The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 58: Comrades (Please read and vote)
...In the eyes of many new recruits, some veterans in the team are extremely indifferent; they usually just chat and laugh with other veterans and hardly pay any attention to them, the rookies.

So much so that they secretly asked me whether these veterans looked down on them.

Every time I would tell them seriously and firmly: Don't worry! It's absolutely not like that.

But they will not tell them a cruel reality: the reason why those veterans ignored them was simply that they could not accept the heartbreaking scene of their comrades whom they had just gotten to know dying in battle in front of them.

Instead of this, it would be better for us not to get to know each other.

However, the veterans' indifference did not actually help.

No matter how they distance themselves from the new recruits, when they fight side by side together for a while, it is hard not to develop a deep sense of comradeship of sharing life and death.

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

"What the hell! Why haven't Commander Xiang and the others come yet? If they don't come soon, just wait for our Third Company to collect their bodies."

While struggling to take out a few bullets from his pocket to charge the empty Hanyang rifle in his hand, Huang A'di, who weighed about 200 pounds, cursed.

Even though he actually knew it, it felt like the battle had been going on for a long time.

In fact, they had only been on the battlefield for a short while, maybe only one or two minutes; it felt like a long time, but it was just because the battle was too difficult, which gave him some illusions.

Speaking of which! Among the seven time travelers, Huang A-di was the only one who was still worried about when the main force of the 804th Regiment would rush up behind him.

Company commander Hu Biao is just a small street vendor. He knows nothing about commanding.

At this moment, he was several meters in front of Huang A'di, lying behind a sandbag with a pistol in his hand, and firing desperately at the opposite side with a brother.

Blocking several Japanese soldiers, they pushed back towards them.

Since he took the lead in the charge, Hu Biao kept shouting "Charge, charge, charge" and did not make any tactical adjustments.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this way of command.

The key point is that at this point in the battle, they had torn open a 50-meter gap in the Dunwu Temple position; the casualties of the Third Company were too great, and Huang A-di didn't know how many people were left. Anyway, they were already seriously exhausted.

Not to mention continuing to widen such a gap, Huang A'di was a little anxious and angry because he could not even withstand the crazy counterattack of the Japanese.

Therefore, if the main force of the regiment does not arrive, all the efforts of the third company will be in vain.

After cursing, Huang A'di was about to turn his head and look back to see if he could see the main force of the regiment.

It was a bit helpless to say that the previous battle was too tense and crazy for him, a hard-working factory worker.

From the beginning of the charge until now, he didn't even have time to look back.

But when Huang A'di was about to turn his head, he saw a ball of fire bursting out in front of Hu Biao out of the corner of his eye. It should be that the Japanese fired a grenade launcher at him, and it exploded a few meters in front of him.

Hu Biao was also smart. Before the fragmentation grenade exploded.

This guy immediately lay down behind the sandbag and avoided such a crisis.

But one of his fellow cooks, Liu Aiaoai, who that night at Yun Meishi, introduced in detail how delicious the 'Mapo Tofu' made by his aunt was, did not have such good luck.

He was blown back several steps by the shock wave of the explosion and fell on Huang A-di; the handful of bullets that Huang A-di had just taken out in his right hand fell to the ground immediately.

Huang A'di pushed away Liu A'ai who was pressing on him, and his first reaction was to save his brother.

But he found that it was not necessary. Firstly, the opponent's face was hit by multiple shrapnel, and his face was covered in blood. It was obvious that he was not going to survive.

Second, when the mud and sand flying in the explosion had not yet completely settled, a Japanese soldier took the opportunity to rush up with a bayonet, only seven or eight meters away from Hu Biao.

At this moment, other brothers in the surrounding area are also caught in a tough battle.

When Hu Biao, the so-called Commander Hu, got up from the ground, he was probably hit by a bayonet.

Seeing this, Huang A'di threw away the rifle in his hand that he had no time to reload, pulled out a big knife from behind Liu Aiai, and rushed forward shouting.

The Japanese soldier gave up his plan to stab Hu Biao to death and stabbed Huang A'di instead.

Ignoring the sharp bayonet held by the opponent, Huang A'di waved his sword towards the devil's face and chopped it down without hesitation, as if he was going to die together.

There is absolutely no other way around this guy's fighting style.

He also had a clear idea of ​​the situation. When it came to bayonet fighting, could he really beat the elite Japanese?
Now he is betting that some of the fancy sword techniques he learned when he played Song Bingjia in Hengdian will be of some use in actual combat.

He bet that the Japanese soldier in front of him was unwilling to die with him, so he would put down his gun and fight back, giving him the upper hand.

To put it bluntly! Huang A-di's tactic was to risk his life to see who was more ruthless and insane. The result? After just two rounds, the Japanese soldier wrenched his sword away and thrust his bayonet into Huang A-di's chest with lightning speed.

"Fuck! I couldn't even withstand three moves."

This was the depressing thought that flashed through Huang A-di's mind in the blink of an eye before he realized he was going to get his lunch box...

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Huang A-di, who weighed more than 200 pounds, did not die in the end, because at this critical moment, the main force of the regiment led by Captain Xiang finally rushed to the position.

I don't know who raised his hand and shot the Japanese soldier who was about to stab him to death.

When many Sichuan Army brothers, shouting loudly, passed by with bayonets in hand and swords in hand, and rushed towards the Japanese devils, Huang A'di, who had survived the disaster, collapsed to the ground.

He was breathing heavily and didn't even have the strength to move his fingers.

This battle is not over yet, but he has already exhausted all his strength to get to this point. He thinks that for a novice rookie to be able to fight to this point in his first battle has exceeded his level.

The five time travelers, including Hu Biao, Uncle Bo, Black Star, AT, and Big Hammer, and even the other soldiers of the third company, actually all had the same reaction.

In a short period of time, they charged forward under artillery fire, advancing recklessly, and fighting with the Japanese like beasts, which had exhausted all their energy.

Only after the main force of the regiment finally caught up did they feel a huge sense of fatigue.

And there was pain from some scratches, shock injuries, and gunshot wounds on the body.

I was even a little surprised. Why didn’t I feel these things before? Why was I so powerful in the battle just now?
Only Chaozi was different, because he was still riding on the Japanese soldier whose ear he had bitten off, with his hands tightly strangling the other's neck.

Even at this time, the little Japanese soldier's face was blue, and it was obvious that he had been strangled to death.

This situation continued until almost half a minute had passed.

Hu Biao took out the few remaining cigarettes and was about to give one to Huang A'di beside him when he inadvertently saw this scene from afar.

Immediately, he shouted out:
"Chaozi, Chaozi, you can let go now. That devil is dead."

Hearing this, Chaozi threw his head back and fell down. Don't worry! This guy is not dead, it's just that he didn't even have the strength to sit still after the crazy experience.

He could only lie there, his chest heaving violently.

After nearly ten minutes, huge cheers rang out.

Feeling that he had finally regained some strength, Hu Biao quickly supported himself and got up from the ground. He could immediately see about 450 to 460 Japanese soldiers retreating to the rear while fighting.

After a hard battle, their 804th Regiment finally took back the Dunwu Temple.

In order to achieve such a goal, not counting the survivors of their third company, the main force of the regiment now has no more than 370 or 380 people left.

As for how many people are left in the third company? With a hint of anticipation and trepidation, Hu Biao shouted:
"Three in a row, count to 1."

"2." Huang A'di shouted out with all his might, officially starting the count of the number of people still alive in the third company after the bloody battle.

"7." Black Star replied when the voice reached him.

After receiving it, he took a breath of cold air. It was because his left shoulder was hit by the butt of a gun in the previous fight. It hurt a lot when he moved a little.

"12." Sledgehammer shouted.

During the battle, he, Black Star's secondary shooter, had already been separated from his main shooter by an unknown distance.

"23." AT answered breathlessly. He thought of the unbelievable expression on the face of the young deserter Wu Yannian before he was shot to death by him, and felt very uncomfortable.

"31." Chaozi spat out a mouthful of blood and replied indignantly.

"39." Uncle Bo, who was slumped outside the position, hugging his original Mauser rifle, responded; he was not injured, and the physical exertion of long-range sniping was not great, but the mental pressure was too great.

The continuous counting sound stopped here.

This means that together with the three people who were responsible for operating the Maxim heavy machine guns in the cotton fields in the rear, there were originally 109 people in the third company, but now there are only 42 people who can speak.

Thinking of this, the newcomer, the honest man Dahammer, felt as if he was being cut by a knife. He sat down on the ground and burst into tears.

Because these people are their brothers.

And in this area, a man's subdued sobs sounded far more painful than a woman's loud cries...

(End of this chapter)