Wandering the Heavens

Chapter 302: Sword 5

Yu Xian felt uneasy when he heard the sound of the artillery fire. After all the preparations, could the tragedy of the field hospital still not be avoided? At this moment, he was eager to know where the problem was.

No matter how anxious Yu Xian was, he had to follow the orders of the regiment and wait with everyone for the order to go to the battlefield.

At this time, the brigade sent a notice, requiring each regiment to send a chief officer to attend the meeting. Li Yunlong asked Zhao Gang to go, because Lijiapo was too close to here and a battle could break out at any time. Zhao Gang had no experience in commanding a battle, and he would not be able to deal with an emergency. Based on this situation, Li Yunlong and the soldiers had to be prepared to fight at any time.

Zhao Gang knew that this was just one of Li Yunlong's reasons. The more important thing was that he was worried that he, the political commissar, would interfere with the command, so he took this opportunity to remove himself from the wartime command system. In the face of the war, Zhao Gang knew that Li Yunlong's idea could only be followed and he would make a decision after the war.

But Li Yunlong went to settle accounts with him first, because at the military meeting of the brigade, the brigade commander assigned the task of annihilating the Yamazaki Battalion to the 772nd Regiment, which made Li Yunlong very unhappy.

I remember that when the commander of the 772nd Regiment, Cheng Xiazi, had just joined the army, it was Li Yunlong who taught him how to shoot. He didn't expect that this guy would snatch his main attack mission now.

Apart from criticizing Blind Cheng for not knowing how to respect the elderly, Zhao Gang and Kong Jie were much more unlucky. Li Yunlong's saliva sprayed directly on their faces, and Kong Jie became autistic after being scolded by Li Yunlong's rapid-fire idioms.

Seeing that Kong Jie was silent, Li Yunlong turned his attention to Zhao Gang, saying that he couldn't even get a main attack mission, and even questioned why he didn't dare to fight with the brigade commander.

Zhao Gang did not tolerate him and retorted with reason and evidence. Li Yunlong had never suffered such a big humiliation before and was about to disobey orders and attack, when a phone call happened to come in.

"Hello, I'm Li Yunlong."

"Which bastard reported me?"

"Brigade Commander, don't worry. If I can't defeat the Yamazaki Battalion, you can tear off my head and use it as a chamber pot!"

"Okay! Thank you, Brigade Commander. I'm kneeling down for you, Brigade Commander! Hehe~" Li Yunlong said this with his knees bent, ready to kneel at any time.

Kong Jie was speechless at how quickly Li Yunlong changed his attitude, and teased that he was born in the year of the dog.

"Call a meeting of comrades at the company level and above, and also concentrate all the twenty boxes of grenades received in the past two days for use by the First Battalion!" Li Yunlong gave the order as he put down the microphone.

The order was issued to each company, and everyone knew that they would not be long before going to the battlefield to kill the enemy. After the encounter in Yangcun, the soldiers were holding their breath. Now that the opportunity for revenge was at hand, they all tightly gripped their guns and spears.

The sound of gunfire coming now was the sound of the 772nd Regiment fighting the Japanese. Everyone sat quietly and listened, waiting for the moment when the gunfire stopped, because that was the time for them to go to the battlefield.

"Comrades, remember this. When you are on the battlefield, you must keep a clear head and follow the usual training formations. Defend when you should defend and attack when you should attack. Don't get carried away!"

Yu Xian looked at the young faces and warned them that he didn't know how many people would come back alive after today's battle.

Half an hour later, the company commander came back with several boxes of grenades and called everyone to start assigning tasks. According to the military meeting held by the regiment, due to the terrain of Lijiapo and the serious lack of firepower of the Eighth Route Army, it was destined not to fight in a group charge like the 772nd Regiment.

Li Yunlong decided to use earthwork to dig a trench thirty meters away from the Japanese position, and then throw thousands of grenades onto the enemy position in a very short time to create a local firepower advantage. The large force then took advantage of this opportunity to rush forward and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese.

The First Company of the First Battalion, as the main company, took on the most difficult and dangerous attack position.

The brigade commander calculated the time and when he estimated that the independent regiment was ready, he ordered the 772nd Regiment to withdraw from the battle and let the independent regiment take over its combat position.

Finally, the order to attack arrived. Each company rushed to the Lijiaopo front line along the planned route with weapons, ammunition and tools, and began to dig trenches outside the range of the Japanese enemy's firepower. During this period, Yamazaki saw that the situation was not right and ordered the artillery to bombard the operation area. The brigade commander was also unambiguous and ordered his artillery units to fight back.

The Japanese artillery had limited effect, and their machine guns and rifles were unable to strike, so they could only watch helplessly as the deadly trenches got closer and closer to their positions.

Yu Xian and his fellow soldiers dug hard together, and after an unknown amount of time, they finally reached the designated location. He ordered all soldiers to put down their shovels and spades, put baskets filled with grenades in front of them, and wait for the signal to throw them.

Yamazaki looked at the earthwork excavation work that was originally in full swing and suddenly stopped. He looked forward in confusion, wondering what the other party would do next.

A signal flare was seen rising in the back, like a star in everyone's eyes, and along with the signal flare, there were also grenades thrown from behind the trenches. Yamazaki had experienced countless battles, but he had never seen grenades used like this. So many grenades, let alone explosions, could kill people just by the sheer number.

It was obvious that except for Yamazaki, the other Japanese had never seen such a scene. They watched these deadly things fall beside them, and then there were bursts of deafening explosions. The position of the Yamazaki Battalion was blown to pieces and temporarily lost its combat capability.

At the moment of throwing the empty grenade, Yu Xian led his men forward. He gave his gun to other soldiers and held a spear in his hand.

The distance of thirty meters was quickly reached. Amid the shouts and cries of killing that filled the mountains, Yu Xian stepped onto the battlefield and rushed towards the Japanese soldiers who were ejecting bullets, stabbing their throats with the spear in his hand.

They said that they had to maintain formation and take care of each other on the battlefield. Yu Xian and two soldiers worked together, one assassin and two defended, and adjusted the defense and assassination candidates in the group at any time according to the situation. Yu Xian looked at the beasts in front of him, and with a heart full of resentment, he thrust out his spear, accurately piercing their throats, and he was unaware that he was stabbed.

The establishment of a Japanese infantry battalion is more than 772 people, and the independent regiment is also more than people. Fortunately, the Yamazaki Battalion was consumed by the nd Regiment, and more than people on the front line were killed by grenades. In addition, they were already quite tired after fighting for a long time. But even in this desperate situation, the Japanese still burst out with strong fighting power, and the tragic hand-to-hand combat ended near dark.

Yu Xian held the broken spear and looked at the battlefield. After fighting for so long, he was also covered in wounds. Now he just wanted to cry loudly, not because of the wounds on his body, but because of the sadness of his comrades dying in front of him.

Born in a peacetime era, he is a very emotional person. Even though he has become a special forces soldier and killed many people in the world of blades drawn, this is the first time he has experienced such a tragic battlefield and seen so many comrades sacrificed in front of him.

"Platoon leader..."

Wang Dayong looked at Yu Xian standing like a statue, fearing that something might have happened to him.

"It's okay. How are our soldiers?" Yu Xian came back to his senses.

"Ten soldiers in our platoon died." Wang Dayong was a little depressed.

"Dayong, take me to see them for the last time." Yu Xian took a deep breath.

Wang Dayong nodded with tears in his eyes, and then the two men limped to the registration office, where the sacrificed soldiers were first carried to verify their identities, registered, and then buried.

Yu Xian tried hard not to cry as she watched the bodies of the soldiers being registered and carried away for burial. By the time the last sacrificed soldier in the third row was carried away, Yu Xian's eyes were already covered with tears and she could not see the scene clearly.

"Platoon leader, all the comrades died on the way to the charge. Not a single one of them was a coward."

"I know."

Yu Xian blinked his eyes to push away the tears so that his vision would be clearer, then he took a few deep breaths to regulate his breathing. Then he and Wang Dayong went to the field doctor to get simple treatment for the wounds on his body.

In this annihilation battle, the First Battalion took on the main attack mission, and the First Company was the first to bear the brunt, with a direct reduction of one-third of its personnel.

Li Yunlong was very comfortable with Zhang Dabiao because they were the same kind of people, for example, the issue of discounts on the redistribution of captured guns. Zhang Dabiao naturally had this problem, so he used this as an excuse to withhold part of the guns captured by the Yamazaki Battalion, and Yu Xian finally had a gun, although it was a Type 38 rifle.

To be honest, the gun he wanted most was a purebred 98K, even if it was second-hand.