"The security squad did a good job, blowing up three armored vehicles at the same time to avoid alerting the enemy and letting them escape!" Zhao Wen explained with a smile on his face.
Only then did everyone realize that this was a back-up left by the company commander to deal with the armored vehicles.
Just when he was about to ask why, Zhao Wen regained his serious expression and began to issue orders: "Now the armored vehicles that pose the greatest threat to us are gone. Everyone concentrates their firepower on me and severely cleans up the Japanese and puppet troops in front of the position. No need."
Save bullets and let them know that our independent company is not someone to be trifled with!"
"Da da da……"
The gunfire on the position suddenly became louder, and Japanese and puppet soldiers were constantly being killed.
Although many Japanese and puppet troops could hide behind the wreckage of the three armored vehicles and block the bullets fired by the independent company, most of the Japanese and puppet troops were still exposed to the firepower of the independent company, especially those who walked at the end and planned to reap the benefits.
Devil!
The fisherman didn't take it for granted, but because he was too far away from the armored vehicle and had nowhere to hide, he became the independent company's best target.
Major Watanabe was stunned. He had never thought that the first attack would fail, even if the attacking troops had absolute superiority in strength and firepower.
The Independent Battalion is too cunning, powerful in combat, and resolute in fighting will. The possibility of defeating them solely by relying on firepower and troop superiority is almost zero.
But he thought of many ways to fail, but he didn't think of the one in front of him.
The armored vehicles he had high hopes for were killed first by the independent battalion before they could take effect, and until all three armored vehicles were destroyed, he still didn't understand how they did it.
"Sir, the counterattack firepower of the Eighth Route Army is too fierce. The offensive troops are completely exposed to their firepower. The casualties are too great. I suggest you retreat immediately and suspend the attack!" The change in front of him made the deputy captain who commanded the attack also confused.
But the adjutant next to him was not confused and quickly reminded him.
"Retreat, the attacking troops will withdraw immediately. I have to figure out what happened on the battlefield before I can continue the attack!"
"The artillery should not counterattack the Eighth Route Army's artillery. Instead, attack the Eighth Route Army's positions directly and cover the attacking troops to retreat!"
"The heavy machine gun squadron also retreats together!"
"I am very familiar with this style of fighting of the Independent Battalion. Two or three mortars stare at our heavy machine gun position, and each time they only fire two or three rounds of artillery shells before moving. The time spent in one artillery position is too short, and the artillery squadron
Even if you have an absolute advantage in artillery numbers, it will be difficult to kill them!"
"Instead of hitting a target that cannot be locked, it is better to kill a few more Eighth Route Army infantry!"
In less than ten minutes, the attacking troops withdrew under cover of artillery fire.
Watanabe was not happy at all.
In addition to the wreckage of three armored vehicles emitting black smoke, more than a hundred corpses and wounded were left on the battlefield.
You know, the entire attack took less than three minutes from the exchange of fire to the order to retreat.
Seeing Watanabe's stern face and not speaking, the vice-captain who came to apologize hesitated for a moment and did not dare to speak, and stood aside with his head lowered.
Unfortunately, he found him as soon as he arrived at Watanabe. When he saw the vice-captain standing aside without speaking, his pent-up anger completely exploded.
"Baga! Don't you have anything to say? We lost so many troops in one attack. When we completely kill the independent battalion, will all the more than 3,000 people I brought out from the county have to be wiped out?"
"Sir, calm down!" The deputy captain was so frightened that he almost collapsed to the ground. He did not command well in his humble position and suffered a setback in the first battle. Please punish me, sir!"
"The Eighth Route Army on the position was really too cunning. They dug a trench 50 meters in front of the position, covered it with wooden boards, and covered it with floating soil. We didn't notice it at all. When we realized that there was danger ahead, the armored vehicles were already there
Drive over and get stuck in the trench, unable to move!"
"Also, the Eighth Route Army also hid troops in the trenches and was equipped with a large number of cluster grenades!"
"The trenches are covered with covers, so we can't see them and don't know what they are doing!"
"By the time they discovered it, they had already reached three armored vehicles and used cluster grenades to blow up the armored vehicles!"
Watanabe understood, and the entire battle process appeared in front of him like a movie. His mind was running rapidly, thinking of ways to defeat the enemy!
When the Independent Company blocked the position, Zhao Wen was in a bad mood because he had just been bombed to pieces.
He had thought of all the accidents during the entire blockade, except that he had not thought that the Japanese would eventually use artillery fire to cover their retreat.
At that time, the troops were trying their best to kill the Japanese and puppet attacking troops, and everyone was exposed on the surface of the position.
A round of nine shells suddenly came down, and no one had time to react.
It is conceivable that the troops must have suffered heavy casualties in the sudden artillery attack just now.
Sure enough, the instructor Liu Wenxuan came over and reported with a stern face: "Company Commander, all losses have been calculated. The whole company has 56 casualties and 43 direct casualties. More than half of the soldiers who died were the last round of Japanese artillery fire."
Caused!"
"In addition, one heavy machine gun, three light machine guns, two grenade launchers, and 16 rifles were lost."
"Retreat, everyone vacates their positions, we won't fight!" Zhao Wen made a decisive decision.
No one followed it, including the instructor, everyone had a dumbfounded expression on their faces, as if they heard wrongly.
There is a saying on the battlefield: take advantage of victory to pursue. Even if you don't pursue, you can continue to defend the position with the remaining troops of the independent company.
No one expected, against all calculations, that the company commander would make the decision to take advantage of the victory and retreat.
Liu Wenxuan was the first to react: "Company Commander, although we suffered more than fifty casualties, the results were greater."
"At least one hundred and twenty corpses were left in front of the formation, more than one-third of them were Japs. Moreover, three of their armored vehicles and at least three heavy machine guns were destroyed. There were twenty or thirty Japs in total!
"
"I think our position can continue to be defended and there is no need to retreat!"
"Also, company commander, you just managed to blow up three Japanese armored vehicles, and you can definitely blow up the next armored vehicle that attacks us!"
Zhao Wen shook his head and replied: "Japs are not fools. The same method can only be used once in front of the same opponent!"
"Our position has several communication trenches connected to the hidden position in front. The explosion just now was caused by the guard squad entering the hidden trench through the hidden communication trench, then approaching the paralyzed armored vehicles and blowing them up with cluster grenades!"
"Do you think this method can be used a second time?"
"I'm sure that if we use the old method again, not only will we not be able to blow up the armored vehicles, but our own people who touch the hidden trenches will be killed!"
"Execute the order, everyone retreats!"
"Although we gave up the position at our feet, the battle is not over."
"I guarantee that the Japanese and puppet troops will have to pay more than fifty casualties to take this place!"
The Japanese and puppet troops attacked the position, and Watanabe planned to personally direct the troops' second round of attack.
He scanned several squadron leaders with his eyes and began to issue orders: "This time, the 2nd Infantry Squadron and the 2nd Battalion of the Imperial Association Army join the battle as an attack force!"
"The heavy machine gun squadron, the heavy machine gun company of the Imperial Association Army, all join the battle!"
"A heavy machine gun from the Imperial Army and a heavy machine gun from the Imperial Alliance Army formed a firepower group and were dispersed three hundred meters in front of the Eighth Route Army position to provide fire cover for the attacking troops!"
"The mortar squadron counterattacked the artillery troops coming out of the Eighth Route Army!"
"The mountain artillery squadron also participated in the battle. The artillery fire covered the Eighth Route Army position until the attacking troops rushed fifty meters in front of the formation and stopped shelling!"
"The second squadron of the armored squadron covers the infantry attack!"
"This time we can't be fooled again. The armored vehicles will stop when they reach 60 meters in front of the formation. They will be used as fixed firepower points to cover the infantry assault and occupy the enemy's positions~"
"All participating troops are preparing now, and will start attacking in ten minutes. We strive to end the battle within twenty minutes and kill the Eighth Route Army on the position!"
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