Success also seals the ditch, failure also seals the ditch.
The purpose of the Japanese building this blockade trench was to divide the base area into two and prevent the Eighth Route Army from crossing the blockade trench, and then they built it deeper and wider.
No one would have imagined that this blockade ditch would become his own grave tonight.
By setting up ladders, nearly two hundred Japanese soldiers emerged from the blockade ditch and were able to shoot with their guns.
But they stand on the shoulders of their comrades, not the ground.
No matter how powerful the Japs below are, it is impossible for a comrade with a weight of more than 100 kilograms on his shoulders to be as stable as a rock.
It may not be a problem at first, but as time goes by, your body won't be able to control itself without shaking.
If the person below shakes, the person above cannot take aim at all.
In addition, it was too dark, they were in the light, and the approaching Eighth Route Army was in the dark, and they were constantly moving, making it even more difficult to target the opponent.
As for the machine gunner, he couldn't shoot at all.
A comrade with a weight of more than 100 kilograms on his shoulders was already unsteady. The powerful recoil produced by the machine gun fire was transmitted through the machine gunner's body to his shoulders, making him even more unsteady.
As soon as the enemy below shook, the machine gunner also started to shake, and finally the machine gun was shaken together. The bullets fired were floating and flying everywhere, without any accuracy at all.
The gunshots in the blocked trench sounded dense, but their lethality was very limited.
The two battalions rushed to more than thirty meters away without losing many people.
"Boom...boom boom boom..."
Several grenades were thrown at them, and two of them hit the trench. In the violent explosion, four people and eight little Japanese were knocked over on the spot.
Especially the four little devils who fired from above, each of them had several wounds on their backs. Blood spurted out. In the blink of an eye, their uniforms were dyed red, and they fell to the ground without moving.
"Baga, it's a grenade, hide it!" shouted a Japanese squadron leader not far away.
He held his head high and his eyes widened, looking at the rain of grenades that suddenly appeared above his head, with a look of despair.
"Boom...boom boom boom..."
Explosions sounded one after another. Before one round of explosions ended, another round went off again.
The splashing firelight, the diffuse gunpowder smoke, the black smoke rising into the sky, and the soil rolled up by the explosion all mixed together to cover the blockade ditch so tightly that it was impossible to see even one's fingers.
Little devils were constantly being bombed to death, or their bodies were blown to pieces.
Within half a minute, each soldier threw three grenades. Even if only one hit the blockade trench, there were a thousand grenades in total. On average, a two-meter-long blockade trench had to withstand three grenade attacks.
Hiding inside, the little Japs could avoid the bullets flying outside, but they couldn't avoid the grenade fragments flying in the blocked ditch.
There were painful screams and wails everywhere, very tragic.
The explosion was not over yet, and the two battalions that had thrown the grenades continued to attack forward.
The attack distance was more than thirty meters, and it was over in the blink of an eye.
Only then did the explosions in the blockade trench end.
Before the bombed kid could react, the garrison had already rushed to the edge of the blockade ditch with guns in hand.
"Da da da... bah bah..."
The soldiers were not polite and started to fire at the little Japs who could still move inside...
"Captain... we have won the battle now. There are more than 500 little Japs! The battle ended too quickly!" Looking at the battlefield that was slowly quieting down in the distance, Second Battalion Commander Liu Yutian had not yet recovered from the sudden attack.
After recovering from the surprise, he looked at Li Hao and asked blankly.
"This is a very important reason why I chose this ambush battlefield." Li Hao explained.
"The places you chose before are all natural ambush battlefields. The terrain is very favorable to us. The troops can attack the Japs from a high position, but the rugged and complex terrain may also be exploited by the Japs."
"There was an ambush there. After being attacked, the Japanese had two options: one was to jump into the blockade ditch to hide, and the other was to rush to the foot of the mountain where we were hiding."
"In this case, it is basically impossible for us to kill them quickly, and they are too scattered and difficult to guard against."
"If you react quickly enough, the heavy machine guns and mortars equipped by the Japanese will also have a chance to participate in the battle."
"It will be more difficult for the troops to annihilate them all, and casualties will increase greatly."
"This is a normal way of fighting an ambush."
"It's different here."
"Except for blocking ditches on both sides of the road, there are no obstructions anywhere else. If you lie down, you will be a living target for us."
"In addition, the Japanese and puppet troops underestimated the enemy and were caught off guard. In panic, they would definitely jump into the blockade ditch to hide as soon as possible."
"As long as they jump in, we will win this battle."
Liu Yutian thought for a moment and asked: "Then if there is no blocked ditch here, this battle cannot be fought?"
"We can still fight, but we have to make some preparations in advance."
"If there is no position, we can dig a position in advance."
"Dig a trench 70 to 80 meters away from the road, hide the troops in it, then cover it with thatch, hide and wait."
"After the battle starts, if you launch a sudden attack, you can still catch the enemy by surprise."
"The enemy has no trenches or blockade ditches. He can only fight exposed to our guns and fight back against the rain of bullets we hit. The casualties will definitely be huge."
"We have trenches where we can hide, so there will be few casualties."
"After a burst of firepower, you can rush out of the position and engage the enemy hand-to-hand."
"Because the trenches were very close to the road, the enemy was caught off guard by us. Facing our attack, they couldn't stop us even if they wanted to, so they had to fight us head-on."
Liu Yutian's eyes flashed and he answered: "We are not a match for the Japs just by fighting with bayonets. But after such a long period of training, we have become very good at using pistols and bayonets. In head-to-head combat, we will definitely be able to easily defeat the same number of Japs."
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Li Hao answered with satisfaction: "That's what it means."
"As a commander, we must find ways to use everything available, use our advantages to defeat the enemy's explanations, and fight more strange battles that the enemy cannot think of. Only in this way can we achieve the maximum results with the minimum casualties."
"Just like tonight, even if the Japanese were beaten to death, they would never have imagined that the blockade ditch they worked so hard to build would be used by us."
"Of course, there is a prerequisite for fighting this kind of battle. The troops must be powerful enough, and the soldiers' willpower must be strong enough to act according to orders and not be exposed even if they are killed."
"Before this more than one month of large-scale military training, I definitely don't dare to let more than a thousand people lurk under the nose of the Japanese for several hours."
"Order the troops to clean up the battlefield immediately, and we will retreat in an hour."
"Send a telegram to the Chief of Staff. He can retreat. Don't let another group of little Japanese reinforcements block the way back."
"Although the special agent company and mobile company are over there, they are not equipped with heavy weapons. They can only slow down the march of the reinforcements, but they cannot stop them."
"So the attacking troops must evacuate the battlefield before the reinforcements reach Linwu Town."