As far as the eye can see, two companies of soldiers from the Northwest Army wearing gray cloths are rushing out of the road with swords in their hands. The cold light of the swords on both sides of the road exceeds the light of snow in the mountains.
On the other hand, the Japanese army, except for the dozens of Japanese soldiers at the front who were surrounded by the northwest army and fought hand-to-hand on both sides, the Japanese army on the road actually shrank!
The Japanese army did not stab directly because the bayonet-mounted rifle in their hands was long enough as everyone imagined.
As a result, the shards of sword light waving in the hands of the northwest army formed a sharp contrast with the shard of sword light held in front of them by the Japanese army.
This should be the first large-scale hand-to-hand combat between China and Japan since the Sino-Japanese War.
The firepower of the Northwest Army cannot keep up with the Japanese army.
Although it was an ambush, the exchange of fire between the two sides only lasted for a while. The Chinese soldiers discovered that although they had rocks as bunkers, they actually suffered a disadvantage during the exchange of fire!
So the regiment commander who directed the ambush gave the order resolutely and launched a hand-to-hand attack!
"Charge up! Don't let them form a formation, separate them!" the regiment leader yelled!
The swords on their heads were facing the Japanese bayonets on their chests. It didn't take much thinking to know how much damage their men would suffer from such a collision.
There are bayonets facing each other on the opposite side. If the bayonets cannot be separated to cut the Japanese army, even though the Northwest Army is well-trained in swords, how can the sword be as long as a rifle.
How about thousands of troops standing with bayonets standing in a row? At this time, the competition is not about personal martial arts? At this time, it was already a group battle.
The commander's command is undoubtedly correct, but the question is, is the Japanese army's formation so easily torn apart?
In the process of their people rushing and dividing, didn't the Japanese bayonets grow longer?
Then a tragic scene happened.
A soldier of the Northwest Army rushed forward brandishing a broadsword less than one meter long. Of course he knew that a bayonet was coming towards him, but he still took it. The people of the 29th Army were so bloody!
It's just that although the soldier's broadsword deflected two bayonets, one bayonet still pierced his ribs from the side.
"Ah!" the soldier roared in resignation, trying hard to throw the knife out, but the bayonet piercing his chest finally made him give up and throw the knife away.
The Japanese soldier naturally wanted to draw his sword when he saw the stabbing, but at this time it was a team battle. Any pause between the enemy and us would inevitably lead to a counterattack from the other side.
Before the Japanese army's bayonet was drawn out, the soldiers from the Northwest Army rushed up again, and a big knife hit his neck directly.
There was blood spurting out, which also meant that today's battle was destined to be tragic!
The collision of bayonets and steel knives made a "clang" sound. Soldiers of the Northwest Army were stabbed continuously, but eventually soldiers of the Northwest Army rushed into the enemy's formation.
Since some Japanese troops have been cut off, it means the beginning of group fights, and the cut off Japanese troops will form formations again to counteract each other.
But at this moment, the sound of firing from box artillery sounded, and Japanese soldiers kept screaming and falling to the ground. Even if some did not fall, their legs and feet were no longer flexible.
The reason here was that someone from the Northwest Army shot the Japanese soldier in the leg.
You don't dare to hit your upper body. The road is only so wide. If the bullet flies away, you will hurt your own people, so it's always okay to shoot your feet, face and calves with a gun!
The enemy and we were crowded and fighting together. After all, the box cannon could not fire at will. It became an auxiliary means in this fight.
But the Japanese army did not have such a close-range shooting weapon, or even if the Japanese army officers had those bastard box-style pistols, the ration rate of the pistols was definitely not as popular as the box guns of the Northwest Army.
For a time, on the battlefield that was several miles long, the Japanese army had an advantage by virtue of the length of the Type 38 rifle, but the Northwest Army used the close-range shooting of the box cannon to regain the disadvantage.
The enemy and we were fighting like this, with loud shouts and people falling to the ground. Some of our people were already fighting with each other.
And after their blood flowed to the ground, it became a mess.
The blood just dyed the snow red at first, but gradually it became like earthworms, and then it became like a stream!
Unlike most battlefields, there was silence at the front of the battlefield at this time. Dozens of soldiers from the Northwest Army held broadswords in their hands and were facing off against a dozen Japanese soldiers who were surrounded by their backs.
And around us, there were still some corpses of Japanese and Chinese soldiers lying.
The Japanese soldiers had no casualties. Even those who were stabbed were repaired by Chinese soldiers, while the wounded Chinese soldiers had been rescued aside.
The reason here is that in addition to the dozens of Northwest Army soldiers, there are nearly 20 Chinese soldiers standing guard with their guns drawn, and some of them are even stepping on the corpses of Japanese soldiers whose blood is still warm.
Hand-to-hand combat has always been so cruel. The disadvantaged side has no casualties at all, because all the wounded are destined to be hit.
One of these people was holding a Type 38 rifle in his hand, and his box gun was already inserted into his waist. That person was none other than Shang Zhen.
Previously, the Japanese forwards rushed here, and it happened that the Northwest Army also launched a hand-to-hand battle. Shang Zhen, who was lying on the ground pretending to be dead, finally stood up and killed two Japanese soldiers.
Then the 29th Army soldiers who rushed over from both sides started a hand-to-hand battle with the Japanese army, and Shang Zhen finally escaped.
The hand-to-hand battle only lasted for a moment. Du Man and his men from afar came back to fight, and Shang Zhen and his men finally reunited.
However, due to their limited rifles, the enemy and ourselves were mixed together, so they did not move forward, but just finished their shots and watched the enemy's formation from the side.
Regardless of how the fighting happened elsewhere, at least here, the Chinese army formed a superior siege against this small group of Japanese troops.
The only thing to blame is that these Japanese troops rushed too hard and too fast, and were directly intercepted here by the 29th Army.
At this time, Shang Zhen looked at the Japanese soldier's guarded figure with a gun in the gap between the bodies of the 29th Army soldiers. He finally understood the Japanese army's stabbing ability. He also understood that when the Japanese Army's Type 38 rifle encountered the 29th Army's Which of the army's broadswords is strong and which is weak?
If it were a rifle versus a machete, both sides would be evenly matched.
If we compare multiple rifles against multiple swords, the Japanese army has the upper hand.
There were forty or fifty Japanese troops who had rushed up earlier, and more than half of them had fallen in the fight with the 29th Army officers and soldiers who had surrounded them. However, the number of fallen soldiers in the 29th Army was only much more than that of the Japanese troops!
And even though there are only a dozen Japanese soldiers surrounded by them now, if they want to bring down these dozen Japanese soldiers, how many lives of Chinese soldiers will be costed!
Shang Zhen was standing behind the 29th Army with the rifle in his hand. He picked up the rifle from the corpse of the Japanese soldier.
But at this time, not only was he standing like this, but there were several other people from their group standing around the Japanese soldiers, each holding a rifle.
Looking at them, it looks like, no, it doesn’t look like! And when someone from the 29th Army fell under the bayonet, they would come on as substitutes to fight with the Japanese army on the bayonet!
At least, that's what the Japanese troops currently surrounded in the middle of the road think.
Although some Japanese troops have been beaten to death by the broadswords of the Northwest Army, such as the one that was attacked by the 29th Army at night.
But this was the first time that this Japanese army encountered the sword of the 29th Army. They thought that they were still stronger in hand-to-hand combat!
But is it really as simple as the besieged Japanese troops imagined?
Just behind Shang Zhen, there were several soldiers holding flower traps and box cannons.
This situation is undoubtedly a bit strange now.
Since the enemy and we were fighting hand-to-hand combat, they were all mixed up. Those who used short guns in order to prevent accidental injuries to their companions did not dare to shoot!
But is this really the case?
