"This is impossible..." Captain Zhou of the county brigade retorted without hesitation.
"When we slowed down the march of the Japanese and puppet troops, we dug up a lot of roads...but the Japanese and puppet troops didn't even repair the roads and just passed through!"
"If the Japanese had brought heavy artillery, they would never be able to get through those damaged roads!"
Deputy Battalion Commander Zhong Chengjun followed up and answered: "Battal Commander... I personally led people to investigate when the Japanese and puppet troops came to Tutu Temple. They did not have heavy artillery..."
"They only brought two to three hundred mules and horses. Most of the mules and horses carried ammunition, and the remaining mules and horses carried heavy machine guns and mortars. They didn't even carry infantry artillery or mountain artillery. How could they be equipped with heavy artillery."
"You must have heard wrong..."
"Rumble..." Just as Zhong Chengjun was about to continue speaking, a thunderous explosion reached their ears again.
A fireball several times larger than an ordinary mortar shell soared into the sky from the impact point, and thick black smoke rose to a height of forty or fifty meters before stopping...
When the smoke dissipated, a bunker more than one meter higher than the ground was instantly razed to the ground...
Zhong Chengjun decisively swallowed back the words that had reached his lips.
Apart from heavy artillery shells, he could not think of any other shells that could destroy a machine gun bunker with one shot.
But he couldn't figure it out.
Any heavy cannon weighs one or two thousand kilograms and requires several mules and horses to pull it.
But they didn't find any such artillery along the entire march... This was strange. They could only turn their attention to Huang Yu: "Batalion Commander, I don't understand!"
Huang Yu didn't answer. He held up a telescope to observe the battlefield. Two minutes later, he suddenly said: "I know!"
"The Japanese are equipped with large-caliber mortars..."
"Although it is much heavier than an ordinary mortar, the disassembled parts weigh at most two to three hundred kilograms, and can be transported by mules and horses!"
"The power of the 120mm large-caliber mortar shells is no less than that of the 105mm caliber mountain cannon, and can easily destroy our bunker!"
"When ordinary heavy artillery fires, the scream of the shells is very loud... The scream of the shells we heard just now is very small, only slightly louder than the scream of ordinary mortar shells when they are flying. Only large-caliber mortars can achieve this
Effect!"
At this point, Huang Yu's face had completely darkened.
Zhong Chengjun's face also became particularly ugly. He frowned and analyzed: "Large-caliber mortars, like ordinary mortars, can be dismantled into several parts and transported by mules and horses... So the impact on the highway after we destroy it
Less than their marching speed!"
"Batalion Commander, what should we do next!"
"The Japanese have large-caliber mortars. Once our bunker is exposed, we will suffer a devastating blow!"
"As long as they have enough ammunition, no amount of bunkers will be enough for them to blow up!"
"The Japanese have prepared more than one hundred mules and horses to transport ammunition. One mule and horse can transport twenty rounds of artillery shells. More than one hundred mules and horses can also transport three to four thousand artillery shells..."
"This does not include the ammunition carried by the Japanese gunners!"
Huang Yu racked his brains to think of ways to break the situation, but in the face of absolute strength, no matter how many plots and tricks he tried, he would be blown to pieces by the Japanese heavy artillery.
Facing Zhong Chengjun's expectant gaze, he shook his head and said, "The heavy artillery is too powerful!"
"Our bunker is vulnerable to large-caliber mortars!"
"If you want to defend the Tutu Temple, block the Japanese and puppet attacks, and severely injure the little devils here, you can only hold on. Whoever can hold on better will gain the advantage on the battlefield and seize the initiative on the battlefield!"
"Tell Wei Dayong that I will immediately send a platoon of recruits to him. The assault company must hold its position and block the Japanese and puppet attacks."
"Don't use the remaining bunkers lightly..."
"If you need to use it, use it separately, and use it slowly with the Japanese!"
"As long as one of our soldiers kills three Japanese and puppet troops, we will definitely win this blocking battle!"
At the enemy headquarters in Jinniuling, Guan Dashan had a smile on his face.
On the first line of defense, the Seventh Company killed more than 200 Japanese and puppet troops at the cost of one platoon.
When defending the second line of defense, the Japanese and puppet troops were much more vigilant. The Eighth Company lost one more infantry squad than the Seventh Company, but they also killed more than 140 Japanese and puppet troops...
The Ninth Company was defending the third line of defense, and the Japanese and puppet troops were even more vigilant.
There were shellings and plane bombings again, but the ninth company commander was very patient and persisted until now without using the four bunkers on the position.
"Battal Commander...the Japanese and puppet troops have rushed right under the nose of the Ninth Company!" the instructor of the Third Battalion reminded.
Guan Dashan replied with a smile: "I feel that the ninth company commander has prepared a huge surprise for the Japanese and puppet troops!"
"The casualties suffered by the Japanese and puppet troops here will definitely exceed those of attacking the second line of defense..."
“Dong dong dong… da da da…”
As soon as he finished speaking, the dull sound of light and heavy machine gun fire rang out. The first three rows of Japanese and puppet troops were like ripe wheat, being swept to the ground in pieces...
"Boom boom boom..."
Several explosions sounded simultaneously among the Japanese and puppet attacking troops, and more than a dozen Japanese and puppet troops were killed and injured...
The light and heavy machine guns in the bunker fired at the Japanese and puppet troops in the front row, and the grenade canisters left on the position attacked the Japanese and puppet troops in the rear from a distance. With this two-pronged approach, the Japanese and puppet troops were instantly bombed into chaos.
The Japanese and puppet troops knew that they had encountered a machine gun bunker that neither grenades nor mortars could blow up, so they quickly retreated.
The light and heavy machine guns in the bunker ceased fire in time and retreated, but the grenadier men hiding in the trench did not retreat.
The Ninth Company Commander knew that the Japanese would attack the bunker first, otherwise once the battlefield was shrouded in smoke, the infantry artillery brought by the Japanese would not be able to carry out precise strikes.
He seconded all the grenades equipped by the Seventh and Eighth Companies to the Ninth Company, and when the Japanese had no time to take care of them, he violently bombarded the retreating troops...
One grenade can kill two Japanese and puppet troops, and twenty or thirty grenades can kill forty or fifty more Japanese and puppet troops.
Ten minutes later, the ninth company commander ran to Guan Dashan with a smile and reported
"Battal Commander... The Ninth Company successfully completed the blocking mission!"
"Considering that the Japanese grenadier soldiers were too powerful, I moved all the machine guns in the trenches to the bunker and asked the riflemen to fire three rounds of bullets at the Japanese attacking troops before throwing grenades. Three for each person. The grenades alone killed nearly a hundred Japanese and puppet troops.
military!"
"Four machine gun bunkers killed more than 40 Japanese and puppet troops..."
"When the troops retreated, the three grenade squads killed another forty or fifty Japanese and puppet troops, adding up to almost two hundred Japanese and puppet troops!"
"I lost about a platoon!"
"You guys fought so well!" Guan Dashan smiled from ear to ear and said with satisfaction.
"Not only did we overfulfill the mission of annihilating the enemy, we also successfully controlled the casualties to less than 100 people!"
"Let's retreat directly to the last ambush battlefield and fight the Japanese there!"
"Rumble..."
The last round of six large-caliber mortar shells fell from the sky, and the brutal last bunker of the assault company was razed to the ground.
"Boom boom boom..."
As soon as the fixed-point strikes of large-caliber mortars ended, ordinary mortars joined the battle. After only three rounds of salvo fire, the sudden company position was bombarded by artillery fire.
Wei Dayong was hiding in the artillery cave. He had just received Huang Yu's order to defend and his face was very heavy.
We managed to survive until the bombardment was over, but before we could break out of the shell-proof hole, another bad news came from the surface position.
"Company Commander, many positions have been destroyed by artillery fire!"
"The Japanese used large-caliber mortars when they bombarded the position...many trenches were blown up..."
Wei Dayong's pace obviously accelerated a lot. When he rushed out of the cave, he saw devastation everywhere...
At least ten holes were blown into the trench that was more than one meter deep...
Many machine gun positions scattered in the trenches were also razed to the ground, and all the sandbags piled on the positions were blown away...
Wei Dayong's face became increasingly serious.
The more severely the position is destroyed, the greater the defensive pressure will be...
"Company commander, many machine gun positions have been destroyed!" the instructor said with a worried look.
"There are plenty of riflemen. You can fight anywhere in the trenches!"
"The machine gun team can't do it...the light machine gun team must have at least two soldiers, and they have to be on guard against Japanese grenade launchers...If you just find a place to shoot, it's like being a living target for the Japanese grenade launchers!"
"Use the bomb craters on the position!" Wei Dayong said solemnly.
"Especially the craters created by large-caliber mortar shells. If a crater can cover you with a machine gun crew, it will definitely be no problem."
"Da da da……"
Before the order was finished, the dull sound of heavy machine gun fire rang out from the Japanese offensive position.
Wei Dayong quickly retracted his head from the edge of the trench, and several bullets whizzed past his head, almost killing him.
"The devils are coming...get ready to fight..."
The sound of exchange of fire soon sounded on the battlefield. The Japanese and puppet troops once rushed more than 30 meters in front of the formation. When they were about to break through the first company position, Wei Dayong suddenly roared and rushed out of the trench.
The box cannon in his hand kept firing, instantly pulverizing the three Japanese who were charging towards him.
He conveniently built a 38-meter cover with a good bayonet from the ground, held the flat end in his hand, and strangled the Japanese at all costs...
"kill……"
Staring at a Japs and stabbing forward with force in the abdomen, the Japs reacted quickly and subconsciously raised their guns to block. But Wei Dayong's thrusts were too strong and too fast...
Before the rifle the Japs prepared to use to block hit Wei Dayong's rifle, the sharp bayonet had already penetrated the military uniform and pierced the Japs' body!
"idiot……"
The two Japs next to them were very angry at what they saw.
They looked at each other, raised their rifles with bayonets, and stabbed Wei Dayong in the abdomen with anger from left to right.
This style of play is absolutely unfavorable against ordinary people, but Wei Dayong is not an ordinary person.
Long-term martial arts training experience has made him much more vigilant than ordinary people. He realized the danger as soon as the Japs started to stab him, and quickly retracted the knife and took a few steps back, allowing the Japs to miss...
Taking advantage of the Japanese being stunned, he held the barrel of the gun with one hand, raised the butt of the gun, and smashed a Japanese soldier on the head.
Under the huge impact, the devil's head was deformed. He didn't even let out a scream and fell to the ground without moving...
Once you've dealt with one devil, the other one will be easy to deal with!
"Bah bang bang... bang bang... kill..."
The shouts of killing and the sound of pistol shooting soon became audible. Under the combined attack of Tuyi Company with bayonets and pistols, more than 200 Japanese and puppet troops only persisted for half a minute and more than half of them were injured or killed. However, Tuyi Company still had more than 100 soldiers left.
, if they continue to fight, they will definitely not be able to hold on.
Moreover, they have the advantage of artillery fire, so there is no need to fight for their lives against the Eighth Route Army here.
