The captain of the Japanese regiment who was facing off against the Duyi Regiment didn't know that he had been exposed, nor did he know that the Eighth Route Army with machine guns was encircling him from all directions, including heavy artillery and tank troops that he was not equipped with.
At this moment he was preparing to plan a second attack.
The mission given to him by Commander Okamura was to fight quickly, to reach the hinterland of the 6th Yizhong Army Division as quickly as possible, and to force the Yizhong Independent Brigade to return to their base area through sabotage.
In the first round of attack just now, he mobilized half of his artillery to attack the Eighth Route Army's blocking position, and dispatched two entire infantry squadrons.
As a result, the Eighth Route Army directly defeated them with a sudden artillery attack.
By the time his artillerymen tried to counterattack, the attacking force was already fifty or sixty shells short, with more than a hundred casualties.
In addition to the casualties caused by the Eighth Route Army's blocking troops to the attacking troops, the losses of the attacking troops directly exceeded 200 people, with more than half of the casualties.
If the attack continues, even if the attacking troops are lucky enough to break into the Eighth Route Army's blocking position, they will be wiped out on the battlefield by the Eighth Route Army's bayonets due to insufficient strength.
Since this battle is destined to fail to win the Eighth Route Army's blocking position, it is better to retreat and save the lives of the remaining hundreds of soldiers in the attacking force.
Maybe if they are allowed to join the next attack, they will be able to conquer the entire group and seize the only blocking position.
With this expectation, the captain decided to give up all his wealth.
First blow up the Eighth Route Army's blocking positions, and then put them all on standby. If the Eighth Route Army's artillery units still dare to show up, they will assemble forty or fifty artillery pieces to counterattack together. By increasing the coverage of artillery fire, the hit rate of artillery counterattack will be increased.
Even if the Eighth Route Army artillery units move after firing a few rounds of artillery shells, as long as the artillery fire coverage is large enough, they will still be severely damaged no matter how fast they move and are still within the artillery fire coverage.
This is the new style of play of the Japanese commander. He would rather waste more artillery shells than kill all the Eighth Route Army artillery.
He felt that in the first round of the attack, if the Eighth Route Army artillery had not suddenly taken action, he would have occupied the Eighth Route Army blocking position.
The same mistake must not be made a second time.
Since the Eighth Route Army regards the artillery unit as its hope of holding its position, then it will crush this hope.
Four mountain guns and four field guns joined the battle at the same time, and the shells with their ear-piercing screams seemed to have eyes, steadily hitting the only group of trenches.
Fire splashed, smoke billowed, several trenches were destroyed in the explosion, and countless pieces of soil and logs were blown away in the explosion.
The entire blocking position was like hell, instantly engulfed in smoke.
The regiment leader was hiding in the bomb-proof cave. When he heard the explosion, he knew that the Japanese artillery this time was more than twice as powerful as before. His heart suddenly rose to his throat, fearing that some of the bomb-proof caves would be destroyed in the artillery fire.
I don’t know how long I stayed in the bomb cave.
Just when the regimental commander's ears were buzzing from the shells, the sound of the position observation post finally reached the anti-gun hole.
"Captain...the little Japanese attack troops are coming..."
"Enter the position..." the regimental commander's command sounded in the artillery hole at the same time. He grabbed the splayed light machine gun placed on the ground and was the first to rush to the position.
"Boom boom boom..."
Explosions kept ringing around, and flying mud, logs... kept falling from above.
The regiment leader was not affected at all and bent down and got into the dilapidated trench.
I randomly found a shell crater and jumped in. I placed the machine gun on the edge of the shell crater, loaded the bullets, and at the same time raised my binoculars to look at the front of the position.
The entire blocking position was shrouded in smoke, and the regiment leader's vision was greatly affected. Even with the help of a telescope, he could only see the blurry silhouette of the attacking troops.
A large area of darkness formed four lines of skirmishers, holding rifles and bending their waists, and charged towards the blocking position in a mighty manner. The strength of the troops was at least four squadrons.
"Get ready to fight..." the leader swallowed and said.
"The little Japs are going to fight us tooth and nail... We must block their attack and hold our position."
"The first battalion is ready...the second battalion is on standby, ready to enter the position and participate in the battle at any time..."
"The artillery attacked the Japanese and puppet offensive forces as planned, reducing the frontal defense pressure on the main battalion..."
“Dong dong dong… da da da…”
The war was about to break out. The regiment leader pulled the trigger decisively, and the bullets flew out in a fan shape and instantly killed the two little Japs in the crosshairs...
Then without stopping here for a second, he grabbed the crooked handle, rolled sideways from the crater back to the trench, bent over and moved to another shooting position a few meters away.
"Boom boom boom..."
Three explosions soon sounded in the crater where the regiment leader had just abandoned, and several strings of heavy machine gun bullets flew towards the crater at the same time...
If the regiment leader had been three seconds later, these grenades and heavy machine gun bullets would have torn him into pieces.
The regiment has long been on the battlefield and has rich combat experience. He knows very well how powerful the Japanese heavy machine gunners and grenade launchers are.
Until you are absolutely sure to kill them, hide if you can.
The other soldiers in the Duyi Regiment are not as skilled as him, especially the new recruits in the team.
Although the regiment leader repeatedly reminded that machine gunners cannot shoot at the same position for more than 20 seconds, many soldiers still started to shoot at the same position and got carried away. In the end, they were targeted by Japanese machine gunners and grenade launchers and were thrown away.
life.
Bullets from both sides come back and forth.
Although the only regiment occupies the terrain advantage, there are trenches where they can hide.
However, the Japanese had strong firepower, well-equipped equipment, and the soldiers had good marksmanship. For a while, the two sides were evenly matched.
Every time a soldier from the Solitary Regiment was sacrificed, a soldier from the Japanese attacking force would fall.
In this result, it seems that the only regiment did not suffer a loss, but because its strength was far less than that of the Japanese and puppet reinforcements.
If the battlefield situation continues to be like this stalemate, the entire battalion will be exhausted in less than ten minutes.
The Japanese troops participating in the attack lost at most two squadrons...
More importantly, nearly two thousand soldiers of the only regiment were all sacrificed here and could not survive the arrival of reinforcements.
Faced with this critical situation, the regiment commander could only place his hope on the artillery.
While pulling the trigger on the Japanese attacking troops, he ordered: "Let the artillery fire immediately..."
"Wherever the little devils tend to fire..."
"The second battalion immediately entered the position..."
"After the Japanese offensive force was hit hard by artillery, we rushed out and held the position through a counterattack..."
"Boom boom boom..."
Explosions soon sounded among the Japanese attacking troops.
Artillery is indeed the god of war.
Wherever the shells hit, no matter how tough the little devils were, they fell into a pool of blood in the explosion. Some were killed on the spot, while others were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness, lying on the ground screaming...
"Intensify the firepower. The little Japanese attacking troops collapsed. I beat them all hard..." The regiment leader seized the opportunity and pulled the trigger. He emptied all the bullets in the magazine before stopping.
