The Japanese army continued their old offensive routine.
As soon as they came up, four mortars were set up and aimed at the guerrilla brigade's blocking position, and they fired fiercely. After a while, the blocking position where a reinforced platoon was stationed was covered by artillery fire. There was smoke everywhere, and only the soil could be seen blown away.
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"Dong dong dong... kill me..."
As soon as the heavy machine gun fire sounded, more than a hundred Japs divided into three groups and launched an attack on the high ground where the Eighth Route Army was stationed.
The Japanese soldiers held rifles and bent their waists, spread out in a skirmish line, and quickly approached the top of the mountain.
The squadron leader and squad leader were scattered in the middle of the team, waving their command swords and shouting morale-boosting words.
In a short time, more than a hundred Japanese troops reached a position less than fifty meters from the top of the mountain.
The Japanese army was very experienced in combat. They did not take risks and continued to attack forward. Instead, they took out their grenades and prepared to blow up the top of the mountain again before continuing the assault.
But at this moment, an accident happened.
"Boom boom boom..."
Dozens of grenades fell from the sky, and the fire and smoke caused by the explosion instantly enveloped the dozen soldiers at the front of the team, whose life or death was unknown.
Before the squadron leader could react, a second round of grenades followed and continued to hit the attacking troops and exploded.
The grenades rained down one after another, as if there was no end to them.
In the blink of an eye, the attacking troops received more than a hundred bullets.
The guerrilla brigade defends the top of the mountain from a high position. Under normal circumstances, they can throw wooden handle grenades forty meters away.
Because they now have the advantage of the terrain and can throw grenades from a high position, they can throw the grenades at least fifty meters away.
When the Japs attack from a low place to a high place, they could have thrown the grenade more than thirty meters, but because it does not take advantage of the terrain, now they can only throw it less than thirty meters.
The throwing gap of nearly twenty meters meant that the Eighth Route Army on the high ground could use grenades to kill and injure the Japanese attacking troops, but the Japanese attacking troops were unable to counterattack with grenades and could only be passively beaten.
However, there were too few Eighth Route Army troops defending the high ground, and the heavy machine guns and mortars provided by the Japanese army to provide fire cover were not sufficient.
When the guerrilla brigade used grenades to attack the Japanese attacking troops from a long distance, although the Japanese army could not throw the grenades on the ground, and it was easy to cause accidental damage when firing now, their grenades could launch the grenades to the top of the mountain.
Facing the attack of a rain of grenades, the guerrilla brigade's troops defending the top of the mountain still paid a huge price in the battle.
The greater the casualties of the troops, the fewer grenades were thrown at the Japanese troops during the battle. The interception fire network caused by the explosion of grenades became full of holes. More and more Japanese troops broke through the grenade interceptions and continued to approach the mountain top.
Some people have even started throwing grenades at the top of the mountain.
"The Eighth Route Army on the top of the mountain is finished. The troops rush up and annihilate them all. Kill them all..." the Japanese squadron leader stared with a pair of red eyes and ordered with anger on his face.
I thought the attack in front of me would go very smoothly.
Even if the Eighth Route Army's blocking force was not destroyed by dozens of artillery shells, it suffered heavy casualties during the artillery preparations. The next attack will definitely be overwhelming.
Unexpectedly, the Eighth Route Army on the top of the mountain actually escaped its own artillery fire preparations and prepared a feast of artillery fire for itself with grenades, causing nearly one squad of casualties to the attacking troops in just half a minute.
This was a slap in the face.
It would be even more embarrassing if the attacking troops failed to capture the top of the mountain, or if the Eighth Route Army on the top of the mountain escaped.
That's why the squadron leader was anxious for his troops to launch a final assault, trying to wipe out all the Eighth Route Army that had just intercepted him on the high ground.
"Kill me..."
The little devil's eyes were red after being killed. He held a gun and roared as he rushed towards the top of the mountain that was once again covered by a grenade rain.
This time their attack never encountered any resistance.
The troops were overwhelming and marched directly to the high ground.
The battlefield was littered with corpses of the Eighth Route Army, at least twenty of them at a glance. There were a few simple artillery-proof holes that had not yet been destroyed scattered among the dilapidated trenches.
The squadron leader's calm face immediately revealed an expression of sudden realization.
No wonder the Eighth Route Army was able to escape the fire coverage of four mortars.
It turned out that they used logs to build several simple shell-proof holes on the position. Although they were not particularly strong, as long as the mortar shells did not hit the hole directly, the Eighth Route Army hiding inside could safely escape the bombardment.
However, this simple shell-proof hole can withstand two or three rounds of mortar attacks. If the artillery fire was prepared for one more minute, many gun-proof holes will definitely be destroyed, and the Eighth Route Army hiding inside will also suffer heavy casualties.
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Then when we attacked just now, the attacking troops wouldn't have been hit by so many grenades, and the casualties wouldn't have been that heavy.
I feel very regretful, but there is no regret medicine in the world.
I secretly swore in my heart that next time I encounter the Eighth Route Army's blocking position, I must be more cautious and never let the artillery prepare for artillery fire for one minute less just for the sake of speed.
"Sir, there are more than a dozen Eighth Route Army soldiers who ran away from the position..."
A subordinate of the second lieutenant reported to the squadron leader from a distance.
Behind the high ground was a forest. The remnants of the Eighth Route Army pushed into the forest, so the Japanese attacking troops were not aware of their presence.
Now they withdrew from the woods, returned to the road and continued to retreat, and once again entered the sight of the Japanese army.
The squadron leader was simmering with anger and had nowhere to vent his anger. When he saw that the Eighth Route Army in front of him, which had caused huge casualties to the attacking troops, was not completely wiped out, he seemed to have found a target to vent his anger and loudly ordered: "They will definitely retreat to Fangshan County.
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"The troops will catch up with them immediately and kill them... kill them..."
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Although the attacking troops encountered some setbacks on the battlefield, they finally had no danger and successfully captured the Eighth Route Army's blocking position.
The captain ordered without hesitation: "The troops continue to advance and march urgently to reinforce Fangshan... set off immediately..."
As soon as the main force started moving, the messenger from the First Squadron ran towards him: "Report to the commander..."
"More than a dozen of the Eighth Route Army troops who blocked us just now are retreating along the highway towards Fangshan County."
"Our squadron leader decided to lead troops to hunt them down."
The captain frowned immediately and cursed in annoyance: "Bagh Ya Road, isn't it just a dozen remnants of the Eighth Route Army? It's not enough for him to lead a squadron to chase them down. He is overqualified and underqualified."
"Pass my order, the cavalry squadron will immediately pull out a cavalry squadron to replace the first squadron, catch up with the remnants of the Eighth Route Army, and destroy them."
"Rumble..."
The cavalry's assault speed was very fast, and in the blink of an eye they caught up with the rushing No. 1 Squadron.
Although the squadron leader was very reluctant, he knew that the cavalry was indeed better at chasing down the remnants of the Eighth Route Army than his subordinates, so he decisively led the troops out of the battle and left the task of chasing the enemy to the cavalry.
