Six mountain cannons fired, and a harsh scream and a thunderous explosion quickly sounded on the battlefield.
As soon as the shelling started, more than 600 puppet troops rushed out under the cover of three armored vehicles.
Just like the first round of attack, the attacking troops rushed to the position six to seventy meters in front of the formation without any movement.
"Stop the mountain artillery, cover with armored vehicles, mortars, heavy machine guns, and infantry assault!" Watanabe ordered with a serious look on his face.
Then he raised his binoculars and stared at the battlefield.
Success or failure depends on this one move. As long as the Eighth Route Army on the position has no other conspiracy, Watanabe is confident that the offensive troops will definitely win this battle.
"Boom boom boom..."
Several explosions suddenly sounded among the attacking troops, and seven or eight Imperial Army and Imperial Alliance Army were overturned.
Watanabe's eyes twitched, and a trace of worry appeared in his mind.
"Sir, the Eighth Route Army directly bombarded our attacking troops this time. The tactics are completely different from before. Is there any new conspiracy?" the deputy captain reminded the most anxiously, with a look of lingering fear on his face.
Watanabe cannot panic. As a commander, he must remain calm at all times.
Although I also have this worry in my mind, I can only hold it in my heart and pretend to be calm in answering.
"We are not afraid even if there is a conspiracy!"
"We have three armored vehicles and six heavy machine guns shooting at their position. Such fierce suppressive firepower will definitely suppress them on the position and prevent them from moving!"
"Order: The mortar squadron will counterattack immediately. Even if the Eighth Route Artillery cannot be killed, they must be forced to move continuously, reduce the number of shellings, and reduce the pressure on the attacking troops!"
A few artillery shells fell, killing and wounding seven or eight people. For an attacking force of six to seven hundred people, it was definitely a flash in the pan.
The gap created by the artillery shell was instantly submerged by the flow of attacking people, as if nothing happened.
Seeing that the attacking troops were getting closer and closer, but there was no movement at the Eighth Route Army position, Watanabe's worries slowly disappeared.
The deputy captain reacted even more fiercely and shouted directly: "Sir, charge forward, our people are up!"
"Order the troops to quickly deal with the remaining enemies on the position, occupy the position, and open the gap for us to enter the independent camp base area!" Major Watanabe was also very excited, forced himself to calm down, and ordered with a serious face.
The Japanese squadron leader who directly commanded the attacking troops saw a different scene.
On the position littered with bomb craters, there was not a single Eighth Route Army soldier in sight, not even a single corpse.
Without an enemy, the expected hand-to-hand combat did not happen.
But the squadron leader did not forget his mission and immediately ordered: "Everyone enter the position, occupy the position, prevent the Eighth Route Army from counterattack, and cover the main force to enter their base area!"
The dozens of Japanese and puppet troops who were at the front jumped into the trenches with their guns drawn, without any hesitation!
"Boom...boom..."
An explosion suddenly sounded in the trench, and screams reached the ears of the squadron leader.
Several soldiers lay scattered around the rising pillars of black smoke. Some died on the spot, while others were lying on the ground holding their bleeding wounds and squirming, with bursts of heart-rending screams coming from their mouths!
"Baga! There are mines in the trenches!" The squadron leader was shocked and reacted quickly.
"Everybody get out of the trenches, don't get in the trenches!"
"Immediately report the situation here to the commander and ask engineers to come over to assist in demining!"
There is a trench hidden in a bush nearly a hundred meters ahead.
The independent company that had just abandoned its position was all hidden inside.
All the light and heavy machine guns were set up on the edge of the trench, and the black muzzles of the guns penetrated the gaps between the bushes and pointed directly at the position everyone had just abandoned!
Zhao Wen stretched his head out of the trench and stared straight ahead without blinking.
The moment the explosion sounded in the trench, a smile quickly flashed across Zhao Wen's face.
When the troops retreated, they buried thirty earth-made landmines in the trenches. What Zhao Wen was most worried about was that all these landmines would be detonated by the shelling just now.
In this case, even if he still had backup, he would not be able to cause too many casualties to the Japanese and puppet troops occupying the position.
Fortunately, some of the landmines were not detonated.
Seeing more and more Japanese and puppet troops standing on the edge of the trench with guns and not jumping down, Zhao Wen made a decisive decision.
"Shoot, focus your firepower and hit me hard, kill those naughty little devils!"
"Da da da……"
The independent company had one heavy machine gun, four light machine guns, and more than a hundred rifles left, and they quickly opened fire.
More than two hundred bullets flew towards the Japanese and puppet troops in a fan shape.
At least two hundred Japanese and puppet soldiers stood on the edge of the trench, densely packed and like living targets. There was no need to aim at them, and the bullets whizzed into their bodies.
In just one salvo of fire, more than thirty people in that row of Japanese and puppet troops fell!
"Get down, the enemy is hiding there, fight back immediately...with machine gun cover, the first and second teams will circle around and outflank me, and the others will fight me head-on!" The squadron leader subconsciously lay on the ground, pulled out his command knife and shouted with a look of shock on his face.
"Boom boom..."
As soon as he finished speaking, two explosions sounded in his ears.
The squadron leader looked shocked. Before he could react, more and more explosions went off.
It wasn't until one round of explosions ended that the squadron leader calmed down: "It's mortars and grenade launchers!"
"This is a conspiracy. The Eighth Route Army deliberately abandoned its position and allowed us to occupy it before launching a counterattack and annihilating us here!"
"We must not let their plot succeed!"
"Everyone, stay on the spot and wait until the commander brings the main force to kill them. Then we will fight back and kill them!"
Zhao Wen was not greedy. When he saw all the Japanese and puppet troops lying on the ground and started to fight back, he gave the order decisively.
"Everyone retreat!"
"Those caused by artillery shells and mines, plus what we just killed, we have killed at least 70 Japanese and puppet troops in this battle, which is enough!"
Instructor Liu Wenxuan didn't react from the shock until then.
With excitement on his face, he ordered: "Everyone executes the order and retreats!"
"The company commander is right, we have already done enough in this battle, there is no need to continue fighting against the Japanese and puppet troops here!"
Major Watanabe stood behind the battlefield with a gloomy look on his face.
The Zhan Independent Battalion actually counterattacked at the last moment of the battle, and hit and ran, leaving no room for him to express his temper.
This scene was something he never expected.
The only thing that made him feel lucky was that the battle was over and the position was in his hands. The purpose of the entire attack had been achieved!
At the cost of seventy or eighty casualties, the independent company position was captured and a gap was opened to enter the independent battalion base area. Overall, this business was very cost-effective!
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