The Japanese's grenades fired at close range, and the 50mm grenades smashed into the guerrilla trenches. The flying fragments split open the sandbags and poured out sand.
Along with several clouds of black smoke and mud, the dirty Japanese soldiers once again lunged forward mechanically. Their movements were no longer as agile as they were at the beginning.
The cold and exhaustion had almost exhausted their physical strength, and their current charge seemed so weak.
Moreover, due to the continuous attack, the enemy's ammunition is running out, so the fire suppression is also weakening.
"boom!"
Battalion Commander Shen Biao was personally holding a rifle and shooting. His shoulders were shaken, and a Japanese man who was leaning towards him was knocked down.
"boom!"
There was another dull gunshot, and a bloody hole appeared in the helmet of a Japanese soldier. The bullet shattered the brain tissue, and bone residue and red and white things spurted out.
The guerrilla brothers have been tempered in the battle. When faced with the Japanese who are rushing up, they no longer panic, but calmly aim and shoot.
Dull gunshots rang out on the battlefield, and green smoke filled the air. The exhausted Japanese soldiers had to lie down on the spot and shoot at the guerrilla brothers before they could reach a distance of 100 meters.
"Teng Teng Teng——"
The ammunition of the Japanese soldiers was almost exhausted, but there was still a lot of ammunition that the guerrillas had been deliberately saving, and the unique roar of the heavy machine gun sounded again.
The trajectory of the whizzing heavy machine gun bullets was like plowing a field, and all the Japanese lying on the trajectory were smashed to pieces.
The Japanese soldiers' light machine gun group tried to fight back, but in front of the heavy machine guns, their light machine guns were nowhere to be seen. In just a few breaths, the Japanese soldiers' machine gun group was completely misfired.
"Retreat! Retreat!"
Seeing that it was really impossible to attack, the Japanese captain who was responsible for commanding the attack here had to order the troops to withdraw to the starting point and bring in heavy machine guns for reinforcements.
The Japanese who received the order to retreat did not show any hesitation. They turned around and ran towards the trench where they were hiding before the attack. It was the fourth line of defense for the guerrillas, which this team of Japanese had just occupied.
"Mortar, mortar, give me a blast!"
Seeing that the Japs couldn't hold on anymore and were about to retreat, battalion commander Shen Biao was not willing to let the Japs go and shouted at the top of his lungs towards the mortar position behind.
Because they were afraid of the precise strikes of the Japanese artillery squadron, the brothers from the machine gun company had never dared to show up. Now that they saw that the Japanese artillery shells were almost exhausted, they dared to attack.
The brothers in the mortar team of the machine gun company, who had been holding their breath for a long time, had already adjusted the shooting parameters. As clouds of white smoke rose, the roaring shells flew over the heads of the infantry brothers in the position. He hit the Japanese soldier who was retreating.
The Japanese soldiers have always held the initiative on the battlefield and are in an offensive state. If the attack is unfavorable, they will withdraw to replenish firepower and attack again.
Therefore, we never expected that we would suddenly encounter artillery fire while retreating, so the time chosen by the guerrilla mortar team was very appropriate.
"Boom! Boom!"
The artillery shells fell on the group of Japanese soldiers who were retreating after the attack failed. Amidst the earth-shattering dull sound, the Japanese soldiers who were caught off guard were blown to pieces.
The shock waves and fragments generated by each explosion would take away a piece of the Japanese. The injured Japanese rolled on the ground in pain and let out a shrill wail.
The Japanese soldiers who were suddenly hit by shelling were also a little confused. The Japanese soldiers who were knocked over were almost rolling and crawling back in the face of the shells that kept exploding around them.
Every attack and retreat of the Japanese was done in an orderly manner with alternating cover. However, facing such a random bombardment from mortars, the Japanese covering the enemy hurriedly turned around and ran back, regardless of their orders, in order to survive.
From time to time, the Japanese who were running back in chaos were thrown up by the explosions, and screams continued on the battlefield shrouded in gunpowder smoke.
The brothers in the mortar team of the machine gun company are reluctant to practice because of the high price of shells, so their accuracy is not that good. It takes almost five rounds to hit one shot.
However, their random bombardment also disrupted the formation of the Japanese soldiers. The Japanese who were taking turns covering the retreat were running back desperately, not even noticing what was behind them.
"All hands on bayonets!"
Battalion Commander Shen Biao watched the Japanese soldiers being bombed with blood and flesh flying everywhere, and raised his sharp bayonet with murderous intent.
In this position, there are more than 160 brothers from an infantry company and more than 100 brothers who retreated here. They are the counterattack force here.
It is not the fighting style of the Jiangsu North Corps to be passively beaten all the time. The previous blind retreat was just to consume and paralyze the Japanese.
But now that the Japanese were at the end of their battle, the two battalions commanded by Blacksmith and Shen Biao were preparing for a defensive counterattack to catch the Japanese by surprise.
"kill!"
As soon as the mortar bombardment ended, accompanied by loud shouts of killing, battalion commander Shen Biao took the lead and jumped out of the trench with a bayonet in hand and rushed towards the retreating Japanese.
And more than two hundred brothers, like tigers descending from the mountain, poured out of the trenches with sharp bayonets and charged straight at the Japanese.
When the Japanese attack failed, they wanted to retreat and regroup. However, they were bombed during the retreat. Before they could gather themselves in chaos, the guerrillas who had been defensive and retreating unexpectedly pounced on them with bayonets drawn. They were really killed.
The guerrillas chose the right time to counterattack. The Japanese soldiers who had dispersed to avoid the bombing faced the guerrilla officers and soldiers rushing towards them like wolves and tigers. Without thinking, they turned around and ran towards their own positions because the attack had already begun. After exhausting their physical strength, they still had no ability to fight. They could only hope that the troops staying behind could block the guerrillas coming from behind.
The Japanese soldiers who stayed behind were also panicked. They did not expect that the guerrillas would counterattack at this time.
"Shoot! Shoot!"
The remaining Japanese commander yelled in a panic, trying to cover the retreat of the attacking troops.
However, the Japs running back blocked the shooting route, making it impossible for the Japs in the trenches to aim. Only the machine guns placed on the wings opened fire.
"Ta-ta-ta! Ta-ta-ta!" The two machine guns on both wings fired desperately, covering the Japanese retreating into the trenches.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
However, before the enemy's machine gun had finished firing a single bullet, it was blown to pieces in the black smoke of two explosions, and the guerrilla grenades launched a covering bombardment.
"kill!"
The battalion commander Shen Biao, who was leading the charge, was the fastest and stabbed a Japanese soldier's body with his bayonet from behind. The Japanese soldier screamed and staggered over before being kicked over.
When the Japanese who retreated in a panic heard the screams behind them, they ran even faster like a frightened bird.
The counterattack troops of the guerrillas followed closely behind and covered up the enemy troops. They fired continuously from a distance, biting the flesh with bullets, and greeted them with bayonets from close by. They almost bumped into the Japanese soldiers as they retreated.
trenches.
Although the Japanese covering troops tried their best to cover and fire, facing the guerrilla officers and soldiers who rushed in with the broken troops, they had to bite the bullet and go forward with bayonets in close combat in an attempt to hold on to the newly captured position.
However, the Japanese soldiers overestimated their own strength. In just one encounter, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who came forward were knocked over and led into the trenches, and were overwhelmed by the guerrilla officers and soldiers who swept past like a whirlwind.