Chapter 80
Xu Shijiu didn't say much nonsense and asked bluntly: "Company Commander Hu, can you lend you a cannon envoy?"
"Borrow a cannon?" Hu Jie was stunned at first when he heard this, then read something from Xu Shijiu's expression, and his face changed drastically, "Captain Xu, do you have to carry a mortar on your shoulder and shoot straight?!"
"What?" Xu Shijiu said calmly, "Have you learned it?"
Hu Jie was speechless, and Xu Shijiu said again: "No, your battalion commander is Mr. Cai's high-level football player. Is it impossible for the old man not to pass on this skill to you?"
Hu Jie said bitterly: "It's OK, but it's too dangerous."
Xu Shijiu said calmly: "Don't the soldiers all keep their heads on making a living?"
Hu Jie gritted his teeth, turned his head and shouted, "Laizi, give your cannon to Captain Xu."
An artillery hurried over and handed the mortar on his shoulder to Xu Shijiu. Hu Jie also took another mortar from another artillery. Xu Shijiu turned his head and smiled at Hu Jie, turned around and left.
Watching Xu Shijiu's figure hide into the night, the one-eyed dragon yelled: "Brothers, you can fight hard, don't save me bullets, hit him!"
The 19th Brigade opened fire in an instant, and the Central Official, Hanyang, Style 38, Maxi, Czech, Style 92, and the crooked handles were shaped into a piece. The dazzling tracer instantly intertwined into a tight fire net, completely covering the two Japanese tanks in front. A slalom bullet hit Tucker, making a sound, and Mars splashed everywhere.
The two Japanese tanks were not damaged at all. While guiding the infantry to slowly crush them, they slowly turned the turret. The forward-firing machine gun and the main gun were aimed at the position of the 19th brigade's machine gun company at the same time. With two huge explosions, two huge flames rose from the machine gun position. The two most fiercely hit heavy machine guns were stopped in an instant.
The little Japanese tank soldiers are really well-trained, and they are accurate when they fight!
Seeing that two intact Maxim heavy machine guns were beaten into pieces, the one-eyed dragon was bleeding in his heart, but no matter how expensive it was, he had to endure it. If he couldn't kill these two Japanese tanks, not to mention that the 19th Brigade could not be kept, even the entire 19th Brigade had to explain here and fight for a damn god!
On the other side of the position, Xu Shijiu and Hu Jie were approaching within 100 meters of the Japanese tank. Seeing that the distance was almost the same, Xu Shijiu knelt on one knee and set off his posture.
Hu Jie knelt on one knee and carried the cannon on his shoulder.
The cannon barrel was aimed at the front at an angle of 45 degrees. Xu Shijiu and Hu Jie shouted in unison: "Candy shell!"
The two deputy shooters were sloping a shell into the muzzle in a scrupulous manner. The shell quickly slid into the gun barrel under the action of gravity. The bottom fire and the striker hit each other, triggering the fuse. Taking advantage of the brief delay between the bottom fire and the explosion of the basic medicine tube, Xu Shijiu and Hu Jie quickly lowered the inclination of the barrel and aimed at the two Japanese tanks in front at a small angle.
"Bang!" Two muffled sounds, two dazzling tracers were suddenly ejected from the mouth of the cannon barrel. The huge recoil made Xu Shijiu and Hu Jie unable to control it. The cannon barrel was shot backward from the shoulders of the two. Almost at the same time, the Japanese tank in front had exploded at the same time. The flames rising from one of the tanks were ten meters high, and most of them were hit by the fuel tank.
In the large crater, Ergua was bundling grenades with leggings and planned to use bundles of grenades to blow up Japanese tanks. Of course, he knew what this meant, but he didn't think much about it. The captain said that if you join the army, you have to fight, and if you fight, you have to die. When someone has to die, you will be the one who is there, and you can't hide it.
At this moment, the Japanese tank in front suddenly exploded!
After less than half a second of stunned, Ergua immediately reacted, and sat up from the crater with a flower mechanism in her hand, and without saying that it was a long shot in front of her. Several Japanese soldiers who were bent over and rushed forward fell down in an instant, and the remaining dozens of Japanese soldiers were also in chaos. Some were lying down and some turned around and ran away.
Gao Shenxing and a dozen veterans also sat up one after another, fired violently with the flower mechanism. The Japanese army finally became disorganized and turned around in a hurry to retreat to the second line of defense.
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Shi Xianggong Temple, 58th Division Division Headquarters.
Feng Shengfa sat on the chair, leaning against the back of the chair, his chin closed his eyes to rest. There was no sign of too much strangeness on his face, but deep down, Feng Shengfa was actually quite nervous. Although he believed in Xu Shijiu very much, he also knew that most of the backbone veterans of the 19th Brigade were still there, but the 19th Brigade had just been fully staffed.
Zhang Jingming, He Lingxiao and Wu Jiguang were much more relaxed, and they were waiting to see Feng Shengfa’s joke.
The news was constantly transmitted from the front through the correspondent. The main force of the 19th Brigade had already broken through the stone bridge in the west of the town. It was now attacking the Japanese army's outer defense line in Luodian. Part of the 19th Brigade led by his own hands also got angry with the Japanese reinforcements at the West Line Bridge. There was only one infantry squadron of the Japanese reinforcements, and the two sides were currently fighting fiercely.
Another news came back, and Feng Shengfa finally couldn't sit still. The Japanese army in Luodian actually had tanks!
"What's going on? What's going on!" Feng Shengfa stood up from the chair suddenly, and started paced back and forth quickly in the room with his hands behind his back, while muttering to himself, "What's the matter?"
Zhang Jingming shook his head and said, "Master, I'm in trouble now."
He Lingxiao said: "Now, it's not enough to transfer the guard battalion."
Wu Jiguang said: "Master, please remove the 19th Brigade as soon as possible."
Feng Shengfa ignored the cold words of Zhang Jingming and others, took out his pocket watch to see the time. The hour hand was already pointing at four o'clock in the morning. At most, it would be dawn. If the 19th Brigade could not end the battle within two hours, the trouble would be great. Should we transfer the guard battalion to the ground?
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On the Luodian battlefield, Hu Jie's mortar company destroyed two Japanese tanks that could not be moved due to mechanical failures and could only be regarded as fixed turrets. The 19th Brigade finally tore a hole in the second line of defense of the Japanese army. Gao Shenxing and Ergua led more than a dozen veterans to break into the streets and alleys first and launched a street battle with the Japanese army.
After rushing across the street corner, a trace of bullets suddenly burst into the front of the night sky. Gao Shenxing, who was rushing in front, retracted back to the corner of the wall with one brake step. The bullets fired from the front made sparks splash on the other side of the wall. Gao Shenxing pressed his hand, and Ergua and more than a dozen veterans following behind him hurriedly hidden.
Ergua freed up her left hand and gestured to Gao Shenxing, indicating that he would detour from the side.
Gao Shenxing understood and threw two grenades forward, and then rolled over the street with the cover of gunpowder and leaned under a broken wall opposite. While rolling, he did not forget to fire a bullet in front. The Japanese machine gun immediately chased him, smashing the broken wall where Gao Shenxing was hiding into the dust.
Ergua had already gone around the other side, and without knowing that he touched the attic where the Japanese army was hiding, first threw two grenades into the window, and then shot a long shot from below towards the attic floor. The explosion sounded like a gun, and there were a few screams in the middle. In a moment, sticky liquid seeped down from the floor.
Ergua rushed up the stairs, but she did not rush to hit the closed door. Instead, she hit a longer distance through the door panel, then threw a grenade into the crack of the door, and then kicked the door open and rushed in. The room was filled with thick smoke, and you could vaguely see the few Japanese soldiers lying on the floor, and they were already dead.
Before the Japanese invasion of China, they did not conduct targeted night or street fighting training, so the Japanese army did not have the advantage in street fighting at night. Facing Gao Shenxing, the assault team led by Ergua, the Japanese were at an absolute disadvantage. The assault team composed of more than a dozen veterans was like a sharp knife, quickly cutting into the hinterland of the Japanese army.
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A shell landed on Kinoshita Hideyoshi's command center. More than a dozen wooden beams on the top could not bear it. They broke and fell down one after another, smashing the two correspondents and one orderly soldier to death on the spot. Kinoshita Hideyoshi was pushed by the orderly soldier before he died, and then survived, but was also scared to death.
Crawling out of the ruins in a dusty state, the gunshots approached more and more.
"Retreat, retreat quickly!" Kinishi Hideyoshita issued a retreat order without hesitation. For the Japanese army, the tiny land of Luodian was worthless, because there were neither materials worth protecting nor solid fortifications available for utilization. It was no pity that it was lost, not to mention that it could be easily recaptured after dawn.
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Luodian was finally recaptured, but more than 100 Japanese troops broke through the north.
Looking at the two 92 Infantry Cannons quietly placed on the ground, Hu Jie's eyes suddenly showed a strange light, and then rushed forward, but when he reached out to touch the barrel, it became extremely gentle again. Judging from his posture, it seemed as if he was stroking a charming beauty, which was so precious.
In this battle tonight, the two 92 infantry cannons of Japan were basically useless. Compared with mountain cannons and field cannons, the 92 infantry cannons are light, and the total weight is only more than 200 kilograms. However, compared with mortars, it is too bulky, so it is basically impossible to suppress Hu Jie's mortar company.
Before evacuating, the Japanese wanted to blow up the two infantry cannons, but they asked the artillery team to rescue them. In order to save the two cannons, a platoon leader was sacrificed. At that time, a Japanese soldier knocked the grenade and threw it into the ammunition box. Seeing that the grenade was about to explode and then triggered the ammunition to explode, the platoon leader rushed up desperately.
Finally, the platoon leader picked up the grenade from the ammunition box, but before he could throw it too far, it exploded in the air. In the end, two 92 infantry cannons and six boxes of shells were saved, but the platoon leader was sieve by the fragments produced by the grenade explosion, and died heroically on the spot. It is said that he was not yet eighteen years old.
Xu Shijiu felt sorry and believed that an experienced artillery was far more important than a cannon. You should know that the platoon leader could also carry the mortar on his shoulder and act as a flat-fire cannon. This is a difficult technical job. If the fire is not well mastered, it is possible to smash the shoulders or even knock the head directly by the cannon barrel.
Hu Jie sighed and said to Xu Shijiu that the cannon is worth more than life. If he hadn't been too far away at that time, it would have been better for the platoon leader to take action.
Xu Shijiu could only shake his head and sigh. The artillery did not hesitate to pay his life but also protect the artillery. In fact, it is the same as the vanguard holding bundles of grenades to bomb Japanese tanks. Doing so is giving up the chance of life to others, but leaving death to himself. Of course, the premise is that he can make more brothers live.
Chapter completed!