Chapter 227 Blood Swamp

(...Waring on a cold and rainy day, the miserable nature can make every veteran tremble and make every new recruit who is just on the battlefield scare crazy... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

The spring rain has been falling for three consecutive days.

The entire little Bengbu has been destroyed in the war, and the whole area is full of broken walls, just like the ruins of Cao Xiaomin and the others in the Zhonghua Gate. The rain is not heavy, but the ground is full of mud, red mud!

It has been eight days since the Japanese crossed the Huai River. The 51st Army and the 89th Army jointly attacked fiercely until the fifth day, but they have never been able to wipe out the enemies of Xiaobengbu.

"Roll!..." The hoarse shouts were almost unheard in the dense drizzle. Five soldiers from the 51st Army stumbled towards a broken wall not far away with explosives. Every step they stepped on the ground would splash blood-red mud... "Bao", "Bao", "So..." The Japanese began to shoot. The five soldiers who had already seemed very stiff and slow in the cold fell to the ground one after another, and their ears were frozen to the point where they fell down. The brothers behind them only saw the dirty mud and water splashed when they fell down. Then their bodies, which were completely like mud, disappeared from the sight of the brothers.

A "splash" splashed, and the two soldiers in the crater turned around and saw that the company elder Jin was coming.

"Don't you go up!" A soldier cursed with a sad face when he saw the commander: "Even if he goes up, he doesn't know if it can be blown up..."

"You two are left?" Lao Jin was a little surprised. There should be another class here, right? When he came up, he had a reorganization.

"'Melon peel', 'college student' is there, no one else saw it..." The two veterans' faces were grim and their lips were purple, and they kept shaking. They were wearing straw raincoats, but the cotton coat inside had already been soaked.

Lao Jin patted their shoulders helplessly and touched them in the direction they pointed. Because the drizzle was blocked from the vision of both sides, it was not very dangerous to touch them like this, because the Japanese also had to save ammunition and not easily hit targets that could not be seen clearly. Lao Jin quickly touched another crater, each of which was the same, and the water and mud were at least two feet deep. The thin and raincoat officers and soldiers stood in the blood-red mud without raincoats and were fighting on the mud on the crater. Many of them didn't even have straw raincoats, and their bodies were soaked in blood and cement. As long as there were living people in the pit, they could know that even if they didn't see it - everyone couldn't help but crack their teeth in the cold.

"Crash" another sound of water, Lao Jin jumped into the second puddle. This time he was close to the Japanese, and the Japanese shot. Although it was broad daylight, the gunfire could still be seen clearly under the scattering of rain and fog. The bullets were very close, and Lao Jin, who was caught off guard, was scattered by the mud and water from the bullets. He quickly threw himself down and accidentally threw himself into the ground and drank a large gulp of sewage.

"Uh..." The smell of the smelly bloody sewage in my stomach made people disgusting. In fact, Lao Jin really vomited when he drank such bloody sewage in the first time, but this was the second day of the rain battle. He vomited all the things he should have - the officers and soldiers participating in the war had never drunk blood!

There were two people in the puddle, dead, because Lao Jin could not hear the sound of shaking teeth. The two pale faces with purple-green eyes were half closed, and they were lying on the edge of the crater before being turned over - they were cold to death. If they were shot, they would have been lifted into the water. Lao Jin felt hot and trembling all over, and he was so uncomfortable that he couldn't help but close his eyes and cried a few times - this was the first soldier he saw who was cold in the crater by the cold rain? He had forgotten...

There was a simple trench about five hundred meters behind the line of fire, which was a place for replacing attacking officers and soldiers. From time to time, the replaced soldiers rushed to the tent like mud and took a bowl of ginger soup and poured them down. Because the food was very poor, the officers and soldiers were soaked in the cold rain that they came back and many people were immediately sick and they would get very hot that day. In the end, the superiors found that there was only one way to let these officers and soldiers continue to fight, that is, to change clothes before they had a fever, and they would change clothes and drink a bowl of ginger soup to continue fighting!

Lao Jin finally arrived behind the broken wall where "Guapi" and others were. Fortunately, there were twelve living people here. When Lao Jin arrived behind him, they were ready to launch an attack. Several suicide squad members quietly touched the enemy's formation from the rain and fog. The protective firepower team behind them stared at the enemy's fire points exposed by the gunfire. Suddenly the enemy opened fire, and then saw the officers and soldiers who had been crawling forward and almost disappeared from sight jumped up and rushed towards the enemy formation. Because this time they touched over quietly, the enemy discovered it late, and they seemed to have already pounced... "Dadada...Dadada..." The Czech sounded deafeningly, but the protective firepower in the rain seemed extremely thin, and the dark red bullet disappeared instantly.

He rushed up! Lao Jin was ecstatic... to three, but he didn't see the explosive pack explode. He saw a human-shaped body being overturned by a bullet... Like an attack ahead, the explosive pack was damp! Two remaining suicide squadrons rushed up and pulled the grenade on their bodies... "Boom!" There was a muffled sound, and no mud covering the sky and the sun was splashed, and the grenade was damp, and only one of them exploded... The lonely explosion did not cause any damage to the Japanese positions. The brothers who attacked disappeared into the rain, and they just made the bloody cement slurry on the ground redder...

The officers and soldiers who were about to charge behind were disappointed to withdraw their half of their bodies that had already stretched out, shivered and continued to return to the puddle and shivered. The bullets passing over their heads seemed to have no effect on them at all.

This is not the first time such a desperate attack, nor is it the first time that such a bleak ending. The officers and soldiers are already numb, just like their feet soaked in water. Because the ammunition is made and preserved, many explosive packs and grenades are damp, although everyone usually uses oil cloth to protect the ammunition. Many people always think that it is just raining when charging or water is infiltrated when crawling forward. They keep trying to continue attacking, but the result is heavy casualties and progress is very small, and everyone can't figure it out. In fact, these ammunitions are already damp when they come up from the rear. Now the only thing that is truly reliable is bullets, but can bullets destroy the enemy's positions?

"Report to the Lord..." Four or five officers who went to the fire to patrol the line came back, and their bodies were soaked in rain and the red blood mud.

"What's wrong! Why don't you wear a raincoat??" Yu Xuezhong cursed as soon as he saw them: "You are looking for death!? This weather..."

"Report to Junzhao... can't be worn..." A staff officer suddenly couldn't help crying as soon as he started to speak. He finished crying: "When the fire line, the brothers were not wearing raincoats. Whenever the Japanese saw those wearing raincoats, they would fire red smoke bombs. Then the cannons on the other side hit him. They couldn't touch them in raincoats at all... On the fire line, the brothers could only use the craters as bunkers. I saw that the brothers were all soaked in blood, and they were all so cold... Junzhao, they really couldn't beat them. I saw that some of the brothers in the craters were frozen, and they just stood cold to death in them... Woo~~" Speaking of this, several combat staff members who risked their lives to go up to the fire line to observe and cried together!

"Boom!" "Boom!"... On a gray rainy day, roars kept coming from a distance. Some were cannons and some were the thunder of Jingzhe. If it was too far away, it would be impossible to tell.

The Japanese in Xiaobengbu were already compressed into a very small piece of ruins. Their positions could be penetrated with a rifle, but the 51st Army and the 89th Army were unable to take the positions. If they launched a cluster charge, they would be attacked by Japanese tank gun groups on the other side, and they would be killed in pieces. They wanted to launch a blasting attack but were repeatedly delayed by ammunition. Most of the remaining Japanese troops, who were injured, were just holding on under their noses and couldn't chew them.

From the outer periphery of Xiao Bengbu to the last Japanese position by the river, the blood-red water and mud were covered with corpses, and they could not distinguish between the enemy and us at all. They all exposed some of the dyed limbs in the mud and water, and other parts were soaked in the mud and water. There may be too many corpses, and they looked completely different from the mud and swamp in the telescope, as if they did not exist.

Another group of soldiers who had just changed their clothes and drank ginger soup outside the tent of the command center were gathered and set off on the line of fire again. Their miserable faces and trembling bodies made the officers and soldiers in charge of logistics almost unable to help crying in secret. But everyone understands that they must fight hard: *** had not gained a few days of air superiority, but had already returned to the Japanese. Before it rained a few days ago, the Japanese planes continued to launch air strikes. Sometimes, after the entire company was bombed, there were corpses everywhere, and few were alive!

It’s not that Yu Xuezhong doesn’t feel sorry for his officers and soldiers, these are the old troops he brought down from the Northeast. However, if he doesn’t wipe out the Japanese as the Japanese plane cannot be dispatched, he will be more casualties!

"Report to Junzuo, the front line of Linhuai Pass was broken by the Japanese, and about a squadron of Japanese soldiers crossed the river..." A staff officer looked at Yu Xuezhong with a phone call, his mouth trembling.

Yu Xuezhong suddenly rushed to the phone and snatched the phone: "What's going on? Who is guarding that section? What? Xuedao?!... Tell him that I will kill him with my own hands if I won't take back the position within two hours!"

The unexpected difficulties of the annihilation battle, and even more unexpected battle situations occurred; the Japanese who were placed in Xiaobengbu were not eliminated, and the Linhuai Pass area was actually broken through!
Chapter completed!