Under the fierce shelling, a squadron of Japanese soldiers formed a skirmish line and quickly approached the fourth battalion's position.
Although they were very close, and shells kept hitting and exploding around them, and even took away the lives of one or two soldiers from time to time. However, the Japanese still had no intention of stopping and continued to approach the fourth battalion position that was already covered by artillery fire.
"Da da da... kill me~"
As soon as the shelling stopped, the heavy machine guns provided by the Japanese to provide cover fire rang out.
Nearly twenty heavy machine guns lined up in a row, staring at the 4th Battalion's position and firing. The whizzing bullets looked like they had eyes, flying back close to the 4th Battalion's position. There were also many bullets that directly penetrated into the sandbag bunkers on the position.
Inside, the battle ground was filled with dust!
More than a hundred Japanese soldiers rushed forward less than twenty meters with rifles in hand and started throwing grenades.
The originally dusty Fourth Battalion position, after rounds of grenade bombardments, became filled with thick smoke and gunpowder, making it difficult to see even one's fingers.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Japanese quickly rushed into position...
"Sir, apart from the Eighth Route Army corpses and scattered weapons and ammunition, there is not a single living Eighth Route Army soldier on the position!" A second lieutenant communications officer rushed over from the battlefield and reported.
"They ran away!" the major judged after a moment of confusion.
Captain Harada, who held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, frowned. After hesitating for a few seconds, he affirmed: "The Eighth Route Army is best at guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare. If it fights positional warfare, it will not only cause heavy casualties, but also require a large amount of ammunition to support it!"
Then he stared at the second lieutenant communications officer and asked: "You just said that there are still many weapons on the position that the Eighth Route Army did not have time to take away?"
"Hi!" the second lieutenant replied immediately.
"There are still two heavy machine guns that I didn't have time to take away!"
"Haha, I can definitely say that the Eighth Route Army in front of us must have suffered too many casualties and had to retreat hastily. In addition, the artillery fire we just fired was very urgent. In order to reduce the casualties, we had to give up those weapons and ammunition!" Harada
Lieutenant Colonel made his judgment with confidence.
The major asked with a thoughtful look on his face: "Harada-kun, you mean that the Eighth Route Army that blocked us suffered heavy casualties and lost its combat effectiveness, and then fled directly before our attack!"
Lieutenant Commander Harada thought for a while and confirmed: "That's 80% true, but we still can't take it lightly. Even if they lose their combat effectiveness, the remaining stragglers can continue to attack us through guerrilla warfare and mobile warfare, causing us casualties!"
"Leave one squadron to guard here, and the other troops quickly pass through the Eighth Route Army's blocking position, rush into their base, and meet the mixed brigade that has broken through!"
On a high ground next to the highway, Rong Jun stood at the highest point, holding up a telescope and staring at a fire dragon formed by Japanese torches on the highway.
When the fire dragon reached the foot of the mountain, the cautious Japanese did not rush forward.
Rifles, machine guns, grenades, and mortars launched a sudden fire attack on the top of the mountain. After confirming that there was no movement on the mountain, the fire dragon continued to move along the road and got into the pocket formation prepared for them by the Invalids.
"Battal Commander, more than 400 little devils have already entered!" the deputy battalion commander next to him reminded!
"There are more than 600 little Japs, and the Japs' forward troops are about to leave the pocket formation..." the deputy battalion commander continued to remind.
Rong Jun decisively ordered: "Send the signal and start attacking!"
Three signal bombs were fired, and six thick tongues of heavy machine gun fire suddenly appeared on the mountainside where there had been no movement just now.
The dense sound of gunfire was like the God of Death screaming, bullets flying down the road for free.
In the blink of an eye, a large number of Japanese soldiers on the road at the foot of the mountain were killed or injured. The Japanese soldiers who were still alive quickly moved to both sides of the road, trying to get out of the effective range of the heavy machine gun. As a result, a vacuum zone with a length of more than 100 meters appeared on the road!
Because he was not very far from the foot of the mountain, Harada was frightened by the sudden blow. Under the protection of the guards, he quickly retreated out of the range of the heavy machine gun before reacting.
"Bageya Road, how come the Eighth Route Army still has such strong firepower on the mountainside!"
"What do you mean by shooting now and splitting us in two? Do you plan to divide and surround us and then kill us?"
"Artillery, fire immediately and kill the Eighth Route Army's firepower points on the mountainside!"
“Boom, boom, boom… da da da…”
As soon as the order was issued, perhaps before it reached the artillery unit, intensive gunfire came from another unit separated by fire.
"Baga, they really want to divide us and then kill the troops in front of us!" Lieutenant Colonel Harada's face turned pale and he cried out.
In the attack just now, the two brigades suffered nearly 200 casualties, and now another 600 people were divided by the Eighth Route Army. If these 600 people were also killed, then half of the imperial troops in the two brigades would be killed.
Harada couldn't imagine what kind of punishment he would face if such a result happened!
Then he cursed: "Bageya Road, what do artillerymen do for food? Why don't they fire!"
"The troops cut off by the Eighth Route Army's firepower are under attack. We must immediately destroy the firepower points on the mountainside and rush over to rescue them...the artillery fires immediately!"
The artillery responded quickly. In less than two minutes, several explosions were heard from several fire points, one after another, and the fire lasted for nearly a minute before stopping.
The intensive gunfire also stopped at this time.
However, the gunshots on the ambush battlefield became more and more intensive, and there were also a lot of explosions in between.
"The troops rush over immediately to reinforce the imperial army that is under attack!" Lieutenant Commander Harada ordered loudly with a stern face.
Immediately, two squadrons rushed out, along the road, and in less than half a minute they rushed to the foot of the mountain where corpses were scattered.
"Da da da……"
The mountainside, still shrouded in gunpowder smoke, once again heard intensive heavy machine gun fire.
The Japanese who rushed to the foot of the mountain were no match at all, and were beaten to death one by one. Then they retreated like a tide without waiting for Harada's orders, and dozens of corpses and seriously injured people who screamed in agony were added to the foot of the mountain!
"The artillery continues to fire, attack the firepower point on the mountainside first, capture the firepower point and then reinforce the troops in front!"
Soon Lieutenant Colonel Harada knew that several firepower points on the mountainside could not be taken down by just relying on the mountain cannon in his hand.
Either dispatch heavy artillery or aircraft, or order the troops to launch a suicide attack, using human lives to pile up the firepower, go directly to the firepower point, and use explosives to blow up the firepower point directly.
At this moment, there was a sudden burst of gunfire from the fourth battalion position that he had just captured.
"Boom boom boom..."
Immediately afterwards, the sound of explosions also reached his ears, and then he saw a large amount of fire rising from the position.
"Baga, our remaining squadron was attacked by the Eighth Route Army~"
"No, is it possible that the Eighth Route Army wants to catch a turtle in a urn, block us here, and annihilate us bit by bit, instead of just killing the imperial army that was attacked in front? On Bagya Road, isn't there only one battalion of the Eighth Route Army in front of us?
?Why do so many troops suddenly appear?"
No one answered his question, but the sound of gunfire coming from the direction of the remaining squadron became more and more intense!
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