Thirty meters away, if the Japanese had not been condescending to the blocking position, the Japanese could have thrown the grenades into the position, when the platoon leader Jiang Tianhong decisively pulled the trigger.
"Da da da... bang bang bang..."
Two machine guns and more than twenty rifles followed suit, and bullets flew towards the Japanese like a rain of bullets.
The machine gunner and the sergeant fell down in response, and each of them had several bloody holes in his body.
The rifleman was also killed and more than half wounded.
They were too close to the position, and it was the guerrillas who fired first. The first round of shooting was like target shooting, with very high accuracy.
"There is at least one platoon of the Eighth Route Army on the mountainside. The troops immediately opened fire and grenade fire to kill their machine gun fire points and cover the retreat of the probing troops!" the second lieutenant leader of the forward team shouted with a heartbroken look on his face.
"Da da da... bang bang bang~"
Thirty or forty Japanese soldiers who were ready around them opened fire quickly. The shooting distance of more than 100 meters did not affect the shooting accuracy.
The whizzing bullets looked like glasses. They either penetrated the earth wall blocking the soldiers' chests, or flew close to the earth wall and continued to fly backwards, and finally penetrated into the soil behind the trenches.
In the blink of an eye, two people in the platoon were killed and one was injured, losing three people.
"Fire from the machine gun squad, suppress the Japanese and cover the troops!" Chen Bing, leader of the fire platoon, immediately ordered.
Platoon leader Jiang Tianhong quickly pulled the bolt of the rifle in his hand, pushed another bullet into the chamber, and shouted while searching for the target through the crosshairs.
"Continue shooting, increase the firepower, kill the remaining Japs, and end the battle quickly!"
“Boom, boom, boom… da da da…”
Three explosions and intensive machine gun fire sounded at the blocking position.
A machine gun crew and three riflemen were instantly blown over by grenades fired by the Japanese.
The dozens of bullets fired by the machine gun squad were not wasted. Four Japanese soldiers who were not well prepared were killed and wounded, including a machine gun crew who was completely exposed to the muzzle of the machine gun squad.
"boom……"
Jiang Tianhong opened fire, and a Japanese man hiding behind a rock in front of the battle had his head blown off, his brains splattered, and he died.
"Da da da... bang bang..."
A row of other soldiers, as if on stimulants, fired at the living Japanese at their fastest rate of fire.
Before Jiang Tianhong had time to fire the third bullet, the last living Japanese on the battlefield had been beaten into sieves by the machine gun, fell to the ground, and rolled towards the foot of the mountain under the influence of huge inertia.
"Retreat!" Jiang Tianhong and Chen Bing shouted at the same time.
Li Hao kept staring at the battlefield, not a single move above his eyes escaped his eyes.
Seeing the troops quickly evacuate their positions along the traffic trenches, and the second round of grenades fired by the Japanese at the foot of the mountain were all empty, the tense nerves finally relaxed.
The battle just now was too suspenseful.
As long as the troops retreated five seconds later and the second round of grenades thrown by the Japanese did not miss, the casualties of the first platoon and the machine gun squad would have more than doubled.
The Japs are not only well-trained and well-equipped, but the coordination between the various arms is absolutely flawless.
In particular, the grenade they are proud of has a super high hit rate, fast firing rate, high power, and fast transfer. It can be called a battlefield meat grinder.
It was only then, through the brief exchange of fire, that Li Hao truly understood why a Japanese infantry squad could overwhelm a battalion of the Central Army or the Shanxi-Sui Army on the frontal battlefield.
With the grenades, the light and heavy machine guns equipped by the Central Army would be blown up along with the man and the gun as soon as they were exposed, leaving no chance to fire.
Without the cover of light and heavy machine guns, they could only be beaten passively in the face of the Japanese army's crooked suppression and strafing, and the riflemen's precise shooting.
The last time the guerrillas blocked the Japanese attack at the mountain pass, if they had not built a bunker and the Japanese grenades could not threaten the machine guns hidden in the bunker, they would have been defeated even if they had two or three times the strength!
Seeing that his subordinates had successfully withdrawn through the traffic trench, Li Hao continued to order: "Let comrades seize the time to rest and load all the rifles and machine guns with bullets, especially the crooked ones. Fill the magazine with bullets and load the guns."
Come on, the real tough battle will start soon, there must be no jamming on the battlefield!"
The Japanese squad leader at the foot of the mountain was very angry. Despite all calculations, he underestimated the strength of the Eighth Route Army on the mountainside, and he never expected that the other party would also plot against him.
"The Eighth Route Army on the mountainside is too cunning. They have planned it long ago. Their purpose is to kill our probing attack force!"
The sergeant next to him said: "Captain, not only the testing troops, but also the covering troops suffered heavy casualties."
"The Eighth Route Army has three machine guns specifically designed to suppress our covering troops. If we hadn't had grenade launchers, the machine gun firepower from above would have definitely crushed us to death."
"But even so, four of our covering troops died and four were injured!"
The squad leader failed to suppress the anger rising in his heart and cursed loudly.
"Blood debt must be paid with blood. I must kill these Eighth Route Army soldiers and avenge the warriors who died in the battle!"
"Although they don't have many defensive troops, their firepower is very fierce; they should have captured the machine guns of us and the Imperial Army. We are no match for them in a head-to-head fight. We will attack after the squadron leader brings the main force.
The Japanese who claimed to have figured out the strength of the Eighth Route Army on the mountainside were very arrogant, especially the squadron leader. After listening to the squad leader's report, his face showed a confident expression of victory, and then he sneered and started giving orders.
"We have heavy machine guns and mortars. Even if the Eighth Route Army on the mountainside is equipped with five light machine guns, they are no match for us."
"The heavy machine gun team will find a suitable machine gun firing position by itself, and immediately set up the heavy machine gun to suppress the Eighth Route Army's blocking firepower!"
"The three mortars of the mortar team have also been set up to provide artillery support to the attacking troops at any time, just in case!"
"The second team is responsible for the attack, and the small team will attack from the left wing in a roundabout way. Kill them from both sides, and then continue to reinforce Hongquan Village!"
When facing a strong enemy, the best way is to match wits and courage with the enemy and use tricks to win.
The Japanese troops moved, and Li Hao, who was frowning, also began to give orders.
"The devils are coming with force. Mortars, grenade launchers, and heavy machine guns seem to be all planned to be used in one battle!"
"Tit for tooth, let's take out all our family assets and try to scare back the little devil in front of us!"
Hong Linfeng was stunned for a moment and asked: "Captain, didn't you say at the beginning that all the Japanese reinforcements would be wiped out?"
Li Hao shook his head and replied: "I underestimated the enemy too much and overestimated the strength of our guerrillas!"
"With the current strength of the guerrillas, we are sure to annihilate all the Japs at the foot of the mountain. But the price we have to bear must be very high, even beyond our ability to bear. There is no doubt about this."
"Just now, the platoon and the Japs exchanged fire for less than a minute. They only had one infantry squad, and they didn't use mortars or heavy machine guns. The platoon and the machine gun squad suffered ten casualties."
"Now they want cannons and cannons, and heavy machine guns and heavy machine guns. Their individual combat effectiveness is better than ours, and their mutual cooperation is better than ours. If we fight hard, we have to pay at least the same casualties to kill them. It's not cost-effective!"
"It's better to force them back and leave more veterans to train new recruits and improve the overall combat effectiveness of the army!"
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