Chapter 147 The Annihilation of the Pinggang Squadron

The company commander’s order was immediately carried out. The three rocket launcher operators in the company opened fire on the two fortresses, which were not far away.

Although the defense line here was a major defense project personally overseen by the Miyazawa Taro regimental commander, it was limited by the current economic strength of the Japanese devils.

These fortresses were only piled up with soil, stones, and wood. They were not built to the standards of true permanent fortifications using reinforced concrete.

They looked majestic on the outside, but when they encountered a real attack, they immediately revealed their true colors.

The fortresses built by the Japanese devils could not withstand even a single rocket.

It was no wonder that Captain Takuya Tego had just seen his small detachment buried alive.

The current situation was the same. With a series of booming explosions, the machine guns that had been chattering happily suddenly went silent.

The machine gunners and the Japanese devils in the fortresses were all buried inside the collapsed structures. Without outside help, the Japanese devils inside would not be able to survive.

Obviously, Captain Takemu Ono, who was currently counterattacking with all his might, did not have time to arrange for devils to rescue those devils.

In fact, he couldn’t even care about those devils who couldn’t participate in the battle anymore. The special brigade troops charging from the front were about to enter the trenches on the defense line.

Captain Takemu Ono had no choice but to issue the order for bayonet fighting. If the Japanese devils in his squadron did not rush out of the trenches to engage the special brigade in close combat, there would be no other way.

At this close range, there was no time to escape.

When Captain Takuya Tego received the order, he did not hesitate at all and immediately led his troops to charge out.

He had already seen from the two hundred meters that the special brigade had just charged: not only was the firepower fierce, but the carts they were pushing in front were also good shields.

His squadron could not break through the defense with either machine guns or rifles. In this situation, what else could they do but engage in close combat with bayonets?

However, there were too many people in the special brigade team that was charging up, at least half as many as in the Takemu Ono squadron.

At this time, Captain Takuya Tego still overestimated the strength of his side. If the entire Takemu Ono squadron had not been bombed, this data would have been correct.

But now, his estimate was far off. There were less than a hundred Japanese devils left in the entire Takemu Ono squadron.

Even if Captain Takemu Ono, who had no way out, saw this reality, he could do nothing.

On his defense line, there was a traffic trench directly connected to the rear. When designing it, they were prepared for the rear to quickly provide reinforcements when they were in a tight spot on the front line.

Now, Captain Takemu Ono looked at the second defense line behind him, which was being heavily bombed.

He had already given up hope for reinforcements. At this time, Captain Jiro Hiraoka was braving the bombardment and ordering his Japanese devils, “Charge! Charge over!”

He had received the order from Captain Taka Shijuroku to go and reinforce the Takemu Ono squadron.

Even though shells were falling on their path, Captain Jiro Hiraoka kept urging the Japanese devils to move faster.

At the same time, Captain Hayato Chiga was at a loss as to what to do in the face of the confusing scene on the front line.

His mortar squadron was originally tasked with bombing the special brigade that was attacking the Takemu Ono squadron, but before they could start.

The special brigade’s artillery bombardment had arrived in front of them, and his squadron’s telephone connection with the Takemu Ono squadron was also broken.

Now, should his squadron go forward or backward? That was the question.

The Japanese devils of the Aoi Tsuruta machine gun squadron were also facing the same difficult choice: it was certain that the front line was in crisis!

But if his machine gun squadron wanted to go and reinforce, they had to first rush through the two hundred meter stretch of artillery bombardment area in front of them.

Should they charge or not?

Captain Taka Shijuroku was very supportive of the Takemu Ono squadron fighting on the front line, and had prepared three squadrons of different arms before the war to be ready for reinforcements.

However, in the end, faced with the fierce artillery bombardment, only the infantry squadron led by Captain Jiro Hiraoka charged over.

The other mortar and machine gun squadrons, after seeing the heavy casualties of the Jiro Hiraoka squadron charging into the battlefield filled with artillery fire, had to give up the idea of charging up.

Captain Takuya Tego led the remaining team of less than thirty Japanese devils to meet the charging special brigade soldiers.

Company Commander Lian Chang Hanxi and his men, who had been charging together with Lian Chang Shi Junxia’s company, had been living and eating with the special brigade soldiers every day for a period of time. The soldiers’ physical fitness had improved a lot.

They had also been learning assassination from the soldiers of the first company every day. Today, the more than one hundred and fifty soldiers under Company Commander Hanxi were in high spirits and full of fighting spirit.

They charged forward as if their lives didn’t matter, and shouted as soon as they met the Japanese devils: “Kill!”

The bayonets in their hands stabbed towards the devils’ chests.

Sergeant Major Taikaku Yamaguchi followed behind Captain Takuya Tego, listening to him loudly ordering the other Japanese devils to charge forward quickly.

He was the first to rush out, and Sergeant Major Taikaku Yamaguchi became the Japanese devil at the very front of the entire Takuya Tego squad.

He also became the first to fight bayonets with the soldiers under Lian Chang Hanxi.

Jia Yang was the first to encounter the Japanese devils. After shouting “Kill,” the bayonet in his hand arrived in front of the Japanese devils along with the sound.

Sergeant Major Taikaku Yamaguchi had originally planned to strike first, but he was frightened for no reason by the loud shout from the other side.

His movements slowed down a beat, and he could only defend passively.

He quickly parried with the rifle in his hand. Jia Yang saw that his first stab was blocked by the Japanese devil.

Without waiting for the move to get old, he quickly retracted his rifle, shouted “Kill” again, and stabbed out the rifle in his hand at a speed faster than before.

Sergeant Major Taikaku Yamaguchi did not expect the other party to move so quickly. He had just blocked his first shot and was preparing to take the opportunity to counterattack when the second shot came again.

This kind of appearance was simply impossible to defend against!

The shining bayonet was already in front of him. He had no other choice but to parry again.

This time, when parrying, Sergeant Major Taikaku Yamaguchi had temporarily turned a shot that was supposed to be a full-force stab into a block.

Finally, he managed to block it. Sergeant Major Taikaku Yamaguchi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

From the time he charged up until now, he had been suppressed by the other party all the time. He was really depressed.

This time, he must seize the initiative no matter what.

Just as he was thinking this, the soldier on the opposite side suddenly shouted “Kill” again, and the bayonet flew over again.

Sergeant Major Taikaku Yamaguchi, who was flustered, was thinking about attacking, but his hands subconsciously defended quickly.

In that moment of incoordination, Sergeant Major Taikaku Yamaguchi felt a chill in his chest, and a sharp knife stabbed into his chest.

He insisted that the knife was still twisting half a circle in his heart before it was pulled out.

As the bayonet was pulled out, Sergeant Major Taikaku Yamaguchi felt that all the strength in his body was also emptied.

Jia Yang was extremely happy to see that he had killed a Japanese devil with a few strokes.

He still remembered what Company Commander Shi had said, “Strike while the iron is hot, and don’t give the Japanese devils any chance.”

He stabbed the returned machine knife into the chest of the Japanese devil in front of him again.

After watching the devil fall in front of him, Jia Yang was ready to look for the next devil.

When he was fighting with the devil in front of him just now, he had been fully focused and all his energy and attention had been on this devil.

After stabbing this devil to death, Jia Yang realized that the devils who were still charging just now had all fallen to the ground, and none of them were standing now.

At this moment, a shell exploded about two hundred meters behind them. When Company Commander Shi Junxia saw the position of the shell explosion.

He immediately ordered: “Everyone, charge forward immediately and rush towards the second line of defense of the Japanese devils as quickly as possible!”

Company Commander Han, who had been cooperating with Shi Junxia to fight the Japanese devils for a while, heard Shi Junxia’s voice so anxiously for the first time.

Although he didn’t know what was going on, he issued the order first.

The soldiers of the first company, upon receiving the order, immediately stopped cleaning up the battlefield and even picked up the rifles that the Japanese devils had dropped on the ground.

They followed the heavy machine guns and rushed forward.

They were all training every day. When they charged like this, they were really as swift as rabbits and as fast as the wind.

With the demonstration of these soldiers from the first company, Company Commander Hanxi led his soldiers to follow closely.

He still had questions he was holding back. On this trip, the soldiers of the first company no longer hid their strength and ran as fast as they could.

After running for a while, another explosion of shells sounded behind them.

The soldiers of the first company ran even faster. When they rushed out four hundred meters, these soldiers stopped.

Behind them, the defense line they had just occupied was already a sea of fire, and countless shells were falling on the first line of defense of the Japanese devils.

Company Commander Han didn’t need to ask anymore. He knew that Company Commander Shi had just discovered that the Japanese devils would soon have an artillery bombardment, so he had urgently asked the entire company to rush out of the area bombarded by the Japanese devils.

Before the soldiers of the first company could catch their breath, the Jiro Hiraoka squadron not far away had already seen them.

Captain Jiro Hiraoka did not expect that he had led his team to suffer heavy casualties and still failed to make it in time.

The first line of defense had been breached, and this special brigade team had actually managed to avoid the artillery bombardment.

However, judging from their appearance, these soldiers had wasted a lot of physical strength under the intense running just now.

If they didn’t launch an attack at this time, what were they waiting for?

Captain Jiro Hiraoka ordered: “Approach this team in front of us quietly along the traffic trench and launch a surprise attack on them.”

His squadron had suffered forty or fifty casualties when passing through the area bombarded by artillery fire. Now, there were still more than one hundred and thirty Japanese devils in the entire squadron.

According to Captain Jiro Hiraoka’s view: although his team had suffered some casualties just now, the Japanese devils had not spent much physical strength.

The team on the opposite side was obviously physically exhausted. It could be seen that many soldiers were panting while supporting their waists.

After his order was issued, Squad Leader Shuren Shiraishi immediately led the Japanese devils quietly towards the direction where the first company was located.

According to Captain Jiro Hiraoka’s idea: they only needed to rush close, give this team a wave of strafing first, and then launch a charge to defeat or even annihilate them.

Squad Leader Shuren Shiraishi fully understood his idea, so he led the entire team with their bodies bowed and waists bent, and groped towards the resting position of the first company.

Squad Leader Shuren Shiraishi, who was quietly lurking and advancing for hundreds of meters, was already calculating in his mind: this position was only fifty or sixty meters away from the special brigade team in front of them. After turning the corner of the traffic trench in front, they could launch an attack.

Leading the team in front of him was Sergeant Yuki Eguchi. When he bowed his body and darted past the corner, his eyes suddenly widened.

A heavy machine gun suddenly appeared in front of him, less than three meters away.

The sudden sound of “Da-da-da” from the heavy machine gun in front startled the devils of the entire Shuren Shiraishi squad.

Then a heavy machine gun was pushed out of the traffic trench and strafed fiercely forward in the traffic trench.

Zhong Youcai and Li Youde’s class were walking forward in the traffic trench pushing the heavy machine gun. Suddenly, a Japanese devil darted out.

Without hesitation, they immediately fired. The Japanese devil fell to the ground, turned the corner after being crushed by the trolley.

Li Youde suddenly saw dozens of Japanese devils lined up in a single file, panicking.

At this time, there was no need to think about anything, just hold the trigger and strafe at these Japanese devils.

You don’t even need to sweep it. Just hold the muzzle steady and let it shoot straight forward, and you can see the Japanese devils falling one after another.

The dozens of devils in the Shuren Shiraishi squad were advancing in a row and were suddenly machine-gunned. These devils had nowhere to escape in the trenches.

Some quick-witted devils wanted to climb out of the trenches to avoid machine-gun fire, but when building the traffic trenches, Regiment Commander Miyazawa Taro forced the laborers to dig the traffic trenches a full 1.6 meters deep in order to achieve the best hiding effect and bulletproof effect.

This depth was able to protect the Japanese devils, whose average height was less than 1.6 meters, very well.

But now, such a deep trench also allowed these devils to barely lie on the edge of the trench to see the outside world.

If they had a little more time, these devils would still be able to climb out of the trench, but the soldiers of the special brigade never gave the devils time.

The devils squeezed in the traffic trenches allowed the power of the heavy machine gun to be maximized. One bullet could penetrate two devils and injure a third.

Those devils who fell in the ditch struggled to fire at the heavy machine gun, but they could not break the defense of the trolley at all. The armor in front of him was not something that bullets could deal with.

Even though Squad Leader Shuren Shiraishi had always felt that he had a good command of operations, in today’s situation, he couldn’t come up with an effective counterattack method, or even a way to escape.

Squad Leader Shuren Shiraishi could only personally demonstrate to the devils in the squad how to climb out of the ditch.

It was a pity that its demonstration was not successful. When Li Youde was shooting directly, he would also stare at the devil’s movements and react.

When he saw some devils hanging their hands on the edge of the trench, struggling to climb out of the ditch, he would also strafe the edge of the ditch a few times.

Bringing those devils down, the entire Shuren Shiraishi squad was suppressed by a heavy machine gun in this section of the traffic trench and struggled bitterly.

Company Commander Hanxi was very surprised when he heard gunshots all around him and asked, “When did you set up sentries around here?”

Company Commander Shi said with a smile, “We set up sentries first when we rushed here, and then we have this place for us to rest.”

“Fortunately, you had the foresight, otherwise, we would have really suffered today,” Company Commander Han said gratefully.

“This is not foresight, this is the law of survival on the battlefield. Every time you go to a place, you must first set up a defense. Only by making the worst plan can you have a good result.

Otherwise, even if there is no problem today and nothing happens tomorrow, something will always happen in the end,” Company Commander Shi said with a smile.

“Everyone understands the truth, but when you really get to the battlefield, like just now, every soldier is out of breath.

At this time, it is really too difficult to ask them to set up a defense line,” Hanxi said.

“It’s better to be alive and struggling than to be dead!” Company Commander Shi said. These things were just commonplace in the special brigade’s training, and no soldier would think it was difficult.

This is what they did in training. The company commander always asked everyone to dig trenches and prepare for combat when they were most tired and powerless.

The soldiers who were used to this method did not feel anything different about today’s events.

But today’s harvest was not small. For so long, the soldiers of the first company had encountered Japanese devils who wanted to sneak up on them for the first time.

As a result, the devil failed to steal the chicken and lost his life instead.

The devils of the Shiraishi squad still failed to climb out of the ditch in the end. When Li Youde operated the heavy machine gun to strafe, the soldiers following him had already begun to aim at those devils who were hanging alone on the edge of the pit and fire.

This made the devils of the Shuren Shiraishi squad have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth. Besides staying in the ditch to make some useless resistance, they were waiting to be killed by name.

The experience of the Shuren Shiraishi squad was not an isolated case. All three squads of the entire Jiro Hiraoka squadron encountered the same problem.

When Captain Jiro Hiraoka was suppressed in the traffic trench and unable to move, he realized its shortcomings: there were no shelters dug.

If he could do it again, he would definitely suggest that Regiment Commander Miyazawa Taro dig a few shelters vertically at intervals in the traffic trench, so that it could avoid the embarrassment that his squadron was now encountering.

Before his death, he finally understood: this traffic trench was not a road for transporting troops to the front line.

This was completely the road to the underworld for his squadron.