The Milky Way is Also a Grain of Sand
Chapter 712 The End of the Line for the 5th Infantry Brigade
He shamefully embraced an explosive package and committed suicide, leaving nothing of use to the 5th Infantry Brigade.
This made Brigade Commander Katayama Riichiro very angry.
These days, he eats the food provided by Regiment Commander Kurihara Shoji every day, and his temper is getting more and more irritable, and his eyes are glowing green like a beast.
He ordered Regiment Commander Kurihara Shoji: "The devils of the entire brigade must be strictly guarded so that things like what happened to Regiment Commander Takeda Seiichi do not happen again."
"Hai!" Regiment Commander Kurihara Shoji stood at attention and bowed.
These days, Brigade Commander Katayama Riichiro has become increasingly dependent on Regiment Commander Kurihara Shoji. Kurihara Shoji is not only able to perfectly complete the task of food supply.
Moreover, the devils in the entire Luying Town seem to be more and more obedient to Kurihara Shoji's orders.
The devils of the 5th Infantry Brigade are like a flock of sheep in a circle. Regiment Commander Kurihara Shoji is the shepherd. If he wants to catch which sheep to slaughter, no sheep dares to resist.
Regiment Commander Nakajima Mitsugi has been very afraid these days. He is afraid of being slaughtered.
Of course, he knew why Regiment Commander Takeda Seiichi chose that kind of death, where his body was smashed to pieces: he just didn't want to be used as food after his death.
Without wild artillery, the wild artillery regiment has no value.
Fortunately, these days the brigade commander needs engineers to constantly reinforce the outer fortifications and bunkers, so the entire engineer regiment has not been used as food.
However, Commander Okamura Neji's promised three days have passed for two days, and there is no trace of the supplied food and weapons.
If this continues, in less than three days, what happened to the wild artillery regiment today will be what happens to the engineer regiment tomorrow.
These days, the devils in Luying Town are particularly violent, and devils shoot each other at every turn.
There has already been a situation where one infantry company is at war with another infantry company.
Fortunately, these devils are afraid of Regiment Commander Kurihara Shoji. When they see Regiment Commander Kurihara, they are like sheep seeing a sheepdog, and they dare not move at all.
This is also the reason why Brigade Commander Katayama Riichiro values him so much.
When the National Army surrounding Luying Town began shelling, Regiment Commander Nakajima Mitsugi felt a sense of relief.
How he wished he could be hit by a 150mm howitzer at close range!
In the end, he would be smashed to pieces, leaving not even a bit of residue!
Soon Regiment Commander Nakajima Mitsugi's wish came true.
This time, the 59th Army is launching the final attack on the devils surrounded in Luying Town.
The bunkers that the devil engineers have spent a lot of effort to reinforce these days immediately collapsed under the bombardment of 150mm howitzers.
Facing the thunderous sound of horseshoes and the mountain-like momentum of the cavalry charging, few people can withstand it.
Even if there are one or two brave soldiers in a team, they cannot influence the entire battlefield.
When Squad Leader Yoshikawa Isoji led the entire team to charge.
Xu Mao, the reconnaissance platoon leader of the 113th Brigade of the 38th Division, also saw a dozen devil cavalrymen charging towards him.
His face changed drastically. Although he was not a cavalryman, he had fought all the way from North China and had seen countless devil cavalrymen.
If the fifty or so men under his command scattered and fled at this time, it would be lucky if a few of them could survive.
Immediately, he ordered loudly: "Brothers! Fight the devils! Set up the machine guns immediately! Wait for my order."
His platoon had three light machine guns, and three soldiers immediately lay on the ground, ready to fire.
Three assistant gunners nervously prepared to change magazines on the side.
"The rest of the brothers aim at the devils' warhorses, don't fire. Wait for orders."
Five hundred meters!
Xu Mao did not give the order.
Three hundred meters!
He still did not give the order!
Two hundred meters!
The three machine gunners were anxious, their eyes not on the devils, but on the platoon leader.
They wanted to see if the platoon leader was scared silly.
Xu Mao shouted loudly: "Look at the devils, what are you looking at me for!"
The three machine gunners quickly looked at the devils again.
After Nakadai Isoji, who was charging in the front, had charged within a hundred meters, Xu Mao shouted loudly: "Fire!"
Three machine guns and forty-odd rifles fired at the same time.
Squad Leader Yoshikawa Isoji was on his warhorse. Seeing that the National Army soldiers in front had not fired, he thought that they had been frightened by the momentum of his charge.
This situation is very common on the battlefield. Cavalry has a natural suppression effect on infantry. Many times, when the National Army's infantry encounters devil cavalry, they cannot move or fire.
Or they would fire when the cavalry was five hundred meters away, and then start running away when the cavalry charged to two or three hundred meters away.
Although the National Army squad in front did not run away, they did not fire either.
"They must be frightened." Just as Squad Leader Yoshikawa Isoji was thinking this, he suddenly felt as if his body had been hit by a heavy hammer, and his whole body flew off the warhorse.
Then he saw a burst of blood splashing in the air. At this time, he heard the "da da da!" sound of machine gun fire.
"They actually dare to fire?" This was Squad Leader Yoshikawa's last thought.
A squad of a dozen devil cavalrymen was swept by three machine guns at close range. Nakadai Isoji, Inoue Hachiro, and Squad Leader Yoshikawa Isoji, who were charging in the front, all fell to the ground.
None of the devils in the entire squad escaped!
The soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon, who annihilated this group of devil cavalry, could not believe that it was true.
They did not react until Platoon Leader Xu ordered them to clean up the battlefield.
One by one, they rushed up happily, picking up the sabers from the hands of the devil cavalrymen.
The devils' steel in this era is much better than the National Army's steel. Although their sabers are assembly line products, they are also rare good things for these ordinary National Army soldiers.
It's just that there are too few devil cavalrymen, not enough for their fifty-odd people to share.
Squad Leader Liu Jia said, "Platoon leader! Let's look around again, and kill a few more groups of devils like this, and give each of our brothers a saber!"
Xu Mao said angrily: "Infantry fighting cavalry, you got lucky and won once, and you're already getting cocky.
Are the devil cavalry so easy to fight?"
Before he could finish his words, the tips of the grass on the ground trembled slightly: "Damn Liu Jia, you jinx, the devil cavalry is coming again.
Brothers, just fight like you did just now.
Remember, don't panic, be sure to let the vanguard of the devil cavalry charge within a hundred meters before firing. If they are too far away, stop and don't fire."