense positions inside the wall. The city wall, which was four to five meters thick, seemed to be trembling under the gunfire.

There is also a Japanese 92 infantry gun. The 70mm direct-aimed gun is less than 700 meters away from the city wall. It aims at all the visible fortifications on the wall and fires. If it can't be done with one shot, then use a few more shots. There are almost no fortifications to resist.

But these two excellent infantry support artillery are useless in front of 150 heavy troops!

The power of large-caliber mortars is fully demonstrated in this kind of offensive and defensive battles with extremely obvious targets. With one shell, everything will be destroyed!

The brick tower at the south gate, right in front of Wang Xiaoqiang, was blown to pieces by a 150-pound artillery shell. If Wang Xiaoqiang hadn't reacted quickly and threw himself to the ground, he would have been bruised and bruised by the flying bricks and tiles!

Commander Wang is too close to the front line, less than 400 meters away!

That is also the position where the officers and soldiers of his 772nd Regiment were ordered to lurk. When the artillery fire is sparse in 10 minutes, the infantry will approach the 200-meter area of the city wall. Until the artillery fire extends, the infantry attack mode will be activated.

Behind the infantry, machine guns, heavy machine guns, and light machine guns are already waiting, and they will provide the most ferocious fire cover to the charging infantry.

But obviously, the Japanese army will never be wiped out because of the fierce artillery fire. They will definitely rush out of the smoke and launch a fatal blow to the Chinese soldiers who are about to pounce.

Offensive and defensive battles are cruel to the defenders who are beaten under artillery fire, but the sacrifices made by the attackers are destined to be much greater.

Otherwise, even if Tang Dao decided to attack with more than five times the force than the Japanese, it would mean that they were ready to make heavy sacrifices.

That's why Wang Xiaoqiang, the top commander of the South Gate, took the risk to reach the forefront less than 400 meters away. But for this behavior, even if he won the battle, he would be reprimanded by Brigadier Cheng Da when he returned.

If he, the leader of the main regiment, is killed by a cold gunman of the Japanese army, the victory of this battle will be greatly reduced not only for the 921st Division, but also for the entire Jindong Army.

At least until now during the entire Jindong War, there have been battalion commanders, company commanders and even deputy regimental commanders killed in the Chinese army, but there is no precedent for colonel-level officers to sacrifice themselves. If compared to the Japanese army, lieutenant generals, major generals, and colonels Everyone is a fool, and this battle in Jindong can be called a crushing victory.

But Wang Xiaoqiang still stubbornly believed that under his personal supervision, he could successfully blast the city wall and reduce the losses of his commanders and soldiers, and everything would be worth it.

The regiment commander personally visited the front line to supervise the battle, which was indeed a great inspiration to the front line soldiers.

The regiment commander is willing to risk his life, so what are we, the top soldiers, afraid of? The soldiers who were about to launch a general attack had an unspeakable power surging in their bodies, and they just hoped that the bombardment would end soon!

Of course, there is also Wang Xiaoqiang's determination to win the bet with Tang Dao.

The artillery fire coverage on the three city walls is basically set for 10 minutes. The first wave of attacks is just a test to find out the Japanese firepower points that have not been completely destroyed. After that, the Type 92 infantry cannon deployed in front of each city wall will be destroyed. The decisive moment when the infantry actually enters the battlefield.

This process is very simple to say, but in execution, it will take at least 40 minutes. When the infantry climbs into the city wall by wooden ladders under a hail of bullets, there will be a more difficult offensive and defensive battle.

The Japanese commander was not a fool, so he foolishly placed all defenses on the city walls with obvious targets. Wouldn't that mean they were taken away by artillery in a wave?

˜Building layers of defense along the streets and lanes according to local conditions is the real city offensive and defensive system! It was an arduous battle that cost countless lives and time.

These have long been in the calculations of Captain Wang, who is eager to win the bet.

The main attacking battalion of the 772 Regiment is the first battalion, but in the front row of the infantry is the demolition team of the 772 Regiment that has been prepared for a long time!

Even though the walls of a big city like Shimen are old, they can't be easily destroyed by cannons.

His artillery fire of all kinds was launched into battle, and then machine guns, light and heavy machine guns were called upon, and the soldiers also carried wooden ladders that had been **** in the mountains. They looked like they were going to attack by force at all costs, but in fact it was just an illusion.

Wang Xiaoqiang looks like a rough guy on the outside, but in fact only those who know him well know how much of a thief this guy is!

He was reluctant to let the elite men under his command die in vain in this siege that was already destined to win.

His trump card was the 20-man demolition team. For this purpose, he prepared 10 large explosive packs and 100 kilograms of explosives to blast a large gap in the city wall. The Japanese troops in the city were like turtles without their shells. Let him decide.

Moreover, the three hours he had previously promised Tang Dao to conquer the South Gate position would be shortened by at least one hour.

The artillery fire gradually became sparse and began to extend towards the Japanese defensive positions shown on the intelligence in the city!

“Company 1, prepare for a probing attack, and the demolition team, prepare for the attack!” Wang Xiaoqiang looked at his pocket watch and ordered with squinted eyes.

With a sound of "Boom!", the ground shook!

This is not just at the South Gate, to be precise, the entire city!

Even Wang Xiaoqiang, who has experienced many battles, could not help but open his mouth wide at this moment and look at the huge fireball rising in the dark sky to the west.

“I belong to Zhitliang, where did the explosion come from?”

“Commander, it seems to be the west!” the battalion commander who had just received the order to leave replied.

"Damn it! It's Tang Dao, the prodigal son again! This good one must have used at least two to three hundred kilograms of explosives! The Japanese must have been knocked out by now!" Wang Xiaoqiang grinned and cursed.

“Then, commander, do we have to add some?” the first battalion commander asked weakly.

"Add whatever you want. I shamelessly asked for this explosive from the Four Lines Group. It's already been given to your baby's battalion. What's more, can you give your baby the 180 kilograms I have to fill it in?" Wang Xiaoqiang He rolled his eyes and decisively refused.

The first battalion commander opened his mouth and swallowed his words again. He clearly remembered that the munitions section of the regiment headquarters received 200 kilograms of explosives from the Fourth Army Regiment! At that time, his old comrade-in-arms in the munitions department was so beautiful that he could hardly see clearly even with his eyes closed.

"Ouch! If you don't tell me, I almost forgot. This guy Tang Dao has stolen all my tricks. Hurry up and blow it up for me. You must also let the little Japs from the South Gate taste the power of our explosives! "Wang Xiaoqiang came to his senses at this moment, slapped his thigh and gave an urgent order.

The officers and soldiers of the 772nd Regiment at the south gate here began to attack in an orderly manner, but the Japanese troops at the west gate over there were in dire straits!

Because, that was not the two to three hundred kilograms of explosives that Wang Xiaoqiang estimated, but a full 400 kilograms of explosives!

As an important town in the north, Shimen's city wall is not at the same level as Licheng County. It is four meters thick and five or six meters high. Many of the Japanese army's fortifications were built on the city wall. Moreover, there are caves for hiding soldiers under the city wall. Even if the enemy has artillery, they can still resist for a while.

If you want to deal with this kind of fortifications, just rely on artillery bombardment, but you don't know that if you want to bombard the city until the end of the year of the monkey, the best way is to wash the ground with artillery fire first, and then keep feinting to cover the engineers to dig tunnels, and then plant explosives to blast the city walls into the sky. But that , also takes time.

The Japanese defenders at the four gates received orders from the headquarters and persisted until 9 a.m. When the Imperial Army Air Force bombers arrived, all crises were resolved.

Although they didn't know it, the Imperial Army Air Force was beaten by the Chinese Air Force yesterday, and they didn't dare to come too much if they could come.

But the Japanese army never dreamed that the Chinese would omit the process of digging tunnels, and explosives would explode underground.

The explosion of 400 kilograms of explosives directly blew apart a ten-meter-wide section of the city wall. The thirty- to forty-meter city wall collapsed due to the violent vibration. The blown-off section of the city wall and the machine gun bunker made of reinforced concrete at the top of the wall were all destroyed. It flew into the sky, and was broken into pieces like the wall tiles.

The Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to survive the artillery fire were not much better. They fell directly with the collapsing masonry and were buried by the masonry.

The saddest thing is that there was at least one infantry squad hidden in a hidden soldier cave inside the city wall, and they were all buried under a massive amount of bricks and stones. They were suffocated to death without even seeing the faces of the Chinese people on the other side.

The Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough not to be within the explosion range and collapse range were also stunned by the sudden loud noise.

The 300-meter-long city wall was completely covered with smoke and dust.

"First company, up, second company, fire platoon, fire cover, all mortars covering both wings, machine guns, heavy machine guns fire cover." Lei Xiong, as the top commander on the front line, took out the cotton in his ears and issued the order immediately Strike order.

There is no charge, no signal flares, as commanders at all levels wave their hands.

"Kill" the Yilian who was hiding four hundred meters away rushed towards the gap in the city wall in the customary three-and-three formation.

The hail of bullets covered by the two wings fell on the battlements of the city wall, leaving almost no space.

The sudden burst of blazing artillery fire ten minutes ago made Kawada Katori's face look ugly. All his dreams were in vain. The Chinese actually started to attack the city overnight.

But after all, he is a veteran who has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he calmed down in a short period of time. No matter when the war starts, he still commands more than 7,000 troops, and the troops can block the water and cover the ground.

The Japanese army's headquarters in Shimen is still brightly lit, and it maintains telephone contact with various departments such as the four gates and the train station baggage warehouse.

But the huge fireball rising in the direction of the west gate made Katori Kawada's face look as ugly as if he had swallowed a lump of soar, and he ordered without hesitation: "Order the Provisional 3rd Squadron to fully reinforce the West City."

Kawada Katori knew very well what this explosion represented. It represented the blasting of a large amount of explosives, and the target of the blasting could naturally only be the city wall. As for how the Chinese were able to successfully explode in such a short time, that is no longer something Kawada Katori can think about now. He must now mobilize enough manpower in the shortest time to block the city that is about to attack from the breach. of Chinese people.

If he couldn't withstand the Chinese assault even for one night, then his gambling-like bravery to withstand the pressure without blowing up the supply area is a silly joke.

The Chinese know how to laugh, but his boss scolded him while mercilessly throwing him into the list of stupid people.

But if you want him to order the blowing up of the logistics area now, the Japanese Army Major would not have the guts.

Think about it, there is a fierce battle at three important defensive positions, and suddenly there is a big explosion in the rear. This clearly tells the soldiers who are fighting fiercely that it is over, and the Chinese have entered the city from all directions.

Do you still have a fighting spirit?

It is better to seek death.

To put it bluntly, either the baggage was blown up before the war started, or it was discovered at the end that the war was completely corrupted and hopeless. Otherwise, there was no chance!

Of course, at this time, the Japanese army, known as the number one in Asia, was not as powerful as their future opponents. The command headquarters issued military orders and could be notified to the most basic combat units within half a minute.

In fact, in this regard, the Japanese army is not much better than the impoverished Chinese army. They rely on the two legs and mouth of the signal corps to make notifications.

When the Japanese military messengers ran frantically to the military camp to notify them, sporadic gunshots were heard.

Si Xing Tuan can be found not only outside the city, but also inside the city.

The Japanese want to send reinforcements, so we have to see if they are willing.

Now they are not the only two uncles and nephews who have experienced the Battle of Licheng. One of them is a second lieutenant and deputy platoon leader, and the other is a sergeant squad leader. Each of them leads a twelve-person reconnaissance squad. .

They formed a firepower team of three or five people, lurking in Shimen City through the "Banglong" Wang family's relationship network.

A Mosingana rifle, an MP28 submachine gun, a rifle grenade and 3 Black Star pistols are the standard firepower configuration of a three-person firepower team!

If a light machine gun and a submachine gun are added, it will be the firepower configuration of a five-person firepower team.

They are in the city, either seeking a decisive battle with the Japanese army, or delaying the Japanese infantry reinforcements and causing confusion to the Japanese army's communication and command!

Killing the Japanese signal corps is one of the tasks carried out by the scouts this time!

At least five Japanese signal soldiers fell in the streets of the city, causing Kawada Katori's military order to be received by the reserve team in his hand for seven or eight minutes.

The battlefield is ever-changing. Let alone a delay of seven or eight minutes due to unavailable instructions, unexpected changes may occur within a minute.

On the position where the west gate was blasted, the First Battalion of the Four Lines Regiment made no feint attack at all and directly entered the charge stage.

In order to meet the fire support required by Tang Dao, the air defense company supported 6 machine gun squads and 6 heavy machine gun squads.

Those are 6 20mm machine guns and 12 12.7mm heavy machine guns. Including the first and second battalions themselves, the total is as high as 8 machine guns and 18 heavy machine guns. Under such heavy firepower coverage, there are The reinforced concrete bunker can probably be leveled.

For example, if there is a 40-meter gap, when the infantrymen bend down and start charging, four 20mm machine guns will raise their muzzles to 1.5 meters to cover the gap with fire.

The 20mm artillery shells with terrible kinetic energy scattered dust on the fortifications made of sandbags behind the city wall. When they penetrated the sandbags, they also tore apart the Japanese troops hiding in them.

If you are hit by such a shell, if it hits the arm, the arm is gone, if it hits the leg, the leg is gone, if it hits the body, congratulations, you don't have to worry about what parts are left, because the whole person is gone. Shattered by shells.

Even the Japanese infantry, whose nerves were already tough enough, could not withstand the **** storm.

Who else would dare not stay in the fortifications where they see their companions being smashed to pieces, and might become the next pile of crumbs that no one knows, right?

However, the fate of the Japanese soldiers who escaped from the fortifications as quickly as possible in their lives was not much better.

No matter how skilled the tactical movements are, even if they jump out of the fortifications, they will continue to roll on the ground in an astonishing manner. However, in addition to machine guns, there are also 12.7mm heavy machine guns, 7.92mm light machine guns and submachine guns that only have designated shooting areas. In the pouring rain Generally speaking, it would be futile, even ridiculous, in front of the bullets fired at him.

No one can travel faster than a bullet traveling at hundreds of meters per second. The only people who can dodge bullets like that are the protagonists in future TV series who are full of pig's feet aura.

Obviously, these Japanese soldiers can only play supporting roles. He is still the kind of super little bit player who doesn't even have a name but can scream out his lines. Many people were shot without saying a word in the first step of their escape.

It's not that the Japanese army tried to resist. In the future Battle of Nomenkan, the heroic Imperial Japanese Army dared to confront the red polar bear tanks with sabers in hand, and even slashed at the tanks with crazy machine guns, causing sparks to fly. Although they soon fell. Crushed into a puddle of flesh.

A Japanese machine gunner set up a strange machine gun and fired at the gap in an attempt to suppress the trotting infantry. Several figures fell down in the darkness.

It's just that these heroic Japanese shooters have probably never hated their military experts so much.

The 30-centimetre-high mount of the crutch light machine gun they used was too high. If you wanted to shoot with the machine gun, almost the shooter's entire body would be exposed to the enemy's sight.

If one's own firepower can suppress the opponent, then that's fine. However, other people's machine guns and machine gun bullets can almost destroy the walls, and they have to use light machine guns to shoot at others. That is completely seeking death. .

The Japanese light machine gunners suffered a mortality rate of 90% in almost the first five minutes of the war! This is definitely a very terrifying ratio, which has never appeared even in the Battle of Songhu.

But the Japanese army was not completely incapable of counterattack. The Japanese army also dug bunkers within the city walls. The city walls several meters thick gave them the best protection, allowing them to survive the raging artillery fire.

A camouflaged shooting hole with an area of only 0.5 square meters was opened. Behind it was a 92 heavy machine gun. Against the roar of a machine gun that was bombarding a wall fortification, it actually fired at the machine gun and hit the machine gun before it. Dust was flying on the sandbags, and sparks were flying on the steel shield. Several ricochet bullets hit the ammunition soldier who was inserting the bullet plate, and he fell to the fortification without saying a word.

“Flash flares, give me flares.” The eyes of the main shooter of the machine gun turned red instantly, and he roared sternly.

The artillery fire was very bright, but as the artillery fire gradually became sparse, the sight line in front of the city wall was actually not very good. The Chinese did not take the initiative to use flares. The darkness provided him with cover and also made people ignore the changes on the Japanese city wall. No one could Notice the Japanese heavy machine guns hidden within the city walls.

Just such an oversight led to a heartbreaking ending for the cannon shooter. The red blood flowing from the head and the body that was no longer moving proved that it was impossible for the close comrades who had been fighting together for several months to survive.

At this time, he had no time to be sad. The most important thing for him was to kill the heavy machine gun, even if he would be hit by a heavy machine gun bullet at the next moment.

If the heavy machine gun is allowed to attack the infantry charging towards the gap, the infantry losses will be even more heartbreaking.

The flares not only illuminate the location of the Japanese army, but the flares falling downwards like a small sun will display the position of hundreds of meters in everyone's field of vision.

He can find the location of the Japanese heavy machine gun, and the Japanese heavy machine gun shooter can also see him clearly.

The soldier responsible for firing the illumination bomb hesitated for a moment, and a row of heavy machine gun bullets swept over again, hitting the steel shield and causing sparks to fly! That shows that through ballistics, the Japanese heavy machine gunners have already determined his general location.

“I drew up Nonano's legs and used flares for me, and the day is not over until I die!” The roar of the machine gunner even drowned out the blazing bullets.

The flare shot high into the sky and slowly fell. The shooting hole on the city wall could no longer be hidden, just like the machine gun fortifications were also exposed.

The moment the light appeared, the machine gun and the Japanese heavy machine gun saw each other's positions clearly at almost the same time. The machine gun shooter, whose adrenaline had surged, and the sergeant who was also the machine gun squad leader, seemed to be able to see the fortifications 350 meters away. The Japanese heavy machine gun shooters were equally fearless and cold in their eyes.

The muzzle of the heavy machine gun swung slightly, and while the sight was locked on the Japanese fortifications, the lighter Japanese 92 heavy machine gun took the lead in roaring, and the terrifying heavy machine gun bullets rattled the fortifications and steel shields.

If it were not for the two layers of sandbags prepared in advance and the 10 mm thick steel plate shield that Tang Tuanzuo requested before the war, not only the machine gun sergeant shooter would be directly beaten into a sieve, but the observer and None of the other two ammo men could survive.

Even so, a heavy machine gun bullet still passed through the gap in the steel shield and hit the left arm of the machine gun shooter.

Although the 7.7mm caliber bullet is not as scary as the 20mm machine gun bullet, it is still a terrifying weapon for killing people. The machine gunner's arm was directly broken, and blood spurted out while the red and white bone stubble exposed through the military uniform showed the extent of his injuries. Seriously, with the current medical level of the Four Lines Group, even if he could survive if he could be rescued in time, the arm would probably be useless.

But the machine gunner seemed unaware, as if he was not the one who had been shot. The muscles on his face twitched hard and painfully twice, "Damn it, it's my turn to **** you now! Let's see who dies first." He suddenly pulled the trigger with his finger.

A series of at least 3 artillery shells hit the area around the shooting hole in a continuous fire. It was just a test shot to determine the ballistic trajectory. The trigger was pulled again, and there were 8 consecutive rounds. The shots were visible to the naked eye, but only 0.5 square meters. Inside the hole, a ball of fireworks was lit.

After a long period of hard training and battlefield fighting, as well as the experience of fighting high-speed small gray aircraft in the air in several fields, the ballistic trajectory was maintained at 0.5 square meters within a distance of 350 meters, and the hit rate of 10 rounds exceeded 30%. For this For a sergeant, this is by no means a fantasy.

This is not only bravery and high-level shooting, but also the deep-rooted self-confidence brought by victory.

Behind the shooting hole, the heavy machine gun was hit by a shell, and steel parts were scattered everywhere. The Japanese heavy machine gunner was also penetrated by two 20 mm caliber shells. Almost the entire upper body was shattered, leaving only a steel helmet. Still slipping around in a solid fortification that cannot be destroyed by artillery shells.

This is war. When bravery confronts bravery, only blood and death can determine the outcome!

And this is just a sketch of the cruelty of war, not even a microcosm.

More sacrifices and deaths surged into the sky with a blood-red flare!

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