"Baga, we have been fooled. The Eighth Route Army on the high ground is actually equipped with heavy machine guns. Attacking in front of heavy machine guns will lead to death. It is a one-sided massacre!" The Japanese squadron leader's face instantly turned pale, and then he shouted with a look of despair.
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While he was talking, a dozen more subordinates screamed and were beaten into a hornet's nest by machine gun bullets.
The squadron leader immediately reacted and ordered: "Stop, stop attacking, take cover on the spot, and don't risk your death again."
The Japanese army, which was originally small, lost about 40 people in just a few seconds.
Although the remaining forty or fifty Japanese were lying on the ground alive, everyone had a look of horror on their faces.
Many people have not yet recovered from the shock just now. They look at the corpses of their killed comrades around them in a daze, and the more they look at them, the more frightened they become.
After killing so many Japs at once, Zhang Qing no longer planned to continue the stalemate with the remaining dozens of Japs.
Although all 7 Japanese troops were lying on the ground and had lost their target, several light and heavy machine guns on the high ground continued to fire, and the whizzing bullets flew back close to the Japs' heads, giving them no chance to counterattack.
Then he waved his hand and gave a decisive order: "Second company, move forward and greet them with grenades. The others will provide fire cover!"
At this time, several Japanese soldiers saw the Eighth Route Army moving down the mountain, and subconsciously wanted to raise their rifles to fight back.
However, as soon as their heads emerged from the grass, a string of heavy machine gun bullets came towards them. Immediately afterwards, the sound of "chichichi..." was heard as a string of bullets penetrated the flesh. The devil was directly hit by several bullets.
Then he died instantly and fell to the ground.
After several people died in a row, the Japanese soldiers lying at the foot of the mountain could only rely on their feelings and shoot blindly at the top of the mountain without raising their heads.
Although a few unlucky Eighth Route Army soldiers were hit, they could not stop the Eighth Route Army soldiers from approaching the foot of the mountain where they were with grenades.
"When preparing a grenade, remember to hold it in your hand for three seconds before throwing it out. Throw it!" The platoon leader took out the grenade, fired it, counted three times in his mind, and then threw it at the Japanese.
Following this, more than twenty black grenades flew towards the Japanese army.
"Rumble..." Soon, a violent explosion sounded at the foot of the mountain dozens of meters away.
More than 20 grenades, some exploded in the air, and some exploded on the ground, creating a death zone directly at the foot of the mountain.
Even if many Japanese soldiers were lying on the ground, the flying grenade fragments could still easily penetrate their bodies, leaving them bloody and bloody.
The explosion of the first round of grenades has not stopped, the second round of grenades flew out, then the third round, the fourth round...
It wasn't until the foot of the mountain where the Japanese were hiding was completely shrouded in gunpowder smoke and explosions that the platoon stopped. Then they held the rifles on their backs in their hands, loaded the bullets, and were ready to attack!
Zhang Qing, who had been staring at the foot of the mountain on the high ground, immediately ordered: "Attack and destroy the remaining Japanese enemies!"
The dozen or so Japs who were still alive knew that they would definitely die today, so they calmed down in the face of the oncoming Eighth Route Army.
A second lieutenant squad leader who was still alive shouted loudly: "Warriors, fight with the Eighth Route Army. Fight one to death to earn one, fight two to earn one! Form a bayonet array and prepare to fight the Eighth Route Army!"
.More than a dozen Japanese soldiers formed a group of three and quickly formed four bayonet arrays. They held rifles with bayonets in hand and were ready to assassinate.
The second company and the first platoon were closest to the Japanese and would definitely be the first to rush to the battlefield.
"You bastard little devils, you haven't suffered enough yet. I don't have to fight you with bayonets even if you have guns. You think our Eighth Route Army is a fool!" a platoon leader said with a sneer.
Then he ordered: "Comrades, don't worry about the Japanese. Shoot immediately and use bullets to deal with them. Machine gunners, shoot immediately!"
Before he finished speaking, the platoon leader himself had already raised his pistol and pulled the trigger amidst the angry yells of the Japanese soldiers.
A string of bullets flew past, and the three Japanese soldiers at the front were killed instantly. When they fell to the ground, they still had an expression of disbelief on their faces.
The rifleman and machine gunner next to him followed suit and pulled the trigger.
Amidst the chaotic gunfire, it took only two seconds for more than a dozen Japanese soldiers to fall to the ground, without even a chance to hide.
"Commander, the battle is over!" Commander Tang Zhi, deputy commander of the guard company at the regiment headquarters, said with a sigh of relief.
The heavy expression on Wang Ping's face did not change. He took a long breath and said: "It's over, but the casualties of the troops are too great, far beyond our ability to bear it!"
Tang Zhijun fell silent immediately. Although the casualties of the two battalions have not yet been calculated, we can get a rough idea through visual inspection.
It was okay to ambush the two companies of the Japanese reinforced squadron, because they had strong firepower and preparations, so the casualties were not large.
But the three companies that fought the Japanese army as the Imperial Army were not so lucky. Whether they underestimated the enemy or lacked strong firepower, they all caused very heavy casualties to themselves.
Tang Zhijun didn't know how to comfort Wang Ping, so he could only say in a different way: "Commander, the casualties were heavy, but our results were also great. We wiped out more than 600 Japanese, and no one escaped. This is definitely a great victory."
An unprecedented victory!"
Wang Ping shook his head and replied: "More than six hundred Japs, it sounds like a lot, but it would be good to have 150 real veterans. If it weren't for the fact that there are so many Japs recruits who have not yet completed their training, we would definitely not be like this."
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"Also, if we hadn't been fooled by the Japs and treated the three hundred Japs as the Imperial Alliance Army, our casualties would have been reduced by at least half, or even more!"
Tang Zhijun didn't know how to answer this question. After thinking about it, he asked: "Captain, what are we going to do next?"
"The Japs have set up such a big plan for us to make us lose our troops. If we don't take revenge and avenge the sacrificed soldiers, that is not my style, Wang Ping. I want to take revenge and let the Japs know what will happen to me, Wang Ping!"
Wang Ping answered with a calm face, his words full of murderous intent!
Taking revenge on the Japanese army meant that there was a war to fight. As a militant, Tang Zhijun immediately became fanatical.
Then he stared at Wang Ping and asked: "Captain, how to retaliate against them!"
"Originally I just wanted to eat these Japs, but since the Japs plotted against us, then I will eat another cavalry brigade of them!"
"Now go to the battlefield and call all the battalion commanders over. I want to arrange combat missions!"
When Wang Ping arrived at the battlefield, not only the two battalion commanders Zhang Qing and Zhang Yunshan came, but also the chief of staff Zeng Quan and the third battalion commander Yan Song.
Wang Ping was not polite and directly expressed his thoughts: "The cavalry correspondent sent back by the company just now reported that Laiyuan City has sent another cavalry brigade over!"
"Zhang Yunshan, you just said that the radio station equipped by the Japs was directly blown up by a grenade during the battle. Although it is a pity, it also means that the Japs in Laiyuan City do not know that more than 600 Japanese troops have been wiped out by us!"
"This creates an opportunity for us, an opportunity to completely annihilate the Japanese cavalry brigade!"