The effect of grenades is surprisingly good. Since the Japanese army began to use grenades to explode the bunkers and detonate mines in the bunkers in advance, casualties of the offensive troops began to plummet.

After seeing this scene, the vice captain showed a winning smile again on his face.

Every time the attacking troops move forward, the smile on their faces will be one more point.

"Boom boom boom..." A string of more dense explosions suddenly sounded in the middle of the attacking troops, and the rising black smoke quickly spread around, instantly covering dozens of soldiers of the attacking troops.

The smile on the deputy captain's face suddenly solidified, and he shouted: "Bageya Road, why does the Eighth Route Army on the mountains have the ability to resist?"

"Shouldn't the recruits be defeated at once? Do they have no ability to resist in the face of our assault? Why did the Eighth Route Army on the mountains have the ability to counterattack, and launched an organized counterattack against the attacking troops? What's going on?"

The second lieutenant team leader immediately responded: "Sir, there were at least two platoons of the Eighth Route Army who used grenades to attack us with grenades. They were scattered in an area of ​​ten to twenty meters from the top of the mountain. They must be a group of veterans. Otherwise, these people would definitely be in chaos when they attacked us with grenades at close range. It would be impossible to enforce the orders as they did just now, and they would be so neat."

The deputy captain had a calm face and did not speak. He held the telescope and stared at the battlefield without blinking.

For some reason, the Eighth Route Army hiding in the dark stopped after throwing a round of grenades.

Looking at the battlefield filled with smoke, he only hoped that the casualties of the attacking troops would be smaller, so that they would have a chance to attack the top of the mountain, otherwise they would suffer.

The offensive troops have reached the nose of the Eighth Route Army and need to retreat for a long time to run out of the Eighth Route Army's effective range.

If the attacking troops were blown by grenades and suffered heavy casualties, the remaining remaining soldiers were likely to be completely wiped out by the Eighth Route Army on the way to evacuate the battlefield.

As a result, he was disappointed. After the explosion, no subordinate rushed out of the smoke and continued to attack the top of the mountain.

It was not until the smoke of gunpowder dissipated that he saw how miserable the attacking troops were bombed.

The bushes were blown up, and the bodies and seriously injured of their subordinates could be seen everywhere, and there were only a handful of them who could move them...

"Dongdongdongdong..." Just as the deputy captain frowned and racked his brains to think about ways to break the situation, the bandit ridge in front of him actually heard the sound of heavy machine guns firing.

The 20 or so soldiers who survived the attacking troops had just gotten up from the ground, and the rain of heavy machine guns and bullets whistling down the top of the mountain instantly covered them. Seven or eight Japanese soldiers who had not yet reacted from the concealment were instantly beaten into sieves...

The Eighth Route Army was poorly equipped, and its limited weapons and ammunition were almost concentrated in the hands of veterans. Many new recruits did not even have enough machine guns, let alone heavy machine guns.

There are heavy machine guns on the top of the mountain now, and there are more than one, which shows that in addition to the new recruit battalion mentioned in the intelligence, the Eighth Route Army defending the bandit ridge also has many main forces.

At this time, the deputy captain suddenly thought of another question that scared him.

The foot of the mountain is less than 400 meters away from the top of the bandits ridge, which is far beyond the range of ordinary machine guns. In addition, the Eighth Route Army cannot match the new recruits with heavy machine guns and mortars, so the deputy captain dared to assemble all the troops at the foot of the mountain.

Now I have made a mistake in my judgment. The Eighth Route Army on the top of the mountain not only has a crawler machine gun, but also has at least two heavy machine guns.

With its effective range, it can easily inject heavy machine gun bullets into the assembled troops.

Although I equipped four heavy machine guns, twice the number of them. However, because I have no advantage in terrain, it is difficult for four heavy machine guns to suppress the two heavy machine guns.

Now two heavy machine guns equipped by the Eighth Route Army are attacking the offensive troops. If they adjust their targets and shoot at themselves who are staying at the foot of the mountain, the troops around them will definitely suffer heavy casualties, and maybe even they will explain them here.

The deputy captain became more and more scared the more he thought about it. He quickly ordered: "The offensive troops retreat immediately... We also retreated two hundred meters, exited the effective range of heavy machine guns and then found a way to attack the bandit ridge!"

"Retreat now, don't be stunned. Retreat quickly, or we will definitely suffer heavy casualties!"

"Baga...I was shot..." As soon as the order was issued, his subordinates had not started to act, a scream rang in his ears!

"Sir, be careful..." The guards who followed him shouted and threw the deputy captain to the ground.

"Dadadada...Bada..." A series of stepper machine gun shooting sounded the moment the deputy captain lay down, and the gunshots came from behind him, pointing directly to the heavy machine gun positions and artillery positions that were placed on his flank.

The deputy captain was sore that his whole body was hurt everywhere, but the urgent situation did not allow him to carefully analyze his current situation. He looked up and shouted to his subordinates: "Retreat immediately, why are you still stupid here? Waiting to be killed by the Eighth Route Army... The artillery and heavy machine gun troops all retreated two hundred meters, at a faster speed."

"The remaining troops of the first squadron immediately reinforce the artillery troops, blocking the Eighth Route Army attacking them from the rear, and covering the evacuation of artillery and heavy machine gun troops to fight!"

"Boom boom boom..." At this moment, several explosions suddenly sounded in the deputy captain's ears, instantly interrupting the order he had not finished.

The explosion point was very close to him. As soon as the deputy captain got up from the ground, he was blown up by the powerful air waves and fell to the ground.

Looking up at the surroundings, the deputy captain's eyes immediately turned red.

A total of six grenades fell from the sky and fell into the middle of the assembly troops. At that time, the troops were preparing to retreat without any preparation.

Faced with the sudden explosion, many people were in a confused state and stood still.

It was not until more than a dozen or twenty subordinates fell to the ground with blood all over their bodies, and the surviving soldiers fell to the ground, holding their heads and lying on the ground.

The deputy captain reacted very quickly. He got up from the ground as soon as the explosion stopped. He led his subordinates to retreat in a hurry, and did not want to stay for a long time.

But no matter how fast he is, he cannot match the flight speed of heavy machine gun bullets and shells.

Soldiers were constantly killed by bullets chasing from behind on the way to retreat, or were blown up by grenades falling from the sky, and then they were no longer moving when they pounced on the ground.

This is like adding insult to injury to the offensive forces, which were already suffering heavy casualties.

"Comrades, you all kill the Japanese with me... and rush!" On the back of the Japanese artillery position, the company commander of the fifth company held a light machine gun in his hand and rushed forward while shooting. The shouts of killing in his mouth have never stopped since the assault.

Although the artillery team composed of more than fifty Japanese gunners also has certain resistance and is equipped with more than a dozen rifles.

But this little firepower is not a match for the fifth company.

As soon as the two sides fought, the bullets fired out by five straight and three crooked handles killed half of the Japanese gunners holding rifles.

The remaining riflemen were pressed to death by the light machine gun and they lay on the ground and didn't dare to move.

Because the remaining gunners had no self-defense weapons, they could only hide in the artillery positions and stare at them.

But this method did not allow them to survive this battle. The fifth company rushed closer and closer, and more and more bullets flew into the artillery positions, and gunners kept getting shot and fell to the ground because they did not hide...

On the top of the bandits' ridge, I saw the fifth company and the guard platoon launching an attack. The second battalion commander decisively pulled out the box cannon and pointed forward and ordered: "The trumpet officer blew the charge, and the whole battalion was fighting for me. Comrade, rush..."

The deputy captain of the Japanese who was retreating was already scared and just took a step forward mechanically.

First, the Eighth Route Army in the mountains were equipped with heavy machine guns, and then more than one hundred Eighth Route Army suddenly emerged from the back of his side and headed straight for the artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions. Now more than one hundred Eighth Route Army rushed out of the bandit ridge, like tigers descending on the mountain, killing directly towards him...

Faced with this series of changes, the fool also knew that the attacking troops had been fooled.

The Eighth Route Army guarding the Bandit Ridge was not only a new recruit, but also a group of well-equipped and powerful veterans. If they didn't take action, they would have to attack the troops as soon as they took action.

The deputy captain wanted to send a telegram to the military headquarters, questioning why the military headquarters provided him with a false information, which made him likely to lose his life here.

But the pursuers and shells descending from the sky did not give him this opportunity at all.

It takes at least three minutes for the telegrapher to send out a complete telegram.

If I had been here with the radio operator for three minutes, the pursuers and the flanking encirclement forces would have surrounded me here.

The attacking troops were completely destroyed in the battle just now, and the artillery squad was also completely wiped out under the raid of the Eighth Route Army. The heavy machine gun squad had only time to withdraw one heavy machine gun, and the remaining three heavy machine guns were all seized by the Eighth Route Army.

The losses caused by the Eighth Route Army when it started counterattacking and attacking the offensive positions with heavy machine guns and grenades were reduced. The attacking troops that were more than 500 recognized were less than 100 people left. The main forces that could fight head-on with the Eighth Route Army were even less than 40% of them.

Once this army is surrounded here by the Eighth Route Army, which has several times the advantage of military strength, it will definitely die.

In order to survive, the deputy captain had to give up the idea of ​​sending telegrams to the military headquarters.

At the same time, this decision also means that the Japanese deputy captain gave up the only chance of the offensive troops sending telegrams to the military headquarters.

Until the news of the destruction of the attacking troops reached Taiyuan, the commander still did not know how the attacking troops that were more than 500 recognized were killed by a group of new recruits.

It was not until the end of the grand siege that the commander realized that he had been tricked to replace the Eighth Route Army.

At the command center of the Unique Regiment, the rapid sound of horse hooves slowly spread from far to near to the commander's ears. In less than half a minute, the cavalry correspondent jumped off the war horse at the door and rushed in with excitement.

"Captain, we won."

"After an hour and a half of bloody battle, the Second Battalion successfully wiped out 536 Japanese devils at the Bandit Ridge, seized four mortars, four heavy machine guns, 11 light machine guns, 321 rifles, 12 grenade launchers, and the total number of various ammunitions exceeded 30,000 rounds, and there were 312 mortar shells alone!

"So fast!" the commander shouted in disbelief.

A main battalion used favorable terrain and the regiment commander was more than 80% sure to wipe out more than 500 Japanese devils, but he did not expect that the second battalion would progress so quickly that he wiped out all the Japanese devils in just one battle.

The political commissar on the side was also shocked and asked quickly: "Your Second Battalion really wiped out more than 500 Japanese devils?"

The correspondent replied confidently: "There are 536 Japanese devils in total, one of which is a lot, and all of them are destroyed."

"After the battle, the battalion commander left a platoon to protect the spoils and wounded, and led less than 200 remaining people out of the base and headed straight for the Japanese and puppet troops on the front battlefield, intending to fight back and cooperate with the frontal blocking troops to attack the Japanese and puppet troops in front and back, forcing them to retreat!"

"Okay, good fight!" The leader finally believed it, staring at the correspondent in a hurry to order.

"You hurry up and catch up with your battalion commander. When attacking the Japanese and puppet troops from the back, use all the light and heavy machine guns and mortars you just seized. If we want to fight, we will fight a big battle with the Japanese and puppet troops, and try to kill one or two of their main forces, so that the Japanese and puppet troops who have suffered a crushing defeat can no longer be transferred out to deal with us."

The correspondent laughed after hearing the commander's order.

The captured light and heavy weapons are temporarily returned to the Second Battalion to participate in the next battle.

With the character of the battalion commander, as long as those weapons reach the Second Battalion, it is 80% impossible to hand over the regiment headquarters again.

In this way, the Second Battalion can at least form an artillery platoon and two heavy machine gun platoons, and it will definitely be fine if you can make up a firepower company.

I quickly answered: "Captain, don't worry, I will definitely tell the commander of this order as soon as possible."

On the battlefield about ten kilometers northeast of the Bandit Ridge, more than 2,000 Japanese and puppet troops had launched six consecutive attacks on the blocking positions of the Fifth Battalion of the Independent Regiment, but all ended in vain.

Of course, this does not mean that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese and puppet troops is poor, nor does it mean that the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Battalion of the National Salvation Army is strong, but that the Japanese and puppet troops deliberately control the rhythm of the battle.

From the beginning to the end of the entire attack, the Japanese and puppet troops almost used mountain artillery and infantry artillery.

They were afraid that their attack would be too fierce, and the offensive war would become a defeated war, and the troops would definitely be subjected to endless blockade and harassment from the Eighth Route Army in the subsequent attack.

The Eighth Route Army is famous for its guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare. If it can be avoided, it is also the main reason why the Japanese and puppet troops obviously have the strength to capture the positions of the fifth battalion, but they have never taken them down.

They waited for the interlude troops to successfully kill behind the Fifth Battalion and blocked the Eighth Route Army's retreat before attacking the general, so that the Fifth Battalion could be wiped out here and avoided the offensive war turning into a defeat war!

"Sir, this is our seventh attack. Should we pull up the mountain cannons? Bei Yi is confident that under the cover of mountain cannons, he will take down the Eighth Route Army's blocking position in one attack!" The Japanese squadron leader who was preparing to launch the next attack reported with an indignant look on his face.

He commanded the previous two attacks. Every time he encountered the Eighth Route Army's heavy machine gun counterattack, he retreated. It was so frustrating.

He has been on the battlefield in China for almost three years and has always been moving forward bravely and invincible.

The previous offense was completely a cowardly behavior. If the captain hadn't insisted on letting himself do this, the captain would have long since no longer wanted to do it.

After seeing that the Fifth Battalion had lost nearly one company in its previous attack, the squadron leader felt that he could wipe out the Fifth Battalion with close proximity to his strength. It didn't matter whether the troops could be detoured on time or not, so he asked the captain again to use mountain cannons!
Chapter completed!