"Cover the entire blocking position with artillery fire..." Captain Lieutenant Colonel looked at Captain Captain Major and snorted and asked, "Do you know how many artillery shells this will consume and how long it will take?"
"Do you think we have so many shells to waste?"
"Do you have so much time to waste?"
"Although a direct attack will cause more casualties, it only takes a few shells and takes several times less time to capture the blocking position halfway up the mountain!"
The Major Captain was speechless and could only accept the Lieutenant Colonel's proposal and command the troops to continue the attack.
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"Rumble..." The explosion has been sounding for almost five minutes and still has no intention of stopping.
The Tutu Temple blocking position was filled with gunpowder smoke from the bombing. There were orange-red fireballs rising into the sky, flying soil, stones, wooden boards, and billowing smoke rising into the sky...
In front of the blocking position, there were more than a hundred corpses of Japanese and puppet soldiers scattered here and there, which meant that the previous attack ended in a disastrous defeat for the Japanese army.
In order to ensure that the troops successfully captured the Tutu Temple in the next round of attack, the ruthless Lieutenant Colonel Miyamoto directly ordered two mortar squadrons to bombard the Tutu Temple at the same time, and then stopped when they flattened the opponent's blocking position.
At the enemy headquarters in front of the assault camp, faced with the enemy's artillery fire, the atmosphere in the bunker was not as tense as expected. Deputy Battalion Commander Zhong Chengjun sighed while observing the battlefield.
"The little devil is such a spendthrift. It would be great if we could leave so many artillery shells to us... but they would all be blown up and wasted on our position!"
"Fortunately, the battalion commander allowed us to temporarily repair the bomb-proof hole, otherwise as many of us as we went up would have been bombed!"
"With such fierce artillery fire, just a few trenches and a few machine gun bunkers will definitely not be able to sustain it for long!"
Huang Yu on the side suddenly interjected: "Let the assault company prepare for battle, the Japanese have begun to extend the artillery fire!"
"Remind Wei Dayong that we must wait for the Japanese to rush more than 100 meters in front of the formation before we can exit the artillery hole and enter the position. To prevent the Japanese army from using artillery fire to kill us, we can't turn around!"
"During the battle, casualties must be controlled. A company must defend for three hours before retreating... It has only been more than half an hour now, and the next battle will be long!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the artillery shells fired by the Japanese began to fly towards the second line of defense.
Although the defensive position of the company was filled with smoke, no artillery shells continued to hit it.
“Dong dong dong… da da da…”
A new round of fighting soon started. The second Japanese soldiers from two companies, the young Japanese soldiers from two squadrons, and a total of more than 500 Japanese and puppet troops were rushing towards the first company...
They tried their best to block the attack, but the enemy's offensive firepower was too fierce.
Light and heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, kept firing. After a while, the firepower on the blocking position weakened.
A light machine gun fires within four or five seconds and you need to move your position in time, otherwise you will be targeted by four or five grenade launchers at the same time, and you will have no chance of escaping even if you are a god.
Even the grenade class is not a vegetarian.
They did not choose to attack the Japanese light and heavy machine gun positions.
The Japanese have two heavy machine gun squadrons, equipped with twenty-four heavy machine guns. Even if they are lucky enough to destroy a few, it will not change the situation of a company being suppressed. It is better to take the opportunity to kill a few more Japanese infantry.
Without infantry protection, no matter how many light and heavy machine guns and artillery the enemy has, they are just a pile of scrap metal and will have no effect.
"Boom boom boom..."
Grenades continued to explode in the middle of the Japanese attacking troops, and almost every explosion could take away one or two Japanese lives...
But this casualty had little impact on the Japanese, and the troops continued to advance.
After a while, the distance between the two sides shortened to fifty meters.
If the Japanese rushed ten meters further, they could throw grenades into the blocking position, take advantage of the chaos and rush into the blocking position, and engage in a decisive battle with the first company with bayonets.
The Japanese have an absolute advantage in strength and are better at bayonet fighting than the assault battalion. Even if the assault battalion is equipped with a large number of pistols, it can break the Japanese bayonet array to a certain extent.
But if the Japanese army has a lot of troops, no amount of pistols can change the overall situation...
"Battal Commander, the Japanese offensive is too fierce...the company suffered heavy casualties, and the machine gun bunker must be used in advance, otherwise the position will be lost!" Zhong Chengjun reminded anxiously.
"Contact Wei Dayong immediately and use half of the machine gun bunkers to repel this round of Japanese and puppet attacks!" Huang Yu ordered in a deep voice.
Except for the time when he first traveled through time, Huang Yu rarely fought head-on with the Japanese like he does now.
He has always believed that offense is the best defense. Even if he is tasked with blocking, he will find ways to actively attack the enemy and use offense to repel the enemy instead of blindly defending.
This blocking battle in front of us is not going to work.
The disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves is too great, and the Earth Temple is the last favorable terrain blocking Miyamoto's unit.
If they were to break through, the Miyamoto regiment would be able to march straight into Ping'an County as if entering uninhabited territory, and the assault battalion would no longer be able to use the terrain to block them.
Time is also very limited. The assault battalion only has a few hours to prepare. It can only repair the blocking position at its feet and has no time to prepare other positions.
On the contrary, the commando battalion was forced to give up the mobile warfare that it was good at and fight the enemy's blocking battle that it was not good at.
Blockade warfare requires not only terrain, but also troop strength and firepower.
In addition to the terrain advantage, the assault battalion's troop strength and firepower are no match for the Japanese.
In order to offset the enemy's superiority in troops and firepower, Huang Yu could only find ways to dig anti-cannon holes and build earthen fortresses on the battlefield...
In Huang Yu's eyes, the earthen fortress was the assault camp's last resort in blocking the Japanese and puppet offensives and severely defeating them. It should not be exposed unless absolutely necessary.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the battle began, Colonel Miyamoto used a powerful offensive to force out the assault battalion's killer weapon.
Although the intelligence said that the Miyamoto regiment did not carry heavy weapons in order to rush on the road, it would be difficult for ordinary mortars to destroy the earthen fortress.
The earthen forts that exposed their positions in advance could not do anything to them.
But just in case, Huang Yu temporarily decided to use half of the earthen fortress, and the remaining half of the earthen fort remained on standby...
“Dong dong dong… da da da…”
In less than half a minute, more than a dozen machine gun fires erupted from the blocking position, and the Japanese and puppet troops' offensive momentum was finally blocked.
But the Japanese were not willing to fail.
The grenadier immediately aimed at those fire points and fired grenades one after another, as if the ammunition was free...
But the results of the targeted strikes surprised them.
The grenade launchers that we had fought against in the past battles were completely destroyed in front of these firepower points, and had no effect at all...
Even if the grenade hits the firing point and explodes, the machine gun will still not misfire.
Colonel Miyamoto was well-informed. He took one look and exclaimed loudly: "The attacking troops will retreat immediately... The Eighth Route Army built a bunker on the blocking position!"
"How is this possible?" a subordinate asked with disbelief.
"The Eighth Route Army doesn't even have cement, how can it build a bunker...Sir, you must be mistaken!"
Colonel Miyamoto shook his head and explained: "It's not just cement that can build a bunker..."
"As long as the terrain is suitable, you can build a bunker with just logs..."
"I heard about this kind of bunker at the station. Although it cannot withstand heavy artillery and aircraft attacks, it can easily withstand mortar attacks!"
"This kind of bunker has appeared many times in Eighth Route Army positions. They took advantage of the terrain to dig a two-meter-deep pit underground, opened several shooting holes around it, and then used sandbags, logs, and stones to reinforce the shooting holes..."
"The top of the big pit is covered with logs, and then covered with half a meter of soil and sandbags..."
"Ordinary artillery shells hitting the bunker can only make a hole in the surface soil, but cannot hurt the Eighth Route Army hiding in the bunker..."
"I heard that the Eighth Route Army likes to hide this kind of earthen fortress. It suddenly joins the battle at critical moments and gives us a heavy blow, just like just now."
"The attacking troops don't know this kind of bunker, and they will definitely suffer big losses if they are caught off guard..."
While listening, the captain analyzed the appearance of the bunker and its sturdiness in his mind. After listening, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Sir, this is not a bunker...it's clearly an earth bunker..."
"It's okay to call it a castle..." Colonel Miyamoto said with an indifferent expression.
"Anyway, this kind of earthen fort can withstand mortar and grenade attacks... If the offensive troops continue to fight, it will have no other meaning except increasing casualties. It is better to retreat!"
"Wait until we destroy those earthen forts before launching a new round of attack!"
The captain immediately suggested: "I will contact the aviation force immediately... and ask them to send planes over to help us destroy the bunker!"
Colonel Miyamoto shook his head and said: "It's too slow to call for aircraft support!"
"Don't forget, in addition to two mortar squadrons, we also brought half a medium mortar squadron..."
"The caliber of those mortars is 120 millimeters, and their power is more than twice that of ordinary mortars. They can definitely destroy those bunkers!"
"Let the artillerymen set up those medium-sized mortars, destroy all the bunkers...and then launch the attack..."
At the enemy headquarters in front of the assault camp, seeing the Japanese retreating hastily and more than a hundred corpses on the way to attack, Army Zhong Cheng let out a long sigh.
"The little devils finally retreated... They were just a little bit close, and they broke through the entire position!"
Huang Yu was not as relaxed as Zhong Chengjun, and his expression was as serious as ever. As soon as the Japanese troops retreated, he ordered to Zhong Chengjun: "Contact Wei Dayong immediately to count the casualties, and all troops will enter the artillery caves... The Japanese will definitely launch retaliatory artillery counterattacks."
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"Woooooooooooo...boom..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a piercing scream sounded in the air.
Huang Yu's expression changed and he quickly looked in the direction where the sound came from.
A ball of fire instantly burst out next to Bunker No. 5, followed by thick smoke... A second later, the violent explosion reached Huang Yu's ears.
He turned around and cursed at the subordinates behind him: "This is heavy artillery...the explosions of infantry artillery and mountain artillery shells are not that loud...the little ghost Miyamoto regiment brought heavy artillery...how did the reconnaissance force do it? The Japanese brought heavy artillery..."
None of them were found out!”
Huang Yu rarely got angry in the assault camp. If I remember correctly, this was the first time he got so angry.
Everyone, including Zhong Chengjun, was confused by the scene in front of them and froze on the spot, not knowing how to answer.
