"Boom", a Japanese flare suddenly hit the sky, and at the moment when the flare exploded, below were a group of officers and soldiers of the 337th Brigade hiding in the ruins.
"Click, click, click", several Japanese light machine guns rang out at the same time, and the ruins were covered with clouds of smoke. The 337th Brigade's counterattack was once again blocked by the Japanese.
As the competition for Xiaobengbu became more intense, there were no intact houses left in Xiaobengbu. Coupled with the indiscriminate bombardment by Japanese aircraft and artillery during the day, the tall ruins became shorter, and the short ones turned into piles of gravel, so that now There are no good bunkers available along the path of the Northeast Army's advance.
As soon as the ground became open, the firepower of the Japanese army played a decisive role. The death squad of the Northeastern Army was originally intended to make a quick detour from here to pose a threat to the Japanese army's flanks and rear flanks.
However, the Northeast officers and soldiers did not know that the Japanese army was already targeting this place at this time. Instead of just targeting this place, there was a Japanese commander looking at the ruins in the distance that could still provide some cover for the attackers.
In his eyes, the Northeastern officers and soldiers were like tiny ants, the kind of worker ants in an ant colony. He did not expect that this group of tiny "ants" could cause so much damage to his team.
So, he thought, what is the best way to get rid of these worker ants? That is of course a direct guide to the anthill.
Under the light of the flare, his eyes passed over the ruins that were being beaten into dust and smoke, and then his eyes stopped at a relatively tall ruins behind the ruins.
He determined that there was the "ant nest" of the Chinese army, and he began to shout loudly, and a few minutes later, the three Japanese heavy machine guns that were deployed on the high point suddenly began to fire wildly.
Just in the midst of the shocking firing of the heavy machine gun, the Japanese army's light machine gun's short bursts of firing were suppressed and then stopped shooting.
At this time, the 337th Brigade Death Squadron soldiers who had survived in the ruins in front were surprised.
I was surprised. The entire town of Xiaobengbu was only so long. Did the Japanese army still have to use heavy machine guns?
Heavy machine guns are meant to hit distant targets. How far are they from the fire sprayed by the Japanese heavy machine guns now? Just a hundred meters away, the Japanese army actually fired their heavy machine guns at close range!
This style of fighting is really crazy. Even the veterans of the Northeast Army have never seen such a fighting style.
The second surprise was that the bullets from the Japanese heavy machine guns did not fall on their hiding place, but flew straight over their heads and hit the higher ruins behind them!
How can the penetration power of heavy machine gun bullets be the same as that of light machine guns or Type 38 rifles?
When the suicide squad soldiers turned around, they saw that some of the low walls in the ruins behind them had been beaten until sparks flew everywhere, and finally collapsed with a "bang" and were filled with smoke and dust.
However, the Japanese offensive was still not over at this point. There were "hiss" and "hiss" sounds in the night sky, and then there were mortar shells and grenade grenades falling on the ruins behind.
"No! Kill the kid's heavy machine gun!" shouted the captain of the death squad of the 337th Brigade.
They came out of the higher ruins at the back, so how could they not know? There were two companies of troops for this attack hidden there.
Whether it's a mortar or a grenade, it's a direct-fire weapon. There's nothing they can do about it.
If they also have deflection weapons, then it is very sad. Their so-called deflection weapons are just the grenades he carries with him.
Hand grenades were for close combat, and they couldn't use them now, so all they could use now were guns.
Under the officer's loud orders, dozens of soldiers from the 337th Brigade emerged from their hiding places. The rifles in their hands were of course pointing to the three heavy machine guns of the Japanese army that were fired at close range.
The bullets from the heavy machine guns still whizzed past their heads, but the bullets hit them behind and there was no threat to them. However, the fatal ones were still the Japanese light machine guns.
The moment the death squads appeared, the already sparse Japanese machine gun fire became intensive again. Most of the suicide squads who appeared were shot and fell. After their desperate blow, Only one of the three heavy machine guns of the Japanese army went mute, and a moment later, the heavy machine gun rang again. The machine gunner could die, but he could be replaced if he died.
The firepower of the Japanese army was so fierce that few of the shooters who emerged were alive.
"Company commander!" A soldier shouted in the ruins, but there was no response.
"Platoon leader! Platoon leader! Lao Zhu! Xiao Hanzi!" The soldier shouted again, but still no one responded to him.
"Are they all dead?" the soldier murmured, and a tragic emotion began to spread in his heart.
He reached out and touched his side. The bundle of cluster grenades was still there.
I don't know if he will have a chance to use this, but now he can only think like this.
But at this moment, a voice not far from him sounded: "Miao Zhuang! Miao Zhuang!"
"Who?" the soldier said happily when he heard someone calling his name.
"It's me, Yao Dan'er!" The man replied and crawled over under the cover of the ruins.
"Are we the only two left?" Miao Zhuang recognized the soldier who called himself Yao Dan, and was even familiar with him. The two of them were originally from the same platoon.
The original nickname of yam eggs was potatoes, but later I don’t know which soldier heard that potatoes were called yam eggs in other provinces. They thought yam eggs sounded much more playful than potatoes, so they changed the name to him.
"I heard you shouting, but aren't we the only two left? Let's run back, right?" Yam Egg said.
"How about that? We are a death squad!" Miao Zhuang refused.
"The suicide squad is also trying to seize the position. Can the two of us take it back? The two at the back are even estimated to have suffered heavy casualties!" Yamiao Dan was very thoughtful.
"Then I won't go back. I'm just here to die!" Miao Zhuang still refused.
Nowadays, the Northeast Army, not just the Northeast Army, most of the death squads in the Chinese army are not designated. Instead, death squads are to be set up and soldiers can sign up voluntarily.
Both Miao Zhuang and Yao Dan signed up voluntarily.
What is a death squad? That is to say, going out to perform dangerous tasks is equivalent to death, so dare to die!
A suicide squad with hundreds of people would sometimes not be able to survive more than ten people, and among these ten people, they had to be the wounded who had won the battle and been rescued.
Miao Zhuang remembers the words of brigade commander Liu Chengyi: "Be proud of death and ashamed of life"!
"What are you dying for?" Yao Dan asked.
"Of course I died to kill the little Japs." Miao Zhuang replied.
"But why don't you go out and kill a kid now and let me take a look?" Yao Dan asked.
Miao Zhuang remained silent.
He came out to kill the Japs, but the problem is that the Japs' light and heavy machine guns are firing now. If he dares to show up now, he doesn't know whether the bundle of grenades he is holding will be exploded by the Japanese army, but He knew that if he dared to go out now, he would definitely die! Moreover, if a Japanese soldier cannot be killed, that is no different from committing suicide!
"You are so stubborn, you will die if you go out, and you will definitely not be able to complete your mission, so you might as well go back and live.
If there is another suicide squad next time, I will sign up again.
It's as if I didn't sign up myself but was kidnapped by you. "Yam Egg said dissatisfied.
In the end, Miao Zhuang was convinced by the yam eggs, and the two of them retreated while the sound of Japanese machine gun fire became less frequent.
But just as they retreated to the ruins behind them that were more and more fragmented by the Japanese bombings, they still stopped.
There was a company commander there who said, "We can't retreat any longer. Even if we can't regain our position tonight, we still have to hold on from the front. Behind us is the brigade headquarters!"
