Battle of Songhu (3)
"Everyone, enter the formation! Machine gun squad, set up fire! Shoot the Japanese soldiers behind!" Zhang Mo quickly led his men into the formation and began to arrange the battle.
The machine gunner raised the muzzle slightly and fired at the Japanese soldiers behind him. Although the accuracy of this kind of shooting was limited, the speed at which the bullets fell was enough to kill the Japanese soldiers within a certain range. However, the Japanese soldiers were all equipped with steel helmets, so only the injured were not killed. This was enough to let the 67th Division withdraw!
"Thank you, brother!" A major panted heavily and thanked Zhang Mo after retreating to the camp with many wounds on his body.
"Sir, this is what I should do! Hurry up and retreat! There were too many injured! Let us take the lead first!" Zhang Mo said as he looked at the major whose uniform was dyed red. He had suffered a serious injury, and if he didn't bandage it, he might really die.
"Brother! Take care!" The major patted Zhang Mo on the shoulder. Zhang Mo saluted and watched them retreat. Only 17 or 18 people in the battalion could move, carrying the wounded and retreating. The ground was covered in blood and corpses.
"Recover all weapons and equipment!" Zhang Mo shouted loudly. All the soldiers immediately cleaned up the battlefield and gathered all the weapons and equipment together. Zhang Mo quietly collected them all. Among them, a Maxim machine gun and a 37mm anti-cannon without ammunition were collected by Zhang Mo. They exchanged for nearly 20,000 yuan, and they could purchase weapons and equipment again.
"It's not dark yet! The Japanese army still had another round of attack! If we can defend this round of attacks, we will be able to win a chance to catch our breath!”Zhang Mo said worriedly as he looked at the sun that had already sunk halfway into the ground.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The Japanese artillery once again roared and exploded on the position where Zhang Mo was stationed. Because there was no counterattack from the artillery, they could only curl up in the temporary anti-artillery hole to hide from the shells.
"Ah!"
The two female university students who followed the company were wearing steel helmets and covering their ears as they shouted in fear.
"Don't move! It'll be fine!" Zhang Mo saw that the female university student named Wen Hui was hugging her tightly when she was about to give in. He couldn't care less now. If he couldn't stand the gunfire in the battlefield and ran away, he would only die. The shrapnel that flew at high speed could cut off half a head.
"Ah!"
The girl named Wen Hui gradually lowered her voice under Zhang Mo's care, and her emotions slowly stabilized. Ten minutes of hellish bombardment felt like a lifetime. These college students finally felt the brutality of the battlefield.
"Medic! Medic!" After the bombardment, someone shouted in a heart-wrenching manner.
Another female university student, who was slightly stronger, wore a steel helmet and staggered out of the anti-cannon hole with a face full of sweat. She bent down and felt for the source of the sound.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Wuwuwu!" The girl called Wen Hui let go of Zhang Mo and cried loudly. She was ashamed of her cowardice, but Zhang Mo didn't think they were cowards at all.
"The first time is already very good! Stronger than men! The first time I went to the battlefield, I was so scared that I almost peed my pants. At that time, I was stunned until my old class monitor pulled me out of the pit. That hellish scene still appeared in my mind. You're already very strong as a girl!”Zhang Mo found a story and told it to Wen Hui so that she wouldn't feel that being afraid was a mistake. Everyone was afraid! Moreover, this was a life-threatening matter.
"Woah! Waah!" Ma Cuiping looked at the soldier in front of her who had his intestines pierced and his stomach torn apart. He could not help but vomit. After vomiting, he supported himself with the trenches and walked forward. His eyes were red and tears flowed down. It was unknown whether it was because of the vomiting or fear, but he was in a very bad state.
" Waah!..." When Zhang Mo brought Wenhui past the dead body of the soldier who had been blown up, Wenhui couldn't help but vomit. Zhang Mo looked at it expressionlessly and felt a little sad. The young soldier had lost his life just like that.
"Let's go! You will see this scene every day in the future! Either get used to such a life, or it's not too late to leave!”Zhang Mo glanced at Wen Hui, who had just finished vomiting.
"I can do it! I can do it!" Wen Hui raised her red eyes and looked at Zhang Mo with certainty.
“……”
Zhang Mo didn't say anything else. He continued to wait for Wen Hui to shuttle through the trenches to check the casualties of each platoon. At the same time, he closely observed the movements of the Japanese army.
"Company commander! The Japanese are coming!" A soldier shuttled through the camp and found Zhang Mo Dao.
"Put them within fifty meters and hit them. Don't save the grenades when you're within twenty meters! Explode it fiercely!" Zhang Mo ordered. The soldier saluted and quickly passed down Zhang Mo's order.
"Don't be nervous! Wait for the son of a b * tch to get close! We're no match for them in a long-distance fight!”Li Zhiguo, the newly appointed platoon leader, said nervously with a Browning pistol in his hand. Platoon Leader Wu San explained to Li Zhiguo in Sichuan dialect.
Sniping at a distance from the Japanese army was definitely not as good as sniping at the Japanese veterans. If they did, they would only be suppressed. That was why Zhang Mo ordered them to start firing within 50 meters. At this distance, the Japanese army would gather together and it would be easy to aim. If they fired at 200 meters, the Japanese army would start to fight back. They would move up step by step. Moreover, the Japanese artillery would also shoot out, so they would be very passive.
"The company commander is seriously injured and needs surgery! The bandaging could only delay his death!”Ma Cuiping inspected a soldier who had been injured by the explosion. There were many shrapnel on his back. If they didn't take them out, it would only delay his death, just as Ma Cuiping had said.
"The two of you carry him down and send him to the hospital for treatment!”Zhang Mo immediately ordered the wounded soldier to be taken to the hospital.
Da da! Da da!
Two ZB26 light machine guns were fired first. The shooters were all cloned soldiers. Their shooting skills were very good. The sound of the gunshot took away several Japanese soldiers. After the light machine guns were fired, the rest of the weapons also opened fire. In a short close-range shot, more than ten Japanese soldiers fell. The Japanese immediately organized a counterattack and opened fire on the position.
The two Type 92 heavy machine guns and four Taisho Type 11 crooked machine guns of the Japanese army launched a fire suppression on the position. There were also many Japanese veterans carrying grenade launchers among the accompanying Japanese soldiers. They could use the grenade launchers to accurately throw them within a range of 150 meters, which showed their high accuracy. This made the light machine guns of the Soviet Republic on the position misfire several times. One of the light machine guns of the Soviet Republic was directly dried into spare parts, which was unexpected to Zhang Mo. He had no choice but to retrieve the Soviet model and exchange it for a few MP18 submachine guns to suppress the Japanese firepower.
The maximum effective range of a submachine gun was about 200 meters. Any higher and the bullets would drift away. Where they hit would depend on luck. On the other hand, heavy and light machine guns could accurately suppress your firepower from 500 meters away.
"Throw the grenade!" When the Japanese soldiers were about to pounce on them, everyone took out grenades and threw them forward. It didn't matter who was hit, they were thrown into the Japanese.
Four consecutive rounds of grenades were thrown, which hindered the attacking Japanese army. However, the Japanese army was not stupid. Although they wanted to take down the position, they also lined up in a very loose formation. The distance between the front and back was more than seven or eight meters, which greatly simplified the lethality of the grenades. However, they also successfully took away more than 20 Japanese soldiers. This was a small display.
"Everyone, raise your bayonet! Follow behind the vanguard and provide cover!" Zhang Mo's strategy was to have all the riflemen follow behind the submachine gunners. If the submachine gunners were to change their magazines, the riflemen behind would raise their bayonet to cover the submachine gunners, and at the same time, they would also shoot.
"Kill!" Zhang Mo stood up and shouted as he held his submachine gun. More than 80 people rushed out of the position, and more than 10 submachine gunners fired at the front, causing a lot of casualties to the Japanese army. The Japanese army did not expect the Chinese army to dare to rush out and counterattack.
The entire battle lasted for nearly an hour. When both sides were exhausted, the sky turned completely dark. The Japanese troops retreated. Zhang Mo led his troops to clean up and returned to their positions.
"Have the injured been sent down?" Zhang Mo asked.
"Send it down! However, the hospital did not have any extra medicine to treat them!”At this point, Ma Cuiping and Wen Hui wiped their tears and sobbed.
"How did this happen?" How could medicine be so scarce in 1937?
"Company commander! We are a mixed army! Son of a stepmother! You're going to get us!" Li Changzui said with a bitter smile.
"Bang!"
Zhang Mo took off his helmet and smashed it into the trench. He was very angry! He was really angry. The soldiers in front were fighting a bloody battle, and they were still divided into three, six, and nine grades. This made Zhang Mo so angry that he was trembling!
"Company commander! Calm down! This is all fate!" Tomcat picked up the yellow mud stained helmet and wiped it before handing it to Zhang Mo.
“……”
Zhang Mo sat on the ground, not caring whether it was dirty or not. He held the steel helmet in his hand and lowered his head. He really wanted to take his brothers to the hospital, but his rationality told him that he couldn't do this. The consequences of doing so could only be treated as a rebel and cleaned up. Everyone present would die, and the position would be handed over to the Japanese. He could only endure it.
"We can follow you, Captain! We're all very lucky! Really! I'm not lying to you! You treat our Sichuan Army as your own brothers! They didn't use us as cannon fodder! All of us are very touched. We've long seen through life and death! Why did he leave Sichuan? Just to beat up Little Japan! Now that he had died to beat up little Japan, it was a worthy death!”The Half Fairy choked on her sobs, making Zhang Mo feel as if he was being pricked by needles.
This book comes from：m.funovel.com。