Chapter 44 Shelling
boom!
A cannonball roared over the river of the Lizaobang and fell into the position of the company in a graceful arc. As the earth shook violently, a huge cloud of mushrooms rose up, mud splattered everywhere, and the scorching waves swept across all directions.
The remaining soldiers who were drinking the porridge were like weeds on the field. The air waves swept across, and they were all overturned to the ground. The porridge in the bowl was also dropped and sprinkled into the mud and water.
Fatty Tian San was knocked over by the air waves and turned into a wet mud man. He got up in a mess, touched the mud on his face, his eyes full of anger: "Damn, I'm planning grandma!"
Lying down!
Yang Ling rushed over and the fat man rolled in the mud again. His grown mouth was filled with mud. A cannonball fell on the earth and beams of the trench. With a rumbling sound, most of the trench was shaken and collapsed, covering Yang Ling and the fat man's back with a thick layer of soil.
The dense shells fell into the defenders' positions one after another. The survivors of the 61st Division who were having breakfast threw away their rice bowls and jumped into the mud-filled trenches like frightened rabbits.
"Do not to hide from the cannon!" Lao Yan stood up with his gun and stumbled towards the bunker in the Tibetan camp not far away. The shells kept falling down, and the splashes of earth and rocks hit his body with a burning pain. He didn't care about so much at this moment, just wanted to escape quickly.
The remaining soldiers cursed and ran away. The shells fell densely. The bodies on the position were blown up to the sky. Then the flesh and internal organs all over the sky fell down like a bloody rain, and a foul stench spread on the position.
"Wow!" The broken internal organs were poured on Luo Dayong's head. The big and thick man smelled the nausea stench of Ning Ren, and his heart was full of scent. He couldn't help but vomit all the porridge that had just been poured into his stomach.
"Don't lie down and hide in the crater!" Yang Ling pulled the fat man Tian San, who was stunned by the blow, and shouted at the remaining soldiers running around on the position.
The chances of the Japanese shells falling into the same crater are very small, and Yang Ling hopes that this will escape the disaster.
A remnant soldier fell to the ground tremblingly. Faced with the roar of explosions around, his legs were weak and covered his ears and screamed. The earth was trembling violently. He felt that his internal organs were shattered, his head was swollen, his eyes turned black, and he lost consciousness.
"Damn it! You don't have any artillery to bully us!" The 361st Regiment was set up in the command bunker hundreds of meters behind. Major regiment commander Li Zhong looked at the position ahead and was covered with Japanese artillery fire. He was filled with grief and anger, and punched the sandbag with one punch and cursed angrily.
The field artillery corps affiliated to the 9th Division of the Japanese Army were equipped with 36 75mm field artillery pieces. At this moment, the gun barrels with metallic luster were bombarding the sixty-first positions on the opposite bank. With the sound of the bulbs, a series of shells rose and landed in the air and stirred up a huge mud on the other bank.
The position of the 361st Regiment of the 61st Division was under key care. Because of the fierce battle overnight, the Japanese army left more than 300 bodies in front of their positions, which completely angered the Japanese army. They were now carrying out crazy artillery retaliation.
Li Zhong, the commander of the 361st Regiment, watched the position on his side turn into ruins under the bombardment of the Japanese army. Seeing the frightened and running soldiers being bombed into two pieces, he closed his eyes in pain, unable to bear to see such a tragedy happen. He stood there and let the falling mud pour over his body.
"Group, it's too dangerous here, should we retreat?" The dusty adjutant stumbled into the bunker command center, rushed to Li Zhong, and spoke up for advice.
"What did you say!" The roar of cannons made a buzzing sound in his ears, and Li Zhong asked loudly.
"Room! It's too dangerous here. Should we retreat?" the adjutant pulled Sangzi and shouted loudly. This time Li Zhong heard it clearly.
Li Zhong dusted the mud all over his body, picked up the formal rifle placed on the wooden board, pulled the bolt and shouted: "Who dares to evacuate without authorization! I will kill him first!"
Li Zhong's words made the officers who had originally wanted to retreat and were shocked. Looking at Li Zhong's red eyes, they knew that Li Zhong was not a joke.
The regiment commander Li Zhong looked around the officers in the command center and shouted: "It is the duty of our soldiers to defend our country! The Japanese army killed our compatriots! Occupy my land! How could we soldiers retreat if we have any reason!"
"Get together the guard company! Follow me to kill the enemy and serve the country!" Li Zhong shouted, strode out of the command center bunker with his rifle.
The corps of the regiment headquarters were all passionate soldiers. Seeing the country's territory decay and the compatriots were killed, I had already held my breath in my heart. When Li Zhong shouted like this, his heart was immediately filled with passion.
"I'm fighting with the Japanese today!" The officers drew their guns one after another, following Li Zhong's steps and walked towards the position, preparing for a bloody battle with the Japanese army.
The Japanese field artillery corps exhausted a base of ammunition and then stopped the shelling. The Chinese defenders on the right bank had been plowed over the positions, with broken corpses everywhere being blown up, and the trenches were also rotten.
Yang Ling stood up from the mud and water shakingly, his brain was drowsy and roaring. He knew that this was the sequelae of the shelling. He climbed up the trenches and saw countless Japanese soldiers wearing steel helmets pressing over in a line of scattered soldiers.
"Is there any breath? The Japanese have come here and prepare for battle!" Yang Ling rushed to the place where they stored the ammunition, lifted the reed pole covered on it, grabbed the bullet and a rifle, and turned around and jumped into the mud-filled trenches.
"I'm still alive, hahaha, still alive." Luo Dayong stood up staggeringly, grinning, as if he was crazy about gaining and losing his heart.
"I know you are alive, and you will die later!" Lao Yangui spit out mud in his mouth and kicked Luo Dayong up angrily: "Hurry up and take the gun, the Japanese have already touched it!"
Three of more than a dozen remaining soldiers died, and their bodies were all broken into pieces and they could not tell the difference. However, this is war, cruel and bloody. On this battlefield where human lives are like grass, no one knows whether the next one will die, so they don’t have time to cry and be sad.
Yang Ling pulled the bolt to pull the bullet and loaded it. The sight of the star aimed at the Japanese lieutenant holding the command knife in his hand, waiting for the opponent to enter the range.
The remaining soldiers also took their weapons one after another and lay on both sides of Yangling. The bolts were clattering, and they gasped. They were the thin line of defense of this position.
"Mom, three more died." Lao Yanqiu twisted the grenade open in front of him, talking to himself, not knowing whether it was a curse or a regret. Seeing that fewer and fewer people in the replenishment company, Lao Yanqiu's mood was getting worse and worse.
Chapter completed!