The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 240 Annihilation of the Japanese brigade

Captain Obara Houchuang of the Third Battalion of the 45th Regiment of the Sixth Division looked at what happened in the telescope in disbelief. The Chinese troops on the street seemed to suddenly fall from the sky. come out.

Its firepower is also like an airtight wall, shrouding his men. The buildings on both sides are like fortresses built in advance. Inconspicuous openings, windows, hollows and other openings seem to have become possible. A shooting port that spits out terrifying firepower.

The Chinese army artillery at the end of the street also continuously fired artillery shells that penetrated the street. Under the crazy shooting speed of the secret agent battalion artillery company, the 70mm Type 92 infantry artillery shells captured from the Japanese army continued to fall. Those who could not distinguish The Japanese ammunition gunners shot out almost all the 92 infantry artillery shells that could be found in the captured Japanese ammunition boxes.

Seventy mm blasting grenades, seventy mm shrapnel shells, seventy mm thermite arson bombs, and even smoke bombs flew out one after another.

The more terrifying 47mm tank defense shells sometimes hit directly, sometimes they hit in a curved direction. In addition to the killing effect of explosive grenades, some Japanese soldiers would be directly hit on the torso by these tank defense shells, and then exploded violently. It was blown to pieces.

Through the telescope, what he saw were the fallen subordinates one after another and the terrifying firepower of the Chinese army. Before long, the streets were littered with the corpses of the officers and soldiers of the 10th and 11th Infantry Squadrons of his subordinates.

The pavement on the street seemed to be stained red with blood. Amidst the intensive sound of gunfire and explosions, the streets were filled with Chinese troops. The green smoke and bullet clouds generated by the explosion of long-handled grenades of the Chinese troops were billowing and flying horizontally. artillery shells and yellow phosphorus grenades, the golden flames and white smoke produced after the explosion of the 92 Infantry Artillery arson bomb.

Various black, white, red, and yellow smoke filled the entire street, and the smoke that ran through most of the street was filled with shrill wails and curses.

The area where the 10th Infantry Squadron and the 11th Infantry Squadron were ambushed in the front was like a life-devouring purgatory, a meat grinder that no one could see clearly, making the Japanese soldiers in the rear who were not involved tremble.

Soon, one piece of bad news after another reached the headquarters of the Third Brigade and reached Obara's thick ears.

"Captain, captain, the 10th Infantry Squadron and the 11th Infantry Squadron were ambushed by the enemy."

"The enemy's fire is heavy. The 10th and 11th Squadrons are requesting support."

"Reporting to the captain, Captain Kawashima, leader of the 10th Infantry Squadron, was killed in action, and Lieutenant Wada has taken over the command."

Although he couldn't believe it, out of the quality of a professional soldier, Obara Houjue quickly stabilized his mind and began to judge how to get out of the predicament based on the current situation.

In addition to the 10th Infantry Squadron and the 11th Infantry Squadron that were in trouble at the front, the troops under his command also had two heavy machine gun squads, an engineer squad, a wing artillery squad with only eighteen shells, and Brigade headquarters.

With the existing forces, it is obviously impossible to save the two infantry squadrons in front. The forces currently on hand are all heavy weapon troops and orderlies, and there are not many combat infantry.

Therefore, if the two infantry squadrons in front want to get out of trouble, they still have to rely on themselves. After all, Obara Atsuge, a graduate of the Army Academy, knows that infantry is the ultimate solution to the battle. In this situation, heavy weapons are needed. It is simply impossible to reverse the situation on the battlefield.

Obara observed the fighting situation on the street again, and then issued a battle order to the messenger around him: "Send my order to inform the commander of the infantry squadron in front not to be beaten on the street, rush into the house, and get close to The Chinese army is no match for us in distance combat and bayonet fighting. We must attack in and fight the Chinese army with bayonets and hand grenades. Let the engineering team and the artillery unit go up, blow up the house with explosives, and bombard the buildings on both sides with mountain artillery. We must Transform the combat form into melee combat."

"Yes!"

A Japanese messenger immediately got into the misty smoke on the street to deliver the order.

Immediately, Obara Houjue thought of the infantry, and then he thought of the 9th Squadron under his command. Now the 10th Infantry Squadron and the 11th Infantry Squadron were fighting against the Chinese army at the front, and the machine gun squadron and the brigade headquarters personnel in hand could not afford to attack at all. to effect.

But if the ninth infantry squadron, which is not here and is assigned to the infantry artillery squad and a heavy machine gun squad directly under the brigade, attacks in time and goes around to the side of the Chinese army, it will not only be able to rescue the two infantry squadrons in front, but may also be able to rescue the frontline troops. The Chinese army delivers a annihilating blow!

Of course, all this is based on the fact that the Ninth Squadron and the attached infantry artillery squad and heavy machine gun squad are still there, but now these people were sent away by He Wei and the officers and soldiers of the special agent battalion dozens of minutes ago. Going to the west, but this is something that Ohara Houshige does not know.

With an expression on his thick face as if he had grasped a life-saving straw, Obara immediately called for Captain Cao and ordered: "Go quickly, quickly lead a detachment to find the Ninth Squadron nearby. If the Ninth Squadron is found, , call them over immediately for support.”

"Yes!"

It has to be said that as an infantry captain of the Japanese army, Obara Houshige showed good military literacy and tactical vision. Facing the Chinese army that relied on the construction teams on both sides of the street to launch a fierce attack, he immediately did the opposite. Finally, I thought of changing the form of combat to close combat.

At the same time, he knew that infantry was the key to solving the battle, so instead of sending all the troops in his hands to suffer losses, he sent people to find the ninth infantry squadron, which was not here, to come for support.

In fact, the biggest feature of the batch of dedicated street fighting divisions built by the Japanese army in the late war was that it increased the number of infantry in the organization. At that time, the general Japanese infantry brigade had three infantry squadrons, and the Japanese street fighting division had an infantry brigade. There are four infantry squadrons under it. The number of infantry in a street fighting division is nearly a thousand more than that of a general field division. In street fighting, infantry is the key to solving the battle.

Obara Houjue was also very keenly aware of this, and pinned his hopes of breaking the situation on the Ninth Squadron, which was not here for the time being. His judgment and handling were very accurate.

Unfortunately, the melee firepower and melee quality of the secret service battalion were no less than those of the Japanese army, and the Ninth Squadron he had been waiting for had long since become the ghost of the secret service battalion. This hope was actually a bubble that had been shattered early on.

As a result, the engineer squad and a wing artillery squad assigned to the third brigade also joined the battle.

At the front, the 10th and 11th Infantry Squadrons of the Third Battalion, which received orders to attack the buildings on both sides, began their counterattack. With the assistance of a reinforced engineering team, the Japanese troops on the street began to attack. Attack inside buildings on both sides.

The Japanese engineers and infantry began to attack the houses on the first floor against the firepower of the special agent battalion, and the Japanese artillery squadron that came up as reinforcements also began to fire at the officers and soldiers of the special agent battalions upstairs on both sides.

Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang

He Wei was shooting wantonly on the street with a flower machine gun. Suddenly, there was an explosion and a squeaking sound from downstairs. Then, a loud noise came. He Wei only felt a violent tremor under his feet, and then he saw himself A large hole with black smoke was blown out of the floor of the second floor where it was located.

Then there was a sound of shells piercing the air from the window. Immediately, a room on the second floor opposite was directly hit by a mountain shell. In the violent explosion, half of the house was almost destroyed, and several people were injured. A bloody spy battalion officer and soldier was thrown out of the house by the air wave of the shell explosion. At the same time, several Japanese soldiers on the street were also killed by the dense fragments generated by the mountain shell explosion.

Obviously, in order to launch a powerful counterattack, the Japanese had no regard for accidentally injuring their own people, and simply pushed the mountain cannon into the street and fired directly.

Downstairs of He Wei's house came another burst of Japanese soldiers' chirping, shouting, and talking.

Yang Biao covered his nose and waved away the smoke. He followed the big hole exploded in the floor under his feet and looked downstairs. He saw violent collisions and shouts on the wall downstairs. It was obvious that the Japanese were preparing to break the wall. go ahead.

"Battal Commander, the Japanese are attacking."

He Wei put a new magazine on the flower machine gun, took out a grenade, and cursed: "His grandma, the Japanese have learned how to fight in the street. They are good at it. Hei Wa, Yang Biao, come here."

He Wei called Tao Heiwa and Yang Biao. Yang Biao and He Wei both held flower machine guns, while Tao Heiwa held a Mauser C96 shell gun. The three of them squatted above the big steaming hole and headed toward the building. He raised his gun at an angle and stared at the clanking wall.

After a burst of chirping sounds and the sound of hard objects hitting the wall, suddenly, the opposite side of the wall suddenly stopped. Then, with a violent explosion, the wall was blown into pieces, and then more than a dozen Japanese soldiers swarmed around He emerged from the smoke and rushed up the stairs downstairs.

"Fight."

He Wei, Yang Biao and Tao Heiwa pulled the triggers almost at the same time, and the flower machine guns and shell guns spit out a series of tongues of fire.

The dozens of Japanese soldiers who rushed out were all beaten to death in the big hole that exploded in the wall before they had taken a few steps. The screams turned into screams in an instant, and bursts of blood erupted in the air. There were clouds of blood mist, and seven or eight corpses piled up at the entrance of the cave, almost blocking the hole in the wall. He Wei picked up the grenade again and threw it out along the gap in the hole in the wall.

Boom boom - ah, there were explosions and screams again, and even a smashed Japanese 90 helmet flew out.

"Yang Biao, ask two people to guard this place. Don't let the Japs rush in through the entrance of the cave. These damn Japs learned street fighting very quickly."

"Yes!"

Similar scenes were staged in almost every house and room where the officers and soldiers of the secret service battalion were stationed. Engineers began to use explosives to blast the walls and move through the buildings. Even He Wei was impressed by the rapid learning speed of the Japanese army. Shocked and amazed.

However, after all, the officers and soldiers of the special agent battalion were more skilled. Indeed, the Japanese troops on the street rushed into the buildings and buildings on both sides of the street, but this did not change their predicament of being passively beaten. Instead, they fell into Another purgatory.

In the building, the Japanese infantry, under the cover of engineers, used explosives to break through the wall and rush forward. In their view, as long as they strangled the Chinese army, fought together, and fought in close combat, they could reverse the situation on the battlefield.

But the cruel reality soon gave them a blow. In the buildings on both sides of the street, something like this happened almost every moment: Japanese engineers used explosives to blow open the walls.

Then, the long-prepared Japanese infantry shouted and rushed in through the hole opened in the wall, but what was waiting for them was not panicked Chinese soldiers, but bullets from submachine guns and shell guns.

After discovering that the Japanese army was trying to break through the wall, many officers and soldiers of the special agent battalion chose to squat in front of the hole in the wall where the Japanese army broke through, raising their submachine guns, shell guns and rifles to wait until the Japanese army blew a big hole in the wall. The officers and soldiers of the special agent battalion didn't care. They just went up and started beating them randomly.

Under the training of He Wei, the smallest tactical unit of the infantry squad of the secret service battalion is a team of three people. The commander of each team is equipped with a submachine gun. Once it is discovered that the Japanese army has an attempt to blow up the wall, the officers and soldiers of the secret service battalion will One or two troops guarded a blast hole. Once the Japanese troops rushed out after blasting, they would shoot randomly. While shooting, they would also throw grenades into the blasted breach.

Under the spy battalion's style of play, the Japanese army found that even if they were involved in close combat, they were no match for the officers and soldiers of the spy battalion. They were hit hard and bloody, and even withstood a greater impact than on the street. casualties.

I don’t know how many Japanese troops there were. They hadn’t figured out the situation yet. As soon as they launched an attack along the hole that had been blasted with great effort, they were swept to the ground by the automatic firearms of the secret service battalion, and then they were blown up by exploding grenades. sieve.

The Japanese army is almost all equipped with rifles. Except for the 38-year-old rifle, it is the Taisho 11-year-old crooked light machine gun.

These weapons have no advantage at all in street fighting and close combat, especially in small rooms, which greatly limits the use of various tactical actions, especially the slender body of the Type 38 rifle. In addition, many Japanese riflemen have the habit of attaching bayonets in advance, which further lengthens the length of the rifle. It is a nightmare to use such a weapon in street fighting or in a small room.

On the other hand, the spy camp is not only equipped with a large number of machine guns and shell guns suitable for close combat, but even the rifles are vz24 short rifles made in the Czech Republic, which are far more useful in close combat than the Japanese Type rifles.

In this way, the Japanese army moved from one quagmire to another purgatory. The two sides fought each other in the houses on both sides of the street. The officers and soldiers of the secret service battalion were at ease with the addition of weapons and organization tactics, although there were also casualties. The number of attacks continued to increase, but the losses caused to the Japanese army were several times that of our own.

The Japanese army was in a miserable state. As they fought, many Japanese soldiers found that they could not take advantage of the so-called close combat. They were completely suppressed and beaten by the Chinese troops hiding in the house, and they did not even have a chance to fight with bayonets. Because they couldn't get close to the officers and soldiers of the special agent battalion.

As a result, many Japanese officers also ordered not to advance rashly, but to build positions on the spot in the occupied houses to confront the Chinese troops. As for large-scale demolition assaults, almost all of them were suspended.

The nearly 400 infantrymen of the 10th and 11th Japanese infantry squadrons who were ambushed have been beaten to pieces in the bloody battles on the streets and in the houses. So far, the two infantry squadrons only have 100 soldiers. With the strength of many people, the reinforced engineering team was also beaten by the spy battalion, and only a dozen people were left.

Compared with the spy battalion, which had an absolutely superior strength, the strength in their hands was simply unable to support a full-scale counterattack and attack, let alone expel the spy battalion from the buildings on both sides. They could only hold on in place.

At this point, the shape of the battle changed again. The Japanese army stopped large-scale attacks and turned to small-scale assaults and confrontations. The Japanese army and the officers and soldiers of the special agent battalion shot at each other on both sides of the walls of the houses. Throwing grenades at each other and even yelling at each other through the walls.

Of course, the spy battalion is also showing signs of weakness. In the initial crazy attack by the Japanese army, the spy battalion also lost many brothers. Each company and platoon suffered considerable casualties and losses, and there was another problem caused by the large number of automatic weapons. The disadvantage is that the ammunition consumption is high.

He Wei has received several reports from the 1st and 2nd companies requesting replenishment of ammunition.

So far, the other ammunition is okay, but each company has almost run out of machine gun bullets and grenades. After all, these two types of ammunition are consumed too quickly.

Under such circumstances, it is easy to hold on to the existing key points and positions in the building, but without submachine guns and grenades, it is very difficult to drive out the Japanese troops, or even completely annihilate them, by relying solely on rifles, light machine guns and bayonets.

The two sides are now in a confrontation. He Wei is eager to eat more than a hundred Japanese troops in the building, but the ammunition is indeed insufficient, and there is no way to achieve He Wei's goal of quickly eating these two infantry squadrons.

Of course, He Wei can also choose to let the troops fight hard and attack the Japanese troops in the building with machine guns and rifles with bayonets. But if he really wants to do this, even if all the Japanese infantry are eaten, the secret service battalion will still have to pay a lot. Huge casualties.

He Wei was determined not to do such a slightly loss-making transaction.

The battlefield fell into a state of confrontation, anxiety, and stalemate.

"Battal Commander, the second company sent people to ask for ammunition again. Their machine guns have all been used up, and their grenades have also run out. Now they are relying on the speed machine. What should I do? We can't just stand in a stalemate with the Japanese. .”

Fu Chen, commander of the first company, came to He Wei again and reported the request for additional ammunition.

"How many more do you have left?"

"They are almost gone. There are still four boxes of grenades, forty in total."

He Wei knocked on his helmet and cursed: "Mother, where can I get ammunition at this time!"

Just as He Wei was cursing his mother, the spy platoon leader Yang Biao crawled over, pointed at the mortar soldiers squatting in the corner, and said:

"Battal Commander, you can't use mortar shells as grenades to throw them. We don't have any use for mortars now anyway. It's better to issue them to infantry."

According to He Wei's original plan, the first and second companies that occupied the buildings on both sides of the street would each be assigned a mortar platoon to fire at the Japanese troops with mortars upstairs, but the two mortar platoons had not yet When they had time to pull them up and fight, the Japanese pushed the mountain cannon to the street and fired at the buildings on both sides.

As a result, the mortars were naturally unable to fire upstairs, so He Wei had to let them hide first.

"You're fucking crazy. That's the August 1st mortar shell made in France, not our own 82nd mortar shell. A powerful August 1st shell can destroy a machine gun fortification. If you throw this shell, The Japanese were killed in the bombing, so we won’t be able to live anymore, we’ll just go on a fucking plane together.”

Fu Chen cursed and rejected Yang Biao's proposal to use mortar shells as grenades. Yang Biao, who was in a hurry and went to the doctor, was also extremely anxious and cursed: "It's so fucking frustrating. Seeing that this Japs only has so much left." It's better. As long as we have ammunition, we can use all our strength to eat them up. Now it's so damn hard to eat. Oh, if only we could use planes, tanks, and cannons like the devils. We'd just bomb them to death. them."

He Wei's eyes suddenly lit up, and Yang Biao's unintentional words reminded him of something.

He Wei immediately pulled Yang Biao over and said: "Send your people quickly to pass the order near Yijiangmen and ask Captain Zhao of the chariot company to send two platoons of chariots to Zhongshan East Road as soon as possible. From both sides of the road, Duan launched an outflanking attack on the Japanese army, and then notified the artillery company and the troops on guard at the street entrance. Once the tanks were in place, they would move forward with the tanks and clean the houses along the street. At that time, we should cooperate inside and outside, and move in from both sides. Eat all the Japanese soldiers on the street!"

At this time, He Wei really wanted to annihilate the Japanese army, but he had no idea that the Japanese army on the street was far more than the two infantry squadrons in front of him, but an infantry squadron that had been strengthened and owed an infantry squadron. If the whole brigade was wiped out, then it would be one brigade, not the two squadrons that He Wei saw!

Similarly, Obara Atsushige, the captain of the third battalion of the 45th Regiment of the 6th Division, who is observing the battle situation and planning to use the Ninth Infantry Squadron that is not here to attack the current Chinese army in a roundabout way, has no idea at all. A disaster was about to befall him and his infantry brigade.

(End of this chapter)