my bright sword career

Under the personal supervision of Iwai Torajiro, the attack of the 108th Division became more and more crazy. Now it is the Japanese 240th Infantry Regiment who is responsible for attacking the Ninth Battalion.

In order to take the position of the Ninth Battalion, the commander of the regiment, Nakamura Takeru, even assigned more than 100 cavalry from the defeated cavalry regiment to the first brigade.

The captain of the First Battalion, Major Nakayama Takuo, led a squadron of infantry to a place 800 meters in front of the Ninth Battalion's position, and said to the squadron's Lieutenant Jiubao: "Lieutenant Kubo, you first lead your infantry squadron to make a tentative charge. , carry out fire reconnaissance for the brigade, and I will lead the brigade to support you in the back."

Lieutenant Kubo felt a little dissatisfied when he saw that the captain had a squadron of cavalry in his hands, but let him lead the infantry to attack.

"Kill it!" Lieutenant Kubo pushed forward with nearly two hundred Japanese infantrymen.

"Bing Zuo, why are the devil's cavalry watching from behind and letting the infantry attack? Isn't this attacking the enemy's strengths with their own weaknesses?" Lu Xianping, who was on the ground, was very puzzled when he saw the behavior of the Japanese army's formation. .

"Humph!"

Lei Xianghe sneered disdainfully: "This devil commander is a cautious master. He is scouting our firepower arrangement! He ordered the heavy machine guns of the troops not to fire, and only half of the MG42 was allowed to be exposed. I would rather Let's see what they can do."

When the Japanese army entered 400 meters, the machine guns of the Ninth Battalion opened fire. Although they only fired half of the firepower, the dense rain of bullets from the MG42 still made the Japanese infantry unable to lift their heads.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant, the firepower of the Chinese Army is too fierce, we can only die if we go up like this." A small team leader climbed up to the side of Lieutenant Kubao and shouted loudly.

"It's too fierce to fight, otherwise the captain will not spare us!" Kubo gritted his teeth, "Order the troops to move forward, and the grenades must suppress their machine guns."

"Hey! Come with me, everyone, kill me!"

The squad leader had no choice but to grit his teeth and pull out his command knife, and led his squad to rush forward
"Da da da"

The dense rain of bullets from a dozen MG42s of the Ninth Battalion swept forward like splashing water. Lieutenant Kubo found that his more than 100 people were like small sampans in the sea, and the entire army was in danger of being wiped out at any time.

After less than 10 minutes of fighting, Kubo realized that his squadron had suffered too many casualties, and he couldn't hold on any longer, so he had to withdraw with his team.

Major Nakayama Takuo, who was supervising the battle behind, hurriedly rode his horse to greet him, and shouted loudly, "Lieutenant Kubo, why did you withdraw?"

"Report to Your Excellency Major, nearly half of our soldiers were killed or injured, and we really can't attack the opponent's position, so we ask for artillery support!" Kubo hurriedly stood at attention.

"Baga, we don't have artillery support, so we will go up even if we are all fired!"

Major Zhongshan Qiufu opened his blood-red eyes, "You are such a bastard, judging from the firepower of the Chinese, it is obvious that the opponent's strength is only one battalion, and they will call for reinforcements at any time.

If we wait until their reinforcements arrive, it will be even more difficult for us to fight. You will be scared after only a few deaths. I really doubt whether you are an officer! "...

Lieutenant Kubo was scolded bloody by Major Nakayama, and was speechless for a while.

At this time, a group of Japanese infantrymen who had been routed were running past Major Nakayama, and four wounded soldiers were holding on to a wounded soldier's limbs and running backwards. Explosion in the ranks.

"Quickly order the troops to gather in place and stop retreating." Nakayama Isuo gave an order to Lieutenant Kubo stomping his feet.

As if waking up from a dream, Lieutenant Kubo ordered the trumpeter who rushed to the side: "Blow the horn, assemble where you are, assemble where you are!"

"Dididi" the Japanese buglers blew their horns with puffed up cheeks.

"Shua", the rout of the Japanese army immediately stopped in place when they heard the sound of the bugle, and followed the sound of the bugle. They knew that where the bugle came from, the battlefield commander was there.

"Tick-tick-tick-tick." The bugle sound changed again.

When the Japanese soldiers in the dark heard the sound of the bugle, they immediately ran towards the direction where the bugle sounded.

The Japanese soldiers around surrounded him like locusts. Lieutenant Kubo suddenly found that two soldiers dragged and dragged a wounded soldier into a bomb crater in front of him, and hurriedly asked loudly, "How is he?"

"Your Excellency Lieutenant, Your Excellency Second Lieutenant is dead, we have to put him in the crater."

As soon as he heard that it was a second lieutenant, Matsuyama hurriedly asked, "Is it second lieutenant Shi Chun?"

"Yes, Your Excellency Lieutenant," the same soldier replied, "We are the commando commanded by Second Lieutenant Shi Chun. 22 people were killed in battle, and only we retreated. The other seriously wounded are still on the battlefield and no one has brought them back."

Lieutenant Kubo felt very uncomfortable hearing this, and hurriedly turned his head and said loudly: "Maruyama, Second Lieutenant Maruyama!"

"Sir, Second Lieutenant Maruyama is reporting." A second lieutenant squeezed out from the chaotic queue.

Lieutenant Kubo sized him up and asked, "How about your team's casualties?"

"Two-thirds were killed, and nearly half of the remaining third were lightly or seriously wounded." Second Lieutenant Maruyama replied hastily.

Kubo stepped forward and patted Maruyama on the shoulder: "Shi Junjun has been killed in battle, and there are more than a dozen wounded in his team who have not been evacuated from the battlefield. You should hurry up and carry them off."

"Your Excellency the Squadron Leader"

This order gave Maruyama a headache, and he hurriedly said: "The mortars and machine guns in front of the Chinese positions in front are very strong. I am completing the combat mission you ordered. I am afraid that we will have more than a dozen casualties."

I believe that any rational commander would not give such a confused order to take the same number of soldiers for more than a dozen wounded who did not know whether they were alive or dead, but after hearing the order, Nakayama Isuo roared loudly next to him: " Go quickly, not to rescue the wounded, but to gather everyone, attack immediately, attack!"

"Yes!" Lieutenant Kubo sighed, and said to Maruyama: "Maruyama-kun, now you follow me to attack."

"Your Excellency, Major," Second Lieutenant Maruyama's ruthlessness also emerged, "We can attack, but we don't have enough troops. We, the remnant troops that suffered heavy casualties, can't take down the opposing Chinese position."

"Baga, are you afraid of death?" Nakayama Isuo, who was furious, rushed over immediately and grabbed Second Lieutenant Maruyama by the collar, "If you are a warrior of the Great Japanese Empire, you should command you without hesitation. Soldiers under your command fight the enemy to the death, not retreat, do you understand?"  …

"Mr. Shao Zuo", Maruyama Lieutenant also went all out at this time: "The mortars of the Chinese people and those damn machine guns are all aimed and fired. The firepower is very high. You can't accuse us of being incompetent, don't believe it Do you take your cavalry to the front and try?"

"Baga, you anti-war element!" Zhongshan Qiufu was trembling with anger, drew out his command knife and shouted: "I will chop you up."

"Even if you shoot me, I won't be able to break through this line of defense."

Chuufu Zhongshan gritted his teeth angrily and raised his command knife, "I will execute you!"

"Put the knife down!" someone yelled from behind.

Major Nakayama was taken aback when he followed the prestige, and hurriedly walked over with his command knife in hand: "Report to Your Excellency Miyamoto, Second Lieutenant Maruyama refused my order with death, and I am preparing to deal with him by military law!"

Nakamura Takeu was listening, while looking at the Japanese soldiers around him, and looking at the sky in the distance reddened by the artillery fire, he turned his head to stare at Major Nakayama, pondered for a while and said to him: "Come with me."

Nakayama was like a mouse seeing a cat when he saw Mr. Nakamura, so he had to leave the team more than ten meters away and stood still in a depression. Mr. Nakamura scolded angrily: "I think you are crazy, crazy. "

"Your Excellency, I am... I am..."

"The battlefield is so cruel, there are a lot of casualties among officers and soldiers, and we are fighting far away from the mainland, and our military resources are extremely limited. You are here to play with power and prestige, and execute a lieutenant of the Great Japanese Empire casually based on your feelings. Do you still have the king's law?" Satoshi Nakamura cursed furiously.

"Your Excellency, Captain, I must make an example..."

"We want him to commit crimes and meritorious deeds, and kill as many enemies as possible on the battlefield, isn't it more effective than your move?" Senior Commander Nakamura stared at Major Chufu Nakayama and said.

Zhongshan Qiufu didn't dare to refute, but just listened quietly, not daring to breathe.

"I told you a long time ago that you need to use your brains and use all available opportunities and means on the battlefield to motivate soldiers to charge, but you only know how to show your shameful prestige.

I really doubt what you learned in military school?You are not a real officer, you have to study hard! "

"Hi! I understand, Your Excellency!"

"Just understand!" Chief Takeru Nakamura waved his hand, "Hurry up and urge the troops to advance. Lieutenant Kubo and Second Lieutenant Maruyama must be on the front line to supervise the battle. The cavalry I assigned to you should not be idle. You must immediately cooperate with us to launch an attack. Break through the troops in front."

"Hi!" Zhongshan Qiufu Shao Zuo had no choice but to take the order and leave.

"Da da da……"

Shao Zuo Zhongshan led the cavalry and rushed forward majesticly. They quickly overtook the infantry in front and rushed to the front, which made the infantry behind burst into cheers.

"Bingzuo, the devil's cavalry has launched a charge!" Lu Xianping looked at the locust-like cavalry ahead and said loudly close to Lei Xianghe's ear.

"Understood, order all the concealed machine guns to fire. These little devils should be taught a lesson." This morning, the Ninth Battalion suffered a big loss from the devil cavalry, and they are still holding fire in their hearts?Right now I'm out of breath. …

"dong dong dong"

The heavy machine gun that had been hiding its firepower and the other half of the MG42 machine gun fired, and the firepower immediately increased several times, knocking down the majestic cavalry in front one after another.

Major Zhongshan Qiufu saw with his own eyes that a cavalry soldier in front of him on the left was hit by a bullet from a heavy machine gun, and his whole body was broken in two. His upper body fell to the ground, but his lower body still charged with the horse.

"Baga, hurry up, separate quickly, the cavalry is divided into two teams, and assault the enemy's left and right flanks." It's just that Nakayama's order could not be conveyed on the high-speed horse, and the cavalry continued to attack the enemy's frontal position in the original way. attack.

Although the casualties were not small, most of the cavalry of the Japanese army rushed to a place less than 100 meters away from the Ninth Battalion's position.

Seeing the Japanese cavalry charging so ferociously, Lei Xianghe smiled coldly twice, and ordered: "Order brothers, stop firing the machine guns, let the devils come over, and detonate the directional mines."

"Yes!"

The Japanese never dreamed that as early as just now, Lei Xianghe had ordered the troops to plant a batch of landmines in front of the position.

And these mines are not ordinary anti-personnel mines, but M18A1 anti-personnel directional mines.

The mine is a slightly curved plastic box with a length of 216 mm, a height of 86 mm, a thickness of 35 mm, and a total mass of 1.6 kg.The center part above the mine shell is an aiming hole, and there is a detonator chamber on both sides of the aiming hole, and is equipped with a corresponding detonator chamber plug.

The front of the mine body is filled with 700 steel balls with a total weight of 650 grams, and the back is filled with 680 grams of high explosives.

The biggest difference between directional mines and ordinary mines is that their killing range is only in one direction, instead of spreading out in all directions, so its firepower is more intensive, and their detonation methods are also varied and very flexible.

When Nakayama saw hundreds of cavalrymen rushing to the enemy's position, he didn't notice that the enemy's firepower had weakened significantly, so he couldn't help feeling excited, and shouted loudly, "Go up and kill these Chinese people! "

As soon as the voice fell, a series of explosions sounded in front, and thousands of steel balls flew out of the front of the position and flew towards the cavalry.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." The cavalrymen who rushed to the front fell down one after another, bloody and bloody.

"Bagaya Road, we've fallen for it!" Seeing the continuous sound of explosions, the cavalrymen fell down like cutting wheat. Knowing that he had no way out, he raised his command knife and shouted loudly: "Kill it..."

But just as he finished speaking, he was hit by a bullet and fell off the horse...

The more than 100 cavalry led by Zhongshan Qiufu were almost lost after a single charge. Seeing Zhongshan Qiufu Shaozuo fell from his horse, the remaining Japanese troops could no longer support them and retreated one after another.

"Sir, are we still charging forward?" Seeing the cavalry retreating one after another, Second Lieutenant Maruyama hurriedly climbed up to Lieutenant Kubo against the rain of bullets flying overhead, and asked loudly.

At this time, Kubo no longer had the toughness he had just now. Seeing the dense firepower in front of him, he was in a dilemma.

He knew very well in his heart that if he just relied on his own infantry of less than [-] people to attack the defensive position with abnormal firepower, it would definitely be death. Can't spare myself.

Lieutenant Kubo has a deep understanding of what it means to be in a dilemma if you go forward or die if you retreat.

Kubo gritted his teeth, "Maruyama-kun, now we are going forward or we are going to die, why don't we just be loyal to the emperor, at least the family can get a little respect, otherwise if we go back and be executed by His Excellency, even the family will be ashamed .”

Second Lieutenant Maruyama also smiled bitterly, "Okay, then I will serve the emperor with Your Excellency today."

When the two were about to order the troops to continue charging, there was a sudden sound of a trumpet from behind. The two were startled for a moment, and then showed great joy, because that was the sound of the trumpet for retreating troops, so there was no need to die now.