Chapter 191 Kong Jie: No, this is not a suicide attack
Chen Daliang hesitated for a while before answering: "Commander Huang, I'm not afraid of your jokes. Although there are many gunners in the Independent Regiment, there are not many gunners who can really hit where they want!"
"If you fire the artillery the way you want, there will definitely be a lot of shells hitting our own people... accidentally injuring our own soldiers!"
"The assault company is not afraid of accidental damage!" Huang Yu had already thought of this question and answered with Chen Dalian's worried eyes.
"We have a way to minimize the accidental damage rate caused by artillery!"
"Even if a shell does hit the assault company, the casualties will be very small. On this point, I dare to issue a military order to you!"
The confident expression on Huang Yu's face reassured Chen Daliang, but he still hadn't really made up his mind.
Huang Yu continued: "The regiment leader asked the artillery company to cooperate with the assault company unconditionally. You must implement the order I just gave. If you have any objections, you should wait until the battle is over before going to the regiment commander to respond!"
"The Japs don't have much time left for us... If we don't capture the blocking position in front, the entire independent regiment will be surrounded and annihilated by them here!"
"For the sake of the overall situation, we will not hesitate even if the entire assault company is destroyed in the next attack."
"And I am confident that I will lead the assault company to seize the blocking position and retreat unscathed!"
"Don't hesitate, execute the order..."
"Boom, boom..." the sound of artillery soon sounded on the battlefield. After experiencing a bombing, the surviving little Japanese from the Kurokawa Brigade were obviously not as panicked as before.
They all squatted in the trenches, holding their heads and waiting for the shelling to end.
Under Kong Jie's watchful eye, the assault team formed a skirmish line and moved towards the blocking position.
Different from the previous skirmisher lines, the assault company's skirmisher lines are more dispersed...
The three soldiers were distributed in a ready-made glyph to form an assault team... The three assault teams were about ten meters apart from each other, and they were arranged in a finished glyph to form a slightly larger assault squad.
The three assault squads are more than ten meters apart from each other and distributed in a zigzag pattern to form an assault platoon...
The three assault platoons advanced side by side, with the machine gunners and grenadier operators of each squad platoon following closely behind the infantry, ready to stop at any time to provide fire cover.
This is an assault formation that Kong Jie has never seen before. Although he still doesn’t know how powerful it is on the battlefield, he feels that the assault company has a way to attack this time!
Because the attacking troops were dispersed, even if they were accidentally hit by artillery shells, the losses would be very small.
The assault company followed Huang Yu until they reached more than 30 meters in front of the Japanese formation before stopping, quietly waiting for the shelling to end.
"Pa..." A signal bomb was suddenly shot into the sky by the assault company!
The red light produced by the explosion was so dazzling that it could be seen clearly from several kilometers away, and Chen Daliang was no exception.
He raised his eyebrows and gave a serious order: "Increase the firing range of all mortars by forty meters... The artillery platoons of the 1st and 2nd Battalions attack the traffic trenches and continue firing!"
Under Kong Jie's watch, as soon as the signal flare appeared, the "roaring..." gunfire stopped, but the assault company did not get up from its hiding spot to launch an attack.
Just when he looked confused and wondered what Huang Yu was up to, the sound of "roaring..." artillery sounded on the battlefield again, but the coverage of the artillery fire was obviously pushed forward by dozens of meters.
"Attack...comrades, all charge with me..." Huang Yu decisively issued the assault order.
The grenades and crooked guns hiding behind the assault platoon were the first to join the battle, pouring grenades and light machine gun bullets into the enemy's first trench without any money.
After the first round of attack and the previous shelling, the Japanese infantry squadron stationed in the first trench had less than a hundred soldiers left, and less than ten troops were left.
As soon as the artillery fire attacking them stopped, the surviving Japanese stood up from the trench, set up their machine guns and prepared to counterattack.
But they did not see the Eighth Route Army attacking troops in front of them, and before they could figure out what was going on, the assault company's submachine guns, light machine guns, and grenade launchers suddenly opened fire, covering the position with the fiercest firepower.
More than a dozen Japanese soldiers were caught off guard and knocked down.
The surviving Japs quickly retracted their heads to avoid the hail of bullets flying towards them, and waited for the Eighth Route Army to start attacking before they stood up to fight back.
The two trenches at the back were equipped with seven or eight heavy machine guns, ten or twenty light machine guns, and the same number of grenade launchers. Even if the Eighth Route Army took the opportunity to launch an attack, the blocking fire from behind would still decimate the attacking troops. There was nothing we could do about it.
Take one step forward.
Dreams are good, but reality is indeed very cruel.
The shouts and curses from the squadron leader instantly shattered their dream of enjoying the success.
"The Eighth Route Army has begun to attack... Everyone stands up and shoots, hurry up..."
"The troops behind are still being bombed, and there is no way to reinforce us. We can only rely on ourselves for the next battle... stand up and shoot... block the Eighth Route Army, and we must not let them get close to the position..."
"Machine gun fire...kill everyone..."
The panicked kid quickly poked his head out of the trench.
More than a hundred Eighth Route Army troops formed a skirmish line and appeared thirty to forty meters away. They could advance into the blocking position with a single charge.
The submachine guns and light machine guns held in their arms were all spitting out tongues of flame, desperately pouring bullets into the blocking position.
Several Japanese soldiers had their heads knocked off as soon as they poked their heads out of the trenches and fell in the trenches...
"Shoot... shoot quickly... if you don't fight back, you won't have a chance!" the squadron leader ordered urgently.
He personally grabbed a crooked stick that had lost its owner, put it in the trench, pointed it at an Eighth Route Army soldier, and started to fire.
The attack formation of the assault company was too scattered. A burst of bullets flew out and only killed one soldier. The two soldiers covering the back immediately counterattacked towards the squadron leader's position, forcing the squadron leader to retract his head...
At this moment, the assault company rushed forward another seven or eight meters.
In addition to the submachine gunners and machine gunners who continued to pour bullets into the trenches to suppress the surviving Japs, the riflemen took out grenades and grenades one after another...
Pull the string...hold it in your hand for three seconds...throw it into the ditch...
The first trench that had just finished being covered by artillery fire was once again shrouded in explosions.
Compared with artillery shells, grenades are much less powerful, but they are more powerful and more accurate...
More than a hundred grenades and grenades, at least one-third of them hit the trench. Countless little devils were blown over. Even if they were squatting in the trench, they could not avoid the grenades hitting their feet...
At the Japanese enemy's former headquarters, Major Kurokawa stood on the lookout and jumped to his feet in panic. He had just ordered the troops in the second trench more than once to reinforce the front-line troops and at least provide them with some fire support.
But all the replies they received were that the troops were under artillery fire from the Eighth Route Army and were unable to reinforce the battlefield and did not even have a chance to stand up from the trenches.
"Captain, this must be the Eighth Route Army's latest strategy against us..." the adjutant analyzed anxiously.
"When the infantry attacked, they used artillery fire to cover our second-line positions, cut off the communication trenches, and did not give us the opportunity to send troops to reinforce the first-line positions... They could easily capture our first-line positions!"
"I don't care if this is the new way of fighting for the Independent Regiment...the troops must hold their position and stop the Independent Regiment at all costs!" Major Kurokawa interrupted unceremoniously.
Then he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Notify the defenders of the second-line position immediately. No matter how difficult they are, I must send troops to reinforce the first-line position immediately. Let's set off now..."
Major Kurokawa deployed a squadron and a half in the second trench with almost no losses.
After receiving the death order from the captain to forcefully send out troops, they had to carry it out no matter how reluctant they were.
"The heavy machine guns will open fire immediately... The first and second teams will immediately reinforce the front-line positions from the traffic trenches, and set off now!" the squadron leader of the second squadron ordered through gritted teeth.
"Kill...dong dong dong..." Several machine gunners mustered up the courage to stand behind the heavy machine gun, holding the handrail, and quickly pulled the trigger...
But it lasted only three seconds, and the sound of heavy machine gun fire was interrupted by the sound of artillery fire from behind. Several machine gunners fell in the trench in response...
"Boom..." A series of denser explosions suddenly sounded in the traffic trenches on the left and right wings. The squadron leader stuck his head out and took a look, and his heart dropped.
As soon as a dozen men rushed into the communication trench, they were covered by artillery fire. Several soldiers were blown out of the trench, and more soldiers were blocked at the entrance of the communication trench, unable to move forward.
"Let the reinforcements move back... Brave the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army to reinforce the front-line positions, no matter how many troops are killed on the way to the reinforcements..." The squadron leader decided to disobey the order and stop this meaningless reinforcement.
"The Imperial Army of Japan must not die so unclearly!"
When the independent regiment attacked the position, Kong Jie was still in a trap, not knowing what medicine Huang Yu was selling in his gourd.
Seeing the artillery unit firing again, the assault company got up from the ground and launched an attack.
The first thought that came to my mind was that Huang Yu was crazy...
Li Wensheng's reaction was the most exaggerated. As soon as the assault company got up from the ground, he shouted: "No, commander..."
"The assault company is going to launch a suicide attack on the Japanese!"
"If you launch an attack while the Japs are being bombed, even though it will cause a lot of accidental damage, the Japs' counterattack ability is also the weakest!"
"They will definitely be able to attack the Japanese blocking position in one attack, but the casualties will be much higher..."
"Even the whole army is destroyed!"
Kong Jie was shocked and felt that the chief of staff's analysis was correct.
But after thinking about it seriously, I rejected this judgment.
If the independent regiment really planned to launch a suicide attack, there was no reason to send a signal to stop the artillery fire just now and just charge forward. Moreover, when the artillery fired again, the artillery fire coverage area was obviously pushed forward by thirty or forty meters.
Shaking his head decisively: "No, this is not a suicide attack..."
After saying that, he stared at the battlefield, trying to see something.
Seeing that the Japanese frontline position was quickly covered with more than a hundred grenades and grenades, the assault company took the opportunity to rush in...
The Japs stationed in the second-line positions are being bombed. Not only are they unable to send troops to support them, they are also unable to provide at least fire support. They can only watch the first-line positions being occupied by the assault company...
Kong Jie suddenly reacted: "I'm sure this is not a suicide attack..."
"The artillery fire follows the attacking troops... so that the troops and firepower deployed by the Japanese on the second-line positions cannot reinforce the first-line positions, and the assault company can defeat the Japanese blocking positions one by one..."
"Xiao Huang really didn't disappoint us. I knew he could do it..."
"Inform the troops to prepare for a sudden march..."
"Let's set off as soon as the assault company opens the way for a breakout. We'll leave here as quickly as possible and make up for the time we just wasted!"
