"Company commander, we can't hold on here any longer, otherwise the whole company will be wiped out." The instructor suddenly spoke, staring at Li Zhiyong with a heartbroken look on his face.
Li Zhiyong has a clear mind and knows what it means for Yilian to continue to defend.
But behind him are the people who are being transferred. If he doesn't hold on here for even an hour and lets the Japanese cross the cliff, they will definitely catch up with them before dark, and that company will become the sinner of the entire base area.
So he had no choice but to continue fighting at the edge of the cliff, even if he lost all his troops.
"Company commander, the third platoon and fire platoon are here!" A voice woke up Li Zhiyong.
When I looked up, I saw about fifty soldiers carrying light and heavy machine guns and mortars rushing towards the position from the flanks.
"Company commander, a company from local troops has also arrived for reinforcements!" Another voice reached Li Zhiyong's ears.
Two hundred meters behind me on the mountain road leading to and from the cliff, a group of Eighth Route Army troops hurried past. It looked like there were at least a hundred people in the formation.
The heavy expression on Li Zhiyong's face became obviously relaxed. He looked at the instructor and shouted: "The reinforcements are coming. The folks at the back are saved."
"Pass me an order: All reinforcements will enter the position immediately. Local troops will serve as reserves for the time being. All heavy machine guns and mortars will be set up. Only follow my orders to fire. I will prepare a big surprise for the second wave of Japanese offensive troops soon."
.”
When the Japanese army attacked the position, Major Saburo Nakata did not get angry because the troops retreated because he personally gave the order to retreat.
He had been keeping an eye on the battlefield since the beginning of the attack and was very sure that there were not many Eighth Route Army troops left on the mountainside.
If the troops continue to attack, they will definitely be able to capture the cliff, but the attacking troops will also be completely lost in the rain of grenades one after another, making it useless.
Attacking again will be different.
Relying on the advantage of firepower, the attacking troops will be able to take advantage of the exchange of fire and kill a large number of Eighth Route Army troops.
By the time they launched the final assault, there were very few Eighth Route Army troops left on the mountainside, and no one wanted to throw grenades.
The attacking force can capture the cliff with minimal casualties.
As soon as the first wave of attacking troops retreated, the second wave of attacking troops began to attack under his order, without giving the Eighth Route Army any chance to breathe.
When they reached the front foot, gunshots began to ring out on the mountainside.
The sound of the gunfire was exactly what Major Saburo Nakata had judged: compared with the previous round of attack, it was at least twice as weak.
Saburo Nakata did not underestimate the enemy because of this, but stared at the battlefield and ordered with a serious face.
"The heavy machine gun team concentrated its firepower and killed the remaining firepower points of the Eighth Route Army."
As the Japanese heavy machine guns exploded, the light machine guns on the mountainside misfired one after another, and the sound of rifle fire became increasingly sparse.
At the foot of the mountain, the attacking force's assault speed increased significantly, and in the blink of an eye they rushed to a position fifty or sixty meters in front of the formation.
This is a very critical distance on the offensive battlefield.
The Eighth Route Army will definitely throw grenades to block the attack. The attacking troops must rush past the grenades to block the attack. Only then can this attack have a chance to win.
Judging from the remaining gunshots on the mountainside, there were less than twenty Eighth Route Army soldiers still able to move. Twenty grenades were thrown out in one round. The number was too small, and the fragments caused by the explosion could not form an isolation zone at all, nor could they stop the attacking troops.
Therefore, Saburo Nakata is full of confidence in the next attack.
But at this moment, the gunfire on the mountainside suddenly became denser, and was mixed with the sound of three heavy machine guns.
Saburo Nakata is a veteran on the battlefield, and judging weapons by listening to gunfire is his most basic ability.
The confident smile on his face quickly disappeared, and he shouted with a look of shock: "It's a heavy machine gun. The Eighth Route Army on the mountain ridge also hid three heavy machine guns."
As soon as he finished speaking, screams sounded not far away.
Thirty meters away, a heavy machine gun position screamed repeatedly. Four machine gunners fell next to the heavy machine gun. Two of them had stopped moving, and the other two were lying on the ground, screaming and squirming.
The few remaining Japs who were still alive wanted to crawl to the machine guns and fight back, but the bullets flying towards them were so dense that they whizzed close to their scalps.
They were pinned to the ground, unable to move.
The heavy machine gun misfired, and the attacking troops were completely exposed to the guns of the Eighth Route Army.
The gunshots that were sparse just now on the mountainside suddenly became denser. Not only were there more than a hundred rifles, but there were also several more light machine guns.
Bullets flew like rain towards the Japanese soldiers who were just around the corner.
The balance of victory quickly turned to the Eighth Route Army. The attacking troops were like ripe wheat, being mopped down in pieces by bullets...
"Retreat, the attacking troops retreat immediately!" Nakata Saburo ordered anxiously.
If the people are not caught today, we can continue tomorrow. If the troops are gone, there will be no chance of completing the task of catching the people.
Seeing the ordering soldiers begin to wave the order flag, Saburo Nakata continued to order: "The artillery fires, destroys the Eighth Route Army's firepower points, and covers the attacking troops to retreat."
"Fire all the remaining machine guns of the heavy machine gun team to suppress the enemy's blocking fire and kill them!"
A full infantry squadron, because Saburo Nakata issued the retreat order in time, only half of the infantry squadron was lost.
On the mountainside, the only thing that made Li Zhiyong happy was that the Japanese troops had retreated, and he had bought more than ten minutes for the villagers to move.
As for the results, Li Zhiyong was not satisfied.
Although sixty or seventy Japs were killed, the first company and local troops were not much better, especially the last artillery attack by the Japs.
One heavy machine gun group was wiped out, the heavy machine gun was destroyed, two light machine gun groups were killed, and more than thirty riflemen were killed or wounded and lost combat effectiveness.
Coupled with the casualties caused by the Japanese attack, the company's losses were actually greater than those of the Japanese attacking troops...
At the former enemy headquarters of the garrison in Laishui, the base battle report forwarded by the political commissar five minutes ago was sent to Hong Linfeng.
After reading the telegram, his face became solemn.
Without saying a word, he quickly handed the telegram to the group leader.
Two minutes later, Li Hao's expression became serious.
After Hong Linfeng picked up the telegram and read it again, he asked in confusion: "Captain, I don't understand why the Japanese didn't take the bait when the bait was clearly prepared."
"The mountain is so big? How did the little devil determine the direction in which the villagers moved, and they all chased them in the right direction, forcing our troops to conduct a frontal blockade!"
"This is definitely not a coincidence."
Li Hao frowned and thought for a few minutes before replying: "Spy..."
"Either there are traitors planted by the Japanese hidden among the villagers, or there are Japanese scouts operating around them."
"When they were transferred, they left marks on the transfer path that only the Japanese would know."
"Our troops can erase the traces left by the villagers when they moved, but they cannot erase the marks deliberately left by the Japanese spies."
"This is the only reason that can explain why the Japanese can always find the right direction to pursue without even looking at the bait we prepared in advance."
At this point, Li Hao sighed and replied: "We underestimated the little Japs too much and ignored the role of traitors and scouts in a battle. Otherwise, the losses of the three independent battalions today would never have been so great."
"Each battalion has lost nearly two companies of troops. Even if we capture a large number of prisoners to replenish the troops, the troops will not be able to survive at this rate of loss."
The second update is delivered today! Please subscribe! Please vote monthly! Please collect!