Chapter 076 Start the Rescue War
When we reached the forefront of the British defense line, we were still ten minutes short of eight o'clock.
Dong Limao followed the translator into a three-story building and saw some listless British soldiers lying or lying in the ruined houses. Most of them were injured to varying degrees, basically some wounded people with no combat effectiveness.
A major crouched under the collapsed wall of the Japanese position, and observed with a telescope to the opposite side.
Through translation, Dong Limao knew that he was the supreme commander of the defense in this area.
The British major had already received Sgot's order, so there was no need to introduce it too much. The major pointed to several buildings across the street and said to Dong Limao: "The Japanese army, like us, are hiding in houses. I guess they have not attacked the church for a long time. It is probably because they are afraid that we will attack them from behind. Maybe the Japanese army still don't know that we have almost no ammunition, otherwise the church has been occupied by them and our defense line has been broken by them... The one who guards the church is one of my companies, who have been there for a day and a night, and the ammunition is exhausted, and I am afraid that they will no longer be able to resist the Japanese attack again. You are at the right time. I hope they will escape with your help."
Dong Limao took the major's telescope and looked opposite. He could see the spire of the roof of the church. It seemed that this was a relatively large church. Judging from the spire of the roof, there were about six houses in this church.
"I need your people to cooperate with my people to attack head-on after the battle starts, attracting the Japanese army to get closer. When we rescue the people in the church, you must be responsible for covering my people to retreat." Dong Limao briefly explained through translation and asked the tasks that the British army needed to cooperate.
The British major followed Dong Limao out of the house and saw the spy company waiting outside the house to stand by. They were all energetic and fighting spirit. He exclaimed: "I didn't expect that China has such an elite army!"
Dong Limao issued an order to Wang Jiagui: "Two points, bring your people with you. After three minutes, everyone must be in place and lock the shooting target!"
"Yes!" Wang Jiagui immediately took the sniper squad and ran upstairs around him.
"Gou Hao! Your man attacks in three minutes and takes down the mortar on the roof of the Japanese army within ten minutes!"
"Yes!" Gou Hao waved his hand and led a squad toward the target position.
"Zhao Yong, bring your people with you and find the best position to fight. According to the scheduled plan, we will block the Japanese reinforcements!"
"Yes!" Zhao Yong led his men to the left.
"High machine gun, bring your people and enter the front assault position. After Gou Hao took down the mortar on the roof, you will start shooting!"
"Yes!" Zhang Dali led the machine gun platoon and ran to the forefront of the British defensive positions, looking for cover, waiting for the battle to start before moving forward.
"Follow me the rest!" Dong Limao led Zhu Yongsheng and others to the right side of the church, and the locals led the way, preparing to detour from the right to the woods behind the church.
Wang Jiagui's sniper squad, in a group of two, went to several buildings that were not bombed and collapsed. It was considered a higher building.
However, Wang Jiagui was alone and climbed up a residential building close to the Japanese mortar tower that Gou Hao and the others were going to capture. He chose the best position to lie down, gently removed the two broken bricks blocking the view, and did not extend the muzzle, adjust the scope. It was about 300 meters away from the mortar tower, which was the best effective range. With this range range, Wang Jiagui could hit every shot. From the scope, he saw that there were only two guard posts walking back and forth on the roof of the mortar, and did not see the mortar. So he slowly moved the gun body, and then through a window, he saw several mortars and several ammunition boxes placed against the wall, and several Japanese soldiers were sleeping on the ground.
"It's them!" Wang Jiagui said in his heart, then he turned the gun downstairs. Seeing that a squad led by Gou Hao had already arrived at a downstairs on the right side of the mortar tower that had collapsed. He might be worried that he would be seen by the two guard posts on the roof, so he didn't rush forward. Wang Jiagui understood what he should do. He slowly moved the gun back to the roof, aimed at one of the left chests, and pulled the trigger decisively. With a crisp gunshot, the Japanese guard post facing Gou Hao and others were sprayed with a bright red blood mist on his chest, and fell backwards.
When he heard the gunshot, he immediately climbed to the top of the building and looked around. Wang Jiagui's sight cross center met his head, and another crisp gunshot sounded, and the face under the Japanese helmet that was lying down was opened. Then Wang Jiagui quickly moved the gun downward and aimed at the window he had just seen. The Japanese in the room were panicked and picked up the mortar barrel and ammunition box and ran to the roof. He looked at Gou Hao and the others downstairs, and had already run downstairs. Gou Hao used a knife to kill a guard post downstairs and then rushed into the building.
At this time, Wang Jiagui heard gunfire sounds sporadically in other places, knowing that it was his brother who began to shoot the Japanese who carried mortars and ammunition upstairs. He pushed the guns up and saw the Japanese rushing out of the top floor one by one and being shot dead. His people did not let the Japanese mortars set up mortars, so he no longer cared about the roof of the mortar tower, but instead put the scope to a longer distance and looked at the church. He saw British soldiers looking sideways by the window on the church tower, but he could not see the reporters and missionaries in the building who were rescued.
After Wang Jiagui's sniper squad's gunshots rang out, the Japanese army began to fight back blindly from different directions, because the Japanese did not understand where the gunshots came from for a while, and the gunshots suddenly burst out.
A group of brothers led by Gou Hao, under the cover of Wang Jiagui and others, rushed into the building with Japanese mortars smoothly. After entering the building, it was not so easy. Almost every floor was guarded by Japanese troops. This was a five-story building. Gou Hao and the others were blocked on the first floor and could not go up. They shot against the Japanese on the upper floor for a while. When Gou Hao saw that this would not work, he asked others to continue shooting against the Japanese on the upper floor. He turned around and ran out of the building, went around to the side of the building, and crawled up quickly with his bare hands with agile movements.
He was as victorious as a gecko. He quickly climbed to the top of the building, rushed in from the exit of the roof, and fired down with the submachine guns, forming a cross-strike with the brothers below. In less than ten minutes, all the Japanese devils in the building were removed. Gou Hao ordered two people to guard the entrance of the first floor and let the two people assist the defense on the first floor on the second floor. The rest ran to the top of the building. A soldier from a spy company was a mortar, and he happened to use his expertise to quickly put the Japanese mortar on the roof, and the best position was to start firing shells at the building where the Japanese were hiding.
Zhang Dali's machine gun platoon, after Gou Hao and his friends landed on the upper and streets of the Japanese troops stationed in front, began to shoot at the Japanese troops who rushed out of the building. One platoon's machine gun was powerful enough to sweep a brick wall in one minute. They moved forward step by step while strafing. It seemed that the Japanese troops were stunned by the mortars and did not encounter much resistance at the beginning. But when they rushed to about fifty meters one after another, the Japanese troops rushed from the front and left and right sides. Zhang Dali asked the brothers to form a semicircle on the spot and no longer moved forward. They each found bunkers to start fighting back. The British troops behind them also opened fire on the Japanese troops on the position. Fortunately, the firepower was fierce and there was no threat from the Japanese mortars, so they could easily block the Japanese troops from a hundred meters away and could not pounce on them.
The Japanese soldiers who were waiting for an opportunity to shoot down from the upper floor were beaten so hard that they did not dare to reveal their heads.
Dong Limao's prediction was very accurate. On the left was an important position for the support of the Japanese army. Zhao Yong led two brothers to the designated position and simply found a cover. Less than ten minutes after hearing gunshots and cannons, the Japanese sent reinforcements from the left. Zhao Yong was an experienced commander. He did not order to open fire immediately. Instead, he waited for the Japanese army to run within 30 meters before shouting: "Everyone throws two grenades first!" Nearly thirty people threw out dozens of grenades in succession, and the Japanese devils who were running in the front hugged rats, flying with flesh and blood. No one behind dared to rush forward. They all hid in the buildings on both sides of the street and shot at Zhao Yong and the others. The two sides immediately stood stalemate and shot each other back and forth.
After the battle started, Dong Limao and Zhu Yongsheng, under the guidance of the guide, they walked around the woods behind the church smoothly.
Chapter completed!