Chapter 48 A Group of Cowardly Soldiers

  Yang Junran was less than fifty meters away from the tank and quickly threw out the bundled hand grenades.

  A grenade exploded near the tank's caterpillar tread, causing the entire tank to shake violently. As it shook, the machine gun also stopped firing.

  The tank beside saw the situation and quickly started firing at Yang Junran.

  Fortunately, Yang Junran had received some military training and was already hiding in a shell hole.

  The Japanese army on the position has begun to withdraw in large numbers, and the officers and men of the First Brigade are closely following.

  More than 30 tanks blocked the third brigade's attack.

  Apart from Yang Junran, this daredevil blaster, no one took the initiative to attack these tanks.

  Ouyang Jian's face wasn't very good, with a pair of piercing eyes scanning his subordinates around him, but no one dared to look at the deputy commander's gaze, and instead lowered their heads.

  Quickly snatching a few grenades, Ouyang Jian also learned from Yang Junran, quickly bundling the grenades together.

  But Ou Yang Jian's luck seemed not as good as Yang Jun Ran's, having only taken a few steps before being hit by the Japanese tank in the leg, and fell to the ground.

  Yang Junran saw Ouyang Jian fall down and quickly ran over here.

  The warriors behind quickly hid and didn't even want to take a look at what had happened to their commander.

  Ouyang Jian lay on the ground, with fresh blood from his leg flowing down along his pant legs, and the surrounding soil had all turned a deep red color.

  He wanted to simply bandage it, but his arm couldn't reach his leg.

  The soldiers behind did not act because the tank's firepower was getting more and more intense.

  The previous charges had already exhausted the Third Regiment's morale, and at this moment, these soldiers were nothing but a group of walking corpses. If it weren't for the press corps behind them, they would have scattered in all directions long ago.

  "Don't move." Yang Junran shouted loudly as he saw Ouyang Jian struggling.

  Quickly took out a piece of gauze from his backpack and carefully bandaged Ouyang Jian's leg.

  "Useless soldiers, a whole group of useless soldiers." Yang Junran bandaged Ouyang Jian's wound while loudly scolding.

  Deng Ziyong, who was behind, seemed to have discovered that something was wrong and quickly led the artillery regiment over.

  The 92nd Infantry Division's artillery fired rapidly, with many shells hitting the Japanese tanks.

  Subjected to shellfire, the Japanese tanks were clearly much more cautious, and many of them had already begun to withdraw.

  Five of them were tanks, which did not react at all after being hit by shells.

  "Hurry up and get the driver out of the tank, they might be stunned." Yang Junran shouted loudly while looking at the motionless tanks.

  Deng Ziyong hastily organized his troops and rushed towards the tank.

  Yang Junran could see that if it weren't for Deng Ziyong's threatening weapons, these soldiers wouldn't have charged forward.

  "Get over here, a few of you!" Yang Junran shouted loudly.

  Several new recruits rushed over in a flurry and even saluted Yang Junran.

  "Get Deputy Commander Ouyang back to me, if anything happens to him, I'll shoot you all." Yang Junran drew his Type 81 rifle and gestured twice.

  The new recruits nodded and quickly helped Ouyang Jian up.

  The battle in front is still going on, with the participation of infantry guns, the situation has improved a lot.

  The cavalry regiment quickly launched a raid, cutting off the Japanese army's retreat route.

  On the road of Japanese army's retreat, they were obviously no match for these cavalrymen.

  "Orderly, quickly find the deputy commander of the First Division, Jin Mingcheng, and have him bring the other two battalions of the First Division to swiftly return to the high ground and cut off the Japanese army's retreat route." Yang Junran gave orders quickly after seeing Ouyang Jian being carried away.

  In fact, the rest of the third brigade was just behind him, but Yang Junran didn't have a grasp on whether these troops could complete their tasks independently.

  The performance of the third trip was very disappointing for Yang Junran.

  The four infantry guns that had been concentrated in advance now opened fire, and the retreating Japanese tanks exposed their weak sides.

  Infantrymen, rapid fire, shell the Japanese tank troops.

  Several tanks were hit, but nothing serious happened, just a violent shaking of the tank.

  After all, the Type 92 infantry gun's firepower is not great, and its long-range shooting effect is very poor.

  More than 20,000 retreating troops have begun to mix with the First Division and cavalry units, these retreating devils are allowing the cavalry units to vent their anger.

  Against Japanese tanks, these cavalrymen were no match, but against those devilish infantrymen, there was no problem at all.

  Cavalrymen swung their sabers, continuously chopping down Japanese infantrymen.

  Dozens of artillery pieces in the distance could only watch as their comrades died under the enemy's cavalry swords, unable to provide any artillery support for them.

  The men and horses of both sides have mixed together in combat, these artillerymen are completely useless now.

  "Your Excellency, are you alright? I'm to blame for not knowing that Your Excellency had come to the battlefield in person. Please forgive me." Deng Ziyong quickly ran to Yang Junran's side and spoke some official words in a flurry.

  Yang Junran's face didn't look very good, he looked at the troops around him and found that no one was taking the initiative to reinforce the first brigade in front.

  "Form up in ranks, Machine Gun Battalion get ready, those who disobey orders will be killed." Yang Junran shouted loudly.

  The officers and men of the machine gun battalion quickly arranged ten machine guns in a row, most of the officers and men of the machine gun battalion were short-term trained from the instructional corps, they were very obedient to Yang Junran's orders, this was also the reason why Yang Junran let the machine gun battalion serve as the supervisory team.

  Deng Ziyong's face didn't look very good, he looked at his subordinates in front of him with embarrassment.

  "You are all a bunch of cowards, a group of worthless people without any honor. The battle ahead is fierce and the troops of the first brigade have already annihilated the enemy's forces that came to reinforce you, but you hid behind them and never dared to advance even one step. The first brigade also has many new recruits, why can they win battles while you cannot?" Yang Junran shouted loudly.

  Distant artillery apparently discovered this place and began firing intensively.

  Shells were exploding everywhere, some soldiers quickly lay down on the ground, apparently their reaction was quite normal, they were just afraid of death.

  " Coward!" Yang Junran shouted and ran forward with his rifle at the ready.

  Deng Ziyong's face was awkward, these troops followed him as the Mongolian army, just because many of them were afraid of death.

  Now it's time for war, and all problems have been exposed.

  These cowardly officers and soldiers infected the new recruits with their bad habits.

  On the heights above, two lieutenants gathered together, waiting for the arrival of the artillery brigade commander.

  It is now clear that this artillery regiment's lieutenant colonel, was obviously the highest-ranking officer.

  They need to decide on something and must discuss it first.

  The captain of the infantry battalion looked at the distant battle and hesitated in his heart.

  If they didn't abandon these troops that were still fighting and retreat, their own battalion would also be annihilated.

  The lieutenant colonel of the brigade raised his binoculars and looked around, and the officers and men of the third regiment appeared in the Japanese lieutenant colonel's line of sight.

  Although the third battalion fought poorly, in the eyes of the Japanese army, it was a force of several thousand people.

  "If we don't retreat, I'm afraid we'll be surrounded and annihilated. This regiment has at least over 10,000 soldiers, equipped with infantry cannons, howitzers, and light and heavy machine guns. Our brigade commander has already been killed in action, so we must preserve some personnel. If we are completely annihilated, both us and our superiors will be held accountable." The lieutenant colonel's staff officer reluctantly put down his binoculars, seemingly wincing in pain as he touched the wound on his arm, his eyebrows furrowed tightly together.

  The infantry lieutenant nodded in agreement with the staff lieutenant's words.

  After a moment, a lieutenant commander walked over, looking at the two with some excitement, apparently he also agreed to withdraw immediately.

  "Commander, what's your take on this?" The two lieutenants looked at Commander and asked.

  Chūsa hesitated for a moment, pointing to the outside situation and said: "If we don't retreat quickly, I'm afraid we'll be surrounded by them. Immediately send an order to the troops besieged in the mountainous area, let them withdraw quickly."

  The lieutenant commander nodded and quickly began transmitting.

  The infantry lieutenant on the side was silently looking outside.

  Suddenly, gunfire was heard from a distance, and the infantry lieutenant hastily ran outside.

  "It's no good, the Chinese are attacking!" A Japanese soldier ran over, shouting loudly.

  The three officers exchanged a glance and quickly ran outwards.

  Under cover of a few infantrymen, three officers quickly retreated.

  Jin Mingcheng looked at the Japanese troops in the distance, he didn't expect that just as the battle was about to start, the Japanese would retreat.

  "Machine gun, continuous fire! Don't let those devils escape!" Jin Mingcheng shouted loudly.

  The 90mm mortar fired rapidly, with shells exploding all around the Japanese.

  The lieutenant commander felt a sharp pain in his chest and slowly fell to the ground.

  At this time, no one would care about the lieutenant who had fallen to the ground, and everyone was running forward.

  The machine gun behind continued to fire, and the troops had already launched a charge.

  At this moment, Yang Junran was already on the battlefield, a bayonet of a Type 81 rifle had been stained with red blood.

  Everyone was shocked, in memory this cunning officer used to solve the Japanese army with a handgun, but did not expect that this officer had quite excellent fencing skills.

  Yang Junran was in a huff, he didn't know what reason made the third brigade become a group of cowardly soldiers, he wanted to set an example for his subordinates, and must make his own troops a brave one that dared to fight against the Japanese army and sacrifice, rather than like the third brigade, which didn't even dare to launch a basic charge.

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