"Baga, this is a permanent firepower point and a machine gun bunker. We can't suppress them at all!" A sergeant rushed over and reported hurriedly.
"Hide on the spot, get down, hide first, and wait until the bombers knock out this firepower point before we attack!" Seeing that his subordinates had lost more than 20 people, the squad leader ordered with heartache and helplessness.
"Still not working!" Just a few seconds later, the sergeant rushed over and shouted.
"The Japanese machine gun bunker is located high up. Even if we lie down, they can still shoot at us!"
The team leader was also anxious: "Then continue the attack, ignore them, and continue to rush towards the Eighth Route Army position. Leave the machine gun bunkers to the artillery and bombers to clean up!"
As soon as the machine gun bunker on the left wing of the Japanese enemy's headquarters was exposed, the chief of staff showed a heartfelt expression of admiration for Major General Ono.
Then he subconsciously ordered: "The artillery will launch signal flares immediately to guide the bombers to the bombing target, hurry up!"
"Woooooooo..." The shrieking shells flew towards the machine gun bunker that had just been exposed by the Independent Regiment in a short time.
Several shells did not explode, but clouds of thick red smoke rose up, and then instantly enveloped the entire machine gun bunker.
The three machine gun groups in the bunker were pouring bullets wildly out. As soon as they saw the signal smoke rising and dying outside the bunker, the machine gun squad leader shouted loudly.
"Stop shooting, evacuate the bunker immediately, evacuate immediately!"
"The light machine gun team leaves first, and the heavy machine gun team follows suit and rush out!"
The gunner carrying a Czech-made machine gun just rushed out of the bunker and ran back along the traffic ditch. The deputy gunner rushed out right behind carrying a box of bullets.
"Hurry up, speed up, the Japanese bombers are about to start diving!" the squad leader following the heavy machine gun team urged loudly.
"Woooooo!" As soon as they finished speaking, the huge roar and scream caused by the bomber's dive sounded above their heads.
"Boom!" Immediately afterwards, an earth-shaking explosion sounded behind them.
Fortunately, the bomb dropped by the Japanese bomber landed on the other side of the machine gun bunker. Although the explosion was very powerful and blew up a lot of rubble and dead wood into the sky, it did not affect the three retreating machine gun groups.
"Run quickly, the little Japs are starting to drop bombs from the plane!" The squad leader was startled at first, and then he shouted loudly with an expression as if he was surviving a disaster.
"Run quickly, retreat to the back!" The retreating machine gunner was also frightened. Without saying a word, he spread his legs and rushed towards the machine gun bunker in the middle of the position.
"Boom!" Another explosion accompanied by a scream sounded behind them.
This time, the bomb hit the top of the bunker and exploded.
Although it was not known whether the bunker could withstand this explosion, the powerful air wave overturned the two machine gunners who had retreated thirty to forty meters away, which shows the powerful power of this heavy aviation bomb.
"Company commander, all three machine gun groups have withdrawn. It's too dangerous. Just a little bit, three machine gun groups will die on the way back!" the instructor rushed to Li Binshan and reported with a look of lingering fear.
"The machine gun bunker on the left wing is definitely finished. It was hit by three heavy bombs and was almost destroyed if not in ruins!" Li Binshan replied with a gloomy face.
"But time is running out, the Japs are about to rush to fifty meters!" the instructor asked very anxiously.
Li Binshan immediately began to give orders: "Then prepare grenades and grenades, and use grenades to greet the Japanese."
"The remaining two machine gun bunkers are all ready. We will fire as soon as our grenades explode. We must clean up the more than a hundred Japanese left on the battlefield!"
At the enemy headquarters in front of the Independent Regiment, except for Wang Ping, who still had a calm expression. Political Commissar Cheng Xiao and Chief of Staff Zeng Quan both had worried faces, staring at the battlefield with binoculars, motionless, and sighing from time to time.
"Captain, the Japanese offensive is too fierce, with powerful firepower, and they also use the Imperial Army as cannon fodder to coordinate the attack. According to this method of attack, if the second line of defense resists the Japanese army, this attack will have to be abandoned!" Staff Officer
Chang Zengquan reminded with a worried look on his face.
Cheng Xiao then added: "There were also Japanese grenades and mortars, which were very tricky. The whole battle was non-stop. According to Zhang Yunshan's report, they were responsible for most of our soldiers' losses!"
Wang Ping put down the telescope and analyzed with a frown.
"The Japs have learned the lessons from the first attack and changed their attack methods!"
"There are field artillery on the ground, bombers in the air, more troops and better fighters than us. Fighting against such an enemy with almost no shortcomings, and being able to win like this is already very good!"
"Political Commissar, Chief of Staff, no matter how bad the situation is or how brutal the battlefield is, we all must have confidence. Otherwise, the morale of the independent regiment will definitely be greatly affected!"
Cheng Xiao immediately supported: "Captain, you are right, we must have confidence!"
Then he changed the topic and continued: "However, the Japanese offensive is too fierce. In just over an hour, a line of defense has been lost. At this rate of loss, we will not be able to hold on tomorrow night, or even at noon tomorrow.
Not even there!”
Chief of Staff Zeng Quan was also anxious: "There are also machine gun bunkers that we built at a great cost. Except for the three bunkers on the first line of defense, I guess the bunkers in the back will not be of much use. The Japs' bombers are just staring at them.
Our bunker will be destroyed as soon as it is exposed!"
"Captain, we must find a solution to change this bad situation. Otherwise, our independent regiment will definitely not be able to complete the tasks assigned to us by the military division!"
Wang Ping frowned and said nothing, staring at the battlefield filled with artillery fire and lost in thought.
At this time, the remaining two machine gun bunkers on the second line of defense had begun to counterattack. A total of two heavy machine guns, four made in the Czech Republic, fired at the same time. The dense bullets were like rain, condescendingly harvesting the lives of the Japanese on the battlefield.
The grenades and hand grenades that kept hitting the enemy's side also killed and injured the surrounding Japanese and puppet troops in violent explosions.
But it did not last long, as the two machine gun bunkers were successively destroyed by Japanese bombers. The dense rain of grenades also stopped because the grenades were exhausted.
There were more than 40 Japanese and puppet troops left on the battlefield. They rushed out of the smoke-filled battlefield and charged towards Li Binshan, as if they were crazy.
Most of the dozens of Japanese soldiers were beaten to death on the road, but a dozen people still rushed into the position with bayonets drawn.
Although the Japanese were very capable with bayonets, they could not stand up to the large number of Eighth Route soldiers and would shoot them with pistols from time to time.
More than a dozen Japanese soldiers were killed before they could hold out for even half a minute.
