Confidence is self-confidence, but Yang Xiong still raised his concerns: "But, Chief of Staff, we don't know how many combat units the Japanese have sent to use guerrilla warfare to deal with us. Therefore, the entire counterattack process will take time and may affect the artillery attack on the Japanese garrison."
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"No!" Zeng Quan answered firmly.
"You just said that we, the Eighth Route Army, are the ancestors of guerrilla warfare. The Japanese have only scratched the surface of what they call guerrilla warfare. I have plenty of ways to deal with them!"
"You just have to worry about dealing with the Japanese. I will take care of the problem of shelling their base!"
Yang Xiong immediately began to issue orders: "The first squad brought machine guns to speed up the march, and rushed to the left side of the road we must pass to hide. The second squad brought machine guns to hide on the right side, copying the enemy's rear route to sneak attack the troops. The others continued to maintain their positions.
Move forward quickly!”
Because the forest was too dark and dense, the Japanese who were moving around did not realize that the opponents they were following had divided their forces.
After arriving at the lurking position of the two squads, Yang Xiong immediately ordered the troops to stop, disperse their vigilance, and assume a posture of setting up artillery here.
In order to see what was going on and to warn the artillery stationed there, a dozen Japanese soldiers immediately formed a battle formation and moved toward the First Company.
However, what they did not expect was that as they were advancing, a dozen Eighth Route Army soldiers were hiding beside them, staring at them as they passed by without moving.
When they saw the Japs squatting down and raising their rifles to shoot, the squad leader stood up from the bushes where he was hiding, raised his pistols and shot the Japs in the back.
"Ta-ta-ta!" A shuttle of twenty bullets was fired by him in just a few seconds.
The backs of the four Japs gathered together were beaten into pieces on the spot, and they didn't even have a chance to turn back.
As soon as the squad leader fired, the machine gunners and riflemen nearby opened fire one after another.
Especially the crooked gun, when the night is shrouded in darkness, the flames and bullets spit out from the muzzle directly form a tongue of fire, killing the Japanese as much as they want.
"Baga, the enemy is attacking. The enemy is behind us. Fight back immediately?" The leader of the Japanese team was startled at first, and then shouted loudly.
However, in the sudden fire attack in less than three seconds, most of the fifteen Japanese soldiers in a combat unit had been killed or injured.
The machine gunner and the grenade launcher were all killed immediately.
The remaining five or six riflemen had just turned around, and before they had time to raise their guns to aim, another series of gunshots rang out behind them.
It turned out that the squad leader's firing was not only a signal for the attack of the first squad, but also the target of the Japanese sneak attack, the main force's counterattack to the west.
Dozens of rifles fired at the same time, and all the bullets flew towards the enemy's back.
Soon, all the dozen or so Japs were wiped out!
Chief of Staff Zeng Quan did not participate in this battle, but called the two company commanders of the fire company to his side.
"We have been targeted by the Japs. As soon as we stop, the Japs will fire warning shots to direct their artillery to bombard us. I believe everyone is still frightened by what happened just now. If I hadn't decisively ordered the retreat, everyone would have been attacked.
The Japanese counterattacks are covered by artillery fire!" Zeng Quan did not hide anything and directly stated the bad situation the troops were facing now.
"Then what should we do? Is this how tonight's sneak attack will end?" the commander of the Second Battalion Firepower Company asked with a frown.
"The battle has just begun, and it certainly can't end like this. Our mission is to sneak attack the Japanese army camp for one night, and if it ends like this, we have not completed the mission!" The commander of the third battalion's firepower company retorted directly.
"Then what do you think we should do? The Japanese artillery shells will hit us as soon as we stop, and we don't have time to bombard them. We can't just hold the mortars in our arms and fire them while walking!" the commander of the second battalion's firepower company replied helplessly.
Captain Yang of the third battalion fell silent immediately.
Mortars are not like other weapons. The powerful recoil and scorching barrel directly negate the idea of holding the gun in your arms and shooting.
At this moment, Zeng Quan, who had been silent until now, spoke up, and his words were shocking.
"Who says mortars can't fire while walking! As long as the arrangements are made, there will be no problem at all!"
Our entire team was nearly a hundred meters long. Because it was a mountain road with high mountains and dense forests, it took at least a minute to walk from start to finish.
"The Japanese garrison is very large, and we don't need to aim when bombarding. This means that it only takes a minute at most for a mortar to assemble, fire four shells, and then disassemble and retreat."
"When the two mortar teams are marching at the front of the team, they will set up artillery whenever they encounter a suitable position. The others will continue to march to cover the two artillery teams."
"When the two mortar teams finished firing eight shells, they were still in the team, and then they continued to march with the team, trying to get to the front of the team, and when they encountered a suitable position, they continued to fire."
"In this way, our six artillery groups can be divided into two groups and take turns bombarding the Japanese garrison."
"As for the Japs operating around us, unless they observe closely, they will definitely not be able to determine where we set up and fire our artillery!"
"Of course, if they have the guts to get close to us, our infantry are not vegetarians."
After taking down one combat unit of the Japanese army, Yang Xiong didn't have much smile on his face.
After taking over the Type 96 light machine gun newly equipped by the Japanese army, Yang Xiong could see at a glance the advantages of this machine gun compared to the crooked one.
"A good gun is better than a crooked one. No wonder the Japanese dare to hold the machine gun in their arms and use it as a submachine gun during the day without fear of jamming. So there is a new machine gun?"
"The performance is almost the same as the Czech-made ones we use!" the machine gunner replied happily.
"Then I'll give it to you!" Yang Xiong directly handed over the machine gun.
Then he ordered with a serious face: "There must be a small Japs combat unit around. The gunfire just now was so fierce, there must be some Japs rushing here."
"Leave the first platoon and the machine guns captured just now and hide on the spot. If any Japanese come over, just ambush them and kill them."
"If no Japs come after ten minutes, give up the mission immediately and chase the main force!"
Less than five minutes after the platoon stayed, a reckless Japanese team broke into the ambush circle.
Two machine guns and four pistols fired at the same time, and the whizzing bullets were like rain, covering more than a dozen Japanese in an instant.
In addition, the rifleman fired his rifle, and within ten seconds, all fifteen Japanese were killed.
After eating two combat units in a row, the remaining Japanese were frightened and did not dare to get too close to the Eighth Route Army.
Zeng Quan immediately seized the opportunity and ordered the artillery to take action.
"Boom...boom..." A group of two rounds of artillery shells continuously hit the Japanese military station and exploded.
Although the Japanese artillery fired quickly to counterattack according to the sound of gunfire, because the Eighth Route Army troops were all marching, no matter how fierce the Japanese counterattack artillery fire was, in the end, without exception, they were all shot empty.
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