allonlinenovel Chapter 458 Is it too late to lie down now?
Chapter 458 Is it too late to lie down now?
Explosions sounded one after another around, and fire and smoke filled the air.
The bridgehead where the Japanese attacked Lugou Bridge seemed to be covered by a thick layer of gray gauze. The smoke of gunpowder billowed wildly, and the pungent smell of gunpowder was like countless invisible hands, strangling everyone's throat, choking their chests and almost suffocating them.
When Mutaguchi Ren'ya's order came, commanders such as Ikki Kiyonao could not believe their ears.
They were already suppressed by the Chinese artillery fire, and now they were forced to hold on and not retreat! Isn't that just waiting to die here?
Yi Mu Qingzhi's eyes turned red. Seeing that the artillery fire from the Chinese on the opposite side showed no sign of stopping, he could only huddle like a stray dog behind a dirt slope that was full of holes and potholes.
The originally straight military uniform was now in disarray, covered with dust and dried, dark bloodstains mixed with sweat, emitting a disgusting odor.
I don’t know what’s wrong with the Chinese on the opposite side. They are throwing shells at us as if they are free. We have never experienced such intensive artillery fire in the previous attacks.
Could it be that the Chinese knew that they were fighting a life-and-death battle, and they were determined to use up all their artillery shells?
The shells exploded one after another near them like dense raindrops. Every explosion was like a thunderclap out of the blue, shaking the earth violently, as if it would tear apart and devour everything in the world in the next second.
The huge earth waves carried sharp stones and debris, flying in all directions, blowing away Japanese soldiers one by one. The remaining Japanese soldiers could only desperately cling to the gravel-covered ground, holding on to their helmets tightly with both hands. Their nails turned white from excessive force and even embedded into their scalps.
His terrified eyes were as big as copper bells, and his eyeballs seemed to be pulled by a powerful force, as if they would burst out of their sockets at the next moment, their eyes were filled with fear.
Ikki Kiyonari leaned over to look at the Lugou Bridge, and saw that the gendarmerie suicide squad had already rushed to the middle of the bridge and was still rushing forward with screams and howls.
He didn't know if it was because the suicide squad rushed too fast, so the Chinese felt that the artillery fire might not be able to keep up, so no shells were fired at the suicide squad at all, and all the shells were fired at the bridgehead.
No! It is absolutely stupid and wrong to hold on here!
Since retreating is not possible, let’s follow the suicide squad and charge forward!
At this moment, Ikki Kiyonao made a decision in his heart.
Screw Mutaguchi Ren'ya's order! If we get bombed here, we're just waiting to die! Since there's a large brigade of military police blocking us from retreating, we might as well give it a try!
"Get up, you pigs, get up, charge!" Ikki Kiyonao didn't care about the exploding shells around him. He stood up and shouted to the soldiers around him. By the way, he asked the messenger to tell other commanding officers his intention and asked them to act together.
At this moment, his face turned red, and his veins bulged like winding earthworms. He roared orders at the top of his lungs, and the veins on his neck seemed to be about to burst because of the roar.
And on the Marco Polo Bridge.
The charging gendarmerie suicide squad finally began to encounter resistance.
Crisp gunshots began to ring out, and they were extremely accurate. Although sparse, each gunshot could accurately hit the charging gendarmerie suicide squad.
He looked at his companions with sparks flashing on their chests, then he took out something he had prepared long ago from his pocket, slapped himself on the chest, and slowly fell down.
The remaining gendarmes became even more crazy and excited, and rushed forward with their chests puffed out.
One of the military policemen was probably too nervous and forgot the instructions given by his superior before the expedition. He subconsciously performed the tactical moves he learned in the military academy, bending over, lowering his head, and rushing forward with his body shrunk.
As a result, the next moment, a bullet went straight into his chin and blew off the back of his head.
“Baka!” The military police squad leader yelled angrily, but he kept walking and swearing, “Listen to me, if you don’t want to die, straighten your chest!”
"Hi Yi!"
The next moment, the chests of several gendarmes around them were already puffed out even more.
The entire gendarmerie death squad rushed forward in strange steps, like a group of big white geese with their chests puffed out. . .
Next to the gendarme who was shot in the head, a gendarme who was rushing behind stopped briefly, squatted behind him, pulled out a piece of iron plate from the dead gendarme's white shirt, and threw it outside the guardrail.
At the same time, the gendarmes who were shot and lying down "killed in action" also pulled out the iron plates from their clothes while lying down, and also helped those unlucky companions who were actually killed in action lying next to them to take out the iron plates from their clothes. . .
"The commander has already told us not to lower our heads when charging. Why don't you listen to him? Hey..."
Pieces of iron plates were thrown under the bridge and sank into the water of Yongding River below the bridge. . . .
Because of the dust and smoke raised by the artillery fire, the garrison soldiers behind did not notice this detail at all.
They just saw that the gendarmerie suicide squads that were charging forward fell one after another, all of them were shot head-on without fear.
On the other side, Kiyonao Ikki was telling several other commanding officers who had rushed over that they could not stay at the bridgehead any longer to be bombarded.
Morita Toru led his men and rushed forward. He glanced at the military police death squad that was about to rush to the other side of the Marco Polo Bridge, then grabbed Ikki Kiyonao by the collar and shouted, "Now follow my orders and immediately organize the troops to follow the military police's attack!"
An officer nearby immediately said, "But the commander asked us to hold on here!"
"Baga! The regiment commander is crazy, are you crazy too? I am taking over the command of the regiment now, charge immediately!" As he said that, Toru Morita took out his saber and roared towards the other side of the Lugou Bridge.
The backbone has arrived. While Kiyonao Imaki is relieved, he is also curious about why Toru Morita, the deputy commander of the corps, came in person.
But he didn't have time to think about it at this time, and immediately organized his soldiers to start the attack.
The soldiers, who were already dizzy from the explosion, heard that they didn't have to stay there to endure the bombing, and without saying a word, they rushed to the other side of Lugou Bridge with their rifles in hand.
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The smoke of gunpowder billowed, the flames of war raged, and the haze of doomsday shrouded this bloody land.
The gendarmerie suicide squad howled and rushed forward like a leader, and the garrison troops behind them continued to follow closely at a distance of twenty or thirty meters.
At this time, more than half of the gendarmerie suicide squad had been "killed or injured", but they were only a stone's throw away from the position on the other side.
As they were approaching the opposite position, the few suicide squad members in the front row had confused and puzzled looks in their eyes.
What was I going to do next? Why haven’t I been “killed” yet?
Should I really rush over? According to the pre-planned plan, I should fall down!
Oops, I rushed forward without braking!
Is it too late to lie down now?