After finally leaving the road, Major Qiu Shui gradually calmed down.
"The Eighth Route Army is bullying us because we don't have infantry artillery that can compete with us, Bagh Yalu!"
"As for the deputy captain, order all the troops to get off the road and disperse as much as possible to reduce the casualties caused to us by the Eighth Route Army's shelling as much as possible!"
What puzzled Major Qiu Shui was that after the order was given, he did not hear the familiar reply from the deputy captain.
I subconsciously looked around, thinking that the vice-captain had become separated during the transfer just now, and wanted to find him.
The guard squad leader suddenly rushed over and reported: "Captain, the deputy captain died in the battle! Two squadron captains also died in the battle and were not transferred out!"
"Nani? How could this happen?" Having lost three of his confidants at once, one can imagine the pain in Qiu Shui's heart. He froze on the spot and did not react for several seconds.
The squad leader quickly explained: "Most of the soldiers in the guard were on guard outside. When the artillery shells came, there were only a dozen guards around, and they all protected you. The deputy captain and the others had no one to protect them, and a shell hit them directly.
Explosion among them!”
Major Qiu Shui, who was just about to curse the guard for malfeasance, already had the words on his lips. But after hearing this excuse, he could only swallow the words he had not yet spoken.
The reason why several of his subordinates died was because the guards came to protect them. If the guard had sent some people to protect them, then he might be the one who fell on the road now.
The guards were so loyal and well-intentioned to him. If he still scolded them, wouldn't he have let them down and made them feel chilled?
"Boom, boom, boom..." At this moment, the third round of explosions on the highway reached Qiu Shui's ears.
Seeing that there were still soldiers killed and injured, Qiu Shui immediately pointed at the captain of the guard and ordered: "If you don't have the deputy captain to serve as deputy captain, notify all troops immediately to get off the road and disperse immediately to avoid the shelling!"
On the battlefield, more than three hundred Japanese soldiers had already rushed to a position fifty or sixty meters in front of the formation, and many of them were ready to start the final sprint.
At this moment, all the dense bullets covering Zhou Zhengyang's head disappeared, leaving only a few scattered rifle bullets flying behind, which could not threaten everyone's safety.
Zhou Zhengyang, who had a worried expression just now, instantly became enthusiastic.
"Grenade, counterattack against the Japanese grenade. Others will attack the Japanese attacking troops. Counterattack immediately!"
A dense row of heads suddenly appeared in the position where there had been no movement just now.
A dozen light and heavy machine guns were also set up, plus about two hundred rifles, and a row of black muzzles appeared directly in front of the Japanese.
Because it was still night, the Japanese couldn't see very clearly, so they still charged forward with their rifles straight.
Zhou Zhengyang was not polite and shouted directly: "Shoot, shoot everyone!"
"Da da da..." Dense and chaotic gunshots rang out instantly, and dozens of tongues of flame suddenly appeared in the pitch-black Eighth Route Army blocking position.
The whizzing bullets flew towards the Japanese as if they were free of charge.
"Baga, it's a machine gun, everyone, hurry up and take cover!" There is a machine gun every seven or eight meters, with a lot of rifles mixed in between. The density of bullets fired by so many light and heavy machine guns and rifles can be imagined.
However, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as airtight.
The Japanese second lieutenant who rushed at the front was a veteran, and he knew very well how terrifying it was to have so many light and heavy machine guns firing at the same time.
In the face of such dense bullets, it is not so much an attack as it is a collision with an iron wall. Whoever hits it will die. There is no possibility of rushing over. Therefore, the experienced man subconsciously ordered his men to lie on the ground and hide.
However, the firepower fired by the Eighth Route Army was too sudden, and they were in the midst of anticipation and excitement that they were about to capture the Eighth Route Army's position. It was impossible for them to react so quickly if they were caught off guard, including the squad leader.
As soon as he screamed in terror, a barrage of bullets swept towards him, and they were all heavy machine gun bullets.
"Chichichi!" The team leader clearly felt several bullets piercing his stomach, and then he felt an unprecedented pain that quickly spread throughout his body.
"Baga! I was shot..."
Before he finished speaking, the team leader fell backwards to the ground with a look of despair.
Almost all of the more than fifty Japs under his command were beaten to death without even a chance to react.
The squadron leader leading the team behind was also frightened by the exposed firepower of the Eighth Route Army, but he must have been unwilling to retreat when faced with the Eighth Route Army's position being so close to him.
Finally, he gave a cruel order: "Keep going forward, warriors, kill them all!"
"Grenade and machine gunner cover, the grenade will kill the Eighth Route Army's machine gun firepower point immediately!"
"Boom, boom, boom..." As soon as the order was given, a series of explosions sounded behind the Japanese infantry.
The Japanese grenade launchers had been arrogant for such a long time. The squad leader of Zhou Zhengyang's small artillery squad had already kept a close eye on them, with more than a dozen grenade launchers pointed at them, waiting for Zhou Zhengyang to give the order to counterattack.
So, at the moment when more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns fired, more than a dozen special grenade grenades also hit the Japanese grenade position.
Although many grenade launchers were novices who had fired live ammunition for the first time, with their numerical advantage, five grenades were still thrown directly into the Japanese position. In the violent explosion, a dozen grenade launchers squatting on the ground were killed on the spot.
blown away.
"Counterattack, counterattack immediately!" Several Japanese sergeants shouted orders.
In this way, there were more than 20 grenade launchers on both sides, firing grenades at each other. It was impossible to provide support to the infantry.
"Da da da..." The more the attacking Japs pushed forward, the more intense the Eighth Route Army's blocking fire became.
On the short offensive road, Japanese soldiers continued to fall down and die on the offensive road. However, the death of the Japanese soldiers in front did not affect the Japanese soldiers behind who continued to rush forward. Soon, a layer of Japanese soldiers fell down more than fifty meters in front of the formation.
The Japanese corpses were densely packed. No matter how hard the Japanese behind them rushed forward and how unafraid they were of death, they could never cross this line!
Major Qiu Shui, who was supervising the battle from behind, was also staring at the battlefield.
The expression on his face that was determined to win just now has now become dumbfounded.
He did not expect that the Eighth Route Army he was dealing with not only had powerful artillery fire, but also such powerful machine gun firepower.
Is this really a small force of the Eighth Route Army? Major Qiu Shui subconsciously had doubts about the intelligence reported to him by the brigade headquarters.
If small units of the Eighth Route Army have such powerful firepower, how powerful must the firepower of their main force be?
Although he had no answer in his mind, he knew one thing very well: the firepower of the Eighth Route Army's blocking troops was so powerful that it was absolutely impossible for the offensive troops on the position to break through their defense lines.
Since we can't rush forward, this attack is meaningless.
Major Qiu Shui frowned and ordered: "Retreat, order the attacking troops to retreat immediately! Be quick, or they will all die!"
