Chapter 71: Don’t give up

(...No matter how many tricks you use on the battlefield and how many small advantages you take, the essence of the battle is still to consume; our warriors use human lives to consume all the Japanese ammunition, consume all the Japanese morale and finally consume all the Japanese!... Excerpted from "Grandpa's Memories of the War of Resistance")

The brothers around Cao Xiaomin were all shocked by Cao Xiaomin's plan. They were not surprised that this plan might kill their lives. They couldn't believe that they had the opportunity to do such a big thing!

Too many brothers around them disappeared silently in the battle, and many people even had no pensions because they could not confirm their deaths. If they could die in a battle that shocked the whole country, just like the brothers who died in Sihangcang, that would be a perfect destination! - The heroes are seen in the eyes of others. When these officers and soldiers faced a life-and-death decision, who knew that many of them just thought about whether their relatives would get the pensions!?

Bet! Everyone was suddenly inspired to fight almost crazy: they wanted to use these thirty troops to occupy Suzhou!

"At that time... battalion commander, when we send electricity to the whole country, remember not to call me 'clarb'..." The "clarb" who has always been good at fighting and usually pretends to be dead is actually excited at this time: "battalion commander, my name is safe, that is safe..."

Just as Cao Xiaomin and his friends were about to do something earth-shaking, his brothers in the trench had already beaten Wangting into Luodian and into a flesh-and-blood mill!

The 9th Division of the Japanese felt that being beaten by the 151 Brigade was a great humiliation. Although they agreed with the plan of the entire army to help surround the 151 Brigade, in fact, they just wanted to not let everyone of this enemy go. In the heart of the division commander Yoshizuru Ryosuke, he hoped that the 9th Division would completely solve the problem.

But everything surprised him: the 9th Division's logistics corps was unable to break through the defense line of the Kuomintang army with great preparations! Because the Japanese army was going to advance eastward at this time, southward and northward at the same time, in fact, all divisions were split and used. For example, the 9th Division only had the brigade that was calculated by the 151st Division yesterday and half of the logistics corps left to raise military funds by the Taihu Lake. The other three logistics corpses belonging to different divisions were also left to raise grain near the prosperous Suzhou Taihu Lake. Although they were temporarily assigned to him to command, they were always outsiders.

Yoshisuke, who originally didn't want to use these foreign soldiers, could not rely on the baggage troops of four divisions to capture the opponent after a night of battle. He finally couldn't sit still. At dawn, he ordered the last main battle corps on his hand that had been on standby to take over!

Human eyes are the most vulnerable parts, and a little stimulation will make people react involuntarily; a gust of north wind brought up the hot dust on the edge of the trench and blew into his eyes, but the "machete" actually held back! His eyes quickly burst out tears, but he pulled the trigger before the tears completely blurred his sight! "Bang!" A Japanese man who was thrusting his head with almost undetectable movements forty meters away responded and shot his head!

The "machete" quickly rolled into the trench, and used all his strength to rush away. Then he turned around and rushed into a cat's ear hole. The sound of a grenade exploded from outside... This is the fourth one. The "machete" is like the battalion commander he admires the most, carved a mark on the handle of the gun, and one was enough to get a word "right"...

Less than a month ago, the weak and thin "machete" who cut eight swords but failed to cut off a single head killed four Japanese devils!

The battle has become a position of guerrilla warfare. They don’t know where the brigade and regiment are. Except for the last line of positions confirmed to be in the hands of their brothers, the entire position has been in a stalemate: the Chinese and Japanese armies each occupy some fixed firepower points on the positions, and soldiers from both sides play hide-and-seek on the huge positions... All this is the same as the night in Luodian mentioned by the battalion commander. The only difference is that the sun is now in the sky. There is no brother around him, but he knows that they are all there, and just like him is playing hide-and-seek with the Japanese... "Machete" meditates on the details of the battle and survival that the battalion commander told him. He wants to live and continue to live.

After looking at the "machete" for a long time, he found several iron spikes with barbed wire faintly on the wall of the trench beside a Japanese lying on the corner. After confirming that the Japanese who looked intact was actually a dead person, he began to move again. He took his soldiers and was inappropriately injured...

After the position behind the second trench was broken through, the evil moves that were excavated by Cao Xiaomin from his grandfather's memoirs finally came in handy. Countless Japanese soldiers really didn't know how they died after attacking the position...

There are ghosts here... A devil was trembling. He had killed many people, many Chinese people. Could it be their wronged souls? The devil looked at the two corpses beside him in horror. They were soldiers of the same squad. Not long ago, he was lying on the trench with them and shooting at the Chinese soldiers. But at some point his companions suddenly stopped firing, and they died! They were not shot or other attacks, and they died silently beside him!

The Japanese looked up at the sun in the sky, and confirmed that there would be no unjust ghosts at this time, and then they plucked up their courage to check the body of their companions again. Suddenly, a stinging pain came from their arm. He hurriedly shrank his hand and looked at the wall of the trench that he had just rubbed, and found a broken barbed wire inlay there. It was nothing, it was very common on the battlefield. The Japanese continued to lower their heads to check the body...

Brigade Commander Zhou Zhidao glanced at the last line of defense like those veterans. He didn't know who was commanding the situation, but he finally stabilized. He had burned all his German briefcase and documents. Now, like the soldiers around him, he was an ordinary soldier fighting in a stalemate trench war.

Before, before the full-strength attack launched by the Japanese after dawn, he received three telegrams, two of which were the headquarters of the Third War Zone, encouraging and ordering him to continue to stick to it; the last one was a telegram sent by the principal himself, commending, and all of them were promoted to the next level, allowing them to retreat at the right time and decide their own route... Obviously, the war zone hoped that they would continue to hold back the enemy even if they were all sacrificed, and the principal wanted them to retreat in their entire division!

Although he was full of gratitude to the principal, he chose to implement the military orders of the Third War Zone Command; not only him, but also Zhang Lingfu and other generals demanded a death battle without exception. Because they could not retreat like this, they also had a group of brothers in Suzhou!

A Japanese tank finally stopped after confirming that there were no Kuomintang soldiers around. A soldier got out of the car and went to a trench to observe the width of the trench. The chariot was lucky. They did not find an infantry cannon aiming at them, but the foolish Chinese soldiers thought they could carry the cannons at them. As a result, after firing the cannon, the guns made the recoil knock all three soldiers who were carrying the cannon to the ground, and the shells hit the sky; four Kuomintang soldiers who were shocked and injured were then sieved by their machine guns...

Just when the Japanese scout confirmed that he could cross the trench and jump into the car, when no one noticed the situation beside the car, a corpse with brains on his head and no arm suddenly resurrected: his arm that had no more miraculously "grown" from the ground, threw out a pack of grenades, and all four were thrown to the edge of the fuel tank at the back of the tank!

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the Iron Tortoise of the Japanese who avoided the infantry cannon sniper was blown by a grenade and was instantly surging flames!

The "resurrected" corpse had long been moved. While walking through the trenches quickly, he excitedly reported to the instructor who called him "Lao Bengya" in his heart: Instructor, I killed a Japanese tank! One person!...

...No matter how many tricks you use on the battlefield or how many small advantages you take, the essence of the battle is still to consume the Japanese; our soldiers use their lives to consume all the Japanese ammunition, consume all the Japanese morale and finally consume all the Japanese!... Cao Xiaomin didn't see how the brothers fought against the Japanese as Grandpa said in his memoirs. He didn't know that there were less than 400 brothers living in Wangting now; they had a short chance to withdraw from the battlefield, but they didn't. Because they would not abandon their brothers, they sent their brothers to Suzhou to carry out the death mission; they had to stick to it and wait for the brothers to come back!

Wangting was still fighting fiercely, and soldiers from both sides died in battle every moment on the position; the Kuomintang officers and soldiers of the 15th brigade tortured their opponents ten times more than theirs with their tenacious fighting will!
Chapter completed!