Rise From Eight Hundred

More than 40 kilograms of explosives exploded in a trench that was only more than 50 meters long. How powerful was it?

I'm afraid it would be difficult for even the people at the scene to describe it.

Because the people who were still alive had already been shocked by the loud noise that was beyond human tolerance, and their minds stopped working at that moment.

Perhaps all thoughts were focused on one question: Am I dead? Am I still alive?

After the devastating explosion, the gunfire on this side of the battlefield had completely stopped. The Chinese soldiers who had escaped the huge air waves by hiding in the trenches dared to stick their heads out and were stunned.

The first line of trenches 30 meters away almost collapsed. The nearly 1.5-meter deep trench that had been dug by hundreds of people disappeared, and the soil soaked in blood and gunpowder disappeared, leaving only a layer of new soil.

The trenches that could withstand the bombardment of 75-caliber mountain artillery have become like this, not to mention the people in them.

At least the trenches that have completely lost their functions are empty.

The Japanese soldiers lying on the hillside outside the trenches were not wiped out because of the angle, but they did not end up well either.

Some were blown away by the air wave and were no longer able to make any sound, while others just lay quietly on the ground, like babies in a sweet dream.

Even those who survived by chance seemed to be stunned by the huge explosion that was so close. They turned their heads and looked at the results they had just achieved behind them, with disbelief in their eyes.

The trenches were gone, and the people were gone.

The Japanese infantrymen whose heads were buzzing with the huge noise found it difficult to understand why the situation was reversed in the blink of an eye when the Chinese were clearly at the end of their strength.

They did not understand on the battlefield, and the Japanese soldiers who were about to reap the fruits of victory more than 200 meters away did not understand either.

Especially the Japanese captain who was given a death order and coldly ordered to shoot and kill all the soldiers who attempted to retreat, when the loud noise shook the sky and the entire trench was almost covered with gunpowder smoke, he knew that he was finished.

It was not that the power of the explosives could sweep over a distance of more than 200 meters and kill him, but that one of his infantry squadrons was gone.

From this moment on, he was the first captain squad leader in the history of the Imperial Japanese Army.

Even if he had the face to continue living, the Colonel Kanda who issued the death order would never agree!

This was indeed overthinking by the Japanese Army Captain.

Since the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army has also suffered huge losses, with more than 40,000 Japanese army casualties on the front line. A captain squad leader like him who stood on the front line in a state of despair was by no means the first, and in the longer war in the future, he would definitely not be the last.

Because, as long as the Chinese soldiers did not retreat and were willing to exchange their lives for theirs, the Japanese would die.

China once survived the most difficult first three years with an exchange ratio of more than ten to one, and finally entered a stalemate period that dragged the entire Japan into the quagmire of war.

Let's not talk about the future, but the present.

The tragedy of the Japanese army is by no means as simple as the center of the explosion.

In addition to the seven big "stones" that exploded in the trench and sent all the Japanese soldiers in the trench away, the "stone" that jumped over the trench because of hitting the steel helmet was "startled" by the acceleration of gravity or the violent vibration caused by the explosion in the trench. It ran along the hillside for another hundred meters before it exploded with a bang when the fuse that had finally burned out was ignited.

Unfortunately, the six light machine guns of the Japanese army were all in that general area.

What's worse is that since the Chinese soldiers had no artillery, the grenade throwers also took a fancy to this "feng shui treasure land" and ran over to squeeze together with the machine gunners.

They didn't have any fortifications, a stone and a tree as thick as a calf were their shelters.

Obviously, these things might be able to block stray bullets, but they had almost no ability to resist the crazy sweeping air waves and various stone and wood fragments driven by the explosion energy.

Half of the six groups of machine gunners were blown away on the spot, and a few unlucky ones who were a little further away were also hit by fragments and their faces were covered with blood, rolling on the ground in pain.

This is also the reason why the gunfire on the battlefield completely disappeared.

The Japanese troops who rushed into the front line of the company under Major Scar completely lost their combat capability.

"Go out and kill them with bayonets!" Major Scar was briefly shocked by his masterpiece, picked up a rifle and ordered brazenly.

Using bayonets is not to show bravery, but purely to save bullets.

More than a dozen Chinese soldiers jumped out of the trenches, holding Liao-made 13-type rifles, and rushed into the battlefield under the eyes of the Japanese officers and soldiers who were stunned more than 200 meters away. They stabbed everything they could see in their field of vision, whether they could move or not.

Katori Asuka was spitting blood!

Not because of anger.

But because of shock.

The violent vibrations caused by the violent explosives shook the Chinese soldiers in the trenches thirty meters away, not to mention the Japanese lieutenant who was only seven or eight meters away from the explosion point.

Although the chest and abdomen were tightly pressed against the ground to reduce the bullet-receiving surface, they absorbed the vibration energy from the ground.

There was a lot of brown matter in the vomited blood. Katori Asuka knew that it was fragments of internal organs. He could not survive. Even if the Chinese could let him go, he would be dead when he returned to the main camp.

Is this the fate of a soldier? Die on the battlefield! What does it feel like to die on the battlefield?

The Japanese Army Second Lieutenant, who originally thought that he should be extremely afraid of death, actually felt relaxed and relieved at that moment. Looking at the young Chinese soldier slowly approaching him, a smile appeared on his face.

He could have taken out the Nambu 14 pistol inserted in his belt and made a final struggle. Even if he died, he would die like a samurai.

However, the Japanese Army Second Lieutenant did not do that.

He was afraid that it would be too late, too late to miss it.

That was the most precious thing in his life, but he only thought of cherishing it now.

The Japanese Army Second Lieutenant tried to turn over, spitting blood from his mouth, looking up at the flares still falling in the sky, letting the white afterglow of the flares sprinkle on his face.

When he was young, he lay on the cool bed made of bamboo from the mountains by his father under the big tree in front of his home. His mother gently waved a fan to help him drive away mosquitoes and chatted with his father about the farm work in the fields that he was not interested in.

His father tasted the sake brewed at home and talked to his mother from time to time. The atmosphere was warm and peaceful.

And he just looked up at the night sky and the bright stars.

The stars in my hometown are so bright!

Unfortunately, I can never go back.

This damn war!

The bright starlight stayed in the pupils of the darkness.

When the severe pain came, the last voice in the world that Lieutenant Katori Asuka heard came into his mind.

"Platoon leader, I helped you get revenge. I killed the second lieutenant of the devil!" The young soldier murmured to himself as he stabbed the bayonet into the chest of Katori Asuka who was immersed in memory.

Tears splashed in his eyes, but he felt relieved.

"So it is! His platoon leader died under my gun, and I also died under their knives. Is this the legendary cause and effect?" At the moment when Katori Asuka took his last breath, he wanted to be relieved but was a little unwilling.

Then, what about those dignitaries who drove us into the battlefield! Will they suffer the same cause and effect?

If Tang Dao was here, perhaps he could tell this invading army officer who only realized it at the moment of death that his expectations were not out of reach.

After the war, those war criminals who committed heinous crimes will be sent to the gallows.

On the battlefield, more than 20 Japanese soldiers watched in a daze as the staggering Chinese soldiers stabbed their colleagues who were still on the slope one by one before the light fell.

Until the darkness engulfed the entire hillside.

The Japanese bullets that woke up also became aimless venting.

The Chinese soldiers returned to the second-line trenches under the order of Major Scar.

Now, that is the last line of defense for Chinese soldiers.

After dealing with the enemy in front of them, the Chinese soldiers began to wait.

Waiting for the Japanese army to attack again.

Even if all of them died in battle, it would not be a loss.

More than half of the Japanese infantry squadrons were lying in front of them.

One for three, what else is there to be dissatisfied with?