Bright Sword: I am an undercover agent in the puppet army

Chapter 35: The machine gun firepower was destroyed, so hand-to-hand combat was launched. The 358th Regiment was indeed the elite of Yan Laoxi.

Kasahara Koizumi said: "Do we need to advance one kilometer? That's not necessary. Even if we can't counter the Chinese army's artillery positions, the locust army can still rush to the Chinese army's positions and defeat them. It will be a little troublesome at most."

After saying that, Kasahara Koizumi raised the telescope again.

The position of the 358nd Battalion of the th Regiment.

Seeing that the Japanese had already rushed to the front, the second battalion commander Chen Baitao personally picked up a Jin-made Thompson submachine gun and came to the front line to personally command the battle: "Brothers, fight, fight hard for me!"

After saying that, Chen Baitao decisively pulled the trigger.

“Da da da da!——”

As Chen Baitao swung his arms, a large amount of bullets poured out in a fan-shaped pattern, and in the blink of an eye, several Japanese devils and puppet soldiers were swept down.

Battalion Commander Chen Baitao's personal visit to the front line gave great encouragement to the soldiers of the Second Battalion. Everyone's morale was boosted, and they threw themselves into the battle under the enemy's hail of gunfire and artillery fire.

"Tu Tu Tu!"

"Da da da!"

“Pah, pah, pah!——”

The soldiers of the Second Battalion used whatever they had, including light and heavy machine guns, submachine guns, rifles, and pistols, all firing at full power.

Dense bullets poured out, and the Japanese and puppet soldiers who rushed to the front in order to get the first credit suddenly fell down with screams.

"Counterattack! Counterattack!"

The Japanese soldiers were obviously very experienced in combat. They immediately lay down, looked for cover nearby, or used the bodies of their dead comrades as cover, and then raised their guns and started to fight back.

"Whoosh whoosh!"

Dense bullets flew back and forth between the enemy and us, and people were shot and killed from time to time, including Japanese soldiers and soldiers of the 358th Regiment.

The Japanese soldiers were not afraid at all, but the puppet soldiers who wanted to grab the credit were dumbfounded. They just wanted to get some credit and benefits, but never thought of fighting for their lives.

They lay on the ground trembling, with their heads down, and pulled the trigger without aiming, praying in their hearts that the bullets and shells would not fall on their heads.

"Boom!"

"Boom, boom, boom!——"

Both the enemy and our side were still launching continuous artillery bombardments, and large shells continued to fall on the positions of both sides, killing and injuring a large number of soldiers.

But it is obvious that the Japanese artillery and grenadiers are more skilled. The artillery of the 358th Regiment is a range attack without precise targets.

On the other hand, the Japanese were targeting the machine gunners, submachine guns and other key firepower of the Second Battalion.

Their artillery skills were superb, and almost every shot they made was accurate.

Soon, the Second Battalion suffered a fatal blow from the firepower of machine guns and submachine guns, and its firepower was completely suppressed.

On the battlefield.

The company commander dragged his wounded body to find the battalion commander Chen Baitao and said, "Commander, the enemy's firepower is too strong. Our brothers have suffered too many casualties. We can't hold on any longer! Let's retreat!"

Chen Baitao adjusted his glasses on the bridge of his nose and said sternly, "We can't retreat. I've ordered the signalman to call the regiment headquarters for help. Our reinforcements will arrive soon!"

The first company commander said: "But if we fight like this, we will just get bombed. It's too disadvantageous and too passive. Many machine gunners have been killed, and 70% to 80% of the machine guns have been destroyed by the enemy."

"Then let the devils in and kill them in hand-to-hand combat!" Chen Baitao gritted his teeth, stopped shooting, squatted down, grabbed a rifle from the side, took out a bayonet and put it on the muzzle, while shouting orders at the top of his voice: "Stop shooting, everyone put on bayonets! Prepare for hand-to-hand combat! Kill these damn devils!"

"Yes!" Hundreds of soldiers from the Second Battalion stopped shooting, squatted down, drew out their bayonets, quickly put them on, and then shouted in unison: "Kill those damned Japs!"

The Japanese were ready to move and continued to charge, but the dense blocking fire of the defenders suddenly withdrew, which greatly reduced their pressure. Thousands of Japanese soldiers stood up with their guns in hand, howling and rushing forward one after another.

Each of them wanted to be the first to attack the position of the 358th Regiment, even if death might await them.

The puppet army learned their lesson this time. They did not charge at once, but waited for the Japanese to charge up the defenders' positions before charging.

"Yoshi! The Chinese army is failing!"

"Taoci change, Taoci change!——"

When two Japanese soldiers rushed to the front trench of the second battalion almost at the same time and jumped into the trench.

Several officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion who were lying in ambush in the trenches immediately rushed forward and pinned them to the edge of the trenches with bayonets.

The Japanese soldiers also rushed into Chen Baitao's side one after another. He moved even faster and thrust forward with his gun. Before a Japanese soldier even landed on the ground, his bayonet pierced his body.

"Die to me!"

Chen Baitao roared and swung with all his strength. Just then, other Japanese soldiers jumped into the trench nearby and were hit directly.

The Japanese soldier had just jumped into the trench and had not yet figured out what was going on when he was hit by his flying companion. He lost his balance and fell to the ground.

Chen Baitao quickly stepped forward and stabbed down with the bayonet in his hand.

There was a sound of a sharp blade cutting through flesh, and the sharp tip of the blade pierced through the Japanese soldier's heart and back, nailing him to the ground.

The Japanese soldier screamed for a while, with blood gushing out of his chest and mouth. Soon, he became motionless due to excessive blood loss.

After a successful attack, Chen Baitao raised his gun and shouted, "Brothers, kill them for me. Whoever kills more Japanese soldiers will be treated to a drink by me!"

At this time, some Japanese soldiers and puppet troops directly jumped across the trenches and rushed towards the heart of the second battalion's position.

After all, it is impossible for more than 1000 Japanese devils and two or three thousand puppet troops to all seize the first trench. What they want to seize is the entire position.

In a foxhole in the second trench, when a Japanese soldier just rushed over, an officer and soldier from the second battalion who was ambushing in the pit yelled, suddenly stood up, and rushed towards the Japanese soldier with a gun.

"Puff!" The bayonet easily pierced the devil's abdomen and then quickly pulled back.

The Japanese soldier howled miserably, lost his balance, and fell down with his gun.

Before the officers and soldiers could finish him off, they killed him completely.

Another Japanese soldier leaped over, and his meter-long Type 38 rifle with a sharp bayonet stabbed at him like lightning.

The officer and soldier had no time to dodge and was stabbed by the Japanese soldier's bayonet on the spot. As the Japanese soldier rushed forward, he kept retreating until he hit the wall of the pit behind him and stopped.

The Japanese soldier subconsciously wanted to draw his gun, but the officer dropped the rifle in his hand and suddenly grabbed the front end of the barrel, which was still a little hot. Blood gushed out of his mouth, his eyes wide open and roared: "Little Japanese, I will fight you to the death!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his other hand detonated a grenade at his waist.

When the Japanese soldier saw the smoking grenade and wanted to pull back his rifle to avoid it, he was horrified to find that the rifle was tightly held by the Chinese soldier, and no matter how hard he tried, it was of no use.

"Baga! Yamete!"

At this time, the Japanese soldier let go of his hand in panic and wanted to leave, but it was still too late.

"Boom!" With a loud noise, the scarlet flames engulfed the officer and the Japanese soldiers in front of him.

Just then, a few Japanese soldiers rushed over from the front and were hit by the raging grenade fragments. They fell down screaming...

(End of this chapter)