The Japanese stepped on the explosion point and attacked again, ignoring the flying explosions, but this time they did not encounter any strong resistance until they broke into the trenches where corpses were strewn everywhere.
Only in the darkness in the distance, bullets flew by sporadically, and the resistance was so weak that it could be ignored.
"The Chinese army has been destroyed by shelling! Quickly eliminate the remaining enemies!" the Japanese officer quickly judged the situation and shouted excitedly.
"Long live! Long live!"
The Japanese soldiers who rushed up with a desperate attitude were also in high spirits after hearing this, and cheered for victory. Then they divided into countless arrows and quickly advanced in depth to eliminate the remaining enemies.
When the few Chinese officers and soldiers who were hiding in the darkness and shooting at the Japanese saw the Japanese rushing towards them, they seemed to be frightened and ran away.
The shelling left the position in a mess, the low wooden stakes and barbed wire were torn apart, and the criss-crossing trenches were all bombed with craters.
The hard ground was blown up and fluffy, and the scorched earth was sizzling with flames. Under the light of the fire, the scattered Chinese officers and soldiers stumbled and ran, bullets passing by them from time to time.
The Japanese soldiers chased the remaining enemy on the position with fierce looks on their faces. They were all extremely excited. If they had known that a round of artillery fire could solve the problem, why would they have carried out a sneak attack earlier and suffered heavy losses?
"The devils are coming! Get ready to fight!"
Seeing those Japanese soldiers emerging from the darkness like ghosts with bayonets in hand, the company and platoon commanders hidden in the second defense gently patted the brothers on the shoulders and lowered their voices to remind them, and trotted in the trench with their waists bent.
This time, Yang Ling did not arrange his troops in the front-line trenches to resist the Japanese attack. Instead, he had his troops withdraw to the secondary defense and various bunkers on the sides, and the entire defense line was sunken.
The night covered Yang Ling's intentions, making the little Japanese think that Yang Ling and the others were wiped out by artillery fire. Little did they know that in the dark trench, the brothers were already waiting for danger.
"Stab it!" A brother stumbled into the trench, and the mud and dust also rushed in.
The Japanese's bullets flew over immediately, causing mud and mist to fly up from the ground.
"Damn, I almost lost it." This brother pushed the skewed helmet and sat up with the help of the brothers around him. He cursed softly and was terrified.
The brothers who lured the Japs into pursuit were all experienced veterans. They fought back and ran away, which made the Japs angry, but little did they know that they were stepping into the prepared traps one by one.
"Long live!"
The Japanese soldiers had captured three condescending hills that were burned into scorched earth. They raised their rifles high and cheered.
Seeing that his troops had captured the commanding heights, the Japanese officer was relieved. He thought it would be a bloody battle, but he didn't expect the attack to be so easy this time.
"Machine gun squadron, go to the top of the hill!" the Japanese officer ordered.
"Hey!" A squadron of Japanese soldiers carried a heavy Type 92 heavy machine gun and moved quickly towards the top of the mountain.
Although debris and wooden piles were burning in many parts of the position, the ground was full of craters and the fluffy soil made the road difficult to walk.
"Pfft!" Just as the four Japanese soldiers were about to cross a trench carrying a heavy machine gun, several Chinese officers and soldiers in the trench suddenly stood up with swords in their hands.
Before the Japs could react, the sword struck him. The powerful and heavy sword slashed a Japs diagonally, drawing blood.
The Japanese machine gun squadron encountered an ambush from the brothers who were ambushing them, and they screamed in agony amidst the light of swords.
"China Army! There is China Army over there!" A Japanese soldier covered in blood stumbled towards the Japanese officer, pointing to the side of the screamer and shouting.
"Nani?" the Japanese officer was furious.
Just as he was about to give the order, the soldier who reported the message suddenly slipped out of his sleeves two smoking grenades and threw them at him ferociously.
The sudden change did not allow the Japanese officer to react in time. With a loud bang, the Japanese officer and several surrounding Japanese communication soldiers were all blown to pieces.
Wang Dongming, who was pretending to be a Japanese soldier, rolled sideways into the trench when the grenade exploded. Looking at the Japanese soldiers rolling and groaning on the ground, he took out his rifle and fired a few more shots.
"Bagaya road!"
The nearby Japanese soldiers cursed and rushed back, while Wang Dongming ran away in pursuit of a string of bullets.
Seeing the dying Japanese officer, the Japanese soldiers who came over were furious.
"beat!"
The gunshots and explosions on the battlefield suddenly became intensive. The angry Japanese soldiers were preparing to chase Wang Dongming. Suddenly, there was a loud shout in the darkness, and the dense bullets swept across. More than twenty Japanese soldiers were knocked down in an instant.
"Hey, it's not that easy to chase me." Seeing that this group of Japs was killed, Wang Dongming gasped and moved toward another group of Japs.
The Japanese soldiers who occupied the high ground were not so lucky. They saw the machine gun squadron being attacked from a high position, and were about to divide their troops to support them. Little did they know that wooden planks were lifted under the floating soil behind them, revealing dark holes.
"Teng Teng Teng..."
The distinctive dull roar of the Type 24 heavy machine gun rang out, the bunker spit out scarlet tongues of fire, and the violent heavy machine gun bullets beat the Japanese into bloody gourds one by one, and they fell to the ground wailing.
Almost the same thing happened on the three hills. The Wushimen position was criss-crossed with trenches and there were countless fortresses and bunkers. If the Japanese rushed in at night like this, they would only be massacred.
"Grenade, blow it up for me!"
The sudden explosions and gunshots in the nearby darkness made a group of Japanese soldiers who were advancing deeper to expand their victory realize that something was wrong. They were about to move closer to the friendly forces, when suddenly countless grenades fell head-on.
Hundreds of cheap grenades hit the Japanese helmets with clanging noises. Faced with the dense rain of grenades, the arrogant and ferocious Japanese almost cried.
"Boom-boom-"
The series of explosions kept ringing like firecrackers, and the Japs at the center of the explosions were knocked to the ground heavily by the air waves of the explosions, and were blown over again before they could stand up.
Mutilated bodies, broken guns and rags sprayed out in radial directions, and the sticky flesh fell on the faces of the brothers hidden in the darkness, still smelling of blood.
The Japanese who broke into Yang Ling's position encountered a full-scale attack. Bullets were fired from all directions and grenades exploded indiscriminately. They were beaten and disoriented.
"Retreat! Retreat!"
Seeing that the situation was not going well, the little Japs retreated in embarrassment amidst the roars of the officers, but how could their feet outrun the bullets? Those bullets flew out from the dark places and bit into the flesh. From time to time, some Japs were shot and fell to the ground.
"Help me...save me..."
Seeing the Japanese soldiers running past in panic, some injured Japanese stretched out their hands to grab them and ask for help.
But now they were busy retreating and escaping for their lives, and they quickly ran away without paying attention to the wounded.
The brothers who had moved to both sides also opened fire, spraying bullets like water at the Japanese soldiers, killing and wounding the retreating Japanese soldiers everywhere.
However, there were too many Japs, and the brothers did not dare to intercept them. Yang Ling understood the principle of a trapped beast still fighting, so he only allowed his brothers to attack from the side.
Yang Ling seemed to have left a way for the Japanese to retreat, but in the face of artillery shells and intensive bullet fire from both sides, the casualties were heavy. The position he had just occupied was lost again before he could warm it up.