The Japanese had already rushed to the interception net composed of wooden stakes and barbed wire. Their machine gunners quickly lay down and set up their machine guns to fire at Yang Ling's forward position to cover it.
Under such cover, the engineers quickly cut the barbed wire fence and cleared passages for people to pass through.
Seeing the Japanese engineers busy in an orderly manner, Su Er, commander of the grenade company, stuck out half of his head and observed carefully for a few seconds, then retracted his head back into the trench.
"One to five hundred meters, cover and shoot!" Captain Su Er, the company commander, ordered coldly.
He was an ordinary infantry company commander two days ago, and now he has become a grenade company commander.
Although it was just a simple change of identity, Su Er wanted to show off his skills in front of the brothers and let the grenade company be recognized by the other brothers.
Although the grenade looks simple, it is not easy for ordinary brothers who cannot read a few words to learn. In the past two days, they have been studying day and night, and they can only get a rough idea. If they want to point where to hit like the Japanese do,
It won't be possible even for a while.
However, they are now much wealthier than the Japanese. Although they are a grenade company, they have thirty grenades, while the Japanese only have three or four in an infantry squad.
The enemy's grenade soldiers are better because they are well-trained, but Su Er and his half-hearted grenade soldiers have no advantage, except that they are large in number, but this is enough for the enemy to drink.
"emission!"
Seeing that the brothers were well prepared, Su Er decisively gave the order to launch.
"Tum! Tum! Tum!"
The brothers hiding in the trenches at the front held the grenade tubes with their hands and put the grenades in. With the whistling sound, thirty grenades hit the Japanese near the barbed wire.
The Japanese were destroying the barbed wire fence and clearing the attack channel. When they heard the roaring sound, they subconsciously looked up.
But it didn't matter at this glance. When he saw the grenade that kept getting bigger in his pupils, he was immediately frightened out of his wits.
"It's a grenade launcher from the Chinese Army. Hurry and take cover!" the Japanese captain shouted in horror.
"Boom, boom... boom..."
But before he could finish his words, he was drowned in a roaring smoke.
The grenades flying everywhere landed on the group of Japs one after another, and the Japs who had no time to escape were immediately blown into pieces with their flesh and blood flying everywhere, causing them to scream in agony.
"ah!"
"Well!"
"Boom!"
The Japanese soldiers did not expect that the Chinese Army had so many grenades. Faced with this intensive attack, they were instantly overwhelmed.
The Japanese who were following behind watched the friendly troops near the barbed wire fence scream and scream in the explosion of flying grenades, and were blown into pieces of meat flying in the sky. They were so frightened when they saw the miserable scene.
"Baga! Baga, how can the Chinese have such powerful firepower!"
Through the telescope, the captain of the Japs in charge of the attack saw the soldiers in his two squads being blown to bits of flesh and blood in the blink of an eye, and howled in anger.
"Haha, so happy, so happy!"
When the infantry brothers who were lying in their shooting positions saw the tragic situation of the Japanese being bombed, they all smiled and felt very happy.
"Blow him up hard!" The brothers cheered loudly, which was in sharp contrast to the miserable howls of the Japanese.
"Haha, little devil, let me let you be more arrogant!"
Explosions of flesh and blood continued to fall on Su Er and his trenches. Su Er also grinned when he saw the area around the barbed wire fence being swept away.
"Go on! Blast the little devil hard for me!"
These grenadier soldiers also became excited, and each of them fired grenades one by one as if they were full of blood.
These inaccurate grenades were scattered everywhere, and their ranges were also different. This was really a pain for the little devils, as they all fled in panic amid the explosions of gunpowder smoke.
"Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Just when Su Er and the others were getting excited, there was a sound of breaking through the sky. Su Er looked up and his face suddenly changed wildly.
"Get out! Get the hell out of here!"
Su Er hurriedly jumped down from the observation position and loudly urged the brothers of the grenade company to evacuate.
The Japanese soldiers' revenge came quickly. Rows of artillery shells fell near Su Er and the others. The sweeping air wave swept many brothers to the ground. Su Er also stumbled and ran towards the anti-cannon hole.
The brothers of the grenade company who were excited just now suddenly became disgraced and embarrassed.
When they ran along the communication trench into the artillery-proof hole, the trench they had just been in had been blown into pieces of scorched earth. Several brothers who were running slower were even left with nothing left by the bombing.
The torn rags below rolled and fell in the air waves.
"You little bitch!"
The brothers yelled with red eyes, but they were helpless in the face of the fierce artillery fire. The excitement of bombing the Japanese disappeared in an instant due to the casualties of the brothers.
With the cover of artillery fire, the little devils became more confident one by one. This time they did not need to clear the barbed wire fence. The shells blasted several holes, and they swarmed in along the holes.
"Aim at those gaps and hit me hard!"
The roar of Battalion Commander Liu Yidao rang out from the main trench located 200 meters away.
"Da da da--"
"Teng Teng Teng——"
The machine gunners were the first to pull the trigger, and a string of scarlet bullets went straight to the gap in the barbed wire with the smell of death.
The Japanese were entering through the gap, and the dense bullets were fired at them, and there was an immediate popping sound.
Blood spattered, and bloody holes appeared in the bodies of the Japanese soldiers. They fell to the ground while wailing, and in the blink of an eye, dead bodies were everywhere.
The rifles of Luo Wencai and others also opened fire immediately after the machine guns. The dull sound of the gunfire was like New Year's firecrackers. There was a loud crack of thunder and the smoke of gunpowder started to drift.
The death and blood did not scare away the Japs. Their mortars, grenades, and light and heavy machine guns opened fire, and they even brought two Type 92 infantry cannons up to cover the infantry attack.
The little devils whose eyes were red after seeing the blood were like ferocious beasts. They howled and swarmed along the gap one after another. They hit the defenders' fire net and were torn into pieces.
The atmosphere on the battlefield suddenly became tense. Both sides were firing desperately, and the smell of blood, gunpowder smoke and cries of pain could be heard endlessly.
"Extended artillery fire!"
The Japanese captain's face was ashen. Although he saw the casualties of the troops rising sharply, he had no intention of stopping.
The Japanese's artillery barrels readjusted to shoot at Zhu Yuan, and began to extend their bombardment towards the hilltop where Yang Ling and the others were guarding. For a moment, the cannons roared and the flames shot into the sky.
Soon the top of the mountain was shrouded in dense smoke, and nothing could be seen. Weeds and dead trees also burned, and black smoke rose into the sky.
After paying the price of nearly a hundred men, the Japanese soldiers finally rushed to a hundred meters in front of the defenders' position, and only one or two minutes was enough to rush into the brothers' trenches.
Under the bombardment of the Japanese's light and heavy weapons, many of the firepower points of the defenders' positions were destroyed. Without the support of the firepower points, it was difficult to stop the Japanese with only the sparse firepower of rifles.
"Machine gun company, give me a hard beating!"
Just when the rifle brothers who were lying down and shooting became nervous.
The brothers from the machine gun company rushed into the trenches for reinforcements, set up their machine guns and opened fire on the Japanese.
More than twenty light machine guns were used intensively, and the bullets like splashing water immediately enveloped the Japanese machine gunners and grenadiers, beating them into bloody sieves.
The weeds and trees in front of the trench had long been cleared away, and the shooting range was good. Seeing that there were only a hundred meters left, the more than a hundred Japanese jumped up from the ground one by one, preparing to launch a board-mounted charge.
I didn't expect that I would be hit by such a blow just as I straightened up. I couldn't even hide in time. Blood mist filled their bodies and they fell to the ground in various postures, screaming in agony.
Blood mist filled the air, as did gunpowder smoke. Amidst the roaring bullets, the Japanese soldiers fell down like wheat, frightened and helpless.
The Japanese captain who was commanding from behind was so shocked that he couldn't speak. He watched helplessly as all his subordinates were slaughtered.