After Ye Zifei, who was located 500 meters behind the first line position, observed the movement of the Japanese troops through his telescope, he had already ordered all the 60 troops on the front line who could cover the Japanese positions to assemble and prepare for artillery bombardment.
The biggest disadvantage of the 60-force is that the shells are slightly smaller and less powerful, and the effective range of 1500 meters is slightly shorter. However, since we are fighting in mountainous areas, the problem of insufficient effective range basically does not exist at this moment, because the Japanese artillery cannot hide like it can in plain areas.
Fire the artillery thousands of meters away where the mortars can't reach. It's not impossible to move back, but I'm afraid that before their artillery can set up the artillery in the right place, thousands of Chinese officers and soldiers who are chasing from behind will arrive.
, at that time, the artillery became the vanguard.
Ye Zifei believes that Li Dengxing's first officer is not so stupid.
Of course Li Deng Xingyi is not that stupid. He will not leave more than 10 minutes for the artillery squadron to prepare. One minute every night, the Chinese main force that is about to arrive behind him is like a thorn in his back. He must prepare in the shortest possible time.
Opening up a passage for more than a thousand Imperial Army troops to escape.
Therefore, the Japanese artillery located at the rear could only set up artillery on two seemingly suitable hilltops 800 meters away from the Chinese army's defense line. Their only hope was that the Chinese had no artillery.
Obviously, they were disappointed.
The power of one 60-gun is slightly insufficient, but there are ten 60-guns on the front line that can cover the Japanese artillery position that has been firing for five minutes. The high-erected muzzles of the 60-guns can reach a maximum firing angle of 85 degrees.
It was even possible to bombard the Japanese infantry from across the mountain who had reached the foot of the mountain and began to attack upward through the dense bushes.
The 60-gun, whose total gun mass does not exceed fifteen kilograms, and their gunners, like most of the infantry, hid behind the mountains where infantry artillery and mountain artillery could not bombard them.
The officers and soldiers of the first battalion, which had fought at least two large-scale mountain offensive and defensive battles with the Japanese army, had already placed the main infantry and machine guns behind the mountain below the top of the mountain long before the Japanese army began to prepare for the attack. Only three or four observers were left on the position at most.
The mortar crews who were ordered to prepare for concentrated fire attacks had already used individual engineer shovels to dig out a flat area on the uneven hillside for mortar firing.
This is the biggest advantage of the 60-gun. You can just find an open space where people can stand and launch. In this regard, the Japanese infantry artillery and mountain artillery are far inferior. The fifty-millimeter grenade cannon is more maneuverable.
There is no problem, but the range of 500 meters and the power of a grenade are far inferior to that of a 60-gun. Moreover, one 60-gun is not powerful enough, so what about 10 guns that focus fire and attack together?
The answer is, it’s just as awesome!!! The bombardment effect is absolutely no worse than the full-speed bombardment of two mountain cannons.
This kind of company-platoon-level fire support-level artillery can fire more than 20 rounds in one minute, and 10 can fire 200 rounds. Even a battlefield of thousands of square meters can be covered with one artillery fire, let alone two that are no more than a few hundred rounds.
What about the hilltop of square meters?
Since the artillery shells he carried were not as rich as before, Ye Zifei only ordered each cannon to fire only five rounds. However, that was still fifty rounds! On average, twenty-five rounds fell from each hilltop.
From the moment the first mortar shell landed on the Japanese artillery position, the Japanese artillerymen began to hide. After several days of bloody battles in Jiuguan, although they were artillerymen, they had not personally experienced the infantry's fear of mortars, but they
You know, once the Chinese have artillery, it will not be a matter of one or two, but many. Correspondingly, since there are artillery shells coming, it will not be one or two, but many.
If they take the 60-pounder, which has the most equipment in the independent regiment, an artilleryman can run away carrying a gun weighing more than ten kilograms, or even the heavier 82-pounder, with up to two people, they can dodge people while carrying it. But unfortunately,
The Type 92 infantry gun, which is said to be the lightest, weighs more than 200 kilograms with its gun body and mount, not to mention the Type 41 mountain gun that weighs more than 500 kilograms. Without more than ten people, they can't even think about moving on the bushy mountain top.
It's half a meter.
Therefore, the Japanese artillerymen took care of themselves and got out of the way first. They either jumped down the mountain or looked for suitable pits to nest on the spot. As for the precious mountain artillery and infantry artillery, then, let's leave it to fate!
The Japanese artillerymen were very wise and hid quickly. More than twenty shells blew up the top of the mountain into a sea of fire and scattered rocks, and even overturned the heavy infantry artillery to the bottom of the mountain. However, an artillery squadron with hundreds of people died.
After several rounds of shelling, there were not many people hit. At most, there were only twenty people, and at least three of them were crushed to death by an infantry cannon that rolled down from the top of the mountain.
Not many people died, but a lot of artillery was lost. Two infantry cannons were overturned by the air waves and fell down the mountain. Judging from the appearance of the barrels being smashed, it is estimated that even if they tried to repair it with a small hammer, it would take two
It's been a month. The wheel of one of the two mountain cannons was blown away. It is estimated that if you want to fire the cannon, you will have to use a living person as the gun mount. Even so, the only two infantry guns and one mountain cannon want to
It would be five or six minutes before the artillery fire started. More importantly, the mortars that did not continue to fire did not say to withdraw. They were still waiting for them to revive and then continued to fire. At least two artillery observers stared at the artillery.
The observer stared thousands of meters away.
Watching his artillery position being brutally tortured by the Chinese through the telescope, Li Dengxing's face, which was already dead, showed a strange flush. According to the model of the ancient Chinese romance novel "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the next moment, the Japanese soldier
It was obviously time for the colonel to vomit blood. Governor Zhou, the idol-like young commander of thousands of girls, was spitting out blood and was angered to death by Zhuge's military advisor Luo Guanzhong, who had the halo of the protagonist.
Obviously, Colonel Li Deng's heart was still relatively big. He actually suppressed the annoyance that surged up in his chest like a tidal wave and issued a military order to the frontline commander to continue the attack without retreating. This is like how Colonel Li Deng finally managed to survive in modern times.
I made a date with a girl and took off my pants, only to find that the girl... was a male prostitute. I wanted to have sex with him with tears in my eyes! Colonel Li Deng's strangely flushed face was definitely not because of sex.
Being ashamed of taking the back door.
He thought that perhaps the 200 casualties previously planned would not be enough to deal with it.
The big-hearted Colonel Lideng looked ahead with red eyes and a red face, but the heavy soldiers at the front of the charging column were not only confused the moment their own artillery fire stopped, but they also issued an order in their hearts not to retreat.
All the women in the family of Lieutenant Colonel took this turn a thousand times.
Damn it! Where is the artillery cover that was agreed upon? Why did it wither? At this juncture, it is necessary to send a few, no, hundreds of brothers to the muzzles of the Chinese people's guns!
It can only be said that the military quality of the Japanese army is really not low. Not to mention the main front-line infantry, even this group of heavy baggage soldiers belonging to the second-line soldiers, at this moment analyzed the dilemma and danger they were about to face.
The mountains here are not high, and the highest altitude does not exceed 100 meters. On a hilltop of 70 to 80 meters high, with the ability of these short-legged but definitely stocky Japanese soldiers, even if they carry guns and grenades
Wearing big leather boots only takes a minute or two.
However, that is under the condition that no bullets will fly from this mountain top. What if there are bullets?
Then, not to mention one or two minutes, but ten or twenty minutes, can they climb to the top of the mountain like prairie dogs in the thick bushes that are more than one meter high and can almost submerge their heads?
If only the six heavy machine guns of half a heavy machine gun squadron 400 meters away behind us could provide more force.
With the cannon gone, heavy machine guns had to appear. At least four heavy machine guns installed at various temporary fortification points in the mountains began to roar, shooting at the fortifications that could be seen on the top of the mountain. Before the enemy targets were found, they
Covering the shooting with firepower is already very rare for the heavy machine gun squadron, which has always been very economical on bullets. This is obviously anxious. If we don't attack this mountain, what can we do with saving bullets? Leave it to the Chinese?
The somewhat confused Japanese army regained some confidence. Just like the Saints developed by the island country in the future, the more than 160 Japanese troops who began to burn in the small universe also shouted wildly when the squadron leader leading the team roared: "Onboard!"
He ran towards the hillside with the "board".
A Japanese infantry squadron at the foot of the mountain, equipped with machine guns, grenade launchers and rifles, also fired desperately at the top of the mountain to provide fire cover for its leading troops.
Although strategically, this group of heavy troops was cannon fodder to test the firepower of the Chinese defenders and consume their ammunition, but the Japanese army did not have the ambition to attack the mountain in one fell swoop.
Looking down from the mountain, more than 160 Japanese soldiers in khaki uniforms running wildly in the bushes regardless of the branches scratching their faces and hanging their uniforms are like hungry wolves looking for a gluttonous feast. They are like the bushes on a calm lake showing a line.
Road ripples.
It can be said that at this moment, the Japanese cannon fodder has completely burned their own small universe, going straight from bronze to gold. After all, the toad also wants to eat swan meat, cannon fodder, and also wants to counterattack!
As long as they are given a minute, they can rush to a position more than 20 meters away from the top of the mountain, throw out the grenades on their bodies, and then carry out bayonets and have a showdown with the Chinese that they like most to show off the martial prowess of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Hand-to-hand combat.
The Japanese army's desperate Long Live Charge reappeared on the battlefield, full of momentum.
Unfortunately, the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 1st Company and 2nd Platoon of the Independent Regiment guarding the hilltop did not give them this chance.
The firepower of the Japanese army was very ferocious. The firepower of four heavy machine guns, six light machine guns and six grenade launchers was indeed very ferocious. It was so ferocious that they could not even raise their heads, and they did not even extend their muzzles from the fortifications.
In other words, they have no intention of shooting at this moment.
Infantrymen of independent regiments generally have two choices for individual heavy weapons - grenades. One is the long-handled grenade commonly used by the national army, which has a larger charge and can be thrown farther. Several grenades can also be tied to
Together they can blow up solid fortifications and even armored vehicles; the other is an individual grenade developed by the independent regiment itself. It has a slightly smaller charge and a short throw distance, but is light in weight and small in size. It is the best individual grenade for defensive warfare.
arms.
From the very beginning, this battle was destined not to be a pursuit but a blocking battle, so most of the officers and soldiers chose to carry individual grenades, with an average of more than 6 per person.
The second platoon responsible for defending this hilltop was Cen Changqing's infantry platoon. In the Battle of Jiuguan, the second platoon was the infantry platoon with the highest battle losses in a company. Lao Monkey's infantry squad was almost completely lost, and the other infantry squad was also half damaged.
, there was only one firepower squad available, and the platoon deputy was seriously injured and admitted to the field hospital, so the battalion deputy Ye Yefei temporarily transferred a complete infantry squad from the third company as a reserve to supplement the second platoon. The infantry strength now reaches 22
The fire squad is basically complete with machine gun shooters and mortar operators. Adding him as the platoon leader and the signal corpsman, there are 38 officers and soldiers on the entire mountain.
In addition to 6 mortar operators and ammunition operators hiding behind the mountain to provide fire support, there were 32 infantrymen on the entire top of the mountain.
None of the 32 people rashly took out their guns to shoot at the Japanese army, nor did they even shoot at the Japanese cannon fodder whose target was obviously like hunting rabbits. They just took out grenades, pulled the fuse, and threw them down the hillside.
Without much effort, the advantage of being at a high altitude will allow the individual grenade to fly to the hillside fifty or sixty meters away, and the fuse will burn out in just five seconds.
Each person only needs to throw two pieces, and there are 64 pieces on the entire hillside. The gold-level "wild wolves" that were running wildly when the small universe exploded were directly blown into "paper rabbits" when they encountered natural enemies, regardless of whether they were hiding their ears and stealing the bell.
After arching into the dense shrubs, he still resigned to his fate and continued to run upward. The shrapnel exploded by 64 grenades would hit the fragile branches and leaves of the shrubs and fly around while piercing into the more fragile human body.
At least fifty or sixty people were injured or disabled in this grenade battle, and many were killed on the spot.
The four heavy machine guns that fired without hesitation of bullets were no longer as arrogant as before. In order to kill them in one fell swoop and not leave them a way to survive, Liu Jinzuo, who was responsible for providing fire support to the second platoon, had been directing four mortars to target them for a while.