Chapter 51
After throwing down more than a dozen corpses, Koji Wuben retreated again.
Xu Shijiu sat on the ground with his butt, feeling like he was disbanded and was so tired.
Since the 19th Brigade took over the Saihongqiao position from the 348th Regiment at 8:30 yesterday morning, it has been holding on for nearly forty hours. Xu Shijiu can't remember how many attacks the Japanese army have repelled. The tanks alone seem to have destroyed four vehicles, two of which were killed with mortars, while the other two were exchanged by the brothers' brothers.
In addition, the Zhonghua Gate has been lost, and gunfire has sounded in Nanjing Wucheng.
After gasping for a moment, Xu Shijiu shouted hoarsely: "Each company will report the casualties."
Gu Wei and Lu Yong have all died. The one-eyed dragon, Gao Shenxing and the two temporary company commanders of the veterans were dragging their tired legs and bent over and slapped the soldiers' helmets one by one. The soldiers of each company stayed in their respective trenches. The veterans who counted very well and could breathe usually whispered, but there was no reaction, which meant that the soldier had been killed.
The casualties were counted quickly, and there were 21 people left in the entire 19th Brigade, including two seriously injured.
The 21 people were not even enough to have half a platoon of troops, not to mention that this was not the worst. The worst thing was that there was not much ammunition left.
Xu Shijiu licked his chapped lips, so he could only let Gao Shenxing take his life to collect guns, ammunition and medicine abandoned by the Japanese army. Xiao Japanese was not a fool. Of course, he would not watch the Kuomintang collect their guns, ammunition and medicine, so he used a Type 92 heavy machine gun to shoot from a distance from a thousand meters away.
In the end, only four of the seven veterans who went out to collect guns, ammunition and medicine were returned.
Gao Shenxing and three other veterans carried a total of nine poles and three-eight large covers, more than 80 rounds without bullets and ten grenades.
In the end, the remaining eighteen veterans began to check their equipment silently and allocate ammunition. In addition to Gao Shenxing, each veteran was divided into five rounds of bullets, two grenades or grenades per person. The rest were only bayonets. As for Gao Shenxing, Xu Shijiu gave him all the remaining 100 more than 7.62mm caliber bullets.
A short scream sounded in the sky again, and Xiao Niu-Ben started shelling again.
Immediately afterwards, rows of shells fell to the position of the 3rd Company. It seemed that Koji Wuben was really angry. This time, there were not only 70mm caliber 92 infantry cannons, 75mm caliber field howitzers and 105mm caliber field howitzers, and even 150mm caliber heavy howitzers!
Xu Shijiu hugged his head with his hands and squatted quietly in the trenches. He heard loud noises from time to time. Even the ground under his feet was shaking violently. The scorching sand and soil kept turning up and fell onto his body. Then he fell down his neck and fell into his neck. He was so hot that he bared his teeth, but he didn't dare to move at all.
At this moment, the only thing Xu Shijiu and the veterans could do was wait, wait for the Japanese artillery bombing to end, or wait for a shell to fall and blow them to pieces!
I don’t know how long it took, maybe a few minutes or half an hour, the Japanese artillery bombardment finally ended.
Xu Shijiu shook his head, and the hole in his ear was still buzzing. He looked forward and saw hundreds of Japanese soldiers who had already opened the sparse scattered soldiers and approaching the 19th Brigade's position. Through the smoke that had not yet completely dispersed, the cold light reflected from the Japanese bayonet could be clearly seen.
Xu Shijiu and the veterans were still dizzy. Gao Shenxing was already lying in the fox pit in the front and had sex with Xiaojiben. With the help of the scope seized from Xiaojiben's hand, the official gun in his hand had become Xiaojiben's nightmare. It was nearly a thousand meters away, as long as it was a fixed target, it was basically shot without any bullets.
Gao Shenxing also specially selected officers who were fighting with machine guns, which made the attacks made the enemy miserable.
It's hard to believe that when he first came to the position yesterday, Xiaoji Wuben's first attack was actually repelled by Gao Shenxing alone. The situation was like this at that time. The boy killed the Japanese squad leader with one shot, and then killed two heavy machine gun soldiers with two shots. When the Japanese army advanced a hundred meters, the grenadier and light machine gun soldiers were also killed. The fire support team was basically crippled, and Xiaoji Wuben could only withdraw.
However, later, Xiaoji Wuben learned his lesson and started to do various tactical avoidance actions from a distance of 1,000 meters.
Even so, Gao Shenxing's hit rate is still very high, and every two shots will definitely kill a little Japanese banker. Of course, Xiao Japanese banker will not sit and wait for death. The grenade launcher is less than a thousand meters and the machine gun is not accurate, so he can transfer mortars and infantry guns to attack. Finally, he even transferred armored vehicles and tanks. If he can force Xiao Japanese banker to this point, Gao Shenxing may have been there.
"Ding..." Accompanied by the crisp sound of shedding, another Japanese soldier fell under Gao Shenxing's muzzle. Gao Shenxing once again pulled the bolt and pushed the bullet to load it. This was the 68th Japanese soldier who fell under his muzzle. Since the 19th Brigade's defense exchange match between Hongqiao, he had been silently planning in his mind.
A short scream sounded above his head, meaning a shell was whistling towards him.
"Be careful, lie down and fall down!" The one-eyed dragon hiding dozens of meters away was anxious for him, but Gao Shenxing was unmoved at all. He locked a Japanese soldier through the scope again. He had already heard that it was a 60mm-caliber grenade, which was at least twenty meters away, and it did not pose a threat to him at all.
"Boom!" The grenade hit the ground and exploded. Sure enough, twenty meters away, Gao Shenxing was unscathed.
However, at this time, the Japanese army had approached within 500 meters. Several fire support teams finally raised the heavy machine gun and grenade launcher. The Type 92 heavy machine gun and grenade launcher were aimed at the fox pit where Gao Shenxing was hiding. The bullet was poured over like water, and the 50mm caliber grenade fell like rain.
Gao Shenxing's good time finally came to an end. He jumped from one fox pit to another and started running tiredly. He occasionally had the opportunity to stop and shoot Lengzi. A full Japanese soldier who had strengthened his team straightened his back and accelerated his pace, and rushed towards the tide of the 19th Brigade's position.
Without Xu Shijiu's orders, the veterans who could still breathe all got up one after another. A veteran whose legs were blown off also sat up under the support of his comrades. The blood on the broken legs was raking down like running water. The veteran was like nothing happened. He just held the 38th hood and coldly aimed at the Japanese soldiers rushing towards the opposite side.
"Brothers, there are not many bullets left. We don't have any good shooting skills like Guanxing. So, if you put them closer, you will be able to shoot them later, no one is allowed to waste bullets left." Xu Shijiu pulled the nose of the mirror box away and pointed the gun at the Japanese soldier who was leading the Japanese soldier. "Did you hear it clearly?"
"I heard it clearly." The sixteenth veteran responded with a loud bang.
The entire position fell into silence. Only five hundred meters away, the light and heavy machine guns of the little Japanese bank were still roaring wildly, and the infantry and mortars of the little Japanese bank were also firing continuously.
While waiting for a suffocating, the Japanese army entered within a hundred meters.
Xu Shijiu held the mirror box steadily, without any intention of shooting.
The Japanese troops accelerated again and soon entered within fifty meters. The more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who rushed in front had already untied their grenades from their waists and were about to knock on the helmet with their grenades. At this moment, Xu Shijiu finally pulled the trigger, and with a crisp sound from the horn, the Japanese soldiers who rushed in front fell to the ground.
The next moment, the sixteen veterans opened fire one after another, and the Japanese soldiers fell down a row.
However, the remaining Japanese soldiers did not turn over and lie down, but started the final sprint. The little Japanese soldiers were not blind. They had already discovered that there were not many people left in the national army on the opposite position. As long as they rushed forward, the group of national troops would be completely finished and the victory would belong to them.
After losing nearly half of his troops, the remaining 40 Japanese man finally rushed to the front of the position.
"Brothers, get a bayonet and fight with the Japanese devils!" Xu Shijiu took the mirror box without bullets after killing as a hidden weapon and threw it at a Japanese soldier opposite him. Then he flipped out the bayonet and jumped out of the trench. In the end, the remaining dozen veterans also pulled out the bayonet and advanced the gun seat groove, and then jumped out of the trench with the bayonet.
The veteran with a broken leg was no longer able to fight for a bayonet, so he loosened the caps of the two grenades, then tightened the fuse with his fingers to press the grenade under his butt. A Japanese soldier screamed and jumped into the trench, holding the bayonet and stabbed the veteran's chest. The veteran turned slightly and the bayonet stabbed his right chest.
The Japanese soldier grinned. Just as he was pulling out the bayonet, the gun was grabbed by the veteran. The Japanese soldier was furious and held the gun handle tightly with both hands. The bayonet stuck on the gun twisted back and forth, stirring the veteran's right lung leaf into pieces. A bright red blood spilled out along the corner of the veteran's mouth, but the veteran smiled and smiled proudly.
When the Japanese soldier was feeling inexplicable, he suddenly found that there was a blue smoke coming out from the veteran's butt. The blue smoke? Grenade? The Japanese soldier was shocked and quickly threw away the Bu Wu gun and was about to turn over and lie down. With a loud bang, the two grenades pressed under the veteran's butt had already exploded. The air waves generated by the explosion swallowed the Japanese soldier.
Xu Shijiu held the bayonet and strode forward. The bayonet was no longer his original one. It turned out that the bayonet was stabbed into the heart of a Japanese army Cao Chang. At that time, the Japanese army Cao Chang was trying to attack him with a turtle box. A Japanese army rushed over with a bayonet, but Xu Shijiu easily avoided it. He stabbed the Japanese army's neck with a backhand. The Japanese army threw away the infantry and covered the goldfish's mouth with both hands and fell down.
"West!" Another Japanese sergeant stabbed Xu Shijiu with his sword.
Xu Shijiu did not retreat but advanced. The Japanese sergeant's sword almost slid across Xu Shijiu's right rib. The bayonet in Xu Shijiu's hand pierced the heart of the Japanese sergeant. The Japanese sergeant's not tall body immediately curled up, and his originally fierce and ferocious gaze suddenly became extremely dull, and then he twitched and fell down.
More than ten meters away, a Japanese soldier was frightened. Although he was holding a bayonet, he didn't have the courage to rush up. Instead, he stretched his hand to his waist and untied a grenade. He then knocked his grenade hard onto the helmet and threw it at Xu Shijiu. Xu Shijiu glanced out of the corner of his eyes and threw it out without hesitation.
The bayonet accurately pierced the Japanese soldier's chest. The grenade that had already opened the fuse could no longer be thrown out. A few seconds later, the grenade exploded, blowing the Japanese soldier into pieces.
Without warning, Xu Shijiu suddenly turned around, and the iron fist as big as a bowl was raised high.
However, this fist could not fall. It was not someone else who approached him, but Gao Shenxing. Gao Shenxing held his Zhongzheng sword. The Zhongzheng sword had been broken, but the cold sword edge had already pressed against Xu Shijiu's throat. With just a slight difference, Xu Shijiu's neck and common carotid artery were about to be cut off by Gao Shenxing.
"Be careful?!"
"Captain?!"
The two looked at each other and turned around quickly. When they turned around, they found that there were no living people standing on the entire position except the two of them. Both the national and Japanese troops had already lie down. The entire position had fallen into death silence. Only a bamboo basket was burning and shaking.
The feeling of fatigue after the fierce battle came like a tide, and the two of them immediately collapsed on the ground.
Gao Shenxing gasped for a moment, then struggled to get up, and shouted at the surroundings: "Is there anyone alive, and there are still people who can breathe..."
No one responded, only the flames whistled in the wind.
Xu Shijiu sighed and whispered: "Stop shouting, we are the two of us left."
Before he finished speaking, a low moan suddenly came from not far away. Xu Shijiu and Gao Shenxing rushed into the trench at the fastest speed, but found that the one-eyed dragon was fumbled around in the trench with both hands, and kept chanting: "My gun, my gun, my gun, my gun..."
Only then did Xu Shijiu and Gao Shen notice that the only right eye left of the one-eyed dragon was also useless.
Gao Shenxing went over and picked up a mirror box and handed it to the one-eyed dragon's hand, saying, "Single Team, the gun is here."
The one-eyed dragon touched the mirror box twice, then pushed it away, shouting, "No, it's not this, it's not this, it's not this..." As he said that, the one-eyed dragon collapsed softly to the ground. He had already shed a lot of blood. He was supported by a belief just now, and now this belief seems to be almost unable to hold on.
Gao Shenxing was holding the mirror box blankly, not knowing which gun the one-eyed dragon was looking for.
Xu Shijiu guessed something, and he knelt in front of the one-eyed dragon, and his hands were fumbled around in the soft trenches. After a while, Xu Shijiu found a small wooden gun from the soil, and handed the wooden gun to the one-eyed dragon's hand. The one-eyed dragon, who was obviously in a state of dying, grabbed the small wooden gun.
Chapter completed!