Rise From Eight Hundred

 Chapter 112 A Crazy Half Day

Sure enough, as the machine gun firepower of the defenders in the warehouse weakened, the Japanese infantry moved more resolutely towards the warehouse.

Especially the Japanese troops from both wings, the closest ones have even reached the area 50 meters in front of the warehouse. If the machine guns hadn't restarted firing to push them back, the Japanese demolition team hidden in the infantry would have probably rushed up.

 After repeated testing three or four times in a row, the Japanese army also tested the bottom line of the Chinese defenders. From the first 100 meters away, most of them used infantry rifles to fight back. Only when they reached within 100 meters, the extremely ammunition-consuming machine guns would fire again.

What makes Wakiitajiro very painful is that although the warehouse defenders are saving ammunition, which shows that their ammunition reserves are not sufficient, as long as they fire, they are extremely determined, and more than 20 light machine guns and five or six heavy machine guns are fired. The hail of bullets formed a wall of death, making it difficult for people to take a step beyond the barrier.

Even though the imperial infantry under his command were just testing and did not launch a desperate attack, at least dozens of corpses were still left in front of the wall of death.

 Throughout the morning, the two warring parties consumed each other in this back-and-forth trial.

It's just that the warehouse defenders consumed ammunition, while the Japanese army consumed human lives.

Even the people watching the battle in the concession knew that a battle of this level was just the scene before the storm, not even an appetizer. The real decisive battle was yet to come.

Sure enough, at noon, when the autumn sun was shining, the Japanese army began to attack more resolutely.

 First, conventional operations used mountain artillery and infantry artillery to clear the warehouse. Then, the Japanese infantry, which had advanced the temporary field trenches to less than 300 meters from the warehouse, began to attack.

This wave of attacking Japanese troops was obviously much more tenacious than in the morning. The Japanese infantry artillery located in a semi-permanent fortification 500 meters away was still firing when the infantry reached a position 100 meters away.

 Infantry and artillery coordination sounds very simple, but it is definitely a technical task, and it does not mean that you can increase skill points just by relying on bravery.

The quality of the individual soldiers of the Japanese army is among the top three in the world, but this kind of technical work is not even a little bit worse than that of the Western world, which is equipped with a large number of artillery.

Although the infantry artillery raised its elevation angle to kill the second and third floors of Sihang Warehouse while trying to avoid injuring the infantry who were still making various rounds on the battlefield ahead, there were still unlucky ones who unfortunately hit the trajectory of the artillery shells.

 What would it be like to be hit by a cannonball that was running at nearly a kilometer per second?

 At noon on October 28th, this scene was clearly shown to everyone on the battlefield of the Sihang Warehouse attack and defense battle.

A Japanese soldier was hunched over a piece of rubble and was resolutely advancing towards the warehouse with bullets fired at him. Suddenly, it burst apart without any warning.

The whole person was torn apart like a watermelon hit by a heavy hammer weighing hundreds of kilograms. The pieces of flesh and blood flew out and knocked down two Japanese infantrymen who were also ignorant about more than ten meters away. It took a long time. No one got up.

 Come to think of it, the feeling of being hit hard by seven or eight kilograms of meat accelerated by the kinetic energy of the cannonball wouldn't be that wonderful!

 Sure enough, the most difficult bullet to guard against comes from behind! No, rather cannonballs.

No matter who fired the gun, they should lie down and hide their butts tightly. Many people who witnessed this scene understood this truth very deeply.

Of course, this kind of tragedy is just the tip of the iceberg on the battlefield. The Japanese infantry who are fully committed to the attack, let alone not seeing it, even if they see it, it will be difficult to stop their determined steps.

 Because their commander was determined and almost cruel.

Behind them, a light machine gun was set up on the edge of the trench. It was the Japanese army's own supervising team. The guns were aimed not at the warehouse, but at all the Japanese infantry who dared to retreat without receiving the order to retreat.

 Going forward is death, and retreating is also death. Both are inevitable options, but they are good choices.

The Japanese army's attack was unprecedentedly resolute. Even after entering a hundred meters away, the machine guns, submachine guns, shell guns, and rifles of the warehouse defenders were like exploded hedgehogs. Even the golden sunlight could barely cover up the fiery trajectory of the metal torrent that instantly erupted. , they still charged towards the warehouse from the blind spots they selected.

 The most recent ones even rushed into the trenches of the first line of defense of the warehouse.

However, that was the final position they advanced to. Although the firepower output of the firepower points on the second and third floors was suppressed to a minimum by the Japanese infantry artillery, which did not regard their own infantry as human beings, once the Japanese army got too close, it was not just bullets that greeted them.

The trenches were the best place to drop bombs. The Chinese defenders did not use guns at all, and they did not even need to look at them. They only had to drop the smoking grenades from the second and third floors.

 It is absolutely a nightmare for infantrymen to rush into a trench with waist-deep water at any time. The water cannot stop the violent shrapnel from being shot in, but it can slow down people's movements.

 Somewhat similar to a fish bombing, the slow-moving Japanese soldiers were killed by flying shrapnel in the stagnant water.

Many corpses of Japanese soldiers sank to the bottom of the water, making it unclear how many Japanese soldiers died in this trench. But just looking at the color of the water in the trench, you will know that the water that was originally shaken by the air waves turned a little yellow. Turns into a heart-stopping dark red.

Especially when a grenade is thrown into the water and stirs up a cloud of water, the water in the sun is bright red.

That was stained with the blood of an unknown number of Japanese soldiers.

However, despite this, the Japanese army still refused to retreat. From noon to dusk, the Japanese army attacked wave after wave.

People on the south bank of the Suzhou River carefully recorded that throughout the afternoon, the defenders of Sihang Warehouse repelled twelve consecutive Japanese attacks!

The streets and open space on the east and west sides of Sihang Warehouse and the front of the building, including the ruins, are already littered with corpses. Wherever you look, you can see yellow excrement bodies lying on the ground.

The 36th Infantry Regiment, which had almost sent all its infantry squadrons into the attack twice, was almost disabled.

The Japanese colonel, whose eyes were already bloodshot, wanted to take off his uniform and go to the front line to supervise the battle in person at least twice, but Jun Makino worked hard to pull him back.

Perhaps, the Japanese lieutenant colonel, who was shocked by his boss's cold and stupid behavior, actually wanted his boss, who was almost crazy, to go to the front line and be killed by the Chinese's terrifying cold gunmen.

What the **** are you doing to consume the Chinese ammunition? Now you are an idiot! In one day, the entire regiment suffered more than 700 casualties, and the Chinese, who had learned to save money, did not see much less ammunition. The machine guns and submachine guns were like pouring rain when their own infantry approached.

Especially the grenades thrown from upstairs that seemed to be inexhaustible, the bombing made the Japanese soldiers almost doubt their life from top to bottom.

Damn it, this building can’t be the arsenal that the Chinese used to have! The Japanese Lieutenant Colonel can almost conclude his guess.

 But regardless of whether it was true or not, after paying the horrific casualties of more than 700 imperial warriors, one of the battle plans formulated by the idiot Jiro Wakiba was completely bankrupt.

Makino Shun, who was almost hugging the thigh of the Japanese army colonel and begging him not to be impulsive, was actually very rational, and saving him was also saving himself.

 When the war is defeated, someone needs to take the blame. If the regiment commander dies, it will be him, the lieutenant commander, who will take the blame;

Secondly, the commander of the regiment has gone to the front line. Can he, the deputy of the regiment, not accompany him? Accompanying me to take the bullets from the cold gunmen of the Chinese?

That must not be possible! I would rather take the blame than get shot.

Of course, who can’t do this?

Judging from the intensity of the captain's struggle, Makino Jun knew that he was actually just giving the shameful and angry captain a way to apologize to His Majesty the Emperor without having to break his belly.

 After all, there is still hope, right?

 The engineer regiment sent by the division to support is the last hope.

Whether they can successfully dig out the blasting tunnel is the last straw to save the remaining more than 1,000 troops of the 36th Infantry Regiment.

For senior officers, those who failed to conquer the fortress after paying such terrible casualties would inevitably be dismissed from their posts. For lower-level officers and soldiers, the number of casualties would naturally only increase.

 (End of this chapter)