Chapter 56: The Two Japanese Girls Are Taken Away
But most of the devils hid behind the tanks, and the bullets fired by the warriors only splashed out a spark. The devils' tanks were getting closer and closer, and that small cannon was still spitting out fireballs, causing heavy casualties among the Sichuan army warriors!
As the devil's tank was about to roll onto the position, several wounded Sichuan soldiers pulled out hand grenades and exploded a 95-style tank track. The tank stopped advancing with a loud noise. The devils charged forward, crossing over the tank and continuing to attack forward. Because the street was not very wide, the front devil's tank was stuck in the middle of the road, and the rear devil's tank could not advance and was forced to stop.
At this time, Iron Bull brought the mortar and personally set up a mortar, corrected the aiming, and loaded an 81mm shell into the barrel. With a loud bang, a fireball flew out of the barrel and headed straight for the paralyzed tank. A loud explosion, flames burst forth, the tank's cannon was blown off, and the tank caught fire. A Japanese soldier covered in flames crawled out from the top of the tank, let out a painful wail, rolled around on the ground trying to put out the flames on his body, but no matter how he struggled, the flames could not be extinguished until he was burned alive.
Another gunner on the other side also fired a shell, hitting the second tank behind the first one. The same tank was destroyed and caught fire. Soon the shells inside the tank were detonated. "Boom boom" several explosions sounded, the enemy's tank was blown to pieces. The tracks also injured several enemies who were closer.
After seeing the enemy tank being destroyed, the Sichuan soldiers hiding in the house and rushing to reinforce began shouting and launched a counterattack against the Japanese army. The soldiers, filled with anger, fired bullets from their guns at the devils, but the well-trained devils quickly fell down and set up machine guns to fiercely fire at the charging Sichuan soldiers. One by one, the Sichuan soldiers fell down, but the soldiers behind continued to charge forward bravely.
The devils saw the Chinese soldiers rushing up and also dropped the yellow bullets and clashed with the Sichuan military soldiers in a fierce battle. The soldiers were pressed by the devil's tanks for half a day, and now they were furious, bursting out incredible fighting force. Commander Wang Mingchang personally led a regiment to reinforce, after a bloody battle, finally repelled the devils, annihilating over 100 devils, destroying two tanks, while the 122nd division also sacrificed more than 200 soldiers.
The five tanks of the Koji entering the city were destroyed, with only one escaping. Commander Suzuki reported to Lt. Col. Keiji Shibata: "Commander, the Chinese in the city have anti-tank weapons such as trench mortars and our tanks suffered heavy losses."
"Damn it! Bakayarō! A small county like Tōjō and the great Imperial Japanese Army can't even take it down? All of you are useless!" He slammed down the phone.
The sky gradually darkened, the Japanese army was not adapted to night battles, and fearing being raided by the Independent Regiment at night, Suzuki's unit did not attack, but instead withdrew all troops outside the city.
After a day of fighting, Zhang Mingyu's independent division had more than 300 casualties, and now there were less than 1,500 people left. Zhang Mingyu summoned Zhang Biao, Lai San, Wang Tiehan, Zhang Haisheng, Sun Dali and others. The crowd soon came from their respective defense zones.
Lai San came in with a bandage on his left arm. Zhang Biao saw it and joked: "Little San, what's wrong? Were you bitten by a dog?"
"Go away! You were just bitten by a dog, but I was grazed by the bullets of those little devils who are worse than pigs and dogs!" The crowd burst into laughter upon hearing this.
Zhang Mingyu saw in his eyes that this group of people who completely disregarded life and death, no one knew who would die the next second. Zhang Mingyu saw no fear in their eyes, but rather the tenacity and bloodiness that a man should have. This group of people can be said to be qualified soldiers, Chinese soldiers. In Zhang Mingyu's view as a 21st-century modern person, he had lived in peaceful times since childhood and did not know what kind of belief could make people pay with their most precious lives. He used to wonder if the people of that era were particularly easy to deceive?
Until today, he finally understood that the "front and rear, fearless of death!" iron-blooded soldiers who would sacrifice their lives for their country, which only appeared in TV dramas before, were now standing right in front of him, and they were even his subordinates. In the past, every time Zhang Mingyu went into battle, he was actually scared to death, afraid of being hit by a stray bullet and losing his life forever.
But the will to survive drove him, forcing him to show a strong and fierce side. Because he knew that in this era of war-torn chaos, if he wanted to live on, he had to eliminate all threats to his life. If he was weak and incompetent, it's likely that none of these men would still follow him. At first, he thought about following Chiang Kai-shek, contributing to the anti-Japanese battlefield, doing what a Chinese person should do as their duty and responsibility.
But Zhang Mingyu thought at this time, what else could he do after the War of Resistance against Japan ended? Would it be to fight a civil war with G and finally retreat to Taiwan, spending the rest of his life there.
"No! Since heaven has given me another chance to be reborn, I will do my utmost to change the fate of modern China. I don't want China to pay a heavy price again after eight years of arduous war and three years of liberation war. I don't want China to starve to death tens of thousands of people in the 1960s. I don't want several small countries to dare to nibble at China's coastal islands and occupy China's resources and territory decades later. I don't want those despicable Annamese people to use our Chinese aid and weapons to bite us like mad dogs. I want China to become strong, I want to lead the iron-blooded army to sweep across the four seas, I want all Chinese people to eat their fill and wear warm clothes! Wherever they go, they can proudly say: 'I am a Chinese!'". Zhang Mingyu shouted angrily in his heart.
"Master Zhang, you've called us here just to let us stand like this? Damn it! Say something!" Zhang Biao looked at Zhang Mingyu who was standing there with a thoughtful expression and couldn't help but ask.
"Ah! Let's get started! Everyone, please take a seat." Zhang Mingyu said, coming back to his senses.
"Hai Sheng, report the casualties of your snipers," Zhang Mingyu said.
Zhang Haisheng immediately stood up and said: "Thirty-two people have fallen, no one is injured! Now there are still 58 people left, including me."
"Oh!" Zhang Mingyu waved his hand for him to sit down. Then he continued to ask: "Lai Tuanzhang, tell me about the losses of your Second Regiment?"
"Yes! The second battalion, I still have 596 people left." Lai San said as he stood up. "Bang" Just as he was about to sit down, Lai San fell on his butt with his legs in the air! Everyone burst into laughter.
Especially Zhang Biao's laughter, completely disregarding Lai San's deadly gaze. Lai San stood up and was about to erupt. Zhang Mingyu shouted loudly: "Alright! Let's get serious! Currently, our independent division has 1486 wounded soldiers, including 46 seriously injured ones. Now I order: Zhang Haisheng will lead the snipers and 100 soldiers to escort the seriously wounded and withdraw to Xuzhou first. I'll send a telegram to General Li Zongren to take good care of these injured brothers."
"Master, what's going on with those two Japanese girls?" Ma Ligong asked.
"Take them away together, remember to keep a close eye on them, those two women are very cunning! If they escape, I'll have you shot. I'll assign a squad of my guards to you, and you can retreat with Haisheng to Xuzhou." Zhang Mingyu said.
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