Chapter 194: Republic of China: Starting from the First Class of Whampoa Chapter 194 Jinshanwei Landing Battle II

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Protagonist:

Lv Muzhi

Three hours after Zhang Fei finished inspecting Position Number One on Jinshanwei Beach, the Japanese Tenth Army began formally executing its landing plan.

Yoshida Kameichi, Second Lieutenant and platoon leader of the 3rd Platoon, 2nd Company, 1st Battalion of the Kunisaki Detachment, crouched in the rocking landing craft, the deafening roar of naval gunfire ringing in his ears.

Through the opening at the bow, gazing at the massive flames and thick smoke rising on the distant coastline, Squad Leader Yoshida's heart was filled with the pride of an Imperial Japanese Warrior.

"Do you see it, gentlemen!" Yoshida shouted back at the soldiers crowded in the cabin, their faces tense, "This is the power of the Imperial Japanese Navy! Under such fierce artillery fire, the positions of the China Men must have been reduced to scorched earth! All we have to do is charge up, occupy it, and build merit for Emperor Tenghuang!"

"Hey! Banzai!" The soldiers were encouraged, raising their hands one after another, shouting banzai, and their nervous emotions seemed to ease considerably.

Watching the naval gunfire burst into flashes of flame on Jinshanwei Beach, this group of devils felt considerably more settled in their hearts.

"Landing craft! Charge the beach!!!"

The naval gunfire's ground bombardment ended, and the commander of the First Battalion issued the charge order.

A large number of landing craft carrying the devils quickly approached the beachhead.

Squad Leader Yoshida took deep breaths, holding his rifle in his hand, occasionally turning back to issue orders to the little devils behind him.

"We're almost at the beachhead, five hundred meters left!"

"Three hundred meters! Prepare for battle!"

"One hundred and fifty meters!"

However, for some reason, the landing craft Squad Leader Yoshida was riding gradually lost power and finally stopped directly in place.

"Eight Gua! Everyone disembark, the damn China Men have laid fishing nets here, the propeller is jammed!" the landing craft's pilot shouted loudly.

"Leave a few soldiers to clear the fishing nets!"

"Quick! Disembark! Charge!"

After a string of orders were issued, Yoshida jumped into the seawater first, and the water instantly submerged his waist.

Squad Leader Yoshida's stature was considered tall among the little devils, standing over 1.7 meters, but some shorter devils behind him had the seawater directly submerge their chests, and even had to swim forward.

In the distance, some luckier devil landing craft were not entangled by fishing nets and went ahead, but that was not necessarily a good thing—the ones who charged fast died fast too!

Squad Leader Yoshida personally saw that nearly a hundred meters to the left front, the Japanese were greeted by various light and heavy firepower the moment they disembarked, exploding into clouds of blood mist.

The landing craft entangled by fishing nets behind him was actually hit by a cannon at this moment, becoming a steel wreck!

"How could this be?! Is the naval gunfire not working?!"

"Hiss~ ah!"

A little devil let out a miserable scream, and then the seawater around him was all dyed red.

"There's barbed wire underwater! Be careful!"

In the turbid seawater, twisted, entangled, rusted barbed wire with sharp barbs could be vaguely seen.

With no boat to sit in and nowhere to avoid, the little devils could only endure it, letting their feet be scraped into bloody flesh.

The only thing Squad Leader Yoshida could do was urge the soldiers forward desperately, and the other squad leaders were the same.

After great difficulty the water only reached their knees, Squad Yoshida then had to face tall and heavy anti-landing steel frames and glaring barbed wire, and the death god's howling sounded at just the right time!

Rat-tat-tat-tat—!

Tong-tong-tong-tong—!

Dense machine gun bullets swept over the beachhead like a sudden storm, striking the steel frames and sending up a string of sparks, shaking the little devils' eardrums until they ached.

MG34s and Browning M2 heavy machine guns instantly raised a rain of blood among the Japanese ranks.

"Take cover! Find cover quickly!" Yoshida was frightened pale, constantly maneuvering in the water, hiding behind a thick anti-landing steel frame five or six meters away.

Not far from him, a Xian Bing Sergeant Major was shot into a beehive by the heavy machine gun, and finally shot into two sections by the heavy machine gun.

"Ono! Medic, go save him quickly!"

"He can't be saved! The Inoue Army was cut in half at the waist!"

"Captain! The firepower is too fierce! We're suppressed!" a Sergeant lay beside Yoshida, saying in terror.

"Don't panic! Machine gun team! Firepower suppression!"

"Grenade launcher team, firepower suppression!" Yoshida roared, pointing at a firing port on the beachhead constantly spitting tongues of fire.

The Japanese machine gunners, holding Type 97 light machine guns, began to return fire, but their firepower seemed so weak before the terrain and weapons where the Youth Army held absolute advantage.

Several devils fired grenade launchers at the beachhead position, but it had no effect, and the Youth Army's firepower remained ferocious.

The Japanese machine gunners felt that holding the machine gun by hand had low accuracy, and wanted to place the light machine gun directly on the anti-landing steel frame to shoot.

Boom!

The machine gunner hadn't even mounted the machine gun before one of his legs flew ten meters away.

Ah~

"Landmine! It's a landmine!" the surviving soldiers screamed in terror, "The China Men buried landmines behind the steel frames too! Don't approach!"

It turned out that when the little devil machine gunner approached the anti-landing steel frame, he triggered an anti-personnel landmine and was directly blown a leg away.

Squad Leader Yoshida was also startled; he himself was hiding behind the landing steel frame, just not too close: "Watch out for landmines! Don't get close to these anti-landing steel frames!"

Swoosh swoosh swoosh~

Rat-tat-tat~

Amidst the hail of guns and bullets, the devil machine gunner who had lost a leg floated half-submerged on the water surface, shouting in pain, calling for help, and gulping down mouthfuls of Jinshanwei Sea Area seawater.

"Medic!...... gulping gulping...... it hurts so much....... gulping gulping...... save me....... gulping gulping......"

From the machine gunner's perspective, he saw the medic Ono slinging a medical kit diagonally, seemingly walking toward him, 10 meters, 5 meters, 2 meters, 1 meter......

But discovered that the medic Ono passed by and went to rescue another Japanese wounded soldier whose intestines had been shot out, 2 meters, 5 meters, 20 meters......

"Save me! Gurgle gurgle......" No one cared about the life or death of the machine gunner who had drunk his fill of seawater, and he was then pushed alive by the waves straight onto the beachhead, becoming the first soldier to land!

The Youth Army inside the fortification saw this and couldn't stand it; first the MG34 Machine Gun greeted them, then behind it came the mm Cannon to greet them, and that Japanese wounded soldier immediately became a pile of minced meat.

And the Sniper on the Shore Beach Position at this moment saw the Japanese medic Ono rescuing an Xian Bing whose intestines were spilling all over the ground.

The rescue process was simple and rough, directly gathering the intestines together, seawater, sand and mud, all stuffed back into the belly in one go.

Ono supported the head of the Japanese wounded soldier and shouted loudly: "Hold your belly with your hand! Don't let the intestines flow out, wait for the ship to come and pick you up!"

The words had just fallen, with a whoosh, the wounded soldier whom medic Ono had just 'cured' was shot in the chest by the Youth Army's Sniper, directly killed, and the intestines flowed all over the ground again......

Ono was stunned, all his efforts were in vain, besides this, the other wounded soldiers he had treated were now all corpses floating on the Sea Surface.

Medic Ono was completely on the verge of collapse, the wounded comrades could not be saved, and moreover he was clearly being toyed with by the enemy, watching his comrades die before his eyes while he himself was powerless!

"Why has it come to this...... completely useless...... all people who are going to die......"

Ono mumbled to himself, his ears still filled with the cries for help from the Japanese wounded soldiers, but he had already completely lost confidence, just standing blankly in the seawater, doing nothing, with dense Barrage around him.

The next second, medic Ono was precisely hit in the head by a Bullet, and then was riddled by the Machine Gun into a hornet's nest.