Chapter 85 Chapter 85 Devil Machine Gun

I don't know when it started, but there were layers of dark clouds floating in the originally clear sky; the accumulated dark clouds were so thick that they covered the light of the bright moon.The west slanting moon hides in the thick clouds, the dark night sky, you can't see your fingers. On the offensive position of the Yamaguchi Squadron, there were many dead bodies, densely packed, and there was almost no place to stay.The smell of blood and death is strong and compelling, making people chill.Counting the bleak starlight, adding to the miserable and terrifying atmosphere.The wounded were scattered all over the place, and moans and wailing sounds came from all directions and corners, adding to the desolate mood.If you were still groaning just now, but suddenly became silent again, thinking that it was the perseverance of the soldiers who held back their yelling for the sake of face, you would be very wrong; because the person who cut off his voice is already the new ghost welcoming the Zhongyuan Purdue at this time.Whether the soul can return to Kyushu Island or Mount Fuji, only the gods know.When the pale moonlight came out, it was so gloomy and appalling that it made people frightened.

When Izaki led the vanguard of the squadron to the offensive position of the Yamaguchi Squadron, he was struck by the scene, and his first reaction was: "We must clear up the battlefield as soon as possible, and move the casualties of the Yamaguchi Squadron away from the position. The soldiers of our squadron must not see this A horrible and bloody scene! The main force of the squadron must be called up when the cleanup work is about to end." Jing Qi ordered the vanguard squad to quickly clear the battlefield.Cleaning up the dead and wounded in the muddy darkness was hard work.When Izaki personally helped to contain the casualties, he discovered an unimaginable strange thing: both the injured and the dead were tied up with ropes.Some tied their wrists, some tied their ankles, and some even tied two bodies with a rope.Just imagine, it turned out that the attack was defeated again and again, and there were many casualties. In order to facilitate containment, the assault standby personnel tied up the lying down by the way.Sometimes the person who is binding others is also injured or dies, and thus becomes the bound person.There were more than 40 dead and injured lying down on the entire position, and more than 10 people were slightly injured who were still able to move.

Lieutenant Yamaguchi was the last to move.He was shot in the head and was wounded by a heavy machine gun. The powerful impact pushed him back 7-8 meters.At this time, Yamaguchi was stripped naked except for a pair of shorts.Two entourages fanned him with banana leaves to drive away the heat. Lieutenant Izaki went over to hold Yamaguchi's hand and said, "Hey! Yamaguchi-kun, I'm Izaki! Old classmate, how do you feel?" Yamaguchi could no longer recognize Izaki, maybe he couldn't hear, maybe he lost his mind. It was originally a head injury, but he repeatedly touched his belly with his hands and said weakly: "It hurts here! How is the healer? For a while, he murmured angrily: "The devil! The devil! There's a devil over there!" After a while, panting like a cow, he ordered anxiously: "It's so hot! It's so hot! Take off my underwear !"

"Yamaguchi-san! Don't worry! You will be fine! Rest well first!" Lieutenant Izaki saw that Yamaguchi's entourage and non-commissioned officers were extremely exhausted, and comforted Yamaguchi; In the hut in the woods; the main force of the squadron spread out to the orangery outside the range of the grenade throwing. At this time, there are still more than two hours before dawn, which is the so-called most difficult darkness before dawn.Lieutenant Izaki turned back to the brigade headquarters and asked Captain Watanabe to change the attack plan. The haggard and tired Captain Watanabe didn't care to listen to Izaki's detailed report, and said weakly: "Everything else is fine, except that the time for another attack at noon tomorrow can't be changed, and there is no support force, you have to rely on yourself!"

Due to the ingenious construction of the Hengyang guard positions of the 10th Army of the National Army, especially the machine gun positions are very concealed.Bunkers, bunkers, bunkers, oblique shots, side shots, cross shots, and even side and back shots, elusive, so that the Japanese army was beaten and confused.That's why the Japanese soldiers called it the Devil's Machine Gun position. Whenever the Devil's Machine Gun was mentioned, they would all be terrified and frightened. The Yamaguchi Squadron adopted a night-time assault strategy, and each of them became a live target for the devil's machine gun.If the machine gun positions defended by the national army's flanks are not first extinguished, it is tantamount to wishing to capture the Tianma Mountain position.Be sure to find out the location of the devil machine gun first!Lieutenant Izaki deduced from what the remnant soldiers of the Yamaguchi Squadron had learned that the national army's machine gun position was on the reflection surface not far from the brigade headquarters, that is, less than 20 meters west of Lieutenant Yamaguchi's injury.Good luck!The hillside of the reflective surface of the brigade's combat headquarters is still in the hands of the Chinese army.The brigade headquarters is completely under the fire net of the devil machine gun, and is defenseless.It seems that the Chinese army is not aware of this situation.

Lieutenant Izaki was drenched in cold sweat.On the one hand, they immediately sent someone to report the danger to Captain Watanabe; on the other hand, they immediately contacted Lieutenant Ishii of the 9th Squadron, asking him to send troops to protect the command post of the brigade as soon as possible; The orangery was waiting for orders in a hidden place; he hurriedly led the Yugen team to try to expel the Chinese army on the opposite side. Time passed by every minute.There was a burst of rooster crowing from far away from the outskirts.The eastern sky will turn white, and a faint fluorescent light will appear in the dark night.Are the mother and sister far away in Kyoto okay?Maybe they are still intoxicated in dreamland at this time.At this time, Lieutenant Izaki was perplexed by strong homesickness and family.

Izaki's father was a senior officer of the Imperial Kwantung Army. He died in the border conflict between Japan and the Soviet Union many years ago on the Heilongjiang River between Manchuria and the Soviet Far East.Thinking about why I left my relatives and came to this strange foreign country to fight this damn battle?Would he also follow in his father's footsteps, turning his soul into a wisp of smoke and returning home with his body as a handful of ashes?Suddenly, he realized that his thinking was a bit outrageous. This dangerous idea must not infect other officers and soldiers, otherwise it will lead to a fatal disaster!The sense of duty of a soldier barely cheered him up again.

Izaki led the Hane team of more than 30 people to take advantage of the faint morning light and morning fog, split into two routes, quietly follow the trenches, and attack the Chinese army on the reflecting surface. There is a white house on the opposite slope, with trenches passing through the house. It seems that Chinese soldiers are stationed in the house.When he was about to approach the white house, he was discovered by the Chinese army.The two sides threw grenades at each other, and the sound of explosions broke the tranquility of the morning.Then, popping bean-like gunshots also rang out.Five to six Chinese soldiers in the house resisted desperately. Sergeant Higashida and other five were killed, and more than ten others were injured.Not long after, the Chinese soldiers in the house ran out of ammunition, and they rushed out of the house, trying to bayonet the Japanese soldiers, but they were immediately swept to the ground by the crooked Japanese machine guns.When several Japanese soldiers approached slowly, I saw a surviving Chinese soldier on the ground fired the last grenade, and died together with several Japanese soldiers.

After the smoke cleared, the Hane team took over half of the casualties and took nearly 30 minutes to occupy the house.At this moment, the sky is bright.But the room still felt gloomy, and the corners could not be seen clearly.It turned out that the house faced the Xianggui Highway, and the doors and windows were all closed with wooden boards and painted with gray-white lime water, which blended seamlessly with the gray-white gravel road, making it difficult to be found.Lieutenant Izaki tried to understand the deployment of the Chinese army on the other side of the road. He looked around the house and finally found a ventilation hole.Peering to the opposite side through the air vent, as expected, it was the position of the devil machine gun that hit Lieutenant Yamaguchi. Two Browning machine guns were vaguely placed, and the white house was only 7~8 meters away from the road. The road is about 5 meters wide.

The devil machine gun bunker on the opposite side is about 20 to 30 square meters, and it is all made of logs.Multiple layers of barbed wire surround the road from the bunker.There are vertical and horizontal trenches dug in the bunker, and there are about fifteen or six soldiers stationed there, most of whom are holding grenades and staring at the Japanese positions on the other side of the road.The devil machine gunner also holds the gun and is ready for battle.Why didn't they drop bombs and shoot just now?It may be thought that the Japanese No. 10 Squadron Hane Squad was a tentative attack, and they did not want to expose the target prematurely.

The Chinese army's position surrounded by barbed wire between the side of the road and the shelter was extremely strong, like a hedgehog, making it impossible for the Japanese army to attack for a while.This place is about 30 meters away from Lieutenant Yamaguchi's wounded place. Lieutenant Izaki said to Team Leader Hane: "Our squadron plans to launch an attack on the Chinese army's position in Tianma Mountain at 12:00 noon. Your team's task is to capture the devil's machine gun position defended by the Chinese army on the opposite side. The purpose is to contain its firepower and fully cover the main force of the squadron. The death squad climbed the cliff in front of the frontal position of the Chinese army on Tianma Mountain. Do you understand?" Captain Hane replied: "Understood! When the main force of the squadron is climbing desperately, my team attracts and suppresses the firepower of the Devil's machine gun, so that it cannot exert its side defense effect!" Having said that, but in the face of the strong and abnormally strong devil machine gun position, how much strength can the weakened Hane team exert?And how long will it take for the Chinese military's side firepower to turn to the Hane team?How long can the interval between grenade battles be extended?These are the keys to the squadron's capture of the Tianma Mountain position.Don't be careless. Lieutenant Izaki hurried back to the location of the main force of the squadron, and summoned the non-commissioned officers of the squadron, such as Komoto, Ukauchi, and Kubota, to discuss and discuss in detail. After a long debate, a consensus was finally reached: The whole squadron is organized into 6 groups of adult ladder groups, each group has 3 people; the obstacle destruction group has 3 groups, each group also has 3 people; The human ladder team also takes care of the assault mission, led by the team leader Sergeant Diomoto; The obstacle destruction team performs assault missions on camera, led by the squad leader, Sergeant Nei; Sergeant Kubota led 20 soldiers to undertake the task of launching grenades; Lieutenant Izaki personally led 17 soldiers to defend the starting position of the attack and respond. Personnel in the ladder group and the obstacle destruction group will travel lightly.When the Hane team attacked the devil machine gun positions with grenade throwing, causing the Chinese army machine guns to fire intermittently, the cliff climber had a half chance of winning.The other half is fighting for the Tianma Mountain position.The success of the defense against the Chinese army's counterattack is the key to the other half of the chance of winning. After the squadron seized the Tianma Mountain position, it took control of the devil machine gun positions defended by the Chinese army and then withdrew from the trenches.Therefore, the devil machine gun will inevitably retreat, and everyone will take the opportunity to attack and annihilate it. Before the ladder group attacked, the sergeant first led the obstacle group to the bottom of the cliff, cut the barbed wire, and opened up an attack path.Each person in the human ladder group and the destruction group is equipped with 4 grenades; each person in the feather team is equipped with 2 grenades.These are the only grenades in the squadron. Alas, it's a bit shabby and stingy to say it.This sentence was Lieutenant Izaki's heart, but he didn't say it.