Chapter five hundred and twelve accidents continue
Seeing that the political commissar and chief of staff were subconsciously trying to persuade him, Brigadier Chen raised his hand and interrupted.
"We must fight this battle, Chief of Staff, how much ammunition do we still have in hand!"
"320,000 rounds of various bullets, 18,000 grenades, and 300 artillery shells. Of course, these ammunition are only in stock at the brigade headquarters, and do not include the ammunition reserved by the regiments below and the ammunition in the hands of the soldiers!"
"That's enough!" Brigadier Chen became more confident.
Pointing to Wuxiang on the map, he ordered: "Take people to Wuxiang immediately and choose favorable terrain to ambush the Japs. Wuxiang's terrain is difficult, with deep ravines and ridges everywhere, which is very suitable for an ambush. Go and scout the battlefield in person, find
Come out with an ambush battlefield that can accommodate an infantry brigade of the Japanese army!"
"Political Commissar, come and assemble the troops. This time I will use four regiments, two regiments for ambush, two regiments for blocking, four to defeat the Japanese and one to defeat the Japanese. I will try to end the battle within an hour!"
Brigadier Chen finally chose the ambush battlefield in a deep ditch nearly four kilometers away from the road. The mountain road passed through the bottom of the ditch and stretched for nearly one kilometer. The ambush troops of the two regiments were ambushing on the mountain ridges on both sides of the deep ditch, commanding a commanding position.
Attack the Japanese who enter the ambush circle.
As for Brigadier Chen himself, he directly positioned his headquarters on a mountain ridge less than 500 meters away from the battlefield.
Through the telescope, you can have a panoramic view of the entire battlefield!
"Bang bang bang... da da da da..." Soon, a burst of gunfire came from the road a few kilometers away.
"Brigadier, the enemy-baiting troops have already started taking action! The Japanese army has indeed sent an infantry brigade to pursue our enemy-baiting troops. In half an hour, they will be taken to the ambush circle we prepared for them!" the chief of staff walked up to them.
The person next to him reported with a serious face.
"Distribute all the ammunition!" Brigadier Chen held up his binoculars and scanned the ambush battlefield to make sure there was no trigger.
"Not a single bullet is left! The ambush force has fifty bullets per person, the blocking force has eighty bullets per person, plus three grenades per person, and the mortar has an average of thirty shells. Our troops are fighting
I have never missed it so much!" the political commissar replied.
"Yes!" Brigadier Chen nodded to express satisfaction, and then added: "Tell the regiment and battalion commanders below that after the battle starts, the ambush troops should not save ammunition for me, but fight hard and end the battle in the shortest time. However,
Take it easy for me, the blocking troops. No one can guarantee whether there will be any accidents in the ambush battle or how long their blocking battle will last. Try to save as much ammunition as possible for me!"
While he was talking, the enemy-baiting troops and more than 800 Japanese soldiers had already entered Brigadier Chen's field of vision.
"Brigadier, more than 800 Japanese soldiers have all entered the ambush circle!" the chief of staff reported with excitement in his eyes.
Using nearly 4,000 people to fight against more than 800 Japanese soldiers, in the opinion of the chief of staff, as long as the blocking force can buy enough time, it is absolutely a sure thing.
"Send a flare and start the attack!" the brigade commander ordered decisively, and then continued to stare at the battlefield with his binoculars.
A few seconds later, intensive gunshots and explosions rang out in the deep trench just around the corner.
The two regiments fired with more than fifty light and heavy machine guns and more than two thousand rifles. The whizzing bullets were like rain, covering the entire mountain road in an instant.
"The first round of rapid fire attack killed at least more than 300 Japanese. Let the ambush troops continue to strengthen their firepower and don't give the Japanese a chance to counterattack!" Brigadier Chen was very satisfied with the start of the entire ambush battle and ordered very happily.
However, this good mood disappeared within less than two minutes.
"What's going on? Why are the heavy machine guns of the two regiments firing incessantly? Didn't I prepare enough ammunition for them?" The firepower of the light and heavy machine guns is the key to the entire ambush battle.
At least half of the more than 300 Japanese soldiers killed at the beginning were the result of light and heavy machine guns.
But at this moment, the firepower of more than fifty light and heavy machine guns was suddenly reduced by at least 30%, and many Japanese soldiers who were suppressed on the mountain road suddenly had a chance to fight back.
Use the rocks beside the mountain road or directly use the corpses of dead soldiers as bunkers, set up your rifle and start counterattack.
As more and more Japanese soldiers began to fight back, the casualties of the two regiments also began to increase sharply!
"I don't know either. I'll call and ask right away!" the frowning chief of staff replied, shaking his head.
Time passed by, and the situation that was originally very favorable to Brigadier Chen disappeared bit by bit.
The sharply reduced machine gun firepower not only did not recover, but became weaker and weaker.
The casualties of the ambush troops also continued to increase. On the battlefield, a Japanese officer even assembled a small team to launch a counterattack against the ambush troops on the mountain ridge.
If the artillery unit hadn't blown up these Japs with several volleys, the Japs would have probably opened a gap in the ambush circle that he had carefully prepared.
"Brigadier, check it out! The Japs we ambushed had many sharpshooters, and all the machine gunners were killed by the Japs sharpshooters. The number of heavy machine gunners on the position has almost changed!" the chief of staff said to Chen Brigade as soon as he put down the phone.
The chief reported.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Before Brigadier Chen could say anything, a burst of gunfire came from the road a few kilometers away.
"No, the Japanese reinforcements got into a fight with our blocking troops, and they also dispatched artillery. The explosion of the shells just now can at least be made by infantry artillery!" the chief of staff reacted quickly and immediately reminded.
"The battle must be ended as soon as possible. The Japanese reinforcements are coming fiercely, and they obviously want to block us here!" Brigadier Chen analyzed with a frown.
The chief of staff reminded: "However, the Japanese have a large number of sharpshooters. We have dozens of light and heavy machine guns, but we cannot use our firepower to suppress them!"
Brigadier Chen hesitated for only a few seconds before making a decision: "If we can't take advantage of our firepower, we'll have to fight the Japanese in close combat to gain the advantage in strength."
"Order the artillerymen to shoot out all the shells. I can't stand it!"
"As soon as the bombardment ended, the infantry rushed out, divided and surrounded the little Japs, and killed them with bayonets!"
"Order the blocking troops to block the Japanese army at all costs for an hour!"
Hundreds of artillery shells smashed into the ambush circle, killing more Japanese and injuring nearly a hundred others.
There were less than 400 Japanese soldiers left on the battlefield. Not only were they not afraid, but they spontaneously formed small groups to defend themselves on the spot.
At this moment, the charge horn sounded.
Nearly 4,000 Eighth Route Army troops attacked the Japanese from all directions.
"With a strength of ten to one, the Japs are definitely doomed now!" the chief of staff said with confidence as he looked at the overwhelming Eighth Route Army troops rushing toward the Japs in front of him.
"Not necessarily!" Brigadier Chen next to him said in surprise, his already frowning brows now frowning even deeper.
The chief of staff also opened his eyes wide, almost unable to believe his own eyes.
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