bookrebus Chapter 569: Bloody Battle at Nianzhuang (7)
Chapter 569: Bloody Battle at Nianzhuang (7)
As the two main leaders of the 1st Battle Group,
Tang Junping and Yang Daokun's attack patterns are exactly the same.
First, 150 heavy artillery bombarded it!
Then the tough assault guns took the lead.
Following behind are armored vehicles and infantry charging!
Tang Junping was also muttering to himself. It seemed that the Japanese devils were the same in the past. Except that they had very few tanks, basically every attack was a heavy artillery bombardment, followed by an infantry charge!
Today's attack on Houlaozhuang and Sunqiao villages followed this routine and went smoothly.
However, when tanks and armored vehicles controlled the perimeter and infantry had already rushed into the village,
There was an accident.
On the threshing ground of Houlaozhuang, a large number of bullets suddenly sprayed out from a bunker, and madly fired at the infantry following the armored vehicles!
Rows of soldiers were caught off guard and fell in a pool of blood.
On a half-track armored vehicle,
Yao Dameng, the commander of the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Armored Regiment, quickly picked up the telescope. The bunker at the entrance of the village was located in the center of the threshing ground. It was a semi-sunken structure. Because it was covered by a lot of straw, it was usually invisible.
There were at least four firing holes around the bunker, and several heavy machine guns inside were firing continuously in all directions.
An assault gun slowly turned its muzzle and fired a shot, but unfortunately the angle was not low enough and it missed the target, and the shell flew over the bunker!
Yao Dameng looked behind him anxiously and suddenly shouted,
"Zhao Mancang!"
"Here!" said a soldier who was about 20 years old and carrying three dark green cans.
"Go ahead and burn these bastards for me!"
Several machine guns and rapid-fire cannons fired fiercely at the bunker, covering Zhao Mancang's actions.
He moved flexibly and, with the help of the tanks and haystacks, he quickly approached the bunker about 30 meters away.
Zhao Mancang carefully adjusted the angle of the flamethrower, took a deep breath, and then pulled the trigger.
Instantly, a stream of blazing flames shot out, like an angry fire dragon, rushing straight towards the bunker. The flames instantly enveloped the bunker, the sound of machine guns stopped abruptly, and was replaced by the enemy's screams.
The bunker was like hell on earth. Flames rushed in through the firing holes. The enemy soldiers were frightened by the sudden flames and screamed miserably. Some soldiers were instantly engulfed by the flames, and their uniforms and flesh quickly burned. They struggled and rolled in pain in the small space, trying to put out the fire on their bodies, but everything was in vain, and they were eventually burned into charred human figures.
The straw and stalks in the entire threshing floor were also ignited by the flames and engulfed in a sea of fire!
As the flames gradually died down, the bunker was completely silent, with only the smoking wreckage and the pungent smell of burning. The entire bunker became a tomb filled with death and despair.
The village was littered with corpses of enemy soldiers killed by artillery fire. Not many of them actually survived.
After taking these two villages, there is only one village between here and Nianzhuang, the core area of the enemy’s Seventh Corps, Daijia!
And the distance to crushing is less than five kilometers!
Ding Shan ordered all troops to immediately build defensive positions with the help of tanks. Tonight, the enemy is likely to launch a crazy counterattack!
In the afternoon, the 9th Column also sent the 74th Regiment to fight together with the 81st Regiment to cooperate with the 1st Battle Group!
Southeast of Xuzhou,
Pantang Town, this once bustling town has now become unrecognizable. At a glance, the town is full of broken walls and broken bricks and stones, as if telling of the tragic battle that had just happened. The air is filled with a disgusting smell of blood, intertwined with the strong smell of gunpowder, forming a depressing and terrifying atmosphere.
In this ruin, the soldiers of a certain regiment of the 2nd Column of the Huaye Army showed extremely tenacious fighting spirit. They have successfully repelled the enemy's four crazy attacks and firmly blocked the reinforcements from Xuzhou here!
In a trench on the west side of the town,
Soldier Song Xin looked around and saw that there were only five people left in the class!
But fortunately, the squad leader was still there, and he felt a little more at ease!
Song Xinzhan was captured a month ago. At that time, he was still a Kuomintang soldier. Due to the extremely frequent battles and heavy personnel consumption in the Huaye Army, captured soldiers were often replaced immediately!
In this way, Song Xinzhan joined the People's Liberation Army!
Although, he didn't understand what difference would it make just by changing into a military uniform?
However, on his first night in the People's Liberation Army, he underwent a major transformation, completely transforming from a captured soldier into a qualified PLA soldier!
Because that night, squad leader Lu Sheng brought him hot water for washing feet, and personally washed his feet and picked out the blisters! He also told him earnestly that washing feet every day is as important as cleaning a gun!
This incident made Song Xinzhan cry for a long time before he went to bed at night, because when he was in the Kuomintang army, he prepared foot-washing water for the squad leader every day. One time, the water was a little hot, and the Kuomintang squad leader kicked him to the ground!
After comparing these two things, he finally understood in his heart that on one side, beating, scolding and bullying were common and they didn't treat him as a human being, but on the other side, they truly cared and loved him, an ordinary soldier!
When he woke up the next morning, he was like a different person, because he suddenly realized that in the Communist Army, equality between officers and soldiers is not just an empty slogan!
Lu Sheng finished smoking the cigarette in his hand, stood up, and was about to observe the enemy's situation.
With a bang, a bullet flew over and hit Lu Sheng's head.
Lu Sheng fell to the ground, blood slowly flowing down his face.
Song Xinzhan rushed over, hugged the squad leader, and shouted anxiously,
"Squad leader, squad leader!"
There was no response, and at that moment, they were separated forever!
Several soldiers burst into tears!
Suddenly there was a loud roar from the side. It was the voice of the company commander!
"The enemy is coming! Get ready to fight!"
Fierce gunfire rang out again!
Without caring about continuing to feel sad, Song Xinzhan wiped his tears and picked up his rifle.
Right in front, behind the four tanks, there were hundreds of Kuomintang soldiers following in a black mass!
On the tank, the machine gun was firing indiscriminately!
Song Xinzhan squatted down, untied his leggings, took out four grenades from the grenade box and tied them together. He now had only one thought in mind, to avenge his squad leader!
"Boom--" The deafening engine sound came from overhead, as if the whole sky was shaking.
Two reconnaissance planes dived down from the air towards the enemy's assault formation.
The enemy soldiers looked up, their faces filled with fear. A young recruit fell to the ground, nearly dropping his rifle.
Two dazzling streaks of fire fell from the sky, and tracer bullets drew long red tracks in the air, like burning dragons swooping down on the ground. Bullets rained down, raising clouds of dust and gravel.
The impact points exploded into a "fireworks" of dust and blood on the ground. Enemy soldiers were repeatedly hit and torn apart by the 12.7mm bullets, and body parts flew everywhere!
The remaining enemy troops only felt fear and despair. A feeling of powerlessness filled their hearts, and they all turned around and fled!
On Song Xinzhan's side, cheers broke out on the battlefield!