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"Brothers, fight back and take back the position!"
Seeing these murderous gangs of officers and soldiers pointing guns at them, these retreating officers and soldiers soon understood that if they did not regain their position, they might not die in the hands of the Japanese, but would die unjustly in the hands of their own people.
Someone loaded the gun with a click and rushed back, someone took the lead, and soon the rest of the chaotic troops turned around and rushed back to kill.
Seeing that the retreating officers and soldiers were all fighting back instead of fighting with them to retreat down, the company let out a long sigh of relief.
"First Company and Second Company also go up and take back the position!"
"The third company is responsible for covering the left wing, the fourth company is responsible for supporting the right wing, and the machine gun company provides fire support."
Seeing that the situation was stable, the blacksmith, the commander of the first battalion, also issued orders in an orderly manner.
Their battalion had lost a lot of strength during the battle at Baoying. Now each company had as many as one hundred and twenty-three and as few as ten men. They hadn't had time to replenish them, but now they had to bite the bullet and go up.
Each company moved quickly, and the brothers followed closely behind the brothers from the Patriot Battalion and rushed towards the position.
After the Japanese launched a burst of artillery fire, an infantry squadron of nearly 200 small Japanese soldiers had already rushed into the position in a dark mass.
The Japanese thought that they could easily occupy this position, just like occupying an outpost position, and maybe they could attack Huaiyin in one go at dawn.
But what the little devil didn't expect was that the defenders would react so quickly. As soon as they rushed into the position and before they could gain a foothold, the blacksmith and his brothers launched a counterattack.
"Kill!"
The brothers stepped on the fluffy soil blown up by the shells, passed through the choking smoke, and rushed towards the Japanese.
"shooting!"
Seeing that the Chinese ** team launched a counterattack so quickly, the Japanese soldiers were slightly surprised, and then they started to shoot.
"Swish swish——"
The bullets penetrated the smoke like dazzling streams of light and headed towards the opponent.
"Puff..."
Many people had just fired a shot, and before they had time to take a second shot, blood spurted out from their chests, and they fell into the dark trench in convulsions.
For a moment, bullets flew everywhere and blood splattered. The Japanese panicked and lay down on the spot to shoot, trying to suppress the counterattacking guerrillas.
The charging guerrilla officers and soldiers erupted into loud shouts of killing, turned a blind eye to the whizzing bullets, and charged forward one after another while fighting.
"Da da da....."
The Japanese machine guns were also set up, and they fired fan-wide fire at the charging brothers. The brothers were cut down like wheat.
"Boom! Boom!"
However, the Japanese machine guns only roared for less than a minute, and the mortars of the machine gun company providing fire support from behind blew up the Japanese machine gun fire support points to pieces.
"Grenade, throw it!"
Soon, the charging brothers rushed into the bombing distance, and threw grenades and grenades at the Japanese with all their strength.
"hidden!"
Seeing the grenades flying over one after another, the Japanese soldiers were immediately frightened and made standard dodge movements one after another.
But with bursts of roaring explosions in the sky, scorching air waves swept away hot fragments.
No matter how standard the Japs' evasion tactics were, it was useless, because many of the explosions were volley explosions, and the covering blows made the Japs soldiers wail for a while.
"kill!"
The brothers held sharp bayonets and pounced on the little Japs with murderous intent. More than a dozen little Japs who were lying on the trench and shooting were immediately stabbed to death by the guerrilla brothers who jumped into the trench.
The little Japs behind kept aiming and firing, but on the left and right flanks, more guerrillas rushed into the trenches and fought with the Japs.
The Japanese had to give up shooting and started a hand-to-hand battle with the guerrilla officers and soldiers on the battlefield. For a moment, the swords were shining, blood was flowing, roars and screams were mixed together.
"Bagaya road!"
The Japanese commander Yamaguchi Akamatsu was so angry when he saw a hand-to-hand battle with the Chinese troops in the smoke-filled position in front.
"Your reinforcements!"
"Hiyi!"
Soon, another wave of little Japs with bayonets flew towards the melee position.
"Order the machine gun battery to stop the little Japs!"
The blacksmith, the commander of the battalion, cut off the head of a little devil with one knife. Regardless of the blood spurting all over his face, he turned to give instructions to a brother behind him who was holding a bayonet.
After the panting brother responded loudly, he bypassed several fighting groups and ran towards the position of the machine gun battery.
Soon, the Type 92 infantry guns and grenadiers of the machine gun company roared one after another, and high-explosive bombs rained down on the Japanese reinforcements.
In the scorching hot explosion, the little Japs who were howling and trying to rush to the position for reinforcements were immediately knocked off their feet by the explosion, their limbs and arms were broken, and they were unable to rush forward for a while.
The Japanese commander Yamaguchi Akamatsu soon angrily ordered the artillery to fight back. This time they came with several 75mm mountain cannons.
These mountain artillery launched a retaliatory bombardment against the machine gun company's position. For a time, the scorching shells kept passing over the heads of the melee crowd, heading towards the opponent, and many places were plunged into a sea of fire and black smoke billowing.
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The blacksmith's battalion is a powerful force that has withstood the test of fire. Although the current troop reduction has seriously reduced their combat effectiveness, they are becoming more and more courageous as they kill, and they will have the upper hand in the melee.
While the Blacksmith's First Battalion was fighting desperately with the Japs at the forward position, the Second Battalion led by Wu Changqing also came up with timely reinforcements.
The Second Battalion also suffered heavy losses in Baoying, and now only half of the battalion was left. They launched an attack on the Japanese on the flanks to cope with the battle on the main position.
The Japs' flanks were threatened, and the little Japs who were fighting with Blacksmith and the others on the position were worried about being surrounded and had to retreat.
Although the hand-to-hand combat between the brothers and the Japs only lasted for more than ten minutes, fighting with bayonets took a lot of physical strength. The brothers did not dare to pursue them. They chased the retreating Japs and fired a burst of gunfire before retreating.
"Quickly, consolidate the position!"
The position has been bombarded by the Japs' artillery fire. Many trenches have collapsed and the machine gun trenches have been razed to the ground. The blacksmith directed the brothers to rearrange the firepower points of each support.
The Japanese were repulsed by the blacksmiths and they were naturally unwilling to give in. After half an hour of artillery preparations, more than two hundred Japanese infantrymen came up again under the cover of mountain artillery.
But this time it was not as easy for them as before. In front of the tyrannical firepower network constructed by the officers and soldiers of the first battalion, the howling and arrogant charging Japs were as if they were made of paper, and they were abandoned without even touching the trenches of the position.
After seeing dozens of corpses, they had to retreat again.
The two sides fought fiercely until dawn. Blacksmith and the others firmly controlled the positions outside the city. However, the Japanese's firepower was strong. In just two hours of fighting, Blacksmith and his company, the most powerful company, were reduced to only two squads.