Less than a minute after the firing order was issued, the violent explosion of shells began to sound halfway up the mountain.

In the black smoke that kept rising into the air, the deputy captain clearly saw several Eighth Route Army soldiers being bombed into the sky by shells.

"Well exploded!" A smile finally flashed on the deputy captain's serious face, and he shouted happily with his fists.

After only one minute of excitement, the deputy captain couldn't laugh.

Although the offensive troops successfully evacuated the battlefield under the cover of artillery fire, they were only twenty left, including seven or eight wounded, and only ten soldiers were intact.

It means that during the attack just now, I suddenly lost seventy or eighty people.

The deputy captain was angry when he saw the soldiers who had retreated from the battlefield, but did not scold him.

The military headquarters gave him the task to break through the defense line of the Independent Regiment's new battalion at the cost of an infantry squadron. Although the attack just now lost seventy or eighty soldiers, it did not exceed the troops' tolerance range.

Moreover, those subordinates who died in battle did not die in vain.

Although the battle just now ended in failure, I figured out the opponent's true strength and how the opponent fought.

The Eighth Route Army standing in front is indeed the same as the intelligence department. Although it has many troops, its overall combat effectiveness is very poor. At first glance, it is a temporary recruit unit and cannot even use machine guns correctly.

As for their playing style, they suffered heavy losses just now because the offensive troops did not react and were caught off guard by the Eighth Route Army.

Now that they know their playing style, they can prepare in advance, deal with them according to their moves, and break their moves.

I have already started doing this.

The most threatening to the offensive troops just now were machine guns and grenades. As long as the Eighth Route Army hiding near the mountainside was blown up all the Eighth Route Army, or forced them away, the Eighth Route Army would not be able to launch a raid with light machine guns and grenades at close range, and the offensive troops could conquer the bandit ridge at the minimum cost.

Thinking of this, the deputy captain's determination to shell the mountainside was even greater, and hesitated to order: "Without my order, the shelling cannot be stopped."

"I want to kill all the Eighth Route Army hiding halfway up the mountain. The Second Squadron is ready for attack. Once the artillery fire stops, the troops will immediately rush up and strive to take down the bandit ridge for me in one round of attack."

On the top of the highest mountain in the bandit ridge, the battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Unique Regiment was holding a telescope to observe the battle situation.

Seeing the bushes and rocks hiding in the Fourth Company were covered by artillery fire by the Japanese in a short time, and several soldiers were bombed out of the bunker by shells, the battalion commander's heart suddenly reached his throat, and he kept saying in his mouth that the Fourth Company quickly evacuated the battlefield.

God seemed to hear his voice.

When the third round of shells fell from the sky, the figure of the Four Company finally entered his vision.

Some people were holding the wounded, some carried stretchers, and some people carried weapons and ammunition to quickly evacuate the artillery coverage area.

The battalion commander finally let go of his heart, and the serious expression on his face was relieved because more and more troops were withdrawn from the Fourth Company.

The fourth company withdrew at least half of its troops, which means that the troops will suffer no more than fifty casualties.

In the blocking battle just now, the Japanese army lost at least 80 people, and the casualties ratio was still very satisfactory.

The instructor hurriedly climbed to the top of the mountain. When he saw the battalion commander, he reported his face with a serious expression.

"The Fourth Company has all evacuated halfway up the mountain, and their losses have been counted. The casualties are mainly caused by the Japanese artillery fire. A total of 36 people were sacrificed and eight people were seriously injured! Fortunately, we reacted quickly and retreated in time, otherwise their losses would increase!"

When the battalion commander was about to reply, his brows suddenly frowned.

A squadron of Japanese devils quickly left the team and posed for an attack at the foot of the mountain.

He looked at the other Japanese behind the attacking troops and his eyes suddenly lit up and said, "It's God who helped me!"

"Instructor, our original plan was to put the Japanese in our base and gather and annihilate them. Now it seems that there is no need to be so troublesome."

"The opponent at the foot of the mountain underestimated us too much. We wiped out more than 80 people in the battle just now, but they didn't have any lessons. Just like before, they came up and dispatched an infantry squadron to attack the top of the mountain. They were simply dead in battle."

"If we kill them too, there will be only one infantry team fighting force left at the foot of the mountain, and the rest will be artillery and heavy machine gunners. We can kill them all with one assault."

“I decided to change the combat plan temporarily.”

"Fifth Company, the guard platoon, immediately dispatched and marched quickly to the Japanese and lurked behind them."

"The remaining troops guarded the mountains with me and wiped out the more than 100 Japanese who were going to attack us next."

"Didn't the regiment commander give us thirty mines before the troops set out? They were all for me and buried in all places suitable for Tibetans on the hillside. After the Japanese attacking troops crossed the hillside, they would definitely look for cover as soon as possible to avoid our attack."

"We will use these thirty mines well, and it will be fine to kill sixty Japanese!"

The instructor trusted his partner very much. As soon as the battalion commander finished speaking, he nodded in support: "I will take people to bury mines, battalion commander, you can cover us."

"If we can really destroy more than 500 Japanese soldiers here in one battle, our second battalion's results will definitely scare the regiment headquarters."

The Japanese army attacked the position, and looked at the mountainside that had been completely covered by artillery fire, and the deputy captain smiled with satisfaction.

All the Eighth Route Army guarding halfway up the mountain were killed, and at least they had to use artillery fire to force them to leave that area. This is the key to whether the next attack can be successful.

As long as there are no Eighth Route Army on the hillside, there will be no grenades and light machine guns raiding the attacking troops at close range, the deputy captain is 100% sure to take down the bandit ridge and break into the base of the Independent Regiment.

"Sir, the artillery preparations should be almost done!" The mortar team leader standing next to the deputy captain reminded.

"Each mortar fired almost thirty shells, and the four mortars had already fired more than 100. We only brought 400 shells in total. If we continued to blow up, even if we took down the bandit ridge, there would be no shells available in the next battle."

The deputy captain was very confident in order: "What are you doing when you are standing there? The artillery squad stopped firing artillery and heavy machine guns were covering it. The offensive troops began to assault, and they fought for a round of charge and took down the bandit ridge."

The offensive situation is similar to the judgement of the vice captain.

Apart from the sporadic rifle shooting sound, the machine gun strafing sound that just hit the offensive troops did not sound again, and even grenades did not appear again.

More than a hundred subordinates lost less than thirty people and easily crossed the mountainside and entered the bushes and piles of rocks that had just been covered by artillery fire.

The deputy captain's tense nerves suddenly sootheed, and he waved his fist hard, shouting happily: "We will win this attack!"

"The Eighth Route Army guarding the mountains is a group of new recruits. As long as the two sides fight together, they will undoubtedly lose!"

"Baoba...daoba...booba...booba..."

Before the deputy captain could finish his clamor, the sound of firefighting on the battlefield became increasingly dense, and there were many explosions of shells in the middle.

This was undoubtedly a slap in the face of the deputy captain. He swallowed the words he had already reached his mouth and quickly raised his telescope to look at the location where the fire exchange sounded.

The attacking troops of more than one hundred people entered the bushes and piles of rocks. Faced with the sudden increase in blocking firepower on the top of the mountain, they were like fish in water. All kinds of tactical actions were used just right, just like monkeys dodging everywhere in the bushes and piles of rocks, and shot the top of the mountain whenever they had the chance...

In this situation, the victory balance on the battlefield should be biased towards oneself, but the result is not.

Black smoke kept rising into the air among the attacking troops. The deputy captain saw it very carefully and was puzzled, because most of the black smoke that rose into the air would take away the lives of at least two subordinates, and it still appeared without warning.

Some of the black smoke rising positions coincided with the machine gun position. After an explosion, the three or four machine gunmen hiding around were all blown up and fell to the ground with blood.

"Sir, is there a National Salvation Army hiding around the offensive troops and throwing grenades!" a second lieutenant guessed.

"Bageyalu, are you a pig's brain?" The deputy captain became angry after hearing this and cursed: "Do you think the grenade explosion will be so loud? You can't even tell such a simple common sense, how do you, the captain?"

"The Eighth Route Army is too cunning. I know that a group of new recruits are not our opponents, and deliberately blocking the positions and mines are everywhere. But I don't understand that there are more than 100 shells in that area just now, so how come there are still so many mines that have not been detonated."

"But they are too arrogant. Although the mines are very powerful, they are still quite short of time to stop our offensive troops."

"Appointing the offensive troops to continue attacking forward, the Eighth Route Army would not be able to cover mines throughout the mountains, and they would not have that many mines. As long as they successfully pass the minefield, the Eighth Route Army would have no other means to block their offensive."

The deputy captain believed that the mines on the mountainside were arranged in advance by the Eighth Route Army. He did not expect that these mines were temporarily buried by the Second Battalion, nor did he expect that the Second Battalion planned to use these mines to kill his offensive troops.

On the battlefield, he only saw that every mine exploded and his subordinates would be killed and injured. He did not realize that all the mine explosion sites were scattered behind the bunkers that could hide people halfway up the mountain.

If he knew this, he would have ordered the offensive troops to evacuate the battle immediately.

When the troops attacked, facing the blocking firepower fired from the top of the mountain, the soldiers subconsciously reacted to rush to the nearest bunker and hid.

As a result, all the bunkers around them were buried by the Eighth Route Army.

It means that they are dead when they hide in bunkers, and they are dead when they strike forward against the Eighth Route Army's blocking firepower.

Of course, this does not mean that they have no chance to occupy the bandit ridge.

Use human lives to fill in landmines and consume all the landmines buried by the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield, and the remaining soldiers can use the cover on the battlefield to continue attacking the top of the mountain.

It’s just that it’s too expensive to do so, and there’s also the gambling element.

If there are many mines buried in the bandit ridge, the attacking troops will fill in all the mines and they will not be able to consume them.

Only when the number of landmines on the battlefield is limited can this life-threatening method be useful.

But the deputy captain of the Japanese guarding the foot of the mountain did not know all this, nor did he know that an Eighth Route Army unit had gone behind him and was about to block them at the foot of the mountain.

At this time, the attacking troops had already rushed forward for thirty or forty meters across the hillside, but the explosion in the team did not mean to stop, and the attacking troops were also reducing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A second lieutenant next to him couldn't help but remind: "Sir, I think something is wrong?"

"The lethality of these mines is too great. Only more than twenty explosions can kill one of our infantry teams, which is equivalent to a mine killing at least two of our soldiers. The attacking troops are so scattered, and the terrain on the mountainside is complex. According to the principle, the lethality of mines should decrease. But the real situation is not the case."

"What a cunning Eighth Route Army, they buried all the mines behind the bushes and stones that could hide people."

"Our soldiers will hide in those places after being attacked. Those mines either do not explode, and the explosion will blow us all over, so the casualties of the troops will be so great!"

"We can't continue to attack. If the bunkers that can hide in front of the attacking troops were buried by the Eighth Route Army, no matter how many troops we have, they wouldn't be enough for them to explode."

"If we don't have a cover to hide and avoid the blocking firepower of the Eighth Route Army, we will not be able to rush to the top of the mountain."

The second lieutenant reacted very quickly and immediately received the order: "I will contact the offensive troops now and let them retreat immediately."

The deputy captain immediately opposed: "What are you going to withdraw? The attacking troops finally rushed over the mountainside and successfully detonated more than 20 landmines. If they retreated like this, our previous efforts would be in vain, and the soldiers who died in the attacking troops would also die in vain!"

"Let the offensive troops use grenades more often when attacking, first use grenades to blow up the bunker they want to hide, detonate the mines and then hide in them, so that the casualties caused by the mines can be minimized!"

At the commanding height of the bandit ridge, he saw several mines detonated by Japanese mines. The battalion commander knew that the remaining mines on the battlefield were useless, but he was not in a hurry at all.

Up to now, more than half of the more than 100 Japanese soldiers remained. The troops left by the Second Battalion in the Bandit Ridge were more than twice theirs and they also had absolute terrain advantages. Even without the help of mines, the battalion commander was 100% sure to use the terrain advantages to eat them.

Put down the telescope, pull out the box cannon and rushed to the battlefield, running and shouting: "Let the comrades prepare the grenades, and wait for the Japanese to approach and greet them with the grenades."

"Each soldier throws a grenade at the same position, and then transfers it after it is thrown. He will not give the Japanese a chance to lock us. Today I will use the grenade to eat all the remaining Japanese."

"The heavy machine gun aims at the remaining infantry at the foot of the mountain. After seeing my counterattack signal, I immediately fired to cover the Fourth Company and the Guards' Platoon to assault the Japanese artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions!"

"As soon as the heavy machine gun was fired, all the soldiers who could move in the second battalion fought out for me, and wiped out all the remaining Japanese on the battlefield with a scattered posture!"
Chapter completed!