"Prepare grenades and grenades, throw them..." Company Commander Huang Sheng ordered with a serious look on his face.
The moment more than thirty hand grenades flew out of the position, the Japanese Lieutenant also began to give orders.
"The artillery fires, the heavy machine guns provide cover, and the attacking troops retreat immediately!"
Seeing that the feint attack force left more than twenty corpses on the battlefield, the lieutenant smiled instead of being angry.
Such a fierce attack, with only two crooked guns shooting from the beginning to the end, and only thirty or forty rifles, there was only one possibility: the main force of the independent battalion who guarded the position yesterday really left.
As soon as the attacking troops retreated, they began to issue new offensive orders.
"Our judgment is correct. Those holding the position are not the main force of the independent battalion. They are just a bluffing local force!"
"I decided to launch an attack immediately, without giving them time to breathe or retreat, and strive to eliminate them all on the battlefield!"
"In this way, all the Chinese near Zhouzhuang who are enemies of the Imperial Japanese Army will be wiped out by us!"
"This time, all troops participated in the attack. We did not leave any reserves. We used heavy machine guns and mortars to provide fire cover. We captured the position in one attack, eliminated all the defenders, quickly ended the battle, and entered the independent battalion base area!"
At the third company position, company commander Huang Sheng looked very unhappy.
In less than ten minutes of fighting, the troops suffered 24 casualties, including 16 direct casualties. In terms of casualty ratio, it was almost a tie with the Japanese and puppet troops.
Huang Sheng was very dissatisfied with this result.
You must know that you are on the defensive side and have a complete position to defend. The Japanese and puppet troops have nothing and are completely exposed to everyone's guns.
With the result like this, this battle can already be described as a defeat!
"Company commander, the Japanese are attacking again!"
The guard post's report brought Huang Sheng back to reality.
He raised the telescope and just glanced at the battlefield. The solemn expression on Huang Sheng's face was wiped away, and he shouted excitedly.
"Haha, all the Japanese and puppet troops are here!"
"Comrades, our chance for revenge has come!"
"The Japanese and puppet troops were completely fooled and sent out all their troops to attack us. This time I will let them hit their heads and bleed!"
"Everyone in the company is ready for battle. Each squad and platoon will listen to my order before firing!"
"It's better to show weakness first, get the Japanese and puppet troops closer, and then concentrate firepower to give them a fatal attack!"
In the woods five hundred meters behind the Japanese and puppet troops, the cavalry company had been lurking here for almost half an hour. Seeing all the Japanese and puppet troops dispatched, deputy battalion commander Hong Linfeng and cavalry company commander Zhou Wu immediately became energetic.
"Deputy battalion commander, all the Japanese and puppet troops have been dispatched. How about we kill them now and catch them off guard?" Zhou Wu asked with excitement on his face.
"Wait a minute!" Hong Linfeng shook his head and refused.
"The distance from here to the Japanese and puppet attack positions is less than 500 meters. The cavalry can charge through with full force in half a minute. This is enough time for the Japanese and puppet troops to turn around and stop us."
"Now that they haven't engaged with the Third Company, if we kill them rashly, they can completely give up the attack and concentrate their firepower on us. Then the losses to the troops will be huge!"
Soon, there was a burst of gunfire from a position further away.
Two crooked rifles and thirty or forty rifles fired bullets at the attacking troops intermittently.
Cavalry company commander Zhou Wu frowned: "Why is the counterattack firepower of the third company so weak? This counterattack firepower can't stop the Japanese attack at all!"
Hong Linfeng could see Huang Sheng's tactics at a glance, and answered with bright eyes: "They are showing weakness by bringing the Japanese and puppet troops closer before fighting!"
"Company Commander Zhou, order the cavalry company to prepare for an assault!"
"When the third company counterattacks with full strength, you will charge. One platoon will assault the Japanese artillery position, another platoon will assault the Japanese heavy machine gun position, and the remaining two platoons will directly assault the Japanese and puppet attacking troops!"
"After the three companies counterattack with all their strength, the Japanese and puppet troops will definitely choose to retreat, and they will retreat in embarrassment. What you have to do is to lead the cavalry company into a head-on collision, without giving them time to gather troops and firepower, beat up the fallen dogs, and destroy the rest of the battlefield.
All Japanese and puppet troops are wiped out!"
The Japanese army attacked the position, and the confident smile on the lieutenant's face grew stronger and stronger.
Seeing that the counterattack firepower on the position was intermittent and getting weaker and weaker, it was as if he had already seen victory waving to him, and his smiling face became even more hopeful.
"Sir, the attacking troops are about to rush up. The Eighth Route Army on the position did not run away. This is simply giving us military exploits in vain. Let us wipe them all out!" the second lieutenant team leader stood nearby and shouted with a compliment.
"Yoshi, order the artillery and heavy machine guns to continue to increase their firepower!" The lieutenant ordered decisively with a smile on his face.
"The attacking troops speed up and attack their positions immediately. We strive to kill all the anti-Japanese armed forces near Zhaozhuang in one battle. We cannot let them escape!"
"Da da da……"
The sound of heavy machine gun fire suddenly sounded in the position, and where there were two small mounds of dirt just now suddenly turned into two heavy machine guns, firing bullets at the attacking troops as if they were free.
Only a few dozen heads appeared sparsely, and two densely packed rows of nearly 200 heads appeared in an instant.
There was a gun barrel sticking out from the front of each person's head, and they fired desperately at the attacking troops.
In the middle of a row of rifle barrels, crooked handles popped up every ten meters or so, spraying tongues of fire at the attacking troops along with the rifles.
The Japanese and puppet troops who rushed at the front were like running into an iron wall, and they were felled to the ground in pieces by bullets.
Soon there was a dense layer of corpses under their feet, including those of Japanese soldiers and puppet soldiers.
The sudden turn of events frightened the lieutenant, with his mouth open and his face dumbfounded.
"Boom boom boom..."
A sudden explosion behind him brought him back to reality, and then he heard the second lieutenant shouting next to him.
"It's a grenade launcher. The Eighth Route Army on the position is also equipped with grenade launchers, at least six grenade launchers!"
As soon as the lieutenant came to his senses, his face turned pale, and he shouted out loud: "It's a mortar, and there are still mortars on the position!"
"Bageya Road, we must have been fooled!"
"The main force of the Eighth Route Army did not leave at all. Those who left last night were local troops and guerrillas. We were deceived!"
"Retreat, all troops retreat immediately!"
"Heavy machine guns and artillery, move immediately. We only have two mortars and two heavy machine guns. They are our only heavy weapons. There must be no accidents!"
At the cavalry company assembly area, nearly 130 cavalrymen were ready for an assault.
Holding the loaded horse rifle in one hand and holding the reins of the war horse in the other, he looked at the company commander and platoon leader at the front with a serious face.
The moment the explosion sounded, Zhou Wu quickly swung his saber down and pointed at the Japanese and puppet attacking troops and shouted.
"One platoon assaulted the heavy machine gun position of the Japanese and puppet troops, and the second platoon assaulted the artillery position. The others attacked me head-on, fired from a hundred meters away, and then changed their sabers to kill these Japanese and puppet troops!"
"Kill all the little devils. If the puppet army surrenders, we will not kill them... The cavalry company, follow me and kill them~"
"kill……"
More than a hundred war horses began to run in unison, and their speed became faster and faster.
The sound of horse hooves also became louder, and it spread to every corner of the battlefield like thunder.
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