The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 54 Death Charge (I) [Please read and vote]

...If I had to choose a position on the battlefield that I least wanted to take, it would definitely be the supervisory team.

It's true that some of the deserters who fled from the battlefield were veterans and cowards, and I didn't feel any psychological pressure to shoot at them.

But there were also quite a few recruits who were simply terrified. Their minds were blank and they only had the instinct to survive.

If these new recruits are trained well, they will become good soldiers in the future.

However, in the fierce battle, in order to avoid triggering a series of devastating consequences, we had no choice but to fire at those new recruits; the look in their eyes before they were shot and died would give people nightmares for days...

...Excerpt from Hu Biao's diary collection "Hu Shuo"...

When the entire third company, with acting company commander Hu Biao taking the lead, rushed to the front, the assault team followed closely behind, the sniper squad followed a little later, and the other personnel formed the final formation.

The area ahead was covered by artillery fire and filled with continuous explosions and death.

Except for a Maxim heavy machine gun that was ready to provide fire cover by overhead firing, all the others launched a charge.

If they looked back, they could see it only two or three hundred meters behind them.

The commander of the 804th Regiment was jumping for joy and sending a warm greeting to their commander Hu.

There was no other reason! Because of some minor incidents along the way, which delayed them a bit, the main force of the 804th Regiment almost didn't reach the designated position before the artillery preparation was completed.

As a result, after rushing and hurrying, we finally arrived on time.

Before Captain Xiang could even breathe a sigh of relief, he saw that Hu Biao was the one leading the charge and rushing out even though the artillery fire had not stopped yet.

Is this the God of Longevity hanging himself because he feels his life is too long, or the dung beetle crawling into a cesspool to seek death?
But after such a distance, the battlefield was filled with loud artillery fire again. Even if he shouted "Stop" at the top of his lungs, the people in the third company could not hear him.

It was naturally impossible to stop this charge which seemed crazy to him.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Captain Xiang, who had come to his senses and vaguely guessed Hu Biao's thoughts, suddenly became a little excited. He gritted his teeth and roared out a crazy order:

"Charge the entire regiment and follow the Third Company."

Under such an order, the remaining main force of about 804 people of the 4th Regiment, in addition to mortars and several heavy machine guns, were ready to provide fire cover.

All the others also rushed forward under the leadership of the regiment leader; this meant that they formed another attacking group two or three hundred meters away from Hu Biao and the others.

Good boy! Once Hu Biao got carried away, the 804th Regiment went all-in from the start of this battle...

"Hu Biao! Damn it, you're a lunatic. How can a normal person fight like this?"

Holding a 10.5 kg Czech light machine gun in his hand, Black Star McKay ran with big strides. His legs felt inexplicably weak, as if he wanted to pee.

There's no way! Anyone from the modern world would feel weak in the knees and want to pee their pants, or even have already done so.

Speaking of a distance of 500 meters, how long does it take for an adult to run?

For a gentleman with normal physical strength, it will probably take a little more than two minutes.

So Black Star, the leader of the assault team, rushed out of the cotton field with Hu Biao not long after.

Those who followed Hu Biao and rushed to the front were only 150 meters away from the Dunwu Temple position.

Rushing to this distance means they have already entered an area with dense artillery coverage.

No one can guarantee that he will be taken away by a shell suddenly. Everything depends on luck.

Look! When an explosion sounded behind him, it was as if someone had pushed him from behind, almost causing him to fall to the ground.

Even so, Black Star, knowing that there was no other way but to keep rushing forward, still resisted the urge to look back.

But soon after, a thick stick fell on his shoulder. It was not known what it was hanging on his shoulder, and it did not fall to the ground because he was running.

Finally unable to resist, he turned his head to take a look, and was immediately startled. It was not a thick stick, but a severed arm.

The white broken bones were exposed and hung on the strap that he had sewn over the past two days. Although the shape was a bit ugly, it was enough to hold a few magazines. It was an imitation of the Type 56 chest strap.

The bloody severed arm hung on Hei Xing's shoulder, swaying in an indescribably creepy way.

But now that things have come to this, what can he do?
While continuing to stumble forward, he temporarily freed his left hand to pick up the severed hand and threw it away like a hot potato.

As a result, he was thrown into the face of the secondary shooter, Hammer, who instinctively followed him after the charge.

The broken arm hit the sledgehammer in the face, bounced back and fell to the ground.

But Dahammer instinctively caught it and held it in his arms; when this air delivery worker, who had been honest for half his life, saw clearly what he was holding in his arms.

A 35-year-old man suddenly felt hot in his crotch and urinated.

But even so, he could only continue to rush forward with his crotch burning hot. Otherwise, how could he turn around and run away, like a deserter?

Absolutely not. On the one hand, the square dance auntie who died in an accident at the beginning made him realize that if he ran away, the result might be even worse.

It’s better to just follow the lead, maybe you can still struggle to survive.

On the other hand, when the seven time travelers were meeting last night, AT, who was currently running at the end, was given a task by Hu Biao's grandson:
Anyone who was afraid to move forward during the battle, anyone who disturbed the morale of the troops, or anyone who tried to escape would be killed without mercy in the Third Company; even those of them who were time travelers would be killed in the same way.

When the steel launched the charge, Hu Biao emphasized this task to AT again.

Then, he gritted his teeth and continued charging forward with his crotch burning hot, when a thought suddenly came to Da Hammer's mind:
Whose unlucky fellow’s arm was just blown off? It couldn’t be that white-collar worker with thinning hair at AT, right?

*****
Fortunately, the arm that was blown off was not AT's.

But at this moment, AT wished that the arm was his own, or even that he had been killed in the explosion just now; in this way, his soul would not suffer such torment.

Because after a 75mm howitzer shell fell, it was at 9 o'clock in front of him.

A young soldier with some hair on the corner of his mouth, probably a subordinate of Wu Yannian, was so lucky that it was hard to say whether his luck could be described as lucky or unlucky.

He was unlucky because he was not far from where the shell hit, so it would have been difficult for him to survive.

However, his body was only knocked to the ground by the shock wave of the explosion, and he just avoided the fatal shrapnel; there was only a cut on his face by the shrapnel.

Call him lucky! But he was terrified.

Especially the scene of a comrade-in-arms who was considered a fellow villager, who was running hard one second and was torn into pieces in the explosion the next, left Wu Yannian completely stunned.

After getting up from the ground, this youngest member of the third company, two months shy of turning 17, had only one thought in his mind:
Go home, he wanted to go home, back to that mountainous home where the air was filled with the smell of peppercorns and chilies.

With this thought in mind, Wu Yannian turned around and ran, crying, constantly shouting "Mom, Mom"; because the distance was not too far, he ran to AT in a blink of an eye.

We can't let the other party run around like this, otherwise it might cause a chain reaction of bad reactions.

As a modern white-collar worker, you will naturally know this simple truth.

He held a Hanyang rifle in his hand and shouted at Wu Yannian: "Go back, go back, or I will shoot. Captain Hu has ordered that anyone who tries to escape will be killed without mercy."

But Wu Yannian seemed not to hear and continued to run backwards crying "Mom".

After seeing this, the people nearby slowed down their pace significantly. It was not because they were afraid of death, but because their minds were reacting instinctively and truly in this hellish environment.

"Go back, go back, I beg you to go back, or I will really shoot."

At this point, AT's voice also unconsciously took on a tearful tone...

(End of this chapter)