Chapter 43
At that time, the plane did not have night combat capability. After dark, as long as the enemy planes left, it could greatly reduce the pressure on the defending troops. At the same time, after sunset, Zhang Haitian's troops, who had been operating deep in the enemy's rear, would also take advantage of the situation to do something.
A batch of planes with red medicinal plaster marks just flew away, and another batch of planes with red medicinal plaster marks came over. The devils' planes are recklessly bombing the Righteous and Brave Army's positions in the air without any anti-aircraft capability, without worrying about being counterattacked at all.
Nature, Li Bin still had an armored train in his hand, a German-made 75mm mountain artillery battalion, two cavalry battalions, a "native tank" battalion and a native anti-aircraft vehicle battalion. However, these were all the mobile forces he had, and if it weren't for the fact that the Great Ling River defense line was about to be breached, he wouldn't have mobilized these forces. Moreover, the Japanese air force was now at its most rampant, so deploying these heavy weapons would not be a futile sacrifice?
Although it is said that the Gou Bangzi position must be abandoned sooner or later, now is not the time to abandon it! Li Bin still has to wait, waiting for "Lao Bei Feng" and Xiang Qing Shan to seize the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy coming from Yingkou, while also waiting for the repair of the railway that was blown up by the devils at the Great Ling River defense line a few days ago, so that the armored train can pass through, and then take the troops to find a dark night to retreat back to the Great Ling River position.
The devils on the other side are also having a hard time. These devils, who have never suffered greatly on Chinese territory before, were used to being arrogant and domineering, but today they hit a big nail here!
The position had long been bombed into a scorched earth, with craters everywhere, just like the lunar surface, full of scars. Under Li Bin's encouragement, the soldiers showed their tenacious fighting spirit, braving the enemy's indiscriminate bombardment, holding their ground and repelling the devils' crazy attacks time and again.
The attacking devils were beaten to death, these Japanese who thought they were invincible kicked down a steel plate, and finally saw that what was even stronger than steel was willpower! It was the willpower of rather dying than surrendering and fighting against the invaders to the end! The bloodthirstiness on the bodies of these Northeastern men was thoroughly ignited by Li Bin!
The sun slowly shifting westward made the devils feel flustered, because after dark, the devil planes circling in the air had to retreat, and night battles were not what the Japanese were good at.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, Honjō Shigeru, gave a death order: "Take down Goubangzi before nightfall!"
As the sun was about to set in the west, the Japanese, who had been fiercely fighting all day, launched their final crazy attack. Not only did the 29th Infantry Regiment, the 1st Independent Battalion and the 4th Infantry Regiment, which had already suffered heavy losses, launch a frantic assault on Goubangzi, but even the 33rd Infantry Regiment, which had just arrived on the battlefield, was immediately thrown into battle by Sakaguchi Kiyonao.
The 33rd Infantry Regiment was a unit founded by Sakaki Seizaburō, and he had great confidence in this regiment which he had personally brought up.
The team leader, Major Shin Nakamura, walked up to Sakakibara Seishirō: "Hai!"
"Mr. Nakamura! The Chinese resistance is extremely stubborn now! Our two regiments and one battalion in the front have suffered heavy casualties, now I want you to lead the troops to attack the Chinese position personally!" ordered Sakakibara Seizaburō with a furrowed brow.
"Hai! I will definitely take down that person's position before nightfall!" Lieutenant General Shinoda Nakamura bowed his head in response.
The 29th Infantry Regiment was originally a small infantry regiment with only over 1,800 people. At this time, the regiment had lost more than half of its men and had less than 900 people left. The original 1,500-strong Independent First Battalion also had only over 500 people left. The 4th Infantry Regiment, which had 3,300 people, was reduced by over 900 people and had around 2,400 people left. In this way, the Japanese infantry who were responsible for the attack task were reduced from more than 6,000 people to only over 4,000 people. However, with the addition of the 33rd Infantry Regiment, the Japanese infantry in the front-line attack increased to over 7,000 people again!
The battalion defending the position had already suffered heavy casualties, with more than 3,000 wounded or killed. Even the special forces, snipers and sharpshooters had lost a third of their men. Yet the volunteer army continued to stubbornly defend its position. Seeing that night was approaching and Liu Yutian's regiment from the Northeast Army would soon arrive at the second trench, Li Bin ordered the special forces unit to withdraw from the defense line and rest in the trenches.
Fang Jun Tian refused to back down, and Li Bin shouted at him: "You guys conserve your energy! We'll need you to do something big tonight! This is a war of attrition, it's the infantry's job!"
Helpless Fang Jun Tian had no choice but to lead the special forces unit to retreat from the second line of defense and enter the terrain trench to rest.
The Japanese rushed forward again, and Li Bin personally commanded Wang Zihao and more than a dozen machine gunners in the third trench to fire dense bullets at the first trench, forming a crossfire with reasonable shooting angles, one by one. The devils who had stepped onto the board became corpses and fell into the trenches.
The warriors in the second trench threw out hand grenades one after another, blasting wooden fragments and the enemy's blood and flesh flying everywhere.
The Japanese grenadiers, snipers and machine gunners were desperately suppressing the defenders. The machine gunners under Li Bin's command and the soldiers in the second trench were killed one after another. Of course, the snipers and sharpshooters hiding behind the third trench were also suppressing the enemy machine guns and grenadiers. Basically, in front of each Japanese machine gun, there were at least seven or eight corpses lying horizontally or vertically. However, those devils still charged forward recklessly, operated the machine guns to suppress the defenders, and were immediately shot dead.
Li Bin picked up a Czech machine gun from the body of a fallen soldier and fired a burst at the devils, knocking down over ten of them. At that moment, a devil sniper quietly aimed his rifle at him.
Suddenly, a bullet pierced the brain of that devil's godly marksman. The yellow flower figure behind Li Bin flashed and disappeared into the trenches without a trace.
As the devils drew closer and closer, the sunset shone on the bayonet tips, flashing golden light that stung the soldiers' eyes. Soon, the devils would charge into the second trench!
"Damn your grandma's little devil! Grandpa is going to fight you!" Only a thunderous roar was heard, and a heavily injured big man jumped out of the trench, rushing towards the devils.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Five or six bayonets stabbed into the chest of the big man at the same time, but all that could be seen was a smile of relief on the face of the big man: "Brothers from Beidaying, you can close your eyes now!" A package of explosives with a lit fuse fell off the body of the big man.
A flash of fire, more than 20 devils who did not have time to run away flew into the sky.
One by one, the wounded jumped out of the trenches and rushed into the enemy ranks, with explosions ringing out continuously. A large number of Japanese corpses, their bodies mangled and bloody, slowly fell to the ground amidst the smoke.
As the second trench was about to be lost, Li Bin did not want to fight hard with these devils. He gave orders to the surviving soldiers in the second trench: "Withdraw!"
The warriors withdrew from the second trench with their boards, entered the third trench through the traffic ditch, and left a few soldiers who had been cut off in the trench to bury several landmines and lay explosives in the traffic ditch.
"Beat! Brothers, beat me hard!" Liu Yutian, who arrived in time, led his battalion into the third trench, and the light and heavy machine guns and infantry bullets swept towards the devils like a whirlwind. The bullets were like sickles cutting wheat, instantly knocking down the devils who were about to rush into the second trench.
The devils who were beaten to a pulp jumped into the second trench one after another. After they entered, they finally escaped the hail of bullets, but they found that this trench was too narrow and deep, and they couldn't even poke their heads out to shoot.
"Ah Kua! The Chinese are very cunning!" The devils who jumped into the ditch were so anxious that they kept jumping up and down.
The devils behind did not know the situation ahead and jumped into the ditch one after another.
At this moment, the devils in the trench encountered a landmine. With a loud "boom", more than ten of the densely packed devils were instantly annihilated. In fact, the wording here is incorrect, because those devils can't be considered human at all, and are at most just a group of beasts that have grown into human-like appearance!
The devils who were stuck in the narrow trench and couldn't move discovered the traffic ditch, just as a batch of devils had rushed over, they were all wiped out by the Maxim heavy machine gun. Then there was another loud explosion, the explosives buried in the traffic ditch exploded, and more than 20 devils who were crowded together were also wiped out.
The devils behind only discovered at this time that the second trench was also strange! Where did they dare to jump into the "trap"? They climbed to the edge of the trench and tried to pull up those devils who had fallen into the ditch. Just as they were doing this, Li Bin decisively ordered the mortars that were "fighting guerrilla warfare" to fiercely bombard these devils.
Shells landed among the devils, blasting them into a bloody rain of flesh and bone fragments, limbs flying everywhere, and large numbers of devils vanished from the horizon.
A burst of artillery fire, followed by a sweep of heavy machine guns, plus the accurate firing of snipers, forced the devils in the rear to abandon more than 200 devils who had fallen into the trenches and retreat again in disarray.
Japanese planes in the sky dived down to the ground again and again, Mitsubishi bombers and Kawasaki bombers poured down a rain of bullets on the ground, and the third trench where Chinese defenders were located was also a mess of flesh and blood.
For the Japanese, the most regrettable thing was that the sun had already fallen below the horizon, and their planes began to return to Shenyang Airport like birds returning to their nests. There were no more air forces that could come to their aid. Without aircraft, not only would there be less aerial firepower, but even ground artillery fire would not be so accurate.
The Japanese infantry, who had retreated again, could only report to their superiors: "We have already captured two lines of defense from the Chinese! Now more than 200 of our brave warriors are defending in the Chinese trenches!"
It took a whole day to advance the front line by only fifty meters, which was not what Motofumi Honda wanted to see. But reality is so cruel that he can only admit it.
Night falls quickly on the earth, for invaders, night is a nightmare! But for Li Bin, the dark night is his best ally!
In the third trench, only one company of soldiers remained as sentries, while the rest returned to the tunnels to rest and recharge for the fierce battle that would come the next day.
But Li Bin didn't want to rest, of course, he wouldn't let those devils who had been fighting all day rest either! In short, Li Bin wanted to find something to do and make those devils have a sleepless night!
