The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 237: Tug of War (Part 110) [Additional Chapter for the Color Shadow Master]

With a soft "duang~" sound, Lao Yu took a grenade with the safety pin just pulled out and knocked it on the helmet on his head, triggering the fuse of this ridiculous thing.

Then when he saw something out of the corner of his eye, he would instinctively shout out.

However, when he was about to say the final words, he chose to keep his mouth shut.

In fact, what he saw was that the Northwest Army brothers who were in the suicide squad around him pulled the fuse of the wooden-handled grenades in their hands and were about to throw them into the wall.

Instinctively, I wanted to shout, "Slow down, hold it in your hand and count to three before throwing it, lest the devils pick it up and throw it back."

This is also the reason why Lao Yu knocked the grenade in his hand but did not throw it in immediately.

But when the words were on the tip of his tongue, he remembered something extremely helpless:
The wooden-handled grenades currently used by these Northwest Army brothers are not the high-quality products produced by several major arsenals such as Gongxian, Jinling, and Hanyang, and their quality can basically be guaranteed.

Instead, they are some homemade gadgets made by some unknown small factories or even repair shops.

Theoretically, after the fuse is pulled, it will take six or seven seconds for the fuze to explode; in reality, no one can guarantee when it will explode, and it may even explode in the next second.

If we ask them to hold it in their hands and count to three before throwing it away, wouldn't that be asking them to commit suicide?

So in the end, Lao Yu swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth; but he made a decision secretly.

What that determination was soon revealed by coincidence.

Because Lao Yu had just thrown the grenade he had held in his hand for three seconds into the wall, he saw a smoking wooden-handled grenade fly out from inside, rolling and landing several meters away from him.

There is no doubt that the situation he worried about finally happened:
The brave Japanese inside picked up the wooden-handled grenade and threw it back.

Based on the decision he had just made, Lao Yu jumped and pounced on the grenade; he had only one thought in his mind: since he did not speak up to stop his brothers, he would have to deal with the consequences himself.

Almost at the moment he fell on the grenade, he heard one explosion after another, mixed with the faint screams of many Japanese devils.

But after two or three seconds, Lao Yu, who was ready to die, did not hear any movement of the wooden-handled grenade under him.

When he looked sideways, he found that the wooden-handled grenade was not even emitting smoke. It turned out to be a dud.

Faced with such a result, Lao Yu didn't know whether to be happy or curse.

Curse! After all, I survived a disaster and saved my life; be happy! My brothers fought with the Japanese with such inferior equipment, and I don’t know how many people died in vain. What is there to be happy about?

The above tangled feelings only flashed through Lao Yu's mind.

My attention was drawn to other situations and I could no longer care about these things.

The battle did not pause at all because Lao Yu rushed towards a grenade. Instead, it became more intense due to the urgency of time. After throwing the grenades in their hands, the members of the suicide squad began to cooperate with each other to build a human ladder.

He wanted to use this method to take the opportunity to break into the Guandi Temple.

Only the first five or six soldiers who stepped on their comrades' shoulders grabbed the edge of the wall with both hands. As soon as they showed their heads, the Japanese bullets came towards them.

They were either forced to retreat while trying to escape, or fell to the ground after being shot.

There was no way to climb over the wall. Because there was a Type 92 heavy machine gun at the gate, it was also extremely difficult to break in from there.

Is it possible that even with so many people killed in the suicide squad, they are still blocked outside the Guandi Temple?

Then wait until the Japanese reinforcements arrive, and make tonight's operation fail?
Definitely not! It's a pity that it wasn't Lao Yu who hastily came up with a solution; it was the other brothers in the death squad who burst out with great courage at this time.

Yu Ergou, the one who faced Hu Biao's recruitment when he was in Teng County.

The first person to step forward and respond was a former policeman who was willing to join the Subei Independent Regiment.

He caught the man who was stepping on his shoulder and was about to climb over the wall, but was immediately shot in the head and killed another former policeman.

With a face full of sadness, he couldn't help shouting, "Old Three." That's right! The man who had just been beaten to death was his younger brother Yu Sangou. The two of them had joined the Subei Independent Regiment together when they were in Teng County.

After spending so many days together, Lao Yu also understood this situation.

When selecting the members of the suicide squad, I originally planned to let one of the two brothers stay.

As a result, they said in unison that their parents and wives had already escaped from Teng County with their eldest brother. Even if the two died, their Yu family would not be extinct.

Considering that there were few capable veterans among his men, Lao Yu agreed to their request.

After seeing his brother die in the battle, Yu Ergou's eyes instantly turned red. Then he hugged Yu Sangou with one hand and pulled the fuse of a grenade on his body with the other hand.

The bodies of the two brothers were pressed tightly against the wall.

He did not forget to shout out loudly, "Get down, brothers, get down immediately. We brothers will go first..."

Amidst Yu Ergou's farewell shouts, Lao Yu and others around him fell to the ground one after another; a few seconds later, more than a dozen hand grenades and hand grenades exploded simultaneously on the bodies of the Yu brothers.

The huge power of the explosion directly blew a hole in the blue brick wall of Guandi Temple.

When they were blown to pieces, Yu Ergou actually didn't know that when he and other city dwellers fled Teng County overnight with his parents, wife, children, and eldest brother's family, they unfortunately encountered a Japanese infantry battalion.

Because of the inhumane and crazy massacre by the Japanese, their entire family was killed.

At this moment, their Yu family is truly extinct...

Amid the smoke and dust raised by the huge explosion, the suicide squad outside could see five or six Japanese soldiers raising their rifles towards the gap from afar.

There was a Japanese soldier among them, holding a Type 99 light machine gun and preparing to lie down; they reacted extremely quickly and were ready to block such a gap.

After witnessing the tragedy of the Yu brothers dying in battle one after another, Old Yu's anger reached its peak.

He hurriedly got up from the ground, pulled the grenade on his body and rushed into the wall to completely destroy the possibility that the Japanese had blocked this gap.

What he didn't expect was that two brothers from the Northwest Army had already rushed in before him.

As soon as one of them rushed in, he was shot to death by the Japanese; the remaining one continued to push the body of his dead brother forward, and finally the two sides turned into a huge ball of fire.

At this point, there were no more Japanese soldiers blocking the way in front of Lao Yu and others.

"Kill all these damn Japs, leave no one alive." He used all his strength to roar out all the anger and unwillingness that was pent up in his chest.

Lao Yu, along with a group of brothers from the death squad, finally broke into the Guandi Temple and began to fight with the devils for every house one by one...

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"Kill all these damn devils, leaving no one alive."

Almost at the same time, Xu Feng, who was only three or four hundred meters away from Lao Yu's group, also shouted the same sentence.

In fact, in tonight's operation, it was not just Lao Yu's group that encountered a tough challenge.

The Japs were very cunning. They occupied some key nodes in Taierzhuang before nightfall and only then stopped today's fighting.

These key nodes are all sturdy buildings that are easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Therefore, tonight Xufeng and Van Gogh led a group of people, and their target of attack was a Wenchang Temple in the city, which was also quite difficult to attack.

The difference is that Lao Yu and his men are now using guns and grenades in their hands to fight with the Japanese for each room.

Xufeng and Fan Gao's group, now numbering 36, engaged in a hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese, who still had over men...

(End of this chapter)