The Milky Way is Also a Grain of Sand

Chapter 536 You Dare to Say It, I Dare to Believe It!

The Utida Kame no Hide squadron leader led the Japanese soldiers and had just rushed into the machine gun squadron's position at the Nagasawa Eimon store.

Before they could rejoice, they were immediately subjected to a fierce artillery bombardment.

Chief of Staff Shima Taewataru lay prostrate on the ground. Feeling the ground tremble in waves, his heart trembled along with it.

Company Commander Shiraishi Shunsuke experienced the feeling of the artillery shells exploding. Originally, this should have been the treatment they gave the Special Operations Brigade.

But now, he himself was enjoying being bombarded like this. These Japanese soldiers had nowhere to hide from the artillery shells.

In this area, there was nowhere to dodge and nowhere to hide. They could only endure it, hoping that the bombardment would end sooner rather than later.

The Kawasawa Yusuke infantry company had just rushed into the battlefield, and before they had time to deploy their forces, they were stunned by the fierce artillery bombardment.

They were infantry, and it wasn't the first day they had encountered artillery bombardment. But today's artillery fire was just too intense.

This was simply not a saturation attack that their small force could withstand.

The more than two hundred Japanese soldiers who had rushed to the battlefield regretted it one by one, hating themselves for not running slower just now, so that they could have avoided being bombarded at this time.

The Japanese soldiers in the battlefield were not the most regretful. The most regretful at this time was Commander Fueishi Juro, who was watching the battle from a distance.

Standing in the distance and seeing this battlefield filled with artillery fire, tears couldn't help but flow from his eyes. He was not pained by the rules of being bombarded, but was saddened by the fate he was about to accept.

Commander Fueishi Juro had already seen the fate he was about to accept, and he felt that he would not survive today, which was why he was crying.

The Japanese soldiers of the Shiraishi Shunsuke artillery company lay prostrate on the ground, shivering. They had never imagined that the scene of artillery shells exploding could be so frightening.

They had always been the ones bombarding the National Army, and had never enjoyed the precedent of being bombarded by the National Army. Today, they personally experienced it, and this feeling made the Japanese soldiers feel fear.

When they were rushing towards here just now, half of the Japanese soldiers in the artillery company didn't even have weapons in their hands.

Now they could have a rifle for each person. They snatched the rifles from the Japanese soldiers who had just died.

But with rifles in their hands, these Japanese soldiers could do nothing. They could only lie on the ground, searching for newly appeared shell craters. They rushed to the shell craters to wait for the end of the artillery bombardment.

The Special Operations Brigade's artillery positions on the mountaintop fired a full ten rounds of artillery shells at the Japanese soldiers,

before stopping the bombardment.

As soon as the bombardment of the Japanese soldiers on the mountaintop ended, Company Commander Hu immediately commanded two companies to rush towards the Japanese defense line.

Twelve carts rushed to the front, blocking the bullets fired by the Japanese soldiers and moving forward non-stop. Behind these carts were nearly five hundred soldiers rushing towards the Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese soldiers, who had just escaped from the artillery bombardment, quickly entered the position.

Squadron Leader Utida Kame no Hide commanded the Japanese soldiers to begin firing at the Special Operations Brigade's charging troops.

At this time, there were fewer than ten machine guns left in the Nagasawa Eimon Squadron. Sergeant Shiina Rokuro and Sergeant Matsushima Sanjuro, two Japanese soldiers, carried a heavy machine gun and changed position.

They placed the heavy machine gun in a shell crater, using the holes blasted out by the mortar shells as cover. This was better than having no cover at all on the open ground.

Squad Leader Oshiba Yusuke saw their actions and a look of admiration appeared in his eyes. He loudly ordered, "Everyone, all machine guns find shell craters and use the craters as fortifications!"

It was not only he who had discovered that the artillery bombardment, which had just reduced the entire team by half, had such a usable side.

The dense artillery bombardment just now had left the battlefield covered with shell craters. Squadron Leader Utida Kame no Hide loudly ordered, "Enter the shell craters, use the shell craters as cover, fire! Fire!"

His voice was urgent and helpless. The distance of the Special Operations Brigade's attack to their current position was only a little over a hundred meters, and the other side had not stopped moving forward.

How could Squadron Leader Utida Kame no Hide not be anxious?

What was helpless was that the troops he had just led had been reduced by at least half in just ten minutes of bombardment.

In this situation, how could they withstand the opposing troops who were like wolves and tigers?

This time, he also knew clearly that he had no retreat. Although Commander Fueishi Juro did not tell him to succeed or die when he set out,

But since Commander Fueishi Juro had allowed him to bring all the Japanese soldiers of the entire squadron headquarters to the front line, and even sent the artillery company, which was not suitable for being infantry,

Obviously, these were all used for the final fight. Regardless of whether they could hold the defense line or not, they would not be able to return for the time being.

In fact, Squadron Leader Utida Kame no Hide also understood that even if he escaped back now, he would have nowhere to escape.

Commander Fueishi Juro's headquarters was only five hundred meters behind, also within the range of these National Army troops' artillery fire.

What could Squadron Leader Utida Kame no Hide do in this situation? He could only urge the Japanese soldiers to shoot faster.

But he had already experienced this scene once. The last time, it was the Japanese soldiers of his own squadron who stubbornly fired at this charging team.

But it was useless. Unless there was dense machine gun fire constantly sweeping, the carts on the opposite side could not be stopped.

Squadron Leader Nagasawa Eimon also discovered this problem. When his machine gun squadron first entered the battlefield, dozens of machine guns fired at once.

The charging Special Operations Brigade troops immediately stopped and began to defend.

This time it was different. Most of the machine guns in the entire machine gun squadron had been damaged in the bombardment, and more than half of the Japanese soldiers in the machine gun squadron had been killed or wounded.

The original team of thirty or forty machine guns now only had ten or so people still firing.

The firepower was much lower than when Cheng Cai arrived on the battlefield, so it was impossible to stop the attacking troops.

What to do? Squadron Leader Nagasawa Eimon asked anxiously.

Beside him was the squad leader of the infantry regiment, Tang Ze Eimon, who had just arrived on the battlefield and been bombed.

Faced with this situation, what else could Squad Leader Tang Ze Eimon do? During the artillery bombardment just now, these Japanese soldiers could only endure it.

Waiting for the artillery bombardment to pass, now they can only endure it and wait for the charging Special Operations Brigade troops to come up.

Squad Leader Tang Ze Eimon said loudly, "Now we can only fight them with bayonets! All Japanese soldiers, fix bayonets, get ready!"

Squadron Leader Utida Kame no Hide had seen the set of tactics where Tenth Company Commander Hu Xiong rushed close and threw grenades.

He quickly ordered: "All Japanese soldiers disperse! Don't gather together, they will throw a wave of grenades before charging."

This defense line was not long, and there were more than a hundred Japanese soldiers on the defense line. These Japanese soldiers heard that the charging troops were going to throw a wave of grenades.

One by one, they were retreating backwards, they wanted to retreat further, and then rush up after the grenades exploded.

Seeing this situation, Squadron Leader Utida Kame no Hide drew his pistol and shouted, "Don't retreat!"

He didn't dare to retreat! How could he allow the other Japanese soldiers to retreat!

The Japanese soldiers, who had no way to retreat, squatted in the shell craters and waited!

They didn't wait long, only less than two hundred meters away, the heavy machine guns of the two tenth companies suppressed the Japanese machine gun fire.

The speed of advance increased a lot. When the distance to the Japanese's front defense line was only forty meters, the familiar routine appeared again.

Squadron Leader Utida Kame no Hide watched the grenades flying out from behind the carts. He knew that these Special Operations Brigade soldiers would throw grenades.

But he didn't know how to deal with these grenades. He could only remind the Japanese soldiers in advance, so that they wouldn't feel too sudden.

As soon as the sound of the three rounds of grenades exploding passed, Squadron Leader Utida Kame no Hide immediately ordered: "Attack! Kill!"

All the Japanese soldiers already knew that they would have to rush up and fight with bayonets after three rounds of grenades. This time, they knew this in advance, and the charge was very neat.

Squadron Leader Utida Kame no Hide was one of the first few Japanese soldiers to stand up. The command knife in his hand pointed straight in the direction of the Special Operations Brigade soldiers charging over.

Squadron Leader Nagasawa Eimon also drew his command knife, pointed it straight at the position where the Special Operations Brigade soldiers were charging, and loudly urged the Japanese soldiers to charge.

Squad Leader Takahashi Naiwaku led Sergeant Kobayashi Ryota and Sergeant Nakamura Kensuke to rush to the front. They were originally infantry, and rushing to the front in such a charge was originally what they should be doing.

Squad Leader Tangasawa Yusuke saw his Japanese soldiers rushing to the front. Despite the grim situation on the battlefield, he could not help but show a smug look on his face.

Today there are infantry companies, machine gun companies, artillery companies, and Utida Kame no Hide's squadron headquarters on the battlefield.

Among so many teams, his own infantry company rushed to the front, so the infantry was the bravest team.

Squad Leader Tangasawa Yusuke did not dare to neglect, he waved his command knife in the air, stood up and rushed to the front.

Unlike these infantry soldiers who were rushing to the front, the Japanese soldiers of the Shiraishi Shunsuke artillery company were obviously not used to this kind of close combat.

When all the squad leaders stood up and started charging, Squad Leader Shiraishi Shunsuke stood up and shouted, "Charge!"

The Japanese soldiers under his command also stood up slowly, holding the rifles they had just gotten less than half an hour ago, and followed behind the other Japanese soldiers and rushed forward.

Suzuki Kaede had only rushed out three steps when he stopped. He saw that Squad Leader Oshiba Yusuke, who had rushed up first, had just rushed up.

After a few movements, the tip of a bright white bayonet pierced out from his back. The tip of the knife was not long, but it pierced into Squad Leader Oshiba Yusuke's body.

But it seemed to pierce into Sergeant Suzuki Kaede's heart. Watching the tip of the knife disappear, but it was forever pierced into his heart.

Suzuki Kaede only felt cold all over, his hands and feet were stiff, and he could no longer take a step forward.

It was not only him who was frightened, when had the Japanese soldiers of the entire artillery company seen such a tragic bayonet fight?

Even the staff members of the Utida Kame no Hide squadron headquarters could not help but slow down when they saw the scene in front of them.

Originally, they thought that the Japanese soldiers of the Tangasawa Yusuke company could still resist for a while in the bayonet fight. Isn't fighting three enemies with one's life the basic operation of the Japanese soldiers?

When they really needed to perform on the battlefield, how did these infantrymen completely change?

What one against three? What bayonet fighting is invincible? It's all fake. Although the Japanese soldiers of the Shiraishi Shunsuke artillery company did not dare to go forward, it did not prevent them from despising the Japanese infantrymen who rushed up.

Squad Leader Tangasawa Yusuke watched Squad Leader Oshiba Yusuke fall, and watched Sergeant Kobayashi Ryota fall.

At this time, he had already rushed to the front, and the command knife in his hand slashed fiercely at the soldier in front of him.

When the soldier blocked, Squad Leader Tangasawa Yusuke lightly retracted the command knife in his hand, and then stabbed forward at a faster speed.

The knife that he had just slashed down so fiercely was actually just a feint, this stab was the real effort.

Just when Squad Leader Tangasawa Yusuke thought that the National Army soldier in front of him was dead, the soldier on the opposite side unexpectedly took a step back, avoiding his command knife.

At the same time as he retreated, his bayonet stabbed forward. Such a discordant movement appeared at the same time, and Tangasawa Yusuke's squad leader was immediately confused.

When the other party stepped forward again, Tangasawa Yusuke's squad leader fell to the ground in two or three moves.

The infantry squad leader was already dead, and the time for his infantry squad to be destroyed was also fast.

After experiencing the artillery bombardment, there were not many Japanese soldiers who could stand up and fight with bayonets in the Tangasawa Yusuke infantry squadron. There were only sixty or seventy Japanese soldiers in total.

Dozens of Japanese infantry squad soldiers fighting with bayonets with the soldiers of two regiments of the Special Operations Brigade were not opponents at all.

They were quickly killed and wounded. The Japanese soldiers of the Tangasawa Yusuke squadron rushed to the front, and after they died, the Japanese soldiers of the Nagasawa Eimon machine gun squadron behind them had no power to parry.

The machine gun company had never prepared for bayonet fighting. Although they were also infantry, this company had strong firepower.

As long as they fired on the battlefield, no infantry could rush up to their position, so these Japanese soldiers did not actually need to fight like this.

It was just that the situation was special today: too many machine guns in the entire company were destroyed by the bombardment, and they encountered a Special Operations Brigade team pushing carts that was not afraid of bullet sweeps.

In this way, the Japanese soldiers of the Dai Sawa Eimon machine gun squadron had to rush up to fight with bayonets, but their assassination level was really too poor.

The entire team did not find a Japanese soldier who could fight with a tenth-company soldier for one round.

The Japanese soldiers of the machine gun company were not opponents, let alone the dozens of Japanese soldiers of the Utida Kame no Hide squadron headquarters who were with them.

Most of these Japanese soldiers of the squadron headquarters were officers. They would also participate in some military training such as assassination when they were in military school.

After entering the squadron headquarters these days, they had long forgotten these trainings. Now that they had picked up the rifles again, the assassination skills could not be picked up all at once.

Company Commander Hu led the team to break through the Japanese defense layer by layer. The soldiers could clearly feel that every time they broke through a layer of Japanese soldiers, the Japanese soldiers behind them would be weaker.

When Company Commander Hu's command knife was knocked away by a shot from Company Commander Hu, Fueishi Juro, who was looking through a telescope in the distance, turned his attention to the defense line being built by the Eguchi Ryunosuke infantry company.

Squad Leader Shiraishi Shunsuke was stabbed to death when he woke up and urged the more than forty Japanese soldiers who remained in the entire company to charge.

Sergeant Suzuki Kaede stabbed at the opposite soldier with a gun while shaking all over, but was easily pushed aside by the other party, and then returned a shot.

He just fell down! The Japanese defense line was broken again.

At this time, less than four hundred Japanese soldiers of the Marine Corps led by Fueishi Juro were still able to fight.

Lin Fan also ordered the tenth company to approach the Japanese defense line and establish their own defense line on the spot, encircling but not attacking!

Now they are encircling these Japanese soldiers, waiting for their reinforcements to arrive before annihilating them all.

As the battle here ended, Company Commander Ren Ce also received the order: "Return to the team!" None of the other companies of the Fifteenth Regiment fought with the Japanese Marine Corps. Only his company cleaned up the battlefield behind, and then took the opportunity to get involved in this battle.

Company Commander Ren led the team away, leaving this battlefield for the Second Regiment to clean up. The people who were organized to come to clean up the battlefield really had their eyes opened today.

They personally saw the Special Operations Brigade break through the Japanese's defense line after defense line, and the Japanese soldiers who were killed fell to the ground in piles, which was very scary.

Now a team of Special Operations Brigade soldiers is cleaning up the battlefield, giving those Japanese soldiers a knife each, and taking away all the weapons and ammunition.

These people had already done the remaining things once, and they were very skilled after doing it again.

They walked to the front one by one, and took off the clothes and shoes from the corpses that had not yet cooled down.

Wrap it in a white cloth, and put it on the highway one by one. It looks very spectacular from a distance.

Commander Fueishi Juro could see this scene from the telescope, and the expression on his face was extremely complicated.

Those Japanese soldiers who were still alive and kicking with him in the morning had now turned into corpses wrapped in white cloth.

Of the five thousand Japanese soldiers that he led into the ambush circle, less than five hundred were still alive, and more than one hundred of them were wounded and unable to fight.

These wounded soldiers were all sent down from the front line at the beginning of the battle.

When the battlefield situation deteriorated later, they had no time to send the wounded soldiers. Therefore, their number of wounded soldiers was fixed at more than one hundred, and the rest of the wounded soldiers became cannon fodder on the battlefield.

In any case, Commander Fueishi Juro's mood now was the same as that of Captain Kawauchi Takuya a few hours ago.

Although he knew that the team had been surrounded to death, and the possibility of surviving was less than one percent, he still had one in ten thousand hope.

Hoping that he can go back alive? Therefore, in the telegram he sent to Commander Saltazawa Koichi, he said: "Our army has stabilized the defense line. Through the desperate fighting of all the officers and soldiers, the National Army has now stopped the attack."