Rise From Eight Hundred

Chapter 153 The answer in trembling

 The Japanese artillery was so crazy that it was not until the Japanese infantry crawled to a distance of nearly 50 meters that they finally returned to normal.

 The two extremely frightening 120-meter field guns finally stopped bombarding.

Those are the two artillery pieces that caused the greatest losses to the warehouse. In the battle to suppress the Japanese army's continuous movement towards the warehouse, 8 of the warehouse defenders died directly from the power of these artillery pieces.

Yes, in addition to the heavy machine gun crew, machine gunner, and ammunition hand being killed, the No. 2 machine gun also had an accident.

In order to suppress the firepower of the infantry cannon, the two machine guns did not stop counterattacking. The emplacement where the No. 2 machine gun was located was hit by a Japanese cannon from the front of the fortification. It had been reinforced with more than three layers of sandbags and could even withstand the infantry cannon. The 120-caliber direct-sighted gun was as fragile as an eggshell. When the entire fortification was blown to pieces, the machine gun, the artillery squad leader, the shooter, the observer, and the two ammunition handlers were also blown to pieces.

The walls of the room where they were sitting showed a terrible burnt black color, which was caused by the high temperature after the gunpowder explosion and the color after the soldiers' blood was dried by the high temperature generated by the explosion.

The ground is full of machine gun parts and human remains. If a few other ammunition crews hadn't been ordered to go out and carry sandbags to continue the reinforcement, I'm afraid an entire artillery squad would have been laid off here.

Lei Xiong's eyes were red at the moment he received the bad news, but he was surprisingly calm. He just roared: "Keep fighting!" and rejoined the shooting.

Only Tang Dao, who was not far away from him, could see the tears quietly falling from the corners of the tough guy's eyes, which were then dried by the hot bullet shells that flew up.

Those who could follow Lei Xiong were all veterans who had been in the army for more than three years. There were more than a thousand old brothers who lived and ate together day and night. Eight of them were gone at once, and even their bodies were not intact. No matter how tough he was, how could he? It can break your heart.

 It’s just that the battle is not over yet. The living must work harder to live, carrying the responsibilities that the dead have shouldered.

This is Paoze!

However, in order to reduce losses, it is impossible for the Japanese infantry to charge before half of the soldiers in the warehouse die in order to suppress them and continue to approach! In that case, not to mention a whole day, even a whole morning would not be able to be used up.

Tang Dao had no choice but to call in several platoon leaders, including Second Lieutenant 'Tietou' who refused to retreat, and strictly ordered all firepower points, including light machine guns, not to shoot behind the sandbag fortifications, but only to shoot behind safer shooting holes. .

Although they are unwilling to do so, no one dares to disobey orders on the battlefield. Military law is no joke.

 It’s not that I’m afraid of death, but I want to save my head and fight with the Japanese.

If you want to reduce casualties, you have to pay a price.

The firing range of the shooting holes drilled in the wall is not as wide as behind the sandbag fortifications. There are enough blind spots for shooting to reduce the extremely ferocious firepower on the battlefield by at least half.

 The Japanese frontline infantry commanders were keenly aware of this situation and attacked more resolutely.

Finally, the Japanese infantry approached from several blind spots to a distance of 40 meters.

 This time, there were still more than 150 people.

　　Except for the heavy machine guns that were still firing, all Japanese artillery fire had stopped.

 The faces of the soldiers on both sides are in their clear fields of vision, tense!

The faces of several Japanese military officers in the distance were also extremely serious.

On the south bank of the Suzhou River, both Chinese and Westerners continued to remain silent.

 Because, everyone knows that the next step will be the battlefield for the infantry.

 Did the Japanese infantry swarm in? Or can the Chinese defenders still rely on those high-speed machine guns to crush the Japanese army's stormy impact on the spot?

It’s just that the Chinese defenders who were driven out of the first floor by the Japanese artillery of large and small calibers will no longer have the perfect shooting range as in the previous round. Perhaps when they show up, the crazy Japanese infantry artillery will dare to fire. They have just expressed their determination with practical actions.

After the war, according to the declassified battle report of the 3rd Division on October 31, driven by Jiro Wakiba's desperate attack order, the Japanese army killed 300 people on the spot and injured nearly 400 people, but the real casualties were from bullets. No more than 300, which means that more than one-half of the Japanese troops were killed or injured by their own artillery.

 But this madness seems to be worth it so far. More than 150 Japanese soldiers are waiting to charge in a position less than 40 meters away from the blind spot of most firearms in the warehouse.

At a distance of 40 meters, it only takes about six or seven seconds for even a fully armed soldier to cross the trench that represents the death line and reach the foot of the warehouse building.

If the warehouse defenders continued to retreat, the hard shell of their fortress would be blasted one by one by the Japanese troops carrying explosive bags.

 Just because the Japanese artillery fire stopped raging, it does not mean that the Chinese defenders’ counterattack also fell into silence.

 Machine guns, submachine guns and even rifles pose little threat to the Japanese troops in the blind spot area due to their restricted range of fire, so kill them from the roof of the building.

In the fortification on the roof of the building, Lao Hei and his second shift replaced the baggage shift that was originally on the roof. Their main task was to throw grenades at the Japanese troops at the two corners of the warehouse.

More than a dozen people were distributed in two corners of the warehouse, risking the rain of Japanese grenades and desperately throwing grenades thirty to forty meters below. Every second, there were at least six to seven grenades. The grenade exploded among the Japanese skirmishers and took away the lives of several Japanese soldiers.

Recruit Niu Er hid in a room on the fourth floor, looking for his target with sharp eyes, then fired as fast as possible, pulled the bolt, and fired again until he had emptied all five of his official rifles. After firing the bullet, he turned over and shrank under the wall, reinserted the magazine and pressed in the bullet.

The newly-minted super shooter’s pursed lips were still determined, but looking at the khaki figures of the Japanese troops still gathering outside the shooting pile, his eyes still showed some weakness.

During these days of defensive battles, he used his superb shooting skills to kill at least thirty Japanese soldiers. His extremely strong talent and the confidence he accumulated from constantly hitting targets made him the most popular marksman in the warehouse besides Tang Dao. The strongest shooter.

In the "board charge" launched by the Japanese army today and the decisive attack just now, in less than two hours, his record was close to the total of the previous four days.

 But even if this is the case, so what?

 The Japanese army used the stupidest tactics, but they were also the most ferocious.

 Human wave tactics.

 If you can't exchange five lives for one, then exchange ten for one.

If the Japanese army is like a sea of ​​people, then the warehouse is like an isolated island in the ocean, constantly being hit by rough waves, and it is not known when it will be submerged by the turbulent waves.

 Sir, will you still lead your brothers and fight through the thorns and waves with the guns in your hands?

 Super shooter, faced with such a fierce Japanese offensive, felt despair for the first time.

 Everyone is waiting for the answer with almost trembling.

Tang Dao and Lei Xiong stared forward, and then looked sideways at each other.

 The two strongest warriors from the future and this time and space both laughed.

It was contempt for the ferocity of the Japanese army, and also gratification for his comrade-in-arms Pao Ze's sympathy.

 If you want to fight, then fight!

that is it!

 (End of this chapter)