Therefore, after the Japanese artillery shells came over, although the thick smoke blocked the machine gunner's field of vision, as long as the watchman squad leader's field of vision was not blocked, the whizzing machine gun bullets continued to fly towards the Japanese as if they had eyes.
"Baga, what's going on? Why is our artillery bombardment ineffective!" Seeing dozens of subordinates being beaten to death on the way back, Qiu Shuizuo was shocked again and asked unceremoniously to the subordinates around him.
Ono didn't know that the Eighth Route Army had divided their entire retreat road into dozens of shooting zones, and he didn't know that the Eighth Route Army machine gunners only needed to know the shooting zones to hit his men with whizzing bullets.
There were more than 500 imperial troops in three infantry squadrons, but in the end less than one infantry squadron successfully retreated.
After listening to the deputy captain's casualty report, Qiu Shuizuo almost fainted from fright.
"Another two infantry squadrons were completely wiped out. I will definitely kill all the cunning Eighth Route Army troops on Bageya Road and avenge the fallen warriors!" Qiu Shuizuo cursed loudly with an angry expression of gritted teeth.
After scolding, he lowered his head and walked to Major General Ono: "General, I let you down. I failed to capture the Eighth Route Army position and lost two more infantry squadrons. Please punish me, General!"
Ono had a gloomy face and said nothing.
After staring at the Eighth Route Army position that had returned to tranquility a few hundred meters away for a full minute, he said, "Qiu Shuijun, it's not your fault!"
"The Eighth Route Army was so cunning that they actually hid a machine gun bunker, and it was exposed at that time. Whoever it was placed on, the attacking troops would suffer heavy losses!"
"Thank you, General!" Colonel Qiu Shui breathed a sigh of relief and replied with a grateful look on his face.
Then he asked Ono: "But General, if the Eighth Route Army's machine gun bunkers cannot be destroyed, the warriors will not be able to attack at all!"
The captain of the artillery brigade responded: "Mortars have no effect on bunkers, so the Eighth Route Army must have used cement when building these machine gun bunkers. In this case, the mountain cannons and field guns in the hands of humble personnel must not have much effect."
"Then ask the Army Air Force to support us and use aerial bombs to destroy these machine gun bunkers!" Ono replied with a gloomy face.
"We have watched the battle just now. If it were not for these machine gun bunkers, Qiu Shuijun's men would definitely be able to break through the Eighth Route Army's defense line. Therefore, we must destroy these machine gun bunkers before we attack!"
"Hi!" the brigade chief of staff shouted in response.
At the second battalion headquarters, battalion commander Zhang Yunshan witnessed the entire battle.
As soon as the battle ended, Zhang Yunshan showed a very satisfied smile on his face.
Instructor Wang Liang did not hesitate to praise: "Yang Xiong is indeed a good fighter. In the battle just now, at least two squadrons of Japanese were eliminated!"
"Coupled with the Japanese and puppet troops that were eliminated earlier, the casualty ratio was basically controlled to one to two, and we still fought head-on with the Japanese on a frontal battlefield. This is an amazing achievement."
Zhang Yunshan nodded and affirmed: "Especially in the last battle, first show weakness to the Japanese, and then give them a fatal blow when the Japanese are extremely arrogant, directly eating up two Japanese infantry squadrons, and beating them so hard that the Japanese have no room to fight back."
, it can definitely be called a miracle!”
"But, having said that, Yang Xiong has caused the Japanese to suffer such a big loss. With the Japanese's unyielding character, he will definitely retaliate!"
"Old Wang, how long is it until the three hours the group leader gave us?"
"Less than twenty minutes!" Wang Liang replied as he glanced at the watch on his wrist.
Because the Independent Regiment captured a lot, basically every military and political officer above the battalion had a watch.
Now, Wang Ping is further popularizing watches to company-level officers. Because he understands the importance of time to war better than anyone else. Mastering time often means knowing the outcome of the war.
"The Japs must be waiting for aircraft support now, so they will definitely not launch an attack in the next twenty minutes. Contact Yang Xiong, abandon the position, withdraw all the troops, and the machine gunners of the machine gun bunker also withdraw. If the Japs bombing does not destroy it
Let’s use it again!”
"Also, order the engineer platoon to bring mines into the position. Hide in the artillery holes first, and then lay the mines after the Japanese attack."
"Even if we give up our position, the enemy cannot easily occupy it! We must make them pay the price!"
Less than ten minutes after Yang Xiong and his team withdrew from the position, the huge roar of aircraft sounded over the battlefield.
Soon, three bombers appeared over the battlefield.
The Japanese artillery that had been idle for nearly half an hour suddenly opened fire, but what was surprising was that on the battlefield, only the scream of the shells streaking across the sky was heard, and no explosion was heard.
But not long after, the red smoke suddenly rising from the position gave everyone an explanation.
Instead of firing artillery shells, the Japanese fired flares to guide aircraft bombing.
Careful people will find that several signal bombs all hit the location of the three machine gun bunkers.
Not long after, the three machine gun bunkers were enveloped in thick red smoke.
The three bombers were like eagles that had found their prey, and they dived down to the ground with a shrill scream that broke through the sky.
"Boooooooo...boom, boom, boom..." Soon, a violent explosion sounded on the battlefield.
Several plumes of thick black smoke rose into the sky, and the three machine gun bunkers were immediately enveloped in gunpowder smoke.
Three bombers, one bomber stared at a machine gun bunker, and kept smashing the aerial bombs in the belly of the aircraft into the bunker.
After blowing up the bunker, the three bombers then threw all the remaining bombs at the position. After nearly ten minutes of arrogance, they left the battlefield in a show of force.
However, one bomber did not leave and had been cruising and alerting over the battlefield, ready to provide support to the ground offensive forces at any time.
At this time, the Japanese artillery brigade followed the bombardment and covered the position with artillery fire just like before. There was no doubt that the three machine gun bunkers were heavily bombarded by the artillery.
Battalion Commander Zhang Yunshan immediately ordered: "Notify the engineer platoon to rush forward as soon as the shelling stops and prepare thirty landmines for the Japanese."
"The light and heavy machine guns that were withdrawn just now are ready. If the bunker is not destroyed, go back immediately and add another one to the Japanese attack force."
"But be sure to note that you must wait for the Japanese to approach before you can fire, so that their airborne warning bombers will be ineffective. However, as soon as the Japanese retreat, the machine gun team must also exit the bunker immediately!"
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