Chapter 39 Wing Back Shot and Safety Corner

No wonder there were so many reports of gifts being shipped to Xinjing from all over the country…

No wonder Tianwangshan only sent four people to escort such a big gift to Xinjing…

No, maybe it’s not the decisive battle, but a trap set by the Japanese from the very beginning!

This was a preparation to use the news of the establishment of Manchukuo to completely wipe out all the anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese forces remaining in the Northeast and deal the most fatal blow to this destabilizing factor.

This is not the imperial order, but the Japanese devils’ wheel of death. As for why only two trucks of Japanese troops came, it was due to problems with their tactical system.

The most commonly used tactical system by the Japanese is not only the machine gun position transfer method, but also the segmented attack, that is, a fighting method that is not afraid of being ambushed by anyone. First, one troop will be sent to the front, and then the strong combat power will be used to lure the enemy’s ambush team to attack. When this team falls into the encirclement, the real large force will rush up.

It was precisely because of the enemy’s segmented attack and rapid reinforcement that our army developed the tactic of besieging a point and attacking its reinforcements, causing the Japanese to suffer heavy losses.

The problem is that Xu Chaoyang now has only three brothers, no trustworthy team around him, and a whole group of student soldiers hiding in the mountains who are holding him back.

Let alone fighting for reinforcements, even surviving has become a problem.

chug chug!
Xu Chaoyang finally managed to pop his head out of the trench, raised his gun and pulled the trigger at the second wave of Japanese soldiers who were rushing towards the Pheasant Neck machine gun. After two Japanese soldiers who were about to replace them were knocked down by machine gun bullets, the rest turned around and retreated behind the truck, while the remaining machine gun bullets were fired towards the distance, raising a trail of dust on the ground in a manner that extended the depth.

We can’t fight like this. If we fight like this, the Japanese can’t attack, and the large forces in the rear will rush over sooner or later!
What Xu Chaoyang was even more afraid of was that the group of student soldiers behind him knew nothing and fired at the Japanese. The guns, which had a short range, would fire bullets into their own trenches.

“Qu Yong!”

“Fall back!”

“I’ll cover you, quick!”

This was the first time that Xu Chaoyang shouted orders on the battlefield. At the same time, the Czech machine gun in his hand swept towards the distant truck without caring about the ammunition.

Ding, ding ding.

The bullets sent a series of sparks flying on the vehicle. Xu Chaoyang suppressed all the enemy’s Type 38 rifles as much as he could. He desperately shot the soldier at the first machine gun position behind the vehicle and made him lower his head. He shouted again: “Rat, Gen’er, hold on for a while!”

He turned around and retreated back into the trench, pulled out the Czech magazine, took out the bullets he had prepared long ago from his pocket, and pushed them into the magazine.

At the same time, Qu Yong quickly climbed out of the trench and retreated along the mountain road. The gunshots on the battlefield were all replaced by the sound of machine guns.

As comrades, Liu Gener and Yu Minghao cooperated well. One of them fired at the machine gun position, and the other fired at anyone in the gap between the trucks. They tried their best to buy time for Xu Chaoyang to reload. At this time, Xu Chaoyang could not care about anything else. He quickly loaded the magazine with bullets and put it back on the gun, then opened his mouth again: “Haozi, Gener, retreat!”

The Japs’ advantage lies in the performance of their firearms and their combat experience. The distance they calculated was the distance between them and the group of student soldiers. The problem they were thinking about was that the guns in the student soldiers’ hands could not reach them, but they could hit the other side.

But after Xu Chaoyang opened fire at a closer distance than the Japanese, the Japanese lost their transferred machine gun group in one encounter, and the enemy’s bullets could fall on their heads from time to time, so they also made a fuss. Who could be so brave as to use his body to block bullets and still think he is a hero?

“Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Xu Chaoyang was almost swinging the Czech machine gun until it was smoking. If it weren’t for the 13 bullets that were matched with the Liao 79-type 7.92 rifles of Guan Dibao, it would be a complete daydream for this Czech machine gun to play a role on this battlefield!
Xu Chaoyang gritted his teeth and turned his arms. In the shock of the machine gun, he lost the assistance of Yu Minghao and Liu Gener, and was completely unable to suppress the Japanese’s guns. He suddenly shrank back into the trench. When there were only three bullets left in the Czech gun, he pulled out the magazine again, took out 7.92 bullets from his pocket and reloaded it.

At the same time, a shout came from behind: “Company Commander!”

Xu Chaoyang stuck half of his head out of the trench and looked far behind him. He saw that about 150 meters behind him, Yu Minghao, Liu Gener, Qu Yong and others were hiding under a huge rock, setting up guns from several directions and aiming at his direction.

Xu Chaoyang couldn’t express the feeling. Yu Minghao’s calling him “Company Commander” was like telling him explicitly: “Company Commander, we have to go through mountains of swords and seas of fire together, and whoever runs away will be a fool!”

Why do you say that? Because the effective range of the flower machine gun is 200 meters, and their location is only about meters away from Xu Chaoyang.

Xu Chaoyang kept loading bullets into the magazine while turning around and looking in the direction of the Japanese.

Da da da da da da!

Da da da da da da!

Having lost the suppression of the student soldiers and several other firing points on the mountain, Pheasant Neck raised its head again and madly poured bullets around Xu Chaoyang’s trench, splashing Xu Chaoyang with dirt. It was clear that it did not intend to let Xu Chaoyang, the rat, come out of the hole.

Meanwhile, another Japanese squad on the battlefield had already rushed towards the pheasant neck that Xu Chaoyang had destroyed. The two machine guns arranged their firing ranges and adopted the “gap (wing-behind) firing” method, quickly spreading bullets so that the bullet firing range formed a pointed triangle that completely covered Xu Chaoyang’s trench.
At the same time, the area outside the pointed triangle became the safe corner of the Japanese army. The Japanese infantry kept moving forward in the safe corner outside the shooting range. This is why the machine gunners would not hurt their own people on the position. At the same time, this is also the powerful part of the Japanese machine gun position migration tactics.

This was the main reason for the heavy casualties when our army was in direct confrontation with the Japanese. Our soldiers, who lacked combat awareness at the time, gained experience in fighting the Japanese at the cost of countless lives.

But at this moment, Xu Chaoyang, who was still squatting in the trench, couldn’t even lift his head. He was completely trapped in the trench, and it was difficult for him to move. There was no way he could expose half of his head to observe the situation like he did just now.

Those are called two pheasant necks. As long as this thing keeps ringing, Xu Chaoyang is trapped.

“Company commander, the machine gun behind us is moving!”

Yu Minghao shouted from behind. This would certainly expose their ambush position, but such information was more important.

On the battlefield, this is called “visual penetration”, which means that comrades on the battlefield can cover the area they are defending through their visual senses. After obtaining this information, they can complete the “visual penetration” effect through words, using language structure to cover the visual image into the comrades’ minds.

“Brother, the Japanese infantry is coming!”

“One hundred steps!”

“Fifty steps!”

At this moment, Xu Chaoyang glared in the trench and roared to the sky, “Fight!!!”

(End of this chapter)