The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 56 Death Charge (Part ) [Please read and vote]

...There is a saying among the Japs that almost half of their casualties were caused by our wooden-handled grenades.

On the Korean battlefield, soldiers also admitted that there were two things about our army that frightened them the most:
One was the loud sound of the charge, and the other was the wooden-handled grenade.

But I want to say that if you have a cannon, who would be willing to use this kind of thing that has a throwing distance of only tens of meters; or has to be bundled together to blow up the opponent's armored weapons.

Every time a large number of wooden-handled grenades were used together, it meant that many brothers would die in battle...

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

Uncle Bo didn't care about the joy of finally hitting the target, and continued to pull the bolt while kneeling.

As he expected, the Japanese would never give up the Type 92 heavy machine gun, such an extremely critical firepower point.

Just as he was about to load a bullet into the original Mauser rifle in his hand, the assistant gunner of the Type 92 heavy machine gun had already taken up the shooting position.

But just as the Japanese soldier sat down, Uncle Bo pulled the trigger again.

Then, he missed again.

Without thinking twice, Uncle Bo hit himself hard on the face with a big slap. When the other side of his face was also swollen, he forced himself to suppress the excitement of hitting the target.

Then he pulled the bolt again and shot the assistant gunner in the chest.

The burning pain on his face and the distinct taste of blood in his mouth kept him calm, and he finally got into the state.
While Uncle Bo entered the sniper mode in a very face-consuming way.

Of course, the other members of his sniper squad were not idle either. They were standing, kneeling, or lying down, firing in different postures.

It doesn't matter what your firing posture is.

What’s important is that they were selected from the 100 or so people in the third company, and they were the ones with the best marksmanship. They were also equipped with original Mauser rifles.

Even though his marksmanship is not as good as Uncle Bo's, the results he achieves are still good when the distance is less than 100 meters.

The Japanese machine gunners, grenade launcher operators, and non-commissioned officers such as sergeants who reacted one by one were knocked to the ground.

The problem was that more and more Japanese soldiers reacted on the battlefield, and they could not suppress them with the rifle firepower of only a dozen people.

The dense bullets and intensifying artillery fire caused the casualties of the Third Company to increase at an increasingly rapid rate.

However, this was still not the most brutal and bloody moment of this damn charge tonight.

How can I describe that feeling? It's like the opening round of toasts hasn't even finished, and the hot dishes haven't even arrived yet...

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民国二十六年10月13日，晚上的8点零5分18秒。

After lasting more than ten seconds longer than the originally planned 3-minute artillery preparation time, the bombardment of Dunwu Temple by 12 75mm mountain cannons of an artillery regiment of the National Army finally subsided.

Frankly speaking! At this point, Black Star didn't know how many of their Third Company had died in the short time before, and how many were left.

Among those killed by his own artillery, were there any unlucky people who traveled through time with him?
At this point, the only thing he could be sure of was that Hu Biao, who had been rushing in front, and the sledgehammer following him were not dead.

Because at this moment, our artillery fire has completely subsided.

I believe that without the artillery suppression, a large group of Japanese devils on the battlefield will soon emerge and pour terrifying firepower on them.

So, they don't have much time left. No, only a little bit.

Fortunately, after a desperate rush, he was now less than 30 meters away from the Dunwu Temple position.
At this distance, the automatic and semi-automatic weapons equipped by the assault team can already exert their best power in terms of accuracy.

Based on this point, Black Star roared at the top of his voice as he watched the men emerge like groundhogs, preparing to set up their weapons and fire.
"Assault team, fire assault forward"

As he spoke, he finally pulled the trigger of the Czech light machine gun he had been holding.

Only a second or two slower than the Black Star, the assault team's remaining 9 submachine guns, 16 -shot Mauser pistols and other automatic and semi-automatic weapons all opened fire.

Immediately, within a small area, a firepower density that was so dense that it was somewhat terrifying these days was displayed.

As for the others, they were dead! Killed by their own artillery fire, a casualty figure like that could even be considered quite lucky. After firing from a distance of less than 30 meters, the hit rate was indeed quite good.

For a moment, in the burst of precise barrage, the third company fired and charged like a sharp knife, forming a position in front of them that was twenty to thirty meters long.

The Japanese soldiers above were either beaten so hard that they couldn't even raise their heads, or were killed on the spot.

The position built by the Japanese in Dunwu Temple was more than twenty or thirty meters long; more Japanese reacted after the artillery fire subsided, and more bullets were fired from the left and right sides of the third company's charging team.

Almost every second, someone on both sides was shot...

"Pistol team, throw grenades to the left and right." After emptying the magazine of the Czech light machine gun in his hand once again, Black Star roared this sentence.

The so-called pistol team refers to those members of the assault group who are armed with two Jin-made 20-shot magazine-loaded Mauser pistols.

The environment that allowed him to issue such an order was that they had successfully rushed to the position of the Enlightenment Temple with a burst of firepower.

A hole about 20 meters wide was torn open, and the goal was initially achieved.

However, this opening is still unstable. It depends on whether they continue to advance to the left and right, tearing the opening wider, or whether the Japanese will block the opening again.

Staying where you are and holding on is impossible.

Because the Japanese soldiers reacted and, under the orders of the officers, launched a desperate counterattack from both sides.

So what the Third Company needs to do now is to withstand the Japanese counterattack, push them back all the way, and finally seize the Dunwu Temple position.

It's just a semi-automatic weapon like a Mauser pistol, what do you say?

Within 50 meters, the power and firing speed are quite good.

Unfortunately, this model of 20-shot revolver has no magazine at all. After the bullets are used up, you can only pull the bolt and load the bullets using a magazine or by pushing them in one by one.

No matter which method you use, it will take a while.

There is definitely no time for such an intense battle as the one we are facing now.

Fortunately, Black Star and Hammer had already thought of this when the assault team was training tactical coordination and had made corresponding countermeasures.

All members of the pistol team carried a big knife on their backs that they could draw out to chop people.

Each of them had eight high-quality wooden-handled grenades hung on their bodies. These were produced by the Jinling Arsenal and were prepared for use in the current situation.

After shouting out this order, Black Star did not take out a magazine from the wooden ammunition box carried by the deputy gunner Hammer and replace it with the machine gun in his hand as he did before.

Instead, with the two words "next", he threw the Czech light machine gun directly into the arms of the hammer.

Then he took out a grenade from the grenade bag on his waist, and while preparing to pull the trigger, he quickly looked around the battlefield, looking for victims on the Japanese side.

That's right! Black Star has complete confidence in grenade throwing.

The reason? His father was also a PLA veteran, and had commanded a heavy mortar company. After retiring and returning home, he naturally became the company commander of the village militia.

So there were two of them at home. They were definitely the training bullets for the Type 67 wooden-handled grenades that my father brought back casually. They were toys that he and his brother had played with since they were young, and he had a lot of experience in throwing these things.

When he first joined the Armed Forces of Afghanistan, he threw a grenade 62.3 meters during his first training.

Not only does it exceed the PLA's bomb-throwing distance of 50 meters, which is the standard for being called a "bomb-throwing expert", but its accuracy is also quite good.

After serving in the army for two years and receiving more professional and targeted training, Black Star's grenade throwing skills became even stronger.

In the words of his company commander at the time, you were just born in the wrong era.

If it were during the Anti-Japanese War, the ability to throw grenades alone would be equivalent to a simplified grenade launcher, and would definitely be a treasure in the eyes of the army commanders.

And, wasn't this a coincidence? Black Star actually traveled back to the Anti-Japanese War era...

(End of this chapter)