Chapter 300 The head of the regiment has drawn a line for us
"Hold on, no one can shoot in advance without my order!" The seventh company commander was very nervous, and his right hand holding the gun started to sweat. He still forced himself to stay calm and pretended to give the order with a calm expression.
"All the machine gunners in the bunker are on standby...not participating in the battle for the time being!"
When the Japanese and puppet troops rushed fifty meters in front of the formation, the seventh company commander aimed at a puppet platoon leader and pulled the trigger.
"Pap...tap...bang...bang..."
The blocking position immediately erupted with gunfire, and bullets flew out of the position, killing the Japanese and puppet troops in front of them.
Under the cover of the puppet troops, the Japanese casualties were very small.
As soon as the gunfire rang out, he fell to the ground, raised his machine gun and fought back.
The grenade they regarded as their trump card was immediately set up, and grenades were fired at the machine gun fire points on the mountainside...
"Boom boom boom..."
Explosions soon sounded in the blocking position, and the two light machine guns named Zheng Huan instantly misfired and made no movement.
The seven consecutive blocking firepower was instantly reduced by one-third.
The light machine guns equipped by the Japanese took the opportunity to join the battle and began to suppress the riflemen of the Seventh Company.
"The grenade squad will fight back immediately... launch grenades wherever there are many Japs... evacuate the position immediately after two rounds of grenades!" The Seventh Company Commander was suppressed in the trench by the Japs' light machine gun. He was very aggrieved, but he did not lose his cool.
, shouting orders to the grenade launcher behind him.
"Boom boom boom..."
Several grenades quickly hit the Japanese attacking force, and about a dozen Japanese were knocked over. However, these casualties were like scratching an itch for the attacking force of more than 300 people, and did not affect their offensive at all.
"Kill me..."
Seeing that all the machine gun fire points on the blocking position were knocked out by grenades, and the riflemen were suppressed in the trenches and did not dare to show their heads, the Japanese squadron leader decisively raised his command knife...
More than three hundred Japanese soldiers jumped up from the ground, holding rifles and launched a final assault halfway up the mountain.
Some machine gunners lay on the ground and continued to fire, suppressing the riflemen in the blocking position.
There are also some machine gunners who directly hold the machine gun in their arms and use it as a submachine gun, charging forward while holding fire, providing close fire cover for the attacking troops.
"Prepare grenades...Two grenades per person, throw them out as fast as possible, string the mines and we will retreat..." The seventh company commander quickly inserted the box cannon into his holster and took out a grenade and ordered.
"The machine gunners in the bunker are preparing to fire..."
"The enemy breaks through the grenade interception fire network and opens fire. Wherever there are more enemy attacks, cover the seventh company to evacuate the position!"
"The Japanese retreated, and they also abandoned the bunker and retreated. They couldn't stay for a second longer..."
More than half of the puppet troops had suffered casualties, and the remaining dozens of Japanese soldiers were all frightened. In the eyes of the Japanese soldiers, these people had completed their mission of being cannon fodder, and they were no longer needed for the next assault.
Without hesitation, he crossed over the puppet troops in front and charged forward as fast as he could...
Suddenly, more than a hundred grenades flew out from the blocking position and hit them at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The Japanese did not evade, but continued to attack in the face of the rain of grenades...
Although grenades are powerful, they are easy to dodge...
As long as the assault speed is fast enough and the grenade doesn't hit you, you will be safe...
Besides, the grenades equipped by the Eighth Route Army have always been famous for their poor quality. Many grenades exploded in half. Apart from the sound, the smoke was darker than ordinary grenades, and they had almost no lethality.
Bolstered by this idea, the little devils who participated in the attack became even more unscrupulous.
Holding the gun and continuing to charge forward, there was no exception to the hail of grenades flying towards them.
"Boom, boom, boom..." explosions soon exploded among the attacking troops.
The devil is fooled...
Even though he was standing three or four meters away from the explosion point, the powerful air wave still knocked him to the ground!
Countless grenade fragments are flying around everyone like a storm. If you are not careful or have a little bad luck, you will be hit by the fragments...
"Baga...ah...I'm injured..."
"Bagh Yalu...Why are the grenades on Baghya Road so powerful..."
"We were fooled..."
Curses, screams, orders... soon rang out among the attacking troops.
The Japanese squadron leader was also frightened, but he did not lose heart or lose his mind. He drew his command knife and pointed forward and shouted: "Continue to attack... No matter how powerful the grenade is, it will not be able to destroy all our attack paths."
blockade!"
"We will win if we break through the grenade interception... kill them..."
After losing seventy or eighty Japanese soldiers, the attacking troops finally broke through the grenade interception net and continued to advance...
Many Japanese soldiers had already taken out their grenades and were ready to throw them out after advancing seven or eight meters to give the Eighth Route Army a taste of being bombed!
The Independent Regiment defended the position from a high position, and the throwing distance of grenades was inherently farther than that of grenades. Coupled with the benefits brought by the height advantage, while the Independent Regiment could attack the Japanese with grenades, the Japanese could not throw the grenades into the blocking position.
You can only attack seven or eight meters further before you have a chance to throw the grenade into the blocking position.
At this time, the Seventh Company had begun to retreat. Inside the four hidden bunkers, two heavy machine guns, six light machine guns, and more than a dozen submachine guns were ready for battle!
“Dong dong dong… da da da…”
When the dozen or so Japanese soldiers at the front were about to throw grenades, the light and heavy machine guns opened fire in time.
The rain of bullets fired from the eight concealed firepower points was like eight sickles. Wherever the bullets hit, the Japanese were like ripe wheat, being harvested instantly...
"Pa bang bang..."
More than a dozen submachine guns joined the battle at the same time, killing the little Japs who escaped from the light and heavy machine guns, and preventing them from getting close to the bunker.
Under the attack of nearly twenty tongues of fire, the Japs lost another forty or fifty in a very short period of time. The other Japs were once again suppressed on the offensive path and were unable to move forward.
At this moment, the grenade, which the Japanese had high hopes for, entered the battle in time...
As soon as the explosion sounded, the Japs lying on the ground prepared for an assault, and rushed out when the firepower point was destroyed...
The result was a disappointment to all the Japanese.
The grenade accurately hit the fire point, but the machine gun there was not affected in any way and continued to fire at them...
After two rounds of grenades, the camouflage covering the bunker of the Independent Regiment was blown away, and a bunker built with sandbags and logs finally revealed its true form in front of the Japanese.
The Lieutenant Colonel who was supervising the battle behind saw this scene. He was very frightened and unwilling, but he was not dazzled by the heavy casualties of the attacking troops. He decisively issued a retreat order and ordered the artillery troops to prepare for artillery counterattack...
As soon as the attacking troops withdrew from the range of the artillery fire, they bombarded the bunker...
At the enemy headquarters in front of the Jinniuling defense line, Guan Dashan's face was already blooming with joy.
Seeing the Japanese begin to retreat, he quickly ordered the troops in the bunker to retreat...
In less than half a minute, the four bunkers were covered by artillery fire from the Japanese army.
Guan Dashan sighed while admiring the Japanese artillery fire: "The regiment leader's style of play is better!"
"In the blocking battle just now, we killed more than a hundred Japanese and fifty or sixty puppet troops!"
"When the Japanese occupy the seventh company position, no matter how hard the mines in the trenches are used, they can kill twenty or thirty Japanese and puppet troops, which adds up to two hundred Japanese and puppet troops!"
"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have known when the Japanese and puppet troops became so easy to fight!"
The instructor reminded: "The little Japs were unprepared for the first attack. They didn't know that we had built a bunker on the position, and they didn't know that the home-made grenades we were equipped with had been replaced by Jin-made grenades bought by Staff Officer Huang. That's why we suffered such a big loss.
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"When the Japanese attack the second and third lines of defense, if we are prepared, the casualties will definitely not be as heavy as before!"
Guan Dashan said with a nonchalant expression: "It's okay!"
"Even if the casualties caused by grenades and bunkers to the Japanese were halved, it would still be no problem to kill more than a hundred Japanese and puppet troops on each of the two back lines of defense. In total, there would be more than 400 Japanese and puppet troops!"
"The mission given to our battalion by the regiment commander was to eliminate 400 Japanese and puppet troops. Not only did we successfully complete it, we also exceeded the quota!"
"Contact the seventh company commander immediately and ask him to report the casualties in the battle!"
"The regiment commander not only gave us the task of annihilating the enemy, but also drew a casualty line for us... In the entire battle, our direct losses cannot exceed one hundred people, otherwise the mission will not be completed!"
"Notify the Eighth Company Commander again that after the Japanese bombardment is over, we will go and take a look at the four bunkers we just abandoned... If they are still usable, use them!"
"When the next round of the Japanese attack begins, first use the bunker to raid the Japanese attacking troops, and then retreat...how many more Japanese and puppet troops can be killed!"
"Although we have given up the first line of defense, we cannot let the Japanese and puppet troops take it down easily without spending a single soldier!"
“If it really doesn’t work, forget it!”
"Wait until the Japanese and puppet troops attack the second line of defense, then deal with them severely, and settle the previous and last accounts together!"
The Japanese artillery was very powerful. In just three minutes of artillery fire coverage, it razed four machine gun bunkers to the ground and successfully captured the first line of defense halfway up the mountain.
Although the mines left by the Seventh Company in the trenches caused more than twenty casualties to them, almost all of the dead were puppet soldiers, and the Japanese did not take them seriously.
But there was a dispute between the two captains over how to attack the second line of defense.
The captain of the Lieutenant Colonel requested that the infantry attack as soon as the artillery preparations were completed to end the battle as soon as possible.
Captain Major believes that the second line of defense must also have a machine gun bunker...
You should find the machine gun bunker first and destroy it before launching an attack!
"How to find it?" Captain Zhongzuo did not directly refute his partner's suggestion, but asked with a thoughtful look on his face.
Captain Major asked subconsciously: "Launch a probing attack and force the bunker out!"
The lieutenant colonel shook his head and asked: "Do you think a test attack can really force out the hidden machine gun bunker of the independent regiment?"
The Major Captain was silent...
The Independent Regiment obviously uses those machine gun bunkers as a trump card to prevent them from being exposed easily.
The probing attack could not even deal with the troops of the independent regiment hiding in the trenches, let alone force them out of the machine gun bunker!
He sighed and said: "Is it possible that we ignore those bunkers and directly let the troops launch an assault, using them as live targets for the light and heavy machine guns set up by the independent regiment in the bunkers?"
"If it doesn't work, we will cover the entire position with artillery fire and blow up all the suspicious places. I don't believe we can't destroy those bunkers!"
