Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 324 Death Picture Scroll
Because of the thick silt created by Commissioner Songjiang's "lazy policy", it blocked the heavy footsteps of the Japanese infantry.

More than 300 Japanese infantrymen were passionately "playing" in the moat. Compared with drinking water from Songjiang River, the second wave of Japanese infantrymen who came later were stunned. The advanced engineers erected pontoon bridges at the blind spots of heavy machine guns.

The defenders of the city wall were extremely anxious, and the two machine guns headed by Mo Songzi finally couldn't bear it and fired, beating more than a dozen Japanese engineers into a cloud of blood.

The ferocious artillery fire began to attack the firing holes where the machine gun fortifications were located 30 seconds later.The 13th Infantry Regiment also took out all its artillery power at this time, and a total of 10 infantry artillery arrived close to the front line, responsible for suppressing the firepower points hidden in the city wall.

What is most anxious is actually not the few soldiers inside the city walls.

It was the soldiers of the 400 regiment 643 meters away from the city wall.

The main force of the 643 regiment, blocked by artillery fire, waited for a few minutes, but still did not see the weakening of the Japanese artillery fire. The colonel standing in the trench with a pistol in hand was anxious, and finally issued an extremely difficult military order with red eyes.

"The devil is coming up. The brothers in front are still waiting for us. I ordered each battalion and each company to rush over as an infantry squad." The colonel brandished a pistol and roared to convey the order to the signal soldiers around him.

While several signal soldiers conveyed the order to each battalion and each company, three red flares were shot into the sky, which was the highest level signal that the frontline positions were urgently in need of support.

There was no other way. Facing the smoke of death rising in front of them, the officers of each battalion and each company could only grit their teeth and deliver military orders.

Squad after squad of infantry rushed into the smoky but no longer trenched support route.

This may also be the first time since the Songjiang War that under the cover of no fortifications and trenches, Chinese soldiers faced Japanese artillery fire directly.

At a distance of 200 meters, there are shells exploding around you at any time, that is dancing with death.

Undoubtedly, the Chinese soldiers who faced the Japanese artillery fire were brave, but bravery cannot become a shield, unable to block the terrible air waves and shrapnel with almost no dead ends.

The 75 mountain artillery is unable to destroy solid fortifications, but it is easy to blow up people. A 6.5 kg high-explosive grenade has a killing radius of 12 meters, which means that people within a radius of 12 meters will die, and the splashed shrapnel can even cover 30 meters. within a meter radius.

The Japanese artillery used to block the 200-meter area behind the city wall is as high as 48, including several 105 howitzers.

It can be said that the 200 meters of dancing with death is a thorough road to death. Only the facts can answer how many people can survive after rushing in.

The reality is that an infantry squad of more than ten people rushed into the barrage of artillery fire and disappeared within ten seconds, followed by another infantry squad, and another infantry squad, until an entire infantry company disappeared in the air. Deep in the smoke.

No one knew whether they were dead or alive and crossed the nearly 200-meter-wide death road. The major and battalion commander at the forefront could only look at the front in pain, and roared hoarsely: "2nd company, go to Lao Tzu!" !"

After 2, there are 3 more.
Soldiers and officers, whether brave or fearful, must go.

Behind them is the supervisor team.

The same loaded guns.

Give the military order, back off, kill!If not the former, kill!

A second lieutenant platoon leader hesitated for a moment. After the two infantry squads under his command rushed into the smoke, he subconsciously shrank back, and was kicked out of the queue by the red-eyed captain who seemed to be crazy. The shell gun intends to execute the Fa on the spot with one shuttle.

The second lieutenant begged on his knees, begging himself to take the blame and make meritorious service, and to die at the front line.

After all, the captain and company commander gave him the opportunity to charge into the smoke with his last infantry squad, followed by himself with a platoon.

In the end, the second lieutenant committed crimes and made meritorious service, and died heroically on the front line, but his captain and company commander failed to see it.

Going forward or retreating is death. Naturally, no one wants to bear the name of a deserter after dying.

The three infantry battalions of the 643 regiment invested a total of 6 infantry companies with more than 1000 people on this almost fatal road.

After the war, the road, which was only 200 meters wide, was covered with broken limbs and broken bodies. The blood that was scorched into dark brown by the heat wave seemed to be the base color for the oil painting of the ruins.

It is said that the Songjiang garrison deployed nearly 2000 soldiers just to pick up the remains of these soldiers who were too late to fire a single bullet.

The scene was like hell, some people picked it up and vomited, then cried, and then continued their work.

At that scene, I don't know how many soldiers suffered heavy psychological trauma.

So much so that during the war with the Japanese army, some people jumped off the city wall with explosives in their arms at the most critical moment of the battle. I am afraid it has something to do with that extremely cruel battlefield.

Lao Tzu's brothers were all blown to pieces, so I should go and accompany them like this!

In war, what is lost is life, but what is destroyed is heart.

The soldiers after the war couldn't suppress their violent temper, and couldn't help but punch each other because their hearts were already broken.

The few veterans who can live to the end of the war, the war lasted for several years, it is rare to say that they have experienced hundreds of battles, and their will can be called as strong as steel, but it is such soldiers, who often When it comes to the battle of crossing artillery fire to support the city wall, I still cry bitterly.

No one knew how the colonel leader who sent more than a thousand of his subordinates to the road of death was feeling at that time, until after he died in battle, his guard squad leader saw this line of text from the blood-stained suicide note on his chest : "If I die in battle, please bury my body with the remains of the brothers who died in the Songjiang Battle, and I will go underground to make amends to them. Also, don't engrave my name on the tombstone, let me be like them! "

The head of the colonel has always been extremely painful for his decision. Perhaps dying here and being buried with his soldiers is the only way for him to relieve his pain.

But he also had to be proud of his soldiers.

A brave heart cannot be turned into a shield, but it can create miracles.

Six infantry companies, although there were less than 200 people who could finally break through the road of death, but it was this more than 100 people who dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army who were still "playing in the water".

The silt restrained the footsteps of 300 Japanese infantry, including Kanwu Yudai, and stopped the more than 300 Japanese soldiers who stayed on the bank of the moat.

But support from the Chinese army arrived.

5 light machine guns, 160 rifles and 3 grenade grenades are not fierce at all for such a battlefield.

But for the Japanese army in the river, it was a disaster.

The Chinese soldiers who rushed into the artillery fire and rushed out of the artillery fire with the will to die have long since lost their fear of death. Even if the Japanese army's fire cover is fierce enough, it is not only covered by more than 30 heavy machine guns, but also how many grenadiers and bombs. The 6 infantry artillery were in full swing. When they found the firepower of the Chinese army that had pushed away the blue bricks to expose the firing holes, they fired wildly. The Chinese soldiers who entered the remaining fortifications on the wall also fought back without fear.

However, not to fight back against those heavy machine guns and grenades.

Their target was a large number of Japanese infantrymen who were playing passionately in the shallow water and mud.

It is also in the legend: if you hit yours, I hit mine, and I will kill this turtle grandson in front of me!

Typical bastard boxing routine.

The Japanese are crazy, but the Chinese are even crazier.

On the way of support alone, the battle loss was 80.00%. Who would not be crazy?
Crazy versus crazy, but the unlucky ones were the Japanese infantry in the moat. They were the only ones who were not protected by fortifications at all.

Hide in the water?Don't be kidding me!The water in the green moat is dirty but definitely not a sandbag.

The moat is only five or six meters away from the city wall. The Japanese army is located in the moat, and it is only 30 meters away from the sky. With good eyes, you can even see the desperate expressions on the faces of the Japanese infantry.

The silt made the Japanese soldiers with high individual literacy stagger like an 67-year-old lady. For the [-] veterans who have fought many battles, this kind of shooting is much easier than killing dead targets on the training ground.

Not to mention that for those officers who still have shell guns, there is almost no need to aim, and a single sweep can kill at least two.

The mortars also began to show their power. After obtaining the semaphore coordinates from the artillery observation post, the 643 mortars owned by the 8 regiment fired at the Japanese infantry on the river bank.

The Japanese soldiers who did not receive the retreat order could only lie helplessly in the mud and carried it hard, and were killed while carrying it.

The engineers and soldiers were still working hard like hardworking little ants in the fire of gunfire, and then they were hit by bullets or torn apart by artillery fire.

At this moment, the two warring parties who did not choose to retreat were like a person who had been beaten bloody. After turning over with great difficulty, he turned his head and threw a brick at the arrogant opponent, causing the opponent to cry.

On this late autumn evening in Jiangnan, China, in the distance, the sky is glowing with red clouds, and nearby, the dilapidated city is full of gunpowder, and the green water next to it is glowing with dark red splashes.
If a painter can record this scene with a brush, it will definitely be a colorful landscape painting.

However, this is a picture scroll full of death breath.

At least 300 Japanese soldiers painted the scroll red with their blood.

Because, the Japanese soldiers who were able to return to the river bank in the end can be counted with one hand.

(End of this chapter)