The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 77 Nickname
...It sounds a bit ridiculous, but in the intervals between fierce battles, we suddenly got some strange nicknames.

For example, I was called "Dead Flop" because my friends complained that I failed every time I came here and took them down with me.

Uncle Bo, known as 'Old Cucumber'.

Because he is an old man in his forties who is still conceited and shows off his affairs at Uncle Sam's house and his affairs with foreign girls. He is just like an old man trying to look young by painting himself young.

We cursed each other a lot over this matter, but it didn't affect us in the battle at all. We trusted them to protect our backs...

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

At around 11: in the morning, when a voice of "Commander Hu, the Japs are coming" was heard.

It represents the fourth attack of the Japanese today, and it is about to come just as the artillery fire has subsided.

The time gap between the last time the Japanese retreated was extremely short, and the artillery fire that fell on the position was incredibly fierce, so fierce that Hu Biao didn't have time to reload the magazines and rifles that had been emptied last time.

But in this case, there is no way to continue filling.

Hu Biao immediately rushed out of the anti-artillery cave. He was about to say "Everyone prepare for battle", but after seeing some of the situations on the battlefield, he immediately changed his mind.

It turned into an extremely urgent sentence: "Consumptive ghost, send a signal to Captain Li to send reinforcements, otherwise we can't hold on to this attack."

The reason for this is that Hu Biao is absolutely certain that in the last round of bombardment by the Japanese, the large-caliber naval guns on the fleet were definitely used.

Goodness! When that thing came over, the sound it made wasn't some kind of whistling sound that tore through the air.

It felt like a muffled thunder rolling in the clouds and striking down quickly on the head, making one's scalp tingle.

So when he rushed out of the position, he immediately saw that the position that had been reinforced last night had now become a mess.

It's full of potholes, just like the surface of the earth.

The carefully prepared firepower points disappeared one by one. Several heavy machine guns, which were the core of the firepower, were too heavy to be taken away during the emergency escape, so they were taken into the anti-artillery cave for protection.

At this moment, it has been blown into pieces flying all over the ground, which makes people shiver with pain after seeing it.

Especially those that should be 203mm caliber naval guns, the power of the more than kilograms of shells fired at them was outrageous, and they blew out deep and wide holes.

As a result, many of the anti-aircraft guns in our memories have disappeared, and I don’t know how many brothers are buried under the soil.

Anyway, under his orders, the remaining brothers hurriedly crawled out of the various anti-artillery holes. There was still a reinforced company of 150 people in the morning, but it is hard to say whether half of them are alive now.

But a squadron-sized group of Japanese soldiers were already rushing towards them madly.

There was a huge loss of heavy firepower and a serious shortage of manpower.

Therefore, they not only needed Captain Li to send people to support them immediately; they also needed to dig in the mud quickly to retrieve the brothers who might not be dead and buried in it before they suffocated to death.

Because they had to prepare for battle immediately, otherwise if the Japanese took the opportunity to rush into the position, everyone would probably die...

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Half a minute later, when Hu Biao gave the order "open fire",

The AT had already fired a distress flare towards the rear.

He opened fire with a submachine gun at the Japanese soldiers who were already 60 meters away and mixed together, avoiding direct fire from the Type 92 infantry gun.

As for Hu Biao and other time travelers calling him a "consumptive", the white-collar worker didn't care at all.

In fact, he knew that this nickname did not mean any harm.

It was just a joke by everyone to relieve the tension that had reached extreme levels due to the fierce battle, as he had previously been injured in the lungs by mustard gas and was coughing all the time.

There's nothing we can do! It seems oral penicillin is useless against injuries caused by this mustard gas.

But then again, that stuff was absolutely precious in 1937; now I've almost eaten a box of it, and this alone shows everyone's concern for him.

Besides, he didn't suffer any loss in this matter, did he? He was called "consumptive", and they also called each other "dead loser", "old cucumber", "fat guy", "big fool", "iron man", "death star" and other nicknames.

Among them, the "Fatty" is Huang A-di, and his body weight of about 200 pounds is the origin of this nickname.

'Big Silly Guy' is Black Star. This guy is 1.8 meters tall, with a burly build and a serious look. All in all, it's reasonable to call him that.

'Iron Man' refers to Superman's brother. Do you think this is a compliment to him?
You're overthinking it. These people are all so mean-spirited. How could such a good thing happen to Superman? 'Iron Man' means 'iron straight man'.

Even the honest and simple Hammer was called the "Death Star" by everyone; mainly because this man always thought about his family in the modern dimension, so he had a bitter face.

In short, the main point is that they hurt each other, no one suffers, and no one thinks well...

In order to pursue maximum firepower output, we had to stop the Japanese soldiers who were rushing towards us like crazy.

The young white-collar AT had no intention of letting go after pulling the trigger of the submachine gun. He was ready to fire out a magazine of bullets first and suppress the Japanese charge.

As a result, he had only fired three bullets when the submachine gun in his hand jammed.

Faced with such a situation, AT had a strong urge to curse and wanted to smash this thing.

In fact, he also knew that there was nothing he could do about it; why did the National Army need to replenish a large amount of weapons and equipment after every war?

One was that it was damaged by the Japanese artillery fire during the battle, and the other was that it was lost in battle.

The second is that weapons were scrapped due to excessive use during fierce battles.

Look! The batch of submachine guns that Hu Biao had originally obtained, which were imitations of the Qingdao Iron Works, were considered domestic fine products and were of quite good quality.

But we can't stand their crazy firing in the past few days.

Since this morning, he didn't know what was wrong with the submachine gun in his hand; if the trajectory was a little inaccurate, he could still use it, after all, they had to wait until the Japanese got closer before firing.

However, the problem of getting stuck at any time really affects the combat.

But this thing is an important automatic firepower on the position, so we have to use it anyway.

In desperation, AT threw away his submachine gun, took out a pair of 20-shot revolvers from his waist, and imitated Li Xiangyang's posture, firing left and right, pulling the trigger frantically.

Soon, all 40 bullets in the two guns were used up.

Although it was difficult to use the Mauser pistol, he had fired at least a hundred rounds with it in the past two days and had gained some experience with it. After a burst of crazy fire, he knocked down several Japanese soldiers and suppressed the speed of other Japanese soldiers' charge.

But even so, a large number of Japanese soldiers had already rushed within 20 meters of the position.

In a critical situation, Hu Biao's order of "fix bayonets" came to my ears.

Even though he knew that he coughed all the time and might end up getting eaten if he went in for hand-to-hand combat, AT still picked up a Type 38 rifle with a bayonet at hand.

Prepare to rush out with the sniper Uncle Bo next to him and the surviving brothers on the position.

At this moment, a dense barrage of wooden-handled grenades and bullets flew overhead, instantly knocking down the twenty or so Japanese soldiers who were rushing in the front.

Looking back, I found that it was Captain Li, who personally brought the guard company and the first company, a total of more than 200 people to support. It seems that the defense of the position has been stabilized this time.

I was so excited that I was about to yell "grenade".

The final sound that came out was a series of "Kang Kang Kang" sounds, like the coughing of a tractor, and it took a while to recover.

While still coughing, he looked with some regret at a place about seven or eight meters behind him.

Because that place was originally where the iron barrel of the Unscrupulous Cannon was stored, but now there is only a little iron sheet left.

Even the most powerful firepower they had couldn't hold up against the last Japanese naval bombardment; they were completely destroyed in the bombardment before that...

(End of this chapter)