War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 494: 688 members join the battle to capture Luding Bridge!

Full firepower coverage!
This is not achieved by shouting, but by fighting!
When the Japanese invaders kept moving towards the top of Tuanchengkou Mountain, when the whole mountain was filled with Japanese invaders, when those guys thought they had no fighting spirit anymore and they could go up there to vent their anger...

呲!
White smoke began to rise from the top of the mountain, which was the real signal for an attack.

"beat!!!"

The one who shouted this was not Liu Gener or Chang Zhan, as the battle over there had already turned into a mess; the one who shouted this was the company commander, who had set up a machine gun position on a distant hilltop before the battle even started. They also controlled Oerlikon's planes to shoot down the Japanese.

But when the anti-aircraft guns were lowered, this time they were no longer going to shoot at planes, but at people!
boom!boom!boom!boom!
Oerlikon had already opened fire, but their primary target was not the Japs at Tuanchengkou, but the machine gun position on the high point of the mountain side of Tuanchengkou!
At that moment, the 20mm Oerlikon machine gun kept firing, and countless bullets grazed the hillside of Tuanchengkou, creating a gap in the white smoke in the air as if someone had bitten it, and then it rushed towards the heavy machine gun position of the Japanese on the hilltop...

If the effect of a heavy machine gun in combat is to create holes in buildings in street fighting, then Oerlikon can directly cause these buildings to collapse!
Yes, the 150mm caliber howitzer is indeed more powerful than the 70mm naval gun, but the point that cannot be ignored is that as long as the howitzer is on the ground, it can only fire one shot at a time, while the 70mm naval gun can achieve the effect of a machine gun through water cooling...

This is the advantage of the 20mm Oerlikon after it is laid flat. You can even say that it is not a cannon, that's fine, but the fact that this thing cannot even be blocked by a bunker and its property of continuous shooting cannot be concealed by anyone, even if it is not water-cooled.

bump! bump! bump! bump!
The Oerlikon was in full swing. To be more precise, the Oerlikon imitated by the Dagu Factory was in full swing. The Japanese soldiers on the distant hill were not suffering from bullet attacks at all. The bullet could smash one Japanese soldier, pass through his body, and explode in the chest of another Japanese soldier.

Even if an Oerlikon shell exploded into the soil, it could raise the loose soil on the hill to a height of more than half a meter. Before the loose soil fell down, the Japanese could only lie on the spot and pray that the second shell would not fall on them.

Even when an Oerlikon round hit a tree as thick as a calf, it broke the tree apart. The Japanese soldier behind the tree had no time to react, and the flying wood chips pierced his face like a hedgehog...

Helmet?

Yes, the Japs had steel helmets, but those things were not good enough for Oerlikon.

At the Japanese machine gun position, half a steel helmet was dangling on the ground. There were traces of being hit on the front of the helmet, and a concave gap about the size of a fist was there. The inside of the helmet was full of red and white things, and there was a small hole pierced through the back of the helmet. Above the helmet was a Japanese with the upper part of his head missing, with only half of his chin hanging on his neck. Blood was dripping down from the gap, but the Japanese's head had been shattered long ago.

This is Oerlikon, and this is the answer to Chang Zhan’s question to Liu Gener: “Do you have a backup plan?”

The answer is that there are ten crosses hidden on the mountain!

"beat!!!"

Liu Gener held his machine gun and fired wildly at the foot of the mountain. His whole body was shaking slightly due to the Czech-style recoil.

His vision was obscured by the smoke and he had no idea whether he could hit anyone, but he had to shoot at this moment, otherwise the shooting opportunity that Oerlikon had fought for the entire hill would disappear immediately. Once the smoke bombs dissipated, with the Japs' shooting accuracy, how could you shoot so comfortably?
The problem is that the attacking devils were in a terrible state... But this seems to be the enemy's problem...

They rushed up after seeing the white flag. They came up to vent their anger. They rushed to a position only tens of meters away from the top of the mountain in one breath. Then they slowly advanced and managed to push themselves within 30 meters.

But... no one told them that they could raise the white flag and bring cigarettes!
When the white smoke from the top of the mountain floated up, the speed of the Japanese attack slowed down significantly, and then the sound of gunfire from the top of the mountain rang out like popcorn, and bullets fell like rain. Da da da da da da da!
Major Sato had never seen such dense gunfire. His ears were filled with the whizzing sound of bullets flying around. The shouting that was lingering in his ears just now seemed to be drowned out in the hail of bullets at this moment. The venting shouts of his comrades after seeing the white flag seemed to have vented their last bit of strength, making the team that was charging upward seem increasingly exhausted even though they had already reached the top of the mountain.

Puff puff!

Three bullets pierced the body of the soldier in front of Major Sato, causing him to fall to one side in a half-bent position, and roll down the slope of the mountain. The sound of machine guns caused soldiers in front of Sato to fall down in large numbers. At that moment, the scene was so cruel that he couldn't tell which machine gun had just fired when he looked up, because the entire top of the mountain was filled with machine gun fire.

The expression left on Major Sato's face was a kind of fear, a fear hidden deep in his heart...

boom!
This fear was accompanied by the explosion of the grenade in front of him, and the soldier's arm was blown off and flew up at the same time, and spread all over his body along with the falling dust.

"fraud!!!"

Under this extreme fear, Major Sato shouted to the limit: "Their surrender is a hoax!!!"

Does he need to say that?

Nearly a hundred Japanese soldiers had already fallen on the hillside. Who didn't know that this was a scam? But the limit of fear was anger, and screaming was the only way to vent this anger.

"kill!!!!"

Oerlikon's voice appeared, and half-meter-high dust rose up, proving that countless Oerlikon ammunition were falling on the battlefield. The corpses of the devils that kept being blown to pieces made the Japanese invaders led by Major Sato, who still had the advantage on the surface, have to take the beating here. They could not advance even an inch, nor could they retreat a bit!

……

"quick!!"

"Everyone speed up. If you can't run any longer, help each other!"

In the mountains and forests, the 688th Regiment, led by its commander Chen Jinxiu, rushed towards Dongpao Chi. As the ace main force regiment of the 115th Division, their mission this time was to abandon all the baggage of the regiment and launch a surprise attack on Dongpao Chi after running 20 kilometers along the mountain road.

Judging from the orders issued by the division commander and the surrounding terrain, this is simply asking too much. After all, the roads near Pingxingguan are all mountainous, and one has to be very careful if one wants to travel 20 kilometers normally, not to mention running at full speed and then quickly preparing for a surprise attack!
But this order suddenly became reasonable when it was given to the 688th Regiment, as long as you have seen their glorious achievements in the past...

what?
The full-scale war of resistance had just begun, where did the 688th Regiment get its achievements?

Yes, the 688th Regiment had no record of combat against Japan, but they had one record that could be distinguished regardless of nationality, and that was – the capture of Luding Bridge!

It was they who, with all the decks of Luding Bridge removed, climbed the iron chains with their bodies, held machine guns and fought against the enemy. When countless soldiers were shot down by bullets, they used their lives to create such a legend! That was in 1935, when the sun had just risen. It was they who accompanied the sunshine and wrote a legend that would go down in history!
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