The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 328 The Ambush (Part 4) [Bonus Chapter 1350 for the Emergence of the Erotic Shadow Master]

At 2:27 p.m., in the eastern part of Pingding County, at a mountain pass called Jiangjunyu.

When Chaozi lifted a stone weighing at least a hundred pounds with both hands and slammed it down on the more than three hundred Japanese soldiers, who were rapidly advancing towards the position in groups of three to five, about seventy or eighty meters below the pass, Chaozi...

Without needing any further instructions from him, the brothers on the position also joined in the action.

They grabbed some smaller stones, weighing thirty or forty pounds, and others, weighing two or three hundred pounds, and hurled them down at the ground.

As the stone rolled down the mountainside, its speed increased exponentially.
Later on, it reached a point that was quite astonishing, to the point that even the human nervous system could not react to it.

They smashed the Japanese soldiers who couldn't dodge in time to the ground, and after they fell, they rolled down the mountainside; some of the large rocks weighing two or three hundred pounds only stopped rolling slowly after smashing several people in a row.

Although Chaozi and his team's stone-throwing tactic was somewhat old, it yielded astonishing results.

The Japanese attacking force was thrown into chaos, with over a hundred men falling in a very short time.

Not all the Japanese soldiers who were knocked down died, but under the enormous force, they all suffered at least comminuted fractures and were no longer able to fight.

Upon seeing this, everyone on the position was greatly encouraged.

Unfortunately, after smashing down three stones in a row, when Chaozi bent down to pick up another stone, he found that all the stones piled up on the position had been smashed.

Thinking about how the battle had dragged on for so long, with ammunition running out and not even enough to throw stones freely, Chaozi's frustration reached its peak...

So, Chaozi replaced the injured Lao Ma and teamed up with Van Gogh.

They led six security teams attached to the special operations battalion, totaling 903 brothers, to General Valley to block the Japanese reinforcements.

Compared to the other three directions, the sniper team led by Zanana, Mr. Nanze, Lao Yu, and others had about a hundred more troops.

Furthermore, as the head of the arsenal of the Subei Independent Regiment, Chaozi had some advantages; naturally, he ensured that this unit carried more rocket launchers, grenades, landmines, and other equipment when it set off.

Logically, with such a significant advantage, the two of them should have been able to fight more easily by taking charge of the blocking battle in one direction.

In reality? Not at all; it was actually much more difficult.

The reason is simple: they faced more and more formidable opponents, namely reinforcements sent by the Japanese North China Area Army from Shijiazhuang, which amounted to an entire infantry regiment.

In addition, there are two attached artillery companies and one tank company, making it a formidable force.

Faced with such a formidable opponent, the battle between the two sides became intense and deadlocked shortly after it began around 11 a.m.

Van Gogh and Super's side relied on rocket launchers modeled after the RPG-2.

The DIY mortar launchers, the numerous landmines laid in front of the positions, and the barrage of wooden-handled grenades thrown out like raindrops naturally caused huge casualties to the Japanese.

Especially the Japanese tank squadrons, which were hit by rocket launchers, a revolutionary anti-armor weapon.

Like opening a can, they easily destroyed a Type 89 medium tank, a Type 97 medium tank, and three small light tanks.

The remaining Japanese tanks are now holed up at the rear of the battlefield, not daring to even engage in combat.

However, this also means that the equipment Chaozi was carrying was being consumed at an alarming rate during the intense battle.

With at least three more hours to go, the position was already running out of ammunition, forcing them to resort to throwing stones.

However, although there were many large stones scattered around the General's Pass, it was not a quarry.

Faced with wave after wave of almost continuous attacks from the Japanese, Chaozi and his men had very little time to collect this thing.

Sure enough! Taking advantage of the brief lull in the last battle, they quickly threw away all the stones of various sizes that they had painstakingly collected.

Upon discovering that the defenders had no stones, the remaining Japanese soldiers immediately sped up and charged towards the pass.

To conserve limited ammunition, Chaozi waited until the Japanese soldiers were within a hundred meters of the position before shouting "Fire!"

He picked up his MP28 submachine gun, fired three shots, and knocked a Japanese sergeant to the ground.

Then, the gunfire, which had become much less frequent than when the battle began, also started again on the position...

Before he had even emptied a 32-round magazine, a sudden, inexplicable sense of danger washed over him, and Chaozi abruptly dropped to the ground. Luckily! This instinctive reaction allowed him to dodge a 60mm mortar shell that landed nearby, and the ensuing explosion ripped through the air, sending up a large amount of shrapnel.

A pebble the size of a peanut, propelled by the shockwave, flew and struck him near his left eyebrow, creating a small gash.

Unfortunately, the human body is often more fragile than we imagine.

Despite the small amount of blood drawn from Chaozi's shattered eyebrow, the unlucky guy was about to get up and continue fighting when he felt a sudden dizziness that caused him to fall to his knees.

He opened his mouth and vomited, spitting out all of his undigested breakfast, which consisted of some multigrain steamed buns.

At that moment, a figure appeared beside Chaozi.

It was Xiao Liu, Chaozi's bodyguard, who grabbed his left arm and shouted anxiously, "Medic, Commander Chao is injured!"

However, Chaozi waved his hand and said with difficulty, "Stop yelling! It's useless. Don't worry about me, you continue fighting."

Indeed! Chaozi quickly realized that his reactions were symptoms of a concussion, something that a mediocre medic could hardly handle.

What to do then? Chaozi raised his hand and slapped himself twice in the buttocks, a kind of "fight fire with fire" approach; the stinging pain on his face actually made him feel a little better.

He then picked up the submachine gun, which was covered in vomit, and started firing again.

He had just finished firing the remaining half of the magazine when he collapsed and vomited violently again, this time even vomiting up all the bile before he could recover.

Even so, the first thing he did after recovering was to change the magazine.

"The time allotted for development is still too short. If we had six months to prepare, we would never have run into problems with insufficient ammunition and equipment."

In this battle where he was fighting and vomiting at the same time, Chaozi thought helplessly...

*******
By the way! Where was Van Gogh, who was leading the team to block the enemy at General Valley while Chaozi was fighting so hard?
It can only be said that Van Gogh was also undertaking a very important task.

The MG34 general-purpose machine gun that Van Gogh is currently operating is the most crucial core firepower point on the position; without its firepower, the Japanese would have charged up twice as fast.

To be more specific, on the far left of the position is a rocky hill, and where it intersects with the pass, there is a depression, a space of about five or six square meters.

When they built the fortifications in the morning, they placed double layers of sandbags along the edge of the depression, turning it into a natural machine gun bunker.

The Japanese cannons and grenade launchers couldn't hit this spot due to the angle; their machine guns and rifles could barely reach it, but the shooting effect was poor.

However, the defending troops had no restrictions when they opened fire, making it an excellent firing point.

Under Van Gogh's constant side-firing fire, the charging Japanese soldiers were all shot down, giving him an exhilarating experience.

This continued until Van Gogh, after emptying another ammunition belt, quickly put on an asbestos glove while shouting loudly:

"Change the barrel, change the ammunition belt."

Then, after Van Gogh pulled out the gun barrel, he found that no spare barrel or ammunition belt had been delivered, and he immediately turned around to start cursing.

The result was a panicked reply: "Commander Fan, we've run out of ammunition."

"Are you all dead?! Can't you keep loading the ammunition belts? Didn't I even give you a makeshift loader?" Van Gogh roared in fury upon hearing this.

It's no wonder he lost his composure. Based on his experience from the last time he traveled through time, Van Gogh came up with a simple loader this time.

In this natural machine gun bunker, besides him and the assistant gunner, two new recruits squeezed in. He was there to help load ammunition and maintain continuous firepower.

But the recruit's subsequent response made it impossible for him to continue scolding him:

"Where are there any bullets left? The three boxes of bullets we brought in are all used up, and there probably aren't many of these 7.92mm pointed bullets left outside."

"Send a telegram! Tell that damn bastard that we probably won't last until nightfall, and he'd better hurry up and make his move."

After shouting this out, Van Gogh charged out of the machine gun bunker with a shotgun in hand; without this crucial piece of firepower, the Japanese would soon be charging onto the position...

(End of this chapter)