Siheyuan, Shazhu: I have both parents in this life

Chapter 132 Re-battle at Shuimen Bridge

Wu Wanli went along this time; his grenades were only effective at close range.

They were supposed to be walking, but they were actually crawling forward. The enemy's searchlights were shining incredibly brightly, and they were barely outside the range of the searchlights, needing to wait for the searchlights to turn before they could move forward.

If you're asking about the big water pipe, I'm sorry, the enemy destroyed it, and now there's no way to move around.

The enemy's searchlights were very dense, so Wu Qianli and his men advanced very slowly. He Yuzhu was waiting for an opportunity. He wanted Wu Qianli and his men to get closer so that they would be more confident in launching an attack.

Unfortunately, the enemy didn't give them a chance. The searchlights still spotted the soldiers below, and just as a heavy machine gun was about to fire, He Yuzhu's gun went off.

With a "bang," the heavy machine gunner fell to the ground.

Just as the assistant shooter was about to take over, "bang!", he followed suit.

Then He Yuzhu kept firing his gun, moving and shooting until he emptied a magazine, clearing out three firing points and two searchlights.

"Charge!" Wu Qianli shouted when the searchlight shining in their direction went out. It seemed that waiting for all the lights on the bridge to go out was no longer an option.

The soldiers got up, crouched low, and charged forward.

He Yuzhu temporarily stored the M1 in his storage space, took out the Springfield, and began firing the remaining searchlights, because the enemy had already come out, at least a company of men. If the 7th Company were under the searchlights, they would be sitting ducks.

At the same time, He Yuzhu shouted, "Machine gun cover!"

"Rat-a-tat-tat, tat-tat-tat!" Three light machine guns opened fire on the figures moving on the bridge, and at the same time, the people on the bridge began to fight back.

In contrast to the gunfire on this side, the situation was much more intense in the direction of the 6th Company. First, there were several explosions with a "boom boom boom" sound, and the tanks at the forefront were hit by bazookas and caught fire. Then came the "whoosh whoosh whoosh" and "bang bang bang" sounds of mortars.

"Da da da"

"suddenly"

"bang bang bang"

Gunfire continued, interspersed with the sounds of grenade explosions.

Since He Yuzhu had eliminated the earliest enemy outside the bridge, the main focus of firepower on the bridge was on the 7th Company's light machine gun position.

Although the soldiers were experienced, Wu Qianli still instructed them before the battle not to fight in one place, and that the machine guns should be spread out.

Therefore, the machine guns below were positioned for crossfire, and they would change positions after firing only one magazine. As a result, after the first round of fire, two of the three machine gunners had already been replaced as assistant gunners because the enemy's firepower was too intense.

He Yuzhu couldn't take down that many enemies with just one gun, but the machine gunner had done his job of providing cover, because the 7th Company's troops that went to blow up the bridge also opened fire.

A dozen or so submachine guns opened fire and mowed down a large number of enemies, forcing them to retreat directly into the bridge.

"Move the machine gun, take cover!" He Yu shouted, then grabbed his reloaded M1 and ran forward, firing as he went.

He cheated this time, he didn't change the magazine at all, he just switched to the one in the storage space when it was empty. In his hands, an M1 was like a machine gun, but much more accurate.

Yu Congrong had already started arranging for people to plant explosives, but it was definitely not enough to just blow up the bottom. The steel structure was not the same as the bridge pier, so someone also needed to climb up to the top.

Hearing the commotion under the bridge, the enemy panicked. Despite He Yuzhu's precise shooting, they rushed to the bridge and fired shots, threw grenades, and even flamethrowers at the people below.

The 7th Company was already below and was heavily suppressed. Several soldiers were hit by flamethrowers, rolling on the ground and howling in pain, and then became targets for the enemy on the bridge.

Even after they died, their bodies continued to burn, providing better illumination for the enemy on the bridge. The men of the 7th Company were blinded by rage, and the enemy on the bridge kept firing and throwing grenades. Eventually, the remaining men of the 7th Company had to take cover in the narrow space under the bridge.

He Yuzhu had no time to be angry. He was also being suppressed by the enemy's firepower. He could only roll, run, and maneuver, which reduced his firing rate considerably.

After the flamethrower soldiers appeared, his first target changed from those throwing grenades to the flamethrower soldiers.

After finding an opening, He Yuzhu decisively opened fire.

"Bang, bang, bang"

After a few gunshots rang out at intervals, several large fireballs exploded on the bridge with a series of booms, followed by a rain of fire, and the bridge was filled with cries of agony.

Immediately afterwards, several Hokage fell off the bridge. They fell from a height of about ten meters and were already dead without needing any follow-up shots.

The screams on the bridge didn't stop; gasoline can't be extinguished by rolling around on it.

Unable to extinguish the fire and unwilling to let the bald eagle commander suffer any longer, he gritted his teeth and ordered that bullets be used to end their torment.

Then tracer rounds were fired from the bridge, heading directly in He Yuzhu's direction. There wasn't just one; the entire sky was as bright as day.

As for He Yuzhu, at the same time the tracer rounds were fired, his grenade launcher went off with a series of "thump, thump, thump."

Without even checking the results of his attack, he leaped and rolled down a slope, bullets of all kinds chasing after him, 'thud thud thud' hitting the ground, splashing up puffs of snowflakes and mud.

"Boom, boom, boom"

The grenade exploded on the bridge, and the Seventh Company below was a little confused. The sound was too familiar—it was a grenade launcher.

"Ah, ah, ah"

The bridge was bombed and collapsed. He was completely unprepared because they didn't see that the enemy below had mortars or anything like that. They only had rifles. As for whether grenades could be thrown up there, fifty or sixty meters away and more than ten meters high, were they even human?

The enemy commander shouted, "The enemy is coming up! Drive them down!"

He originally thought it was someone who had climbed up from under the bridge who threw the grenade.

The light machine guns of the 7th Company were still firing, but there were only two left, and the fire was intermittent. He Yuzhu guessed that all the machine gunners were injured, and they also had to cover each other when changing positions.

It has to be said that He Yuzhu was lucky. Despite being chased by bullets from behind, he didn't break a single skin, though he almost rolled into a big snowball.

As he rolled down the slope, he saw the tracer rounds disappear from the sky, broke free of the snow covering him, took out his M1, and aimed through the scope at the bridge, which was about 400 meters away.

The angle was terrible, so he started running to find a suitable sniping position.

Gunfire continued fiercely from the direction of the bridge, along with the loud explosions of grenades. He Yuzhu even heard several mortar explosions, which he guessed were fired by Mei Sheng when things went wrong on the bridge side.

While running, He Yuzhu glanced in the direction of the 6th Company. The initial fire had been extinguished, but the sky was illuminated by the firelight from bullets, shells, grenades, and other projectiles, making it resemble fireworks in later times, which showed how intense the battle was.

In fact, the 6th Company has already lost more than a third of its personnel. The political instructor was slightly injured, the third platoon leader was killed, and one heavy machine gun was blown up.

Their terrain was already unfavorable, and they didn't have time to dig trenches, so they used simple foxholes, some of which were even craters created by enemy artillery shells.

If it weren't for the change in weapons this time, they would have been unable to hold on long ago. The firepower was completely unequal. In the past, when they saw enemy tanks, they could only fill the gaps with manpower. How much power did hand grenades have? At most, they could only break the tracks.

Now that they had the bazooka, they destroyed two tanks in the first round, and then another tank and an armored vehicle, which gave them confidence to hold out until the bridge collapsed. Of course, the 6th Company also came with the determination to sacrifice themselves. In fact, Xiong Jie and Huang Liwen were somewhat surprised by how well they fought. Without air support, the Bald Eagles' combat effectiveness was just so-so.

He Yuzhu finally found a suitable sniping spot. After reloading both guns, he fired immediately.

"Bang, bang, bang," he fired all thirteen bullets in one go.

The enemy lost a squad, and they also discovered that this menace was still alive on the bridge. Unfortunately, the unit stationed on the bridge did not have a sniper or a sniper rifle.

They had no other options but to suppress He Yuzhu with mortars and heavy machine guns.

At that moment, He Yuzhu heard a sharp whistle, the retreat whistle of the 7th Company, which proved that the explosive charge had been planted.

The enemy can't distinguish between retreat and attack; the sound of the whistle is their nightmare, especially for enemy troops who have fought large-scale battles.

The commander on the bridge ordered new searchlights to be set up and also fired tracer rounds.

The searchlights were extinguished by He Yuzhu as soon as they were set up. He couldn't do anything about the tracer rounds, so he could only try his best to cover the 7th Company soldiers who were running wildly.

Even with his rapid rate of fire, the soldiers of the 7th Company kept falling, getting up, and falling again.

He Yuzhu's eyes were already red with rage, just after he emptied another magazine.

Three loud booms rang out, the ground trembled, and half of the bridge collapsed in the sniper scope. People could be vaguely seen rolling and struggling down the collapsed bridge.

Looking again, the remaining men of the 7th Company had already disappeared into the night. Now they were thinking about how to get the 6th Company out.

With the bridge collapsed, the enemy reinforcements would vent their anger on the Sixth Company.

After loading the gun with bullets, He Yuzhu got up and ran towards the 6th Company.

At this moment, the 6th Company was indeed in crisis. The enemy had brought in tanks, pushed aside the tanks and armored vehicles that had already been scrapped on the road, and were attacking the 6th Company's position.

The 6th Company has run out of bazooka rockets; now, the only way to stop the tanks is by manpower.

Company Commander Xiong Jie had already given the order to "blow up the tanks," and the company's volunteers, covered in grenades, were about to set off.

At this critical moment, a rocket with a trail of flame accurately hit the side armor of the tank, and then the shell inside the tank detonated, blowing the tank's turret off. The enemy troops following closely behind the tank were blown to pieces.

That wasn't the end of it. Several mortar shells landed on the enemy ranks behind them with a few "whoosh" sounds, followed by a few explosions, and the enemy was wiped out.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh"

"Boom, boom, boom"

Then came several more mortar salvos. By this time, even the most clueless men in the 6th Company knew that reinforcements had arrived and it was time to retreat. So, the 6th Company Commander, Xiong Jie, decisively ordered: "2nd Platoon, cover us, retreat!"

"Company commander, let us stay here, we can't run anymore," several wounded soldiers with limited mobility shouted.

"No."

"Company commander, we can't escape if we take us with us. You've seen the enemy's numbers; they have cars, tanks, and armored vehicles, company commander!"

"Instructor, what do you think?" Xiong Jie hesitated.

"Instructor, let us stay, we don't have time."

"Old Xiong, let them stay. We really can't take them with us." The instructor wiped away his wet eyes.

"Withdraw. Leave the machine guns and grenades for the wounded," Xiong Jie said, his eyes red.

"Yes."

"Let's go, it'll be too late if we don't leave now." Xiong Jie walked at the back, watching the soldiers throw grenades one by one. He silently saluted, the wounded returned the salute, and then he was pulled away from the position quickly by the platoon leader.

I hadn't run far when I heard loud gunfire behind me.

The "da da da, da da da" sound was infrequent but never stopped.

They had only run a hundred meters when an explosion came from behind them. The gunfire stopped abruptly, then resumed, this time with sparse rifle fire.

Then came the sound of explosions, a series of explosions—those were grenades.

The soldiers of the 6th Company suddenly stopped, turned around in unison, saluted in the direction of the position, and then strode towards the designated assembly point.

But no one could see the tears streaming down the faces of many soldiers.

After firing three rounds of artillery, He Yuzhu also withdrew because he saw the 6th Company retreating. As for who was covering them, he didn't know and had no ability to rescue them. There was at least one battalion on the other side, and more would follow.

When He Yuzhu ran back to the assembly point, the 7th Company had already arrived, with less than 20 people remaining, including a platoon from the 6th Company.

About ten minutes later, the 6th Company also returned. They went there with 60 men, but when they came back, only one platoon remained.

There was no time to discuss the results of the battle. Everyone quickened their pace and evacuated the assembly point. It was already past 2 a.m., and dawn would break in a few hours.

If you can't evacuate to a place more than 15 kilometers away, then you'll be waiting to be bombed, burned, and machine-gunned during the day.

Why so far? Because yesterday, within a ten-kilometer radius, the enemy launched a barrage of fire and bombing attacks.

They ran until dawn before the team reached what they considered a safe radius.

No one whispered to each other along the way, perhaps because everyone was immersed in the grief of losing their comrades, and they all silently followed the leader.

Until Yu Congrong, who was at the very front, shouted: "Stop advancing!"

The troops slowly came to a stop, and then the two company commanders set up a guard post and arranged for people to rest. The situation in the 7th Company was better.

The 6th Company had been traveling all day yesterday, including a battle, and then engaged in intense fighting and forced marches all night. They were exhausted by now.

After the soldiers went to rest, the two company commanders and two political instructors sat down together for a meeting.

The bridge will definitely not be blown up again. There were at least two companies of soldiers on the bridge last night, and who knows how many more came to reinforce it. Because the road is narrow, they can't form a proper formation. I only saw one battalion, and there were more behind.

After some discussion, they decided to contact the division again to see what the next step was.

So everyone tried to contact the division headquarters by radio overnight, but the radio was silent, probably because the division headquarters was also advancing. They tried calling for a long time but couldn't get through.

The group could only rest for now, as they didn't know what they would encounter after dawn.

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