Chapter 217 Devils are more difficult to deal with
In his heart, he was very satisfied with the artillery brigade captain's clever decision, but Ono couldn't show it in front of several senior officers of the garrison brigade.
He stared at the battlefield with his binoculars and ordered: "Prepare the artillery fire for ten minutes. Mr. Qiu Shui, I will leave the next attack to you. You must break through the Eighth Route Army's defense line in one attack!"
Qiu Shui, who had just been promoted from major to lieutenant colonel, wanted to express himself in front of the general.
He accepted the task without saying a word: "Please rest assured, General, I promise that I will live up to your high expectations,"
Then he reported to Ono: "I plan to use a squadron to attack from the front and two squadrons to outflank the attack. Under the cover of all the heavy machine guns and mortars directly under the brigade, I will launch an all-out attack and break through the Eighth Route Army's defense line in one fell swoop!"
"The Japanese have begun to attack!" As soon as the fierce artillery fire stopped, an exclamation sounded from the position.
After replenishing two garrison platoons, Yang Xiong once again had more than 200 troops.
Without saying a word, he picked up a rifle and rushed out of the shell-proof hole.
At this time, the trench in front of Yang Xiong was even more seriously damaged.
In many places, even the shadow of the trenches was not visible, and they were directly blown up. Fortunately, the shell-proof holes where everyone was hiding were strong enough, and none of the gun-proof holes were blown down in the bombardment.
"Quickly enter the position, repair the trenches, and if there are no trenches, just use the bomb craters as bunkers. Hurry up, the Japs are coming!" Although he was shocked by the huge power of the shelling, Yang Xiong reacted quickly and shouted loudly.
"The machine gunners are in position and ready to counterattack!"
"The small artillery squad is keeping an eye on the Japanese heavy machine guns. We cannot let them suppress us unscrupulously!"
"Boom, boom, boom!" During the whole process, the explosion of mortar shells continued to sound on the battlefield without stopping.
However, after the bloody battle just now, the soldiers who are still alive now, no matter how powerful they are, can still at least dodge artillery fire.
Except for the two garrison platoons that had just come up and had not yet adapted to the battlefield, and were constantly being killed and injured by artillery shells in panic, few soldiers who had experienced the first bloody battle and survived had been killed by Japanese artillery fire, unless the artillery shells
It hit directly and exploded.
"Machine gunner, counterattack, remember to move the machine gun position, the Japanese grenade is not a vegetarian!" Yang Xiong threw away the engineer shovel, lay down on the trench and shouted an order.
"Click, click, click..." A total of ten crooked guns fired instantly, shooting nearly a hundred bullets at the Japs more than a hundred meters away.
The whizzing bullets flew towards them in a fan shape, immediately covering the dozen or so Japs at the front. Their bodies were shot and they fell to the ground.
"Bageya Road, how come the Eighth Route Army still has such powerful firepower!" the squadron leader led by the Japs shouted with disbelief.
Then he ordered: "Pay attention to concealment and continue to attack!"
"Grenade counterattack, knock out the defender's machine gun. Suppress the machine gunner's fire, keep charging forward, kill them all!"
The captain of the heavy machine gun squadron behind also immediately ordered: "Keep an eye on the Chinese machine guns and shoot immediately. Don't let them shoot again and massacre our imperial warriors."
"Boom, boom, boom..." Suddenly, a series of explosions sounded around him.
Six grenades fell from the sky and hit his heavy machine gun position directly.
One of the heavy machine guns was very unfortunate and was blown to pieces. Another heavy machine gun misfired. Seven or eight machine gunners around him were either directly killed or seriously injured and fell to the ground screaming.
"Bage Ya Road, we are being targeted by the Eighth Route Army's grenade, move immediately!" The squadron leader panicked and shouted loudly.
The leader of the Japanese mortar squadron, who was worried that there was no target for shelling, smiled: "Hey, the Eighth Route Army's grenades have finally been dispatched. They must be destroyed immediately, otherwise the heavy machine guns will not be able to fully cover the infantry attack!"
"The first and second teams found the Eighth Route Army grenade and destroyed it. The third and fourth teams continued to shell the Chinese positions to cover the infantry attack!"
The artillerymen who pursued the idea of firing one shot and moving to another position had no intention of giving the Japanese a chance to counterattack.
When six mortar shells hit with a scream, two small artillery squads had already moved dozens of meters away to fire a second round of grenades at the Japanese.
The main light machine guns holding the position were very lucky at first, and their constant shifting of positions allowed them to avoid Japanese grenade attacks again and again.
However, the Japanese are not fools either.
"The Chinese machine guns are constantly moving, and there is no way to lock them!" A Japanese grenadier saw that one of the grenades he fired had missed again, and he shouted with a look of reluctance.
A sergeant frowned and ordered: "Gather the grenades and use them!"
"A group of three grenades will cover the machine gun position with shelling. No matter how fast the Chinese move, they cannot move faster than the speed of grenades!"
"Inform the squadron leader to further strengthen the offensive firepower and suppress the Chinese machine guns!"
"Boom, boom, boom!" One of the three grenades exploded on the machine gun position that the Eighth Route Army machine gunner had just abandoned, and the other two grenades exploded five or six meters away from the position.
A machine gun team of two soldiers, carrying machine guns, has just moved here.
The violent explosion knocked them over without any accident, and they fell to the ground in a bloody mess.
"Stretcher team, carry them down quickly. The machine guns can still be used. Here are two people who know how to fire machine guns. Continue to fight back!"
As soon as the Japanese army changed direction, the machine gunners began to suffer casualties, and the machine guns were constantly damaged.
Yang Xiong frowned and ordered: "Riflemen shoot freely and prepare grenades. The Japs are attacking too hard!"
The Japs are indeed Japs. On the surface, they look just like the puppet troops before. They form a line of skirmishers and charge forward with rifles in hand.
But their charge was very skillful. Not only did they charge faster, but they also ran in an S-way, making it impossible for the Eighth Route Army on the position to target them.
Only by firing a bunch of bullets at them from the machine gun and sealing off the entire area around them could the Japanese be hit.
When more than 180 Japanese soldiers rushed all the way from 200 meters to 100 meters, the total loss was less than one infantry squad.
And his own casualties actually exceeded one platoon, although these casualties were caused by Japanese shelling and heavy machine gun fire.
However, this also made Yang Xiong realize that the Japs were difficult to deal with, and he was ready to use grenades to hit the Japs at close range.
Because the Japanese attack firepower was too fierce, the riflemen could not fire volleys at the Japanese together, and the sparse bullets could not cause too many casualties to the Japanese.
Therefore, although the riflemen's shooting increased the Japanese casualties a lot, it did not stop them.
The Japanese in the skirmish line continued to advance towards the first company position.
At this moment, a slightly panicked cry suddenly reached Yang Xiong's ears!
"Enemies, we have enemies on both sides, company commander, the Japanese are coming up from our flanks!"
"Are there many people?" Yang Xiong was also anxious and asked immediately.
I only placed one infantry squad on both wings. If the Japanese invaded the position and then broke through from the flanks to the center, the entire defense line would definitely collapse due to the failure of the flanks.