Chapter four hundred and eighty first actual combat training
"I will lead the first battalion to attack the hilltop on the left, and you will lead the third battalion to attack the hilltop on the right. The second battalion will be in reserve. We must take it before dawn!"
Zhang Handuo's face was tense and full of seriousness. Yang Ling knew that this was a must-fight and nodded in agreement with his plan.
The brothers entered the position under the cover of darkness and spread out in front of their respective attack targets. Looking at the dark hills and smelling the pungent rotting smell, the recruits' hearts tightened.
Yang Ling led the third battalion to attack the hilltop on the right wing. The distance from the foot of the hill to the top was only about three or four hundred meters, but it was dug into a mess by the Japanese and covered with countless wooden stakes and barbed wire.
In the light of the burning flames, many of the barbed wire fences still contained the corpses of the fallen brothers of the 147th Brigade. Their corpses were spread halfway up the mountain.
The top of the mountain is just a larger mound, but the little devil's field fortification ability is so strong that he actually built this mound as airtight as an iron tunnel in a short period of time.
The little Japanese soldiers are strong individually, and their weapons and firepower are also strong. At this moment, they are clinging to the top of the mountain. The feint attack is extremely disadvantageous to Yang Ling and the others.
Yang Ling lay in the crater, observing the hilltop guarded by the Japanese, his head turning rapidly, thinking about ways to defeat the enemy.
Before he could come up with a reason, gunshots from the left wing suddenly rang out. Countless bullets flew around in a short period of time, like fireflies scurrying all over the sky. The sharp and dull sound made the battlefield become chaotic.
Get noisy.
Regiment leader Zhang Handuo had already commanded the first battalion to take the lead in attacking the hilltop on the left wing. Amidst the fierce gunfire and shouts of killing, the brothers of the first battalion were rushing towards the hilltop one after another.
"Regimental deputy, we can't wait any longer!" Seeing that the first battalion had launched an attack, the deputy battalion elder Yanqiang opened the safety of the shell gun and urged.
According to the agreement, both sides must launch an attack together to put pressure on the little devils so that they cannot support each other.
Now that the battalion commanded by Zhang Handuo has already fought against the Japs, Yang Ling and the others can't do anything if they don't take action.
Yang Ling couldn't think of any way to defeat the enemy for a while, so he simply didn't bother to think about it and launched a probing attack first.
He patted Lao Yanqiang on the shoulder and ordered: "Take a company up to test it out——"
Lao Yanqiang understood and raised his arms to greet the fields behind him: "Shunzi! Take your people and follow me!"
First company commander Shunzi waved his big hand forward, and with the sound of bumping footsteps and the sound of gun butts, more than a hundred brothers emerged from the dark wilderness like ghosts, and then ducked past Yang Ling and the others.
, and walked toward the top of the mountain.
"Spread out! Spread out!" The veterans looked at the quiet hilltop warily while scolding the recruits who were huddled together.
The new recruits stepped onto the battlefield for the first time and had to fight against those extremely vicious Japanese soldiers. Perhaps out of fear, most of them joined a group to keep warm, so that there were often more than ten people in a group.
In this kind of offensive battle, in order to prevent being overwhelmed by the opponent's machine guns and bombs, the attacking team is mostly divided into countless combat groups and pulls skirmish lines to cover and advance alternately.
However, some of these new recruits had never even touched a gun before joining the army, let alone offensive tactics. They could only rely on the battlefield teachings of veterans. As for whether they could survive, it really only depended on luck.
However, if the new recruits can survive the first battle, they will become familiar with the second battle and the casualty rate will be greatly reduced.
Lao Yanqiang and his brothers stepped on the corpses in the ruins and walked forward for a distance of about two hundred meters. However, it was quiet and deathly silent over the Jaap soldiers' position.
"Lieutenant, I feel something is wrong."
First company commander Shunzi, who was also an old scout, leaned sideways on a stone stained with blood and stopped.
Lao Yanqiang also felt that something was wrong. The hills on the left wing were crackling and bustling, but the hills here were strangely quiet. He felt that the dark enemy positions were like a big bloodthirsty net, waiting for them.
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When the new recruits saw the veterans lying down, they also lay down on the ground, looking nervously ahead, with sweat on their palms.
"Put up the machine gun!" Lao Yanqiang ordered to the back, and then patted the shoulders of the two brothers beside him: "Go up and explore -"
The two brothers were both veterans. After taking a deep breath, a veteran quickly ran about two meters out of hiding and jumped into a crater. He hurriedly put his rifle on his shoulder.
But there was still no movement on the little devil's side. Another brother also rushed forward a few meters, but when he was about to get up and move forward again, suddenly a string of firelight flashed in the darkness in front of him.
"Teng Teng Teng——"
The dull sound of a heavy machine gun suddenly rang out, and a series of violent bullets flew over, knocking the brother who had just stood up halfway to the ground.
Another brother wanted to drag the hit brother into the crater, but a grenade flew over and landed at his feet.
In the rumbling explosion of fire, the brother was knocked over by the strong air wave. His head was dizzy and he struggled to get up. Rifle bullets followed one after another, and he finally failed to stand up.
"Brothers! Fight me!" Lao Yanqiang roared as he raised his shell gun and shot forward.
The veterans relied on the debris craters to hide and fight back, while the new recruits were frightened by the sudden firefight.
Facing the bullets that kept whizzing past them and overhead, they huddled in the crater and shivered behind the rocks and debris.
Occasionally, one or two new recruits would be brave enough to imitate the veterans and raise their hands to fire their guns, but the huge shock force of the rifles would almost dislocate them, and the bullets would fly to nowhere.
On such a cruel battlefield, not to mention the new recruits who just learned how to shoot, even the veterans who have undergone rigorous training can only display less than 80% of their daily strength. After all, training and actual combat are two different things.
"Ah!" A recruit who was not well concealed was hit by a bullet and rolled on the ground, howling.
"Drag him down!" Hearing the wounded soldiers howl, a platoon leader dragged them into the crater.
"Get up and shoot! Don't lie down all the time!" The veterans had fired several times, but when they saw that the recruits had not fired a single shot, they cursed rudely in anger.
The veterans scolded one after another, and the recruits carefully stuck out half of their heads, but just after taking a random shot, they shrank back in embarrassment like hedgehogs in danger.
"Damn it, aim and shoot! Whoever dares to waste bullets again, I will shoot him!" Seeing the new recruits firing into the air made the veterans furious.
However, Lao Yanqiang and the others did not have time to teach the veteran a lesson now. Looking at the two Japanese machine guns blocking the way, he roared: "Machine gun suppression! The demolition team goes up and blows it up for me!"
All the machine guns in the company turned their muzzles and howled, the bullets hitting the enemy's two machine guns in an airtight manner.
The three brothers from the demolition team rushed out with the explosive packs in their arms. One of them fell down like a wooden stake after taking only two steps. The other two brothers didn't even look at it. They took advantage of the Japanese machine gun to change the magazine and fired another