A familiar sound of artillery suddenly reached the ears of the brigade commander, and he subconsciously said: "Anti-tank gun..."
"Don't we have tanks? Why did the Eighth Route Army that blocked us still use anti-tank guns..."
"Heavy machine gun position..." The exclamations from his subordinates reached the ears of the brigade commander at the same time.
"General, the Eighth Route Army will use anti-tank guns to attack our heavy machine gun positions again..."
"The anti-tank gun shoots directly, and it is very powerful. As long as it is aimed at our heavy machine gun position, it will hit every one accurately... Many heavy machine guns have been blown up..."
The brigade commander was shocked. He looked up and saw that nearly half of the heavy machine guns that were firing on the flanks of the attacking troops were missing.
Under the firelight caused by the explosion of the artillery shell, we could clearly see that a heavy machine gun position had been flattened by anti-tank guns. The heavy machine gun had also been blown into parts. The machine gunners were lying around dead or injured. There was also a machine gunner whose body was blown up.
It was broken into pieces, and the stumps and broken arms were scattered everywhere, and they were bloody. It was as miserable as you want.
"Baga..." The brigade leader became anxious on the spot and shouted out loud.
"Let the remaining heavy machine guns be moved immediately. They must also be targeted by the Eighth Route Army's anti-tank guns. If they don't move, they will become live targets for the Eighth Route Army's anti-tank guns. Quickly..."
The battlefield was too chaotic, especially the little Japs, who were being chased all the way by the chariot troops, and the organization had long been in chaos.
Many people participated in the attack not under orders from their superiors, but under orders from officers with a higher rank than themselves.
Although they went to the battlefield, they did not care about them. It can be said that they fought on their own and did not belong to each other.
The difficulty for the brigade commander to convey the transfer order to the heavy machine gun troops immediately under such circumstances can be imagined.
"Boom boom boom..."
Less than half a minute after the military order was issued, the violent explosion of anti-tank gun shells reached his ears again.
The brigade commander quickly looked at the heavy machine gun positions set up on the flanks of the attacking troops.
In an instant, the number of heavy machine guns that were firing dropped sharply from more than a dozen to less than five. The remaining heavy machine guns were all blown up by anti-tank guns, and they were unable to continue to participate in the battle.
The Japanese offensive firepower suddenly weakened, and the Eighth Route Army, which was suppressed behind the Dabei Slope by heavy machine guns, finally raised its head and counterattacked, instead of placing all its hopes of blocking the Japanese offensive forces on the artillery units as before.
“Dong dong dong… da da da…”
The machine gun firepower on the Dabei Slope blocking position suddenly became denser. There were nearly ten more heavy machine guns, and twenty or thirty more light machine guns. Bullets were fired at the Japanese attacking troops for free, in an attempt to eliminate them all.
On the war zone.
The brigade leader's already ugly face immediately became more solemn.
Soldiers continued to join the attacking troops on the battlefield, but the Eighth Route Army's shells rained down on the attacking troops never stopped.
Although the artillery under his command continued to fire counterattacks in an attempt to kill the Eighth Route Army's artillery units, the Eighth Route Army artillery was too cunning. More than twenty mortars were deployed in seven or eight artillery positions, which greatly increased the difficulty of their counterattack.
More importantly, the Eighth Route Artillery continued to move during the battle.
As soon as several rounds of artillery attacks were over, the artillery positions were moved.
It was not easy for the artillerymen under his command to lock the position of the Eighth Route Army artillery and fire the artillery shells at it immediately. As a result, the Eighth Route Army artillery moved away. The artillery shells rained down from the sky, and no benefit was gained.
Therefore, during the offensive process of the troops, more than ten mortars fired shells at them from different directions from beginning to end, consuming their troops and slowing down their assault speed.
Now the Eighth Route Army, which was blocking them head-on, suddenly had a large number of light and heavy machine guns, and the blocking firepower was at least twice as strong as before, which meant that the difficulty for the attacking troops to successfully break through the Dabei Slope defense line was nearly doubled. They returned to Gu'an County alive.
The probability is reduced by nearly half.
"Rumble..."
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from the flank of the battlefield.
Because the Kwantung Army is equipped with a large number of tanks and armored vehicles, the commander prefers chariots. As a result, the formation of cavalry is rarely seen in the team. Only a small number of scouts and communication troops are still riding horses. As a result, many soldiers of the Kwantung Army are very unfamiliar with cavalry.
, officers are no exception.
In their eyes, no matter how powerful a cavalry unit is, it can only be beaten passively in front of a chariot unit.
With the chariot unit, the cavalry became useless and gradually became less valued by the Kwantung Army.
When the Eighth Route Cavalry rushed towards their flank, except for the brigade commander and a few officers who were aware of the danger, the ordinary soldiers were still immersed in the attack in front of them and did not realize that a greater danger was approaching them from the flank.
"It's the cavalry... Immediately deploy light and heavy machine guns to set up a defense line on the flanks of the battlefield to block them, otherwise everyone will be massacred by the cavalry..." The solemn expression on the brigade leader's face was quickly replaced by despair, and his face turned pale in an instant.
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Although he looked down upon the cavalry, it did not mean that he did not understand the powerful assault capabilities of the cavalry.
Under the cover of the Aiyo tank troops and light and heavy machine guns, as long as the cavalry assault speed is fast enough, it can absolutely crush a light infantry on the battlefield.
All the combat vehicles and tanks equipped by the attacking troops were abandoned on the offensive road. Even the heavy machine gun troops suffered heavy losses after being hit by the Eighth Route Army's anti-tank guns, and almost lost their combat effectiveness.
The fall was even more chaotic, the soldiers could not find the generals, the generals could not find the soldiers, morale also dropped to the bottom, it was the weakest time.
Once the Eighth Route Army cavalry breaks into the attacking troops, they will definitely be overwhelming and kill their men to pieces...
By then, no matter how many Kwantung troops are on the battlefield, they won't be enough to kill them.
Once the offensive force's assault on the Great Northern Slope is broken down, it will be difficult to organize it again.
Moreover, he had limited troops at hand, and if he wanted to gather troops again to attack the Eighth Route Army's blocking position on the Great North Slope, he would have no troops available.
When the chariot troops who were chasing them arrived at the battlefield, the brigade commander was really frustrated every day, and the ground was not responding, and was finally wiped out by the Eighth Route Army.
The brigade leader doesn't want to die yet.
In order to avoid this kind of accident, the best way is to block the flanking cavalry and prevent them from getting close to the attacking troops... This will give them a longer time to raid the Eighth Route Army positions on the Great North Slope, break through the Eighth Route Army's defense line, and cover their retreat to Gu'an County.
It's a pity that the heavy machine gun units in his hands have been called out one by one by the Eighth Route Army's anti-tank guns, and there are not many left.
Although there are still heavy machine guns that can continue to participate in the battle, the battlefield is too chaotic and they are too far away from us, so it is impossible for our orders to reach their ears in a short time.
By the time these heavy machine gunners received the assembly order and rushed to the flank of the battlefield, the Eighth Route Army Cavalry had probably rushed right in front of them and was condescendingly slaughtering the soldiers in his hands with their sabers.
